The Seventh Harbinger: The Erez Tree – Chapter 11

Is it possible…
That there exists an ancient mystery that holds the secret of America’s future?
That this mystery lies behind everything from 9/11 to the collapse of the global economy?
That ancient harbingers of judgment are now manifesting in America?
That God is sending America a prophetic message of what is yet to come?

Chapter 11 the seventh Harbinger, the Erez Tree.
She rose from her chair, Noriel, would you excuse me for a moment before we continue?
Of course, he answered. She walked over to her desk. Is everyone gone?
She asked, speaking into the phone set.
Yes, replied the voice on the speaker, everyone’s gone and I’ll be leaving soon.
He’ll make sure everything’s turned off. I will. During the exchange, Noriel gazed out to the city skyline.
It was now early evening the sun had set.
The city was illumined by the deep blues and reds of twilight and the incandescent and fluorescent radiance of its buildings and street lamps.
So she said, as she returned to the round table, you were in the boat with a prophet.
We docked, got out of the boat and began walking through the park.
He led me to the fountain on the terrace, the one with the statue of the angel on top.
Do you know what that is Noriel? He asked an angel.
I replied, this is Bethesda fountain and that’s called the angel of the waters.
It’s from the gospel of John, the account of a crippled man who waited by the pools of Bethesda in Jerusalem to be healed.
And do you know what Bethesda means?
No, I replied, it comes from the Hebrew word which means mercy or loving kindness.
Bethesda means the house of mercy or the place of the loving kindness. He said mercy, love.
It’s God’s nature. His essence, don’t forget that through all this.
Don’t forget that judgment is his necessity, but his nature and essence, his heart is love.
He is the one always calling out to the lost to be saved.
We resumed our walk, passing by others in the park, also walking or running or playing chess or just sitting in the park benches, doing nothing in particular.
We followed the walking path through a lush green landscape of trees and grass, rocks and bridges.
So Noriel, if the sycamore is the sixth Tavener, then the seventh Harbinger has to be the cedar.
It’s what comes next. The sycamores have been cut down, but we will plant cedars in their place. Correct?
So the tree on the seal is a cedar. Yes. And what does it mean?
I have no idea their sycamores are fallen. They vow to replace them.
But instead of replacing them with other sycamores, they replace them with cedars.
Why do you think they would do that? It would have to be for the same reason.
They didn’t replace the fallen bricks with other bricks, but with quarried stone, the goal wasn’t restoration but defiance.
So I guess that the cedar was stronger than the sycamore or as different from the sycamore.
As quarried stones were from clay bricks. You’re right. The sycamore was a common tree.
It was never seen as something of great value. Its grain was coarse knotty spongy and not particularly strong.
And though it’s wood could be used in construction, it was neither the most ideal, nor most durable material to build with.
So it was kind of the clay brick of trees. Exactly.
And as the clay bricks were replaced by massive stones, the fallen sycamore would be replaced by the cedar.
So the cedar was stronger than the sycamore. Much stronger and much more highly valued.
The sycamore grew in the low lands. The cedar grew on mountain heights. The sycamore was common.
The cedar was exotic. Unlike the twisting sycamore, the cedar was straight majestic and towering.
Its wood was smooth, durable and perfectly suited for construction.
The sycamore could reach a height of about 50 ft but the cedar could grow to well over 100.
That was the point they would plant cedars in place of the fallen sycamores.
And unlike the sycamore, the cedar would stand strong against any future attack or so.
They hoped one commentary puts it this way.
Instead of harkening heating and repenting the nation determines to act in a spirit of defiance.
It will exchange its feeble sycamores that are cut down for strong cedars which the wildest gales will spare.
The wildest Gales would be what he asked the nation’s coming day of judgment.
I replied, yes. And on that day, nothing would be spared.
Not the trees, not the stones, not the nation.
And the kingdom would fall as quickly and violently as a cedar crashing down to the earth.
So it’s the same thing they did with the quarried stone. The same act in a different form.
They laid the quarried stone in the place of fallen bricks.
Now they plant the cedar in the place of the sycamore. It’s the act of Hala.
He said, Hala, it’s the Hebrew word used in the verse.
It means to exchange to replace, to plant one thing in the place of another.
And what about the word cedar? I asked, cedar is English, what’s the original word used in the prophecy?
What was the tree called in Hebrew? Herz? It was called the Rez.
The sycamores have fallen but we will plant trees in their place. So Herz means cedar.
I asked, yes and no. He replied, cedar is the word most often used to translate her as in the cedars of Lebanon.
But Herz means much more than the English cedar. Come with that.
He left the path and led me over to a tree. How would you describe it Noriel?
It’s an evergreen. And what else? It has combs and its leaves are needlelike.
It’s a coniferous tree, a Conifer.
The classic botanical work known as Hyro Botanic defines the Hebrew as a Conifer or coniferous tree.
The word he also appears in several different ancient texts where it refers to an evergreen Conifer.
So an a tree is a coniferous evergreen.
Yes, he replied, but not every coniferous evergreen is necessarily an a tree. So what exactly is it?
I asked most specifically, it’s a particular kind of cone bearing evergreen. One commentator more narrowly pinpoints it.
The Hebrew Erez rendered cedar in all English versions is most likely a generic word for the pine family.
And that means what exactly the Aris tree would fall under the botanical classification of panacea panacea.
And what I asked does panacea refer to specifically the cedar, the spruce, the pine and the fur.
So the most accurate identification of the Hebrew word er would be panacea tree. Yes.
The most botanically precise translation of the vow would be but we will plant panacea trees in their place.
And the panacea includes the cedar, but more than the cedar, correct.
So they plant the stronger tree in place of the weaker as they vow a stronger nation to replace a weaker one.
The tree becomes another symbol of the nation and its defiance, a living symbol of their confidence in their national resurgence, their tree of hope, a tree of hope but not a good hope.
No, he replied, a prideful, self-centered and godless hope.
What they saw as a tree of hope was in reality, a harbinger of judgment.
He asked me for the seal.
So of course, I gave it to him and lifting it up in his right hand as he had done with the others, he began to reveal its mystery.
The seventh harbinger, the warning of the fallen sycamore goes unheeded. Its uprooted remains are removed.
Another tree is brought to the place of its fall. A Hebrew rez a Conifer, an evergreen.
The biblical cedar, the panacea tree, the tree is planted in the same spot where the fallen sycamore had once stood.
The planting is vested with symbolic meaning. The second tree becomes a symbol of national resurgence, confidence and hope.
But like the quarried stone. In reality, it embodies the nation’s defiance.
It will stand as a witness of a nation’s false hope and a living omen of its rejection of the warning given the seventh Harbinger the tree.
So the sign is the appearance of the tree. Yes, it’s planting.
Yes, it’s planting and in the place of the fallen sycamore.
If that happens, the seventh Harbinger is manifested. Yes.
At that point, we resumed our walking and has the seventh Harbinger manifested.
I asked it has how it began with the removing of the sycamore.
The sycamore of ground zero.
Yes, it was taken from the place of its fall and put on public display as a symbol of the calamity.
Even its root system would be carefully removed and transferred to another site.
But for the ancient mystery to play out I said another tree would have to be brought to the same plot of land and planted in the same place where the sycamore had stood in late November of 2003. 2 years after the fall of the Sycamore, a strange sight appeared at the corner of ground zero in the sky.
A tree was being transported by crane over a courtyard of soil and grass.
Those in charge of the operation carefully guided it down to the appointed spot.
The new tree was set into position to stand on the same spot where once it stood the sycamore of ground zero, what was it?
What kind of tree the most natural thing to have done would have been to replace the one sycamore with another.
But the prophecy required the fallen sycamore be replaced with a tree of an entirely different nature.
So the tree that replaced the sycamore of ground zero was likewise not a sycamore.
According to the prophecy, the sycamore must be replaced by the biblical res.
So it must be replaced by a Conifer tree and the tree that replaced the sycamore of ground zero.
The tree that replaced the sycamore was a Conifer tree and evergreen. Yes. The needlelike leaves and cones.
They replaced the fallen sycamore with the Erez tree.
The sign of a nation’s false hope and defiance before God. It’s like something out of a movie.
It’s surreal except that it’s real who was behind the decision to do that.
I asked no one, he answered no one in the sense of any one person making it all happen or trying to fulfill the prophecy.
No one had any idea what they were doing. No one then where did it come from?
The tree was a gift donated from an outside party just as was the Gazit stone that replaced the fallen bricks.
But you narrowed the word errors down more specifically to one particular kind of Conifer, the panacea tree and the tree that was lowered into the ground.
Its Latin name was PAA Albi.
And the tree that replaced the sycamore was a panacea tree, a panacea tree, the same tree of the ancient prophecy, the same tree that had to replace the fallen sycamore.
Unbelievable and the sister tree to the cedar of Lebanon and it all took place at the corner of ground zero.
Yes. And the replacing of the bricks with a gaze stone happened at ground zero. Yes.
So both parts of the ancient prophecy were fulfilled in the same place at ground zero and not only in the same place he said, but in the same way, what do you mean?
They didn’t just place a gazette stone on ground zero. They made it into a public event.
A public gathering completely centered around the Harbinger. So it was with the replacing of the sycamore by the tree.
The act became a public event, a gathering completely centered on the Harbinger and who led the event, a local spiritual leader.
So the planting of the tree was made into a ceremony, a ceremony centered on the act of replacement as the laying down of the Gazit stone was an act of replacement.
Each event centered on one of the harbingers, neither had anything to do with repentance.
Instead, each exalted the human spirit and its defiance of calamity. It was another echo of the ancient vow.
2.5 1000 years earlier, the people of Israel responded to their calamity by planting the rez tree as a sign of their defiant, self confident hope.
Now, in the aftermath of 9 11 and against the backdrop of ground zero, the assembled New Yorkers repeated the ancient act with their new tree.
They too transformed it into a sign.
During that ceremony, the efficient bestowed on the tree, a name he proclaimed this ground zero tree of hope will be a sign of the indomitable nature of human hope.
A tree of hope said the prophet and a sign, yes, of the indomitable nature, indomitable, meaning unconquerable, the spirit of the vow.
And in the vow, what word was used for this act?
You just told me which means to exchange, to replace, to plant something in the place of another.
So that’s exactly what has to be fulfilled.
It’s not just that one tree has fallen and a new one planted, but the new tree has to be planted in the same place, the rez tree must be planted in the same place where the fallen sycamore had once stood.
Now listen to the words they proclaimed that day as they gathered around the tree, the tree of hope is planted in the very spot where a 60 year old sycamore stood the morning of September 11th, 2001.
And nobody realized that what they were doing was matching up with a prophecy.
I asked there was no one putting it all together. No one he answered.
It’s an exact precise fulfillment of the ancient vow. It’s exact, it’s as if they’re highlighting it.
So you can’t miss it. That’s the nature of the Harbinger Noriel. They have to be made manifest.
They couldn’t have matched it any more precisely than if they had recited Isaiah 9 10 word for word and nobody was trying to make it happen.
They all just happened to do it. Think about it, Noriel. Who could have put it all together?
The tower fell because of the terrorists. It happened to fall exactly as it did.
In order to strike down that one particular tree, the tree just happened to be a sycamore which just happened to be growing at the corner of ground zero.
The tree that would replace it just happened to be given as a gift from outsiders who had nothing to do with anything else but who just happened to feel led to give it.
Their gift just happened to be the fulfillment of the biblical re tree, which just happened to be the same tree spoken up in the ancient bow, the tree that must replace the sycamore.
They just happened to lower it into the same soil in that the fallen sycamore had once stood exactly as in the Hebrew of the ancient vow.
And the man who led the ceremony around the tree just happened to bring it all together without knowing that he was bringing anything together.
No one knew what they were doing. It wasn’t a matter of intent. It was the manifestation of the harbingers.
It’s mind boggling. I said, and another replaying of the mystery.
They were all stepping into the ancient footsteps and they thought it was their own, it was their own.
He said, but in the ancient footsteps, another piece of an ancient puzzle falling into place.
Another reenactment of an ancient drama of judgment. It still seems like a movie.
It’s still hard to believe that it’s all real that it actually happened, it all happened and is happening.
And what’s the message of the A tree? The same message it carried to ancient Israel.
The ground zero tree of hope was a sign as it was proclaimed to be but not of the hope they proclaimed.
Instead, it was the sign of a nation’s defiant rejection of God’s call to return and concerning the future.
What does it mean when you see the a tree planted in the place of the fallen sycamore.
It’s an omen, a warning. What does it mean for the future?
One commentary in Isaiah 9 10 puts it this way.
If the enemy cut down the sycamores, we will plant cedars in the room of them, we will make a hand of God’s judgments gained by them and so out.
Brave them. Note, those are ripening a pace for ruin whose hearts are unhh, humbled, under humbling providences, ripening a pace for ruin.
Then there’s no hope. I asked. There is hope said the prophet.
But when a nation such as this places, its hope in its own powers to save itself, then its hope is false.
Its true hope is found only in returning to God without that, its tree of hope is a harbinger of the day.
When its strong cedars come crashing down to the earth, he stopped walking.
And now Noriel, we approach the last harbingers, the last two each as closely joined to the other as the Erez tree is to the sycamore.
He handed me the next seal, the seal of the eighth Harbinger which I promptly examined its image was of some kind of platform, some kind of wide low platform.
I couldn’t make anything of it beyond that. You’re puzzled. He said as he saw my reaction.
Yes, I replied, this one doesn’t look too promising.
What else do you have to go on the words of the vow?
But the vow ends with the planting of the tree, the cedar, there’s nothing more.
And what other clues do you have? I don’t know, you forgot the other clues.
There are only two left. It’s a simple process of deduction. One is of stone. The gaze stone.
I replied, the other is fallen, the bricks, the bricks are fallen. One ascends. It has to be the tower.
One is alive the tree and the other one was the sycamore. There are only two left.
He said, tell me again, I replied, one speaks of what is and the other of what would be, one speaks of what is and the other of what would be very mystical and vague.
The last two harbingers are not like the others.
He said, and yet like all of them, not like the others and yet like all of them, I have to suppose that you believe you’re helping me.
I am. He replied, I need something more. You’re right. The last two are harder than the rest.
That’s the clue I asked and not here but far away, far away, far away like the mountain.
Yes. As far I asked about as far, he replied, that doesn’t narrow it down much.
The prophecy will reveal it where it is.
Yes, I don’t see how until then he said, and then left me there at the edge of the park.
I shouted after him. You can at least say good luck, you’ll be needing it.
But I don’t believe in luck Noriel.
He replied, without turning back, he began crossing the street in a crowd of other pedestrians.
I made my way to the start of the crossing but went no farther.
But if I don’t know what I’m looking for, I shouted, how will I know it when I see it?
You won’t. He answered, I won’t know it. No, you won’t see it. And why not?
He reached the other side of the street, stopped and turned around to face me.
Why won’t you see it? He shouted across the street. Yes, I shouted because you can’t see it.
It’s invisible. Of course, he then turned around, resumed his walking and disappeared into the crowd.