The Eighth Harbinger: The Utterance – Chapter 12

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 12 the eighth Harbinger, the utterance.
So she said with a slight smile of amusement, you are now on a journey to find an invisible harvier.
Exactly. He answered an invisible harbinger based on an unidentifiable image, an un identifiable image on the seal.
Yes. What about the other clues? Like one speaks of what is and the other of what would be?
Yes. What could I do with that? What was it revealing? He gave you other clues though.
He told me that the last two Harbingers were unlike the others and yet like all of them.
And was that a help? Does it sound like a help? Not a lot of help?
No, the most I could get out of it was that each of the harbingers had to do with one piece of the mystery.
But the last two wouldn’t be about one piece but about the mystery as a whole.
Not like any of the others. And yet like all of them sounds plausible enough.
Yes, but still leading me nowhere. What about the vow up to that point?
Everything was following the vow, everything was taking place in order.
There was nothing left you had the bricks, the tower, the Gazit stone, the sycamore and the air it ended with, but we will plant cedars in their place.
There was nothing else in the verse to give any clues. What about being far away?
That was the one clue that actually gave me something to go on.
How I asked him if it was as far away as the mountain, he answered that it was just about as far, pretty general still.
It was something to go on. The mountain was about four hours away from the city.
So the same distance would be, but about as far she said, isn’t equivalent to saying it’s the same distance still.
He replied, it could be the same distance in any case to be safe.
I allowed a distance of 3 to 5 hours from the city that’s a few 100 miles.
Then I drew a circle around it with New York City in the center.
Yes, to a radius of a few 100 miles to see what it would include.
There had to have been a lot of places.
There were New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware.
But how could that possibly lead you to find the eighth Harbinger? It would be a needle in a haystack.
It couldn’t lead me not without something else, but the prophet gave me one more clue.
He said, the prophecy will reveal it.
So I looked again at the prophecy for something that could give me a clue to the place.
And the only thing that I hadn’t considered was the introduction.
The Lord sent a word against Jacob and it has fallen on Israel.
All the people will know Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria who say in pride and arrogance of heart, the bricks have fallen down.
How could you find a clue in that? She asked the names?
He replied, Ephraim, Jacob Samaria, they were all linked to Israel. So the eighth Harbinger was in Israel.
No, Israel isn’t exactly four hours away.
I searched the commentaries to see what they had to say if they could lead me to the missing key and did they?
Yes. So what was it? It was Samaria. Samaria. Isn’t that almost the same as saying Israel?
It depends. Samaria wasn’t just another name for the kingdom of Israel. It was also the name of a city.
The prophecy is directed at those who dwell in Samaria.
Was it Samaria the kingdom or Samaria, the city or both? I have no idea. She replied.
But why would that be important?
The vow could have been spoken anywhere in the land and by anyone, it could have become a rallying cry or an anthem among the people.
But it would only be significant if it represented the response of the entire nation and who can speak for an entire nation, the leaders.
Exactly. So Samaria was the nation’s capital city, the seat of its government.
The city of its kings and officials for the vow to matter. It had to be spoken by the leaders.
It had to be the nation’s official response so it had to be proclaimed in the capital city.
And then I discovered a clue in one of the commentaries on Isaiah 9 10 that linked the vow to the nation’s capital.
National pride is usually most arrogant in a capital city. It’s the key.
The vow has to be proclaimed in the capital city. That’s what I was looking for. The capital city.
He paused waiting for her to get it. Washington DC.
She said, what were the two targets of 9 11?
He asked New York City and Washington it was already connected.
What about the distance she asked, did it fall inside the radius?
Washington is just a little over four hours from New York City the same distance as to the mountain.
So if I was right, there would be some connection between Washington DC and the words of the vow.
If I was right, then somewhere in the capital city was the eighth Harbinger.
So that’s where I had to go.
But how would you know where to go once you got there?
She asked, I wouldn’t any more than I knew where to go.
The other times I just went on what I knew or what I thought I knew.
So where did you go first? To the Pentagon?
The place with the most direct connection to 9 11. But my access was limited, of course.
And nothing seemed to connect the following day. I went to the White House, but again, no connection.
After that, I went to the Lincoln Memorial. What was it about?
The Lincoln Memorial that you thought would connect? Nothing. He replied. But I always wanted to see it.
And since I was in the neighborhood, I figured if I kept searching, I would end up in the place.
I was supposed to end up in one way or another. So it was as good a place as any.
And I’d never been there before.
It was impressive up close, massive marble columns like some Greek temple.
And of course, the statue larger than life noble, powerful.
I was staring at his face when I heard it from behind consider the greatest of American presidents said the voice I turned around.
It was the prophet before I could acknowledge his presence.
He spoke again and perhaps the most sorrowful he said, even in stone that comes through.
So I’m here. I said, I made it. You did Noriel.
I’m impressed, but I knew you would.
He led me over to the side to look at the words engraved on the wall.
Lincoln’s second inaugural address he said and then began to read the words out loud.
The almighty has his own purposes fondly.
Do we hope fervently, do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bonds men’s 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk.
And until every drop of blood drawn with a lash shall be paid by another, drawn with a sword, as was said 3000 years ago.
So still it must be said that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
He paused and turned to see my reaction. Do you understand what it’s saying? Noriel?
That behind the war that was devastating. The nation was judgment.
A national judgment for the sin of slavery until every drop of blood drawn with a lash shall be paid by another drawn with a sword.
And so his sadness, I said quietly but lying behind the judgment were the purposes of redemption that slavery would be removed from the land.
The Almighty has his own purposes. Yes, the Almighty has his own purposes.
He began walking toward the entrance but stopped just short of the steps where he stood silhouetted against the sunlight outside the memorial framed between two colossal marble columns.
He was waiting for me to join him and I did so we both stood there between the columns looking out toward the reflecting pool, the mall and the obelisk of the Washington Monument in the distance.
So tell me Noriel, how did you know, how did you know it was Washington?
It was Samaria. I said the capital city, the vow had to be spoken in the capital city.
And why would that be?
Because the capital city is the seat of the government, the place from which the nation is led.
The vow only matters if it represents the will or voice of the nation, if it’s the nation’s response to God and only the leaders can speak for the nation as a whole.
Well done Noria. So what would we expect to find in Washington DC?
Some link between this city and the ancient VW?
I said, somehow Isaiah 9 10 has to be connected to Washington DC. Correct?
In the days of Isaiah, the vow would undoubtedly have been spoken or repeated throughout the land, but the vow is proclaimed with authority and on behalf of the entire nation, it sums up the nation’s response and sets forth its future course, whatever else it may have been, the vow had to have been a public declaration of the nation’s leaders.
It had to be proclaimed somehow in the capital city.
And so the eighth harbinger is what exactly I asked what’s left in Isaiah 9 10 that hasn’t yet been revealed as one of the nine harbingers.
Nothing. It ends with the planting of the tree, nothing he said. Then everything, what do you mean?
I asked, I told you that the last harbingers are unlike the others and yet like all of them, what did you make of that?
That they wouldn’t be so much about the individual pieces of the puzzle.
But about the whole, correct again.
And what else did I tell you that I wouldn’t see them, that they were invisible.
So put the clues together.
It’s about the whole, the whole of what he asked the whole of the mystery and more specifically the whole of Isaiah 9 10, the whole of the Vow.
So what then is the eighth Harbinger Isaiah 9 10?
And when is Isaiah 9 10 invisible when it’s spoken correct?
So the eighth Harbinger is Isaiah 9 10 in spoken form.
The eighth Harbinger is the vow itself proclaimed by the nation’s leaders in the capital city.
The spirit of defiance given voice the pronouncement of judgment.
The nation’s leaders pronouncing judgment on their nation unwittingly by publicly proclaiming the vow, they seal the nation’s course.
And by so doing, pronounce judgment on the land. I assume you brought the seal with you.
I took it out of my pocket and handed it to him.
Were you able to figure out the image? He asked, no, it’s a platform.
He said a speaker’s platform from which in ancient times, leaders and orators would address their audiences.
Then he lifted the seal in his right hand and began revealing its meaning.
The eighth harbinger in the aftermath of the calamity. The nation’s leaders respond with public proclamations of defiance.
They boast of the nation’s resolve and power. They speak of its fallen bricks and quarried stones.
It’s uprooted trees and they’re replanting. They speak of a nation defiant and resolved to emerge stronger than before.
The words take the form of a vow.
The vow gives voice to a national spirit and seals the nation’s course.
It all takes place in the capital city. The eighth Harbinger.
The utterance, the prophet stepped out from between the columns and descended a few of the marble stairs.
Then sat down, I followed and sat down beside him. It was the third year after the calamity.
He said Israel’s calamity I asked or America’s.
It was the third year after 9 11, the pieces of the ancient puzzle were falling into place in late November of 2003, the tree was lowered into the earth to replace the fallen sycamore.
On the following fourth of July 2004, the Gazit stone was in turn lowered to the floor of ground zero to replace the fallen bricks.
So by the summer of 2004, every object mentioned in the ancient prophecy had manifested and each at ground zero, less than three months later would come the manifestation of the eighth harbinger but not at ground zero.
No, in the nation’s capital where the nation’s leaders reside. According to the mystery.
It would have to involve at least one leader, one who could speak on behalf of the nation, a figure of national prominence.
He would have to utter words paralleling the ancient vow and all this would have to take place publicly.
Yes. In the autumn of 2004, the nation was in the final stage of a presidential election.
The candidate campaigning on the democratic ticket for the office of vice presidency.
A member of the Senate was at that time among the most prominent of the nation’s leaders.
It was September 11th, 2004.
The vice presidential candidate had been invited to speak at a gathering of a congressional caucus in the nation’s capital on the anniversary of the calamity.
It would be an eloquent address designed to inspire its heroes.
It would also be a sign what would proceed out of his mouth would be even more precise and more eerie than that which had been spoken over the stone at ground zero.
September 11th, 2004, the third anniversary of the calamity.
These are the exact words spoken that day in Washington DC, the nation’s capital city. Good morning.
Today. On this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s word to get us through the bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones.
The sycamores have been cut down but we will put cedars in their place. My God. I said, that’s true.
It is said the prophet. Nevertheless, it happened. I can’t believe it but it happened.
He said those exact words, those exact words, but it’s a prophecy of judgment. What was he doing?
Proclaiming? That’s the point he proclaimed Isaiah 9 10, the code to the Harbingers.
It’s too much, but it’s real.
Anna had been silent up to this point just trying to take it all in, but she could no longer contain her reaction.
It’s totally unbelievable. She said it’s like something out of a, I know he replied, but it’s all real.
When the prophet told you all these things, did you check them out to verify them to make sure they actually happened?
She asked, yes, he replied and they all checked out. Yes, they all checked out.
It’s so hard to believe. Now it’s the vice presidential candidate saying it outright this ancient mystery. It’s beyond real.
I know I told him that, but it’s all true. But why would anyone proclaim that vow?
She asked, I asked the same thing of the prophet and what was his answer?
His answer was that it happened for the same reason everything else happened.
It wasn’t about the motive or the intention of the one doing it.
But the fact that it was done that it happened, it happened because it had to happen.
It was another replaying of the ancient mystery. What the speaker intended to say was irrelevant.
The words came out because those were the words that had to be spoken. The vow had to be proclaimed.
The words of the ancient leaders over the ancient calamity had to be proclaimed by an American leader over 9 11.
And by doing so, the two nations, the ancient and the modern were bound together.
The utterance would join the Assyrian invasion to 9 11.
And America’s post 9 11 defiance to Israel’s defiance in the face of God’s judgment.
But how she asked, did it happen that the vice presidential candidate could end up saying those words?
That’s the same thing I wanted to know. I asked the prophet how many verses there were in the Bible?
Over 30,000, he told me. So I replied, out of over 30,000 verses, that’s the one he chose.
And you said it was obscure that even people who read the Bible every day would probably have no idea it existed.
That is correct. He replied, so how on earth did he end up choosing that particular verse?
How is the sycamore cut down?
He asked through a series of twists and quirks, but now the twists and quirks take place in the realm of speechwriting in the searching through quotations deemed most appropriate for such occasions in the borrowing of passages and quotes from other proclamations and speeches.
It doesn’t matter how it happened.
The point is it happened, one of the most prominent of American leaders had now proclaimed the Ancient Vow, one of the most obscure verses in the Bible and one of the most ominous and he too had no idea what he was doing or saying.
I asked if he had, he never would have done it. It’s stunning. Yes.
He said it’s stunning enough for Isaiah 9 10 to appear in a speech centered on 9 11.
But that wasn’t the end of it. It wasn’t only that the ancient prophecy appeared in the speech.
What else was it? It was that the entire speech actually emanated out of the ancient prophecy and revolved around it.
The whole speech revolved around Isaiah 9 10.
I asked, it was the cornerstone on which the speech was built.
So an American leader built an entire speech on an ancient bow spoken in defiance of God by the rebellious leaders of a doomed nation.
And lest the connection be missed. He proceeded to join the ancient words of judgment to America.
How he said this. Let me show you how we are building and putting cedars in those three hallowed places and again and in a place where smoke once rose, you and I, we will see that cedar rising and yet again, you will see that while those bricks fell and the sycamores cut down our people are making those cedars rise.
He’s actually linking the fallen bricks of ground zero to the fallen bricks of Israel’s judgment. Yes, Noriel.
That’s exactly what he’s doing, but he doesn’t stop there. He speaks as well of fallen sycamores and rising stones.
The Gazit stone. Yes, and rising cedars, the rez tree and all referring to America’s campaign to defy the calamity of 9 11 as he links it all to the judgment of Ancient Israel.
And then he crowns the address with a dramatic conclusion in the form of a final vow, the cedars will rise, the stones will go up and the season of hope will endure.
And he never realized it. I asked, he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.
His only intention was to deliver an inspiring speech, a word to encourage a nation.
But instead, but instead he was pronouncing judgment on a nation. Yes.
Said the prophet without realizing the ramifications of his words, he was pronouncing judgment on America. Amazing.
But so it was in the ancient case as well without realizing what they were doing, the leaders of ancient Israel were pronouncing judgment on their nation.
But now it’s 2.5 1000 years later, I said now there’s a context, the book of Isaiah, it’s clearly not a word of encouragement.
So it means nobody took the time to look even two verses back or ahead to see that it was actually a proclamation of judgment.
No, because it had to be proclaimed and yet notice Noriel, the senator made a subtle change.
The original vow speaks in the future tents. We will rebuild, we will plant cedars.
But in this speech, it becomes we are building. We are making those cedars rise only at the end.
Does it go back to the future tents? The cedars will rise, the stones will go up.
Why do you think that is when he speaks in the future tense. He’s vowing, it’s the vow.
But when he speaks in the present tense, he’s bearing witness to the fact that the vow is being carried out.
Exactly. He’s bearing witness that the vow is being carried out.
And to do that, he takes sewn stones and cedars, the symbols of Israel’s defiance in Isaiah 9 10 and transforms them into the symbols of America’s campaign to rebuild itself after 9 11.
Just as the actual physical harbingers were literally transformed into the symbols of American resurgence, correct?
Did he know what was happening? Did he know what was happening?
Did he know that what he was declaring figuratively and symbolically was actually taking place in reality?
He spoke of the falling of the sycamore as a symbol of 9 11.
Did he know that it had actually happened that a sycamore had actually been struck down on 9 11?
And when he spoke of Americans putting up stones and cedars, did he realize that too had actually taken place?
Did he know about the Gazit stone or the tree? He was only speaking poetically, he had no idea.
And even if someone was to report it to him, he still would have had no idea what it all meant.
No more idea what he was doing than those who actually replaced the fallen sycamore with the er, and bricks with stone.
Everyone was unknowingly performing their part of the mystery and his part was to take the ancient vow and transform it in his address.
It ceased to be a quote. It was no longer Israel boasting in its cedars. It was now America.
It was thus now America’s vow, everything was being transposed the bricks, the quarried stone, the sycamore, the cedar and now an American leader was publicly proclaiming the exact words of the vow and bearing witness of its fulfillment, a harbinger to seal the other harbingers and to reveal America as a nation under the shadow of judgment, an American leader pronouncing judgment on America without realizing it.
Yes, as the manifestation of the harbinger.
So on the anniversary of 9 11, an American leader proclaims the ancient vow pronounces judgment on his own nation and he has no idea what he’s doing or saying as with all the other harbingers, he doesn’t intend it or realize what he’s doing.
Nobody does. And yet it still all happens.
According to the ancient prophecy, every piece of the puzzle falls into its exact place but no one intends it to happen.
No human hand directs it. It just happens. I still can’t fathom it.
The prophet paused before responding, then spoke almost in a whisper.
The almighty said the prophet has his own purposes.
He reached into his coat pocket and handed me the next seal. This is the last one.
He said, the seal of the ninth Harbinger and the last of the harbingers. Do I get a clue?
I asked you already have a clue. Not like the other Harbingers and yet like all of them.
Yes. So then the ninth Harbinger is like the eighth Harbinger I asked like, and unlike it, is there a law?
I asked that if something isn’t confusing enough as it is, you’re required to make it more confusing.
He didn’t answer that. So the ninth Harbinger is like the eighth Harbinger in that it’s a summation of all the harger that went before it.
I asked yes and no, he answered. Do you see what I mean?
I said as if expecting him to commiserate with my plight. Yes, he answered.
It is a summation but no, not primarily of what went before it.
Then of what I asked of that, which came after it, how could it be a summation of what came after it?
The clue you were given one speaks of what is and the other, the other.
I said the other of what would be, what is it that you see on the seal?
He asked, it looks like it could be some sort, some sort of document. It is a document.
It’s a parchment, the kind on which the scriptures were written, the kind on which the prophecies of Isaiah were recorded.
So the ninth Harbinger is a document.
It is, he said, but not primarily then what primarily what is it that speaks of what would be Noriel a prophecy?
I answered the ninth Harbinger is a prophecy correct. Then we have to look for a profit. No.
And for what he rose to his feet and began walking down the steps.
Come Noriel and I’ll show you, show me the place where it all happened.