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August 3, 2024 - March 22, 2025
“Is this something that requires faith . . . like faith in God?” “It requires nothing,” he said. “It exists whether you believe or not. Your belief doesn’t make it any more real, and your doubt doesn’t make it any less so.
oracle was one who spoke, and more specifically, one who spoke divine revelation or counsel or prophecy, an authority you went to for revelation and truth. An oracle could also refer to the revelation itself, the truth, the word, the counsel, the prophecy, the message given.
But the Bible is also filled with those called and appointed to bring forth divine messages and revelations, to share divine counsel, to discern and interpret the signs of the times, and to speak of future events before they happen.”
“So the oracles of God are . . . ” “His revelations, His words, messages, and prophecies, that which is linked to the prophets. Their prophecies could be called the oracles.”
“There’s only one place in the writings of Moses where the ram’s horn, or shofar, is connected to the words you shall return. It’s in the law of Jubilees.”
“The ram’s horn, the shofar, the trumpet, was the sign of the Jubilee. It was the ram’s horn that ushered it in and proclaimed its coming throughout the land.” “And when exactly did the Jubilee come?” “Once every fifty years. The Jubilee is the fiftieth year.”
The return of the Jewish people to their ancient land would be the sign of the end times.”
from San Francisco,
keep a notebook throughout the journey to record his observations.”
“It is hopelessness that sets the stage for the moving of God’s hand and the impossible that sets the stage for a miracle.”
“When did Mark Twain come to the Holy Land?” “In the year 1867.”
“When did Warren come to measure Jerusalem?” I asked. “In the year 1867.” “1867? The same year that Mark Twain came to bear witness.”
realm in which all events that take place in time and space are woven together apart from time and space, woven by the hand of God.”
“In Hebrew the word standing would be nitzavim. Nitzavim is the name of the appointed word in the scrolls that prophesies of the stranger coming to the land.
“On that Sabbath day, Mark Twain walked through the ancient city. And within the city was a remnant of Jewish people. They would have been observing the Sabbath, reciting the appointed Scripture of the stranger’s visit, proclaiming it, chanting it . . . as the stranger walked in their midst.”
The mystery manifests regardless of anyone realizing it.”
“it was all woven together, every part, every detail, everything falling into its exact place for the mystery to be fulfilled . . . the convergence of time and space with the eternal.
“And as the mystery continues to manifest, the dynamic will increase so that it will determine not only the course of such people as the stranger but the course of world wars and the rise and fall of empires and superpowers.”
“God has heard.” “Samuel means God has heard?”
what does Clemens mean?” “Merciful . . . the quality of showing mercy. The stranger was a sign. Samuel—God had heard their prayers; Clemens—and was about to show them mercy.” “So Mark Twain never realized the part he played in the mystery.” “He never did.”
“So Mark Twain never realized the part he played in the mystery.” “He never did.” “And the man with the measuring line?” “Warren came to the land of Israel believing the Bible. But he had no idea what was waiting to be revealed—and waiting from ancient times.”
“Selim I, Selim the Grim, an Ottoman prince who defeated his father and brothers to ascend the throne as sultan.
“There is a number given in the Scriptures,” he said, “to signify completion, ending, the ending of an interval of time, a period, an age—the number seven
The book would be released in 1869. It would be called The Innocents Abroad
And of all the books he would go on to write, it was The Innocents Abroad that would, in his lifetime, outsell the rest.
this book that would establish him as an author and catapult him to international fame.
“The prophecies are beyond any plan or effort of man,” said the Oracle. “All history moves to bring them to fruition, every event, every life, and every path, all woven together.
Theodor Herzl. He would become the founder of political Zionism.”
took place in the 1930s,” said the Oracle. “That was Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, when the Nazi fury against the Jewish people
It was after emerging victorious in his war against Babylon that Cyrus issued the decree for the Jewish people to return to their land. So too it was after America emerged victorious from the Second World War that Truman began taking action that would lead to the return of the Jewish people to their land and the nation’s resurrection.”
In all of history only two world leaders have issued such a word to bring about the mass return of Jewish exiles to the land: King Cyrus and President Truman.
“A Jubilee of lightning, a song of prophecy, the shaking of nations, the man with the trumpet, the return of the priests, a mystery of lions, a man called the Nazir, a time code hidden on a mountaintop, a day two thousand years in the making, and much more.” “So you opened the fourth door . . . ”
“Psalm 137 was the song of the first exile. ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ was the song of the second.
each Jubilee sets in motion the events of the next era,
The Six-Day War altered the dynamics of the Middle East. The failure of Arab nationalism in that war opened the door for the ascent of radical Islam. It ushered in an era of terrorism, al Qaeda, Hamas, Osama Bin Laden, and 9/11.
“The prime minister of Israel responded to the Jerusalem Declaration by calling it one of the four milestones in the history of Israel’s restoration.” 2 “What were the others?” “The Balfour Declaration, the founding of the Jewish state, and the liberation of Jerusalem 3 . . . each one linked to the mystery.”
came full circle. The trump of Jubilee had sounded throughout
“What does the name Donald mean?” “World ruler.”
