Chapters 4 & 5 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 4: The First Harbinger: The Breach, Ana tells her secretary to hold all calls for the rest of the day before Nouriel continues with meeting the prophet weeks later after being unable to make sense of the symbols on the first seal. While at Battery Park, looking at the Statue of Liberty, Nouriel notices the prophet nearby. The prophet explains that the first seal shows the removal of the hedge of protection, foreshadowing a future judgment so severe that the nation will never recover if it comes to pass.

The First Harbinger, the Breach, was meant as a wake-up call, but Israel committed themselves to defending their country so such an attack could not happen again, unaware of the dangerous era they had entered. Similarly, God removed America's hedge of protection on 9/11/01, allowing their defenses to be breached, and like...