Chapter 12 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 12: The Eighth Harbinger: The Utterance, Nouriel does not find the clues helpful as he searches for an invisible harbinger based on an unidentifiable image, but when he considers the first part of the prophecy, he recalls that it names Samaria, the capital of Israel, so he goes to Washington D.C., America's capital, where he encounters the prophet at the Lincoln Memorial. Reading Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, the prophet notes that the war was devastating and showed judgment, but behind that judgment was redemption in the form of the removal of slavery. The Eighth Harbinger, the Utterance, refers to when Isaiah 9:10 is spoken, being the vow itself as the spirit of defiance was given voice. The image on the seal is that of a speaker's platform. Three years after the initial calamity, all of the objects in the ancient...