What are the nine harbingers described in the book?

1. The Breach — the initial rupture that begins the warning

The Breach is presented as the first sign: an opening or breach that mirrors the Hebrew passage Cahn reads into modern events, and it functions in the narrative as the initial omen that ancient Israel experienced and that America allegedly experienced around 9/11 ^{[1] [5]}.

2. The Terrorist — the instrument of destruction compared to Assyria

Cahn frames the second harbinger as the “Terrorist,” equating the Assyrian terror that destroyed Israel in the eighth century BC with the attackers of 9/11, drawing a symbolic parallel between ancient invaders and modern terrorists ^{[6] [7]}.

3. The Fallen Bricks — ruins and visible devastation as a sign

The Fallen Bricks are the literal rubble and ruin heaps that marked ancient Israel’s fall and that Cahn parallels with the twin towers’ collapse and the physical aftermath of 9/11, making visible collapse a prophetic harbinger in the story ^{[6] [8]}.

4. The Tower — rebuilding, defiance, and symbolic pride

The Tower harbinger centers on reconstruction—Cahn reads the rebuilding of a tower (paralleling the World Trade Center site and the Freedom Tower) as a symbolic act of national defiance that mirrors how ancient Israel rebuilt after being warned ^{[8] [4]}.

5. The Gazit Stone — a specific stone with a message

The Gazit Stone (or “Gazit”/hewn stone) appears in Cahn’s book as a physical relic found at a ruin in the ancient story and echoed in the modern narrative; summaries identify this seal as one of the nine concrete symbols linking past and present ^{[1] [3]}.

6. The Sycamore — trees cut down and repurposed as a sign

The Sycamore harbinger draws on Isaiah’s language of sycamores being cut down and replaced with cedars; Cahn’s narrative treats the sycamore image as another motif recurring in the ancient warnings and in events Cahn reads into contemporary America ^{[1] [9]}.

7. The Erez Tree — the cedar/erez replaced or transformed

Closely paired with the sycamore, the Erez Tree (Hebrew for cedar) functions as the counterpart in the prophetic line: a symbol of supposed transformation or replacement that, in Cahn’s account, signals the spiritual trajectory that preceded Israel’s fall and that he argues repeats in America ^{[1] [3]}.

8. The Utterance — public speech that echoes Isaiah 9:10

The Utterance is identified in synopses as a contemporary speech that quoted Isaiah 9:10 (the book cites an address connected to public figures after 9/11), and Cahn uses such utterances as a sign that the same defiant language surfaced in modern leaders as in ancient Israel ^{[2] [6]}.

9. The Prophecy — explicit recitation of Isaiah and the declared parallel

The final harbinger, The Prophecy, is the textual or spoken quotation of Isaiah 9:10 itself—Cahn argues that the recurrence of that verse and related rhetoric constitutes the culminating omen that ancient Israel experienced and that America replicated after 9/11 ^{[2] [7]}.

Notes on context and critique: The Harbinger is marketed and read as a prophetic mystery blending novelistic framing with biblical interpretation; reviewers and critics note it is a work of fiction or “loosely fictional” narrative that selectively maps similarities between ancient events and modern ones, and some religious commentators urge critical discernment about equating similarity with identity ^{[7] [10] [3]}. The listed harbingers above reflect how Cahn and multiple summaries name and explain the nine seals; debate remains in sources about the theological and historical validity of the parallels Cahn draws ^{[1] [10]}.