from Glory

What was, in the will of the Highest, the right time? The hour is near, and this is it, the people repeated, and many asserted that the Awaited, the Messiah, the Lord’s Anointed, was already to be found among us, was already making his voice heard to those who would understand it—but the will could also derive from necessity—and in truth, never had the lands of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, been crossed by so many messengers and prophets and pilgrims of God, who preached amidst fog and enigmas, speaking with words that they proclaimed to come from the Eternal, and sometimes working wonders, with a power that they swore came from the Eternal.