Kaplan asks the prophet what will happen now that all nine harbingers have been established, and Kaplan proposes that the nation can still turn to God to avoid whatever judgment may be coming. The prophet says that this redemption is possible, but he says that there will be a second warning, as with 9/11. The prophet walks away from Kaplan, and he stops Kaplan from following him, telling Kaplan that their time together is done. The prophet tells Kaplan to go home and watch for signs of a second warning.

Goren is disappointed that this may be the end of Kaplan’s story, and she asks him what he has discovered since that time. Kaplan explains that he researched Isaiah 9:10, and he found several commentaries that echoed the prophet’s claim that there will be a second warning, including one that uses the phrasing “there comes a second” (128). Kaplan speculates that the 2007-08 housing market crash, the Great Recession, which was a period of economic decline that developed between 2007 and 2009, and the US war in Iraq are all part of this second warning, but Goren is not convinced without the prophet’s influence.