harbinger

A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.

harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring

Make all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death

One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.

outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide the lodging for inward holinesse

To announce or precede; to be a harbinger of.

It was harbingered also by the terrible comet of January, which appeared in a cadent and obscure house, denoting sickness and death; […]