Global SITREP A3-26: When A Rumor Becomes A War

 

The Strait of Hormuz

UPDATED 11 February 2026: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) CSG-10 has received a WARNORD: prepare to deploy to the Middle East. CSG-10 is currently in the Atlantic Ocean. A subsequent order to deploy will place the air and naval power of two carrier strike groups, and likely two or more fast attack submarines, in striking distance of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian negotiators will also have one last opportunity to agree to the terms presented.

The Strait of Hormuz seen in the high-altitude image above has, as expected, been named by the Twelver regime as a target to be shut down to maritime traffic in the event of war. Communist China would affected the most. It remains to be determined what type of Twelver action would halt transit through the strait.

It should not be lost on any of the Bride of Christ the transition that has taken place. We're no longer looking forward on things eschatological, but rather we're focused with laser-like accuracy upon current events as they are the fulfillment of prophecy.

13 February 2026: Several media reporting this morning that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and CSG-12 have been ordered to redeploy back to the Middle East! This would leave the Bush and CSG-10 in the Western Atlantic Ocean.

This news, hopefully in error, was unexpected because the Ford has been deployed at sea since June 2025. However, considering the new 30-day deadline President Trump imposed just yesterday upon Iran this might be a very short-term deployment extension.

UPDATE 17 February 2025: As the saying goes, those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. So, here we go again. Last century "the West" negotiated with the Nazi's. Result: World War II. This century "the West" negotiates with Shi'a Twelvers hoping for a win-win and ignoring history. 

There is no difference between the Nazi's of the 20th century and the Twelvers of the 21st century. Both were/are based on false ideologies of supremacism. Peaceful coexistence with such was impossible in the 1930-40's and remains so in the late 2020's. Now imagine the Twelver Shi'a possessing nuclear weaponry. Is it not a certainty that war will again result from another failed attempt to negotiate with the Nazi's of the 21st century? 

There's not a direct reference to the Nazi's in Bible prophecy. Herein lies a distinct difference with a clearly stated prophecy concerning the Twelver regime ruling present-day Persia. This time there will be Divine intervention.

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Global SITREP A2-26: Wars and Rumors Thereof

 

USS Abraham Lincoln and CSG-3

UPDATED 27 January 2026: CSG-3, imaged above, is the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG-121), USS Spruance (DDG-111) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112). Not imaged above but part of CSG-3 is an unknown U.S. Navy fast attack submarine. Embarked on CVN-72 is Carrier Air Wing-Nine (CVW-9) and Strike Fighter Squadron-Forty One (VFA-41). CVW-9 is three squadrons of F-35 Lightning II's; VFA-41 are F/A-18F Super Hornets.

The kinetic power of CSG-3 is nothing to mess with but its utilization in a strike on Iran is not yet 100 percent certain. Trump's decision, and he's got two camps of advisors, hawks and diplomats. 

The hawks want a strike by this coming weekend. They argue for the decimation of the IRGC's combat power and that's the peg leg the Twelver regime is standing on. 

The diplomats are said to be holding to a US demand that Iran rid itself of all HEU and end any further enrichment; a limit on the number of ballistic missiles and removal of all support to regional proxy forces in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

What's an apocalyptic Twelver regime to do? Eschatology Today believes the Twelver regime will utterly reject such dictates if they decide to talk. And waiting out Trump until CSG-3 sails away is not an option. That leaves kinetic action, a la Venezuela, from the fleet and stealth from over the horizon. Meanwhile, U.S. forces will move to their on-station positions.

A good BBC map with the relevant essentials before the first shot is fired.

4 February 2026: The possibility exists that the current status could drag on for another 13 days, or even longer. 

Recall the Trump "Peace Deal for Gaza." That is what happens when real estate moguls get into "negotiations" with islamic jihadists. A non-starter that breeds perpetual small-scale warfare with an enemy having no intention of complying with terms of the so-called agreement. 

Generational warfare is the result until the jihadists no longer number among the living. The residual is the jihadists ideology strait from their unholy tome which inspires a new generation of fundamentalism and its necessitate jihadism; the cycle repeats as it has for more than 1300 years. The folly of men who think themselves great.

Why does God allow this? Is it part of "the beginning of sorrows" that preceeds the angel Gabriel's prophecy of the 70th Week of Years? Perhaps it is and this is what Eschatology Today currently believes is true. No more 'wash, rinse repeat' because the current high-speed spin cycle is, according to Scripture, the last. We are the "last generation," the Bride of Christ awaiting our elopement with our Groom Jesus Christ.

Woe to the unbelievers and those who slumber.

UPDATE 6 February 2026: Following the end of the US and the Twelver regime talks in Oman today, the Iranian representative told the media the talks could not continue under threats and military pressure. To this the US Pentagon issued a response.

Pentagon response: What threat, what pressure?

Marana'tha.

Global SITREP A1-26: Target Iran

 

UPDATED 1 January 2026: Day Four of the nation-wide anti-Twelver regime protests in the Islamic Republic might be remembered as the first day of the Iranian people's counter-revolution. 

In the city of Hamedan, the epicenter of the pro-monarchist Pahlavi aspect of the revolt, the IRGC HQ was attacked and set ablaze. One IRGC/Basij soldier was killed and at least a dozen were wounded according to early intel. The response from the government was live fire and gas grenades. 

A curious and unique development came from reformist Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian who said the rebelling populace have "legitimate grievances." Nothing like this has happened in the past ten years of Iranian popluar unrest. 

The question now is will kinetic and neutralizing military assistance be forthcoming from the US and/or Israel?

7 January 2026: The rebellion against the Twelver regime has grown almost exponentially with each passing day. The Twelver thugs level of violence has increased with each utterance by the murderer-in-chief, ayatolleh khamenei. 

And the talking heads in the U.S. political establishment, those not over-taken by Venezuelan issues, continue to assure the Iranian rebels that "help is on the way." What form that help will come in remains completely dark, or is at this point 100% covert. Israeli Mossad is present, so we assume our guys are also.

As Eschatology Today sees it, events are following Jeremiah's prophetic narrative as Ilam (Elam) province is slowly coming to the forefront.

Two cities in Elam have fallen since late yesterday to Iranian rebel forces: Malekshahi and Abdanan. Government thugs have either joined the rebellion or fled.

Iranian People in Open Rebellion Against Twelver's

9 January 2026: Last night tens of thousands if not millions of Iranians took to the streets in cities all across Iran, including Tehran. The rebellion has expanded to every Iranian province. Government buildings have been set ablaze; security forces repelled by the sheer size of the throngs of rebellious citizenry. 

The Lion and Sun, the true flag of Iran

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, congratulated the people for their bravery and he called for even larger protests tonight. His message has been heard acriss Iran even though a communications blackout was activated. Most importantly, the jihadist ideology of the Twelver regime has been thoroughly rejected by the new generation of Iranians. Jeremiah 49:34-39 is in the process of fulfillment.

21 January 2026: The IAEA is sounding alarm claxons over the nearly 1,000 pounds of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) that is unaccounted for because Iran is refusing to allow expert determination of its current status. This HEU is enough for 10 nuclear warheads, or dozens of dirty bomb warheads. 

This is an urgent issue. Why? Because there are 100 former American soldiers who are slowly dying of radiation sickness due to Iran's use of 12 dirty bomb warheads against them at Ain Al-Asad Air Base in January 2020. Thus, it is a FACT that Twelver Iran has already used nuclear WMDs in combat. A dirty little secret almost no one wants to discuss. So the 1,000 pounds of missing HEU in the hands of the terrorist, Shi'a apocalyptic IRGC-Quds Force is a very, very big real world nightmare. Who will deal with it?

FINAL UPDATE 23 January 2026: The hope here is that the US War Department will seriously consider the use of EMP or NNEMP to subdue the Twelver regime and its capability to launch ballistic missiles. 

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP C2-25: Superpower of the Eastern Mediterranean

 

Israel, Greece and Cyprus

UPDATED 18 December 2025: Most readers may have long since forgotten Global SITREP A6:16 which focused on the regional superpower triparty alliance of Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Just shy of a decade since the alliance was initiateded it has now officially established a joint Rapid Reaction Force (RRF).

The RRF initially numbers 2,500 personnel, 1000 from the IDF, 1000 from Greece and 500 from Cyprus. It will have a two-squadron air force, one each from Israel (F-35 Adir) and the Hellenic Air Force (F-16C/D); a surface and subsurface naval element, and multiple brigades of land forces to include special operations elements. The RRF fundamentally alters the military balance of power in the central and eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East as a whole.

A Rapid Reaction Force of this size is only intended to preempt kinetic enemy action or to serve as a trip-wire for the introduction of larger, more capable forces to confront an enemy.

21 December 2025: The wise are paying attention to the so-called rumors of renewed war against the Twelver-led Islamic Republic of Iran. They are not rumors, they are decisive Orders Of Battle (OOB) to eliminate the growing ballistic missile threat and the remaining 60% HEU the Twelvers possess.

In the much too brief June 2025 war Israel destroyed only those ballistic missiles deployed out of their protective underground tunnel systems. Those missiles which remained in the tunnels survived intact and operational. The war was forcibly truncated so that Trump could declare victory and "peace in the Middle East." Just because Trump said something was so doesnt mean it actually was so. 

The point here is that the surviving missiles are being renovated and upgraded swiftly with an emphasis on their warhead's destructive power over CEP accuracy. Renovated and new production are approaching a rate of 2,000 per month since September 2025. The bulk of the 60% HEU, and many centrifuge cascades, survived the US strikes on the Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan facilities.

According to IDF radio PM Netanyahu will brief President Trump on Monday, 29 December at Mar-A-Lago, Florida. The U.S. has a good idea of Israel's new OOB, and Trump has played down the Netanyahu briefing; he's not one to thoroughly walk back his declarations of total destruction last summer. Netanyahu is prepared to say that Israel's OOB is a go-it-alone plan; that the US can participate because Iran also threatens it in the region and elsewhere. The timing of a unilateral Israeli strike is on a short fuse.

Pray for the fulfillment of Jeremiah 49:34-39!

FINAL UPDATE 29 December 2025: As the world-at-large prepares to celebrate the arrival of 2026 AD with fireworks, parades, concerts, pageantries and parties, it will do so while ensconced in grand delusion. Global peace is not on the horizon, global war is.

Communist China has made clear to subdue Taiwan by force within two years time. Russia has no intention of ending its warwith Ukraine, the deployment of nuclear forces into Byelorussia (Belarus) is far from being a peaceful overture. Iran, according to the IAEA, retains the capability to produce multiple nuclear weapons. Iranian dissidents report the IRGC is also feverishly constructing biological and chemical warheads for its newly refurbished ballistic missiles. North Korea's "Rocketman" has nukes in abundance and nuclear submarines to deliver them from one end to the other of the Pacific Ocean's aptly-named "Ring of Fire." All of this is in addition to the simmering conflicts across Africa, South and Southeast Asia as well as South America. 

Sounds like a good reason to celebrate, right? But then, what happens according to Holy Scripture the world almost universally ignores as myth or fable? The wars erupt and a messianic figure and a false soothsayer arise and the thoroughly deluded masses of planet Earth shout "Peace and Safety, Peace and Safety!!" The world may hardly even notice the sudden absence of the Christians they love to hate, but they'll then dive head first in a feeding frenzy into the earthly wealth left behind.

Well, perhaps there is something to joyously celebrate after all - our soon and sudden departure to be with the LORD forever more.

Happy 2026!

Marana-tha!

Global SITREP C1-25: Jihadist Syria

 

Shapping the Syrian battlespace

UPDATED 28 November 2025: Since the Sunni jihadist conquest of Ba'athist-ruled Syria almost one year ago there has not been a minute where Eschatology Today favorably entertained the al-taqiyya coming from the "transitional" government led by Al-Qaeda jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa. Apparently neither has the coalition government of Israel, its intelligence organs and the IDF.

The map above fairly indicates how the IDF in the past 12 months has been shaping and preparing the battlefield against the jihadist enemy to the north. Light blue is the Israeli Golan. The yellow corridor indicates the IDF's forward positions within Syria. Several protected Druze villages are located on both sides of the yellow corridor. 

The operation today in Beit Jinn at the base of Mount Hermon revealed the Syrian jihadist government has been deeply involved in attacking the IDF and the Druze communities in southern Syria. Cut to the chase - the map above shows the current border, but Bible prophecy indicates the northeastern border will be at the Euphrates River.

29 November 2025: On Monday this past week President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) to officially declare the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) to be a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). The Jamaa Islamiya (JI) terrorists the IDF struck with ground troops in Beit Jinn, Syria yesterday are, in fact, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood; they operate on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. Israeli intelligence uncovered preparations by the JI in Beit Jinn to launch cross-border attacks into Israel. The JI embedded themselves within both HAMAS and Hezbollah in the 2025 war in Lebanon, and now in Syria. Also in Syria are ground troops from Houthi Yemen.

Original Trump Gaza End War Plan

6 December 2025: As can be seen in the above map the Trump Gaza End War Plan is all about Israel's withdrawal from "Arab" land. The blue line is where the IDF was when the first phase began. The yellow line is where the IDF is today. The red line is where the IDF is to be when phase two begins. The orientation at each line up to this point is towards the Mediterranean Sea, or the area still under HAMAS/PIJ terrorist control.

Guess where Egypt wants to put the so-called "International Stabilization Force" (i.e. Arab-Islamic Military Forces) when phase two begins? On the current IDF yellow line, but not oriented towards the Sea, they want the orientation towards the IDF and Israel.

8 December 2025: GAZA HUDNA - PHASE II will begin upon the islamic terrorists release of police officer Ran Gvili's remains. Officer Gvili was killed on 07OCT23 and his body was kidnapped into Gaza as a hostage. The terrorists have always known where Gvili's remains are located but pretend otherwise for their benefit. Shame on Israeli authorities for playing the terrorists game for more than two years.

Iranian Hanukkah Threat?

16 December 2025: The above poster (enlarged left, original right) have appeared in Tehran of late threatening Israel with a new war. The northern Israeli coastal city of Nahariya has been singled out in a specific threat which reads "Towards the next war: Nahariya, get ready!" 

We tend to take Iranian threats seriously, but this could also be a psyop intended to distract from Hanukkah celebrations in the immediate aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre masterminded by the IRGC-QF. 

Nahariya is located approximately 6 miles from the border with Lebanon.

UPDATE 28 December 2025: The terrorist bombing of the Alawite mosque in Homs, which has killed eight and injured eighteen others, is a sure sign that the sectarian war tearing Syria apart is far from resolved. 

The explosive devices were prepositioned for a maximum casualty effect. Sunni jihadists are at the forefront of suspects as rumors swirl of an imminent Alawite insurrection along the Mediterranean Sea coastline governorates of Latakia and Tartus. 

Former al-Assad generals exiled in Russia are receiving massive funding from other wealthy Syrians tied to the former regime. The insurgency has weapons depots, around 168,000 troops and thousands of former Syrian Army officers. The elite 4th Division figures prominently.

BREAKING: Al-Sharaa and his transitional government are not taking this threat lightly; his Syrian Army has in the last few hours deployed troops and armor into the city centers of Tartus and Latakia.

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The Magoi and the Birth of Jesus Messiah

The Eschatology Today tradition continues to bring this post forward. This is the 15th re-posting.

10 December 2025: (Original Posting date 6 January 2010): The above image is an artistic rendering of the three Magoi (Magi). In fact, there had to have been quite an entourage who accompanied the Magoi, primarily because of the basic fact that no one makes a 1,000+ mile round trip journey across the desert east of the Jordan River, that between the Parthian Empire and Roman-occupied Israel west of the Jordan River without the supplies of a life-sustaining caravan and significant numbers of mounted cavalry for protection. The actual number of gentile visitors from the east was probably closer to 300 than just 3. It's also a minor miracle that the illegitimate Roman puppet King Herod did not think the appearance of this caravan from the east wasn't the advance guard of a Parthian invasion.

The importance of the whole story about the Magoi (Matthew 2:1-12) is quite likely unknown by most Christians. That's because we've not spent much time learning about it, even though it is Scripture, Old Testament (Numbers 24:14-25; Micah 5:2-5; Isaiah 60:2-6) and very specific prophetic Scripture at that.

Oh, we all know and have visualized one way or another the "We Three Kings" Christmas carol, and have seen Nativity scene imagery like the above for the sum of our lives, but that's not the half of it. There's more... so much more to the story.

The more I think about it, the more I am astounded by the fact that the gentile Magoi who came out of the Parthian (Persian) Empire and made this tremendous journey did so after fervently holding to the prophet Daniel's detailed prophecy (given by the angel Gabriel in Daniel 9:24-26) concerning the coming of the Messiah for over 600 years, and waited generation after generation for a very specific sign in the skies, and all the while knowing the precise number of days until the Messiah's birth because of the details given in the prophecy. They knew how to count Hebrew years, and exactly how many days each year had. They knew precisely when to look for the star.

And then once that sign appeared and the number of days had elapsed they rounded up the multiple parts of a large caravan and the water and provisions for the entire group's survival, plus the gifts for the object of their 500+ year devotion for what had to be a round trip of something well in excess of 1,900 miles across barren desert, mountains, marshes, rivers and wadis.... I stand here approximately two millennia and two decades later in complete awe just thinking about it.

The caravan was quite probably a round trip from Seleucia to Jerusalem and back, on foot and by beast of burden, of GENTILE believers coming from the Magoi's descendants of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great's Empire, the Seleucid Empire to the Parthian Empire of the Roman Era.

That these GENTILES, these Magoi, had clung to and fervently believed in the exquisitely detailed God-breathed prophecy of Daniel concerning the coming birth of the Messiah for hundreds and hundreds of years, through all of the events, wars, and tumults that had occurred in this crossroads region of the known world, is without question the greatest account of the prophetic Word of God causing belief in the God of Israel among gentiles in history prior to the crucifixion, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Having been in those same Middle Eastern deserts, such a specifically purposeful journey undertaken 2,000 years ago is mind-boggling to this author. These gentiles from the regions and lands of Israel's captivity knew the details of, believed in, and all the while eagerly awaited the birth of the Messiah. And the Jews, for the most part, due to their disobedience and the spiritual blindness and deafness placed upon them by the Covenant of Moab, besides the Covenant of Horeb, (Deuteronomy 29) knew nothing of His coming; that He would literally be the God of their fathers born in the flesh of a man.

And here we are, knowing in detail that the days of time which are left until the advent of Daniel's 70th Week are all but palpable... just stand in awe and in praise of God. My brothers and sisters, just stand in awe and praise to be a living part of all this.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Global SITREP B10-25: A New Caesar

 

A New Caesar

UPDATED 18 November 2025: Donald John Trump was elected as the 47th President of the United States of America. He was not elected to be the Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Nevertheless he has blustered, bluffed, huffed and puffed his way to a self-appointed chairman position over several other unelected (appointed) potentates known as the "Board of Peace" (BoP) according to UNSCR 2803. According to UNSCR 2803 the BoP will oversee the transition from the IDFs military control of Gaza to foreign military forces, a/k/a the International Stabilization Force (ISF). These are foreign military forces on Israel's border under the command of foreign military commanders who may not be supportive of Israel's selfdefense requirements. UNSCR 2803 is a threat to Israel.

ISF C2 Center at the US Army HQ, Kiryat Gat, Israel

The ISF will be run from a Command and Control (C2) center at the US Army base in Kiryat Gat, Israel. As can be seen in the above image the C2 center has been operational for some time. According to Trump more "big announcements" are forthcoming.

The "big announcement" that will not be made is that this unenforceable UNSC resolution will turn out to be worse than the Oslo Accords, worse even than UNSC 1701 the U.S. forced upon Israel in 2006 and which allowed Iran to rebuild Hezbollah into an even greater existential threat. NOTHING has been learned from decades of diplomatic mumbo jumbo like this, ALL of it relying on nonexistent Arab-Islamic "good will." Hence the $1Trillion Saudi bribe (Bakhsheesh). Nothing will suffice the Arab-Islamic nations other than the destruction of Israel. Then their Dar al-Harb intent will be directed at us. That being said, we know from His Word something other will take place.

UPDATE 26 November 2026: The number, type, intensity and location of the recent and ongoing IDF combat exercises speak volumes about the preparations in progress for renewed warfare. 

The Lebanon "ceasefire" has all but run its course. The primary enemy forces in Lebanon (HAMAS and Hezbollah - backed by IRGC-QF) are close to completing a consolidation of assets in order to operate cohesively. There is no rational expectation that Lebanon's government will disarm either group within 30 days; that's a pie-in-the-sky boilerplate for the media.

Israeli Reshet Bet radio this morning on its several FM channels is focused on the threat from Islamic Jihad's build up of combat power with al-Shara'a so-called government doing nothing to interfere. This is aided by the Trump Administration's de facto moratorium on IAF airstrikes to degrade the jihadist build up of warfighting power.

Such is the overall military situation that of necessity it requires PM Netanyahu's daily, if not hourly attention. Trump's request for the termination of the Netanyahu witch hunt has clearly fallen on the deaf ears of the Israeli opposition.

Until the next SITREP, a blessed Thankgiving Day to all!