Eschatology Today - OPERATION EPIC FURY

 

Operation Epic Fury

28 February 2026: The usual first casualty in warfare is accurate information. This is due to the rush to report news. Eschatology Today will do its best to assure accuracy going forward. 

At the outset it does appear the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jeremiah 49:34-39 may have begun. IRGC missile bases have gotten a few of their "arrows" in the air, but they are under a massive air assault by the United State and Israel armed forces at this time. Twelver regime leadership and military bases are getting significant attention. On the cyber front messaging to the Iranian people has begun with "Help has arrived." Instructions given on the role they are to play in the war, i.e. "take control of Iranian governance."

The IRGC has not been able to launch massive barrages of missiles, as is their preference; they're having launcher problems. The IRGC did manage to launch one missile each at Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. 

Operation Epic Fury is a comprehensive retaliation for ALL of the Twelver regime's attacks against the United States over the past 47 years. President Trump itemized these attacks in his televised comments at 02:45 AM this morning.

Thus far only the shortest range missiles in the IRGC inventory were able to be launched. They barely covered the width of the Gulf waters. The longer range missiles are now on the receiving end of incessant US and Israeli strikes.

Not one to rain upon the parades of freedom loving Iranians, but the death of the Ayatollah and his inner clique, and that which is yet to occur in Iran, it is necessary to turn to Ezekiel 38:5 to see clearly what the near future holds. Ezekiel 38/39, and the other ancient prophets of Israel, do not prophecy about peace. Trust the Word of the LORD.

2 March 2026: In response to many indescriminate missile attacks by the Iranian Twelver regime into all of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries they will now coordinate their counter-strikes into Iran with U.S. CENTCOM HQ. 

After a little more than a day of Israeli and US airstrikes the Command and Control (C2) Tehran can exercise over its forces is non-existent. All local IRGC, Basij, Artesh and what is left of their naval formations must conduct their operations independent of any higher headquarters tasking. The bulk of they navy has been sunk.

What did Eschatology Today say in the very first sentence above? Have readers taken that warning seriously? Not so much. False print information is flooding the internet in an overwhelming manner, and AI-generated video is not far behind. No one sitting in front of their computer screen can tell the difference between a genuine video and an AI-enhanced video or still image. Enjoy the show but know that most of it is NOT REAL.

Finally!!! SECWAR Hegseth just told the world what we've said here for years about the Iranian Twelvers and their theology. The key phrase in SECWAR Hegseth's statement was "prophetic islamic delusions." 

Eschatology Today - Signs

 

24 February 2026: This inaugurates a new phase in the ongoing postings to Eschatology Today, from the longstanding Global SITREP series to a dated chronology simply termed Signs.

The establishment of the State of Israel is at the top of the list as a Sign of the end of this age. Make no mistake, the re-establishment of Israel in the Covenant Land is an ongoing process, witness the struggle over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

Within the past day something occured here that has not happened since Jesus walked on this land, and the Hasmonean's ruled until the Roman conquest. The national banner of Israel was raised atop Mount Sartaba which fronts on the Jordan Valley. 

On Mount Sartaba

In Israel's ancient history and during the Second Temple period this mount held, and still does have deep religious and national importance. A Signal fire would light up on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, and then a Signal fire would lit on Mount Sartaba. Jews in Babylon understood this Sign. Now in this era the same signalling is taking effect echoing ancient times. On Rosh Chodesh Nisan a signal fire will be lit as a signal [via TV] to the Jewish diaspora all over the world that "Israel Lives." 

26 February 2026: "War and rumors of war" are a sign. The current rumor of war between the US/Israel and Iran is like an epic storm rumbling towards us over plains and mountains, or a tsunami rushing a relatively calm shoreline. Its sudden arrival will alter most things in ways that are currently only supposition or conjecture in the secular world. 

Bible prophecy is more direct in the effects that will take place. Iran under the Twelver regime will go from a major threat and number one terror sponsoring state in the world to a second or third-rate has-been power, such as the war-torn rump of Sudan and Libya. So says the ancient Spirit-inspired prophet Ezekiel. It is the nearness of Ezekiel's prophetic military action which is the clearest indication of when the Bride of Christ will be instantaneously taken up to be with the LORD. Ezekiel 39:29 for your Berean point of reference.

27 February 2026:  As noted previously, the presence of Persia in the disastrous Magog confederation assault on Israel per Ezekiel 38/39, indicates a US/Israel attack in the near future will likely not achieve a regime change in the ruling theocracy. An attack or a "palace coup d'etat" could change the top tier Twelver leadership. Should this occur the most likely candidate for leadership and continuation of hatred for Israel might be Ali Larijani, a very close associate of Ayatollah Khamenei and the one he has personally tasked to ensure the survival of the Islamic Republic, even though Larijani is not a Twelver.

28 February 2026: Just when the visits to Eschatology Today tanked to rock bottom in the last 48 hours, the order was given and the U.S. Department of War began the execution of OPERATION EPIC FURY against the Islamic Republic of Iran at 0'Dark Thirty this morning. 

The State of Israel is also striking the Islamic Republic in concert with the US Armed Forces, making this a truly joint operation. Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been hit hard this morning by the IAF. At least one Israeli Naval Service (INS) submarine armed with Israel's second strike nuclear deterent put to sea this morning. It was last seen departing Haifa at high speed.

The Houthi's in Yemen have declared the Bab al-Mandab strait closed to all shipping. They claim to attack all US and Israeli ships they can reach.

In the Gulf the first strikes of Op Epic Fury hit several IRGC naval bases from which an attempt to deny transit access to the Strait of Hormuz would originate.

Twelver retalitation targeted the US Naval Support Activity in Manama, Bahrain. A video appears to show a direct hit on the US 5th Fleet HQ. There are also videos of Iranian missiles being shot down over the UAE.

The primary objective of Op Epic Fury appears to be neutralizing the Twelver regime (Tehran has been hit several times so far), its IRGC bases, infrastructure and nuclear sites. Given the intensity of action a new post will begin this morning.

Marana'tha!

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.

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.

Final Update 23 February 2026: The media is chock full of postulations and supposed insider leaks about what President Trump is going to do in the next few days. Some of this is deliberate to keep the world guessing, but none of it matches precisely with Jeremiah's prophecy. Unknown are the ways such a war will affect the world. Eschatology Today interprets Jeremiah 49:34-39 as the ignition switch for a successive series of prophetic fulfillments. In anticipation this blog will now transition to the crux of Jesus' Olivet Discourse, i.e. The Signs of the end of the Age.

Marana'tha!

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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