Global SITREP A1-18: A Quick Perspective Analysis on What to Expect

The Lord Jesus Christ delivering the Olivet Discourse

1 January 2018: The Eschatology Today blog began on 18 January 2009. Over the course of the initial four years (2009-2012) the average number of Eschatology Today posts was 34. Beginning in 2013 (Global SITREPs commenced in March of 2013) and continuing through  the next four years (through 2016) the number of posts virtually doubled for 2013, 2015, and 2016. 2014 was quite the anomaly with a total of 99 posts, bringing that four year average to 75. This brings us to the present and the just completed 2017 in which there were a total of 72 posts, more than double the number of posts in 2009. 

People who do analysis use figures like these to illustrate trends. The increasing frequency of yearly SITREPs is a kin to a siren calling firemen to the firehouse; the number of prophetic fires having doubled. The urgency of reporting has increased two-fold. In 2009-2012 Eschatology Today looked at future prophetic events and how they might be expected to unfold. IN 2017 WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WATCHING THEM UNFOLD. We spent much of the year anticipating the fulfillment of the Great Sign of Revelation 12:1-2. It occurred exactly as detailed in that Scripture.

And some will still say that tomorrow never comes. I've got news for those folks, tomorrow is here - today. This should be pretty apparent to the 1.6 million of you viewing the 505 Eschatology Today posts during the past 9 years on an average of 14,900 times per month. Hindsight is 20/20; it provides the proper perspective.

So, 2018 begins Eschatology Today's 10th year, and many are wondering what to expect. As always, expect what our Lord Jesus Christ told us to expect. Expect the unexpected! 

"Be ready because in the hour you do not expect the Son of Man comes." (paraphrased Matthew 24:44) 

In ancient times, and in the words of the Lord's prophets, time and date were given in a certain format. Most often the format was akin to how Daniel's 9th chapter begins. The first two verses read (and please read these prophetic words carefully, a couple of times if necessary):

"In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldean's in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem."

Could I now write:

"In the first year of Trump, who was made leader over the realm of the Americans and of the free world, on the twenty-third day of the eighth month, I understood by the words specified by God, who had given them to Christ Jesus and who gave them to His servant John on Patmos, that the Great Sign came to pass."

Yes, and I just did write them. But they're not prophetic words, they are words of what is now historical fact. And all one has to do is look at what has occurred as detailed in the dozen or so posts, from Global SITREP D1-17 through E3-17 to see what has occurred of prophetic importance in the three months since the Great Sign. Jerusalem, has become the the focus of last days prophetic fulfillment we have long known it would become. Not to be lost on anyone reading here - this has occurred in the 70th year of Israel's modern, end-times existence, which is also the 10th sequential HaShemittah since Israel was re-born in the covenant land. 

And make no mistake, this is not about politics or an issue of secular import, this is about the literal fulfillment of the Lord's inerrant word. And just as with the Great Sign it is prophecy occurring in fulfillment before all of our senses, along with everything relevant to the imminent literal fulfillment of the several prophecies involving Iran (Persia, Elam), Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and, of course, Israel. And just about 24 hours ago the process of Israel taking full, sovereign possession of Judea and Samaria very probably began in earnest.

"Be ready because in the hour you do not expect the Son of man comes."