Global SITREP C4-22: Expectation of a Crescendo - Part II

French paratroopers make a combat jump into Estonia

UPDATE 27 June 2022: NATO announced today that the size of its Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) will increase in size eight-fold from 40,000 troops to 320,000 troops. This increase is unprecedented in the history of NATO and a direct response, albeit belated, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

NATO SECGEN Jens Stoltenberg used diplomatic-speak in saying the eight-fold increase is due, in part, to NATO entering into "an era of strategic competition." Horsefeathers! It's brute force being called up to meet head on with the brute force and not-so-subtle sabre rattling of the Russian Federation. 

It is also not really surprising that this announcement was made today, just three days prior to the promised date (June 30th) of Russia's announced retaliation for the NATO "blockade" of its Kaliningrad enclave wedged in between Poland and Lithuania.

And Russia isn't the only strategic threat NATO is addressing with this expanding RRF as Communist China's threats to NATO and its partners in the WESTPAC region also are rapidly approaching critical mass. If any doubt arise concerning the prophetically important aspect involved one need only refer to Daniel 11:44. Yes, the world is that close, and getting closer with each passing day.

25 June 2022: Yesterday saw the SCOTUS render its decision to overturn an abomination that has plagued this nation for nearly 50 years. And we can make no mistake about it - this was a decision made by God Almighty, and we had a part in it in the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States. No Democrat so elected would ever have made the reversal of Roe v. Wade a critical item on his/her agenda. In fact, neither Ronald W. Reagan nor the father-son tandem of George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush made a commitment to follow through on their campaign pledges to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Donald J. Trump made such a commitment and he followed through with it as the opportunity to nominate and seat truly conservative SCOTUS justices (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett) was placed before him by our God. These three joined Justices Thomas and Alito, and therein lies the 5-4 decision victory for the sanctity of human life created in the image of God. Yes, God made the decision and He chose Donald J. Trump to effect its execution, even though the evil opposition was successful - at least and perhaps just temporarily - in removing him by illegal and unlawful means. Today and going forward, all churches who worship God can rejoice as one Church in Christ Jesus. 

This is a tangible reminder that our Sovereign God is in complete control; His Divine will has been done. As Christian Americans it will be our duty, fully armored by God, to maintain it by our votes in November, should we still be here to do so. Marana'tha!

24 June 2022: In yesterday's edition of Arutz Sheva's (7INN) briefs section was found a very interesting article by Rabbi Nachman Kahana. This article informed about the ancient Israelite practices following the Exodus from Egypt and how each breaking down of an encampment had four Levites chosen to carry the Holy Ark to the next encampment site. At this time the Holy Ark led Israel into the battles to secure the Promised Land. 

Going forward, and following the destruction of the Second Temple, it became customary to construct batei knesset (synagogues) according to the basic design of the interior of the previous Temples. According to rabbinic tradition (and opinion) the Aron HaKodesh housed Torah scrolls just as the first two Temples had the Holy of Holies (Kodesh Kedoshim) within which was the Holy Ark that contained the broken pieces of the first Tablets, the two whole replacement Tablets and a Torah scroll. To this day the Torah scrolls are contained in a symbolic Ark which is adorned "with esthetic and artistic accessories because they are sanctified entities and the closest objects Israel has today to the Temple (Bet Hamikdash) and the Holy Ark." 

IDF Major Ronen  Aharon is the commander at the HQ of the military rabbinate near Ramle, Israel. It is here that one will find hundreds of Torah scrolls, many donated to Israel's Ministry of Defense, that are being meticulously prepared for delivery IDF unit, from the northern border to the Sinai where the original Torah was received. This is being done in accordance with Israeli military law for every active and called-up reserve unit of the IDF. As in the image above, the highly revered Torah that each unit receives lead that unit into its deployment. As Rabbi Kahana makes clear, cost is no object in this endeavor. The IDF goes henceforth into battle led by hundreds of meticulous copies of the Holy Torah.

Israel Mapping Hezbollah's Military Sites

23 June 2022: With a hat-tip to our brother-in-Christ Chuck, Eschatology Today is pleased to present Part II of our "Expectation of a Crescendo" series SITREP. Additions to SITREP C4-22 will be added as we move forward or as they happen.

The information presented here can be found, and is free to all, at the website of the ALMA Research and Education Center. Consider a donation to the site if you are so led, as I have been. Mostly, I feel led due to the deterrence (and angst) the ALMA organization is causing and creating within the upper ranks of the terror organization. Much of that is due to simply the content published online and the effect it has been having. Especially the publishing of details about Hezbollah's military installations and sites in southern Lebanon. 

To be sure, much of this is very likely known to the intelligence services of the IDF, but there are likely aspects of the OSINT that have added to the overall intel picture the IDF possesses about Hezbollah's military sites. We've reported here many times over that the IDF's brass have stated abundantly that in the coming war Hezbollah will cease to exist. The prophecy of Joshua 13 would appear to foretell that coming reality in geographic detail.

Global SITREP C3-22: Expectation of a Crescendo

U.S. warship patrolling the Taiwan Strait

UPDATE 17 JUNE 2022: The Israel-Iran nuclear weapons crisis, as noted at the opening of this SITREP on 10 June, has finally reached (pun intended) critical mass in the MSM with the publication yesterday of an OpEd on THE HILL entitled: "Israel and Iran: Five Minutes to Armageddon." The linked opinion piece hits all of the critical points made on Eschatology Today for years now; it even validates one-hundred percent everything revealed publicly by Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu regarding the treasure trove of documentation seized by the Mossad from a clandestine warehouse in Tehran in 2018, as well as acknowledging that the JCPOA "nuclear deal" is dead. Yet it was the official IAEA admission about Iran's mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle to nuclear weapons capability that broke the proverbial camel's back. It is well worth your time to read the linked OpEd, even though the secular opinion piece totally botches the prophetic truth regarding Har Megiddo. Consider this update the follow-up to the opening of this Global SITREP C3-22 on 10 June.

UPDATE 16 JUNE 2022: In the WESTPAC - China has unilaterally declared the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese territories to be sovereign to Communist China. The Taiwanese, the US, Japan, ROK, Australia and other Western Allies all reject the Communist claims. Putin of the Russian Federation supports China. 

Russia and China have recently held naval exercises simulating war against the Western Allies in the WESTPAC. When war erupts here it will be China/Russia versus the Western Allies. It will be a global and nuclear war.

13 JUNE 2022:Two more Iranian scientist working for the Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) and within the complex IRGC aerospace programs for military applications (satellites, drones, ballistic missiles) have become deceased under mysterious circumstances within hours of each other. These two additional deaths continue the unbroken string of assassinations of key individuals within the IRGC's military nuclear and weapons development programs. 

In Israel a Knesset vote is expected today that, if it fails, could lead to a new law instituting full Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. At present Israelis living in Judea and Samaria living in Area C have been under a legal construct which will expire on 30 June 2022. If the existing law were to expire Israeli citizens living here would have little or no legal protections or rights; they would find themselves within a legal limbo. Given the fractious nature of the current Knesset, if this existing law is not reinstituted a number of MKs have pledged to bring forward and vote on a law to institute full sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. The last attempt at reinstitution in the Knesset failed. Another failure could bring down the government and result in the full sovereignty law been implemented. One need not think very hard to know how the Arab-Islamic world would react.

Damaged runways: Damascus Int'l (click to enlarge)

11 JUNE 2022: It has been confirmed, at 04:00 Friday morning, 10JUN22, the Israeli Air Force struck and put completely out of operation both of the primary runways at Damascus International Airport. This breaking news would have been posted yesterday morning but it was initially suspected to be enemy disinformation due to its unprecedented nature. 

Confirmation of the airstrike came in the form of the above satellite photo reconnaissance imagery by ISI. The image was distributed globally yesterday morning, and the rapidity of its public release speaks to its importance. The reconnaissance image serves as outstanding real-time Battle Damage Assessment ((BDA) clearly indicates three high-precision ordnance impacts (yellow boxes) on the center-line of each runway that destroyed the entire width of both the northern and southern runway at each point of impact. Optical or laser guidance is used in such precision airstrikes. 

Yesterday the government (Foreign Ministry) of the Russian Federation also publicly condemned the State of Israel for the airstrike. That the Russian government has any leeway to cite "the norms of international law" is patently ludicrous given its genocidal operations in the Republic of Ukraine. 

10 JUNE 2022: The image above shows the exterior of the newly constructed cathedral of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Given the time in which we live, it can be said this is the cathedral of Gog of Magog. However, that aside what will be said here about it is that this cathedral is NOT dedicated to Christ's Victory, but to the military victories of the former Soviet Union and those hoped for by the current Russian Federation. In a very real sense the present day armed forces of Russia are the Federation's new. man-made theological construct of Russian Orthodox patriarch Cyril, Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu, and as such it is the central focus of the Orthodox state religion of the Russian Federation. This edifice is one highly mythological creation of the state and has zero to do with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is where genocide is worshipped and glorified for its own sake.

It was recently revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but wholly ignored by virtually all media, that the Islamic Republic of Iran has exceeded the nuclear threshold in having mastered the entire nuclear fuel cycle and can indigenously manufacture its own stockpile of nuclear weapons. This abominable Iranian achievement lies on the doorstep of both the U.S. Biden Administration and the Israeli government of Naftali Bennet as they have done nothing significant to preempt it. The deaths and bombing of Iranian scientists and facilities were inconsequential even though they offered the hope of something better for the world at large as a counter to the apocalyptic plans of the Twelver clerics ruling in Tehran. Only immediate military action will suffice at this time and for a very short window of opportunity. However, there are signs that such military action is in advanced planning stages with execution having been practiced in large-scale exercises just last week by Israel, and the U.S. within the past couple of days.