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| Watch therefore... 1 January 2025: It may sound cliche, but it is true, we have never been closer to the coming of our Lord than we are this day. In surveying events and potentials for events in the world for 2025, the first item to make a note of is the alleged ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. It apparently has a caveat attached in which the IDF must be completely withdrawn from southern Lebanon by 60 days from November 27, 2024. That means the 61st day which is the day Hezbollah is threatening to renew its attacks on Israel is Sunday, 26, January 2025. We shall see as there are any number of circumstances which could make such an ultimatum a moot point. The second note to make is Russia's non-negotiable position that there can be no high-stakes summit between Putin and Trump to discuss the end of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine unless Ukraine first renounces its right to sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is not a new Russian precondition, but rather an oft-repeated demand which clarifies the objective of the Russian Federation as the total capitulation of the Republic of Ukraine and on its face cancels any notion of "good faith" negotiation to resolve the war. These two items stand as two of six major international crises facing the start of the second Trump Administration. The third is the Iranian nuclear weapons program; the fourth being China/Taiwan, the fifth Yemen and freedom of commercial navigation through the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint. Trump unilaterally also recently announced a sixth in taking back the Panama Canal from China and Panama. Other crises will inevitably crop up throughout 2025, some of them yet unforeseen (seismic, asteroids, pestilences), yet all of them the prophetic birth pangs foretold by our Lord in His Olivet Discourse. Manana'tha! |
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Global SITREP A1-25: The King IS Coming!
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Keeping our eyes and minds on Him mjb
ReplyDeleteIndeed we are!
DeleteBy the way, I've not forgotten the domestic crises in this 2025 "America First" year. The borders, the debt, illegal immigration and the climate hoax. (Yes, it is a political hoax that has nothing to do with addressing real climate issues - Scripture is clear about last days ecological disasters, we live in a fallen world even if temporarily at this point in time.)
ReplyDeleteapparently ISIS at home now is going to start off 2025
DeleteAnd apparently America has to re-learn the hard lesson of ideological terrorism to rouse us from a state of complacency. Terrorism is the tactic, not the enemy.
DeleteMedia reporting a significant IAF airstrike on a Syrian defense facility in the vicinity of Aleppo.
ReplyDeleteA direct result of Israel going to war and decimating Hezbollah's military capabilities is the return of sovereignty to Lebanon's government. This is most evident in the military dominance and ability to project power by Lebanon's national army.
ReplyDeletePreviously Hezbollah exerted complete control over the Lebanese government, and cowed its national army into submission at every turn.
Iranian Twelver clerics have not only lost their control over Syria and Damascus, but now also Lebanon and Beirut. The financial loss alone is staggering and must be added to the political and military losses.
An attempt to recover control over Lebanon may require Hezbollah to launch an all or nothing coup d'etat. That will invite an Israeli military intervention.
Point Blank: Syria is an Islamist state, probably worse than what ISIS tried to create.
ReplyDeleteThe current low-intensity conflict has a significant probability of returning to full-scale warfare within a month.
ReplyDeleteAs noted earlier neither HAMAS nor Hezbollah acknowledges their being defeated by the IDF. This is evident in how these die hard Islamists continue to make ridiculous demands and issue ultimatums to Israel. Islamists in Syria and Jordan are not likely to sit it out this time.
Houthi ballistic missile was just intercepted by Israel air defense. Missile fragments fell well short of Israeli territory.
ReplyDeleteIn keeping with the opening paragraph of this SITREP and my comment above at 4:10 PM yesterday, there are three more conditional aspects to the "ceasefire" with Hezbollah:
ReplyDelete1.) The 100% withdrawal of Hezbollah to north of the Litani River.
2.) The complete disarming and dismantling of Hezbollah's weaponry throughout Lebanon.
3.) The complete elimination of all Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon by the Lebanese national army.
Those who've paid attention will recognize these items are integral to U.N.S.C.R. 1701 of 2006 which ended that conflict. Israel's non-negotiable position here has not changed one iota in the past 18 years.
None of the above conditions have yet occurred to become facts on the ground in Lebanon. All of them are prerequisites for Israel's citizens to return in safety to their homes in northern Israel.
The war will resume in full.
About 1.5 hours ago a major terrorist attack took place on Hwy 55 in Samaria. The point-blank shooting attack in broad daylight killed several Isreali civilians, women and men, and wounded several more. The terrorists escaped in their sedan. This attack is the result of Iranian weapons smuggling and infiltration of Judea and Samaria.
ReplyDeleteUPDATE: The IDF is executing intensive combat operations throughout Judea, Samaria and Jordan Valley. More troops inbound as DM Katz upgraded yesterday's attack from terrorism to "an act of war." A critical distinction that has been long overdue.
DeleteThree significant earthquakes this afternoon (US time) in close proximity of Iran's nuclear plant at Bushehr.
ReplyDeleteAs the Lord has said in His Word....."I will...." Jer 49:35-.... I just can't see how Iran can not be punished severely for what they have done to His covenant people. LD
DeleteNumbers 23:19
Delete"God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"
7.1 quake with dozens of 4-5 Richter shakes in the Tibet-Nepal border region this morning.
Delete5.7 Richter quake in southern Qinghai prefecture this morning may be related to yesterday's 7.1 quake in Tibet.
DeleteThe title for this SITREP was deliberately chosen because it's absolutely true, even though only peripherally related to the items noted.
ReplyDeleteThis year is, by every method of consideration, when the final sprint to the 70th Week of Years begins. This is when the dominoes begin to fall in a rapid, sequential succession. Like a flood.
May His face be made to shine upon you, Brother. I am grateful He has placed you on this path to help others understand His prophetic signs. May your word continue to breathe His message, and may it help others fiind Him.
ReplyDeleteChris U
Chris,
DeleteAmen Brother!
Matthew 24:33-34 records our Lord's literal words: "So you also, when you see all these things, know that [He] is near—at the doors! Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place."
The duration of this generation, clearly a generation of strength (1948-2028), empowered by the Holy Spirit; guarded by the Restrainer, has entered its final months on this Earth.
something you wrote just now caught my eye and i just wanted to clarify, are you now measuring the Restrainers influence in months now instead of years? I hope it's not a dumb question, I just now noticed it and wanted to clarify
DeleteJon Hartman
Jon,
DeleteThe key sentence minus my embellishments (Holy Spirit/Restrainer one and the same) should read like this:
The duration of this generation has entered its final months on this Earth.
Been wrestling with this for some time, trying to discern fact from fiction; potential realities from false narratives.
ReplyDeleteBased upon current info, just 12 days from now either the US of A will transition back to the Trump-led, islolationist MAGA Republic of 2017-2020, or lurch forward to an expansionist, globally assertive MAGA.
From Republic to Empire in other words. Talk softly but carry a bigger stick.
We shall see.
Agreed, it does seem that Babylon may be in spirit rising, but is not Babylon the great as the Scriptures forecast. The comments from elected leadership for outside of our borders has been greater than I can ever know/recall for the past 60 years. All indications are excitement in my spirit as I see our blessed hope at any time.
DeleteAt the very least it appears President Trump will put in place the North American Union.
ReplyDeletePresident-elect Trump opined the other day that the world is "on fire," intimating that the weak Obiden regime is responsible for it.
ReplyDeleteTrump seemingly desires to fight the fire with fire (a/k/a peace thru strength). A "North American Union" would be both instrumental and a juggernaut without equal.
Now, about the Ten Toes (Ten Kings/Horns) and the Eleventh which rises after/among them, subduing three... they must be present at this time. Eyes wide open.
A very interesting article at Israel Hayom this morning. Sounding like Isaiah 17:4.
ReplyDeleteDividing Syria
Hey Sean, I'm not sure how dividing Syria and Israel waxing thin fits other than the IDF military being stretched thin.
DeleteI appreciate any info.
Jmoll
Jmoll,
DeleteThat was a typo. Should have been Isaiah 17:3b.
"The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts."
I'm expecting to see the reminder of psalm 83 and Isaiah 17 come to fulfillment probably within a year to 18 months after Trump is inaugurated. Israel will possibly have America's full support.
DeleteI hope I'm not jumping the gun with that statement
Jon Hartman
Jmoll,
DeleteThe interpretive info is that at present the fortess to cease in Ephraim refers to that part of Samaria where militant Islamists are fighting the IDF in various towns. The IDF will be victorious.
The ceasing of the kingdom from Damascus, and the rest of Syria (Aram) are also in progress at present.
Jon,
DeleteEschatology Today is always "ahead of the curve" so to speak.
That's where we are right now, way out in front of all commentaries on current events, especially with respect to the 7 fronts of the prophetic war Israel is fighting.
Moreso in that most prophecy sites are still in denial or are "hedging their bets" on the obvious we've discused here since October 7, 2023.
Sean, thanks, just checking. I want you to know the saints are listening and following what you post. :)
DeleteThe former senior Iranian military officer in Syria, General Behrouz Esbati, has made public that Bashar al-Assad refused Iranian demands several times to allow their proxy militias to attack Israel in concert with HAMAS and Hezbollah.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to know why Syria was not mentioned by Asaph in Psalm 83.
Now I know.
God prevented it, He's in complete control, and the word He gave to Isaiah (17) and Jeremiah (49) are His words on Syria. Obviously there is more to come.
Another very interesting article. Getting closer with each day.
ReplyDeleteSpecial Torah Scroll for the Temple on the Mount
DM Israel Katz has tasked the IDF with executing the total military annihilation of HAMAS should the terrorists fail to release all hostages by 20 January.
ReplyDeleteI watched most of President Trump's live press conference on Wednesday. During it he stated again that there will be "hell to pay" if the hostage situation has not been resolved by 1/20. When he ended the conference, his final statement was a reiteration of the fact that there will be "hell to pay" if the hostage situation still exists on 1/20. President Trump does not use words carelessly. All of his statements are strategic. I'm sure that much has been going on behind the scenes that isn't being made public at this time. Notice has been given IMHO.
DeletePrecisely. The behind the scenes activity has been going on since July '24 when the Netanyahu's visit to Mar-A-Lago took place.
DeleteThat policy point has been refined ever since so that now with only a full work-week before Inauguaration Day both Trump and Israel are saying the exact same thing, and it's no bluff.
President-elect Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, LTG (Ret) Keith Kellogg, attended an event in Paris today held by the leading Twelver Regime opposition group, The National Council of Resistence of Iran (NCRI).
ReplyDeleteHarbinger.
Per Kellogg at the NCRI event, Trump's objective for Iran = regime change.
DeleteThis raises an issue posted here back at the begining of this blog.
It goes hand-in-hand with the fact that the LORD God knew everything, all things from before the Creation.
For example, the LORD knew that Rome's general Vespasian would issue directives to deploy several crack Legions to invade, surround and beiseige the land of Israel, the city of Jerusalem and finally the 2nd Temple on the Mount.
Jesus, as the LORD Incarnate, knew this and at the appointed time (33AD) revealed it all to His disciples during His prophetic Olivet Discourse on the Mount of Olives. And it came to literal fulfillment during the 7-year period of 66 through 73 AD.
The LORD Jesus' entire prophetic narrative on the Mount was also a complete foreshadowing of the appointments that will take place during Israel's 70th Week of Years.
The things taking place right now lead to those fulfillments. There's a word which describes this ongoing process.
It is Inexorable.
On inauguration day in 1981, the leadership of our country passed from outgoing President Jimmy Carter to President Ronald Reagan. On that exact day, more than 50 Americans who had been held hostage by Iranian twelvers for 444 days were released. It may be that the events of this upcoming week will be a mirror of those events writ large. Obviously, whatever happens will take place during the period of mourning for Jimmy Carter, who recently died. Clearly, none of this is a coincidence. History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
ReplyDeleteMiriam,
DeletePrecisely!
By the way, I was one who volunteed for the abortive Iran hostage rescue mission. I have a framed "thank you" letter on my office wall ("wallpaper") from the Carter Administration. The rest is history.
Adding to my previous comment, it will have been exactly 44 years since our hostages who were held for 444 days were released. What are the odds? As Sean would say, eyes open…
ReplyDeleteWIDE OPEN because we are priviledged to be alive at this time to be eyewitnesses... and which is also no accident!
DeleteChris U,b>
DeleteYour reply to Miriam will re-post after this addendum.
In the 10 years after 9/11 I was introduced to and communicated often with Dr. Bruce Tefft. Bruce co-founded the Counter-Terrorism office within the CIA Directorate of Operations (DO). He told me on multiple occasions that takfiri islamists cared nothing for dates, anniversaries, etc.; that they executed terror operations purely on convenience.
Only people in the West assign dates of terrorist attacks (9/11, 10/7 etc. etc.) as having significance, some for comemoration, others pursuant to a political agenda.
Also, in the future, citing internet, podcasts and the like should include sourcing (as I've done above) to fact-check infomation as valid or not.
Thanks!
Original comment from Chris U:
DeleteMiriam, I listened to a podcast recently and the interview subject spome to that very point - that with terrorists, the dates of attacks all represent something to them. Also shared was the knowledge that 1,000 trained terrorists have entered the US through our porous southern borde with arms and plans. It would not be surprising to see something attempted on 20Jan. As we continue to watch what matters, be vigilant to what happens around us. God bless.
Chris U
Skywatchers, grab your binoculars (right now and before sunrise tomorrow) to see Comet 2024/G3 (ATLAS) as it makes its closest approach (perhelion) to the sun tomorrow. It may or may not survive this pass.
ReplyDeleteThis comet was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) satellite. It will appear near to the horizon and Mercury.
As is usually the case this time of year, 100% cloud cover in 'the mitten'. Happy viewing!
DeleteCU
Did not see it this AM, but tomorrow AM may offer a better chance. If not the SDO will certainly collect imagery.
DeleteThe LASCO C3 imager on the SOHO platform had it today. Will have it tomorrow too. Brightest comet of 2025 they say.
DeleteComet 2024/G3 (ATLAS) did make its perhelion approach to the sun yesterday and appears to have survived where all other comets transiting so close to our sun have not survived.
DeleteComet 2024/G3 made its appearance at this particular time. Not a coincidence I think.
In a day or so Comet 2024/G3 should reappear in southern skies.
Update: Comet 2024/G3 can be seen in western sky after sunset.
DeleteThank you Sean - appreciate your feedback. For your own fact checking, what I referenced was ep149 of the Shawn Ryan show, guest Sarah Adams, former CIA ttargeted.its a fascinating listen. I checked some of the content as best as I am able within the public domain, but I suspect you have better resources. Anyway, thanks again.
ReplyDeleteOk, public service time. Here's an embedded 8-minute video of Ryan's interview with Adams and the immediate threat of a large-scale terror attack on the US Homeland.
DeleteSarah Adams interview
By the way, remember what I wrote above on January 1:
ReplyDelete"And apparently America has to re-learn the hard lesson of ideological terrorism to rouse us from a state of complacency. Terrorism is the tactic, not the enemy."
Sarah Adams is on point. Americans are not prepared, are currently quite distracted.
Also, I'm not convinced there will be a terrorist attack in the near-term, just that they haven't gone away.
DeleteOne more time... a reminder that on 20 January POTUS Trump will have given Netanyahu and the IDF carte blanche to annihilate the remnants of HAMAS, PIJ et al in Gaza.
ReplyDeleteIsrael detected Hezbollah arms smuggling on the LEB-SYR border, and IAW with ceasefire protocol made proper notifications. No action taken, so the IDF struck hard in the Beqaa Valley this evening. Hezbollah is not disarming, they are busy re-arming from Syria.
ReplyDeleteUkrainian special forces have captured North Korean troops alive on the Kursk battlefield. North Koreans will normally kill their own troops to prevent capture by Ukrainian forces.
ReplyDeleteNorth Korean troops on the battlefield do not understand Russian or Ukrainian languages. South Korean intelligence is interogating the North Korean POWs.
The Netanyahu coalition government has been and will continue to be under tremendous pressure to accept a Gaza surrender "deal" brokered by the O'Biden regime over the final six days of its term. Pray strength for Israel!
ReplyDelete6.8 Quake Mizayaki, Japan. Tsunami warning.
ReplyDeleteProphetic implications!
ReplyDeleteThe Russian Federation and Islamic Republic of Iran will sign a comprehensive strategic pact this coming Friday - three days before the Trump inauguration.
A near identical pact between Russia and North Korea signed in late 2024 has led to the deployment of North Korean combat troops into Russia's war against Ukraine.
hooks ?
DeleteYes, plural.
DeleteAnd, now the new Sunni jihadi government in Syria is denying Russia the right to dock their transport ship at Tartus.
The same ship delivered arms to the al-Assad regime.
The question is:
ReplyDeleteWill the current coalition government of Israel led by PM Bibi Netanyahu survive a hostage deal?
Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are being asked by the relatives of Islamonazi terrorism victims to collapse the coalition government rather than agree to a surrender deal.
The question remains, for the next 120 hours at a minimum.
DeleteAll of this is due to the Biden Administration's direct interference in Israel's sovereign affairs.
Steve Witkoff is president-elect Trump's envoy to the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteIt has been reported that in just his first meeting with PM Netanyahu this envoy moved Bibi off his steadfast wartime positions more than the hardball Biden Administration had played him since the fall of 2023.
Therefore, Bibi has not been listening to YHWH or His messengers, he has been listening to fallible men under whose influence we know not.
Israel as a nation has arrived at a most critical juncture in its 77th year of present day existence. This is where SITREP A2-25 will begin.
Aware of the news from Israel. Give the terrorists enough rope and they hang themselves en masse.
ReplyDeleteHAMAS quickly began backtracking out of the ceasefire/hostage agreement last night, less than 12 hours after the agreement was announced publicly.
Deletethat's why I don't usually pay attention to those ceasefire. what I'm paying attention to is what happens on January 20th and January 21st
DeleteJon Hartman
By the way, I had no idea when starting this SITREP on 1 January that a comet would be present, so I have no explanation for the cometary sunset image at the top.
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