Global SITREP B2-25: Iran War

 

GBU-57A/B MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) 

UPDATED 19 June 2025: The world waits for President Trump's decision to eliminate the Iranian Twelver regime's nuclear weapons program at the Fordo complex. The image above illustrates the only weapons system on earth capable of achieving that end: A B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and GBU-57 MOP. And it will likely require several B-2 Spirits dropping their MOPs in succession to ensure the destruction of Iran's deeply buried Fordo nuclear weapons complex. When several B-2s were announced to have arrived at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean weeks ago, this is precisely the message that was sent to Tehran.

22 June 2025: The above image became a reality, times 12, on Fordo during the evening hours last night. The OPDEC employed by American armed forces was magnificent. Full coordination with the IDF was equally magnificent. American submarines also launched a hailstorm of Tomahawk SLCMs at Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Reliable battle damage reports from Iran and the retaliation upon Israel will come out today. Iranian retaliation against the US forces in the Arabian gulf has so far not taken place.

OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER

UPDATE: New Battle Damage Assessments (BDA) are becoming available now. The precision of the GBU-57 MOP drops on the under-mountain Fordo nuke site were beyond anything seen previously. 

To say the impacts were "impressive" as a descriptive term is massively insufficient. All 12 MOPs entered the Fordo main cascade hall, and they did so via six initial impact points, meaning two 30,000 lb MOPs went through each of the same initial impact points with each successive MOP burrowing deeper and each 5,300 lbs of explosive charge creating successively greater damage. 

Two groups of three impact points. Via X.

The B2 crews flew nonstop from the central US mainland, dropped their two-each precision ordnance onto a target the size of a washing machine, and then flew nonstop back to the USA. That's well over 63,000 pounds of very high explosives delivered with pin-point accuracy. Trump was correct, Fordo obliterated.

US strike path same as IAF strike path into Iran

The just under twenty trucks imaged at Fordo on Friday were delivering fill dirt to seal the entrances. This was done because the IRGC feared that special operations troops would enter the mountain facility. Any IRGC troops inside the sealed Fordo complex were likely vaporized.

More to come...

Global SITREP B1-25: The War Expands

Hodeidah port, Yemen

UPDATED 11 June 2025: A joint IAF and INS (Israeli Navy) strike (image above) against persistent Houthi attacks set the Yemeni port of Hodeidah ablaze. The Israeli strike featured the firepower of Sa'ar-6 class missile frigates launching powerful precision missiles. If the above imagery is any indication the Houthis have lost their primary port facility in Yemen for years to come.

Firstly, who are the Houthis? They are a relatively recent group founded by Hussein al-Houthi which emerged in Yemen in the 1990s. Originally, they were known as the "Believing Youth" (BY), but officially they're known as Ansar Islam. They're also a branch of Shi'ism known as Zaydism. The Houthis assumed control of most of Yemen in 2015 after a decade long civil war, 2004-2014. Since then, the Houthis have been a well-armed proxy force under the Shi'a Twelvers of Iran.

From the perspective of Bible prophecy, the Houthi dominance under Iranian Twelver leadership will be fairly short-lived in these last days. A major event or series of events, unknown at this time, will occur to transform Houthi-controlled Yemen into the Ezekiel 38:13 Yemen we know as Sheba. That soon-to-be Yemen-Sheba is aligned with the Arab Dedan and a large Western alliance of nations (merchants of Tarshish and all their young lions) which opposes the Gog of Magog Confederation's assault upon the State of Israel. This is why the current events in the southern Arabian Peninsula are of critical importance these days and are due close attention going forward.

The strategy noted above is to neutralize the three primary proxies of Twelver Iran: HAMAS in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. An important aspect at this point are the seemingly imminent strikes that will de-nuclearize the Iranian Twelvers and also eliminate their ballistic missile capabilities.

Generic Image (Israel radar)

UPDATE 13 June 2025: The first stage of the war prophesied in Jeremiah 49:34-39 commenced at approximately 03:00 13 June 2025 when IAF aircraft went "wheels up." This was the execution of what the IDF calls "OPERATION RISING LION".

It may have begun an hour earlier when a clandestine Israeli (Mossad) drone base in the heart of Iran launched waves of UAVs at select targets in the country. At least five waves of attacks on key Iranian military leadership, the majority of its nuclear scientists and technicians, a number of ballistic missile sites, dozens of remnant air defense sites and air defense radars, and nuclear sites, such as Natanz, were effectively destroyed. The Iranian capital Tehran was struck as well. This war will continue, at a minimum, until we near the end of this month and battle damage assessments (BDAs) indicate the overall mission objectives have been achieved. The initial Iranian retaliation in the form of a 100-strong drone swarm were eliminated well outside if Israeli territory. 

Major global media for the past two weeks at a minimum stressed how the Trump Administration was preventing Israeli strikes on Iran. Nothing was further from the truth as the US was informed all along, and in great detail since 7 June. In fact, there were key Trump Administration personnel who knew more than Israeli opposition leaders. Clearly the secrecy protocol that was followed in the planning and in the waves of airstrike execution was iron clad. Iran was taken in complete surprise. The dissident Iranian population was unharmed and now, even at this early stage, they can clearly see how weak the Twelver regime is.

Brothers and Sisters, we are watching Bible prophecy being fulfilled in real-time. 

The areas bordered in red to the upper above no longer exists. The large area in the center is receiving repeat strikes in drilling down at least three levels where the uranium enrichment cascades are located.

UPDATE 3PM 13 June 2025: New assessment Iran is reported to have launched just 100 missiles of at Israel; civilians ordered to shelters all across Israel. Israel has warned that attacks on its civilian population will result in the destruction of Iran's oil production and exporting facilities. This "red line" was crossed by Iran today.

Dozens of Iranian missiles have been intercepted; US assistance to defend Israel was expected and did occur. Two barrages of about 50 missiles in each was detected. The IAF is doubling down on striking Iranian missiles prior to launch.

According to the IDF, it is Twelver disinformation that Israel attacked the underground Fordo nuclear weapon assembly facilities. The IDF denies they have struck Fordo.

Aerial view of the Fordo nuclear weapons complex in Iran. Several entrances to the deep underground can be seen along the ring road.

To be continued...

Global SITREP A10-25: Operation Gideon's Chariots

One of several massive Israeli strikes in Gaza, this one in Jabaliya.

UPDATED 16 May 2025: This SITREP begins essentially as a continuation of the last segment of SITREP A9-25, "Israel's Military Conquest of Gaza," and nomenclatured as "Operation Gideon's Chariots" by the IDF. As noted, this Operation might have had a preemption during this past week (12-16 May) had the Gaza terrorists of HAMAS and the PIJ made significant moves toward releasing all remaining hostages (dead or alive). This did not take place during the stipulated 'Window of Opportunity" during the American president's visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE.

Israel is seven hours ahead of the US meaning that the Israeli Cabinet-approved Operation Gideon's Chariots commenced several hours ago with massive airstrikes all across Gaza in preparation for the IDF introduction of massive armor and infantry movement into the enclave. The objective is to capture and occupy completely the whole of Gaza and eliminate all terrorists within it. As you might expect this operation entails a long-term plan and IDF presence in Gaza. This will not be a typical "in and out" IDF operation. This is a military conquest in the truest sense of the word.

IRAN 

Also as noted in SITREP A9-25, this past week was Iran's final opportunity to secure a nuclear agreement with the United States. As President Trump departed the UAE he spoke to this, telling assembled media: 

"Iran has an American offer regarding the nuclear program and needs to move fast or something bad will happen."

The obvious question here is, how fast? Perhaps as fast as it takes for Trump to return to the White House Situation Room. Clock ticking.

21 May 2025: The IDF Operation Gideon's Chariots continues apace with more than one hundred fifteen targets in Gaza struck in the past 24 hours. IDF naval and ground forces are press their assaults against terrorists above and below ground level with hundreds of the enemy killed in action. Thus far the IDF has sectioned Gaza into several distinct parcels of land and creating buffers between each of them to preempt any possibility of terrorist enemy force's ability to reinforce and/or rally. At the Kerem Shalom Crossing into Gaza IDF reservists and civilian activists blocked access for aid trucks to enter the strip, vowing to halt aid shipments while HAMAS and PIJ hostages continue to be held in squalor and depraved conditions. IDF CoS MG Eyal Zamir revealed yesterday that a new phase of this operation is just beginning that will showcase increased firepower, maneuver combat that will clear and destroy all infrastructure and opposition encountered.

Most astute observers are noting that the prospect of continued US-Iran nuclear talks progressing are all but exhausted leading to some global media reports suggesting that a unilateral Israeli operation to strike Iranian nuclear sites may be imminent. The Iranian Twelver regime opines that these reports are simply psychological operations (PSYOPS) intended to frighten them. Whatever the case may be, the fact of the matter is that President Trump's 60-day ultimatum for successful negotiations "or bad things will happen" expired several days ago. The ultimatum was no bluff and certain member of the regime's elite in Tehran understand this implicitly. This has created internal division with some expressing the view that the regime's days are finitely numbered due to kinetic external threats and internal rebellion.

UPDATE 30 May 2025: Eschatology Today has had issues with the actions of President Trump during his recent Middle East trip, in particular the catering to the interests of Islamic nations, Sunni and Shi'a, on the Arabian Gulf. These issues were overcome due to the strong conviction that the LORD God has put our president in a position of power in the furtherance of His sovereign will in these 'last days.' However, in recent days the underlying and extremely secular rationale behind the Trump Administration's agenda has become quite transparent and explicit with respect to Syria which is now led by the supposedly reformed Al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Al-Sharaa (al-Jolani). 

As recently noted in the comments section of this SITREP, the current U.S. intelligence assessment is that the Syrian "transitional government" is in a precarious situation given the existential pressures facing it. The Alawite-Ba'athist regime of Bashar al-Assad fell earlier this year, but the military threat posed by former regime members and their foreign allies may yet result in a catastrophic, full-scale civil war and collapse of the "transitional government" in Damascus. 

Students of prophetic Scripture should understand precisely what this means as it presents the possibility of an uncontrollable civil war in Syria which involves Israel. Isaiah 17 speaks to the ruination of Damascus and the collapse of the Syrian state. Such a result need not necessarily occur due to a nuclear strike upon Damascus, but by an intense civil war that also consumes the entire country. The prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 49:23-27) also laments the destruction of Damascus. These prophecies foretell of a coming all-consuming war for Syria and great destruction inflicted upon Israel as well. 

Thus, it appears as though the Trump Administration through its overtures to Syria as it exists today may be an attempt to preempt the assessment of US intelligence agencies. Nevertheless, what the LORD God has spoken through the prophets will take place and the American administration's efforts to forestall will come to nothing. It is written!

Current military situation in Syria.

The above enlargeable map indicates former Al-Assad regime insurgent strongholds as red colored dots and elipses. The strikes in Tartus and Latakia tonight were directed at missile storage depots.

Mark of the Beast tech is here. E-Tattoo.

Global SITREP A9-25: The Terminal Phase of the War Against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Part II

 

Initial explosion at Shahid Rajaee, Iran port storage

UPDATED: 28 April 2025: This SITREP is likely, if not hopefully, just in time to chronicle several major events in the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia and Europe where active wars and rumors thereof are a persistent threat to evade all attempts to avoid escalation.

First of all, and with respect to statements by various ministers in Israel's government regarding the necessity for victory in Gaza to secure peace for Israel's future, all prophetic Scripture, Psalm 83, Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 28 and 38/39 in particular, make it clear that Israel will not know peace and security until all enemies on its current borders have been vanquished in battle. And that peace and security will be short lived as it presages the brief yet end of the current age war of Gog of Magog.

President Trump is saying exactly what the "fake news" wants to hear. Very upbeat about saying a "deal" with the Twelver Regime in Iran will happen POTUS is at his Trumpian best these days. Trump knows, for example, that there is no way the mullahs will accept the deal being demanded of them for sanctions relief. It is almost to a "T" the same deal that Muammar Khaddafi accepted in 2003 for Libya to dismantle and eliminate its nuclear weapons program that had begun in 1970. In surrendering his potential nukes to the US and UK the case can be made that Khaddafi sealed his fate and murder in the 2011 revolution. It happened in Iraq to Saddam, and later to al-Assad in Syria, albeit with Israeli Air Force kinetic persuasion. This is exactly what the Iranian Twelver hardliners and the North Korean's are advising Khamenei: give up Iranian nukes and you and the regime are toast, history proves it!  As if on cue the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, stated in a Jerusalem address that if Iran does not give up its nuclear weapons program President Trump "will not be dragged into a war, he will lead it." And that's what is most likely to happen real soon, Iran will balk at the last moment, and the bunker busters will fall.

Peripheral vision is also keeping tabs on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Communist China's bullying of the Philippines and other nations bordering the South China Sea, as well as increasing instabilities within the European Union. There's a fast-approaching crunch time with all of these, not to mention the escalating tension between nuclear-armed India and Islamic Pakistan.

2 May 2025: The enemies of God and of the people of Israel have resorted to burning with fire that which has never belonged, does not belong and will never belong to them. These are acts of asymmetric warfare which 3,000 years ago the singing prophet Asaph pleaded with the God of Israel to intervene with his Spirit-inspired Psalm 83.

The total of eighteen fixed and rotary-wing water and retardant-dropping aircraft were actively fighting the fires yesterday. The initial batch of these aircraft deployed from NATO countries as well as from Ukraine. The main effort was in the Jerusalem Hills where the primary objective of firefighters was to re-open the Tel Aviv to Jerusalem highway. The highway was successfully opened to traffic yesterday. Miraculously only twenty-two civilian injuries were due to smoke inhalation and twenty firefighters have suffered mild injuries thus far.  Approximately 20 terror arsonists have been arrested by Israeli authorities in the past two days, with at least one individual caught in the act. The latest news is that intensive efforts have at least contained the several fires as of Friday morning.

Asaph concluded Psalm 83:13-18 with these words 

O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods,
And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

Massive Earth-facing Coronal Holes cover our Sun 3-4 May 2025.

UPDATE 5 May 2025: There are several items to address in this update. It may take a day or two to get to each of them.

The least important of them is that the 60-day ultimatum given to Iran by the U.S. concerning its nuclear weapons program is all but expired as of this week. We note that that ultimatum was not issued by the Sovereign LORD God; His appointment as given by the prophet Jeremiah remains active on His calendar as it always has. Nevertheless, there are strong I&W that great force by human agencies are about to be unleashed against the regime in Tehran and their proxies.

One has to wonder how the Islamist's mindset is able to come to terms with the fact that the non-divinity of their devotion is yet again 100% absent as it was 77 years ago? Are they not confounded, dismayed and rolling in abject shame? 

Israel's Military Conquest of Gaza

The fact is, especially for the Islamists in Gaza, that much worse is coming upon their raised heads as an additional tens of thousands of Israel's mighty army are about to swarm over and under Gaza destroying everything in their path. HAMAS, PIJ and all of their ilk stand to become extinct within a very brief period of time as we measure it. May they quickly realize that the God of Israel is the One and Only LORD of all His Creation. Amen. 

The schedule looks something like this - SECDEF Hegseth will arrive in the MidEast in 7 days (12 May). On 13 May through 16 May President Trump will be visiting Saudi, Qatar and the UAE. From now until President Trump's departure from the MidEast is a so-called "Window of Opportunity" for the terrorists to release all hostages, living and deceased. 

Failure to release the hostages will result in the IDF immediately executing "Operation Gideon's Chariot" which is the full and complete military conquest of Gaza. There will be no IDF withdrawal from conquered territory, all territory will be secured above and below ground and annexed as Israel's "security zone."

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Global SITREP A8-25: The Terminal Phase of the War Against the Islamic Republic of Iran

Massive fireball 

UPDATED 16 April 2025: Except for a few corrected typographical errors, this SITREP from seven years ago (30 April-1 May 2018) remains in its original form. Some readers may not have seen this in the archive listing of Eschatology Today posts and SITREP's, so it may serve as both a reminder and new information for all readers. It most certainly is relevant to the present as you will see after reading it.

Global SITREP B3-18: The War Against Iran Escalates: JCPOA Nuclear Deal is Toast

30 April 2018: It was a very bad day for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and if it's any consolation to the Ayatollah, much worse days are yet to come. 

The image above is of the fireball that erupted following a preemptive strike on what had been known as the Syria Arab Army's 47th Brigade base located 7 miles south of Hama in northwestern Syria. The base, which had been occupied by an IRGC militia of Pakistani Shi'a known as Liya Zaynabiyoun, is adjacent to the village of Ma'arin al-Jabal. The "had been" is due to the size of the first and second order detonations; it is unlikely much remains of this base. 

This base itself has been noted by some as a bunker complex. On the contrary, the three massive above ground structures were perfect for housing and/or assembling fairly large ballistic missiles. The largest of the structures, seen in satellite images captured earlier this year, was well over 400 feet in length and 300 feet in width, two relatively smaller structures measured approximately 300 feet in length and 75 feet in width. Eight ancillary buildings were adjacent to the larger ones and could not have escaped the primary and secondary blasts intact.

Accordingly, use of a bunker buster bomb does not fit the above-ground nature of this facility. However, Israel's version of the US Mk-82 laser guided bomb, known as the MP-500 (Massive Penetrator 500 lbs) could have been the weapon of choice to level this facility and leave a gigantic smoking hole in its place.

The main blast registered as a 2.6 Richter scale event on regional seimosgraphs. According to many reports the blast and dozens of simultaneous secondary ordnance detonations killed or wounded a very large number of the Pakistani Shi'a militiamen who apparently had duty safeguarding two hundred Iranian ballistic missiles destined for delivery to Lebanese Hezbollah. That delivery has obviously been cancelled. Additional strikes are reported to have occurred at bases near Aleppo, but they do not even remotely compare to what happened at Ma'arin al-Jabal at 10:30 PM Sunday night.

Then came Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's equally massive nuclear bombshell regarding the Iranian nuclear weapons program. To be short and sweet on this issue, this intelligence coup makes preemptive strikes on the Iranian nuclear weapons sites more likely than not. The nonsensical JCPOA that Obama and Kerry masterminded is now just so much burnt toast. We'll find out how burnt it is in about 12 days time.

It also must be noted that the Israeli human intelligence collection operation which secured the hundreds of thousands of documents and digital data is unlike anything any nation has achieved in modern history. A close second intelligence coup might be the Polish engineer during WWII who memorized the Nazi "Enigma" cryptographic machine's impossibly complex inner workings so that allied engineers could reporoduce it in England. However, even the Enigma machine pales in comparison the the details exposed by the Israeli operation.

And as US President Trump prepares to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Eschatology Today would be completely remiss to not note one important detail revealed by PM Netanyahu. The Iranian warhead design appears to be virtually identical to the primary core that Kim Jong Un was photographed standing next to not too long ago. As has long been maintained here, the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs have been conjoined twins for decades.

UPDATE 1 May 2018: If you've not yet seen the entirety of PM Netanyahu's presentation on the Islamic Republic of Iran's "Project Amad," please make the effort to do so as what I am adding as an update will bring all of his revealed information full-circle and bring full understanding on why Iran has been dead set on the development nuclear weapons.

The Iranian development of nuclear weapons has always been 100% about Shi'a Islamic eschatology. In fact, the name of their effort, which PM Netanyahu revealed as "Project Amad" is actually over-anglicized from the Farsi language and should be "Project Amahd." "Project Amahd" itself is actually Farsi shorthand for its true name, "Project al-Mahdi." Many of you are now likely having a light bulb illuminating in your minds because you are aware that the mythical al-Mahdi is central to much of the Islamic creed. For Shi'a Islami, the al-Mahdi is ground zero for all of their eschatological beliefs.

The focus here will not be on the mythical man who is this Shi'a messianic figure, but what his adherents, known as Hojjatieh and Twelvers, believe. For them the al-Mahdi is the foundation of everything they believe. And what they believe is the utility of nuclear weapons in quickly achieving their end-state objective in hastening the al-Mahdi's reappearance once they possess such weapons. Israel knows this, and the U.S. Government ever since the Clinton Administration has known this. Now we all know this.

A few brief points on what the Shi'a believe and are acting on. The Iranian Shi'a Twelvers, who are 85% of Shi'a Islam, all believe that the Sunni Muslims will make war on the al-Mahdi. So Iran has been at war with Sunni Islam for some time due to this belief. 

The Iranian Shi'a Twelvers also believe - and this explains perfectly why Iran is so invested in the Syrian Civil War - that a great war must occur in Syria until the country is completely destroyed. A similar rationale exists for the country of Iraq. The Shi'a Twelvers, such as former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his clique of Hojjatieh clerics believe that provoking nuclear war with Israel or America will hasten al-Mahdi's reappearance; such chaos is critical to this end. If the Islamic Republic of Iran acquires nuclear weapons, such as the five weapons PM Netanyahu cited, they will use them.

Now you should have full understanding on why the U.S. and Israel, and a precious few other nations, particularly Saudi-led GCC, see the imperative necessity of preempting Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons even if it means launching strikes into Iran.

Russia-Iran Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty

UPDATE 22 April 2025: Eschatology Today believes that the events of the past three days effectively signal that the critical moment of the Jeremiah 49:34-39 prophecy is now at hand. Do not be dismayed if you missed notification of the events, the vast majority of the media deliberately attempted to keep you in the dark. However, that's why I and some other watchmen are here!

Saturday night Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video recorded speech. Although advance notice was given of the speech the vast majority of Israel's left-wing media outlets declined to air the speech in full. Some even declared it unworthy of the airtime required to present it in full, while others obfuscated the critical point of the speech completely. Nevertheless, the critical point in the speech came when the PM said that while he greatly preferred a joint strike by the US and Israel to neuter the Iranian nuclear program, Israel is prepared to go it alone.

The response to PM Netanyahu from Russian dictator Vladimir Putin came yesterday morning when he officially signed (ratified) the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty (CSTP) between Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. This "covenant" between Russia and Iran is effectively a comprehensive alliance geared toward their military and diplomatic agendas. It is a direct challenge to Israel and the United States intended to forestall joint or unilateral military action against Iran's nuclear program. 

Leaning forward, Eschatology Today assesses that the CSTP will fail its intended purpose but will ultimately result in the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38/39. Put another way in full, the CSTP will fail to preempt the fulfillment of Jeremiah 49:34-39 but will result thereafter in the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38/39. In-between these two fulfillments are the fulfillments of Isaiah 17 and the conclusion of the Psalm 83 war, both currently in a process of fulfillment. 

This, Brothers and Sisters, reveals precisely where we are on The Prophetic Road to Revelation.

Marana'tha!

 

He Is Risen!!!

18 April 2025: He is Risen and is VERY SOON to Come Again!!!

"And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn."  - Zechariah 12:10

 

Global SITREP A7-25: Jeremiah's Appointment?

 

Four B2 Spirit Stealth Bombers on Standby

UPDATED 29 March 2025: On 7 March the United States of America delivered an ultimatum to the Islamic Republic of Iran: Within 60 days you will enter into negotiations for a new nuclear deal, or else. 

A very stealthy and lethal part of the 'or else' are now sitting on a tarmac at Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean (image above). For those who've not been following the 60-day countdown, it will expire during the first week of May 2025, and that is when "bad, bad things will happen for Iran."

30 March: Iran has threatened to attack the Chagos Islands where Diego Garcia island is located with the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). For Iran there is no distinction between US and UK forces based there.

31 March: Ari Larijani, the top advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has said Iran will have no choice but to produce nuclear weapons if attacked by the US.

3 April: Eschatology Today years ago advanced an interpretive exegesis of Jeremiah 49:34-39 which involved a coalition of nations initiating strikes against the Twelver Regime. 

Currently the US, UK and Israel are prepared to strike to preempt the Iranian nuclear weapons program following the unilateral raid conducted by Israel in 2024 that hit both air defense capabilities and a key nuclear site Iran believed no one knew about.

Now France is warning of the "inevitability" of military strikes should diplomatic efforts to secure an agreement fail. The French statement mirrors that of President Trump's statements in recent days and may be seen as being consistent with the aforementioned 60-day countdown. The U.S. countdown now has approximately 30 days remaining.

USAF B-2 Spirit and Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)

4 April: President Trump recently made a specific point to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy about his not having the 'cards' to play against Russian President Vladimir Putin in either a military or diplomatic effort to end the war. The gambit was with the United States at Ukraine's side (along with Ukrainian rare earth materials) Ukraine would have American 'cards" to play in securing Ukraine's future as an independent country.

There are two great conflicts on the earth at this time aside from the Middle East. The first is the War in Ukraine (Europe) and the Communist Chinese threat to wage war by invading and annexing Taiwan (Western Pacific). However, make no mistake that the Middle East is the conflict with the high potential to determine the outcome of war in Europe and the Western Pacific. 

The impending conflict between the US (with UK, FR and IL) and the Islamic Republic of Iran will prove whether or not President Trump really possesses the 'cards' or if he is about to overplay his hand. Should Trump's threat for "bad, bad things" fail to materialize for Iran next month then both Russia and the Chinese would be correct to assess that the cards in Trump's hand are nothing more than a brinksmanship bluff (Trump has pledged to be a peace president and not a war-starting president) and they could press on with their national agendas of using overwhelming kinetic force to achieve their desired objectives (the military conquests of Ukraine and Taiwan).

Eschatology Today assesses that President Trump is NOT bluffing. The ongoing build-up of overwhelming American warfighting capability in the CENTCOM AOR, in particularly the several B-2 Spirit stealth bombers carrying two each 30,000 lb. Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs to crack open Iranian mountain redoubts housing nuclear and missile depots is not an idle threat. There can be no retreat from "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon." Russia and the 'kings of the East' are watching intently. So are we.

Six B-2 Spirit Stealth bombers on the tarmac at Diego Garcia

8 April 2025: Why are these B-2 bombers not inside the hangers designed for them? Because American generals want the overhead satellites and Iran "to see our sword." They carry the most potent non-nuclear weapons in the American inventory and are impervious to Iranian air defense, or what is left of it. And, if necessary, they can carry nukes too, a lot of them.

I24 news (Israel) just reported that the US propsal to Iran is akin to the Libyan nuclear disarmament accepted by Muamar Kadhaffi years ago and which preceded the coup d'etat which overthrew his regime and resulted in his death.

The US will allow Iran to keep nuclear power for civilian use (Bushehr NPP), but its weapons program, including uranium enrichment, must be shut down and 100% dismantled or it will be destroyed in place. Iran has less than a month to accept or reject the options. Iran accepting the "Libyan option" is considered unlikely.

Logo for Israel's 77th Anniversary

UPDATE 9 April 2025: The logo designed to celebrate Israel's 77th year of existence is scheduled for official release in early May. Coincidentally, or possibly not so, the timing of the release is concurrent with the terminus of Iran's 60-day warning period to unilaterally terminate their nuclear weapons program or have it terminated by force of arms as foretold by the LORD's prophet Jeremiah (Yirmĭyāhu).

In other news, the lead prosecutor of the government of Argentina has solicited the country's Supreme Court to issue an arrest warrant for Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the terrorist bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires. Argentinian investigators have solid evidence of Iran's responsibility for that terrorist attack. Argentina under the leadership of President Javier Milei has become one of Israel's strongest allies.

Israel has completed the division of Gaza into three zones. 

The Netzarim Corridor slices completely through the strip south of Gaza City; the Morag Corridor slices through between Khan Younis and Rafah, and the Philadelphi Corridor divides Gaza from Egypt south of Rafah. 

Annexation of the parcels of land to Israel proper between these corridors will fully reverse the 2005 disengagement by the late-Ariel Sharon government. 

"If we have to do something harsh, we'll do it." - President Trump

Global SITREP A6-25: Terrorist Terminus

IDF Merkava Main Battle Tanks Enter Gaza 

19 March 2025: There is an Italian journalist named Giulio Meotti who is employed by the Italian daily paper Il Foglio who also writes a twice weekly OpEd for Israel's Arutz Sheva (INN). Unlike virtually all in the Western dhimmi media, with the exception of a scant few, Giolio Meotti is one who doesn't mince words about the barbarian nature of Islamic jihadists. For folks like me his work is essential reading because no one in the West openly publishes what he does. 

There is great carnage coming, as we are all aware in particular during the seventy weeks of years. Giulio's work goes a long way to explain why, as our Lord prophesied, "these things must take place" in the very near future. But as Giulio explains the carnage that is coming is due in large part to the carnage that is already taking place at the hands of jihadists in the Middle East. October 7 should not have shocked us as it did because of our exposure to what ISIS had done less than a decade ago, and the other terrorist actions in years gone by. But in the West, we have very, very short memories, even though most of us quickly recall why America and our NATO allies went to war in Afghanistan for two decades straight.

Warning: embedded below is a Meotti column published yesterday that is not for the weak hearted. It contains stark evidence of the Satanic nature of jihadists. You can be excused if you'd rather not read what follows.

Syrian Apocalypto

Eschatology Today has been warning for a long about who and what our enemies are, and in this I can sense reason why the blessed hope of our soon Harpazo will take place. Israel is promising Gazans annihilation, at least for those who refuse to leave. In Yemen President Trump is promising the same for the Houthis, and the Iranian Twelvers to whom he recently gave 60-days' notice.

Here's the massive Coronal Hole that was facing the Earth this past week.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A5-25: Iran, Syria and the Mā'ar Sallôn

The Mā'ar Sallôn (Pricking Brier)

UPDATED 26 February 2025: The current situation was foretold to Israel in the beginning, in the fourth of the five books of the Torah circa 1,400 and 1,440 years Before Christ, or at least 3,450 years ago. 

In Numbers (Bemidbar) 33:50-56 we read where YHWH is speaking to Moses in Moab by the River Jordan, telling him to speak to all Israel about what they must do when they will cross the river into the land YHWH has given them to possess. The salient point here is in verse 55:

"But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell."

How utterly prophetic. I mean literally God-breathed, and the conclusion or ultimate fulfillment we find in Ezekiel 28:25

“And there shall no longer be a pricking brier or a painful thorn for the house of Israel from among all who are around them, who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”

In our immediate future, assuming the Bride of Christ has not been taken up hither in the Harpazo, but certainly for all those unfortunates who find themselves left behind because they did not trust in Jesus to redeem them beforehand, the imminent prophecies concerning Iran, Syria and the Mā'ar Sallôn (Pricking Brier) will come to pass. 

We have seen with our own eyes in the past 17 months how Iran, Syria and the Mā'ar Sallôn (Pricking Brier) have tasted war with Israel; most especially Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and now Judea and Samaria (again, how utterly prophetic has the Word of God been concerning "those whom you let remain"!) are on the elimination block, so to speak.

The initial actions of these last days prophecies place them all in the process of complete fulfillment, but exactly how they will arrive at the end state lies within the sovereignty of God and His appointed times. And to be sure, Israel, still largely in disbelief, has suffered much overwhelming tragedy, but the birth pangs have not yet run their course. Isaiah 17 makes this potently and abundantly clear.

Current ISW/CT map of Jihadist Syria

The earthly human intelligence voices that Israel's leadership should be and hopefully are listening to are saying several things loudly these days. The Iranian nuclear program has never been more vulnerable. It is incredibly poor judgment to think that the Islamic jihadists now in control of Syria will not act against Israel. There are very good reasons why Israel has been striking targets in and around Damascus constantly in the past several hours. The same goes for all of the terrorist monsters in Gaza, Lebanon, Judea, Samaria and even in southern Jordan. 

1 March 2025: Top of the list for this update is the crash 'n' burn performance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of President Trump, and VP Vance and American national TV audience. The utter embarassment drove Ukraine's ambassador to holding her bowed head in her hands.

As noted here two weeks ago, watchmen are now closely monitoring Europe where the situation is rapidly ripening for the rise of a strong leader. Perhaps the 14-day series of EU emergency summits will conclude today in London, UK where a select group of 10 to 12 key nations are assembled? We'll see, as Scripture assures the "little horn" rises as a peacemaker and a warrior. 

The prospect of a nuclear world war is literally on the lips of all concerned! In 2014 when the Russia-Ukraine war really began with Russia's invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, Eschatology Today was first in warning of the 'last days' prophetic implications of the war, in particular the "hooks" of Ezekiel 38. There's solid prophetic proof in Ezekiel 38/39 of nuclear fire and other lethal nastiness raining down which is concurrent with the Harpazo and then the LORD God pouring out His Spirit upon all Israel. Witnessing Christ Jesus to the unsaved is an imperative Brothers and Sisters! 

Jaramana

The map above locates the majority Druze and Christian community of Jaramana (just 3km from Damascus center) where firefights between the residents and the HTS-led government army have been taking place recently.

It comes as a real eye-opener this afternoon to see that PM Netanyahu and DM Katz have tasked the IDF to prepare to defend Jaramana from the new jihadist Syrian army.

Final UPDATE 14 March 2025: As if to confirm that "transitioning Syria is governed as an Islamist State from Damascus, it comes as no surprise that the so-called "interim leader" chose to wear a western-style suit and tie in the color of Islam. The imagery is meant to convey that the transition in government from Ba'athist dictatorship to constitutional Jihadist totalitarianism is complete in the opinion of Ahmad al-Shara'a. No doubt he and his jihadist cohorts have never read the God-breathed Scripture of Isaiah, Jeremiah or Ezekiel.

Eschatology Today published Global SITREP D9-18: The Prophecy of Ezekiel six and one-half years ago. That SITREP can serve as a primer for this follow-up, as everyone wants to know what the future holds, and Ezekiel, as much as any of the futurist prophets, provides us with tremendous information on what's next, save for the Book of Daniel and John on Patmos' The Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. 

The first three chapters of the Book of Ezekiel establish the Authority of the Scripture. 

In The first chapter the prophet vividly relates his vision of the throne of the LORD God. Ezekiel finds himself in a face-plant position on the ground near the River Chebar in present-day Iraq upon hearing the voice of One who is speaking to him. The second and very brief chapter opens with the Spirit of God, Ruach HaKodesh (The Holy Spirit), indwelling of Ezekiel and standing him upright so that the LORD God can properly speak to him. Ezekiel is given a lecture on rebellious and impudent Israel and a litany of their transgressions, as well as precisely how Ezekiel is to address them: "Thus says the LORD God." 

God's description of Israel here invokes that part of the Israeli population today as seen and heard in their media even prior to the October 7 massacre - rebellious, insolent, impudent and at times exceedingly vile and vindictive, ignoring all that which was charged to them in the God-breathed Covenants delivered to them by Moses. And they have paid the same price of disobedience ever since, but not for all time as we shall soon see. 

God then instructs Ezekiel that he is not to fear the rebellious Israel or their words to him, but Ezekiel is to straightforwardly speak the word of God to them - no matter whether they accept the words or reject them. So God gives Ezekiel the scroll of a book filled with the Word of God that he is to speak to Israel in Babylonian captivity. 

At this point the prophecy transitions seamlessly to chapter three. And God then feeds the scroll of a book to Ezekiel. It is interesting to note that this scroll of a book which was filled with lamentations, mourning and woe is described by Ezekiel as being in his mouth like honey in sweetness. I would summarize this description of the scroll of a book as a transition for all Israel from rebellion to redemption as seen towards the end in Ezekiel 39:29. Chapter three closes much as chapter one did with God appearing to Ezekiel again, the Holy Spirit entering him, falling down prone and God stand him up again and speaking instruction for Ezekiel to keep his mouth shut and speak to rebellious Israel only when God gives him the words to speak: "Thus says the LORD God, he who hears let him hear, and he who refuses let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house."

I find that these first three chapters provide a baseline for what God tells Ezekiel to prophesy in chapters 35, 36 and 37, and that these chapters are precisely where we, the Bride of Christ, find ourselves at this time. This is where we are today. 

Chapter 35 finds Ezekiel speaking prophetic judgment of the LORD God upon present day, and so-called "Palestinians." They are not "Palestinians." In truth they are Egyptians, Syrians, Hashemites and other various tribes of Arabs, and whom the Lord refers to in sum as "Mount Seir."  Ezekiel 35:5 precisely invokes what Asaph was inspired to say in Psalm 83. They are to be subdued and slain in war, their cities to be destroyed and not rebuilt. Desolation is their future as a direct result of the current war.

Chapter 36 reads like the land of Israel during and immediately after World War II as the diaspora of the children of Israel began their return to Eretz Israel in vast numbers from all over the world wherever they had gone in the previous circa 1900 years or circa 70 to 1945 AD. This chapter is about to ongoing renewal of Israel, the fig tree shooting forth branches and leaves and the bearing of fruit. 

The dichotomy of Ezekiel chapters 1, 2 and 3 with what is found in chapters 35 and 36 is astounding, but hey, our God excels is doing astounding things! This is all about the renewal of Israel, particularly in Ezekiel 36:16-20 where God is speaking explicitly once again about why Israel was sent out into the nations and then comes a bombshell at verses 21-22: "But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went. Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the LORD God, "I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name's sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went."

The prophecy within Ezekiel 36:23-36 is extremely important. It is, as the prophetic text implicitly states, about the redemption of Israel! Now, do NOT accuse me of invoking any nonsense such as 'dual covenant theology." What I cite here is the word of God, period. I leave to the reader to read the above embedded Scripture for themselves. It says exactly what it says. It says what the LORD God said to Ezekiel!

Marana'tha!