April 22, 2026: We now know that President Trump's unilateral extension of the ceasefire with the Iranian Twelver regime is due to the fact that the regime is in a fractured and highly unstable political state. The IRGC appears to be acting since yesterday as the de facto power of the government in ordering attacks by IRCG fast attack craft on M/Vs in the Strait of Hormuz and east of it from the Iranian Port of Chabahar into the Gulf of Oman. The lack of a U.S. response thus far to the serious attacks gives weight to what Pentagon sources say will come next.
Multiple sources are reporting that officials in the Pentagon are strongly indicating that a resumption of the war is imminent. However, the resumption of combat operations will far surpass the power and violence rained down upon Iran since the initiation of hostilities on February 28. Three U.S. Navy supercarrier CSGs are now in the CENTCOM AOR (Lincoln, Ford and G.H.W. Bush) plus several thousand U.S. Marines, Airborne and Special Operations forces plus the inherent and significant increase of combat airpower. Israeli forces are also primed to resume their Operation Roaring Lion combat operations
The meaning here is that Trump's indefinite ceasefire probably does not indicate a long-term cessation but a finite extension of potentially very short duration in order to give the Twelver political echelon a chance to impose control over the IRGC.
24 April 2026: The U.S.-Iranian Twelver "negotiations" in Pakistan have taken a big hit because hardliners in the Ayatollah's inner circle and the IRGC have forced (former) lead negotiator Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf to resign. Ghalibaf was also severely reprimanded by the inner circle over inclusion of the nuclear issue in negotiations with the US. His participation is likely the reason any progress was made in previous rounds. Regime hardliners and the Ayatollah's inner circle have clearly won the internal power struggle.
With Twelver hardliners in control there's no chance for a successful outcome, which explains why Vice President Vance has cancelled his plans to travel. President Trump now has his response from Tehran.
25 April 2026: Iranian Twelver envoy Araghchi met with his Islamic brothers in Pakistan and delivered Tehran's "comprehensive response" to Trump's demands. He has since departed for chats in Muscat and Moscow. Meanwhile, Trump's envoys Witkoff and Kushner are still hours away from landing in Islamabad. Once arrived they'll receive the Twelver response - which is, essentially, there can be no further negotiations with the U.S., there is no nuclear issue, the SoH will remain closed and the U.S. and Israel owe the Twelver regime billions in war reparations. To say at this point that Trump has not been played like a fiddle by the Twelver regime would be a massive understatement. Trump's reaction is sure to be epic.
1 May 2026: It appears to be crunch time for the current phase of Operation Epic Fury as the 60-day threshold of war powers act has arrived.
The Trump Administration has a couple options to employ. One is to ignore the 60-day mark as previous presidencies have done. Another option is to seek a congressional declaration of war against the Twelver regime. The decision has either already been made or will be made in a matter of a few more hours.
I believe the decision has been made as the U.S. Army made a request to deploy its Dark Eagle (Long Range Hypersonic Weapon or LRHW) system to the CENTCOM AOR.
7 May 2026: Today Iranian forces launched attacks on three U.S. Navy destroyers transiting eastbound (outbound) from the gulf. USCENTCOM released the following AAR:
“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No US assets were struck."
FINAL UPDATE 13 May 2026: Eschatology Today closes out this SITREP in noting that both the UAE and Saudi Arabia have conducted retaliatory airstrikes on specific targets inside Iran. This news has been accompanied by reports of Israel's Mossad director making covert visits to the UAE in March and April. These visits signal the close strategic and intelligence cooperation between Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi.
There is also a newly revealed international military coalition of more than forty nations, led by the United Kingdon, who will defend maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian attacks and operate to restore freedom of navigation in the Gulf. The Royal Navy air defense destroyer HMS Dragon looks to be this force's flagship.
Within the next day or so the previously noted return to far more destructive attacks on Iran by the US and Israel appears very likely. Operation Sledgehammer will be the subject of SITREP A4-26.
Maranatha!
If only we knew the amount of time count-down clock has on it. Hours or portions of days?
ReplyDeleteAmen, for almost 50 years I've said those words to myself.
ReplyDeleteThere's a whole lot more pieces in place today, and every nation has pretty much crossed the threshold of delusion, to the point of strong delusion, which only will change in the thylipis/megathylipis.
In my opinion.
Hopefully hours...
In Lebanon two French soldiers with UNIFIL have been killed in a Hezbollah attack.
ReplyDeleteTrue to their radical theology the Shi'a look to create chaos across the ME.
The ceasefire is everywhere attributed to Trump. He even says so.
ReplyDeleteHowever, that is not truly the case.
As we've noted previously it is the will/work of the Restrainer that delays these events until their appointed time. Amen.
Definitely all in God's timing Amen!
DeleteThe next action of the war is very predictable since the Twelver's have made it crystal clear that nukes are off the table and which is Trump's number one issue.
ReplyDeleteRussia's role in all of this is found, as noted before, in Ezekiel 38:7
ReplyDelete"Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them."
UPDATE Trump has cancelled the Witkoff/Kushner flight to Pakistan. "You're not flying 18 hours to talk about nothing." Finally some common sense!
ReplyDeleteAnd now some truth, as yours truly has maintained from day one of this blog, from SECSTATE Marco Rubio indicating that he does understand who the Iranian Twelvers are and what their eschatological agenda is.
Delete“Unfortunately, the hardliners with an apocalyptic vision of the future have the ultimate power in that country.”
The USS Gerald R. Ford will commence a return to its U.S. homeport within days.
ReplyDeleteSECWAR Hegseth testified before the Senate that the Trump Administration is of the opinion that the War Powers Act 60-day clock is suspended or stopped during a ceasefire. April 7 was the start of the ceasefire.
ReplyDeleteit seems to me that Trump is slow walking this. perhaps I'm wrong but it's frustrating
DeleteTrump thinks he's in control. He's not. God is in control.
Deletehe'll learn. one way or another
DeleteHe did learn that by using the ceasefire as a tactic he can order a re-start of the war. He now has a minimum of 24 days to pummel Iran into a surrender before requesting additional authorization.
DeleteTrump on his Truth Social yesterday:
ReplyDelete“We are in a war because, I think you would agree, we cannot let lunatics have a nuclear weapon."
(sarcasm)
What war? The objective of a war is to defeat the enemy and obliterate
all of his warfighting capabilities. This has not been achieved.
No one could have guessed that the Op Epic Fury war with Iranian Twelvers would be brought to an end with a simple "one page" MOU that the enemy's fractured leadership must sign within 48 hours (Friday May 8).
ReplyDeleteFailure of the Iranian leadership to sign the MOU will, according to Trump, result in a new massive bombing campaign.
This is the latest in a series of Trump ultimatums to the Twelver regime, none of which have been successful thus far.
Does anyone know why none of Trump's ultimatums to the Twelvers/IRGC has been successful?
DeleteThe hardliners want the conflict to continue?
DeleteYes, the global chaos the war achieves is the Twelvers reason to exist, so to speak, it's part of their al-mahdi theology and their eschatology to bring him out of occultation.
DeletePsalm 146 says 3Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. 5Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God
DeleteThe GOOD NEWS is Jesus revealed in the book of Revelation that The Church is out of here by the time the global masters decide to require a mark mandate to be compliant to the new world order. The economic problems exacerbated by Iran could manifest perfectly with the sinister WEF goals and the AI tech buildout.
We are in The World but not of The World:
John 17:15-16: "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."John 15:19: "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you."Romans 12:2: "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..."1 John 2:15-16: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world... For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
AWM
Agree completely, everything progressing by chapter and verse.
Delete1. It is an Apocalyptic religion
ReplyDelete2. They know the winds can change with the upcoming election.
No surprise, the Twelvers say there are unacceptible clauses in the Trump peace offer. Lots of wishful thinking it seems.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't trump have advisors in his inner circle who are fully aware of Iran's theology, and who know it's in their core beliefs to start global chaos so the Mahdi will come? It seems that Trump is either unaware, or he is foolishly optimistic. someone needs to educate Trump on their beliefs
DeleteAs I've pointed out before several times, his chief advisors and negotiators are commercial businessmen and real estate tycoons. What could they possibly know about hojjatieh twelver eschatology? Do they profess "Jesus is Lord"? And one of them is Jewish. This speaks volumes about inadequate knowledge for the task at hand since 2025!
DeleteIran has rejected (again) Trump's 48-hour response ultimatum.
DeleteTrump learned the hard way that he cannot blindside Arab allies by making unilateral operational announcements on his social media website.
ReplyDeleteThe Saudi's demonstrated their ability to embarrass Trump by denying US airpower based on Saudi territory to support his Strait of Homuz "Project Freedom" forcing its cancellation.
Saudi Arabia has a king, and it ain't Trump. An effective lesson for Israel.
Clearly the Twelvers have not learned their lesson.
ReplyDeleteThe reason the lesson has not been learned is that Trump is playing "patty-cake" with the murderous, inherently evil Hojjatieh Twelvers.
DeleteReferencing a nursery rhyme to describe Trump's warfighting doctrine is deliberate and glaringly accurate.
I think that the nuclear aspect has been achieved so that the grave threat to Israel will not occur. I also think that all of this is setting the geopolitical circumstances that are prophecied to occur in the near future, but after the Rapture.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I'd like to see the mullahs gone, I think we are told that they will still be here.
Maranatha...
Joe
The 12er nuclear file cannot be closed until ALL of the 60%HEU is removed from Iranian soil. The clerics will never give it up, especially to "infidel enemies."
ReplyDeleteAlso, the specific circumstance regarding Israel living in safety and security withkin their covenant land has not been fulfilled (Ezekiel 28 and 38/39). Gaza and Lebanon and within the land of Israel itself remain filled with terrorists and ongoing wars.
By the way, there is nothing in Scripture that speaks to a nuclear attack upon Israel.
ReplyDeleteThis Scripture truth powerfully illustrates that despite the Iranian nuclear program (or any other nuclear power) at no time has Israel really been under the threat of a nuclear attack.
And, to the contrary, there are many prophetic Scripture references which do attest to nuclear attack-like results on those nations that attempt to destroy Israel.
Iran attacked the UAE again today. And the US used kinetic strikes to prevent Iranian VLCCs from running the blockade. One kinetic strike involed dropping an inert bomb down a VLCCs smoke stack to disable the ship.
ReplyDeleteThere has never been a war like this one.
The USA has a major problem. It's not leftists, or anarchists, or BLM, or the SPLC, or Democrats, per se.
ReplyDeleteIt's the theology and ideology of the Dominionists that is the problem. Look into it and hopefully you'll see what I see. They reject Scripture about the Harpazo. They believe they must create a Christian kingdom on the Earth to bring Jesus back. They are the bulk of MAGA and TPUSA. They are a man-made deception. Beware.
.....and it's evident by the fact that Paula white is Trump's "spiritual advisor"
DeleteI am so blessed that I go to a Bible believing old fashion Baptist Church. We still use the KJV of the Bible. My pastor preaches the Word of God in all it's power and purity. We still have Sunday school, revival and God is doing a great work in our church, lives are being transformed, poor old lost sinners are being saved by the blood of Jesus. We just built a new sanctuary, built new Sunday school classes and a lot of other work. In all it cost us 4 million dollars and the day we moved in it was completely paid off. We didn't have spaghetti suppers, car washes and none of the worldly methods of funding it. All was paid by people paying their tithes, and we did get a 1.25 million dollar grant from the Lasko corporation. Praise God we still try our best to do things God's way.
DeleteYou nailed it. Christian Dominionists are some of the main building blocks for the OWR.
Deletermace,
DeleteA big AMEN to your blessed church!
President Trump rejected the Iranian Twelver response to his ultimatum for a peace deal as "totally unacceptable." The war continues because it suits the Twelvers' eschatology perfectly to reject anything and everything Trump demands of them. Eventually Trump and his inner circle will come to the realization that negotiations with the Twelvers is the definition of futility.
ReplyDeleteIt's by Design, it's about an Appointed Time, God is running "the show."
DeleteThe Knesset has extended the authorization for the IDF to call up 400,000 reservists until 31 May.
ReplyDeleteThe IRGC claims it has expanded the Strait of Hormuz under its control by 2X beyond the claim of just days ago.
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