Global SITREP C1-25: Jihadist Syria

 

Shapping the Syrian battlespace

UPDATED 28 November 2025: Since the Sunni jihadist conquest of Ba'athist-ruled Syria almost one year ago there has not been a minute where Eschatology Today favorably entertained the al-taqiyya coming from the "transitional" government led by Al-Qaeda jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa. Apparently neither has the coalition government of Israel, its intelligence organs and the IDF.

The map above fairly indicates how the IDF in the past 12 months has been shaping and preparing the battlefield against the jihadist enemy to the north. Light blue is the Israeli Golan. The yellow corridor indicates the IDF's forward positions within Syria. Several protected Druze villages are located on both sides of the yellow corridor. 

The operation today in Beit Jinn at the base of Mount Hermon revealed the Syrian jihadist government has been deeply involved in attacking the IDF and the Druze communities in southern Syria. Cut to the chase - the map above shows the current border, but Bible prophecy indicates the northeastern border will be at the Euphrates River.

29 November 2025: On Monday this past week President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) to officially declare the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) to be a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). The Jamaa Islamiya (JI) terrorists the IDF struck with ground troops in Beit Jinn, Syria yesterday are, in fact, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood; they operate on both sides of the Lebanon-Syria border. Israeli intelligence uncovered preparations by the JI in Beit Jinn to launch cross-border attacks into Israel. The JI embedded themselves within both HAMAS and Hezbollah in the 2025 war in Lebanon, and now in Syria. Also in Syria are ground troops from Houthi Yemen.

Original Trump Gaza End War Plan

6 December 2025: As can be seen in the above map the Trump Gaza End War Plan is all about Israel's withdrawal from "Arab" land. The blue line is where the IDF was when the first phase began. The yellow line is where the IDF is today. The red line is where the IDF is to be when phase two begins. The orientation at each line up to this point is towards the Mediterranean Sea, or the area still under HAMAS/PIJ terrorist control.

Guess where Egypt wants to put the so-called "International Stabilization Force" (i.e. Arab-Islamic Military Forces) when phase two begins? On the current IDF yellow line, but not oriented towards the Sea, they want the orientation towards the IDF and Israel.

8 December 2025: GAZA HUDNA - PHASE II will begin upon the islamic terrorists release of police officer Ran Gvili's remains. Officer Gvili was killed on 07OCT23 and his body was kidnapped into Gaza as a hostage. The terrorists have always known where Gvili's remains are located but pretend otherwise for their benefit. Shame on Israeli authorities for playing the terrorists game for more than two years.

Iranian Hanukkah Threat?

16 December 2025: The above poster (enlarged left, original right) have appeared in Tehran of late threatening Israel with a new war. The northern Israeli coastal city of Nahariya has been singled out in a specific threat which reads "Towards the next war: Nahariya, get ready!" 

We tend to take Iranian threats seriously, but this could also be a psyop intended to distract from Hanukkah celebrations in the immediate aftermath of the Bondi Beach massacre masterminded by the IRGC-QF. 

Nahariya is located approximately 6 miles from the border with Lebanon.

UPDATE 28 December 2025: The terrorist bombing of the Alawite mosque in Homs, which has killed eight and injured eighteen others, is a sure sign that the sectarian war tearing Syria apart is far from resolved. 

The explosive devices were prepositioned for a maximum casualty effect. Sunni jihadists are at the forefront of suspects as rumors swirl of an imminent Alawite insurrection along the Mediterranean Sea coastline governorates of Latakia and Tartus. 

Former al-Assad generals exiled in Russia are receiving massive funding from other wealthy Syrians tied to the former regime. The insurgency has weapons depots, around 168,000 troops and thousands of former Syrian Army officers. The elite 4th Division figures prominently.

BREAKING: Al-Sharaa and his transitional government are not taking this threat lightly; his Syrian Army has in the last few hours deployed troops and armor into the city centers of Tartus and Latakia.

Watching...

Global SITREP B3-25: The Beginning of Sorrows

 

Natanz nuclear facility post-GBU-57 MOP

UPDATED 26 June 2025: Israel's Operation Rising Lion turned out to be an undeclared 12-day war (12-23 June) against the Twelver regime of Iran. After the U.S. Midnight Hammer strikes on Fordo, Natanz (black dot in the image above) and Isfahan, which were not a declaration of war, but a well-planned and perfectly executed coup de grâce to force the Twelver leadership to sue for a cessation of hostilities. This was achieved and for the time being tenuous hudna (ceasefire) between Israel and Iran has literally been "hammered" into effect. How long this will endure is subject to rife speculation, conjecture and future events.

Not long after the hudna was accepted the Twelver Parliament voted near unanimously (one abstention, zero no votes) to renew the regime's nuclear program. Of course, the operating reactor at Bushehr was never touched over the 12 days of war, meaning even after this war Iran may still have a path to nuclear weaponization. Both the U.S. and Israel say that evidence of renewed nuclear weaponization would lead to new strikes. 

A curious thing occurred over the 12 days of intense Israeli air strikes in Iran. The IAF flew its numerous airstrike packages unimpeded over Syria and Iraq with nary a whimper from either country. Not many countries around the world objected either.

According to Israeli officials in Mossad and the IDF their forces have long been inside Iran and will stay in place for the foreseeable future. Some are suggesting that the objective now is to facture Iran into several ethnic polities (Kurds, Arabs, Baloch's, Azeris, etc.). This also is strong I&W that the confrontation with Iran is not over but has been put into a temporary hiatus, thus confirming Jeremiah's prophecy.

27 June 2025: Three quick notes.

1.) Heavy construction equipment is already busy moving earth at the Fordo nuclear complex. The IRGC clearly wants to get back inside the mountain quickly.

2.) The IAF chief has directed his forces to ensure air superiority in Iranian airspace for the foreseeable future and to continue suppression of Iranian ballistic missiles.

3.) President Trump days he'll for certain order new strikes in Iran if the situation warrants. I assess that Trump prematurely let Iran and the IRGC off the hook and has made a serious miscalculation in not taking out the Ayatollah.

UPDATE 5 July 2025: We've said so previously and it warrants repeating and/or a reminder: the war with the Twelver regime in Iran IS NOT OVER. Not for the State of Israel and not for the United States of America. The belligerent threats coming from the black turbaned mullahs are unlimited and unending. The fearful damage done across the entire spectrum of their military capabilities has truly caused much dismay among the Twelver elites, but their core theological beliefs remain unbowed. The fervent desire to destroy America and Israel is more pronounced than before and for this objective the mullahs will require a nuclear weapons capability with a low-tech delivery method of the most rudimentary kind. By ship or camel they will use whatever method is available. And so the inevitability of renewed warfare is assured, from now until Ezekiel 38/39.

Closing SITREP B3-25 with this statement from my last comment: 

"Judgment has begun, and it's in an ongoing process of fulfillment."

Global SITREP A4-25: Playing With Fire

Playing With Fire

UPDATED February 17, 2024: Today is Day 500 of the war which began on 7 October 2023 with the barbaric jihadist invasion of southern Israel to the east of the Gaza Strip. 

During this past weekend's visit to Israel by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio he warned the enemies of Israel that they were "playing with fire." This, of course, was a rephrasing of what U.S. President Donald Trump, and subsequently Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had warned about "all hell breaking loose" during the prior week should the jihadists in Gaza stand by their pronouncement to permanently end the release of Israeli hostages by high noon on Saturday, 15 February 2024. As we now know the Gaza jihadists capitulated from their threat by releasing three male hostages one hour prior to the noon deadline. This release of captives was in keeping with the previously agreed upon temporary ceasefire (hudna).

While the warning to Israel's enemies that they are "playing with fire" is very serious and indeed specific, Eschatology Today would note that the nations of the world are engaged in much the same type of folly. Such is the inherent nature of these "last days" as our unambiguous Scriptures plainly state. The "Late, Great Planet Earth" indeed simply because a great mass of humanity ignores the most important aspects of the prophetic Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

At the present time there is full agreement, intent of purpose and iron-clad mechanisms of across-the-board support between the American and Israeli governments, so much so that the Arab nations have cancelled two major summits that were to convene in the coming days. In short, Sheba and Dedan are sitting up and taking notice. Eschatology Today being ahead of the curve as usual and by design we'll pause briefly at this point and allow things to catch up.

IDF Buffer Zone Positions in Lebanon

The above map shows the five IDF high ground locations inside Lebanon. These are the posts that will be maintained until the LNA demonstrates firm control of the land south of the Litani River and Hezbollah is kept to the north of the river. 

There are no illusions that Hezbollah won't wear LNA uniforms and move south of the Litani. For this reason, the IDF will maintain many heavy (armored) brigades along the border. Detection of truce violations will be dealt with powerfully.

ARIEL, SHIRI and KFIR BIBAS

UPDATE February 23, 2025: A lot has taken place virtually overnight, so we'll try to get to all of it into this SITREP update.

IAF F35I and F-15I over Beirut today

As thousands gathered in Beirut this morning for Hassan Nasrallah's delayed funeral, the masses included Iranian IRGC-QF commanders and Hezbollah pager blast amputees, heavily armed IAF strike aircraft buzzed the funeral procession at low altitude. Message sent and unquestionably received. This flyover warning occurred as other IAF strike packages arrived at locations where rocket launchers and other weapons were being re-deployed to new sites in Lebanon from Syria. These locations are in Baalbek, northeastern Lebanon and south of the Litani River where Hezbollah under the agreement's terms should have no presence whatsoever. As usual for the IAF today's strikes were highly combat effective. The war in Lebanon, as noted here months ago, is nowhere near being concluded.

IDF Merkava MBT maneuvering

Operation Iron Wall which began on January 21st in Judea and Samaria has seen the introduction platoons of Merkava main battle tanks dispatched from Armored Brigade 188 now grinding up turf and roads in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams. This is the first occasion in 23 years that IDF armor has conducted combat operations in Judea and Samaria. The objective is to remain for a year or more to cleanse the region of terrorists and their infrastructure. Additionally, upwards of 40,000 Arabs have been evicted from "refugee camps" in and around Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams. These camps are now completely emptied, the former residents will not be allowed to return and all UNRWA activities have become nonexistent. This procedure will be carried out in numerous other locations throughout Judea and Samaria where Iranian operations have been attempting to create an "eastern front." Speaking of the Operation Iron Wall mission objectives Defense Minister Israel Katz stated this morning that Israel "will not return to the reality that was in the past."

As a direct result of HAMAS and PIJ conduct in the staged, propagandistic release of the hostages, as well as the cold-blooded murder of Shiri Bibas and her two innocent babes and other repeated violations of the hudna agreement the 620 terrorists that were to be released yesterday have been returned to their prison cells. There will be no further release of terrorists until the next scheduled hostage release has taken place without the "humiliating ceremonies."

Map of Syrian Governorates

Gaza and Syria Breaking News

PM Netanyahu speaking from Israel's overwhelming position of military strength made a pair of statements within the past hour.

1.) The IDF is prepared and has operational plans in place to immediately resume intense combat operations in Gaza to completely demilitarize the strip and eliminate all terrorists groups therein.

2.) Israel demands the full demilitarization of southern Syria from troops of the new Syrian regime in the Quneitra, Daraa and Suweyda provinces. (This means any Syrian military presence south of the Damascus provincial border (heavy blue line within the above map) will not be tolerated by the IDF.) Note: Quneitra governorate is already 90% the sovereign territory of Israel (i.e. the Golan Heights), and only a tiny sliver adjacent to the Daraa Governorate is not occupied by the IDF.

Those who've followed Eschatology Today over the past few years will inherently understand what this means. No need to again state the obvious.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A3-24: Gaza Endgame

GAZA ENDGAME

FINAL UPDATE 29 February 2024:  The final update to this SITREP is to correlate the 19 February SITREP A3-24 initial entry and the comment made five days ago (24 February) at 5:17 AM. 

The combination of these two stand as a significant development concerning Psalm 83:2-4 where the so-called "inner ring" of Israel's enemies have been called together to consult together against the people of Israel in the capital city of the Ezekiel 38-39 nation known as Magog. 

The consultation of Israel's enemies is now in progress in Moscow having commenced this morning, 29 February 2024. This coincides with the IDF ultimatum for the terrorists to surrender all of the remaining hostages, or their deceased bodies, within ten days time, that is, no later than 10 March 2024, or a full-scale IDF incursion into Rafah will be executed. The military goal of the Rafah operation is to locate and liberate those "sheltered ones" (hostages) and eradicate the remaining four brigades of HAMAS and its allied terrorist forces. 

Sundown on 10 March also marks the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. As the remnants of the terrorists who had no regard whatsoever and began their slaughter and capture of Israeli women and children on Simchat Torah, so too are there calls for the IDF to show no restraint anywhere in Gaza, or Lebanon for that matter, during Ramadan. 

On Tuesday, 27 February Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant went public with the intelligence and resulting situational assessment of the terrorists plan to turn the month of Ramadan, with emphasis on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, into phase two of their war plan against Israel that began on October 7, with amplification of this plan being provided by Iran and Hezbollah. 

Again, be wary of disinformation being disseminated in all media with global reach; deceit and deception are running rampant as we can all see these days. 

Elbit Hermes-450 UAV

26 February 2024: Eschatology Today assesses that a significant series of actions took place earlier today (afternoon in Israel) in the airspace over Lebanon and on the ground in the Hezbollah-heavy Bekaa Valley. Hezbollah used a surface-to-air missile (SAM) to shoot down an IDF reconnaissance drone (Hermes 450 image above). 

The initial action in the morning was the detection of an unidentified type of aircraft entering Israeli airspace in the Galilee region. A David's Sling interceptor shot the intruder aircraft out of the sky with parts of the wreckage landing near a synagogue in the town of Alon Tavor (between Afula and Kfar Tavor). Alon Tavor is the site of a three-generator 600 megawatt power generating station serving northern Israel and adjacent metal industrial plant. These are obvious high value co-located targets for Hezbollah.

Hezbollah's Bekaa Valley, Northern Lebanon

This was followed by the IDF's Hermes-450 UAV conducting its surveillance mission over Lebanon and its subsequent shoot-down by a Hezbollah SAM. The Hermes 450 wreckage came down on Lebanese territory. Immediately thereafter IAF strike aircraft were launched and began systematically attacking Hezbollah's Aerial Defense Array in northern Lebanon's Bekaa (Beqaa) Valley seen in the map above. 

The assessed significance of the Bekaa Valley airstrikes is that they recall to memory the IDF's June 1982 "Operation: Peace for the Galilee" of forty-two years ago. Most folks born in 1982 or afterwards almost certainly have little, if any, knowledge of this cross-border war and the loss of life which ensued. The "Peace for Galilee" operation was executed to remove the threat of cross-border bombardment from southern Lebanon on Israel's border communities. Sound familiar? 

This time it's not the PLO bombarding northern Israeli towns from southern Lebanon, but Iran's primary and very heavily-armed proxy Hezbollah. As the IAF (F-15I Ra'am and F-16 Sufa with Cobra and Defender attack helicopters) took control of Lebanese skies IDF ground forces invaded along three south-to-north access routes destroying all enemy bases and logistics in their path. And this time it's not Syrian SAM sites defend the Bekaa, but Hezbollah's Iranian-supplied SAMs, which some say may now eclipse the Syrian SAM systems which constituted the deadliest SAM environment on planet earth at that time, even more so than in Russia itself! 

Syrian and possibly even Russian air defense sites in Syria could tango with the IAF during this coming engagement. It can be expected that the Israel Defense Forces have fine-tuned the coming engagement so as to methodically degrade and ultimately decimate the enemy before them, probably to the Litani River and beyond if not all the way to the Bekaa Valley.

19 February 2024: SITREP A3-24 Gaza Endgame is intended to be a gap-filler for the next 20 days or so. March 10 is according to Israeli military command is the deadline upon which HAMAS and its associate terrorist organizations must unilaterally release all hostages (dead or alive) or face the IDF entering Rafah in full force. During this 20-day or so interim we'll attempt to capture important developments as Israel stands against the world in denial of the creation or recognition of a "Palestinian state" within its borders, and the threat of war with Hezbollah and/or enemies based in Syria. 

Global SITREP A1-24: The Regional War Zone

 

The War Zone

FINAL UPDATE 27 January 2024: In the nine days since Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes deep into Iranian territory there's been only one OSINT analysis that carries any water. 

To begin with, why did Iran initiate hostilities with a nuclear-armed Pakistan? Was it to signal the world powers that it was now nuclear-armed itself and had no fear of Pakistani nukes? It was Pakistan, in the person of the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program (A.Q. Khan, for those with recollection) who clandestinely put Iran and the IRGC on the fast track to nuclear weapons development. So why strike Pakistan which is neither an ally of Iran nor a full-fledged foe either. 

Consider that Iran has been attacked on its soil a great many times by Israel, much less its bases and operatives in Lebanon and Syria, and Iran has never once retaliated against nuclear-armed Israel in a reciprocal manner. Ditto for the USA, and the assassination of IRGC-QF MG Qassem Soleimani by the Trump Administration. Hajj Soleimani was a very, very close ally of Ayatollah Khamenei, a fact discussed previously on Eschatology Today. 

The fact remains Iran fears both Israel and the US (even with Biden at the helm, and albeit at different levels, so direct retaliation has not occurred, and likely will not occur at the present time. Therefore, Iran took the lesser risk and hit Baluchi separatist camps in Pakistan to vent its desire for vengeance. The mullahs assessed quasi-correctly that Pakistan would reciprocate in-kind; a diplomatic kerfuffle would ensue (it did) and that would be that. This is what took place, but lost in 99% of all discussion on this is the fact that Pakistan is the only nation on earth to attack the territory of Iran with ballistic missile strikes since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988. 

This does not sit well with the mullahs in Tehran, and additional fall-out will surface soon, perhaps in a month's time in the coming election in Iran of the next Assembly of Experts. The new assembly will be far more radical as the days of the so-called "reformists" are over. It is also quite likely according to many observers of the Islamic Republic that the new Experts Assembly will elevate the current president, Ebrahim Raisi, to the office of Supreme Leader in place of the increasingly frail Ayatollah Khamenei. None in Iran today have more innocent blood on their hands than Raisi, and upon elevation he'll be more lethal than ever before. 

15 January 2024: At 03:00 this morning US and UK strike aircraft, supported by the Canadian, Dutch, Australian and Bahrani military forces, swarmed into Houthi-controlled Yemen to strike multiple Houthi military bases, launch pads, ordnance depots located in Sana'a, Hodeida port, Dhamar and their stronghold at Saada. A Houthi spokesman says the US and UK "will pay a heavy price for this blatant aggression." Once again, at Iranian Twelver instigation and outright arming with missiles and drones, Yemen has become a new front in the End Times "wars and rumors or war." 

It would seem logical that a campaign by the aforementioned Western allies for regime change in Houthi-controlled Yemen is the viable path to put an end to the ballistic missile and drone threats to commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait. This may seem wishful thinking given that a UK government official has stated that today's strikes in Houthi Yemen were "limited." What is obvious is that a war has been in progress at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula for some time now, and with these airstrikes that war has escalated once again with a necessary Western intervention. 

10 January 2024: The lead off SITREP for 2024 is to highlight the war zone where kinetic warfare is occurring, and anticipated, sooner or later, according to Bible prophecy which has been covered here for 15 years and counting. The archives are readily accessible for refresher reading. Eschatology Today assesses that now is the time to lean forward once again in anticipation of coming events. 

In this map Yemen, a currently active participant in the ongoing war against Israel, as well as Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia are included because in ancient times they were inclusive of the Biblical land of Sheba to one extent or another. The land of Sheba is prominently referenced in the subsequent prophecy of Ezekiel 38/39. At this time it is not possible for Sheba in conjunction with the land of Dedan, to complain or protest the invasion attempt of Gog of Magog. Clearly it can be inferred that some major event will transform the current paradigm for Ezekiel's prophecy to occur as literally as it is written, which undoubtedly will be the future reality. Sudan is included as it is Kuwsh of Ezekiel 38/39. Egypt is included for both the current Israel-Gaza war and other prophetic events which will see Israel in control of all the land from the Nile River through the Sinai to the southern Negev border of the State of Israel. Libya, not specifically color-coded here is the land of Phut, also a participant of the Magog invasion.

Currently there are unconfirmed reports of IDF special forces operating along the Philadelphia corridor between Egypt and Gaza. This operation is designed to detect the remaining HAMAS leadership attempting to escape into Egypt with Israeli hostages through the extensive and currently active tunnel system underground there. These forces are also reportedly operating in Libya and Sudan for the same interdiction purposes.

The map above also illustrates in a single frame of reference the three critical maritime choke points of the Suez Canal, Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Strait of Hormuz. Blocking of one or more of these cannot be tolerated, particularly by the West, due to dire economic damage that can be done to the global economy with their closure.

The Philadelpi Corridor (image below) that will be in the news in the next few days as the IDF intends to take full control over it.

Global SITREP D5-23: A Greater MidEast War Part IV

Bab al-Mandab Chokepoint

22 December 2023: It is no accident that three of the world's most important maritime choke points are in the Middle East: the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab al-Mandab. And just as obviously this has never been lost in the mindset of the Shi'a Twelver Regime in Tehran. Close one and global economic disruption is guaranteed, close two, as the Twelver's regularly exercise, and war is assured to reopen them. 

With the effective shutdown of the Bab al-Mandab, there's little maritime traffic transiting the Suez. Effectively the Houthi's of Yemen have shut down two of these three critical chokepoints making military action by the West assured to reopen the Bab al-Mandab by force. At least 20 nations have signed on, with others on-standby or in supporting roles. And everyone knows who has pulled the strings to make this situation a reality - it is straight from the Twelver's apocalypse playbook, so do not expect the Islamic Republic to dodge out of this unscathed. Oh, and by the way, they're still working on installing working nuclear weapons into their missile force arsenal.

IDF Ready to roll in the North

This evening in northern Israel 19-year old Sergeant Amit Zod Hiv was killed during activity following rocket launches by Hezbollah, and another IDF soldier was seriously injured. Two other Israelis were hospitalized in in yesterdays rocket barrages. It is not believed that the IDF will hold its iron horses back much longer, all though the IAF and IDF artillery have met the increased Hezbollah rocket fire with intensive counter fires. Again, it is Iran's Twelvers and their vision of an apocalyptic conflagration that is the common denominator in all of this, always has been.

Global SITREP D1-23: Regional Warfare

USS Ford and USS Eisenhower CSGs in the East Med

UPDATE 6 November 2023: In the image above the USS Ford and USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) cruising the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as part of the overall US military build up in the Middle East, as direct warning to Iran and its proxy forces in Lebanon and Syria to stay out of the Israel-HAMAS war in Gaza. For its part the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed-Reza Ashtiani issued a direct threat yesterday saying the US forces would be "hit hard" if the war in Gaza was not stopped immediately. Right on cue two US International Coalition bases in Syria, Tel Haydar in al-Hasakah and al-Tanf on the Jordanian-Iraqi border, were attacked yesterday and early this morning by IRGC proxy drones. The drones were shot down. International Coalition retaliation is expected shortly.

In Syria, and due to the IAF's repeated knocking out of Damascus and Aleppo International Airports, the Russian military has given the IRGC-QF permission to fly in military hardware to the Hmeimim Air Base. The first IRGC-QF charter aircraft landed at Hmeimim this past Thursday under joint Russian and Iranian security forces protection. An IRGC-QF military convoy departed Hmeimim soon thereafter for IRGC bases to the east, T4 most likely. Iranian military flights are also landing at the Syrian al-Shayrat Air Base southeast of Homs.

Concurrent with these developments Israel's relations with Russia have deteriorated precipitously, to the point now that Israel will no longer provide advance deconfliction warnings to the Russian military in Syria when IAF aircraft are inbound to strike Iranian and Iranian proxy targets in Syria. Both the US International Coalition and Iranian military forces are pouring in large contingents of reinforcements. These movements indicate a steady decline into a regional conflagration.

War in Gaza City - IDF Grinding HAMAS into Pulp

2 November 2023: In continuing this series which began exactly one month ago today with Global SITREP C5-23: The Coming War, Eschatology Today assesses that the Iranian overlords of Hezbollah in Lebanon and IRGC-QF proxy militias have green-lighted the launch their offensive against Israel from Lebanon and Syria approximately on or before 24 hours from now.

There is no reason other than military for IRGC-QF overall commander, Esmail Qa'ani to be coordinating with Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon on Wednesday, two days in advance of the expected address of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, at 3 PM Israel time (8 AM EDT in the US) which for all intents and purposes is a matter of semantics; a chance for him and his terrorist organization to save face and avoid total humiliation. Thus Lebanon will be destroyed due to the Shi'a Twelver's lust for Israel's blood to be spilled.

This is Esmail Qa'ani's second trip to Lebanon in three weeks time, the first being within 24 hours of HAMAS barbaric assault on kibbutzim in Israel on October 7th. Iranian fingerprints are all over this attempt at a war of extermination against Israel. To the apocalyptic Twelver Shi'a clerics of Iran this war is essential in their eschatological and theological beliefs, foremost of them being the hastening of their non-existent al-Mahdi messianic figure. Truly a massive satanic deception upon millions of their religion.

We are now learning in real-time that all of the associated prophecies of the Psalm 83 scenario are as most other Bible prophecy in that they find fulfillment over several months to years. Many have dual fulfillment over much longer periods of time. None of these prophesies are "one and done" in a single day, but as we've always made clear, have an active process towards their literal fulfillment. It occurs that this time ought not to be wasted, that active witnessing is the order of the day while there is still time to do so. This proves to the unbeliever that God has known the end from the beginning, His word is to be trusted in ALL things.

Global SITREP C10-23: War! By Air, Land and Sea

Gaza's Unprecedented Bombardment

UPDATED 27 October 2023: On the evening of the 21st day of the war IDF armor took up positions inside Gaza. This movement was preceded by the most intense bombardment to take place in Israel's 75 years. It came from the IAF, from Israeli naval forces offshore and from IDF tanks and mobile artillery. The IDF spokesman announced this expanded ground maneuver would take place as the IAF began pummeling the terrorist network of tunnels. With this action many are now watching to see if Hezbollah and IRGC-QF militias in Syria will join in full-scale warfare.

The Coming Northern Warzone

UPDATE 1 November 2023: Despite media reports to the contrary the Islamic Republic of Iran will set its proxy forces loose to open the northern front against Israel. These forces are composed of Hezbollah and IRGC-QF proxy Shi'a militias from Iraq. They are now staged near the front with Israel in a line that stretches from Quneitra to Nawa to Dara'a in southern Syria (see map above). The figurehead leader of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, is powerless to prevent the use of his rump nation, now a fully subjugated vassal state of the Iranian Twelvers in the assault upon northern Israel. 

Many should recall that an agreement between Russia, Syria and Jordan to not allow Iranian forces or their proxies to encroach upon Jordan's border or within a certain distance of the UNDOF Zone on the Golan frontier with Israel. Apparently Russia feels it is now free to ignore than agreement having given Iran tacit permission to stage thousands of its proxy troops and their advanced equipment on this front. Yesterday, the MEMRI website published its Special Dispatch 10920 which contains many details with abundant footnotes. It is obvious that precursory to the opening of the Syrian front the attacks against US Coalition bases in recent days, warned about here for the past few weeks, have now approached at least 30 rocket, missile and drone attacks. US retaliation has occurred and will almost certainly continue with the recent buttressing of US and Coalition military forces in the region. Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah has announced he will issue and address, most likely on Friday of this week.

Updates as they occur...

Global SITREP C6-20: Eyes on Lebanon

 

Hezbollah's Beirut Missile Sites

4 October 2020: With the IDF's very public releasing of intelligence this week (GPS image above) on Hezbollah's precision missile manufacturing sites in residential neighborhoods of Beirut, it isn't, pun intended, "rocket science" to assess that precision Israel Air Force strikes on these locations are an imminent probability.

Poor Beirut, as if it hasn't had an abundance of of massive explosions and fires of late, it's problems have compounded thanks to Hezbollah's stupidity. Following the IDF intel release, which PM Netanyahu had promptly revealed to the world during his U.N. address, Hezbollah organized a rather hasty tour for media through the neighborhood buildings and structures which had been identified, as if to show Israel's intel was bogus. 

To the contrary, the video tour validated the Israeli intel as beyond reproach as specific machinery and dual use technologies (lasers, hydraulic and manual metal benders) for precision rocket manufacturing were clearly identified in the Beirut residential neighborhoods of Janah, Laylaki and Chouaifet. The Hezbollah factories are located under apartment buildings adjacent to a mosque, gas station and a medical facility.

Hezbollah did not deserve this advance warning of Israel's intelligence gathering successes and detailed knowledge of its activities, yet it serves as the clearest warning possible to the people in these Beirut neighborhoods and Hezbollah itself of exactly where the next IAF air assault will occur. 

Given recent history since 4 August in Beirut one can understand how the local population feels about Hezbollah and its Iranian masters activities underneath their homes, wives and children. We will probably read about the IAF knocking on the roofs of these structures as a final warning for the people to move, or for them to dismantle the factories themselves before Israel does.

Our eyes remain on Beirut, and elsewhere.

Global SITREP C2-20: Rumors of War Part VI

Some of the IDF Armor arrayed on the Northern Front
opposite the Lebanese and Syrian borders..

03 August 2020: Hidai Zilberman, a spokesperson for the IDF, said today that Israel holds Damascus responsible for Sunday's attempted IED cross-border attack at a temporarily unmanned IDF post. According to Zilberman Israel may yet retaliate against Damascus for that action in which the four terrorists were killed by ground and air fire from the IDF's Maglan Special Forces unit. There were no IDF injuries in the action.

Update 05 August 2020: About the Beirut Port Disaster

Beirut Port Before

Beirut Port After

Hezbollah and the IRGC are under no illusions about what took place yesterday at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon because they know they caused the explosion at Beirut port by their own negligence.

They have been negligent in the handling and storage of 2,750 metric tons of volatile ammonium nitrate, explosives and other munitions (i.e. the reported fireworks) at this site for many years. Since 2014 at a minimum. The resultant early tally of casualties speaks to scores of dead and 3,000 to 4,000 or more injuries.

The "white building" was a massive grain silo. Grains lie before the massive, now water-filled crater where the explosions occurred.

Details:

In 2018 the IDF made public their concerns about this site in releasing surveillance imagery with detailed analysis of the risks posed to the immediate civilian neighborhood, infrastructure, the port itself and Hariri Airport (source of the aircraft seen in some videos).

IDF release from 2018

Thereafter, Hassan Nasrallah released a video of himself 'theorizing' about a "nuclear like' explosion occurring in Haifa port, just as the Beirut port explosion appeared to all who witnessed it yesterday. Ironic to say the least.

Beirut Port Panoramic as it appears today courtesy of Hezbollah and their IRGC masters.

Hezbollah and the IRGC, and by extension the current Government of Lebanon, are 100% responsible for the Beirut Port disaster. They know it. Israel knows it, and so does the U.S.A. The ultimate repercussions of this disaster are currently unknown, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to assume that Israel will be blamed in due course by its many enemies. And therein lies the prophetic significance should Lebanon, Hezbollah and Iran opt for the wrong course of action going forward.

Global SITREP B5-20: Rumors of War Part II

UPDATE 4 May 2020: A simple and to the point update. Israel is now striking Iranian military targets in Syria with regularity and impunity, from the Iraqi border to the Lebanese border. 

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and RF President Vladimir Putin

4 May 2020: The Iranian-Russian issue (discussed below) has another facet: the Iranian Twelver regime holds a much higher level of influence over the al-Assad regime than Russia does. In fact, Syria has become openly defiant against Russia's demands for returns on its investment in saving the regime from being overthrown. Chalk up the Syria-Iran alliance and defiance of Russia to the Shi'a-Alawi brotherhood. Alawi's adhere to the teachings of the 12th imam, Ali, making them a sect of Shi'a Islam.

There are also increasing reports of American and Russian military tensions in northern Syria, mainly in the Tall Tamr and Qamishli region. In the first incident a fist fight erupted between American and Russian troops, with some Russians being on a medevac for hospital treatment. In the second and third confrontations, at Qamishli and Tall Tamr respectively, the two used their armored vehicles to block the other side from continuing its patrol. As this was occurring a heavy aircraft presence above kept close tabs on what the boots on the ground were doing. Syria is rapidly deteriorating under such tensions. The Damascus government has little, if any, effective control over the entire northern and northeastern regions. 

3 May 2020: Eschatology Today is now seeing the geopolitical and military dynamic that had existed in Syria for the past five years (since Russian military intervention of 2015) changing significantly. The former fraternal relationship between Russia and Iran, united in an effort to save the Alawite regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad from the Sunni-led revolt, has in recent weeks begun to unravel to the point of being completely undone.

This is due to the divergence of Russian and Iranian objectives in Syria. Russia wants considerable economic and military rewards from Syria as due recompense for its intervention in saving al-Assad's regime from the Sunni revolt, while the Iranian Twelvers in Tehran remain committed to their eschatologically-driven goal of Shi'a hegemony over Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as essential to the destruction of State of Israel. 

Obviously these two objectives are mutually exclusive; they cannot possibly exist simultaneously within Syria. The Iranian war plan is an existential threat to Russia's interest in a reconstructed and economically healthy Syria simply because the resultant devastation of Syria in an apocalyptic Shi'a-Alawite war against Israel would rapidly nullify the Syria that Russia believes it has bought and paid for. 

As we know from the prophetic texts of Isaiah and Jeremiah there is a certain fate awaiting Syria that is wholly contrary to Russia achieving its objectives. Recall in September 2018 how Syrian air defenses mistakenly shot down a Russian reconnaissance aircraft, killing the 15-man air crew and sparking a crisis in Israeli-Russian relations. This crisis occurred because Russia wrongly blamed Israel's military instead of Syria's military for the tragedy. 

Eschatology Today is once again leaning forward in considering the possibility of a Russian leader wrongly blaming Israel again in the near future for the coming devastation of Damascus and of all Syria, a devastation brought about by the Shia Twelver's and their apocalyptic, Mahdi-hastening eschatology. Such devastation of Syria would necessarily result in massive if not crippling economic and military loses for Russia. Could this be the real-world origin for the evil thoughts and "hooks" placed into the jaws of Ezekiel 38:4, for the desire to invade and to take plunder and despoil an Israel at peace, living securely with no one presenting a threat?

IRGC-Qods Force burns in southwest Damascus Province

27 April 2020: Israel Air Force (IAF) strikes during the pre-dawn hours this morning destroyed multiple IRGC-Qods Force and Hezbollah facilities in the south of Damascus. The enemy facilities were just west of the main M5 highway from Sahnaya south to Al-Kiswah. They no longer exist.

This morning's strikes are being tied by Israeli and foreign (Sunni Arab) media to another significant IAF strike on an IRGC-QF base one week ago in the area of Palmyra, as well as an IAF strike midweek which annihilated a Hezbollah vehicle convoy on the Beirut-Damascus highway that was engaged in the transfer of Iranian precision weapons from Iran's Syrian warehouses into Hezbollah warehouses in Lebanon. The convoy failed to make it into Lebanese territory.

The reason for the linkage is due to comments made by Defense Minister Naftali Bennet late Sunday. DM Bennett had essentially announced to the citizens of Israel to be alert to what they would see and hear going forward; that Israel had transitioned its military doctrine from not allowing Iran to entrench itself in Syria to one of forcing Iranian forces out of Syria.

“We aren’t just continuing our work preventing Iran from entrenching itself in Syria, we’ve moved decisively from preventative action to forcing (Iran) out.”

These pre-dawn Israeli strikes on Iranian military targets in Syria have for years been assessed by Eschatology Today as the type of military action that would precipitate the destruction of Damascus, as well as the nation of Syria, according to Isaiah 17.  Isaiah 17:14 speaks to a retaliatory WMD strike against Israel's civilian population and the resultant lightning quick and desolating war. It will begin at the 'eth 'erev (evening) of one day and conclude prior to the boqer (morning) of the next day.

We, in the USA, will wake up to this news much as we did this morning's news. Any one of these announced strikes to remove Iran from Syria could result in the literal fulfillment of Isaiah 17. 

Global SITREP C10-19: RED ALERTS

We Can Never Forget

UPDATED BELOW 11 September 2019: Today is Patriot Day, it's a day we can never forget. So we remember this day, and everything that came after it and which continues for the past 18 years. Nine-Eleven changed America in ways we're still discovering after 18 years of continuous war with desolations continuing just as the angel Gabriel prophesied to Daniel.

Many say we've seen this all before. And we have. Jesus prophesied that these days would be exactly as they have been - like birth pangs of increasing intensity and frequency of occurrence. But we have to take note of the increasing intensity that has become manifest in just the past 30 days. For example, Israel now routinely attacks the enemies in both central and western Iraq. Just yesterday, and for the first time, the enemy in Gaza attempted a decapitation strike against Israel's Prime Minister with a volley of fairly precise missiles. The Iron Dome systems quickly extrapolated the trajectory of the missiles and determined Netanyahu was the target. The missiles were shot out of the sky and the PM was hustled out of harms was by his security detail. HAMAS took advantage of a well publicized political event to strike at the PM because he was a target of opportunity.

The "quiet" now is foreshadowed by the knowledge that Iran, its Iraqi proxies, Hezbollah and the factions in Gaza are preparing a missile and rocket blitz against Israel. For its part, Israel is prepared to postpone an election a week away in order to prosecute a ground war in Gaza, as well as take on Hezbollah in Lebanon and the IRQG-QF and Iraqi proxy militias along with Syrian forces in Syria. This is what makes this time different because when these things take place they will alter the situation in the Middle East irreversibly. Its setting the stage, so to speak, for the advent of Israel's 70th Week of years and we're witness to all of it in near real-time.

13 September 2019: There are a lot of eyes, friendly and not so much, focused on next Tuesday's election in Israel. There's even some serious speculation that it may not take place as scheduled, but would be postponed until after a war against the terrorist factions in Gaza has been successfully completed. This rumor of war has not been dispelled by the Prime Ministers Office, in fact it has been enhanced by statements made to Israeli media. So, we'll see what takes place over the next 72 hours or so.

Whatever developments take place there are now statements coming from Jordan which place the peace agreement in serious jeopardy. Since last spring Jordan has been making its displeasure known over PM Netanyahu's comments regarding annexation of the Jordan Valley, Judea and Samaria. The Jordanian policy has always been in support of a two-state solution as the only viable alternative to war. 

It has long been assumed that Jordan would go to war with Israel over Jerusalem and issues related to the Temple Mount which it remains the religious custodian of. However, now it has become crystal clear that Jordan views all of Judea and Samaria as essential for the emergence of a Palestinian state. Eschatology Today believes this is very likely the reason why an Israel war with the Palestinian terror factions in Gaza would be directly tied to an Israeli war with Jordan, exactly as prophesied in Isaiah 11:14. Jordan is ready to militarily support Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Jordan, as has been stated here before, is between Iraq and a hard place. After the war of Israel's independence in 1948, Jordan annexed the whole of the so-called West Bank plus eastern Jerusalem. Israel fixed that problem in the Six Day War that began on 5 June 1967. Jordanian forces attacked Israel on the first day of the war to fulfill a mutual defense pact with Egypt which it had signed on 30 May 1967. Fast forward to fifty-two years later and Jordan doesn't have Egyptian forces attacking Israel's southern front in support of its forces attacking Israel's eastern front. In 2019 Egypt has made it clear that Gaza is solely an Israeli problem; the Gaza Palestinians are on their own. That's where Jordan steps in and that's where Isaiah 11:14 finds its literal fulfillment. 

Saudi Aramco facility at Abqaiq attacked by iranian cruise missiles 14SEP19

14 September 2019: The photo above making the rounds in global media shows the fires that resulted from an Iranian cruise missile strike early this morning Saudi time. This strike made good on the Iranian threat that if its oil was embargoed from world markets by the sanctions regime imposed by the U.S., then other nations oil would also not make it to market. The full economic impact remain uncalculated, and it will be at least 48 hours before the next Aramco post-attack assessment is made public according to the Saudi Minister of Energy.

Just when some thought tensions with Iran were subsiding this attack occurred, and may be a final wake-up call to the threat that the 21st century regime most like the Nazi regime of the 20th century represents. U.S. government officials and some in the U.S. Congress were making the case for military action against Iran today as a direct result of this attack. President Trump has pledged full U.S. support to the Saudi's. 

Virtually concurrent was the discussion between President Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu regarding a mutual defense treaty between the U.S. and Israel. How will this play out with Netanyahu's talk of annexation of Judea and Samaria if his Likud faction wins the election still scheduled for Tuesday, 17 September, is anyone's guess. Nevertheless, all of these news items are critical in their own right, and potentially monumental all together.

15 September 2019: Follow-up images.

IRGC-QF "Soumar" LACM in Saudi desert

IRGC-QF "Soumar" LACM intact

The Iranian Shi'a Twelver War Council

The top image is of the finned aft-end of an Iranian "Soumar" Land Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) found in the Saudi desert near the Saudi Aramco attack sites of Abqaiq and Khurais. Below it is the "Soumar" as it appears normally, with an auxillary rocket booster attached. 

This LACM is derived from the Russian Kh-55 'Granat' Iran clandestinely acquired from Ukraine with Russian assistance more than a decade ago. The Russian version was designed to carry to 200kt nuclear warhead and is the critically important reason why Iran can never develop and deploy its own nuclear warhead.

The bottom image is of the Iranian Shi'a Twelver War Council. To the left of the approaching Ayatollah Khamenei are his clerical underlings. To his right are Iraqi Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the IRGC-Qods (Jerusalem) Force, and Iranian Major General Hossein Salami, Chief of Staff of the IRGC. These are the men responsible for all acts of terror inthe MIddle East (and beyond), including yesterday's unprecedented military attack on Saudi Arabia's largest oil field and refining facility. Make no mistake, this attack is a game-changing Act of War.

This Global SITREP is continued above in Global SITREP D2-19: RED ALERTS PART II.

Marana'tha!