Global SITREP A10-26: The End of the War

 

25 September 2026: The third annual observance of the October 7 2023 massacre in the Gaza envelope approaches in just over 10 days from now. 

Hindsight being 20/20, the events of that day led to the war which continues to this day in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and its Shi'a proxy forces in Iraq and Yemen. The foresight provided by God-breathed prophecy in the Scriptures provides a clear picture of how the current war will resolve and its immediate aftermath in the coming weeks. Of note are the important if not critical elections that will occur in Israel and the United States.

27 September 2026: There are a great many voices proclaiming a soon end to this war. The important thing to note is that none of those proclamations have come from the LORD. His proclamation, heard through the angel Gabriel to the prophet Daniel, remains as follows:

Daniel 9

1 October 2026: Pay attention to the current events taking place on Temple Mount.

To be continued.

Global SITREP A7-26: Lebanon Flashpoint

 

22 June 2026: The map above is self explanatory in that terrorist Hezbollah, a highly paid military proxy of Twelver-ruled Iran, is the flashpoint capable of blowing up the tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and the Twelver regime in Tehran. The Twelvers claim Lebanon is integral to the MOU, to which Israel defiantly responds "NO, WE ARE NOT! Israel retains its freedom of operations against Hezbollah, period."

Just yesterday an American threat of renewed conflict caused the Twelvers to shut down Hormuz maritime traffic, a move that Trump said would result in a complete, long-term American military takeover of the Strait and a resumed bombing blitz of Iran so that Iranian negotiators in Switzerland "would not have a "☆%@&ing" country to return to. It'll be interesting to see how long the current MOU Hudna with the Shi'a regime lasts before imploding. And then, how long the IRGC lasts in ground combat IF Trump does what he would have to do in taking the entire Strait of Hormuz region.

Will the US seize the Strait?

24 June 2026: The days of Israel being a subservient wartime ally of the US are over. From this point forward there will be no American (read: Trump) dictation of what Israel must do. Any request or even a demand that the IDF withdraw from Lebanese or Syrian territory will be rejected outright if it is contrary to Israel's security requirements. This new paradigm has been a long time coming, but it's here now and will stay until the advent of the 70th Week of Years.

28 June 2026: Eschatology Today's long-running assessment that Twelver Iran prefers war over peace with the US and Israel is now an established fact based upon their actions. The assessment is based upon the now decade old interpretation of Jeremiah 49:34-39 in concert with Ezekial 38 which speaks to a militarily reduced Iran on a par with Kuwsh and Puwt.

President Trump's Truth Social post of yesterday (Saturday, 27 June)  warning of the destruction of the Islamic Republic of Iran if they were to persist in their attacks clearly fell upon deaf ears. The Twelver's IRGC launched massive attacks this morning specifically against US bases and support facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain. 

Scrap the MOU as meaningless, the war is back on and at full scale. American strikes in Iran are taking out much of what the IRGC had urgently reconstituted in the last several weeks. The US will press on the attack to "complete the mission." 

We remain mindful that the Twelvers are on record saying that renewed war would result in the IRGC-Quds Force conducting attacks around the globe. Heads on a swivel.

UPDATE 1 July 2026: The "negotiations" over the MOU are no different than previous "negotiations" with the Iranian Shi'a Twelvers - much ado about nothing. They drag on endlessly because they're merely a Twelver ploy, a tactic to buy time. The next IRGC suicide drone attack on a commercial vessel is a matter of time as is the subsequent US retaliation.

Twelver diplomats are now saying they're ready for war but will speak to (Islamic) mediators indefinitely. Face-to-Face talks with Witkoff and Kushner are out of the question for the Twelvers; remember these two American's represent the "Great Satan" as does Trump and all US citizens, so there's never going to be an honored "deal with the devil." Best assessment is that the full-scale war will resume sometime between now and mid-August.

FINAL UPDATE 15 July 2026: This is the final update for SITREP A7-26. Eschatology Today will return with SITREP A8-26 within a day or so as it appears very likely the US will commit to a far more comprehensive offensive against the Twelver regime and its IRGC forces.

Two crude oil tankers belonging to the UAE were attacked yesterday, as well as US facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain. USCENTCOM pressed forward with the imposed blockade of Iran's Arabian Gulf ports. 

A couple dozen or so 5th Fleet surface combatant ships, and hundreds of strike aircraft will prosecute what is believed to be the final 60-day offensive of the war that was the subject of a Trump situation room briefing yesterday. The offensive will cover the whole of Iranian territory, becoming more lethal and destructive in a calculated progression day by day. 

Prophetically speaking, the fulfillment of the LORD'S many "I will's" recorded in Jeremiah 49:34-39 are a Divine progression now in progress.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A5-26: Turning Point

 

Beaufort Castle

1 June 2026: IDF ground forces took the highly strategic heights at Beaufort Castle in Lebanon this week. From Beaufort Castle one can look to the south to view northern Israel, or look to the north to view Beirut and beyond. To the east one can see strategic Mount Hermon, also under the control of the IDF. 

The mastery of these heights marks a critical point in the war, a point not lost on the Twelver regime in Tehran or their Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon. It is the catalyst for their desperation and large-scale drone attacks since last week as well as the Twelver declaration that they will not hesitate to defend their beseiged allies. Beirut now lies defenseless before the IDF; a downhill sprint from Beaufort Castle is next.

Concurrent with the IDF capture of Beaufort it was announced that the Twelvers have regained access to the collapsed tunnel entrances which contain hundreds of long-range missiles. The excavation dust had not settled when the Twelvers made the threat to attack Israel anew with this arsenal in short order.

Also concurrent with these developments came renewed US airstrikes last night on IRGC radar, command and control (C2) sites and relay stations. Resumption of warfighting demands an electronic blinding of the IRGC forces.

5 June 2026: As of today the assessment of the conflict with the Iranian Twelvers is encapsulated in the title of this SITREP. 

The mostly likely scenario now is a return to full-scale warfare. "Negotiations" with the Twelvers have reached a dead end; only a full Trump surrender would change this fact as the Twelvers have no such word in their vocabulary. Since Trump could never surrender the return to combat ops to "finish the job" in the shortest time possible is the only option left to pursue. It will be brief and exceptionally violent. When is the only unknown remaining in this assessment.

In Trump-speak, this assessment was given as "one way or the other, this war is finished." Translation: The 12ers either submit to my terms of surrender or else my military forces will finish it. The 12ers were allotted 60 days to submit. Only a handful of those days remain.

Satellite view Strait of Hormuz (east-west)

6 June 2026: The past 36 to 48 hours has seen serious exchanges of fire between the U.S. military and the IRGC. Both Qeshm and Kharg Islands to the west of Hormuz have received major airstrikes on military targets. Strikes on the mainland east of Hormuz targeted the Bandar Abbas area. 

The Twelvers then launched ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, prompting Trump to announce the killing of U.S. troops as a red line the crossing of which would result in a return to full-scale war. Iran also sent waves of suicide drones to attack our ships. All IRGC drones were promptly shot out of the sky.

ISRAEL AND IRAN RESUME WAR -TRUMP PUT IN HIS PLACE!

8 June 2026: Yesterday Trump went overboard telling PM Netanyahu not to strike back at Twelver Iran for missile attacks aimed at Israel's cities. Without first calling Netanyahu for a 1-on-1 private conversation Trump spoke to international media saying, "Netanyahu doesn't call the shots, I call the shots. I call all the shots." 

In a stunning and direct rebuke to Trump Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu immediately ordered IDF CoS LtGen Eyal Zamir to launch punishing and powerful strikes against the Iranian regime. IRGC missile launch sites and petrochemical sites took the initial Israeli retaliation strikes which were direct hits. 

Finally, this evening Trump declared that there he will declare "total victory" over Twelver Iran within the next two weeks. However, VP Vance then projected to the media that Israel would probably not like it. This will be a deal that is one-hundred percent in line with American national interests which are not necessarily in Israel's national interests.

LTG Zamir and IAF commanders directing strikes on Iran

Therefore, Eschatology Today will project to all that will hear - Trump, Vance and the lot of Dominionists driving this agenda are most assuredly oblivious and contrary to the interests and supreme will of God Almighty regarding Israel. Only He calls the shots!

SITREP A5-26 will continue for at least the next two weeks, or 22 June by the Trump calendar.

UPDATE 9 June 2026: Now that it has become public knowledge there's a big problem at the Bushehr NPP in Iran. This location is in ancient Elam.

"The 210 tons of spent fuel in the storage pool at Bushehr contain more than 2,000 kilograms of plutonium, enough to make more than 200 nuclear weapons."

This issue has been public since at least April of this year, but not widely reported, possibly even ignored. Leave it to Israel's media to rectify that. 

Simply google: "Bushehr Plutonium" to see the articles published as recent as this morning. 

We've discussed the prophecy of Jeremiah 49:34-39 at length so no need to rehash it again. My question is if the Bushehr plutonium is integral to the Trump plan because no one in his administration or in the US Congress has so much as mentioned this issue.

Today the IRGC managed to down a US Apache helicopter in a patrol of the Strait of Hormuz. The apache crew was rescued, no loss of life. Regardless, this is on Trump because he has ignored his intelligence and combatant commanders in ignoring the threats the IRGC presents in this war zone.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A4-26: OPERATION HAMMER TIME?

13 May 2026: The name of the renewed war against the Twelver regime in Iran speaks volumes as to what can and cannot be expected in the coming 60 days.

16 May 2026: The U.S. military has far more kinetic firepower within the CENTCOM AOR now than at any time since 28 February, not to omit the strategic firepower at the ready stateside or in Europe. The "ceasefire" has allowed for fresh troop rotations, replenishment and the introduction of new weaponry, such as the aforementioned LRHW Dark Eagle.

The Shi'a Twelver leadership and IRGC commanders had better be ensconced in their deepest, most reinforced bunkers - or else. President Trump, both while one AF1 on the flight home from Asia and immediately when on American terra firma, has made it crystal clear in multiple interviews to the non-fake news media that the Yanks are not going home. It's time ti finish this Iran business. Iran will now be reduced to the pathetic state where it's militarily equivilent to Kuwsh and Phut (Ezekiel 38). 

By the way brothers and sisters, there is a very powerful reason why Magog has surrounded and buttressed itself with troops from its allies across the globe. That reason is it's armed forces have become completely spent from its foolish (by Divine Design?) invasion of Ukraine over the past four years. Hooks at the ready!

18 May 2026: The US and Israel are within hours of initializing a third and final attack on the Twelver regime ruling Iran. As noted for some time now this final attack will be comprehensive and on a scale far beyond anything previous. Jeremiah 49:34-39 will come to fulfillment in the coming days; the Persia of Ezekiel 38/39 is the secondary result.

24 May 2026: The final attack, which had been scheduled for Tuesday, 19 May, was postponed at the last minute because President Trump deferred to the wants of Islamic Arab leaders of the Arabian peninsula. Those leaders said critical "peace" negotiations were in progress and should not be disrupted by a new wave of US-Israeli strikes on Iran. This appears to be where the disinformation campaign began. Discernment of facts from fiction is now taking place.

25 May 2026: Many have focused their attention on the relevance of Ezekiel 38:13 to recent events in the Middle East. The Abraham Accords between Israel and several Sunni Arab states of the Arabian Gulf appears to have a direct connection to this prophetic foretelling.

What we now know about the Trump conference call that included virtually all of the penninsula states is that, aside of the UAE, they were met with an expectation from Trump that is an addendum to the attempt at peace negotiations with the Iranian Twelver regime. 

With a diplomatic negotiated end to the war being the highly preferred outcome (the carrot), and a resumption of war (the stick) being less desirable for obvious reasons, the Sunni Arab states not currently part of the Abraham Accords are expected to join, exchange ambassadors, open embassies and normalize relations with Israel upon the cessation of hostilities with the Twelver regime in Iran.

Two birds with one stone, so to speak. Bringing an end to the 47 year long Iran war via carrot or stick, and an end to the Arab-Israel confrontation of the past 78 years including a normalization of relations between the Saudis and Israelis. This is the net objective underpinning the Trump agenda to end war with the clerics in Tehran. It has high potential as a fulfillment of Ezekiel 38:13.

FINAL UPDATE 1 June 2026: This SITREP is done. Time to move on as renewed warfighting for Israel against the Iranian Twelver regime appears likely this morning.

Global SITREP A3-26: Operation Epic Fury Endgame PART III

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!

Eschatology Today - Operation Epic Fury Endgame Part II

Kharg Island

30 March 2026: Notice the position of Kharg Island relative to southern Elam.

Dozens of A-10C Warthogs are inbound!

31 March 2026: An IRGC weapons depot in Esfahan (Isfahan) was utterly destroyed by several American 2,000lb bunker buster bombs recently. This is not the nuclear-related bunker struck previously at Esfahan.

The bunker that was struck this time, to great effect I might add, was imaged by satellite just prior to June 13, 2025. Subsequent analysis of the imagery revealed a large tractor-trailer hauling numerous secure blue-colored barrels since assessed to have contained over 1,000 lbs of 60% enriched HEU. Radiation leakage has not been detected and that may be due to the depth of the now collapsed bunker.

2 April 2026: As noted in my 10AM comment yesterday, the rump Twelver regime, which is now essentially the highest ranking surviving members of the IRGC, has zero intention of surrendering to the US and Israel. Instead they have doubled down and will continue the war by any and all means available to them for the forseeable future. They insist on the surrender of the US and Israel and billions in cash reparations to end the war. Like that's gonna happen!

That means calling on their allies in Yemen, Sudan, Lebanon and IRGC-QF sleeper cells around the world to attack as terrorists will attack any and all targets of opportunity. Hence my interpretation that Jeremiah 49:34-39 will persist in a process of fulfillment until the LORD God ends it on the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 38-39). 

This isn't a "forever war" as some like to opine, but it is a war of significant duration (47 years and counting) yet which may well be brought to closure for the Bride of Christ by the trumpet-like voice of an archangel announcing the advent of our Harpazo.

FINAL UPDATE 20 April 2026: Eschatology Today assesses that the war against Iran and Hezbollah, representing radical Shi'a Islam, will continue imminently. The primary reason for this assessment is that nothing has been achieved in the stated objectives. 

In Lebanon, which is 100% a war between Israel and Hezbollah, the same interim result as in previous and limited IDF incursions into southern Lebanon is the current status quo. The above map reflects this. Since the U.S. is not at war with Hezbollah the declaration by President Trump that the war is over is not only grossly premature, but also patently absurd. It's not Trump's war to declare an end to nor dictate to the government of the State of Israel how it is conducted. In this situation one could rightly conclude that Trump believes Israel is a vassal state to the United States and its foreign policy is subject to his dictates.

In Iran the war has morphed into a virtually unrecognizable morass. As noted here previously it is war war nominally led by the American SECWAR and his commander in the field but conducted by unqualified businessmen and personal envoys of President Trump. It is being waged unlike any previous war that America has fought; it defies the conduct of an UNDECLARED war as a tool of the foreign policy oof the United States of America. It is also war being waged on the American president's social media platform, vice official White House communications channels. 

Also, whatever happened to the American and Israeli promise to the Iranian people that they'd soon have freedom, liberty and justice from the tyranny from the Shi'a Twelver regime, truly the Nazi's of the 21st century? Gone like yesterday's wind.

Prophetically speaking, the Iran war will conclude as the prophet Jeremiah has foretold or become the age-ending conflagration which sees the rise the of Antichrist as foretold in Daniel 11 by the angel Gabriel - at the appointed time. 

Marana'tha!

Eschatology Today - Signs

 

24 February 2026: This inaugurates a new phase in the ongoing postings to Eschatology Today, from the longstanding Global SITREP series to a dated chronology simply termed Signs.

The establishment of the State of Israel is at the top of the list as a Sign of the end of this age. Make no mistake, the re-establishment of Israel in the Covenant Land is an ongoing process, witness the struggle over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

Within the past day something occured here that has not happened since Jesus walked on this land, and the Hasmonean's ruled until the Roman conquest. The national banner of Israel was raised atop Mount Sartaba which fronts on the Jordan Valley. 

On Mount Sartaba

In Israel's ancient history and during the Second Temple period this mount held, and still does have deep religious and national importance. A Signal fire would light up on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, and then a Signal fire would lit on Mount Sartaba. Jews in Babylon understood this Sign. Now in this era the same signalling is taking effect echoing ancient times. On Rosh Chodesh Nisan a signal fire will be lit as a signal [via TV] to the Jewish diaspora all over the world that "Israel Lives." 

26 February 2026: "War and rumors of war" are a sign. The current rumor of war between the US/Israel and Iran is like an epic storm rumbling towards us over plains and mountains, or a tsunami rushing a relatively calm shoreline. Its sudden arrival will alter most things in ways that are currently only supposition or conjecture in the secular world. 

Bible prophecy is more direct in the effects that will take place. Iran under the Twelver regime will go from a major threat and number one terror sponsoring state in the world to a second or third-rate has-been power, such as the war-torn rump of Sudan and Libya. So says the ancient Spirit-inspired prophet Ezekiel. It is the nearness of Ezekiel's prophetic military action which is the clearest indication of when the Bride of Christ will be instantaneously taken up to be with the LORD. Ezekiel 39:29 for your Berean point of reference.

27 February 2026:  As noted previously, the presence of Persia in the disastrous Magog confederation assault on Israel per Ezekiel 38/39, indicates a US/Israel attack in the near future will likely not achieve a regime change in the ruling theocracy. An attack or a "palace coup d'etat" could change the top tier Twelver leadership. Should this occur the most likely candidate for leadership and continuation of hatred for Israel might be Ali Larijani, a very close associate of Ayatollah Khamenei and the one he has personally tasked to ensure the survival of the Islamic Republic, even though Larijani is not a Twelver.

28 February 2026: Just when the visits to Eschatology Today tanked to rock bottom in the last 48 hours, the order was given and the U.S. Department of War began the execution of OPERATION EPIC FURY against the Islamic Republic of Iran at 0'Dark Thirty this morning. 

The State of Israel is also striking the Islamic Republic in concert with the US Armed Forces, making this a truly joint operation. Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also been hit hard this morning by the IAF. At least one Israeli Naval Service (INS) submarine armed with Israel's second strike nuclear deterent put to sea this morning. It was last seen departing Haifa at high speed.

The Houthi's in Yemen have declared the Bab al-Mandab strait closed to all shipping. They claim to attack all US and Israeli ships they can reach.

In the Gulf the first strikes of Op Epic Fury hit several IRGC naval bases from which an attempt to deny transit access to the Strait of Hormuz would originate.

Twelver retalitation targeted the US Naval Support Activity in Manama, Bahrain. A video appears to show a direct hit on the US 5th Fleet HQ. There are also videos of Iranian missiles being shot down over the UAE.

The primary objective of Op Epic Fury appears to be neutralizing the Twelver regime (Tehran has been hit several times so far), its IRGC bases, infrastructure and nuclear sites. Given the intensity of action a new post will begin this morning.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP C2-25: Superpower of the Eastern Mediterranean

 

Israel, Greece and Cyprus

UPDATED 18 December 2025: Most readers may have long since forgotten Global SITREP A6:16 which focused on the regional superpower triparty alliance of Israel, Greece and Cyprus. Just shy of a decade since the alliance was initiateded it has now officially established a joint Rapid Reaction Force (RRF).

The RRF initially numbers 2,500 personnel, 1000 from the IDF, 1000 from Greece and 500 from Cyprus. It will have a two-squadron air force, one each from Israel (F-35 Adir) and the Hellenic Air Force (F-16C/D); a surface and subsurface naval element, and multiple brigades of land forces to include special operations elements. The RRF fundamentally alters the military balance of power in the central and eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East as a whole.

A Rapid Reaction Force of this size is only intended to preempt kinetic enemy action or to serve as a trip-wire for the introduction of larger, more capable forces to confront an enemy.

21 December 2025: The wise are paying attention to the so-called rumors of renewed war against the Twelver-led Islamic Republic of Iran. They are not rumors, they are decisive Orders Of Battle (OOB) to eliminate the growing ballistic missile threat and the remaining 60% HEU the Twelvers possess.

In the much too brief June 2025 war Israel destroyed only those ballistic missiles deployed out of their protective underground tunnel systems. Those missiles which remained in the tunnels survived intact and operational. The war was forcibly truncated so that Trump could declare victory and "peace in the Middle East." Just because Trump said something was so doesnt mean it actually was so. 

The point here is that the surviving missiles are being renovated and upgraded swiftly with an emphasis on their warhead's destructive power over CEP accuracy. Renovated and new production are approaching a rate of 2,000 per month since September 2025. The bulk of the 60% HEU, and many centrifuge cascades, survived the US strikes on the Natanz, Fordo and Isfahan facilities.

According to IDF radio PM Netanyahu will brief President Trump on Monday, 29 December at Mar-A-Lago, Florida. The U.S. has a good idea of Israel's new OOB, and Trump has played down the Netanyahu briefing; he's not one to thoroughly walk back his declarations of total destruction last summer. Netanyahu is prepared to say that Israel's OOB is a go-it-alone plan; that the US can participate because Iran also threatens it in the region and elsewhere. The timing of a unilateral Israeli strike is on a short fuse.

Pray for the fulfillment of Jeremiah 49:34-39!

FINAL UPDATE 29 December 2025: As the world-at-large prepares to celebrate the arrival of 2026 AD with fireworks, parades, concerts, pageantries and parties, it will do so while ensconced in grand delusion. Global peace is not on the horizon, global war is.

Communist China has made clear to subdue Taiwan by force within two years time. Russia has no intention of ending its warwith Ukraine, the deployment of nuclear forces into Byelorussia (Belarus) is far from being a peaceful overture. Iran, according to the IAEA, retains the capability to produce multiple nuclear weapons. Iranian dissidents report the IRGC is also feverishly constructing biological and chemical warheads for its newly refurbished ballistic missiles. North Korea's "Rocketman" has nukes in abundance and nuclear submarines to deliver them from one end to the other of the Pacific Ocean's aptly-named "Ring of Fire." All of this is in addition to the simmering conflicts across Africa, South and Southeast Asia as well as South America. 

Sounds like a good reason to celebrate, right? But then, what happens according to Holy Scripture the world almost universally ignores as myth or fable? The wars erupt and a messianic figure and a false soothsayer arise and the thoroughly deluded masses of planet Earth shout "Peace and Safety, Peace and Safety!!" The world may hardly even notice the sudden absence of the Christians they love to hate, but they'll then dive head first in a feeding frenzy into the earthly wealth left behind.

Well, perhaps there is something to joyously celebrate after all - our soon and sudden departure to be with the LORD forever more.

Happy 2026!

Marana-tha!

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 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 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 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!