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 A1-13

19 March 2013 (Updated 21 March): It seems like yesterday. Anniversaries can do that to you. Ten years ago today after all the preparations were long since completed we were ready to go over the berm from Kuwait into Iraq. Within 48 hours after starting the movement northward 3rd ID would be almost 100 miles deep into Iraq. My thoughts were drawn into consideration of the four angels bound at the Euphrates River awaiting their release. With Saddam's threats of WMD warfare and all of us in full MOPP IV gear I had to wonder if this was the war that would release those four angels upon the world. And here I was smack dab in the middle of it with thousands of other guys dressed in DCUs on a mission to liberate Iraq. Nebuchadnezzar's, Cyrus' and Alexander's ancient stompin' grounds, this was going to be no fun at all I thought. Saddam's Scuds, Al-Samouds, Silkworms and U.S. Patriots and hundreds of coalition aircraft were launched, danced in the air and some occasionally landed explosively nearby. Seems like yesterday, but a decade later and far more learned about the correct exegesis of Bible prophecy than I was at that time, the effect that decade of spent time now has me wondering if its not four angels that are about to be released, but rather how much time Damascus has left to be a habitable city. You live, you learn.

So, it seems fitting at this point to begin doing an occasional global sitrep (situation report) on this blog because, who knows, Damascus could get ruined overnight one of these days, so why not keep track of events a little more closely leading up to that paradigm changing event. Thirteen years earlier, just after Operation Desert Storm and when Iraqi Scuds were pelting Israel little did anyone know that that war would come and go and just make an even bigger and more important war occur in the future. Hindsight is 20/20, so a little journal seems a good idea at this point. Now I do not think at this point it will be another decade because there's just too much going on in the Middle East right now for me to accept there that much time to expend yet again. Could be, but one cannot be dogmatic about these things.

At present we have North Korea threatening to nuke the US at a time when they have completed a couple of actual nuclear tests and long range missile launches. We have the US responding to this by flying B-52 missions from Guam to South Korea and the Pentagon essentially telling dear leader Kim Jong-Un that while he's feeling all kinds of froggy these days he had better think twice and not jump.  In the same time frame we have Russia flying nuclear-armed Bear-H bombers from distant bases in Kamchatka making simulated nuclear strikes against US and allied bases in South Korea, Japan (Okinawa) and Guam, and Communist Chinese gunboat diplomacy kicking things up a notch or two from Vietnam and the Philippines to Japan. East Asia is looking as warlike as the Middle East is. Rumors of wars.

In the Middle East, the ever present basket-case, we have Syrian Alawite jets bombing Sunni columns in Lebanon while the Al-Assad government and Sunni rebel forces trade accusations of chemical warfare attacks. I now am holding the assessment that two chemical agents were used Phosphorus Trichloride (PCl3) which is under controlled production by Schedule 3 of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and BZ which is a deliriant incapacitating agent. Which side executed this chemical attack remains undetermined; it could have been Al-Assad's forces or it could have been the FSA rebel forces. If our "red lines" have any meaning then Western military intervention will have to be forthcoming, with the possibility of  special forces seizing Syrian and/or FSA rebel chemical stocks or destroying them in place by surgical strikes. Syria does have a serious missile-borne WMD capability and Israel must look like a convenient game-changer to Al-Assad and his apocalypse-minded pals in Tehran given their poor battlefield prospects in Syria. No rumors here, real war is ongoing from the Turkish border to the Lebanese border to the Israeli and Jordanian borders. All the places mentioned in Bible prophecy that I am concerned about and always watching closely.

In Europe a financial crisis is threatening to come unraveled from one part of the former Roman Empire to another. The once mighty Euro currency is now worth about seventy-five cents American, and American currency is being printed as if were playing an artificially extended game of Monopoly. The Obama Sequester is about to chew up our armed forces at a time when really big shooting wars could erupt in any or all of the places I just mentioned. Oh, and we're still at war in Afghanistan. This is wars and rumors of wars.

Sorry for all of the seemingly bad news in this first installment, but at least we know that the new Pope isn't Petrus Romanus and we can giggle a little bit at those who gave that nonsense serious consideration. See you at the next edition of Global SITREP... if we aren't called home first.