Global SITREP D7-22: Elections Have Consequences

(UPDATE) 1 November 2022: From today through the next seven days the people of Israel and the United States are casting their ballots to determine what type of government they will have, left-wing globalist-centric or right-wing nationalistic. No one knows how these elections will go, not even all of the prolific pollsters, but our omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent LORD God knows what the results will be because He has always known the end from the beginning. And that, brothers and sisters, is essentially what Divinely inspired prophecy is all about - God speaking about what is, what will be and what will be done according to His will.

We, the Bride of Christ, know that our time on this earth is short, they we're all neck deep, so to speak, in the events of the "last days." Yet we still have civic duty to vote our conscience, to effect the type of government that is not corrupt and is of, by and for the people. And so we go our way knowing that at any moment He may shout with the voice of an archangel "Come up Hither!" 

ISRAEL: At 7 AM IST Israelis began voting this morning, for the unprecedented fifth time in just three years. And the results this time will determine a great deal of what we know as a long list of prophetic and sequential certainties. In Israel the rise of the Religious Zionist Party is no accident. It is one of the rising stars in Israel within the "Sovereignty Movement." That name reflects the Israel that will exist prior to the Ezekiel 38/39 prophecy, a stable, secure and fully sovereign state, at peace and fearing to other nation or people. Ezekiel 28:24-26 describes the result, and notice how this passage is prefaced by severe judgment upon Sidon (Lebanon). The links to Psalm 83 and Joshua 13:1-7 are obvious.

With virtually all of the massive turn out votes counted it is apparent, even to Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, that Benjamin Netanyahu as leader of the Likud, and Itamar Ben-Gvir of the Religious Zionist Party-Otzma Yehudit will lead the next government for the State of Israel. It is Ben-Gvir's statement in his victory speech last night that summarizes what this electoral victory means. "It is time for us (all Israelis) to return to being the landlords of country." What is also apparent from this result is that a vastly different State of Israel will emerge than the one that was running things after the previous election. The new Likud-led government should be formed and sworn into office by 15 November 2022.

It must be noted that the U.S. Biden Administration (i.e. the U.S. Government), a well-known leftist and globalist concern, interfered in this Israeli election as much as they dared by means of colluding with the Israeli left and via the left of Israeli media, and at all times in favor of the outgoing government led by Lapid and Gantz. They have gone as far as intimidating the as-yet unformed government of the victorious Likud block of Bibi Netanyahu which will lead the State of Israel until subsequent elections in 2026. 

The intimidation is couched in the Biden Administration's suggestions that it will "boycott" diplomatic relations over the participation of the religious right within the government Israeli President Herzog will mandate Bibi Netanyahu with forming. In particular, the U.S. administration is telling the Likud to exclude Itamar Ben-Gvir from a ministerial portfolio (Public Security Minister) in the new government. The interference in the Israeli political process may even go deeper than is noted here, but it should surprise no one who has paid attention in recent months. This current American government is very vocal in calling American citizen of conservative and religious views on the right as a "threat to democracy." The spirit of the antichrist is strong within the current American government. 

The U.S. Midterm Elections: Again, the current U.S. Government will do everything in its power to thwart what all pre-election polling is indicating will be a Republican conservative "red wave."  In this the GOP is expected to take political control over the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. In January 2025 a return to the presidency of former President Donald J. Trump also seems to be a strong probability based upon current trends across all sectors of the American political landscape. 

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IMMEDIATE UPDATE 4 November 2022:  Seven hours ago Eschatology Today was informed that President Trump will seek a second term in 2024; that he will announce on 14NOV22. 

About an hour ago I was also informed that the recent run-off presidential election in Brazil was hacked (stolen) via a program known as HAMMER/SCORECARD. This program changed over 5.1 million votes from the incumbent Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and transferred them to the Globalist/socialist Luiz Lula DaSilva so that Lula would win by 2.1 million votes out of 118.5 votes cast. The people of Brazil have been up in arms ever since. Sound familiar? 

This same source also reports that the HAMMER/SCORECARD program will be used in the U.S. mid-term elections next Tuesday, but only on carefully chosen and select races in Arizona (Governor), Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin, Alaska, Ohio, Washington and New York (Governor). A similar modus operandi as in the 3 NOV 2020 election will be used with vote tabulations halted between 9:30 and 11 PM on 8 NOV 2022. 

This info is from a reliable source, but has not been 100% vetted, and it may be that our verification will be the actual voting results in the specific races noted above. If the GOP candidate (which all polling data currently indicates are likely to win) actually loses by a slim margin, then "Houston, we have another problem." This vote stealing will be exacerbated should the Biden E.O.14019 to federalize local elections (Executive Office administration of local elections) be put into play. See: https://thefederalist.com for more info.  The best solution is for voters to hit the booths in massive swarms and for local LEOs to be very proactive if and when vote tabulations are halted. 

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The Biden Administration's attempt to revive the JCPOA regarding Iran's nuclear program has passed into oblivion, even as Iran continues its dash to achieving nuclear weapons capability. Israeli DM Gantz and U.S. SECDEF Austin had what may well be their last discussion on Iranian nukes, the Arab terrorist violence in Judea and Samaria and Iran's entrance into the Ukraine war in support of the Russian war effort in supplying lethal combat drones and ballistic missiles. 

It must also be noted here that both the current U.S. and Israeli governments have been completely ineffective in countering or deterring all of the aforementioned issues. This ineffectiveness is by large measure the reason for the current ballistic missile and nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. North Korea continued its missile barrage, with a new barrage of 20 missiles, and even launching an ICBM which caused the Japanese government to halt public transportation and urge evacuations of the populace of certain northern prefectures (Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata) into underground shelters again this morning. Japan is under military stresses from both North Korea and the People's Republic of China aggressive actions.

In point of fact the international situation at present can best be described as chaotic. Russia-Ukraine is the headliner, but China-Taiwan is a close second, followed by the rebellion in Iran, it's nuclear program, it's overt terrorist interference throughout the Middle East, and the Saudi Arabian intelligence claim of an impending Iranian attack within their kingdom. Anything can happen at any time and in any place.

Most importantly, the is Harpazo of the bride of Christ coming when we least expect it. Maranatha!

Global SITREP D10-17: Paradigm Shattering Changes Reshaping the Middle East - Part II

Jerusalem near future with 3rd Temple standing on the Mount

06 December 2017: At 1 PM Eastern Standard Time (8 PM Israel Standard Time) today the next paradigm shattering event is likely to occur when U.S. President Donald J. Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem - historically, at present and in the future - the most important city on the face of this earth, as the indivisible capital of the State of Israel. The president will then order the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 

That this monumental paradigm shift is occurring during Israel's 70th year has long be projected to occur by Eschatology Today based upon the Word of God. That violence in the form of the final fulfillment of the Psalm 83 prophecy will result is a given; the end result will be as foretold many times over by the prophets Asaph, Isaiah and Ezekiel, among others.

Future events include the construction of the 3rd Temple as envisioned in the image above, and the opening of Jerusalem to be an international city according to Revelation 11 and Jeremiah 12 through 14. Jerusalem is where the salvation of the Jews during the 70th Week will flow forth as if from a fountain, and where the Lord Jesus Christ will return at the height of the Battle of Har Megiddo to become King of kings and Lord of lords over the earth. Jerusalem will be the capital city of the earth.

Al-Kiswah as it Appeared in Satellite Reconnaissance Imagery January 2017

02 December 2017: Israel (sans official acknowledgement) has made good on its ultimatum to destroy Iranian military bases in Syria. Early this morning (Israel time) Israel launched a volley of surface-to-surface guided missiles or air-to-ground strikes, or both, against an Iranian military base (image above) in the vicinity of Al-Kiswah. There are indications that both surface-to-surface and missiles fired from IAF aircraft orbiting over Baalbek, Lebanon may have been part of this very significant strike. This is the kind of military assault that could start the flood of prophetic fulfillment discussed on Eschatology Today at length, or it could be a powerful signal of Israel's intent to drive Iran and its Hezbollah proxy out of Syria.

Al-Kiswah is eight miles south of Damascus. The base is on the eastern side of Al-Kiswah, which also lies approximately twenty miles north of the Golan and a short drive to the west of Damascus International Airport.

Simultaneously with the Israel strikes on al-Kisrah a significant force of Hezbollah and Syrian Arab Army (SAA) units continued their nearly month-long assault against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists holding a pocket adjacent to the village of Beit Jinn on the eastern slope of Mount Hermon, and opposite IDF positions on the Golan. This action is unrelated to the Israeli strike on the Iranian base at Al-Kiswah.

Hezbollah's Missiles 

28 November 2017: We begin Part II by reinforcing a key item concerning Ezekiel 38:13 and that is the acknowledgment that "Sheba and Dedan" were the progeny of Abraham's son Jokshan by his wife Keturah. Genesis 25:1-6 and I Chronicles 1:32-33. Thus the common misconception or false teaching that all Arabians are descendants of Ishmael is blown up. This is important because Ezekiel was inspired by the Lord to specifically name "Sheba and Dedan." The allies of Israel as prophesied to exist in Ezekiel 38:13 exist to today in the form of the U.S.-led NATO, The Saudi-led GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and Israel. It is no great secret that Israel has extensive, albeit currently quiet, contacts and relations with most of the nations of the GCC. We have a front row seat to see how this develops, and given the events (Iranian expansion and threats) of just the past 12 months it's developing at a very accelerated pace.

It is also no secret in Israel that the next war (Isaiah 17, Psalm 83, Isaiah 11, Ezekiel 28 and, last but by no means least, Joshua 13) will be violent beyond any previous war Israel has fought since 1947-48. Isaiah 17:4-5 attests to the damage and unfortunate amount of death that will be visited upon Israel. Yet Israel emerges victorious and even greater than she is today. This is attested to be Ezekiel 38:8-12. The haters of the God of Israel and the people of Israel named by Asaph in Psalm 83:6-8 are to be all but wiped out as verses 9 through 18 foretell. And then there's Lebanon and Syria which will cease to exist as Middle Eastern nations. This is where both Joshua 13  and Isaiah 17 are prophetically very important.

Now that North Korea has proven it possesses an ICBM capable of striking virtually anywhere on earth, but critically anywhere within the continental United States, the "game" has changed irrevocably from what it was just before noon Eastern Standard Time today.  The President of the United States has already made his decision on how to "handle it." We shall not have long to learn what that decision entails. Off the coast of North Korea at this time is an armada not seen in Pacific waters since World War II and more powerful than anyone back then could have even dreamed of.

Global SITREP D1-17: The Endgame

19 September 2017: There is no better way to lead off this SITREP than with the video I've embedded above (hat tip: GG5). This video is from February 2016 and appears to be of a two-year old child prophesying Jesus' soon coming. Wow!

Next, as you might expect, the subject of the Revelation 12:1-2 sign has been foremost due to its literal fulfillment in about 45 hours from now. 

"Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth."

Well, that great sign will come into fulfillment at approximately 10:15 AM Saturday morning (from where I stand on this earth), when Jupiter the king planet is "born" from Virgo (the woman), clothed in the sun (at Virgo's left shoulder) with the moon under her feet. Above her head a garland of twelve stars; the nine associated since antiquity with the constellation Leo plus three "wandering stars" we know as Mercury, Mars and Venus. This is verse one.

But what about verse two? What about the woman's crying in labor and pain prior to the birth? This is not difficult to see clearly also. 

Consider: The birthing process has been ongoing for the past ten days. If Revelation 12:1 is directly manifest by heavenly objects we can see with the naked eye verbatim with this verse of Scripture, then what is the observable manifestation that is directly relative to Revelation 12:2? 

Just look back at the events that have occurred in this same birthing period. Multiple hurricanes, roaring and tossing of the seas, major floods on land, major earthquakes in various places have caused tremendous damage; coronal mass ejections from the sun with more due to occur as the current major prominence rotates to face the earth in the next couple of days. 

There are wars, and rumors of war. Today, for the first time in my own memory, as American president stood before the assembled United Nations to say in completely unambiguous terms that an endgame was afoot; that an enemy nation (North Korea) would be totally destroyed by the United States, even if the United States had to act alone in defense against North Korean aggression. 

In Syria, another military endgame is afoot. This is an endgame which in certainty will result in the fulfillment of several 'last days' prophetic wars, and set the stage for the final pre-70th Week military event: Ezekiel 38/39. These are the birth pangs Jesus spoke of in His discourse on the Mount of Olives. No doubt they will increase in the days ahead.

As Jesus said, these things must take place, but the end is not yet; the end from the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38/39 still lies at least seven more years into the future. In all of this we can comfort and care for each other in the knowledge that during this endgame our blessed hope will occur in the twinkling of an eye.

So, this is where we are at the present time. There are other things that could be cited which are concurrent, moreover, in the next few days we could expect even more things to occur, and from September 24th going forward even more will occur.  The sign for Revelation 12:1-2 has been given, I believe, to wake up even the most deeply slumbering among us.

20 September 2017: Up to this point Eschatology Today has deliberately concentrated on Revelation 12:1-2. The reasoning is simple. The sign in these first two in-progress verses are separate from the second, or "another" sign which follows in verse three. They are set apart and distinct signs in both time and place. 

The first sign has been taking shape in the heavens over the past nine months and concludes this Saturday. This sign will not occur again in the future. Scripture tells us, as also already touched upon, that the heavens shall be shaken, heavenly bodies in space, planets and stars, will be moved from their places by the power of God. This appears to occur no later than the middle of the 70th Week. 

Therefore, a near future occurrence of this very unique astronomical alignment in Leo and Virgo would be preempted from ever occurring again in the future. With this shaking and moving of the heavenly bodies the constellations themselves will likely be completely altered. The constellations only exist as seen from the earth in the night sky and nowhere else. It seems obvious that at the time of their shaking and moving they will have completely fulfilled the Lord's anointed purpose as signs. A new heaven will exist in the future. Therefore, first sign of Revelation 12:1-2 is entirely exclusive to the present time, right here, right now.

The second sign, Revelation 12:3, as mentioned briefly in previous posts, is a picture of the Antichrist in the form of his completed earthly kingdom, the fourth beast kingdom consisting of seven heads and ten horns. The second sign of Revelation 12:3 then is clearly a picture of an earthly realm as is made crystal clear by reading in context the entirety of Daniel 7. 

In Daniel 7 we read that the fourth and final beast begins as ten, but is reduced to seven when Antichrist, the eleventh rising little horn among them, subdues three of the kings (horns) among the ten, rips their horns out by the roots to place them upon his own head. Therefore verse three is a literal event which occurs at the start of the 70th Week. Without question the Bride of Christ will have been taken from this earth prior to the occurrence of the sign of Revelation 12:3. As can be seen in Revelation 12:6 this period of time is without any doubt the second half of the 70th Week, the great Tribulation as some refer to it; the Megas Thlipsis as Jesus referred to it in His discourse on the Mount of Olives.

We may as well also now look at Revelation 12:7-17. These verses are a type of recap of the events described in the sum of the previous verses. Give great attention to verse seventeen as it describes the woman from verse one as also having other offspring. At this period of time during the Megas Thlipsis these other offspring of the woman can only be the innumerable Saints of the 70th Week - those who have received Salvation by the Blood of the Lamb through the testimony of the 144,000 Jewish priests who had the seal of the living God placed upon their foreheads in Revelation 7.

UPDATE 21 September 2017 - 1 Tishrei 5778: And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation." Leviticus 23:23-24 

This is the day the Lord proclaimed to Moses. According to Leviticus 23:2 today is one of the days the appointed to be proclaimed as "sacred assemblies." It begins at sundown today and concludes sundown tomorrow. The purpose is to anticipate and prepare for the coming of our Messiah.

This is the only feast which begins with a new moon. Tonight when the first sliver of the new moon is seen the Shofar will sound. In fact there will likely be heard the trumps of thousands of shofar as the new moon is seen around the world. This will commence the events leading to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. His coming will not catch us as "a thief in the night" because we are keenly alert; we have been fervently watching very closely all of the signs in the season of His coming. We are the 5 virgins, lamps oiled, who go out to meet Him as His procession is seen coming.

Numbers 10:10 says, "Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at Rosh-Hodesh (head of the month), you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”

Also, Number 29:1 says, "And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets."

Another term for this in the Hebrew tradition is Yom Teruah. It means a day for a sharp blast of war, a blast of alert or a blast of joy. Literally, Yom Teruah is a "Day of Blasting or Shouting."  The last of these blasts or shouts is directly associated with the coming of the Lord for His bride.

With the Revelation 12:1-2 sign ongoing in the heaven above, and in concert with the Feast of Trumpets/Rosh-Hodesh and Yom Teruah we stand looking up for the coming of our Lord. Amen.

Even so... come Lord Jesus!

Global SITREP C1-17: The Hand of God in Current Events

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy: The World's Most Powerful Rocket

2 May 2017: I see the hand of God in the above image, and this SITREP is to tell you why. 

The Islamic Republic of Iran, and now in a time of crisis, the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea, have been doing their utmost to build rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads on a one-way flight to one or more targets roughly 10,000 to 12,000 miles away. These two nations have been engaged in this joint endeavor, respectively, for 32 and 33 years to date. More than three decades, and they still have not quite mastered the one-way long range ICBM.

On the other-hand, I look at a start up company - not a nation state mind you like Iran or North Korea - but a start up company we know as SpaceX. SpaceX was founded as a private commercial enterprise in 2002 whose goal it has been to revolutionize space technology. In just 15 years the SpaceX company has not only built rockets capable of lifting heavy loads into space, but it also lands the launch vehicle back on the same launch pad, even when that launch pad is nothing more than a large barge floating at sea.

SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket after its recovery landing on an ocean-going barge.

SpaceX has advanced to the point where, as seen in the image above, it is building the most powerful rocket in the world, the Falcon Heavy. Designed not to carry nuclear warheads, but far more peaceful missions like carrying human beings to the Moon and Mars, and beyond to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and back again. A mission to the moon is planned for next year.

This is where i see the hand of God technologically restraining diabolically evil nations bent on the wholesale mass destruction of fellow human beings, and at the same time allowing for the incredible progress that enable peaceful forays of His creation mankind into the solar system He created.

You see, the Holy Bible says nothing prohibitive about mankind and space exploration. AnswersinGenesisdotorg wrote about this. One of the key points in their article is that Psalm 8:3 declares the sun, moon and stars (planets, stars and galaxies) are the works of God's fingers, and a couple verses later (verse 6) this text says God made man to have dominion over the works of God's hands!

On the other hand the Bible says very specific, thou shall not things about cold-blooded murder.  Knowing the future from even before the beginning of time itself, God knows the evil that countries like Iran and North Korea intend, and with respect to Iran He spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about what He would do to prevent Iranian "arrows" from flying.

Yes, I see the hand of God in all these things. He is in total control.

Global SITREP B9-17: All War Is Deception

CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson in the Indian Ocean on 15 April 2017

19 April 2017: The most important lesson that should have been learned from this past weekend, and in going forward from here, is that all war is deception.

So with the news released earlier today that the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group One (CSG-1) was nowhere near the Korean peninsula in the Sea of Japan last weekend, the global corporate media's (New York Times leading the pack) near instantaneous negative reaction, as well as that of the lefty blogosphere, was entirely predictable. It was unbridled hostility run amok and barely masked by their favorite sobriquets, like "fake news," "false narrative," and "Trump's lie." In a truly tense environment, the negative media reaction was probably the most appropriate form of comic relief that could have occurred at this juncture.

For the record what occurred this past weekend is known as Operational Deception, or OPDEC. The North Koreans, as well as the Russians and Chinese general staffs all believed, as did the media and blogosphere, that CSG-1 was just down range from a potential North Korean missile barrage to spark World War III. The mere threat of an American Carrier Strike Group close enough to reach out and touch Kim Jong Badhaircut where it hurts was all it took to keep his nuclear test from happening. 

The big unmentioned story here is that neither the Russians or the Chinese were capable of informing the North Koreans that our sea power was at least 3,000 miles away. They, true superpower wannabes, were as blind as a bat, and were probably furiously trying to figure out how an American nuclear-armed naval armada such as this was managing to be such an effective electromagnetic hole in the Western Pacific Ocean. It had to be nightmare of a real-time intelligence failure for the Russian and Chinese navies! I mean they were in the Sea of Japan just a couple of weeks ago for a major exercise with the South Korean and Japanese navies called Operation Foal Eagle 2017. Nobody saw the US carrier strike group leave the area?

I think the fact-of-the-matter is that CSG-1 was stationed near Singapore intentionally, just in case a rapid dash to either the Sea of Japan or the Arabian Sea became necessary in the event another al-Assad chemical warfare episode or a North Korean nuclear event/ICBM launch. Looking at a map of the Eastern Hemisphere this makes sense to this guy.

So, following a quick exercise with our mates Down Under, really good prep for a Korean deployment by the way, it appears that CSG-1 will be re-deploying from the Indian Ocean up to the Sea of Japan after all. Word also came today of a 30-day extension of CSG-1's WESTPAC  mission, and that speaks volumes. So the vast and very powerful armada that the Commander-In-Chief spoke of last week is going to sail off the Korean coast once again. Prudent actions, all of them.

Global SITREP B7-16: Blatant Russian and Chinese Aggression Continues; North Korea has Miniaturized Nuclear Warheads

Kim Jong-Un stands behind North Korea's miniaturized nuclear warhead

Update 21 April 2016: The image above is all over the internet. It shows North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un standing behind a North Korean miniaturized nuclear warhead. North Korea made the claim of successful miniaturization of a nuclear device a little over a month ago; this image at the minimum shows the world they at least have a viable design if not a bonafide warhead to put on top of a ballistic missile. 

The miniaturization of a nuclear warhead means that the possessor nation has successfully designed and manufactured a warhead which weighs less than 2200 pounds and has a diameter of 35 inches or less. The warhead imaged above reportedly weighs in at 660 pounds. North Korea is assessed to have manufactured between 8 and 20 of these warheads. 

Question: How easy would it be for North Korea to put a full-scale production prototype of this miniaturized nuclear warhead on an aircraft and covertly fly it to Iran as a "diplomatic pouch" for reverse engineering? Or better yet, how about the digitized machine production specifications loaded on a CD and sent that to Iran.  

Answer: Too easy. Entirely too easy. And probably already a matter of fact.

RC-135 'Combat Sent'

17 April 2016: The day before the original posting of this SITREP a second inherently dangerous incident occurred in northern Europe when a Russian Su-27 'Flanker' combat aircraft intercepted and performed a barrel roll maneuver over a United States Air Force RC-135U 'Combat Sent' (based on the Boeing 739) reconnaissance aircraft.  The RC-135U, assigned to the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, was flying its mission in international airspace over the Baltic Sea when the incident occurred. A U.S. officer assigned to European Command (EUCOM) described the Russian pilot's maneuver as 'erratic and aggressive,' and a U.S. Navy Captain described it as 'unsafe and unprofessional.' 

The RC-135U Combat Sent is a strategic electronic collections platform whose data is sent directly to the POTUS, SECDEF, Pentagon JCS and European theater field commanders in real-time. There are only two RC-135U Combat Sent aircraft in service with the USAF. 

Russian Su-24M2 'Fencer-D' (video frame capture)

15 April 2016: The above image is a video frame capture of the split-second a Russian Su-24 'Fencer-D' strike aircraft was completing its high-speed strafing run of the USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) in international waters of the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. 

This image proves beyond any doubt that the subsequent official statements concerning this incident made by the Russian government in Moscow are all bald-faced lies. The Su-24 in this image is within 30 feet of DDG-75.  The aircraft and its crewmen should have been shot down according to United States Navy rules of engagement. The Russian aircraft was clearly in violation of the 1973 agreement between the U.S. and Russia strictly prohibiting this type of maneuver. 

Chinese PLA Cyber Warriors (Photo Credit: AP)

As the expanded title of this SITREP informs, the Chinese are executing assaults against the United States on a daily basis. So testified Vice Admiral (three stars) James D. Syring, commanding officer of the United States Missile Defense Agency (MDA), before the House subcommittee on strategic forces. VAdm. Syring testified that the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army cyber warrirors attacks on American computer networked are of an equivalent threat level as both the North Korean and Iranian ballistic missile programs. 

Quoting Admiral Syring, "I view the [Chinese PLA] cyber threat that I specifically face with MDA and the systems we are fielding on par with any ballistic missile threat that either Iran or North Korea possess...They [the Chinese PLA] are continuing to try and attack my government networks, every day, classified and unclassified." 

Admiral Syring also warned that our enemies risk considerable costs to be borne as a result of their cyberwarfare assaults against our critical Informational Technology (IT) base and classified and unclassified military networks such as those which serve as the backbone of our missile defense capabilities.

More on this from Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon.

Global SITREP B5-16: It's Worse Than You Think

NEW NORTH KOREAN KN-14 ICBM ON PARADE IN PYONGYANG

1 April 2016: Although I delayed posting this SITREP until this morning, this is not intended as anything like an 'April Fools' joke, even though some in Washington and elsewhere in the country might think we're all fools. Who knows, perhaps in light of Bible prophecy it could be said that we are literal pawns fully engaged in a fools errand given the entire gamut of recent events as the secular world lurches uncontrollably and a great speed down the road to Revelation.

Not quite one year ago Global SITREP C5-15 was posted (a good re-read folks), and it dealt with the same subject as this one - North Korea's incessant arming of itself with doomsday nuclear weaponry and the means of delivery of those weapons to targets from 'sea to shining sea.'  Not bad for a so-called pariah nation which is now telling its people (who have long been just shy of starvation) to prepare themselves for famine.  As if they need a hint about what is coming.

The image above I am informed is from October 2015. Consider this in light of what was posted in May 2015 in the aforementioned SITREP C5-15. There's no doubt that the photo intelligence analysts who studied this image came to their concluding assessment months ago: North Korea has a brand new long-range ICBM to go along with their also new KN-08 road-mobile ICBM and their KN-11 submarine-launched ICBM, upon which they can sit their newly tested, fully miniaturized thermonuclear warhead. 

These nuclear weapons delivery systems appear to be based upon existing Russian and Chinese rocket designs as well as AQ Khan designs and technology transfers. The big word for this kind of activity is proliferation of nuclear weapons technology. Obviously it is rampant.

As with the previous SITREP, this one also rides on the reporting provided by Bill Gertz as published yesterday by the Washington Free Beacon: "Pentagon Confirms New North Korean ICBM."  To that report I will add what the cited analyst does not say about North Korea's nuclear capability. While the KN-14 launched from a northern corner of North Korea could strike Chicago, a further development of this ICBM is not really necessary as the submarine-launched KN-11 when fired from a mid-Pacific Ocean location north of Hawai'i would have Washington, DC or new York City well with its targeting envelope. Additionally, any nation capable of putting a payload into orbit around the earth is capable of hitting any target on earth with a nuke, including a high-altitude EMP burst nuclear weapon.

As I have often made known, a North Korean nuke is an Iranian nuke, so what ever threat we now face from North Korean nuclear weapons, we also very probably face from Iran. In this Jeremiah 49:34 can not come to fulfillment soon enough in my estimation. The sooner the better. All of this development by North Korea (and Iran) has come during the Obama Administration. 

It can be said with great assurance that Obama's policies with respect to both of these countries, as well as their technological benefactors, has accelerated their nuclear weapons programs. Yes, Barack Hussein Obama built this, and we gave him the license to do it. Twice. Moreover, the feckless Obama Administration has now provided them with virtually unlimited cash cow funding as a direct result of the idiotic nuclear accord Obama and Kerry handed to Iran on a silver platter with flourishes. Think anyone on this planet can walk this genie back into its bottle? Think again. And our elected Congress sits on its collective thumb, while those who would replace Obama have reduced what used to be relatively honorable election campaigning to a puerile school-yard fracas. 

Come quickly Lord, Marana'tha!

Global SITREP C5-15: North Korea Testing Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile

ex-Russian Golf II-Class Submarine

6 May 2015: Historians say that Roman Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned.  Present day American intelligence officials are saying that U.S. President Barack Obama is fiddling around while North Korea develops nuclear missiles and the submarine platform from which to launch them in order to make America burn.

The development of this technology was reported in yesterday's edition of Israel National News (INN) under the headline, "N. Korea Submarine Missile Allows Covert Nuclear Strike on US." The source article for the INN report was one I often cite here on matters of defense, intelligence and military matters of prophetic implications: Bill Gertz writing for the Washington Free Beacon. In fact, so profound are the implications of Bill Gertz' new article, which cites on-the-record albeit anonymous confirming statements by Pentagon and US intelligence officials, that the ink was barely dry and the digits white-hot off the computer when Israeli and other conservative media published their reports.

Missile Launch Tube on a Golf-II-class Submarine

The Bill Gertz article published in the Washington Free Beacon yesterday is titled "North Korea Conducts Ejection Test of New Submarine Missile" and contains the sub-text "Third sub-launched missile test by Pyongyang since November."  Of course, it should go almost without saying that Eschatology Today readers are very aware that the North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons and missile delivery programs are Siamese twins joined at the hip; the technology developed between them is virtually identical in every way. 

So, the bottom line here is that the North Koreans are testing what US defense officials are calling the KN-11 submarine-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missile. They have Russian-made Golf-II-class nuclear missile firing submarines like the ones seen in the images above. This is the kind of nuclear weapon system that is designed for one mission and one mission only - to stealthily position itself off the enemy's coastline (America, no doubt) and fire a salvo of nuclear missiles at its great cities, or in nuclear airbursts at the well-calculated altitude to cause continent-spanning Electro-Magnetic Pulses (EMP) to bring our electronics-laden society to a screeching halt and defenseless against other incoming nuclear warheads. 

This is not science fiction, this is what our enemy's are preparing to do to us and have been very successfully testing in perfecting their weaponry for many months and even years now. What!? You haven't you heard President Obama warn us repeatedly about this existential threat to our well-being and what he is doing as our Commander-In-Chief to defend against it? Was this subject not one of the lead stories on last night's evening news covered by the major media? Not to worry, you didn't miss a thing because both Obama and his media have been as silent about this as the great marble statue found in the center of hundreds and thousands of American town squares from sea to shining sea. Not so much as a peep.

But honorable and loyal Americans are speaking up; they are talking within the limits of their oaths to protect classified information, and while they still can talk, to diligent reporters like Bill Gertz who publish what they have to say so you and I know what's really going on in imperial Washington, D.C.

Some examples excerpted from the cited report.

"Current and former national security officials criticized the Obama administration for not doing more to counter the North Korean nuclear threat to the United States. “This missile, along with the KN-08, happened on Obama’s watch and nothing has been done,” said a U.S. intelligence official critical of the Obama administration. “By utterly ignoring North Korea’s growing missile threats, Obama has allowed the threat of rogue state proliferators to fall out of the center of the national political debate,” said John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “This is a potential tragedy for the country.”

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney said North Korea’s development of the KN-08 and the emerging SLBM present “threats to the continental United States and have been developed under the Obama administration’s leadership.” “Leading from behind is a failed strategy as evidenced by this very dangerous strategic threat to the continental United States of nuclear attack by a very unstable North Korean government,” he said.

Allowing Iran to become a nuclear weapons power in 15 years under the Obama’s administration’s propose Iran nuclear deal “puts the United States in the most dangerous threat of nuclear attack since the height of the Cold War but from multiple threats—North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran,” McInerney said."

We now know the truth is that North Korea currently has an arsenal of 20 nuclear warheads. They have an ongoing and increasing enrichment technology that will provide them with another 20 warheads by next year. This is an existent North Korean nuclear arsenal that was supposed to have been prevented from existing by what diplomatic vehicles?  So-called "crippling economic sanctions" and multi-lateral negotiations, the so-called "Six-Party talks," between North Korea, China, Russia, the United States, South Korea and Japan, and with United Nations Security Council and IAEA over-watch, which lasted for four years, form 2003 to 2007. The years of negotiations were a complete and total failure, a charade of the highest order because North Korea detonated is first nuclear warhead in 2009. That was just six year ago, and Obama is doing the exact same thing with Iran today.

Does anyone think we need a modern-day prophet to tell us what is going to happen next? Is recent history our teacher? How about Jeremiah? Any questions?  And, yes, as always, our God is in control.

Global SITREP B5-15: More on Jeremiah 49:34-39

Final Update 30 March 2015: At least I hope this will be the final update to this SITREP. However, it may be the most important. It has been my assessment for many years that Iran has at least one, possibly more, working nuclear weapons. I also have always maintained that North Korean nuclear tests have been de facto Iranian nuclear tests.

Now comes information posted today from a respected military intelligence report which suggests exactly that, but with a twist. De facto Iranian nuclear tests have occurred in North Korea, and so is their assembly and storage site located in North Korea. According to the mil intel report two and a half years ago (October 2012) Iran began stationing IRGC troops and technicians at a base in North Korea and very near the Chinese border. Their dual purpose is to work on missiles and nuclear weapons assembly. This deployment followed by one month the signing of a technical cooperation pact between the DPRK and Iran.

With the reported key detail of the framework agreement (scheduled to be announced tomorrow) between the P5+1 and Iran holding that there is the "safeguard" of a one-year warning to a breakaway effort by Iran to produce a nuclear weapon by IAEA monitoring of Iran's centrifuges in Iran, what good does that do if Iran's military nuclear effort is based in North Korea, and in nuclear terms, a "stone's throw" from the Chinese border?

Not only is the alleged P5+1-Iran agreement worse than anyone, including Bibi Netanyahu, believed just 4 weeks ago, but it's essentially a mega-farce in continuing parade of mega-farces. Warm and fuzzies for everyone!


21 March 2015:  Are there any indications within Bible prophecy of a nuclear-armed Iran?  If you find one please let me know immediately.  Until that time, and excepting only Ezekiel 38/39, the only 'last days' prophecy there is regarding Iran is the subject of this and numerous other posts to Eschatology Today: Jeremiah 49:34-39.  The prophecy is about a very violent preemptive military neutering of Iran, and a conflict in which Iran's enemies end up subduing the regime to its complete destruction. And it all begins in that part of modern-day Iran where its nuclear infrastructure in concentrated. Historically, biblical Elam had ceased to exist as a nation over five hundred years prior to Jeremiah receiving this prophecy from God circa 600 BC. This leave no doubt that Jeremiah's prophecy is one whose fulfillment was appointed for these 'last days.'

It should therefore come as no surprise to any student of Bible prophecy that the much heralded P5+1 (EU/E3+3) nuclear negotiations with Iran are on the verge of collapse just days prior to the March 31 deadline. The collapse is due as much to the Iranian regime's rejection of the conditions being imposed by the P5+1 as it is due to the European partners rejection of major aspects of the "deal" negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.  The long and the short of these negotiations are that the Iranian regime has played both Obama and Kerry as fools, and which is something the European partners want no part of such absurdity as they know all too well the end result of baseless negotiations with a totalitarian dictatorship bent on imposing their ideology upon the rest of the world.

So, what we're left with is our faith in the prophetic word of God and knowing that its fulfillment is near. Very near indeed.


11 March 2015: Did anyone notice how Iran responded by PM Netanyahu's speech to the U.S. Congress? I am absolutely certain some of you did notice. For those that did not, and for those who don't fully grasp the significance of the Iranian response, this update is for you!

Exactly one week after PM Netanyahu's speech the Iranian Assembly of Experts elected the notorious Hojjatieh Twelver Ayatollah Mohammed-Taqi Mesbah Yazdi. Ayatollah Yazdi is the Iranian cleric who brought Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power in Iran. Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi managed to fall off, or was deliberately and politically knocked off of the top echelon of the clerical elite in Iran during 2013. A ruse during nuclear negotiations, no doubt. He was then summarily dismissed by most intelligence agencies as having little or no influence in any future decision to replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

Here is an example of that type of intelligence dismissal of Ayatollah Yazdi that was published by Israel's Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center on July 8, 2013:

"The erosion of Mesbah Yazdi’s status may be temporary and it is quite implausible that he will lose all of his political and religious influence. It may, however, undermine his ability to play a central, influential role in future political struggles, particularly the succession struggle that will likely emerge after the death of the current Supreme Leader."

The Israeli's could not possibly have forecast a more erroneous intelligence assessment, as he was down but by no means out of the picture. Particularly the big picture which will remain in flux until early 2016.

A re-assessment on exactly what is going on within Iran's powerful 86-member Assembly of Experts is in progress. At present it appears as if Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi (80), and Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati have jointly managed to get a majority of votes to elect the similarly named Ayatollah Mohammed Yazdi (83) to the leadership position and send the body as a whole on a lurch to the stridently fundamentalist side of Iranian politics. It remains to be seen who may yet become the next Supreme leader of Iran.

6 March 2005: As even the main stream media in the Middle East is now acknowledging, the specific content and context of PM Netanyahu's speech to the U.S. Congress has received open and unambiguous approval and support from the Saudi Arabian government, proving what I wrote recently of the military cooperation between them in the ongoing planning for a strike against Iranian nuclear targets is nothing less than a cold hard fact.

So incensed are the Saudi's with Obama's Iranian agenda that one Saudi newspaper columnist said Obama was the worst US President in history; another citing Netanyahu's axiom that when it comes to Iran and the Islamic State, "the enemy of your enemy is your enemy" had particular resonance in the government halls of Riyadh. The Saudi's are keenly aware of Iranian encirclement of their kingdom - from across the waters of the gulf to Yemen in the south where Shi'a Houthi rebels have taken control of the county with Iranian direct support.

5 March 2015: With real-world events having once again fixed our gaze and our diligent study upon the prophecy of Jeremiah (Yirme'Yahu) 49:34-39. Through continuing study the Lord has continued to reveal new insights that I feel I would be remiss as a watchman to omit from mentioning.

Many are fearful to the point of hand-wringing angst that should additional sanctions be applied or Iranian nuclear sites be attacked by outside forces one of the first things Iran would do in response would be to militarily shut down the Strait of Hormuz to the flow of global commerce, especially crude oil.

Here's where reading Jeremiah 49:34-39 causes one to look critically at what the Lord has foretold.  Specifically, how could the Islamic Republic follow through on its often repeated threat to close down the Strait of Hormuz given what our Omnipotent God has declared through His prophet? 

How does Iran shut down this critical waterway when God has destroyed the crown jewel of Iranian military power? How does the uber braggadocian Iranian regime  make good on its threats when God has caused them to be chathath (to be shattered, dismayed, broken) before their enemies? Notice carefully that there is more than one enemy in the context here. Through Jeremiah the Lord has promised "I will send the sword after them, til I have consumed them."  

The world which has no regard for and no interest in the prophetic declarations of the God of Israel spends its time worrying, and fretting, and fearing that which ought not be. That kind of activity has no place here. Unlike others who worry needlessly and express fear over things they have no control over, Christians empowered by the Holy Spirit are in an automatic "In God We Trust" mode day in and day out.

Global SITREP A4-15: The Nuclear Axis of Evil

14 January 2015: On Sunday, 11 January the English-language website DerSpiegel Online International posted an article by Erick Follath which detailed the Syrian nuclear weapons program beginning with the plutonium reactor site (Al-Kibar) destroyed by Israel during Operation Orchard in September 2007 and concluded with claims of collected intelligence evidence from 2009 to the present regarding a continuing nuclear weapons program in Syria along the Lebanese border at a location just 4 km to the west from the area of Zaita Lake and Al-Qusayr, Syria and an even shorter distance from Qasr, Lebanon. The above image is of this area, but to view it in the real-world orientation one must rotate this image clockwise by 90 degrees so that it stands on end and the large light-colored crescent shape is open to the left. 

Israel Matzav published an article on this Al-Qusayr WMD site yesterday indicating it is actually not a Syrian project but an Iranian project. More importantly, Israel Matzav reported this suspected nuclear weapons site was a subject brought up during the U.S. State Department's daily Monday morning briefing. Quoting Israel Matzav:  

"Disturbingly, spokeswoman Marie Harf said that the United States did not plan to raise the issue in the Iranian nuclear talks, claiming that those talks only deal with Iran's nuclear capabilities and not with Syria's." 

Really? Israel Matzav appropriately illustrates the State Department's patently ridiculous leftist Clintonista refrain of "What difference does it make..." as infamously screeched by Mrs. Clinton during the Benghazi hearings. It is no small wonder therefore to understand how it is that the United States Government has never been able to connect the hidden-in-plain-sight dots existent between the North Korean nuclear weapons program (which is well into the process of perfecting a miniaturized and operational nuclear warhead) and the Iranian nuclear weapons program, or between the North Korean and the Syrian nuclear weapons programs. Axis of evil, anyone? The failure of the latter dot connection exercise is probably due to the fact that those rascals in Israel obliterated the Al-Kibar nuclear evidence before our spooky sleuths could fully analyze it. And even if they did, they would more than likely issue a National Defense Intelligence Estimate (NDIE) assessing that the joint Syrian-North Korean-Iranian nuclear weapons program went into hiatus three years ago.

Getting back to the real world, the above image is a zoomed which the at the top image identified as "Underground facility." This image also requires a clockwise 90 degree rotation for a true, real-world north-south orientation.  I have also been quietly watching and waiting since May 2013 for PM Netanyahu to authorize the IAF to strike this site, even though I know full well that means waiting for an Obama "green means go" light that is likely never to be illuminated. To Obama the color green means Islam. 

Anyway, I discovered this same site after a hint of its existence was made by an Israeli report published at the time of the second battle of Al-Qusayr (May '13). The Israeli report spoke of a newly discovered tunnel complex in the hills and mountains along this part of the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. Not only was I able to locate this site by "flying" a Goggle Earth reconnaissance mission, but I located yet another facility inside Syrian territory which is located perhaps a stone's throw from the above site. The only problem here is that the only paved road access to it comes from inside Lebanon. And there's the smoking gun evidence that these are Iranian IRGC run operations in a very remote portion of the Lebanon-Syria border.

Still waitin' for Bibi to "git'r'done."

Global SITREP E11-14: 2014 Year-Ending Current Events

UPDATE 31 December 2014: This is the final SITREP update for the year 2014 and it will touch upon a couple of items that I think have strong chances of leading to prophetic fulfillments or furthering the potential for fulfillment in 2015.

Top of the list is the defeat of a Palestinian Authority attempt to force the statehood issue via a UN Security Council resolution this past Tuesday (30 DEC). The resolution required 9 of the 15 UNSC members to vote for it. It fell one vote shy of that mark. This means that its failure makes the nuts and bolts of the non-debated resolution a moot point, and that's a good thing because I would rather focus on a more important element - the fact that most "Palestinians" were opposed to it.  Had the vote passed it would have legitimized a two-state solution and that is something most "Palestinians" and all Muslims are dead set against. They want Israel to die and soon, preferably prior to 2017.

That brings me to the second item. As reported directly below HAMAS and the sum of all the terrorist forces in Gaza believe they are fully prepared to resume war with Israel. The two primary military forces of HAMAS in Gaza, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the National Security Forces just completed within the past couple of days a series of very complex exercises with which they plan to commence hostilities - assaulting and seizing IDF observation posts, and then taking both living and deceased IDF troops back into Gaza as hostages. Full and exquisitely detailed reporting on HAMAS' war planning can be read and seen in video via this embedded link to The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. It is my contention that this is how the final fulfillment of the entire Psalm 83 prophetic scenario will begin... and end for the so-called "Palestinian" cause. The will likely not survive the next war.

One last thing for 2014. You have got to see this amazing technology that has been developed in France and Israel. Meet the Cicret Bracelet!

25 December 2014: This is a follow up to what I wrote below on 20 December. In today's edition of YNet news we find this report: "Clock Ticking Fast Towards Next Round of Gaza Fighting." The article's author, Yossi Yehoshua, wrote in his analysis of the current situation, "The worse Hamas' financial distress becomes - and the later international air arrives - the more the organization will fire at Israel." This confirms what I wrote in my own analysis here five days ago. The international aid referenced above MUST be delivered according to the internationally brokered ceasefire agreement to HAMAS' possession via Fatah and the Palestinian Authority(PA). At this time the PA is not inclined to provide HAMAS with so much as a shekel. So HAMAS fires rockets and allows snipers to shoot without warning at IDF soldiers as occurred yesterday, Wednesday, 24 December, thereby triggering a cross-border firefight between the IDF and HAMAS. Something just like this could cause the whole tenuous situation to rip wide open.

24 December 2014: Eschatology Today has NOT forgotten about the still unexplained disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and its passengers, and neither the aircraft nor the passengers will ever be forgotten as long as this blog exists.  There was an article published by Western Journalism.com yesterday that was brought to my attention by a retired CIA field officer I have known for well over a decade now. The headline of the article: Shocking New Malaysia Airlines MH370 Claim Made By Aviation Expert Could Solve The Mystery.  Via this embedded link you can read for yourselves the content of that important article. What I will note is that the details in the article tends to confirm what I wrote in this blog (linked above) back in March 2014 regarding both Diego Garcia and the Maldives Islands.

Oh, by the way, someone has asked (anonymously), "What has MH-370 to do with Bible prophecy?" Well, anonymous, I believe the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-370 and the 239 souls on-board has everything to do with Jesus Olivet Discourse prophecy (Matthew 24:12) about "lawlessness multiplied" as a sign indicating "the end of the age."

23 December 2014: Within a very few hours of North Korea (DPRK) issuing a direct threat against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole of the continental United States, somebody, nobody knows who exactly, turned off the North Korean connections to the global internet. Not just one plug was pulled, but all of them, and there are many routes that provide internet connectivity between North Korea and the world-at-large. The total disconnect lasted for about 9 hours and during that time it was as if North Korea had ceased to exist as far as the World Wide Web is concerned. Somebody has a very powerful information technology (IT) tool in their cyberwar arsenal to be able to completely make an entire nation's IT infrastructure disappear from the world IT map. The hack of the Sony Corporation servers was bad enough, but what was just done to North Korea makes the Sony hack look like Camp Fire Girls at play.

20 December 2014: This update is to inform so that no one should be caught unawares when full-scale war erupts without warning in HAMAS continuing war against Israel. It could literally begin at any moment. The key you have to knowing when this war will re-erupt is watching the news for anything regarding the current jihadi feud between HAMAS and Fatah. Specifically, if the tenuous relationship between HAMAS and Fatah collapses then renewed war against Israel will erupt without warning. The IDF and State of Israel are not unaware of this fact.

17 December 2014: Is Recent History a Primer to the Literal Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy?

In 1918 following The Great War (WWI) imperial Germany under the Kaiser (Caesar) endured a revolution. In 1919 following the revolution a new new constitution was adopted and the Wiemar Republic was born. For the next decade the Weimar Republic faced economic hardship and a debt burden imposed by the Western Allies that was brought to a head by an economic collapse known as the Great Depression. In 1930 emergency dictatorial rule came to the Weimar Republic which ultimately found total collapse which resulted in the rise of the Nazi Third Reich under Adolf Hitler in 1933. In just 6 years time thereafter World War II erupted.

Fast forward to 1991 when after four decades of the so-called Cold War (it was anything but cold) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved and ceased to exist due to  unrelenting economic stagnation and political collapse that had been building over the previous decade. A following a very brief civil war/coup d'etat an independent Russian Federation was created. Now after 23 years the Russian Federation is itself on the verge of total economic and political collapse. One day ago the Russian Federation's currency collapsed leaving President Vladimir Putin and his ruling oligarchs with a national crisis they almost certainly will blame the West for due to its imposition of economic sanctions and the effect of American oil shale on the global market which has collapsed oil prices. Half of Russia's economy depends on oil.

The conditions may now be right for Russia to find itself once again in a totalitarian dictatorship, one foretold by the prophet Ezekiel two and a half millennia ago. We may now bear witness to the sudden rise of Gog of Magog, chief prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, who will find it necessary to play the ongoing Russian military adventure gambit to the hilt and in a direction other than that which the LORD God will ultimately take him via some supernatural hooks.

15 December 2014: With just about two weeks remaining in 2014 it seems like a good idea to fashion a year-ending SITREP to take a look at prophetic themes becoming manifest at the present time. Nobody knows what 2015 may bring, but all things considered it's hard to see anything but danger ahead.

One of the most persistent eschatological themes is of a world governance that will come under the control of the Antichrist during the 70th Week prophesied by the angel Gabriel. I have on more than one occasion opined on this blog about certain leaders of government, industry and finance in the West following an agenda pursuant to the establishment of a body of world governance, all the while steering clear of any hint of the more conspiratorial theories out there which I have always held at the end of a ten-foot pole. 

However, in a speech given this past Friday in the Senate chamber by a Republican Conservative and true American patriot, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, there sprang forth a quote which minces no words regarding the aforementioned agenda, and could be placed on the same page and in the same ink as quotes from many of this Republic's founding fathers. Stated Senator Sessions, "These super-elites in Washington and Wall Street dream of a world without borders, a paradise where things like laws and rules and national boundaries don’t get in the way of their grand chimera."  The full text of this Senator Sessions' speech is available here. 

And in case there is any doubt about which eschatological theme I am linking Senator Sessions quote to, let me say that it is beyond the most often referenced last days themes of wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes. I am referring to the last days theme of lawlessness. We Americans have seen an incredible abundance of lawlessness in very recent days. Our Constitution is our law; it is the law of this land.  For the most part it is based upon entitled truths which our founding fathers held to that were self-evident due to the fact that they were based upon "the Laws of nature and Nature's God."

Those founding fathers in the Congress of the 13 original united States wrote and individually signed their fifty-six names to the Declaration of Independence stating that that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." They then crafted and ratified the Constitution to enumerate the powers of three co-equal branches of human governance and reserved those powers not enumerated to the States or to the people. When blatant and ongoing usurpation of the enumerated and non-enumerated powers occurs via executive fiat and memorandum that is called lawlessness, and lawlessness is against the consent of the governed and therefore it is also against God. And here we sit in near total silence. Has our national motto become "In Lies We Trust"?

Lawlessness is one of the signs of which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke during the Olivet Discourse as recorded in Matthew 24:12. There are many types of lawlessness and if you read your local newspaper or favorite online news source you can probably find in today's edition a half-dozen or more examples of rampant lawlessness both here in the U.S. but also the world over. 

How about protestors in New York City this past weekend calling for the immediate deaths of law enforcement officers? How about a Muslim jihadist supporter of the Islamic State just overnight holding dozens in a Sydney, Australia Lindt chocolate shop and cafe? Or how about the President of the United States, one of the above referenced "super-elites", engaging the lawlessness of unconstitutional executive fiat, not by Executive Order mind you, but by a mere memorandum which has no standing whatsoever in American law. We fought a revolution against the British Empire nearly 240 years ago to put an end to this type of lawlessness. Does history repeat? And what of the lawlessness in the U.S. Department of Education! Oops, did I say education? Pardon me, I meant  to say the U.S. Department of Indoctrination.

Now read Jesus' words again and try to imagine a world where such abounding lawlessness causes to love of many to grow cold. These current events and examples of lawlessness raise my righteous indignation precipitously, but for them to cause my love to grow cold? Perish the thought!

When Jesus said 'wars and rumors of wars' He wasn't just speaking about the Middle East, he was talking about planet earth in general. While we mainly place our focus on the Middle East, there are very serious wars going on in the periphery, and this is the reason for the maps above. North-central Africa is the location of a great deal of warfare these days, and most if not all of that is due to the Muslim jihadists known as Boko Haram.  The warfare at present is centered on the region defined by Lake Chad. The Republic of Cameroon recently found itself the object of an invasion by Boko Haram when a thousand or more jihadists crossed lake Chad by boat to attack along a broad front encompassing eight different towns and villages. After days of firefights the Cameroonian soldiers fought off the jihadists and chased them back into Lake Chad where many of their boats were sunk leaving the jihadists to their fate of drowning or as prey to crocodiles. Wherever war occurs, disease and other pestilence soon follows, and Lord knows Africa due west of where this fighting occurred is the epicenter of the current Ebola epidemic. Things here will get much, much worse in 2015.

Most of us awoke to the horror of the Taliban jihadist assault in Pakistan on Tuesday, 16 December. Over 140 people, the vast majority children between the ages of 12 and 16 were gunned down or blown up or burned to death in school. Why do I mention this here? because this is precisely the type of attack the jihadists have long promised (for the better part of ten years now) to bring into one or more American elementary schools. There was the school massacre in Beslan, Russia, and now in Peshawar, Pakistan. Sometown, USA will be next. It's a near certainty as the U.S. becomes more lawless and more like a third-world country with every day that passes because we are allowing it to happen across our lawless borders which are undefended by a lawless federal government.

Another item that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves is the insane amount of deadly radiation that continues to pour into the Pacific Ocean from the several crippled Japanese nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Beta radiation levels are reportedly upwards of 50,000% higher than what they were one year ago, or even just a few months ago this past summer. The great ocean conveyor current and prevailing westerly winds have raised radiation levels in the continental United States to very unsafe levels, and not just along the US West Coast. Locations such as Phoenix and Tucson Arizona where beta radiation levels at 10 and 21 times government safe standards are comparable to levels in Chicago, Illinois; Montgomery, Alabama and Madison, Wisconsin where the greatly exceed the 1000 beta radiation CPM (counts per minute) which Uncle Sam knows very well to be a serious health issue. Or in the city of my birth, San Diego, beta radiation levels are now 60 times higher than they were one year ago. What you don't know about, or can't see, can kill you... slowly. You can read all of this and more yourself at the EnviroReporter.com website. The good news, if it can be called that, is Fukushima and these current beta radiation levels are not even close to what will occur at the Second and Third Trumpets of Revelation 8, but it would appear that we're getting a slight foretaste of of those events.

Marana'tha!