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 C3-24: SYRIA!

UPDATED 2 December 2024: The map above is current to the present date and represents the most current information on the advance of Islamist forces in northeastern Syria. The advance of the several allied Sunni Islamist militias southwards from the Idlib Governorate is encapsulated within the bold, red-colored borders. The military situation in this region is extremely fluid and will likely change rapidly in the coming hours and days. 

An Eschatology Today assessment of this map indicates the Sunni Islamist forces currently have two primary objectives in the wake of their blitzkrieg-like capture of Aleppo (further to the north or top of this map): 1.) The city of Hama. Islamist forces are within a very few miles of HAMA this morning, certainly within its northern suburbs. 

2.) The Russian military enclave at Khmeimim Air Base adjacent to the town of Jablah. Khmeimim AB is noted by the symbol of a black jet aircraft approximately 15 miles from the red-colored protrusion towards the Mediterranean Sea from the main axis of the Islamists southern advance.

This map also shows the main M5 north-south highway in western Syria, which runs straight from Aleppo to Hama, to Homs and south to Damascus. It is noted as the thin red line top to bottom within the red-bordered Islamist advance through newly captured territory.

Has covered the prophetic elements of the Syrian Civil War for a minimum of the past decade with the essential cores being Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49:23-27. Keep these two Scriptures close because they both clearly indicate near-future developments. The Syrian civil war is a key element in the end-times prophetic scenario, with Isaiah 18:3 as a particular standout. Jeremiah 49:23-27 brings in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the ancient region of Edom and Dedan (Arabia), Hamath (Hama), Arpad and finally Damascus.

ISW Critical Threats map of Syria 12/4/24

UPDATE 6 December 2024: Following their capture of Hama and the Hama military air base yesterday the Sunni Islamist forces continued their advance southward and toward the equally strategic city of Homs. The advance is along two axes of approach. The primary approach is via the north-south Highway 5, and the secondary is from Ismaili Shi'a town of As-Salamiye (Salamiyah) via the Raqqa-Homs Highway. 

This advance appears to be more rapid than previously seen as the local municipalities are negotiating surrender prior to the arrival of rebel troop columns. The Sunni Islamists promised no retribution against local populations and that they can continue their normal functioning. The Syrian army had all but disintegrated in front of the Sunni Islamist advance with only minor engagements or brief firefights. As of this date there are no Syrian army defensive positions along the approaches to Homs.

A potential death knell for the Al-Assad regime may be seen in Hezbollah declaring it will not send additional forces to defend Damascus as it is committed to "sheltering and rebuilding" in Lebanon; that it will abide by the Lebanon-Israel ceasefire agreement. 

Few, if any, take Hezbollah at its word. Israel this morning sent IAF strike aircraft to destroy new missile launch sites pointed at Israeli targets. Israel has greatly beefed up the IDF forces along the Syrian border as daily and even hourly IDF re-assessments of the situation in Syria are becoming the norm.

In this light the next best hope for the survival of the Syrian regime is for Russia to airlift its forces (numbering in the several thousands) in the African Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Central African Republic and Libya) to the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Syria. It remains to be seen if this redeployment will take place.

Global SITREP C2-24: Rockets Red Glare

RS-26 Rubezh IRBM a/k/a RS-26 Oreshnik MRBM

UPDATED 22 November 2024: The Russian ballistic Missile attack on Dnipro, Ukraine yesterday morning appears to have been a new variant of a Russian Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile known as the RS-26 Rubezh. 

Russia's clandestine development of this weapon almost certainly was the reason President Trump and SECDEF Esper announced the US's unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (a/k/a INF Treaty) on August 2, 2019. The development of the RS-26 Rubezh was a one of a series of blatant violations of the INF Treaty signed in 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Regan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.

Development continued and an MRBM variant of the Rubezh was rebranded as (RS-26) Oreshnik. It is difficult to distinguish between these two missiles which led to major confusion in expert media reporting yesterday on the identity of the missile. 

RS-26 Oreshnik test launch

However, what is now known puts yesterday's strike in an entirely new perspective. First and foremost is that the Oreshnik strike is the first use of an IRBM or MRBM in the history of warfare. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle, and with this strike a clear signal was sent; the world has crossed into unknown territory. Secondly, analysis of imagery makes clear that the Oreshnik warhead contained six (6) warheads or MIRVs (Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles). Three were either inert, kinetic or decoys and three had conventional high explosives. These MIRV warheads were also impervious to Ukrainian air defenses; they never even came close to being shot down due to their hypersonic speed and maneuverability. A third aspect, not widely reported, is that ALL of the missiles Russia has launched into Ukraine in more than 1,000 days of warfare were capable of carrying nuclear warheads of various yields.

So, with Russia having let the genie out of the bottle who's to say that Israel would not deploy a mix of its Jericho-2 MRBMs and Jericho-3 MIRVed IRBMs in a follow-up strike on Iran's now virtually defenseless nuclear and petroleum infrastructure. Maneuverable warheads can arrive on target from every direction on the compass.

UPDATE 28 November 2024: This past Tuesday morning as I lay in my hospital bed, I turned on the wall-mounted television not intending to watch a particular program, to channel surf. It was a big surprise to find that the channel was not set to the Monday Night Football station I had been watching but was now set to a CSPAN channel. The program CSPAN was airing was a live, in-progress UN Security Council session concerning the Middle East. 

Israel's Ambassador Danny Danon was on the receiving end an exceptionally nasty series of exchanges with both the PA representative and an Algerian representative. Despite repeated decorum warnings from the UNSC chair (held by the UK), the venom being spewed by Israel's enemies continued unabated. Credit to Ambassador Danon for remaining in his seat, but a rage of volcanic anger was plainly evident on his countenance.

Then a thought came to mind and the Ezekiel 38/39 "Battle of Gog of Magog" prophecy consumed my thoughts. A seed that had been planted recently suggesting a broadening of the actual identities of both "Kuwsh (Cush) and Put" was now a necessity. This continual enlightening strongly intimates that the closer we get to that prophetic day, the clearer the prophecy becomes. 

The people Ezekiel identified as "Put" is far more than just those inhabiting Libya but includes most of North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea's southern coastline to include Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. Together, these are the populations of Put. And of Kuwsh the same is true, they are not just Sudan and Ethiopia as many interpretations suggest. Kuwsh includes the peoples of the Horn of Africa as well as modern-day Yemen.

The Horn of Africa and Yemen

I prayed for the LORD to show me in Scriptures where this has already been revealed. Within a few minutes my gaze was directed to reading passages in Isaiah and Joel. There, in Isaiah 45:14-17, as if it were an adjunct to Ezekiel 38/39 are all these peoples listed together and who will be given into the hand of Israel by the God of Israel. Egypt, Kuwsh (Horn of Africa) and Sabeans (Yemen). We know the end of this because God has known of it from the beginning.

Thus says the Lord:

“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush
And of the Sabeans, men of stature,
Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;
They shall walk behind you,
They shall come over in chains;
And they shall bow down to you.
They will make supplication to you, saying, ‘Surely God is in you,
And there is no other;
There is no other God.’ ”

 Truly You are God, who hide Yourself,
O God of Israel, the Savior!
 They shall be ashamed
And also disgraced, all of them;
They shall go in confusion together,
Who are makers of idols.

But Israel shall be saved by the Lord
With an everlasting salvation;
You shall not be ashamed or disgraced
Forever and ever.

And then we can turn to Joel 3:4-8 where we find Tyre and Sidon (Lebanon) and all the coasts of Philistia (Gaza), as if they're all in the same basket of judgment, who have retaliation repaid upon their heads. The Sabeans (Yemenites) are seen in verse 8.

The current SITREP in the Middle East reads like a sidebar, a very short interlude, before the next and final act that sets the whole region in the conditions graphically illustrated in Ezekiel 38/39. 

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP D3-22: "This is not a Bluff"

 

UPDATED 22 September 2022: In announcing the conscription mobilization of 300,000 troops from Russia's reserve forces (veterans of prior service), Russian president Vladimir Putin this morning set in motion an escalation of his war against Ukraine and NATO. Putin's escalation of the war is replete with the threat of Russian use of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons because he now sees the tide of his war being reversed and therefore threatening the "territorial integrity of Russia." 

In Vladimir Putin's thoroughly warped worldview, all of Ukraine, from the Don River Basin (a/k/a the Donbas) westward to the NATO frontier, is Russian territory. The recent rout of Russian forces and loss of territory to Ukrainian forces armed to the hilt with the best weapons the West has provided to date is a direct threat to Russian territorial integrity. This in turn is Putin's rationale for his threat in authorizing nuclear weapons use. We must accept Putin's words, "This is not a bluff" at face value, and he will release his nukes upon his enemies. 

Make no mistake, even the Chinese Communists have been rattled by this morning's announcement from Moscow. Word came swiftly out of Beijing warning Moscow to immediately de-escalate and to seek a cease-fire in the Ukraine war. The U.S. and NATO response to this escalatory threat from Russia will be announced in the U.N. General Assembly this morning.

This is the current SITREP AS OF 10:30 EDT 21 September 2022.

An often asked question: Will nuclear war occur? Answer: Yes, both before the 70th Week begins and during it. And since the harpazo of the bride of Christ is always imminent, it cannot be stated with any certainty that a nuclear exchange will not occur prior to the blessed event. 

(Beyond this, a nuclear exchange has already occurred on this earth while the bride of Christ was present. On August 6th and 9th 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan were struck with atomic bombs dropped by two American B-29 Stratofortess aircraft. Hundreds of thousands of human beings perished in both strikes.) 

Now, an Eschatology Today explanation for why this is true.

The Gog and Magog prophecy of Ezekiel 38/39 appears to have a pre-70th Week of years fulfillment. The LORD God declares in Ezekiel 39:6 "And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live securely (confidently) in the coastlands." There is no reason to question that the land of Magog (Russia) will receive a nuclear strike as a result of the attempt to invade, rape and plunder the nation of Israel. (Note: this is exactly what Russia's intent has been for the Ukraine, and, in fact, invasion, rape, mass murder and plunder are what the Russian military forces and their proxy allies have committed in Ukraine.) 

The unknown part of this is: Is America the unknown land which lives securely (confidently) in the coastlands who receives fire (judgment) as Magog (Russia) does? Whatever the case may be, these strikes happen during the midst of the destruction of the armies of Magog and its confederates upon the mountains of Israel. It may be true also that this is not a full-scale nuclear war as the world goes on and endures almost to the point of an extinction level event through the Lord's judgments of the 70th Week of years which follow shortly thereafter. So, it may be what occurs in Ezekiel 39:6 is a limited or tactic use of nuclear weapons.

Then during the 70th Week of years, as seen in Revelation 6, a quarter of all human life on the earth will be annihilated. As of 2022, and the waning global COVID-19 pandemic, there are 8 billion souls on the earth. That means 2 billion will die in the Revelation 6 judgments. Shortly thereafter the Revelation 8 and 9 judgments occur upon the remaining 6 billion population of the earth, and of these a full one-third are annihilated. What is one-third of 6 billion? It is another 2 billion people. That's 4 billion people wiped out in the first 42 months, also known as the Thlipsis/Tribulation. Eschatology Today assesses that the vast major of these are the direct result of nuclear weapons. 

And during the Megas Thlipsis/Great Tribulation it only gets worse, so much so that if the Lord would not cuts those days short the extinction of human life would have occurred. Jesus speaking in the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24:22 NKJV: "And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened."

So, when utterly mad men talk in threatening tones about using nuclear weapons at this hour, pay attention! If Jesus Christ is not your Lord and Savior all you have to do at this point is call upon His Name to forgive your sins and be covered by His precious sacrifice.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP C6-22: A New Emergent Prophetic Paradigm

Destroyed Russian Armor

11 July 2022: Meanwhile, over in Ukraine, Russian battlefield losses of personnel is now well north of 37,000 troops. Many thousands of main battle tanks (MBTs) like those above litter the Ukrainian countryside as rusting, burned out and rusting hulks of scrap metal and combustible materials. There will yet be many more joining them as Russian forces now face a major Ukrainian offensive featuring a 1 Million-man army armed with the latest and most lethal Western weaponry.

"Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, ordered the Ukrainian military to re-establish control over coastal regions in southern Ukraine. Ukraine is amassing a million-strong fighting force in order to achieve this goal."

Source: Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s Minister of Defence, in an interview for The Times [of London]

Details: "Ukraine is massing a million-strong fighting force equipped with western weapons to recover its southern territory from Russia," The Times wrote.

Eschatology Today asks: How does a 100,000-man, demoralized, conscripted Russian army on foreign soil stand any chance of withstanding a highly motivated Ukrainian military force 10 times its size and armed with the best and most lethal and powerful conventional weapons the Western alliance has to offer?

Might the coming days and weeks show evidence of the Hand of God at work in a process of turning Russia's vaunted military force into a mere shadow of its former regard as an unassailable juggernaut; might this all be in preparation for the "hooks" to drag the Russian armed forces to its ultimate destruction of the mountains of Israel? 

The old 20th Century "Cold War" era notion, used by all Bible prophecy interpretations for a minimum of the past 60 years no longer holds water in the second decade of the 21st Century - as the ill-conceived war in Ukraine has proven in the clear view of the whole world.

Eschatology Today answer: A new prophetic paradigm now exists and we are all seeing it manifesting before our eyes in real-time.

Global SITREP B8-22: NATO Pushes East, Russia Pushes West, Arabs Push Israel, and Taiwan Braces: A Perfect Storm Brewing

(UPDATE BELOW) 12 April 2022: SITREP B8-22 will begin with data points that will flesh out with time. 

As a direct result of Russia's continuing barbaric aggression against Ukraine, its western neighbors, and particularly the recent bellicose verbal tirades against the United States in particular as leader of the North Atlantic cum Global Alliance, NATO is leaning significant numbers of its military forces forward all along the entirety of Russia's western flank. Image above.

In the north these forces are directly abutting the Union State's borders. In the center just west of Ukraine, the object of Russia's current war of aggression, and in the south against the Black Sea region, adjacent to Moldova, Transnistria and occupied southern Ukraine. In the heart of NATO-Europe are hundreds of thousands of the alliance's combat troops, backed by strategic, nuclear-armed aviation and naval forces. 

In the past 36 hours NATO's intelligence arm (i.e. the intelligence apparatuses of all alliance partners) alerted Russia's possible use of an as yet undetermined type of chemical weapon in the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine. Mariupol, to be clear, is the scene of wanton genocide that makes the genocide that occurred in Bucha and other northern Ukraine towns pale by comparison. As many as 20,000 corpses reportedly litter the streets, are under rubble and in bombed out buildings of the once beautiful and vibrant city. The US and UK are leading the investigation. 

Ukrainian reports say the Russians employed drones on Monday that dropped ordnance filled with a chemical substance that is not unlike those used in the war in Syria in recent years. Ukrainian forces report civilians and a few of their troops in the city are exhibiting signs of chemical poisoning and respiratory issues. According to the UK MoD, "all options are on the table" if the use of chemical weapons is verified, with sending NATO troops into combat being one of the options.

West to East Prevailing Winds Ukraine-Russia

Update 18 April 2022: There has been consistent talk, primarily from Western Globalists and their MSM warning about the potential for Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukrainian forces who are largely in positions in the east against invading Russian forces moving westwards. 

Cutting through all of the propagandistic rubbish, this is Western Globalist nonsense. The reason why is that Vladimir Putin and his military are not idiots. Any use of nuclear weaponry against Ukraine would result in nuclear fallout blowing right back into the Russian military forces building-up in the east as well as into the Russian heartland as the above blow-up of a prevailing winds map clearly indicates. 

Global SITREP B7-22: Russia's War in Ukraine - Phase III ("I Will Turn Thee Back...")

Russia's Military Defeat in Northern Ukraine

UPDATE 07 April 2022: Two days ago in the comments of this SITREP it was noted how Eschatology Today has viewed this war from the get-go based upon Ezekiel 38:4 and the importance of the Hebrew word shoob within that verse. There is a small gap of time between the first part and second part of that verse. The gap lies between "I will turn you around," and "Put hooks into your jaws and lead you out..." The turning around is now well underway and what remains unknown is the precise gap of time until the Lord inserts those prophetic hooks in the jaws. In that the overall prophetic narrative is moving along at what appears to be warp speed these days, well, it may not be a case of the Lord tarrying very much. "These things must take place" and that requires the passage of some minute passage of time as we understand the ticking of the clock.

The map image above, is the situation on the ground in Ukraine as of this morning, 07 April 2022. The map image below is from just over three days ago. What this new image and what all senior military leaders (both US and NATO commanders) are saying is that the mighty Russian military (army, navy, air force and rocket forces) have been thoroughly defeated in northern Ukraine. This is a stunning reversal. The hand of God as the One responsible for the turning around is evident, perhaps not to all of you, but definitely to yours truly. 

Even Russian soldiers making unsecure phone calls to mothers, family members and girl friends back in Russia are admitting that they are being "whipped" by Ukrainian forces. In fact, in their hasty, no-time-to-waste, head-long flight out of the country, elite Russian units have abandoned their most devastating weaponry. These the Ukrainians promptly captured, made speedy repairs to in some cases, and then turned them upon their former owners. This weaponry notably includes the TOR-1A Buratino (featured early on in this SITREP series) thermobaric "vacuum" artillery system. Russian units were then given no rest and were further annihilated in full retreat. It's that ancient Hebrew "shoob" word that Ezekiel was inspired to use and its literal meaning in full display, at least for those like me who take the Lord's prophetic word literally. 

And to think, this is just the beginning of woes to befall Russia's and her allies military forces as we approach the 70th Week of Years.

04 April 2022: The above graphic encapsulates the known and estimated combat losses suffered by the armed forces of the Russian Federation in the forty days of its invasion of Ukraine (24 FEB - o4 APR 2022). This is where Eschatology Today's SITREP coverage begins the clearly evident third phase of this war, which begins not only with this accounting, but also with the overwhelming and mounting evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity in just two of the dozens of Ukrainian suburbs and villages surrounding the capital Kyiv. 

In the settlements Bucha and Irpin in Kyiv Oblast, which are nearly twin cities separated only by the Bucha River, the mass graves and many human corpses littering the streets are visible in satellite reconnaissance imagery. Bucha/Irpin are separated from Kyiv City boundary only by about one-thousand feet of the Irpin River basin. This is how close Russian armor came to entering the capital. Now the Ukrainian counter-attack has driven Russian forces back to the Belarus border along the entire axis of the west banks Dnieper River. Forced Russian retreat is also occurring along the east bank in the direction of Chernihiv, and east of Kyiv to a point well over 60 miles in the direction of Nizhyn. Map below.

It is in this third phase of the war that Russian forces are regrouping and being re-deployed south in an attempt to secure Luhansk, Donetsk and a land corridor along Ukraine's Azov Sea coastline to connect with Crimea. There's no way to determine the duration of this third phase, or its outcome, but the Lord's hooks will drag these armies to their destruction in Israel in days to come.

 

Global SITREP B4:22: A Covenant Among Many

15 March 2022: The unprovoked Russian war against Ukraine appears to be entering a terminal phase, one that will include a formal agreement or contract between several parties. In this case the agreement might be more akin to the definition that is applied to a covenant (treaty) as described by Joshua 9:6.

In Eschatology Today's traditional forward leaning posture, it appears at this point to be a near certainty that the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, to include the withdrawal of Russian forces from most if not all of the country, will essentially be a treaty that ensures security requirements for the whole of Europe and not just Ukrainian or Russian requirements for security guarantees. It has only been days since the last implicit Russian threat of nuclear strikes, so an iron-clad treaty in this regard will be essential.  

This is what all of Europe, that is, the EU backed by the economic and military power of NATO will negotiate and confirm at a conference in the not too distant future. Ukraine will have won its defensive war and Russia, having virtually exhausted its ability to sustain its offensive military operations will be forced to withdraw to ensure its economic survival and independence from Red Chinese domination.

Warfare is likely to continue for perhaps the next four to six weeks, and barring an unforeseen black swan event, Russia's invasion will simply and literally run out of gas, and food, and its armies will become incapable of further action. The process being envisioned here could take several months, and European reconstruction of an independent and occupation-free Ukraine will take far longer.

Perhaps, just perhaps, this nascent treaty of security among multiple parties in Europe might be extended and confirmed for a period of seven years in the not too distant future to include the nations of a war-ravaged Middle East, as foretold by the angel Gabriel in Daniel 9:27. 

 

Global SITREP B2-22: Bible Prophecy In The News

10 March 2022: The now 14-day old invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and Belarus, the Union State of Russia and Belarus has had an effect not seen since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Suddenly the prophetic Scripture of Ezekiel 38/39 is a hot news item, with reporting ranging from outright scoffing and ridicule to the prophetic interpretation of this event you've been reading on Eschatology Today for a solid three months, and before then going back to the first act of Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Global SITREP B13-14: Ukraine (Russia Invades) of March 1, 2014). I'd suggest a re-reading of that SITREP to recall what virtually everyone has forgotten, particularly the part dealing with, and frequently mentioned here, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. 

In considering the Budapest memorandum there is an interesting fact to mention once again. The US, UK and Russia were nuclear armed nations back then, so what has changed? Everyone, except perhaps Putin, seems supremely paranoid of what invoking the clauses of the memorandum could lead to if it were upheld to the letter. Seriously, there is a left-of-center government in the USA in 2022 as there was in 1994 and again in 2014. So what has changed? Perhaps the Holy Restrainer is doing what He does best, applying restraint in an ever collapsing world. But I digress.

Back to Bible prophecy in the MSM. On the Beliver side of this issue we have seen in the past 10 days Pat Robertson (700 Club) come out of retirement to offer his take on what this war portends; that God is compelling Putin to invade Ukraine, but that Putin's goal is ultimately to invade Israel, and Pastor Greg Laurie with his excellent and now viral video response to the Russian invasion is embedded in the link for your viewing. We the bride of Christ understand these accurate presentations of prophetic Scripture. There are legions of such comentaries as these available on the internet.

In an Eschatology Today conducted Google search with the criteria "Ukraine Bible Prophecy" there were more than 1.2 million results presented. Those results vary as much in content as the number 1.2 million imples. Everything from the Chicago Sun-Times article about Ukraine's former first lady Katernyna Yushchenko offering about an 11th century mosaic (Oranta Mosaic in the Kyiv Cathedral) of the Virgin Mary offering protection and the survival of Ukraine if Russian troops do not destroy it. The mosaic is ostensibly under UNESCO protection, so that shoud keep Russian ordnance at bay. And then there are the scoffers. 

One of the worst scoffers is found on the website of very poorly named The Christian Post. It assures its readers through a tweeted quote from Old Testament and Semitic scholar Michael S. Heiser, that "The idea that Ezekiel 38 and 39 is about Russia or a Russian invasion has literally no merit in terms of exegesis." That's the, and I use the term loosely, educated view of an "Old Testament scholar." Yet The Christian Post gives Heiser the "without a doubt" nod of being absolutely correct as compared to what we all believe Ezekiel 38/39 foretells. When it comes to scoffers, the Word of God is absolutely correct. The scoffers offer nothing more than world-class pablum. Let the internet surfer beware.

Eschatology Today believes that while Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be followed soon enough by God placing spiritual hooks in Gog of Magog's jaws to draw him and his military confederation to destruction on the mountains of Israel, there are other prophecies that concern Israel as we know the country today which must take place prior to the application of those hooks. 

For example, in Ezekiel 38:11-16 Gog of Magog and his entire military force, down to the smallest shard of human bone, are to be buried in the Valley of Hamon Gog which lies east of the Dead Sea in what today is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. This invokes Psalm 83, Isaiah 11:12-14 and Ezekiel 28:24-26 as requiring literal fulfillments first. If Christians and Christian sites want to tak about the fulfillment of prophecy, they need to speak to it indepth because fulfillment of the Lord's prophetic word is exact and inerrant to the letter of each written word.

Global SITREP B1-22: Please Stand By...

07 March 2022: Please stand by... Who is more evil, Vladimir Putin or the Globalist elites? That's the question that will come to mind when nuclear weapons are used in this New World War. People have short memories; they tend to react based upon current conditions or how they have been programmed to react by the MSM who slavishly serve as the Globalists propaganda machine. And the propaganda, or narrative as it may also be referred to, has been and continues to be present in every newscast, every evening. This includes FoxNews, or has it been forgotten how FoxNews (excepting only a very few FoxNews on-air personalities) betrayed MAGA patriots on the night of 3 November 2020 and have perpetuated those lies ever since?

Here comes a truth bomb. For a long time the elites, the D.C. Establishment, the so-called Uni-Party of RINOs and Democrats have been pushing, plotting and planning to create the circumstances that would lead to a New World War, a war pitting the United States and NATO against the Russian Federation; a war which D.C. think tanks which have war-games the exact scenarion in action today in Ukraine would ultimately claim 1 billion human lives (A long-standing goal of the elites, by the way). Go back and look at archived news videos from the Obama Administration, many of the same folks who were prominant back then are neck deep in the current Biden Administration. Obama, the Biden crime family, Victoria Nuland, the Clintons, John Kerry, they're all there in 2012-2014 for the Democrats. And on the same page with them were the RINOs like the late John McCain and Lindsey Graham, egging-on the worst and most notorious elements of Ukrainian society (Ultra-Nationalist NeoNazis) to go to war against Russia. And you know what, 12 days ago their planning and cajoling over the past decade came to fruition - as they knew all along it would. 

This is why knowing the recent history of Ukraine, especially it's history of the 20th century, is critical to understanding how Russian nationalists were so easy to lead into this war. The Globalists knew exactly what buttons to push and they pushed them again and again for a decade. Now we're got Vladimir Putin ready to push a few buttons of his own. So, when your television desplays the above screen one days soon, at least you'll know part of the reason why. Now you might ask, for what purpose is all of this? Well, if the plan is as complete as it appears to be, and Bible prophecy alludes to this very strongly, there's a guy about to come riding in on a white horse, a false messiah. a false peace-maker, right on cue. And several other horses are coming with him in a posse. 

Once again, if Jesus is not your personal savior, now would be a very good time for you to trust Him and everything He has to say in the Living Word of God. With Him there is no "please stand by." Just the opposite, your eternal salvation is instantaneous just as your Harpazo into Heaven with the rest of the bride of Christ will be instantaneous.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A10-22: The Next Level Crisis

The Russian Army or The Army of Gog of Magog?

Update 3 March 2022: The question has been asked about where one could locate Ezekiel 38's Magog on a map. In new searching the short answer to the question is that there are old maps which illustrate Magog being located in two geographical locations, but within the territorial continuity of the present day Russian Federation. One is in the region of the North Caucasus, and the second is in the region of far northern region of Russian East Asia. So from this aspect the Russian Federation can be identified as Magog. And then there's near-antiquity ancient writers such as Josephus, and others as well, who also put the pin on the map in the North Caucasus, and identify the people who lived there as Scythians. Again, Russian Federation.

In the comments section recommended "Potential Wildcard" article from The Jamestown Foundation (well worth the read from an intel perspective) the topic Eschatology Today brought up very recently about the demographics of the Russian Federation emerges yet again. Truly, this is keen insight about the demographics of the army Ezekiel says will be led by hooks in Gog's jaw, like a cloud covering the land, to its destruction on the mountains of Israel. The current warfighting in Ukraine by the Russian Army also provides strong clues concerning the demographic make-up of that near-future army.

And the image above taken directly from The Jamestown Foundation article speaks thousands of words to this same effect. Take a close look. Are those soldiers ethnic Russians (i.e. Slavic men)? They are citizens of the Russian Federation without any doubt. But ethnic Russians they are not. To a very high percentage they are from the Republics of the Russian Federation located in the north, central and east Asian part of the country. Ezekiel noted them as Magogites, but ethnically there are any of a number of Turkic peoples, Chechens, Avars, Mordvins, Buryats, Tungusic Evens and so on. You get the point being made here.

In Ukraine it has become apparent in less than a week of warfare that a great number of ethnic Russian troops have zero desire to be fighting their ethnic kin in Ukraine. A widely publicized letter from a Russian conscript to his mother reveals the nonsense the ethnic Russian troops were spoon-fed by leadership in Moscow about it all being an exercise that Ukrainians would welcome them as liberators from the "Ukrainian nazi's," and so on and so on. The fact is that ethnic Russian forces have surrendered to Ukrainian forces by the squadron, battalion and brigade-size formations. They sabotage their own combat vehicles so they cannot advance further; holes punched in fuel tanks are a common occurrence according to battlefield intel. So, it is the non-ethnic Russians who are continuing the advance into Ukraine; turning cities block by block into rubble despite ferocious Ukrainian resistance. A true juggernaut.

This war has led to a much closer current-day identification of the actual ethnic make-up of the "Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; Gomerites and Togarmah from the far north" who will be brought to their destruction in Israel.

Decapitated Russian T-72B3 Main Battle Tank in Ukraiine

2 March 2022: Regarding the Biden SOU speech last night, it was worthless pablum filled to the brim with platitues and banalities, and nothing that Ukrainians need to roll back the Russian invasion and its indiscriminate war crimes against the civilian population. To her diplomatic credit Ukraine's Ambassador remained at her seat and politely applauded.

Near Kharkiv a Ukrainian army unit composed of footsoldiers and one APC put its Javelins and NLAWs to great effect in causing a Russian armor battalion, including the battalion commander, to flee for their lives from the fight. The net result of this engagement was the Ukrainian Army's sudden acquisition of six, "very low milage," (i.e. brand-spanking new) T-80BVM main battle tanks that were just plain abandoned in full opeerational order. These T-80s MBTs will be dressed in Ukrainian colors and returned to the fight very soon.

Russian losses now total nearly 6,000 troops KIA; 30 strike aircraft shot down, more than 1,000 armored vehicles destroyed; 85 artillery and 9 anti-aircraft systems destroyed as well. In addition to the captured T-80BVM tanks, the Ukrainian Army has also captured 60 fuel trucks and 40 MLRS artillery vehicles.

The Russian invasion has five main lines of attack: Kharkiv, Kherson, Kyiv, Mariupol and Chernihiv. In all of these the Russian advance has been severely blunted or stalled outright. This is the rationale for expecting Putin to resort to the increased utilization of internationally banned weaponry.

1 March 2022: There are so many rumors, psyops, disinfo campaigns and just plain insanity going on that its been difficult in the last 24 hours to know what has truly taken place. I believe that reports of the EU or NATO sending fighter jets to Ukraine were false; the NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg affirmed as much a short time ago. No troops either. But that could change if certain things nobody wants to see take place actually take place.

President Zelenskyy's impassioned via internaet speech to the EU Parliament was unlike any I've heard from a national leader under similar conditions, except maybe the recording of Winston Churchill during the WWII Battle of Britain. Perhaps Zelenskyy's speech, for which he received a standing ovation, will be remembered similarly. I also believe it to be true that the Chechen Kadyrov assassination squad sent to Ukraine by Russia to take out Zelenskyy has been annihilated. Rumor is the Russian FSB is against the war and gave info to Ukrainian security services that resulted in the killing of all the assassins. Also, he Wagner group mercenaries in Ukraine are also being hunted by Ukrainian forces; several have been eliminated in recents days.

So, pending the content of the State of the Union speech by Joe Biden tonight this keyboard will be silent until then.

28 February 2022: The image above is symbolic of the risk Russia has taken with its ill-advised invasion of Ukraine - Russia has lost its head with this insanity. But the insanity continues and is in fact escalating to a point of potential, if not a probable nuclear exchange. This is reflected in the decision of Byelarus to renounce its non-nuclear state status so it can accept Russian nuclear weapons being deployed in its territory which has a common border with NATO and the EU.

The next 24-36 hours will be crucial in what developments take place, many of which have been noted in the comments of the previous Special Report SITREP A9:22. 

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A8-22: How Far Will God Let Russia Go in its Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine?

 

Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts of Ukraine

UPDATE 25 February 2022: Firstly, it has become painfully apparent in the past 24 hours that all of those folks who heretofore had expressed high levels of distrust of the Lame Stream Media, both foreign and domestic, and its rampant "fake news" campaigns of recent memory have had been camped at their feeding trough like hordes of people starved of information. 

Eschatology Today has warned extensively throughout the past seven years (at a minimum) that none of the MSM's product is to be trusted or taken at face value. The MSM remains controlled and staffed by Western globalist interests and elites. The rampant disinformation and pure, politically motivated propaganda coming from the MSM at present is on a scale that this observer has not seen previously. Their agenda has not changed one iota. Their objectives remain the same. Many hours of intensive data mining has proven this observation to be absolutely correct. Which devil is acceptable to these people, the one from the East or the one from the West?

The conflict in Ukraine and its end-state is a known-unknown, but as we all know God is in control. What we need to see and understand right now is that events are taking place that are leading to other events, both prophetic and otherwise. Patience of saints is called for and well as being watchmen and students of the Lord's Holy Words. Nothing else really matters in the short-term because, in the words of our Lord, "all these things must take place, but the end is not yet." Just keep looking up until He comes to take us up! Marana'tha!

24 February 2022: As of 5 AM Kyiv time on 24 February 2022 the Union State (Russian Federation and Belarus) has been engaged in a full-scale war against pro-Western Ukraine. Ballistic and cruise missiles have rocked Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and other Ukrainian cities and bases, depots and assembly areas of the Ukrainian Armed forces throughout the entire territory of Ukraine. Russian forces, backed also by the forces of Belarus have attacked into Ukraine on at least five different axes of advance. The Budapest Memorandum in which Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for a Russian guarantee of Ukrainian sovereignty, peace and security is now a worthless piece of rubbish. Israel needs to pay very close attention.

22 February 2022: Leading the way for news and information of prophetic consequence, the obvious detail not seen as yet in MSM or 99.99% of other reporting, is that the "occupied" territory of Ukraine's two oblasts (provinces) of Luhansk and Donetsk is less than half of their full-size territory as the map above illustrates. Dark blue is occupied, medium tan is un-occupied and still under Ukrainian government control, and the light tan is the rest of Ukraine's territory.

This leads to the question Eschatology Today is now considering: How far will God allow Russia to go before the prophetic hooks are put in Gog of Magog's jaws (Ezekiel 38:4)?  Will Russian armor press forward beyond the current "line of control" which is marked by WWI-like trenches along the entire length of the blue-medium-tan divide to take all of Luhansk and Donetsk? Or will the invading Russian armored forces sweep west through the important port of Mariupol and along Ukraine's Sea of Azov coastline to link up with the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula? 

Ukraine in full

And why stop there? Why not continue westward to Odessa to link up with Russian forces in the sliver of land in eastern Moldova known as Transnistria seen in the map below? If you heard Vladimir Putin's nonsensical speech yesterday, what he said included all of these other locations. In fact, what he said includes the whole of Ukraine! And depending on how far this goes, be mindful that Romania is NATO, and Moldova is a member of NATO's "Partners for Peace" program and has a mutual defense pact with Romania. Moldova and Romania were, not so long ago, one country known as Bessarabia, and they could be again. 

Transnistrian Region Map

This, in a nutshell, is where the MSM news and analysis of the day will eventually go. As usual, you've seen and heard it here first, in cutting edge graphic format. What we also are aware of is what the MSM is currently ignorant of - the prophecy of Ezekiel 38/39. Yet still, and what is more, major events and great conflict will now have to take place in and around Israel. Our eyes are wide open and we watch as our Lord has commanded us because "these things must take place."

Global SITREP A5-22: Hooks

24 January 2020: Ominous developments occurred this past weekend across the world's hot spots. Objects in motion tend to remain in motion, so the current inertia away from diplomatic endeavor and towards conflict became apparent over the last 72 hours. A quick synopsis follows.

In Eastern Europe: The Russian military continued the westward movement of very heavy weaponry toward Ukraine, and also in Russian troop deployment into neighboring Belarus. Putin, a true deceiver, could move to absorb Belarus into the Russian Federation prior to invading Ukraine. NATO allies (US and EU) took note of this and made the rapid transfer of all manner of war materiel forward deployed and into Ukraine a top priority. The US appears to have placed diplomacy on a back burner, opting instead to make known the contingency to reinforce NATO allies adjacent to the Ukraine with thousands of American combat troops. Some reports suggest the deployment number could quickly escalate from ten thousand to fifty thousand. In Ukraine artillery barrages by Ukrainian and Russian forces shattered any sense that a cease-fire was in effect. The publication of these reports is deliberate because they're normally kept in classified settings, well hidden from the public. 

In the Pacific: Communist Chinese and Taiwanese air forces faced off against each other over the last 36 hours within Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). These face-offs have continued into today. This activity is occurring while two USS Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups of the USS Cark Vinson and the USS Abraham Lincoln have entered and begun operations in the South China Sea. 

In the Middle East: Yemeni Houthi's and the Saudi-led military coalition are striking each other routinely of late. Houthi missiles supplied by Iran have struck both the UAE and Saudi Arabia this past weekend. Yesterday the Jerusalem Post published an OpEd titled "Israel Must Ready a Preemptive Strike Against Hezbollah." The article is unique for what it says Israel needs to do.

All of these hot spots are man-made hooks drawing the world into a possible world war, potentially even a nuclear war. We're watching for updates in real-time.

Global SITREP A2-22: Wars and Pestilences (Polemos and Loimos)

Central Asia Demographic Map

6 January 2022: This SITREP is more or less a continuation of SITREP A1-22 in that the focus will remain on Russia and the rapidly emerging Magog military confederation of Ezekiel 38/39, as well as what was included in the comments section of A1-22 regarding the pestilences raging in China that have become a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus and what may yet become a global plague of biological horrors, hence the Koine Greek subtitle of Polemos and Loimos.

The above (clickable) demographic map of Central Asia features our immediate area of interest in Kazakhstan, and the more heavily populated former-Soviet Republics to the south. Today as the revolution in Kazakhstan came dangerously close to toppling the pro-Moscow regime in the capital Astana, the airborne forces of several CSTO nations (first discussed here in September 2013 and noted with comments of SITREP A1-22) made the immediate airborne deployments to thwart the rapidly growing revolt absolutely essential. Tonight there are hundreds of dead Kazakh citizens and Russia is once again the power broker in what had been a nominally independent country rich in oil, gas, and other natural resources like uranium.

We've discussed how Ezekiel 38:4 ("I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out...") with respect to events that continue on Russia's western borders with Ukraine, the EU and NATO. Now with direct military intervention in Central Asia which constitute the other nations of the CSTO that figure prominently in the prophetic attempt to invade and plunder Israel, we are suddenly faced with two distinct areas from which Gog and his Magog confederation can be dragged to their destruction on the mountains of Israel. 

As you are aware from SITREP A1-22 Russia is under tremendous economic pressure (Western sanctions over Crimea and Ukraine) and well as population demographic pressures. Yet the situation in Kazakhstan was so critical to Putin and the Russian Federation that the increased burden of financing yet another military expedition into the vastness of Central Asia made military deployment there essential. A quick note here the the former Kazakh capital was Almaty, but due to its geographic proximity to Communist China, ally or not, made relocation of the seat of government to Astana, and therefore closer to the Russian Federation, an imperative. And between Almaty and Astana, across the breadth of Kazakhstan what you can see in the above map is a whole lot of... nothing. It's a vast plain that sparsely populated and virtually defenseless against foreign invasions, as the Mongol hordes of history made clear.

What happens from this point forward no one knows, but given the expense placed upon this expedition and having to secure this vast country, it resources and its population against the potential of creeping Islamic extremism to the south will be something that would drain any nation. Now image the loss Russia would suffer with the loss of Syria as seen in Isaiah 17, and the further adventure of seeking to extract spoils and riches from Israel one day soon begins to make a little more real-world sense. This is beside the point that God declared it so it will happen, but now we have an inkling of His omniscience that these events would precede the prophecy given to Ezekiel.

Also as discussed in the comments of SITREP A1-22, the reality of what is truly occurring in the Chinese city of Xi'An is made clear by the image above that was received this afternoon. This image goes a very long way to confirming that a biological disaster above and beyond a SARS-CoV-2 variant is underway in that city of 13 million and others. Sources have been relating for a couple weeks that a hemorrhagic virus, very likely Nipah Virus (NiV), is completely out of control. 

PLA troops wearing full biological protective suits with an enclosed oxygen supply backpack are not required for an outbreak of any SARS-CoV-2 variant, but are essential for human survival in a hemorrhagic virus environment where victims bleed from their eyes, nose, mouth and ears from an acute encephalopathy. NiV is know to cause this. If this escapes from mainland China the entire world will be faced with an existential threat as Nipah, if it has undergone gain-of-function research as many are now saying, is anywhere from 50 to 80% lethal to anyone unlucky enough to become infected.

Some western media are beginning to report on the crisis in Xi'An and other Chinese cities, but going so far to admit this is NiV has not yet occurred, not even on Steve Bannon's War Room program. All they will say thus far are that the symptoms of encephalopathy are very real. I have different very reliable sources who initially identified the pathogen as NiV some weeks ago when the crisis began but no one outside of mainland China knew anything about it.

We're watching...