"And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea..."

Updated 14 April 2014:  Are we now seeing complete ineptitude and powerlessness from Western leaders in the face of Russian military aggression in southeastern Europe?. Has President Obama has withdrawn the United States of America as the "on-call" backbone of the NATO alliance. Is it true that when the United States of America says its military commitment is ending in theaters of allied military operations (Iraq and Afghanistan) our NATO allies will commence to scrambling for the emergency exit to bring their troops home as quickly as possible?

While these things may appear to be true to even the most seasoned observer, as has been the case in recent times, there is more to this than we realize or can see the physical manifestation of. Despite many claims to the contrary America has not abdicated its role as a global superpower. It is instead morphing into something beyond what we and our parent grew accustomed to defining as a superpower. Through the application of technological advances this military colossus is actually more powerful than it was just ten years ago. My position is that the sum of American military power combined with that of our allies will be the basis for the incredible kinetic power to fulfill the post-Harpazo prophecy of Revelation 13:4b,

“Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

Our focus is on Israel, and the role played in the achieved and future military capabilities of the Israel Defense Forces by the United States of America is nothing short of monumental. For example, not many of us are aware that Israel's vaunted Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system currently under the final phase of its construction has been jointly funded and built with the United States. 

You may be hearing this here first. Israel's fully implemented BMD defense system will be known as 'Sword Shield,' and the final, topmost layer of this system is something straight out of former US President Ronald Reagan's vision of BMD known as the"Star Wars" missile defense system. This final layer will become fully operational next year (2015), and it is known as the Arrow-3. The Arrow-3 is much more than just a high flying missile interceptor, it is a spaceship that is fully an order of magnitude beyond anything which currently exists in the lower layers of 'Sword Shield', namely the Arrow-2, David's Shield, David's Sling and Iron Dome layers. Arrow-3 will engage enemy missiles and their warheads in the exoatmosphere, which means it is a kill vehicle that will operate outside of the earth's atmosphere. 

All of these layers will operate as one unified system, and will be interoperable with the US/NATO ship and shore-based BMD in the Middle East region. Moreover, there is a plan at this time to also extend Israel's 'Sword Shield' to cover neighboring Jordan and possibly even Egypt. This is a good idea considering what will be needed when the final engagement of Psalm 83 dust has settled.

 DDG-1000, a/k/a the extremely stealthy USS Zumwalt, was christened at the Bath Iron Works in Maine on Saturday, 12 April. There is nothing like this new United States Navy destroyer-sized warship anywhere in the world; two sister ships will soon join her at sea. The USS Zumwalt features very advanced weaponry, such as electromagnetic railguns and a virtually "self-aware" encrypted computer operating system known as TSCE that identifies any and all threats and sends the ship into battlestations. TSCE is capable of engaging all identified and confirmed threats on its own. Perhaps it is more than entirely fitting that the first commanding officer of the USS Zumwalt is Captain James A. Kirk.

In addition to this the United States of America possess a new generation of aircraft that are a technological leap beyond the famous F-117 Nighthawk, B-2 Spirit 'stealth craft.' These aircraft are not the un-piloted drones like the X-47B or RQ-180 drones which appear to be straight out of a science fiction movie; they are piloted, high-flying diamond-shaped craft (a shape known to diamond cutters as a 'trillion'). The world has never before seen anything like these craft and our enemies will not want to. Right now America appears to be walking and talking softly, but wielding a very big, powerful, stealthy and high-precision stick capable of striking anywhere on the globe within minutes. Minutes.

However, there is something far more important to pay closer attention to here than Putin's (Gog of Magog) blatant and pre-hook in the jaws aggression.  This is basic Bible Eschatology 101, and we're the generation the Lord Himself prophesied about who would see it come to pass. And we're starting to see it because as also prophesied human knowledge has increased and continues to increase at an exponential rate.

Whether we realize it or not, whether we accept it or not, we most certainly are in a combination of a perfect geo-political-military storm and the bodyguard of lies deception of a Missing-In-Action leadership scenario. This is a scenario which appears to have been deliberately created. We know it is all to be rolled up in the ultimate fulfillment of the Lord's prophetic Word. We stand on the threshold of the rise of a charismatic statesman, the ultimate peacemaker, a man with more book and field military genius than Sun Tzu, Von Clausewitz, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Hitler, Zhukov and Patton combined. A man none other than the Antichrist, a demonically-led prince of the people who destroyed Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD. I think the stage has been given its final set for his entrance through this current global crisis.

Watch carefully as this crisis moves forward in time. An alliance of nearly 800 million people without a strong leader when one is prophesied to appear in these last days is a prophecy begging for fulfillment.