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!

Special Edition SITREP A9-22: Ukraine Mauls The Bear

Ukraine Army and the U.S.-made Javelin ATGM

 

Ukraine Army and the UK NLAW ATGM

26 February 2022: This special edition SITREP is to highlight the incredible courage, professionalism and key weapons employed by the Ukrainian Army in its against-all-odds defense of their country against invading Union State (Russia and Byelarus) miltary forces.

Beyond the heroic Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighterpilot ace known as the "Ghost of Kyiv" who shot down a half dozen Russian jets in the first two days of the current war, or the Ukrainian Army soldier who sacrified his life to blow up a bridge providing direct access to the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, there are many as yet untold accounts of battlefield heroics. Among these heroics are the hundreds of individual Ukrainian soldiers with their shoulder-mounted ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) who are personally responsible for exacting fearsome tolls of destruction upon Russian and Byelarusian main battle tanks on every axis of the invasion forces seriously blunting their advance into Ukrainian territory.

The US-made Javelin and the UK NLAW (NextGen Light Anti Tank Weapon made by Sweden's Saab Bofors) ATGM's have destroyed hundreds of enemy tanks and armored troop carriers at ranges from 20 meters to 800 meters, meaning the ATGM gunners are in very danger close range of their armored prey. Both the Javelin and NLAW are not technically guided missiles, but are instead 'fire and forget, anti-tank missiles. One a lock on the target has ben achieved the misile flies down range and pops up in the terminal phase of flight in front of the target and strikes the armored vehice at its weakest point - from above. A devastating weapon to be sure that has killed nearly 1,000 enemy armored vehicles in the first three days of the war. There wil be many more kills as the US and UK have provided nearly 4,000 of these tank killers to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As noted in the previous SITREP, a Ukrainian observer of these weapons in action noted something which is mentioned in the prophecy of Ezekiel 38/39. He stated that when struck by these ATGMs Russian tanks catch fire and burn fiercely. Notwithstanding expensive counter-measures which have yet to be developed and proven in combat, Western ATGMs are without question game changing weapons which may ultimately obsolete tank warfare as the world has known it over the past century. Ukraine is the proving ground.

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 A7-22: Ready, Set and Hooks!

 

Is this man Gog of Magog?

17 February 2022: The current warfighting doctrine of the Russian Federation, if not the whole of the Union State (Russia and Belarus), employs the simultaneous use of Information Warfare (INFOWAR), Psychological Warfare (PSYOPS). Cyber Attacks (CYBERWAR). These types of hybrid warfare are at some predetermined point combined with conventional kinetic warfighting. 

As of the early hours today Russian Federation forces conventional warfighting against Ukraine in the southeastern oblasts (provinces) of Luhansk and Donetsk began on a scale not seen since the original invasion of Ukrainian territory in 2014. The Ukrainian military command, referred to as the Joint Forces HQ published a list of attacks that erupted along the entire front lines in eastern Ukraine.

82mm mortars struck Ukrainian Army positions near the towns of Stanytsia Luhanska and Novozvanivka. UAV dropped VOG-17 and VOG-25 grenades at Lobacheve and Vodiane, which was followed by 120mm mortar strikes. 122mm artillery opened up against Prycheplivka; Luhanske, Marinka, Syze and Katerynivka were all hit by antitank and machine gun fire. 

There are no reports of Ukrainian military casualties from the Joint Forces HQ as of 0700 EST this morning, nor have Ukrainian defenders taken the bait to return fire on the Russian forces which would almost certainly trigger a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Union State forces. Below is an image of a pontoon bridge erected in the past 24 hours over the Pripyat River in Belarus that Russian T72B3 main battle tanks would use to establish an invasion route through Chernobyl to Kyiv.

Satellite image of new Russian pontoon tank bridge
4 miles north of the Belarus-Ukraine border.

New information also cites the forward movement of several Russian battlegroups up to the Ukrainian border and not away from the border per Russian INFOWAR and PSYOPS. In recent days massive Russian CYBERWAR attacks were launched against Ukrainian military servers and at least two Ukrainian banks in Kyiv.  Suffice it to say that just as occurred in Georgia fourteen years ago, "it's on" in Ukraine today. Watching.

Global SITREP A6-22: The Past as Prologue - Again

 

NATO F-16V "VIPERS"

8 February 2022: In the clickable image above are a flight of armed F-16V Viper strike aircraft from Poland (two in foreground) and Belgium (two in background) showing the NATO flag along the eastern frontier with Russia and Belarus. The Viper is the most advanced fourth-generation variant of the venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon. Its upgrades make it fully interoperable with fifth-generation fighters like the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor. 

The F-16 Viper is a virtual sniper in the sky; it is operational with the air forces of NATO countries Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Greece and Slovakia. Other NATO countries are upgrading their F-16A/B/C/D variants to the Viper configuration. Also noteworthy, Taiwan (the Republic of China Air Force) has purchased 66 new production Vipers as well as upgrades its F-16A/B variants for a total of 206 Vipers. Also, India will fly this aircraft as the F-21.

The point of this is to illustrate that NATO forces are far more lethal than media have made note of late. Russian senior officers, especially former KGB, are aware of this and have openly cautioned Putin of the risks of provoking combat with NATO. In fact they have called on Putin to resign, accusing him of warmongering with NATO. Moreover, all sides understand that a deadly game of brinkmanship is in progress, both internationally and within the opposing alliances themselves, and that any miscalculation would prove disastrous for all. 

MiG-31K with KH-47 Hypersonic Missile

Yesterday as US paratroopers were arriving in Poland, Russia was deploying tactical nuclear weaponry to Chkalovsk Air Base in Kaliningrad in the form of a MiG-31K Foxhound carrying a KH-47 hypersonic nuclear missile under its fuselage. The KH-47 has been noted to carry a 500kT nuclear warhead, has a range of 1,240 miles and which it delivers to its target at a speed of over 7,600mph. London could be nuked in approximately 10 minutes from Kaliningrad's air space. Still, the opposing forces have not yet locked horns in the same manner as Ukrainian forces and Russian forces are engaged in the Donbas of eastern Ukraine where from 100 to 1,000 violations occur on a daily basis.  

What Eschatology Today is alert for now is the point where Divine hooks to turn the eastern Union State's (Magog Confederation) gathered forces around towards Israel due south (Ezekiel 38/39). That will most likely occur after the dust settles  from a brief and quite violent war in the Levant from which Israel, though injured, emerges victorious (Isaiah 17, Psalm 83).

Considering this crisis is occurring during a complete lack of leadership in the NATO alliance is no accident. It is this soft, often nonexistent leadership, ably exemplified by French President Macron's reprising the role of Neville Chamberlain prior to WWII, that will soon morph into 10 nations holding each other up  when the leadership vacuum is suddenly filled by an eleventh man, the little horn from Daniel's prophecy. The Antichrist.

Here is where we reprise, in proper sequence, "The Past As Prologue" with three key Eschatology Today posts from the very beginning of this blog. From 2009, The Origin of The Antichrist.  From 2016, The Past As Prologue. And from 2018, Global SITREP B9-18: The Kings. One thing has always been in the forefront of this blog, and that is the guiding hand of the Lord from His prophetic perspective through the lens of inerrant Scripture and the ability to highlight real-wor;d events before they happen, sometime by hours and other times by days, week and even months. Here again with the SITREP we lean forward again by looking as the past. There is nothing new under the sun.

Marana'tha!