Global SITREP A3-23: The Za'am

 

The Vision of Daniel 8

26 January 2023: This SITREP is a timely and necessary update and continuation of what was posted in Global SITREP E4-18 just over five years ago. It regards the vision given to Daniel and the interpretation of the vision by the angel Gabriel in chapter 8 of the Book of Daniel. Current events warrant an update.

Two days ago reliable media reports noted that two Iranian Navy vessels made a port call to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Iranian port call, not coincidentally, comes after another stolen election, opposed most strenuously by the people, has just recently restored a leftist government in the South America nation. 

The IRIS frigate Dena and the forward naval operations base IRIS Makran are scheduled to depart Rio on 30 January for the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is a nautical choke point the same as the Strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea. The IRIS Makran no doubt has an embarked force of IRGC marines as well as suicide drones and several helicopters. 

Israel attacked a similar Iranian forward base ship, the IRIS Saviz, in 2021 as it was off the coast of Yemen. Another similar Iranian ship, the IRIS Lavan, serving as an IRGC forward base attacked a mocked-up replica of Israel's naval base at Eilat about three weeks ago with suicide drones. Missile attack against a mock-up of Israel Dimona nuclear complex also occurred in December 2022. Therefore, it is conceivable that these Iranian ship could pose a threat to not only the Panama Canal, but also to coastal targets in the southern United States. A direct and often promised Iranian retaliation for the U.S. military assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander MG Qasem Soleimani has yet to occurs. Ship with capabilities such as these, in proximity to US coastlines could attempt one or more retaliatory strikes. 

As noted in the E4-18, this is about prophetic continuity. Again, in Daniel 8:17 the angel Gabriel informs Daniel that he was to understand "for at the time of the end shall be the vision." In verse 19 Gabriel also informs these last days are viewed in heaven as za'am, which conveys the meaning of the the Divine frothing at the mouth with rage and indignation, having fury in displeasure of the sins being committed on earth. I've not seen at any time previously a better characterization of the true meaning of "in that day of the wrath of God" than what Gabriel imparts in Daniel 8:19. The phrase "righteous indignation" has a much greater connotation than considered before now.

There are other factors to consider in the current situation, not the least of which are strikes against the Iranian nuclear program. As with many other things, such strikes could kick-start the vision Daniel was given for our present time.

As an addendum: A pitched battle between the IDF special forces and Islamic Jihad terrorists occurred this morning in Jenin. Many terrorists were "neutralized" in a sustained firefight. Israel is anticipating rocket fire from Gaza, and IDF paratroopers are reinforcing positions in Judea and Samaria. Iron Dome units are on alert. If hostilities do erupt on a greater scale, the new government in Israel is promising that its "full force" will be brought to bear on the enemy. 

Watching for further developments.

Global SITREP A2-23: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

 

Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

15 January 2023: The subject of a new political entity to the east of the State of Israel has been floating around in whispers since 2020. It potential reality has been noted in several comments on Eschatology Today during the interim. Now, it appears to be nearing the point of becoming a reality. This plan was originally crafted in Saudi Arabia, it has been published and is the subject of secret negotiations. According to a news brief published by Arutz Sheva today, the plan has been quietly revised by Jordan, the PLO and HAMAS. The revisions, amazingly, are not seen as being detrimental to the State of Israel, as the above linked Op-Ed by David Singer attests. 

Eschatology Today will explore this plan further, but the bottom line is that the plan makes very clear that Jordan is Palestine. As subset to this are the agreed-to bylines highlighting that (1) Israel will not be divided into a "two-state solution within its sovereign borders, (2) Jerusalem will be the undivided capital city of Israel; (3) Amman will be the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine with Abdullah II as its reigning monarch, (4) Israel will control 90% of Judea and Samaria, and most importantly, provision will be made for the Temple Mount to be shared among the three "Abrahamic faiths."

Focusing on prophetic Scripture informs us that this plan has no chance of becoming a geo-political reality. Asaph's Psalm 83, Isaiah 11:14 and Ezekiel 28:24-26 all indicate a different intervening reality, the reality within the will of God and the coming Kingdom of the Lord on the Earth. Both the Isaiah and Ezekiel prophecies indicate the timing as well. Isaiah prophesied that this reality will occur after the Lord has brought Israel back from places around the world into the land for the second time. 

The full-scope of Prophetic Scripture

The first diaspora of Israel (607-586 BC) was returned to the land from the Babylonian captivity in 537 BC, and thus fulfilling the 70 years of captivity of Scripture. Ezra led the revival of Israel and the rebuilding of the Second Temple in its exact location on Temple Mount. The second diaspora occurred in the time of the Roman conquest during the 7 years from 67 to 73 AD, and continued for 1,875 years until 1948 AD fulfilling numerous prophecies in the process, most notably Ezekiel 36-37. 

Ezekiel 28 tells us the that prophecy will fulfill after the same second regathering of Israel as noted in Isaiah 11. Ezekiel adds that the restoration of Israel in the land will be to that which encompasses the permanent Abrahamic Land Covenant, expanded upon and passed to Isaac and Jacob (Israel). Deuteronomy 30:4-5 attests to this promise, and Joshua 1:4 provides the full scope of the land Israel will possess. If one believes in the inerrant Word of God, then one knows without any doubt that a Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine cannot exist on the same territory as Israel which God has returned His people to for the second and final time.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP A1-23: Zionist Israel

ZIONIST ISRAEL

UPDATED 29 December 2022: We're starting the 2023 series of SITREPs three days early as this morning in Israel the new Likud-Religious Judaism government led by Bibi Netanyahu was sworn in. 

The leftist Globalist Oligarchy is none to pleased about it. As the swearing in ceremony was underway inside the Knesset building a hodgepodge of leftist groups stormed the building, only to be forcible pushed back by Israeli security forces to a distance of at least 300 meters. A photo of the leftists found online was instructive as to what groups were present. 

There were many rainbow flags of (leftist) LGBTQ, there were solid red-colored communist flags, there was even the flag of North Korea present. But this is just a tip of the iceberg that has immediately presented itself in stark opposition to this new government in Israel. The outgoing government of Yair Lapid made it clear they will do everything in their power to stand in opposition to a decidedly Zionist government in the State of Israel. The official organizations of the world such as the WEF, the UN, the current US government and a host of others are all sabre rattling as well. However, the will of God in these last days cannot be successfully opposed by any earthly power.

Jordan's king Abdullah II announced that Jordan is prepared for conflict if the status quo of the Temple Mount becomes altered. As we know from Scripture (Isaiah 11, Ezekiel 28 and Psalm 83, among others, there will be conflict and the prophetic Israel that emerges is one of the signs we've been watching for over the past decade plus number of years. Eschatology Today made clear in the very recent Global SITREP D10-22: The Emergent Religious Israel what can be expected. But, again, this is just the beginning, which shall be documented here in the coming days for as long as we are here. Suffice it to say, we have arrived at the prophetic time we have known was sure to arrive.

30 December 2022: Even before the ongoing and rather testy transition of Israel's government ministries has been completed, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been put on notice again. But this time the "Zionist entity" is truly the Zionist-led State of Israel and it's all about resolving the threat from the Iranian Twelver clerics.

The threat is existential from the new Israeli government's perspective. This existential threat will not be tolerated to continue unresolved as Israel's very existence and national security is at risk from Iranian nuclear weapons. It will be dealt with and by all accounts it will be dealt with promptly. Once again, Jeremiah 49:34-39 is the operative eschatological focus and due attention must once again be given to this passage and its meaning at present.

Not many have made note of the fact that this prophecy is now, and has been for some time, in a relatively quiet process of active fulfillment. How many are aware that the Lord's "four winds from the four corners of heaven" have scattered the Iranian people as outcasts from their country to other nations all over the globe? This is an undeniable fact and evokes Jeremiah 49:36. 

What Iranian citizen would not opt to flee the incredible persecution and outright genocide of the Twelver regime? So flee the country the Iranian citizens have; their numbers increase with each passing month in order to escape from regime's systematic rape, torture, summary executions and in many cases subsistence level living conditions. This has occurred most recently as Iran's currency, known as the Rial, has collapsed by a further one-third of its value since October. In exchange for one American dollar you will receive 430,000 Rial today. Tomorrow, probably not. Economic sanctions in effect for the past five years (2018-2022) are decimating Iran with no hope of relief as the 2015 JCPOA and the attempt to resuscitate it has ended in complete failure. It is dead, buried.

So, we should not doubt that a good portion of the IDF will soon be tasked to execute strikes on the nuclear elements of the Twelver regime and to the extent that Iran's vaunted missile forces will no longer have a capacity to raze Tel Aviv as the Ayatollah's IRGC recently claimed. In 2023 Iran's bleak future will become even more pronounced; its military will be largely neutered.

03 January 2023:  A brief recap of today's news. Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended the Temple Mount this morning. His wife, Ayala, followed suit a short time later. The Islamic world went ballistic with most referring to the event as an "invasion of the Al-Aqsa mosque. The loudest were the terror organization of Gaza, the PA in Judea and Samaria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the UAE, Egypt and, not surprisingly, the Biden Administration as well as the US State Department. The UAE, representing a group of Islamic nations has made an appeal to the United Nation to take up the issue of the Temple Mount.

The opposition in Israel led by former-PM Yair Lapid also denounced Ben-Gvir's visit to Temple Mount. Lapid also interfered today in Israel's foreign relations with Turkey by making a phone call to that nations foreign minister.

As noted in comments section there was a massive IAF missile strike on Damascus International Airport on Sunday night. The strike targeted Hezbollah and other Iranian proxy forces there and did significant damage plus fatalities. An IRGC officer was assassinated outside of his home in Tehran, Iran. 

Updates as development warrant.

Global SITREP D10-22: The Emergent Religious Israel

UPDATED 20 December 2022: Within hours Israel's new government will be announced and Eschatology Today believes this will be an Israel that very few living today have ever seen before. Only those aged 75 or older might remember the religious fervor that accompanied Israel's founding. Now with several Religious Judaism parties holding sway within the Likud government of PM Bibi Netanyahu tremendous events stand before us, all of them noted in key prophetic verses of Old and New Testament Scripture.

One item that will manifest early on is the removal of the sign imaged above which forbids Jews from enter the Temple Mount. This is something that Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's new National Security Minister will in all certainty will play a key role in. A new law, known until now as the "Ben-Gvir Law," will establish his position and add to his official portfolio a police ordinance whereby he alone will set and control what the Israeli police can and cannot do. 

As you may recall the Israeli police enforce the prohibition against Jews ascending to the Mount as well as Jews engaging in prayer on the Mount. NSM Ben Gvir is going to change that and he will soon ascend the Mount, as he's promised to do many times, and he will most likely pray once he's there. Ben-Gvir will be instrumental in opening up Temple Mount to all Jewish worshipers.

Most everyone can see where this is leading. Muslims will riot, and the Temple Mount will become the focus of the next crisis in the Arab-Israeli conflict. The battle for the Temple Mount will be joined and the history of the past 56 years will become footnotes in any books written about the current era. 

Update 23 December 2022: In concluding this SITREP, we'll build off and move forward from my comment posted at 2:31 PM yesterday regarding the new Israeli law. This new law is to be enacted prior to the passage of the 2023 budget of the new government of the State of Israel. This new law mandates the death penalty for those who commit acts of terrorism that are intent on harming the State of Israel and its Jewish people. As most of us can now clearly see with the new government in Israel the proverbial gloves have come off. 

More new laws are coming. One of them, a religious liberty law, will exempt religious Jews and business owners from exercising their Torah beliefs in refusing to provide services that are against those beliefs. This means that currently existent "anti-discrimination" laws that punish religious Jews for refusing to honor the desires of the LGBTQ community, and others, which are in direct conflict with the Hebrew Scriptures.

And finally the greatest of the new actions, and the one with very profound prophetic implications, is the inclusion in the Coalition agreement between Likud and the Religious parties is the "Sovereignty Plan." The Sovereignty Plan will bring full Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. This plan was first proposed by PM Bibi Netanyahu in September 2019. It implementation will fulfill the Zionist vision of "Israeli sovereignty over the birthplace of the Jewish people, Judea and Samaria." The election of the Likud/Religious Zionist coalition is seen as a mandate approved by the majority of Israel's voters, who have clearly made known their desire for full Israel sovereignty over the whole of Biblical Israel and no to a "Palestinian" state on the territory of Eretz Israel.

There no doubt that the sovereignty plan will be vehemently opposed, domestically and from abroad. It is very likely, in conjunction with what will occur on the Temple Mount, to be a catalyst for tremendous violence and a wholesale re-shaping of the map of the Eastern Mediterranean, to include Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and even the Sinai. This will bring about the so-called "one-state solution." All of this is one-hundred percent prophetic. In particular we'll cite Isaiah 11:12-14, and which goes hand-in-hand with Ezekiel 28:24-26, Joshua 13:1-7 and the Psalm 83 prophecy. This we have been discussing over the past 13 years (2009-2022) on Eschatology Today and are all very familiar with the subject matter.

The difference now is that we can see it coming to fulfillment through the newly elected government of Israel. The Church Age is quickly coming to a close and God's attention is moving toward Israel. The Harpazo of the Bride of Christ is more imminent than ever before, so now is the time to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all who  will receive it for their names have been written into the Book of Life even before the foundation of the world.

Marana'tha!

Global SITREP D9-22: Coming Full Circle

The Coming Convergence: Coming Full Circle

7 December 2022: To begin this SITREP a link to a 2017 documentary concerning these last days will lead off. The Coming Convergence In this video those of you who've been here from the beginning might be taken aback by the scene which depicts Bible prophecy for the last days as a series of dominoes. That's the theme of a very early post here from March 7, 2009 that was titled Prophetic Dominoes. Let this video documentary play in full and we'll continue with this SITREP a little later this evening.

Gave the video documentary an extra 12 hours of viewing time before continuing this SITREP. It's a good eschatological synopsis of what Eschatology Today blog has been about for the past 13 years. It's it's fitting to have an eschatological review such as this because it saves lots of time from folks having to read the more than 670 posts in our archive to get that same info one video can present in about an hour and 30 minutes. I doubt the vast majority would even bother to do that, so, again, we're ahead of the game so to speak. This is good because Eschatology Today is absolutely convinced that we've come to the final straightaway sprint on The Prophetic Road to Revelation, that is, to the start of the 70th Week of Years, and the fact that we've never been closer to the instant of our Harpazo to be with the Lord for all eternity. Before we know it Jesus will commence opening the 7 Seals.

Do your loved ones, family and friends and even casual acquaintances a huge favor and provide then with a link or have a viewing of The Coming Convergence with them. Answer their inevitable questions; ask them if they'd like to receive Jesus our Messiah as their personal savior and in that instant establish a direct relationship with our Father, the Creator. Northing is greater than this as the only thing we have left in the dwindling remaining time is time. God is patient in that He does not want any to perish but that all come unto Him and salvation by the Blood of the Lamb.

Back on Earth, have you noticed that in Israel that the new government is struggling big-time to form itself for presentation to Israel's president? The secular part of the Likud is not making a whole lot of headway in getting the religious party's (United Torah Judaism in particular) to agree to coalition appointments, and laws and other matters of the State of Israel. Have you noticed that is Israel today, right now, there are distinctions being drawn between regular Israeli citizens and religious Israeli's? Religious Israel is suddenly, and by no means an accident or coincidental, rising faster than has ever before been seen in the past 74 years (75 years in May 2023) of modern Israel's young history! This is a huge development of monumental eschatological significance; we all should be well informed about this sea-change in Israel. 

For example, an Israeli media headline appeared this morning made a pointed reference to a "religious teen" who went missing yesterday in Be'er Sheva. The 14-year old youth was not noted as a missing Israeli teenager, but as one of the many, many openly religious Jewish teens in the country. In the US would a distinction be made to a missing Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Muslim and atheist teenager? No, it would just be a missing teen report or a photo on a milk carton. Israel is changing before our eyes. And, if Eschatology Today can be so bold, it must be noted that religious teens such as this will very probably become the 144,000 that The Apocalypse (Revelation) of Jesus Christ prophecies about in Chapter 7 at the beginning of thee 70th Week of Years who will be given the Seal of God upon their forehead prior to the wrath of the Lord being poured out upon the earth. 12,000 of each of Israel's 12 tribes will receive the Seal. They are the "all Israel" that Paul was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write about in Romans 11:25-27.

Stay tuned, the strengthening, enlightening and encouragement in these difficult days is going to continue within this SITREP shortly, if our Harpazo does not occur first that is. Be Blessed and Marana'tha!

Global SITREP D8-22: Past, Present and Future

16 November 2022: We've seen the past, and we see the present and the Word of God instructs us about the future. And there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). 

Israel has a new government and what has been done will be done there once again. America will also soon be getting a new government. Last night President Donald Trump announced his intent to become an American president once again. Only God knows, but by His will what has been done will be done again.

In searching His word recently a prophecy was found that Eschatology Today has not previously seen or been aware of. What has been seen and has been written about on this blog is the prophecy of the sun not giving its light in conjunction with the moon being blood red, that it has a one-time and one-time only 70th Week of Years fulfillment. This prophecy is found in Revelation 6:12 when the Lord Jesus Christ opens the Sixth Seal.

But there is another prophecy that involves both the sun and the moon. This prophecy comes from Isaiah 30. Taking the entire chapter in context, this prophecy also appears to be one for fulfillment in this current generation and when all Israel is saved (i.e. in the time of the 144,000). In Isaiah 30:26 it is written:

Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

Picture that in your mind's eye. The earth's moon as bright as the sun, not just reflecting the sun's brightness, but being as bright as the sun and only a quarter of a million miles away. And the cause for this is that the sun will become seven times brighter than normal, as brightness equivalent to an entire week's worth of the sun's brightness. 

Truly this is a prophetic sign and it appears at first reading to be one which occurs as part of the Lord's judgements during the Thlipsis. Perhaps Isaiah 30:26 is related to the Trumpet judgments of Revelation 8? And it must be noted that this prophecy is just the opposite of what Isaiah 13:10-13 tells us. So placing the prophetic fulfillment in an understandable last days timeline is a challenge; further study is needed for sure.

Until then we know that God controls all things, His will is being done, governments rise and fall as He determines, and we're headlong into the imminent Harpazo of the Bride of Christ with our eyes wide open, watching, praying and saying Marana'tha!

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!