Global SITREP C7-22: "After This"

19 July 2022: This is not a new topic on Eschatology Today, but it is most certainly a different treatment of the subject on the temporal facts of the Bride of Christ. These are unassailable, undeniable facts since they come directly from God, through Jesus Christ to John the revelator on Patmos circa 90-95 AD. 

There have been innumerable discussions of the timing of our Harpazo, but unless I've had a "senior moment" or two, and having read the Scriptures many, many times, I do not recall ever seeing before what the Lord brought to my attention this time around. I selected the image above as it pretty accurately frames the scene presented by John in chapter 4 of The Apocalypse (Revelation) of Jesus Christ.

Where else have we read in Scripture about a door opening into heaven and the Lord receiving humans unto Himself as the Bridegroom? In Matthew 25:1-13 a door opens and then is shut, and those who entered through the door entered into a wedding. I have always seen this parable as one pointing to the Harpazo.

And so, in Revelation 4 we also the perfect vision of the Harpazo of the Bride of Christ, perfect because as just stated, it came from God the father, to the Son Jesus Christ to John on Patmos. And here is what struck me like I've not been struck previously.

"After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.”"

Everything which follows in what John is given to reveal is what takes place after the Harpazo. That means, clearly, that the opening of the scroll by the Lamb of God that has the Seven Seals happens after the Harpazo. All of the judgments within those seven seals happen after the Harpazo. 

We have all long been aware that the 70th Week of years, the Millennium Kingdom of Christ and Eternity all take place after the Harpazo, but in the above verse we're told point blank that the Harpazo of the Bride of Christ is the first thing in the order of events. It's not after this or that event, but it is the first event in these last days that leads to Eternity.

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 C5-22: The Unfulfilled Prophecy of (Yehoshua) Joshua 13

 

UPDATED 26 JULY 2022: Eschatology Today's military assessment (see below) of three weeks ago is now a direct threat of war launched by Hezbollah (which thoroughly controls Lebanon), and by extension the Islamic Republic of Iran, against the State of Israel. The threat of war on Israel was televised live throughout Lebanon last night (Monday, 25JULY22) on Hezbollah's television channel Al-Mayadeen.

Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, who answers directly to Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, yesterday announced: "We will go to war. The decision to go to war is in Israel's hands; what we will do depends on Israel's conduct. If things drag into a war, the Lebanese people should trust Allah and Hezbollah to succeed in imposing Lebanon's will on the enemy [Israel]." 

The core of Nasrallah's declaration is not only the subject of this SITREP (the NATGAS rig on the offshore Karish field in Israel's exclusive economic zone, but ALL of Israel's offshore oil and natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea. Nasrallah got specific: "All of the gas fields are under [Hezbollah's] threat and not just Karish. There is no Israeli target, at sea or on land, that Hezbollah's precision missiles {built and supplied directly by Iran] cannot reach. If Israel produces gas from Karish in September and Lebanon does not get what it deserves, we are going to have problems.

As noted three weeks ago, the Karish FPSO NATGAS rig operated under contract with Energean is expected to begin extraction of the 1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas in September. Millions of cubic feet of the Karish product will go to the EU effectively substituting the NATGAS Russia had been supplying via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

4 JULY 2022: Joshua (Yehoshua) chapter 13 remains, in its totality, an unfulfilled prophecy. There is no question that this book is inspired Scripture and it was authored initially by Joshua, a man whom God had directly appointed as the leader of all Israel following the death of Moses. Following the death of Aaron Eleazer became the High Priest of Israel. Eleazer and his son Phinehas filled in historical data and commentary for this book following Joshua's death at the age of 110. 

Eschatology Today has often referenced Joshua 13 as being inclusive with the whole of the Psalm 83 prophetic scenario which also includes Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 28. Recent events and the specifics of the time in which we live strongly suggest that this prophecy stands at the threshold of fulfillment as part of the entire scenario. The gist of it is that all Lebanon will soon be conquered by Israel. Here the concern is specifically Joshua 13:1-7 (NKJV), which reads:

Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the Lord said to him: “You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites, from Sihor, which is east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward (which is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines—the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites; from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon as far as the entrance to Hamath; all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon as far as the Brook Misrephoth, and all the Sidonians—them I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to Israel as an inheritance, as I have commanded you. Now therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

From the beginning of Israel's rebirth in 1948 to the present there have been numerous military conflicts, invasions, special operations and other critical events between Israel and Lebanon, which has long been within the grasp of the Shi'a Twelvers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the IRGC-Qods Force (QF) and their proxy army Hezbollah. All of these incidents may now be coming to a head as Hezbollah made an attempt two days ago at military reconnaissance or an actual attack against a NATGAS platform in the offshore Karish gas field with a sortie of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or Drones). An IAF F-16I Sufa and and INS missile corvette shot all three UAVs down within minutes of their arrival at the Karish platform. 

The source for much of this data comes from OSINT; the ALMA Research and Education Center was found to have the best overall product, particularly the included imagery. 

The Energean FPSO NATGAS platform at Karish

Map to locate the Karish gas field

The Iranian-made UAVs used in the IRGC-QF/Hezbollah attempted strike against the contracted Energean power drilling rig known as a Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) rig occurred following recent threats by Hezbollah to attack this rig as a military target. Israel has a contract with Energean to extract NATGAS from the Karish field as of September 2022. Therefore the enemy action of this weekend is no surprise; Israel has "eyes on" all three UAV from the moment they became airborne, indicating a robust intelligence effort is ongoing. Perhaps the IRGC-QF and Hezbollah cannot so much as bat an eyelid without Israel knowing about it immediately. 

In any event, according to the text of Joshua's prophecy, the next "Lebanon War" will bear no similarity to any of the previous. 

So now, in conclusion with respect to the title of this SITREP C5-22, "The Unfulfilled Prophecy of Joshua 13," let me be as clear as the Holy Spirit will permit. 

The text of Joshua 13 is quite explicit, and because of this I simply surmise that those who have read it or studied it fully may not have been given the spiritual insight to comprehend its message. 

Consider: Joshua was about 92 years old, but his age is not stated in terms of years, but we know from elsewhere in the Scriptures that he lived to be 110. So Joshua lived another 18 years, but was not allowed to complete the task of conquering "very much of the land yet to be possessed." This sentence should be flashing in red before all eyes which read it. That's what is meant by it being obvious. The promised land, promised to Israel by God, yet to be possessed is still "very much." God keeps all of His promises!

God did not allow Moses to enter into the promised land, his task was simply to lead Israel out of Egyptian bondage and to the doorstep of Eretz Israel. Moses fulfilled only that which God had tasked him to complete. And has there ever been a military commander on this earth who led a conquering army at the age of 90-plus years in the history of the world? Most that I am aware of were retired a minimum of a quarter-century earlier than 90 years of age. But God and the Holy Spirit powered Joshua to the point that Scripture tells us. 

So, it remains to another future leader of Israel to complete the assigned mission of gaining the "very much land yet to be possessed." If one looks at a map, with the text as a guide, it is a whole lot more land than all of Lebanon - it includes much of western Jordan and western Syria (Aram) and even further to the south (Sinai, Egypt). The locations named in the text are explicit. This is inspired, God-breathed prophetic text, and therefore it is inerrant and will be fulfilled. Other Scriptures, such as those by Asaph, Isaiah, Ezekiel, among others, also make this explicitly clear. Scripture informs us in no uncertain terms that we are understand the clear distinction between the land to be conquered by Joshua/Israel and a future military commander of Israel.

And then there is the distribution and inheritances of ALL this land, but that is almost without a doubt something accomplished during the Millennium Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and something for future historians to notate. I hope this conclusion has assisted in the understanding of the process of multiple prophetic fulfillments, many of which are imminent in the conclusion of this generation.

Global SITREP C4-22: Expectation of a Crescendo - Part II

French paratroopers make a combat jump into Estonia

UPDATE 27 June 2022: NATO announced today that the size of its Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) will increase in size eight-fold from 40,000 troops to 320,000 troops. This increase is unprecedented in the history of NATO and a direct response, albeit belated, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

NATO SECGEN Jens Stoltenberg used diplomatic-speak in saying the eight-fold increase is due, in part, to NATO entering into "an era of strategic competition." Horsefeathers! It's brute force being called up to meet head on with the brute force and not-so-subtle sabre rattling of the Russian Federation. 

It is also not really surprising that this announcement was made today, just three days prior to the promised date (June 30th) of Russia's announced retaliation for the NATO "blockade" of its Kaliningrad enclave wedged in between Poland and Lithuania.

And Russia isn't the only strategic threat NATO is addressing with this expanding RRF as Communist China's threats to NATO and its partners in the WESTPAC region also are rapidly approaching critical mass. If any doubt arise concerning the prophetically important aspect involved one need only refer to Daniel 11:44. Yes, the world is that close, and getting closer with each passing day.

25 June 2022: Yesterday saw the SCOTUS render its decision to overturn an abomination that has plagued this nation for nearly 50 years. And we can make no mistake about it - this was a decision made by God Almighty, and we had a part in it in the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump to be President of the United States. No Democrat so elected would ever have made the reversal of Roe v. Wade a critical item on his/her agenda. In fact, neither Ronald W. Reagan nor the father-son tandem of George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush made a commitment to follow through on their campaign pledges to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Donald J. Trump made such a commitment and he followed through with it as the opportunity to nominate and seat truly conservative SCOTUS justices (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett) was placed before him by our God. These three joined Justices Thomas and Alito, and therein lies the 5-4 decision victory for the sanctity of human life created in the image of God. Yes, God made the decision and He chose Donald J. Trump to effect its execution, even though the evil opposition was successful - at least and perhaps just temporarily - in removing him by illegal and unlawful means. Today and going forward, all churches who worship God can rejoice as one Church in Christ Jesus. 

This is a tangible reminder that our Sovereign God is in complete control; His Divine will has been done. As Christian Americans it will be our duty, fully armored by God, to maintain it by our votes in November, should we still be here to do so. Marana'tha!

24 June 2022: In yesterday's edition of Arutz Sheva's (7INN) briefs section was found a very interesting article by Rabbi Nachman Kahana. This article informed about the ancient Israelite practices following the Exodus from Egypt and how each breaking down of an encampment had four Levites chosen to carry the Holy Ark to the next encampment site. At this time the Holy Ark led Israel into the battles to secure the Promised Land. 

Going forward, and following the destruction of the Second Temple, it became customary to construct batei knesset (synagogues) according to the basic design of the interior of the previous Temples. According to rabbinic tradition (and opinion) the Aron HaKodesh housed Torah scrolls just as the first two Temples had the Holy of Holies (Kodesh Kedoshim) within which was the Holy Ark that contained the broken pieces of the first Tablets, the two whole replacement Tablets and a Torah scroll. To this day the Torah scrolls are contained in a symbolic Ark which is adorned "with esthetic and artistic accessories because they are sanctified entities and the closest objects Israel has today to the Temple (Bet Hamikdash) and the Holy Ark." 

IDF Major Ronen  Aharon is the commander at the HQ of the military rabbinate near Ramle, Israel. It is here that one will find hundreds of Torah scrolls, many donated to Israel's Ministry of Defense, that are being meticulously prepared for delivery IDF unit, from the northern border to the Sinai where the original Torah was received. This is being done in accordance with Israeli military law for every active and called-up reserve unit of the IDF. As in the image above, the highly revered Torah that each unit receives lead that unit into its deployment. As Rabbi Kahana makes clear, cost is no object in this endeavor. The IDF goes henceforth into battle led by hundreds of meticulous copies of the Holy Torah.

Israel Mapping Hezbollah's Military Sites

23 June 2022: With a hat-tip to our brother-in-Christ Chuck, Eschatology Today is pleased to present Part II of our "Expectation of a Crescendo" series SITREP. Additions to SITREP C4-22 will be added as we move forward or as they happen.

The information presented here can be found, and is free to all, at the website of the ALMA Research and Education Center. Consider a donation to the site if you are so led, as I have been. Mostly, I feel led due to the deterrence (and angst) the ALMA organization is causing and creating within the upper ranks of the terror organization. Much of that is due to simply the content published online and the effect it has been having. Especially the publishing of details about Hezbollah's military installations and sites in southern Lebanon. 

To be sure, much of this is very likely known to the intelligence services of the IDF, but there are likely aspects of the OSINT that have added to the overall intel picture the IDF possesses about Hezbollah's military sites. We've reported here many times over that the IDF's brass have stated abundantly that in the coming war Hezbollah will cease to exist. The prophecy of Joshua 13 would appear to foretell that coming reality in geographic detail.

Global SITREP C3-22: Expectation of a Crescendo

U.S. warship patrolling the Taiwan Strait

UPDATE 17 JUNE 2022: The Israel-Iran nuclear weapons crisis, as noted at the opening of this SITREP on 10 June, has finally reached (pun intended) critical mass in the MSM with the publication yesterday of an OpEd on THE HILL entitled: "Israel and Iran: Five Minutes to Armageddon." The linked opinion piece hits all of the critical points made on Eschatology Today for years now; it even validates one-hundred percent everything revealed publicly by Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu regarding the treasure trove of documentation seized by the Mossad from a clandestine warehouse in Tehran in 2018, as well as acknowledging that the JCPOA "nuclear deal" is dead. Yet it was the official IAEA admission about Iran's mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle to nuclear weapons capability that broke the proverbial camel's back. It is well worth your time to read the linked OpEd, even though the secular opinion piece totally botches the prophetic truth regarding Har Megiddo. Consider this update the follow-up to the opening of this Global SITREP C3-22 on 10 June.

UPDATE 16 JUNE 2022: In the WESTPAC - China has unilaterally declared the Taiwan Strait and Taiwanese territories to be sovereign to Communist China. The Taiwanese, the US, Japan, ROK, Australia and other Western Allies all reject the Communist claims. Putin of the Russian Federation supports China. 

Russia and China have recently held naval exercises simulating war against the Western Allies in the WESTPAC. When war erupts here it will be China/Russia versus the Western Allies. It will be a global and nuclear war.

13 JUNE 2022:Two more Iranian scientist working for the Iranian Air Force (IRIAF) and within the complex IRGC aerospace programs for military applications (satellites, drones, ballistic missiles) have become deceased under mysterious circumstances within hours of each other. These two additional deaths continue the unbroken string of assassinations of key individuals within the IRGC's military nuclear and weapons development programs. 

In Israel a Knesset vote is expected today that, if it fails, could lead to a new law instituting full Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. At present Israelis living in Judea and Samaria living in Area C have been under a legal construct which will expire on 30 June 2022. If the existing law were to expire Israeli citizens living here would have little or no legal protections or rights; they would find themselves within a legal limbo. Given the fractious nature of the current Knesset, if this existing law is not reinstituted a number of MKs have pledged to bring forward and vote on a law to institute full sovereignty to Judea and Samaria. The last attempt at reinstitution in the Knesset failed. Another failure could bring down the government and result in the full sovereignty law been implemented. One need not think very hard to know how the Arab-Islamic world would react.

Damaged runways: Damascus Int'l (click to enlarge)

11 JUNE 2022: It has been confirmed, at 04:00 Friday morning, 10JUN22, the Israeli Air Force struck and put completely out of operation both of the primary runways at Damascus International Airport. This breaking news would have been posted yesterday morning but it was initially suspected to be enemy disinformation due to its unprecedented nature. 

Confirmation of the airstrike came in the form of the above satellite photo reconnaissance imagery by ISI. The image was distributed globally yesterday morning, and the rapidity of its public release speaks to its importance. The reconnaissance image serves as outstanding real-time Battle Damage Assessment ((BDA) clearly indicates three high-precision ordnance impacts (yellow boxes) on the center-line of each runway that destroyed the entire width of both the northern and southern runway at each point of impact. Optical or laser guidance is used in such precision airstrikes. 

Yesterday the government (Foreign Ministry) of the Russian Federation also publicly condemned the State of Israel for the airstrike. That the Russian government has any leeway to cite "the norms of international law" is patently ludicrous given its genocidal operations in the Republic of Ukraine. 

10 JUNE 2022: The image above shows the exterior of the newly constructed cathedral of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Given the time in which we live, it can be said this is the cathedral of Gog of Magog. However, that aside what will be said here about it is that this cathedral is NOT dedicated to Christ's Victory, but to the military victories of the former Soviet Union and those hoped for by the current Russian Federation. In a very real sense the present day armed forces of Russia are the Federation's new. man-made theological construct of Russian Orthodox patriarch Cyril, Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu, and as such it is the central focus of the Orthodox state religion of the Russian Federation. This edifice is one highly mythological creation of the state and has zero to do with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is where genocide is worshipped and glorified for its own sake.

It was recently revealed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), but wholly ignored by virtually all media, that the Islamic Republic of Iran has exceeded the nuclear threshold in having mastered the entire nuclear fuel cycle and can indigenously manufacture its own stockpile of nuclear weapons. This abominable Iranian achievement lies on the doorstep of both the U.S. Biden Administration and the Israeli government of Naftali Bennet as they have done nothing significant to preempt it. The deaths and bombing of Iranian scientists and facilities were inconsequential even though they offered the hope of something better for the world at large as a counter to the apocalyptic plans of the Twelver clerics ruling in Tehran. Only immediate military action will suffice at this time and for a very short window of opportunity. However, there are signs that such military action is in advanced planning stages with execution having been practiced in large-scale exercises just last week by Israel, and the U.S. within the past couple of days. 

 

Global SITREP C2-22: The Kill Phase of the Great Reset

30 May 2022: We've covered a lot of Bible-based "last days" ground, so to speak, in recent Global SITREPs and all of it has been of critical import in understanding exactly where we are in this current season. 

This SITREP will offer a very good look, or as I commented in the comments section of the article we're going to look at, an EXSUM or real-world/real-time synopsis of the events foretold in The Apocalypse (Revelation of Jesus Christ. 

As you read the following linked article by Leo Hohmann you'll see virtually all of the details John on Patmos was presented, but in terms everyone of us can relate to either as in-progress or as headlines that will shortly be published by the MSM.

THE KILL PHASE OF THE GREAT RESET by Leo Hohmann.

Secondly, follow the link embedded within the highlighted name: Yuval Noah Harari. The plans of these WEF people led by Schwab and his chief advisor are without question positively satanic. And, fair warning, this is meat and potatoes fare. Please allow plenty of time to digest it all. Dessert will be our soon Harpazo in the air with the Lord.

Global SITREP C1-22: Strikes in Syria Continue

 

Image capture: Masyaf, Syria 13MAY22

2nd Update Below 16 May 2022: Turning a watchman's gaze to Syria... again.

This past Friday the IAF repeatedly struck an underground bunker and tunnel complex is the vicinity of Masyaf, Hama Province, Syria. This facility struck was constructed after previous IAF strikes destroyed similar structures in this area.

These strike completely obliterated the newly constructed bunker and tunnel complex. Initial reports are of several dead and many wounded in the Friday strikes. The  nine dead and dozen wounded in the strikes are presumed to be Syrian, Iranian/IRGC and Iraqi Shi'a militia and Lebanese Hezbollah. A Pantsir air defense system and its crew which were targeting inbound IAF missiles and aircraft was also annihilated.

The assessment is that retaliation is a certainty. 

17 MAY 2022: The war alert level is higher than assessed previously.

In the past week intelligence collection has discovered that Iran has successfully transferred a number of Kh-55 Granat (Soumar) cruise missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. These cruise missiles we've noted previously, were reverse engineered from their original nuclear-capable Russian design.

Hezbollah, or IRGC troops in Lebanon, can utilize these weapons to strike as Israel's off-shore oil and gas platforms or any other strategic target in Israel that would fit in their determined Order of Battle (OOB).

This intelligence discovery immediately preceded the series of strikes at the now eliminated underground facilities and tunnel complex around Masyaf, Hama Province in Syria last on 13 May. Locating the surviving Kh-55s is certainly a very high priority for the IDF. Additional strikes are a certainty, and one of which could ignite the expected fulfillment of the parallel Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49:23-27 prophecies.

UPDATE 18 MAY 2022: Reports have begun to emerge that Russia fired an S-300 (NATO Name: SA-10 GRUMBLE) air defense missile at an IAF F16I Sufa strike aircraft during its attack on the underground bunker complex at Masyaf on 13 MAY.  

The SA-10 missed its intended target for one of two possible reasons. Either the Russian's radar lock-on was never achieved (indicating possible Syrian operation of the battery), or the F-16I Sufa's Electronic Warfare Counter-Measures (EWCM) sent the Russian missile off chasing phantom ghosts. The second reason seems the most plausible. 

The bottom line here is two-fold: The F-16I Sufa returned to base safely and the Russian S300/SA-10 Grumble battery at Hmeimim has finally fired upon Israeli aircraft striking Iranian targets in Syria in anger. A secondary outcome is also likely to present itself shortly, and that is Israel's practice of informing Russia in advance when its aircraft will strike Iranian targets in Syria will be abandoned thereby increasing the risks of a direct Israel-Russia military clash in Syrian skies.