Terry James Prophecy Line

“The evil men do live after them; the good is oft interred with their bones…”.

Thus, William Shakespeare put the English words into the mouth of his fictionalized characterization of Mark Antony, as the Roman general and politician eulogized the assassinated emperor, Julius Caesar. Antony’s words were framed carefully to convince those who were in power and who had been complicit in one way or another in Caesar’s murder that he wasn’t praising the dead leader. At the same time, Antony was cleverly praising Caesar and appealing to the Roman citizens in attendance to understand that Caesar had ruled with the people’s best interest in mind at the center of all he did while their emperor.

Antony, speaking Latin translated into Shakespeare’s English words, in a way, unwittingly encapsulated humankind’s committing wickedness throughout the ages, while pointing out that all is ultimately leading to good things for Heaven’s citizens.

But it isn’t an earthly, sinful, fallen Caesar whose dead bones will bring forth the ultimate Good. It is the resurrected King of all Kings, the only Good that exists—who will one day bring about a Kingdom of perfection and goodness that will last forever.

We witness “the evil men do” daily through our newsfeeds. We’re especially given daily news cycles that report the usually terrible news of malefaction and malevolence—for example, the reports that thousands of young people are dying weekly in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Down through the years of the twentieth century and so far into the twenty-first, evil leaders have caused the deaths of millions of the youth of enemies and of their own young men, and, like in the case of Mao and Stalin and many others, slaughtered millions of their own people to hold onto political power. If there was any “good…interred with their bones” of the likes of those tyrants or others such as Hitler, I certainly haven’t learned of it.

There seems no hope for humankind if one delves into the vaults of history. Malefaction and malevolence are so evil as to invoke within those who examine history a depression from which there can be no recovery.

The dark storm clouds continue to roll upon the immediate horizon, and much of the news I receive in daily alerts points to the prospect that soon the earth will again be embroiled within world war.

Even Christian writers who report on geopolitics, et cetera, dwell upon how we are stumbling into the Bible’s prophesied time of Tribulation. There is, they hold within their theological outlook—their view of eschatology (study of end things)—that there is no hope. They say we’ll all soon be in the middle of what Jesus said will be the worst time of all human history (Matthew 24: 21).

A couple of such fearful reports by a pre-Trib Rapture-denying Christian writer were posted in our Raptureready.com News on Monday July13, 2026:

• There Is Going to Be an All-Out Fight for Control of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Implications Are Staggering
  There will be no negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz, only fighting. The U.S. and Iran will now engage in all-out war for control of the Strait, and the consequences will be felt by everyone. Traffic through the Strait will be paralyzed for the foreseeable future, and there will be a severe worldwide energy supply crunch as a result.
• The Future Is Now: War, Famine, Pestilence and Natural Disasters Will Define the Months Ahead
  The war in the Middle East has escalated dramatically over the past week, the “Super El Niño” is causing crazy heatwaves and storms, the Ebola outbreak in Africa is out of control, and we’ve had some very large earthquakes in Venezuela and elsewhere. Global events have started to spiral out of control, and the chaos is not going to stop.

Indeed, malefaction and malevolence perpetrated by the evil leaders of history and of our moment on earth have seemingly engendered a course of murderous evil out of which humankind cannot escape. The very fact that America’s military is now engaged against a religiously fanatical regime determined to blow up the US and Israel by producing nuclear weaponry shows just how nearly hopeless things appear geopolitically. Most of the world’s news sources and most of the politicians and diplomats of the world are focused on how to achieve peace. They “cry peace, peace, when there is no peace.”

There seems no hope. But there should be no fear-induced bondage for the Christian who looks to the God of Heaven and to the King of all Kings, the Lord Jesus Christ, in consideration of the Heaven-promised future. The hourly news cycles announcing that the world will soon be aflame with war only means that the Christian is but an eye blink away from instantaneous transport into the clouds of Glory to be with the Lord of Lords forever.

The evil the world has endured since the Fall in the Garden of Eden will be dealt with during the seven years of Tribulation. With all believers of the Age of Grace (Church Age) in Heaven enjoying the marriage supper of the Lamb in the union with Christ, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, God will be at work on the earth. He will use twenty-one specific judgments—the scrolls, trumpets, and bowls—to prepare a remnant of Israel for receiving their returning Messiah at the end of Armageddon.

Earth will begin a complete transformation to pristine condition—like it was before the Fall in Eden—when Jesus’ foot touches down on the exact spot where He ascended into Heaven.

He will proceed into the city of Jerusalem through a great valley created when His foot touched the Mount of Olives. His Temple will sit atop of greatly lifted up Mount Zion, where He will reign and rule over the earth for a thousand years. This will be the millennial Kingdom, which only believers will populate, and they will prosper in every way possible under the first perfect government that has ever operated upon earth.

Satan and his unholy minions will be confined in the bottomless pit for that thousand-year era (Revelation 20:1–2), so there will be no temptation to any inhabitant of earth, except from the sin-nature within each mortal person inhabiting the millennial Kingdom. Christ will rule with an iron scepter, which means with an all-seeing, all-knowing perspective. Sin, when it rarely surfaces to disrupt life, will be instantly dealt with by the King of all Kings.

Christians who went to be with Jesus in the Rapture will serve King Jesus upon earth in their supernatural, immortal status. They will no doubt oversee the mortal believers who go into the millennial Kingdom following the Tribulation and their offspring who will be born during that era.

My great friend Daymond Duck offers the following about that tremendous time of the millennial reign of Christ:

Below are seven things that the saved [those who were raptured, now in their supernatural bodies] will do:

1) Worship (Revelation 4:9–10)

2) Keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16–19)

3) Visit Jerusalem to learn (Isaiah 2:2–3; 1 Corinthians 13:11–12)

4) Fellowship (Revelation 19:9)

5) Serve Jesus (Psalm 72:11; Revelation 22:3)

6) Judge fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:3)

7) Reign on the earth (Luke 19:11–27; Revelation 5:10; 2 Timothy 2:12

These things will be more than enough to keep us busy.

Amen! And this Kingdom could be as near as seven years away, with the Rapture at any moment! Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

America celebration of birth since 1776 was spectacular, our independence from mother England 250 years previous having been a painful and bloody one, to say the least. That separation, however, wasn’t one of merely exerting cleavage from an empire determined to rule over the colonies. That is, there has been a much more profound leverage than a revolutionary spirit at work in producing that schism than just the colonists’ desire to break free of overbearing bondage.

America’s founding fathers–that is, a majority of them—recognized the nature of the profound leverage they were allowed to apply in order to burst free from the most powerful military on the planet at the time. It was providential leverage that most of them acknowledged as the intervening force that birthed this nation.

George Washington said on a number of occasions following the War of Independence that he felt the hand of the Almighty on him. He said he was providentially prevented from being shot on several occasions. In one incident, there were four rifle ball holes in his general’s uniform, but none of the balls had entered his body.

John Adams repeatedly wrote that American was a nation under God’s hand, and that America was a moral nation and the Constitution would work for no other than a moral people. Even Jefferson acknowledged a greater power as having guided the founders and seen to it that the War of Independence was won because of a providential power.

So, the desire for independence from a tyrannical, overbearing English governance was important as those patriots waged Revolutionary War. But, in the words of almost every founding father, according to extensive documents we have seen presented by experts on America’s founding, such as David Barton, it was dependence on God in Heaven they acknowledged as the true reason for America’s winning independence.

This dependence was steeped in adherence to the Word of God. The Judeo-Christian reference to America’s founding is that its founding principles were based by and large within Old and New Testament principles.

Although there is debate on who made the statement, French historian and political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville is attributed as saying: “America is great because she is good; if America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

During the early times of the nation’s founding, America was indeed good in comparison to today’s America. Jesus Christ, was the only good there was at the center of the founding principles. At this late date 250 years hence, however, we can but admit the truth that we have in many areas lost our way in comparison to those earlier times.

The entire world of earth’s inhabitants, for the most part, have strayed ever farther from Heaven’s governance. Independence is now a term that can be applied to the world pulling away from God’s desire that people come nearer to Him, not break away from Him. I believe that because of America’s founding fathers’ dependence on the principles found in God’s Holy Word, the nation could well call the date of July 4, 1776, Dependence Day. It was in large part a dependence upon Heaven above to secure the Revolutionary War victory and nationhood we enjoy today.

America, too, suffers from the independent spirit of anti-God behavior. It is actually the Antichrist Spirit that this country and all nations of the world suffer from as we dive more deeply into the end of the Age of Grace.

But vestiges of that early spirit of dependence upon the God of Heaven still linger in America during this evil day. Despite the world’s mainstream media’s constant railing against Americanism, and the leaderships of the world’s countries lying to their peoples about the ugly Americans, we see, through reports, that this nation that was once populated by a moral people can yet be sensed, even if during this time of liberty’s last gleaming.

American greatness left a World Cup traveler in tears as he admitted what initially caused him “fear to travel to the United States.”

In the weeks since the 2026 FIFA World Cup has been underway, communities across North America have embraced the prolific drinking of the Tartan Army, Norway’s Viking row, and the myriad guests soaking up cities and small towns alike. Despite seeing his home team eliminated by Paraguay, a German’s tears were for love of the U.S. after buying into propaganda about how “the country’s not safe.”

During an interview with NBC10 Boston’s Oscar Margáin, Sebastian Kraus could be seen repeatedly wiping away tears with his hands and his shirt as he got choked up about his experience as a visitor to America.

“I fall in love with this country, and this was so emotional, I even cried in the stadium,” he told the reporter after being seen taking a moment to collect himself, including a breathing exercise having been asked, “Why? Help us understand, why is this so impactful to you?”

Juxtaposed against video he shared with the outlet of a group of strangers driving him back to his hotel where he joyfully expressed, “Bob takes us home,” and “America is great,” Kraus told Margáin, “To be honest, I was a bit scared or had a fear to travel to the United States. News about shootings and criminals and that the country’s not safe.”…

“We owe America a huge apology, because America is nothing like what the media tells us,” he said in a social media video. “Everyone is so friendly, everyone is so accommodating, and I’ve honestly had the best time.”…

His whole life in Germany he’s been fed lies about America by their media. There’s a reason so many Europeans mock the US until they visit it for themselves, they’ve been brain washed by the politicians and media elites. (“German fan moved to tears after experiencing real America, Kevin Haggerty, July 6, 2026, Rapture Ready News July 7, 2026)

America’s relationship with God from its birth was independence from Great Britain through dependence on Heaven’s help. This is a truth that applies to believers in Jesus Christ. It also applies to those who are in Satan’ grip, needing to come into liberty offered only through God’s Son, who died and rose again to make the lost free from sin-bondage.

Our independence from the evil one, Satan, who seeks to destroy humankind, can be only achieved through dependence upon God’s plan of redemption.

Here yet again is that plan:

That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9—10)

Listening to a Newsmax morning program on June 29, I heard an interesting proposition that struck deeply into my “watchman on the wall” perspective.

A US general was being interviewed by the program host. They were deeply discussing the president’s dealings with the Iranian regime’s negotiators—that is, with the few who are left to negotiate.

There are, the host and general agreed, two distinct negotiating elements within Iran. That is, apparently this is true.

The general and the host again agreed. One element seems to be the diplomatic side that has signed onto the so-called MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) regarding that the regime agrees to the following: 1) Iran will no longer pursue a nuclear weapons program; and 2) The Strait of Hormuz will now be completely open to ship movement without any interference by Iranian assaults. At the same time, there are the fanatic IRG militants who continue to try to interfere with shipping in the Strait, and who do not agree to allow American or international investigators into Iran to inspect and remove Iran’s nuclear materials and nuclear production materials.

The general laid out how President Trump had just ordered a very strong strike against launch sites and other military and radar facilities in response to the Iranian violation of the ceasefire agreement by firings at a ship entering the Strait. (There have since been other retaliatory strikes.)

The general said Trump’s patience was wearing thin. He said something to the effect that the Iranians had better recognize the benefits of the president’s patient dealing through the diplomatic process, because they would find Trump’s losing patience to be something they would very much not like—implying that America’s action in that case would be far worse than Midnight Hammer, the code name of the action that initiated the whole matter.

Then the general said something that really hit. He said if the regime didn’t completely comply with the MOA they had signed, we might in the future be calling the nation Persia, not Iran. I took this to mean that because Iran would be militarily destroyed as the IRG, the nation’s name would be changed back to its ancient name.

I think that’s a distinct possibility. This war effort against Iran’s nuclear ambition and war-making in that region—things like shutting down international shipping—might end in a name change somehow in the diplomatic process of concluding the war. The name might indeed be changed from Iran back to Persia.

This possibility comes about, in my thinking, because of the talk of regime change, boots on the ground, and all the objection to such action, particularly by those who oppose Trump in all he does.

It would be just like the diplomats to come up with a change in name only, thereby telling us the threat is now gone.

Something like that would:1) allow the Islam-militant fanatics of the IRG to stay in power; and, more importantly, 2) have that Gog-Magog nation go again by the exact name given Ezekiel to prophesy.

Again, the talk within mainstream news sources, and even in the diplomatic community, is concerned with what might be coming if Trump loses his not-all-that-long-lasting patience.

And Mr. Trump has given cause with his recent comments for us to wonder what comes next, as the always deceptive, lying Iranian regime continues to play their obfuscating games.

President Donald Trump warned Saturday that the United States may be forced to take far more sweeping military action against Iran after U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites, which he said were used in renewed violations of a ceasefire agreement.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said American forces acted after Iran violated the agreement “AGAIN,” accusing Tehran of failing to learn from repeated warnings.

“There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started,” Trump wrote. “If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”

The president’s warning marked one of his strongest public statements yet as tensions continue to rise between Washington and Tehran following recent attacks on commercial shipping near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy corridors.

U.S. Central Command said American forces targeted Iranian missile and drone storage sites, along with coastal radar positions, after Iran allegedly struck commercial vessels in violation of the ceasefire. The strikes appeared aimed at degrading Iran’s ability to launch further attacks against ships moving through the region. (“Trump Warns Iran It May ‘No Longer Exist’ After U.S. Strikes Missile, Drone Sites,” by Emmit Barry, Worthy Christian News, June 27, 2026)

Most who observe things involving the area Ezekiel called Persia believe this building conflict has considerable prophetic significance. I agree.

There must be a nation in the area to join in the coalition of the Gog-led assault against God’s chosen nation. There must be some process of quasi or pseudo-solution to the present building conflict that allows the existence of a nation-force to attack the hated Israel.

I propose that a name change might be a diplomatic tool to allow this strange turn of events. It could be Persia, not Iran, that is the name of that satanically inspired nation whose chief evil angel is the Prince of Persia, which is destroyed along with all the others on the mountains of Israel as outlined in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.

While we watch all that transpires over the coming days in that region, let’s keep looking up, as our Lord commanded:

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. (Luke 21:28)

Jesus warned that things on earth will be “as it was in the days of Noah” when He next reveals Himself to humanity (Luke 17:26–27).

We’ve looked numerous times at this prophecy by the Lord. He followed that up by saying it will also be like the “days of Lot” (Luke 17:28–30), which we’ve looked at even more frequently.

In both cases, times had become so debauched, so evil, so anti-God, that God looked down and determined that those doers of wickedness had to be destroyed.

He, of course, destroyed the world by the great Flood in the days of Noah, and He decimated the civilization that existed at the south end of the Dead Sea when Lot was taken out of Sodom.

In both cases, humankind had moved farther and farther from Heaven’s governance. All the people had corrupted themselves—with the assistance of the angels who fell in the rebellion with Lucifer and came to earth to cohabit with human women.

The whole ugly process began again sometime following the days when Noah and his family escaped the destruction through the Lord’s provision of the ark.

A mighty leader—I believe possibly having Nephilim DNA at some level of his genealogy, with Nephilim being the offspring of the sexual union between a fallen angel and a human female—led another rebellion against God’s governance.

This mighty hunter, of course, was Nimrod. He was instrumental in the project that became the nucleus of this post-Flood rebellion. This was when the progeny who came from Noah and his family settled all together on the plain of Shinar. There they determined to build what we know as the Tower of Babel.

Here is the biblical account and what God thought of that effort:

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:3–9)

This was a merciful act by the Lord, not a punitive action. He could have destroyed them all, but He considered their lost, sinful condition and restored His governance in order to continue toward the redemption He would one day offer through His Son as the Lamb that would take away the sin of those who would believe and accept that great sacrifice.

People haven’t changed in their sin and lostness. The world’s population is once again moving toward this independence from God.

Humanity—through the diplomatic efforts of those who, in Nimrod-like fashion, have determined to seek and build a new world order—is in the process of constructing a neo Tower of Babel.

Symbolically, we might look at reaching out into space as trying in some ways to achieve the failed Tower project that was halted as the people were scattered by the God who created them.

We know all about Elon Musk’s efforts to saturate the heavens with his Starlink satellites. It is an effort that has come to fruition since the time Sputnik circled the globe—the achievement by the Soviet Union that launched the Space Race.

That race to mount up into the heavens is rocketing upward exponentially. The following is a brief excerpt of the latest Babel-like efforts:

As humanity prepares to bring back material from the Moon, Mars, and potentially other worlds, a new question is moving from science fiction into serious policy discussions: what if something comes back with it? The possibility remains entirely hypothetical, yet some researchers argue that the consequences of introducing an unknown extraterrestrial organism to Earth’s biosphere could be too significant to ignore. In a paper published in the journal Ambio, scientists are urging NASA to consider an unprecedented solution, a dedicated biocontainment facility on the Moon where samples from space could be quarantined and studied before ever reaching Earth.

For decades, planetary protection policies have focused on preventing contamination between worlds. Yet the prospect of returning samples from Mars and other celestial bodies is pushing those policies into unfamiliar territory. Scientists increasingly recognize that while the discovery of extraterrestrial life would rank among humanity’s greatest scientific achievements, it could also introduce unprecedented biological risks.

The new proposal envisions a secure lunar research and quarantine facility where all extraterrestrial materials would be analyzed before receiving clearance to travel to Earth. Such a system would effectively place a checkpoint nearly 240,000 miles away from our planet, allowing researchers to study potentially hazardous samples in an isolated environment. (“Researchers are urging NASA to establish a lunar biocontainment facility to prevent any potentially hazardous extraterrestrial organisms from reaching Earth,” by Lydia Amazouz, Dailygalaxy, June 20, 2026)

Obviously, God’s Word outlines the operative problem with fallen humankind. He said that whatever humans—who are, of course, created in His image—determine to do, they can eventually do. We see this in our constant thinking about reaching far into space and colonizing worlds other than the one God assigned us.

It is the effort to become Godlike—whether trying to build a new world order or reach physically into the heavens—that God won’t tolerate. Here is what He says about people trying to break the bonds He has placed on His creation:

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. (Amos 9:2–4) 

Bottom line: God is sovereign. Human ambitions apart from the Creator are fruitless and dangerous. But His corrective action is tempered by His mercy on this fallen race—thankfully.

The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. (Psalms 103:8–11)