“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)

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was on the Newsmax This Week on Capitol Hill program with host Tony Perkins. They were discussing the agreement with the Iranian regime President Trump announced late in the week previously—the agreement the president declared to be a “great deal.”

The senator is one of this president’s most ardent supporters, particularly in foreign policy, and even more specifically in terms of Trump’s declaration that Iran will never get a nuclear weapon. Trump has said emphatically that Iran—neither through developing one through nuclear material enrichment nor through receiving such a weapon by being given it by or purchased from a source such as Russia, North Korea, or some other such entity—will never have a nuclear weapon in its military arsenal.

I, myself, have held out hope that there are numerous unknown elements in this “deal” that will indeed accomplish great things for America, Israel, and the world. So, I was surprised that Lindsey Graham, who is supposedly deeply in the president’s inner circle of knowledge about the “deal,” was so on the cusp of being highly critical of this arrangement the president has apparently made with the terrorist regime.

Graham and Mr. Trump are close personal friends; they often play golf together and are supposedly on the same page in most all things regarding America’s military involvements around the globe.

Senator Graham said something to the effect that he loved President Trump as a close friend, but that America’s security and that of Israel takes priority over all else. And there are things in this agreement, he intimated, that he isn’t certain about. He will have to learn the final agreement’s details.

I’ve always somewhat respected Senator Graham because of his pro-American, conservative stance. But I’m also a bit wary because he is a close associate of those in government who are involved in the military-industrial complex. These are too quick, I believe, to get the US involved in foreign conflicts. Many accuse this agglomerate of being in it largely for the US tax dollars that fund their ambitions.

All of that said, I believe it’s time to assess, in terms that matter, what these intrigues might mean in thinking on Bible prophecy.

A long-time Christian friend from India recently expressed in an email to me his, and I presume many of his fellow countrymen’s, fears about what this agreement with the Iranian regime might entail.

Whether it is my friend’s words or some he gathered in his news sources, here is what he sent.

We all know what Trump did namely deserting Israel. People are talking of reasons unknown to us. Some say it is fulfillment of prophecy in the last days.

U.S.-Iran agreement to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. That is not victory. Not if winning is still the main metric of victory. That is a wounded serpent being allowed to crawl back into the rocks to reload, rebuild, rearm, and reactivate. That is why this proposed deal is so dangerous. A ceasefire with a defeated enemy is one thing. A ceasefire with an undefeated terror regime is something else entirely. It is not peace, it is a pause button, just as Obama’s 2015 Nuclear Deal with Iran only allowed them to get closer to a nuclear weapon. Trump’s Iran peace deal is not resolution, it is reload time. It is not the end of the war; it is the intermission before the next act. There’s a reason why Iran is mentioned in the Bible and the United States is not. Trump is preparing to send billions of dollars to Iran if this ‘peace deal’ goes through, and that is bad, bad news on any level, and on every level. Today we bring you everything you need to know about what will possibly the worst deal America has ever struck with a foreign adversary…

My concerned friend from India expresses fears from his part of the world. It is a sort of fear that one can sense growing.

Senator Graham suggested there must be clarification to assuage such fear—or, I sense he was saying, the deal must be scrapped and other avenues pursued. (Graham reportedly has since softened his opinion of this fourteen-point plan in making a deal with the Iranian regime. He now, the report says, has endorsed fully that document.) Talk-show host Mark Levin (“on the other hand”), who is Jewish and a Trump supporter for the most part, also sees the current situation with negotiations with Iran’s untrustworthy regime as problematic.

As for this writer, I know that our God has placed Donald J. Trump in this, the most powerful geopolitical position on earth. And I do believe this president is a negotiator who’s unparalleled in the history of presidential diplomatic undertakings. However, it comes to the forefront of thinking in the spiritual and prophetic sense—this is, if looking at it as a human president dealing from his own thinking and stratagem, a very dangerous negotiation. In other words, if God in Heaven isn’t at the center of the negotiations in this case, Mr. Trump and the “great deal” he has, he believes, made is destined to fail.

This, in that case, is President Donald John Trump vs. the prince of Persia (Daniel 12). It is “the art of the deal” vs. “the black art of deception.”

The supernatural dealer in deception has been at it a long, long time, Mr. President. Be sure you are on God’s side, not merely negotiating from your own experience as a dealmaker.

One other element that has prophetic import is that this is being praised as the greatest “peace deal” of all time. If Middle East peace can be achieved, it will be like no other negotiation in history, it is being touted.

To me and to other prophecy watchers from the pre-Trib perspective, this boast harkens to the apostle Paul’s warning in God’s Word: “When they cry peace and safety, sudden destruction comes” (1 Thessalonians 5:3).

Regardless, God is always in complete control, and this “deal” hasn’t and won’t take Him by surprise. We as believers can take great comfort from that reality because it all means Christ’s call to us might be the next voice we hear.

Paul tells us of this comfort in his revealing of the mystery of the Rapture of the Church:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:13–18)

In thinking about this article, something that both saddened and angered me came to mind.

Years ago, I heard a well-known actress talking with a TV show host; I believe it was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. (So, it has been a long time ago—back when I still had eyesight.)

The famous actress said that when she was a very small child, she remembered sitting on a curb by her home waiting for a family who lived nearby to come by and pick her up to take her with them to Sunday school.

She said she remembered being excited because she would be together with her friends. But it was also a good memory because she enjoyed learning all about Jesus.

She said her father, one of the most famous actors in the history of cinema, would always mock her for wanting to go to Sunday school. He would say things like, “If you want to believe those silly fairy tales, go ahead.”

In telling it, she gave a little laugh, but I saw on her face the probability that the memory wasn’t one she cherished.

That same actress grew up and has been part of many movements that are ungodly, even unpatriotic. I still think of the little girl sitting on that curb and what might have been.

She has said at one point that she became a Christian, but one would be hard-pressed to see any public evidence of that conversion.

All children, although—due to the Fall—they’re born into sin like all of us, are innocent in the holy eyes of God until they grow to spiritual maturity, or the “age of accountability,” as I’ve heard it called since my own early childhood.

That little girl’s innocence disappeared from her life, we can presume, unless she indeed asked Jesus into her life, even at that early age. (I continue to pray that she is saved.) Her excitement and joy as expressed on that TV show might mean she had done so at that early point. I, myself, was saved through confessing Jesus as Savior at only six years of age.

But, again, from her public record, other than her later saying she had become a Christian, I see no evidence of her conversion.

So how does the title of this commentary relate to the prophetic picture?

Loss of innocence—as humans grow without the presence of the Holy Spirit, who lives in those who have accepted Christ as Savior—leads to progressive sinfulness. That is, the person, apart from God, lacks true moral guidance in life. This condition leads toward evil, not godly goodness. Paul, the great apostle, said in this regard: “But evil men and seducers shall [grow] worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

Certainly, we can understand this loss of innocence growing into absolute evil when reviewing the history of the lives of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, or mass murders Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacey, and others. However, considering that all of humanity has, since the death of innocence in Eden, been moving ever farther from God’s governing goodness, we can’t ignore the frightening reality of where it’s all heading. The prophetic future is bleak almost beyond comprehension.

I believe there is no more profound example of how evil humankind has come than the millions upon millions of babies who have been murdered in the wombs of their mothers, and even outside the mothers’ wombs once born. America is at the forefront of this anti-God horror, with perhaps seventy million such abortions committed to this point.

And for those who might read this who have aborted their child, please know there is forgiveness of God upon repentance (asking for forgiveness, accepting Christ, and turning from this evil). The baby you have lost will, upon your repentance, be awaiting you in Heaven, with absolute love from God the Father.

And the evil in our very nation has progressed to a level that makes the actress’ childhood experience mentioned earlier come to light dramatically, in my view. This news item makes the point:

Despite her love of Christianity, a young Maine girl has been prevented since 2024 from going to church, attending religious holidays, being “exposed” to the Bible or other scriptural literature, and even having Christian friends — all because of a judge’s order in a parental rights case.

The draconian restrictions have been in place for some 18 months as Emily Bickford and her daughter Ava, 13, wait for a decision on an appeal to the state’s Supreme Court eight months ago after Portland District Judge Jennifer Nofsinger issued the shocking ruling in late 2024 as part of a dispute between the girl’s parents.

Not only has the ruling impacted the lifestyle and pursuit of happiness by both mother and daughter, on its face it appears incompatible with the founding principles of the United States.

The right to worship granted by the First Amendment is not in the grip of any judge to grant or abolish, the Portland mother told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview this week.

“That is not theirs to take away,” Bickford said. “It’s in our Declaration of Independence. Our forefathers knew we had inalienable rights given by God. God gave us the freedom to worship him, and there’s no government that can take that away from us.” (“Exclusive: Girl Kept from Church, Bible, and Christian Friends by Portland Judge Awaits Appeals Court Ruling,” Breitbart, Rapture Ready News, June 9, 2026)

America’s innocence since its birth, when most of the founding fathers had Christianity at the center of their thinking, has all but disappeared. In place of the loss of innocence has come the deaths of nearly seventy million babies, whose murders have been condoned by America’s national government. The results have been the coarsening of culture—the destruction of much of America’s founding innocence.

This is but a prelude to the ramifications of what’s to come due to the satanic influence embraced by those who reject the offer of redemption—the forgiveness of sin offered through God’s grace gift through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

When the innocent (all who are God’s children through acceptance of Christ) disappear in one spectacular moment, evil will make life hell on earth for all who are left behind. Only the guilty will then inhabit this judgment-bound planet. Jesus, Himself, said it will be the worst time of all human history (Matthew 24:21).

The Rapture is imminent. It can happen at any second. All signals show that the time of Tribulation Jesus described is about to begin. The Rapture—the disappearance of innocence (Christians)—will have to take place before judgment falls, like in the days of Lot in Sodom.

Here is how to go to the safety of Jesus Christ in the clouds of Glory and be eternally in the grip of God the Father as His child:

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)  

Words from Heaven through prophecy yet future thunders from the voice of God:

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. (Revelation 18:4)

These are words given by the God of Creation as He informed the disciple that He loved, John the Revelator, of a certain city’s impending doom.

Theologians have long debated and offered postulations of every sort about this dynamically influential cultural center where evil will play out until its devastation.

Those arguing the case of the Revelation chapter 18 Babylon the Great seem to relish thinking about whether it refers to a particular nation, an actual city, or—the liberal types would offer—merely an idea of human rebellion that ultimately will be judged.

In some ways, this Babylon seems to mirror Sodom and Gomorrah in the days-of-Lot description in Genesis chapter 19.

The cities comprised another cultural center of debauchery and evil out of which God removed His “people.” Then destruction came, and the archaeologists are just now digging up vestiges of that ancient region. Evidence is now overwhelming that Sodom was an actual city and region at a specific time in history. There is no doubt that it suffered tremendous destruction even greater than what was ascribed to Pompeii under the explosion and aftermath of Mount Vesuvius.

In my view, there is little doubt that the Babylon the Lord described to John is destined to be a literal city. It will, I believe, be the greatest city ever, in terms of the influence it has had on humanity’s rebellion against the God of Heaven. And, yes, the condemnation is also directed at the entire anti-God Babylonian system of all human history since the Fall in Eden.

Because we’re so far along toward the consummation of this Age of Grace (Church Age) as all prophetic stage-setting indicates, Babylon the Great—the city described by the angel to be like no other—almost certainly is on the earthly scene at present.

Such a powerful cultural and commercial center would take decades to develop to the point of being that all-inclusive influence. This is my most pointed argument against Babylon the Great being scheduled for future construction in or around the ancient city of Babylon in present-day Iraq.

Israel is the most tremendous signal of just how late we are in this prophetic hour. We’ve watched in recent days God’s chosen nation—His chosen people—suddenly dominating headlines. Anti-Semitism has grown exponentially just within a few months, stemming from the horrendous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

From that attack most of the world INEXPLICABLY turned to hatred against Israel and instead made the Islamic fanatics who murdered, raped, and kidnapped innocent Jews and others the center of their insane support. Israel was somehow made the evil in all of this, and must, in the satanically inspired view of the anti-Semites, be expunged “from the river to the sea.”

This is inexplicable only if one doesn’t understand God’s Word and Bible prophecy. The hatred is totally understandable if one realizes that Satan, God’s number-one enemy, has targeted God’s chosen people for annihilation.

He tried it throughout the past millennia, and he tried it with Hitler and the Nazis. This last-ditch effort is going to prove to be the devil’s greatest effort because he knows his time is short—very short.

I propose that Babylon the Great might well be New York City. That city fits the description as no other. It is here at this very moment, while all the other prophetic indicators are literally bursting forth during every news cycle.

Here is the prophecy the angel brought from the throne room of Heaven. It is lengthy, but I believe we must look at it carefully to understand its seeming mirror-image of New York City, which most powers-that-be consider the greatest city on the planet.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! (Revelation 18:1–18)

God’s Word—through the angel here—calls this a “city.” Therefore, I take this messenger at God’s Word. This prophecy is referring to a city.

There is no city on earth like this one…except the great city located on Manhattan Island and its surrounding geography.

With all signals present on today’s horizon, as I said, every direction we look that is setting the stage for prophetic fulfillment (the chief signal being Israel appearing front and center in the news cycles) New York City must be considered a prime suspect for this doomed metropolis.

And this Holy Spirit-directed thought comes to mind: This great city has just recently come under a government with genuine anti-Semitism at its black heart. The new government has moved in many directions to show its disdain for the Jewish population of New York City—even though NYC has a tremendously large population of Jewish people, many of whom voted for the current mayor.

One small step in such an anti-Semitic direction is wrapped up in the following:

Radical socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was the first mayor in over 60 years to skip the city’s annual Israel Day Parade, which was held on Sunday, despite attending other events that celebrate the city’s diverse cultural landscape.

As The Geller Report notes, “Mamdani’s hatred of the Jewish people is so consuming, it defines his mayoralty.”

Mamdani, instead, bizarrely rode around the city on a bicycle in a full suit…

Former Mayor [Mike] Adams took to X to troll Mamdani ahead of the parade, noting, “This year, [the Jewish parade] means even more.”

“At a time when antisemitism is rising across our country and Jewish New Yorkers are facing hatred, intimidation, and attacks at unprecedented levels, you cannot afford silence.” (“Bizarre: Communist Zohran Mamdani Skips Israel Day Parade, Spends Day Riding Bike Around NYC in a Suit,” Margaret Flavin, New York Post, May 31, 2026)

The assaults and insults against God’s chosen people are growing daily and with ever-increasing virulence. Those seeking office in NYC are filled with blatant hatred for Jews and Israel. (And I don’t use the term “chosen” loosely, because God has made it clear they are His chosen people).

Another case in point is the following:

New York Democratic House hopeful Brad Lander doesn’t just bend the knee to Islam; he prostrates himself and licks its evil boot. He attended a Holocaust-denier’s mosque in Queens, repeated a Quranic verse in Arabic, promoted Hamas, and accused Israel of “potentially” committing genocide in Lebanon. This Democrat is on an antisemitic roll.

The New York Sun reported in January 2006 that Al-Khoei imam Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani claimed that Jewish deaths in the Holocaust were “exaggerated.”

“The numbers which have been mentioned are too much,” Al-Sahlani told Sun reporter Russell Berman during the interview. “The numbers, the reasons, we have to study more.”

Al-Sahlani contended that the Holocaust was “done by the Zionists” and expressed admiration for British Nazi apologist David Irving, then in prison in Austria on charges of Holocaust denial, during an interview in April 2006. (“NY Dem Brad Lander Attends Holocaust-Denier’s Mosque, Repeats Quranic Verse in Arabic, and Vows to ‘Partner’ With Muslim ‘Squad’ Members and Mamdani,” Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, RAIR, May 22, 2026)

If we truly pay attention from the perspective of this portion of the Revelation about Babylon the Great, the key is that God at one point tells “His people” to come out of this wicked place that’s about to be decimated by holy fire.

These “people,” I think we should consider, might be referring to the Jewish people who are in Babylon the Great when chapter 18 is fulfilled. God will cause them to “come out,” as the prophecy states. Many of these Jewish people will undoubtedly constitute part of the remnant who will be saved en masse as they see Jesus Christ returning at Armageddon (Revelation 19:11).

Again, New York City has a massive number of God’s chosen people, the Jews, among its population. That number is second only to the number in Israel, the nation.

There is already a growing call for God’s chosen to remove from New York City, as this excerpt reports:

A group of Orthodox rabbis dedicated to religious outreach is calling on the Jewish residents of New York City to immigrate to Israel after Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani—a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a cofounder of the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College in Maine—won the mayoral election.

On Wednesday, hours after news networks announced that Mamdani had clinched the election, the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization issued an open letter to New York City’s Jewish community and Diaspora rabbis, calling for “renewed reflection on strengthening ties with Israel” and “giving deeper meaning to Jewish identity in light of the growing antisemitic discourse” in the city that is home to the world’s largest Jewish community. (“Rabbinic group issues open letter to Jewish residents of New York City, urging them to immigrate to Israel after Zohran Mamdani’s victory,” World Israel news staff)

So we have one more major element of prophecy to consider in thinking on just how near we must be to Christ’s Second Advent—thus how much nearer we must be to the Rapture!

There is growing worry, especially among Israeli news sources, about Israel’s future. One primary reason for the angst is Turkey’s dramatically growing desire and efforts to establish hegemony over the entire region. This, they fear is happening while America’s desire to withdraw from the region as “sheriff” threatens to leave Israel to defend itself without US military help.

Turkey, of course, is included, we believe, within the prophesied Gog-Magog assault given by the prophet Ezekiel.

Here is God’s Word on the initiation of that future assault on God’s chosen nation, Israel.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. (Ezekiel 38:1–7)

The term “the house of Togarmah of the north quarters” speaks of the ancient geographical region now occupied by modern-day Turkey.

That nation today is often front and center in news from the Middle East. Under the leadership of a man considered by many to be a voracious dictator, Turkey is indeed seen as flexing its military and hegemonic muscles while strutting upon the end-times stage.

One story frames the situation well, I think:

Israel is closely monitoring a series of regional military and geopolitical developments this week that analysts say could reshape the balance of power in the Middle East, particularly as Turkey expands its influence and the United States signals growing fatigue with military involvement in the region.

The long-standing goal of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to establish his country as the leading Islamist political, cultural and military power in the Middle East as a stepping stone toward resurrecting the Ottoman Empire has been well documented.

This week, some progress appeared to be made toward that goal when the EFES-2026 Combined Joint Live-Fire Field Exercise took place along the Aegean coast near İzmir, involving large land, naval and air forces from the Turkish military alongside contingents from 50 other countries, including Syria and Libya…

Ankara’s growing influence, not only in the Middle East but also in Europe and Africa, is viewed in Israel as an increasingly worrying development.

Students of Biblical prophecy have also noted the prominent mention of ancient regions corresponding to modern-day Turkey, Persia (modern-day Iran) and Libya in the coalition of nations that come against Israel, described in the prophecies of Ezekiel chapters 38-39…

”The U.S. doesn’t want to be in the Middle East anymore, while Iran and Turkey both want to be the new sheriff in town,” said a U.S. CENTCOM intelligence analyst who spoke to ALL ISRAEL NEWS on condition of anonymity.

“They might be willing to share it, or they might compete with each other, while Egypt, Saudi and the rest make a deal with one or the other. Israel might be all alone soon. You better figure something out real fast!” (“Israel Watching Regional Military Shifts with Growing Concern,” All Israel News Staff, May 24, 2026)

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan exhibits all the attributes given most dictators of the world throughout history. He is an avid anti-Israel Muslim and will easily fit within the Gog-Magog coalition if he is the one to lead Togarmah in the deadly assault on God’s chosen nation and people.

Turkey has joined with the other Gog-Magog coalition members in several ways over recent years. Russia (Rosh) and Iran (Persia), along with Turkey, seem to be the three prime movers and shakers that will lead the deadly attack.

Only it won’t be deadly for Israel. It will be extremely deadly to that Gog-Magog force!

Here is God’s description of that evil coalition’s fate:

Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel: And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. (Ezekiel 39:1–5)

This assault will be world-rending because God Himself will unleash supreme power and authority over Satan’s wickedness. All but one-sixth of the forces will be destroyed.

Because this will be an event, probably with nuclear fire, falling upon many nations and their coastlands, I believe this Gog-Magog attack will take place after the Rapture, not before.

Jesus, as I’ve written many times, promises that things will be business as usual at the moment He next catastrophically intervenes (in the Rapture of the Church; see Luke 17:28–30). Therefore, things will not “be business as usual” when God deals with those who would destroy His nation and people.

Again, even as chaotic as our world is now, things are still “business as usual,” with people buying, selling, planting, building, and moving through all the other activities of life. There has been no truly world-rending catastrophe.

But that catastrophe is coming…for believer in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, however, it will not be catastrophe, but the most glorious moment possible when the Rapture occurs.

Here is how to go to be with Jesus when He shouts, “Come up here!”:

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)

When going to Google to flesh out my quest to write on the war being waged against Christianity today, I immediately discovered a primary attack strategy  the enemy uses.

In putting in research lines and terms, the search results often placed Christianity in the position of being the aggressor  against the social norm Christianity opposes—i.e., Christianity is most often at first presented by the search engine as wrongly assaulting the issue or event such as abortion, a homosexual convention, or whatever.

Although the search engine eventually got to the facts involving the Christianity-vs.-the-anti-biblical matter being researched, facts were reached only after going through several levels of attempts by the search engine to imply, at the very least, that Christianity, not the opposition matter, was likely in error.

There is no doubt, considering the way things are swiftly trending, that a war is being waged upon true Christianity-–that is, biblical truth.

Christians who engage in this battle are indeed combat soldiers of the cross. The proof is in every direction upon the prophetic horizon that this is an end-times battle of epic proportion. That proof is made clear through accumulating evidence such as the following:

• UK pastor says he was arrested for preaching the gospel, speaking out against Islam
  A 66-year-old U.K. pastor arrested while street preaching in London, said he is facing hate speech-related charges for preaching the Bible and speaking out against Islam. “It’s called inciting religious hatred — which is false,” Pastor Steve Maile told Fox News Digital. “The cross of Christ is a message of hope, love, mercy, and reconciliation to a fallen world… How could that be hate?” (Rapture Ready News, May 16, 2026)
• Irish Pastor Convicted, Fined for Preaching Near Abortion Facility
  Clive Johnston was arrested for holding an outdoor church service near a hospital (near an abortion facility) despite not mentioning abortion. He was convicted of violating Northern Ireland’s “safe access zone” law. “This is a very dark day for Christian freedom,” Johnston said. (The New American, Rapture Ready News, May 19, 2026)
• Every year Open Doors USA releases its World Watch report of the 50 states most likely to punish Christians for their faith…

The group Open Doors USA figures that 360 million Christians last year lived in countries where persecution was “significant.” Roughly 5,600 Christians were murdered, more than 6,000 were detained or imprisoned, and another 4,000-plus were kidnapped. In addition, more than 5,000 churches and other religious facilities were destroyed.

American Christians talk of persecution, but that is what real persecution looks like. (“Christianity Is the World’s Most Persecuted Religion, Confirms New Report” by Doug Bandow )

Here in the United States, opposition to Christianity and its principles of morality is on the grow as never before. The following points to that burgeoning opposition:

“Progressive outlets are in an uproar this week over a White House sponsored Christian prayer event scheduled to take place on this Sunday at the National Mall.  The Trump administration and the Freedom 250 nonprofit will host ‘Rededicate 250,’ which will feature Cabinet members and conservative religious leaders to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary.

“According to event organizers, the program aims to reflect on the faith of America’s founders and serve as a national moment of rededication. Participants include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“Leftists journalists and Democrats are accusing the Trump Administration of violating the US Constitution and the ‘separation of church and state’ by sponsoring the event.

“We have seen how governments devoid of religious principle behave—The atheistic regimes of communist Russia, China, Cambodia and North Korea have murdered millions upon millions in the name of ‘saving’ the populace from the ‘opiate of religion.’ We have also seen how movements like the political left behave when they gain power, injecting authoritarianism and degeneracy into every facet of society and even targeting children with irrational and anti-science indoctrination.” (“Establishment Media Outraged By White House Sponsored Christian Prayer Event,” ZeroHedge, May 16, 2026)

The same Zerohedge article gave a sense of America’s founders view of this battle involving Christianity vs the world’s evil:

“The Founding Fathers are often described by leftists as ‘followers of the Enlightenment,’ as if this means they were not Christian. [Most] of them were in fact Christian while also promoting some ideals of the Enlightenment.  Many prominent figures of the enlightenment were religious, including Isaac Newton, John Locke, and Christian Wolff.

“Their goal was to seek harmony between faith and reason, not erase the practice of faith from society or government.  As John Adams said:

“‘The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity…I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.’

“He also stated:

“‘Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

My Maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Adams. We are supposedly somehow related to John Adams and, of course, his son, John Quincy Adams.

Whether related in fact or not, I’m in complete agreement with President John Adams’ belief in engaging in combat for Christ in this increasingly wicked world.

It started out as global warming, eventually with Al Gore’s infamously spawned picture of a polar bear floating atop a small area of ice somewhere near the Arctic, I think it was. The picture and all that flowed from that heart-tugging graphic caused much panic within the progressive enclaves of America and the world. Children in the classrooms were particularly dismayed seeing the photo and receiving the teaching that we were all doomed.

The polar bear’s supposed dilemma was to illustrate the swiftly developing ecological condition that would soon have us all, symbolically at the very least, floating on an ever-decreasing area of existence upon the planet.

We were informed–assured—by supposed top scientists that soon the Atlantic would be up to the first floor of the Empire State Building as the oceanic waters took over America’s geography as well as the rest of the world’s inhabitable areas.

But as the years and decades came and receded, the opposite was shown to be happening. The Arctic and other icy regions actually grew in their frozen expansion.

The whole lie was concocted to control the populations of America and the world. The same type of control has been attempted, and was even considerably successful, with the COVID hoax that was foisted upon us a couple of years ago.

America and the world were going to have to bow to those who knew the “science,” which the rest of us, according to those authorities, did not understand.

The results of the changes made under the lies of global warming and the COVID hoax were to make billions of dollars for those perpetrating the lies and, more egregiously, to prepare the way for forcing acceptance of demands upon those who will live under the terror regime of Antichrist at some future prophetic point.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:16–17) 

The successful indoctrination in the global warming and COVID matters proved beyond any doubt that people are susceptible to the constant, fear-mongering warnings and threats of those who have the means to control–those with information dominance. Satan, as “prince of the power of the air,” is at the helm of all such lies. His “son of perdition”–Antichrist—will use all available platforms of satanic inculcation to bring about adherence to the devil’s control demands during Daniel’s seventieth week–the Tribulation era. 

The minions, both demonic and human, are hard at work at this moment, continuing to try to bring about submission to the control techniques of the one who stalks about seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5: 8).

I think we see the furtherance of this effort with the most recent warnings issued breathlessly by most all mainstream news sources regarding the Hantavirus health scare. It is prudent to ask how long it might be before we are again asked to change everything in our lives because of this most recent or a future threat made up by the minions.

Actual facts about the global warming lie—changed because of its failure to produce the terrors predicted from global warming to climate change—recently made their way to the surface of truth-telling. 

The IPCC has published a new generation of climate scenarios—and buried in the fine print is a remarkable concession: the extreme warming pathways that dominated climate research, policy, and media coverage for decades were never actually plausible. It took a while to notice because almost no one in mainstream media bothered to report it.

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios,” Science policy analyst Roger Pielke Jr. wrote, calling it “big news” that “eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades.” 

The conclusion was unambiguous. “The IPCC and broader research community has now admitted that the scenarios that have dominated climate research, assessment and policy during the past two cycles of the IPCC assessment process are implausible. They describe impossible futures.”

Those “impossible futures” formed the backbone of a decade-plus of apocalyptic climate messaging – melting ice caps, submerged coastlines, mass extinctions, widespread crop failures, and global hunger, always around the corner, always demanding immediate, economy-reshaping action to avert a catastrophe that, it now turns out, the underlying science community had assigned to a category closer to science fiction than projection. (“UN Climate Panel Quietly Admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios Were ‘Implausible’,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, Thursday, May 07, 2026)

Despite the divulging of such truth about what the minions are seeking to foist upon us, those minions are not the least bit deterred. Here is what the Apostle Paul warns, particularly for this end-of-the-age generation of believers.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them. (2 Timothy 3:13–14) 

The second verse here offers us absolute assurance. We are to take that assurance in the things we’ve learned from God’s love letter to all humankind. Here is what that Word promises:

• Psalm 104:5: “The Lord established the earth upon its foundations, so it will never move.”
• Ecclesiastes 1:4: “Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.”
• Isaiah 45:18: “He created the earth to be inhabited; He did not create it to be empty.”

The charlatans of global warming, climate change, and all other attempts to bring us under the satanic spell of fear should have no influence over believers in Jesus Christ—especially those who are foundationally secure in God’s prophetic Word. The Lord has given all we need to know about what lies ahead for those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7).

Here once again is how to know you are in the safe shelter of God’s Son, who went to the cross at Calvary, died, was buried and rose again to eternally pay for our sin, so that anyone who accepts this gift, this sacrifice, is forever secure in God’s family.

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)