It is significant, I think, that there is suddenly increased talk among the Jewish religious hierarchy about building a temple in Jerusalem.

We learn of this in the following:

Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple

The nascent Sanhedrin issued a formal ruling this week, asking the Holy One, Blessed be He, to remove hostile forces from the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, reveal the Mashiach (Messiah), rebuild the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), and restore prophecy to Israel. The written ruling, dated 6 Menachem Av, 5786, follows a session the court’s members described as several hours long, during which two of the judges argued against moving forward before ultimately joining the majority. (“Sanhedrin rules it will formally petition Heaven to reveal Mashiach and rebuild the Temple,” Israel365 News, July 30, 2026)

The observation of this development by those who are truly watchers on the wall is far different from most who view this.

The Jewish people who observe Judaism generally believe this is an answer to the long-echoed call, “Next year in Jerusalem!” By this, it’s meant that there is great hope that the construction of a third temple will begin as soon as possible. This is the genuine longing by all who believe their Messiah must soon come to enter that future temple and bring peace and prosperity to all of Israel.

Of course, secular Jews have several thoughts about this. The primary thinking is that it really makes no difference one way or the other. A second thought is that a temple would be nice as a tourist attraction. A third thought is wrapped in tremendous fear that building such an edifice would bring an even greater hatred, and possibly war, from all of Israel’s surrounding enemies–and increased hatred by the rest of the world.

Many Jewish people fear that the title “God’s chosen people” is a primary reason for the world’s long history of anti-Semitism. And they’re probably right.

Satan has no doubt used this to induce hatred in the minds of those who harbor some sort of inferiority complex. From these types come much of the Islamist terrorism, I believe.

There is another thought by we who are watchers on the wall.

The third temple will undoubtedly be built—no question about it. But it will not be cherished by Jewish people in Israel or around the world.

It won’t benefit any people anywhere in the world because it will not be the Jewish Messiah who enters and occupies this Temple on Moriah. Instead, it will be the one God’s Word calls “the man of sin” and “the son of perdition.”

This, of course, will be Antichrist, a false messiah who will promise a false peace. He will instead bring the most terrible time of all history to the world (Matthew 24: 21).

A third temple will be built at a future time, Bible prophecy says. Solomon built the first one, which Nebuchadnezzar destroyed in 587 BC.

The second temple was built following Israel’s Babylonian captivity. It lasted from 516 BC to AD 70. It became known as Herod’s Temple when the king commissioned it to be greatly expanded and beautified to the extent that it was considered magnificent by those who looked upon it.

This temple was destroyed by the Roman military in AD 70, when Roman Emperor Vespasian sent his son, General Titus, to put down insurrection in Jerusalem. This was a fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy in Daniel 9:26–27 and of Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:1-2.

The third temple is said to be in place during the last seven years of human history prior to Christ’s return. Daniel prophesied about Antichrist: “In the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease” (Daniel 9:27b). This last, most vicious tyrant will enter the third temple and desecrate it.

Paul the apostle says of that future temple and Antichrist:

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:4)

So, all the information coming from the Jewish hierarchy is Tribulation temple talk; there’s no other way to describe this news from the Israeli Sanhedrin.

All this means that Israel’s real Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, is poised to call God’s family—all born-again believers—into the clouds of Glory.

Following the Rapture of the Church, the Tribulation will begin with Israel signing the covenant of false peace offered by the one who will become Antichrist (Daniel 9:27).

Seven years later, Israel’s True Messiah, Jesus Himself, will enter a supernaturally created Temple atop Mount Zion in Jerusalem, from which He will rule and reign for one thousand years. This will be the Millennium, during which supernatural saints—those who return with Jesus—will be given assignments within the governance of King Jesus!

Believe in Christ today—for today, at this moment, is the only time promised. Tomorrow it might be too late.

For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:11–13)

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We think of the heathen of the world in terms of their knowing little to nothing about God’s truth regarding the only way to salvation. This brings to the lips of some the accusatory rant that God is unfair. They say He sends people who have never heard the gospel to eternal punishment.

But God’s Word says the following about those in even the darkest regions throughout human history:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (Romans 1:18–23) 

In other words, people have no excuse, because God reveals to all, even if they live in uncivilized regions of the world and/or have a lack of information. God will never be unfair. All have enough inward information to know they need Him. When people instead carve out idols for themselves, they’re deliberately rejecting the God who plants in the people’s hearts the innate ability to know Him for their personal redemption.

The same is true of “civilized” heathen. I think of the Hollywood cabal who push God aside. They know Him, yet don’t know Him—that is, they don’t know Him as their Heavenly Father. They deliberately ignore and even, in some cases, cast Him and those who are Christians in derogatory roles.

Proof that they are made aware, however, comes through in the films they produce. We remember the Cecil B. DeMille movie, The Ten Commandments. It was quite accurate in its depiction of the Exodus account.

In Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War, the scriptwriters had American naval officer Victor “Pug” Henry say something like, “Mankind is destined to kill each other in war until the Second Coming of Christ.”

The Hollywood people are aware that this fictional statement has played out in fact since World War II, as murderous conflicts continue to this day. Killing in war is prophetically scheduled to become even more prolific as time moves forward toward Christ’s Second Advent. All of humanity’s interaction points starkly at Heaven’s foretold intervention into the affairs of humankind.

Hollywood was and is thoroughly aware of Jesus Christ and His coming again. They are without excuse.

No people on earth are more under God’s assessment of being “without excuse” than the people of the United States.

There are churches on many corners of most cities. There are means of communications that pour out the gospel message every hour of every day. There are so many Bibles that it is the most published and sold volume ever in America and the world. Yet, it is probably one of the fewest read and studied.

But it isn’t only America that comes under God’s condemnation of being “without excuse.” Europe long ago shut down most of its churches. Many are merely now museums for tourists to photograph.

The results of this dismissal of Heaven’s authority are blatant in all the world, not just in our country. As pointed out in recent commentaries, Paul’s words tell of the foolhardiness and its results regarding people who turn their backs on the God who created them:

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. (Romans 1:28)  

Can there be any argument of substance against the proof that the Creator has turned this generation of God-deniers over to a “reprobate mind”?

The things we have witnessed in recent years offer evidence that would convict in any sane court of justice.

Government and the ideological left claim everything we do must be to protect the most innocent—the children. Regulations of every sort—in food production, medicine, and other such things—are in large part for children. Proposed gun control is so that the children can live happily and, above all, live safe lives.

Yet that same government and leftist, hypocritical ideology declares it’s their right to slaughter babies by the millions while still in their mothers’ wombs.

This, folks, is what qualifies as a prime example of what the God of Heaven calls the “reprobate mind.”

And we could go on and on telling things like teaching kindergartners about adult sexual activity, about letting porn-star transvestites who commit the most disgusting acts in film come before children as young as five to teach them about their abominable lifestyles.

So, humankind is without excuse. And all who do not know the Lord Jesus as Savior will suffer eternal condemnation because of their unbelief. Thus, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither was thankful.”

You, I—we all are without excuse. We all must come to Christ, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No person comes to the Heavenly Father but by Him (John 14:6).

Here is how you can make sure you are not under the condemnation “without excuse”:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10)

This commentary will be a bit personal, so I must warn that included is information I believe the Lord wants presented, but that the writing of it might be taken as self-attention gathering allurement. Please know that’s not what I intend.

While working in advertising many years ago, I served as creative director in a couple of ad agencies. We, of course, worked to put our clients’ businesses in the best possible light, and create allurements aimed at potential customers of our clients’ products and services through regional and national print and broadcast venues.

We constantly searched the recesses of our brains for the cleverest, yet on-the-mark lines of copy (word pictures) to attract customers for our clients and to demonstrate to our competitor ad agencies just how good we were at the business of advertising.

Annual awards were presented for such narcissistic endeavors. I loved the business of advertising, but, being younger than the agency heads, I never got caught up in the higher level of the business where the  top guys would gather to accept the awards.

The one time I wish to relate here, in which the part I loved–the creative process—was involved is captured in the title of this commentary. I’m sure the phrase has been used many times since that moment long ago. But it was the first time it was used, and we all sat around the ad agency’s creative environs wishing we could have thought of it.

It was emblazoned across a billboard. I can’t remember the ad agency who came up with it, or which funeral home it was created for, but it was, at the time, absolutely the perfect slogan for a funeral home: “And in conclusion…”.

I guess that thoughts of funeral-type things are always close to the surface of our thinking, particularly the older we get.

My eighty-fourth birthday is the day after we post this article, and I’ve been listening to the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died considerably younger than I am at present, as I write it on Tuesday July 28. So the slogan from long ago came to mind in a most poignant way.

Here I sit, thinking on, praying on, and writing about the biblical conclusion of things–Bible prophecy.

It comes to mind of the many great friends that have gone to their heavenly rewards, some considerably younger than I am now. Like Dr. Dave Breese, truly one of my most beloved friends, who helped me get started with my first book—Storming Toward Armageddon.

Dave, one of the most eloquent and brilliant spokesman for God’s Word, was just seventy-three when he was called into Heaven.

I think of my wonderful friend Dr. Tim LaHaye, who was sixteen years older than me. I remember this because the first time Tim and I met, he figured the age difference with a smile. Tim is certainly now enjoying the tremendous rewards of heavenly life–eternal life!

Then I think on the great preacher and teacher Dr. J. Vernon McGee, who inspired so many of us with his down-home, but tremendously powerful, teachings. He was…well…he was eighty-four when he passed into that heavenly dimension! Eighty-four!… Well…I’m now 84!

Time to think of what the slogan I remember so vividly from those many years ago really encompasses! ”And in conclusion…”.

This is not meant to be read like my own impending epitaph. I trust the Lord has me here yet for His own purposes. I won’t go into the widow-maker heart attack and heart stoppages way back on Good Friday, April 22, 2011, and the miraculous trip to Heaven and back three times. (Well, I guess I just did go into it again, but just can’t help myself.) It’s a witness, and I will always interject it when opportunity permits.

And the witness–the main reason I believe I’m still topside of the soil, as I like to say—is to tell that God is warning the world that the end of this age (Age of Grace or Church Age) is about to come to an end. This means that the worst time in all of human history, as Jesus Himself stated (Matthew 24: 21), is about to come upon rebellious humankind.

The Tribulation will be the last seven years that will put an end to humankind’s rebellion against God. It will be Daniel’s seventieth week.

The telling of this terrible era of Heaven’s punishment against earth’s rebels, found mainly in the book of Revelation, detailing twenty-one judgments in a series of three specific acts of God’s wrath: seven scrolls; seven trumpets; and seven bowls, will be God saying, in effect, what that billboard advertisement presented all those years ago.

And in conclusion…

The Lord is indeed slow concerning His judgment. He is not willing for anyone to perish in their sin. He pleads for all to come to repentance. But His patience is not without limits, and it is obvious to any true student of Bible prophecy that this generation is bumping up against the very end of this age of God’s patience.

The Rapture of all believers, lifting them (harpazo) into the presence of Jesus Christ, who will receive (paralambano) them unto Himself, where they will be with Him forever.

Now this is the way those of us who study and put forth God’s Word –particularly His prophetic Word—want ultimately for all who will heed Heaven’s call. This is the end of all things as God wants them to be, because that end is really the Beginning.

Accept Christ and the redemption God offers through His Son’s death, burial, and resurrection. The words of that slogan I remember will then have a wonderful, not a fearful, meaning.

And in conclusion…

I’m again climbing upon my soapbox.

It has always puzzled me why many seminaries, even those I consider quite on the mark as far as being faithful to God’s Word, come down contrary to a particular truth I find in the Bible. I refer to the matter encompassed within the question: Will children below the age of accountability go to Jesus when He calls the Church into the clouds of Glory at the Rapture?

Admittedly, I have believed the answer to this is “yes” ever since I was a child during Sunday school classes and sermons at Seventh Street Tabernacle in Pekin, Illinois. But I must say that the Holy Spirit has reinforced this truth within my own spirit since that time when, as a six-year-old, I came to know the Lord for salvation.

Objections to this belief are based on the charge that it was steeped within denominational indoctrination, not upon Holy Spirit direction, while I was a mere child. But, now that I’m almost eighty-four years old, the belief is more deeply set within my spirit than ever. And the many years—particularly the last few—have been used by the Holy Spirit to make understandable why children below the age of accountability will indeed be swept up in that astonishing moment when Christ shouts for all believers of the Church Age, living and deceased, to join Him in the clouds of Glory.

Anyone who has watched the news videos and listened to the stories, if honest, will understand the abysmal treatment in these times of little ones—the suffering inflicted upon children. Children in the wombs of their mothers serve as a primary example of such treatment. In the US alone, more than one million babies are aborted each year. As a matter of fact, there has been an increase, not a decrease, in the number of abortions since Roe v. Wade was reversed a few years ago. More than half of the nation’s population apparently demand the “right to choose,” as the deceptive phrase would have it.

The spirits of each of these babies murdered in their mothers’ wombs have gone directly to God in Heaven. There, they will on one eternal day bear witness to God’s motivation for dealing with earth’s inhabitants so direly in the Tribulation (Matthew 24:21).

The evil that’s been perpetrated against the most helpless among us, the children, will be one of the major reasons sinful humankind will suffer God’s righteous wrath in those twenty-one judgments we learn about in the book of Revelation.

Children will be born to those left behind after the Rapture, but every one of them, if they die during that awful period, will go directly to be with God and eternal bliss. This is because each one will be below the age of accountability for deciding whether to accept or reject Jesus for salvation.

The number of children who will enter the Millennium following Christ’s return in the Second Coming is a matter only the Lord can answer. But I believe there will be little ones, and even babies in their mothers’ wombs, who will not die during that horrendous time, and who will go into that Kingdom. If those children do enter the thousand-year reign of Christ upon the earth, they will be subject to the Lord’s righteousness and will be taught absolute truth—all without the presence of Satan and his minions, who will be sealed up in the bottomless pit.

But I must get back to the perpetration of wickedness and evil against children. In America and the world currently, children are targeted for the most heinous acts against God’s natural order of creation. And those who claim Christianity as the reason for their anti-God activity are front and center in the reprobate evil. Here is proof of some of that anti-God perpetration, and it’s just a mild part of the wickedness assaulting the very young.

In yet another significant move to the theological left, America’s largest Presbyterian denomination voted decisively to endorse sex-change operations for minors. Critics called the move just the latest evidence the Presbyterian Church (USA) has truly “lost its compass.” In a 441-30 vote, PCUSA delegates passed GEN-02, … “Gender-affirming care,” the rationale reads, “is age-appropriate care that is medically necessary and evidence based for the well-being of many transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who experience symptoms of gender dysphoria or distress that result from having one’s gender identity not match their sex assigned at birth.” It further argues that transgender-related procedures are “critical health services.” (“Blessing What God Calls Sin: American Denomination Endorses Sex-Change Procedures for Minors,”  Harbinger’s Daily, Rapture Ready News, July 9, 2026)

Satan’s ongoing attack on humanity can’t be missed by folks who are truly attuned to God’s Word about why Heaven’s judgment and wrath are in fallen humankind’s future. I believe judgment and wrath might just be in the immediate future, my thinking based in part on the evil aimed at the youngest and most vulnerable among us.

God says one thing he hates among six others is hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6:16–19). None are more innocent than the very young, who don’t yet understand that they need to come to God through His Son Jesus Christ. Their blood is being shed even as I write this. This, alone, is motivation enough for God to remove all below the age of accountability when Christ calls all believers home to Heaven.

When millions, even billions, disappear in the twinkling of an eye—including every child below the age of accountability and including babies just conceived and in the womb—God will make a mighty statement about when life begins. He will, in that monumental second, let the astonished world of unbelievers know His opinion of evil inflicted against the most innocent.

Imagine the terror-stricken people who witness this instantaneous removal! Most who are on earth now, of course, don’t think such a prophecy will ever happen. But God’s Holy Word says that it will—perhaps very soon, based on the many signals of the coming Tribulation era that are prevalent at this moment. Here again is Paul’s prophecy about the Rapture:

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)

And here is how to be part of that removal—the Rapture of believers, when Christ 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)

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This is one of those instances when I must question a decision by a president I very much like and trust for his sane stances in these insane times.

And the disagreement stems from the fact that this president obviously has no spiritual understanding of the deleterious biblically prophetic actions involved within embracing the leader and the nation, as reported Tuesday, July 7.

President Trump appears to have just made a seriously flawed decision in cozying up to one of the central nation-entities whose evil will bring God’s wrath from Heaven in a burst of godly anger. I refer to the nation Turkey, the nation that will join in the Gog-Magog attack assault on God’s chosen nation Israel.

That attacking entity is, of course, referred to as Togarmah in Ezekiel’s prophecy found in chapters 38 and 39 of the book by the prophet’s name.

Togarmah is the ancient name of that region of the Middle East where modern-day Turkey is located. Turkey’s resentment against Israel is demonstrably growing in these days so near the end of this dispensation, the Age of Grace (Church Age).

Most prophecy watchers who observe these times from the pre-Trib, premillennial perspective believe the Gog-Magog attack that will involve Turkey as a central participant will begin just after the Rapture occurs, or a little later. All indicators that this is the wind-up of this age now seem in view. It is the time, we believe, very near the moment that will instantly begin moving the world into the Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week).

This being the case, with Israel at the center of growing animosity by much of the international community, this action by Mr. Trump is one to watch carefully.

I believe this unusual man was placed in the world’s most powerful geopolitical position by our Lord. God has preserved Mr. Trump, as we have seen in the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and by weathering every media assault that the prince of the power of the air could throw at him. So we can be assured that Trump reaching out to warmly embrace Turkey’s dictator, a man vociferously against Israel, hasn’t taken our God by surprise.

However, the fact that the president has done so is troubling. It is troubling because of our ignorance—we who watch—of how God will use the situation to bring about the plans for humanity He knew as far back into eternity past as is imaginable.

So the troubled cogitation is tempered by the knowledge that all will go very well for those who are in God’s family through the Lord Jesus Christ. However, for those outside God’s family, Bible prophecy paints a dire future indeed. God’s wrath will destroy all but one-sixth of those nations and peoples who come south toward Israel in the Gog-Magog attack.

A report of Trump’s strange action follows.

ANKARA, July 7 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday he would lift U.S. sanctions imposed on Turkey over its purchase of Russian defense missiles, and signaled a willingness to sell the NATO ally F-35 fighter jets, a move likely to face strong resistance in Congress.

In the first visit ‌to Turkey by a U.S. president in 11 years, Trump was welcomed by President Tayyip Erdogan at the airport with a lavish state ceremony during which Turkish soldiers riding horses ‌escorted Trump’s motorcade to the presidential palace.

Both leaders sang each other’s praises in their public remarks. Under Trump, Turkey’s deteriorating human rights track record has never been a topic of much concern for Washington.

Speaking to reporters at the Turkish presidential palace, Trump ​repeatedly praised Erdogan, saying he had “chemistry” with him and that the relationship with Ankara had never been better…

Trump also indicated his possible support for letting Turkey buy F-35 stealth fighter jets even as he did not say how exactly such a transaction would take place given objections from the U.S. Congress. “Trump says US will lift sanctions on Turkey, heaps praise on Erdogan,” By Humeyra Pamuk, Gram Slattery and Huseyin Hayatsever, Yahoo News, July 7, 2026)

The Ezekiel states (see Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39) that Togarmah (Turkey), along with Rosh (Russia) and Persia (Iran) and many other peoples with them, will be led by Gog (apparently the leader of Rosh-Russia) to come “like a cloud to cover the land”:

Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. (Ezekiel 38:9)

One can’t help but wonder if that “cloud” will be full of American F-35 Stealth fighter jets, loaded with destructive power intended for the inhabitants of Israel.

That assault, thankfully, will be preempted by God Himself, and the attackers will be met with supernatural obliteration.

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) 

The three primary peoples mentioned in Ezekiel’s Gog-Magog prophecy have in very recent years become a coalition-like group of nations. These are just north of God’s chosen nation. Russia, Iran, and Turkey comprise that forming coalition.

Now our president is, as I termed it, cozying up to Turkey. It’s a puzzle, but not to our Lord, who knows all there is to know from eternity past to eternity future.

Make sure you are on God’s side, Mr. President. And that goes for me and the rest of us, too!

Here is how to assure that you’re on God’s side:

“Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.” (Acts 16:3)

Those who watch for signals of Christ’s return are familiar with Paul the apostle’s warning about a massive “falling away” (apostasia) before Antichrist is revealed:

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. (2 Thessalonians 2:3).

The Greek word apostasia is most often thought to be a falling-away or departure from the faith. However, some authorities in the study of Bible prophecy—for example, Dr. Thomas Ice, head of the PreTrib Study Group—believe the word also can mean a spatial or physical departure—as when the Church leaves earth in the Rapture.

I agree that the word not only can represent both a departure from faith, but also a departure of believers when Christ calls the Church into the clouds of Glory.

In this case, I would like to look at the 2 Thessalonians 2:3 “falling away” (apostasia) in the sense of a falling away from the Christian faith—particularly in America.

I believe a massive movement of non-Christian religious fervor is proof positive of just how late we are in this Age of Grace (Church Age) dispensation. There is little doubt that some denominations within Christendom have departed from the faith. All we have to do is to look at the area of the world from which America came (was birthed) to understand that apostasia or apostasy set in worldwide long ago.

England’s great church edifices in London and other cities are but tourist attractions. The church where John Wesley preached those great sermons and others stand only as tourist traps, their magnificent pulpits and stained-glass surroundings silent witness to the empty, richly polished mahogany pews where hundreds and thousands of believers once worshipped.

In America, some mainline denominations have experienced rifts that created schisms that have diluted or completely severed adherence to true doctrines found in God’s Word. Some have adopted social issues as part of this split from doctrinal truth. For example, some denominations now embrace homosexuality and even abortion as their invitation to all who seek validation in their sinful lifestyles.

While all this is true—Christendom’s defection from the faith in those instances—we must address another departure that is blatantly taking place in our nation. It is growing at an exponential rate and is part of a worldwide satanic assault.

I refer to the embrace of Islam that is literally taking over major cities and even beginning to grow, seemingly unstoppably, in former Christian faith-based places like those found in Texas. The Muslim culture is now in every direction one looks. The following links to these stories on Raptureready.com news tell the story of the growing turn from Christianity and toward Islam.

These stories were posted on one news day—Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

• Another City Falls: Downtown Chicago Seized for Islam
  While our leaders obsess over Europe’s slow death, Chicago is being captured. On June 25, thousands of Shia Muslims, for their annual Ashura procession, seized streets in the heart of the city: burqas, black flags, and men beating their chests in mourning for their prophet – a public show of force and total commitment to their ideology.
• Conquered Texas: Muslims Turn Houston Streets Into Islamic Battlegrounds In Annual Takeover
  Nothing says Texas like Muslims beating themselves in the streets outside of a mosque. Why stay inside the mosque and beat yourselves privately when you can take the spectacle to American public streets in a deliberate show of force? That is exactly what Shia Muslims are doing in Houston, Texas, during the annual Muharram Juloos.
• Dearborn Has Been Conquered By An Islamic Army – Without Firing a Single Shot
  For the 13th year, March for Justice flooded Dearborn streets (Tlaib’s district) to honor Imam Hussain. No American flag. Instead, Shi’ite flags flew as a blatant show of power and foreign allegiance in the heart of America. Also the police force is being Islamized.
• Detroit Archbishop Surrenders to Islam: Celebrates New Mega-Mosque While His Own Churches Are Shuttered
  “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness.” That is what Archbishop Weisenburger declared at the June 2026 opening of the $16–20 million Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque in Dearborn Heights. He stood with Rep. Tlaib and Shia Muslim leaders and called the mosque a “sacred place” with “profound divine presence.”

Some will say this isn’t true apostasy in the vein described by the apostle Paul. But because some founding fathers, such as John Adams, once declared the new nation of America to be a Christian nation—that is, founded on Judeo-Christian principles (biblical principles)—it is clearly in the process of departing from God’s divine direction intended for our nation.

Upon our 250th birthday, America’s undeniable movement away from Heaven’s governance and toward that issued by Islam’s god is most telling as to where we stand on God’s prophetic timeline, I think.

The Antichrist must at this very moment be standing in the shadows of the immediate future, awaiting his time to take advantage of mankind’s defection from God’s governance.

This is sad, tragic, and all the expressions of catastrophe one can muster. The world is on the precipice of the Tribulation. But those who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are destined for a glorious future beyond any superlative one could speak.

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. (1 Corinthians 2:9)

The True Church, all born-again believers, are about to experience a magnificent Departure! We can sense in the deepest part of our spirits that Jesus Christ is about to make the shout that snatches all believers to Himself in a millisecond—the twinkling of an eye!

Once again, here is how to go to the Lord when he says: “Come up here!” (as He called John the Revelator, Revelation 4:1).

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)

Author’s note: This article was originally posted May 20, 2013. I believe the admonition issued here—to “watch” and discern with the armor described in Ephesians 6:12—is all-important because we face today ever-increasing deception by our chief enemy.

Demonic Divide

Dark, spiritual forces in high places are at work. There is no groundbreaking revelation in that statement regarding life in this nation and the world today. However, the true nature of the demonic delusion being foisted upon us is something even the most biblically mature will continue to miss if spiritual antennae aren’t properly attuned.

Additionally, it’s time like no other before to put on the “whole armor,” as outlined by the apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:12–18. I perceive a troubling schism developing amongst the brethren. I refer to those who watch—like the Lord commanded (Mark 13: 37)—end-times developments in what many believe are the closing hours of the Church Age.

Reports increasingly come at us of behind-the-scenes activities that appear to be, to say the least, bizarre. I’m talking about things the equivalent of claims/reports of the US government actually planning and carrying out the assassination of John F. Kennedy—and of George W. Bush’s administration being behind the planning and attack on the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

I’m certain you’ve read some of the many mind-boggling reports—all written/presented as if they’re unassailable truth. These accounts spring from fly-on-the-wall sources that give the impression that they personally witness the making of plans to imprison believers or to implant us all with computer chips while we sleep, or…whatever the conspiratorial imagination can conjure.

I will already have angered those who send such email with that word-portrait, no doubt. But before my thoughts on your side of the issue raise your blood pressure with words of anger, “I’ll never send him another article,” please hear me out. There is the other side of the developing schism. It, too, is harmful to the task of being a watcher on the wall.

I’m talking about the mindset that writes off as complete lunacy every report issued by the likes of Alex Jones crossing their computer screens. To fold up the antennae of discernment and simply lump all things that don’t slip smoothly through one’s anti-conspiratorial filter, just might, in my view, constitute a deadly delusion in the making.

The rift I sense developing between those who “watch” during these fleeting days of the age is inflicted by the father of lies himself. It’s all part of the great spiritual wrestling match Paul warns about in Ephesians 6:12. The devil likes to pit one side against the other, and it’s easy for him to do if spiritual armor isn’t the battle gear of choice.

One side of the divide most often sees only collusion of governmental diabolists at every level, thus is, understandably, accused by the secular world and fellow Christian watchers alike of being “conspiracy kooks.” Those on the other side of the divide too often, because of fear of guilt by association, run away from any talk of collusion of the human conspiratorial kind, sometimes failing to recognize the ways Satan directs his human minions to plot his end-times mischief.

The apostle Paul must have, with his words of Ephesians 6:12–18, been given his inspired thought particularly to give to this generation so near the return of Jesus Christ. Each Christian should daily put on the “whole armor of God.” This, obviously, hasn’t happened, and it likely won’t.

The vast numbers within the Body of Christ are turned inward, or in directions other than watching and yearning for the Lord’s return to put an end to this evil world-system. If we’re honest, we must say that the Body of Christ as a whole today isn’t even pursuing the Great Commission Jesus left to us: to carry the gospel to the whole world and to do what He taught and instructed.

We must not seek out only the strange, secretive, evil doings in the dark underworld of governmental collusion so as to make the findings shocking or exciting. Neither should we think that such collusion doesn’t exist at all and point to all reports as lunacy. Let’s not wrestle violently, angrily against each other, but combine, with reasoned purpose, against our true foe. Here is how to dress for the battle that will surely grow more intensive by the hour as the Rapture of the church approaches:

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. (Ephesians 6:10–18).

“America’s pastime,” as baseball is termed, seems to also properly define this nation’s obsession as we approach July 4, 2026. By that, I mean the obsession with pride.

And I’m specifically referring to gay pride, which is made by the mainstream media today to look like America’s pastime so far as keeping this social perversion constantly in their stories.

Despite baseball’s popularity as a sport in the US, it is but a small part of American life, with most people having little to no interest in the sport. The same is even truer of the gay pride activities in our nation. In fact, a significant majority of the US population would even look at things involved with gay pride as being an abnormality—an obsession that for most of American history been relegated to salacious comportment to be shunned. Yet the mainstream media continues to make this wickedness akin to a religious worship requirement for all of us.

And now the great sport of baseball, which has given us beloved American stories such as that wrapped in the movie The Pride of the Yankees, has become interlocked with the once-shunned aberration of homosexuality now known by the perversion of a word once having an entirely different meaning—the word “gay.”

Baseball itself has, with the infusion of so-called analytics nonsense, become a perversion of what it once was. And I am one who, as a boy, and later while I could still see Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and all the greats, before being blinded by a hereditary retinal disease, loved every second of every inning.

My uncle and aunt used to take me to Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis to see owl’ Stan the Man Musial and the Cardinals—on Sundays. This was a thing my mom opposed because Sundays were to be for Sunday school and church, not sports activities that took me away from Seventh Street Bible Tabernacle in Pekin, Illinois. But she sometimes relented because I was “the only child” those almost eighty years ago, and her brother insisted I see his favorite team. (Thanks, posthumously, Uncle Jesse and Aunt Deloris!)

Baseball now has, in my blind guy way of “seeing,” become unrecognizable. The analytics, to me, are nothing but wokeness foisted upon the sports world. It is political correctness, a thing that has been used to help change America into being also unrecognizable in comparison to the 1940s and 1950s when I went with my uncle and aunt to see the Cardinals.

But it is much more than that. It is prophetic stage-setting for the biblical description of the time of Tribulation Jesus Christ described through the prophet John in the book of Revelation. And the evil intrinsic to this change from America’s Judeo-Christian conception is ensconced within one of two pillars of Satan’s attack to make the change happen.

The two pillars are found in the Apostle Paul’s “perilous times” warning of 2 Timothy 3.

Paul prophesied that in the last days perilous times will come. The one term he gives in that prophecy regarding the evil today is wrapped in the statement: “For men shall be…without natural affection.”

The first of these two pillars of evil we see full-blown today is abortion, when mothers let their children be murdered in their wombs, and the second is homosexuality, which God’s Word calls “unnatural” and “an abomination.”

This wickedness represents “without natural affection.” And the current powers that be in Major League Baseball are in the middle of the attempt to change the national pastime into perilous times like Paul described.

Their going along with the gay pride evil, by strong-arm urging all the MLB teams to wear the rainbow caps to show support for that perversion, tells where this generation places us within these perilous times:

California State Senator and rabid gay activist Scott Wiener is the epitome of a typical woke cry-bully. He is perhaps best known as an advocate for the “kink community” and his defense of gender treatments (hormones and sex change surgeries) for children. He is also a militant supporter of sexualized LGBT propaganda in public schools…

[Senator Wiener’s words:]

“On San Francisco Giants Pride Night — also the tenth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre — several players defaced their Pride caps with a biblical passage that has been hijacked by homophobes to ‘take back’ the rainbow from LGBTQ people. The players could have displayed this passage any night of the year but chose to do it only on Pride Night.

The Giants, sadly, took no action in response, which is inconsistent with the Giants’ longstanding support for our LGBTQ community. Major League Baseball then warned the players that MLB rules bar defacement of uniforms. The Giants should publicly commit to enforcing rules around uniform defacement and should not effectively create a homophobia exemption to those rules…”

The state senator acts as if the players broke some kind of law. Baseball club rules are private business arrangements, not statutes that require the frantic complaints of a homosexual Karen. That said, Wiener’s response to this event is quite revealing.

Biblical scripture references are not “defacement”, at least not of anything sacred. But to Wiener, the act is the same as if someone burned a Bible or a Koran. The woke seething over such a minor thing makes it clear that the LGBT movement is not a civil rights movement; that ended decades ago. Today, the LGBT movement is a political supremacy movement, and prominent athletes have every right to openly oppose it.

The pride event featured a number of LGBT promotions, including 10 same-sex married couples renewing their vows before the first pitch (what this has to do with baseball is unclear). Interestingly, the crowd turnout for Pride Night games has been crashing in the past couple years. (“Democrat Politicians Seethe after Baseball Players ‘Deface’ Pride Night with Bible Verses,” Tyler Durden, ZeroHedge, RR News June 18, 2026)

The three pitchers on the San Francisco Giants team who had placed Bible Scripture on the Gay Pride caps undoubtedly are in for persecution in these perilous times. But bless them for standing against the perversion of God’s lawful righteousness. The Lord’s pride is no doubt upon these athletes, one of whom had the Genesis 19 verses reference on his cap. (Genesis 19:1–25).

Here is the bottom line of that story of God’s judgment and wrath:

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. (Genesis 19:24–25)

Pray that America awakens from continuing down the same path as Sodom and Gomorrah.

Yes. I hear from our family treasurer—wife Margaret—about the price of groceries. Same about gas at the pump. It’s almost the same economic bad news I was bombarded with by Margaret way back around 1976 as the two hundredth birthday of the nation was in full celebration.

It was thought then that America and the world were on the cusp of going into a 1929-type depression. Some in the Bible prophecy community were warning it looked like the Tribulation could begin within short order.

Those of the pre-Trib Rapture view were assuring others that this could not, would not happen as long as the Church—all born-again believers—were here on earth.

Hal Lindsey’s Late, Great Planet Earth book had been out about five or six years, and some came against his pre-Trib Rapture presentation, saying he was about to be proven wrong. The economy was trending not toward the Rapture, but toward the time when life would become hell on earth.

Jimmy Carter’s economic handling-caused malaise made many feel like they were indeed entering the Revelation Tribulation. But along came the Reagan Revolution, and the economic evidence soon proved it wasn’t the end of the Age of Grace—the Church Age—to those who thought gloom and doom were immediately in the offing.

Many of those who watch issues and events unfold that might have prophetic significance consider evidence whether the same degree of economic malaise today as existed during the days of the Carter administration might mean America and the world are about to slip, alas, into the Tribulation. Doesn’t this mean the pre-Trib Rapture “theory,” as it’s called by detractors, is a false teaching that has duped so many, particularly since the release of Lindsey’s book all those years ago?

One writer believes this to be the case. His writing has demonstrated that he believes the pre-Trib Rapture teaching is not biblical. His book from years ago, The Rapture Verdict, would testify to this belief.

Since that time, he has presented many articles and other writings that propose evidence that things, economically, are getting ever more Tribulation-like. At least that’s how I view his writing regarding how Bible prophecy is unfolding. Christians of this Church Age will, that writer believes, go through, not be kept out of, the time of Daniel’ seventieth week –the Tribulation. Most who believe like this discount there being such a thing as dispensations, as a matter of fact.

His book came out about the same time those years ago as my book, Rapture Ready…Or Not, so I remember well his Verdict—that there will be no pre-Trib Rapture.

His most current appraisal of economic evidence that we’re entering a time of national and global catastrophic downturn confirms that his thought that there will be no pre-Trib Rapture holds firm. We will soon be in the time of Tribulation—that is, all who have trusted Jesus Christ during this Age of Grace have only that seven years of Antichrist rule to which to look forward.

Here is a brief excerpt of his presumed economic evidence of looming catastrophe.

Just over half of Americans say the American Dream is out of reach for most people right now, according to a new CNBC and SurveyMonkey American Dream Pulse Survey…

According to Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey A. Tucker, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen by close to 50 percent since the beginning of the COVID lockdowns…

Think about the implications. Isolating from the beginning of the Covid period to the present, Elliott’s data estimates as much as a 40% loss in purchasing power over six years. Or perhaps closer to 50%…

Many U.S. households are now permanently in a state of financial crisis.

When your bank account is constantly near zero, it can be absolutely soul crushing.

But that is where most of the U.S. population exists today.

As a result, Americans are using buy now, pay later platforms to purchase gas and groceries more than ever before…

Americans have run their credit cards to the limit. Now they’ve turned to buy-now-pay-later plans to buy gas and groceries.

This is yet more evidence that American consumers are broke, stressed, and buried in debt as inflation steals their purchasing power…

Roughly 48% of Americans said their financial situation was worse in May than a year ago, the highest share since January 2023, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations.

Consumers are also less optimistic about the future. The share of households expecting their finances to improve over the next year, relative to those expecting them to worsen, fell to its lowest level since October 2022, the New York Fed said.

If you are really struggling because of the rapidly rising cost of living, I want you to know that you are not alone.

There are millions upon millions of others that are in the exact same boat.

Decades of very foolish decisions have brought us to this point, and there is no easy fix.

So hold on tight, because all of us are just going to have to do the best that we can to survive in this very difficult economic environment. (“The Purchasing Power of the Dollar Has Collapsed and the Majority of the Population No Longer Believes in the American Dream,” by Michael Snyder, End of the American Dream, Rapture Ready News, June 10, 2026)

Again, the above writer’s purpose, from the standpoint of his belief in there being no pre-Trib Rapture, is to, in my view, give evidence that Christians are about to enter the Tribulation along with all others of America and the world. (And here I want to say Michael is an excellent writer, and one who obviously loves the Lord and the Bible. I respect him as a brother in Christ.)

However, my own view, as written many times, is that Jesus said when He next catastrophically intervenes into the wicked affairs of humanity, the economic environment will be just like it was in Lot’s day in Sodom. There will be buying, selling, building, marrying, and planting—all the things that are “business as usual.” There will be no worldwide depression…no Tribulation as described in the book of Revelation.

I continue to contend that, even though my Margaret and many of you are griping about the prices in the grocery stores and at the gas stations, it is still business as usual—just as it was in Sodom those thousands of years ago.

Here is an excerpt of that fact:

Last week’s blockbuster jobs report, with more than 265,000 jobs added when including upward employment revisions, was very welcome news to almost all Americans. The exception would be the economists of the left who, throughout Donald Trump’s now-five-and-a-half years in the White House, keep getting the economy dead wrong…

Meanwhile, there is a construction boom going on in America driven by new spending on plants, factory equipment, road building and data center construction.

Manufacturing is roaring back. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, which tracks factory activity across America, has registered the sector’s fourth straight month of expansion — the best numbers in four years. In sum: America is MAKING things again…

Yes, prices remain stubbornly high, and we are all feeling the pain at the pump and the grocery checkout counter. Consumers and voters are still in a cranky mood.

But the rapid rise in investment spending by businesses and the America-led AI and tech boom are likely to drive productivity up and prices down.

If history is any judge, it’s wise to bet on the Trump economy and against his critics — who have a perfect record of being wrong.

So on the eve of our 250th birthday, America is once again the world’s alpha male economy. The rest of the world looks at the U.S. economy with envy. (“Trump’s Critics Dead Wrong [Again] on the Economy,” posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, by Stephen Moore, AMAC)

And a later advisory of economic uptick reports the following:

According to Department of Labor data highlighted by Breitbart News, the average weekly paycheck for a nonsupervisory durable goods manufacturing worker is up 7.4 percent from a year ago. Hourly pay has increased 5.3 percent, and workers are putting in more hours as demand for labor grows. Even after accounting for inflation, real weekly pay is up approximately 3.5 percent while real hourly pay has risen about 1.5 percent. Those gains are significant because they represent something factory workers have rarely seen over the past several decades: meaningful increases in purchasing power. (“Blue-Collar Boom: Factory Workers See Their Best Gains in Generations,” https://trump2028.news/blue-collar-boom-factory-workers-see-their-best-gains-in-generations/?lctg=%%$lisubscriberid%% )

So, because it is “business as usual,” like in the days of Lot in Sodom, I see this time as more dangerous than does the writer of The Rapture Verdict. It is a more dangerous time for those who will be left behind to face the most terrible time in all of human history, according to the Lord Jesus (Matthew 24: 21). The pre-Trib Rapture will remove the righteous, and Antichrist will soon become history’s most evil and deadly tyrant during those seven years of Tribulation.

The evidence points to this being a time like the days when Lot in Sodom faced a wicked and evil generation of anti-God, reprobate thinkers. Like in Sodom, the economy was at the same time on a very high economic scale.

We are told by Paul the apostle, as given in 1 Thessalonians 4:18, that we are to “comfort one another” with the truth of the pre-Trib Rapture he had just prophesied.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

Diatribes, as of this writing, have become prolific. President Trump, so the tirade goes, is changing his mind regarding demands he’s made that the Iranian terrorist regime give up its stockpile of enriched uranium that they were building to produce a nuclear weapons capability.

Also, there is talk, particularly in mainstream news sources, that Trump is giving in to Iranian demands that the regime will open the Strait of Hormuz for petroleum and other commercial traffic if the president will pay reparations for the war-making that destroyed the regime’s own war-making ability.

I don’t believe a word of it. Having studied this president for many years and his dealings in the commercial world and now the international community, it is clear that he is patiently, deeply into the art of the deal-making for which he is famous.

But all of this is miniscule in considering its importance to the things truly involved in biblical prophecy. The only thing that really matters in this regard is: What does it mean insofar as it is helping set the stage for the wind-up of this age (Age of Grace/Church Age)?

In that regard, I’d like to look at the matter most concerning to this president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a matter that’s also at the center of Bible prophecy: the nation now named Iran. By that, I mean what’s in the future for America, Israel, and the rest of the world so far as the possibility of Iran ever having nuclear weaponry? It is interesting to ponder, as we know the God of Heaven has His omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent hand upon all that is transpiring.

First, let’s look at what’s being discussed and bandied about that frames the nuclear Iran question.

When researching reporting on all of this, I found so much specious material—indeed, pure sophistry—in mainstream news sources that I mention it here only to demonstrate how deception, particularly surrounding such a clearly prophetic matter as Iran’s hatred of Israel, is rampant.

The deceptive reports include the supposed documentation that the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa (legal ruling under Islamic law) against Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, but that American and Israeli threats against Iran caused the supreme leader to think again. The reports from mainstream sources go on to say that successors to the late Khamenei are thinking about doing away with his fatwa, and might now pursue atomic weaponry if, for instance, Israel continues to attack their proxy forces in Lebanon.

Speciousness and sophistry all…

The following somewhat corrals the issue of fear of a nuclear Iran, I believe. A former CIA intelligence analyst recently raised supposed inside information about the true nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. According to writer Michael Snyder, whose article, “The Nuclear Rumors About Iran Are Getting Louder,” appears in the June 3 edition of Rapture Ready News, there is reason to count the story as valid, even though he, Snyder, can’t verify the former CIA analyst’s charge.

The analyst, Larry C. Johnson, was interviewed by Newsmax TV program host Judge Andrew Napolitano a short time ago. During that interview, Johnson claimed Iran is prepared to conduct “a demonstration with a nuclear weapon.” The following is an excerpt of information revealed in the interview that Johnson released on his blog. Again, this seems to me be a biased report from a former CIA analyst who could be somewhat at odds—disgruntled—with his former agency and this president for whatever reasons. The “report” is thus somewhat suspect to me. Nonetheless, it offers an interesting perspective on possible prophetic developments:

Pepe Escobar and I received the following intelligence report last Thursday, which was produced by a knowledgeable source with access. I am not reproducing the entire report, but want to highlight the issue of whether or not Iran now has, or soon will have a nuke. Let me emphasize that I firmly support past US intel community assessments that Iran, until now, had no interest in obtaining a nuke.

However, it appears that the surprise attack on 28 February, which followed the aborted color revolution attempted in late December 2025, played a decisive role in changing Iran’s view on this matter…

[Johnson’s analysis:]

Following Trump’s maximalist public response, the Supreme National Security Council deployed its ultimate deterrent. Through Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif—currently the only trusted back-channel between Washington and Tehran—Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian communicated a formally structured, three-step strategic ultimatum if US strikes continued:

1. Immediate Withdrawal from the ongoing nuclear peace talks.
2. Total Abandonment of the prospective Nuclear Treaty framework.
3. The Detonation of a Nuclear Device on Iranian soil—executed not as a weapon of war, but as an undeniable demonstration of sovereign capability and ultimate control over the escalation ladder.

Transmitted by Pakistani FM Ishaq Dar to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, this was not rhetoric; it was a binary geopolitical shock warning. Rubio recognized the gravity, immediately moving to suppress the White House’s escalatory posturing. The Council directed President Pezeshkian to deliver a message to Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shebas Sharif. Pezeshkian’s message was simple and direct. Prime Minister Sharif then directed his Foreign Minister, Mr. Ishaq Dar, to deliver the message to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Let me emphasize that the source of this information was involved in the decision making process that culminated in the warning delivered to Rubio.

The key phrase — If US Strikes Continued — was delivered to Rubio on Thursday. Based on Iran’s announcement today (Monday) that it was withdrawing from further talks with the US until the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinians ends, I believe this intelligence report to be credible.

The ball is now in the hands of Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu… If Israel persists in bombing Lebanon — Beirut in particular — then we should expect Iran to announce that it is withdrawing from the NPT. Once free of the NPT obligations, Iran will be free to carry out item 3, i.e., Detonating a Nuclear Device on Iranian Soil. This will be a demonstration intended to warn Israel and the US that further attacks on Iran would carry catastrophic consequences.

Pepe and I received clarification on how Iran has obtained a functioning nuke… The information regarding the construction of this device (or devices) was provided by a third country that does have proven capabilities in this area. Iran’s objective is, with the backing of Pakistan, China and Russia, to raise the risk to Israel of engaging in future attacks on Iran. (“Does Iran Have a Nuke? Well Placed Source Says, ‘Yes’,” 2 June 2026, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21)

The report included the possibility of Iran being able to produce an atomic device akin to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. It would be a “dirty type” bomb that might produce the effects described in the Jeremiah 49 prophecy we’ve considered in previous articles. Such an explosion could cause the scattering of populations in every direction as indicated in that prophecy about Elam.

One can imagine this evil regime doing such a thing if they believe their rulership is about to be destroyed.

Whether the current Iranian fanatics have at least one such nuclear device, or whether their nuclear weapons ambition is totally removed through diplomatic and/or military action, Ezekiel’s Gog-Magog prophecy apparently indicates that Persia (Iran) won’t use nuclear weapons in its coalition involvement within the attack on God’s chosen nation. In other words, Persia won’t possess nuclear weapons; otherwise, it would almost certainly use them, at least under the present Iranian regime. It is believed to be a land-force assault.

There is mention, of course, of “fire” that falls at that time upon the “coastlands.” However, that seems to be fire sent by God Himself as punishment upon all those who want Israel destroyed.

Stay tuned, as they say. Rather, stay prophetically attuned!