I guess I haven’t been paying enough attention, at least not to the extent I thought.

The other night I was listening to talk-show host and attorney Mark Levin—his program that I don’t often catch. He was coming hard against some in this nation who are calling Christians and Jews in support of Israel evil, or at least ignorantly misdirected. Specifically, he was talking angrily against podcast host Tucker Carlson, former star of Fox News.

Levin said Carlson and a guest on his podcast were saying they hated Christian and Jewish Zionists more than any others in the entire Israel-vs-its-enemies matter. Levin then played the audio of Tucker Carlson saying this directly.

There’s no doubt about it. Unless AI was used, Carlson saying exactly that—that he hated these Christian Zionists, etc., more than any of the other actors within that matter.

Levin then expressed his amazement and anger that Carlson apparently hates us more than the anti-Semite Muslim terrorists, Hamas, and all the rest.

This sent my mind in the direction of: Why does Carlson, whom I’ve always considered a sound thinker on issues and events of our time, make such a hateful anti-Semitic rant? Then I researched the most general definition of Zionism. Here is what I found:

Being a Zionist means supporting the movement for Jewish self-determination and the right of the Jewish people to a homeland in their historic homeland, Israel. Zionism, which arose in the late 19th century due to Anti-Semitism, advocates for the development and protection of a Jewish nation. The specific interpretations of this can vary, from supporting the state of Israel’s existence to supporting specific policies or having different views on its borders, but at its core, it is rooted in the belief that Jews should have a state and a place to live free from persecution.

Why would Carlson, a conservative pundit of such renown, say he hates a Christian or a Jewish person who is a Zionist?

I still don’t have an answer to this perplexing query. The thing I can imagine is that Carlson and the guest he was interviewing, according to Mark Levin, were against the one clause within the definition of Zionism I found as follows: “Supporting specific policies or having different views on its borders.”

Carlson is, I surmise, against the Israeli government and all who believe the nation has exclusive right to the land they believe God granted that people and the nation God said would possess and occupy that land in perpetuity once it’s returned according to biblical prophecy.

Carlson has since apologized for his statement. But the damage done by his reckless rant in ramping up anti-Semitism can’t be recalled.

No matter how it is parsed, to deny that God’s Word says the God of Heaven hasn’t guaranteed the Jews—Israel—that land in its total geographic configuration is in egregious error. Much more, this denial is dangerous, even deadly, to those who deny that truth.

To have Levin, a practicing Orthodox Jew, I presume, point this out in such accurate and passionate terms is amazing—and refreshing to hear. Many Christian pastors completely ignore the entire subject, seeking to just stick to biblical fundamentalism in preaching God’s love and precepts of how to conduct life.

As a matter of fact, Levin implored Christian pastors to step up and defend Israel in the hate-filled, anti-Semitic environment of today. He declared that the Bible says God blesses those who bless Israel and curses those who curse it. He had his Bible and his eschatology correct.

I realize that, being a believer in Judaism and not in Christ as Messiah and Savior, he is in fatal error himself. But it is more than fascinating to hear him defend even Christian Zionists and the belief in Christ as Savior and Messiah.

Israel today stands in the bullseye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state’s perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by leftist United States congressional and judicial operatives, along with all others who “hate” those who support Israel’s God-given right to the land, that is most disconcerting while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

The coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble”:

Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble. (Jeremiah 30:7a)

And it is Jacob’s trouble—the prophesied end-of-days, dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth—that will cause God to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel says:

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3:2)

Armageddon Beckons

This will be the gathering of the nations of earth predicted in the book of Revelation:

For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty…. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (Revelation 16:14, 16)

It will be the culmination of humankind dealing treacherously with God’s chosen people. The promise the Lord made to Abraham includes severe repercussions for anyone who would curse the progeny of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:3)

Tragically, the refusal to educate generations following World War II on the truth about the insane treatment of the house of Israel is leading to a future time of even greater atrocities, thus judgment, according to God’s Word. The Lord will react violently—according to Bible prophecy—moreso, even, than He reacted to the death-dealing of the Nazi demoniacs:

The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it… it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:1–3, 29)

If America joins the rest of earth’s nations in the gathering against Israel, as prophesied in Zechariah12:1–3, its betrayal will mean America’s doom. All nations who come against the Jewish state, God says, will be cut to pieces. Israel, on the other hand, will remain—no matter the betrayal it experiences in the human realm.

God declares this in the strongest possible terminology:

This is what the Lord says, ‘He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar–the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,’ declares the Lord, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me. (Jeremiah 31:35–36)

To many who think about Bible prophecy yet future, the thought is that the Tribulation will be an era completely against all restrictions imposed by religious order. It will be a free-wheeling, anything-goes time of hedonism and evil deportment of every description.

To an extent this will be true. But immediately following the removal of the Church, a religious system will develop that harnesses all people left behind with religiosity beyond any that has ever before existed. We understand this by the following words John was given in his Patmos vision:

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13:8)

This worship will be demanded and directed by the second beast of Revelation chapter 13: the False Prophet.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. (Revelation 13:15)

So those left behind on earth after the removal of the Church in the Rapture will be, rather than free of religious restrictiveness, harnessed with the threat of death if they refuse to obey the most severe religious system ever imposed upon humanity. It will be a worldwide religion with Satan’s Antichrist as the object of worship.

Those who view Bible prophecy especially from the pre-Trib viewpoint have watched for numerous religious belief systems to come together in an “ecumenical” arrangement. That is, many different religions will, we believe, form a religious amalgamation Satan will use, through the False Prophet, to bring about the Revelation 13 system of worship. That system will require that people either worship the Beast (Antichrist) or die.

Additionally, many who investigate this prophecy believe the Catholic system of religious dogma will somehow be at the center of that ecumenical formation the closer the time nears to Christ’s call for the true Church to join Him in the clouds of Glory. This is because of what we believe is Catholicism’s false worship system with, for example, there being a number of mediators between God and man.

The tremendous spread of that system—which places a man (the pope) in place of Christ on earth—also gives reason to believe Catholicism will be at the center of the false worship system of Revelation 13.

I believe it is more than merely an interesting coincidence that in every direction we look at the world’s cultural horizon, we see the stage being set for the fulfillment of prophecies surrounding Christ’s soon return. At the same time, a profound matter of ecumenical movement involving the Catholic Church comes dramatically into the mix.

The Vatican Apostolic Library, one of the world’s most prestigious repositories of religious scholarship, has confirmed it now provides a dedicated prayer space for Muslim academics visiting its collections. This move has ignited passionate debate about the growing ties between the Vatican and Islam.

The revelation emerged from an interview between Italian newspaper La Repubblica and Father Giacomo Cardinali, the 48-year-old Vice Prefect of the Vatican Library. Speaking casually about the institution’s role as a global research hub, Father Cardinali disclosed: “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them.”

The comment, embedded in a broader discussion about the library’s digitization efforts and extraordinary collection, has since reverberated through Catholic and interfaith circles worldwide.

The decision represents a historic departure from Vatican tradition. As the center of the Catholic Church, Vatican City State has never before hosted non-Catholic places of worship within its borders. The world’s smallest sovereign nation—with a population of approximately 800 residents—consists entirely of Catholic citizenry and clergy. The establishment of a prayer space for Islamic worship, even in the context of academic hospitality, marks an unprecedented accommodation in the Vatican’s 95-year history as an independent state.

This makes Father Cardinali’s seemingly casual announcement all the more significant, as it introduces for the first time a designated space for non-Catholic religious practice within the walls of Vatican City. (“Vatican Opens Muslim Prayer Room Sparking Fierce Debate,” Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Israel365 News, October 19, 2025)

The great angst this has created is that Islam and the Catholics’ supposed Christian views are incompatible. Allah is the only god in Islam, and the thrust of Allah’s supposed dictate is to rid the world of all infidels and make everyone a Muslim.

Yet here we witness the ecumenical movement defying all odds while these two massive, worldwide religious entities apparently are coming together in what some have termed “Chrislam”—the merging of Christianity with Islam.

So, one more element of the stage being set for the terrifying Tribulation is coming to the forefront for us to plainly see. The previous pontiff, Pope Francis, said on numerous occasions that there are many ways to Heaven other than just through Jesus Christ. He said, too, that even atheists will be in Heaven. The Vatican has not disavowed this satanic lie in any way I have heard. Islam, therefore, I must presume, fits within the Vatican’s view of what constitutes Christianity.

With the preponderance of evidence that God is on the verge of instructing His Son to bring His family to Him from the earth, such developments as this movement into end-times ecumenism is a major signal of where we stand on God’s prophetic timeline.

It was a great reassurance recently to hear Dr. David Jeremiah given time by Fox Network to answer questions by Fox News religious correspondent Lauren Green about true Christianity:

Q: Lauren Green: A lot of people are trying to earn their way into Heaven. Why is that not the right thinking?

A: Dr. David Jeremiah: That is the answer of every religion except Christianity, which isn’t a religion—It is a relationship!

If we try to reach God by way of works, nobody can do it. That’s why He sent His Perfect Son, Jesus Christ, who never sinned and was crucified on the cross for us.

If we put our trust in Him, He has promised to wash away our sins!

Here is how to make certain you have your sins washed away and will go to Heaven.

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 first published on Monday, June 12, 2006. Considering we are, I believe, in the time that’s “as it was in the days of Noah” foretold by Jesus (Luke 17:26), I believe it’s good to again think a bit on the obvious invasion from the evil dimension the world faces.

We know of the violence taking place in the world today. It might even be equal to the violence of those antediluvian times. However, the other primary evil of Noah’s day is a bit harder to equate to this day and time.

The other “evil” I refer to is the corruption that had infected the entire world and caused God, following the death of Methuselah, to destroy everyone on earth except Noah and his immediate family.

Most who study the Genesis record–myself included—believe the genetic contamination that had corrupted all flesh came from the fallen angels who had sexual relations with human women, producing the Nephilim. That “corruption” doesn’t seem to be the tack of Satan in this day and age. I, at least, haven’t heard of such corruptive intermingling (except within the fiction coming from the entertainment industry).

But we can be sure Satan’s intention remains the same: He wants to corrupt God’s order of things, especially the order of things related to humanity.

The devil continues to do his worst in this regard. We see this effort at every turn. You don’t have to be either a male or female; you can now be whatever you wish. More than one hundred genders are possible, I’ve heard.

The AI phenomenon is now experimentally employed to meld in some way with human flesh–particularly with the brain—to create super intelligent beings that, some scientist types claim, are beyond human. Hormone infusion and surgical invasions are used to attempt to recreate humans in bizarre ways that confound rationale.

So, the corruption of the order God created is under assault. We know this from Ephesians 6:12 and the struggle against the principalities and powers in high places the Apostle Paul described.

This all tells us God is about to again intervene into the affairs of humankind and all the evil corruption like He did in Noah and Lot’s day. I therefore present this article again, written long ago, but more relevant than ever as we “look up” for our Lord’s call to “come up here!”      

Last-Days Invasion

We just observed D-Day in honor of the Allied forces who invaded parts of Europe, the action that began in earnest the drive toward victory over Hitler’s Nazi military in 1944. Last week, I wrote about how June 6, 2006, was honored by much of media to hype a movie, The Omen, which was released that day.

The “D” seemed to stand for “Devil-Day” in that 6/6/06 instance, rather than for the D-Day celebration in remembrance of sacrifices made by Allied troops invading Normandy and the other beaches June 6, 1944.

I would like to continue dealing with thoughts about the present invasion taking place. This contemporary assault is infinitely more deadly than the dangers faced in that long-ago invasion of France. It is infinitely more dangerous because it is–in truth—supernatural. In other words, it involves eternal matters. It involves the spiritual world rather than the physical. I should say it involves the spiritual world MORE than the physical world, because the two are intricately intertwined.

Again, I see two primary areas of Holy Scripture involved in this warfare. Both emphasize the supernatural dangers and spiritual nature of the warfare:

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5: 8)

So, Satan is the general leading this end-time assault. He leads some quite terrifying forces in his stalking back and forth upon the earth:

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. (Ephesians 6:12)

With but a modicum of effort in searching through the Word of God about end-times things, we can see how the contemporary assault by Satan and his forces of evil links to the devil’s past efforts. And, we can see where it is all leading in this wind-up of human history.

These last-days things are fresh in my mind while I promote my novel, The Rapture Dialogues. The subtitle, Dark Dimension, says it all. The end-time warfare is with extradimensional, not extraterrestrial, beings. We can identify these supposedly unidentified flying objects if we open our minds and hearts through spiritual discernment written about in 1 Corinthians 2:14.

The link between the human, fleshly elements of this conflict and the supernatural or spiritual elements is undeniable if we properly analyze and dissect the matters involved.

Jesus–the Greatest of all Prophets (because He is God) said the following:

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:26–30)

Jesus said history would repeat itself. Things will happen almost precisely like they did in Noah’s day before the Flood and in the days of Lot and the destruction of Lot’s hometown, Sodom, and nearby Gomorrah. What happened that was so grievous to the Lord that He determined to erase these societies from the earth’s surface?

I believe it was sin, of course, speaking in general terms. Sin always ultimately brings God’s wrath and judgment. The wages of sin is death, Scripture tells us. But I see a much more specific sin that lies at the heart of the civilizations mentioned in those judgments of the antediluvian world and ancient Sodom and Gomorrah.

The link is strong between the fleshly, or physical, realm and the spiritual, or supernatural, realm in these cases. That is made clear in the following:

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. (Jude 1:6–8)

Do you see that linkage? It is the phrase “going after strange flesh” that connects the human to the supernatural, in considering the matter of this end-time invasion Jesus said will be a recurrence of soul/flesh-corrupting things that happened in antediluvian and ancient times.

In the matter of the supernatural realm, we see in Genesis 6:1–3 that the “sons of god” went after “strange flesh.” That is, a number of angels who fell with Lucifer in the great rebellion and were cast out of Heaven saw the “daughters of men” (human women) and came down and cohabitated with them—producing hybrid offspring of the natural and the supernatural. Going after “strange flesh,” then, means doing something that is against the order God established.

These offspring were “men of renown,” the Scriptures tell us. These were doubtless the creatures from which Greek, Norse, and Roman mythologies derive, to some extent.

Genesis 19 tells the full story of the “strange flesh” Jude alludes to in verses 6–8. This is expounded upon by Paul the apostle in Romans 1. The “strange flesh” is men going after men and women after women in the sexual sense–burning in their lusts one toward the other, and receiving in themselves the payment for their sin, which, God’s Word says, is a fitting punishment.

The end-time invasion Jesus prophesied is, I’m convinced, well underway. Key among the elements of Satan’s assault is a return of the dark, spiritual beings in high places–the extradimensional, not extraterrestrial, beings, again trying to corrupt the “seed” of humankind through the sightings, encounters, abductions, ghostly appearances, visitations, stigmata phenomena, and all of the rest of these strange things reported even by documentaries like those on the Discovery and History channels every week. The prime-time invasion will, I’m equally convinced, take place in the Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week), as outlined in the “strong delusion” of 2 Thessalonians 2.

On the human level, the corruption is taking place through “going after strange flesh”—doing a thing totally against God’s established order. Men, again, are lusting after men, and women after women on a scale like in those ancient times, while Hollywood and many in government and media promote this lifestyle that’s deadly to the continuation of the human race.

All of this indicates just how near this generation must be to the time Christ will step out on the clouds of Glory and shout, “Come up here!” The final war called Armageddon that will result from this satanic invasion approaches rapidly. Rapture of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior cannot be far distant.

Looking at the world around us from so many different viewpoints separates and divides the human community, engendering hatreds, wars, and death. Jesus, speaking while on the Mount of Olives one day, prophesied the degree to which the differences would explode in the time just before His return:

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. (Matthew 24:7)

We have pointed out often that the word “nation” here is from the Greek word ethnos, translated “ethnic” in English. Jesus was warning that the Tribulation era will produce great hatreds that will center on racial and cultural differences of worldview. These unprecedented uprisings will, Jesus said, eventuate in famines and pestilence—the inevitable result of all-out war.

Although we of this generation are not in the Tribulation era about which Jesus here prophesied, we have diametrically differing worldviews on the national and international scenes that certainly must be setting the stage for the times Jesus foresaw.

The US is mired in many ethnic problems and cultural differences within the various races themselves. Insistence on embracing multiculturalism by the PC crowd, motivated to their hyper level of championing the melting-pot worldview by mainstream media, throws fuel on the fires of racial divides. The multicultural Nazis want Americans to stay separate because most of these PC types are socialist-leaning globalists who want us to be citizens of the world rather than citizens of a sovereign nation. Hyphenating, or mixing, ethnic with national identities into unique nomenclature seems designed to make America eventually forfeit national autonomy.

Worldview is being shaped in this nation to reflect the one-world-builders’ blueprint for the “global village,” as one well-known failed presidential candidate put it. The worldview in question has never gone away. It is the perennial worldview that has been with humankind since Nimrod attempted to build the tower to Heaven not long after the Flood of Noah’s day (read Genesis chapter 11). We see that blueprint manifested in the diplomatic world’s attempts to bring everyone together in the Middle East–at Israel’s expense, of course.

Jesus also prophesied that humanity would get itself deeper and deeper into trouble, so far as the nation state is concerned, the closer the Second Advent comes:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:25)

There can be little argument against the obvious. Nations are indeed in great distress today—with much perplexity. We don’t have to look at the many nations of earth to prove this fact. Our own nation is divided right down the middle on almost all issues of politics and morality. People are so distressed—even perplexed—that many promised to leave the country if they didn’t get their way in presidential election results. Others have written fictional books venting their anger in wishful accounts of the assassination of a president they hate. And actual assassinations and attempted assassinations continue to take place.

The problems involved boil down to one issue: worldview.

Any other view of life on this planet than God’s is–to put it bluntly, but truthfully—wrong, and destined to produce disaster. This is true no matter the area of life. Worldview is all-important in avoidance of trouble and achievement of success. There isn’t space here to go into the many areas in life today to which this truth applies. So, let’s briefly look at one key issue in considering worldview that gets to the crux of the most important prophetic indicator of this late hour. The issue is modern Israel.

The geopoliticians are perplexed about Israel and its hate-filled enemies. The diplomats have no idea where the anger truly comes from; therefore, they cannot begin to understand how to solve the violence and hatreds. The world’s diplomats have worldviews that completely leave the God of Heaven out of the equation for peace-making. The result has been more than five thousand years of war throughout recorded history. God says, “Be governed by my rules, because I created all that is, and know what is best.” The earthly rulers say, “We can handle it. If there is a God, that God is existential at best. We don’t need or want him to rule over us.” This doesn’t apply, of course, to Islamic fanatics who slavishly accept the bloody demands of their god to make war.

God says everything is His, including the land of the Middle East He chose to give to the Jews–Israel. The geopoliticians say they will decide who owns the land and who doesn’t. The result: a world that is quickly moving toward all-out war—Armageddon.

The same error in worldview is within the Church today. The worldview of most mainline denominations say God is through with Israel. The Church—that worldview proposes—is now inheritor of all the promises the Lord covenanted with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God is through with Israel, and all about Israel that is in the Bible must be spiritualized, allegorized, or treated as history already accomplished.

Really?

They proclaim–through their worldview—that the Church is going to make the world better and better until they have made it good enough through the political and diplomatic process—in conjunction with religious, do-good projects—for Jesus to come back and take over.

Really?

They aren’t reading the same headlines I am. If the Lord has given up on Israel, then it sure is some coincidence going on. We are expected to believe that Israel just coincidentally happens to be on the front page headlines every day, in the center of a desperate cry for peace, just like God’s prophetic Word says. Worldview is all-important in God’s economy. God’s worldview is, as legendary football coach Vince Lombardi once put it in talking about winning, not everything. It is the only thing!

To Bible prophecy observers of the warp speed toward bringing Mideast peace (to use a Donald Trump term, as in the “warp-speed” development of a vaccine for COVID), the many nations sudden jumping upon the peace bandwagon should constitute a clear signal: that prophetic stage-setting has experienced Heaven stepping on the end-times accelerator.

One development in this regard is almost breathtaking in its import. I refer to the US president singlehandedly setting up the Board of Peace.

This move to establish such a board, with practically little-to-no argumentation and debate from the world leaders who usually set their collective jaws against anything and everything, especially that involving Israel, is beyond astonishing. It is a supernatural turn of events, I believe. The following somewhat gives a look into that turn:

TONY Blair and Donald Trump will jointly govern Gaza on a Board of Peace under the President’s plan to end the bloodshed and secure the release of all hostages.

The IDF would withdraw from Gaza and commit not to annex the strip if both Israel and Hamas sign the 20-point plan unveiled today…

Mr. Blair, 72, was the first world leader named on the new transitional body to run Gaza apart, which Trump will chair.

This evening Blair hailed the plan as offering “the best chance of ending two years if war, misery and suffering”.

The former Labour leader and Middle East envoy is expected to take charge of the day-to-day running of the new board which will eventually hand power back to peace-loving Palestinians. (“Tony Blair to Be on Board of Peace to Run Gaza Strip as Trump Announces Plan to End War & See Hostages Released,” The Sun)

The “cry for peace and safety” takes on a whole new end-times direction when considering that such a Board of Peace is established with the enthusiastic agreement of the nations involved.

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan said they welcomed Trump’s “leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza.”

They said they were ready to engage with the US to finalise and implement the agreement, which they said should lead to a “two state solution, under which Gaza is fully integrated with the West Bank in a Palestinian state.”

European Council President Antonio Costa said he was “encouraged by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s positive response” to the proposal. He added, “all parties must seize this moment to give peace a genuine chance”…

French President Emmanuel Macron said: “France stands ready to contribute” to the efforts to end the war and release hostages.

“These elements must pave the way for in-depth discussions with all relevant partners to build a lasting peace in the region, based on the two-state solution.” (“Leaders in Middle East and Europe Welcome Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan,” BBC)

And it is the conclusion of Macron that should explain the enthusiasm for the Board of Peace and this peace plan.

The two-state solution is what the world of anti-God, Israel-hating UN nations—and especially Mideast states—have longed to implement.

This effort to divide God’s land has been a millennia-long quest, inspired and influenced by the father of lies, Satan, who has attempted at every juncture to cause God’s promise to Israel—that it will be His nation forever—to be broken.

The leadership of these nations believes this peace effort can be the wedge to bring Israel down—thus the enthusiasm to leap aboard this Trump plan. These, I believe, sense a real possibility of at last bringing about a two-state solution to the wars in the region–wars that, in the nuclear age, threaten worldwide catastrophe.

But those who understand the things involving Israel know the gathering of nations at the end of the age will bring a far different result than the elimination of God’s chosen people.

The nations, so hostile to Israel for so long, are gathering–ostensibly for peace-making. But despite our president’s best intention, the gathering is taking place for far different purposes.

Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum wrote about truth and the great end-times pressures Israel will experience, as well as the result of such cursing of Israel the world of nations will in turn suffer at Armageddon:

This passage describing the gathering of the armies of the nations is more or less viewed from man’s perspective. From man’s standpoint, it is merely a military gathering called together by the Antichrist. The first is in Joel 3:9–11:

Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Haste ye, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

God’s viewpoint is one of mockery. The nations are mockingly encouraged to go ahead and turn their farming equipment into weapons of war. As for those who are weak, let them persuade themselves and pretend that they are strong. Because while Satan and the Antichrist have their purpose for gathering the armies, that of destroying the Jews, God has His own very different purpose for permitting this gathering to take place.

This taunting of the gathering of the nations is also portrayed in Psalm 2:1–6:

Why do the nations rage,

And the peoples meditate a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, saying,

Let us break their bonds asunder,

And cast away their cords from us,

He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh:

The Lord will have then in derision. Then will he speak unto them in his wrath,

And vex them in his sore displeasure:

Yet I have set my king

Upon my holy hill of Zion.

The gathering of the nations is presented as a gathering against God the Father and His Anointed, that is, the Messiah Jesus. By seeking to destroy the Jews, Satan is also seeking to break the cords of God’s control of the world. How foolish! Then God is portrayed as sitting in the heavens and laughing, because He will soon have these nations in confusion. (“The Campaign of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah,”Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, ThM, PhD, Ariel Ministries)

Already we see the nations gathering. Ultimately, they are gathering for war, not peace.

This world is in defiance of God, as seen in every news cycle. The murderous violence must certainly rival the antediluvian days of Noah.

At the same time, it should make perfect sense to believers who trust God to be in absolute control at all times: He has never sent judgment and wrath without pleading, corrective, attention-getting measures and unmistakable warning signals of impending doom to the rebels who shake their fists in His face, then turn their backs to the only One who knows the end from the beginning. America and the world are almost surely at the latter end of the divine yardstick of judgment, which measures the extent of the Lord’s lovingly generous—though not infinite—patience.

Most who study Bible prophecy have, through the years, rolled the thought over and over in their minds: “Why isn’t America mentioned in Bible prophecy?” Many have concluded that the United States must suffer a catastrophic fate—from the outside or the inside. The nation’s destiny is one of either implosion or explosion–detonations that, in either case, will spell the end for the most technologically advanced country in history.

Surely God will not allow the American ship of state to slip beneath the crushing waves of the times without clear signals that we are nearing shoals that cannot be navigated.

Words from Jesus Himself bring to mind current crises gripping the US and, by extension, the entire world. The passage is quite familiar to students of prophecy:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring. (Luke 21:25)

Whether considering this combination of end-times signs figuratively or literally, a case can be made that the present national and world circumstances might be the time Jesus was speaking about.

This generation has seen wonders in the sky. Humanity has accomplished space adventures in going to the moon and other planets with machinery. We have witnessed astrophysical phenomena through the Hubble telescope, gigantic sun eruptions, fantastic photos of a comet slamming into Jupiter, and the losses of the Challenger and the Columbia. Then, there are the signs in the sun, moon, and stars.

Recently there are scientists who continue to monitor asteroids and other stellar phenomena that are “fly-bys” potentially threatening the planet. Some scientists who observe the sun, moon, and stars believe the planet will one day, perhaps soon, experience a major impact from one of these visitors from deep space.

My good friend who is now with the Lord, Tom Horn, wrote much about the major asteroid-type space rock called Apophis, scheduled to pass close to the Earth on April 13, 2029. He conjectured it could be the mountain-like object of Revelation that is prophetically scheduled to hit the ocean and cause great destruction during the Tribulation.

The latter part of the Luke 21:25 prophecy also leaps to the forefront of thinking about the present hour. We’ve recently seen the figurative and literal seas roaring. Figuratively, all nations seem to be in great turmoil, with their peoples in societal and cultural tumult. The literally roaring waves have produced the costliest devastation in recorded history to nations around the world within just the past months. However, it is the middle part of the prophecy that most dramatically speaks to this generation.

Jesus said the nations will, near the time of His return, be in “perplexity.” The implication is that the leaders will be floundering for answers to the profound dilemmas confronting them. The perplexity will only cause them to go farther into rebellion, we can gather from the psalmist’s words:

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. (Psalms 2:23).

The United Nations is in overt rebellion against God’s order, as we witness almost all member states coming against Israel, demanding that the Jewish state give up land to the so-called Palestinians in a two-state solution to the perennial Middle East conflict.

The fact is we are in a time of unprecedented “perplexity,” so far as my memory serves. The leaderships of the world’s nations are in turmoil, with the economic stresses and strains threatening worldwide fiscal collapse. We have increasingly been told by top monetary experts that we face economic Armageddon if something isn’t done to straighten out the fiscal problems. In all the scrambling, finger-pointing, and doomsday rhetoric, one fact is powerfully obvious by omission: Not one of them has been heard calling out to God. Not one mention of soliciting help from the God of Heaven has been forthcoming, so far as I’ve heard. Certainly, asking God’s help hasn’t been heard in a public way.

As I write this, America’s unusually gifted president, in terms of his proven business acumen, continues to work on “fixing” the economic disaster the previous administration and the ideology it inflicted on the nation. I believe this is bringing this generation to the “business as usual” days of Lot Jesus said will be prevalent at the time of the Rapture. We will see how it plays out.

I continue to believe that Mr. Trump might be in the most powerful political/governmental office on earth to produce the upbeat economy Jesus said would be in place when He next catastrophically intervenes in the Rapture. I’ve outlined my thoughts many times in this regard when addressing the Luke 17:28–30 prophecy.

In a larger prophetic context, the swift economic movement and turbulence currently taking place is not without its significance, God’s Word assures. There is coming a completely satanized (if that is a word) economic order. We are seeing a major start to that coming global rearrangement. The fiscal problems will get “fixed,” ultimately.

I’m convinced it will happen during the time that follows the Rapture of the Church. But the peoples left on this judgment-bound planet won’t like the change the decisions of the politicians of the world–apart from God Almighty—will produce for them.

The luciferian machinery of enslavement is churning America and the nations it so traumatically affects, in terms of economic equilibrium, toward the Beast system of the Tribulation.

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. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Revelation 13:16–18)

It will be the worst time of human history, according to Jesus (Matthew 24:25). If you know Him as Savior, you won’t have to go through the Great Tribulation. Here is how to go to Christ when He calls God’s family–all born-again Christians—to Himself in the Rapture:

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)

I suppose I should initially define the terms used here.

First, a “syllogism” is a noun describing a philosophical methodology founded by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It means deductive reasoning that reaches a conclusion that follows derived from two or more premises that are known to be true.

Second, we need to understand something about the Sanhedrin to try to make application as to the “blindness” I refer to in the title of this commentary. I assure you that the title encapsulates prophetic truth for this closing time of this Church Age (Age of Grace).

Here is what one authority on the subject says:

The Sanhedrin was the supreme legislative and judicial body of the Jewish people in ancient Israel, functioning as a supreme court and a council of seventy-one members including the High Priest, elders, and scribes. Though rooted in the time of Moses, it reached its peak influence during the Second Temple period in Jerusalem, handling significant legal and religious matters. Its power waned under Roman rule and ultimately ended after the Temple’s destruction in 70 AD, with its functions largely shifting to local synagogues and later Jewish authorities.(Stone Henry – Medium)

The Sanhedrin was reestablished in modern times. Here is what a Google search shows:

The modern Jewish Sanhedrin was reestablished in October 2004, when a group of rabbis inaugurated a provisional body in Israel, consisting of over 70 members and intended to function as the Jewish Supreme Court. This attempt to revive the ancient legislative and judicial council was a significant event in Jewish history.

With all that as frame of reference, we can look to understand what prophetic stage-setting might be in view from a recent news item.

The assassination of Turning Point USA’s founder and leader Charlie Kirk is a matter known by virtually everyone on the planet with enough sophistication of communication to get news. The murder transcends the interest generated by any other news story–at least it did so for a time.

Another story that has dominated news on a worldwide basis for years, particularly since the murderous Hamas attack on Israelis on October 7, 2023, is the ongoing war involving Israel and its enemies. The threat implicit in this conflict involves possible eventual nuclear weaponry usage, thus the cry for “peace and safety” from diplomats and world leaders.

Now the two major news stories seem to be intertwining into presenting a prophetic stage-setting configuration. The recent statements from Israel’s newly formed Sanhedrin, to my way of analysis, seem to form a picture in this regard.

The Sanhedrin’s statement, dated “22nd Elul, 5785” in the Jewish calendar, opens with explicit grief: “The Court grieves over the murder of Charles Kirk, who was an extraordinary and exceptional great supporter of the people of Israel.”

The declaration immediately connects Kirk’s death to messianic prophecy, quoting extensively from Isaiah: “The path to repairing the world, stopping murder and bloodshed, and all other great injustices committed in the world is when all nations recognize the choosing of the Holy One in the people of Israel, as the prophet Isaiah said:

“And many peoples shall go and say: Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and we may walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” Isaiah 2:3

The Sanhedrin elevated Kirk to quasi-prophetic status, declaring: “Charles Kirk was among the wise of the nations of the world, who understood reality clearly, who understood the divine election of the people of Israel. On his desk was written:

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8

The Sanhedrin presented a direct theological interpretation of the killing: “In the terrible murder of Charlie Kirk, the fact stood out that those who oppose and hate Israel hold to the path of murder and violence. The path to heal the world from murders and other injustices is through the people of Israel, supporting it and learning from it.”

The declaration includes a global religious mandate: “We call on all nations of the world to walk in his path, to understand that the key to repairing the world is the positive connection with the God of Israel and learning the good ways from His people Israel through observing the seven commandments of the sons of Noah, as the Holy One, blessed be He, gave to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai.”

The court offered extensive praise for Kirk’s abilities: “We bless the Holy One, blessed be He, and thank Him for the many talents He gave to Charlie Kirk: debate ability, charisma, in his appearances he was always ready to conduct substantive and eloquent discourse, showed great ability to influence young people, established several organizations, Israel supporters in the United States, and was the beautiful voice defending the people of Israel against the wave of anti-Semitism plaguing the world.” (“Sanhedrin Issues Statement Mourning Charlie Kirk’s Death, Israel365 News)

So, the Aristotelian syllogism, as applied to the Sanhedrin praise for Charlie Kirk, brings up a pertinent proof of truth found in God’s Word. The court declares the martyred Kirk to be among the wise who understood reality clearly, who understood the divine election of the people of Israel. It further argues him to be connected in death to messianic prophecy.

This shows in stark terms, I think, God’s dealing with His chosen people by accentuating the supernaturally inflicted spiritual blindness given Israel. Paul the apostle told of God’s dealing with His rebellious chosen people–about the blindness they would suffer until the Lord’s program for them and the Gentile world was complete. Paul told first about the divine discipline’s implementation:

What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. (Romans 11:7–8) 

Paul then tells of Israel’s future destiny, when the blindness will be lifted:

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Romans 11:25–27)

Charlie Kirk is praised by the highest Jewish religious entity for his recognizing Israel’s place in God’s great plan for them. But these Jewish religionists are the same in blind, rebellious ignorance as were their predecessors almost two thousand years ago who were part of condemning Israel’s Messiah to death.

Charlie Kirk boldly declared the Lord Jesus Christ at practically every venue at which he appeared—the same Jesus Christ the Sanhedrin rejected and had put to death on Calvary.

By so lauding this martyr as a champion of Israel–a man who held Jesus Christ as the Savior of Israel, and of the entire world of lost humanity, while continuing to reject their True Messiah–whom Charlie proclaimed as the Christ—they manifest their spiritual blindness for all to see. They do so through their own misguided syllogistic rationale.

God’s Word says it will take seven years of Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) to produce a remnant of Israel’s belief in their True Messiah. The second half of that period will be what John termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7). Jesus said this will be the worst time of all human history (Matthew 24: 25).

What we have witnessed in the past few weeks all means that the stage is rapidly being set for the wrap-up of this age and the beginning of that Tribulation era.

It is time for believers to be “looking up” for Jesus’ any-moment call in the Rapture! It is, therefore, time also to witness, in the strongest effort possible, of Christ’s saving power to those who are lost and headed for that Tribulation and for eternity apart from Heaven and the God who loves them so much He sent His perfect, Righteous Son, Jesus the Christ–Israel’s Messiah—to die for them.

Each hour, new and more highly pressurized dangers fill these end times with extremes. The occurrences aren’t necessarily unprecedented. However, they slam into our environment—our life’s surroundings—at a stepped-up pace and with an impact that seems unprecedented.

The end-of-the-age signs of God again beginning to deal with this fallen world in judgment are, I observe, even recognized by those in the news media. Being blind now since age fifty-one or so, I often listen to audio-only forums—radio, podcasts, talk shows, etc.—to get the latest on issues and events. These news purveyors are forced into painting word pictures, rather than relying on the screen graphics to explain to the viewers.

It’s clear that many of these broadcasters and podcasters are frustrated by not being able to explain the upside-down world matters. Their secular worldviews are out of whack, and they struggle, like their audiences, in their search for answers to why the world seems to be going crazy.

One recent incident was the murder of Charlie Kirk, the thirty-one-year-old founder of the Turning Point USA political forum that attempts to reach younger people with a conservative message of hope for the nation and world.

When he was shot and killed while speaking to a college campus audience in Utah, the reaction to his death was dumbfounding to many of the admittedly more conservative media I listen to. These broadcasters and podcasters reported—with astonishment, in some cases—that TikTok was full of myriad young people praising the assassination in the most vulgar terms imaginable.

Even though those reporting this evil know the leftist ideology is full of such hate, they were stunned and in disbelief that hatred would manifest in such a blatant display.

These seemingly insane people were wildly elated at their young peers’ assassination for no other reason than that he spoke to them and debated with them on geopolitical issues and disagreed with their ideology. Most of the program hosts I heard couldn’t fathom that, in America, the attitude of an entire generation could be so fanatically disposed as to cheer the violent death that took a young father from his wife and two small children.

A few media pundits implied that it was a lack of religious training, with prayers and Bible reading taken out of public-school classrooms, that might have had something of an influence on these raving haters. And I was surprised that very few conservative talk-show hosts expressed that they believed demon activity to be involved. Mark Levin, to my surprise, talked about Charlie Kirk’s strong Christian witness. Levin, a Jew, gave Charlie’s message in a most reverential tone. It was the gospel of Jesus Christ in every detail.

However, the news forum hosts failed, in most cases, to indicate that they understand that their own peers—the mainstream news types—were in large part responsible for the outrageous, bloodthirsty rants on TikTok and other leftist forums.

To make that charge against their colleagues would, it might be thought, make them themselves (the conservative pundits) complicit—because they had not adamantly opposed the so-called liberal press in its always covering up for leftist hatred, even trying always to turn their audiences’ attention to the responsibility for the evil to be the fault of one Donald John Trump and his supporters.

This devil-controlled mainstream media—news and entertainment—have indeed “seduced” the young of an entire generation into becoming as wicked as the father of lies, who foments such evil as murdering anyone who disagrees with you.

God’s Holy Word says, through prophecy, exactly the cause and effect of the ultimate influencer –Satan’s master plan to bring all into his hellish sphere.

The Apostle Paul prophesied:

But evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:13)

The media agglomerate in general encourages violence by refusing to point to those who are really responsible for the often-deadly actions perpetrated by violent protesters. They thereby are seducers—seducing those who fall for their lies. For example, I believe most will remember that, with an area of Los Angeles burning in the background and chaos all around that city due to an enraged leftist horde, a mainstream network reporter stood in front of the camera telling us that what she was covering was a “mostly peaceful” protest.

A number of people died in that and similar riots around the nation during that timeframe, and it was all inspired by the media slanting coverage against anyone and anything that supported conservative legislative and executive actions. Mainstream media, through their heavily biased reporting, caused the leftist ideologues–especially many among the college-age youth—to go insane with rage. Added to this was the constant race-baiting that enflamed the core populace of many large American cities.

The insane leftist (communistic) demand in the face of this lawlessness was—and continues to be—to defund the police. And the crimes, especially violent crimes, in the large cities, run by leftists, continues to explode…so much so that the president took it in his own administration’s hand to clean up Washington, DC, the one city in the US under the ultimate authority of the federal government. The results have been spectacular. The numbers of murders that were ubiquitous throughout certain areas of DC were suddenly eliminated almost completely—within only a matter of weeks.

Still, the insane calls to defund policing authorities within the large cities are demanded by those leftist mayors and city councils. Some even threaten to go to war with any federal forces that might be used to quell the lawlessness and bring back sanity for the people who must live within the violence their streets have attracted and nurtured.

Just as the end-times extremes within the political and cultural milieu are plainly made manifest for all who observe these fleeting days of this Church Age through the prophetic lens of God’s prophetic Word, so, too, is the manifestation of the geophysical.

Those within the leftist ideology examined above have been deluded by the seducing forces described by Paul. Those so seduced believe in the global warming/climate-change hoax. Thus, even though scientific studies have concluded time after time—and through daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and decades-long studies and observation—that there has been no global warming other than normal cycles found throughout earth’s history.

Yet the scientists and weather experts are seemingly stumped that suddenly there are weather phenomena, as well as unusual earth convulsions, throughout the planet. They attempt to explain and allay concerns, even fears, that something inexplicable is happening to the physical environment.

There are explanations such as the sun adjusting as it has apparently done for millions of years, or that the Earth’s molten iron core gyroscope is transitioning through yet another phase, and they offer many other suppositions beyond my understanding.

I do understand that God’s Word explains how the geophysical and astrophysical environmental endangerment will manifest at the time Christ’s return approaches. As a matter of fact, Jesus Christ said the following to His disciples—and to all of us who are now alive and are seeing these end-times environmental manifestations:

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:10–11)

Jesus said further that environmental turmoil, both humanistically and geophysically speaking, would increase with troubling intensity as the time for His coming again nears:

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. (Luke 21:25–26)

Just a quick glance at weather-related news on any given day proves the ratcheting-up of strange, endangering atmospheric phenomena in many areas of the world. I’ve chosen only two such reports because of limited space in this rather lengthy commentary. I could have included a great many such reports from around the planet.

Strong Winds, Baseball-Sized Hail Pound Central Kansas
Severe thunderstorms slammed Wichita and other parts of Central Kansas with damaging hail and wind gusts Wednesday evening. See how hail as big as golf balls and baseballs rained down during the wild weather, making a mess of roads, damaging vehicles and knocking out power to thousands of customers.

Severe floods collapse buildings, kill at least 6 people in Bali, Indonesia
At least six people were killed after torrential rains triggered severe flooding across Bali, Indonesia, between September 9 and 10, 2025. The floods inundated large parts of Denpasar, caused the collapse of multiple buildings, and left several people missing, while hundreds were evacuated to safer areas.(Rapture Ready News, September 11, 2025)

Many similar reports flood my newsfeeds daily. Strange weather, earthquakes, and other anomalies indicate, I believe, the end-times extremes Jesus predicted for the immediate days leading to His Second Advent.

All of this can be summed up in the words a friend said recently to me. It is a statement I seem to be thinking, if not audibly stating, to myself rather regularly. I’m sure you have thought and perhaps stated it as well: “I’ve never seen it like this before,” or, “It’s crazy, all the things going on.”

These are exactly the time of extremes Jesus, I believe, was thinking about when He instructed:

And when you see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your head, for your redemption is drawing near. (Luke 21:28)