If you read my post from April 18th, you know where I was standing when the Strait of Hormuz “reopened.” In that post I explored Daniel 2, the four Gentile kingdoms, America as the iron and clay of the fourth kingdom, and the stone cut without hands that ends Gentile rule entirely. If you haven’t read that one yet, I’d encourage you to start there, because this post builds on it rather than repeating it.
When that post went up, the news cycle was carrying a certain kind of doubtful and chaotic energy. The strait was open, but not really. Iran was at the table, but not really. The language in the headlines was the language of simultaneous disaster and resolution. While I was careful not to read any one take or vibe as the be all, end all of anything, there was a sense that the pieces might be settling into a recognizable shape.
I was under the impression that the pieces were not settling, but shifting. Indeed, they have shifted. As I’ve watched what has played out in the last few days, from Iran’s antics to Trump’s decision to extend the ceasefire to reports from within Iran that the IRGC is internally imploding, admittedly perturbed (initially, until I could wrap my head around his possible reasoning) at Trump, I continued to pray that God would open my eyes to what He is doing. What Ross at NewNews laid out this morning has helped me to put some of those pieces together and to understand what I believed I was watching – not the foundation, but the immediate picture.
Per usual, the situation on the ground is more complicated, more dangerous, and more prophetically layered than the ceasefire narrative suggests. I want to walk through it here the way I always do: through Scripture first, then through what we can see happening in the world, and then back to Scripture again.
Biblical War vs. Man’s War
One of the things Ross laid out that I found clarifying and that I want to establish here in my own reflection is the distinction between what Scripture calls war and what we typically mean when we use that word. We throw the word “war” around constantly. Russia and Ukraine or China and Taiwan, for example. Whatever is happening in any given corner of the world on any given week. When we do, we are usually talking about man’s war: conflicts driven by ideology, territory, economics, pride, and power. These are real, and they are deadly, but Scripture does not map them. We can’t predict their outcomes. They belong to the decisions of men, and men are unpredictable.
Biblical war is a different category entirely. When God declares something in Scripture, it happens exactly as written. Not approximately, not symbolically, but exactly.
The book of Judges gives us one of the clearest pictures of this. In chapters 6 and 7, Gideon is told by God to fight an army of Midianites so vast that the text compares them to a swarm of locusts. God then systematically reduces Gideon’s army from thirty-two thousand men down to three hundred. The reason He gives is striking:
The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against me, saying, “My own hand has saved me.” (Judges 7:2)
Three hundred men, torches, trumpets, and clay jars, and in one night, the entire enemy camp destroys itself in confusion. That is not a war in any conventional sense. That is an action of God that looks like a war.
This distinction matters enormously for what we are watching now. The newscasts and the newspaper headlines speak of the entire situation from the perspective of “man’s war.” When Ross talked about the prophesied conflicts in Zechariah, Psalms 83, Isaiah 17, and Jeremiah 49 in his post this morning, I was able to make the distinction much more clearly than I have been able to for the last few days. What I have been seeing beyond the headlines as I scan them is not something we can track through military intelligence or geopolitical analysis alone. Ross points out that what those of us with the spiritual eyes to see truly points to being events that God has already declared, events that will happen exactly as written, and events that, when they do happen, will not look like what the world expects war to look like.
Are We Really in the Last Days?
Before I could sit comfortably with the specifics of what Ross was laying out, I kept running up against a more foundational question. Are we actually living in the season where these things happen? Not “the end times” in some vague, theological sense that every generation has gestured toward, but this season. These years. And if so, on what basis do I believe that, beyond my own sense that something is shifting?
While I was working through all of this, something else landed in my recommended feed. I wasn’t looking for it. I wasn’t seeking out voices to agree with me. But, a podcast episode from Lakepointe Church surfaced, featuring pastor Josh Howerton in conversation with author and teacher John Bevere, who has a new book out called The King Is Coming. I decided to listen.
Before I share what I heard in that podcast, this is an opportune time to note the difference between validation and confirmation. I often receive feedback (that I never push back on) about this, and it’s important to point out that there is a difference between seeking validation and receiving confirmation. Validation would be finding someone who agrees with me and using that to feel settled in my own conclusions. Confirmation is something else entirely, and it is what I pay attention to – not just spiritually speaking, but practically. My educational and professional background in psychology and research trained me to know the difference, not only in theory but in practice.
Spiritually, confirmation is sitting with someone else’s careful study of Scripture and finding that the picture they are painting from a completely different starting point looks strikingly like the one you have been looking at. When you have worked in research, you recognize when independent sources converge on the same image. Not because you were right, but because the text is not as complicated as we sometimes make it, and the Holy Spirit is not confused about what it says.
That is what happened as I listened to Bevere.
One of his anchors for why he believes we are living in the last of the last days is not drawn from today’s headlines at all. He draws it from two passages most people read right past. The first is Hosea 6:1-2:
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hosea 6:1-2)
The second is 2 Peter 3:8:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3:8)
Read together, Bevere suggests that the “two days” in Hosea maps to roughly two thousand years. Two thousand years since Israel was scattered, beginning around 70 to 132 AD. A biblical generation is typically counted as seventy to one hundred years. That places a window, not a date, somewhere roughly between 2037 and 2075.
Then there are the markers, the first being when Israel was reborn as a nation in 1948 and the second, Jerusalem recaptured in 1967. Whatever you believe about the specifics of prophetic interpretation, those events did not happen by accident, and Scripture is not silent about them.
Bevere also spends time on 2 Peter 3, and specifically on the scoffers Peter describes. What stood out to me here is that these scoffers are not pictured as people outside the church. They are people inside it, saying that nothing has changed, that everything continues just as it always has, that the urgency is overblown. I face that particular brand of dismissal frequently, and it is not new, but has become remarkably common, and Peter saw it coming.
None of this is date-setting. Bevere is not doing that, and neither am I. What it is, is a calibration. It is the kind of thing that, when you have been watching and praying and wondering if your eyes are playing tricks on you, settles something. It’s not pride, just clarity. That’s what I pray incessantly for, and that is why I paused on this post for a couple of days (I started writing this post on April 24), and spent some time testing the spirits and doing further study before coming back to this post and including what I’d been shown.
With that settled, not perfectly, not with certainty, but with enough grounding to move forward, I want to walk through what I believe Scripture is actually describing about the moment we are in, because Bevere helped me to actually see the foundation I have been standing on for some time. Ross, studying from a completely different angle, gave me the details, and the two fit together in a way that I do not think is coincidental.
Two Prophesied Wars: Zechariah 12 and Psalms 83
With that foundation in place, I revisited the two passages that Ross also keeps returning to. These are not obscure texts. They are not difficult to find. But they are passages that most prophecy conversations skip over quickly (in my experience) on the way to Revelation, and I have always thought that was a mistake.
The first is Zechariah 12, which opens with language that should stop any watchman paying attention to the current headlines in their tracks. It certainly did that for me.
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. (Zechariah 12:2-3)
A cup of trembling and a burdensome stone? Look at any news cycle from the last several years and tell me that language does not fit what you are seeing. Every nation that has involved itself in the Jerusalem question has found it to be exactly that: a weight they cannot carry and cannot put down.
But this passage doesn’t stop with the political picture. It moves quickly into something else entirely:
In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. (Zechariah 12:4)
That phrase, “in that day,” appears repeatedly throughout this chapter. It is not incidental. It is the text signaling a shift from the political to the divine, from what men are doing to what God is doing. This is the language of intervention, sudden and complete, the same pattern I’ve already described from Judges 6 and 7.
The second passage is Psalms 83, and it is where the picture gets uncomfortably specific:
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Psalm 83:4)
Then, it lists the conspirators by their ancient tribal names, and when you map those names to their modern equivalents, the list reads like a roster of the current conflict: the territories and peoples associated with Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Ross points out, and I think he is right, that only one power in the region today carries both the ideology and the reach to attempt what this psalm describes. Iran has not been quiet about its intentions. It has stated them plainly since 1979.
Ross also notes that the taking of hostages, which is part of what initiated the current war, cements this psalm in time “in a way that is hard to dismiss.” That’s exactly right. The language of cutting Israel off from being a nation is not metaphor here. It is a literal, stated goal, and it is being actively pursued.
What I see, and what Ross compels me to believe I am seeing correctly, is that Zechariah 12 and Psalms 83 are not two separate events on a distant prophetic timeline. They are happening together, converging in a single moment of divine action, the same sudden and decisive pattern I’ve already explored in Gideon’s three hundred.
Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49: One Day
When you read these two passages alongside what we have already looked at, the convergence is striking.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. (Isaiah 17:1)
Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth. It has never in its history been reduced to a ruinous heap. This prophecy has not yet been fulfilled. Ross sees its fulfillment as part of the same cluster of events described in Psalms 83 and Zechariah 12, not a separate event on a separate timeline, but part of the same sudden divine action against Israel’s surrounding enemies, as do I.
Jeremiah 49, which addresses several of Israel’s neighbors, stands out in the context of what we are watching right now, specifically verses 34 through 39, which speak directly about Elam, the ancient name for the region we know today as Iran:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. (Jeremiah 49:35)
Iran’s nuclear and missile program is, quite literally, its bow. Its chief might. The passage goes on to describe a scattering, a dismantling of power, and then, in verse 39, something unexpected:
But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 49:39)
Iran is diminished but not destroyed. It remains, and it is eventually restored. That detail is important because it means the current conflict is not the end of Iran’s story, and was never meant to be. It is part of a larger reshaping.
What Ross is pointing to, and what I find myself unable to dismiss, is that these four passages (Zechariah 12, Psalms 83, Isaiah 17, and Jeremiah 49) are not a sequence. They are a single moment. A single day. God stepping in, all at once, in a way that reshapes the map of the entire region.
What’s Happening on the Ground
Where does all of that leave us with what is actually happening right now? When I wrote my April 18th post, the Strait of Hormuz had technically reopened and the language in the headlines was carrying that particular mixture of cautious optimism and barely contained chaos that has become familiar to all of us. I noted then that I was not reading any single development as the final word on anything, and that turned out to be the right instinct.
Here is what has shifted:
The ceasefire that was announced was not what it appeared to be, as I think most of us were aware of the instant it was announced. Ross explains it this way, and it tracks with what I had been piecing together from multiple sources: Trump declared victory early, in part to calm the oil markets, which dropped from around $108 a barrel down to roughly $87. But the ceasefire was also a practical necessity. Ammunition supplies had run lower than publicly acknowledged, and time was needed to regroup and reposition. Iran agreed to the ceasefire but did not open the Strait of Hormuz as the agreement implied it would. Trump responded with what amounts to an effective blockade of Iran’s ships and oil exports.
This is where it gets interesting from a prophetic standpoint. Iran’s primary oil storage is concentrated at Kargh Island. Those tanks are filling up. When they reach capacity, the pumps have to stop, and stopping them that way can cause permanent damage to the infrastructure. The overarching assessment when Ross recorded his update was that Iran had somewhere between a few days and two weeks before that becomes a critical problem.
Iran also made a calculated move as Trump’s deadline approached. They placed civilians around bridges and power plants, which is a recurring tactic designed to make a strike politically and morally costly. Trump extended the ceasefire. NATO allies have not stepped in with meaningful support. The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier arrived in the region on April 24th. The repositioning is not subtle.
Here is what I think is important to hold onto through all of this. Just as I had, Ross has recalibrated his framing, and I think he is right to do so. What we are watching is not necessarily the direct fulfillment of Psalms 83 or Zechariah 12. It may be the stepping stone that leads there. The conflict is clearing ground, shifting alliances, exposing fractures, and setting up the conditions under which God’s sudden intervention would be both recognizable and undeniable. Iran is not going to negotiate its way to a different ideology. It has stated its goals plainly since 1979.
As of yesterday, April 25th, that reality appears to have registered at the highest level. Trump cancelled the planned trip to send Kushner and others to Pakistan for another round of talks, reportedly pulling the plug just as they were preparing to leave. Whether that signals a strategic shift, a loss of patience, or something else entirely, the message it sends is hard to misread. There is a point at which continuing to negotiate with someone who has already decided becomes its own kind of theater, and it appears that point may have been reached. The people at the table change. The goals do not – and that is what makes the next development the one nobody seems to be talking about.
The Preemptive Nobody Is Talking About
Ross raised a point during his April 24th update that I have not heard discussed anywhere in the mainstream conversation, and the developments since have only made it more pressing rather than less. Everyone is discussing what happens if the US strikes Iran. The debate centers on timing, on targets, on whether Trump will move or extend the ceasefire again. The entire framing assumes Iran is in a reactive position, waiting to see what the US decides to do next.
But Iran is not necessarily waiting.
There is a strong possibility that Iran launches a preemptive strike first. Not a response, a first move. The scenario is not complicated: Iran has been given time, the USS Bush has now arrived in the region, and everyone at the table is proceeding as if Iran is going to negotiate its way toward a different outcome. Ross’s point is that Iran has already decided. The negotiations are not a path to resolution for them. They are time.
In fact, the last 48 hours have made that clearer than anything Ross said on the 24th. The ceasefire expires today, April 26th. While it has been in place, Iran has been seizing and harassing vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, holding rallies, and parading ballistic missiles through its streets. Senior Iranian figures and state media have been openly vowing a second round of war. And, perhaps most tellingly, Iranian lawmakers have explicitly floated the preemptive option themselves, warning they could strike first if they determined it was needed. This is not speculation from outside observers, but Iran stating its intentions out loud.
What that could look like in practice is Iran launching upward of three hundred missiles at Israel suddenly, without warning, restarting the war on its own terms before the US is fully repositioned to respond. That is man’s war. That is the kind of chaos that does not appear in prophetic Scripture as a named event. But it is also, potentially, the trigger that sets the stage for what does appear there.
The diplomatic runway is getting shorter – the window in which Iran can make that kind of move before the military option is fully on the table is narrowing. That combination, a closing diplomatic window, a repositioned carrier group, and an adversary that has never actually intended to negotiate, is exactly the environment in which a preemptive strike becomes more likely rather than less.
I am not predicting this will happen. I am saying it is worth watching, and worth understanding in the context of everything else we have been looking at. Because if it does happen, it will not come out of nowhere. The text already told us something like this was coming.
Peace and Safety, Then What?
If what we are watching is a stepping stone rather than the final fulfillment, where does the stone lead? I have adopted Ross’s label of the “three things” framework for what I see happening here, because, in my opinion, it is the clearest framework for understanding the order of what Scripture describes. It is not a timeline with dates. It is a sequence with logic, and once you see it, it is hard to unsee.
The first “thing” is peace and safety.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (1 Thessalonians 5:3)
At some point, the current chaos resolves into something that looks like calm. A ceasefire holds, or a deal is reached, or the immediate military threat subsides. The world exhales. The markets stabilize. People say peace and safety. That moment is not the end of the danger. It is, Paul says, the moment just before sudden destruction arrives.
The second “thing” is that sudden destruction, and this is where the passages we have already looked at converge. The Psalms 83 event, the Zechariah 12 intervention, the fulfillment of Isaiah 17 and Jeremiah 49. God steps in, and He does so suddenly and decisively. The surrounding enemies are gone in a way that no military strategist predicted and no ceasefire negotiated. And at that same moment, as Ross, Bevere, and I along with untold others all believe, the Church is caught up. The age of Gentile gospel proclamation closes. The focus of God’s redemptive work shifts back to Israel, just as Daniel 9 always said it would.
That brings us to the third “thing”: the covenant.
Daniel 9 describes seventy weeks of seven years each, decreed for the Jewish people. Sixty-nine of those weeks were completed, ending at the crucifixion. Jesus was, as the text puts it, “cut off, but not for himself.” (Daniel 9:26) That cutting off was for us. And then the clock stopped, because the Church age began. The final week, the last seven years, begins when a covenant is confirmed:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. (Daniel 9:27)
This is the Antichrist’s entry. Not as a monster, at least not initially. The Antichrist enters as a peacemaker. He steps into the power vacuum left by God’s sudden intervention, into a world that has just watched its most volatile regional conflict collapse in a single day, into a moment where Israel is expanding into the land its surrounding enemies once occupied. What does he do? He makes a deal.
The first half of that final seven years is described as a period of relative stability for Israel. The temple is rebuilt, sacrifices resume, the land is open. The second half is what Revelation 12 and 13 describe, and it is not stable at all.
I must reiterate here that I do not know when any of this happens. Neither does Ross, and neither does Bevere, neither does anyone else. What Ross, Bevere and others say, and what I believe, is that Scripture tells us what to look for, that the sequence is in place and that the conditions are aligning in a way that has not been true in any previous generation to this degree. That is not meant to instill fear. It’s the blessed hope taking shape.
A Counterfeit Coming: Islam, the Mahdi, and the Strong Delusion
I think this is one of the most important pieces of the whole puzzle I’ve been attempting to put together in these end times prophecy/Scripture posts. Many have been talking and writing about the political and military dimensions of what is happening for what seems like ages now, but there is a spiritual architecture underneath all of it that they barely touched on.
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; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)
And then, a few verses later:
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. (2 Thessalonians 2:11)
Read that again. A strong delusion, not a mild misunderstanding. Not honest confusion, but deception powerful enough to sweep in people across the globe, including people who believe they are following God.
Bevere points something specific out, and it should be genuinely sobering to any who have any doubt about the false doctrine of Islam. Islamic eschatology (the Islamic account of the end times) describes a figure called the Mahdi. The Mahdi is expected to appear, establish a seven-year covenant or treaty, conquer Jerusalem, and be accompanied by a figure called Isa, the Islamic version of Jesus, who will, according to Islamic tradition, break crosses and abolish Christianity. Now, look at Revelation 13:11-12:
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast. (Revelation 13:11-12)
Read that again slowly, too, because the overlap with what Scripture describes is not coincidental. A figure who looks like a lamb but serves the beast, one who causes the world to worship the Antichrist. That is the biblical false prophet. And the Islamic Isa, who appears in their tradition as a returning Jesus figure but serves the Mahdi and turns people away from the cross, maps onto that description in a way that is difficult to dismiss.
Bevere also points out that the nations listed in Ezekiel 38, the Gog and Magog coalition that descends on Israel in a later prophetic event, are today predominantly Muslim nations. Persia is Iran. Cush and Put are in Africa. Gomer and Togarmah are in the region of modern Turkey. The geography of the prophecy and the geography of the current conflict are not unrelated.
Please understand that this is not a statement about the Muslim people. It is a prophetic observation about how a deception of global scale could work. I believe the Muslim people are, just as so many Christians who deny prophecy still are, under a strong delusion (and have been for millennia). In recent decades, and especially in the last few years, the spread of that delusion has been impossible to miss.
The strong delusion Paul describes in 2 Thessalonians would need to be something that crosses religious and cultural lines, something that offers a figure compelling enough that people from vastly different backgrounds accept him. A counterfeit that mirrors both biblical prophecy and Islamic expectation simultaneously would be exactly that kind of deception. This is why discernment matters so much right now. Not fear – discernment. The ability to test what you are seeing against what the text actually says, and to hold onto it even when the world around you is calling it peace and safety, is monumentally important.
Living Ready
For a long time, the idea of Jesus returning felt more like a threat than a promise to me. Not theologically, but emotionally… like I was never quite ready enough, never quite holy enough, and the thought of it arriving before I had sorted myself out was more terrifying than comforting. That can lead to doubt, and I’ve struggled with that off and on even as I’ve written posts like this one. I’ve always tried to be honest about this because it is something I think many of us, no matter how strong our faith, have or will begin to question at one time or another, and I think it is fair to speak about. It is not necessarily about a lack of faith. I think maybe all we need is a reframing of perspective.
The Greek word the New Testament uses for “looking for” His return is prosdokao, and it means eager expectation. Actively waiting. Watching the horizon. Paul calls it the “blessed hope”:
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. (Titus 2:13)
Make a mental note for yourself of this, and echo it to your heart: that is not the language of dread. It is the language of longing. I think this is one of the most practically useful things in Bevere’s teaching, and I’ve touched on it in many posts here at Twin Tree: the hope of Christ’s return is not supposed to produce fear. It is supposed to produce purity. John said it this way:
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (1 John 3:3)
Not paralysis or panic, but purification. The teachings concerning the return of Christ, held close as a real and imminent expectation, change how you live. It changes what you tolerate in yourself. It changes how seriously you take the people around you who do not yet know Him. It changes what feels urgent and what feels like noise. It does none of these things because it instills fear, but because it instills a desire to be with Him. Fear has never been the point, but based on what you might hear in a sermon on any given Sunday at any given church, especially in the American South, as I did growing up, you might not know that.
Bevere shared something that is really the root of what led me to consider all of what I’ve just written. It has stayed with me, and I don’t think I will ever forget it. After he spent deep time studying the Second Coming, his wife told him he had become a “2.0 version” of himself. More urgent about soul-winning. More focused. Not because he was afraid, but because the weight of what was coming had become real to him in a new way.
That is what the fear of the Lord produces. That is what has led me to write about these topics, and Scripture and faith almost exclusively in the last year. It is not terror, but a kind of holy sobriety. Proverbs 1:7 says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and I think in the context of end times study, that matters more than almost anything else. You can know every chapter and verse, every geopolitical alignment, every prophetic pattern, and still be spiritually asleep if you are not living in reverent intimacy with God.
Bevere also shared the story of Jim Bakker, who said in prison that the lack of the fear of (meaning respect for) God was at the root of his fall. It is not lack of knowledge, or lack of giftedness that creates distance between us and God. It is lack of that reverent awe that keeps you close and keeps you honest.
On a personal note, that is what I experienced, as well. That is what led me astray, down the path of alcoholism and many bad and selfish choices during deep grief. I chose the world because I was angry at God. I chose myself and my will before Him and His will. But He delivered me by humbling me first. He let me have my way, my will; He let me break myself until I had nothing left but to turn back to Him. When I did, the moment I called out to Him from my soul, with true repentance and intention, He stepped in. I received that deliverance and His mercy and grace and turned my face and my heart back toward Him before I ended up in jail myself – or worse, dead or having killed or irreparably hurt someone else. It is because of His grace and my love for Him that I share every word I share.
Living ready does not mean selling everything and waiting on a rooftop, staring at the sky. Living ready means making long-term plans while holding them loosely. It means treating your daily decisions as if they matter eternally, because they do. It means taking the Great Commission seriously today, not someday. It means choosing holiness not out of terror but out of love for the One you are waiting for.
This is not about speculation. It is not about calculating dates or building bunkers. It is about what Paul said simply in Philippians 4:5: “The Lord is at hand.” Let that be close to you. Let it shape you.
Read It For Yourself
I want to close the way I always try to close: not with my conclusions, but with an invitation to yours. Everything I have shared in this post, from Zechariah 12 to Psalms 83, from Daniel 9 to 2 Thessalonians 2, is in your Bible. The geopolitical pieces I have referenced are in your news feed. The teachers I have cited in this post, Ross at NewNews and John Bevere at Lakepointe, are available to you. None of this requires you to take my word for it. I would actually be very uncomfortable if you did.
Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you as you read. That is not a formality. That is the whole thing. Jesus said the Spirit would lead us into all truth (John 16:13), and I believe that. I have built my faith on that. Ask Him to show you what is true, and then read.
If you want to go deeper, here are some of the posts I have written that connect to what I have shared today:
- Daniel 2, the Strait of Hormuz, and What I Believe We Are Watching
- Authenticity Unveiled: When the Serpent Wears Robes
- Why I Believe We Are Living in the End Times
- Patterns, Cycles, and Ancient Warnings
These are not the final word. They are one person’s attempt to take the text seriously, pay attention to the world, and share what she sees. I could be wrong about details. I could have the sequence slightly off. But I do not believe I am wrong about the urgency, and I do not believe you are reading this by accident.
The day of the Lord is at hand. Read it for yourself.
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