“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo,
- there was a great earthquake;
- nuclear blasts move air away from the explosion site. Within a nuclear bomb radius of 6 km / 4 mi for a 1-megaton blast, the waves’ force worth 180 metric tons will knock down structures.
- the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
3. “and the moon became as blood;”
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- The moon’s coloration is affected by refraction off particles in the air, but since it is closer than the sun it can still be seen through pollution and on cloudy days when the sun cannot be seen at all.
We are poised to see the fulfillment of this prophecy.
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Literature is how we transmit understanding of people, places and things we have no ability to personally experience. Great literature taps into the common experiences of all peoples regardless of culture, expanding their ability to relate to those unexperienced times, places, and phenomenon. If we can’t apply what we learn from stories, can we ever learn to choose the right path?
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Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire is a particularly favorite story of mine because it not only draws from known cultures and history, but taps into the heart of every commoner’s fears of apocalypse and hopes for salvation.
Didn’t we all cheer when Daenerys saved her people by flying in on a fire-breathing dragon to wipe out the enemy? And then she turned her dragon onto her own people.
Didn’t massive numbers of Germans support Adolph Hitler’s dreams of conquering Europe to restore their former glory and wealth? Only to have Hitler turn total war onto Germany with the Nero Decree.
Didn’t the Allies all cheer when the U.S. saved their colonialists by dropping the bombs on Japan? Is it possible for the United States not to unleash The End Of The World on the world?
It took me a couple of times watching reruns of GOT to pick up on the foreshadowing that George R.R. Martin weaves throughout his entire cautionary tale. Every dramatic moment that happens can be traced back to an individual’s choice earlier in life. Seemingly innocuous decisions based on personality quirks, impossible options, all lead inexorably to The End personalized for each of those players.
This is not forced into the plot. Tracking a patient’s past history through its implacable trajectory into the future how psychological and psychiatric professionals make effective treatment plans.
There are many, many sociopolitical analyses tracking the United States’ history to its inevitable doom that are far more expert and credible than anything I can develop in my blog.
Ryan Chapman ended his 2 hours nonstop lecture on “How World War 2 Began” with just one reference to America – its “isolationism” – i.e. refusal to intervene to resolve conflicts early on, waiting until warring parties expended their energies, then stepping in to take the victor’s spoils.
This can be extrapolated to how World War 3 began.
President Donald Trump came into office promising a swift end to two wars, in Gaza and Ukraine. But it’s hard to get actual results without engaging with the reality of the situation. President Trump’s policy of American “isolation” from its own allies diplomatically, economically, and militarily is creating a power vacuum.
US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return
Trump’s self-serving peace-making without willing parties—as we see today with Russia and Ukraine, and with Israel and Hamas—is sure to backfire, triggering the use of the ultimate weapon by an autocratic leader poised to take over from the current hapless leader of the Western Empire.
Israel’s 15-month assault on Gaza has battered Iranian-backed Hamas; it can no longer mount a serious attack. Hizbullah, an Iranian-backed militia in Lebanon, is also reeling after Israel pummelled it, too and the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, in Syria has cut Hizbullah’s main supply line to Iran. Israel itself has withstood Iranian missile attacks and smashed Iranian air defenses in retaliation.
Since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israel received $17.9 billion in U.S. military aid to support genocide in Gaza, illegal expansion of settlements displacing Palestinians on UN authorized territory, and breaking the cease in Lebanon.
An increasingly common refrain among American critics of Israeli policy: The $3.8 billion that the U.S. already gives each year should directly influence Israeli behavior—on war, on humanitarian assistance to Gaza, on settlements in the West Bank, even on proposed reforms to the judiciary branch—or be withdrawn.
In May 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan in which US takeover of the strip is the condition for the end of the war.
Trump announced that he would acquire Gaza to develop it into “Riviera of the East”.
Beyond its immediate breaking of international human rights law of ethnic cleansing by the expulsion of a native population and their land’s takeover, the proposal reflects a broader and increasingly pervasive trend: the privatization of colonialism. This emerging form of power fuses state-backed military interventions with corporate real estate ambitions.
Trump’s proposal is the most explicit articulation of an idea that has been growing within imperialist frameworks: that land is a commodity to be developed, often at the expense of the people who live there. This real estate-driven colonialism extends beyond Gaza, manifesting in urban gentrification, resource-driven land grabs, and international economic policies that prioritize profit over people. Trump, in positioning himself as both a political leader and a real estate mogul, offers a disturbing vision of the future in which state power is wielded to clear land for private enterprise.
What Trump is demanding from Israel is simply a return on America’s investment.
DOGE and the 2025 federal budget proposal has slashed spending across domestic government programs while financing an additional $1.5 billion worth of U.S. weapons to Israel this year, with $3.8 billion per year through 2028, and extending $9 billion in loan guarantees to Israel through 2030.
Nearly all U.S. aid today goes to support Israel’s military, the most advanced in the region.
Trump and Netanyahu employ a similar strategy. Both are driven by narcissism and hubris, exhibiting overconfidence in their ability to identify and exploit opportunities as they arise while neutralizing obstacles and risks in negotiations. Both leaders believe they can act with a small circle of trusted advisors, operating in a freewheeling, unscripted manner without adhering to a structured plan and deliberately keeping their goals ambiguous.
The friction this causes between these two hardliners is the political equivalent of striking iron on flint. There is going to be a conflagration.
Adding to the risk is America’s withdrawal from, and refusal to support NATO in, the war in Ukraine, emboldening Russia to escalate the conflict.
As of May 2025, an assessment of the war in Ukraine across key metrics—territorial control, military manpower, and supply chains—indicates Russia maintains significant advantages. Winners don’t quit when they’re ahead.
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“And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses [metaphor for war transports] a great company, and a mighty army…
it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified / my holy purposes accomplished in thee O Gog, before their eyes…
Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? (Rhetorical question, obviously.)” (Ezekiel 38)
As detailed in the previous post, Gog is Russia.
And don’t think that Ezekiel is only referring to the nation of Israel. The Gentiles have been grafted in.
The downfall of God’s people who corrupt themselves by alliances with pagan nations who will experience the first mass weapon of destruction is Christian America.
America’s global leadership—and what was once admiringly called the American Century—rested on three pillars. We were a standard-bearer for Western values: freedom, democracy, and lawful cooperation among states. Our policy was of a piece with the personal code of conduct that many Americans traditionally espoused for themselves as decent, truthful, and trustworthy neighbors and citizens. And we used our strength to guarantee order and stability—stability that set the stage for an explosion of global trade and investment, vastly enriching us and raising the standard of living for billions worldwide. Trump’s foreign policy mocks all three pillars.
In just a few short weeks, Trump has turned what was once the indispensable nation into another squabbling player in a chaotic world sure to grow even more dangerous and disorderly.
Without American leadership our adversaries will rush in to take advantage of the vacuum.
January 3, 2022 – Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States,
“We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought…nuclear weapons—for as long as they continue to exist—should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war. We believe strongly that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented.”
From a biblical perspective:
“these kings’ [of the north / Christian and South / Muslim] hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.” (Daniel 11:27)
So whatever these rulers say, we should absolutely expect nuclear weapons to be used. In the near future.
Kingdom Come 