On Nuking Nuclear Iran

Diplomats of the world consider it the most crucial area on the planet in terms of attempting to force peace. Those who study Bible prophecy from the True perspective presented in God’s Word should not be surprised that this region is front and center in the cry for peace and safety at this late hour on God’s Prophetic Timeline.

The region of which I write is that which was called Persia in ancient times. At the heart of this volatile geographical arena is, of course, the nation of Iran. The Iranian Islamic regime is the most vociferous government on Earth in declaring they want death to the people of another nation.  Its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, declares at every opportunity that Israel must be expunged from the land –and must be eradicated as a people. Additionally, he and those of his ilk within the regime want America destroyed.

Khamenei leads his people in the chants of death to the Great Satan (America) and death to the Little Satan (Israel) – thus, even though there is tremendous underground resistance by much of the populace within Iran against the fanatical, despotic government that has ruled since the Shaw was deposed.

The reason I say those who study Bible prophecy from the true perspective given in God’s Word shouldn’t be surprised is because Daniel the prophet recorded thousands of years ago that Persia was at the center of Israel’s troubles when he prayed so diligently for his people. Daniel told us, through his prophecy, that his people –hated and harangued by the Prince of Persia– would be on the earthly scene at the time of the end. And, the book of the end, we certainly can believe with developments we’ve witnessed, has been opened (Daniel 12: 4) so that Bible students who truly seek Truth can recognize the lateness of this prophetic hour.

So Persia, at this very moment, is at the heart of Israel’s current problems, while that tiny country is surrounded by all Islamist nations that are used by Iran (Persia) as proxies to bedevil the Jewish state. And the fact that the Iranian leaders are blood-vowed to destroy their hated enemies, Israel and America, and knowing as Bible prophecy students who view eschatology from the True perspective –the PreTrib view– that Persia (Iran) is prophetically scheduled to be part of the Gog-Magog attack (Ezekiel 38-39) means that Iran’s nuclear development program is crucial to consider. 

The world’s diplomats don’t look through the prism of PreTrib Bible prophecy. They haven’t a clue that it is the God of Heaven Who will prevent all-out war. They refuse to believe any higher power than themselves can bring the peace and safety they want to broker between Israel and its neighbor antagonists. Neither do most of the Israeli government or IDF generals believe it is a Supernatural Power that guarantees their safety –although there is a small circle of those within both entities that possess some degree of belief in God’s Protection of Israel.

All parties –the diplomats and Israel’s government and military—do understand nuclear power and the threat to peace and safety that power represents. Thus, there is great controversy at present on what to do about Iran’s nuclear weapons that it is feared the blood-vowed Israel haters might soon have in their possession.

With the recent missile attacks directly from Iran, many are urging Israel to use this as an excuse to obliterate the nuclear development facilities. The following somewhat explains the ongoing angst.

Two years ago, dozens of Israeli fighter jets roared over the Mediterranean Sea, simulating a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, a drill the Israeli defense forces openly advertised as an exercise in “long-range flight, aerial refueling and striking distant targets.”

The point of the exercise was not simply to intimidate the Iranians. It was also designed to send a message to the Biden administration: The Israeli air force was training to conduct the operation alone, even though chances of success would be far higher if the United States — with its arsenal of 30,000-pound “bunker busters” — joined in the attack.

In interviews, former and current senior Israeli officials acknowledged doubts about whether the country has the capability to do significant damage to Iran’s nuclear facilities. Nonetheless, for the past few days, Pentagon officials have been wondering quietly whether the Israelis are preparing to go it alone, after concluding that they may never again have a moment like this one…

“Israel has now its greatest opportunity in 50 years, to change the face of the Middle East,” Naftali Bennett, a hardline nationalist and former prime minister who once described himself as to the right of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently wrote on social media. “We must act *now* to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, its central energy facilities, and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime.”

He added: “We have the justification. We have the tools. Now that Hezbollah and Hamas are paralyzed, Iran stands exposed.”

[Source: Washington Worries the Israelis Will Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites. But Can They? – The New York Times, October 9, 2024]

My commentary’s title, On Nuking Nuclear Iran, isn’t meant to give the impression Israel will use nuclear weaponry to destroy Iran’s nuclear program. While that option is no doubt available to the IDF, they could accomplish it, I believe, through conventional war-making means. Regardless of the means, destroying it certainly is the recommendation of many.

Former President Donald Trump is one such advocate, although it might be seen as merely a political bit of hyperbole. He didn’t make such statements or recommendations that we know of back when he was president. And every time I read a report back then, Iran was within a month or two, or even a week or two, of achieving weapons-grade fissionable materials that could then be used to develop nuclear bombs within a short time.

President Joe Biden has strongly demanded to Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel not take out the nuclear facilities. He has even, it is reported, offered financial rewards to Israel to think in other terms than attacking Iran’s nuclear laboratories and other facilities such as those for oil production. This means, to me at least, that the globalist powers that be fear losing the control they have lied, cheated, and fought so hard to achieve over world war-making on their own terms.

It seems to me there are some possible prophetic stage settings to consider in all of this.

Iran, we know (Persia,) will be at the heart of the Gog-Magog coalition when that horde descends in an all-out attack against an Israel which is at peace, according to Ezekiel 38-39. There seems no nuclear weaponry unleashed on the Jewish state, only primarily a land invasion.

The attackers’ nukes have somehow been taken out of the picture, so far as is known in that attack itself. Neither are Israel’s nukes apparently available to retaliate as given in Ezekiel’s description of the assault. However, God Himself uses, it seems, some sort of Heavenly Nukes!

It is interesting that “fires on the coastlands” is part of the description of that tremendous prophetic scene. Are these nuclear in nature? Could be, but I rather am of the opinion that the fire that’s sent on the coastlands is a Supernatural Judgment sent by the Lord upon those in the region, other than the Gog-Magog attackers—the Anti-Semitic forces– who perpetrate evil against His chosen people. Perhaps it is like the sulfur and brimstone Judgment that fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah.

God has Dealt very recently with Israel’s enemies in observable ways for those who hold to Bible Truth and Watch for prophetic signals of these troubled times. It will be, as Daniel the Prophet foretold, for those of us who name the Name of Jesus Christ to Watch and Discern these times that are almost certainly stage-setting for the coming Tribulation era (Daniel’s seventieth week).

“And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Daniel 12: 8-10). 

Those who obey the Lord Jesus Christ’s Command are the “wise” at this moment about whom Daniel prophesied.

“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch” (Mark 13:37). 

For those who know Christ for Salvation, there is the Promise of being kept out of that terrible time of Tribulation that will come upon the whole world (Revelation 3: 10).

Jesus said the following about that Promise:

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

This Promise by the Lord Himself was for believers of both the Church Age (our current Age of Grace) and for believers who come to Know Christ as Savior during the Tribulation.

For us today, this is the Rapture, of which Jesus Spoke.

He will call all believers to Himself in the Clouds of Glory before the terrible 7 years of Hell on Earth begins.

You want to be part of the Rapture. You can then “Watch” as developments in stage-setting move daily toward the Tribulation. You can do so with the absolute confidence that Christ will call you to Himself before the world reaches that time of God’s Judgment and Wrath.

One of the most observable signals of that movement toward the Tribulation is Israel’s dealing with Iran’s (ancient Persia’s) nuclear weapons facilities. Actually, it is God’s Dealing with Israel’s enemies you can “Watch” with Spiritual Eyes Attuned to Holy Spirit-infused Wisdom, as Daniel was given to tell us about by the Angel (Daniel 12: 8-10).

Here again is how to become a believer in Jesus Christ, thus a Member of God’s Family Forever.

“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).

–Terry

*** Important Notice! ***

God The Holy Spirit is turning on the Light of God’s Truth in Pakistan and other areas of the Spiritually darkened world.

Again, I’m appealing to you, who understand through Holy Spirit Enlightenment just how late is the prophetic hour, to help us print and distribute the little book Prophecy Power: Strength From God To Face Your Future to the people of Pakistan.

Pastor Anil Jasper worked diligently to translate the Sunday school quarterly sized book into his native language. The results have been powerful in helping turn on that Light of understanding about Jesus and His soul-saving Sacrifice. Anil reports that the book distribution is reaping great rewards in terms of his people accepting Christ –something that might not have happened if not for the presentation in our little book.

Please consider again supporting this effort, as time looks to be short, according to all prophetic stage-setting signals in the world today. We want to one day hear the words from our Lord: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”

Please go to the following to read more and contribute.

https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/04/please-help-in-our-pakistan-missionary-effort/

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Unsustainable

The nearness of another presidential election in America has accentuated the depth of lawlessness that exists in our nation. I have long hoped that the Lord would come before I had to endure another time of voting when deception and open gaslighting runs so deep and those who seek to destroy our nation receive vast amounts of votes and, in many cases, prevail.

I’m weary of waiting for the Lord’s appearing to take me home, but I’m also reminded that God’s judgment is surely coming to the earth. Many centuries before the birth of Christ, the Lord spoke these words to Asaph concerning the very day in which we live:

At the set time that I appoint
I will judge with equity.
When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah (Psalm 75:2-3)

These words assure me that God will intervene in our world.

I believe it will be soon because what we now see is not sustainable for any extended length of time. I say this because:

1. America’s economy lies on the brink of utter disaster. The U.S. national debt stands at thirty-five trillion dollars and, according to some reports, is increasing by one trillion dollars every one hundred days. We are rapidly approaching the point when all the income tax monies collected from individuals will go to just pay the interest on our debt. Our economy should’ve completely collapsed long ago.

Don’t be deceived by the record-setting numbers on Wall Street; they are a façade intended to influence the upcoming election. At the time appointed by the Lord, the U.S. economy will collapse and likely play a significant role in the worldwide economic horrors described in Revelation 6:5-6.

2. The violence against children will surely bring destruction to our land. The violence against children in America is beyond horrific. God’s patience will soon run out, and judgment will fall. The murder of the unborn continues despite the overturning of Roe versus Wade. The sex trafficking of children has become a multi-billion-dollar industry in America largely because of its protection by those in power. The Democratic Party openly promotes the mutilation of children via sex change operations.

It’s not possible for such atrocities to continue apart from the Lord saying “enough” and then bringing the full force of His wrath upon our country. It’s closer than most can imagine.

3. The start of World War III is rapidly approaching. With each passing day, the world moves closer to a nuclear war among the superpowers, which will result in an unfathomable number of deaths. Each of these hot spots becomes more volatile by the day and has the potential to lead to a much greater war.
4. NATO continues to zoom past the red lines the Russian president sets for a nuclear response. How much longer will Vladimir Putin warn of a nuclear attack before doing so?
5. China appears to be on the verge of invading Taiwan.
6. The war in the Middle East could rapidly expand to include a conflict between the U.S. and Russia, particularly as the warfare between Israel and Iran heats up in the coming days.
7. North Korea is threatening both South Korea and the U.S. They have destroyed roads connecting the two countries and warned of an upcoming war.

It’s not sustainable for such saber-rattling to continue without the onset of the devastating wars such as we read about in Revelation, which will happen after the Rapture. If it were just one threat, perhaps we could see a cessation of hostilities.

4. The violence that America imports into our cities via illegal immigration will bring catastrophe to our land. During the past four years, the number of immigrants following through our southern border has soared to record numbers. The violence they have already brought to the U.S. will surely explode to greater depths in the future. It’s not possible by any stretch of the imagination to allow so many villains and Chinese men of military age into our land without disastrous results.

The billions spent to support those unlawfully in our land is one of the reasons for the crippling inflation that’s making it nearly impossible for most families to put food on the table. The thousands of dollars that the illegals receive each month increase the demand for the same amount of goods, which will keep prices at the grocery store rising unless there’s a drastic change in policy.

5. The deep political and ethnic divides in America jeopardize our future well-being. The upcoming presidential election increases the danger of violence in America. We have already seen at least two attempts to assassinate former President Trump. Should he win the election, civil unrest will most certainly erupt across our land.

President Biden is on record stating that he doesn’t believe a peaceful transition of power is possible. Is he assuming a Trump victory? Is he not already increasing the likelihood of such violence?

It’s only because of God’s patience and His restraining hand that the world has not yet felt the full force of His wrath.

However, because we don’t know the timing of these things, it’s absolutely essential that we, as believers, vote in the upcoming election. Please don’t stay home on November 5, 2024.

Donald Trump is most definitely not an ideal candidate, but he represents freedom versus the tyranny that will surely come should Harris step into the Oval Office. Her policies will surely advance the Marxist policies of the globalists and hurt a great many people.

Let me be clear: one cannot have a biblical worldview and, at the same time, support the Harris/Walz ticket. Those who vote for them will cast their ballots in favor of all the things that the Lord hates. The platform of the Democratic party is fully anti-God and anti-Scripture. How is it possible for a believer to support such a vile agenda?

Please know that my hope for the future lies solely in Jesus and in His imminent appearing to take us home to Heaven. I believe it’s too late to turn the tide of the threats that lie on the horizon for the U.S. and the world. I say that because most, if not all, of the perils listed above are not only unsustainable for the future, but they are also irreversible.

All these things point to the nearness of the Tribulation period, which, of necessity, tells us that the Rapture is ever so close.

Maranatha!

-Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psyching Out Israel’s Enemies

To “psych out” means to insinuate a sense of intimidation into the psyche or cognitive process. At least that term encompasses the achieved ramification to my way of intended meaning.

Perhaps you might think of better examples, but here are a couple:

Bobby Fisher, an undefeated chess champion in the early 1970s, was a reclusive, thus an unknown player who many say “psyched out” his Russian-Soviet opponent, Boris Spassky, in their July 1972 world championship match. Fisher was a strange, eccentric man holding anti-Semitic views. His brooding reclusiveness and odd ways apparently had a tendency to intimidate opponents who had to face him in their matches.

Another more familiar case of “psyching out” opponents might be when Goliath, the giant warrior, intimidated the Israelites—that is until he came up against young David, Israel’s future king.

And this brings us to thinking about recent cases of Israel’s enemies who seek to destroy the Jewish nation and eradicate the chosen people of God.

We’ve witnessed God dealing with Israel’s enemies within the past few weeks in ways almost as dramatic as when He dealt with them in Israel’s ancient past.

And I’ve mentioned recently Israel’s defense force bringing Iran’s nuclear weapons program to a standstill by introducing a computer worm called Stuxnet into the technology used to run Iran’s centrifuges.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently said Iran never will be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Implied within that statement is the threat of using whatever military or other means necessary to keep the Israel-hating Iranian regime from developing nuclear bombs.

This threat and Iran’s insistence on using proxies to harass and attack the Jewish state and its people through actions such as on October 7, 2023, has the diplomats of the world in a near panic.

To this point, the all-out war that might be necessary to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons hasn’t happened. Israel has, it seems, been able to thwart Iran’s destructive intentions.

As stated above, we saw this with Stuxnet some years ago, and we continue to see Israel’s almost magical thwarting of the genocidal aspirations of Iran and its proxies. The remarkable feat of causing the Hezbollah pagers and other communications devices to explode almost simultaneously, killing many terrorists and wounding many others, has put, it seems, an even more virulent “worm” than Stuxnet into the nefarious minds of the devilish Israel haters.

The following excerpt demonstrates the effects of this mind virus. If not such a serious matter of keeping Israel from the dastardly plans of the likes of Iran’s regime leaders, it would be hilarious to consider the paranoid reaction Israel’s “magical” doings have inflicted on those devoted to the destruction of the Jewish state and people.

As Israel continues to demonstrate impressive intelligence capabilities by eliminating much of the leadership of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, some of its enemies are reportedly attributing supernatural powers to the Jewish State.

Iranian opposition news site Iran International published a recording from a televised interview given by an Iranian cleric close to the Ayatollah’s regime accusing the Jewish people of trapping and employing jinn, or genies, for three thousand years, as well as using science fiction technology.

Iranian Shia seminary teacher Mostafa Karami claimed, “Considering the Zionists’ history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army.”

“They [the Jews] have had access to genies and cosmic science since the time of David and Solomon,” he added. “Historically, they have always used genies; their documents and traditions proved that. They have used genies and demons for warfare and intelligence operations throughout history.”

Karami detailed his magical conspiracy theory in response to the elimination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah last week. (Arutz Sheva, “Iranian Cleric: ‘Jews have had access to genies since Davidic time,'” Israel National News)

It’s amusing that this Islamic cleric fanatic believes in Israeli magic. He isn’t far from wrong in that it is supernatural in its reality rather than the nonexistent “magic” to which he attributes Israel’s ability to perform things that seem miraculous.

In fact, the feats are miraculous. The God who calls this strange miracle nation His “chosen people” has imbued Abraham’s seed with His own power at points in history of His own choosing.

So the Islamic Jew-haters have had their evil minds invaded by the “magic” worm, as the cleric has complained. They’ve been “psyched out” by the God of Israel, about whom the Holy Scripture says: “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:4).

All of this involving hatred of Israel and the Jewish people at this moment means Jesus is about to intervene against the evil ramping up in the Middle East as well as in the rest of the world.

That intervention will be the Rapture of all believers into Christ’s presence in the clouds of Glory.

You don’t want to be left behind when that any-moment call to believers is made. Here, once again, is how to go to the Lord and to Heaven when that call issues forth, as Jesus told about in John 14:1-3.

“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).

—Terry

*** Important Notice! ***

God The Holy Spirit is turning on the Light of God’s Truth in Pakistan and other areas of the Spiritually darkened world.

Again, I’m appealing to you, who understand through Holy Spirit Enlightenment just how late is the prophetic hour, to help us print and distribute the little book Prophecy Power: Strength From God To Face Your Future to the people of Pakistan.

Pastor Anil Jasper worked diligently to translate the Sunday school quarterly sized book into his native language. The results have been powerful in helping turn on that Light of understanding about Jesus and His soul-saving Sacrifice. Anil reports that the book distribution is reaping great rewards in terms of his people accepting Christ –something that might not have happened if not for the presentation in our little book.

Please consider again supporting this effort, as time looks to be short, according to all prophetic stage-setting signals in the world today. We want to one day hear the words from our Lord: “Well done, good, faithful servant.”

Please go to the following to read more and contribute.

https://terryjamesprophecyline.com/2024/10/04/please-help-in-our-pakistan-missionary-effort/

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“If It Seems Slow”

I must confess that it’s not just my desire to see Jesus and experience the wonders of eternal life that makes me long for the Rapture to happen soon, very soon. There’s something else that feeds my impatience as time goes by and we remain earthbound.

I desire for Jesus to intervene because of the vast wickedness and deception that increasingly defines our day. It’s not just the celebration of evil and violence that we see on our streets; it’s the corruptions and gaslighting that pours forth from our governments that protects the lawless and fails to protect its people.

The abuses of those in power in our world fill our newsfeeds. The globalists no longer hide their murderous agenda to drastically reduce Earth’s population, but so few pay attention. In America, we watch as our government bankrupts itself by spending vast amounts of money on those who illegally enter our country and by sending tens of billions to support a failing foreign war effort. We then hear that it’s running out of money and thus unable to properly rescue and assist hurricane victims.

The deadly economic catastrophe that’s heading our way will impact the entire world. This is just one of many scenarios that makes me wonder how much closer can we get to the seal judgments of Revelation 6:1-8 before the Lord rescues His bride?

As high watch times come and go, does it not seem as though some things are progressing slower than we would like? Yes, Jesus might appear at any moment to us home to glory, but how much longer must we wait?

This morning, I turned again to the words of Habakkuk 2:2-4 seeking to quell the rising anxiety within me:

“And the Lord answered me:
‘Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so he may run who reads it.
For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
‘Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.’”

The words “if it seems slow” apply to today, do they not? We see an abundance of signs pointing to the nearness of the Tribulation period; the perils described in Revelation 6 are right on our doorstep. From our perspective, it does seem as though there’s a delay. We expected the Lord to come for us long before now.

The Lord’s message to Habakkuk came in response to his complaint that He would use the wicked Chaldeans (or Babylonians) to deal with the sins of Judah. The Lord assured him that he would surely judge that ancient kingdom and then pronounced a series of woes against it (Habakkuk 2:8-20).

How does this message apply to us? In our day, we see the rise of another realm, one that the book of Revelation repeatedly refers to the coming beast kingdom of the antichrist as “Babylon” (14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2, 10, 21). Just as God’s judgment on ancient Babylon “surely” came, so will His wrath also fall on its future manifestation, which the elite of our day advertise as “Build Back Better.”

There’s coming a day when everything will seem perfectly normal, but “like a thief in the night,” the “sudden destruction” of the Day of Lord will fall upon the earth (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3). The perpetrators of the death, destruction, and violence that we see around us will “not escape,” but we will. The Lord promises to deliver us before this day of wrath begins (1 Thessalonians 5:4-11). The Rapture must happen before the start of the Day of the Lord.

Psalm 68:1-3 also speaks prophetically to our time with words that assure us of God’s response to the darkness of the time in which we live.

“God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered;
and those who hate him shall flee before him!
As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away;
as wax melts before fire,
so the wicked shall perish before God!
But the righteous shall be glad;
they shall exult before God;
they shall be jubilant with joy!”

The day that David wrote about is coming; God will justly deal with the wicked.

For now, we rest in the fact that the Lord will reward our watchfulness and patience. Someday, hopefully soon, He will interrupt our daily routines by instantly changing our mortal bodies into imperishable and incorruptible ones like His (1 Corinthians 15:47-54; Philippians 3:20-21). He will simultaneously take us home to the “place” He’s preparing for us in “His Father’s house” (John 14:2-3).

It could happen on a day just like this, even today. We will see Jesus just as He promised us. It will happen quickly and catch the world by surprise.

For now, we must hold on a little while longer, even “If it seems slow.”

-Jonathan