PART V – MARCH TO WAR
Here’s a headline to get your attention. “Nuclear War Possible Within Days as Russia-Ukraine situation escalates out of control.”[i] This is Ukraine, an apparent US ally now squaring off against Russia. Now we know that Kyiv does not have nukes….but the US does. And so you have the President of Ukraine making threats to nuke Crimea….OK, I better give the thumbnail sketch of just what is going on that could lead to a nuclear showdown between Washington and Moscow. Below is a target map of what a full scale nuclear exchange could look like.
SPIRITUAL CONTEXT
Let’s put this all into a prophetic context. This is all part of a Cosmic War against God. It is being waged by forces both human and spiritual in nature. We human beings are both participants and the prize. As participants we are the foot soldiers, the grunts. The high-tech spiritual cyber war is being waged in the heavenlies by powers and principalities; Satan / Lucifer and the one-third of the angels that followed him in rebellion. The Bible tells us this is so. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly place.” (Ephesians 6:12) [Though as we’ll see, this warfare can sometimes manifest as actual physical conflict.]
Lucifer wanted to replace God on the throne of Heaven. “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.” (Isaiah 14:12-15) Jesus testified, “I saw Satan fall like lightening from heaven.” (Luke 10:18)
This war is very real and it is conducted on at least two levels all the time. On the personal level we have the physical, psychological and moral attacks against believers. That cancer diagnoses. That job loss. That child suffering for seven years – and losing hope. On the corporate level we see wars and pandemics and the undermining of nations through open borders and stolen elections. We have porn and gender confusion and homosexuality. There are attacks on the Church through the compromising of doctrine.
But through it all we have Romans 8:28. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” That would be ALL THINGS. The cancer, the job loss, the virus, persecution….and even the threat of nuclear war. God’s purposes will be served.
BACK TO THE UKRAINE
The crisis in Ukraine began back in 2014 when the CIA engineered a coup against a democratically elected pro-Russian president of Ukraine. It was dubbed a ‘color revolution’ and in the event the President fled and the essentially his US installed a pro-Western replacement. Around the same time, Crimea, which had been traditionally and ethnically Russian for centuries but was assigned to be under Ukraine by Khrushchev in the old Soviet system during the 1950’s, was annexed by Russia. The Crimeans had voted in favor of the move to the tune of 96%. Now, there are a couple of other pro-Russian provinces – together called the Donbass – that want to breakaway from Ukraine and come under Russian control.
Now enter the complicating factor. The Nordstream 2 Pipeline which is designed to bring Russian natural gas to Europe. Right now, the gas transits through Ukraine and Russia pays fees for that transit. Under Nordstream 2, “Russia will divert gas around the country and no longer pay its neighbour billions of dollars in transit fees each year,” a big hit to Ukraine’s economy.[ii] Then add in the fact that low-level fighting has been going on between the rebels who want to be under Russia and the Ukrainian Forces. And now, here’s where you’ve got to sort through the lies and omissions. The mainstream Western media has painted a picture of Putin rushing troops to the border to foment a crisis. But the build-up started about a month ago with the Ukrainians moving now over 100,000 troops to the area and openly threatening invasion of the Donbass and the nuclear de-flowering of Crimea. Then toss this in to the mix. The US wants to put missile batteries in Ukraine, just 5 minutes or so from Russian nuclear sites. Well, Putin just won’t have that. Hal Turner: “The Russians wouldn’t even have time to defend their own missiles, then find themselves decapitated by a NATO first strike, and at that point, would have no way of defending themselves from invasion and takeover.” So, this matter is one of existential survival.
Oh, but it gets better! Now the CIA along with Polish operatives have been caught on tape – and the tape has been played on Russian State Television – attempting to arrange a coup to oust the President of Belarus, a Russian ally. “An armed uprising with many dead, the murder of President Lukashenko and his family, and even the shutdown of the Belarusian electricity grid were planned….The plotters discussed all of this, and the recordings were published.” This was a plan that was to be carried out with the help of Western intelligence agencies.[iii] In the wake of the foiled coup, Belarus is moving toward merger with Russia.[iv] American allied Polish troops have already headed to the border with Belarus – and fist fights have broken out between forces of the two countries.[v]
So, right now Ukraine has massed over 110,000 troops, in excess of 400 tanks and nearly a thousand pieces of artillery. Russia is estimated to have somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 troops in the region – depending who’s doing the counting. In addition they have “1,300 tanks, 1,300 artillery, 380 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS), 300 fighter jets / bombers, 3,700 drones, 280 helicopters, 26 ships (of which 8 are big amphibious ones), 4,000+ Armored Personnel Carriers (APC’s), along over 1,000 km of front.” NATO has about 40,000 troops in the area.”
All of this is really heating up. Besides the Russians and the Ukrainians massing at the borders, we’ve got Polish and American troops, RAF fighters, American naval units, 20 Russian ships in the Black Sea. NATO has troops from Turkey, German ships.[vi] Ambassadors and lower level diplomats have been kicked out of several countries.
Here’s the bottom line on all of this. Russia has a military doctrine that states that they would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons at the front end of a conflict. Hal Turner: “So, in a sense, if Russia and Ukraine start a war, NATO gets involved (U.S. being the main actor),” [NATO believes] Russia will not be able to conventionally compete against NATO forces, so Russia might choose to use nukes” But the fact of the matter is “…. The moment NATO gets involved in a serious manner (starts mobilizing tens of thousand of troops, hundreds of planes, dozens of ships, etc. etc.), Russia will NOT WAIT until those forces attack, see if they lose, and THEN use nukes…. Russia will use nukes the moment the U.S. and NATO start mobilizing a number of forces and assets that will crush Russia. U.S. Strategic Command seems unable to understand that Russia will use nukes BEFORE a Russia-NATO war even starts.” Russia CANNOT afford to lose Crimea. They cannot afford to lose the pipeline. Turner calls this, “a fight for national survival.”[vii]
We can get a picture of just how serious this all is when we understand that “cities in Ukraine and in Russia have begun testing the NUCLEAR BLAST DOORS installed in their public subway systems which are some (not all) of the BOMB SHELTERS for their population.” Last year Russia conducted a civil defense drill that saw them put 40 million citizens into shelters. Many of these shelters are equipped with stores of food, water and medicine. The US has no such preparations to protect their citizenry.[viii]
To learn just how this may all play out we only need listen to Margarita Simonyan, the “Director of Russia’s state-run international media giants, RT and Sputnik.” Here is what she said in a recent interview.
“War is inevitable. I do not believe that this will be a large-scale hot war, like World War II, and I do not believe there will be a long Cold War. It will be a war of the third type: the cyber war. In conventional war, we could defeat Ukraine in two days. But it will be another kind of war. We’ll do it, and then [the U.S.] will respond by turning off power to [a major Russian city like] Voronezh. Russia needs to be ready for this war, which is unavoidable, and of course it will start in Ukraine.” She believes that Russia “invincible where conventional war is concerned, but forget about conventional war…it will be a war of infrastructures.”
What Simonyan is talking about is cyber warfare and Russia has been engaged in this sort of activity against the US for some time now. Then add in the use of an EMP or Electro-Magnetic-Pulse weapon generated by a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere – and you create the ability to take down the electrical grid of all or part of the American infrastructure. Food and fuel distribution would stop immediately. Store shelves would be emptied within hours. We would be forced back to a 18th century existence with none of the skills to pull that off. Cars and trucks wouldn’t start. Medical facilities would be helpless. Anarchy would follow. Some of the estimates have the death toll going to 80%. [It is interesting that Deagel estimates that by 2025 the US population will stand at about 100 million, down from its’ current level of 328 million.] Russia is a capable enemy in this area. In “December 2020, DHS disclosed Russia’s Solar Winds cyber-attack penetrated 18,000 U.S. Government and private sector agencies and corporations, including the Defense Department and U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Damage is still being evaluated.”[ix] But the Ukraine is not the only sector of the globe heating up right now. As we look at the unsettling news in other areas, recall that, in The Armageddon Script by Peter Lemesurier, the New World Order folks have revealed a plan to usher in the Antichrist. Part of the plan included a three-front-war. It would involve a Middle East conflict between the Arab states and Israel, a nuclear confrontation on the Korean Peninsula and a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Of course, you could substitute or add in a conflict over the Ukraine.
ISRAEL HEATING UP
The AP reports: “A missile launched from Syria was fired into southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country’s top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, it said it attacked the missile launcher and air-defense systems in neighboring Syria. The incident, marking the most serious violence between Israel and Syria in years, pointed to likely Iranian involvement. Iran, which maintains troops and proxies in Syria, has accused Israel of a series of attacks on its nuclear facilities, including sabotage at its Natanz nuclear facility on April 11, and vowed revenge.”[x]
And here’s where it gets prophetically interesting. A lot of Prophecy Scholars believe that the next war on the prophetic horizon will be the Psalm 83 War. That portion of Scripture outlines an invasion of Israel by the inner-ring of Israel hating peoples. The Bible is very specific about the nations involved. It is interesting that Iran has as clients, organizations that fit the geographic specifications to fulfill portions of this prophecy. It is conceivable that Iran could ‘sponsor’ such an attack without actually taking part in it. And that is key to fulfilling the prophecy because Iran (Persia) is NOT part of this war, in which Israel defeats all of it’s enemies, creating in the process an expanded ‘Greater Israel.’ And none of the Psalm 83 nations are involved in the following war, the Gog / Magog conflict detailed in Ezekiel 38.
This inner ring of nations will fight a war against Israel with one motivation; the complete destruction of the Jewish state. “’Come,’ they say, ‘let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.’ With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you- the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah” (Psalm 83:4-8) Thus has been the battle cry of the Arab nations that surround the State of Israel ever since its modern inception in 1948. “Let us destroy them as a nation,” sounds very much like Iran’s October 2005 call to “wipe Israel from the face of the earth,” or the clause in the Palestinian Charter that denies Israel its existence. The Scripture is very specific. With a nod to Bill Salus, Edom refers geographically to southern Jordan and the Palestinians that reside there. (Here it is good to remember that there is a significant Palestinian presence in Jordan – and it may not refer to the Jordanian people.) Salus believes the Ishmaelites could refer to all Arabs or to the Saudis specifically, as they claim a direct descendance from Ishmael. However, they are allied with the US. Moab denotes the Palestinians living in central Jordan. The Hagrites” refers to the Egyptians and possibly other North African peoples. Ammon yet once more refers to north Jordan’s Palestinians. Philistia is the Palestinians, Tyre is in southern Lebanon where Hezbollah rules. Finally, Assyria takes in part of the areas of Syria, Iraq and Iran. Who can deny this is the purpose of these Arab / Muslim nations? Certainly not they! Arab maps today always show the Middle East without the nation of Israel.[xi]
The Psalm 83 War, with Syria involved, may also feature the the destruction of the world’s “…oldest perpetually inhabited city” – Damascus. “The burden against Damascus. ‘Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.’” (Isaiah 17:1) [xii] Is this a nuclear attack against the Syrian capital? It may be so. Jeremiah 49:26-27 describes the scene. “Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the LORD of hosts. ‘I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.’”
We are living in biblical times when prophecies are being fulfilled and being prepared for fulfillment. I will not pretend to know how all of this will play out. But we can see the shadows of the End Game filling the world stage. Yet through it all we are to walk in courage and peace, because our God is in control. “Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.”
[i] Nuclear War Possible Within Days as Russia-Ukraine situation escalates out of control, Hal Turner Radio, April 20, 2021
[ii] Nord Stream 2 spells pain for Ukraine, Global Trade Review, January 14, 2020
[iii] Foiled, Hal Turner Radio, April 19, 2021
[iv] After Assassination Disrupted Belarus to Merge with Russia, Hal Turner Radio, April 18, 2021
[v] Troops From Poland and Belarus CLASH Along Border, Hal Turner Radio, April 12, 2021
[vi] Slide To War Continues, Hal Turner Radio, April 17, 2021
[vii] Nuclear War Possible Within Days, Hal Turner Radio, April 20, 2021
[viii] WAR COMING: COUNTRIES TEST ***BLAST DOORS *** IN SUBWAY BOMB SHELTERS, Hal Turner Radio, April 19, 2021
[ix] Dr Peter Vincent Pry, This Is Why World War 3 Will Look Different Than Any Other War We’ve Ever Seen, ANP, April 21, 2021
[x] Israel says it struck targets in Syria after missile attack, Politico / AP, April 21, 2021
[xi]Psalm 83, Ezekiel 38, and the Coming Battles for Israel, Israel Magazine / FreeMessianicBible.com, viewed April 22, 2021
[xii] Glenn Allen, The Destruction of Damascus
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