‘THERE SHALL BE TERROR WITHIN’

(AI-generated)

by Leonard V Johnson

There’s been a report that recently came out that massive amounts of women are being raped within the United Kingdom by immigrants from Islamic lands! France and Germany were also named as nations in which organized rape gangs prey on young women (See: National Review - The UK.’s horrific rape gangs).

Terrorism Has Been Prophesied

The ultimate rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has brought an unprecedented surge of TERRORISM!

Why is there terrorism?

Will having personal weapons in your home solve this unprecedented surge? What about banning Moslems from entering your nation, country, or province? Are there prophecies from the LORD God that tell us that ever-greater violence and terror is coming to the lands of the U.S., the U.K., and also to Europe?

What does God’s living word teach us concerning this? WE NEED TO KNOW!

Well, God’s living word does indeed prophesy concerning TERRORISM. Let us notice some of these prophecies ──

“’ They [the children of Israel] have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation. … 25) The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.’” – Deuteronomy 32:5, 25, NKJV throughout, unless otherwise indicated.

“’ Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be against My people, Against all the princes of Israel. TERRORS including the sword will be against My people; Therefore strike your thigh.’” – Ezekiel 21:12.

“’ Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, 26) I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your TERROR comes, 27) When your TERROR comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.’” – Proverbs 1:25-27.

“’ You have FORSAKEN ME,’ says the LORD, ‘You have gone backward. Therefore I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of relenting! 7) And I will winnow them with a winnowing fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children; I will destroy My people, Since they do not return from their ways.

8) Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the mother of the young men, A PLUNDERER AT NOONDAY; I will cause anguish and TERROR to fall on them suddenly.’” – Jeremiah 15:6-8.

Sadly, a great many political, media, and world leaders refuse to believe the LORD God within the living word ── the Holy Bible ── yet we who know and believe what God’s word says understand that even greater TERRORISM is prophesied to occur. Greater terrorism will strike the United States of America and our Anglo-Saxon-descended allies.

We should expect greater division and more violent protests. Within these 21st-century sin-filled overpopulated cities of the world, there is growing a “wickedness of man!” There is growing within the heart of man an evil that will eventually become ‘continual.’ – cf. 2 Timothy 3:1-7.

“’ Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. 24) Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places [their places of worship] shall be defiled.’” – Ezekiel 7:23-24.

Around the world, support for protests has increased, even when the protestors are clearly causing chaos, division, and destruction.

Back in 2017, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, in one of her first public speeches since losing the election, said to an applauding crowd, “It’s the kinds of things you think about when you take long walks in the woods,” she said. “Resist, insist, persist, enlist.” And now, with the spread of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), we are witness to an increase in organized and paid protestors who are resisting right authority!

And certainly, there can be a time for proper protesting (cf. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8); the protesting that more and more people are participating in is not the proper kind. I protest at times myself ── the way that I protest is that I just don’t have anything to do with a person, a business, or an entity if I disagree with what they stand for or are promoting, or how they have treated me. Certain businesses like Walmart, Target, Taco Bell, and 7-Eleven don’t get my business.

“ … ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.’” – Matthew 12:25.

The United States of America has never been so divided in my lifetime as it is now. And yes, I was 1 year old when the “whole world was watching” the violent protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago against the police and their brutality and the Vietnam War.

It’s not only political people that mock, cause division, complain, are corrupted, and defile themselves ── it’s also a growing population that not only engages in these abominations unto the LORD God, but also those who “approve of those who practice them”! – Romans 1:24-32.

The leftist-mainstream media appears to support this division and the systematic breakdown of America and our well-established American values.

Why Is More Terrorism Prophesied?

God’s living word tells us that terror-ism can certainly occur as a result of disobedience to the LORD God ──

“’ But IF you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15) and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16) I also will do this to you: I will even appoint TERROR over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17) I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.’” – Leviticus 26:14-17.

“’ IN THAT DAY it shall come to pass That the glory of Jacob will wane, … 10) Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings; 11) In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.’” – Isaiah 17:4, 10-11.

This world’s Christianity within the U.S. has declined significantly over the past two decades. The share of U.S. adults that identify as “Christian” has fallen from approximately 78% to around 62-63%, while those who consider themselves “nones” have grown significantly, from 6% to almost 30% of the population. 1 A greater increase of our peoples in the U.S. and our Anglo-Saxon-descended allies (such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) DO NOT observe or keep the LORD God’s commandments, statutes, ordinances, or judgments. Certainly, the LGBTQ+ community immediately comes to mind.

Friends – we as true Christians are not to be involved (in any way) with this LGBTQ+ agenda or “lifestyle.” Nor are we to condone such activities according to God’s living Word – turn in your Bible if you would to the Book of Romans, chapter 1 –

Verse 18 – “Indeed, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”

Verse 24 – “While professing themselves to be the wise ones, they became fools.” – and in respect to this passage as well as verse 32 – “Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only practice these things themselves, but also approve of those who commit them.” – such ignorant remarks as “Well, I guess I don't deserve to live. 😂” When I had mentioned that many people around the world are condemning Romans 1:22-32.

The overall majority of our peoples within the United States and our allies abroad are involved in practices that God’s living word outright condemns or considers abominable. And we shouldn’t look to our political leaders to reverse any of this. Instead, most politicians (including the far-Left-leaning Democratic Party ── the ‘Democratic Socialists’ are not like your fathers’ Democrats!) either desire to continue the “gains” that the LGBTQ+ community has reached and to continue their ‘Woke’ and DEI agenda or want to continue the “push” to deny a Creator God and His commandments.

And although national repentance is highly unlikely, personal repentance is. The LORD God does have a Plan of protection from a soon-coming ‘great tribulation’ that will come upon the world the likes of which has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be!

Indeed, the brutal murders and torture techniques used by terrorists can certainly be a result of a complex interplay of political, socio-economic, religious extremism, and psychological factors that drive individuals or radical groups to use violence against their fellow man. Also, it’s caused by the ‘evil one ’, Satan the Devil.

“But know this, that IN THE LAST DAYS perilous times will come:

2) For men [mankind] will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3) unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good; 4) traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5) having a form of godliness but denying its power.

And from such people turn away!” – 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

Most terrorists claim to have a form of godliness. They often attempt to justify their evil and vile actions by citing their “holy” texts or “receiving a command from God” or “receiving a blessing from a religious leader.” Acts of religious terrorism are often carried out by those who have a desire to die in a way that makes them appear to be a martyr for their faith ── often claiming that they will be rewarded with 72 virgins.

NUCLEAR TERRORISM

We can’t speak about terror or terrorism without bringing nuclear terrorism into it, because there is frightening, sobering, and yet reassuring news; and it’s important to know the facts, and we NEED to wake up and heed and not be asleep. The Apostle Paul ── under divine inspiration ── wrote that the 11:59 Hour is upon us; we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation. And it’s nearer now than when we first believed (Romans 13:11-14). We need to know the facts concerning nuclear terrorism and how it will escalate ── it’s above the heads of every man, woman, and child on planet Earth today.

God’s living word tells us in prophecy what is going to occur. And God’s word is truly the only AUTHORITY that will accurately tell us what lies ahead for our future──what actually is going to occur.

This world passed into the Atomic Age with the Trinity test on July 16th, 1945, in New Mexico, when the very first nuclear device, known as “The Gadget,” was detonated during World War II. 2 This world for the first time was witness to power unheard of before ── the power of the tiny atom, and of the terrific and inconceivable unbelievable power within a single atom. Then, November 1st, 1952, the hydrogen bomb, code-named Ivy Mike, was tested by the United States at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. 3

This world entered into this most dangerous of times nearly eighty-one years ago. In fact ── officially the morning of 6 August 1945, at 08:15, the Enola Gay dropped an estimated 141-pound atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan! And in a split second ── and estimates vary greatly ── 66,000 were instantly killed, 69,000 injured, respectively. The Japanese-led reconsiderations estimate the death toll at 140,000 by the end of the year. 4

Now the United States of America has a B83 variable-yield thermonuclear gravity bomb with a maximum yield of 1.2 megatons of TNT! At least officially. According to some sources, such as the Federation of American Scientists, the B83 was “retired.” Then, the W88 nuclear warhead on Trident D5LE missile will become the most powerful nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal ── at a yield of 475 kilotons. Well, can we say… “semantics”? And I say this because ── according to NUKEMAP created by Alex Wellerstein, a 475-kiloton nuclear bomb exploding at a height of 200 ft. above the surface of the planet over a major metropolitan city (such as – Washington, D.C), the estimated fatalities would be over 417,000 or more, with injuries totaling upwards of 687,000!

And of course, we have come to know that along with the U.S. ── Russia, the U.K., France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea, all have nuclear weapons! And in the recent meeting with President Donald Trump, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated that their nuclear ambition is to finalize by the end of 2027 a plan allowing the use of nuclear “power” again after it was banned almost 40 years ago. Remember ── they were on the wrong side of World War II.

An Age of Terror

Growing terrorist activities have become a common feature on the international scene throughout these years ── and modern terrorism, which involves systematic violence by non-state actors, emerged in the late 19th century. Anarchist movements, which are often motivated by anti-monarchism and revolutionary dreams and ideas, often carried out assassinations of world leaders, including the Russian Tsar, Alexander II (2 March 1855 – 13 March 1881), and U.S. President William McKinley (March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901). 5

Dr. Yonah Alexander, the Director of the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies and Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, said, “The future will depend on society recognizing what are the major threats impacting international stability. We must emphasize active participation across different segments of society, not only in one country, but throughout the world. You cannot have security in a particular state when there’s insecurity in other countries.” 6 Also, to help bring some clarity, Dr Donald Holbrook, an Associate Fellow at International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), his findings, unequivocal and significant ── Terrorists do not merely dabble with extremist ideology – they immerse themselves in it. They actively seek out, consume, debate, and even produce ideological content that guides and justifies their actions. 7

Terrorists ── domestic or international ── moreover, and I’m also speaking about protestors that cause civil unrest, chaos, and violence, have become increasingly convinced, and they argue, that violence is necessary against a government that, for the most part, ignores peaceful protests ── are convinced that violence and terrorism pay. According to a 2024 report involving empirical studies showing that terrorists’ policy goals are rarely achieved, leading some to conclude that terrorism doesn’t work. However, they theorize that terrorism can work for its supporters. Supporters are willing to contribute resources to a terrorist organization, thereby increasing the organization’s ability to launch attacks; this can coerce the targeted government to revise its policies in accordance with the supporters’ preferences. 8

Global Terrorism

Truly, a growing number of terrorist acts around the world within the past few years has thrust this evil to the forefront of official and public concern. Here are but a small portion of Islamic terrorist acts ──

• France. December 1985 – September 1986. 1985–86 Paris attacks.
• Israel. July 7, 1989. Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack.
• United States. February 26, 1993. World Trade Center bombing in New York City.
• United States. September 11, 2001. A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda.
• Indonesia. October 12, 2002. Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta.
• Saudi Arabia. May 12, 2003. Riyadh compound bombings; Al-Qaeda attackers drove three car bombs into residential compounds.
• United Kingdom. July 7, 2005. London bombings – Four suicide bombers attacked London Underground trains.

My Fellow Americans ── It’s the Calm Before the Storm

Islamist terror incidents targeting the United States of America have increased since 2024, with federal and state authorities arresting individuals in seven different incidents on charges related to five unsuccessful plots and two actual attacks. 9

Mahmut Cengiz, PhD, Associate Professor and Research Faculty with the Terrorism Center, warns ── there is a grave risk in 2026 for lone-actors and small-cell attacks that are fueled by overlapping ideological, religious, political, and personal grievance motivations. Patterns observed in 2025 demonstrate that individuals increasingly draw selectively from Salafi-jihadist propaganda, domestic extremist narratives, and contemporary geopolitical grievances. 10

According to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), as reported in December 2025 testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, there are about 18,000 known or suspected individuals with ties to jihadist groups — primarily ISIS and Al-Qaeda — who entered the United States during the Biden administration. 11

We should prepare for the worst.

According to the UN Security Council, there are roughly 55 organizations designated as terrorist. Here are five ──

• Jaish-e-Mohammed. A Deobandi-jihadist Pakistani militant group active in Kashmir. Ideology: Deobandi jihadism. Sunni Islamism. Islamic fundamentalism.
• al-Qaeda. Ideology is long listed: Antisemitism. Sunni–Shia alliance.
• Boko Haram. Officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad. Ideology: Boko Haramism.
• Islamic State – Sahel Province. Formerly known as the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS). A transnational Islamist militant group adhering to the ideology of Salafi Jihadism.
• The Islamic State. Also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). A transnational Salafi jihadist militant organization and internationally unrecognized quasi-state. Ideology: Daeshism.

Also, notice these terrorist groups that operate in America ──

• The 18th Street gang. A multi-ethnic (largely Mexican and Central American), street gang from Los Angeles, California, with an estimated 30,000–50,000 members between the United States, Mexico, and Central America.
• Al-Andalus Media. The Jihadist propaganda unit for the militant organization Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that creates video and audio messages for their followers.
• Council on American–Islamic Relations. A Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. In November 2014, CAIR was designated a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, which claims that the organization has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Gran Grif. In 2022, Gran Grif was found responsible for 80% of reported civilian deaths in the Artibonite department of Haiti. On 27 February 2025, the Dominican Republic designated Gran Grif as a terrorist organization, followed by the United States on 2 May. 12

A Global Islamic Brotherhood

Intelligence sources are saying that many of these diverse terrorist groups have now begun coordinating and combining their operations ── such as sharing weapons, money, training facilities and manpower ── to increase their effectiveness. The “glue” holding together the many unending and diverse terrorist groups is their utter hatred and ideological struggle against the “EVIL THREE” ── Imperialism, Zionism, and Capitalism.

Sadly, as we have increasingly witnessed, many terrorist groups now have the active support of a large swath of the population of the United States. As an example, in 2025 ── 21% of American voters backed Hamas over Israel. According to this 2025 poll, one-quarter of US Democrats supported Hamas. Republicans, 19%, backed the terror group. Among independent voters, the number was 20%. Support for the terrorists was highest among 25- to 34-year-olds, at 32%. In October 2023, shortly after the Hamas invasion of Israel that started a war, 16% of voters sided more with Hamas than Israel. If that doesn’t blow your mind and make you angry ── not much will. 13

The Seattle Times reported in 2001, quoting Dr. Yonah Alexander, whom I spoke of earlier, had stated a clear message: Terrorism will be with us for a long time; the only antidote is “education, education, education.” “There is no end to the imagination of a terrorist,” he said, predicting the next wave of terrorism would be cyberterrorism. “The only way to deal with terrorists is to take the war to them,” he said. 14

We now know that the terrorist “underground” has been discussing attacks on nuclear power stations; poisoning the water supply of major cities; stealing nuclear, chemical and biological warfare material; hijacking oil tankers or large passenger commercial jets; sabotaging strategic communication centers or destroying our national electrical grid.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released the unclassified version of its 2025 Worldwide Threat Assessment. The report begins:

“The United States is confronting an increasingly complex national security threat environment. In addition to traditional military modernization, developments in artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, quantum sciences, microelectronics, space, cyber, and unmanned systems are rapidly transforming the nature of conflict and the global threat landscape. Our adversaries are deepening cooperation, often lending military, diplomatic, and economic support to each other’s conflicts and operations, to circumvent U.S. instruments of power. Transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups are exploiting geostrategic conditions to evade authorities. Advanced technology also is enabling foreign intelligence services to target our personnel and activities in new ways. The rapid pace of innovation will only accelerate in the coming years, continually generating means for our adversaries to threaten U.S. interests.”

Three key Global Highlights ──

• China is flagged as the long-term pacing challenge, with its military modernization, expanding defense budget, advancements in space and cyber capabilities, and assertive foreign policy all contributing to elevated risk for the U.S. …
• Iran remains a destabilizing force in the Middle East, particularly through its support for proxy groups and direct military activity in the region.
• North Korea is gaining ground in its missile and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. The assessment describes Pyongyang as being in its strongest strategic position in decades. 15

Many experts fear that there is coming a day when a terrorist group or individual will either steal, buy, or manufacture a nuclear bomb and either use it, or threaten to use it as part of a blackmail scheme, or to maintain hegemony of power. Al Qaeda, Chechnya-based separatists, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Aum Shinrikyo have demonstrated interest in acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“Acquiring these weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty.” – Osama bin Laden (1998).

“We have the right to kill 4 million Americans—2 million of them children and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands.” — Al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith (2002).

“Al Qaeda has tried to acquire or make nuclear weapons for at least ten years…and continues to pursue its strategic goal of obtaining a nuclear capability.” — 9/11 Commission (2004).

A sophisticated terrorist group could make a crude nuclear explosive — capable of destroying the heart of a major city—if it secured enough highly enriched uranium or plutonium. 16

Terrorism, Entertainment for the Masses?

Just like the police chasing a stolen car up the I-710 freeway in downtown East L.A., millions of people get to watch it live on their televisions! Terrorism, too, has become entertainment for the masses. It’s not uncommon to see upwards of half an evening newscast being devoted to the latest terrorist act. I have noticed that YouTube is flooded with videos of commercial plane crashes ── is this the norm? No. A famous and great American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite, once quipped, “News is the aberration, not the norm. It is not the number of aircraft that land safely every day, but it is the one that crashes that makes the news.” Reflecting the belief that the media’s role is to highlight the rare, significant, or the unusual rather than the everyday.

Sadly, with terrorism growing worldwide, there is, without a doubt, plenty of “aberrant” acts for this world’s news mills.

IN THE LAST DAYS perilous times will come

Thank Almighty God Most High ── the majority of our peoples have not been victims of terrorism. Yet, if this world’s experts are correct, more and more of our peoples, on an ever-increasing wider scale, will be touched by terrorism and its effects in the coming years.

This plague of terror, like worldwide epidemics of crime, was prophesied by our LORD God ── through the holy prophets ── centuries ago within the pages of God’s living word. Our Master, Elder Brother, High Priest, and Savior, Jesus Christ, told us that conditions around the world would deteriorate as we near the end of this present evil age ── in the “latter days” mirroring the chaotic and sinful time of Noah ── an abhorrent and violent-filled world (Luke 17:26; Genesis 6:5, 11).

God’s word shows us an 11:59-hour that’s filled with utter lawlessness and hate; a world divided by factions and international disputes and wars; of rampant crime on a scale we have never witnessed since; of outright indiscriminate violence and murder ── all inspired by its author, Satan the Devil, because he knows his time is getting short (Revelation 12:12).

Kingdom of God ── the Only Answer

For as long as Satan the Devil rules from his kingdom on planet Earth, terrorism and violent crime will remain and will increase. WHEN, AND THAT DAY WILL COME, Satan the Devil and all his minions are finally bound for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-3), and our Lord Jesus’ kingdom is established worldwide, terrorism and violent crime will be a thing of the past, and then lasting peace and harmony among nations will be implemented. In that day, and at that very moment, Satan the Devil’s way ── a way of adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery and witchcraft, hatred, contentions, jealousies, uncontrolled wrath, selfishness, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, will all begin to be replaced with love, peace, joy, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control for our fellowman.

Only the glorious Kingdom of God can truly rescue this world from violence and terror which has plagued us from the beginning of mankind’s history, and which now hangs over every man, woman, and child’s head ── the utter and complete destruction of all civilizations. His implementation of His kingdom is the only real answer. □

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Socialism Gaining Ground in America!

SOCIALISM WINS UPTOWN! Darializa Avila Chevalier will be the first Afro-Latina to represent NY-13. We can’t wait to see how @DarializaforNY fights to abolish ICE, end the genocide in Gaza, and fight for working class people every day. https://x.com/nycDSA/status/2069610943080808524.

Sadly, ‘Democratic Socialist’ political candidates won in New York Tuesday in its elections ──

June 24, 2026

Far-left surge: Mamdani-backed candidates oust Dem establishment incumbents

Republicans say every House Democrat will now 'answer to the radicals calling the shots.'

New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did it again.

One year after sending political shock waves across the country with his New York City Democratic primary victory on his way to winning election as mayor of the nation’s most populous city, Mamdani tested the limits of his political powers.

And he easily passed the test, upending the Democratic Party establishment as a trio of Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates won their primaries over more moderate incumbents and rivals.

Mamdani was the biggest winner on Tuesday, but President Donald Trump also covered his bases, as New York, Maryland, Utah and South Carolina held primaries and runoff elections.

Democrats lurching left

The mayor’s most shocking victory came in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, narrowly topped incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat, the 71-year-old Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair and the first Dominican American elected to the U.S. House.

Espaillat, who has been in Congress for a decade, was supported by a slew of party leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Chevalier’s reported, past and now deleted, social media jabs at former Presidents Barack Obama, whom she called “evil,” and Joe Biden, whom she labeled a “war criminal,” along with her previous support to abolish the police and get rid of prisons, grabbed plenty of attention in recent weeks. …

In the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mamdani-endorsed state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who is also aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso by double digits. Reynoso, who was supported by Velazquez, was downed by more than 20 points.

“Tonight, we haven’t just won an election. We have declared that this movement is durable — that it is growing, and that it will not stop until working people are no longer asked to just build the table, no longer just offered a seat at the table, but will run the table,” Valdez said in declaring victory.

And a third Mamdani-backed congressional candidate, progressive Brad Lander, crushed incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman.

(https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-surge-mamdani-backed-candidates-oust-democratic-establishment).

Watch one of my latest Personal From... videos, “A Personal Encounter with a Socialist” 

Socialism is inspired by Satan the Devil! Indeed, the evil of socialism comes wrapped with a bow in promises ── equality, security, prosperity, free, free, free … Yet every time it is implemented it delivers poverty, corruption, tyranny, and loss of freedoms.

This evil socialist surge is drawing in the modern Democratic party.

President Donald Trump blasted Communism!

24 June 2026

Trump: America ‘Will Never Be a Communist Country’

President Donald Trump blasted communism in a pair of Truth Social posts late Tuesday and early Wednesday, warning that left-wing candidates are gaining ground in Democrat-run states while simultaneously vowing America will never embrace communist rule.

The posts echoed a theme Trump has championed for years: The United States must reject socialism and communism and preserve the nation’s founding principles of freedom and free enterprise.

Late Tuesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States. The votes seem to have them doing quite well against each other. The bad news is that history has conclusively shown that the downtrodden States that they will soon be running will ONLY GET WORSE. MAGA!”

“America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. …

Trump’s anti-communist message has often found support among voters who escaped communist regimes, particularly Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans, many of whom view socialism and communism through the lens of their families’ experiences abroad.

(https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-communism-blue-states/2026/06/24/id/1260711/, yellow background mine added for great emphasis).

The United States of America has never been so divided in my lifetime, as it is now.

This turn towards ‘Democratic Socialism’ began to strike at the Democratic party many years ago. There are some that is calling them “parasites” ──

June 23, 2026

Democratic strategist calls socialist candidates ‘parasites’ who could ‘set the party back decades’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has backed primary candidates supporting abolishing ICE and prisons.

Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa accused Democratic socialist candidates and politicians like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of being “parasites” who leech off and could kill the political party.

DeRosa made the comment on “Special Report with Bret Baier” …

“They are not Democrats; they are socialists, and they are parasites,” the former Andrew Cuomo chief of staff said. “They cannot win on their own by creating their own party, so they are going to latch onto the Democratic Party and feed off of it, with the overall goal of taking it over and killing it.”

She continued, “So that’s what the [Democratic Socialists of America] is doing. They started this in 2016 with Bernie and Hillary. [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] then gets elected in 2018. You see the introduction of the ‘Squad’ and what’s been happening since then. This year, they do feel like it’s their big opportunity. They are going for broke. You don’t see them trying to win purple or red seats. You see them trying to pick off Democrats in safe blue seats.”

DeRosa pointed to Chevalier’s campaign as an example. She remarked that Chevalier is challenging New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair who has a “100% voting record with the Democratic Party.”

(https://www.foxnews.com/media/democratic-strategist-calls-socialist-candidates-parasites-who-could-set-party-back-decades).

O’ indeed, these ‘Democratic Socialists’ are not like your fathers’ Democrats! These ‘parasites’ reminds me of something that our beloved Apostle Jude wrote. One of our Lord Jesus’ own brothers and brother to James ──

Ancient Sodom being struck by a massive asteroid (Ai-generated)

“Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our COMMON SALVATION, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

4) For certain men have crept in unnoticed [speaking here of the broader spectrum of false teachers among the saints], who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

5) But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward DESTROYED those who did not believe. 6) And the angels who did not keep their proper domain [in the third heaven], but left their own abode, He has reserved in EVERLASTING chains under [spiritual] darkness for the judgment of the great day;

7) as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to SEXUAL IMMORALITY and GONE AFTER STRANGE FLESH, are set forth AS AN EXAMPLE, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

8) Likewise also THESE DREAMERS DEFILE THE FLESH, REJECT AUTHORITY, and SPEAK EVIL OF DIGNITARIES [which includes presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers, first ladies, second ladies, and the presidential cabinet, like the secretary of war, secretary of homeland security, and secretary of state].

9) Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’

10) But THESE speak evil of WHATEVER THEY DO NOT KNOW; and WHATEVER THEY KNOW NATURALLY, like brute beasts, …” ── and if you haven’t seen an episode of our dear Nick Shirley or even Sergeant Steve, you need to witness the fact that our beloved United States of America is on a downward spiral!

“ … in these things THEY CORRUPT THEMSELVES. 11) Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. …”

And, sadly, they are among us brethren ── and there are some even sitting among us in the living Church of God, worshiping among us!

“ … THESE are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water [cirrus clouds], carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13) raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars [angels] for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness FOREVER.

14) Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, …” ── the following is taken from 1 Enoch 1:9.

“Look, He comes with the myriads of His holy ones, to execute judgment on all, and to destroy all the wicked, and to convict all humanity for all the wicked deeds that they have done, and the proud and the hard words that wicked sinners spoke against Him.” 1

— Jude 1:3-14.

Continuing in Jude ──

“These are GRUMBLERS, COMPLAINERS, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, …” ── and I can’t help but think here about one of the episodes of Nick Shirley, “Inside Americas Paid Protesting Scam.” Watching the empty swelling and vomited words of the pro-abortion protesters!

“ … flattering people to gain advantage.

17) But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18) how they told you that there WOULD BE MOCKERS IN THE LAST TIME who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19) These are sensual persons, WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS, not having the Spirit.” – Jude 1:16-19.

Well, the LGBTQ+ movement has definitely gained more visibility, “rights,” and momentum in this 21st century than at any other time in history. There has been a steady progression in this vile sickness since at least the Stonewall uprising in 1969 through the AIDS crisis activism of the ‘80s and ‘90s, leading to today’s WORLDWIDE public visibility and their legal victories.

It’s not only political people that mock, cause division, complain, are corrupted, and defile themselves ── it’s also a growing population that not only engages in these abominations unto the LORD God, but also those who “approve of those who practice them”! – Romans 1:24-32.

One of the major reasons why THESE PEOPLE have infiltrated the Greco-Roman Catholics, as well as the plethora of Protestants in mass is because they do ‘not have the Spirit’!

Our Lord Jesus Christ calls THESE PEOPLE tares among the wheat ──

There are tares among the wheat ── Matthew 13:24-30 (Ai-generated)

“Another parable He put forth to them, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25) but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26) But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27) So THE SERVANTS OF THE OWNER came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28) He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29) But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30) Let both grow together UNTIL THE HARVEST [cf. Matthew 24:31], and at the time of harvest I will say to the REAPERS, ‘First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’” – Matthew 13:24-30.

THEN “Jesus sent the multitude away and went into [His] house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, ‘Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.’

37) He answered and said to them: ‘He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38) The field is THE WORLD, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one.

39) The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is THE END OF THE AGE, and the reapers are the angels.

40) THEREFORE as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41) The Son of Man will send out His angels [again, cf. Matthew 24:31], and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend [again, Jude 1:14-15], and those who practice lawlessness, 42) and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

43) Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!’” – Matthew 23:36-43.

I pray that our LORD God has blessed you with eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit has to say──do not be deceived by those who have not the Spirit of God!

Sadly, today──as never before, the U.S. is more like it was during the time of the American Civil War as no other time since. The Civil War profoundly reshaped the United States politically, socially, economically, and culturally. And this new civil war is weakening and broadening the divide of our government and is indeed redefining our national identity.

In the United States of America protests and civil unrest remain a grave issue! Just as dire was Abraham Lincoln’s House Divided Speech of 1858 – “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” It’s ever-more dire one hundred and sixty-eight years later! —and as we come to our 250th Anniversary!

Our Lord Jesus Christ’s words couldn’t ring more relevant today – “’ Every kingdom [or, every nation, people, or group] divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand’” – Matthew 12:25; Mark 3:24-25; and Luke 11:17.

We should notice that our LORD God inspired this to be recorded for us THREE SEPARATE TIMES! The Lord repeats something in His living word for great emphasis! □

Be sure to read our article “The Divided States of America”

1 Nickelsburg W.E.G. & VanderKam C.J., 1 Enoch: A New Translation, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 2004, pg. 20.

True Christians Are Hated Because We Belong to Him!

Our Lord Jesus teaching disciples on the Mount of Olives (Ai-generated)

by Leonard V Johnson

Our Lord Jesus Christ ── and brethren, you might think this is trivial, but I’d like to point out: When people speak about our Lord Jesus Christ, I notice so many just simply say “Jesus.” Have you noticed this? In my humble opinion, it’s not proper or respectful to simply say “Jesus.” By doing this, we fail to give to our Master and Elder Brother, our Savior, the honor that is rightfully due to Him. The names we call others, including our Savior, provide a snapshot of our relationship. A few examples ──

Names and titles matter a great deal. The top 5 titles the Apostle Matthew used for our Savior ──

• Son of Man (30 times)

• Lord (23 times)

• Christ (13 times)

• Teacher (10 times)

• The Child (9 times)

The top 5 titles the Apostle Mark used for our Savior ──

• Son of Man (14 times)

• Teacher (12 times)

• King of the Jews (5 times)

• Christ (4 times)

• Rabbi (4 times)

The top 7 titles the Apostle Luke used for our Savior ──

• Lord (35 times)

• Son of Man (25 times)

• Teacher (13 times)

• Christ (7 times)

• Master (5 times)

• Son (5 times)

• Son of God (5 times)

The top 5 titles the Apostle John used for our Savior ──

• Lord (36 times)

• Son (18 times)

• Son of Man (11 times)

• Son of God (9 times)

• Christ (8 times)

Surely, by the titles they used, we can see that they didn’t just think He was “Jesus of Nazareth,” but rather He was the Christ, the promised Messiah, the One sent to save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21).

But enough said on this interesting topic for the moment. Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us ──

“’ It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!’” – Matthew 10:25.

Truly, our Lord Jesus tells us ── and He’s continuing to tell us, brethren, because His words are alive! – cf. Hebrews 4:12 ── that His faithful followers would be hated because we belong to Him! ──

“’ If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.’” – John 15:18.

“’ Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile you, and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man’s sake.’” – Luke 6:22.

“’ And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.’” – Matthew 10:22.

~ be sure to read our article You're Not Welcome! ~

It is true that our enemy, Satan the Devil, certainly does not want you to be a part of our Lord Jesus’ true faith of the Way ── by inspiring people to attack you verbally because of His name’s sake. Something that happened in my life ── my wife and I were having a family get together, and my sister-in-law was lamenting over the fact that she has lost so many of her family members to death, either from suicide, cancer, or a bleeding ulcer. And she was saying how this great loss has affected her throughout her whole life. And, because I was trying to comfort her in the name of Jesus Christ, she blatantly called me a winebibber, because I was having a beer. Immediately, I recognized that it was Satan the Devil, attacking me ── we wrestle not against human beings, but rather we wrestle against the spiritual forces of the evil one. Satan the Devil trying to discredit me. Well, I dearly love her and pray for her always. Wanting no ill will to come upon her family.

Yet, sadly, some often fall into Satan the Devil’s evil tactics.

The Apostle Paul before the high priest and elders in Rome. Acts 28:17-22 (Ai-generated)

History shows us that certain ones did not look very kindly towards true Christians ──

“But we would like to hear from you and to know what you think, because we are indeed very aware that this sect is everywhere spoken against.” – Acts 28:22, NET.

Are you able to endure to the end, being a part of a faith that is spoken against everywhere? Sadly, most people cannot. No one wants to be unpopular, to not be a part of the “in crowd.” No one wants to be laughed at, screamed at, spit upon, and berated. Back in 2023, my own mother-in-law screamed at me out of the blue, “You’re in a cult! You’re going to hell!” Her words stabbed deep into my chest. And I couldn’t help but immediately think of the LORD God’s living word regarding the Apostle Paul, and how he was berated by a certain servant girl ── saying to them sarcastically, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the Way of salvation.” It is revealed to us that Satan’s method is to deceive and that he and his minions have the power to place thoughts, suggestions, or impulses into unsuspecting human minds – unless we are alertly on guard against it.

Now, deception doesn’t always have to be clever to work ── Joseph Goebbels famously stated, “If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”

The Apostle Paul before the high priest Ananias, Governor Felix, and Tertullus in Caesarea. Acts 24:1-22 (Ai-generated)

So, surely what has happened to me by a mentor ── in which I suspect he has bashed my name and reputation against the jagged stones, possibly why I don’t have many people interacting with me on Facebook. The name-calling. Yet, I wish to be like our Christ, “not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.” – 1 Peter 3:9. Because we are warned ──

“Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18.

But yes indeed. Are you aware that our Lord Jesus’ original followers of the Way were considered to be part of a “cult” or a “sect”? Did you notice above that the Apostle Paul, while in Rome, had called together the leaders of the Jews to explain that he had done nothing wrong? ── yet he was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, was compelled to appeal to Caesar Nero during his imprisonment in Caesarea.

“And when he [born Saul of Tarsus] was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying to the governor, ‘Since we have obtained great peace through you, and excellent things have been done for this nation through your forethought. … 5) For we have found this man to be a pest, and a mover of INSURRECTION among the Jews in the whole world, and a leader of THE SECT of the Nazareans; …’

10) And when the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul answered, ‘Knowing that you have been a judge to this nation for many years, I do more cheerfully make defense for myself concerning these things. 11) So that you may understand, it was not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship in Jerusalem; 12) And neither did anyone find me disputing with anyone in the temple, nor inciting a tumult among the people ── neither in the synagogues, nor in the city; 13) Neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. 14) But I confess to you that according to the Way which they call HERESY, so I serve the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written in the Law and the Prophets.’” – Acts 24:2, 5, 10-14, NET.

Most translations use the pejorative term “sect,” instead of “cult.” It’s a negative term ── a form of name-calling.

Let us also consider that the Apostle Paul, who kept and celebrated the holy weekly Sabbath (cf. Acts 15:21; 16:13; 18:4; 28:17), mentioned God the Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in every single introduction to his epistles! All fourteen! (Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:3; Ephesians 1:2; Philippians 1:2; Colossians 1:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:2; 1 Timothy 1:2; 2 Timothy 1:2; Titus 1:1; Philemon 1:3; and Hebrews 1:1-2). Yet ── and brethren, please pay attention to this, he never mentions the Holy Spirit ── so, he clearly had a BINITARIAN understanding, not trinitarian.

~ be sure to read and study our article Is God a Trinity? ~

That was the understanding and doctrine of the early Church of Jesus Christ ── the Church of God ── the early Christians that were dubbed “Nazareans.”

True Christians have long been considered belonging to a “sect,” or rather, a “cult” – Acts 24:14. Our great High Priest, Advocate, and Savior, Jesus Christ, has warned us that the faithful would be persecuted and harassed ──

“’ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom [from] heaven.

11) Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely FOR MY SAKE. 12) Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.’” – Matthew 5:10-12.

The LORD God’s true prophets of old, according to our Lord Jesus, have been subject to all types of revile, persecution, and evils ── including rejection, disdain, physical abuse, and threats of execution and death! And, according to our Lord Jesus, it will happen again, when His true end-time prophets arise on the scene (cf. Matthew 24:9; Revelation 11:3-12).

Furthermore, the Apostle Paul, under divine inspiration, wrote ──

“But you have carefully followed my doctrine [his doctrine is our Lord Jesus’ doctrine, they are the same!], manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11) persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra ── what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12) Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” – 2 Timothy 3:10-12.

Historically, at least to a large part, because of the utter hatred of the Jews, true Christians were “excommunicated” by Emperor Constantine. One of the first recorded “official” persecutions of true Christians on behalf of the Roman Empire was in AD 64, when, as reported by Tacitus, Emperor Nero was blaming Christians for the Great Fire of Rome. According to tradition, it was during the reign of Nero that our beloved Peter and Paul were martyred.

The persecutions didn’t stop, and the name-calling continued against our brethren. In addition to Emperor Constantine the Great’s Edict Against Heretics, Emperor Theodosius I only intensified the persecutions.

Theodosius I (379-95) resorted to name-calling against all those who held to the original biblical position and understanding of the Godhead ── the Elohim, which at this time consists of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. He specifically called out anyone who would disagree with his trinitarian law, as he stated ──

“ … According to the apostolic teaching and the doctrine of the Gospel, let us believe the one deity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, in equal majesty and in a holy Trinity. We authorize the followers of this law to assume the title of Catholic Christians; but as for the others, since, in our judgment, they are foolish madmen, we decree that they shall be branded with the ignominious name of heretics, … They will suffer in the first place the chastisement of the divine condemnation, and in the second the punishment which our authority, in accordance with the will of Heaven, shall decide to inflict.” 1

Persecutions of the faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ didn’t stop. And since Constantine the Great’s edicts did not stop everyone from properly keeping and observing the Lord’s Passover, Theodosius I brought out his Edict of Thessalonica. After he became a baptized “Christian,” he decreed the death penalty ──

“CHAP. XXVII. Edicts of Theodofius aganft the heretics, A.D. 380-394

… Theodofius, fuggefted the moft effectual methods of perfucution. In the fpace of fifteen years, he promulgated at leaft fifteen fevere edicts againft the heretics; more efpecially againft thofe who rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; … inflicted on the Audians, or Quartodecimans, who fhould dare to perpetrate the atrocious crime, of celebrating, on an improper day, the feftival of Eafter.” 2

Truly, truly, wouldn’t the murdering ── the martyring ── of the faithful of Christ Jesus, who provided for us an example to keep and observe the Lord’s Passover ON THE 14th of Nisan, instead of celebrating a pagan celebration (Easter), a large, bright, and glaring sign of THE ANTICHRIST?

Brethren, for true Christians, the name-calling has continued from those who believe in the doctrine of the Trinity against us who hold strong to the Rock ── those of us who “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints”!

So, be not surprised, my beloved, when you are persecuted ──

“For we know Him who said, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord. And again, ‘The LORD will judge His people.’ 31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32) But recall the former days in which, AFTER YOU WERE ILLUMINATED, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33) partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; 34) for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves [from] heaven.” – Hebrews 10:30-34.

“For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles ── when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness [and not just drunkenness with alcohol, but also with spiritual drunkenness], revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. 4) In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.” – 1 Peter 4:3-4.

~ be sure to watch and study our sermon Least In the Kingdom ~

Sadly, name-calling, persecutions, and shaming have occurred to the Lord’s people from the very beginning ── including by some who are claiming to be of the faith, of the Way.

Surely, the most common derogatory name that people call us who … “are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God” – Romans 8:14, ── is the pejorative term “cult.” □

Bibliography:

1 Behenson, H., Documents Of The Christian Church, Theodosius I (379-95) on Catholic and Heretic, Oxford University Press, New York & London, 1947, pg. 31-32.

2 Gibbon, E., The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.… 1789: Vol 3, Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. London, 1789, pgs. 24-25.

World News in Relation to Biblical Prophecy ── June 21, 2026

Again, at the top of the page, in bold, capitalized letters ── the Trump Administration proudly announced a “deal” with the evil and vile Islamic Regime of Iran led by an interim leadership council and a core group of influential Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)! NO REGIME CHANGE! The Gulf states now feel “left in the lurch and exposed by the US-Iran deal.”

Media reports alleged that the UAE moved billions of frozen funds to Iran in exchange for a halt in attacks on its territory, which Abu Dhabi has denied. …

Gulf states have found themselves stuck between a wounded but emboldened Iran and an unreliable alliance with the US. …

Meanwhile, Iran “has survived and overcome the US and Israeli decapitation campaign and also demonstrated that it can strike back and use Hormuz for leverage,” [Chatham House Middle East expert Neil Quilliam] said.

In an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, Trump suggested Gulf states pay for American protection against Iran.

“The Gulf states are being subjected to what amounts to blackmail by both Iran and the United States,” [Hasan Alhasan of the International Institute for Strategic Studies] said.

(https://www.timesofisrael.com/gulf-states-could-be-left-in-the-lurch-and-exposed-by-the-us-iran-deal/).

This “terrible” (in my humble opinion) Memorandum of Understanding has grave issues! (See: There's A Deadly Flaw in This Iran "Deal"!). Here are five reasons, I too, believe are reasons why it is a terrible “deal” ──

1. Lack of transparency and unclear terms. Many details — such as how Iran’s enriched uranium will be handled, the scope of sanctions relief, and the exact conditions for nuclear disarmament — remain vague.
2. No real nuclear weapons ban. Iran hawks warn Tehran may use the financial lifeline to rebuild militarily and organizationally, undermining the deal’s long-term security benefits.
3. Sanctions relief without full integration. The agreement allows Iran to immediately restart oil exports free from U.S. trade and banking sanctions.
4. Strategic concessions without reciprocal gains. It includes Gulf state contributions to a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
5. Political and diplomatic skepticism. Iran’s leaders have a history of prioritizing their nuclear program over economic prosperity. 1

The MOU is seen as a placeholder rather than a final peace deal.

President Trump just simply says, ‘Well… if they don’t cooperate, we’ll just go back to bombing them!’ So, he’s giving them 60 days to rearm and resupply their weapons? Mr. President, when a boxer has his opponent on the ropes, you go for a KO!! I realize that Mr. Trump has said that ‘the deal isn’t final,’ but why isn’t he “finishing the job”? ── that's beyond me!

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is praising this MOU ──

I welcome the agreement reached between the US and Iran, following sustained diplomatic efforts by several partners.
The priority now is its swift and full implementation by all parties.
This agreement should allow for the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Freedom of navigation must be restored toll-free. …
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 15, 2026

Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi (Left) and the reformist president of Iran, Masoud Pezashkian (Right) (Ai-generated)

O indeed, this vile Islamic Regime of Iran is two-faced. One part of its regime is not endorsing this MOU and refused to sign it, and the other part of their regime signed it.

Now, while President Donald Trump has posted, “This Great Deal will bring Peace and Security to the whole Region,” we do not believe that it will. I remember as a child watching on television one of the first renditions of Elmer J. Fudd ── Egghead. A Day at the Zoo, in which Egghead, the main character, repeatedly taunts a lion in its cage. The narrator warns Egghead to stop provoking the lion. He did not stop. At the end of the cartoon, the lion inside the cage opens its mouth ── and from within the stomach of the lion, Egghead’s eyes appear, and his voice echoes, “I’m a baaad boy!” Moral of the story? If you poke at an Asiatic lion repeatedly or persistently, you are almost certainly provoking a defensive or predatory attack.

We should consider the following prophecy ──

“For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:3.

Certainly, while the above prophecy does have a future fulfillment, it is a dire warning to not just blindly accept a ‘declaration of peace in our time’ with a nation that is led by a demon! This is why I often quote Neville Chamberlain when he returned from his appeasement of Adolf Hitler, and his raising a signed agreement that Nazi Germany would not continue the war if only France and the UK permitted Hitler to incorporate the Sudetenland – and they did! Announcing to the crowd and to the world, and now the Leftists are saying we have all heard this wrong for nearly 86 years! – “Peace in our time!” The talk of any true peace apart from the LORD God is hollow and without the understanding of mankind’s true nature.

JUDAH ── our allies in the Middle East, known as Israel, do not like this MOU ──

June 18, 2026

Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’

Israel awoke to a frightening new reality on Thursday as it absorbed, with disbelief and largely in silence, the terms of President Trump’s preliminary agreement to end the war with Iran.

It accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims, analysts and officials said, and arguably leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.

Regime change? The government in Tehran is emerging from the war even more hardline and emboldened, despite being decapitated at the outset of the conflict in late February. The deal’s requirement that American forces retreat from the “proximity” of Iran within 30 days means that Iran can boast that it has chased the U.S. military out of the region. …

David Horovitz, the editor of The Times of Israel, called it “a catastrophic capitulation,” in the headline of a fiery opinion column. …

The prime minister said Israel would stick to its ultimate goal: “Iran will not have nuclear weapons.”

(https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/middleeast/israel-iran-deal-reaction-netanyahu.html).

Yes, Israel is in a very difficult position. It has to support this MOU, but with a history of 45 Years of Revolution, Resistance, and Conflict, the Islamic Regime of Iran will surely violate this MOU.

I want you to notice that there is coming, at the end of this present evil age, not only the fact that the Roman Catholic Church will work together with a future conglomerate of Islamic nations, called ‘king of the South’ in God’s word, but His living word also shows us that this future great religious leader will turn against this “Madhi” ── this final ‘king of the South.’ Notice the following dual prophecy, showing us that this final Islamic power will be defeated ──

“’ At the time of the end the king of the South shall attack him [a final Catholic-led European civic and military leader, called the ‘king of the North’]; and the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter the countries [the Middle Eastern countries], overwhelm them, and pass through. 41) He shall also enter the Glorious Land [Palestine], and many countries shall be overthrown; but these [initially] shall escape from his hand: Edom [which is Turkey], Moab [which is Iraq], and the prominent people of Ammon [or Jordan]. 42) He shall stretch out his hand [the ‘king of the North’] against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape’” – Daniel 11:40-42.

Now … the following end-time prophecy given to the Prophet Ezekiel also concerns the great and terrible Day of the Lord, “a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles” ── which is exactly what we are speaking about here. Now, mind you, even today most of these following nations are primarily Islamic! THE DAY OF THE LORD! It is prophetically linked to the meaning of the Day of Atonement. And it’s in the future, and we’re simply not that far away from it. Prophet Daniel in chapter 11, verses 40-43 shows us that Edom (Turkey) will initially escape the wrath of the final Catholic-led European ‘king of the North.’ Prophet Ezekiel shows us that Egypt and her allies, including Arabs, will be DESTROYED!

“’ For the DAY is near [speaking of the Day of the Lord], even the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, the time of the Gentiles. 4) The sword shall come upon Egypt, And great anguish shall be in Ethiopia, When the slain fall in Egypt, And they take away her wealth, And her foundations are broken down’” – Ezekiel 30:3-4.

>>> Staying here in the United States of America, the Trump Administration, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. (See: Anthropic - Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5). Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. The practical reason why the U.S. government banned Fable 5 & Mythos 5 ── Anthropic cannot reliably verify the nationality of every user in real time at scale.

The U.S. export controls are pushing European companies to create their own AI models. Siemens, Renault, and other major European firms are already using a mix of Chinese, U.S., and European models because of this ban.

To most Americans this probably doesn’t mean much, but sadly, this is but another unintended consequence of the Trump Administration “pushing” Europe further away from America as an ally and to more of a frenemy. The US ── under the Trump Administration ── is increasingly isolating itself. And even though I believe that what the Trump Administration did was for the security of our nation ── the following prophecy is getting ever closer to fulfillment ──

“How lonely sits the city That was full of people! How like a widow is she, Who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces Has become a slave!

2) She weeps bitterly in the night, Her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers She has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.” – Lamentations 1:1-2.

The United States of America has become ‘great [AGAIN] among the nations!’

“Thus he [a soon coming final Catholic-led “United States of Europe” civic and military leader, also called in prophecy the final ‘king of the North’] shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god, which he shall acknowledge, and advance its glory, and he shall cause them to rule over many, and divide the land for gain.” – Daniel 11:39.

In fact, Germany is responding to the Trump Administration, and is increasing its military ──

June 14, 2026

Germany pledges to build Europe's strongest army as NATO allies answer Trump pressure.

Germany is pledging to become a more powerful military force inside NATO, with Berlin's ambassador to Washington telling Fox News Digital that the country is ready to assume greater responsibility for European security after decades in which the United States carried much of the alliance's military burden.

“Germany is stepping up — we heard the call!” …

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Germany's armed forces should become the strongest conventional army in Europe, a goal Hanefeld said is now backed by Berlin's new military strategy.

(https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/germany-pledges-build-europes-strongest-100023679.html).

The iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany with a flag of the AfD. (Ai-generated)

Now, most would applaud this. “Germany, finally stepping up!” Well, there’s a phrase, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Germany started WWI ── Germany started World War I on August 1, 1914, when Germany declared war on Russia. It then moved against France, capturing Paris from the north. The war began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. Germany started WWII ── technically, it began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3. OH! But you say, “That was Germany of the old, we have a new Germany! A Germany that has left all that ‘Nazism’ – that far-right totalitarian ideology behind.” Notice this fairly recent report ──

Jun 02, 2026

Germany’s far-right and hard-left politics boomerang back to the horseshoe theory

Horseshoes may bring luck in life, but rarely in politics. …

A century on, the horseshoe theory is back like a boomerang with speculation that a hard-left party could open the door to power for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). …

(https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/06/02/germanys-far-right-and-hard-left-politics-boomerang-back-to-the-horseshoe-theory/).

Horseshoe theory posits that the far-left and far-right are closer to each other than to the political center, despite their ideological differences. A THIRD and final door will be opened as prophesied by our LORD God in this dual prophecy ──

“And after the league is made with him he shall act deceitfully, for he shall come up and become strong with a small number of people. 24) He shall enter peaceably, even into the richest places of the province; and he shall do what his fathers have not done, nor his forefathers: he shall disperse among them the plunder, spoil, and riches; and he shall devise his plans against the strongholds, but only for a time.” – Daniel 11:23 24.

As the king of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, did. He outlawed Jewish religious rites and traditions, as in ‘taking away the daily sacrifices.’ So, this final civic and military leader of a Catholic-led United Europe will do the same. He, too ── as had Antiochus IV ── will cultivate a reputation as an extravagant and generous ruler. Offering peace. In the beginning.

Yes, indeed ── and let us always thank Almighty God, and all of our wonderful and brave Veterans ── the Nazi German & European alliance was utterly defeated by Western powers in WWI & WWII! So, in this sense, his fathers of WWII and his forefathers of WWI of a soon-coming final ‘king of the North’ had failed to defeat the Western powers (the USA and the UK respectively), however ‘he shall devise his plans against the strongholds’ and shall accomplish ── but only for a short time.

Flashback November 9, 1989. As I sat on our couch in the living room watching the nightly news, the reporter excitedly announced, “I’m Peter Jennings in New York. Just a short while ago, astonishing news from East Germany where the east German authorities have said in essence, ‘the Berlin Wall doesn’t mean anything anymore. The Wall that the east Germans had put up in 1961 to keep its people in will now be breached by anyone who wants to leave.’” And I was shocked! ── because even then, at such a young age, I knew the LORD God’s dual prophecies concerning GERMANY! God’s living word teaches us that there is coming a final Catholic-led European ‘king of the North’ beast power that will have “a great army” – Daniel 11:25. And the U.S. ── several U.S. administrations recognized that a strong West German military was essential to NATO’s defense of Western Europe. The most notable push came from the Eisenhower administration in the early 1950s, but the Kennedy administration and later leaders also reinforced this policy ── so, to be fair, let’s not just “blame Trump!” □

1 Kelly, L. & Meyn, C., 5 reasons Trump allies don’t like his Iran deal, The Hill, 16 June 2026.