"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth give way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah" (think on that awhile) Psalm 46:1-3.
"'Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!' The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah" (Think some more) vv. 10-11.
There was once a rupture vertically first (relationally), and guess what followed? There was another rupture.. horizontally, second. Yep, then lots of wars.
Wars, won't they ever stop? Are we in the last minutes of the last days now?
North Koreans are ramping up missile tests while the world is so busy elsewhere.
Man, They Have Conducted Their Sixth Missile Test In 2026.
So called, ‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong Un enjoys this! He watches On As Cruise And Anti-Warship Missiles Are Launched From a Destroyer.
The Bible says, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14).
Is it a good day for true repentance and saving faith in God? Yes! What are you waiting for? Jump (all) in the water's fine! Scriptures tell us there will be wars and rumors of wars. Seems like we've gotten the wars, and we've gotten the rumors too.
Have you seen that list of the countries with nuclear weapons from David Jeremiah? The United States currently has 5400 of em, and Russia currently has 5900 nukes. And who is the next closest? It is China with 350.
So, between Russia and us here in the USA, there still seems to be an arms race. Racing to see which of us nations can build up enough.. to possess the most nuclear weapons.
You've been watching how America, with Israel, just ended a war. The purpose was to keep another country led by real terrorists from getting their own nuclear weapons. Cuz they would use them on Saturday and on Sunday (Israel and us their "great Satan"). Man, I'm glad Iran can no longer cast their missiles at Europe or at the USA, as they could have done. Check out how far they were already shooting them.
In American and European colleges, where liberal young people are now further brainwashed, they teach that the USA started this war and it's been wrong. But Iran actually started this war some 47 years ago when they took American hostages.
Jesus in Matthew 24, with His sermon to his disciples on Mount Olivet, said: you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom.
Hey, war is basically a curse from man's disobedience to God. It wouldn't have happened here if Adam and Eve never sinned in the Garden. True!
According to an article in the New York Times, the world has been at peace for only 268 out of the past 3,400 years. In other words, only 8% of our history has been peaceful. No one knows how many people have died in times of War.
The New York Times speculated that at least 108 million people were killed in wars in the 20th century alone, and some believe that over a billion people have lost their lives during the military conflicts.
Sad that vicious military conflicts have marked history like bomb creators!
Mr. Clive Staples Lewis wrote about the curse of War to Ms. Mary Willis Shelburne on June 17, 1963 (it was published in Collected Letters, Vol. 3). He was reflecting on his own experiences in World War I. He had been sent out to the front lines in France. After a few weeks there, he was hospitalized with a bout of trench fever. Many had it, and when he was discharged from that hospital he was in, he was immediately returned to the frontlines, where only three months later, he got wounded in three places on his body by an exploding shell that actually killed the sergeant who was standing right next to him. Makes one think of PTSD huh.
Mr. Lewis carried those three scars and experiences with him for the rest of his life. And then when World War II arrived, he wrote these following words:
"My memories of the last war haunted my dreams for years. Military service to be plain includes the threat of every temporal evil, pain and death, which is what we fear from sickness, isolation from those we love, which is what we fear from Exile. Toil under arbitrary Masters, which is what we fear from slavery, hunger, thirst, and exposure, which is what we fear from poverty, he said. I'm not a pacifist, but? If it's got to be, it's got to be. The flesh is weak and selfish, and I think death would be much better than to live through another War.
Maybe you have served in the military. If you've experienced War at any level, you know exactly what C.S Lewis is talking about. War is an awful thing. But war is not the worst thing.
You know how Iran has backed terror groups—like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—and has viciously persecuted its own people—including Christians. Yet despite the intense opposition, Christianity has grown dramatically in Iran through smaller house churches and the underground believers there. It's been like that before; persecution often fuels real spiritual awakening.
You know how modern-day Iran is ancient Persia—the land of Queen Esther, Daniel, and King Cyrus, whom God (not man) called His “anointed” in Isaiah 45. God has indeed worked in that nation before.
Iran is not simply a political topic for the Right and the Left to discuss these days, but Iran is a land of biblical significance. Iran (ancient Persia) has been considered a major player in end-times prophecy.
I have told my two sons this: Christians should support Israel’s right to exist on earth. We enjoy existing here. We desire that Jews and Christians exist in peace -- yes, and live well spiritually in Christ our one Messiah.
God chose Israel to be a “light to the nations” (see Isaiah 42:6), and Jesus, a Jew, fulfilled that perfectly. Thus, Israel indeed has a special place in God’s plan. We pray for our Jewish friends who have constantly been under attack, that many will soon turn to the Messiah (The Bible Jesus seen in OT and NT Scriptures. Many have already.
Christians may not always agree with the nation of Israel’s methods, but when faced with hostility from Muslim countries like Iran, we should unify in our support for the nation that God personally chose.
Of course, not every instance of Iran in the news media, including with war, means it is the very end minutes of the end.. yet. While it is important to pay close attention to what is going on in this world gone crazy, especially as it relates to Israel. God has already told us what to look for before the end of the end times. While tensions between Iran and Israel can feel like unmistakable signs of these times, Scripture gives more specific markers for the very end—global proclamation of the gospel in every nation, unprecedented tribulation, and the clear revelation of the “man of lawlessness” (Matthew 24; 2 Thessalonians 2). He'll demand to be worshipped.
This political hostility, like in Western Lands by itself, even when it clearly echoes of ancient rivalries from yesteryear, is not enough to draw prophetic conclusions from. No worries. Trust and obey the Lord. Let's be wiser (than those who have foolishly set dates) and just ponder how this perspective should actually steady us in our individual walks with Christ.
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What do you think about Russia? What are Gog and Magog?
Do you consider Revelation 16:12–16 to possibly refer to China in the end times?
Want all End Times People and Nations to be organized into subcategories?
People keep asking, as some of them run back to church with fears—is Bible prophecy unfolding now?
Face it, "war" is an awful thing, but even though war in a general sense is a bad thing, it's not the worst thing.
The worst thing for you and for me, is to be somebody for whom nothing is worthy of fighting for ever. Many give in to their fleshly demands and what the enemy, the prince of this corrupt world system, demands, and thus send themselves off to split Hell wide open. That's far worse.
Some people don't care about anything except themselves and how they feel while they are here. They have thus depended on better people than themselves to fight the just wars that keep them free and safe.
In America, aren't you happy we have a country that has stood for the truth? It's not who real Americans are.. for us to go fight meaningless wars, like the one we're now in.
Hopefully, it won't be long before we're totally free of wars.
Q: Have you ever visited the Karnak Temple Complex, located on the east bank of the Nile in Luxor? It is the largest religious structure ever built in human history.
The Karnak Temple complex in Egypt is so large. People have viewed some of the oldest ruins in history there, decayed temples, chapels, and residences, too. Check it out. On the wall of one of these temples there, one can see Egyptian hieroglyphics, which have been translated by skilled linguists. The ancient etchings give us a clear description of the very first recorded war in the history of the world was like.
We don't know if this was the first of all wars that happened, but it was the first recorded conflict in the history of the world.
It was the first recorded war written down in an enduring form. The battle took place on April the 16th back in 1457 between Pharaoh Tutmos III in a coalition of Canaanite tribes.
Both armies had about 10,000 fighting men, and they retreated into the walled City known as Megiddo. Yep. The Egyptians laid siege to the city and took it in seven months.
That's interesting huh, but the location of that war is more interesting. So where exactly did this battle happen? That battle between Egypt and the Canaanites, the first recorded battle in all of world history, actually occurred in the valley of Armageddon.
There are a whole lot of acres on this terra firma, but that spot has been said to be a perfect battleground. The planet Earth (you've seen NASA's photos of it from the area around the moon lately..) has a land surface of more than 57 million square miles and yet, the first and last recorded battles in all of man's history are fought at that location. Yes, in the very same place, and then we can kiss man's bloody wars goodbye!
You've read about that future conflict called the Battle of Megiddo right?
I have not yet visited any of the ruins of Megiddo in Israel. We might.
From the top of Tel Megiddo, one sees the valley of Jezreel, known as the valley of Armageddon.
Right now this location is acting as the Bread Basket of Israel, good dirt for growing, a very nice agricultural plane yielding large amounts of grain and fruit. Lots of barley, wheat, and smaller oranges etc.
There have been countless wars in the valley of Megiddo, yes, as many as 200 different battles were fought there.
This is the place where the Antichrist will set up his forward operating military base in the final war of History for the battle of Armageddon. It will happen and I'm not sure what the soldiers will be thinking at that time.
The Bible tells the truth about us people, about history, and about the God who rules over both.
You have read in Ecclesiastes 3:1–8 right? When it opens its window over human life on earth, King Solomon does not offer some glorified romantic vision of things here. He gives us a complete one, though. Pairs of opposites sweep across the landscape of existence. Birth and death. Weeping and laughter. Embracing and refraining and in that final pair, Solomon writes with very sobering clarity about “a time for war and a time for peace” (Eccl. 3:8).
This is not permission. It is recognition.
In the original language, “war” speaks of armed conflict deliberately waged against an enemy. “Peace,” the rich Hebrew word shalom, is far more than the absence of conflict. It is wholeness, harmony, rightness with God and with others, and even a settled quiet within the soul. Solomon is saying that human history moves along a spectrum that includes both the clash of nations and the longing for rest. And over it all stands God, who “works all things together for good” (Romans 8:28).
Even in ancient times, war had its appointed seasons. Armies marched in the spring, not during harvest (2 Samuel 11:1). Today, nations still do not enter conflict randomly, but in response to particular pressures, threats, or ambitions. Yet Scripture is clear. War, while never good in itself, is not outside God’s sovereign purposes. David could say, “Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war” (Psalm 144:1), while also longing for peace.
The deeper issue is not geopolitical. It is spiritual.
The Bible traces the origin of conflict to the human heart. “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Romans 3:10–18). James asks with piercing simplicity, “Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires…?” (James 4:1–2). War is the outward eruption of inward rebellion. What began with Adam’s fall became Cain’s violence, and from there the story of humanity has been written, again and again, in conflict.
History confirms what Scripture reveals.
One analysis often cited from The New York Times notes that of roughly 3,400 years of recorded history, only about 268 years have been free from war, about 8% of human history. Estimates suggest at least 108 million people were killed in wars in the 20th century alone, with some broader historical estimates reaching into the hundreds of millions or more. These numbers are not neat statistics. They are a testimony to the depth of human brokenness.
And yet, even in such a world, there are moments when war becomes tragically necessary.
As C. S. Lewis once wrote, “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.. the decayed and degraded state… which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.”
C.S. Lewis knew what he was saying. Wounded in World War I and marked for life, he did not glorify war. He simply refused to deny that sometimes evil must be resisted. History bears witness. Had tyranny not been confronted in World War II, the cost in human life would have been far greater.
Scripture agrees. God forbids murder (Exodus 20:13), the intentional taking of innocent life with malice, yet He does not forbid all taking of life under all circumstances. He commanded Israel at times to go to war (Deuteronomy 20:1–4; Numbers 31:7; Joshua 10:40). He is not contradictory. He is just. And His justice sometimes confronts evil with force.
Still, the Bible never lets us become comfortable with war.
Jesus speaks into this tension with remarkable clarity. When the disciples asked about the end of the age (Matthew 24:3), He answered, “You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled… but the end is not yet” (Matthew 24:6). That is striking. Wars are not the signal to panic. They are the normal condition of a fallen world moving toward its appointed end.
He continues, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom… all these are the beginning of birth pains” (Matthew 24:7–8). Wars, along with famines and earthquakes, are not the final sign. They are the early contractions, reminders that history is moving somewhere under God’s hand.
So when we see conflict multiply, we should not be shaken as though something strange were happening. Scripture told us this would be so.
And the scale of modern warfare only deepens that awareness.
Today, nine nations are known to possess nuclear weapons, with a global inventory estimated at around 13,000 warheads. The United States is often cited with roughly 5,400, Russia about 5,900, and China approximately 350. The destructive capacity of a single nuclear-armed submarine can exceed multiple times the total explosive power used in World War II. These figures are widely reported by organizations such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the Federation of American Scientists.
This is the world Jesus spoke about without ever naming its technologies. A world where the means of war expand, but the heart of man remains the same.
Yet here is the surprising center of His teaching. In the face of all this, He says, “See that you are not troubled.”
The word means do not be terrified. Do not let your soul come undone.
How is that possible?
Only because peace, in the biblical sense, is not anchored in circumstances but in God Himself. “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You” (Isaiah 26:3). “The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6–7).
There is, even now, a “time for peace” available to the believer that no war can take away. Jesus said, “In Me you may have peace… In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
And there is a greater peace still to come. He will stop all the wars pretty soon.
“The LORD.. makes wars cease to the end of the earth” (Psalm 46:9). Isaiah saw the day when “they shall beat their swords into plowshares… neither shall they learn war anymore” (Isaiah 2:4). The Prince of Peace will reign (Isaiah 9:6), and the final conflict described in Revelation 19:11–21 will give way to a new creation where “there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying” (Revelation 21:1–4).
Even creation itself will be transformed, as Isaiah’s vision declares: “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain” (Isaiah 11:6–9).
So we live between two realities these days.
There is a time for war still because sin still lives in the human heart. War is in many human hearts. There is a time for peace because God offers it now through Christ and will one day establish it forever. He's still the pricne of peace.
Until then, the calling is clear. Not to panic. Not to grow cold. Not to withdraw into fear. But to become faithful people in an unsteady world.
Jesus did NOT say, "Watch all the wars and get all uptight and anxious inside or have another panic attack."
Nope He encouraged us simply to come to Him, to abide in Him (righteously, relationally), to grow spiritually in His word, and go proclaim the gospel. “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world… and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14).
That is the one sign He told us to watch for.
So while nations these days rage on and weapons just multiply, our mission does not change any like Christ promises and message never change. Pray for leaders (1 Timothy 2:1–2). Pray for all men. Honor rightful authority and delegated authorities ..short of sinning (Romans 13:1–4; 1 Peter 2:17. Obey the Word). Seek peace where it can be found (Romans 14:17–19). And walk closely with the Lord, who holds every moment in His sovereign hands. Walk with other growing christians cuz there are still some spiritually healthy local churches.
In a world that knows both war and the rumors of war, the Christian believer can still know the livng Word (the Lord) and His true written word. Yes, we can know some things much deeper than man's wars and rumors.
We can enjoy a harmonious union with the God who knows the future and all things. We can ask Him questions too. He doesn't mind.
Have a settled soul. A guarded heart. A quiet confidence.
Not self-confidence like Peter had, but choose to put your confidence in Him.
No time to waste. These are your last days and mine. How old are you now? Because the same sovereign God who appoints the times also redeems them, we can fully trust Him. Will you redeem the time that He has given to you?
