Grocery shelves empty. Electricity out. Government agencies shut down. Transportation crippled. Is this week’s east coast “Snowmageddon” also, like Haiti, a small preview of a larger catastrophe that America can expect to experience after it stabs Israel in the back and refuses to come to its defense? The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday featured a front page picture of empty shelves in the produce section of a grocery in Virginia. One commentator, upon first seeing the picture in the WSJ, said he thought it was a picture taken in Russia. Food, and the increasing lack of food, will be the major human problem encountered by the people living in the Daughter of Babylon/America once it betrays Israel.
Israel was in the news, as it usually is, all week, as the media focused on Iran’s threats that it would shock the world on February 11th, the regime’s 31st annual founding day. Iran, identified in the Bible as Persia, the land of the Medes – its original name – announced that it was now a “nuclear nation.” Jeremiah prophetically told us: “Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD,….” (Jeremiah 51:11). Not only will Iran invade Israel, along with Russia (Ezekiel 38 and 39), it will also be used by God to destroy the nation that betrays Israel, His chosen people. So, Iran’s announcement today, which some derided, is significant, because Iran has confirmed what many have known for some time that Iran/Persia/Land of the Medes is now in the “Nuclear Club”, and will soon be able to produce nuclear weapons. In 2007 Russia’s Vladimir Putin became the first leader of Russia to pay a state visit to Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s Muslim President, met with Putin. It’s doubtful that they spent their time together discussing global warming. The Lord looked down through time to the collaboration between Russia and Iran, and inspired Ezekiel to write about what would come. Today, as Iran confirmed that they have/will have the ability to engage in nuclear war, more clues of the end times mystery came into place. We live in interesting times.