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ICE nabs Illegal immigrant New Orleans police recruit who was issued firearm
An illegal immigrant with an active deportation order was hired to be a New Orleans cop — and even given a gun, according to the feds. Larry Temah, a 46-year-old illegal migrant from Cameroon, was nabbed by ICE at his home on Jan. 26 — just one week before he was set to graduate from the police academy. Larry Temah, is not only breaking the law with every step he takes in this country illegally, but the New Orleans Police Department hired him and issued him in a firearm — what kind of law enforcement department gives criminal illegal aliens guns and badges?” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.

The Great American Comeback: How Trump Is Setting the Stage for an Era of Historic Prosperity
We will likely never even know the true scale of the devastation wrought by Biden-era policies because the data was obscured by a pattern of lies and manipulation. The contrast with Trump’s first term is striking. Even with the disruption of the pandemic, real wages grew by nearly seven percent during Trump’s first administration. Under Biden, real wages fell by 1.4 percent. That difference explains far more about voter frustration than any cable news talking point ever could.

Russia says it is ‘no longer bound’ by nuclear arms limits as treaty with US ends
Russia on Wednesday said it was no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads under the bilateral New START treaty, which is set to end Thursday after the Trump administration failed to follow up with negotiations. Moscow vowed to act “responsibly” as its last nuclear treaty with the US expires, sparking fears of a new arms race.

China’s Xi warns U.S. against arms support for Taiwan
There were shifts in the messages conveyed after a telephone conversation between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump. Xi urged the U.S. to be “cautious” about arms sales to Taiwan, state-run Chinese media outlet CCTV reported:

Trump’s Board of Peace: It Might Actually Work
When Donald Trump floated the idea of a “Board of Peace,” the reaction from much of the political and media class was predictably dismissive. Some framed it as vague branding, others as naïve at best or cynical at worst. Yet beneath the reflexive scepticism lies a question worth asking in good faith. What is this proposal actually trying to do, and why does it provoke such hostility before it has even been defined?

China is losing more than just two ports in Panama
The Panamanian Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday night invalidating Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings’ contract to operate two key ports at either end of the Panama Canal caps a month marked by high-profile strategic defeats for Beijing in the region. The U.S. commando operation in Caracas in early January that swiftly removed dictator Nicolas Maduro from power, for instance, was preceded by the start of tariffs of up to 50% on many Chinese exports to Mexico and followed last week by the cancellation of a Chinese consortium’s major zinc project in Bolivia.

US-Iran talks collapse after regime demands negotiations focus only on nuclear issue and move to Oman
The negotiations between the Iranian regime and the U.S., which had been planned for Friday, were canceled after the regime demanded changes to the format and the location of the talks, according to various media reports on Wednesday evening. The U.S. reportedly didn’t agree to the Iranian demands to shift the talks from Turkey to Oman, and to hold them in a bilateral format focusing only on the nuclear issue. “The gaps between the United States and Iran are very, very large—and cannot be bridged,”

IDF reservist severely wounded by Hamas ambush in Gaza as gunmen fire on Israeli troops in ‘blatant ceasefire violation’
A reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was seriously wounded by terrorist gunfire on Tuesday night on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Wednesday morning. Upon identifying the fire, IDF armored units and IAF aircraft conducted strikes in the area.” The military called the shooting attack a “blatant ceasefire violation.”

WATCH: Khamenei should be ‘very worried,’ Trump says as nuclear talks crumble
As reports emerged that the planned nuclear talks between Iran and the United States had collapsed, President Donald Trump warned Iranian leader Ali Khamenei that he should be “very worried.” (watch)

IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba commander who led Oct. 7 Kibbutz Nir Oz assault
The IDF announced that it carried out an airstrike today targeting a senior Hamas operative from the elite Nukhba Force who took part in the October 7, 2023 massacre. According to the military, the strike was conducted in the Mawasi area of southern Gaza following an overnight attack on Israeli forces in northern Gaza, in which a reservist officer was seriously wounded by Palestinian gunmen. The target of the operation was Bilal Abu Assi, identified by the IDF as a platoon commander in Hamas’s Nukhba Force—the unit that led the cross-border invasion into Israel on October 7.

Minister Bezalel Smotrich: ‘We are committed to destroying Hamas, we will not stop’
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich spoke at the Religious Zionism school principals’ conference in Eilat and addressed the need to strip Hamas of its weapons, ‘We will have to return to fighting.’ You will see in the coming days that a time‑limited ultimatum will be issued. When it expires, we will have to return to fighting, to destroy, to kill and eliminate these terrorists,

Markell: Why I Am Paying Close Attention To President Trump’s ‘Board Of Peace’
The Bible describes a future period in which authority is concentrated not solely in traditional kingdoms, but in a limited number of powerful figures who operate beyond national boundaries. And that is why I am paying close attention to President Trump’s Board of Peace. A lot of Godless people seem to be in charge, such as Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Tony Blair, and almost 60 more movers and shakers. Most have a worldly view of the world and of “peace.”

Nvidia CEO: ‘The implications of building AI infrastructure in Israel are profound’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the economic impact of the “Israel 1” supercomputer his company is building in northern Israel could be “very deep,” arguing that large-scale AI infrastructure can spark downstream growth in startups, universities, and industry, according to an interview and remarks published by Walla. Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia, is considered one of the most influential figures in today’s global AI economy. Many of the best-known AI systems, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, run on hardware, processors, and servers manufactured by Nvidia. This reality has helped propel the company to record market valuations in recent years.

Anti-Hamas Militias Step Up Attacks Across Gaza, Targeting Terror Leaders and Expanding Operations
This past weekend, the Popular Forces armed group captured Hamas commander Adham al-Akar in Israeli-held Rafah, in southern Gaza, as militia forces ramp up efforts to curb the Islamist group’s influence and prevent it from regaining control in the war-torn enclave. In a social media video released after the operation, militia leader Ghassan al-Duhaini is seen with Akar, sending a warning to the Palestinian terrorist group that its fighters will be “punished like the victims of the Spanish Inquisition.”

AI And The Antichrist: As Artificial Intelligence Becomes More Powerful, Serious Spiritual Questions Arise
as AI becomes more powerful, serious spiritual questions have been raised: Is AI the Antichrist? Is AI connected to end times? And how should Christians think about AI? The Bible tells us that in the last days, there’s going to be a world figure that will emerge—the Antichrist, also called the Beast and the Wicked One. I don’t believe AI is the Antichrist. When the Bible speaks of the Antichrist, I believe it is referring to a real, literal person. The Bible tells us the Antichrist will erect an image of himself and demand worship—and that the image will somehow appear animated or alive …

DC Finally Breaks Longest Freeze Streak Since 1989
While Al Gore and globalists were chatting up a storm at the World Economic Forum in Davos about cow fart-induced global warming, the eastern half of the U.S. was in a dangerous cold pattern not seen in decades. The temperatures across the Washington, DC metro area finally edged up above freezing on Tuesday, ending a 233-hour stretch at or below freezing (or around the time when Gore was spewing global warming propaganda at WEF).

T emperature in Cuba hits 0°C (32°F) for the first time on record
Cuba saw historic low temperatures on February 3, 2026, with a weather station in the province of Matanzas recording a temperature of 0°C (32°F) for the first time on record. “Zero degrees in Indio Hatuey! National record absolute cold in Cuba Winter 2025-2026 will be recorded in history…when for the first time officially a minimum temperature of 0°C (32°F) (freezing point), was recorded in Indio Hatuey, Matanzas.”

Strong M6.1 earthquake hits Kermadec Islands, New Zealand
A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.1 struck the Kermadec Islands region, New Zealand at 10:39 UTC on February 4, 2026. The agency is reporting a depth of 184.2 km (114 miles). EMSC is reporting M6.1 at a depth of 197 km (122 miles). The USGS issued a Green alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses.

Not A Coincidence: Next Month There Will Be A Blood Moon Eclipse During Purim For The Third Year In A Row
Next month, there will be a Blood Moon eclipse during Purim. Tthere was also a Blood Moon eclipse during Purim in 2025, and also in 2024. Even more intriguing is that all the Blood Moon eclipses during Purim have fallen when the Great Middle East War is raging, which began when Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and now a final showdown with Iran is looming.

Driest short rains season since 1981 push over 2 million people into crisis-level food insecurity in Kenya
Severe drought conditions are affecting over 2 million people across Kenya as of February 2026, following the failure of the short rain season between October and December 2025, which was the driest since 1981. Rainfall across most arid and semi-arid counties reached only 30%–60% of the long-term average, significantly worsening food and water insecurity.

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Shoots Down Iranian Drone over Arabian Sea
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday launched one of its F-35C fighters to shoot down an unmanned Iranian aircraft that “aggressively approached” with “unclear intent.” “USS Abraham Lincoln was transiting the Arabian Sea approximately 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship.”

Finish MP Faces Trial Over Quoting Bible Verse
Freedom of speech is a real and applicable amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting the right to express oneself without fear of gov’t censorship. In recent events in Europe, a Finnish member of parliament, Päivi Räsänen, begs to differ. After a Bible verse tweet on social media, Räsänen is now awaiting a Supreme Court ruling where she’s scheduled to testify before the U.S. Congress. She aims to expand speech restrictions in Europe, particularly regarding religion.

Deep Cuts: We Are Witnessing A Tsunami Of Very Painful Layoffs And Closings In 2026
Do you remember the endless barrage of layoffs and store closings during the Great Recession? It’s starting to happen again. For those who’ve been laid off, the outlook is not promising because competition for good jobs is intense in this tough economic environment. Meanwhile, stores and restaurants are permanently shuttered at a blistering pace. If a major war with Iran soon erupts, our economic meltdown will get a whole lot worse.

Parents Beware… This Is How Islamization Infects Your Schools – Islamic Org Hands Out ‘Sharia’ Brochures, Qurans, Hijabs, And Candy To Students
Texas has a HUGE, growing Islamic problem, and kids are being targeted. Four Muslim women from “Why Islam” were caught distributing brochures titled “Understanding Shariah,” Qurans, hijabs, and candy to students at Wylie East High in Wylie, Texas. It was all caught on video, and the high school went into damage control mode, claiming they were investigating unauthorized distribution of religious materials by an outside organization.

Weaponized For Political Purposes: Students, Encouraged By ‘Educators,’ Stage Nationwide Anti-ICE Protest
Victims of government indoctrination, unite! On January 30, 2026, at least thousands of brainwashed American K-12 students, often encouraged by “educators,” walked out of classrooms nationwide. It was billed by organizers as a coordinated protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But the reality is much more sinister.

Have You Heard About The Crazy Things That Iran, China And Russia Just Did?
When global events reach a fever pitch, global leaders should be trying to bring the temperature down. But instead, we’re witnessing almost constant provocations. It is being reported that a U.S. fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone after it “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Author’s note: Again, this series was first posted in 2007. The dated news, however, reminds that things of prophetic import are becoming ever more swiftly into view in 2026.

The rebelliousness of the creature called man is, in my view, manifest blatantly for the student of God’s truth to discern in a particular news story that occurred this past week. The media and politically correct crowd’s uproar over the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff making the comment—when asked his personal opinion—that he thought members of the same sex in the military who engage in sex with each other are committing immoral acts was quite telling. The voracious feeding frenzy to start the drumbeat for having Gen. Peter Pace removed from his position in the Pentagon has fueled new vitriolic invective against those who hold to such “unenlightened” prejudices.

God, incidentally, is obviously included in our ranks. His Word, the Bible—the instruction manual for the creature, mankind, whom he made from the dirt upon which we stand—says about homosexuality:

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was [fitting]” (Romans 1:26-27).

The Creator’s Word against homosexuality is even more powerful in an Old Testament prescription for those who engage in that activity. (If it makes you angry, get mad at God, not me. I don’t make the rules. He does.)

“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them” (Leviticus 20:13).

I know what will be one of the objections: This was for the Israelites, not today’s people. Really? Well, in giving the prescription for living, God hasn’t changed for any people at any time. Jesus, we have established, is Creator of all things, and by His power holds all things together. This, God’s Word says about the Lord of all creation:

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8).

The problem is, as we’ve seen this week with this one issue, fallen mankind will not have the God of Heaven rule on Planet Earth. Since the Fall, man has determined to do what is right in his own eyes. This is an attitude for catastrophe. Human government is fatally flawed. These have tried to create a utopian Earth for millennia. All efforts to do it their way—apart from God—have met with abject failure.

The earliest attempt of human government, which followed the Flood of Noah’s antediluvian era, was Nimrod’s attempt to build the tower to Heaven (read Genesis chapter 11). The Lord knew this would end in disaster for mankind, so He came down and separated the one-world builders by giving multiple languages, thus driving them to diverse places around the globe. But man has spent the millennia since that time circumventing God’s intervention. The one-world drive is again being pursued in a concerted effort by the powers elite.

When things reach a certain point of depravity, God always has intervened. A prime example was when He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. (Read Genesis, chapter 19, to learn about both the depravity and the Lord’s intervention.) Which gets us to the thing about end-of-days scenarios I would like to explore.

Jesus Himself set the prophetic stage for a future time when He will again intervene—catastrophically—into depraved man’s playhouse of lasciviousness. He said:

“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:28-29).

This is a description of a society, a culture, a generation going forward with business as usual. Jesus prophesied that it would be just like this when judgment from Heaven would fall, at the time of His end-of-days intervention. It is not, however, a description of the Tribulation era when Jesus comes physically to earth, as foretold in Revelation 19:11. At that time, as many as two-thirds of the earth’s population will have died in the apocalyptic judgments. It will not be business as usual, like the Lord describes here. The things that transpire here, though not as disastrous as things will get later in man’s last grasp to rule himself, will still be calamitous. And the possible scenarios presented are mesmerizing.

Let us look at my postulations, based upon the pre-Trib view of the Rapture, which, of course, we at Rapture Ready are convinced is the correct view, from God’s perspective.

Jesus’ description of Lot’s being removed from that condemned city is almost certainly a picture of the Rapture of the only good God sees on this earth—born-again Christians—the Church Jesus began building, and which was born at Pentecost (in Acts, Chapter 2). Lot, Abraham’s nephew, although not a perfect example of living a godly life, was nonetheless considered a “just” man in God’s eyes. That is, the Lord saw Lot as righteous, a believer–one who accepted God’s governance over his life, accepted God’s salvation plan. Lot and his family lived in a society that was, well, much like ours. It was wicked to its black core. Incidentally, homosexuality had, in that society, become accepted as—even expected to be—part of life in Sodom.

God removed Lot, and His wrath began to fall upon that wicked, ungovernable people. Jesus indicated that this is exactly what will happen near the time of His coming again. It will happen at the Rapture—at least seven years before He comes back and touches down on the Mount of Olives. The first part of God’s wrath, I’m convinced, will be His removal from the consciences of earth-dwellers. The people left behind will have rejected God’s governance.

Now, raptured saints will perhaps, from the balcony of Heaven, be given a God’s-eye view of whether the rebels’ claim that they don’t need God to govern them is true.

Millions will vanish in a millisecond—an atomos of time—the prophecy tells us. This nation, the United States of America, which had at the same time more gospel light than any other nation of history and access to more filth and depravity than even ancient Rome at its decadent, orgiastic worst, will experience an implosion that, upon its contemplation, staggers the imagination.

We will look at my scenarios in this regard next week.

—Terry

5 Feb 2026

End-of-Days Scenarios: Part 3 :: By Terry James