22 July 2026

Published on: July 22, 2026July 22, 2026 by RR10 Category:Rapture Ready End Times News

Iran’s president declares ‘full-scale war’ on US after latest strikes
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday that his country was engaged in a “full-scale war” with the United States,

Trump Eyes Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site Heavy Strikes: “Iran Hasn’t Seen Anything Yet, We’ve Been Nice”
President Trump issued a series of big claims to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. For starters he asserted that Iran wants to “desperately” meet but said “we” have no interest, and that the US military is not finished at all with Iran, and so there’s no interest in talking at the moment.

“Demand Remains Strong”: GM Beats Expectations, Lifts Guidance For Second Time
GM beat Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations on Tuesday, posting adjusted earnings of $3.57 per share on $48.03 billion in revenue as profitability improved despite softer vehicle sales. Adjusted EBIT reached $3.94 billion, up from $3.0 billion a year earlier, helped by lower tariff-related costs and stronger operating performance,

We’re Admittedly Terrified That They’ve Now Invented Invisible Drones
We can think of no possible way that a newly invented invisible drone can be used nefariously. Rather than relying on camouflage, the flying gizmo created by researchers at Northwestern University exploits the motion blur effect in our fallible human vision to almost disappear by spinning at an absurd 25 times per second. This is too quick for us and many animals to see clearly, becoming a gossamer smear that blends into the background, like the way the blades of a helicopter do, only more extreme.

Military Voter Files Exposed Our Troops’ Locations to America’s Adversaries
President Donald Trump revealed that Chinese entities obtained U.S. voter registration files, including data on military members serving overseas, creating heightened security risks, especially in instances of covert operational locations. Voter files, maintained by states, are largely public or semi-public, containing names, addresses, party affiliations where tracked and voting histories. They are used for elections, campaigns and research but are not classified information. However, the voter files obtained by China contained more sensitive information like dates of birth. Access allows correlation with other data sources to build dossiers on service members and families, adding to espionage recruitment, blackmail or harassment

Trump Reaches For A 1930 Tariff Law To Hit Canada With 50% Duties – But Not On These Items
President Donald Trump signed three proclamations Monday imposing an additional 50 percent tariff on a broad list of Canadian goods, accusing Canada of discriminating against American dairy, alcohol, and auto exports. The White House said the president was acting to hold Canada accountable for what it called “continued discrimination” against U.S. commerce,

The Democrats’ Financial Situation Appears To Be Worse Than Previously Known
The Democratic Party’s money problems have been an open secret for months. Federal Election Commission filings from around six months ago showed the Democratic National Committee entering the final stretch of last year with barely $12 million in its campaign account and nearly $16 million in debt, most of it stemming from a loan the committee took out the previous month. Donations had slumped just as the party needed them most. DNC officials required senior leadership to sign non-disclosure agreements before a private meeting on the party’s finances, a departure from the committee’s usual practice.

Kidnapping Is Not A ‘Violent Felony’: Appeals Court Voids Two More Whitmer Plot Convictions
A Michigan Court of Appeals panel on July 20 vacated the convictions of Pete Musico and Paul Bellar, two men a jury found guilty in 2022 of providing material support for an act of terrorism over their connection to the alleged 2020 plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The reason? Michigan’s Anti-Terrorism Act defines an act of terrorism as conduct that would constitute a violent felony under state law. Kidnapping, the judges held, is not a violent felony as that term is defined. So kidnapping cannot serve as the predicate act for a material-support conviction – no matter what the defendants did or intended.

Border Patrol Records 14 Straight Months Of Zero Releases At Southern Border
The U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal immigrants into the United States from the southern border for the 14th consecutive month in June. Border enforcement is at “historic levels,” and illegal crossings last month remained significantly low, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a July 16 statement. Border Patrol apprehended 9,848 people at the southwest border last month, 94 percent lower than the monthly average under the previous administration. It was also lower than the number of people “apprehended in 4 days” in June 2024.

Pres. Aoun’s White House gamble: Convincing Trump Lebanon can rein in Hezbollah
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun isn’t traveling to the White House simply for another diplomatic meeting this week. He’s coming for what may be the biggest opportunity Lebanon has had in years. This should be interesting. When Aoun sits down with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, he’ll be looking for something no Lebanese leader has been able to secure for decades: a pathway toward Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon. Of course, to accomplish that, Aoun will need to deliver – and that means figuring out how to roll back and ultimately neuter Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terror group operating in the southern part of his country.

Italian online form to ‘map Zionist tourism’ draws comparison to fascist-era persecution of Jews
An anonymous online form urging Italians to report the presence of Jewish and Israeli tourists has sparked outrage in Italy, with Jewish leaders comparing it to the persecution of Jews during the Fascist era and warning it reflects a growing climate of antisemitism. The form, which began circulating online in Milan, claimed its purpose was to “map Zionist tourism” in Italy.

Iran moved nuclear centrifuges to ‘Pickaxe Mountain,’ intel reveals as US carries out 10th round of strikes
Israeli intelligence assessed that Iran moved thousands of nuclear centrifuges to tunnels deep inside the “Pickaxe Mountain” site near Natanz in an attempt to protect them from aerial strikes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, as U.S. airstrikes on Iranian targets entered the 10th night in a row.
Iran’s development of the Pickaxe Mountain site has long attracted attention from the intelligence community, as it was believed to be related to Iran’s nuclear weapons

Iran closes tomb of Mordechai and Esther, citing renovations. Sources say security threats are the real reason.
The Jewish Association of Tehran issued an unusual public notice this week, instructing every Jew in Iran to stay away from Hamadan, the city Persian tradition holds to be the biblical Shushan itself. The notice named a single cause: ongoing repairs at the tomb complex believed to hold the remains of Mordechai and Esther. Sources familiar with the situation tell a different story, one involving threats from extremist elements inside Iran serious enough that the community has suspended a coordination process it maintained for years.

Iranian official meets mediators in Pakistan as Iran and US keep up a 10th day of attacks
An Iranian official began meetings Tuesday with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats sought to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continued to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting.

Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to bring heavy rain, flooding along the Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday but was expected to weaken as it chugs closer to the U.S., potentially bringing coastal flooding and heavy rain from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

Trump: ‘A lot more countries will join the Abraham Accords soon’
U.S. President Donald Trump met with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House on Tuesday evening, saying during the meeting that relations between the United States and Lebanon are continuing to improve. “We’re gonna help [Lebanon] a lot,” Trump said. President Aoun responded, “The time has come for Lebanon to be stable and secure.” Trump also hinted that Lebanon could eventually become part of the Abraham Accords. “The Abraham Accords have been, I think, a tremendous success. I think you’re going to see a lot of countries joining pretty soon,” he said.

IDF confirms building massive sand barrier dividing Gaza after satellite imagery emerges
Without any public announcement, the IDF has been building a large sand-wall barrier separating the 50-70% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the areas controlled by Hamas, the military confirmed on Tuesday. … According to the satellite imagery, more than 23 kilometers were built in recent months, running throughout the Strip

‘If Iran attacks, we’ll go all in’: Israel braces for possible entry into war
Israeli officials increasingly believe U.S. President Donald Trump could escalate military action against Iran, citing his threat to strike the secretive Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site, the expanding U.S. military deployment in the region and the arrival of additional aerial refueling aircraft. Those developments, officials say, have increased the likelihood that fighting will resume and that Israel could eventually become involved.

Trump’s Steel Renaissance Powers America’s Manufacturing Comeback
Brandon Farris, executive vice president of the Steel Manufacturers Association, recently called the tariffs “the most pro-manufacturing executive action in a generation.” He pointed to more than $25 billion in domestic steel investment, capacity utilization above the industry’s critical 80 percent threshold, and steel imports falling by nearly 30 percent. The United States has also overtaken Japan to become the world’s third-largest steel producer for the first time in 25 years. Those gains occurred as a direct result of Trump’s tariffs.

The Danger Of Reshaping Christianity To Fit Culture: An Evangelical Pastor’s Open Letter To James Talarico
Mullen’s letter addresses fundamental problems with the way Talarico and others interpret Scripture, and he calls Talarico and all of us to come under the authority of God’s Word instead of redefining it to fit our wishes: When theological claims are presented in the Name of Christ, people naturally assume they are hearing Biblical truth. My concern is that some of the positions you advocate may lead sincere people away from the clear teaching of Scripture and toward a version of Christianity that reflects the spirit of the age more than the Word of God.

Widespread flooding kills 10, damages more than 23,000 homes in Chile
Heavy rain and flooding from a prolonged frontal system have killed 10 people and left four missing in Chile since July 14, most extensively in Atacama and Coquimbo regions. The National Service for Disaster Prevention and Response reported 104,271 people isolated, 2,281 affected, and 1,031 in shelters on July 21.

There’s a Lot of Speculation That Bombing of Pickaxe Mountain Will Occur Soon; What Happens After That Could Change Everything
Iran has warned President Trump not to touch Pickaxe Mtn. Nobody outside has seen what goes on inside it, and Iran is determined to keep it secret. The facility is so far underground, it would be difficult for advanced bunker-buster bombs to damage it. But now Trump says we will bomb Pickaxe Mtn. “probably pretty soon.”

Goldman Sachs Warns Oil Could Soon Hit $120 as the “Crack Spread” Soars to New All-Time Highs
Unless we witness a miracle, gas prices will soon rise into unprecedented territory. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, Houthis are blocking Saudi tankers from getting thru Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and with help from the US, Ukraine is attacking Russian oil refineries. Oil inventory buffers are rapidly being depleted.

UK class action lawsuit isn’t costing AstraZeneca anything; it’s costing taxpayers everything.
More than 50 claimants are “suing AstraZeneca” over severe “vaccine” injuries and deaths. But AstraZeneca isn’t going to pay a single penny, Fiona Rose Diamond says. Who is going to foot the bill? The taxpayers.

Abdul El-Sayed’s Anti-ICE ‘Queer Muslim Activist’ Half-Sister is a DSAer and has Called for a ‘Stateless, Communized Society’
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s half-sister Eman Abdelhadi is a raving Chicago DSAer who wants a “stateless, communized society.” She hates the police and ICE and protests for every radical leftist cause. She is a “queer Muslim activist” and a rabid antisemite to boot.

Democrats, DSAers, Muslims, and Communists take Part in Progressive Call that Brands America as a ‘Disgusting’ Fascist Regime
A virtual call titled “Choose Your Fighters Rally” was held in March and was attended by big-name Democrats, DSA-endorsed candidates, Muslims, and communists. It was an American and Israeli bash-fest that actually lionized Muslim terrorists and branded Jews and America as the bad guys.

UK’s Net Zero costs are soaring out of control
UK electricity grid expansion for Clean Power 2030 is in chaos: exploding costs and projects massively delayed. Sources indicate these ambitious plans won’t be achieved. This means they won’t spend all money earmarked for grid expansion, which should mean our bills don’t go up as much as feared. But costs of this work are out of control.

When the State Sides with the Invaders: Europe’s Vigilante Awakening
Two recent videos from Europe capture a rapidly escalating pattern: native citizens are taking to the streets to protect their children and communities precisely because the state has repeatedly failed to do so and, in many cases, has actively criminalized the victims while shielding the perpetrators.

Tisha B’Av Rapture? :: By Pete Garcia

Published on: July 21, 2026 by RR10 Category:General Articles

[Editor’s Note: This article is from 2022. Just an FYI: This year [2026], Tisha B’Av begins at sunset on July 22 and ends at sunset on July 23. Tisha B’Av occurs on the 9th day of Av and is known as the saddest day of the Jewish year. Every time this anniversary has come up, Jews have mourned the loss of their temple.]

If you’ve followed my writings over the years, you know I have never gotten overly excited about any (if ever) of the numerous Rapture theories floating across the Internet. That means I intentionally missed out on the 2011 Craze (2018 – 7 years), 2012 Mayan Calendar hysteria, 2014-16 Blood Moon hype, 2017’s September 23rd Revelation 12 frenzy, et cetera. Maybe I’m just jaded like that, but when one holds to a doctrine of imminence (as I do), I’ve learned early on not to get swept up with the latest and greatest hysteria that comes and goes with increasing frequency.

But it’s in our nature to want to know when the Lord will return. Perhaps the increased frequency of trying to figure out when the Rapture will happen (or anything peripheral to it) is in itself a sign of the end. Let me add that while I don’t diminish anyone’s earnest desires to look into these things, we must always exercise caution as to being dogmatic about a specific day or date because Jesus Himself said that its specificity (i.e., the day or hour) cannot be known (Matt. 24:36).

Now, I’ve never held to the idea of “strict imminence,” i.e., that a) we cannot know anything about His return (we can), nor b) to the idea that Christ could have returned a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand years ago, which doesn’t seem to fit with the prophetic model He’s laid out for us in Revelation 2-3. Imminence, in my definition, simply means we can’t know when exactly/precisely/definitively. However, imminence should not mean arbitrary or random. And apologies for the length of this article, but this is why I’m publishing it on a Friday so you have all weekend to ponder the things discussed here.

Furthermore, I personally have never been one to link the Rapture of the Church to any of the seven Feasts of the Lord either. To me, those were always prophetically significant to Israel, and not the Church. However, the ONLY one I’ve ever even really considered as a possibility (if the Rapture were to fall on a feast date), has been Pentecost (Shavuot). The only reason I think that is, since the Church was conceived at Pentecost, it makes some degree of sense that it will be born (Raptured) on Pentecost. I mean, if the Church Age does exist in the ‘pause’ between the 69th and 70th Week of Daniel, starting and stopping on the same feast makes sense.

If Israel’s rebirth is the super sign of Bible prophecy, and Israel/Jerusalem/Temple are the timepieces to which God’s prophetic timeline is synced, and the Rapture is not synced to her, then what does that leave us with? Randomness? Arbitrary dates? The last Gentile convert?

I don’t know.

Both Jesus and Paul alluded to the idea that although we can’t know the specific date, we would know the season, and I’ve considered some past seasons/years more prophetically interesting than others. Nevertheless, I’ve had a good track record thus far of being pretty even-keeled when it comes to this sort of thing.

That said, I’m not opposed to people presenting well-thought-through theories either.

Take, for example, a recent article that a reader from here (h/t Dan H) informed me of by Greg Lauer. As Greg would note in his article, this idea wasn’t even original to him, but it was presented to him by someone else to “do something with it,” to which he does a fantastic job.

However, before you continue here, please go to his link (already hyperlinked below) to see why I am very intrigued with this idea of the Rapture’s connection with the Jewish holy day of Tisha B’Av because, frankly, it makes a lot of sense. In fact, I’ve never seen a theory presented before that makes as much sense as this one does. And before anyone rolls their eyes and thinks, oh brother, here we go again, I can promise you four things.

This is not linked in any way to any astrological or cosmological signs.
It’s not linking the Rapture to any of the seven Feasts of the Lord.
It’s not setting a specific date (as in a specific day/month/year).
It’s not dogmatic either. Greg honestly admits this is just a theory.

With that said, please do not proceed any further until reading the linked article.

Ok, I’m moving forward, assuming you’ve read the article by now, hopefully, because if not, you’re going to get confused, and I’m not really wanting to answer a thousand questions about it. Go back and read the article! Ok, I think I’ve beaten this dead horse enough; let’s get on with the review.

Review

So the article itself is a little long for my taste, but I understand why he does go to the lengths he does. It’s a theory that needs to be placed in its proper context, and to do that requires a certain degree of historical and prophetic perspective. I can respect that. But for this article’s sake, I’m going to tie in his comments on the ‘Song of Moses’ and get down to his summary at the bottom.

“And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faith.
They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols.
But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation”
(Deuteronomy 32:20-21). (my emphasis)

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Let’s review this round by round and see if we can spot it:

ROUND ONE

The Jews’ great sin is rampant idolatry, plus failing to trust in God for their protection and instead making a foolish deal with their enemies.
The First Temple is destroyed.
A major round of judgment falls upon Israel via the Babylonians.

ROUND TWO

The Jews’ great sin is turning God’s Word into legalism, and rejecting their promised Messiah and having Him crucified like a common criminal.
The Second Temple is destroyed.
A major round of judgment falls upon Israel via the Romans.

ROUND THREE

The Jews’ great sin is dismissing with anger and jealousy the salvation Christ offered them as they watched it go out to the Gentiles. They should have understood Moses’ prophecy and repented, but they refused to do so. Not only that, but they will divide God’s land.
? ? ? ? ?
A major round of judgment falls upon Israel via the Antichrist.

Not to be overly dramatic or anything, but I think you can see the problem. There is a hole in the pattern this third time around, and that’s where God destroys or removes the physical, visible representation of His presence on Earth, following a great sin of Israel and prior to His unleashing of a round of judgment on them.

Round One: In 586 BC, it was the destruction of the First Temple.
Round Two: In AD 70, it was the destruction of the Second Temple.

And that begs the question:

Is there something that fills this hole
in the pattern the third time around?

I believe there is:

“What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19 AKJV / emphasis added)

As I’ve already mentioned, born-again believers may be the body of Christ, but we are also the temple of the Holy Spirit—the physical, visible representation of the presence of God the Holy Spirit on Earth, starting on the day of Pentecost two thousand years ago and ending the moment we are caught up to be with the Lord in the translation of the Church.

As a result, I believe it is the Rapture—the removal of the physical, visible representation of God the Holy Spirit’s presence on Earth—that fills that hole and completes the final round of this pattern. And although I believe the Rapture fills that hole regardless of what day it actually occurs…

IF the Rapture were to occur on Tisha B’Av, just like the destruction of the First and Second Temples, it would dot the last “i” and cross the last “t” of a pattern established by a God who doesn’t do random.

KA-BOOM!

If the Rapture were
to occur on Tisha B’Av,
it would shake Israel
to its spiritual core.

Generally speaking, we as believers have utterly failed to grasp something of critical importance, and that is the simple fact that the Rapture has tremendous significance for Israel—almost as much as it does for the Church itself (some might even say more). The Rapture represents the point in time when God no longer has to focus His attention on His Church on Earth and will turn His attention back to dealing with His Chosen People. And it grieves me to say it, but it won’t take long for His dealings with His Chosen People to involve purging them in this final round of judgment at the hands of the Antichrist—a round of judgment that is going to make the Holocaust pale in comparison.

The Rapture is going to be an earth-shattering, supernatural event that will shake the world to its core, and make no mistake:

If the Rapture were to occur on Tisha B’Av,
it would shake Israel to its spiritual core.

It would certainly set them thinking about what it all meant; and as they attempted to put the pieces together, I believe it would play right into what God is going to do to re-establish His relationship with His people.

Incidentally, one other rather striking parallel is the following:

The First Temple was intimately connected with God the Father—the only form of God the Jews understood.
The Second Temple was intimately connected with God the Son, who presented Himself as the Jews’ promised Messiah in the midst of that temple. Not only that, but its veil that separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple was torn from top to bottom at the moment He was crucified.
The Church is intimately connected with God the Holy Spirit since we are His temple on Earth for the duration of the Church Age.

The bottom line is that, given everything we have discussed, it is virtually impossible to ignore the compelling connection between the Rapture, the destruction of the First and Second Temples, and Tisha B’Av—the day they were both destroyed. It all fits.

Connecting dots

Of course, I don’t have to remind you that there have been numerous people with really swell theories about the Rapture where everything fit together s-o-o perfectly, and they were all dead wrong as those dates came and went, ruining some really cool charts.

Just so you know, like many Jewish feasts and celebrations, Tisha B’Av occurs over the course of two days and occurs every year sometime in the mid-July to mid-August time frame. This year [2022], it falls on August 6–7. In 2023, it falls on July 26–27, and in 2024 it falls on August 12–13.

So… could the Rapture occur this year on August 6 or 7? Sure. How about next year on July 26–27? You betcha. August 12–13, 2024? In a heartbeat.

And it could happen today—I’m ready and waiting.

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So my takeaway from all of that was not that he was saying it will happen this coming August or next July, but how it makes a lot of sense that it could happen on Tisha B’Av, primarily because of a) historical precedent, b) theological connection, and c) it would be the divine motivation to begin waking up the unbelieving Jewish people. Now, I drafted my own visual presentation of Greg’s article simply to help me make sense of it.

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