As we approach 2026, it seems to me that something happens every day that appears to be related to Bible prophecy.

I often catch myself wondering what’s next.

Will 2026 bring:

• The Rapture?
• The Rise of the Ten Kings?
• The Battle of Gog of Magog?
• A digital ID in the U.S.
• A covenant with many for seven years of peace in the Middle East.
• The judgment of God on America over Pres. Trump’s efforts to appease Muslim intolerance of other religions by dividing Israel.
• Democrats retaking the House and/Senate in the mid-term elections.
• More wars and rumors of wars.
• More frequent and intense natural disasters.

Very little surprises me anymore, and I believe we can expect almost anything.

God’s batting average is 100%.

Every jot and tittle of His Word must be fulfilled, and we are watching it play out on a daily basis.

Here are some recent events that seem to be related to Bible prophecy:

One, concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age (and possibly Pres. Trump’s efforts to appease the Muslims by dividing Israel): on Dec. 19, 2025, it was reported that:

• A powerful windstorm with gusts reaching 144 mph (50-80 mph in lower elevations) battered parts of the Pacific Northwest and Rockies this week, leaving one dead, two injured, and hundreds of thousands without power.
• The deep low-pressure system continues moving east toward the northern Plains and Midwest, sustaining severe winds and wildfire risks.

Two, concerning an increase in earthquakes at the end of the age: on Dec. 20, 2025, Prophecy News Watch (PNW) posted an article by Michael Snyder (Economic Collapse Blog) that said:

• Here in the United States, we have been experiencing lots and lots of little earthquakes, but thankfully, we have not been hit by a really bad one yet.
• Will our luck run out in 2026?
• According to the Daily Mail, the dozens of earthquakes that have been rattling the New Madrid fault zone since the middle of November are “renewing fears of a catastrophic natural disaster soon.”
• Experts are also urging us to keep an eye on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
• Beneath Cascadia’s forests and coastlines lies a 600-mile fault capable of producing a magnitude-9 earthquake.
• The last one struck in 1700, shaking the region for minutes and sending a massive tsunami all the way to Japan.
• Today, nearly 17 million people live on top of the same silent threat.
• Scientists warn that when it breaks again, the Pacific Northwest could change in a matter of minutes.
• Sediment cores extracted from the Pacific seafloor suggest that two major fault systems along the western coast of the United States and Canada might be partially synchronized.
• New findings reveal that after an earthquake on the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone, an earthquake soon after on the northern part of the San Andreas fault appears to occur roughly half of the time.
• These results, published in Geosphere, provide evidence of stress triggering, which has long been invoked to explain how activity on one fault might lead to activity on another nearby.

(My opinion: I am not predicting a major earthquake along the New Madrid, or Cascadia, or San Andreas fault zones in 2026, but I want to remind everyone that God warned the nations against dividing the Promised Land, and He can cause or allow natural disasters anytime He wants.)

Three, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Dec. 13, 2025, ISIS terrorists in Syria killed three U.S. citizens (two U.S. soldiers and one civilian interpreter), and Pres. Trump said the U.S. would retaliate.

On Dec. 19, 2025, it was reported that:

• The U.S. struck 70 targets in areas across central Syria that had ISIS infrastructure and weapons, and more strikes should be expected.

The U.S. Sec. of War, Pete Hegseth, said, “This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance.”

(More: Following the U.S. strike, Al-Qaeda’s leader posted the following on Telegram: I bless and commend all the heroic operations carried out against Jews and Americans throughout the world. And I call upon every honorable and zealous Muslim, and every free, courageous, and notable person in this world, to take the initiative and hasten to eradicate the dual evil (Jews and Americans) wherever they are found.)

Four, concerning an increase in wickedness (days of Noah) at the end of the age: last year a Muslim terrorist from Saudi Arabia drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Christmas Market that killed six and injured hundreds.

About one week ago, a Muslim father and son killed 16 and injured dozens of others at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia.

This week, a Muslim terrorist attack was foiled at the same Christmas Market in Germany, and another was foiled at a Christmas Market in Poland.

(FYI: Muslim terrorist attacks on Christian and Jewish holidays are becoming a global problem. This article contains several reports on Muslim terrorist attacks all over the world, and I could have easily recorded two or three times as many reports as I have.)

Five, on Dec. 20, 2025, it was reported that Pres. Trump has released a plan called “Project Sunrise” to rebuild Gaza as a high-tech, luxury coastal entity over the next 20 years.

I can’t imagine it happening, but here is a link to the article for those who want to check it out:

https://www.newsofbahrain.com/world/123725.html

Here are some Scriptures that may refer to Gaza’s future: Amos 1:6-8; Jer. 25:17-20, 47:1-7; Zeph. 2:4-7, and Zech. 9:5-7.

Six, concerning the spread of Islam and antisemitism in Germany: on Dec. 21, 2025, it was reported that:

• In 1975, there were 10 mosques in Germany.
• In 2025, there are 2,750 mosques in Germany.

(My comment: Beware America, the Islamic camel has its nose under the edge of the U.S. tent. Beware Church, militant Islam forces non-Muslims to submit.)

Seven, concerning Islamic intolerance of other religions and a falling away in the Church at the end of the age: on Dec. 20, 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that:

• Europe is increasingly restricting public Christmas celebrationsas political and cultural elites retreat from the continent’s Judeo-Christian identity while simultaneously caving to liberal pressure to embrace Islam and aggressive secularism.
• Public displays of Christmas, once understood as inclusive and unifying, are now treated as controversial in countries such as France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and others.

Eight, concerning the Islamic threat to America: on Dec. 21, 2025, the Daily Caller reported that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard said:

• Islamist ideology is the greatest near and long-term threat to American freedom and security.
• At its core, Islam is a political ideology that seeks to create a global caliphate that governs us here in America.
• It is threatening Western civilization by promoting governance by Sharia law.
• A free society cannot survive if it refuses to defend itself.

(More: On Dec. 22, 2025, The Christian Post reported that “Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison for religious activities, including prayer, baptism and distributing Bibles.”)

Nine, on Dec. 17, 2025, the U.S. Dept. of War hosted the Pentagon’s first “Christmas Worship Service” with both military and civilians gathering in the center courtyard to sing songs of praise to God and hear a presentation of the Gospel message from evangelist Franklin Graham.

The Dept. of War started holding monthly worship services in May of 2025; this was the first Christmas service.

Ten, concerning the return of Jews to Israel, the expansion of Israel’s borders, and Jews living in Judea at the end of the age: on Dec. 21, 2025, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the establishment of 11 new towns and legalization of 8 Jewish existing communities across Judea and Samaria.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said:

• Within three years, we have legalized 69 new settlements – a record like no other.
• The people of Israel are returning to their land, building it, and strengthening their hold on it.

Eleven, concerning the hatred of the Jews and their return to the Promised Land at the end of the age: on Dec. 23, 2025, it was reported that Israel’s Foreign Min. Gideon Saar:

• Issued an emotional and urgent call: come home.
• Saar implored Jews from the diaspora to make aliyah, warning that antisemitic violence has reached alarming new heights globally while foreign governments fail to offer meaningful protection.

(My comment: It is my understanding that the Jews would return to Israel in two great waves: one in unbelief over a period of time before the Tribulation Period, and the other in a matter of days as believers in Jesus at His Second Coming; Ezek. 36:24-27; Ezek. 37:5; Rom. 11:1, 26.)

Twelve, concerning wars and rumors of wars, and the use of nuclear weapons during the Tribulation Period: on Dec. 23, 2025, U.S. Vice-Pres. J.D. Vance said:

• The mass migration agenda could risk nuclear weapons in Europe falling under the control of Islamist politicians.
• There is a “direct American interest” in preventing countries like France and the UK from being “overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas” and allowing “nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the United States.”

(My comment: Militant Muslims often shout, “death to Israel” and “death to America.” America should be concerned about Islam taking over nuclear powers, having access to nuclear secrets, controlling the militaries and weapons of France, the UK, etc.).

Thirteen, concerning a recent snow in the desert in Saudi Arabia and natural disasters: on Dec. 25, 2025, Adam Berkowitz wrote:

• The Bible presents snow not as a meteorological surprise but as something fully under Divine control.
• In Job, God confronts human certainty about the natural world: “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail?” (Job 38:22).
• Snow is described not as an accident of nature but as something stored and released by God at His discretion.
• The Sages taught that the weather is not background noise to history.
• It is one of the instruments through which God governs the world.
• When snow falls in a desert known for heat and drought, it exposes how fragile human expectations really are.
• The landscape people assume will always remain the same can be overturned overnight.

Fourteen, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Dec. 22, 2025, the Prophecy News Watch (PNW) staff wrote:

• Hamas is rearming and refusing to surrender its weapons.
• Hezbollah, under growing internal pressure inside Lebanon, continues to resist disarmament.
• And Iran, the gravitational force behind both groups, is steadily rebuilding its ballistic missile stockpiles.
• Now comes the political signal that suggests the current moment may be only an intermission, not an ending: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is widely expected to approach President Trump later this month with a renewed, comprehensive plan to confront all three actors.
• If that happens, it will mark a recognition of an uncomfortable truth–piecemeal solutions have failed, and the region is, once again, back to square one.
• Despite the world’s desire for peace, history suggests peace without decisive outcomes is an illusion.
• As 2026 approaches, the signs are troublingly clear.
• The players are rearming.
• The grievances remain.
• And the lesson–that unresolved wars always return–has once again gone unheeded.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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On Dec. 11, 2025, an Israeli official (Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council) visited the U.S. House of Rep. Speaker Mike Johnson at his office in Washington, D.C.

Johnson told Dagan:

• I visited Samaria—both as a member of Congress before becoming speaker, and again last summer as speaker with a small group of colleagues.
• The Bible is clear: Judea and Samaria are the Land of Israel.

Dagan told Johnson:

• No nation on earth has a connection to its homeland as deep as the Jewish people have to the Land of Israel—especially to Judea and Samaria, the land of the Bible.
• Two thousand years ago, the prophets Jeremiah, Amos and Ezekiel foretold that the people of Israel would return to their land, rebuild the hills of Samaria, plant vineyards and produce wine.
• That is exactly what we are doing today.
• There is no greater justice than fulfilling the words of the prophets in the Land of Israel, particularly in the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria.

Yes, the Bible is clear: Judea and Samaria are part of the Promised Land that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants after them in their generation.

Yes, the Bible is clear: The nations will divide the Promised Land, many of the Jews in Judea will flee into the wilderness at the middle of the Tribulation Period, and God will drag the nations into the Battle of Armageddon for doing that.

Yes, the Bible is clear: The Scriptures clearly contain 2,000-4,000-year-old prophecies that have either been fulfilled or are beginning to be fulfilled in our generation.

It is clearly the Word of God because it is being fulfilled with 100% accuracy, and only God, who knows the end from the beginning, could do that.

The Apostle Peter said, “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts” (2 Pet. 1:19).

Everyone would do well (be wise) to believe and live by what the Bible clearly says.

The sure (proven to be true) prophecies clearly teach that heaven, the Rapture, Tribulation Period, Second Coming, Millennial reign of Jesus, and more are coming, and very likely very soon (and it clearly teaches that hell is real too).

Here are some recent events that appear to show that.

One, concerning Judea and Samaria: on Dec. 5, 2025, Yisrael Ganz (chairman of the Yesha Council and governor of the Binyamin Regional Council) hosted 1,100 American pastors for a visit to Judea and Samaria.

The pastors publicly called on Vice President JD Vance (who said this is not the time for Israel to declare sovereignty over Judea and Samaria) to change his policy and declare that: “God’s policy is Judea and Samaria belong to Jews and to the State of Israel.”

(My opinion: God’s policy is clearly stated in the Bible, and God’s policy should be America’s policy.)

Two, concerning wars and rumors of wars at the end of the age: on Dec. 11, 2025, in a major address in Berlin, NATO chief Mark Rutte told NATO members:

• That they should step up defense efforts to prevent a war waged by Russiathat could be on the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured (WWI and WWII).
• We are Russia’s next target.
• Too many are quietly complacent, too many don’t feel the urgency, and too many believe that time is on our side.
• It is not.
• The time for action is now.
• Conflict is at our door.
• Russia has brought war back to Europe.
• And we must be prepared.

Three, concerning Israel becoming a great army at the end of the age: last week, Israel delivered some Arrow-3 batteries to Germany that can shoot down missiles from Russia, Iran, or whoever.

That’s right, less than 80 years after Hitler’s Germany was bombing European targets and burning Jews alive in its crematorium ovens, Israel is selling weapons to Germany to protect the German people from foreign missiles.

Four, concerning the Rapture and the many different opinions: on Dec. 11, 2025, highly regarded and well-known prophecy teacher Jonathan Brentner asked, “Is there a clear Biblical path to the Pre-Tribulation Rapture?”

Brentner responded:

• Yes, a decisive biblical path exists to our belief in the pre-Tribulation Rapture.
• In 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11, Paul talks about the Day of the Lord’s wrath.
• In verses 9-10, we have the promise of deliverance from this time: “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”

(My opinion: Brentner is right as usual.)

Five, concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age on Dec. 12, 2025, it was reported that atmospheric rivers have dumped more than 15 inches of rain on parts of Washington state in the last few days, sparking historic river flooding and submerging neighborhoods — and the threat is far from over.

Six, concerning Israel having silver and gold, cattle and goods in the latter days and latter years (Ezek. 38): on Dec. 14, 2025, it was reported that The Economist said Israel had the third strongest economy in the world in 2025.

Seven, concerning antisemitism and corruption in the UN: on Dec. 12, 2025, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Israel to cooperate with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Palestinian humanitarian issues.

Israel immediately said it will not do it because the UNRWA is a subsidiary of Hamas and a hotbed of terrorism.

(My comment: The wannabe UN world government is corrupt.)

Eight, my understanding of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is very limited, but I know that an increase in knowledge is a major sign that the end of the age is close.

In the Book of Daniel, God said, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” (Dan. 12:4).

On Dec. 13, 2025, Tania Koenig (an excellent prophecy teacher with knowledge and experience in this area) posted an article about AI that makes sense to me.

Here is how I understand some of the main points from Koenig’s very informative article.

• In the Book of Daniel, God said, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase” (Dan. 12:4).
• In late 2025, the U.S. announced two major artificial intelligence platforms within a span of fifteen days: one civilian, one military.
• The first, the Genesis Mission under the Dept. of Energy, was framed as a Manhattan Project–level initiative for artificial intelligence, integrating national laboratories, supercomputers, and secure cloud infrastructure into a unified platform.
• The second, GenAI.mil, deployed frontier AI models across the entire U.S. defense workforce, reaching approximately three million civilian and military personnel worldwide.
• Some pundits think the world is witnessing a new form of global intelligence and government.
• We are not there yet.
• But in 2026, the technology will be sufficiently embedded that its effects are no longer theoretical.
• The technology will continue to advance.
• Prophetic Scripture anticipates an increase in knowledge, but it does not grant that knowledge ultimate authority.
• Prophetic Scripture does not allow for man’s knowledge to permanently exceed God’s knowledge and authority.
• The Restrainer will be removed.
• The Antichrist and False Prophet will be allowed to rule temporarily, but God is still in control.

Here is a link for those who want to read Koenig’s entire article:

Genesis + GenAI.mil: The New State Platforms — and the Physical Limits of Optimization – Tania Koenig | Koenig’s Eye View

Nine, concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age: on Dec. 12, 2025, it was reported that Washington state remains under a state of emergency as days of torrential downpours have pushed rivers to levels never seen before, triggering destructive and historic flooding across the region.

Some areas have received 13-17 inches of rain. About 80,000 people have been evacuated.

Ten, concerning antisemitism, wickedness, and Islam’s efforts to establish an Islamic world government and religion: on Dec. 16, 2025, it was reported that Australian police have officially classified the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney as a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State.

The attack occurred during a Hanukkah event and resulted in 15 deaths and over two dozen injuries.

Eleven, concerning Pres. Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP) to oversee the construction of a post-war Gaza: on Dec. 17, 2025, it was reported that he has secured the agreement of leaders from six nations to join his BoP, and he is seeking to add a few more.

(FYI: Some prophecy teachers are watching to see if he winds up with 10 leaders, as in Ten Kings. We shall see.)

Twelve, concerning persecution at the end of the age: it is now illegal to carry newspapers, magazines, books, drones, cameras, and Bibles into Nicaragua.

Banning Bibles suppresses freedom of religion.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

duck_daymond@yahoo.com