There is constant speculation, even chatter these days, that President Trump will soon order another strike on Iran’s nuclear weapons production areas. Some reports say this will take place before the midterm elections (and at the time this article is being posted, it hasn’t happened; that tells us it won’t happen before the midterms). And some say it will take place following the midterms.

President Trump himself has said in impromptu news gatherings that he will likely strike again following the midterm elections.

There has been much speculation by news pundits and politicos about the whys and whens of such a strike. My own speculation is that such a strike is destined to take place, and it will have severe ramifications to the regions struck, as outlined by the prophet Jeremiah, which we have covered a number of times in these articles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently spoke to his view of the necessity to deal finally with the Iranian regime. An excerpt of his thoughts is covered in the following news item.

Israel has achieved stunning military accomplishments against Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, militias in Syria, and, most notably, against the head of the terror proxy snake: Iran.

These pivotal elections, like the five consecutive elections between April 2019 and November 2022, are again a referendum on the continued governance of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is presenting Israelis with a stark electoral choice: Renew his mandate to capitalize on Trump’s bold endorsement this past week or risk surrendering the strategic gains of a multi-pronged war.

Netanyahu argues that the campaign remains unfinished. Even after the blows that Israel and the United States have delivered together and apart, Tehran, he warns, could restart its nuclear program. He therefore frames Trump’s endorsement as a promise to finish what was started, contingent on his remaining in the top job.

In a wide-ranging pre-election interview with JNS, Netanyahu casts his partnership with Trump as the foundation for an ambitious agenda: to bring down Iran’s regime, further weakening its regional proxies; expand the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with Muslim-majority countries in the region; and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state anywhere within Israel’s current borders. (“Netanyahu to JNS: ‘The only way to guarantee the future of Israel is to remove the Iranian regime’,” Alex Traiman, JNS, RR News, October 22, 2026)

I believe there can be little doubt that this prime minister and this US president fully intend to deliver a blow to this hellish regime. I am convinced they will attempt to do so. And the blow will be catastrophic, especially to the people of the region affected.

To do otherwise would be to make the previous destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities nonsensical and merely an exercise in futility.

Much speculation about the MOAB (“mother of all bombs”) being used comes from some top Trump administration officials. This, of course, is the most powerful weapon in the American military inventory that is non-nuclear in nature.

But decimation to Iran’s nuclear facility is not the same as removal of the regime that has vowed to destroy both the “little Satan” (Israel) and the “big Satan” (the United States of America).

Most observers of geopolitics apparently believe and forecast that it would take a massive invasion of troops on the ground to finally and forever remove Iran’s regime structure. Neither Netanyahu nor Trump is willing to commit to such an all-out ground invasion.

However, more to the point, there is going to be in place during the future invasion of Israel an Iranian regime at least as wicked and hate-filled as the present Iranian regime.

Ezekiel the prophet was given, through Holy Spirit inspiration, the armies of people to Israel’s north that will come to “take spoil” and annihilate God’s chosen people. This will never be allowed to happen, of course, as God Himself will intervene and destroy all but one-sixth of the invading force.

One of the chief members of that force will be the armies of Persia. This, of course, is the ancient name for the region of present-day Iran. So, a regime at least as evil as that in today’s Iran will exist at the time of the Gog-Magog attack outlined by Ezekiel.

Therefore, because of the lateness of the prophetic hour—based upon all of the signals that we are near the end of the Age of Grace—the present Iranian regime seems destined to be part of the Gog-Magog attacking force.

My own view is that the assault will take place very soon after the Rapture of the Church. I believe the man of sin who will become Earth’s last and most terrible tyrant will watch, knowing this force will be defeated by God, then will move into Jerusalem to become that son of perdition.

So, my own take is to watch for a devastating strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, but not for Iranian regime change. Iran’s destiny—that is, Persia’s evil regime’s prophetic destiny—is in God’s crosshairs for destruction!

—Terry

Wtjames1@swbell.net

Should the great Apostle Paul be allowed to return from Heaven to get a glimpse of things going on here at the moment –a thing he would likely decline if offered—I believe upon his taking one glance at today’s so-called leftists’ thinking, he would say this was exactly the point he was making as recorded in Romans 1:28.

Here are those things wrapped in the apostle’s words, under Holy Spirit Inspiration:

“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 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 meet.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them (Romans 1: 24-32).

Now these accusations can be leveled all across the human dimension, for all have sinned and come short of God’s Glory, as the Scripture informs. However, as an ideology that has manifested these ungodly characteristics to the slightest detail, the leftist-progressive mindset personifies Paul’s description of the reprobate mind (v. 28).

The following journalistic piece, to my way of observation, frames precisely this mindset against all that is godly that we have been subjected to for more than a few decades –particularly, for the past decade:

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.  Such is often the case with far-left political candidates and their thinly veiled rhetoric.  Not long ago, these officials used to hide their more radical beliefs behind a facade of “centrism,” but then something magical happened: The year 2020.

This was the year the mask was ripped off completely, and progressives showed their true degenerate colors to the world.  The combination of pandemic hysteria, the BLM riots, the NGO-funded transgender movement (targeting children), the contested presidential election, and the rise of the Biden regime gave the political left more jumped-up arrogance than they had ever shown before.

They had gone insane with dreams of perpetual power. 

In the wake of the leftist frenzy, many Democrat politicians felt emboldened to come out of the closet as the Cultural Marxists they truly are.  However, with the fall of Biden and the collapse of DEI, these same officials are now attempting to distance themselves from what they call “Woke 1.0,” and they are putting the trusty masks back on.  One such person is James Talarico.  In fact, Talarico represents the quintessential militant leftist in centrist clothing.

The Texas State Representative has been in the news recently for his bizarre two-week disappearance at the peak of campaign season, which he claims was due to the flu.  Conservative influencers Nick Sortor and Rhein Amacher posted on X asserting that a hospital employee at the Lindner Center of Hope (a mental health facility in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati) had confirmed that James Talarico had been a patient there and was recently discharged.

Source: The Madness Of James Talarico,  ZeroHedge, Rapture Ready News, October 14, 2026

With the nation being split pretty much down the middle regarding morality and social issues, as the younger generations are fed lies about America’s founding and about God’s Governance through a godless education system, and pumped full of half-truths and outright lies by social and mainstream news and entertainment media, Paul’s words are fully in view as Prophetic Truth. Much of the nation has, it seems, been or is in process of being turned over to that reprobate mind (Romans 1:28).

While we watch things unfold as the Mid-term elections approach, it is not out of order to wonder whether America is past redemption in the sense of maintaining national sanity or maybe being returned to national sanity.

Certainly, this is no time to give up on this once great nation, as it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles. The Second Chronicles 2:14 promise is still there in God’s Holy Word. And it applies to America and her people who belong to God’s Family as much as to all of God’s people of all the ages.

The end-time reprobate mind is a national, even worldwide, sin-infection, but God’s Remedy is available as the Rx for this Satan-spawned Dementia.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Wtjames1@swbell.net