Sometimes, when someone has been wronged by another, the one doing the wrong eventually suffers a devastating wrong himself or herself. It is often said in these twists of reversed circumstances, “What goes around comes around.” I.e., an intentionally bad thing induced by the wrongdoer circles around throughout the ether of human interaction and finally comes back to inflict like tribulation on the one who initiated the trouble.

Rightfully or wrongfully, we more often than not experience Schadenfreude moments upon observing the turn of such events. I must confess that, for example, a broad smile of pleasure is one of my failings when it comes to observing the turning of the political tables on those who strive to fundamentally change America and have their efforts fail and even redound dramatically to their detriment.

Demonically inspired Eastern religionists and occultists call this situational turn of events “karma.” God’s Word Truthfully frames this turn of events in terms of results of wrong-doing “…Be sure, your sins will find you out.” (Numbers 32: 23). In this sense, we might say the Bible is forewarning, “What goes around comes around.”

God’s book on wisdom encompasses, that is, addresses, in part, the following in this matter of all things, including trouble, repeating, and causing undesired repercussions on wrong-doing humanity.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after” (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11).

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana is given credit for phrasing the warning wrapped up in both the Scriptural and the philosophical alerts —“What goes around comes around.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

This is an explanation I found in researching Santayana.

Santayana is said to have first used the phrase in his book The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense, Volume 1 as a warning against repeating past mistakes. The quote is one of academia’s most cited and paraphrased lines and explains why it’s important to study history. The quote means that if you don’t learn from other people’s mistakes, you are likely to make those same mistakes yourself. For example, in politics, lawmakers’ mistakes can result in detrimental effects on tens of thousands of lives, or more.

During this time that is observably the wrap-up of the Age of Grace (Church Age,) we are witness to the coming to fruition of George Santayana’s more eloquently phrased alert about what goes around comes around. We are on the cusp of the entire world of God-deniers and anti-God forces coming to suffer the consequences of sin encapsulated within God’s assured results of man doing evil. “…Be sure, your sin will find you out.”

The world of people who reject Jesus Christ for Salvation is about to, as the title of this commentary has it, experience Earth’s fatal Santayana moment. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The first earth-dwellers to experience cataclysm because of rejection of God’s Salvation Message were, of course, the antediluvians. These felt God’s Holy, Righteous Judgment and Wrath begin with the first drops of rain that became a deluge from above and from the water erupting from the earth below.

The next such catastrophism fell upon the people of the time of the Tower of Babel when God destroyed their attempted effort to establish a world totally apart from Heaven’s Governance.

The next and final such worldwide calamity because of the rejection of God and His Son, Jesus Christ, will begin its final phase with the event that will be for believers in Christ the most Glorious Adventure imaginable.

The Rapture will at the same time snatch millions of Christians into the clouds of Glory while leaving billions of unbelievers behind on a planet about to suffer the worst time of human history. The Rapture will for these left behind be Earth’s fatal Santayana moment.

You don’t have to be one of the billions who will endure this most catastrophic period of all human history. Here is how to instead go to be with Christ and the Safety of Heaven with God the Father for all eternity.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

The one signal that most powerfully proves where the world is currently located on God’s prophetic timeline is Israel’s present position within the panoply of nation-states.

It is undeniably obvious that Israel today stands in the bull’s eye of rage. This is true in the case of being targeted by the Jewish state’s perennial antagonists, the Arab and Persian Islamist enemies. It is true in the case of the entire international community, whose constituent nations see Israel as the congestive blockage to regional and world peace. But it is the growing antagonism by this United States presidential administration’s operatives that is most disconcerting, while this beleaguered planet wobbles toward a time of unprecedented trouble.

As a matter of fact, that coming time of unparalleled strife that will bring all nations to Armageddon is termed “the time of Jacob’s trouble” by Isaiah the prophet:

“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7a).

And, it is Jacob’s trouble—the prophesied end-of-days dastardly treatment of Israel by the nations of earth—that will cause the God of Heaven to bring them to Armageddon. This is what the prophet Joel foretells:

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:2).

This will be the gathering of the nations of earth predicted in the book of Revelation:

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty…. And he gathered them together into a place called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon” (Revelation 16:14, 16).

This will be the culmination of humankind dealing treacherously with God’s chosen people, the Jews. The Lord’s promise to Abraham includes severe repercussions for anyone who would curse the progeny of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob:

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 12:3).

God’s declaration is most dramatically validated by looking at twentieth-century history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime made hatred of and genocide against the Jews the focus of the unalloyed evil they spewed. The ashes of the Führer and his Nazi colleagues are scattered in ignominious disgrace across the landscape that Josef Goebbels and the Nazi propagandists arrogantly boasted would be über alles—the all-powerful homeland for their thousand-year Reich.

Any consideration in research of Germany’s history involving the last two years of World War II and the years immediately following must acknowledge that it was as if the very wrath of God was upon the nation. Such documentation includes black-and-white film footage of German men and women forced by Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower to walk by the skeletal remains of thousands of Jewish corpses. That, Eisenhower stated, was so that the German people and the world would never forget the Holocaust. Its aftermath would forever be recorded.

Yet today, mainstream news journalists are more and more denying the genocide that took perhaps six million Jewish lives as well as the lives of other peoples. They show their loss of memory—even their anti-Semitism—by not jumping full-force down the throats of the elite Ivy League professors who regurgitate the lie that the Holocaust is a fable conjured by the Jews of the world. Rarely is there a repudiation of such blatant lies coming from the would-be destroyers of the Jewish State and the Jewish people.

Tragically, the refusal to educate generations that came after World War II on the truth about the insane treatment of the house of Israel is leading to a future time of even greater atrocities, thus judgment, according to God’s Word. The God of Heaven will react violently—more violently even than He reacted to the death-dealing of the Nazi demoniacs:

“The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it…. It shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem” (Zechariah 12:1–3, 29).

Now we come to the matter of “end-times betrayal.” This blog entry’s title is emphatic in its pronouncement because the maneuvering actions by this president’s political party in dealing with Israel are wrapped in an impenetrable fog of political doublespeak. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham made manifest the doublespeak in his grilling of the Democrat secretary of state, who is a former top general in the American military establishment.

Lindsey Graham [grilled] Defense Secretary Austin on the Biden Administration’s freezing of weapons shipments to Israel, [asked] if Austin would support dropping the atom bombs on Japan.

Graham asked, “What’s Israel interested in? Do you believe Iran really wants to kill all the Jews if they could? The Iranian regime. Do you believe Hamas is serious when they say we’ll keep doing it over and over again? Do you agree that they will if they can?” Austin answered, “I do.” He also answered in the affirmative when asked if Hezbollah was a terrorist organization. (“Lindsey Graham: ‘Blocking weapons to Israel obscene, Hiroshima, Nagasaki on steroids,’| Israel National News – Arutz Sheva, May 8, 2024)

This former general admitted in the committee probe that Israel, in effect, had a right to defend itself. But at the same time, he, as secretary of defense for the Biden administration, withheld promised vital weapons shipments Israel needs to keep its raging enemies from a repeat of October 7, 2023, when Hamas slaughtered and raped 1,200 or more Israelis and others in an unprovoked attack. Hamas, as of this writing, is believed to continue to hold many hostages, including a number of corpses. The terrorist captors reportedly continue to rape and torture their captives.

President Biden himself said he would never give Israel offensive weapons, only defensive ones. This itself is an insanely irrational response to the matter of America remaining faithful in its commitment to its chief ally in the Middle East–the only truly democratic nation-state in the region.

Israel is one thing more. It is the only invincible nation on earth. And America has nothing to do with its invincibility. Here are the words of the One who will never betray His chosen nation’s promise of invincibility:

“This is what the Lord says, ‘He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,’ declares the Lord, ‘will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).