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Israel launches preemptive strike on Iran, DM declares special state of emergency
Channels in Iran associated with the Revolutionary Guards reported explosions in Tehran early Friday morning, as Israel launched a preventative strike in Iran.The goal of the operation is to remove the Iranian nuclear threat. Israel’s Security Cabinet gathered for an emergency meeting. Meanwhile, CNN reported that US President Donald Trump will convene his own Cabinet for a meeting. At the same time, sirens were sounded throughout Israel.

Denmark Approves US Military Base on Greenland
Denmark approves a bill proposal that allows American military bases on Danish soil – a statement that comes at a time when the US president has shown great interest in taking control of the kingdom’s territory Greenland.

Hegseth authorizes voluntary departure of military dependents from across Middle East amid rising tensions
A U.S. defense official told Fox News on Wednesday: “The safety and security of our service members and their families remains our highest priority and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is monitoring the developing tension in the Middle East. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has authorized the voluntary departure of military dependents from locations across the CENTCOM AOR.” The authorization affects U.S. bases throughout the CENTCOM area of responsibility, which includes key flashpoints like Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

US CENTCOM chief says Trump was presented with plans to strike Iran if nuclear talks fail
Gen. Michael Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command, said on Wednesday that he presented to President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth a number of potential plans to strike Iran should the ongoing nuclear talks fail to result in a deal. “I have provided the secretary of defense and the president with a wide range of options,” Kurilla said during a hearing in Congress, after being asked by a congressman if the U.S. is “prepared to respond with overwhelming force to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran” in the event the president chooses to do so.

Los Angeles leaders impose curfew as protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown continue
Los Angeles leaders imposed a downtown curfew Tuesday on the fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown as his use of the National Guard escalated and the governor accused him of drawing a “military dragnet” across the nation’s second-largest city. Gavin Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out arrests. He said it would only heighten tensions and promote civil unrest. The judge chose not to rule immediately, giving the administration several days to continue those activities before a hearing Thursday.

Where are the hurricanes? Top forecast says a busy season is still on the way
The tropics may be relatively quiet for the moment but the latest forecast outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t expect that to last. A more active than normal season is still expected, reports the tropical research team Activity is expected to be about 125% of the average hurricane season from 1991-2020.

2024 Sees Highest Global Conflict Levels Since 1946
The number of conflicts in the world was in 2024 the highest in almost 80 years. During the year, 61 conflicts were registered in 36 countries, … This is not just a peak – it’s a structural shift, says lead author Siri Aas Rustad. The world is today much more violent and much more fragmented than it was ten years ago.

Democrat congresswoman indicted after breaching ICE facility in New Jersey
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) was indicted on Tuesday for “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers” after breaching U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, New Jersey, on May 9. McIver currently faces up to eight years in prison for each of the first two counts and up to one year in prison for the third count brought against her by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.

Israel is interested in Syria security deal, possibly even peace agreement, PM Netanyahu tells US – report
President al-Shara appears to be less closely aligned with Turkey than Israel feared. Potentially capping a remarkable turnaround in Syria-Israel relations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Syria envoy Tom Barrack he is ready to enter negotiations with the Syrian government under U.S. mediation, the news outlet Axios reported Wednesday. It is better for us that the Syrian government is close to the U.S. and Saudi Arabia,” the official said.

Immigrant shelter whistleblower asking DOJ to investigate ‘disturbing pattern’ at taxpayer-funded hotels
A former immigrant shelter director in Massachusetts is petitioning Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the “disturbing pattern” of criminal activity, sexual assaults and financial abuse that he says is widespread in the state-run migrant shelter system.

As possible Iran war looms, US House Speaker Mike Johnson – a devout Evangelical – is coming to Israel to address Knesset on June 22 & meet with Netanyahu
With many American Evangelical Christians and Israelis increasingly nervous about the Iran nuclear threat and White House efforts to cut a deal with Tehran, ALL ISRAEL NEWS can confirm an unsourced story in the U.S. media this morning that U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is coming to Israel later this month. According to US and Israeli sources, Johnson will arrive in Israel on Saturday, June 21, and make a major address to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Sunday, June 22. Johnson will also meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his brief weekend visit.

U.S. Rejects Palestinian Statehood, Hostage Talks See Movement, and France Faces Antisemitic Crime Trial
Speaking with Bloomberg, Huckabee remarked, “Unless there’s a dramatic cultural transformation, I don’t see it happening in our lifetime.” He further clarified that such a change appears “highly unlikely.”When asked whether the Trump administration is actively pursuing Palestinian statehood, Huckabee was blunt: “I don’t think so.”

Fmr. Amb. Friedman: Should millions of Americans expect sanctions too? Bring it on!
According to Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, millions of Americans, including many in the Trump admin, oppose a Palestinian state, and therefore should be subject to sanctions by the UK and other countries.

US warns against attending UN conference on Israel-Palestinian two-state solution
US President Donald Trump’s administration is discouraging governments around the world from attending a UN conference next week on a possible two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, The diplomatic demarche, sent on Tuesday, says countries that take “anti-Israel actions” following the conference will be viewed as acting in opposition to US foreign policy interests and could face diplomatic consequences from Washington.

Trump EPA Rescinds Biden-Era Rules That Would Have Forced Power Plants To Shutter
The Trump administration is rolling back Biden-era regulations that would have tightened emissions restrictions on coal and gas power plants and forced hundreds of existing coal plants to shutter in the coming years.

Pam Bondi Drops The Hammer: L.A. Rioters Face Federal Robbery Charges Under Hobbs Act
The optics for California Democrats—particularly far-left Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom—have turned negative. a federal judge denied California’s request for an immediate restraining order that would temporarily prohibit the Trump administration from using the Marines and the National Guard in the state. On Wednesday morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed reporters … “Right now, we’re the ones keeping California safe. If Gavin Newsom won’t do it — we will,” We’re treating it as robbery to protect Californians. If you loot a store, we’re charging you with robbery under the Hobbs Act. That carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison,” she said.

Abbott Deploys National Guard To San Antonio Ahead Of Wednesday Night ICE Protest
Setting himself in stark contrast to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered a contingent of National Guard soldiers to San Antonio ahead of protests against the apprehensions of illegal aliens planned for Wednesday night and Saturday. “Peaceful protests are part of the fabric of our nation, but Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles,”

Do AI Models Think?
AI can’t solve a problem that hasn’t been previously solved by a human.
Why won’t AI be stopped? Because the race for AI is not really a race for tech. It’s a greed-driven race for money, a lot of it. the best explanation of what AI is at its core. It’s not a thinking machine, and its output’s not thought. It’s actually the opposite of thought — it’s what you get from a Freshman who hasn’t studied, but learned a few words instead and is using them to sound smart. If the student succeeds, you don’t call it thought, just a good emulation. even the most cutting-edge Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), are no more than a very gifted parrots with basically no actual reasoning capability.

In writing many of these commentaries over the months—and even years—my continuing mantra has been that I believe Jesus’ words about “the days of Lot” found in Luke 17:28-30 constitute the most prominent indication of where this generation stands on God’s prophetic timeline.

Here we have the Creator saying simply and without equivocation that the day when He next catastrophically intervenes into the wicked affairs of humankind will be a mirror image of Lot’s time in Sodom. Jesus will, He said, next be revealed when business is going along as usual.

Just as Jesus removed the only righteous people from that evil city, He will remove the only righteous people at that future time. Destruction of the rebellious people who are left behind will, the Lord said, begin that very day. This is the great event we know as the Rapture of the Church (all believers in Jesus Christ for salvation of their souls).

Just prior to the statement about the days of Lot and Lot being taken to safety from the destruction to come, Jesus said this about a rescue previous to Lot’s:

“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:26-27).

That antediluvian world had become so corrupt, both morally and genetically, that God destroyed it all, except for righteous Noah and his family, plus two of all species. Again, Jesus said it will be the same, in the sense that at the time of Rapture, the righteous will be placed in Christ as a type of “Ark” in the clouds above the earth.

We’ve looked many times at the indicators that our days are like they were during the days of Lot in Sodom. The wickedness of today—rapes and murders; sex trafficking; evil perpetrated on children; the murder of little ones in their mothers’ wombs; anti-God evil that goes against God’s order of things, like transsexual activities, homosexuality, and pornography spread by internet across the world—has likely exceeded the evil of Lot’s day.

And God warned Noah of what He was about to do in those days for all the anti-God wickedness He saw on the earth:

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth” (Genesis 6:11-13).

The one feature of the evil that seemed to most disgust God in this scriptural description is the violence that had, to the Lord, become intolerable. The following informs of the end-times violence of these evil days in which we live.

Violence is more widespread today than it has been in decades, with armed conflict touching every major region, according to data analyzed by The Telegraph.

Last year, varying levels of conflict were reported across at least 50 different countries, from the civil war in Myanmar to extreme violence between drug cartels in Mexico, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED).

Experts predict that the trend will probably continue throughout 2025 and beyond.

Across the 50 countries, there were at least 56 active conflicts—one of the largest quantities since 1946—“with fewer conflicts being resolved, either militarily or through peace agreements,” the Global Peace Index estimated.

“The level of violence happening is certainly at one of its highs since the Second World War,” said Clionadh Raleigh, the founder and director of ACLED.

The only year to exceed 56 was 2023, which recorded 59 armed conflicts, according to certain estimates.

Armed conflicts are increasing everywhere. Source: “World most violent it has been in decades.” The Telegraph, Rapture Ready News, May 25, 2025

Each and every day, reports come in of violence—much of it of the most heinous sort. All we have to do is remember October 7, 2023, and the savage attacks on the Israeli gathering to understand the incorrigible nature of the violence we’re witnessing.

The evil is incorrigible because the rage is the reprobate, fallen minds of humankind being led by Israel-hating, humanity-hating demonic forces, with Satan directing the violence.

Jesus said that if He did not return at a specific time at Armageddon, no flesh would be saved. Thankfully, He will do just as promised.

Thankfully, too, He will return in the clouds of Glory above this judgment-bound planet to remove all believers to Himself—the Ark of safety—just as He lifted Noah and his family above the destructive waters that fell upon the incorrigible world of that antediluvian time.

Here again is how to be aboard that Blessed Ark just before God’s judgment must fall:

“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).

12 June 2025

Noah’s Day—Today’s Violence :: By Terry James