
Trustworthy and True: Making Sense of the Book of Revelation – Alan Shemwell
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Early Tuesday morning I was musing over my WApp to the previous evening’s house group “I submit that the timing is surely of the Lord, for not only myself but others too, I trust” – as well as in recent blogs of current news and changes across Islam delaying my introducing a friend’s new book on the Book of Revelation.
Then came Sunday’s service featuring the mission to Iran of Elam Ministries together with excellent teaching on Revelation 1.

(With gratitude to Chris G Bennett for AI image)
Immediately upon musing “Whyever I should think there may be any significance of timing, am I imagining it, why me?”, this came straight to mind, as though a Holy Spirit ‘drop’:
“It’s triple 47: 47th year (my birth) of 20th Century! 47th year of Iranian regime! 47th US president!”
By the way regarding numerics, the timing of Michael Bennet’s What Was Whispered email at 11:10 yesterday is significant regarding our ‘3-in-1’ God: thus 11 = The Father and Son (“The Father is in me and I in Him” John 10:38) and 10 = Holy Spirit; zero being nothing is ignored and so 10 is 1. AND as told at the close below, we have yet more evidence of the Lord’s hand in the timing of this post and the next post.
Also, in that blogged ‘briefing’ I refer to a very personal experience in 2019 of the Lord’s glory in a Catch The Fire conference in Fleet, Hampshire. Nina and I knew the pastor and wife and a leader of CTF, Alan Shemwell, later led an excellent study of the Book of Revelation, even presenting attendees with certificates. I asked, therefore, about the availability of his notes and diagrams available and the story unfolds below…and I note that 1989 is the re-start of both our lives!!

BIO
‘Alan was always enthralled with ‘End-time’ stories even before becoming a Christian, at age 26 in 1989. Then he was drawn to the books of Revelation and Daniel.
He struggled to make sense of prophecies, especially the number of years mentioned, which simply didn’t add-up. He jumped at the chance to hear any speaker on Revelation. Almost always, their interpretations simply did not sit right with his spirit and seemed too naïve, simplistic, biased, dismissive, worldly – seemingly quick, lazily formed interpretations, not well thought through, and not Holy Spirit inspired.
For 35 years he sought a clearer, more rounded, unified, God-inspired interpretation.
Alan has been happily married to wife Sian for 35 years. They met in school (6th-Form). and have 3 sons, all in their 20s. Alan and Sian became Christians at the same Billy Graham event in Aldershot, a year before they married. They moved from Somerset to Hook, Hampshire and found a lively, Spirit-filled church.
Within months they were leading home-groups, involved in evangelistic outreach, attending international Christian conferences by John Wimber and other notable Christian pioneers. For years they led Christian introduction (Alpha) courses. Their journey of faith was on an exponential trajectory. They are still very active in their walk of faith. Until recently they were part of the core-team for a new Catch-the-Fire church plant in Farnborough. Alan enjoys street evangelism, Healing-on-the-Street (HOTS) and Christian teaching. Sian is gifted in hearing and responding to God’s heart – demonstrating compassion for the lost and broken.’
As for myself, Richard, having been introduced to eschatology and geopolitical history of the Middle-East a few years before becoming born-again in 1989, and 20 years later began emailing on the subject and attending Neil Mackereth’s teaching at Winchester Vineyard and launching this blog in November 2011, I found Alan’s to be an excellent course. He relates The Apocalypse (Greek title) to current events and I’m pleased he’s now been able to find a publisher. And I particularly like his easy-to-read style and typography.
GOD-INCIDENTAL TIMING
Alan posts only occasionally on his Facebook but for once I dropped in this morning and find this of Monday relating to TODAY:
“The book is also available on the Waterstones.com site. The prices on Amazon.co.uk are currently not correct. I’m told this often happens with Amazon, just before publishing date but will soon correct itself on the Publishing date 26th March. Pricing is correct on Waterstones.com”
SO I invite my readers and visitors to read all about Trustworthy and True in the next post in a few hours and seriously consider buying…
Continuing our news of Muslims waking up the errors of their religion AND its history this brief video shows an Arab delegate speaking truth to the UN AI (United Nations Anti-Israel) Human Rights Council.
Visit Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram post of 2:42 today to hear and watch reactions:

BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident Jasem Aljuraid, invited by UN Watch:
“Mr. Chair,
I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land.
Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs.
So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home?
Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic.
What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity.
There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived.
I don’t believe in miracles, but this is one.
So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel?
Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace.
Thank you.”
(UN Watch)
PS: ZECHARIA 12:1-3 (NKJV BibleGateway.com)
‘Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him: “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of [b]drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it…” (Note b: or ‘reeling’)
I received the following email timed at 11:10 today from Michael somewhere over the ‘pond’: PS that time is pertinent regarding our ‘3-in-1’ God: thus 11 = Father and Son (“The Father and I are one”) and 10 = Holy Spirit; zero being disregarded, so 10 is 1.
The final sentence, after my initials, is what was indicated after the word was written and signed off. This is less of a prophecy, more of an admonition. Actually, it’s a command.
I have called it: What was Whispered
23/3/26
WHAT WAS WHISPERED
“What was whispered in dark rooms with closed doors, plotted and planned is now lit up in signs on rooftops.
“What was hoped for, was schemed for, lied for, murdered for, is now there for all to see.
“So look: See the open door; see the butchery, the planned genocide; see the invasion of your land for what it is; see the multi-cultural trap to which you were not invited; see the route to Hell-on-Earth planned by your ‘movers-and-shakers’. They are your enemy.
“See them. It’s time to wake up. It’s time to point the finger; that finger is justice, that finger is your choosing.
“So, in May (your calendar not mine) choose wisely, because it is time.
“It is shouting at you in bright light from all the rooftops. My golden net spread from Orkney to Land’s End is glowing brighter and brighter; its threads now so close it’s a continuous sheet; it is Wrath and Blessing.
“So, choose wisely.
“Justice & truth are shouting at you – unblock your ears you British & Wake Up!”
M M B
This is not advice: it is a command. 10 a.m. 23/3/26
I didn’t expect to return to considering the eventual fall of Islam when rational adherents wake up to its errors and want something far better. The Arab Spring of 15 years ago was a starter and now Emily Smith’s article in last week’s Daily Telegraph brings further credence to the Muslim peoples’ being awakened by repulsion of extremists (emphases are mine):

‘An Islamic leader has backed the Conservative Party and Nigel Farage after they criticised a mass prayer session for Muslim men in Trafalgar Square.
Writing for The Telegraph (see below), Dr Taj Hargey said he found the open-air worship on Monday, attended by hundreds of men, including Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, “disturbing”.
He agreed with Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, who described the event, organised by the Ramadan Tent Project, as an “act of domination and division” in an article for The Telegraph on Tuesday.
Mr Timothy prompted a backlash from the Left when he wrote: “To use [Trafalgar Square] as a stage for this act of domination and division is completely wrong, and it should never be allowed to happen again.”
As thousands of people gathered in Birmingham for Eid celebrations, Dr Hargey, an imam and director of the Oxford Institute for British Islam, also backed Mr Farage on the same issue.
He said the Reform UK leader – who called for a ban on Muslim street prayers on Thursday – was “absolutely right”.
Continue reading via ‘free link’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9509884fbb2bfa8d
I note Dr Hargey’s many wise and sensible points in his accompanying letter, especially:
‘But Labour is totally wrong about this, and their response is also deeply telling about where the Government is going badly wrong when it comes to pandering to radical Islamists. As an imam of some 40 years, I have been deeply concerned about the direction of my religion in Britain and the West.
What were once fringe, fundamentalist, extremist voices have captured our mosques. Now these hardliners, importing a radical agenda from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other puritanical places, are regarded as the mainstream Muslim voice.
They have inveigled their way into polite society, exploiting useful idiots on the Left to present themselves, somehow, not as the radicals but the normal Muslims who speak for the whole community.‘
He concludes,
‘My informed views, honed over decades of scholastic endeavour, are at risk of being banned as extremist and Islamophobic, while, bizarrely, the militants who are doing profound damage to our way of life are immune from any substantive criticism.
This populist Islamic militancy is evident everywhere in our society. Take the burka (facial mask) and the hijab (head covering), for instance.
There is not a single verse in the Koran that obliges women to hide their faces or hair. It is an alien cultural affectation. So, too, is the clergy’s chauvinist sexism that demands men and women must worship separately.
And so, when these people seek to dominate our public spaces and spread their malign influence further still on our British way of life, they must be called out. So bravo Nick Timothy and Nigel Farage for having the guts to take these people on. And shame on Keir Starmer for his cowardice.’
[Dr Taj Hargey is an imam and director of the Oxford Institute for British Islam]

Not only the superb teaching and content but also the timing of the guest speaker’s visit to 3Counties Vineyard Church on Sunday was of significance for the congregation, as well as personally and blog-wise.
Events last week delayed my intended blogging on a friend’s new book about the Book of Revelation, but I needed to finish what was in mind about Iran and the eventual fall of Islam with its growing schism between Sunni and Shiite branches – LOL as I type that I saw a picture in front of my monitor of branches falling off a tree!
The delayed timing, nevertheless, must be of the Lord – ‘God-incidental’ – because I had first to hear the Executive Director of Elam Ministries (UK) at our church, as in video intro:
‘This morning David Yeghnazar from Elam Ministries is with us as part of our “Mission March” focus on “Shining in the world”. He will be sharing about Elam, which exists to to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region and beyond, and will also be speaking from Revelation chapter 1:’
The video link starts when our church team-leader Dave Wright shows a 5 minute video of the foundation and history of Elam Ministries in Iran and interviews David Yeghnazar for 12 minutes. After their prayer David proceeds to present a superb message from the 42 minutes mark . The transcript, however, is too long and complicated to publish here.
I was astonished at 48:45 minutes when he says the Book of Revelation gives a clue about Christians in Iran – here and elsewhere shining in the darkness – and tells why its first chapter is his favorite. Then at 1 hour 2 minutes he speaks into the dream vision I had of the glory of Jesus during His overnight Visitation on 13-14 September 1989!!
1:01:56 “Then it says, “Behold, he is coming with the clouds.” Verse seven, “And every eye will see him.” Behold, this word behold is so important. 19 times in the book of Revelation you see this word, ‘behold’. What’s it saying? It’s saying, guys, you need to SEE. And you need especially to see Jesus. Behold, HE, Jesus, is coming with the clouds.”

And I note my marginalia scribbled atop that chapter in my small Bible >
‘9/11/19 Vision whilst in ‘Fire’ ministry. J(esus) in brilliant light, me in golden Spirit.’ [Catch The Fire meeting in Fleet with John & Carol Arnott of Toronto.]
Moreover, in describing Jesus as King of Glory, David echoes the penultimate point of my recent Bible Update:
‘The founder himself had engaged in or else planned over four dozen battles and within 50 years of his death another battle between his followers split the movement.
SUCH A DEEP CONTRAST WITH THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH BORN FROM JESUS’ HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTED APOSTLES – IT DEFINES THEIR DIFFERENCE – MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME GOD!’
So at 1:16:41 of our meeting I hear David say:
“And others begin to see it. One of my dearest friends, the one who was in the video, who was in prison for 5 year. While he was in prison one of the other prisoners came up to him was an Islamic cleric, but he was against the government, so he was in prison. And this Islamic man comes to him and says, “Ours is dead. Yours is alive. Ours is dead. Yours is alive!” And he asked him about Jesus Christ. So my friends, that’s my offering to you….”
SO. please carve out 50 minutes to listen to David’s uplifting, enlightening messages.
HOUSE GROUP DISCUSSION
Monday evening’s house group was highly enthused about that teaching and, with his kind permission, leader Clem Burford allows me to share his following notes:
Do You Love Jesus?
Rev. 1:1-20
40 YEARS AGO
Bear with me in returning to the personal pertinence of the morning and remind you my monitoring of Iran began with flicking through a history book on the religions and geopolitics of the Middle-East and seeing simultaneously a rehearsal of the storming and liberation of Jerusalem out of Israel.
Still not a Christian, a couple of years later I was stunned by a foretaste of Jesus’ glorious return on and rapid descent from the clouds.
A couple of years later, being born-again I witnessed in the heavens about the fall of Islam.
20 YEARS AGO
Let’s go back to a memorable evening in mid-2006 and join Lindell Cooley and Kelley Warren somewhere in the Caribbean in the next video, wherein Heidi Baker of Iris Ministries pops up nearby.
Dear Nina was struggling with severe back pain and upon return to UK we learned her lower spine had collapsed and she needed a wheelchair, thus officially registered as being disabled. BUT PRAISE THE LORD, she was healed from that necessity when John Arnott heard the Lord tell him the next year when in Bath City Church to put aside his sermon as He wanted to heal folk. (Click to read about her documented healing)
Ever since then that praise song stirs my spirit, especially this rendition:


12 YEARS AGO > Holy Lightning Beyond ‘The Pond’ Strikes IN THE UK!
Further to last week’s post on the widening schism in Islam and my closing reference to my email of 16 February 2011 recounting a dream vision of 6 January 1992 on the fall of Islam, now featured with updates of June 2025 and January 2026 atop this blog’s home page, let’s briefly remind ourselves of its details:
‘The BBC late evening news on 6th January 1992 announced that leaders in the Muslim community wanted to establish a Muslim parliament in Britain…:
In a dream that night I saw Western Europe, mainly France and the Mediterranean, as if from the space shuttle and heard the popular worship chorus ‘All Hail The Lamb’ being sung, as if in the atmosphere!
This praise was repeated many times most melodiously, as though by angelic choir, and seemed to spiral upwards. Then I heard a very loud, authoritative voice declare, “As Communism fell, so too will Islam fall”.
I understood this as the Almighty’s declaration that Islam’s demise would come when Muslims themselves want to be free and rise up en-masse. Clearly, by referring to the events that had rippled across the Eastern Bloc to end the Soviet empire, we could expect a similar, unanticipated wave to sweep across Africa, the Middle East and Asia to the Pacific. It, too, would be like dominoes falling….’
Now watch, or read the auto-transcript in view of surrounding sounds, this powerful testimonial of an ardent Muslim who’d supervised school prayer times when a child: [My ’22’ turns up yet again]
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It’s time to fire a double-barrelled Holy Spirit ‘shotgun’ at our four nations – and others – because not only did I reprise the word Veronika West brought last October but Lisa Tierney also commented thereupon and reminded me of what she heard at the close of that year. (Readers may recall she received prior to the Pandemic, as here and here.)
Lisa writes:
“Lord foretold so much in this word and its is all happening now..
OIL OIL OIL
KING AND KINGS
STARMER AND HIS REFUSAL TO JOIN WAR CAUSED ISSUES FOR TRUMP.
DESTINY OF GREAT BRITAIN, UNITED KINGDOM
We have the answers of Heaven ahead of time before the Iran war broke out..
Let’s circulate this so people can pray with accuracy and his Spirit
I FEEL THE BODY OF CHRIST MUST SEE THIS AGAIN
SHALOM LOVE IN CHRIST”
Lisa Tierney
The original text is on Facebook which has interlinear embedded coding that needs extensive editing to make reading easier, but I’ve emboldened and coloured the Lord’s words for the UK. The ‘Instructions’ for the nations are particularly interesting in view of events since New Year’s Eve!

KEYS FOR NATIONS – INTERNATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
Further to the prophetic word received by Veronika West and posted Monday to watch signs relating to the Strait of Hormuz, Tania Koenig’s insightful article is a MUST READ for she draws an immensely important conclusion

March 17, 2026
The war involving Iran, Israel, and the United States is widely being described through the language of missiles, airstrikes, and retaliation. That description is incomplete. The center of gravity in this conflict is not located in Tehran, Beirut, or even along Israel’s borders. It is located in a narrow maritime corridor through which the modern global economy breathes: the Strait of Hormuz.
Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through this chokepoint, but the strategic importance of Hormuz goes far beyond oil. The same corridor is critical for petrochemicals, liquefied natural gas, and essential inputs for agriculture, including fertilizers that are directly tied to crop production in major importing countries, including the United States. Any sustained disruption does not simply move energy prices; it transmits pressure into food systems, supply chains, and inflation across entire economies.
That is why this war cannot be understood as a regional confrontation. It is a contest over the stability of the global economic system itself…continue reading here.
Returning to WordPress desktop yesterday, I noticed that Tuesday’s post was 5,500th published on this blog, and quite appropriately covered a real ‘NOW’ prophecy – in a ‘sandwich’ !!
Furthermore, not only did its fulfilment happen within a few hours of posting but also my unwitting, introductory content in its preceding post on Hebrews 12 relating to Islam had not only been delayed a week, but also I’d meant to refer to specific news pointing to an rapidly increasing Shiite-Sunni split. However, instead I wrote about the assassinated regime’s top leader Ali Larijani’s own boastful threat against President Trump’s life!
So, back to the question posed in the first part of this Bible Update:
Could this month’s missile attacks upon surrounding Sunni states, in reprisal to Israel and America’s pre-emptive strikes, mark a highly significant schismatic shaking in Islam? That is, a SHIITE regime versus SUNNI nations!
These are the several surrounding Sunni states that have been targeted and struck by Iranian missiles and drones:
REACTIONS
On Saturday 14th March, I noted Amir Tsarfati in Israel posted this ‘heads-up’ about one of the regime’s proxy terrorist groups followed by its official confirmation:


Courtesy Koenig’s World Watch Daily, here’s Jerusalem Post report Hamas sends secret letter to Mojtaba Khamenei, mocks Gulf states, refuses disarmament
‘Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, KAN News reported on Sunday. The secret letter followed a more public statement made by Hamas on Saturday, in which the terrorist group urged Iran not to target neighboring Gulf countries.
“While the group affirms Iran’s right to respond to this aggression by all available means in accordance with international norms and laws, it calls upon our brothers in Iran not to target neighboring countries,” Hamas stated in its more measured public response.’
Monday, Daily Telegraph contributor Colonel Richard Kemp’s comments on Facebook:

Yesterday (emphases mine):

And with copy of document in Arabic, at 19:12 https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/73126 (emphases mine):
‘If that’s no enough – now Qatar is against Iran. What can I say – it can’t get any better..
Qatar’s MFA:
‘The State of Qatar expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the blatant Iranian attack targeting Ras Laffan Industrial City, which caused fires resulting in significant damage to the facility.
Qatar considers this attack a dangerous escalation, a flagrant violation of its sovereignty, and a direct threat to its national security and regional stability.
The Ministry reiterates that the State of Qatar reserves its right to respond.’
This morning (emphases mine):

‘…In this statement, these actions are called “deliberate aggression” and Tehran is requested to immediately cease the attacks.
In the final statement of the Riyadh meeting, it was said that the “aggression” of the Islamic Republic cannot be justified in any way. The Arab and Islamic countries also announced that the attacks of the Islamic Republic were directed at residential areas and civilian infrastructure.
The signatories of this statement demanded an immediate cessation of the attacks and adherence to the principles of international law.
During the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Islamic and Arab countries in Riyadh, the Saudi foreign minister criticized the behavior of the Islamic Republic, accused it of harming civilians and the economic infrastructure of the countries in the region, and warned that these measures would be “costly.”
Referring to the continuation of the attacks, Faisal bin Farhan declared that Saudi Arabia has various options – including non-political options – and does not rule out military action if necessary.‘
ITS WILDLY THRASHING RESPONSE TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ITS WEAPONS, VESSELS AND ARMAMENTS, THE APOCALYPTICAL THEOCRACY ATTACKING THE SURROUNDING SUNNI MUSLIM STATES AND SPLITTING ISLAM ASUNDER.
It looks like we’re moving towards the fulfilment of my stunning heavenly vision of 34 years ago wherein I heard the Lord announce the coming fall of Islam, as told herein:
Posted Monday 16 March on Veronika’s Ignite Ireland Ministry at 18:55 and I shared at 22:22 on my Facebook, this is as published the next day by His Kingdom Prophecy:
PROPHETIC SIGNS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
The Watchmen must keep Watching and Praying!
I hear The Spirit say, ”Watch, for The Birthing of a Nation(s) in a Day is at hand!
Watch and Pray — for I AM speaking through Signs, to the Times and to the Season ahead, the Season of the Birthing of a New Golden Era —
I say watch! Just as Birth comes through a narrow canal, so the pressures now seen among The Nations are part of a great Shaking, Divine Awakening and the Separation of Nations.
Yes! For Pressure precedes Transition!
Listen! Pay Attention! For My Remnant must not only watch the movements of Armies, Ships and Markets — but they must go up higher to discern the deeper Prophetic Patterns and Mysteries that are now emerging.
See! For I AM revealing the Gates of the Earth — those strategic places where Power, Resources and Influence are now beginning to converge and align with Heaven’s Time.
Watch! As the Gates expose the true dependencies of Nations and the fragility of Systems and Structures built without Justice and Righteousness.
I say — look! Watch, for The Strait of Hormuz surely is a Birthing Canal — a narrow place where War — Travail, great Pressure, and passage that signals what is taking place in the Heavenlies, and to what is now being uprooted, torn down, built and established.
And to that which is about to be Birthed and brought forth into the Earth Realm, Watch!
Again I say — for there are Signs that speak to the Times!
Just as the Strait of Hormuz is a Narrow Gate and a Divine Connection point (VAV) through which the Economic lifeblood of Nations must pass.
So, The Nations are now being driven into a Spiritual Choke-hold where the powers of the prince of Persia and the Ancient Empire Spirits War in the Heavens over the Great Wealth Transfer Coming to the Nations!”
See the Prophetic Parallels and Patterns…
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
5,500th post!
Friends, we have a good example of the practical principle Apostle Paul instructs in the 14th chapter of his first letter to the church in Corinth, Greece:
29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged… [NKJV BibleGateway.com]
Within hours of posting the previous post, our dear sister and prophet Veronika West published a most pertinent prophecy last night and it ‘just so happened’ that a sadly poignant fulfilment also occurred, the news of which hit our UK press about midday.
After posting the Bible Update Hebrews 12 Great Shaking and Islam – the Schism I realised I’d not included what I’d intended, but altered the material to focus upon the boastful warning of the Iranian regime’s Secretary of its Supreme National Security Council to President Trump: “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Watch out for yourself – lest you be eliminated.”
Here’s what Veronika was receiving, posted on her Facebook around 9-10pm and now published on His Kingdom Prophecy – NB: Explicit reference to that proud boast !!
“IRAN! IRAN! – I SHALL BREAK YOUR MIGHTY RIGHT ARM”
This evening (16th March) I heard The Spirit say concerning Iran, ”Behold, I AM against the proud Nation that exalts its strength and trusts in the Might of its Arm!
I say…. Iran! Iran! Watch! For I will break your mighty Right Arm of Power and shatter the bow of your strength!
I will cut down your Warriors at the knees and bring your Princes to the ground
Your confidence shall fail you… and the terror you have caused shall return upon your own heads…. for your Pride has deceived you!
Oh you stubborn and stiff-necked people who say in your heart, “Who shall bring us down?”
Watch! Therefore I will bring calamity and catastrophe upon you from every side — from the Right and from the Left…
I will scatter you to the winds — to the Four Corners — and cause your alliances to fall like a house of cards collapsing in a moment of time….
Your Strongholds shall be broken!
Your Counsel confounded — and the eyes of The Nations shall see your downfall!
Watch! For Nations and their Leaders shall be weighed in the Balance and found Wanting!
The proud and haughty shall be humbled — and the rebellious shall not stand in the midst of the Great Shaking that has come upon the Land!”
Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West
LAST NIGHT’s NEWS

‘Just before Iran’s supreme leader was killed in an air strike on the opening day of the war, an Iranian official dropped a clue as to who really held the power behind the scenes.
“He is one of the very few people who can still meet the leader and has been given the job of rescuing the system,” the official told The Telegraph.
The man he was talking about was Ali Larijani, Iran’s national security chief. According to Israel, Larijani is now dead, the latest of the senior leadership chain to have been assassinated – and perhaps the most important so far.
The claimed killing of Larijani is fundamentally different from the strike that killed Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader. Khamenei was the head of the Iranian state, the religious authority and the constitutional commander-in-chief.
Larijani, meanwhile, was the man who made the system work. He was thought to have been the de facto leader of Iran since June last year, and was one of the only proper diplomats the Islamic Republic had had in decades...’
[Published 16th but accidentally removed and date changed to 13th!!]
Hebrews 12:25 – Hear the Heavenly Voice (NKJV, BibleGateway.com)
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
2014 & 2015 prophecies of The Shaking to come upon Iran – Kim Clement
Could this month’s Iranian missile attacks on surrounding Sunni states in reprisal to Israel and America’s pre-emptive strikes mark a highly significant schismatic shaking in Islam? That is, the Shiite regime against Sunni nations!
Not only my mulling over a hardcopy of Michael Bennett’s Row-boat Prophecy of the demise of Islam, but also reading a month to the day of his emailing me of this threat to President Trump (https://t.me/TheOfficialSantino/95049) took me back to the defining moment of the deep religious and political schism within the Muslim faith:
‘A senior Iranian security official issued a threat against President Trump Tuesday following Trump’s warning the US would retaliate forcefully if Iran disrupts global oil shipments. Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, posted the message on X after Trump warned that Iran would be hit “TWENTY TIMES HARDER” if it attempts to halt oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
“The Ashura-loving nation of Iran does not fear your paper threats,” Larijani wrote. “Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation. Watch out for yourself – lest you be eliminated.”
In a follow-up post, Larijani repeated the warning, writing “those greater than you have failed to erase it … so beware lest you be the ones to vanish.”
In searching for the meaning of his statement I discovered he’s referring to the deep mourning over the death of the grandson of the Muhammad, Husayn ibn Ali, in the Battle of Karbala in October 680 AD. It was a pivotal military confrontation in Islamic history about 50 years after their founder’s death, between the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid I and supporters and family members of Husayn ibn Ali.
The founder himself had engaged in or else planned over four dozen battles and within 50 years of his death another battle between his followers split the movement.
SUCH A DEEP CONTRAST WITH THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH BORN FROM JESUS’ HOLY SPIRIT ANOINTED APOSTLES – IT DEFINES THEIR DIFFERENCE – MOST DEFINITELY NOT THE SAME GOD!
Moreover, although MILLIONS ARE PEACEFUL the politico-religious hatred of fellow humans has marked Muslims throughout their 1,400 years’ history; thus demonstrating it cannot be connected with our loving Father in heaven and His Son Jesus Christ, who died for each of us so our sins may be forgiven and we be reconciled to The Almighty Lord of Hosts when we earnestly repent and renounce the devil and all its works.
Apart from Capt K’s book (https://t.me/ElectionHQ2024), I understand full investigative details of the extensive fraud that prevented President Trump winning a second term of office are soon to be released. WOW, only after finishing with news linkages do I check and find this ‘news round-up’ has just been published
STOP PRESS!
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Earlier news updates below are from my Telegram, as linked.
First, consider how the ball started rolling on Richard’s Watch with these early posts of 2020, this being 545th on #2020_Election tag!
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MARCH 2026 NEWS
The next day 11th February, Michael emails and, as with all prophetic material, readers are invited to weigh and pray about it with the Lord:
‘Dear Richard,
This vision from June 2025 adds some detail to the Tinderbox Prophecy. I notice that one aspect of this prophecy is already taking place – that exposures of ‘globalists’ is taking place on the internet in apps such as X. The text is taken directly from my journal and transcribed accurately. For example, where I used a handwritten ampersand & I have kept that. It is letter for letter as I first wrote it.
The final section is from today 11/2/26 when I realised that clarification was required. The images of hanging and lynching are not literal but figurative. Of that I am certain. My visions and dreams are always in this form – figurative. The meaning is clearly implied and laid on my heart at some point.
Mike Miles Bennett
A VISION OF A HANGING MAN – 24-6-25
I saw a hanging man. At first he was alive, but dying. Later, seeing more clearly, he had now died. His hands were tied in front of him by his wrists wrapped together with several loops. His feet & knees were also together but I did not see how or if they were restrained.
I was told:
“He represents the globalists. These men (& women) are satanists. I have no intention of treating them as individuals. They are a hive – like wasps, but not bees. Bees produce. They do not think but obey their master – satan; they kill, steal and destroy.
My solution & judgement is to hang them. This will become evident because it will be shown, seen and displayed. You are (all) no longer reliant on the old media – they are liars. You have alternative media. It will be there.
Trust and watch because this is coming soon.”
9.10 a.m.
MMB
9:25 – Added
The Hanging Man
I saw the same vision, but this time he was abruptly jerked / lifted up into the air. It was the moment of execution beginning. This was lynching not drop hanging.
The Father said:
“It will be sudden and brutal”.
MMB
Returning to this in 2026 (10/2/26) I realised that explanation was required. At the time I must have simply written what I saw and heard, but the two visions require clarification.
In the second vision I saw a lynching, which if considered as descriptive would suggest an individual or individuals being lynched by a mob. However, the first vision must be applied. The Father was clear: “I have no intention of treating them as individuals. They are a hive – like wasps, but not bees”. That shows that the lynching is metaphorical.
The picture (it seems to me) is of a wasp’s nest being hauled into the air, for all to see. “My solution & judgement is to hang them.” That is, the entire nest. When lifted up the place to see them is the ‘alternative media’ – the internet.
In addition, lynching implies an extra-judicial process; so it is the ‘mob’ (the populations) that will see and carry out the process.
Will deaths follow? I cannot answer that for certain, but it seems to me that the image of lynching does imply that. The type of death… I can’t say. But, I doubt Nuremberg Trials will take place, though that is merely my opinion based on the British establishment’s history of protecting itself.’
As featured in his Tinderbox Prophecy Update, Michael’s email of 10th February now continues as below. My month’s delay in not being able to publish may well be for the Lord to show the relevance of current events to what Michael received last year
NB. He wrote me a fortnight before fourth round of negotiations with Iran reached an impasse, as in my footnote to Neil Mackereth’s Current Middle-East Geo-political Key Points on breaking news: ‘Senior Iranian official to Al Jazeera: “We categorically reject the dismantling of the nuclear facilities, zero enrichment, the transfer of uranium, or any discussion of the ballistic missiles.” Therefore, Israel and US had no option but to launch pre-emptive military operations against Iran on 28th February.
Michael continues,
‘…Another prophecy I received, the Row Boat prophecy, matters because it places a limit on Ezekiel 38 [RB: The Lord’s great victory over the nations] – because it indicates that Putin’s Russia will not attack Israel.
This prophecy is holding because, far from advancing into the Middle East, Russia has withdrawn. Indeed, over the weekend, Russian personnel were flowing out of the Bushier Nuclear Plant – back to Russia.
23rd June 2025, plus the follow-up on 10/8/25
A vision in the night: copied directly from my journal.
I was awakened while it was still dark in the early hours this morning. I asked the Lord why I had been woken up. I asked why my dreams and visions were so infrequent and obscure. I began to see.
I saw a rowing boat, brown with no oars. It was wooden. As time has passed (now, for example) I can see it quite clearly. It is the wooden shiplap type. It began to be taken ‘downstream’; it had no control of its own direction or fate.
The next vision (following immediately) was of it falling off a cliff: there was no water.
The Father spoke one sentence,
“The boat is Islam”.
THE ROW BOAT – Part 2
Same day. In the shower an angel said to me:
“The water is the nations
The flow (of water) is time
The cliff edge is ‘time is up’
When the Killing is done the killing will begin
When the murder is done the murder will begin
When the genocide is done the genocide will begin
Time is nearly up.”
11.35 a.m. 23/6/25
THE ROW BOAT – Part 3
10th August 2025
This vision has been persisting for over a week. I am finally persuaded to record it.
I saw the wooden row boat again – actually for over a week – only this time it’s out of the water. This is so I can see underneath it. There is a great big hole in the bottom of it.
Yet, it hasn’t fallen off the cliff yet. Hands (just hands) are reaching up to hold onto it – & holding it up. Some are even holding onto the hole’s edge (so they know the row boat is sinking… oh and wrecked).
Now, finally as I write, I see the last hands let go.
The Father says.
“Islam is to change. It ceases to be Islam. The culture changes – ready for my arrival. There is no chance of it surviving in its present form. It is being readied to accept the anti-Christ, the false one, the hypocrite and liar.
It will then slot into place like a piece in a jigsaw puzzle.
MMB
Commentary
The above is a precise transcription from the pages of my journal.
I must inform you that I have known for over a decade that Islam would change to ready it for the arrival of the anti-Christ. So, some aspects of these visions are not surprising to me.
The hole in the boat clearly represents the failure of Islam.
Rather than abandoning something that is recognised as being a failure, its supporters do just that – they hold on to and hold in place a belief system they recognise is simply not living up to its claims.
Notice, supporters are actually holding onto the edges of the hole.
The absence of water at the cliff edge indicates that support for it has failed. Its fall off the cliff is absolute.
I believe it is time for this vision to be published.
MMB’
Recap: Michael Miles Bennett emailed me on Sunday 9 February last year and upon preparing for publication I realised it exactly fits with the Bible prophecy in my first post of 17 years ago last month (The Endgame Is Now In Play) and he opened as follows:
Previously I sent you a dream dated 1st October 2021 – which you added to your Blog [Published in ‘October Surprise’ – Mon 18th: Is Two Presidents Prophecy about Obama & Biden? as second of two dreams, updated in 2021 Dream of Biden and £ Note Fulfilled.]
I do not have such large-scale fore-shadowings very often, but do both hear and see from the Father fairly regularly. I do not normally pass these on. However, after some consideration a word I received on 30th January 2025, does seem to be suitable for your Blog – if you would like to publish it. It is very brief.
“I declare that the globalist regime seems like a rock – as firm, as solid as a rock, but in reality it’s a tinder box, and the tinder will burn and the box with it.”
That’s it. I’m calling it the Tinderbox Prophecy….’
The same day of Michael’s email Veronika West God-incidentally posts confirmation:
2026
A year and a day later, (ie a month ago) Michael emails as follows as an update, plus a new very timely prophecy which I intend publishing this week. Therefore, this is the first part only:


X Post Cont’d:
“While pretending to engage in a peaceful transfer of power, Barack Hussein Obama, in private, went to great and nefarious lengths to sow discord among the public and sabotage his successor, President Trump. The new evidence released by the Director of National Intelligence confirms that the Obama administration manufactured and politicized intelligence, which was later used as justification for baseless smears against President Trump — an effort to delegitimize his victory before he even took the oath of office. The truth is that President Trump never had anything to do with Russia, and the Russia collusion hoax was a massive fraud perpetrated on the American people from the very beginning. The worst part is that Obama knew the truth, as did all the other officials involved, including former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and many others.”
Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Lisa Monaco, Adam Schiff, Peter did Lisa, Lisa did Peter, Bruce Whore, Nellie Whore, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Andrew Weissmann, Valerie Jarrett, Ben Rhodes, John Carlin, Mary McCord, James Baker, Jonathan Moffa, Michael Kortan, David Laufman, Samantha Power, John Kerry, Denis McDonough, Jim Rybicki, Bill Priestap, Christopher Steele, Richard Dearlove, Alexander Downer, Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud, Sergei Millian, Sidney Blumenthal, Cody Shearer, Terry McAuliffe, Jonathan Winer, John Podesta, Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, Jake Sullivan, Robbie Mook, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Peter Kadzik, Rachel Brand, Matthew Axelrod, Mary Jacoby, Preet Bharara, Josh Campbell, Jennifer Palmieri, Sir Andrew Wood, Robert Hannigan, Alexandra Chalupa, Michael Sussmann, Dmitri Alperovitch, and officials from the DNC, CrowdStrike, and Fusion GPS — including Glenn Simpson — as well as Perkins Coie, including Marc Elias, falsified intelligence as part of a seditious conspiracy with the sole intent of toppling the United States government during the 2016 presidential election. And Christopher Wray!!
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It is important to understand that The Shaking prophecies, either in Hebrews 12 or the prophecies brought by Kim Clement recently posted herein, should NOT be taken as being about End-times and the battle of Armageddon.
In America’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation it’s reported that some US military commanders have been briefing troops that events in the Middle-East indicate we are entering End-times battles – and many servicemen have logged complaints about such zealotry.
However, this may well reflect individuals’ personal preferences and reminds me how our British Commonwealth troops may have been encouraged to face going into combat 112 years ago into what became the massive First World War; eg. “Onward Christian Soldiers” being sung in churches.
This news from America’s military came to my attention in Mark Davidson’s monitoring of events tying in with his ‘The Four Signposts’ thesis, which came to my attention 11 years ago upon reading his very thought-provoking Daniel Revisited, as told in:
So, for your information here’s Mark’s take on those complaints published by the MRFF:
Such a ‘God-incidental’ surprise during my lunch after drafting my post on Kim Clement prophecies and my early postings to catch up with this breaking news over the pond – thus confirming they are bang on-target; :
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Jim Hoft writes, ‘As previously reported (in 2016 & 2018):
The Obama administration actively assisted the evil Khamenei Regime to crush the 2009 Green Rebellion.
Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement’s supporters. He abandoned the protesters who were slaughtered in the streets by their own government. He was afraid his support would ruin the nuclear talks he was holding with the mullahs.
In 2009, tens of thousands of brave Iranian democracy protesters rose up against the brutal Khamenei regime after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced the winner in a disputed national election.
The protests quickly turned bloody when Iranian hardliners started firing on the protesters. One beautiful young protester…was Neda Soltani or Neda Agha Soltan — she was shot in the neck during a protest in Tehran on June 20, 2009. (AFP)
‘..This week, Barack Obama admitted he should have supported the Iranian protesters in Iran during the Green Revolution in 2009, over a decade ago.
‘Not everyone is buying Obama’s much-delayed epiphany.’
Former Director of National Intelligence Rick Grenell was not buying it.
‘And one other thing, he’s lying that we ever knew there was a debate “inside the White House”. The White House publicly ignored the calls from activists to stop negotiating with a brutal Regime. — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 16, 2022
In the light of Kim Clement’s prophetic revelations preceding his going home to the Lord and about Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran’s ‘snake’ Khamenei and America’s president Obama, consider my perspective in the above-linked contemporary posts:
2015
The earlier post opens by retelling how the Lord stunned me 40 years ago as a leader of an occult New Age London group when flicking through a new book on geo-politics of the Middle East (emphasis changed to red);
‘Whilst watching a documentary on TV about the Iraq-Iran war, I flicked through the book and noticed it has lots of references to the significance of Jerusalem. Then I heard the narrator’s voice over video purporting to show elite units from Iran and Iraq rehearsing an attack upon Jerusalem, despite being at war with one another!‘
Jumping to April 2015 and blogging on the subject of Time I focused upon the nature of cycles in two-parter, ‘God-incidents’ Validate Cycles and Point to the Future, but soon found I needed to refer to it in, and complete, that above first-reference post, viz:
‘Next I was asked, “How many months since that blog you wrote about Iran?”
‘This referred to the ‘weird’ subject of that day’s 2nd blog wherein I’d referred to a summary of personally unusual circumstances relating to Iran in November 2113. Again I counted and this time replied, “16 months ago”.
‘So I thought, “16 = 4 x 4 … another 4 months takes us to July 2015″. So I decided to put that in the ‘pending tray’ and notice if troubles with Iran get even more difficult in July. (Deadlines for agreeing a ‘deal’ have frequently been delayed.)
‘I’ve since been reminded that the one who claims to have agreed a ‘nuclear deal’ with Iran is 44th president of the USA, Barack Obama. So I had plenty to ponder!
THE NUCLEAR ‘AGREEMENT’ (= ‘PACT’ : added this week)
The accord reached is SHEER, UTTER FOLLY. Lots of reaction of all sorts is bound to fly around but I’d like to summarise my previous posts by quoting top politico-religious blogger ‘His Grace’ Archbishop Cranmer. His conclusion encapsulates the emphasis of my previous remarks:
IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL: OBAMA IS FULFILLING SHIA ‘END TIMES’ PROPHECY
>>> ‘So why does Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounce the deal as a “one of the darkest days in world history” and a “stunning historic mistake”? You can’t put it down to the cause of Zionism: Saudi Arabia also has concerns.
‘Might it possibly be that, once again, the ‘developed’ nations of the world have naively forged a solution of secular vacuity in a space that is gravely religious?
‘Cleric Hassan Rouhani is a pious man, devoted like all Shias to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam. This President, like the previous one, believes that his government must prepare the country for the Imam’s return. All streams of Islam believe in a divine saviour, known as the Mahdi, who will appear at the End of Days in the company of Isa (Jesus). But President/Cleric Rouhani pledged himself with Ayatollah Khamenei decades ago to work for the return of the Mahdi. Indeed, Iran’s military involvement in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq was (and is) purposely designed to agitate against Israel to hasten the Last Day. Iran’s dominant ‘Twelver’ sect believes the Mahdi will be Mohammed ibn Hasan, regarded as the 12th Imam and descendant of the Prophet Mohammed.
‘Iran’s entire theo-political agenda is driven by Shia theology which is guarded by clerics who ensure that all legislation complies with their interpretation of Islamic law. And when it comes to foreign policy, this can only mean one thing for Israel, for they hold to the divine promise made in the Al-Israa Sura (Sura 17) that they will liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque – the first ‘Kaba’ to the Muslims – and will enter it as they have entered it the first time (Sura 17, ayat 7). And the prophetic foundation is the message of Mohammed that Islam will enter every house and will spread over the entire world.
‘They are dedicated and pledged with their lives to the ‘liberation of Palestine’ – all of Palestine. They describe the Jewish state as “a kidney transplanted in a body that rejected it”, asserting that the United States may want to “save the Zionist entity, but it will not be able to do so”. Nuclear power is the great equaliser: what begins with the production of electricity will end with a Shahab-3 missile. The Iran nuclear deal is not only a triumph for secular political diplomacy; it is the culmination of Shia Islamic eschatology. It is elemental to Iran’s final solution.’ (Emphasis added)
2016
Please note I’ve now emphasise the mid-point Note Well reference to 2009.
‘…In re-posting a prophetic word on this month’s ‘Domino Effect’ I speculated that there may be more than one trail of ‘prophetical promises’ Patsy Southway saw, and where it has a counterpart elsewhere. To recap:
‘I cannot but think one of those domino-trails is in the secular world in view of recent, unexpected exposures of political activities. Eg., of anti-Semitism in the Labour party and its leader’s concessionary Mayday speech; of David Cameron’s ‘gaffe’ to the Queen and Archbishop about ‘fantastic’ corruption in Nigeria (read its president’s reaction here); President Obama’s unwelcome interference in the UK/EU Referendum and now his aide Ben Rhodes’ outrageous boasting about their manipulating media lackies with fiction and duplicity over the Iran nuclear deal. For the reasons behind this expose read here. (White House Christian correspondent Bill Koenig often refers to incompetence and lack of required experience and skills of Potus’ aides.)
NB: The admittance to secret contact with Iran as early as 2011 is incorrect – TWO years too late! It started very early in Obama’s first term and prior to his infamous Cairo speech, as I wrote 7 years ago (18 May 2009) in Today’s Importance in History:
‘this [diplomatic storm] involved attempts to turn the Arab world and Europe against Israel, and to appease Iran – even to ‘blackmailing’ Israel over its nuclear defence! (It’s reported Obama wanted to be able to use Iran’s territory for supplying US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan.) Also, there’s been dismay in Cairo and Riyadh over his courting the terrorist mentors in Teheran.’ [per DebkaFile intelligence reports].’
The American issue has since developed: The White House refuses to let Rhodes testify (Fox News 17 May, 2016). Yesterday Reuters reports on the Hilary Clinton’s illegal activities, Clinton email server broke government rules. HA! LOL! Maybe that’s why mine was giving me such serious bother this morning.’
With all that historical and prophetic date in mind, we must check the breaking news on Obama.