A split in Islam and Erdogan eyes up Jerusalem – historian Simon S. Montefiore

Posted on Thursday, 27 August, 2026 by Richard Barker

MOST APPOSITE for only last night this essential viewing was shared on our Breakfast Bible Study group’s online discussion.

First however, here’s Michael A. Rothman’s coverage:

𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐍 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎’𝐒 𝟐𝐍𝐃-𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐘—𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄’𝐒 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐌

Iran spent the summer getting hammered by Israeli and American strikes. Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore says that vacuum isn’t staying empty — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is filling it. “𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘈𝘛𝘖 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵”’, Montefiore said Erdogan’s new line amounts to, describing it on the TRIGGERnometry podcast as a straight bid to “𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘖𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴”.

What Erdogan is chasing, Montefiore explained, isn’t Ataturk’s secular republic. It’s the old Ottoman Sultanate, which once ruled from Algiers to the borders of Iran, from Yemen to Crimea, and into Europe as far as Budapest. Erdogan wants the Muslim half of that map back — commanding a 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝-𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎 gives him the muscle to reach for it.

That reach now has an address. Montefiore said Erdogan is “now talking openly about” 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐭, 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐦 as Ottoman and Turkish cities, and warned the Turkish government is 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐫 “potentially with Israel”.

It isn’t a new appetite. Even Ataturk tried to seize Mosul before the League of Nations handed it to British-mandate Iraq instead. Erdogan is now openly challenging the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that drew Turkey’s modern borders and buried the Ottoman claim to the region for good — or so everyone thought.

Montefiore’s bottom line: the Middle East’s three preeminent military powers — Iran, Turkey, and Israel — aren’t even Arab-speaking. Weaken one, and the other two don’t split the difference quietly.

𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠!

VITALLY IMPORTANT HISTORY

Simon Sebag Montefiore is an ACE historian and good to get a full reminder of Middle-Eastern history. It confirms how the Lord showed me the danger of Iran in a remarkable God-incidence years before I became a believer, as told in Bio Info.

Chris Cowell presents this useful reminder of Basic History for the Uninformed:

1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state.

2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.

3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.

4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.

5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Crusader Frankish and the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.

6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there were the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.

7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.

8. there was the Sassanid-Persian Empire before the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.

9. Before the Sassanid-Persian Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire again, not a Palestinian state.

10. there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state, before the Byzantine Empire.

11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Jewish Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.

12. Before the Jewish Hasmonean state was the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, not a Palestinian state.

13. Before the Hellenistic Seleucid empire, there was Alexander the Great’s empire, not a Palestinian state.

14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire, not a Palestinian state.

15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.

16. Before the Babylonian Empire, the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were not Palestinian states.

17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.

18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.

19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.

There have been many governments there, but never a Palestine.

(Khan Fatima on X)

The historian makes a particularly pertinent point that caught my attention relating to my postings on a schism within Islam.

So, here’s Simon speaking from 1:12:25

“…and so there are these two great traditions in the Arab world and you that’s what again brings us to what’s happened now in a much wider plane, which is what is happening now is not just between kind of the West and a resistant axis of Iran and its allies like Hamas and Hezbollah.

No, what’s really happening today is a debate and a war within Islam about which which road of Islam they should follow. And there is a huge tradition, a huge tradition and one that I love, within Islam which is open to others which is always negotiating how the relationship between Sharia law and society and state should be, which recognizes all sorts of viewpoints within itself.

And that tradition is as ancient as the Arab state is ancient. And you see it throughout the history of the two great empires the Umiads and the Abbisids into the Fatimids. This is constantly a presence there and it’s one that we should recognize and we would welcome….”

HERE’S LOTS MORE, especially on the 1917 liberation of Jerusalem by British General Allenby (ie Ala-Nabi, prophet of God!) herein:

Conversations and corrections over history of Palestine and Israel – 1 of 2

Conversations and corrections over history of Palestine and Israel – 2 of 2

2016 prophecy fulfilled – US’ mainstream media’s pro-China political rot fully exposed

Posted on Monday, 10 August, 2026 by Richard Barker

N O T ‘MADE IN CHINA’ B U T ‘BOUGHT BY CHINA’!

Thank you to Ken Blackwell of Ohio for this news, another validation of my prophetical musing of 2016 and subsequent fulfilments, as listed/tagged herein :

🚨EXPOSED: China-Linked Group Paid Dozens of American Journalists to Manufacture Positive Coverage for the CCP. Here are their names! 🚨

The documents Natalie Winters published today show a Beijing-aligned political warfare network sponsoring 54 American journalists on trips through China and Hong Kong from 2010 through 2018.

The foundation covered the airfare, the hotels, the meals, and the ground transportation, and then it covered the thing that actually mattered, which was access no honest reporter could arrange on his own and no reader would ever be told about.

These Americans were walked through China’s Foreign Ministry, the Commerce Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the National Development and Reform Commission, the People’s Bank of China, the China Investment Corporation, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

They were seated with senior Communist officials and given guided tours of the propaganda machine itself, including Xinhua, CCTV, People’s Daily Online, and Global Times. On one edition of the program, a handler from the Information Department of China’s Foreign Ministry rode along for the entire mainland leg and joined the Americans at their official banquets.

Nobody was tricked into any of this. The program stated its purpose in writing, bringing American journalists together with Chinese counterparts to discuss how coverage of each country could be “improved.” The foundation’s later materials threw out the diplomatic language altogether and said the delegations existed to tell “positive stories” about Hong Kong and mainland China.

The program demanded at least five years of experience and recruited senior people from the biggest outlets in America. It hunted editors above all, and you should understand exactly why. A reporter writes a story, while an editor decides which stories are allowed to exist at all, which ones run on page one, and which ones die quietly in a meeting no reader will ever hear about. Beijing was buying the room where American news gets decided, and Beijing got it at a discount.

Here are all 54, with the jobs they held at the time.

Saeed Ahmed, supervising news editor, CNN
Robert Little, senior investigative editor, NPR
Stephen Stromberg, editorial writer, The Washington Post
Juliet Lapidos, staff editor, The New York Times
Autumn Brewington, op-ed page editor, The Washington Post
Holly Yeager, Middle East and Asia editor, The Washington Post
Carrie Halperin, producer, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS
Elizabeth Ralph, deputy editor, Politico Magazine
Doyle McManus, Washington columnist, Los Angeles Times
Rebecca Davis, senior video producer, NBC News
Kevin Beesley, Asia editor, NPR
Leslie Norton, Asia editor, Barron’s
Brian Wingfield, energy and trade reporter, Bloomberg
Valerie Volcovici, correspondent, Reuters
Diane Bartz, reporter, Reuters
Alan Wirzbicki, editorial page writer and editor, The Boston Globe
Alexander Kingsbury, deputy ideas editor, The Boston Globe
Michael Freedman, senior editor, Newsweek
John Schoen, senior producer, MSNBC.com
Adam Behsudi, trade reporter, Politico
Michael Stratford, reporter, Politico
Mariana Keller, senior video producer, NBC News
Jake Heller, producer and host, NBC News
Jesus Ayala, producer, ABC News
Oren Dorell, foreign affairs correspondent, USA Today
Joshua Keating, staff writer, Slate
Evelyn Cheng, staff writer, CNBC
Mary Childs, senior reporter, Barron’s
Benjamin Bartenstein, emerging markets reporter, Bloomberg
Jessica Schulberg, foreign affairs reporter, HuffPost
Alexander Kaufman, reporter, HuffPost
Don Lee, economics reporter, Los Angeles Times and Tribune Washington Bureau
Alexander Travelli, Asia online editor, The Economist
Erica Grieder, Southwest correspondent, The Economist
Roya Wolverson, senior writer, Time
Kopin Tan, senior editor, Barron’s
Sandra Ward, senior editor, Barron’s
Joe Schatz, senior writer, Congressional Quarterly
Patricia Hill, chief economic correspondent, The Washington Times
Jeffrey Chu, articles editor, Fast Company
Nathan Bomey, reporter, Detroit Free Press
Daniel Beekman, reporter, The Seattle Times
Lomi Kriel, reporter, Houston Chronicle
Andy Curliss, state government editor, The News and Observer
Janet Cho, business reporter, The Plain Dealer
Liz Jones, reporter, KUOW Public Radio
Robert Chaney, staff writer, the Missoulian
David Whiting, Page One columnist, Orange County Register
Marc Stewart, reporter and substitute anchor, KMGH-TV Denver
William Luckie, news anchor and reporter, KLTV
Pia Lopez, associate editor, The Sacramento Bee
Robert Ballenger, editor and producer, NPR
Tom Waseleski, editorial page editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Karin Caifa, producer, CNN Newsource

Look at what that investment is worth today. The CNN supervising editor now runs digital news platforms for the Associated Press, which means he helps decide what wire copy lands in your hometown paper.

The NPR investigative editor now runs NPR’s investigations team, which means he decides what NPR digs into and what NPR leaves alone.

The Washington Post editorial writer became a New York Times opinion editor for politics and economics, the New York Times staff editor became a deputy editor at The Atlantic, and the Slate writer now covers foreign policy and international conflict for Vox.

The CNBC staff writer is now CNBC’s correspondent in Beijing, filing from the capital of the government that once hosted her.

Beijing did not waste its money on the bottom of American journalism. It identified the people who would be running the business fifteen years later and got to them early, which means the Communist Party ran a better talent operation than our own newsrooms did.

Now understand who was sitting across that table. The sponsoring foundation worked hand in glove with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Americans hear that name and picture some harmless civic club, but the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission created by Congress calls it a major coordinating institution of the Communist Party’s United Front system. That is the machinery Beijing uses to recruit and run influential foreigners, and its delegates take direction on how Party policy should be sold to foreign audiences. The Commission’s own finding is that such delegates can serve as proxies for Communist Party interests.

Our government warns that United Front work overseas can involve political influence, intelligence collection, and technology transfer, and that its stated purpose is to “co-opt and neutralize” opposition to the Party while seizing control of how the world sees China.

American journalists were seated with vice chairmen of that body over and over again, and they were introduced to Tung Chee-hwa and C.Y. Leung while both men held senior positions inside it. The foundation reported its activities back to central government officials in Beijing and partnered with the Conference’s Shanghai committee.

Strip away the brochure language and what remains is an influence operation with a hospitality budget, and 54 Americans took the seat they were offered.

The foundation’s own chief executive said as much out loud in 2005, when he described one of these delegations as a “united front” and explained that the point was to deliver one strong message. They confessed the entire operation in plain English twenty years ago. American media heard it, understood it, and kept boarding the plane anyway.

The operation worked, and the Communists kept score themselves. In 1995, Fortune ran its famous cover declaring the death of Hong Kong. In 2007, the foundation briefed a Fortune journalist during one of these tours, and Fortune promptly published a piece announcing that Hong Kong was hardly dead. The foundation then celebrated that reversal in its own materials as proof its media outreach worked, which means Beijing was grading its American assets in writing and liked what it saw.

Then read the coverage the trips produced. One writer traveled with the 2013 delegation to a government-selected industrial zone in Nanchang, and while he was still on the sponsored trip he filed a piece calling Nanchang a city of the future, gushing over its immense changes and its optimistic spirit and urging the world to pay closer attention to what China was building. Readers were told he wrote for Slate, and readers were never told who bought the ticket.

A decade later, he was still at it, instructing Americans to thank Xi Jinping for their gas prices.

A Los Angeles Times columnist made the 2010 trip and came home to explain that Chinese leaders feel threatened and cornered by the United States, that their aggression amounts to self-defense as they see it, and that they are as frightened of the future as we are.

He went on to admire how adaptable one-party rule has proved to be, which is the language of a man repeating a briefing he was given.

A Barron’s Asia editor made that same 2010 trip, and within weeks the magazine ran her piece on China’s sure bet. She later informed American investors that China would sit on top of the new world order. Beijing paid for the travel and collected the coverage, which makes every dime of it money well spent.

So every outlet on this list and every editor still cashing their checks owes the country some answers this week. Who approved these junkets, and what does the paperwork say? Did a single disclosure ever run alongside the stories that followed, and if not, who made that call and does that person still have a job today?

These same newsrooms spent years lecturing America about foreign influence and ran wall-to-wall coverage of Russian interference while demanding tax returns, donor lists, and travel records from every conservative in public life. The entire time, their own senior editors were flying on a Communist front group’s dime and telling their readers nothing about it. Where was the special counsel for that?

Would any of these outlets accept the identical arrangement from an oil company, a gun manufacturer, or a Republican donor and then keep it out of print? Everyone in America knows the answer, because they would put it on the front page for a week and call it corruption, which is precisely what it is.

How many of these editors sat in judgment of stories about Chinese trade cheating, Chinese technology, the Uyghur camps, the destruction of Hong Kong, or the origins of COVID-19 without ever mentioning that Beijing had hosted them? What is your travel policy right now, in August 2026, and will you publish every foreign-government-funded trip your staff has taken since 2010, or will you sit on your hands and pray this dies by Friday?

And to the readers in Cleveland who trusted their business reporter at the Plain Dealer to tell them the truth about the plants that packed up and moved to China, did anybody ever tell you who was picking up the tab?

This runs deeper than any single article. Beijing never had to purchase a headline outright, because buying headlines is expensive and clumsy and leaves fingerprints all over the crime. Cultivating the people who choose the headlines costs one plane ticket and pays dividends for twenty years, which is the genius of the thing, and it worked on the most self-righteous industry in America. These are the people who wrap themselves in the First Amendment and call themselves the last line of defense against tyranny, and a Communist front group bought their good opinion with a hotel room and a banquet.

Propaganda carrying a Chinese government byline persuades nobody in this country, while propaganda carrying an American byline in the paper your mother has trusted for forty years walks straight past every defense we have. That is the whole operation, and that is exactly why it was worth the money to them.

A free press is one of the greatest blessings God ever gave a free people, and it was never meant to serve as a hospitality suite for a regime that runs concentration camps in Xinjiang, strangled Hong Kong in front of the entire world, and lied to every nation on earth about a virus that killed millions.

Fifty-four names are now on the record.

Keep them somewhere you can find them, because the next time one of these outlets tells you what to think about China, you already know that Beijing paid for the answer.

Reprise 2021: US Foreign Affairs C’tee confirms Richard’s Watch on “man-made virus” leaked from ‘bio-secure’ Wuhan Institute of Virology, China

Posted on Thursday, 6 August, 2026 by Richard Barker

In view of news across ‘the pond’ regarding Anthony Fauci and comments raised on my Facebook over a shared Christian Peoples’ Alliance UK posting with remarks about his admitting CV19 virus came from Wuhan, this item posted five years ago today is most apposite – no such thing as ‘coincidence’! – SO, ‘God-incidental’ timing! (Links updated)

“GREATEST COVER-UP OF ALL TIME” – HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPUBLICANS CONCLUDE COVID-19 CAME FROM WUHAN LAB

This above-linked report with in-depth background by Julian Conradson published Wednesday in Australian Harry Richardson’s POST comes as absolutely no surprise to readers who’ve followed my coverage of Covid-19 as a bio-weapon engineered by China’s communist party and military. Julian writes,

‘…An investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee into the origin of the Covid-19 outbreak has concluded that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sometime just before September 12, 2019.

‘The year-plus inquiry, lead by Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, issued a third and final report on Monday.

‘The committee compiled a “preponderance” of evidence that confirms the lab as the source of the outbreak and cites a persistent effort by the involved parties to “destroy evidence” in an attempt to cover up the their involvement in creating the virus. [Emphasis RB]

“It is the opinion of Committee Minority Staff, based on the preponderance of available information; the documented efforts to obfuscate, hide, and destroy evidence; and the lack of physical evidence to the contrary; that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory sometime prior to September 12, 2019.”

“We now believe it’s time to completely dismiss the wet market as the source.”

‘After the release of the report, McCaul called on Congress to sanction scientists at the Wuhan lab and also Chinese Communist Party officials for their role in withholding crucial information that killed over 4 million as part of the “greatest coverup of all time.”

‘He also asked them to subpoena Peter Daszak, the scientist who was involved in the research and development of the coronavirus in the US and China, for knowingly making false claims. Daszak ridiculously claimed the lab leak theory was xenophobic in a public letter [RB: Lancet] at the beginning of the year…. (continue reading here)

UPDATE 6.8.26 (re Feb 26 2023):

Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Energy (DOE) assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China. Their report reiterates the same finding in Chairman McCaul’s report from August 2021, which found a preponderance of the evidence proved the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“A year and a half ago, after conducting an extensive investigation, I released a report concluding the preponderance of the evidence proved the coronavirus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology because of dangerously unsafe conditions at the lab, and that the release turned into the global COVID-19 pandemic because the Chinese Communist Party focused on covering up their mistake instead of warning the world.

While I wish it had happened sooner, I’m pleased the Department of Energy has finally reached the same conclusion that I had already come to. I have requested a full and thorough briefing from the administration on this report and the evidence behind it. Now is the time for the entire Biden administration to join the Department of Energy, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the majority of Americans by publicly concluding what common sense told us at the start – the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. It is critical the administration also begin to work immediately with our partners and allies around the world to both hold the CCP accountable and to put in place updated international regulations to ensure something like this cannot happen again.”

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/mccaul-report-corroborating-his-investigation-concluding-covid-19-pandemic-originated-at-wuhan-lab

PS. For LOTs more visit blog’s reference page Covid-19 Bioweapon

Watch! Strategic pieces are moving across the Global Chessboard – Veronika West

Posted on Thursday, 9 July, 2026 by Richard Barker

Herein, Veronika writing in His Kingdom Prophecy briefly recaps her vision and words received:

“Yesterday on the 7th July 2026, 07/07/26, I submitted a Prophetic Word, ”A Divine Reckoning Has Surely Begun.” where God spoke to me from Daniel 7. He showed me many things that would begin to unfold.

I was led to share a few of those Prophetic Insights for the purpose of Prayer, and literally within a few hours of that Prophetic Word being released, Iran broke the Ceasefire Agreement.!!”

‘The Watchmen need to be in serious Prayer, as many things will begin to unfold quickly as things start to come into Divine Alignment, as this Prophetic Window of Time closes!

( As I Pray, I keep hearing the Sound of Clicking — Click – Click – Click — and I see what looks like a Combination Lock on a Door…. )

There is a Turning, Turning of the Dial in the Realm of The Spirit as Nations begin align with Kairos Time.

I see a greater Alignment of Nations is taking place in this Threshold 7^th Month.

I see The Nations as Chess Pieces upon a Global Chessboard — every move is deliberate by the Hand of God — every alliance calculated — kings are being manoeuvred; long held positions are becoming vulnerable.

I see Queens are being removed from the Chessboard.

Bishops are advancing. Strategic moves taking place upon hidden diagonals. Knights are making unexpected moves that confound the wisdom of men. Rooks are taking strategic strongholds — while Pawns are sacrificed to gain greater ground.

I hear the Spirit say, “Watch! As the Global Pieces Move and Shift — as the Landscape of Nations Change quickly!

Look! And look again! For what appears to be isolated movements are part of My Divine Plan and strategy towards greater Victory and the Fulfillment of Prophecy.

Watch! As The Global Board is being Reset, Recalibrated and Reconstituted by My Spirit.

Watch and Pray — as strategic pieces are on the move, for every shift moves a greater weight upon the Scales of My Justice that’s about to Tip!

Watch! For as this Window of Time closes, a Door Opens — and Nations are suddenly brought to a place of decisive and Divine Confrontation of War unto Divine Restoration and Reformation”

News Headlines:

News Headline Screencapture

And Quote;

“Donald Trump has declared the ceasefire in Iran “over” in an extraordinary rant at the NATO summit, just hours after the US launched fresh strikes.

The US president said that Tehran were “scum” after the Iranians retaliated against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain overnight, threatening a fragile interim peace deal agreed between both sides last month.”

See Prophetic links to full Words:

🎯 Prophetic Words that Require Serious Prayer

🎯 1) I-R-A-N = R-A-I-N

From June 18, 2026 — and Quote;

” So early this evening just as I was about to finish actioning a few emails, I suddenly saw the word IRAN, followed by the word RAIN come up before me.

And this is what I saw: I-R-A-N = R-A-I-N!

As I saw these two words come up before me, side by side, it literally stopped me in my tracks, and I felt The Spirit of The Fear of The LORD come upon me, as immediately The Holy Spirit quickened to me, Ezekiel 38:22 which says.

”I will execute Judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of RAIN, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many Nations with him” Ezekiel 38:22.

🔥 Prophetic Note

This “RAIN of Judgement” is part of God’s direct and Divine Intervention to destroy invading forces, magnifying His Name among The Nations.

And if we look deeper, we see that Ezekiel 38–39 portrays this as an Event in the “Latter Days”…where God arises to scatter the enemies of The Nation of Israel, and He reveals Himself to The Nations.

[…….] ”

🎯 2) Versailles — A Prophetic Sign That Speaks to the Time

From June 19, 2026 — and Quote;

” [……]

I submit that Versailles speaks Prophetically of systems that seek to Control Economies and Destinies through Treaties, Diplomacy and displays of human might….

Yet I hear The Spirit say, ”Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty Spirit before a fall”
(Proverbs 16:18)

Listen Friends, The Signing of this Iran Peace Agreement in such a specific Location is not Coincidence —- but Divine Providence!

I further submit, that this Iran Agreement represents a Providential Pause — and not a Permanent Resolution!

Human Agreements, however grand, remain Temporary Stages, or Divine Pauses, upon which the greater purposes of God unfold!

Versailles itself is a place marked by the lessons of history that are speaking powerfully now Prophetically!

The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was signed in its famous Hall of Mirrors.

What was intended to secure Peace, ultimately became part of a greater unfolding Conflict, here and now!….

We see yet another Agreement concerning Persia sealed in the same location!

Prophetically, I do not believe God is saying that the story is finished, but rather, I believe The Spirit of God is revealing that a Providential Pause has been granted while His Greater Purposes continue to unfold behind the scenes.

Let it be clearly understood; this Pause is not the Reversal! The Divine Reversal is yet to come!

For The LORD Declares that every Noose fashioned against His Purposes shall ultimately fail, and every Decree contrary to His Will, shall be overturned in His Appointed Time.

I hear these Words, ”I shall Reverse Decrees as I did in Esther’s day!” (Esther 8)

God is saying, Haman’s Noose shall become the Instrument of his own downfall and destruction, and the choke-hold that Iran fashioned at Hormuz, shall not ultimately stand, for this Agreement may provide a temporary pause, but it does not alter the Sovereign purposes of God.

For what man seeks to secure through Diplomacy, God will ultimately settle through His own Divine Judgments and Divine Reversals.

”I will rain upon it!” says God.

[…….] ”

🎯 3) Haman’s Gallows: The Noose of Hormuz Around the Neck of the Eagle Nation

From June 19, 2026 — and Quote;

” […….]

Note; this Word today is June 18, 2026 — 6/18/26…

I believe it comes as a Second Part of the Prophetic Scroll that God began to unravel late last night concerning IRAN and It follows on from the Word; “I-R-A-N = R-A-I-N“ from June 18. (6/18/26).

So, In the early hours of this morning while in Prayer, suddenly I heard these Words: ”Pray! For Haman’s Gallows have been erected, and the Noose of Hormuz tightens around the neck of My Eagle Nation!”

As I heard those Words and quickly wrote them down, I was shown that just as Haman prepared a Gallows and a Noose for Mordecai and the People of God in Ancient Persia, (Esther 5:9-14) so the Spirit of Haman that once operated in Persia is manifesting again in the land of modern-day IRAN.

Then suddenly I saw a Hangman’s Noose in the form of the Strait of Hormuz — a geographical as well as a Spiritual strategic choke-hold, tightening around the neck of the Eagle Nation, America!

As I watched and continued to Pray, I saw what looked like a Three-strand Cord — a thick rope being drawn tight around Global Economies and the Financial Lifelines of many Nations — especially that of the Eagle Nation.

Prophetic Note: As we know, the Strait of Hormuz is a Narrow Passage through which a significant portion of the World’s Oil Supply flows.

Iran sits at the edge of this Strategic Waterway and has repeatedly threatened to close it, boasting of its ability to disrupt Energy Supplies, destabilise Global Markets and exert pressure upon those who stand with the Nation of Israel.

I submit that herein lies a profound Prophetic Parallel that is unfolding in this very Hour!

It is the SAME ancient hatred and evil that is manifesting in modern Geography and Time.

Persia once hosted the Court where Haman plotted genocide against God’s Covenant People, and today from that same region, we see a Noose is being drawn across the Waters of the Persian Gulf.

Then I heard these Words, “Though they tighten the Noose at the Strait of Hormuz, Fear Not!

For I AM the One who Controls the Seas and the Straits.

Watch! For the Military Might and Strategic Position in which they have placed their confidence shall be broken, scattered and Judged, so that the All Nations will know that I AM The LORD!”

[…….] ”

Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West

Obama’s Jenga Tower game with biolabs comes crashing down; a veritable ‘house of cards’!

Posted on Thursday, 18 June, 2026 by Richard Barker

A lot’s happened during the two years since posting Jigsaw Pieces of Prophecies on Donald Trump – Prophets Vindicated wherein the listing provides links to the originals and well as updates of over two dozen prophecies given to our sister Veronika West.

Subsequent news connected to recent exposures on gain-of-function bioweapons and bio-labs from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard releasing declassified evidence reminds me of item #24 Obama-Trump Jenga Tower Game – HKP original published on 22 July 2022 – as in The Gateway Pundit below (advert-free version here)

CONFIRMED: Barack Obama Was Involved in Creation of US Biolabs Handling Especially Dangerous Pathogens in Ukraine

It is actually a reprise and summary of information known four years ago, as follows:

‘Natalie Winters at the National Pulse reported in March 2022 on Obama’s connections to the labs reported in Ukraine. [She writes]

‘A deleted web article recovered by The National Pulse reveals that former President Barack Obama spearheaded an agreement leading to the construction of biolabs handling “especially dangerous pathogens” in Ukraine.

The news comes on the same day that Biden regime apparatchik Victoria Nuland told the U.S. Senate that the American government is concerned about biological research facilities falling into Russian hands as a result of the ongoing conflict in Eastern Europe.

Originally posted on June 18th, 2010, the article “Biolab Opens in Ukraine” details how Obama, while serving as an Illinois Senator, helped negotiate a deal to build a level-3 bio-safety lab in the Ukrainian city of Odessa.

The article, which also highlighted the work of former Senator Dick Lugar, was additionally included in Issue No. 818 of the United States Air Force (USAF) Counterproliferation Center’s Outreach Journal.

“Lugar said plans for the facility began in 2005 when he and then-Senator Barack Obama entered a partnership with Ukrainian officials. Lugar and Obama also helped coordinate efforts between the U.S and Ukrainian researchers that year in an effort to study and help prevent avian flu,” explained author Tina Redlup.’

The Gateway Pundit also reported in 2022 that a document was recovered that revealed the US military was funding bioresearch on Coronavirus in Ukraine. It should also be noted that Hunter Biden’s laptop proved he helped secure funding for US contractors in Ukraine specializing in pathogen research.’

This news also features on Prophecies Fulfilled (Telegram), relating to a prophetic word Julie Green received on 6 February 2026, as in these extracts of this MUST-READ, and interesting to note the Lord’s reference to a similar game “house of cards fall”. (Note, emphases as published, underlining added):

NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS

“For I, the Lord, this day, am telling you, My children, lies are coming out of every state in your nation that has held this country under your enemies’ control. Lies will continually be exposed in your capital until every one of them is revealed. Their lies have no power against truth. Truth is coming to set you free and to destroy your enemies at the same time.

Something massive will be exposed in Michigan, like in Minnesota. One by one, states will be exposed for massive financial fraud and election fraud…. Gretchen Whitmer is being exposed for the crimes she has committed… Jocelyn Benson will be exposed for helping with all that is happening in Michigan…Many secrets will be exposed, (including) what is hidden in New Mexico that no one even realizes is there—military secrets that the establishment will do everything to keep hidden…. Antarctica’s secrets will not stay secret much longer….Hollywood is about to take hits, one right after another.

Again, I say, the CIA and the FBI have worked with Hollywood to help with brainwashing and programming, and this will be exposed in a major way. So many have listened to music and watched their TV shows and movies but have had no idea the globalists were using entertainment to change society and the way people view the world around them.

I will say this again—MKUltra is being used in many ways to brainwash the masses—and the same thing with the mainstream media. Truth is coming. More journalists will be removed from their positions, and more news stations will go bankrupt. Emails, phone conversations, and undercover videos will come out to fully prove that the mainstream media is controlled by the globalists and the establishment.

Nothing is as it seems. I have warned you to walk by faith and not by sight because the people you may think are good are not, and those who look bad are actually good. Do not be deceived by what the world is trying to tell you is the truth, because it is actually a lie. Renew your mind with My Word so that you are firmly fixed on what I have said and not on what the world is trying to tell you. (They want) to bring fear and defeat, says the Lord.

Mexico is about to shake, and the truth will come out about how they were helping other nations to attack this nation…

Proof is coming that Obama is still working with Iran and China. It will all be brought out into the open—money trails, emails, laptops, burner phones, and text messages from high-ranking military officials to politicians and military leaders in other nations, to cause chaos and destruction in the United States. Proof is coming that Obama helped Zelenskyy start that war in Ukraine—to run more money through disguised as military funding, to help that money go elsewhere for the globalists’ reset.

Ukraine has been a money laundering hub for a long time, and it is now time to pull the plug on the globalists’ plans. (There are) more secrets regarding the Deep State and all they are hiding in Ukraine—the involvement of Ukraine with military actions, helping to steal elections, helping by hiding bio labs and bioweapons in their country, and secrets regarding child trafficking and how bad it truly is in Ukraine. The CIA has many dark secrets in Ukraine that they do not want the world to know about. But I, the Lord, am telling you, My children, every dark secret in Ukraine and every money trail leading back to every enemy will be exposed. I will expose how Obama worked with Zelenskyy to help get rid of President Trump in any way possible. All of Obama’s and the Deep State’s secrets in Ukraine must come out, and once they do, you will start to see more of their house of cards fall like the walls of Jericho. There is no recovering from this for them; it is the end of their Global Reset.

My children, I am telling you to keep praying that every lie will be revealed, that everything hidden will be made known, and that every plan of the enemy will be stopped. Things will intensify in 2026, but do not fear. I am near—to destroy your enemies’ power over you and to give back to you all that has been stolen, says the Lord of Hosts.”

10th Anniversary: another domino trail in Europe – Veronika West

Posted on Monday, 1 June, 2026 by Richard Barker

Further to Tuesday’s posting on the 10th Anniversary of writing on the Obama-Iran ‘nuclear’ deal, after a brief note on Donald Trump’s nomination the original of which reads:

‘All that’s probably nothing compared with the EU, which hasn’t been able to publish any certified accounts for donkey’s years!! Wouldn’t now be a good time for all the rotten dirty laundry of crumbling EU finances to be exposed in full glare of continent-wide publicity?…

Kononia eNews_Breakup-of-EU

I expanded upon this in UK/EU in/out #6 posted 10 years ago yesterday (emphases added):

EUROPE vs ISRAEL

The thorough bias against the state of Israel is undoubtedly an important aspect of our Lord’s perspective upon the poisonous political spirit at the heart of the continent dear to my heart. Middle-Eastern affairs analyst Daniel Pipes has just published a pointed paper that demonstrates this issue, which will have a grave effect upon the EU’s future. That is, it is under the Genesis 12:3 curse of failing to bless the Jewish people in their homeland.

In Left vs Israel, Daniel considers a little-known and seriously warped WHO report that was voted upon by members of the UNO. All European countries – INCLUDING UK – were against Israel. Pipes writes,

‘The unlikely (voting) pattern suggests that monolithic Muslim hostility is cracking while Europeans, who are overwhelmingly on the Left…increasingly despise Israel. Worse, even those who do not share this attitude go along with it, even in an obscure WHO vote.’

SO, we do need to be well aware of serious spiritual issues over being associated with the European Union.’

NOW this morning Veronika West posts on Ignite Ireland Ministry (please bear with Fbk’s tight text has too much buried coding to remove, but emphases are mine). For once I’d seen it within minutes of posting and comment: “Thank You Lord for this confirmation of the vision of falling dominoes in May ten years ago as You expose the rot of political corruption here in UK and Europe (catching up on America’s lead as usual!)”

”AS FRANCE BURNS”;…THE WORD OF GOD IS CONFIRMED…

…Today 6/1/2026 (1st June) I want to Re-Share the following Prophetic Word…(RB: next post)

…As it will bring Confirmation of many things that God has shown me concerning the Sorrows of Europe…

…Even as I write this,…I See a Single Domino Falling…and then a sudden acceleration of movement across the Nations of Europe…

…I hear the Spirit say,…“Watch! For what begins in one Nation shall not remain in one Nation”…

…I see greater Unrest,…Upheaval and growing instability moving like a Wave across the Continent,…

…I see long standing tensions that have been hidden beneath the surface suddenly breaking forth,…

…Like pressure building beneath the earth before an earthquake,…so many things have been quietly simmering and accumulating behind the scenes,…

…I hear these words, “Watch As the Tectonic Plates of Nations begin to Move and Shift both in the Natural and in the Supernatural,…that will cause a Tidal Wave of Destruction against the Kingdoms of Darkness”..!!

…But NOW…the Hour of even Greater Shaking begins to expose what has long been hidden and concealed,…

…Friends,…for many Years the Lord has repeatedly spoken to me concerning Europe, …Showing me that a time of deep Sorrow,…Convulsion and Great Testing would come upon many Nations,…

…Not only Politically and Economically,…but Spiritually,…as Altar rises against Altar….as Covenant vs Covenant…

…For the Foundations of many Nations are being weighed in the balance and found wanting,…

I hear these Words.. ”THE COURTS ARE NOW IN SESSION”!!

…I hear these words,…“The Cracks in the Walls can no longer be hidden in the midst of the Greater Shaking…

…For where there has been a Root of Corruption and compromise,…God will now fully expose…

…And where there has been an abandoning of Covenant Foundations,…the consequences of those choices will become increasingly visible for the Eyes of all Nations to see…

…As France Burns,…let this be a Warning to the Watchmen,…

…Listen! France is a Sign….and yet this is not merely about one Nation,…

…Rather it is a Signpost pointing toward a much wider unfolding reality across the Nations of Europe,…

…I hear the Spirit say,…“Watch the Dominoes fall as the Weight of My Glory begins to Invade Nations in the Valley of Decision,…

…Watch the Streets,…the Governments and their Leaders,…the Economic and Technological Gateways,…the Walls and the Borders and Boundary lines of Nations,…

…Watch and Pray…

…For the Days ahead will demand a Razor Sharp Discerning Remnant that knows how to stand between the Porch and the Altar and to take hold of the Horns,…

…An Unshakable Righteous Remnant that will not be moved…But that will Understand the Times and Seasons and will know what must be done…

…For while Nations Shake and Tremble under the Weight of My Invading Glory,…

…I am Calling for My Governing Ecclesia to Stand and to Legislate…to Rule and Reign in the midst of the Increasing Darkness”..!

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NOTE; What’s particularly Interesting about this Prophetic Dream is that it was first given end of 2017, is (9) Years ago, and released again in 2018…

Biblically, the Number Nine (9) is often associated with Birthing, Fullness and God’s Divine Judgement, which makes the timing of this Dream all the more significant today, for it speaks to a Season which has long been “gestating” beneath the surface and now appears to be moving toward manifestation and Prophecy fulfillment…

Again, I believe this Dream serves as a powerful reminder that God, in His Mercy, often reveals things long before they unfold, giving His People time to Watch, Pray and Prepare.

Please see related 2018 Word:

Note: This is 900th post on Richard’s Watch tagged #Veronika_West

Continue reading the original prophecy Veronika relates in the blog’s next post AND note reader’s Comment on personal relevance of ‘900’ >>>

10th Anniversary: 1st domino in trail of exposures of political rot > Obama and Iran

Posted on Tuesday, 26 May, 2026 by Richard Barker

About 40 years ago the Holy Lord God opened my eyes with a sort of ‘double vision’. At that time I wasn’t yet born-again but led a New Age group in London. My predecessor gave me a book on geopolitical history of the Middle East and as I flicked through it whilst watching a documentary on television > THEN BOTH ‘coincidentally’ dovetailed, as recounted in my Bio Info.

Already aware of Israel’s ongoing situation in the Middle-East, 17 years ago I began taking special note, and emailed friends and church leaders on what I’d heard from the Lord upon opening my Bible, as told in The Endgame Is Now In Play!

Four months later I expressed my deep concerns about the new President Obama’s claims of being a Christian, as mentioned in his Address to The Muslim World in Cairo in June 2009. Therefore I began to monitor his foreign diplomatic policy closely, rather than internal policies and administration.

It came to a head in his discussions with Iran on acquiring nuclear energy and a bomb which, as far as this blog’s concerned, culminated in the first of 748 postings TEN years ago today on exposures of political rot and corruption.

Is the Lord exposing rotten politics? UK, USA…EU??

Therein I write:

‘…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). 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’.

LATEST

On Monday President Trump posted this announcement on his Telegram channel, emphases added for comparison purposes:

“If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon. Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals! President DJT”

Then yesterday:

‘Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that! During my discussions on Saturday with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords.

Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!). It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be. The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause. The reason for this is that the Abraham Accords have been great for them, and will be even better for everybody, and bring true Power, Strength, and Peace to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years.

It will be a Document respected like no other that has ever been signed, anywhere in the World. Its level of Importance and Prestige will be unparalleled! It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention. In speaking to numerous of the Great Leaders mentioned above, they would be honored, as soon as our Document is signed, to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords. Wow, now that would be something special! This will be the most important Deal that any of these Great, but always in Conflict Countries, will ever sign. Nothing in the past, or in the future, will surpass it.

Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition. The Middle East would be United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World! By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’
TODAY’s NEWS

U.S. Military Launches Precision “Self-Defense Strikes” in Southern Iran – Neutralizing IRGC Threats to American Troops After Radical Regime’s Latest Provocations

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PS (16:28)

Obama on his nuclear negotiations with Iran

Posted on Thursday, 14 May, 2026 by Richard Barker

Further to our 39th ‘full circle’ on Obama-Iran nuclear negotiations nonsense I found a brief article on his version of events whilst America’s president on this Facebook :

‘Obama’s Iran “Success” Boils Down to This: Billions Handed Over While the Mullahs Kept Building Toward the Bomb

In a resurfaced CBS interview clip making the rounds amid the current chaos with Iran, former President Barack Obama pats himself on the back for the 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal. Here’s the key part transcribed straight from the video:

“We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. They were able to maintain a modest civilian nuclear program for energy… So there’s no dispute that it worked, and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Obama continues: “Even Israeli intelligence thought it was working. Even our intelligence services thought it was working… There was some dispute that it didn’t work well. Our present president believed that it didn’t work, which is why he pulled out of it… It’s not clear he didn’t believe it didn’t work. He just said it didn’t work. Worst deal of all time. Yeah, because I did it.”

He adds that the deal wasn’t aimed at regime change or dismantling Iran’s military threats across the region.

Reality check: Obama shipped pallets of cash to the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism. The deal had sunset clauses that let Iran sprint toward nuclear weapons later. Tehran never stopped its missile program, proxy wars, or secret enrichment. Trump ripped it up for good reason. Iran ramped up enrichment dramatically after the U.S. exit, hitting levels that threatened the region and forced tough action.

Weak diplomacy didn’t stop the mullahs. It funded and emboldened them. Strength and maximum pressure keep America safe, not photo-op handshakes that leave enemies stronger. The current mess proves it.

2016-26: Obama-Iran nuclear negotiations nonsense (#39 cont’d)

Posted on Wednesday, 13 May, 2026 by Richard Barker

Continuing Richards Watch 39th full circle from Patsy Southway’s 2016 post Month of May: Domino Effect we return to examine at length an aspect of her open vision relating to events not only then but nowadays too.

My having corrected a historical fact about Barrack Obama’s political past may have a bearing upon an allegation of his likely illicit involvement now!

My Footnote of May 2016 reads (emphases added):

“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 President’s reaction here); President Obama’s unwelcome interference in the UK/EU Referendum and his aide Ben Rhodes’ outrageous boasting about their manipulating media lackies with sheer 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 on 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.’

Repeating that Footnote a fortnight later and noting the Daily Telegraph’s tax investigation into Trump on possible avoidance activities by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, my prophetical musing asked Is The Lord Exposing Rotten Politics? This led to setting up a reference page Prophecies-Fulfilled / Exposures of Corruption and to the consequential 700+ postings on my musing coming to pass!

TEN years later, and over 350 postings focusing on Obama since I went public in 2009, recent updates on his failed appeasement of the Iranian regime follow below.

First however, a Fact Check site looked into a report alleging, “After Obama allegedly sent a “representative” to the US-Iran meeting in Pakistan, Trump called it a clear Logan Act violation” but reported that claim as being false.

Yet Obama recently met Canada’s Prime Minister in what may possibly breach the Act, as some infer. However, Newsweek reports, ‘Obama traveled to Toronto to deliver a keynote speech at a Canadian think‑tank gala event, the CBC reported. Carney posted a video on X welcoming him—a standard courtesy extended to former world leaders…. There is no indication Obama engaged in negotiations, policy discussions, or any attempt to influence Canadian government positions.’

[Wikipedia: The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953,) is a United States federal law that criminalizes the negotiation of a dispute between the United States and a foreign government by an unauthorized American citizen. It is intended to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the U.S. government’s position.^[²^]]

HOWEVER, there may well be a grain of truth in view of my above reference to Obama having back-channel contacts with Iran in the early years of his presidency! AND in view of his seditious scheming against Trump, he may be trying to hide or correct any more skull-duggery committed with the Iranian regime, as hinted in red comment below.

Now, courtesy of Michael A. Rothman, Facebook

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Did POTUS truly lose the plot ? – 2 of 2 God-incidental answers: a ‘madman’ prophetic word

Posted on Thursday, 9 April, 2026 by Richard Barker

Following on from yesterday’s online reading and discussions a meditation upon Verse Of The Day, Hebrews 1:3 and its blessed context God’s Supreme Revelation (NKJV)

‘The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.’

Afterwards the first incoming notification led to this video. Unusually, I took time to listen at speed and learned Tomi heard a word THREE years ago on ‘MADMAN!’ – akin to Jael.

THUS, a second ‘God-incidental’ confirmation of yesterday’s conversation about Trump losing the plot…THIS IS A MUST WATCH.

Note video ‘Chapter-clips’:
00:00 – Intro: “The World Is Going Crazy” Reaction to viral claims about Donald Trump and a shocking post 00:02 – The Viral Post Explained Reading and reacting to the “whole civilization will die tonight” message 01:03 – First Reaction: Fear of Nuclear War? Initial thoughts and public panic about a possible attack 02:19 – Breaking Down the Statement What Trump actually said and how people are interpreting it 04:03 – Overreaction vs Reality Is this rhetoric or something serious? 06:06 – “Does God Regret Trump?” Spiritual framing of leadership and prophecy 06:18 – 2023 Prophecy Clip: “The Rise of Madmen” Throwback to earlier predictions 08:16 – The “Jehu Anointing” Explained What “mad leaders” mean in a biblical context 11:34 – Is Trump a ‘Madman’? Character analysis and leadership style discussion 12:34 – Will a Nation Be Destroyed Tonight? Direct answer to the big question 13:02 – “No More Mr. Nice Guy” Era Shift in tone and leadership approach 13:21 – Critique of Society & the Church Cultural commentary and frustration 16:04 – The Spirit of Elijah & Bold Leadership Biblical comparison and call to action 17:22 – Politics, God, and Power Left vs right vs “God’s side” 19:00 – God Using Unexpected People Examples from scripture and modern parallels 21:01 – When God Raises Your Enemies Discussion of Habakkuk and divine strategy 22:44 – “Don’t Touch My Rahab” Why flawed leaders may still be used 25:52 – Faith, Works & Unlikely Righteousness Abraham, Rahab, and action-based faith 26:53 – The Rise of ‘God-Fearers’ A new category of people emerging 29:12 – Third Wave Movement Explained Non-traditional believers shaping the future 30:28 – A Prophetic Warning & Call to Action “Choose violence” (spiritual urgency) 33:06 – Final Message: A Turning Point Is Coming Closing prophecy and encouragement.

PS. (17:48)
Paul Morris in Canada sends this reminder: “I liked your comments re DJT “losing the plot” – those both in the “church” and out of it are clueless as to the fact that YHVH has called DJT to do exactly what he’s doing. He keeps reminding us via Amanda Grace, Julie Green, Barry Wunsch and others that believers are to pray for Donald, not be ‘slagging him’ and agreeing with the deceived or compromised voices that seek to block and/or remove DJT”

Did POTUS Trump truly lose the plot? – 1 of 2 God-incidental answers

Posted on Thursday, 9 April, 2026 by Richard Barker

Many noted the absence of any public message for Easter from Britain’s king and ‘head’ of the Church of England, in distinct contrast to his published blessing the start of Ramadan! What a contrast with President Trump’s formal message strongly focussed upon the scriptural significance of Jesus’ Resurrection!

However, POTUS’ subsequent threat to obliterate Iran caused very deep consternation. I noted British church friends took exception not only to that, but also to Revd Franklin Graham’s published letter briefly correcting and teaching the President about heaven!

So I continued discussing when a dear friend publicly commented “Trump’s completely lost the plot” and later saying going to war is contrary to Jesus’ teachings and agreeing with Pope Leo’s preaching from Isaiah 1:15 and Zechariah 9:9-10 that God “rejects” the prayers of warmongers!

I well recall the 6-day War of 1967 returning all Jerusalem to the Jewish people and later monitoring the Iranian regime and American presidents’ policies in the Middle-East – especially how President Trump operates – I offer this personal historical and biblical perspective.:

Trump is using the same ‘existential’ lingo as the Iranians!! Thus, they know he knows them – which is the highest communication skill – like the Lord uses with us.

Now, as in my Bio Info: imagine watching a BBC documentary on Iran at war with Iraq, only to hear there’s a temporary cease-fire so elite units of both sides can rehearse storming Jerusalem to liberate it from and cleanse it of all Jews.

Simultaneously, you’re flicking through a gift book The Invisible Hand on geopolitical and religious history of the Middle-East and see a picture of Al-Aqsa mosque with drop-down connective list of verses from the Books of Daniel and Revelation, BUT you don’t know the Bible as you’ve spent 20 years in New Age practices.

Investigating over subsequent years, you discover the apocalyptical goals of Iran’s maniac mullahs needing a World War III to bring about the return of their hidden 12th imam (Mahdi) with Jesus as second in command, being a prophet but not the Son of God and Jewish Messiah!!!

Hence, their multi-pronged command of massively armed proxy armies to attack Israel from all sides, and well-funded by Obama’s 2016 capitulation.

Now, 40 years later the world has a leader who TOO knew all that when you did, AND you know from the living Lord (NOT churchgoers) about his presidency and mission – were you then?

So no, Trump has NOT ‘completely lost the plot’ by talking of ending their civilisation for the simple reason he knows only too well their end-game.

SO, instead of mad mullahs’ constant “Death to Israel, Death to America!” declarations to end the civilisations of Israel and America, Trump is turning the tables on them!

Soon after the second discussion a Facebook friend’s most pertinent post popped onto my phone. It cites The Middle-East Forum’s following article:

Extract from Jules Gome’s report:
‘Weiss, a member of the Interreligious Committee for Relations with the Vatican, corrected Leo’s interpretation of Isaiah, explaining that the prophet’s words “were directed against injustice, corruption, and moral failure” and “not spoken to deny a people the right to protect themselves from annihilation.”

The rabbi, who signed a Vatican interfaith declaration in 2019 rejecting euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, reminded Leo that Isaiah’s words “require careful application” precisely because they “carry immense moral weight.”

“A sweeping condemnation of ‘those who wage war,’ without distinction between aggressor and defender, risks creating a profound moral confusion,” Weiss emphasized. “It places those who seek to preserve life in the same category as those who seek to destroy it.”

The rabbi urged Leo to clarify “the moral difference” and “essential distinction” between “those who initiate violence and those who are compelled to defend the sanctity of life” in his future statements.

Israel is “not engaged in a war of choice” but “is confronting an existential threat from forces that have openly declared their intention to destroy it, and which have actively pursued the means to do so, including the development of weapons capable of devastating entire populations,” Weiss noted…’

I’m often blessed to receive soon afterwards directly relevant material relating to a topic in question, but more was yet to come first thing the very next morning (today), as in the next post…

It reminds us of the legal principle stated below and which is reasonably applied to what Holy Spirit gifted individuals receive from the Lord, and as the rationale behind Paul’s instruction upon delivery and weighing of public prophecies in 1 Corinthians 14:29-31

DEUTERONOMY 19:15

One witness is not enough to convict anyone accused of any crime or offense they may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

[NB: Draft finished at 16:59 BST, so publishing at Q-time, 17:00]

The next ‘God-incidental’ answer is on the relevance of a 2023 ‘Madman’ prophecy >>

NATO cartoon echoes 2019 ‘Humpty Trumpty’ prophecy

Posted on Wednesday, 8 April, 2026 by Richard Barker

Here’s the prophetic nursery rhyme Veronika West brought in December 2019:

AMERICA: HUMPTY TRUMPTY SAT ON A WALL

I shared this Word a few days ago on November 28, 2019, where I heard the sound of elephants trumpeting; ‘a sound of distinction’ will be heard: “America: God will Break the Backs of the Donkeys and the Stiff-necked.”

This morning I woke to this crazy riddle or rhyme about Humpty Trumpty sitting on a wall, watching as many would fall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not raise them up again..!

I believe there is an interesting link between these two Words.

“America: God will Break the Backs of the Donkeys and the Stiff-necked.”

“America; I heard The Spirit of God say this morning, “Listen! For the sound of many trumpets will be heard across this land. Yes!

Watch! As the elephants stampede and the donkeys scatter, and some will say, the elephants have sounded the sound of distinction, for the sound of many trumpets will herald a great victory for a nation that has come under demonic siege!”“

Ha America! You all going to think I’m crazy but I heard this early hours of the morning:

“Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Trumpty watched them all fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,

Could not help them back up again.”

REFERENCE:

Jigsaw pieces of prophecies on Donald Trump – prophets vindicated

Trustworthy and True: Making Sense of the Book of Revelation – Alan Shemwell

Posted on Thursday, 26 March, 2026 by Richard Barker

A riveting scripture-charged exploration and interpretation of the Book of Revelation and study into the fast-approaching End-times – showing how the US, Russia, China and Europe fit into those events to lead into that prophesied global climax.

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Acknowledge it or not, we are hurtling towards the End-times. The pre-conditions have never been more complete than today. More so in the past 80 years than in the previous 19 centuries. Continue reading →

The real battle for the Strait of Hormuz – Tania Koenig

Posted on Thursday, 19 March, 2026 by Richard Barker

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

The Strait of Hormuz Is the Real Battlefield — Not Just the Oil By Tania Koenig

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.

Prophetic signs in the Strait of Hormuz -Veronika West

Posted on Thursday, 19 March, 2026 by Richard Barker

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 —

to a Great Wealth Transfer,
to the War for Oil and to the Ancient Wells where Divine Revival and provision flows,
to a demonic choke-hold that seeks to destroy the Destiny of Nations (the spirit of Haman / hangman’s noose),
to The Spirit of The LORD now moving Nations through The Narrow Places — through the Eye of a Needle,
to The Nations of the Earth now Entering into a Divine Window of Time,
to Nations in a Time and Season of Constriction and Birthing Contractions in the realm of The Spirit,
to Economic and Financial systems and,
to Emerging Political Alliances and,
to Global trade routes that are now moving into tighter spaces, where decisions and a Divine Distinction of Goat and Sheep Nations will no longer be postponed!

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…

Genesis 26 (2026) — the conflict over Isaac’s Wells….
Joel 3 — Nations gathering in the Valley of Decision….
Prophetic Pattern — Strategic locations will become Prophetic pressure points where global tensions will converge….
Marine Spirits: Daniel 7 — Empires rise out of the great sea….
Revelation 13 — the Beast rises out of the sea….
Prophetic Pattern; The Waters — Great turbulence among Nations — The Seas… where chaotic powers emerge and War!
Daniel 9 — Stitch in Time/ Window of Time… (21 Days… Prince of Persia)
Esther — Purim; Spirit of Haman/ Haman’s Gallows!

Blessings to you all.
~ by Veronika West

The Tinderbox Prophecy; Update – Michael M Bennett

Posted on Wednesday, 11 March, 2026 by Richard Barker

References:

11 February 2025 – The Tinderbox Prophecy
11 February 2025 – PostScript

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:

‘Dear Richard,

Previously I sent you a dream dated 1^st 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 30^th 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:

‘Dear Richard,

My previous prophecy, the Tinderbox Prophecy, requires that both the tinder and the box are consumed. This means that we are looking for both personnel and mechanisms to both be removed from effect. What happens to the guilty individuals I cannot say. I hope human justice deals with them.

Currently, we are seeing insiders being exposed by the Trump administration.

Further, as ‘Promethian Update’ on YouTube is indicating, the institutions are being attacked.’

PS insert (RB) > For many highly informed articles go to Promethean Action

Links sent 14 February – https://x.com/i/status/2022219973100548215

The exposures continue, but we’re not yet seeing trials at this high level.

https://x.com/i/status/2022508286558507463

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!!

PS. On Telegram https://t.me/bioclandestine

President Trump needs to apologise for HUGE error offending NATO and our veterans

Posted on Saturday, 24 January, 2026 by Richard Barker

In monitoring prophecies and news relating to America I’ve been pleased in the main to support President Trump, even in minutiae of controversial electoral and legal issues – but am appalled at his recent crass comments and am surprised, for once, to agree with our Prime Minister Starmer:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/22/rutte-confronts-trump-over-dead-nato-soldiers/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/23/almost-died-fighting-afghanistan-trump/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/23/badenoch-accuses-trump-denigrating-britains-war-dead/

PS (12:48)

None of us are perfect and we all make mistakes, but ‘Manners, a man maketh’ so this will test Donald Trump’s manhood.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/24/ignore-trump-american-generals-value-us/

PPS – ABOVE LINK NOW CORRECTED

Protests in Iran and regime’s reaction are another full circle! (28)

Posted on Thursday, 8 January, 2026 by Richard Barker

The wheels-within-wheels keep on turning at high speed…..and here we are at 28th posting on this blog’s and my previous significant items and personal events

Yesterday morning’s Bible breakfast WApp discussion happened to be opened with this contribution: “One I believe, lives a day at a time. Words of an old hymn come to mind:-

” Walking with Jesus day by day,
Taking Him for our Guide;
Holding His hand we can never stray
Far from His wounded side”.

After chats about news of America snatching the Venezuelan ex-president and my relating it to Hebrews 12’s verses on shaking, as in recent posts, I thought his timing so apposite in view of other news and thus respond as follows:

“Not heard of that one Ian, but the Lord’s definitely in the timing. He must have done that about 40 years ago with me, as clearly hinted when I was given this book on history and geopolitics of the Middle-East as a trustee of a New Age lodge.

I flicked through it whilst a documentary on Iran-Iraq war was on TV but I noticed chapters on OT prophecies and Jesus and glanced at photos of the mosque in Jerusalem and timelines of Jewish and Muslim history with reference to Daniel’s prophecies.

Suddenly TV showed Iranian elite units rehearsing an attack upon Jerusalem. [As told in Bio Info, the commentator claimed a temporary truce was called and Iraqi elite units joined the rehearsal.] Sheer coincidence?? That double-strike of book and tv can only have been God’s doing and got my attention!

After moving from Sutton to Pangbourne I saw Billy Graham in ’89 and the next year attended church, where I got another ‘double-strike’ with bulls-eye Bible answers upon asking God about New Age and church leaders.

The hymn implies we can be chatting with him too by means of Holy Spirit, and I’ve had ‘drops’ on Heb 12:27 and Matt 13 wheat & tares parable and learned of the importance of Deut 19:15 on two/three witness testimonies establishing a matter.”

In Bio Info, I continue
‘Definitely a book to be taken seriously; it grabbed and got my full attention! Also, it introduced me to Jewish and Muslim history as a background to Church history, and devoid of any of their theology and jargon.

Consequently, I became more alert to Middle-Eastern and globally related events, which suggest things may not be as they seem at first glance – or as reported in the media, and definitely not the BBC! I was amazed to learn that many modern events are of Biblical significance. Bemused, therefore, I began to watch as events unfolded – occasionally and slowly at first, but rapidly and accelerating after we entered the new Millennium, or ‘3rd Day’ since Christ.

Dunstan estimated all the prophecies would come to a climax in 1992 with Russia being the lead villain against Israel. However, he didn’t foresee the collapse of communism in 1989! Yet that year proved pertinent because the ‘Middle East Peace Process’ had just got under way in October 1991 and led to the Oslo Accords of 1993. Furthermore, Victor accurately foresaw the resurgence of Islam as a militant force:

‘We are about to witness a mighty and almost unbelievable upsurge in Islam. Though we see the first signs of an Islamic-revival (it) has a long way to to go but it’s going to go that ‘long way’ very quickly.’ [‘The Invisible Hand’, page 198.]

Consequently, his seminal book has received a number of mentions during the course of my blogging and which may be found under the Invisbl_Hand tag.’

After two post-Millennium decades of ongoing missile and interim terrorist attacks and then the barbaric massacre on October 7th 2023, Israel went on the defensive against Hamas and surrounding Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Yemen. Then in June 2025 Israel launched Operation Rising Lion as a direct airborne attack upon Iran

Thus 40 years after my seeing the Iranian rehearsal of their ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem and subsequent repetitions, the tables have turned under the Almighty’s hand of Covenantal protection.

NOW – THIS WEEK’s NEWS

Joe Hoft shows a selection of screenshots of videos of protests within Iran in Tuesday’s HUGE: The Iranian people are getting stronger and pushing back against the Iranian regime

Another prophet confirms the shaking and realigning

Posted on Thursday, 8 January, 2026 by Richard Barker

At the start of last Saturdays inter-church men’s breakfast Bible study on the latter half of Hebrews 12 the session leader kindly let me announce that some prophets are now bringing words on a Shaking. Afterwards, I submitted brief notes on the ‘jigsaw pieces’ on the Shaking for fuller information on our WApp discussion group in the hope that more may appreciate the insights prophecy often brings, not only to scripture but also to current events.

Therefore, it’s encouraging to see Susan Lunsford posted this yesterday on Prophecies, Words & Fulfilment for The Season by Barbara Yoder, with this introduction:

An Important word of wisdom
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

By Barbara Yoder
January 7, 2026

It is impossible to ignore the turbulence shaking the nations of the earth. We are living in a time of unprecedented movement—nations shifting, nations being confronted, nations being provoked. From a purely human perspective, there is much to analyze, and there is value in understanding natural dynamics. But if we stop there, we will miss the deeper reality.

What matters most is not merely what is happening in the world—but what God is doing in the midst of it.

When we fail to discern the spiritual realities behind global events, we misjudge what is truly unfolding. Too often, we separate the natural from the spiritual, and our interpretations become limited, distorted by human reasoning alone. If we rely solely on news reports, podcasts, and the endless voices of prognosticators, confusion will follow. Everyone has an opinion. Many carry partial truths. But no single human viewpoint carries the full picture.

Above all else, we must look to the patterns revealed in Scripture concerning nations. We must listen and watch to perceive what God is saying and doing on the global stage. History—biblical history—shows us clearly: God has always used imperfect leaders to shift nations, realign destinies, and accomplish His purposes. This is not new. It is how God has moved again and again.

We are now in a decisive season of realignment—nations being repositioned in relation to Israel and in relation to God Himself. This is a time of dismantling and re-mantling, not for chaos, but for glory. God is on the move to deliver people imprisoned by corrupt systems.

Climb into God’s watchtower. Rise above the noise. Watch carefully. Listen intently. Discern what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, for God is actively moving among the nations once again.

Anti-Trump Conspiracy: 1 – Ukraine and Russiagate

Posted on Wednesday, 17 December, 2025 by Richard Barker

Useful Definitions (Courtesy Cambridge Dictionary):

Conspiracy – activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal.
Sedition – language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government
Treason – (the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, especially by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government:
Minsk Agreements – The Minsk Agreements were a series of ceasefire and peace agreements signed in 2014 (Minsk I) and 2015 (Minsk II) to end the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, but they ultimately failed due to a lack of implementation and conflicting interpretations. Key provisions included a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weaponry, an exchange of prisoners, and a political roadmap for local elections and reintegration of the territory. (AI sourced)

The last reference point serves as background history of Obama’s second term in office, with Biden as ‘Vice President’ and must be kept in mind in their subsequent targeting of and treason against Donald Trump as sitting President.

The engineered failure of Minsk Agreements is described in Benoit Pare’s personally witnessed unique record of historical events, as reviewed in Dr Patrick Walsh’s article Who Is The Aggressor In Ukraine, which I recommend in my Update on Ukraine vs Russia war pertinent to peace deal.

Now, another extract is required regarding President Trump’s first term (2017-2021) prior to Russia’s ‘special operation’, as in pages 6-7 of Dr Walsh’s excellent ten-page article (emphases mine):

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A split in Islam and Erdogan eyes up Jerusalem – historian Simon S. Montefiore

2016 prophecy fulfilled – US’ mainstream media’s pro-China political rot fully exposed

Reprise 2021: US Foreign Affairs C’tee confirms Richard’s Watch on “man-made virus” leaked from ‘bio-secure’ Wuhan Institute of Virology, China

Watch! Strategic pieces are moving across the Global Chessboard – Veronika West

News Headlines:

🎯 Prophetic Words that Require Serious Prayer

🎯 1) I-R-A-N = R-A-I-N

🔥 Prophetic Note

🎯 2) Versailles — A Prophetic Sign That Speaks to the Time

🎯 3) Haman’s Gallows: The Noose of Hormuz Around the Neck of the Eagle Nation

From June 19, 2026 — and Quote;

Obama’s Jenga Tower game with biolabs comes crashing down; a veritable ‘house of cards’!

10th Anniversary: another domino trail in Europe – Veronika West

EUROPE vs ISRAEL

10th Anniversary: 1st domino in trail of exposures of political rot > Obama and Iran

Obama on his nuclear negotiations with Iran

2016-26: Obama-Iran nuclear negotiations nonsense (#39 cont’d)

My Footnote of May 2016 reads (emphases added):

Did POTUS truly lose the plot ? – 2 of 2 God-incidental answers: a ‘madman’ prophetic word

Did POTUS Trump truly lose the plot? – 1 of 2 God-incidental answers

DEUTERONOMY 19:15

NATO cartoon echoes 2019 ‘Humpty Trumpty’ prophecy

“America: God will Break the Backs of the Donkeys and the Stiff-necked.”

Trustworthy and True: Making Sense of the Book of Revelation – Alan Shemwell

The real battle for the Strait of Hormuz – Tania Koenig

The Strait of Hormuz Is the Real Battlefield — Not Just the Oil By Tania Koenig

Prophetic signs in the Strait of Hormuz -Veronika West

The Tinderbox Prophecy; Update – Michael M Bennett

References:

‘Dear Richard,

President Trump needs to apologise for HUGE error offending NATO and our veterans

PS (12:48)

Protests in Iran and regime’s reaction are another full circle! (28)

Another prophet confirms the shaking and realigning

Anti-Trump Conspiracy: 1 – Ukraine and Russiagate

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🎯 3) Haman’s Gallows: The Noose of Hormuz Around the Neck of the Eagle Nation

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