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Operation Epic Fury and the King of the South

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Shortly after 8 a.m. local time on the Sabbath Feb. 28, a surprise joint attack by Israel and the United States – designated Operation Epic Fury – rained down multiple cruise missiles, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) rockets, drones, and stand-off weapons across Iran, striking multiple targets.

As noted in an earlier Seeking the Way column, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance had warned in mid-February that “all options on the table” if Iran didn’t advance in diplomatic talks to both cease any efforts to produce nuclear weaponry and ceasing to jail or kill Iranian protestors calling for an end to the reign of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In early coverage, the Economist summed up the opening salvos: “Weeks of gunboat diplomacy came to an end as American and Israeli warplanes began bombing targets across Iran on February 28th. The first signal to the outside world that war had begun was a siren breaking the Shabbat quiet across Israel, telling residents to remain close to shelters. Minutes later, footage showed columns of smoke rising over Tehran.”

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The Thērion and you – “Some lines cannot be uncrossed”

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Germany is focused on becoming "war-ready" - Kriefstuchtig.

The world barely had time to recover from what some called “quite the shock to the trans-Atlantic family” – the startling assertion of a U.S. claim on independent Greenland – before February 2026 delivered a new cascade of potential crises. Chief among them: a possible major military confrontation between the United States and Iran, and a deep, perhaps permanent, fracturing of the Western alliance that shaped the post-World War II world.

 

For students of Daniel 11 and the 13th and 19th chapters of Revelation, the events of January and February 2026 offered more than geopolitical intrigue. They offered sobering pause.

A new state of Kriegstüchtig

Today, a new focus in Germany on “Kriegstüchtig” (“war-ready”) openly describes an intense buildup of German armed forces actively preparing for open conflict with Russia. As profiled in an extended report by the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 14, top German Gen. Carsten Breuer “is racing to prepare Germany’s armed forces for war,” ominously noting that “the clock is ticking.”

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The Thērion and you – Greenland in the crosshairs and the end of NATO?

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Shock, anger, and anxiety frothed again over the European continent in early January 2026, as President Trump – fresh off a regime-changing U.S. military excursion in Venezuela – appeared to reset his sights anew on the strategic mega-island of Greenland. Keeping in tone with recent forays into bombing Iranian nuclear facilities and Nigerian terrorist facilities alike, the President openly – almost blithely – discussed the option of using U.S. military might to acquire Greenland.

The response from Europe?

“Everything would come to an end”

“If the United States were to choose to attack another NATO country, then everything would come to an end,” emphasized Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark. “The international community as we know it, democratic rules of the game, NATO, the world’s strongest defensive alliance — all of that would collapse if one NATO country chose to attack another.”

The collective leaders of NATO – including Prime Ministers and President of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain – rushed out a collective joint statement on Jan. 6 that made clear their focus:

“Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries.

“The Kingdom of Denmark – including Greenland – is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them.”

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Meeting the Challenge of a Nuclear Age – Set Your Mind

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In the 1950s, an image captured a stark contradiction: a group of people staring — unprotected — at a rising mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion outside the city of Las Vegas. This is not a fabrication, fantasy or Photoshop. The photo timestamps a genuine moment when many – including U.S. government agencies – thought that nuclear warfare was survivable.

That pool party, framed against an atomic explosion, underscores a dangerous disconnect between visible reality and invisible forces at work—a paradox that frames a worthy topic to explore today.

The unseen power locked in matter

In the two decades following 1952, the United States detonated 1,032 nuclear weapons on American soil, mostly in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas. Globally, over 2,000 nuclear devices were tested before the 1963 partial test ban treaty. Unprotected exposure to radioactive fallout ultimately led to serious health consequences, including numerous cancers.

However, these tests revealed something humbling: the colossal power locked within matter itself. Consider the equation E=mc². The “c²” represents 299,792,458 miles per second, squared. This conversion factor is staggeringly large.

Here’s what this means practically: a penny weighing 0.08 ounces contains enough stored energy to power all of New York City—8.7 million people and their entire infrastructure. That’s not theoretical. The energy exists right now, locked invisibly inside that small coin. It would require temperatures hotter than the sun’s surface to release it, but the power is undeniably there.

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Civility – change the world

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In just seven seconds, you can initiate change for just about anything. You can set in motion powerful influence that will touch hundreds, even thousands of people. At this societal hinge point in 2025, what’s a critical truth? Civility is contagious.
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But it’s a binary solution set. You can also demotivate. Annihilate productivity. Repel others. Whip up a toxic environment.

It’s your choice.

As the author of one of the standard works on influence once wrote, ““Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

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The Thērion and you – economic weaponization and “unstoppable China” courting premier power

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Dramatic changes are underway, including China's posturing as a premier power.

A defiant, confident, and decidedly public display shocked diplomat and leader alike on September 3. “You don’t need a degree in international affairs to understand the message Xi Jinping sent Wednesday as he paraded tanks, hypersonic missiles and other weapons through Beijing, putatively to honor the end of World War II,” warned the Wall Street Journal.

The ominous point, according to the Journal? “Mr. Xi and his allies aspire to dethrone the U.S. as the world’s premier power. What will President Trump do about it?”

Dramatic changes are underway, including China's posturing as a premier power.
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As the vast technological array of bristling military power passed before the likes of Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, China’s special friend, Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator, and 20-some other leaders, a singular message was clear – the world’s largest army is deliberately preparing to do battle with the world’s most powerful military. The highly symbolic military spectacle, China’s first in six years, was presaged by comments from Xi noting that humanity now faced a choice between peace and war, with China now “unstoppable.”

It was also no small irony that the massive, uber-precision military assemblage rolled through the infamous Tiananmen Square where young Chinese unsuccessfully struggled for 51 days to embrace democracy 36 years ago.

President Trump’s response? As the Economist magazine reported, the President took to his Truth Social media, messaging Xi to “give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against the United States.”

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The Way – what happened to “the faith once delivered”?

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Separation from The Way

Uncertainty. Power struggles. Leadership controversy. Chaos. As the curtain on the first century began to draw to a close, the young assembly of disciples of the resurrected Messiah had endured a heady spectrum of success, setbacks, growth, and controversy.
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The tiny and close group of original disciples – all of whom had seen, heard, and been taught by Jesus Himself (including the human mother of Jesus and family members) – had swollen to form many small groups and congregations across the Roman Empire, stretching far beyond the tiny conclaves in Judea to modern-day Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Everywhere the Gospel was carried, so were miraculous acts muscularly boosting the credibility of the message. Some opponents were struck blind, speechless, and in some cases divinely put to death, while adherents were miraculously healed, saved from disaster, granted divine favor in front of high-level government officials, and much more. Disciples were powerfully “turning the world upside down”.

At one time, the growing assembly of disciples – led by 12 men to all corners of the Roman Empire and beyond (plus a special appointment from a previous adversary) seemed unstoppable.

But now, a different kind of “growth” was occurring. Serious issues of contamination were seeping in.

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The Thērion and you – the Day the Dollar Dies, Part IV

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On the day the dollar dies, a fiscal holocaust could erupt.

An unprecedented “shock to global trade… unlike anything seen in history” engulfed the world beginning in Week 12 of the second Trump administration. In early April 2025. alarm bells sounded as the U.S. stock market tanked, then surged, then tanked again on the news of harsh tariffs levied by President Donald Trump. Markets across the globe were hurdled into bedlam and chaos.
On the day the dollar dies, a fiscal holocaust could erupt.
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Alarmingly, a new and potentially devastating fiscal abyss unexpectedly cracked open, sending fresh shock waves surging across borders. The stability of formerly rock-solid U.S. equities – particularly U.S. Treasury notes – suddenly came into question.

As discussed earlier in this series, the first 100 days of the Trump administration rocked critical international relationships in a way previously unseen. From a biblical perspective, America has been over many decades a true safe haven for promoting world stability and also for ensuring extraordinary levels of religious freedom. But as chronicled further below, that trusted reputation was seriously damaged during a 10-day period in early April.

Why does this matter?

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The Thērion and you – a Foundation for Fiscal Holocaust, Part III

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Fiscal holocaust - If economic sanctions are used recklessly, they [economic sanction tools] could be broken forever or trigger unforeseen economic and political repercussions that could come back to haunt America.

In the first 100 days of the second Trump Presidency, the President whipsawed threats and implementation of massive tariffs on friend and foe alike, possibly inching toward a foundation for a fiscal holocaust. In a thinly veiled effort to force the re-shoring or relocation of manufacturing to “make America great again,” President Trump tapped the … Read more

The Thērion and you, Brace for Impact? Part II

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After diplomatic cacophony in the Oval Office, is an era of darkness and irrelevancy settling on the European Continent or something else?

Diplomatic hubris descended into Oval Office cacophony on Feb. 28, 2025, as a stunned global audience looked on aghast, tensed up to brace for impact. “You don’t have the cards,” barked President Donald Trump to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrapping up a free-for-all pile-on from administration officials. Hopes of a deal for security guarantees and peace instantly vanished, all-but-scuttled for the time being.
After diplomatic cacophony in the Oval Office, is an era of darkness and irrelevancy settling on the European Continent or something else?
After diplomatic chaos in the Oval Office, is an era of darkness and irrelevancy settling on the European Continent — or something else? (iStock)

A planned staged show of unity collapsed disastrously into chaos, with diplomatic and economic shock waves rolling out of D.C. and across the globe. After a brief pause and no possibility of a signed agreement for Ukrainian minerals, Zelenskyy was asked to leave by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, once an advocate for the Ukrainian President.

“The free world needs a new leader”

How bad was the reaction from long-time allies? “Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader,” said Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, quoted in Bloomberg. “It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.”

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