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The Thērion and You – Days of Unleavened War

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As biblical Holy Days go, the 2026 Days of Unleavened Bread—a season of self-examination, spiritual change, and reconciliation—stood in stark contrast to a week defined by geopolitical upheaval, military brinkmanship, and collective heart-pounding anxiety. This week of April 1-7 became, in a most sobering sense, the days of unleavened war.

An historic week of firsts

The first Day of Unleavened Bread opened with a striking juxtaposition. At 6:24 p.m. EDT on April 1, four astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft thundered skyward on 400,000 pounds of thrust, accelerating past 500 MPH in under two seconds toward a rendezvous with the Moon. It was a breathtaking moment of human achievement.

At the same hour, 6,500 miles away, Iran and Hezbollah rained more than 140 missiles on innocent Israeli citizens celebrating their Passover Seder. Hezbollah then fired dozens more rockets through the night on both civilians and military. On the day after the first Holy Day, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem would pay “a very heavy price” for the “intensified fire toward Israel civilians” as they celebrated Passover.

Back in the United States, as Artemis entered pre-lunar earth orbit, President Donald Trump delivered his first formal address to the American people on the Iranian War — one month into the conflict. The speech said little new but featured contrasting claims that the President never sought regime change, although his initial social media video announcing the war encouraged Iranian citizens to seek same.

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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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