prophecy Archives - Seeking The Way

Mid-October 2026 offers plenty to unsettle anyone paying attention. Stress fractures are opening through the global bond market. Fresh conflict is engulfing the Middle East. And in three weeks, Americans go to the polls for midterm elections that could reshape Washington for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.

Here are several trends now in play, and how disciples of Christ might view them with interest.

A shift in power?

As of this writing (October 12), most polls forecast the traditional midterm swing, with the opposition party—this time the Democrats—taking control of the House. Through the summer, Republicans were generally expected to hold the Senate. Since August, that picture has blurred considerably.

In a world increasingly dominated by disinformation, a rising threat of unthinkable thermonuclear war, conflict piled upon conflict, and loss of key societal freedoms, is it even possible to think of thoughts and expectations for peace? As Americans withdraw from a stabilizing global benefactor into self-serving protectionism, anxieties and fears soar across the planet.

In central Europe, screeching missiles shatter infrastructure and tranquility and innocents suffer brutally. In the Middle East, destructive military rockets crisscross multiple countries, as cell phones explode in the hands of militants, triggering panic and elevating already-high misery. A very real threat of superpower conflict smolders in the 81-mile-wide strait between mainline China and Taiwan, the latter a hyper-critical global economic linchpin.

As a new Presidential administration appears to foment chaos, upending order in the name of progress, Foreign Affairs magazine leads with coverage detailing “The Strange Triumph of a Broken America.”

What is the hope – at the least the short-term hope – of the world?

On deck – what turmoil might the next 24 months bring?

The coming world-ruling Thērion and you, Part I