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Shock As Russia Says They Will Now Pull Their Troops Out Of Syria

Russia said it will start withdrawing forces from Syria in a surprise move that puts pressure on its ally President Bashar Al-Assad, as well as opposition groups, to reach a deal at the peace talks that got under way hours earlier in Geneva.

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March 14, 2016

Geoffrey Grider

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Russia said it will start withdrawing forces from Syria in a surprise move that puts pressure on its ally President Bashar Al-Assad, as well as opposition groups, to reach a deal at the peace talks that got under way hours earlier in Geneva.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose military intervention last year in support of Assad turned the tide in Syria’s five-year civil war, said the partial pullout should begin on Tuesday. A Russian air base and a naval facility will continue to function, he said in Moscow. Assad didn’t request the withdrawal, said Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.

Russia has urged the Syrian leader to be “constructive” in the latest peace talks, aimed at ending a conflict that’s killed a quarter-million people, sparked a refugee exodus to Europe and allowed Islamic State a foothold. For Putin, who’s worked with the U.S. to promote diplomacy in Syria even though the two powers backed opposite sides in the war, it’s an opportunity to display peacemaking credentials while preserving the gains Assad’s army made under Russian air cover.

“Putin is a wily guy. He is showing he’s a statesman,” said Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East studies at the University of Oklahoma. “Russia is also sending a message to Assad who has been sounding too confident.”

‘Effective Work’

Putin and President Barack Obama discussed the Russian plan to withdraw troops by phone on Monday, the White House said. Obama welcomed the reduction in violence since the U.S. and Russia helped broker a truce last month, but said that “continuing offensive actions by Syrian regime forces risk undermining” both that truce and the Geneva talks.

In ordering the pullback of the “main part” of Russia’s military from Syria, Putin said the armed forces’ “effective work” created the conditions for beginning the peace process. “I hope today’s decision will be a good signal to all the conflicting sides,” the Russian president said. Russia’s ruble pared losses after Putin’s announcement.

The Syrian presidency said on Twitter that Russia had promised to continue supporting Syria’s fight against terrorism.

The definition of who’s a terrorist in Syria, as well as Assad’s future role, has been at the root of the disagreement between Russia and the U.S., which says moderate rebels against the regime have also been targeted by Putin’s intervention. Russia says the opposition is dominated by jihadists. The current cease-fire allows operations against United Nations-designated terrorist groups to continue.

Salem al-Muslet, a spokesman for the main opposition group, the High Negotiations Committee, said Russia is largely to blame for the current state of the conflict.

‘Symbolic Gesture’

“The Russian departure will be good for the Syrian people and will weaken the Syrian regime,” he said by phone.

The U.S. has softened calls for Assad’s removal in recent months, while continuing to argue that a long-term settlement won’t be possible while he’s in office. In his phone call with Putin, Obama “underscored that a political transition is required to end the violence,” the White House said.

Putin’s latest announcement is “a symbolic gesture to sweeten the opposition’s pill, because Assad is clearly not going to go away even if Russia slightly reduces its operations,” said Anton Lavrov, an independent Russian military analyst. “This is clearly linked to the start of negotiations in Geneva. It’s a signal to the opposition and an attempt to influence their agreeability.”

At talks in Geneva earlier on Monday, there were few signs that Assad or the opposition are willing to make major compromises.

Applying Pressure

The UN’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, called on the international community to apply “maximum pressure” on the two sides, after holding his first meeting with the government delegation on Monday. He’s due to have talks with the opposition on Tuesday.

Syria’s regime is indicating that it will only accept a limited role for the opposition in government, and that discussing Assad’s position is a “red line.”

Last week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov urged the Syrian leader as well as his opponents to demonstrate a “real willingness” to agree on a new constitution for Syria that would build a “future democratic society.”

Putin said that the Russian bombing campaign had allowed the Syrian army to “take the initiative on nearly all fronts.” His spokesman Peskov declined to comment on how many troops will remain, whether S-400 anti-aircraft defense missiles will be withdrawn and whether Russian airstrikes will end.

‘Minimal’ Force

Russia is likely to leave “minimal” forces in place, including some warplanes, to protect its naval facility in Tartus and the Khmeimim airbase, said Vladimir Komoedov, chairman of the State Duma lower house of parliament’s defense committee.

“Any war ends and guns go quiet,” said Komoedov, an ex-commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. “The time for politics has come, everyone has to be at the negotiating table.”

Still, Viktor Ozerov, head of the defense committee in the upper house of Russia’s parliament, said by phone that if the Syrian army isn’t capable of finishing off Islamic State, “we can come back.” source

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Orange County Corrections Chaplain Wesley Hooker Writes To Tell Us They’ve Just Handed Out The 32 Cases Of KJVs We Sent And Need More As Soon As Possible

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December 11, 2025

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Our inbox is filled with requests from jails and prisons across America from chaplains in desperate need of King James Bibles in English and Spanish

Chaplain Hooker at the Orange County Corrections in Florida wrote to us earlier to say ‘thank you’, first and foremost, for the 32 cases of KJVs we sent them last year. They see an average of 30 people getting saved per week, and our large print KJV is the most-requested Bible they have. He then asked could we send him some more as soon as possible? We just finished processing his request right before I started writing this article. My inbox is full of emails from chaplains who desperately need Bibles, and we’re sending them out as quick as we can, and we need your help.

“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” Psalm 68:11 (KJB)

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Why Are None Of The Celebrity Church Pastors Warning The Jews And Israel About The Coming Time Of Jacob’s Trouble That’s Written In The Prophets?

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December 11, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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Why are Christian pastors in the church and pro-Israel social media influencers silent on the coming time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews and Israel spoken of by the prophets?

The other day, I read about 1,000 American Christian pastors and social media influencers going enmasse to Israel to show support for the Jews in an event orchestrated by the Friends of Zion initiative in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ok, that’s great, I have no problem with that at all. At NTEB, we’ve been showing support for the Jews and Israel for the past 17 years, but with a noticeable difference. Along with our support, we also warn them of the coming holocaust that will soon envelope them. Why is no one else doing that?

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Matthew 24:21 (KJB)

Can you imagine, as a Christian, getting to address Jewish leaders in Israel, or better yet, being in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu and be able to speak with him face to face? Many Christians pastors in America, like John Hagee, have had those opportunities and continue to have them, and stay strangely silent about Jesus Christ and Bible prophecy. These men and women say how much they love and support Israel and the Jews, I don’t doubt that, and are unafraid to publicly declare their support for them. But underneath all that bluster they are cowards, afraid to tell the Jews the truth about their current estranged condition with God, about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, about how the majority of the Jews will worship Antichrist in the Tribulation, and all the other things the Old and New Testaments declare are coming for them. Why won’t they tell them? For one reason, many pastors in churches today know very little about Bible prophecy, and you can’t speak of what you don’t know. But the other reason, and I believe the larger one, is that they know if they tell the Jews the truth, whatever relationship they have with them, in many cases financial, will be immediately severed. Money talks, and loudly at that.

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So let us take a moment through our platform, to send a message of love, and warning, to the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. In love, everyone at Now The End Begins loves the Jewish people, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and we are Zionists in the truest, and most biblical sense. In warning, we bring to your remembrance what the prophets and apostles have declared to be true about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble that will see the rise of Antichrist and the destruction of Jerusalem. But please don’t take our word for it, see for yourself the things that must shortly come to pass, saith the LORD God of Jacob.

A Biblical Outline of Warning to The Jews and Israel About the Coming Time of Jacob’s Trouble

I. Israel’s Present Moment of Unbelief Foretold

Israel remains in partial blindness until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25 (KJB)
This blindness is temporary, but it leaves Israel currently unprepared for the coming deception.
Israel today stands at the threshold of prophetic fulfillment, not revival — that comes after the Tribulation (Ezek. 36–37).

II. The Rapture Removes the Church and Opens the Final Countdown for Israel

After the Church — the Body of Christ — is caught up (1 Thess. 4, 1 Cor. 15), God’s prophetic clock for Israel restarts.
This begins Daniel’s 70th week — a seven-year period specifically decreed upon “thy people” and “thy holy city.”
- “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” Daniel 9:24 (KJB)
The Rapture will leave Israel religious but deceived, vulnerable to signing a covenant with a man they will believe is their Messiah.

III. The Man of Sin Will Deceive Israel Through a Covenant of Peace

Israel will enter a false peace treaty with the Antichrist.
- “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” — Daniel 9:27
This peace will not be peace from God but a trap, luring the nation into trusting a Gentile world leader.
The Antichrist will allow the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrifices (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).

IV. Mid-Tribulation Betrayal: The Abomination of Desolation

At the midpoint of the seven years, the Antichrist will break the covenant.
He will enter the Temple and declare himself to be God.
- “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Matthew 24:15 (KJB)
- “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJB)
This moment begins the Great Tribulation, the fiercest part of Jacob’s Trouble.
Jesus warned the Jews to flee immediately, not debate, negotiate, or stay behind May 14th, 1948 was not the prophesied regathering of the Jews, the Second Advent will be.
- “Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:” Matthew 24:16 (KJB)

V. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble: A Warning of Unprecedented Distress

Jeremiah prophesied a time of terror coming upon Israel.
- “For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:5-7 (KJB)
God Himself describes it as a time of refining, not annihilation.
Two-thirds of Israel will perish during this period (Zechariah 13:8).
Israel will face:
- Global military assault
- Persecution under the Beast system
- Forced worship of the Antichrist
- Divine judgments poured out (Revelation 6–19)

VI. God Will Use This Time to Bring Israel to Repentance

The purpose of Jacob’s Trouble is purging and restoration, not destruction.
During the Tribulation, God will raise up 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists (Revelation 7), as well as the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11).
Through fiery trial, Israel will finally recognize their rejected Messiah.
- “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10 (KJB)
The remnant of Israel will cry out nationally for the return of Jesus, but at tremendous cost.
- “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” — Matthew 23:39 (KJB)
- “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:9 (KJB)

VII. The Second Coming: Israel’s Deliverance at Armageddon

When Jerusalem is surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the Lord Himself will descend.
- “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Zechariah 14:3,4 (KJB)
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
Israel will be rescued, the Antichrist destroyed, and the nations judged (Revelation 19).
The remnant of Israel will enter the Millennial Kingdom, where prophecy finds fulfillment and the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are realized.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Zechariah 8:23 (KJB)

This is not my opinion, my interpretation, or the ‘historic view of eschatology’. What I have told you here will absolutely come to pass as it is written in the scripture of truth. The Jews are God’s chosen people, but many of them will choose Antichrist over the Lord and wind up in a burning, fiery Hell. And right, here in the Church Age, every single Jew on the face of the Earth can only be saved by trusting the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. The prophets all point to what the New Testament declares to be true. I believe that all Christians should love the Jews and pray for Israel, but to not tell them this vital truth is tantamount to depraved indifference over their lost spiritual condition. Don’t just say you love the Jews, don’t just say you support Israel, tell them the truth, Pastor.

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DEP’T OF WAR: US Commandos Storm Venezuelan ‘Terror Tanker’ In Breathtaking Airborne Takedown As Tensions Rocket Toward Open Military Conflict

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December 10, 2025

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US commandos from the Department of War stormed a Venezuelan oil tanker in a breathtaking airborne takedown amid ratcheting tensions in the Caribbean.

The breaking news that U.S. commandos stormed and seized a Venezuelan oil tanker is not simply another geopolitical dust-up — it is a visible sign of the times, a reminder that the world’s great powers are now moving pieces on the prophetic chessboard with increasing speed and intensity. The Department of War is open for business.

“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21 :19 (KJB)

When President Trump announced that U.S. forces had taken control of what he described as a “very large tanker” operating off the Venezuelan coast, the world caught a glimpse of something Washington hasn’t shown in decades: the willingness to use force decisively, swiftly, and without apology. And make no mistake, while the modern bureaucracy insists on calling it the “Department of Defense,” what you saw on full display was the Department of War, doing exactly what it was renamed from in 1949, projecting American power upon the seas. But where does all this lead, and more importantly, where does it all end?

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President Trump orders seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker with stunning attack by US commandos at the Department of War

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: Footage released by the Trump administration on Wednesday showed American forces swooping on the tanker in helicopters and rappelling down ropes. Troops with guns drawn darted up stairs to the bridge to take control of the vessel off the coast of Venezuela.

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement on X: ‘Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.

‘For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.’

The release of the video comes hours after it was reported on Wednesday that the tanker had been seized, sparking fears of a potential blockade and sending oil prices sky-rocketing. No name was given for the ‘stateless’ vessel, nor was it confirmed precisely where off the coast of Venezuela the raid unfolded.

Trump called it ‘the largest one ever seized’ and warned that ‘other things are happening.’

The capture sent oil prices climbing sharply, with Brent crude rising 1.21 percent to $62.69 a barrel amid fears the escalation could disrupt global supply. Venezuela is one of the largest suppliers of oil to China, which has been the destination of between 55 percent and 90 percent of the country’s oil exports.

A Bloomberg report called the move ‘a serious escalation’ after Trump demanded Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro step down. Caracas did not immediately respond to the seizure.

When asked about what the US will do with the oil seized from the Venezuelan tanker, Trump said, ‘We keep it.’

This week’s seizure marks the first time the Trump administration has moved to interfere with the country’s oil distribution amid the hostile pressure campaign. When a reporter on Wednesday asked Trump about who owns the seized oil tanker, the President responded, ‘You’ll get that information later.’ READ MORE