Iran is teetering on the brink of collapse with a massive internet blackout sparking fears of a “massacre” and the regime’s “missile cities” on alert.

Iran right now is a nation on the brink of violent regime change as a frustrated people tired of authoritarian rule combined with a terrible economy have taken to rioting in the streets. This is not the first time this has happened in recent years to the terror-supporting state, but this time it looks like it just may happen. But it’s hard to get a true read on what’s going on inside their borders as their internet has been unplugged, making it very hard to get information to the outside world.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.” Jeremiah 49:35 (KJB)

You read many times in your King James Bible about a man named Elam, a son of Shem, whose descendants became the Elamites, and we follow them from Genesis all through the prophets, and right up to the day of Pentecost in Acts 2. According to Isaiah and Jeremiah, both Elam and the Elamites will play a big role at the Second Advent. Where is Elam, you ask? It’s in Iran. In Bible prophecy, the region of Elam – Persia – Iran, different names for the same place, plays a huge role. This is why we keep a closer eye on Iran and Iraq than we do the other Muslim nations, these are the ‘hot spots’ in prophecy. Iran at this moment is rapidly reaching the boiling point of a revolution that now only needs the arrival of a charismatic leader to push it over the edge.

Iran activates ‘missile cities’ over ‘Death to Dictator’ uprising as regime’s blackout sparks fear of ‘massacre’

FROM THE SUN US: As Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei barely clings to power, Donald Trump has warned the US “will get involved” if the mullah regime uses violence to crack down on demonstrators. At least 65 people including nine children have reportedly died amid the carnage which kicked off on December 28 and now marks the greatest challenge the Islamic regime has faced in years. Over 2,300 protesters have also been arrested with the violent demonstrations entering the two-week mark.

As Iranians took to the streets for the 14th consecutive day on Friday they were heard chanting anti-government slogans including: “Death to Khamenei!”

Hundreds of towns including the capital have been plunged into total anarchy – with shocking footage showing streets up in flames and swarms of locals destroying buildings. Trembling authorities have used tear gas to disperse large crowds of furious locals, while US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has reported gunfire across the country. Iran’s prosecutor-general Mohammad Movahedi Azad warned on Saturday that all protesters would face the death penalty, as he vowed to charge “rioters and terrorists” as “enemies of god”. Top Ayatollah crony and Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi has also vowed to use the death penalty on some if they commit acts of vandalism.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been placed on the highest state of alert and authorities have activated “missile cities” – vast underground complexes packed with ballistic missiles. “We’ll be hitting them very hard where it hurts.”

Threatening to punish the mullahs if they killed protesters, the US president said: “You better not start shooting because we’ll start shooting too.” On Saturday Iran’s army urged citizens to stay alert to thwart what it called “enemy plots” in a desperate bid to blame other countries including the US for the national outrage.

The Ayatollah’s teetering regime has cut off all internet across Iran and plunged the nation into a near total communications blackout. Fears are now mounting that the Islamic Republic is cloaking a bloody crackdown. Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said the mullahs may be planning a “massacre under the cover of a sweeping communications blackout”. READ MORE

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Iranians took to the streets in new protests to press the biggest movement against the Islamic republic in more than three years, as authorities sustained an internet blackout as part of a crackdown that has left dozens dead. Protests have taken place across Iran for 13 days in a movement sparked by anger over the rising cost of living, with growing calls for the end of the clerical system that has ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ousted the pro-Western shah.

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Trump’s Gaza Peace Place is creating an International Stabilization Force that will put foreign troops on Israel border

A few weeks ago, we told you about the unanimous vote at the UN Security Council greenlighting the Trump ‘Board of Peace’ plan to rebuild Gaza after the war with Israel. Then last week we told you how it’s expected to begin right around Christmas of this year. It was at this point that things took a noticeable turn for the worse. In this Phase II, Trump has compiled a 10-nation confederacy to assist him in this task, creating an International Stabilization Force (ISF) made up of some heavyweight enemies of Israel like Turkey. What could go wrong?

“For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.” Psalm 83:2 (KJB)

Let’s be blunt, shall we? Once foreign troops enter Gaza, they are on Israel’s doorstep, positioned literally yards from Israeli towns. No matter their insignia, no matter the color of their helmets, those forces answer to international governments, not to the IDF.

Israel would suddenly find herself under the watchful eye of:

• NATO generals hostile to Israeli policies,
• Arab states with their own agendas,
• EU bureaucrats eager to carve up the Middle East, and
• United Nations officials who have condemned Israel more than every other nation on earth combined.
• Call it what you want, but a force like that is not neutral.

Once in place, it becomes nearly impossible for Israel to remove, and this is where the true danger lies. So you can look at Trump’s Peace Plan in one of two ways. Either this is a great plan and the great friend of Israel Donald Trump will use the might of the United States to rebuild Gaza and bring peace to the region, a blessing for Israel – or – the International Stabilization Force he’s putting together to form a concrete ring about the Jewish state made up of mostly her enemies. A permanent force of international troops on Israel’s border is right out of Bible prophecy.

“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.” Luke 21:20 (KJB)

A multinational force in Gaza sets a deadly precedent: the idea that the world has the right — even the responsibility — to intervene in and administer parts of Israel’s biblical inheritance.

Once accepted in Gaza, the same logic will be applied to:

• Jerusalem’s Old City
• the Temple Mount
• Judea and Samaria

This mirrors the prophetic warnings of Zechariah:

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.” Zechariah 12:2 (KJB)

The ISF is the camel’s nose under the tent — the first step toward “internationalizing” the holiest ground on earth. The nations are gathering, the pressure is mounting, and the stage is being set exactly as the scriptures have foretold.

The architects pushing this international force have already revealed their long game. The ISF is not simply about Gaza. It is about creating a mechanism through which the world can force Israel into a political settlement she does not want and should never accept.

The ISF allows diplomats to say:

• “We control Gaza now. You must negotiate borders.”
• “We administer security. You must divide Jerusalem.”
• “We oversee reconstruction. You must accept a Palestinian state.”

Once the world plants its flag in Gaza, they will not stop until they plant it in Jerusalem, and according to the Bible, thus saith the Lord.

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2 (KJB)

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The UN Security Council today voted unanimously in favor of the Trump-backed ‘Board of Peace’ 20-point peace plan to divide the land of Gaza, land that God gave to Israel

The UN Security Council today by unanimous vote approved the creation of the ‘Board Of Peace’ 20-point peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, effectively giving control of all of the land of Gaza to the United States. The ‘Board Of Peace’, first proposed by Trump with himself as the head of it, has just been given a mandate by the United Nations to divide the land of Gaza as they see fit. Only one little problem. The ‘land of Gaza’ falls squarely within the original land grant God gave to Abraham, Gaza belongs to Israel and Trump has just taken control of it.

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.” Joel 3:2 (KJB)

A U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan passed overwhelmingly in the Security Council on Monday, a major victory for administration diplomacy as it struggles to implement its blueprint for what Trump has said would be “a new dawn” for the Middle East. The resolution provides a legal mandate for key parts of the plan, including persuading other countries to provide troops for an International Security Force that will take over security in the half of Gaza from which Israel has withdrawn.
 
In a statement after the vote, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Michael Waltz expressed thanks to the members “for joining us in charting a new course in the Middle East for the Israelis and Palestinians and all the people in the region.” It demonstrates, he said, “the overwhelming support for the president’s vision.” source

Houston, we have a problem. It looks like Donald Trump was just given power and permission by the United Nations Security Council to part the land that belongs to Israel, the land of Gaza. But wait a minute!, you say. Doesn’t Gaza belong to the Palestinians? As you shall soon see, Gaza belongs to Israel and is included in God’s original land grant to Abraham. Did you also know that the Bible prophesied the forming of the United Nations General Assembly in the last days? Read it for yourself:

“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.” Zephaniah 3:8 (KJB)

1. Gaza Was Part of the Land God Promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

When God gave Abraham the land covenant, He defined its southern border as the region that includes Gaza.

“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. ” Genesis 15:18-21 (KJB)

“And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.” Numbers 34:6 (KJB)

The “great sea” is the Mediterranean. The “river of Egypt” is the border area near modern Gaza. Therefore, the Gaza coastline falls squarely inside the God-given land grant.

2. Gaza Is Specifically Named as One of the Philistine Cities Inside Israel’s Territory

The Philistines lived in Israel’s land, not outside it. Gaza is repeatedly listed as a Philistine stronghold inside Israel’s inheritance.

“For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.” Zephaniah 2:4 (KJB)

“And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,” Jeremiah 25:20 (KJB)

The Philistines occupied Gaza, but they did not own it. They were squatters on Israel’s land.

3. Joshua Assigned the Land of Gaza to the Tribe of Judah

This is the clearest proof:

“This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.” Joshua 15:1-4 (KJB)

Judah’s inheritance ran to the southern Mediterranean coast — exactly where Gaza is located.

This means:

✔ Gaza = Judah’s land

✔ Judah’s land = Israel’s land

✔ Therefore Gaza = biblical Israel

4. Samson’s Ministry Took Place in Gaza (Inside Israel’s Borders)

Samson was a judge of Israel, yet his battles took place in Gaza:

“Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.” Judges 16:1 (KJB)

Samson was not traveling into foreign territory — he was confronting invaders living inside Israel’s land.

5. The Prophets Treat Gaza as Territory God Will Judge for Its Treatment of Israel

God’s judgment on Gaza is always tied to its hostility toward Israel — never as an independent, sovereign land.

“Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:” Amos 1:6 (KJB)

The reason Gaza is judged is because of how it treated God’s people in God’s land.

6. In the Kingdom Age, Gaza Becomes Part of Israel Again

During the future Millennial Kingdom, Gaza is restored under Israel’s control.

“But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.” Isaiah 11:14 (KJB)

“Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 14:21 (KJB)

This is during Christ’s rule from Jerusalem — and it ends the Philistine occupation permanently. All the Canaanites driven out when King Jesus rules from Jerusalem and all the land from the original land grant is finally restored.

In conclusion this is what we see. Donald Trump was just given power by the United Nations to seize land that God gave to Israel, and to divide it up as he sees fit. Whether or not this is the fulfillment of what the prophet Joel saw, time will tell. But we know for sure that Donald Trump is messing with “holy ground” that’s a very ‘deadly piece of dirt’, and he better watch his step.

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