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The End Times

By Larry Romanoff

This topic is almost certainly going to appear in the Western mass media, likely sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the coverage will consist mostly of carefully-selected fragments and misinformation intended to confuse, but also to explain or justify whatever actions the Jews in the US and Israel choose to take. Given this certainty, I will lay out here the basic facts as they relate to our current world situation (Q1 2026).

The “End Times” relates to a series of events that will collectively lead to “the end of the world” – literally – at least the world as we know it. There are many steps to this final event: the destruction of Iran and Russia (Gog and Magog), the coming of the Antichrist, the appearance of red heifers in Israel, the building of Satan’s Third Temple on the Mount in Jerusalem, Armageddon *, the Day of Judgment, the Second Coming of Christ, and some other good stuff.

* Armageddon is supposed to be the last battle between good and evil, before the Day of Judgment, but it is actually more a place than an event. It is the location where “the kings of the earth under demonic leadership” will wage war on the forces of God at the end of history.

RT published an interesting article on this, [1] penned by their reporter in Israel (Jerusalem) who gathered some insights from speaking to local Jews. It’s worth reading. The sub-heading of the article says, “From Jewish street-corner preachers, to Christian high-ranking officials (Christian Zionists), many believe the conflict has been prophesized”, and this is where we will go too. I will end by explaining why this is important, and what steps are already in process.

But first, let’s (a) obtain an understanding of the context of this global circumstance, (b) learn the apparent justification for the deep belief in it, and (c) assess the craziness of its adherents. There are two timelines and two sets of events for this ending of the world; one held by the Jews and the other by (some) Christians and by Christian Zionists. I will outline both, and show where they differ.

Steps in the Jewish version

The Tribulation (Chevlei Mashiach): A period of intense suffering, war, and societal decay that precedes the arrival of the Messiah.

The War of Gog and Magog: A climactic war against Israel, as described in Ezekiel 38-39. This war results in God’s direct intervention to save Israel and destroy its enemies.

Ingathering of the Exiles (Kibbutz Galuyot): The Jewish people, scattered in the diaspora, are miraculously returned to the Land of Israel.

The Arrival of the Messiah: A human, not divine, leader, a descendant of King David, arises. He will be a great king and teacher who restores the Davidic dynasty. (Maybe a Rothschild, often considered as “The King of the Jews”.)

Rebuilding the Temple (Beit HaMikdash): The Third Temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem, traditionally believed to be accomplished by the Messiah. This is a physical structure for worship.

Universal Peace and Knowledge of God: The world enters the Messianic Age of peace. All people of the world recognise the God of Israel as the one true God.

Resurrection of the Dead (Techiyat HaMeitim): The righteous dead are brought back to life.

The World to Come (Olam Ha-Ba): The final state of existence. The “new heaven and new earth” represent a perfected physical world.

Steps in the Christian Dispensationalist / Zionist Version

This is the framework driving much of the current evangelical interest in geopolitics. It relies on a specific sequence of events, many of which are “missing” from the Jewish view, such as the Rapture and the Antichrist.

The Rapture: Believers in Christ are suddenly removed from the earth to be with Jesus in the air, escaping the coming Tribulation.

The Rise of the Antichrist: A political leader emerges, initially presenting himself as a friend, and makes a 7-year peace covenant with Israel, which allows them to rebuild the Third Temple.

The Red Heifer & The Third Temple: As a practical prerequisite, a perfect red heifer is found and sacrificed to create the “water of purification.” This allows the Jewish priests to be purified and begin Temple service. The Third Temple is built on the Temple Mount.

The Great Tribulation (Lasts 3.5 Years): The Antichrist breaks his covenant, enters the Temple, stops the sacrifices, and sets himself up as God. (Forgive me for saying so, but this sounds suspiciously like Elon Musk).

The War of Gog and Magog: A massive invasion of Israel by a northern coalition (usually identified as Russia/Iran) takes place. This war is distinct from Armageddon.

The Battle of Armageddon: The world’s armies gather in Israel for the final battle. Jesus Christ returns in power and glory (the Second Coming), defeats the armies, and destroys the Antichrist.

The Millennial Kingdom: Christ establishes a 1,000-year reign on earth from Jerusalem, a kingdom of peace. Satan is bound for this period.

Final Judgment: After the 1,000 years, Satan is released, finally defeated, and the Final Judgment occurs. The dead are judged, and death and hell are cast into the Lake of Fire.

New Heaven and New Earth: God creates a new heaven and a new earth where believers dwell with God forever in the eternal state.

The Differences

The two timelines diverge on three fundamental points:

The Nature of the Messiah: In the Jewish view, he is a human warrior-king and teacher. In the Christian view, he is divine, Jesus returning as conquering King.

The Role of the Third Temple: For Jews, it is the goal, the center of worship and God’s presence. For Christian Zionists, it is a precondition for the “end times” drama. The Third Temple is the stage on which the Antichrist performs his “abomination”.

The Ultimate Goal: The Jewish Olam Ha-Ba is a perfected physical world centered on Israel. The Evangelical Christian view is a new creation for the redeemed of all ages, with the old order completely dissolved.

The “red heifer” sits at the intersection of these two frameworks. For the Jews, it is a halakhic (legal) necessity for purity. For the Christian Zionists, it is the “green light” signaling that the countdown to the Rapture and the rise of the Antichrist has begun.

“Within the (Evangelical Christian/Zionist worldview there is a clear chain in which events must follow one another: the creation of Israel (1948), the return of Jerusalem (1967), the re-establishment of the Third Temple, the appearance of the Antichrist, the Great Tribulation, the battle of Armageddon, and the Second Coming. IMPORTANT NOTE: In this system, Iran (Persia) is not merely a geopolitical adversary, but a biblical enemy whose defeat was foretold by the prophet Ezekiel 2,600 years ago.” [2]

The American Influence

You may be surprised to learn that this “religious” doctrine is the scaffolding on which much of America’s geopolitical and foreign policy decisions stand. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is one of the more radical (rabid, actually) supporters of this view, and is now regularly leading Evangelical prayer meetings at the Pentagon, calling Jesus his “Lord and Savior“. [3] [4] After which he spouts the most insane psychopathic murderous rhetoric I have ever heard from a Secretary of Defense. Some direct quotes: “From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is warfighting … [This is] not because we want war …but because we love peace. We … intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill [our] enemies. No more rules of engagement, just … maximum lethality. [We] kill people and break things for a living.“ [5] Hegseth seems unaware that his “lord and savior” frowns on stuff like this; something about a commandment saying “Thou shalt not kill”. It should be clear to most observers that Hegseth is criminally insane. It is terrifying that such a man has his finger on the button.

This is much more than nothing. In Q1 of 2026, the Internet was buzzing with hundreds of complaints from American soldiers that they were being indoctrinated by senior US military officials. They were informed that the Iran war is “God’s plan to trigger Armageddon and bring about the end of the world”, and the Second Coming. [6] [7] [8] [9] In fact, US troops were told Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus” to start the war, “to light the signal fire” with Iran. [10]

The Third Temple

In this worldview, the Third Temple is the stage upon which the final act of human history is performed. Without the stage, the play cannot start. It is termed the “third temple” because two prior Jewish temples were built on that same spot but destroyed long in the past. In the meantime, a Muslim temple has been built literally on top of the ruins, and it is the third-holiest site in the Muslim world.

One of the problems in setting the stage for this (truly) New World Order is the location where The Third Temple is to be built. This is a place where geography collides with god, religion, and prophecy. The location in question is a large, raised plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem known to Jews as the Temple Mount (Har haBayit) and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (Haram al-Sharif). It is one of the most bitterly contested pieces of land on earth, revered as the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest in Islam, and of much importance to Christians. The plaza contains two major Islamic structures built after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque on the southern end of the plaza is the main congregational mosque, and entry is (was) forbidden to Jews.

The Temple Mount is the most sensitive geopolitical pressure point on earth. The Islamic mosque and dome currently occupy the space where the First and Second Jewish Temples once stood. Therefore, the construction of a Third Jewish temple would necessitate the demolition of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is not a theoretical engineering problem; it is a guaranteed trigger for a global religious war, uniting the entire Islamic world. Every Arab and Muslim in the world would descend on Israel, but hope springs eternal in the Knesset.

Until recently, Jews were prohibited from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but then the Jews changed the rules so Jews could enter but not pray. In Q1 2026, Jews could also take in prayer sheets and pray. This sounds suspiciously like “mission creep”, where the Jews are attempting to normalise Jewish presence in preparation for something more.

Part of that “something more” consists of persistent rumors that the Jews in Israel plan to stage yet another false flag event by blowing the Al-Aqsa Mosque to bits and blaming it on an Iranian ballistic missile gone astray. If the gambit succeeds, that would ease the way to building the Third Temple. It is also of some concern that many Jewish IDF soldiers have been photographed wearing “Third Temple” patches, and videos have surfaced where soldiers explicitly state their motivation is to fight for the right of the Jewish people to rebuild the Beit ha-Mikdash (the Temple).

An undiscussed problem is the well-known fact that a great many Khazar Jews state secretly (and openly, too) that Satan is their god. This neither fits well into the above narrative, nor bodes well for the future of Gentiles. Especially Christian Gentiles. But for our purposes, it is of some importance that to many Khazar Jews, the temple to be built on the Mount will be “Satan’s Third Temple”. You can see the conflict here. Still, it seems apparent the Jews are scheming to trash the existing mosque in preparation for building their “third temple”. There are other unannounced preparations as well, which brings us to:

The Red Heifer

The red heifer is hugely significant in this preparation for the end of the world and other subordinate but equally exciting events. The red heifer is a prerequisite due to Jewish ritual impurity (tum’at met). This is a universal problem for Jews because virtually every Jew, including every potential rabbi (kohen), is presumed to be in this state of impurity. The Torah provides only one remedy: the ashes of a completely red heifer mixed with water to create the “water of sprinkling” (mei niddah). This mixture is the only substance that can purify a Jew. Therefore, the red heifer is not a symbolic ritual for the Third Temple (when built); it is the purification plant. Without it, the machinery of the Temple cannot operate because the priests and the people are “contaminated” and cannot participate. It is explicitly stated that this process is a precondition for the reinstitution of worship in the Third Temple.

However, the requirements for such an animal are astronomically strict. The heifer must be “completely red,” which means it cannot have even two hairs of any other color (black or white). It must be without blemish and must never have borne a yoke. Such an animal is an exceptionally rare genetic anomaly.

For decades, Groups of Jews have been preparing for the End Times. The Jews have crafted the golden vessels, sewn the priestly garments, and trained the Levites. But the red heifer remained the elusive “critical path” item. The recent transport of five red heifers from Texas to Israel marks the moment that critical path was engaged. The transport was not a spontaneous event. It was a deliberate, multi-year project. After conducting an actual global search, some candidates were found in Texas, and five were flown to Israel in 2022. This was clearly the result of international organisation, funding, and cooperation. And once again, it sounds suspiciously like mission creep. Indications are increasing that the Jews in Israel do mean to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with Satan’s Third Temple. However, with any luck, the Christians will at that time be in their “Rapture” and have no worries.

The transport of the red heifers is evidence that the Temple movement has progressed from the planning phase to the preparation phase for the final prerequisite. This is not just theological speculation, but a recognised factor in the current geopolitical reality. To underscore the importance of this, the shipment of the red heifers to Israel was stated by Hamas as one of the reasons for their incursion into Israel on October 7, 2023.

How Do We know This is All True?

Because the End Times have been forecast, predicted, prophesied, prognosticated and conjectured by many, many portions of the bible’s Old Testament. I won’t bore you by listing them here. They have also been foretold by history’s most credible soothsayers like Nostradamus. And maybe by Elvis too, for all I know. In any case, you cannot question this because it is by nature unquestionable.

How do we Assess the Validity of These Claims?

By using your head. The god of the Jews is Satan. And when the Jews win the battle of Armageddon, all the peoples of the world will accept Satan – the god of the Jews – as the one true god. This is because the Jews are “God’s chosen people”. This leads us to the uncomfortable but inevitable conclusion that the bastards born to the whores of Khazaria will inherit the earth and we will be their slaves.

For some reason, the thought of circumcision entered my mind here. I believe the official narrative is that, when god selected the Jews as his chosen people, he needed a way to distinguish “his” children from the idolaters. For this purpose, he demanded that all males have the foreskins of their penises removed. I may be slow, but it seems to me that any god worthy of the name would know by instinct his followers. And any god of love and mercy – or just one with some good sense – would have chosen something a bit less personal. Reading between the lines, it is beginning to feel like the time to find a new god.

In terms of assessing the participants in this play, my personal view is that they are all batshit crazy. But you are old enough to form your own opinions.

Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 34 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’. (Chap. 2 — Dealing with Demons).

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NOTES

[1] Is the Iran war the Biblical end times?

https://www.rt.com/news/634537-iran-war-end-of-days/

[2] The Bible and the Third Temple: What lies behind the U.S.–Israel war in Iran

https://spzh.eu/en/amp-news/91623-the-bible-and-the-third-temple-what-lies-behind-the-usisrael-war-in-iran

[3] Pete Hegseth hosted a Christian prayer service at the Pentagon

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/hegseth-pentagon-christian-prayer-service

[4] Hegseth Starts Evangelical Prayer Services at the Pentagon

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/21/hegseth-starts-evangelical-prayer-services-pentagon-his-tennessee-church-pastor.html

[5] Hegseth’s Speech to Generals and Admirals

[6] Pentagon Under Fire as Troops Allegedly Told Iran War Will Spark ‘Armageddon’ and Jesus’ Return

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-religious-messaging-iran-conflict-1783045

[7] Investigating claim US troops were told Iran war is for ‘Armageddon,’ return of Jesus

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/03/03/us-troops-iran-armageddon-jesus/

[8] US troops were told Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus’ to start a war …

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-troops-were-told-trump-215026493.html

[9] US soldiers told Iran conflict is ‘God’s plan to trigger Armageddon’

[10] commander said Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran.”

https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/03/03/us-troops-iran-armageddon-jesus/

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