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"The first casualty, when war comes, is truth."

California Republican Senator Hiram Johnson (1917)

No U.S. president has the authority to take America to war with another nation without a Declaration of War from Congress. That means Trump's war with Iran is exactly that: It is Donald Trump's war—illegally using the U.S. military for his own purposes—or should I say, for Israel's purposes.

The man who promised the American people that he would stop America's "stupid" (Trump's word) perpetual regime-change wars lied to us. He knew he was lying when he said it, because he knew that his entire presidential campaign was sponsored by the Epstein/Zionist/Billionaire class epitomized by Mossad asset Miriam Adelson.

Most U.S. presidents, just as most of the U.S. Congress, are overly influenced and manipulated by the State of Israel, thanks to the Zionist billionaire donors using the Israeli lobby group AIPAC (and scores of groups just like it) as a conduit of unlimited cash with which to bribe these criminals—called politicians.

But, without a doubt, Donald Trump is far and away the most beholden and most controlled U.S. president EVER. Donald Trump is owned lock, stock and barrel by Benjamin Netanyahu and the antichrist Zionists in Tel Aviv. And Trump's unwarranted, unprovoked and unconstitutional attack against Iran proves it.

Iran posed ZERO threat to the security of the United States.

The American people need to awaken to the reality that our politicians in Washington do NOT represent us, the American people. They represent the Zionist government in Israel. Now, American blood is being shed, and American lives are being lost NOT for the defense of America, but for the fanatical Greater Israel ambitions of the atheistic Ashkenazi Zionists in Palestine.

This war was never about Iran's nuclear program. Our own intelligence agencies—including the testimony (under oath) of National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard—have repeatedly reported for over 20 years that Iran had no nuclear weapons and had no plans on building them. Former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei held deep religious convictions that nuclear weapons violated the Shia faith, and, therefore, he blocked their development in Iran. Looking back, that was doubtless a huge mistake on his part.

Think about it: Under the rubric of keeping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, Donald Trump murdered the one man in Iran that was preventing the country from obtaining nuclear weapons. It is most likely that now a younger more aggressive leader (the Ayatollah's own son?) will emerge as Iran's Supreme Leader with all bets off the table—especially given the last two surreptitious U.S./Israeli attacks against Iran while pretending to be participating in peace negotiations.

Donald Trump has opened Pandora's Box. 

Trump has turned on the light bulb in the minds of leaders all over the world that the only way to not be attacked by the U.S. or Israel is to possess nuclear weapons. After all, the United States doesn't dare threaten North Korea with attack.

Donald Trump has ignited the greatest nuclear arms race in the atomic age.

Besides, Donald Trump brazenly told us last June that he had "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities.

Everyone with half a brain knows that this war is not about nuclear weapons; it is about taking orders from Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Zionist extremists whose goal is to conquer the entire Middle East—just as U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee acknowledged just two weeks ago.

This war will not end well. Not for the United States, not for Israel, not for the global economy and not for the prospect of peace. In fact, RIGHT NOW the war is not going well.

The U.S. media and federal government are hiding the true cost of this war. International independent reports are suggesting that hundreds of U.S. troops have already been killed in this illegal war. Fighter aircraft have been shot down. And perhaps even U.S. ships have been sunk.

As Republican U.S. Senator from California Hiram Johnson said in 1917, "The first casualty, when war comes, is truth."

The American people will not be made aware of the extent of U.S. losses in both military hardware and human life until after this is all over—and maybe not even then.

Plus, the United States government has been married to Israel for so long now, that it is fighting wars the way the criminal Zionist regime does. Example: Military targets were not the only targets of U.S. missiles in Iran. Two elementary girls' schools were incinerated along with over 150 little grade school girls and their teachers. This means our military campaign is not designed with precision strikes in mind; they are designed to destroy civilian targets as a means of sowing panic and horror among the population with the hope of forcing the populace to insurrect against their government, just as Israel and the U.S. have done in Gaza.

It didn't work in Gaza, and it won't work in Iran!

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, it did not fracture the American population; it galvanized it. February 28, 2026, was Iran's Pearl Harbor. Now, their political differences are set aside, and the Iranians see only two enemies: Israel and the United States—oh, yes, and the Gulf Arab monarchies that are in bed with the Zionist/Epstein class.

Trump lit a war fever that will not soon dissipate. This has already turned into a war of attrition, and it is a war the United States and Israel can no more win than the United States and NATO could win in a war of attrition against Russia in Ukraine.

Iran has hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art, highly sophisticated missiles—many of them hypersonic. Iran can fight this war for months—and perhaps longer—if it had to.

This is the end of Trump's presidency. He will go down in history as one of the most failed presidents (along with Joe Biden) to ever sit in the Oval Office.

The longer this war lasts, the weaker Israel and the U.S. become and the stronger Iran becomes. Just one day into the war, Trump begged Iran (via emissaries in Italy) to return to the negotiating table, and they told the con man where to go. Iran has every intention of finishing the war. After all, its very survival depends on it.

And as uncomfortable as what I am about to say is, I must say it: All of Trump's insanity could not have happened and would not have happened without the rabid, cult-like support of evangelical Christian Zionists.

And here the story becomes surreal. What I'm about to report reveals the level of lunacy and fanaticism stored deep in the hearts of Christian Zionists.

US commanders from every arm of the military have told their units that the war on Iran is "anointed by Jesus" and would bring about his return to Earth as part of the "Armageddon", resulting in scores of complaints from serving members of the military.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), an organisation dedicated to ensuring that all members of the US military are guaranteed religious freedom, told Middle East Eye on Tuesday that it had received more than 200 similar complaints from personnel serving in the army, navy, air force, marine corps, and space force. 

The complaints received by the MRFF, first reported by journalist Jonathan Larsen, have come from more than 40 units and span at least 30 military installations.

According to MRFF, one combat unit commander told non-commissioned officers (NCOs) at a briefing on Monday that the Israeli-US attacks on Iran are part of God's "plan" and that US President Donald Trump was "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth". 

A US NCO who wrote to the MRFF said their commander had told them the war with Iran was "all part of God's divine plan". The commander referred repeatedly to the Bible's Book of Revelation and to Armageddon, the story about the battle between good and evil, in which Jesus triumphs and establishes a lasting peace on Earth.

The commander is quoted by the NCO as saying: "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth."

(Source)

Now, the real fanaticism of Scofield's false doctrines of premillennial dispensationalism, aka Christian Zionism, has come to the surface. To think that a group of human beings or a single U.S. president or a military force could actually determine the timetable in Heaven of Christ's return is not only the most idiotic thinking imaginable; it is the most arrogant.

So, since Pete Hegseth has brought it up, let's give the full picture.

According to prophetic dispensationalists, Armageddon cannot occur until the following events transpire:

1. The "rapture" takes place. This means the born-again Christians go to Heaven, while everyone else is left behind to fall victim to what follows.

2. The antichrist rises to a position of global dictatorship, ushers in a temporary 3½ years of peace, and then uses his absolute power to attack Israel, resulting in two-thirds of the Jewish people being murdered by him during the next 3½ years.

3. Afterward, Jesus will come, and the Battle of Armageddon will take place in which He, Christ, will usher in a thousand-year earthly millennial reign.

I'll leave the rest of the dispensationalist prophetic narrative at that point.

So, let's apply this to what Hegseth and the rest of these deluded Scofield futurists are saying about Trump and Iran.

1. They all have been given divine revelation to know that Donald Trump is the man who is chosen by God to—on his own—bring about prophetic events leading to the return of Christ by attacking Iran. They have been given divine revelation that the war in Iran is "anointed by Jesus" and that the war is "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth."

So, let's get this straight. Who exactly did God reveal all of this to? John Hagee? Robert Jeffress? Franklin Graham? Or maybe Pete Hegseth himself? Or did God send an angel to appear to all of the dispensationalist pastors with this revelation at once? Can any of these evangelicals tell us who the angel was? What did he look like? Exactly how did the angel appear to them?

I mean, all of us mere mortals out here would really like to hear about this. We have to go back to the Apostle John or the Apostle Paul or even back to Moses to hear of anything close to what we are being told.

Oh, I'm confident these prophecy-obsessed evangelicals can find Bible verses to confirm their delusions. You know, the same Bible verses that dispensationalists have been using since Scofield himself said the sinking of the Titanic was a sign of the "rapture" and return of Christ back in 1912.

2. So, Donald Trump is the man anointed by God to ignore God's spiritual laws to not kill and not steal and not bear false witness in order to bring about Christ's return. Not to mention, God gave Donald Trump divine authority to defy the Natural laws of our Creator enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights to ignore the law that says our president must receive authorization from Congress before he is legally allowed to wage war, that he is given divine authority to lie not only to the Iranian people but to the people of America, that he has been given divine authority to send America's sons and daughters to their deaths on no word but that of Donald Trump. Is that what we are being told? So, now, we don't have a president; we have a divine Caesar? Is that what we're being told?

3. So, at what point during this war with Iran will the "rapture" take place? Egad! What should happen if the war ends and the "rapture" doesn't happen? But let's set aside that last question.

4. So, during the Iran war, the "rapture" will happen. It MUST happen! All of these dispensationalist evangelicals have had a divine revelation that it will happen. So, that means Donald Trump is the trigger man for what? The coming of the antichrist. That's what's next, according to Christian Zionists.

So, who is the antichrist? Well, if Trump is anointed by God to defeat Iran, he might be anointed by God to defeat the rest of the Arab world, you know, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, etc. Yes? Amen! And it would be almost a certainty that in order to conquer the entire Middle East, Trump will need to defeat Russia, China, North Korea, India, etc. If Trump accomplishes all of that, he becomes (Egad!) a global dictator.

So, I guess Donald Trump must be the antichrist. No, wait a minute! Now I'm confused. How can a man anointed by God be the antichrist? Because, if he were the antichrist, he would eventually go to war with Israel and destroy two-thirds of the Jews in the world's largest holocaust. But that destroys Trump's anointed, god-like image. Of course, the Christian Zionists won't be here, so they don't have to worry about being outed as being full of it the whole time. 

Oh! I forgot. Donald Trump is a saved, born-again Christian-—the BEST Christian to ever live, better than the Apostle Paul or Peter or John. So, is JD Vance the antichrist? I'm getting more confused.

Now, we are back to Hegseth and Company explaining this revelation about Trump's anointing to us. Because, I've been seriously studying the Scriptures for 55 years, and all of this sounds absurd to me.

It sounds absurd, because it is absurd!

The lifelong blasphemer, the lifelong liar, the lifelong cheat, the lifelong philanderer, the lifelong gangster, the lifelong bully, the lifelong sexual predator Donald Trump is as much anointed by God as the llamas on my neighbor's ranch.

Donald Trump is a war criminal. If there is any justice left in the United States, he will be impeached, convicted and sent to prison. And I believe that that is a distinct possibility.

If the Democrats have the votes after the midterm elections in November, that will definitely happen. Not only will he be impeached for being a war criminal and violating the constitutional requirement that he seek approval from Congress to wage war, but don't forget about the Epstein files. If the Democrats have the votes following the November elections, they will unseal the Epstein files, meaning Donald Trump and Pam Bondi go to prison and a bunch of the Epstein class follow close behind.

I personally believe that that is why Prince Andrew was allowed to be arrested and why Bill Clinton testified regarding the Epstein files. I'm convinced both of these men (and many others by now) have privately "spilled their guts" to prosecutors in exchange for clemency. I believe they have provided authorities with names, places, events, times, etc., in great detail—evidence that will be used against Trump and others that Trump is covering for. 

When the curtain falls on Trump—and it will fall, by whatever means, who knows? When that curtain falls, it will also shine the spotlight of shame on the Christian Zionist evangelicals in this country. These blind leaders of the blind in evangelical pulpits will share the disdain and derision of public opinion both here and around the world for decades to come. Trying to claim that Trump is God's anointed to wage an illegal, immoral, unconstitutional war against Iran is the proverbial straw that will break the camel's back.

And, politically, Trump's war of aggression against Iran will be the straw that breaks the con man's back. The only question that remains is, will the Republican Party let Trump take them all down with him? At this point, it looks like they will. 

Trump's demise is as certain as George H.W. Bush's re-election defeat in 1992. Bush went into that campaign as a shoo-in for a second term, largely based on the enthusiastic national acceptance of Bush's promise: "Read my lips: No new taxes." But you know what happened after that. Bush crammed new taxes down the throats of the American people, and he lost the White House.

Trump has done the same thing. He won a landslide election on his promise: "Read my lips. No new wars." Now, he's started the mother of all wars in the Middle East, and both he and the Republican Party are going to pay the price for it.

P.S. Today, I am announcing that my latest Prophecy Message DVD is now available.

This is Prophecy Message Twenty-Seven entitled The Second Coming Of Christ—Part Three—The Great White Throne And The Second Death.

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