A note on the current developments progressing toward the great war... I have observed a Swedish call to arms in more than one news outlet over recent weeks but will provide only the one link here regarding the latest such concerns:
www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-sweden-s-call-for-population-to-prepare-for-war-sparks-panic-and-criticism
I do not believe that Carl-Oscar Bohlin, Sweden's minister for civil defence, is wrong on this count. However, I think that his timing may be a little premature... but I'm no war strategist or prognosticator of politico-military moves and it is much better to prepare early and stay on alert. My only concern in that regard is, if people prepare early with a false expectation of imminent war and it then appears too delayed, they may fall back into a false sense of security and become lax in their preparedness, the watchmen falling asleep on the tower, as it were. In any case, I do think that Norway is also in the firing line and that, should push come to shove, Norway and Sweden will have to work together (although I am unclear on what Finland's role might be) to fend off the enemy. I also believe that the Swedish military have some very advanced (possibly electromagnetic) high tech weaponry under wraps which they have until now successfully kept well out of the public and the espionage eye, and Russia will not be expecting this, but I cannot elaborate on it because information is very thin and my perspective may be not much better than a semi-educated guess. In any case, I think that the Swedish military have been very tight-lipped and well understand that the best strategy in preparing for war in the current era is to look somewhat insufficiently armed. That way, an attacking force will be completely unprepared and under-armed for the devastating onslaught of terrifying weaponry the moment they make their invasive move. The approach of using grandiose public declarations of military might as a deterrent is an old tactic which works in situations of limited destructive power but is completely ineffective in today's high tech military sphere. The capacity to destroy the entire world in the hands of more than one military power is no longer a deterrent to anyone. If everybody is going to die, what manner of deterrent is that? It can only work where a hot conflict would have strictly limited destructive effect, a condition which has not been true for many years, and only a fading memory of waning concerns about an overwhelming counterattack has kept things in check.
Anyway, my view, as you may have read in a post some time back, is that when Russia invades Europe, it will be in three fronts; from the southeast in the Balkan region, from the east via Ukraine and possibly into any of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, etc., and from the north towards the scandinavian region, but every one of these three prongs will ultimately converge on Germany (remember, there is bad blood, flowing deep in cultural memory, between Russia and Germany since the NAZI slaughter of many millions of Russian POW's and civilians) and perhaps towards France, also, though I do not believe they will have much success there even though I think that France will have its own growing internal chaos. Central and western Europe will be devastated in the end of it all, and surrounding nations will also be harshly affected, and that is before it all goes nuclear at the end of the greatest and final war. However, an eventual divergence of Russian forces towards the south, into the region of the Middle East, and ultimately converging on Israel will lead to Russia's undoing, along with many other nations when they gather against Israel... and this is when I believe it ultimately goes nuclear. Exactly how that eventuates, I do not know; perhaps a standoff from which everybody refuses to back away is my best guess, maybe between western forces against Russia and China, perhaps Russia and China will also be at each other's throats. There are countless scenarios to consider so I would reckon that it is best to wait and see how the relationships in the political and military arenas of all parties develops over this year and the next.
It seems to me that the great war will occur in the midst of the time of the two witnesses because both these things appear in the period of the sixth trumpet, the second woe, in the book of the Revelation to John. There are, however, a number of events which must precede the second woe, so that my expectation is that the great war will not occur before something like late 2026 or some time in the following year or two, and I also believe it will be a war of comparatively short duration when considering previous global conflicts, maybe something like 18 months to 2 years. Of course, as always, I remind you that I am making no claim to having some kind of special prophetic insight and this could all be completely wrong... but don't count on it. I certainly won't. The best we can hope for now, apart from going through this with Christ, is that it comes much later on and, if one is old enough, one gets to live out his or her life before this all goes down but, again, don't count on it. There are too many indicators suggesting that we really are in that time spoken of in Revelation.
No nation which engages in this war will remain intact. Thus, even though Australia is geographically remote to all these events, if it engages in this conflict, and I think it will, then it will suffer terrible consequences. I fear for my own nation, for we have Godless fools in power, openly anti-Christian moral morons who cannot tell their left foot from their right hand, cowardly capitulators to the globalist money powers, worthless, spineless, blind and perverse, always grasping at every opportunity to extend their oppressive control over the nation's people, and it troubles me deeply that it is the people who chose such obvious idiots... I guess that such a culture really does not deserve to live. I feel sad.
When it comes to humanity's self-destructive tendencies, mankind has never been able to develop a technology which has some potential military application without first using it to create ever more devastating weaponry to destroy his fellow human beings in the pursuit of ephemeral gain, power and ever-expanding control over others, constantly driven on by relentless anxiety and the fear of death. This is the nature of man without God, the spirit we call, Satan.
As I keep saying, and reminding not only you, dear reader, but also myself, respectfully fear and worship God alone, and trust God, not man. Never put your faith in fallen man, but only in the one who is above all, Yeshua, the Christ, our Lord, our saviour, our true king, and from ancient days our creator and, thus, the author and finisher of our faith.
