Does Anybody Else See What I'm Seeing About The Ukraine and Israel Wars?

All isn't as it seems...

Oct 24, 2023

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WWIII WILL COME, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU THINK

*footnotes can be found at the bottom of the post

Ukraine. Israel. Taiwan. BRICS. There certainly is a lot of conflict going on. This is especially true if you include Information Warfare. However, will any of this truly lead to WWIII?

Well, while anything is possible, I do not foresee a world war coming from these elements. I’ll explain.

To begin, the Bible makes it clear that both wars and their rumors will be expected. Jesus explains in Matthew how this is just a part of the End Times. He says:

“You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.” [1]

We could debate back and forth on whether we are in the End Times, and, perhaps, in some future article I will give a detailed writing of my full perspective, but, to keep it short, I believe the End Times began when Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven.

But back to the topic at hand: WWIII. I think Jesus is telling those who read Him that wars and rumors of war will simply happen. That shouldn’t be a cause of fright for the Christian. This is because the Christian knows he can fully rely on God, come what may. And even if he dies, he is heaven-bound.

That being said, however, it is also important to stress that we can extrapolate from Scripture that there will be a final world war: the Battle of Armageddon.

Ezekiel 39 talks of this war, when Magog and Gog will make war with Israel and her allies. I think this will be a global war. [2]

So there will definitely be a third world war, whether there are other world wars besides this one, time will tell.

But, that being said, I do not believe that The Israeli-HAMAS War and War In Ukraine and China annexation of Taiwan will balloon into some global war for the following reasons:

The War In Ukraine would have been over by now if Russia actually invaded with intent to take over

Global Firepower, which does in-depth analyses of military prowess based on data and public knowledge, ranks the global militaries. Russia is the second most powerful military in the world. Ukraine? Not even top 10. [3]

Let’s just look at readiness numbers for starters:

Russia has more than 3 times the men of fighting age that Ukraine has and 4 times the amount of soldiers.
Russia has 2.5x the GDP of Ukraine
Ukraine has just 4.3% of the financial reserves of Russia.
Ukraine also has just 7% of Russia’s airpower, Russia outnumbers Ukraine’s tanks by more than 6 to 1, and their ships by more than 15 to 1. [3]

Anyone who seriously thinks an army of that acumen and ability compared to their rival is actually losing this war doesn’t truly grasp the gravity of the situation. Russia is holding back. Plain and simple.

The fact that Vladimir Putin [4] and Peter Thiel [5] are both Young Global Leaders and Ukraine is beta testing Thiel’s Clearview AI global surveillance software [6] should be enough to tell you what is probably actually going on over there.

Israel-HAMAS War will be a localized skirmish.

The same can be said for Israel vs. HAMAS.

Israel has nuclear weapons. Gaza does not. Israel also completely surrounds Gaza. If anyone seriously thinks this will turn into anything major, they are in error. Russia is already fighting one skirmish, why would they volunteer to fight two for a rather weak ally in the Middle East?

China, on the other hand, is more concerned with taking over Taiwan than whether the Jews live or die. They have stated strongly that they want a ceasefire [7] and are actually allied with both sides and most of the rest of the Middle East. [8] [9]

Taiwan will go to China without a fight if Biden stays in Office

Biden, for the most part, has been a foreign policy failure. The Afghanistan withdrawal was an embarassment, with all that military equipment likely going straight to China [10], North Korea restarted nuclear testing, and Putin invaded Ukraine.

In all instances Biden has not really done much.

So we can basically expect more of the same when China finally attacks Taiwan.

Based on the above facts, I don’t foresee a world war coming from these elements. Nobody wants to actually fight a war in the Middle East except Israel and HAMAS. Russia is pulling its punches in Ukraine. And China will simply just annex Taiwan with lukewarm disapproval from a milquetoast United States.

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SOURCES:

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+24&version=NASB1995

[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+38-39&version=NASB1995

[3] https://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.php?country1=ukraine&country2=russia

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