NEWSBITE 1.4.2025
“The many nations with you” (Ezekiel 38:6b).
A headline appeared in a reputable online news publication website that read; “No Time Left: China and Russia Making Sure Iran Goes Nuclear Before End of Trump’s Ultimatum.”
According to the news report it stated… “Now, with Trump’s ultimatum delivered on March 7 to Iran— giving the regime a two-month deadline either to give up its nuclear and missile programs or face severe consequences — Beijing and Moscow have simply been accelerating Tehran’s efforts to join the nuclear club and to possesses at least six nuclear bombs before Trump’s deadline expires.
A meeting between Iranian and Chinese officials in Beijing, followed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s outright rejection of Trump’s warnings, could signal a dangerous development: Iran has likely received guarantees from China and Russia that they will protect the regime, support its nuclear program, and ensure that it acquires nuclear weapons before the possibly-too-generous deadline Trump has set, no matter the consequences.
Iran’s bold rejection of Trump’s threats may not be based on internal strength but on external guarantees. Beijing and Moscow have likely calculated that if Iran regime joins the nuclear club and possesses nuclear bombs before Trump’s deadline expires and he takes direct action, then the West will be forced to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, just as it has had to accept a nuclear North Korea.
With Trump’s ultimatum in place, these adversaries are racing against the clock to ensure that Iran becomes a nuclear-armed state. If the US and its allies fail to act immediately, the balance of power could shift permanently, and the West could lose the war before realizing it had even begun.”
Today the whole Middle–Eastern region is centre stage in world affairs and a powder keg ready to explode! If Iran goes nuclear there is no telling where their missiles with nuclear warheads attached could land. It is vitally important that Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump activate the IDF and the forces of the United States to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities.
If indeed China and Russia are planning to support Iran in its nuclear ambitions then they more than likely are also planning to join forces to fight against the United States if the opportunity arises to do so? Having said this, Xi Jinping and Putin are at present it would seem “testing the waters” as it were where America’s armed forces are concerned and whether President Trump will give the go ahead to take out the Iranian nuclear infrastructure once the deadline is reached.
According to the report it says that the real danger lies in the way China and Russia have embedded themselves in Iran’s nuclear program, most likely to guarantee that the Iranian regime will not fail in its pursuit of the bomb.
Russia has a longstanding strategic and military alliance with Iran. Tehran has provided Moscow with suicide drones, long-range missiles and artillery, allowing Russia to continue its brutal attempted takeover of Ukraine despite Western sanctions and deliveries of weapons.
By enabling Iran to remain a strong, stable and militarily capable ally it may well deter western intervention in the Middle-Eastern region, especially by the United States. As for Communist China meanwhile, it has continued to shield Iran from Western sanctions and provide it with vital economic and technological support.
For years China has been establishing its Belt and Road initiative in many nations across the globe and especially those nations needing financial support. Iran’s geographic position makes it a crucial gateway for China’s trade routes, energy supply chains and military expansion.
By protecting Iran from Western pressure and facilitating its nuclear ambitions, China ensures that Iran remains a key partner in its broader geopolitical contest with the United States.
On March 13, China, Iran, and Russia concluded the Security Belt 2025 joint maritime exercise near Iran’s strategically important Chabahar Port, close to critical maritime chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. Clearly it would seem there is “a deal” going down with these three antagonists that not even President Trump may be able to beat?
The report further states that now, with Trump’s ultimatum delivered on March 7 to Iran, giving the regime a two-month deadline either to give up its nuclear and missile programs or face severe consequences, Beijing and Moscow have simply been accelerating Tehran’s efforts to join the nuclear club and to possesses at least six nuclear bombs before Trump’s deadline expires.
At present US aircraft carriers are deployed in the Red Sea and in the Persian Gulf and another one on its way that may have arrived already.
Most certainly Russia and China are watching the whole scenario very closely.
Iran threatens that its missiles are ready to be launched towards Israel but also towards the British and American forces deployed on the island of Diego Carcia in the Indian Ocean. The island has been used as a joint UK–U.S. military base since the 1970s.
In light of this conflagration developing in the Middle-East what does the Word of God say concerning “the many nations” whose non- Islamic armies will accompany the Islamic armies of the Antichrist when the invasion of Israel occurs?
In the Word of God we are told that all of the nations of the world will send their armies against Israel and lay siege to the city of Jerusalem. We know from Ezekiel chapter 38:1-6 that the nations specifically mentioned by name are all Islamic nations today. We are also told about “the many nations” that join the invasion of Israel (Vs.6b).
In other texts in scripture corresponding to this text in Ezekiel chapter 38:1-6 we are clearly told that the LORD is going to gather all of the nations to attack Jerusalem, and these are not just Islamic nations but “all the nations” (Joel 3:1-3,12) (Zechariah 14:1-2). He is doing this not to destroy Israel.
God has most certainly not finished in His dealings with Israel!
There are three main reasons He is dealing with Israel by allowing them to be afflicted by their enemies arrayed against them.
Firstly, to bring His people back to Himself as Israel at present by and large are aliens and strangers to their own covenants of promise and estranged from their brother in the flesh the Messiah our Lord Jesus.
Through this time of adversity we see descending upon Israel God will purify a Jewish remnant chosen by His grace and foreknowledge and bring them into his Messianic kingdom (Zechariah 13:8-9) (Isaiah 10:21-22) (Romans 9:27; 11:5) (Ezekiel 37:15-28).
Secondly, God is preparing a reunion for Israel with the Messiah (Zechariah 12:10-13:1). We see this exemplified in the account of the Old Testament when Joseph was reconciled to his wayward brothers who had betrayed him and left him for dead.
In that day of this awesome reunion the Messiah will have with His Jewish brothers and sisters we are told in God’s Word that “All Israel will be saved!” Every Jewish man, woman and child still alive on earth will be saved! Not one will be lost or missing in God’s sheepfold! (Romans 11:25-27), for God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29).
Thirdly, The Messiah will return to sit on David’s Throne as the King of the Jews to inaugurate and establish the Messianic Millennial Kingdom with its headquarters at Jerusalem.
From the city of Jerusalem He will rule over the nations that have survived His Second Coming (Isaiah 2:1-5; 9:7) (Micah 4:1-5) (Luke 1:32-33) (Acts 2:30).
The Time of Jacob’s Trouble is looming on the horizon as we see more and more nations turning against Israel and the rise of replacement theology within wider Christendom. It will be the time of the Big Trouble when Israel can no longer defend itself.
In desperation they will cry out to the LORD and He will intervene and deliver His people when He sends back the Messiah our Lord Jesus to rescue Israel and her spiritual offspring the Body of Messiah, “those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus” (Revelation 12:13-17) (Jeremiah 30:1-10).
So as we see China and Russia amalgamating and cementing their relationship with Iran, the axis of Islamic evil and terror in the Middle-East, and the head of the snake of Islamic aggression against Israel, both China and Russia more than likely, will have their military forces fighting alongside of the Islamic forces of the Antichrist arrayed against Israel and all of them hell-bent on possessing Jerusalem when the invasion of Israel happens.
All of the armies of these nations are destined to fall on the mountains of Israel (Ezekiel 39:1-6).
Some might say “will America be among them? We cannot know at this time. However if it occurs that something happens to President Trump, the LORD forbid, and his administration goes with him that it may be that an administration, far worse that the Biden Administration, will come to power and desert Israel in its darkest hour in the Time of the Great Trouble.
Israel will go into it this time of Great Tribulation but be saved out of it! (Jeremiah 30:7).
We do know that when the Antichrist, whom I am persuaded will be an Islamic dictator on the basis of scripture, leads the armies of the nations against Israel, the LORD will bring foreigners against him, the most ruthless of nations to resist his forces. One of them may well be America?
There is a text in scripture that would seem to affirm this fact. These foreign ruthless nations are not named (Ezekiel 28:6-10).
Somehow these nations will contribute to the demise of the Antichrist, however the “coup de grâce” will be at the command of the Messiah Himself, who, when He comes in blazing fire with His powerful angels, will judge the unsaved still living on planet earth, and overthrow the Antichrist with the breath of His mouth and destroy him by the splendour of His Second Coming! (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10; 2:7-8).
It would be no surprise that in Ezekiel chapter 38 when the lord addresses Gog, the Antichrist, and mentions the Islamic armies, specifically named that follow him in his evil agenda against Israel that God will also see the armies of China and Russia with them, because the LORD also says to Gog and “the many nations with you.” Selah.
