NEWSBITE 11.5.2026
(Daniel 2:20-22) “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.”
Whatever you might think of President Trump personally, and he by far is not perfect and has his faults, he is the only western political leader that has sought to stop Iranian aggression globally along with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as together the United States and Israel are standing against a wicked despotic demonic expansionist regime engaged in a proxy war that is behind global terrorism and funding terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the different terrorist groups operating in Syria and Iraq.
At present the epicentre of this conflict is what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz. Very briefly, the Islamic republic is running out of oil storage facilities and dumping their oil into the sea as a result of the United States blockade. The United States military have been open firing on Islamic tankers that have refused to follow blockade orders.
Added to this, the IRGC has launched missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates and Israel has been sending air defence systems to the Arab kingdom and also Israeli boots on the ground. The IRGC are making demands on a condition to cease hostilities that are absolutely ridiculous as a delaying tactic, which President Trump is not buying into at all!
The IRGC negotiators are demanding President Trump to end all war, to withdraw all military forces and to never attack again. They are demanding full war reparations and demanding to have full control of the Strait of Hormuz. They are demanding a complete removal of all sanctions that have been made against them ever and the release of all of their frozen assets while also refusing to dismantle all uranium enrichment. President Trump knows that this delaying tactic has been used by the Ayatollah regime for 47 years since they invaded Iran in 1979.
Why then has president Trump unleashed a military, air and naval campaign against Iran? While there may be reasons that we do not know of it may well be for the following reasons. It would seem that oil is the main reason for this present conflict. Whoever controls the global oil industry controls the nations which all rely upon oil for their economic stability. Let’s briefly consider the real reasons why America is involved in this war with Iran. It would seem that maybe to a degree that President Trump’s motives are somewhat mixed?
#1. President Trump wants to make America great again economically knowing that controlling global oil will get America out of debt. He has now taken control of Venezuela that has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, estimated at over 303 billion barrels as of 2025. Canada has approximately 163 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, ranking it fourth in the world. Most of these reserves are found in the oil sands of Alberta. The United States would like to have access to these oil reserves as well.
Greenland is estimated to have around 17 billion barrels of oil in its offshore basins, with additional potential resources in onshore areas like the Jameson Land basin, which could contain about 4 billion barrels. The United States would also like to have control of Greenland to start commercial production. Of course Russia and China may well have their sights on Greenland as well.
#2. President Trump’s desire is to keep the United States as the No1 super power globally, and to keep Russia and China in check. Russia has a long standing alliance with Iran and has engaged in oil and gas swaps, particularly due to sanctions and geopolitical shifts. Iran imports natural gas from Russia, and they have agreements to swap oil and gas through routes involving Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan. At present Russia have their hands full with its war against Ukraine.
China has emerged as the largest buyer of Iranian crude, importing more than 80% of Iran’s oil exports in 2025. This amounted to around 1.38 million barrels per day, roughly 13–14% of China’s total seaborne crude imports, according to Kpler, a company that provides real-time intelligence on global commodity markets, including trade flows, vessel tracking, and market forecasts.
#3. President Trump to his credit, wants to stop Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon and using it while the political leaders of the UN, the EU and NATO by and large still refuse to support him and by and large are turning a somewhat ’blind eye’ to Islamic expansionism. If President Trump had not taken on the Iranian regime then the western political leaders would not have done anything against Iran except push for extensive dialogue while the Iranian regime continued to become nuclear through their uranium enrichment programme.
#4. President Trump, true to his support for Israel, has stood side by side with the Israelis in fighting against the Iranian regimes desire to annihilate the Jews, financially support Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, and the terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq in their militancy against Israel.
#5. President Trump is also aware of the terrible atrocities the Iranian regime has been perpetrating against Iranian civilians and especially the Christian assemblies in that nation. President Trump is also supported for the most part by evangelical Christians in the United States because of their support for Israel. While it has been said that for the most part American Presidents curry favour with Biblical evangelicals at election time, to all intents and purposes this does not seem to be the policy of President Trump who seem to really appreciate the support of the evangelicals in the United States.
When you consider 9/11 and the tirade of Islamic hate we have seen in Iran where militant Islamists are calling our “death to America” and “death to Israel” it is clear that the United States and Israel are already engaged in a war with global Islamic fundamentalism.
History has a way of repeating itself, Both WW1 and WW2 started as regional wars which very quickly drew other nations into the conflict forcing them to takes sides. It may well be that this regional war will also draw other nations into its fiery cauldron resulting in WW3? Some are actually saying that WW3 has started. For decades America and China have been engaged in an economic war seeking which one of them will become the No.1 global superpower.
Whether this conflict we see happening in the Middle-East will lead to WW3 remains to be seen, however, in the Word of God we have described a war that will come where a third of mankind will be destroyed by an army of two hundred million strong with massive fire power. It will be a global conflict (Revelation 9:13-20). This will be the time of the big trouble which will never have been equalled in the past neither equalled in the future. For the sake of God’s elect remnant, and for the very survival of all flesh, God will cut those days short (Matthew 24:21-22). Israel will be centre stage at this time (Daniel 12:1).
Satan has two people groups he hates the most being Christians and Jews. His vehement distain and furious twisted destructive activity is aimed at these two people groups. Satan knows that the Judeo-Christian heritage in the western democracies is still an adversary to his plans to destroy God’s creation. Of course the Second Coming of the Messiah our Lord Jesus will put an end to Satan and his empire of the Antichrist!
In our text from the prophet Daniel we are told how the LORD operates where leaders of nations are concerned….
“Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His.” God’s wisdom and cannot be matched by man or demon. It is above any capacity of man. He can do anything His name says He can do. Hid name is above every name in the heavens, on earth and under the earth and is fully revealed in the Messiah our Lord Jesus.
“And He changes the times and the seasons;” It has been said that man proposes but God disposes. God does what He wants, when He wants, in the way He wants, and with whomsoever He wants, and asks no man’s permission. As King David said to the LORD; “My times are in your hands” (Psalm 31:15). Job also said; “I know that You can do all things and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:1-2).
“He removes kings and raises up kings;” In His infinitely wise and sovereign will it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another. For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs (Psalm 75:6-8). Those wicked political leaders God has allowed to operate have done so according to His purposes for man.
In His time God unleashes recompence upon them for their rebellion. He draws a line in the sand and says to them “This far and no more!” As it is written; “The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord taunts them. Then He rebukes them in His anger, and terrifies them in His fury” (Psalm 2:5).
God raised up the ancient kings of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome to serve His set purposes in relation to Israel and when these rulers and their kingdoms had served His purposes He got rid of them. It is no different for the political leaders today. In all of these matters can we make room for the sovereignty of God?
“He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.” To those who seek God’s wisdom to rule, to them He imparts His wisdom and knowledge to them because they know who He is. This is why it is vital for leaders of nations to have godly men around them who can guide them in the ways of the LORD. As far as President Trump is concerned those ‘spiritual advisers’ whom he has on his staff by and large are questionable? Those who seek God’s wisdom He honours but those who do not He removes when they have served His sovereign purposes in this world. Much more could be said on this matter.
God knows what resides in the darkness of men’s hearts because He is infinite pure and untainted light (1 John 1:5), that dispels all darkness and that exposes the hidden and deepest thoughts and intents of their hearts. His searchlight of the soul is His Word and His Spirit (Hebrews 4:12) (Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24).
As we see Islam spreading throughout the western nations and the growing possibility of WW3 looming on the horizon we need to pray for President Trump and for Benjamin Netanyahu as they seek to deal with Iran. Behind the Iranian regime today is the same powerful principality in the unseen world the Bible calls “the Prince over Persia;” that resisted Daniel the prophet when he was praying for Israel and God had to send the Archangel Michael to help him (Daniel 10:12-14).
Michael is God’s great prince who protects His people and who will fight for Israel during the time of Great Tribulation (Daniel 12:1) (Matthew 24:21-22). In fact Daniel chapter ten telescopes to the end of this present age.
Kingdoms of this world rise and fall but God’s Kingdom and His eternal foreordained purposes and plans remain forever! As it is written; “The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever” (Isaiah 40:7-8). As we see what is happening in the world with its wicked and ruthless regimes let us as the Body of Messiah once again remember what He said; “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). Selah.
