“The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever” (Daniel 2:44b).
On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II. The world was already headed for a global conflagration with Japan and China already at war. The battle for Poland only lasted about a month before a Nazi victory. But the invasion plunged the world into a war that would continue for almost six years and claim the lives of tens of millions of people. Hitler is regarded as one of history’s great villains. So it’s easy to forget how slowly and reluctantly the world’s most powerful democracies mobilized to stop him. France and Britain did declare war on Germany two days after the invasion of Poland, but it would take them another eight months before they engaged in full-scale war with the Nazis. The United States wouldn’t join the war against Hitler until December 1941; a full two years after the war began.
This week saw Putin invade Ukraine. This act of aggression was not the act of a madman but a cold, calculated and long term plan that had already been put into motion possibly several years ago. Putin himself was a former KGB Operative and so it would seem he has no scruples or conscience about invading the Ukraine. Possibly Russia has a weapon that is so powerful that it has the capability to dismantle the technology of the military infrastructure of other countries that might resist Russian aggression. One thing we do know is that Russia now has Hypersonic Missiles that can’t be seen on radar and they are cause for concern because the United States’ traditional early warning systems might not be able to see those weapons coming.
According to an article in Military.com online it states…
“Hypersonic weapons such as Russia’s 3M22 Zircon fly so fast and low at speeds of up to Mach 6 and at a low atmospheric-ballistic trajectory that they can penetrate traditional anti-missile defence systems. The missile flies with an advanced fuel that the Russians say gives it a range of up to 1,000 kilometres. And it’s so fast that the air pressure in front of the weapon forms a plasma cloud as it moves, absorbing radio waves and making it practically invisible to active radar systems. U.S.
Aegis missile interceptor systems require 8-10 seconds of reaction time to intercept incoming attacks. In those 8-10 seconds, the Russian Zircon missiles will already have travelled 20 kilometres, and the interceptor missiles do not fly fast enough to catch up. U.S. Aegis missile interceptor systems require 8-10 seconds of reaction time to intercept incoming attacks. In those 8-10 seconds, the Russian Zircon missiles will already have travelled 20 kilometres, and the interceptor missiles do not fly fast enough to catch up.
According to Popular Mechanics, even if a U.S. ship were to detect a Zircon missile from 100 miles away, it would have only one minute to do something about it. In order to intercept a Russian Zircon missile, the U.S. would either need to intercept it at launch or fly an object into its path. Russia’s shift to hypersonic weapons is likely a means of contending with American superiority in size, technology and sheer number of aircraft carriers. The U.S. Navy intends to maintain a force of 12 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
By contrast, Russia has one and it deploys with a tugboat in case its engine breaks down. While at sea, any of Russia’s 15 Buyan-class corvettes will be able to carry up to 25 Zircon hypersonic missiles. It would take less than a half-dozen of those missiles to sink even the most advanced American aircraft carrier, such as the USS Gerald R. Ford.”
No doubt Putin knows something related to an advanced hypersonic weapon capability that the western democracies do not know about otherwise why would he take the step he has taken by invading Ukraine? America also has hypersonic weapon capability but is it as advanced as Russia? Added to this no doubt Putin wants to see Mother Russia became the leader of nations economically and militarily. He is a tyrannical despot as was Stalin. We also know that Putin and Xi Jinping have strong economic ties and that they are both of the communist mindset. They have more than likely come to an agreement concerning their designated geographical regions over which they want to control and have some kind of contract in place as two of the world’s leading superpowers and both with Hypersonic weapon capability.
Now Putin knows that America is no longer the threat to his expansionist agenda as does Xi Jinping. Added to this, Iran and the whole Arab world also know that America no longer has the clout it once had with Biden at the helm. The Afghanistan ‘fiasco’ or rather should we say ‘the tragedy’ created by Biden and Co has really demoted America’s power and competency in the eyes of Putin, Xi Jinping and of course Ebrahim Raisi of Iran. Now Putin also knows that the United Nations and the European Union are very ‘loud’ when it comes to ‘sabre rattling’ and issuing sanctions of one sort or another but do not take decisive military action. It would seem they have abandoned Ukraine and left them to defend themselves against the Russian aggression.
Just look at how the EU and the US are pushing for the Iranian nuclear deal when it is unmistakably obvious that in Iran Jihad minded young Iranians are shouting “death to America, death to Britain and death to Israel,” not to mention the Iranian regimes desire to see the demise of Saudi Arabia and those Arab kingdoms that Iran sees as having compromised with the west. Even in North Korea Kim Jong-un continues launching and developing missiles in defiance of International protocol. Of course Kim answers to Xi Jinping if the truth be known.
How this current situation in Europe will end we do not know but history does have a way of repeating itself. We do know from God’s Word that another world war is coming which will occur in the Middle-East which will see a third of the world’s population exterminated by unprecedented firepower (Revelation 9:13-19). Whether it is related to what we see immerging in Europe remain to be seen. Having said this both WW1 and WW 2 expanded into the whole Middle-East region. A war in Europe could easily spread into the Middle-East.
Let Putin have his hypersonic weapon capability and his show of autocratic, despotic tyranny but there are multitudes of New Covenant believers within the Ukraine, who in their impending suffering, are praying to the Lord to intervene and for strength to endure to the end. Like all tyrannical despots who have sought to establish their thrones and kingdoms on earth they will meet their demise and Putin is no exception especially if he starts to persecute God’s people in the Ukraine. His end is assured by God. He, like all despots down through history who sought to play God, will go down into the pit of hell where there is no reprieve.
The spirits of those despots who will have preceded Putin and gone to hell down through history will arise to meet him at his coming and they will be aroused to greet him and they will see that he has become as weak as they are and were who not able to have stopped their descent into hell (Sheol/Hades) All of Putin’s pomp will be brought down to hell and maggots will be his bed and worms his clothing (Isaiah 14:9-11).
Let us remember brothers and sisters that we have a kingdom which is coming that will never be destroyed but will last for time and for all eternity. As the prophet Daniel writes; “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever”
