A fulfilled-gospel response to the panic over the US/Iran Conflict
Let me be clear. The effects of the US/Iran conflict would be far-reaching and global. But it would not trigger what many Christians have been anticipating for centuries – the end of the world. Not any more than World War 1 or 2 led to the end of the world.
But…
A few weeks ago, the US was bombing the “hell” out of Iran, Trump was threatening to wipe a civilisation off the map, and the prophecy voices went into overdrive. A prominent pastor was predicting that the next event is the rapture, and once that happens, here comes the Antichrist, the tribulation, Armageddon, the works. He admitted it was frightening. Millions felt that familiar tightening in the chest.
“Surely, this time, the rapture is days away”
The pastor laid his end-time dominoes out in public: the next event on the prophetic calendar is the rapture of the church, and once that first domino falls, the rest would follow: the emergence of the Antichrist, the tribulation, the battle of Armageddon, the second coming, the millennial reign, with the Magog-and-Persia invasion of Ezekiel 38 somewhere in the mix. Prophecy websites ran Rapture 2026 countdowns. Across our timelines, a familiar sentence spread like a brushfire: surely, this time, the rapture is days away.