What’s Next? :: By Daymond Duck

As we approach 2026, it seems to me that something happens every day that appears to be related to Bible prophecy.

I often catch myself wondering what’s next.

Will 2026 bring:

• The Rapture?
• The Rise of the Ten Kings?
• The Battle of Gog of Magog?
• A digital ID in the U.S.
• A covenant with many for seven years of peace in the Middle East.
• The judgment of God on America over Pres. Trump’s efforts to appease Muslim intolerance of other religions by dividing Israel.
• Democrats retaking the House and/Senate in the mid-term elections.
• More wars and rumors of wars.
• More frequent and intense natural disasters.

Very little surprises me anymore, and I believe we can expect almost anything.

God’s batting average is 100%.

Every jot and tittle of His Word must be fulfilled, and we are watching it play out on a daily basis.

Here are some recent events that seem to be related to Bible prophecy:

One, concerning an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural disasters at the end of the age (and possibly Pres. Trump’s efforts to appease the Muslims by dividing Israel): on Dec. 19, 2025, it was reported that:

• A powerful windstorm with gusts reaching 144 mph (50-80 mph in lower elevations) battered parts of the Pacific Northwest and Rockies this week, leaving one dead, two injured, and hundreds of thousands without power.
• The deep low-pressure system continues moving east toward the northern Plains and Midwest, sustaining severe winds and wildfire risks.

Two, concerning an increase in earthquakes at the end of the age: on Dec. 20, 2025, Prophecy News Watch (PNW) posted an article by Michael Snyder (Economic Collapse Blog) that said:

• Here in the United States, we have been experiencing lots and lots of little earthquakes, but thankfully, we have not been hit by a really bad one yet.
• Will our luck run out in 2026?
• According to the Daily Mail, the dozens of earthquakes that have been rattling the New Madrid fault zone since the middle of November are “renewing fears of a catastrophic natural disaster soon.”
• Experts are also urging us to keep an eye on the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
• Beneath Cascadia’s forests and coastlines lies a 600-mile fault capable of producing a magnitude-9 earthquake.
• The last one struck in 1700, shaking the region for minutes and sending a massive tsunami all the way to Japan.
• Today, nearly 17 million people live on top of the same silent threat.
• Scientists warn that when it breaks again, the Pacific Northwest could change in a matter of minutes.
• Sediment cores extracted from the Pacific seafloor suggest that two major fault systems along the western coast of the United States and Canada might be partially synchronized.
• New findings reveal that after an earthquake on the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone, an earthquake soon after on the northern part of the San Andreas fault appears to occur roughly half of the time.
• These results, published in Geosphere, provide evidence of stress triggering, which has long been invoked to explain how activity on one fault might lead to activity on another nearby.

(My opinion: I am not predicting a major earthquake along the New Madrid, or Cascadia, or San Andreas fault zones in 2026, but I want to remind everyone that God warned the nations against dividing the Promised Land, and He can cause or allow natural disasters anytime He wants.)

Three, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Dec. 13, 2025, ISIS terrorists in Syria killed three U.S. citizens (two U.S. soldiers and one civilian interpreter), and Pres. Trump said the U.S. would retaliate.

On Dec. 19, 2025, it was reported that:

• The U.S. struck 70 targets in areas across central Syria that had ISIS infrastructure and weapons, and more strikes should be expected.

The U.S. Sec. of War, Pete Hegseth, said, “This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance.”

(More: Following the U.S. strike, Al-Qaeda’s leader posted the following on Telegram: I bless and commend all the heroic operations carried out against Jews and Americans throughout the world. And I call upon every honorable and zealous Muslim, and every free, courageous, and notable person in this world, to take the initiative and hasten to eradicate the dual evil (Jews and Americans) wherever they are found.)

Four, concerning an increase in wickedness (days of Noah) at the end of the age: last year a Muslim terrorist from Saudi Arabia drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Christmas Market that killed six and injured hundreds.

About one week ago, a Muslim father and son killed 16 and injured dozens of others at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Australia.

This week, a Muslim terrorist attack was foiled at the same Christmas Market in Germany, and another was foiled at a Christmas Market in Poland.

(FYI: Muslim terrorist attacks on Christian and Jewish holidays are becoming a global problem. This article contains several reports on Muslim terrorist attacks all over the world, and I could have easily recorded two or three times as many reports as I have.)

Five, on Dec. 20, 2025, it was reported that Pres. Trump has released a plan called “Project Sunrise” to rebuild Gaza as a high-tech, luxury coastal entity over the next 20 years.

I can’t imagine it happening, but here is a link to the article for those who want to check it out:

https://www.newsofbahrain.com/world/123725.html

Here are some Scriptures that may refer to Gaza’s future: Amos 1:6-8; Jer. 25:17-20, 47:1-7; Zeph. 2:4-7, and Zech. 9:5-7.

Six, concerning the spread of Islam and antisemitism in Germany: on Dec. 21, 2025, it was reported that:

• In 1975, there were 10 mosques in Germany.
• In 2025, there are 2,750 mosques in Germany.

(My comment: Beware America, the Islamic camel has its nose under the edge of the U.S. tent. Beware Church, militant Islam forces non-Muslims to submit.)

Seven, concerning Islamic intolerance of other religions and a falling away in the Church at the end of the age: on Dec. 20, 2025, The Gateway Pundit reported that:

• Europe is increasingly restricting public Christmas celebrationsas political and cultural elites retreat from the continent’s Judeo-Christian identity while simultaneously caving to liberal pressure to embrace Islam and aggressive secularism.
• Public displays of Christmas, once understood as inclusive and unifying, are now treated as controversial in countries such as France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and others.

Eight, concerning the Islamic threat to America: on Dec. 21, 2025, the Daily Caller reported that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard said:

• Islamist ideology is the greatest near and long-term threat to American freedom and security.
• At its core, Islam is a political ideology that seeks to create a global caliphate that governs us here in America.
• It is threatening Western civilization by promoting governance by Sharia law.
• A free society cannot survive if it refuses to defend itself.

(More: On Dec. 22, 2025, The Christian Post reported that “Five Iranian Christians have been sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison for religious activities, including prayer, baptism and distributing Bibles.”)

Nine, on Dec. 17, 2025, the U.S. Dept. of War hosted the Pentagon’s first “Christmas Worship Service” with both military and civilians gathering in the center courtyard to sing songs of praise to God and hear a presentation of the Gospel message from evangelist Franklin Graham.

The Dept. of War started holding monthly worship services in May of 2025; this was the first Christmas service.

Ten, concerning the return of Jews to Israel, the expansion of Israel’s borders, and Jews living in Judea at the end of the age: on Dec. 21, 2025, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved the establishment of 11 new towns and legalization of 8 Jewish existing communities across Judea and Samaria.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said:

• Within three years, we have legalized 69 new settlements – a record like no other.
• The people of Israel are returning to their land, building it, and strengthening their hold on it.

Eleven, concerning the hatred of the Jews and their return to the Promised Land at the end of the age: on Dec. 23, 2025, it was reported that Israel’s Foreign Min. Gideon Saar:

• Issued an emotional and urgent call: come home.
• Saar implored Jews from the diaspora to make aliyah, warning that antisemitic violence has reached alarming new heights globally while foreign governments fail to offer meaningful protection.

(My comment: It is my understanding that the Jews would return to Israel in two great waves: one in unbelief over a period of time before the Tribulation Period, and the other in a matter of days as believers in Jesus at His Second Coming; Ezek. 36:24-27; Ezek. 37:5; Rom. 11:1, 26.)

Twelve, concerning wars and rumors of wars, and the use of nuclear weapons during the Tribulation Period: on Dec. 23, 2025, U.S. Vice-Pres. J.D. Vance said:

• The mass migration agenda could risk nuclear weapons in Europe falling under the control of Islamist politicians.
• There is a “direct American interest” in preventing countries like France and the UK from being “overwhelmed with very destructive moral ideas” and allowing “nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of people who can actually cause very, very serious harm to the United States.”

(My comment: Militant Muslims often shout, “death to Israel” and “death to America.” America should be concerned about Islam taking over nuclear powers, having access to nuclear secrets, controlling the militaries and weapons of France, the UK, etc.).

Thirteen, concerning a recent snow in the desert in Saudi Arabia and natural disasters: on Dec. 25, 2025, Adam Berkowitz wrote:

• The Bible presents snow not as a meteorological surprise but as something fully under Divine control.
• In Job, God confronts human certainty about the natural world: “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail?” (Job 38:22).
• Snow is described not as an accident of nature but as something stored and released by God at His discretion.
• The Sages taught that the weather is not background noise to history.
• It is one of the instruments through which God governs the world.
• When snow falls in a desert known for heat and drought, it exposes how fragile human expectations really are.
• The landscape people assume will always remain the same can be overturned overnight.

Fourteen, concerning wars and rumors of wars: on Dec. 22, 2025, the Prophecy News Watch (PNW) staff wrote:

• Hamas is rearming and refusing to surrender its weapons.
• Hezbollah, under growing internal pressure inside Lebanon, continues to resist disarmament.
• And Iran, the gravitational force behind both groups, is steadily rebuilding its ballistic missile stockpiles.
• Now comes the political signal that suggests the current moment may be only an intermission, not an ending: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is widely expected to approach President Trump later this month with a renewed, comprehensive plan to confront all three actors.
• If that happens, it will mark a recognition of an uncomfortable truth–piecemeal solutions have failed, and the region is, once again, back to square one.
• Despite the world’s desire for peace, history suggests peace without decisive outcomes is an illusion.
• As 2026 approaches, the signs are troublingly clear.
• The players are rearming.
• The grievances remain.
• And the lesson–that unresolved wars always return–has once again gone unheeded.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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