Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- China Warns U.S. Against Forming Pacific NATO and Backing Taiwan
- China has often accused the U.S. of trying to form blocs to suppress its growth, a complaint that’s likely to attract greater attention after President Vladimir Putin cited similar grievances before his invasion of Ukraine.
- Foreign Minister Wang Yi said “This would not only push Taiwan into a precarious situation, but will also bring unbearable consequences for the U.S. side,” Wang said on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, later adding: “Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russia says West arming Ukraine will cause ‘global collapse’ in chilling warning
- Vladimir Putin has demanded Ukraine recognize Russia’s claim to Crimea and acknowledges Donetsk and Lugansk as independent states if the war is to end.
- Ukraine must also lay down their arms and distance themselves from NATO.
- The demands come after reports Kremlin troops are preparing for a fresh attempt to seize Kyiv.
- Sending foreign weapons to Ukraine will lead to a “global collapse,” Russia’s foreign ministry has warned.
- Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, said western powers sending mercenaries and military equipment to the front lines would be a “catastrophic development.”
- Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky has vowed revenge after photos of a fleeing family lying dead in the street as Russian forces shelled Irpin shocked the world.
- In a fiery address on Sunday, Volodymyr Zelensky promised a day of judgement after the deaths of evacuating Ukrainians.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russia holds drills with nuclear subs, land-based missiles
- Russian nuclear submarines sailed off for drills in the Barents Sea and mobile missile launchers roamed snow forests Tuesday in Siberia after President Vladimir Putin ordered his nation’s nuclear forces put on high alert over tensions with the West over the invasion of Ukraine.
- It also was unclear whether the exercises represented a change in the country’s normal nuclear training activities or posture.
- Putin’s decree applied to all parts of the Russian nuclear triad, which like in the U.S., consists of nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear-tipped land-based ICBMs and nuclear-capable strategic bombers.
- The latest statements from Putin and other Russian officials indicated the Kremlin view of Western sanctions as a threat on par with military aggression.
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Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague where with the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Important Takeaways:
- PUTIN THREATENS TO BRING ZECHARIAH’S FLESH-ROTTING NUCLEAR WAR
- For the third time this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening to deploy tactical nuclear weapons. Should this threat be realized, it would conform to several aspects of the Gog and Magog war as described by the prophets
- Earlier this month, before invading Ukraine, Putin responded to threats by western countries to intervene should he decide to invade.
- “Of course the [military] potential of NATO and Russia are incomparable. We understand it,” Putin said at a press conference. “But we also understand that Russia is one of the leading nuclear states, and by some modern components, it even outperforms many.”
- Last week, Putin warned that “whoever tries to hinder us” in Ukraine would see consequences “you have never seen in your history”.
- The War of Gog and Magog is described in prophecy as being an unusually short war. A tradition from the Vilna Gaon (a prominent 18th century Torah authority) teaches that the war of Gog and Magog will last 12 minutes. According to a 20th-century interpretation, “A third of the world will die, a third will suffer from plague and a third will survive.”
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russia warns of a ‘finely tuned and painful response’ to Biden’s sanctions as Ukraine is hit with a massive cyberattack, declares nationwide state of emergency and Putin boasts of ‘advanced’ hypersonic weapons
- Ukraine has declared a state of emergency – government websites and bank websites have been hit by cyber attack
- Comes as Joe Biden hit Russian banks and several top figures in Putin’s inner circle as well as sanctioning Russia’s sovereign debt to stop country raise money from the West
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled his meeting with Sergei Lavrov as diplomacy failed to end crisis
- Western allies say full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine including attack on Kiev is ‘highly likely’ – with U.S. sources spotting blood supplies being moved to the frontlines
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Important Takeaways:
- Russia now has right to build military bases in eastern Ukraine – treaties
- Putin on Monday officially recognized the two breakaway regions – the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic – as independent statelets, defying Western warnings that such a step would be illegal and kill peace negotiations. read more
- Under the two identical friendship treaties, submitted by Putin for ratification by parliament, Russia has the right to build bases in the separatist regions and they, on paper, can do the same in Russia.
- The 31-point treaties also say Russia and the breakaway statelets will work to integrate their economies. Both of them are former industrial areas in need of massive support to rebuild after eight years of war with Ukrainian government forces.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Ukraine crisis: Putin sends Russian tanks, hardware into Donetsk – report
- The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis Tuesday morning.
- Columns of military vehicles including tanks were seen in the early hours of Tuesday on the outskirts of Donetsk, the capital of one of two breakaway east Ukraine regions after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized them as independent states.
- No insignia were visible, but the appearance of the tanks came hours after Putin signed friendship treaties with the two separatist regions [Lugansk & Donetsk] and ordered Russian troops to deploy on what Moscow called a peacekeeping operation.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Russia’s upper house approves Vladimir Putin’s request to use military force abroad.
- In a letter to the Russian upper house of parliament, President Putin formally asked lawmakers to approve the use of Russian military force outside the country.
- The move formalizes a Russian military deployment to separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, a day after Putin recognized their independence.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s Latest Crackdowns – A New Low
- While the world focuses on the tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the midst of a massive crackdown on what remains of the opposition to his rule.
- In late December, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered International Memorial and its sister organization, Memorial Human Rights Centre, the oldest human rights groups in the country, to be forcibly closed down.
- International Memorial documented the political repression and historical crimes of the Soviet Union, including the Gulag prison-camp system, and commemorated its victims.
- Also in late December, a Russian court ordered the prison sentence of historian Yuri Dmitriev extended to 15 years. Dmitriev worked with International Memorial for three decades to uncover, among other things, mass graves from the era of Stalin’s rule.
- Now, in Putin’s most recent crackdown, anti-corruption activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin’s fiercest critic — already serving a sentence of 3½ years in a penal colony on trumped up charges of fraud — is facing a new trial.
- Navalny’s foundation, and all associated organizations, were labeled “extremist” by a Moscow court and thereby effectively outlawed. The new charges could lead to up to 15 additional years in prison for Navalny
- In addition to putting Navalny on trial once more, Russian authorities are seeking to remove all references to Navalny’s anti-corruption work from media outlets, including references to Navalny and his team’s video report, “Putin’s Palace,” which was released in January 2021.
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Matthew 24:6 “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.”
Important Takeaways:
- Cyberattacks knock out sites of Ukrainian army, major banks
- At least 10 Ukrainian websites were unreachable due to the attacks, including the defense, foreign and culture ministries and Ukraine’s two largest state banks. In such attacks, websites are barraged with a flood of junk data packets, rendering them unreachable.
- Among the attackers’ targets was the hosting provider for Ukraine’s army and Privatbank, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at the network management firm Kentik Inc.
- It was too early to say who was behind the attack, he added.
- The cyber aggression is nevertheless typical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who likes to try to keep his adversaries off balance.
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