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Babylon the Great

A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the fact that many prophecy folks are looking forward to the complete destruction of Damascus in a presumed fulfillment of Isaiah 17:1. But not all students of prophecy see it that way: Some believe this prophecy was completely fulfilled in history and thus see no need for a future fulfillment.

There have been a couple of occasions over the years when an email question or comment from a reader has triggered me to write another article, and I suppose I can add this one to the list. And here's how I got here:

In that article, I look at both sides of the argument and in the end I concede that I am officially on the fence. Although I tend to lean toward the historical fulfillment interpretation, I freely admit that it could go either way.

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Sorry, Maggie

That's it. I've had it up to here.

I'm not kidding—I can't take it anymore. If I don't get this out of my system, I'm going to start banging my head against the nearest brick wall.

I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching videos from some of my favorite Bible teachers, and I routinely search for more—especially in the areas of Bible prophecy and eschatology (the study of the end times).

I'm happy to report that, although you may have to sift through a lot of junk to find it, there is a wealth of powerful, biblically sound teaching freely available on the Internet. In the process of searching YouTube, however, I never fail to run across a lot of videos posted by people who apparently have a seething, maniacal hatred for everything and everybody associated with the biblical doctrine of the pre-tribulation Rapture, which teaches that the Rapture will occur before the beginning of the seven-year Tribulation.

It seems the pre-trib Rapture pushes a few hot buttons out there.

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4/22/2025 — From the "Wait and See" Department...

According to a leaked report published by the New York Times recently, President Trump blocked Israel's intentions to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons facilities so that negotiations for some type of deal with Iran could proceed. As a result, some are cheering, some are howling, and some are saying not so fast—wait until you see what Trump is up to.

Although some are praising what appear to be Trump's noble intentions at peaceful negotiations as opposed to military strikes, others are decrying what they perceive as naive capitulation on Trump's part that will effectively throttle Israel's efforts to defend its very existence. They think what Trump is doing is stupid. It appears to them that Trump is on the road to yet another toothless nuclear deal with an Iranian regime that is 100 percent guaranteed to ignore such a deal's terms and continue their push to develop nuclear weapons unabated, precisely as they did under Obama's toothless nuclear deal that Trump wisely scrapped.

But still others are saying with calm reassurance:

"You just wait and see."

They are telling people to watch Trump work, because he knows what he's doing. According to such people, Trump is still keenly aware of Iran's true intentions, and how unlikely it is they would adhere to the terms of any deal. He knows full well what kind of snakes the Iranian leaders truly are.

According to reports, the Iranian regime is rubbing their hands in glee—they think they're winning, because any such conflict between the U.S. and Israel is Iran's dream come true. The Iranians were sweating bullets after Trump took office—and rightly so, but now they're getting their swagger back.

But you just wait and see, they say. Wait until you see what Trump is going to demand from the Iranians—things that will make them scream and cry and that they will never agree to, and the talks will collapse in a few weeks. According to these people that's the real goal: Bring a relieved Iran to the negotiating table and make them think they're gonna get what they want (as they did with nincompoops Barack Obama and John Kerry), go through the motions of peaceful negotiations, and then chop their legs off, let the talks go up in flames, let the world see it as Iran's fault, and then tell Israeli pilots to don their flight suits—which is what Israel has been itching to do for years.

Obviously I don't have any kind of inside track on any of this, but frankly I am inclined to believe this last bit about Trump being fully prepared to see such talks collapse, and to ultimately turn Israel loose on Iran's nuclear weapons facilities (if not aid such an attack outright).

It's just that whether you love him or hate him, Trump has proven to his detractors time and time again that he is neither naive nor stupid—and entering into another toothless nuclear deal with Iran would be both.

So, I'm willing to wait and see.

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