AMERICA does have a RENDEZVOUS with PROPHECY
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Revelation 13:11,12TRUMP: Forget the NONSENSE you hear about Trump, Project 2025, the "Christian Right" or Vance being a Catholic. That's all rubbish as it relates to the end times.
For when the Mark of the Beast comes...it will come. ALL politicians follow polls...and IF there are calamities that befall the land and people decide to turn towards a direction that they think that will include God in the solution---the POLITICIANS will follow the POLLS---regardless of Political Affiliation. For example, one can see the Left do it just as much if the carrot stick has a Green Tint to it as in Laudato Si'.
RATHER, Trump's role seems be that of RESTORING America to it's leadership role on the world stage. A very powerful President in a short time.
It doesn't have to be on Trump's watch that the Mark comes but he could be laying the ground work for both economically and militarily America's super power status being restored after waning the last couple of decades.
Any successor could use that new found revitalized American power and influence. Especially if at the end of his term he leaves America on the cusp of a new "Golden Age" as he calls it.
*So yes, the Mark of the Beast could happen under Trump. if some massive calamities befall us and people clamor for it---or after Trump. We should keep our eye on the big picture of Prophecy--not do prophecy-by-headline on a daily basis.
*The 2024 election, where one could see the power struggle from behind the veil of the seen and unseen, spilled over into view if one was paying close attention.
-For example, who encouraged Biden's handlers to demand a pre-convention debate (a first) and apparently not give him his shot the night of the debate?
-Which led to him eventually dropping out after winning renomination but before the convention (a first).
-Followed by the Trump assassination attempt (whose hand guided Trump's head to move in a split second?).
-That in turn led a week later, when Biden dropped out, to none of the candidates talking of vying for the nomination due to the fact they thought Trump was unbeatable with that photo-op, thereby leaving the nomination to Harris, who otherwise almost for sure would have been beat at an open convention.
-Which in turn gave Trump the weakest, most embarrassing ticket to run against (Harris/Walz) in recent history enabling Trump to overcome some of his personal baggage at the ballot box.
*That power struggle from behind the veil of the seen and unseen as seen before in Scripture: But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Daniel 10:13
The CORE 4: (China, Russia, Iran and North Korea)
These 4, and their allies, form a world block that poses a threat to American Global Dominance. (Remember it's America that has a specific RENDEZVOUS with PROPHECY in the area of Global Influence--not the CORE 4).
On the world stage they were thought to form a serious military rival to the U.S. led west and and economically with the formation of BRICS. But that seems to be reversing paralleling with the rise of Trump.
But in a short time---the CORE 4 have been greatly weakened on the world stage.
CHINA: From the real estate Everglade Scandal that shook the Chinese economy to it's core (and the corruption of Communist Party officials that contributed to it) to the Draconian COVID Measures, such as locking people physically in their dwellings (who can forget the videos leaked out of eerie screams at night in unison echoing through cities from balconies and people seen jumping out windows to their death) the Chinese government has had rumblings of their people beginning to turn on them. With economic decline from COVID Lockdowns and Everglade to now the Tariff War that has hit China hard---there have been hundreds of thousands participating in protests across the country and police actually being assaulted in the streets.
*Their Belt-and-Road Project has left them broke. (*an initiative where China spends billions in foreign countries to cement alliances by building infrastructure in them, move thousands of Chinese citizens there to get a base in the country and run businesses as well as build ports which in return they collect most of the profits and hope to eventually build military bases there). That attempted global hegemony seems to be cracking as many infrastructure projects don't work or are already decaying, it's cost them a trillion dollars so far worldwide and backlash is brewing, such as in Tanzania recently where rioters came out in such force to ransack Chinese businesses nationwide and the police were too afraid to respond.
*From Burma to Pakistan another set back. In Burma their militarily backed government seems to be slowly losing the civil war. And over in the India-Pakistan conflict it appears that Chinese made missile defense and detection systems were useless in Pakistan in detecting or stopping India's military response to the Pakistani terror attack.
*China has also been recently removing many Generals and senior military leadership (claiming corruption) but in reality are afraid of a possible military coup. The most recent was their number 2 in command.
*It appears the Chinese Tiger may be a paper tiger after all.
RUSSIA: Although Putin's invasion of Ukraine (which in fairness Ukraine sort of triggered by violating the Minsk Accords and harassing the ethnic Russians, which make up 40% of Ukraine by turning the Neo-Nazi Azov battalion loose to kill ethnic Russians since at least the early twenty teens) has been rough for Russia---
*Russia has won the war but the battle still rages (only because warmongers in the West want to keep supplying Ukraine so they keep fighting a lost cause). Putin came, he saw, he conquered the Donbass and coast. BUT it has exposed the Russian military as weak and ineffective.
*And now Russia was forced out of Syria and it's bases for a foothold in the Middle East by a rag tag group of Turkish backed terrorists.
*Putin has received a bloody nose on the world stage. Putin seems to be strong on the home front but on the world stage Russian prestige has sunk to a post Soviet low.
*It appears the Russian Bear may be in need of hibernating after Ukraine.
IRAN: The Iranian Regime took a hit in Syria when they lost their puppet Assad recently. Then their proxy war against Israel via Hamas and Hezbollah hasn't gone quite as planned.
*The Iranian strike on Israel last fall resulted in an Israeli counterstrike on Iran in which Iranian air defenses were useless in the face of the Israeli Air Force. Iran failed to shoot down a single Israeli aircraft as they pounded Iranian targets across the country.
*Then Lebanon, which houses Hezbollah, elected a President who claims he will disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon by the end of 2025.
*Iran's economy continues to crumble as it's government faces the the rumble of mass protests hand in hand with the weight of record inflation.
*After more than a decade of getting the upper hand over the Saudi-Sunni coalition in the Middle East the tables seemed to have turned on Iran's growing hegemony in a matter of months. Even their infamous Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen claim they are in a cease fire with the West over their attacks on shipping.
*It appears, that with new oil sanctions slapped on by Trump, that the oil rich Iranian regime will be dirt poor before the end of the decade.
NORTH KOREA: Lat time Trump was President he walked into the country.....just saying....now that Trump appears even stronger this time around.....just saying....
*North Korea sent troops to the Kursk region of Russia to join the fighting and ALL reports are that they are totally ineffective in real world combat.
*With a weakened China it's likely there will be a weaker North Korea. Again....just saying....
*It appears that people in North Korea may not have to feast on cabbage forever......just saying....
SUMMARY: The Core 4, as a bulwark to American Global Influence---seems to be crumbling in just the last few months in a way that no one thought possible just a few years ago: The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases. Proverbs 21:1 BSB
****Among the symbolic 144,000 during the 2nd Advent there will be Chinese, Koreans, Iranians, Russians and Ukranians. Never forget that.
AMERICAN POPE: Claims that an American Pope could assist ushering in the Mark with the U.S. seems reasonable to conclude---but does not necessarily mean that....time will tell.
*Francis I laid potential groundwork for coalescing the world around the Mark with a green carrot stick of Laudato Si'. We shall see what Leo XIV now does.
Q: Could Leo XIV bring a mix of Woke and Conservative to his pontificate?
*By playing up his ancestral heritage of his French Creole ancestry from New Orleans (like mine is---French Creole means part black) could he appeal to minorities around the world and make more inroads for Catholicism among black Americans, Africa and the Caribbean basin?
*He could hold on to just enough woke to please the Left globally such as with Laudato Si' while being more Conservative on some social issues as woke is beginning to wane in the U.S.
---As calamities befall the land, and people blame it on moral decay, that could be the balance in a voice of influence to wield power in that moment. ...we shall see....
“It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity”. (E.G.W.): For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her.... Revelation 18:3Q: So, are things lining up yet