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Trump's victory declaration

President Donald Trump has declared victory over Iran.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-says-we-won-iran-war/ar-AA1Yq1PI

“Let me say we’ve won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won, in the first hour it was over, but we won,” the president said.

Over the years, I have often seen how God speaks through men without their awareness. Men speak according to their earthly awareness (whether it is truth or propaganda), while God uses them to reveal His truth. Thus, the words are the same, but the perspective and application is very different. Because of this, I have often said, “Most prophecy is inadvertent.”

So while Trump has declared victory over Iran, God was using him to declare victory over the Prince of Persia.

A good biblical example of the discrepancy between men’s intent and God’s intent is seen in Caiaphas’ inadvertent prophecy. John 11:47-51 says,

⁴⁷ Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. ⁴⁸ If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” ⁴⁹ But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, ⁵⁰ nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.” ⁵¹ Now he did not say this on account of his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation.

Caiaphas himself was unaware that he was prophesying the word of God. His intent was more malicious against Jesus. Nonetheless, God used his voice to prophesy His own intention that would fulfill Isaiah 53:5,

⁵ But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed.

Caiaphas, being the high priest, was playing the antichrist role of Absalom, who usurped the throne of David. Caiaphas was the focal point of the great rebellion against the Anointed One. Yet God had no problem using him to give voice to His own will. Years ago, when I experienced a similar situation, I learned that if you are able to hear God’s voice in your worst enemy, then you truly have ears to hear. Most people are unable to hear such a word, because their enemy usually has entirely different intentions. How could God possibly speak through such people?

Well, in the current political situation, God has, once again, spoken through the man who is president this year. Whatever the president intended to say is not nearly as important as what God intended to say. We need to have ears to hear on both levels and to distinguish between the plans of men and the plans of God.

In this case, the only ones who might know how Trump has prophesied are those who are aware of the spiritual battle going on in the heavens—that is, the victory from 2001 that is now emerging in the earth. I may claim victory, of course, but I might be biased. So God raised up the president, the leader of men, to proclaim the victory directly on His behalf. You don’t have to take my word for it; the president himself has spoken.

The 40-Year Cycle

I have failed to mention recently that we are coming up on an important 40-year culmination point tomorrow. It was on March 26, 1986 that I was caught up in the spirit to the dungeon in Saudi Arabia, where I saw the bear-like beast being guarded by my angel. I told the story in chapter 6 of The Wars of the Lord:

https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/wars-of-the-lord/chapter-6-1986-apollyon-revealed/

At the time, I thought that this bear-like beast was the “Russian bear,” but the angel said its calling was “to devour much flesh.” This was a quotation from Daniel 7:5 KJV. Hence, it was the Persian bear, not the Russian bear.

But in 1986 I still did not have a clear understanding of the kings of the east (Revelation 16:12). It was only many years later—around the year 2004—that I began to see that Russia and China were these kings of the east that God was unleashing upon Mystery Babylon. As time progressed, I began to understand that Russia, China, and Persia/Iran were all kings of the east in their own way. It was an alliance of eastern kings, which, from the Babylonian perspective, were the Axis of Evil, but from the eastern perspective was the Axis of Resistance.

From a prophetic perspective, Revelation 16:12 does not say how many kings the sixth angel would release to prepare the way for Babylon’s collapse. Neither does Scripture tell us directly if those kings were good or evil. Either way, God has raised them up with the ministry of Cyrus to set us free from Babylonian rule. God’s purpose is seen in His word to King Cyrus in Isaiah 45:4,

⁴ “For the sake of Jacob My servant, and Israel My chosen one, I have also called you by your name [Isaiah 45:1]; I have given you a title of honor though you have not known Me.”

God does not need believers to accomplish His will. He can use unbelievers as easily as believers. Using Cyrus—who did not know the God of the Bible—and even calling Him a messiah in Isaiah 45:1 proved the sovereignty of God. Speaking through Caiaphas proved this. In fact, this is why it is important that we learn to hear God’s voice speaking through unbelievers as well as believers, sinners as well as through saints, and through our enemies as well as our friends. But it is difficult to learn this lesson without understanding God’s sovereignty.

Forty years is a big round number, very prominent in Bible prophecy. Therefore, we should be aware of this and be watchful, because tomorrow could be like a “book end” in some way. Given the current political situation as well as the 25-year cycle since 2001, it appears that March 26, 2026 is looming as an endpoint or a culmination point in the Prince of Persia revelation.

And perhaps this is also why God decided to speak through the US president, even though he does not yet know God. (Hopefully, this will change by the time he leaves office, as Kim Clement prophesied years ago.)

The Beast Mentality vs. The Kingdom

Jacob gave Judah the dominion mandate in Genesis 49:10. But because of Judah’s sin with Tamar in Genesis 38, his son was illegitimate and therefore the line was disqualified for 10 generations (Deuteronomy 23:2). David was the 10^th generation and the first to be qualified to fulfill the dominion mandate. (See Ruth 4:18-22.)

But after David died, his descendants who received the dominion mandate failed to fulfill the responsibility of that mandate. So eventually, they were stripped of it, and God gave it to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Jeremiah 27:6-8). Later, Daniel was given revelation to know that Babylon was just the first of four beast empires that would rule the earth, each being given the dominion mandate in succession: Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

When Rome fell, this dominion mandate passed down to the “little horn” of the Roman beast (Daniel 7:8), which we know from history was Religious/Christian Rome (the “Holy See”). Thus, the church had the opportunity to fulfill the responsibility of the dominion mandate. However, it adopted the same beast mindset as the previous beasts, and perhaps this is why it is pictured as a horn protruding as an extension of Imperial Rome (the fourth beast).

The Bible pictures these empires as beasts to distinguish them from the Kingdom of God itself. A beast’s prime directive is survival in the law of the jungle, where there are predators and prey. Each beast empire seeks to “devour much flesh” (Daniel 7:5) as it works its way up the food chain. The problem with the survivalist mentality is that it sees all other beasts either as prey or as competitors for the same prey.

The law of the jungle is not based on love, but upon survival in a dog-eat-dog world. Survivalists depend on their own strength and power over others, whereas the Kingdom of God depends upon God for its protection and sustenance. In the past century the idea of empire has retreated into a more obscure manifestation. We now practice hegemony, which grants smaller nations pseudo-independence while still retaining the main controls of economics and background politics.

Hegemony has largely adopted the Greek beast’s democracy as a mask that hides the real dominance of the empire.

Thucydides, in his History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2, on Pericles), wrote: “It was in name a democracy, but in fact the rule of the first man.”

This is the model that the American Empire now follows, both domestically and internationally. It is not the Kingdom of God, though it possessed the dominion mandate and was therefore responsible to fulfill its responsibility. Because it failed, it is being judged in the end of days, held accountable along with all of the other empires of the past.

In fact, it is not merely being destroyed; it is being replaced by the Kingdom of God, which even now is rising in the background. This Kingdom will not be ruled by Jews or any other ethnic group; it will be ruled by the overcomers who reign under Christ and administer the laws of God with the mind of Christ (Revelation 20:6).

So for those who are aspiring overcomers, it is necessary to put on the mind of Christ, to learn His laws, to shed the survival instinct of jungle law, and to take on the prime directive of the Abrahamic calling to be a blessing to all families of the earth.