How Bashar al-Assad finished the providential task Saddam Hussein was unable to complete
“There will be no more delay!” —Revelation 10:6
Pt. i: prophetic study
In the Book of Revelation, the seven trumpets deal with God’s judgments upon the unbelievers in humanity from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. into the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Partly for the sake of article brevity, I’m not explaining the fullness of the trumpets, although especially because that study requires the most rigidly well-discerned exegetical rigor to dissect with objective clarity, and your heads will probably explode already (without that specific focus) by the end of this article.
Following the angelic blowing of the fourth trumpet, there is a proclamation of three impending woes upon humanity:1
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
The first woe, inculcated in the fifth trumpet sounding’s consequences, was a 150-year period of judgment upon the Eastern Byzantine half of Christendom. Following the visionary description of the fifth trumpet’s heralded consequences, there is an announcement of fulfillment:2
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
The overarching focus of this article, however, is the second woe—it begins with the blowing of the sixth trumpet:3
Consider the visionary description of the sixth trumpet as a pericopal chiasm:
A (9:13-14): “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”
B (9:15): “And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.”
C (9:16a): “And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:”
D (9:16b): “and I heard the number of them.”
C’ (9:17): “And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.”
B’ (9:18-19): “By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.”
A’ (9:20-21): “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
Anyways, I’m not focusing on the exact symbolic identifications for the very meanwhile, and instead let’s bring the focus to the time applications. First off, notice that the very conclusion of the vision here does NOT say “the second woe is past,” indicating in other words that the second woe has not met fulfillment at the same point when the “hour, day, month, and year,” are over. The second woe is not announced as over until after an additional vision of the little book and a Temple vision culminating in the systematic killing of the Two Witnesses and great earthquake towards the end of Revelation ch. 11!
It is crucial to understand the time span: in biblical prophecy, a “day” corresponds to a literal year in fulfillment.4 Because the ancient Hebraic reckoning prophecy-wise counts one year as 360 days, this means that the total time would be:
1 prophetic hour = 1/24 of a prophetic day; 1/24 of 360 days = 15 literal days
1 prophetic day = 1 literal year
1 prophetic month = 30 prophetic days = 30 literal years
1 prophetic year = 360 prophetic days = 360 literal years
Add them up, and the total is 391 years and 15 days. What was the fulfillment of this prophecy mentioned in the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ? None other than the Turkish-Ottoman rule from July 27, 1449, into Aug. 11, 1840, correctly forecast by Methodist minister Josiah Litch.5 For 391 years and 15 days, Providence appointed an empirical power to ruthlessly punish the lukewarm Christians of the East for their failure to live up the light they had, and in spite of the scathing implications for all of humanity, the inhabitants of the earth chose not to repent—read this again:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
The fulfillment of this prophecy is very simple: from 1840 and onwards, the rest of humanity outside the Eastern realm whose lukewarm Christian recalcitrants were directly impacted by the brutality of the Ottoman Empire, chose not to repent of:
“the works of their hands”—their own earthly wealth
“worship [of] devils…”—their descent into satanic “spiritualism” attempting to communicate with the dead, contacting instead duplicitous manifestations of demonic apparitions impersonating the dead
“…idols of gold, and silver, and brass…”—perhaps laissez-faire love of money that elevates capitalist gain above justice and mercy for fellow human beings
“…murders…”—human cruelty descended from bad to worse, i.e. expanding imperialist brutality and the transatlantic slave trade
…and on and on and on. In a nutshell, the sixth trumpet’s sounding marking almost 4 centuries of providentially ordained brutality against the lukewarm Christians in the East served to warn all of humanity about the consequences of failing to repent, and the rest of humanity spared from that judgment chose not to recant of their sins but rather multiply them.
Let’s now briefly study the next vision in Revelation (all of ch. 10) which too can be viewed as a pericopal chiasm, perhaps like so:
A (10:1): “And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:”
B (10:2-3): “And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
C (10:4): “And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.”
D (10:5-7): “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time [delay] no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.”
C’ (10:8): “And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.”
B’ (10:9-10): “And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.”
A’ (10:11): “And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
For continuity-consistency sake, consider the sequential nature of the visions as an orderly structure within a “full” unit—the end of the second woe is not over yet, so the substantive application of this vision pertains to a span of human history preceding the end of the woe. Note what the centrality of the pericopal chiasm clarifies: “there shall be no more delay.” (the KJV archaically translates it as “time,” although the Greek term in this context means “delay,” not as if time literally ceases) If we take the logical conclusion that the time span of this interval wherein “there is no more delay” begins at the concluded fulfillment of the sixth trumpet, then naturally this started on Aug. 11, 1840, and has continued all the way into the present day (as of typing).
Let’s now breeze through ch. 11 of the Revelation of Jesus Christ:
11:1-2: “And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.”—the forty-two prophetic months here mete out to 1,260 prophetic days, or 1,260 literal years, which of course is the 538-1798 A.D. era of papal persecution of the saints; additionally, this is the same time frame of God’s temple (IOWs, the church,6 a.k.a. the true Zion, God’s commandment-keeping people bearing the testimony of Jesus Christ7) being trampled by the Gentiles as Jesus Himself foretold in the Olivet Discourse8
11:3: “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”—the 1,260 prophetic days here is the same time period as the forty-two months
11:4: “These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.”—a candlestick in prophetic imagery represents a church,9 so here is a picture of “two” churches, not literally two separate bodies of God’s people, instead likely describing God’s faithful adherents of the New Covenant in both the east and west10
11:5-6: “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”—antitype to Elijah the Tishbite’s proclamation that shut rain for a literal three-and-a-half years11
11:7: “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”—not necessarily at the very end of the 1,260 years a.k.a. the 1798, but rather when the testimony is completed, since the 1,260 years is simply the duration when the Christian church “prophesies” (preaches) in sackcloth; the finishing of the testimony is probably towards the close of probation, a.k.a. in the far future, and the textual description here fast-forwards to describe the penultimate events nearing the end of time because “there shall be no more delay”
11:8: “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”—not literal Jerusalem, for one since Jesus wasn’t even crucified within the city but rather outside the city walls,12 and also because the “great city” here is synonymous with the one bluntly identified as Babylon later in ch. 1713
11:9: “And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.”—the inhabitants of the planet who reject the final message of salvation will be sealed in their hardened hearts into eternal perdition, never again reconciling with God’s penitent remnant who seek after eternal righteousness
11:10: “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.”—ditto on the previous point
11:11-12: “And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.”—the exact far-future fulfillment of this prophecy is difficult (to my admission) to determine at the very moment, so I will refrain from presumptuous certainty for now, albeit the “three and a half days” here corresponds in fulfillment presumably to the same time frame mentioned in v. 11:9
11:13: “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.”—take note here at the mention of a “great earthquake,” because it is the same term used in the visionary descriptions of the sixth seal and seventh final plague which describe the signs that precede the second advent of Jesus Christ14
11:14: “The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.”—only after the great earthquake is the second woe finally over
Now, when does the great earthquake transpire to mark the conclusion of the second woe? Not until the last of the seven final plagues are poured out, which isn’t until the final separation between the sealed righteous and hardened wicked has already met absolute completion! Let’s first study the sixth seal in its chronologically plain sequential ordering:15
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
The observed events in the vision follow this order:
great earthquake
sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair → moon turns into blood-red → stars of heaven fall to the earth
heaven passes away, departing as a scroll
islands and mountains are removed out of their places
kings of the earth hide in the rocks and mountains because of Jesus’s Second Coming to execute His wrath upon their wicked souls
According the apostle Peter, the heavens and earth pass away at the Second Coming.16 Peter was of course one of the inner four apostles to hear the Olivet Discourse firsthand,17 where Jesus spoke of the celestial signs in the exact same order. As relayed by the evangelist Mark, a close companion of Peter:18
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.
26 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
27 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Same descriptive order! “[T]he sun shall be darkened… moon shall not give her light… stars of heaven shall fall…” Even the very parable of the fig tree here is plainly referenced in the Revelation account by the apostle John that likens the falling of the stars of heaven to the fig tree casting her untimely figs. The apostle and evangelist Matthew in his gospel account testified of the same: “after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken…”19 Luke’s gospel record likewise ascribes the same consistent ordering of the celestial signs: “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars…”20
Observe now what is described of the seventh plague in Revelation ch. 16:21
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
There is no contradiction in the sequential structure, only that each pericope lists a partial reckoning containing pieces of the puzzle and not the full answer by themselves in standalone form. The seventh plague is not fulfilled all momentarily “at once,” but in two phases: vv. 16:17-19 describe the first half that shortly precedes the Second Coming, and the second half (vv. 20-21) refers to the scene of earthly tumult at the Parousia. Remember: the islands and mountains do not flee away until the heavens and earth depart as a scroll, which in turn is only at the Second Coming.
Hereby is the comprehensive chronology of the final events, carefully collated:
seventh plague poured out upon the unrepentant worshipers of the beast and his image (Rev. 16:17)
great earthquake (Rev. 6:12, 11:11-13, 16:18-19)
[second woe ends, third woe comes quickly] (Rev. 11:14)
celestial signs: sun becomes black → moon turns blood red → stars fall to the earth (Rev. 6:12-13; cf. Jl. 2:10, 3:15; Mk. 13:24-25; Matt. 24:29; Lk. 21:25)
third woe announcement commencing the Second Coming (Rev. 11:14-19)
Second Coming: heaven and earth pass away (Rev. 6:14a; cf. II Pet. 3:10)
islands and mountains moved out of their places (Rev. 6:14b; 16:20)
destruction of the wicked at the Parousia (Rev. 6:15-17, 16:21, cf. 19:19-21)
Pt. ii: modern lessons
Let’s dial the focus back, away from the unforeseen details of the eschatological “far” future, and consider the applicable conclusion for the present era. We are currently living in the era of the second woe of Revelation. The second woe’s ultimate fulfillment, preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, will be a validation of divine authority that has proven once and for all that God has given humanity ample space and time to repent of their consciously abhorrent sins, and that those hardened in wickedness chose of their own agency and accord to continue in evil.
Remember now that “there is no new thing under the sun”22—that which is exposited now to your ears has been manifested already to previous generations of humanity. Where can we find the theme in the modern era that humanity has been given an opportunity to repent of their idol-worship, murders, sorceries, fornication, and thefts, and chose not to? None other than the case examples of Iraq and Syria, where it has become far more than evident that the overthrow of “tyrannical” stability-ensuring secular Arab nationalist rulers has produced infinitely worse depravities, and yet the stubborn masses who supported the regime change repented not of their arrogant utopian complexes after the sheer horrors of al-Qaeda insurgencies and unleashed mob terrorism inculcated in sectarian mass murder.
Consider this, that Paul spoke thusly of the Roman Empire back in his day:23
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Yes, the very pagan Roman Empire that was systematically wont for sporadically vicious persecutions of Christians, which ruthlessly crushed dissent, levied gargantuan burdens upon imperialized populations, and which paternalistically left the downtrodden to suffer in a proto-Darwinian “survival of the fittest” culture, was spoken of by the Spirit-inspired apostle and evangelist Paul as a legitimately ordained authority by providential will. Why? Because as brutal as the imperial power was, it represented a pillar of societal human stability that fundamentally enforced order and punished lawless anarchic delinquents from plunging nations into a free-for-all tribalist battle royale where the law of the jungle would reign.
The corollary is this: if the Roman Empire in its hedonistic brute was not only a legitimate authority ordained by God but also a restrainer against the ultimate antichristic spirit of perdition,24 how much more so do Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad follow in the footsteps of the prototype in greater proportional magnitude?
In both Iraq and Syria under their Ancien Regimes, the ruling Ba’ath Party not only offered stability and security under a unified Arab nationalist banner that embodied a legitimate grievance against British-Zionist imperialism, but fundamentally were socialist institutions granting state-sponsored social welfare programs for an ethnically diverse population, and seeking to uphold women’s rights in the true sense of the term.
It’s almost as if (just a speculation, of course; I’m not making a presumptuously assured determination here) God was giving the following message: “you sinful human beings want prosperity? Fine, I’ll give you Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Assad dynasty in Syria, and I will put it in their hearts25 to offer you the most generous bargains possible compared to the paternalistic social contracts in any previous generation. Just accept the legitimacy of their rule as I appointed and do not revolt against them, and their stability-preserving governments will stave off the final crisis for an additional season of time giving all of humanity an additional space to repent of their ways.”
Did humanity learn the lesson, abase their egos, and repent? No—bad multiplied to worse, as thousands and millions rallied around the banner of a CIA/MI6/Mossad-sponsored false “liberation” movement idealistically in presumption believing that the Ba’ath “regimes” must be toppled to prepare a democratic utopia, and even after the completed regime change operations that only ushered in a synarchic wave of unprecedented savagery being normalized, the adamant bootlickers for regime change will trivialize the worst of the post-upheaval chaos and stubbornly insist in delusion that “nothing now can possibly be as bad as the previous regime!”
This is the exact condition of late-stage humanity foretold in the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ—read this passage again and let it sink in:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet REPENTED NOT of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
When the “rest of the men” in 1840—who did not suffer under the Ottoman Turks during the 391 years and 15 days when the Orthodox Christians of the East were punished for their impious spiritual condition—refused to repent, the precedent was established that continues into this very day. Neither will all the self-righteous, “liberal” Western LARPers who stumped for the ziosalafist war against Syria repent and admit their grotesque evil in cheering on an al-Qaeda insurgency that fractured Syria into sectarian ruin and Zionist-Wahhabi death squad mob rule.
Will the anti-Assadists repent?
Let’s run through a brief check!
Case i: Syrian Kurds
Listen, you SDF/Peshmerga Kurdish separatists: you secretly colluded with ISIS in Deir ez-Zor to selfishly undermine Assad at Zionist behest, cut off resources from starving Syrians crippled by Western sanctions in the mid-2010s, and later you found out the hard way in 2019 after abandonment by your American patrons that it was better late than never to form the logically obvious alliance with Assad against both Turkey and ISIS. And then you returned back to your selfish abhorrent ways, choosing to cheer on the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in the December of 2024 when al-Qaeda took over Damascus by force, only for you to find out very quickly that ‘HTS’ wasn’t friendly towards you as Turkey re-commenced their aggression undermining your very aspirations for freedom and autonomy.
WILL YOU REPENT of your arrogance and admit that it was a mistake for you to cheer on the salafi-jihadist coup against Assad in Dec. 2024, and that you had it better all along if you just conceded to Assad and cooperated with him fully in good faith?
The Kurds: “No.”
Case ii: Syrian Druze
Give ear, you Druze: you selfishly chose to take to the streets in 2023 chanting, ‘Syria free free, Bashar get out!’ all because prices were going up in temporal inconvenience. The next year, Bashar al-Assad left Damascus for good just as you demanded, and the “New Syria” you cheered for turned around and began massacring you in droves in Sweida. Look at yourselves now, you pitiful fools, begging help from the very Nazi Jews who are committing a genocide in Gaza and southern Lebanon, and who are merely using you as sacrificial goats and tools to serve their own depraved agenda.
WILL YOU REPENT of your foolish protests against Assad, admit that you should have all along cooperated fully with him rather than turn to the duplicitous patronage of genocidal Zionists, and that you callously put your own community in danger by clamoring for the very ouster of Assad that has resulted in al-Qaeda death squads slaughtering your communities relentlessly?
The Druze: “No.”
Case iii: Lebanese Sunnis
You know for a fact, you Sunni masses in Lebanon, that your country was delivered out of the nightmare of an ISIS-Nusra takeover in the 2010s spillover because Bashar al-Assad was aligned with Hezbollah’s commander Hassan Nasrallah. And yet you are horrendously ungrateful for the sacrifices bled by Lebanese and Syrians as you clamor against Assad and rail spitefully against Hezbollah, even cheering on the Dec. 2024 ouster of the Syrian president by Zionist-funded rebranded al-Qaeda/ISIS death squads. And now, because both Nasrallah and Assad are gone in expedient accordance with your wishes, the Nazi Jews are savaging southern Lebanon relentlessly, indiscriminately murdering you and your fellow non-Sunni citizens.
WILL YOU REPENT of your foolish anti-Assad and anti-Hezbollah stance, and seek unity with your pro-Hezbollah Shi’a and Maronite brothers in Lebanese unity instead of clinging to your self-centered vain interests?
The Lebanese Sunnis: “No.”
Case iv: Lebanese Maronite Christians
You remember all too well how Hezbollah and Assad protected you from ISIS-Nusra terrorists in the mid-2010s. And yet, because you simply cannot give up the old hatred against the Assads, you cheered in the streets in Dec. 2024 glorifying the Zionist-Wahhabi color revolution that has taken over Damascus and which will only empower jihadists endangering you in the long run.
WILL YOU REPENT of your nearsighted, foolish, and brazenly selfish opposition to Assad, and admit that it was in your better interest all along to have supported the Syrian president instead of letting your past grievances interfere with the present reality?
The Lebanese Maronites: “No.”
Case v: pro-Hamas Palestinians
You know for a fact that Bashar al-Assad never in the first place betrayed your resistance cause, but that you chose to believe the delusion of ‘Sunni repression’ amidst the ‘Arab Spring’ and chose to endorse a jihadist insurgency against the very Syrian government that provided your 500,000 compatriots the absolute best state-sponsored compassion and solidarity than anyone else in the region. You treacherous, ungrateful masses bit the hand that fed you, choosing instead to endorse the Zionist-funded DAESH/al-Nusra unholy war against Syria, and when the Syrian president was finally ousted, you cheered in the streets and on social media in Dec. 2024, applauding the ascension of the “New Syria” that is led by Zionist-acquiescing al-Julani.
Look at yourselves: has the very ‘New Syria’ you cheered for helped you one bit? To the contrary, they bend over backwards to appease the Nazi-Israelis, and refuse to offer any aid. Yea, al-Julani’s ‘government’ even blocked aid from passing through a Syrian transit to reach you!
WILL YOU REPENT of your ungrateful self-sabotaging stupidity, renounce your longstanding hatred of Assad, and stand in solidarity with the Syrian Christians and especially Alawites who are being slaughtered by the very HTS death squads enabled by the very Israelis currently committing a genocide against your own population?
The pro-Hamas Palestinians: “No.”
Case vi: Zionist (Nazi) ‘Jews’
You long shamelessly sent arms and field hospital aid to the very al-Nusra terrorists you now suddenly pretend to have always opposed ever since they took control of Damascus, and to distract yourselves from your relentlessly barbaric genocide against Palestinians, suddenly you are hypocritically claiming to champion the very Syrian minorities you funded the persecution of for years on end when you enabled al-Qaeda in Syria?
WILL YOU REPENT of your idolatrous racist ethnic-worship, your murderous Holocaustic genocides, your Kabbalistic-fascist sorceries, your r*pe-infested fornications, and your countless land thefts?
The nazijews: “Of course not, you’re just antisempitick!1!!1!”
Case vii: Western sh*tlibs and so-called ‘leftists’
You kept nonstop bootlicking for the Democratic Party because of your virtue-signaling priorities bootlicking for transgender brainwash in public schools and abortion-on-demand to pretend to be that righteous saint you aren’t, and when you weren’t callously slandering anyone telling the truth about Syria as a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ you turned a blind eye to the plain reality that you ostensibly supported the Zionist-Wahhabi savagery against the Syrian nation because you uphold the very American political establishment that uses its financial and intelligence arms to undergird the dirty war against Syria.
WILL YOU REPENT of your vile longstanding support for a neofascistic insurrection that stormed the Syrian capital on Dec. 8, 2024?
The liberals and anti-Assad leftists: “No.”
Case viii: Western right-wing nutjobs
Give ear and listen: you claim day in and day out to hate ‘Islamist extremism’ and worry about ‘persecution of Christians,’ and yet you continuously bootlick for the Zionists who funded those al-Nusra terrorists now running the halls of Damascus and who is wholeheartedly confederate with the very Mango Caesar you adore, all the while Syrian Christians are endangered.
WILL YOU REPENT of your depraved two-faced hypocrisy?
The RWNJs (especially Christian Zionists): “No.”
Brutal truths
The reason Saddam Hussein didn’t “fulfill” this objective of validating providentially appointed legitimate authority to the fullest extent is because the Iraqis who experienced the post-2003 horrors had no practical chance to be posed a choice of returning to a Saddamist-Ba’athist form of governance: by the late 2000s, the de-Ba’athification process was complete, destroying the last vestiges of Saddam’s Ancien Régime base entirely.
By contrast, in the long span of the 2010s dragged regime change operation against Syria, many Syrians who initially opposed Bashar al-Assad would endure life under ziosalafist occupation, learned the hard way that it was all along a naivete mistake for them to have railed against the Syrian government, and genuinely recanted their old ways to return in self-abased humility to Assad’s “regime,” announcing their experience-solidified alignment with Assad’s government wholeheartedly to crush the foreign-backed Zionist-Wahhabi anti-Levant conspiracy.
The last dividing line of separation was manifested in 2021: Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government made an effort of sincere goodwill, holding an election and reaching out to Syrians both nationwide and in the diaspora for electoral participation. The pro-jihadist “Syrian opposition” and their Western Zionist/Turkish backers, instead of seeking their own aspirations for Syria through peaceful means, chose to boycott the election and cut themselves out of the Syrian nation once and for all. The resilient Syrians both at home and abroad, who authentically wanted to repair Syria from within, participated in the election wherein Assad was re-elected—by the Syrian people—with 95% of the vote in massive turnout (>78%!) where Syrians were able to vote. (Turkish/al-Qaeda controlled regions banned voting)
Obviously, the Syrian Ba’athist government’s enforcers and goons had no ability to harass diasporist Syria voting in foreign embassies. Therefore, the jihadist “opposition” in practical terms could have at at least staged a mass write-in campaign to signal their genuine yearning for a parliamentarian-democratic path to decide Syria’s trajectory as a nation. But they refused, choosing to cut themselves out of the process altogether. In other words, they were the ultimate hard-hearted rejectionists—yes, the pseudo-Sunni, takfiri-dominated anti-Assadists are the very truest embodiment of rafida they falsely accuse other Muslims of.
That very same umbrella of “Syrian opposition,” choosing to completely reject participation in a Syrian consensus-building effort once and for all in 2021, would three years later endorse the abominable Zionist-funded coup d’etat that violently overthrew the legitimately elected Syrian government, imposing its synarchist sectarian-dictated whims upon the Syrian nation.
In other words, the mask has been fully torn off since Dec. 8, 2024. The wicked, execrable reprobates of this planet, who despise providentially appointed legitimate authority,26 who trivialize and enable the mass murder of thousands and millions of innocent people to defend their despotically synarchist so-called “revolutionary” and “people people” vanguards, and who then boast the gall to project their own sins onto the innocent victims and anyone who defends the innocent, have proven that nothing will ever bring them to repentance. They believe that the end justifies the means, and therefore to achieve their ultimate ends of “making a name for ourselves,”27 all the absolute worst atrocities produced by their own rebellious spirits and color revolutions must at best be ignored and at worst hypocritically projected onto somewhere or someone else as a dialectical narrative cycling game.
We are living in the time period where there is no more delay; humanity is meeting its 6,000-year threshold very soon, and you better learn the moral lessons ASAP if your intention isn’t to perish as a fool with the foolish majority.
Rev. 8:13.
Rev. 9:12.
Rev. 9:13-21.
Num. 14:34; Ezek. 4:6b.
Jul. 13, 2025, “What was the prediction of Josiah Litch?” Bible Ask.
I Cor. 3:16, 6:19.
Rev. 12:17.
Lk. 21:24.
Rev. 1:20b.
Cf. Zech. 8:7-8; Matt. 8:11.
Cf. Jas. 5:17-18.
Heb. 13:11-12.
Cf. Rev. 14:8, 16:19, 17:18, 18:10, 18-21.
Cf. Rev. 6:12, 16:18.
Rev. 6:12-17.
II Pet. 3:10.
Cf. Mk. 13:3.
Mk. 13:24-29.
Matt. 24:29.
Lk. 21:25.
Rev. 16:17-21.
Ecc. 1:9b.
Rom. 13:1-7.
II Thess. 2:1-12.
Cf. Prov. 21:1.
Cf. Jud. 8.
Cf. Gen. 11:4.


The thesis connecting providential stability to Assad's legitimacy is sharp, especially the contrast between the 2021 election as a last off-ramp versus the full throated embrace of jihadist takeover in December 2024. The link to Paul's Romans 13 framework about earthly authorities hits becuase it forces an uncomfortable question about whether stability under authoritarianism beats chaos under fragmented militias. I saw similar patterns inIraq consulting work where the anti-Saddam crowd dunno how to deal with the fact that post-invasion sectarian violence killed more civilians than the prior decades of Ba'athist rule.
An interesting read. As One with no religion - was raised with lots of love and Ethics, but no religion, I will ponder this. Thanks!