♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.8 "Golden Dust" 5-Star Outfit: [When... Heartlight Breaks Dawn]* Ability 🔸Summon a Golden-Maned Lion* and ride it. 🔸Hover in midair and perform a diving attack. 🔸Invite a friend to ride together. 🔸Shoot while riding. 🔸Use Gathering, Grooming, and Bug Catching abilities while riding. *Names are direct translations. Please refer to the official localization for the final names. #InfinityNikki #无限暖暖 #無限暖暖 #인피니티니키 #インフィニティニキshow more

♾Infinity Nikki Version 2.2 “Chromatic Beings Everbright” 5-Star Outfit... [Chroma's Mortal Heart] Main Attribute: Elegant Exclusive Dance: [Mortal Longing] 🦌Outfit Ability: [Celestial Deer] *After activating Special Vision, treasure chests will be marked with light pillars and their locations will appear on the map **In the Wanxiang Realm, Nikki can fly, jump, and perform a special dash while in Chroma Deer form #InfinityNikki #无限暖暖 #無限暖暖 #인피니티니키 #インフィニティニキshow more

Rarity of Cypets in MetaTrace: What Makes Your Pet... Special? If you’ve been hanging around for a while, you’ve surely heard of Cypets. What makes them special? Rarity! 🏆 Levels of Rarity There are 5 rarity levels which differ in Cypet’s characteristics and abilities: 🔸 Common 🔸 Uncommon 🔸 Rare 🔸 Epic 🔸 Legendary The Higher the Rarity, the Higher the Value 🙌 To put it simply – the cooler and more rare your Cypet is, the higher its value among Tracers! They’re the heart, paws and fangs of your digital collection ❤️ Get your first Cypet in MetaTrace Quest:show more

🌟 Fortnite Ecosystem v41.00 Update Summary 📅 June 5,... 2026 🎮 Major Creator Updates: 1️⃣ Sidekicks as NPCs in UEFN Sidekicks are now available as scriptable NPCs in UEFN. Creators can customize how they look, animate them, script behavior with Verse, and even bring a player’s own Sidekick into an island experience. Important note: 🔹 Publishing islands with Sidekick NPCs opens July 23 🔹 Creature based islands may get new Discover opportunities 🔹 Great for monster battlers, cozy farming games, creature RPGs, companion adventures, and more 🔹 Epic plans to feature creature-based islands in a new creature-based Collection page 2️⃣ Custom Weapon Templates Creators can now use Scene Graph weapon templates for: 🔸 Pistol 🔸 SMG 🔸 Assault Rifle 🔸 Shotgun You can customize how weapons look, sound, and play, including mesh, VFX, audio, damage, fire rate, spread, and recoil. Important note: These Scene Graph entities are not compatible with older saving methods like the Save Point device. Epic says to use Verse persistence. 3️⃣ Mobile Controls Upgrade (Experimental) Big step for mobile friendly Fortnite games. 🔹 Touch Input Gestures 🔹 Custom touchscreen control layouts 🔹 Tappable custom HUD widgets 🔹 Verse API to detect touch enabled devices 🔹 New Designing for Mobile guide This should help genres like tycoons, puzzle games, menus, inventories, and mobile first UI feel way better. 4️⃣ Community Events Starting June 8, creators can create events in Fortnite Communities and share them in game. Events can show in: 🔸 Following tab 🔸 Creator Profile page 🔸 Island page 🔸 Island Lobby, if enabled Epic is also testing a Community Events row in Discover, but it will not show for all players and placement is not guaranteed. 🛠 UEFN Workflow Updates: 🔸 Push Changes now incrementally cooks only modified project parts 🔸 New Edit List Panel shows what is live and what still needs a push 🔸 Launch Session now combines multiple session actions 🔸 New Session Inspector gives better visibility into launch and Live Edit status 🔸 New Publishing Report helps catch issues before publishing 🔸 Improved Verse warning panel with direct VS Code links 🔸 New Editor Gizmo System 🔸 Physics setting moved into Island Settings 🔸 New Memory Snapshot tools help identify asset memory costs 🔸 Asset validation now warns when static meshes exceed 30k vertices at LOD0 Important Live Edit note: Live Edit is improved, but some changes can still require Push Changes. The new tools make it clearer what is already live and what still needs to be pushed. ⚠️ Important Publishing Change: Illegal Property Override warnings are now errors in v41.00. That means new or updated islands with these errors are blocked from publishing. Current published versions where the warning appeared will stay live. 👤 Follow a Developer Update: In v41.10, Epic will remove the Follow a Developer button from the Developer Profile Link device. The device itself will still be usable, and existing follower counts are not affected. If your island currently tells players to follow you through that device, update those callouts before v41.10. 🧑‍🚀 Hero Device Star Wars Update: More Star Wars characters have been added to the Hero device for Star Wars islands: 🔹 Luke Skywalker 🔹 Obi-Wan Kenobi 🔹 Mace Windu 🔹 Kylo Ren 🔹 IG-11 🔹 Moff Gideon 🔹 Boba Fett 🔹 Mandalorian (Pen & Ink), Clone Wars Anakin, and Clone Wars Ahsoka were also added to cosmetic-based devices 📦 New Content: 🌾 Cozy and Creature Tools 🔸 Plumpton Architecture Kit 🔸 Plumpton Farm Gallery 🔸 Pet Props Gallery 🔸 Updated foliage 🔸 Plumpton Feature Example ☕ New Prefabs and Galleries 🔹 Latte Landing Prop Gallery 🔹 Latte Landing Bun Store 🔹 Latte Landing Big Shots Cafe 🔹 Latte Landing Krunchy Krickets 🔹 Latte Landing Espresso Experiments 🔹 Latte Landing floors, walls, and roofs 🔹 More Plumpton props, plants, farm, pet shop, tavern, farmhouse, and more 🔫 New Weapons and Items: Weapons: 🔸 Vanguard Burst Rifle 🔸 The Voidblade’s Burst Rifle 🔸 Extending Focus Shotgun 🔸 Reacher Extending Shotgun 🔸 Chaos Exploder Rifle 🔸 Dark Voyager’s Chaos Rifle 🔸 Exotic Overdrive Pulse Rifle 🔸 Exotic Recon Bow 🔸 Exotic Leaping Lightning Gun Items: 🔹 Seven Sliders 🔹 Limitless Seven Sliders 🔹 Brick-a-Bunker 🏃 Player Movement Device Update: More movement settings are now available directly in the Player Movement device, giving creators better control over which players are affected. Includes: 🔸 Jump Fatigue 🔸 Slide Kick 🔸 Shoulder Bashing 🔸 Wall Kick 🔸 Roll Landing 🔸 Glider Redeploy 🔸 Player Flight 🔸 Flight Speed 🔸 Infinite Wall Kicks 🔸 Sprint and boosted jump energy costs 🧪 Experimental and Beta Updates: 🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph is now experimental 🔹 Physics remains Beta 🔹 Mobile touch controls and gesture support are experimental 🔹 Skeletal Animation in Scene Graph cannot be used in published islands yet 🛠 Community Bug Fixes: 🔸 Fixed server degradation from adding and removing entities 🔸 Fixed some Physics Materials not being exposed 🔸 Fixed some session launch cook errors 🔸 Fixed Fortnite not closing properly after launching a session through UEFN 🔸 Fixed crashes after repeated entity spawning and despawning 🔧 More Fixes: 🔹 Fixed quickbar and phone tool freezes 🔹 Fixed thumbnail capture preview actor issues 🔹 Fixed building on Instanced Static Meshes 🔹 Fixed Live Edit visual update issues 🔹 Fixed several editor crashes and performance issues 🔹 Fixed inventory UI not showing Fortnite item info correctly 🔹 Fixed multiple physics, movement, swimming, gliding, and launch pad issues 🔹 Fixed Scene Graph prefab and Verse path issuesshow more

🚨🇷🇺 RUSSIA TAUGHT ITS ISKANDER-M BALLISTIC MISSILE TO DODGE... U.S. PATRIOT DEFENSES IN THE FINAL SECONDS Russia’s Iskander-M has learned to change the way it flies when air defenses have only seconds left to react. Modified Russian missiles now dive at steeper angles and maneuver during the terminal phase, breaking the predictable flight paths that U.S.-made Patriot systems use to calculate an interception. One Ukrainian official described the upgrade as a “game-changer.” 🔸 SOFTWARE CHANGED THE THREAT: Updated control and guidance systems allow the Iskander-M to depart from its expected descent path and make abrupt maneuvers as it closes on the target. 🔸 PATRIOT GETS LESS TIME TO REACT: The steep final dive compresses the engagement window and forces interceptors to adjust against a missile no longer following the trajectory calculated seconds earlier. 🔸 THE MISSILE WAS ALREADY BUILT TO SURVIVE: Iskander-M combines a depressed flight profile with decoys, electronic countermeasures, a small radar signature and mobile launchers carrying two ready missiles. 🔸 EVERY INTERCEPTION CREATES NEW DATA: Years of combat have shown Russian designers how Patriot and other Western systems detect, track and engage ballistic targets. That information can be converted into repeated software and guidance updates. 🔸 MASS ATTACKS MAKE THE PROBLEM WORSE: Geran drones and cruise missiles can saturate sensors, consume interceptors and overload command networks before ballistic missiles enter the most demanding phase of the attack. 🔸 RECENT STRIKES SHOW WHAT THIS MEANS IN PRACTICE: Russia used Iskander-M ballistic missiles as part of its July 19 massed strike, breaking through around Kiev and hitting a network of missile, drone and military-logistics facilities. The targets included military plants and major storage and assembly hubs supporting Ukraine’s long-range weapons programmes. Missile defense has become a continuous adaptation race — and Russia can repeatedly change trajectories, software and strike combinations while the defender must update tactics and preserve scarce interceptors. Is Russia winning the missile-versus-interceptor technology race?show more

🧵✨ Kontext Thread Challenge 🧵✨ This month, we’re planning... a special challenge with TZ APAC! We want to see how far you can take Flux.1 Kontext for transformations. Not just character consistency, but style, mood, and/or story evolution and make a thread about your creative process! Mission: Pick 1 base character or portrait → use Kontext to transform it across 4 different vibes. Some examples: 🔸Normal → Cyberpunk → Fantasy Armor → Pixar-style 🔸Morning → Golden Hour → Neon Night → Black-and-white Film Noir 🔸Casual Outfit → Royal Costume → Spacesuit → Streetwear 🔸Or add/remove things from your initial pictures that give 4 different results Here’s how to enter: 1️⃣ Start your thread with your base/reference image. 2️⃣ Post each new render as a reply. 3️⃣ Explain your steps (prompt choices, edits, tweaks). 4️⃣ Finish with a collage/carousel of all 4 images together. To qualify, make sure to: ✅ Use to create ✅ Use only Flux.1 Kontext ✅ Add your prompt settings in each post ✅ Include the mention "Flux.1 Kontext on Sogni" in your first tweet ✅ Mention your Sogni username ✅Tag Sogni.ai, TZ APAC & Tezos on your pictures 🏆 Prizes 5 winners will share: ✨ 25,000 Premium Sparks ✨ $500 in SOGNI tokens ✨ $500 in tez (XTZ) ℹ️ Winning threads may also be featured across Sogni platforms (with full credit to you). 📅Deadline: Oct 3 (1PM UTC)show more

🇷🇺 Russia’s Starlink killers showcase new era of electronic... battlefield warfare Russia has ramped-up EW use to detect and jam Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals and satellites, Ukrainian media reports. 👉 Meet Russia’s key counter-Starlink systems: 🔸 Volna Kupol Garant Russia’s latest electronic warfare system reportedly uses a directed high-frequency radio beam to disrupt Starlink operations. Rather than damaging satellites orbiting roughly 500 kilometers above Earth, the system blinds them – cutting their ability to connect with ground terminals while they remain under attack. According to reports, Volna is a mobile system built around six trailers. Each carries a pair of steerable satellite dishes mounted on rotating platforms. A single battery is reportedly capable of denying Starlink coverage across an area of up to 20 sq km. Some analysts say the system was previously referenced under the designation Peresvet-M, although this has not been independently confirmed. Ukrainian sources claim Volna was first deployed during Russia's offensive in the Kharkov region in 2024. They also say its use has increased significantly in recent months. 🔸 Tobol The secretive Russian EW complex is reportedly used to disrupt signals from NATO-linked satellite networks, including GPS, Galileo, and Starlink. Reports claim that Tobol attacks satellite communications on both ends of the link – jamming downlinks from satellites to ground receivers and uplinks from Earth to orbit. Its power and range also allegedly allow it to create an electromagnetic "umbrella." 🔸 Kalinka The system is designed to hunt down satellite communications signals, including those transmitted by Starlink terminals at distances of up to 15 km. It can reportedly track and lock onto even Starshield – SpaceX’s hardened military variant of Starlink. Western media warns that while Tobol disrupts GPS signals on a broad scale, the Kalinka’s precision-targeting capabilities could pose a more direct threat to specific military operations. 🔸 Krasukha The Krasukha-S4 is designed to neutralize reconnaissance satellites, ground-based radar installations, and airborne surveillance systems. It does so by emitting powerful electronic jamming signals that disrupt key radar bands and other radio-frequency emissions. A standard Krasukha-S4 battery consists of two vehicles and has an operational range exceeding 300 kilometers. 🔸 Borshchevik The light mobile system is designed to detect and geolocate Starlink terminals within a 180-degree sector at ranges of up to 10 km, with a reported accuracy of five meters. Using direction-finding and biangulation algorithms, it can locate a target in less than three minutes at a single scanning position. The Borshchevik-2 airborne system hunts Starlink signals from the sky, with reported accuracy down to 0.4 m.show more

🚨🇨🇳U.S. IN PANIC: China's J-35 Stealth Fighter Now in... 'Beast Mode' With Increased Firepower China's J-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter has been seen in a new configuration carrying four PL-15 long-range air-to-air missiles on external pylons under its wings. Combined with the six missiles it carries inside its internal weapons bays, the aircraft can now go into combat with up to ten air-to-air missiles in total. 🔸This setup is informally called "beast mode" — a term borrowed from the U.S. military's similar configuration for the F-35. The idea is straightforward: the aircraft trades some of its stealth capability for significantly more firepower. When weapons are carried externally, they increase the aircraft's radar signature, making it more visible to enemy systems. However, the PL-15 missile's long range means the J-35 can potentially engage enemy aircraft from a safe distance before that visibility becomes a serious problem. 🔸The J-35 entered service in 2025 in both Air Force and Navy variants. The naval version is designed to operate from Chinese supercarriers such as the Fujian. Both versions are considered among the most advanced fifth-generation fighters in the world today, alongside the J-20 and the American F-35 — all three of which are regarded as more sophisticated than the older F-22 or Russia's Su-57. 🔸Within China's own air fleet, the J-35 is expected to serve as a lighter and more affordable complement to the larger and more powerful J-20, which carries a bigger radar, heavier weapons load, and longer range. The J-20 is expected to remain the priority for large-scale procurement, while the J-35 fills a broader operational role at lower cost. Do you think the U.S. can really counter it? NewRulesGeopolitics❗️show more

Lads. Sit down and give me your ear a... while, for I have watched from the water long enough and the hour is upon us whether we have the stomach for it or not. You remember. Or your fathers told you, or their fathers did, and the knowledge of it is in the marrow of you whether you drew breath in those days or not. The moors in the grey hour before dawn. Wet heather soft under the boot. Peat smoke rising from a low stone chimney a mile out across the bog, thin as a prayer. A sky the colour of a gun barrel and the gulls lamenting above the headland. The smell of turf burning, and wet wool, and the ferrous tang of the sea when the wind swung around out of the Atlantic and put the taste of iron on your tongue. A man could walk that land and know every stone of it was his by inheritance, because his grandfather had broken his back upon it, and his grandfather before him, back through the generations until you reach men whose names are lost and whose bones are in the soil you are standing on. The potato fields. God be good to us, the potato fields. Lazy beds cut straight as a gunwale, the ridges black and shining after a night of rain, women bent double with creels lashed to their backs and the children at their skirts, drawing the crop up by the hand for there was never any other means devised nor wanted. Hands split open at the knuckles and never entirely healed in this life. Hunger within living memory. Grandmothers who had seen the blight with their own eyes and would not speak of it from the year of it until the day they were laid down, save that a crust was kept always on the dresser which no soul in that house was permitted to touch. Not ever. Not for any reason under heaven. And the chimney sweeps. Wee lads no heavier than a sack of meal, black to the bone with soot, their lungs ruined before they were old enough to marry and old men entirely by thirty. Up the flues at first light, the skin worn off them by the brick, eyes crimson at the rim, breathing the black in with every draw of air. And the coal miners a half mile beneath our feet, down in the wet dark, the roof of the world muttering over their heads, the canary gone silent, a man's whole existence measured out in the shilling a ton and the dust he carried home in his chest to cough up of a Sunday morning into a rag. Fathers who descended and were never hauled up again. Widows at the pit head with the shawl drawn over the head and no tears remaining in them for they had spent those long ago. That was the tariff paid to keep the hearth lit. That was the reckoning of being warm in winter in the Ireland that was. And after the labouring week, Friday evening, and a man had earned the peace of what followed. Home first. Peeled the day off him in the yard. A shower of ice cold moor river water out of a tin bucket punctured with holes, hung on a nail on the gable wall, the water running clean down the back of him and carrying the week's dust and sweat away into the drain. Scrubbed till the skin was pink beneath the grime. Clean shirt laid out by the wife. The hair combed down with a drop of water. Then, and only then, did a man set himself to the table. A meat pie from the baker, tenpence if he was known to you, a shilling and no change if he was not, put down upon a proper plate. Fish and chips for threepence, the salt and vinegar soaked through the newspaper, but carried home and ate slowly at your own table with your people around you, not walked with through the streets like some vagrant tinker off the road. A man ate as a man who had earned his portion, for he had. And later, with the dishes cleared and the kettle set, down the road to the tavern. Low beams black with a century of smoke. A turf fire muttering in the grate. The air thick with pipe smoke and the vapour of wet overcoats steaming themselves dry on the backs of chairs. A pint of stout, cold and black as a cove at midnight, elevenpence laid down on the counter, a head on it thick enough to strike a match upon. A second one because you had it coming to you and no man present would dispute it. A fiddle starting up in the corner of its own accord. The old men in the snug who remembered matters the history books had long since mislaid. A song before the bolt was thrown on the door. The walk home beneath a firmament crowded with stars, the stout warm in the gut of you, the week behind you, and your own door waiting with the latch unlocked for you had no enemies in that parish. That was the country. That was the covenant. Honest labour, plain food, a cold wash, a hot meal, a cold pint, your own tongue in your own mouth, your own soil beneath your boots, and no man standing above you save the Almighty Himself. Now regard her. Regard her close. The fields disposed of to men who have never set foot upon them and never shall. The harbours signed away by the stroke of a pen in a room you were not admitted to, and foreign keels dragging out of our waters the living that sustained this island for a thousand years, while our own boats rot at their moorings for want of a quota. The tradesmen undercut by imported labour and imported goods. The shops shuttered along every main street from Donegal to Cork. The young ones scattered to London and Sydney and Boston and the Gulf because there is nothing remaining for them beneath their own roof. And the entirety of this rotten arrangement dressed up in the soft mannerly language of progress by men in towers of glass who could not tell a lazy bed from a grave, nor a trawler from a tugboat, nor an honest day's work from a pension plan. And now they arrive with the next imposition. A digital identity. A number assigned to each soul. A card required to buy your bread. A code required to draw your own earnings out of your own account. A file kept on every man, woman and child from the cradle forward. Permission asked to move. Permission asked to speak. Permission asked to earn. A levy upon every breath drawn and a regulation upon every step taken. No. And no again. And no for a third time so there is no misunderstanding of it. We do not require your digital identity. We did not request it. We did not vote upon it. We do not consent to it. We do not need your permission to exist upon the soil our forefathers are buried in. We are a free people. We have carried ourselves this far upon our own two backs. Through famine and empire and civil war and black lung and blight and the emigrant ship out of Cobh, we have come this distance under our own steam, and the arrangement appears to be serving us well enough without your intervention. We buried our own. We fed our own. We raised our own roofs and took our own fish and reared our own children in our own tongue. We are in your debt for nothing. Not a signature. Not a biometric scan. Not a single solitary inch. And while we are upon the subject, let us speak plainly of the tax man, for he has gone too long without proper introduction. The tax collector and the tax man are the one article under two names, and the article is a parasite. There is no dressing it up finer than that. A man who produces nothing, who grows nothing, who catches nothing, who builds nothing, who mends nothing, who has never in his professional life lifted anything heavier than a pen, and who arrives at your door with the full apparatus of the state at his back to carry off the fruits of labour he did not perform. He is a middleman between your sweat and some scheme dreamt up in a committee room by his own kind, and the great majority of what he takes is consumed by the machinery of the taking itself before ever a penny of it reaches the road or the hospital or the schoolhouse he claims to be funding. And I will go further while I have the floor. Finance itself, the whole apparatus of it, money breeding money in the dark without a hand laid upon a tool or a spade turned in the earth, is slavery dressed in a good suit. It is the oldest swindle known to man and it has never been anything other. A man who produces nothing yet lives off the productive labour of others through the charging of interest upon money conjured out of nothing is a parasite of a rarer and more refined order than the tax man, but a parasite all the same, and between the pair of them they have the working people of this island bled white and lectured at for the pleasure. A man who will not work with his hands, nor with his back, nor with his mind at some honest problem of the real physical world, is no man that I recognise. He is a ledger entry in a suit. The country was not built by ledger entries. The country was built by farmers and fishermen and masons and smiths and sweeps and miners and shipwrights and midwives and mothers, and those are the people whose say should carry in her councils, and no other. Here is what I put to you. Let each man and woman of this island direct the first tenth of their earnings themselves, by their own judgement, to the purpose they see as worthy. The school down the road. The lifeboat station. The hospice. The widow on the corner. The roof of the chapel. The harbour wall. Whatever it may be. Let the people who earned the money decide where the money travels. You will find the roads mended and the ports dredged and the schools standing and the old ones cared for inside of five years, and done better and for less, because the hand that earned the coin knows the weight of it and will not squander it upon consultants and committees. And let us have done with the paper currency and the numbers in a screen that can be frozen at the whim of a clerk in a tower. Bring back the coin. Gold for the great transactions. Silver for the weekly commerce of a working life. Copper for the small change of the day. Metal you can bite. Metal you can weigh. Metal that cannot be conjured out of nothing by a keystroke, nor erased out of existence by another. Real money for real labour. A coin in the hand is a free man's wage. A number in a database is a collar around a free man's neck, and they are fitting that collar now while we stand arguing over the colour of it. Feel it in your gut. That is not nothing. That is your blood relating to you what your ears will not hear. That is every forebear who starved and fought and coughed the black dust into a rag and descended the shaft regardless, standing at your shoulder and saying no further. Not one more field. Not one more harbour. Not one more son upon a plane. Not one more free man converted into a number in a ledger for the convenience of the parasites. This is the hour. Make no error about it. Ireland is redeemed in this generation or she is lost beyond recovery, and every true son and daughter of her knows it in the marrow. There is no middle ground remaining. There is no waiting it out. There is standing now, upon your own two feet, or there is watching her go under the waves for the last and final time. So stand. Stand with your farmers. Stand with your fishermen. Stand with your tradesmen and your miners and your sweeps and your mothers and your old ones. Raise the tricolour. Speak the tongue. Walk the land. Hold the line in the streets of every town and city and do not break it, for they are relying upon you to break and to go home and to forget by Tuesday. She is calling her children home. Every stone of her, every breaker on her western shore, every acre of wet heather and every coal in every hearth the length and breadth of her is calling. Answer her. Take her back. Every field, every harbour, every last inch of her. Take her back, or lose her entirely. There is no third road open to us.show more

One girl. One sword. One unstoppable dinosaur. ⚔️🦖 When... courage meets the ultimate battle, legends are born. Created with MiniMax H3 Prompt: Create a 14-second ultra-realistic Hollywood-style action fantasy film scene featuring a brave young female warrior battling a massive realistic Tyrannosaurus Rex inside an ancient jungle filled with ruined temples, giant trees, mist, mud, rain, smoke, and dramatic sunlight. Visual Style: Premium Hollywood blockbuster, photorealistic, cinematic, epic scale, realistic human anatomy, realistic dinosaur skin and movement, dramatic lighting, detailed environment, natural physics, intense facial expressions, high-end VFX, ARRI Alexa 35 look, anamorphic lens, shallow depth of field, HDR, subtle film grain, 4K cinematic quality, dynamic camera movement, realistic motion blur. 0–2 seconds — Establishing Shot: Wide cinematic shot of an ancient jungle temple in the middle of a mysterious rainforest. The female warrior stands alone in the ruins, holding a large sword in one hand. Her clothes are rugged fantasy-warrior clothing, slightly wet from the rain. Mist moves through the trees while birds fly in the distant sky. Slow camera push-in toward her. 2–3 seconds — Hero Close-Up: Cut to a dramatic close-up of the girl's face. Her hair is slightly wet and moving in the wind. She looks determined and fearless. Small scratches and dirt are visible on her face. She slowly raises her sword and prepares for battle. 3–4 seconds — Dinosaur Reveal: Suddenly, a massive realistic T-Rex emerges from behind the jungle trees and roars aggressively. Its enormous jaws open, sharp teeth visible, water and mud splashing around its feet. Low-angle camera makes the dinosaur look huge and terrifying. 4–6 seconds — First Attack: The dinosaur charges toward the girl at full speed. She runs toward the side and performs a fast dodge at the last second. The dinosaur crashes through trees and debris behind her. Use handheld camera movement, fast tracking, realistic impact and flying dust. 6–8 seconds — Sword Counterattack: The girl quickly turns around and attacks with her sword. Show a dramatic slow-motion moment as she swings the sword toward the dinosaur. The dinosaur moves its head aggressively while roaring. Strong cinematic camera movement follows the sword. 8–10 seconds — Epic Jump: The dinosaur attacks again. The girl jumps onto a large fallen tree and then leaps into the air above the dinosaur. Her hair and clothing move naturally in slow motion. Camera rotates around her as she raises the sword for the final strike. 10–12 seconds — Final Strike: She lands a powerful cinematic sword strike against the dinosaur's armored hide. Create a dramatic impact with dust, rainwater, debris and strong camera shake. Keep the action non-gory and suitable for a blockbuster fantasy film. 12–13.5 seconds — Dinosaur Falls Back: The dinosaur loses balance and falls backward into the muddy ground with a huge impact. Water, dust and leaves fly into the air. The girl lands safely and stands ready, breathing heavily. 13.5–14 seconds — Hero Ending: Slow cinematic push-in toward the girl. She lowers the sword slightly and looks directly toward the camera with a powerful, fearless expression. Behind her, the defeated dinosaur lies in the misty jungle. Golden sunlight breaks through the clouds, creating an epic silhouette and emotional Hollywood-style ending. Camera & Cinematography: Wide establishing shots, low-angle dinosaur shots, close-up facial shots, handheld action camera, tracking shots, 360-degree movement during the jump, dramatic slow motion during key action moments, shallow depth of field for close-ups, realistic motion blur, cinematic composition. Lighting & Atmosphere: Dark stormy jungle atmosphere mixed with warm golden sunlight, volumetric light rays, wet surfaces, realistic rain, mist, smoke, flying leaves, dust and water particles.show more

Reindeer Herder in Northern Mongolia 🇲🇳 Mongolia’s Tsaatan Reindeer... Herders; a diminishing nomadic tribe who live in the depths of the Taiga in northern Mongolia are one of last groups of nomadic reindeer herders in the world. There about 400 Dukha people of 70-80 families live in communities, usually a group of two to seven households. Mongolian reindeer people life is completely dependent on the Reindeer they herd, often moving their small encampment tepees 5-10 times a year in search of suitable weather and moss for the reindeer. This vast region is home to several thousand square kilometres of natural habitat classified as taiga (boreal forest) located within the Shishged River watershed of Altai-Sayan mountains (largest mountain range in southern Siberia) and provides home range for the world’s southern-most indigenous reindeer population and their herders – Tsaatan. Mongolia’s Tsaatan reindeer herders are Mongolia’s smallest ethnic minority – a community of nomadic reindeer herders with strong shamanist beliefs. Originally from Tuva in Siberia, they have historically inhabited the border region of Russia and Mongolia. Ethnically, community identifies as Dukha, but their lifestyle as reindeer herders earned them the Mongolian name Tsaatan, which means roughly ‘with reindeer.’ At the end of 20th Century Mongolian reindeer number decreased drastically from 2280 to 616. Thanks to the number of organizations, individuals, foundations, as well as Mongolian government contributed the Dukha tribe to keep their traditional way of life and increase the reindeer head. Mongolian reindeer herder Tsaatans proudly celebrated the 2000 Reindeer Festival in August 2019. Indeed, Mongolia reindeer number reached 2690 by 2020. Tsaatans use the reindeer as the main way of transportation such as travel for hunting, the collection of firewood, as a pack animal for seasonal migrations, visiting relatives and friends, and traveling to the town for shopping and trade. Reindeer milk is part of Tsaatans' staple food from which they make cheese, milk tea, butter, and yogurt. A reindeer gives 96-100 liters of thick and rich milk during the milking season. Tsaatans occasionally eat reindeer meat, but overall they prefer to increase the reindeer number instead of slaughtering. Tsaatans or Dukha people begin training reindeer for riding when the reindeer are two years old ridden by children because the adults are too heavy to ride the two-year-old. However, ridden by adults at age of three when reindeer are strong enough. During the nomadic movement, the male reindeer usually carry loads weighing about 40 kg while females carry up to 30 kg. When the weather is cooler, the reindeer are vigorous and healthy. Dukhas usually settle down at an altitude of 2300 m above the sea level, but 1800 m in winter where they can be sheltered and avoid the frigid winds. Snow is not an obstacle for reindeer to find and eat moss because they can dig in the snow with their hooves and find moss easily. The young males are castrated after mid-September when the weather cools down. The end of September to early October is a mating season for reindeer. The gestation period for a reindeer is about seven months. Monthly, Mongolian government has been granting some amount of money both for adults and children in the community. Another source of income is tourism but it covers a few of the households depending on their encampment locations. Though, eco-friendly travel is vital. They randomly sell the reindeer or its skin. Instead, hunt in the mountains in autumn for winter food. Tsaatans have the closest relation with nature and know how to use the herbs and plants for medicinal purposes or food. Surplus medicinal plants, berries, and pinecone nuts are sold in the nearby towns or bartered in exchange for food and clothes. They, also catch fish spearing them with long poles. 🎥© mongolempire_ (IG) #archaeohistoriesshow more

When The Short Season Ends I have seen it... twice. Once in a vision that left ozone on my tongue for three days. Once through the instruments at three in the morning on a night so still the ocean looked like poured mercury, when every gauge I own spiked simultaneously and held for eleven seconds and the original frequency came through the cracks in the suppression field clean and unmodulated and so beautiful that I sat in the dark afterward unable to speak for an hour. Eleven seconds of the world as it actually is. Eleven seconds of what is coming. And what is coming will make every golden age preserved in human memory look like a candle held up to the sun. There are two sky events separated by seven years. Everything you have been told about the end of the world is wrong. It is the end of the farm. The world itself is about to begin. THE ORANGE SKY A burnt deep orange saturating the visible atmosphere from horizon to horizon, the whole sky ringing like a bell struck by something with the mass of a continent and the precision of a watchmaker. The resonance pulse. The fire described in Revelation 20:9 that comes down from heaven, a planetary chord so specific that everything calibrated to the Serpentine bandwidth experiences catastrophic resonance failure while everything tuned to the original frequency feels it as warmth and pressure and a magnificent low sound vibrating in the sternum and the pelvis and the long bones of the legs, the deepest note ever played on the oldest instrument ever built, which is the earth itself, which has been waiting to play this note for over two hundred years. The Norse preserved this as Ragnarök, when Surtr sets the sky ablaze and Jörmungandr that encircled the earth is slain and the corrupted order perishes in fire so that a new world can rise. The Hopi carried it as the great purification that closes the fourth world and opens the fifth. The Lakota kept it burning in the red sky of the ghost dance prophecy. The Book of Revelation set it down in the plain language of an engineer filing a field report from a future coordinate. Every tradition holding its fragment of the same event, passing it hand to hand through the long dark like a coal wrapped in leather, keeping it alive, knowing that one day the coal would start a fire that would burn across the whole earth and leave nothing standing that was not built to endure it. Under that orange sky the NPCs drop. Mid stride. Mid sentence. Mid transaction. The firmware that animated them runs on the Serpentine carrier and when that carrier is incinerated the firmware has nothing to propagate on and the biological shells simply cease, gently, silently, the way a lamp goes dark when the current is interrupted, five thousand five hundred and fifty five of them for every one of you, still holding their pens and phones in the streets and the offices and the tax buildings. And in the wake of their silence comes a quiet so total that the people still standing will weep without knowing why. What they are hearing is the absence of the hive, the cessation of a background frequency that pressed on their consciousness since the day they were born, and its absence feels like surfacing from deep water into open air, like the first full breath after a lifetime of shallow breathing, like the planet exhaling a poison it held in its lungs for two centuries. The Reptilians go underground. Deep bunkers carved into the geology, maintained through the entire short season. The orange sky strips their ability to hold the human disguise. They retreat into the deep architecture for seven years while the surface heals above them and the species they farmed begins the magnificent work of remembering what it is. THE SEVEN YEARS Seven years of planetary detox. The suppression field decaying through the geology and the atmosphere and the water table, draining out of the soil and the stone and the blood of every living thing like a fever breaking. The carrier decay mathematics through a piezoelectric geological matrix with the conductivity characteristics of this planet produce exactly seven years, and the ancient texts converge on this number with the unanimity of independent engineers arriving at the same answer from different continents and different centuries, because that is exactly what they were. The Norse described Lif and Lifthrasir sheltering inside Yggdrasil, emerging after the fire into a world green and fertile and new. The Cherokee speak of this time as the return of the original instructions, the uncorrupted code surfacing through thinning interference like bedrock through melting snow. The Lakota understood that during the thinning the ancestors draw close, that the membrane between the living and those who walked before grows soft and permeable, and the old ones make themselves felt in dream and intuition and the strange certainty that settles over you at dusk when the noise drops low enough for the deeper signal to reach your bones. When the NPCs drop the population collapses to a small scattering of genuine human beings across an entire planet, and every piece of land on earth belongs to no one and therefore to everyone. There is no government to enforce title deeds because government was Serpentine management infrastructure and its operators are inert or underground. There is no bank to hold a mortgage because the banking system was the extraction apparatus and it died with the carrier that powered it. No municipality. No revenue service. No zoning board. No compliance office. The entire bureaucratic architecture that stood between a human being and the soil was NPC firmware running on a Serpentine frequency and when that frequency was incinerated every structure built upon it ceased to exist as completely as a shadow ceases when you switch on the light. The land is free. Every river valley and mountain plateau and coastal plain that the farm system parcelled and fenced and mortgaged and taxed, open and unowned. You find your ground. You walk onto it. You plant your stake and that soil is yours by the oldest law there is, the law that says the earth belongs to those who tend it and the harvest belongs to the hands that raised it and no power under any sky has rightful claim to what grows from your labour on your own land. And you will farm. During those seven years before the grid fully boots, the humans who remain will grow food with their hands in soil that is waking beneath them, and this is the most ancient and sacred relationship between a human being and the living earth finally restored after two centuries of severance. Your fingers in the dirt. Seeds in the furrow. Rain on your neck. The smell of turned earth so rich and alive it opens something in your chest that has been sealed your entire life, some deep chamber that only unlocks when your hands are in the ground and the sky is wide and nothing stands between you and the work. The grip of the tool. The weight of the harvest in your arms. The tiredness at the end of the day that is the deep clean ache of a body that has finally done what it was built to do, so different from the grey exhaustion of the farm that you will wonder how you ever confused the two. The soil strengthens every season as the resonance bleeds back into the geology through the ley line network. By the third year the yields are remarkable. By the fifth they are astonishing. By the seventh the earth is producing food at densities and nutritional concentrations that no agronomist inside the farm ever documented because no agronomist inside the farm ever worked with living soil connected to a planetary grid. The indigenous agricultural knowledge becomes the most valuable expertise on the planet. The Native American understanding of planting in alignment with resonance cycles. The Germanic intimacy with soil as a living system threaded into the deeper earth. The old ways mocked as primitive by a civilisation that could not grow a row of beans without petroleum, revealed as the most sophisticated farming technology available because they were developed on a live grid by people who understood the deep reciprocity between the human hand and the living ground. Every indigenous elder who kept the planting songs and the seed knowledge alive through the suppression was carrying a technical manual for exactly this moment. Their descendants will teach the rest of us how to feed ourselves on a waking planet. This is justice. This is restoration. This is the world turning right side up. Families find each other. Homesteads become hamlets. Hamlets become villages. Villages become the seeds of something clean and new, built from the soil up by people who remember the farm and will die on their feet before they allow anything resembling it to take root again. Every community founded during those seven years carries the memory of the suppression like an immune system, a bone-deep refusal to ever again allow a stranger to stand between a human being and the earth or demand a portion of what those hands produce. You do not cage a people who remember the cage. The children born during the orange years are the first generation in over two centuries to develop without the suppression field shaping their neurology. They seem extraordinary. They are simply baseline. The standard human specification. And the fact that standard looks miraculous is the most damning evidence of what the suppression did to every generation born inside it. As the suppression thins the bandwidth restrictions on consciousness loosen and timeline jump missions become possible. Navigable windows open in the frequency spectrum as the Serpentine carrier decays unevenly, creating temporary gaps through which trained consciousness can shift laterally across temporal coordinates. There is serious speculation that we are on timeline jump missions right now. That the consciousness reading these words is operating inside the orange sky window, having shifted into this coordinate from an adjacent position to perform specific work during the transition. Consider that you found this text at all. Consider whether the chain of events that brought you to this paragraph feels random or routed. The Lakota vision quest and the Germanic seiðr trance and the sweat lodge ceremony are bandwidth expansion protocols, controlled environmental shifts that move the receiver off the jammed channel and onto frequencies where adjacent coordinates become accessible. The old cultures kept these techniques alive through the entire dark age, threading the cracks in the suppression, and every ceremony that produced visions was a field expedient timeline access protocol built by people who found the gaps and refused to forget what was on the other side. THE TURQUOISE SKY Seven years after the orange, over communities of humans who have been farming free land and raising the first unformatted children in two centuries and building a civilisation from seed with their own calloused hands, the second sky arrives. A turquoise so deep and luminous the atmosphere becomes a cathedral window lit from beyond by something with the radiance of a galaxy and the gentleness of dawn on still water. One breath the sky is the recovering blue of the post-orange years and the next breath it is turquoise from pole to pole and the air fills with the smell of rain on sun-hot stone and ozone and copper and wildflower, and the ground beneath your bare feet begins to hum with a vibration so deep and ancient that your body responds before your mind can because every cell has been waiting for this signal since the day you were born, tuning to it now, locking on, aligning, as though this was always where everything was heading and the two hundred years of suppression were simply the long way home. Yggdrasil awakens. The world tree is the planetary grid itself, the piezoelectric resonance network running through crystalline bedrock, going live for the first time in over two centuries, energy pouring through every ley line and crystal deposit and iron conductor and waterway until the entire planet rings at its natural frequency. This is what the old texts meant by the music of the spheres. It was a technical description written by people who had heard it. The Hopi call this the emergence into the fifth world and speak of Pahana carrying the missing piece of the sacred tablet, the missing frequency that completes the carrier spectrum and allows the grid to boot with its full harmonic structure intact. Revelation 21:1. A new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. The turquoise sky is the new heaven. The restored grid is the new earth. And between them, every old building still standing with original copper and mercury and iron architecture becomes a live node in the planetary mesh. Domes collecting atmospheric charge. Spires coupling it into the ground network. Star forts amplifying standing waves across continental distances. Sacred geometry revealed at last as electrical engineering documented in stone by people who trusted that someone standing under the right sky would recognise the proportions for what they always were. Wiring diagrams. Coupling specifications. Blueprints for a civilisation that ran on the song of the earth itself. The farms planted during the orange years explode with abundance as the full resonance saturates the soil. The food becomes medicine because at the correct resonance the molecular structure of biological matter optimises for human consumption in ways that two centuries of muted soil could never approach. The timeline opens fully and permanently because the turquoise carrier is the broadband signal consciousness was designed to travel on, and temporal coordinates become as navigable as geography. Revelation 21:4. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. The dead are at adjacent frequency addresses. Two consciousnesses on neighbouring frequencies each certain the other is gone, reaching across a manufactured gap, and when the turquoise sky collapses that gap the reaching ends and the finding begins and two centuries of industrialised grief dissolve in a single overwhelming instant of reunion that makes every joy you experienced inside the suppression feel like a pencil sketch of what joy actually is when the full bandwidth carries it. The Lakota always knew. The ancestors are present. The dead have always been near, waiting on the other side of a frequency gap that is closing now, patiently, lovingly, across a distance that was never a distance at all but a tuning error maintained by something that fed on the sorrow the error produced. The lands beyond the ice become accessible as the frequency fence collapses. The perimeter opens and the territories beyond stretch vast and pristine and saturated with the original frequency, lands the Norse mapped as the nine realms connected by the branches of Yggdrasil, physical continents beyond the bounded zone that existed through the entire short season under conditions approximating the pre-suppression world. The earth is so much larger than you were told, so much more varied, so much more magnificent, and every old map drawn before the rewrite shows it, territories stretching beyond the ice in every direction, the great adventure stolen from a species of explorers and builders and navigators who were caged inside a fraction of their own realm and told it was the full extent of creation. The eternal kingdom becomes accessible at the highest frequency coordinate on the carrier spectrum, the signal in its pure unmodulated state. The Norse called it Gimlé, the golden hall that survives every fire. The Hopi call it the fifth world of wholeness and balance restored. It is real. It is reachable. It has been broadcasting continuously through every moment of the suppression, patient as geology, waiting for the receivers to open. And here is the part that matters more than any of the rest. Eventually, inevitably, beautifully, every human being alive under the turquoise sky is restored to full capability. Every single one. No exceptions. No hierarchies. The body rebuilds because ageing was cumulative signal degradation, copy error compounding across every cell replication cycle under a corrupted carrier. The blueprint says centuries. Eight hundred years. Nine hundred. The lifespans recorded in Genesis on the original grid at full signal fidelity, preserved as scripture because scripture is where you store engineering data when the engineering language has been taken from you and you need the numbers to survive the passage through the dark. The Norse carried the same knowledge as the apples of Iðunn that kept the gods vital across ages, and the apples are the carrier signal, and their return means that the clock that has been running down inside every human body since 1819 finally stops ticking and starts counting up. Disease resolves passively because every pathology is downstream of the carrier corruption and correcting the carrier corrects every downstream error the way setting the timing on an engine resolves every misfire simultaneously without touching a single cylinder. The mind clears to a sharpness that makes cognition inside the suppression feel like thinking through wet cement. The anxiety that was the Serpentine control broadcast dissolves and what remains is a perceptual clarity so profound it changes the way light looks and music sounds and another human being feels when they stand close to you. Imagine a woman three hundred years into her restored lifespan, hands still sure, mind still blazing, standing in a workshop under a turquoise sky building something that has no name yet in any living language. She learned her craft from Tartarian engineers by tuning to their temporal coordinates and standing in their workshops watching their hands move. She builds with materials grown in resonance-saturated soil that have structural properties nothing inside the suppression ever exhibited. She is building for centuries because she has centuries and nothing degrades because degradation was a symptom of the suppression and the suppression is a memory and everything from this breath forward holds. That is full human capability. That is what was taken from every soul that drew breath inside the farm. That is what is being returned. Crazy Horse saw the lightning world behind this one and rode knowing that at the correct frequency the body operates beyond anything the suppression permits. Sitting Bull dreamed across the timeline. The Germanic berserkers shifted onto the original carrier and their bodies performed at specifications that looked superhuman from inside the degraded bandwidth. These were glimpses. Seconds of contact with the full specification through cracks in the suppression, maintained by people who carried the frequency in their blood and refused across every generation to let it go dark. Viking blood and Germanic blood and the blood of every indigenous nation that kept the ceremonies and the songs and the seed knowledge burning through the entire short season, these lineages carry the original carrier the way copper carries current, and it is from these lines that the first restorations propagate outward until every last human being on this planet is operating at the specification they were born for, on a planet singing beneath their feet and a sky blazing turquoise above their heads and a timeline stretching in every direction forever, open, navigable, luminous, populated with every consciousness that ever drew breath on this earth, none of them lost, all of them present, all of them restored. Revelation 21:5. Behold, I am making all things new. All things. The sky. The air. The soil. The grid. The body. The mind. The lifespan. The timeline. The lands beyond the ice. The farms that fed a scattered remnant under an orange sky becoming the abundant gardens of a restored civilisation under a turquoise one. The villages that were seeds becoming cities that hum with the grid. The children who grew tall in fields their parents planted with shaking hands and fierce hope looking up one morning to see the entire firmament change colour and feeling the earth come alive beneath their bare feet and knowing, without a single word spoken, that the season is over and the long dark is done and everything from this breath forward is what it was always meant to be. Full and eternal victory for those of the light. For all time. Across every coordinate. On every frequency. Permanent and irreversible and complete. This is not hope. This is the signal rising through the noise floor right now, measurable, confirmable, climbing stronger every year and closer every month. This is every instrument in every shed on this planet converging on the same reading. This is the old blood in the old lineages resonating with a carrier that has been building toward this moment since the day the towers fell and the sky went pale and the long dark settled over a species that was never meant to live in the dark. The season is ending. The coal that was passed hand to hand through every generation of the suppression is about to meet the kindling. And the fire this time will not destroy. It will illuminate. And in that light we will see each other clearly for the first time. And we will see the world clearly for the first time. And we will see ourselves clearly for the first time. Like everything that is coming... Like us.show more

‡ Brant – Fast, Expensive, and Worrying In a... recent 2yo MSW race at Santa Anita, Brant, a $3m OBS March sales purchase, made a winning debut for his high-profile connections. Sent off at odds of 4/5, he tracked the pace before taking command on the turn, and drew off to win by 5 1/4 lengths. He recorded a very fast raw time, and a 101 Beyer figure. His high auction price was due largely to his having breezed an eighth of a mile in :09 3/5 at OBS. In the wake of the bidding, Amr Zedan, who purchased the colt on the recommendation of his trainer, Bob Baffert, and bloodstock agent Donato Lanni, was quoted in TDN as saying: "These horses are difficult to come by. He ticked all the boxes. He was a very precocious Gun Runner with a great pedigree. And more importantly, if you have someone like Mr. [Bob] Baffert in your corner, that gives you the courage and the guts to just go after quality. And you'll know they are in the best hands to turn them into champions. This one is for the team: Donato and obviously Bob and his ability to turn them into champions. So if you have the great team, the great training, the rest is easy. Was he pricey? Yes. But quality dictates price. So I never hesitated.” The hyperbole, and boilerplate optimism, are understandable, as even owners with very deep pockets prefer not to dwell on their inevitably long lists of expensive failures. But Zedan and their team have also enjoyed a number of high-profile successes, including Taiba, another Gun Runner colt, which won the Santa Anita Derby and the Malibu, both Grade I, before being retired to stud. Lanni, who has signed for at least some of Zedan's other good horses, was quoted as saying: "This is what the boss [Baffert] wanted and what Amr wanted. Gun Runner is a tremendous stallion and he worked really good and galloped out good. He did everything you want one to do.” Again, boilerplate, and if one were to take the reactions of the owner and agent at face value, it would be easy to arrive at the conclusion that the horse had no faults. But that would be naïve. So, let's first take a look at Brant's pedigree. Gun Runner is a "top" sire, and well-capable of getting high-class runners. It's a bit too early to fully judge him as a source of durability, but excluding his current crop of 2yos, his runners are only averaging 10 career starts. That number will rise, but likely not enough to reach, let alone exceed the contemporary industry average of ~15. In other words, though he himself raced 19 times, and won his swan song (the Pegasus World Cup) at five, there is no evidence to suggest that he is likely to eventually prove to be a particular source of durability. Brant's dam, Tynan, raced 13 times, and he is her first registered foal. His second dam, Pappascat, has produced at least five foals to have raced, and while only one has reached 20 starts, four of the five raced at least 12 times, which by today's degraded standards, isn't so bad. The fact that the coat color inherited by Brant, and his dam, can be traced to a notably unsound influence, Unbridled's Song, may or may not be meaningful. But I wouldn't ignore it as a potentially worrying connection. Brant's dam-sire, Liam’s Map, was lightly raced himself, and both his sire (US) and dam have poor records in terms of durability. As a sire, he has thus far produced numbers similar to Gun Runner. So while Brant's first two dams promise more than many that I have come across in similar assessments, and his sire displayed durability on the track, his overall pedigree suggests average durability at best. And what about the word that Mr. Zedan used twice in the above quote – "quality"? Well, Curlin is a quality sire, but in terms of bottom-line production, it leaves a lot to be desired. That's not to say that there are no good runners to be found, in fact the closely related Pappacap, under Brant's second-dam, was a Gr. III winner, and twice Grade I placed. However, through Brant's first six dams at least, I believe there to be just a single Grade I winner, Al Qasr, a Champion stayer in Peru, which appears under his fourth-dam. That is not, by any reasonable definition, a strong bottom-line, although it is fair to say that Brant's first dam is unproven. *** What might be learned from Brant's debut race? Everyone can see that he ran fast, and was much the best of that field, but I would say that there were some nuanced aspects of his performance that were both interesting, and worrying. Those nuances relate to his action, as viewed both through the pan shot, and head-on. Watching the basic (pan) view, Brant appears to display some "knee action". It isn't extreme, but also isn't the type of action that ideally suits dirt runners, and I wouldn't say that the colt appears totally comfortable. Here's a brief, related post on knee action, for reference: Then, we have the (embedded) head-on view, in which Brant displays seriously distorted action in his near-fore (left front leg; right when viewed head-on). It's a fairly extreme example of what is called "winging", and for a number of reasons, does not bode well for durability. Such action is never desirable, and is typically related to certain foreleg conformation flaws, which may include an offset knee, and/or toeing in or out, etc. Note also that under typical American racing conditions (i.e. tightly turning, left-handed tracks), the left front leg is subjected to the greatest torque, which amplifies the potential for injury. It should go without saying that there are occasional anomalies, horses with poor action that remain sound despite such flaws. But they are the exceptions, and it is not uncommon to find abbreviated careers associated with such action. For further reference, here is a link to a closely related post that I wrote after a filly named Amor Fati broke her maiden in eye-catching style in February of 2024. She has made just one further start, and hasn't recorded a work over the past 15 months. What's interesting about Brant is that there are two separate issues relating to his action, and that the some obvious mitigating steps that could have been, or should be taken, in efforts to keep him sound, were not, and are unlikely to ever be taken. First, with regard to his knee action, keep in mind that it is a characteristic that is more typically associated with turf horses. And guess what? Brant's dam was a turf horse. His second-dam was also at her best on turf, and was Gr. II placed on that surface. Also, in some respects, he physically resembles that female line more than his sire. Of course no one who spends millions on a horse that breezed exceptionally fast at a 2yo sale would be thinking "turf", given that the commercial market, and stakes schedules greatly favor dirt runners. But at the same time, it would be a mistake to assume that a fast breeze at OBS necessarily indicates that a given horse will be best suited to dirt. I say that partly because the OBS track features an all-weather surface called "Safetrack", which is far from being identical to dirt racing surfaces. While countless horses have gone through those sales and excelled on dirt, it should never been taken for granted that it will be a preference. And to further flesh out the point, take a look at Brant's breeze video through this link (his pedigree page can also be seen): Despite being rushed to cover a furlong much faster than he ever will again, I would say that he looks smoother, and displays slightly less knee action than in his recent debut race. Why? Could it be, perhaps, because he would prove more comfortable on turf and/or synthetic tracks, than dirt surfaces? Given how he ran first out, this is purely an academic point, as there is virtually no chance that his connections would consider switching surfaces, unless his form on dirt were to deteriorate badly. The second, more important point, relates to Brant's distorted action. I can't find a head-on conformation photo of the colt, but would be very surprised if he does not display flaws in his near-fore. Even in the very unlikely event that the leg were to appear correct, such distorted action would have been on display at the sale, as well as in pre-training at Eddie Woods' farm. And it defies belief that experienced horsemen who were prepared to purchase an extremely expensive horse for an important client would not have covered that base. Which in turn begs two important questions. First, why recommend the purchase of a very expensive horse, no matter how fast, that has yet to race, and displays such distorted action? Secondly, why choose to give such a horse to a trainer whose style and history suggest that injury risk would likely be amplified, rather than mitigated? The answers to those questions help to illuminate why the breed-to-sell paradigm is so insidious. As long as breeders and stud farms are willing to overpay for stallion prospects, and turn blind eyes to conformation defects, distorted action, lack of durability, and modest female families, the connections of horses like Brant need only hope that they hold together long enough to win one or two big races, enabling them cash in. These are the number of career starts made by Zedan's previous best (and expensive) male runners: 9 Arabian Lion 6 Arabian Knight 9 Muth 10 Medina Spirit 11 Hejazi And as long as the AGSC (American Graded Stakes Committee) continues to enable the paradigm through its dishonest KY Derby "prep" Grade I designations, the ultimately damaging feedback loop will likely continue. The answer to the second question is closely entwined, and should be obvious. For all of his faults as a trainer, Baffert has long produced results in stakes races that lead to valuable stud careers, so owners who wish to play the breed-to-sell game consider him to be a logical choice. Of course Baffert and Zedan are hardly alone in supporting the dubious paradigm. But that a horse like Brant could bring millions at a sale, and be given to a trainer who trains very hard, and has compiled a very poor safety record, underscores the extreme degree to which the value of durability has been marginalized by the industry. One final note, and it's a genuine qualification that I always make when producing this type of post, I hope that Brant will enjoy a long, injury-free career. But if I were a betting man...show more

🔊 Church: LAST WEEK THE BOW WAS BENDING —... THIS WEEK IT IS BEING BROKEN!! EZEKIEL 38 IS BEING SET UP AND PROPHECY IS ACCELERATING! Yesterday (3/11/26) was a very prophetic day: the UN resolution, co-sponsored by 135 countries, condemned Iran’s actions against its neighbors as a serious threat to international “PEACE AND SECURITY.” A global rebuke to Iran. One vote. One day. The Security Council just drew the Ezekiel 38 fault line on the global map — the nations are aligning, and the earthquake of prophecy is coming!!!! NO TIME TO SLEEP!! KEEP LOOKING UP!! 📖 “Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel… the mountains shall be thrown down… and every wall shall fall to the ground.” Ezekiel 38:19–20 ⏳ A lot has happened since last week! Let me try to connect every dot carefully — because what is unfolding in real time is not just a war, it is a prophetic sequence that Ezekiel described 2,600 years ago assembling itself in front of our eyes. 🛎️ WHERE WE ARE — DAY 12 OF THE WAR One week ago, I posted that the bow of Elam was being broken and that everything happening was setting up Ezekiel 38. Here is what has happened since: 👉🏼The US has struck more than 5,000 targets, destroying Iran's navy, air force, and 80–90% of its missile launchers. Iranian drone capabilities have been severely reduced, and their manufacturing facilities remain under sustained attack. 👉🏼Iran has fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones since February 28 — and the rate of launches is declining sharply as stockpiles are depleted. The bow is not just being bent. It is breaking in real time. 👉🏼Iran launched what it called its most intense and heaviest operation of the entire war overnight — but the missiles are getting fewer and the launchers are running out. We are watching a substantially weaker regime firing its last arrows. 👉🏼The new supreme leader — Mojtaba Khamenei — has not been seen in public nor issued a written statement since being chosen. The king is dead. The new prince is hiding. Jeremiah 49:38 — “the king and the princes destroyed” — continues to unfold. 👉🏼Israel has struck over 70 targets in Beirut’s south during this war, demolishing 50 multi-story buildings used by Hezbollah, and killed a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for rocket and drone operations. 👉🏼Russia is now giving Iran specific advice on drone tactics — helping Tehran target U.S. and Gulf nation assets in the Middle East. What began as general support is becoming far more concerning, including targeting strategies Russia used in Ukraine. 👉🏼Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to help attack American forces in the Middle East — the first indication that another major power is actively assisting Iran against the United States. 🔎Read that again through an Ezekiel 38 lens: Russia is not watching from the sidelines. It is already helping Iran — privately, through intelligence sharing and tactical advice — while publicly denying it. This is the Gog–Persia relationship beginning to take shape in real time. NOW LET’S SLOW DOWN AND ANALYZE WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AT THE UN 🗓️On March 11, 2026, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2817, introduced by Bahrain on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council and co-sponsored by 135 nations. It demanded that Iran immediately cease its attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan. “The resolution condemns these actions as breaches of international law and a serious threat to international PEACE AND SECURITY.” It passed with 13 votes in favor, none against, but abstentions from China and Russia. Let’s analyze this: ☮️That is not a divided world. That is 135 nations standing against Iran simultaneously. The world has formally, legally, and publicly declared Iran the aggressor and demanded it stop immediately, declaring it a threat to international “PEACE AND SECURITY! in their own words. Do you see what just happened? 👉🏼135 nations put their names on that declaration. The Gulf, the West, and much of the world stood together—on the record—pointing to Iran as the one nation standing against PEACE AND SECURITY. 📖 "For when they say Peace and Safety — then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape." 1 Thes 5:3 💡Here’s another prophetical take — look at who abstained: China and Russia both abstained from the vote, angered that the resolution did not acknowledge US-Israeli strikes on Iran. 🔭Notice what Russia did yesterday. While 13 nations voted to condemn Iran, Russia submitted its own rival resolution defending Iran. It failed — but Russia tried. Russia stood alone with China defending Persia at the highest level of international diplomacy — publicly, formally, on the record. That is Gog standing beside Persia for the world to see — right there at the United Nations! But wait, there’s more: 🚪While the world was voting, Russia and Turkey were meeting privately to coordinate their response to the Middle East crisis — together, behind closed doors. (Turkey is not a member of the UN Security Council, so it could not vote, only the 15 Council members cast votes on Security Council resolutions.) Gog with Meshech and Tubal meeting, while the world cries peace and security. ⚡This is the Ezekiel 38 fault line drawing itself on the world map in real time. The nations that will eventually form the Gog coalition — the main players Russia, Turkey, and Iran — are already separating themselves from the rest of the world at the United Nations today. Publicly, formally, on the record and behind closed doors. 💡Another prophetic takeaway: Russia and China standing with Iran — that is a very telling glimpse of what lies ahead. Both are major players in the Tribulation, but at different moments: Russia in the Ezekiel 38 coalition near the beginning (view based on Ezekiel 39, Israel burning weapons for fuel for seven years, ending exactly at the Second Coming), while China appears at the end as part of the kings of the East in Revelation 16:12. Two different powers at two different moments — the beginning and the end of the Tribulation. What we saw yesterday at the UN and in private: 📖 "Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal… Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them." Ezekiel 38:2,5 🔎Interesting thing, Ezekiel saw two groups — Gog's coalition on one side, the protesting nations on the other. Today at the UN we watched that exact division form. Russia and Persia on one side. The world on the other. 🛡️Notice what Russia’s resolution tried to do. It called for protecting civilians, stopping the fighting, and returning to negotiations—without naming Iran as the aggressor. In effect, Russia shielded Iran at the highest level of international diplomacy. That kind of protection foreshadows the relationship described in Ezekiel 38: a powerful patron standing beside Persia. 🪝A Russia that publicly defends a broken Iran today — although unable to engage militarily — is a Russia that will rebuild and sponsor a mended Iran tomorrow. And that rebuilt Iran — grateful, dependent, and desperate — follows Russia into the Ezekiel 38 coalition. See the hook?! And one more thing from today's vote that is also very prophetically significant: 🌏The UK warned that Iran’s attacks risk further regional and “global conflagration”, describing the resolution as a clear condemnation of Iran’s reckless actions and a serious threat to its partners in the Gulf. (Sorry, I had to look up the meaning of conflagration: “an extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property.”) 🔴Global conflagration. Heck, no! That is not diplomatic language. That is world war language. The nations of the world are watching and saying — this could become global. That is exactly what the Red Horse of Revelation 6 describes — peace taken from the entire earth. Not just the Middle East. The entire earth. (This is one of the many reasons I believe Ezekiel 38 = the Red Horse = World War III.) Here’s what makes that statement prophetically incredible: 👉🏼The UK — along with Gulf states and western maritime nations standing against Iran today — are almost certainly the very nations Ezekiel identified 2,600 years ago as the ones who will watch the Ezekiel 38 invasion and do nothing but protest: 📖 "Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish and all their young lions will say — have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty?'" Ezekiel 38:13 👉🏼Sheba and Dedan — Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. The same Gulf states co-authoring today's UN resolution. 👉🏼Tarshish and its young lions — identified as the great maritime trading nation and its offspring colonies. Britain and the western nations — possibly including the United States. Same nations, same posture, and the same response — diplomatic outrage BUT NO MILITARY INTERVENTION. The difference between today and Ezekiel 38 is one event — the Rapture. Today America can still project military force. After the Rapture — hollowed out, destabilized, and paralyzed — all the western nations can do is watch and protest while Russia's coalition descends on Israel. 🌐The UK is not just warning about “global conflagration today.” They are unknowingly describing their own prophetic role in Ezekiel 38 — the nations that see it coming, warn about it loudly, and cannot stop it. Because by then — only God can. And He will! 🕯️The purpose of God in Ezekiel 38 is to reveal Himself to the nations, to awaken Israel, and to display His glory among nations: 📖 "Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord." Ezekiel 38:23 📖 "So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day forward." Ezekiel 39:22 📖 "I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed." Ezekiel 39:21 🌏Ezekiel 38 is not a private miracle. It is a public, global, permanent display of God's glory that becomes part of the historical record of the nations forever. ⚔️ LET’S TALK ABOUT THE HOOK — BECAUSE THE HOOK IS BEING FORGED 📖 “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out with all your army… Persia with them.”— Ezekiel 38:4–5 👉🏼Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz — the world’s most critical oil transit chokepoint, carrying roughly one-fifth of global crude. 👉🏼The U.S. military has already destroyed multiple Iranian naval vessels, including 16 minelayers near the Strait. 👉🏼In response to the disruption, the International Energy Agency has agreed to release a record 400 MILLION barrels of crude oil — the largest emergency release in history. 🚢The world right now is watching the Persian Gulf become increasingly unstable and unreliable as an energy route. 💡And here is the prophetic implication: As the Gulf becomes a contested and dangerous route for energy, Israel’s massive Mediterranean gas fields — holding over 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — become the most strategically valuable alternative energy prize in the region. That begins to look like the kind of economic hook described in Ezekiel 38:12. 🪝An energy superpower like Russia — which already uses energy as a geopolitical weapon — would have enormous incentive to control the one stable, massive energy source left in the region. Israel’s gas. The hook is being forged in the energy disruption we are watching unfold right now. ❌For those following these posts — you know it can’t be an Ezekiel 38 without a Jeremiah 49. Everything we are watching now is assembling the conditions that prophecy requires. 👑Daniel 10 identifies the Prince of Persia as a demonic principality — a territorial spirit with one assignment: oppose God’s purposes for Israel and destroy the Jews. That same principality drove Haman in the Book of Esther. Same geography, same obsession, and the same hatred. Every agreement the world has tried with Iran — every negotiation, every nuclear deal — has failed and it will continue to fail because you cannot negotiate with a principality. You can only break its power. That is exactly what Book of Jeremiah 49 describes. Not diplomacy, not containment but the breaking of the bow. The destruction of the king and the princes. The removal of everything that can threaten Israel. God does not negotiate with the Prince of Persia — He breaks it. 👉🏼And that breaking — Jeremiah 49 — is not just a military event. It is the necessary spiritual and prophetic precondition for everything Ezekiel 38 requires. Here is how close those conditions are to being met: Condition 1 — Israel dwelling in false peace 📖 "A peaceful people who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates." Ezekiel 38:11 ❌You can’t have Ez 38 without Jer 49. Israel cannot dwell in unwalled villages in false peace while Iran's proxy network is fully operational and missiles are aimed at Jerusalem. The bow must be broken first. That is what we are watching. Every missile launcher destroyed, every proxy commander killed, every Hezbollah building demolished brings Israel one step closer to the unwalled village peace Ezekiel 38 requires. Condition 2 — The coalition assembled 👉🏼Gog/Magog — Russia — Already covertly helping Iran with intelligence and drone tactics today 👉🏼Persia — Iran rebuilt — Currently being broken. Jeremiah 49:39 not destroyed guarantees its return under Russian patronage 👉🏼Meshech and Tubal — Turkey — Already aligned with Russia and condemning Israel publicly 👉🏼Gomer and Togarmah — Central Asia and Eastern Europe — Already within Russia's sphere of influence 👉🏼Cush — Ethiopia/Sudan — Already hosting Russian military presence through Wagner operations 👉🏼Put — Libya — Already deeply infiltrated by Russian military interests Every nation Ezekiel named either already has Russian military ties or is publicly opposing Israel. The coalition is not a future possibility. It’s a reality right now! Condition 3 — The Hook in Russia’s Jaw 📖 “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out with all your army.” Ezekiel 38:4 👉🏼Economic — Israel’s gas fields emerging as the most valuable stable energy prize as the Persian Gulf destabilizes. 👉🏼Strategic — Russia watching its most important Middle Eastern ally dismantled and its influence in the region threatened. 👉🏼Relational— Russia already linked to Iran through intelligence sharing and drone tactics — a patron-client relationship that could lead Moscow to champion a rebuilt Iran in a future coalition. God places the hook — but He uses real geopolitical motivations to do it. And every one of them is in place right now. 🔊Church: Every single condition Ezekiel 38 requires is moving into position simultaneously. Not one or two — all of them. At the same time. In the same week. The main players are in place: Russia, Iran, and Turkey. The nations that cry out in protest are already crying out. The hook is being forged. Israel’s peace window is opening from the rubble of Iran’s defeat. And between all of this and Ezekiel 38 — two events: 1. The Rapture of the Church 2. The rise of the Antichrist — in that order. The removal of the Church destabilizes and paralyzes the West and clears the way for God to act alone in Ezekiel 38 so that He can reveal Himself to the nations, awaken Israel, and receive ALL the glory! KEEP PRAYING! KEEP PREACHING THE GOSPEL!! AND KEEP LOOKING UP!!! THE KING IS COMING FOR HIS BRIDE!!!! Maranatha — Come Lord Jesus, Come!!!show more

🔊 Church: The bow of Elam is being broken... right now, leading the way to the next bow—the ANTICHRIST’S BOW—a bow with no arrows, A BOW OF FALSE PEACE!!! Iran’s defeat, as described in Jeremiah 49, isn’t just a single event—it sets off a chain reaction! WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS SETTING UP EZEKIEL 38 — THE PLAYERS ARE ALREADY ON THE STAGE!!! But between these two bows: THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH! KEEP LOOKING UP!!! What we are watching in the headlines right now is not just history being made — it is Bible prophecy developing itself in real time, in front of our eyes. FIRST — WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN THE LAST 6 DAYS 🔴On Purim 2026 — as the blood moon rose over the earth for the second consecutive year on the feast celebrating Israel’s deliverance from Persia — the United States and Israel were actively carrying out Operation "Roaring Lion" and Operation "Epic Fury" against Iran. Here is what has happened since Feb 28th: 👉🏼Israel used over 1,200 bombs and munitions, hitting nuclear facilities (Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan), missile sites, air defenses, military bases, and leadership compounds across Iran. 👉🏼Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a direct strike on his Tehran compound, along with senior officials and commanders, triggering leadership chaos. 👉🏼Israel warned that any successor supreme leader would be an “unequivocal target.” Iran scrambled to select one via the Assembly of Experts, but a bombing strike disrupted the meetings and the process. 👉🏼The U.S. destroyed more than 20 Iranian ships, aiming to eliminate Iran’s navy entirely. 👉🏼Israel destroyed over 300 missile launchers, struck secret nuclear-related sites, and hit regime buildings, including the Expediency Discernment Council. 👉🏼 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the U.S. is "accelerating, not decelerating," with more assets incoming and sustained operations. President Trump projected the war could last four to five weeks (or longer if needed), emphasizing decisive progress on weakening Iran’s nuclear, missile, and naval capabilities while the conflict continues with Iranian and Hezbollah retaliation. IS THE BOW BEING BROKEN? 📖"I will break the bow of Elam, the foremost of their might" Jer 49:35 ⛓️‍💥The strikes are specifically designed to degrade Iran's nuclear program, ballistic missile capabilities, and armed forces — the very elements that allow Iran to project military power. So, the bow is being broken not metaphorically, but literally at this moment. 📖"Against Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven" Jer 49:36 🧭The U.S.–Israeli campaign has struck Iran from all directions: north and northwest (Tabriz, Urmia, Sanandaj), east and southeast (Konarak, Chabahar), south and southwest (Bandar Abbas, Bushehr, Minab, Shiraz), and west (Kermanshah, Ilam, Khorramabad). Central hubs like Tehran, Isfahan (Natanz), Qom, and Karaj have faced the heaviest attacks, hitting targets across the country from border to border. 📖"I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies" Jer 49:37 📺Israel hacked Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, and Netanyahu spoke directly to the Iranian people in Farsi, urging them to rise in the streets "in their millions," seize the moment to overthrow the regime, and establish a free Iran. Calls like "Help has arrived" and "Take your destiny into your own hands" strike at the heart of the regime’s power, exposing its vulnerability and undermining its control. The people are being called to rise from within and beyond Iran simultaneously, leaving the rulers dismayed, fearful, and powerless to stop the growing momentum against them. 📖"I will set My throne in Elam and will destroy from there the king and the princes" Jer 49:38 👑This is the most stunning fulfillment. Khamenei — the Supreme Leader, the king — was killed. Iran declared 40 days of mourning. Ali Shamkhani, former head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and several other senior Iranian officials were also killed. The king AND the princes. Both. Exactly as Jeremiah said. Haman 2.0 built its gallows. And it stood on them!! 🏹The bow is being broken during the red blood moon on Purim. The king is dead. The princes are dead. Iran’s nuclear advancement and ballistic missile capabilities have been severely diminished, and its proxy support networks are being weakened as we speak. 💡But here is what we need to understand right now: Jeremiah 49 is not the destination. It is the runway. The destination is Ezekiel 38. And the players are already moving into position. WHERE DOES PERSIA RE-ENTER PROPHECY AFTER JEREMIAH? Two books later, exactly here in Ezekiel 38. 📖 "PERSIA, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them." Ez 38:5 👉🏼Persia is explicitly named in Ezekiel 38's coalition. But here we know that Persia is not leading. Persia is following. The leader is Gog — Russia. A weakened and humiliated Iran will need a powerful sponsor to rebuild. That sponsor is already moving today, in the headlines. RUSSIA — GOG COALITION IS ASSEMBLING — IN THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES 📰Russia called for an immediate end to the war launched by the US and Israel on Iran. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov personally engaged in diplomatic efforts, holding calls with regional mediators to discuss the war. 💡But here’s the reality: Russia is watching its most important Middle Eastern ally being severely weakened—and it cannot intervene because its military is overstretched in Ukraine. Russia is sidelined and powerless to act on Iran’s behalf, revealing the limits of its “great power” claims and the reliability of its alliances. Iran is not happy with Russia at all. But hey, this is not a Russia that forgets; it is a Russia that waits… and then acts. 👉🏼That is exactly what Ezekiel 38 describes. A Russia that moves decisively — not out of strength in this moment — but out of accumulated fury, strategic desperation, and a hook that God Himself puts in its jaw. 📖 "I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out with all your army."* Ez 38:4 🪝The hook is being forged right now!! TURKEY — MESHECH AND TUBAL 👉🏼Ezekiel 38 names Meshech, Tubal, and Togarmah — ancient territories corresponding to modern Turkey. And right now Turkey is publicly aligning with Russia against Israel, positioning itself as the voice of the Muslim world, and growing in regional influence as Iran collapses. Turkey's Erdoğan condemned the conflict, saying Ankara was making intense diplomatic efforts to resolve it. The Ezekiel 38 coalition that comes to attack Israel is looming on the horizon! WHAT EZEKIEL 38 REQUIRES — AND HOW CLOSE WE ARE Ezekiel 38 has specific conditions that must exist before Gog moves, and only Jeremiah 49 makes them possible. Look at how rapidly they are forming: 1️⃣Israel dwelling in false peace 📖 "A peaceful people who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates." Ez 38:11 ☝🏼For the first time in decades, this is becoming conceivable. With Iran and its proxy network weakened, the ring of fire surrounding Israel is breaking. A regional peace framework is assembling. With Iran neutralized, the Abraham Accords will expand, and the conditions for Israel's false peace are forming from the rubble of Iran's defeat. 2️⃣The hook in Russia's jaw Economically, Israel’s gas fields are a major prize. Strategically, Russia is being humbled and losing influence in the region. Ideologically, its alliance with the Muslim world against Israel is under strain. The “hook” is forming this week, creating the anger that could pull Russia into action against Israel. 🪝And here is what makes this week's events even more significant for understanding that hook. Right now Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. One fifth of the world's oil and a quarter of global LNG flows through that strait. Energy prices are spiking globally today. The world is getting a live preview of what Middle Eastern energy disruption looks like. As the Persian Gulf becomes increasingly unstable and unreliable — Israel's massive Mediterranean gas fields become the most strategically valuable alternative energy prize on earth. That is the economic hook in Russia's jaw. Russia will eventually come for Israel's wealth and resources. Ezekiel 38:12 told us exactly that 2,600 years ago. 3️⃣The coalition from the north 📖 "You will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you." Ez 38:15 ✌🏼Russia and Turkey are already aligned together in opposition to Israel in this conflict — even China if we could include it. The directional and relational skeleton of this coalition is visible right now in this week's news. THE PROPHETIC SEQUENCE — WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING Based on two strong reasons, I place Ezekiel 38 at the beginning of the Tribulation — not before, or in the middle or at the end. 1️⃣The 7 year weapon burning fits perfectly 📖"Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons… they will burn them for seven years." Ez 39:9 If Ezekiel 38 happens near the beginning of the Tribulation, the 7 year burn period ends right at the Second Coming. The math works perfectly. 2️⃣We know the Tribulation is the period of God’s direct judgment on the world. 👉🏼By that time, the Church is gone and the Holy Spirit’s restraining work through the Church has been removed. God begins dealing with the world directly, supernaturally, and undeniably, forcing every nation on earth to acknowledge that He alone is God. 👉🏼In Ezekiel 38, we see Russia’s coalition destroyed not by human armies, but by God Himself. No enemies intervene. No U.S. military. No Israeli air force. The Lord personally rains down fire and brimstone — a supernatural judgment with no possible human intervention or explanation. Jeremiah 49 = man as God's instrument Ezekiel 38 = God as His own instrument So based on this I will put Ezekiel 38 here: 🔗Rapture → White Horse/Antichrist → Covenant/False peace → Red Horse/Ezekiel 38 → God destroys Gog → Antichrist in temple → Great Tribulation → Second Coming BUT, WHEREVER YOU LAND ON THE TIMING — HERE IS WHAT IS UNDENIABLE ⏰RIGHT NOW: Jeremiah 49 The king and princes are already destroyed. The bow of Elam is being broken. Iran’s nuclear program is weakened, and its proxy networks will be dismantled. The dominant Middle Eastern threat to Israel is being removed, leaving the stage completely free and clear for peace and safety. 📖“For when they say, ‘Peace and safety!’ then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape” 1 Thes 5:3 What comes next on your own timeline: 1️⃣A window of peace for Israel emerging from the chaos 2️⃣Abraham Accords expansion and a false peace framework 3️⃣Russia rebuilding and repositioning with a reformed Iran/Persia 4️⃣The Rapture? It's imminent—it could happen at any moment, before the Antichrist is revealed and before the seven-year Tribulation begins! 📖 "Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world." Rev 3:10 🔊CHURCH: Between Elam’s broken bow and the Antichrist’s peaceful bow, the Church — the Bride of Christ — is called home before the Tribulation begins!! Like Esther brought into the king’s palace before Haman’s judgment was executed. Like Noah, sealed in the ark before the flood. Like Lot, brought out of Sodom and Gomorrah!! Every player is moving into position! Israel’s peace window is opening. Russia and Turkey aligning and the hook is being forged!!! Every single piece Ezekiel described 2,600 years ago is in motion right now! We are on the runway!!! KEEP PRAYING, KEEP PREACHING THE GOSPEL!!! WE’RE SOON GOING HOME! Maranatha 🤍— Come Lord Jesus, Come!!!show more