Why Iran’s threat keeps haunting the Middle East - and how to finally break the cycle - opinion

Hey Watchmen, Every few years this headline recycles itself — Iran's threat, another round table, another promise to finally break the cycle — and every few years the cycle just keeps turning. And it will, because men keep trying to solve with policy what Elohim has already laid out on His prophetic calendar. Iran isn't a problem that gets "finally broken" by the right strategy paper out of Jerusalem Post. Iran is a piece on a board that's been set since Daniel, and it's not coming off that board until the board itself gets flipped. I've watched the analysts wring their hands about Tehran for years now, and I'll tell you plainly what I've said about these regional players before — the ambition is always bigger than the restraint. Read Jeremiah 49, the word against Elam, sitting right there next to the oracle on Damascus — "I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might." Elam is Persia's own backyard, my friends, modern-day Iran. Elohim already told us the bow gets broken. Not by a coalition, not by a clever op-ed, not by "finally breaking the cycle" — by His own hand, in His own time. Man's version of breaking Iran always ends in more graves and more rubble, because that's what happens when flesh tries to do what only the Almighty can finish. So don't put your hope in the next peace plan or the next strike that's supposed to be the last one. Watch Persia, watch her posture toward Israel, watch how she keeps getting drawn northward and westward just like the prophets said she would — but watch it as a sign pointing to Yeshua's return, not as a puzzle for the State Department to solve. The cycle breaks when the Lion of Judah says it breaks. Stay sober, stay in the Word, and keep your eyes up — the hour is later than the headlines let on.