THE MIDDLE EAST IS EXPLODING ON THE EVE OF PURIM!

0:00Oh Jesus, Savior, Master, Creator, you're the Alpha, O Baker, you're the King of kings. Boy, oh boy, or if you prefer man, oh man. We are living in the last days and the world has gone crazy, and we're going to talk about it today. My name is Tom. You are watching the Watch and River channel. And I always like to go to scripture before we talk about the heavy things happening in the world, because it's important. I mean, God's promises for your every need. It's just the book that contains Bible verses under different categories. I'm on page 48. Jesus is your fulfillment. So let's read some of these. Matthew chapter five, verse six, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness

1:03for they shall be filled. Let's go to Psalm 37, verse four, delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 107, verse nine, for he satisfies the logging soul and fills the hungry soul with goodness. Let's go to Psalm 103, verse five, who satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. Let's go to Joel, chapter two, verse 26, you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, who has dealt wondrously with you, and my people shall never be put to shame. Let's go to John, chapter six, verse 35, and Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. Give me an amen. Thank you. I heard that.

2:03Let's go to Psalm 22, verse 26, the poor shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise the Lord, let your heart live forever. Let's go to John, chapter four, verses 13 and 14. Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst, but the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life. Praise Jesus. So a couple more, Joel, chapter two, verse 19, the Lord will answer and say to his people, behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, and you will be satisfied by them. I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations. Isaiah 58, verses 10 and 11, if you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness shall be as the noon day.

3:05The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought and strengthen your bones. You shall be like a water garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail. Beautiful. One more. Psalm 145, verses 15 and 16, I love the picture of this paints. The eyes of all look expectantly to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living being. I just picture the hand of the most high God opening, incredible. Alright, let's talk. Let's talk. How are you guys? First of all, I hope you guys are okay. Let me know how you're doing. Okay. I want to talk about first before we get to news and what's going on in the last 24 or 48 hours. I want to talk about this blood moon that's happening tonight. Purim or Purim or some people say Purim.

4:07I think it's Purim is happening, you know, and there's a blood moon tonight after midnight. That's happening on March 3rd today is March 2nd, but the blood moon is after. Brother Tyler talked about this generation 2434 on his channel. He did a live stream the other night. Amazing. And he talked about this and all these number three. He's got to hear us out on this. And then I'll tell you what I think about it. Okay. So this blood moon tonight is happening in the third month March, the third day March 3rd after midnight tonight. One hour three a.m. The 33 minute mark will be when it's at the maximum totality this eclipse. So you're talking about three three three three three. Okay. It's the third year in a row that there has been a blood moon on Purim. The third year in a row. Okay. Another thing. There won't be another blood moon anywhere for another 33 months.

5:08So that's all a whole lot of threes. Okay. And it's fascinating. It really is fascinating. But I got to tell you my concerns about it. The blood moon doesn't appear over Israel. They won't see it. Okay. And the 3 a.m. At 333 maximum totality of the eclipse. That's West Coast USA time. So I'm not saying this is nothing. But I'm not saying it's everything we we don't know. You know, when we're on the other side, we're going to know what all these blood moons meant or didn't mean. But that concerns me a little bit when Israel doesn't see because I always look at Bible prophecy from the prophetic lens of Israel. But regardless, that is really kind of fascinating. You know, and that the fact that this war is happening and started three days before Purim is pretty amazing. It starts Saturday and there's amazing. But I guess what I want to say here is this. Please hear me out and please listen to the whole thing I'm about to say before you comment.

6:10Okay. Some people are saying because of all this Purim and the blood moon and all these threes that we're going to be raptured today or tomorrow. Okay. You know me. I'm always telling you today is a perfectly good day for the rapture because it is. We're late in the season. It could happen at any time. But I'm just saying, don't put your faith in this date. Don't put your faith in all these threes. Put your faith. Keep your faith in your eyes and your hope on Jesus because he's coming soon. Okay. I just don't I know there's a lot of people that will put their faith in today or tomorrow or Wednesday or Thursday. And then if Friday comes, they'll be really depressed. If you're not that person, praise God. Wait for Jesus. Be excited about today and tomorrow. If that's what you want to do because you're not going to be depressed. If you're the type of person who got really upset when September 23rd happened. Don't put your faith in these dates. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Please because I don't want you to get discouraged. You know, I think the rapture could happen before I hit stop on this video.

7:11I really do think we're that close to the pre-tribulation rapture of Jesus's church. The people that belong to him. We are close. But I look at all this stuff from a helicopter view. I don't look at individual signs or dates or numbers. I look at the whole thing from above the helicopter view that says, oh my goodness, the Middle East is an raging war. All the things are set up for the seven year tribulation. We're living in the last days. I don't have to like zone in on one day. I don't want to know the day or the hour. Personally, I just want to go home to be with Jesus. So I'm looking at the season and we're late in the season. Paul told us he wouldn't have to write to us. We would know. We know we're late in the season. So my eyes are on Jesus and I want him to come in that perfect timing that he has. Not my timing. Okay. So and again, if you're excited about this and you're not going to be discouraged. If it's not this time period, then that's fine. That's fine. That's great. I'm rooting you on because I'm excited every day right now. I really am.

8:11I'm looking for that blessed hope. You know, Jesus is going to appear and take us home soon. Okay. All right. I hope that helps somebody. Now, the next thing I just want to say this just I don't this just is a little twinge of humor to me that President Trump was saying. You know, a week ago, a few days ago. Two weeks ago, peace in the Middle East. I have brought peace to the Middle East and I'm like rap row. That was a false piece. That wasn't lasting too long. And I'm not putting down President Trump because he, you know, he really thought there was peace in the Middle East, but he had already planned to strike Iran with Israel when he was saying that. But interesting because the world is not proclaiming peace in the Middle East right now. It is crazy. So I'm going to try to cover everything in the last 24, 48 hours because a lot of people just watch this as their news source. I don't understand why, but thank you.

9:13I'm going to start off at the times of Israel. This was on Saturday night. Okay. Iran's revolutionary guards tell ships passage through the straight of hormones is not allowed. They have closed the straight of hormones. It's still closed right now. Also Saturday late, a Iranian drone hit a Kuwait airport and several people were injured. Iran is going scorched earth against all the Gulf states and they're not happy about it. I'm going to cover news. I'm going to be hopping. It's mostly Middle East stuff. In fact, it's all Middle East stuff today. And I'm going to be hopping back and forth from one story to another back to the other story because there's so much. I just got a shotgun my way through this. Okay. Iranian state media confirmed that Iran struck an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman because it intended to pass through the straight of hormones despite warnings and says all 20 crew members were evacuated. That was early, early yesterday morning.

10:13Okay. And then everybody knows this. But just in case everyone knows that the I'm not going to call on my nickname for him anymore because he is no longer on earth. But Comania's Iranian state media confirmed that Iran's Supreme Leader Comania's dead. 40 days of public morning have been announced in the wake of Comania's killing in seven days of public holidays. So they're morning morning, the loss of him personally, you know, God's the judge. That's I'm just going to say that I want to say humorous things, but I'm not going to do that. God's the judge, but the world is probably a better place that that guy's gone. You know, I think we can all agree to that. Then we got Russian President Putin. He says the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader is a brutal murder that violates all ethics and international law. Well, Vlad. You know, let's not talk about that right now. It's you're not really in the place to talk about, you know, ethics and international law.

11:16Just saying. Okay. And Russia says it's not happy. The US and Israel attacked Iran mid negotiations. Well, Vlad. Those negotiations were never going to end. If Iran had their way, never going to end until they had nukes. So. And then China says it supports Iran in protecting its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. We are living in the last days. China demands the US and Israel immediately stop this military operation against Iran. Yeah, they're demanding an immediate ceasefire. They're warning against further escalation. Well, it's escalating. You know, and then I just got to mention this early, we just got to get this over with. All right. Kim Jenin, we just got a, you know, North Korea condemns US and Israeli strikes on Iran calling them a violation of Iranian sovereignty and territorial rights. I think they just took the quote from China.

12:17And just moved it over. Maybe they took it from Russia. But there you go, Kim. We got you in. You can go back to your tray of cookies from many lands. All right, what else? This is happening because the straight of hormones is closed and so much of the world's oil passes through that. The Guardian said oil prices rise and stock markets dip as Iran wore threatens the global economy. Iran had threatened to close the straight of hormones leading up to this and they have done it. They also threatened to go scorched earth and they are doing that. Aramco oil refinery and Saudi Arabia on fire after an Iranian strike. Saudi Arabia is not happy, but that's on fire. That was early this morning. Nearly all ship traffic in the straight of our moves has halted blocking access to oil routes. European gas prices. This was breaking right before I hit record. They have jumped over 50% after Qatar halts LNG output.

13:17So there you go. The over 50% in Europe. Then we're going to move. Where are we going now? Now we are going to go here. A ballistic missile from Iran struck that shimesh, just west of Jerusalem. This was about 24 hours ago, yesterday, early afternoon, Israel time, destroying homes, killing at least nine Israelis. So that happened yesterday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quote. We eliminate the tyrant, Khomeini and dozens of senior figures of the oppressive regime. Our forces are now striking in the heart of Tehran with increasing intensity, which will intensify even more in the coming days. And it has intensified in the last 24 hours, big time. Reports in Iran, the IDF attacked the headquarters of the Iranian Broadcasting Authority. What else? Then we had a message that President Trump sent out on his social truth network.

14:19He said, I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval ships. Some of them relatively large and important. We are going after the rest. They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea also. In a different attack, we largely destroyed their naval headquarters. Other than that, their navy is doing very well. He had to end with a little bit of humor. There you go. Israel says the intercepted missiles launched from Lebanon's Hezbollah. And it will be met with a strong response. And they are doing that big time. We'll get more to that. But Hezbollah has joined the war and Lebanon's government is kind of separated itself from Hezbollah saying, don't do that. You know, they've literally given Israel the permission now to do whatever they need to do. But they're like, please don't harm our infrastructure. We'll see. Baba had this to say about. He said, Hezbollah just joined the party. Israeli Defense Forces says Hezbollah carried out the launches from Lebanon. Six rockets were fired from Lebanon toward Haifa in the past 45 minutes.

15:22This was about 11 PM midnight last night. Israel time. What else? Listen to this. This was from insider paper. The CIA tracked Comaini for months and learned he would be at a meeting of top Iranian officials Saturday morning in the heart of Tehran. The agency passed its intel, which offered high fidelity on his position to Israel, which would execute the operation. That was according to the New York Times. So they said they were tracking him for months and knew he was going to be at that meeting. And all their leaders, so many of their leaders, not all of them, so many are gone. What else? Israel is now striking in Lebanon in response to the rockets fired by Hezbollah. The parliament building in Tehran is being destroyed right now. Amir Sarfati said this was around midnight, somewhere around midnight, Middle East time.

16:23Three United States war planes shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. Pilots bail out in friendly fire incident. Nobody perished in those. In fact, the Kuwaitis grabbed hold of those guys and brought them to safety. That was friendly fire. Beginning of sorrow's news, shared this on telegram. Preliminary reports indicate that Mohammed Rayad head of Hezbollah's parliamentary council and leading member of the Hezbollah faction in the Lebanese parliament was assassinated in Beirut. U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. military campaign undertaken in partnership with Israel could extend for about four weeks. Quote, it's always been a four week process. It's a big country. It'll take four weeks or less. He told the Daily Mail yesterday. This is fascinating. Listen to this. I feel like I have to take breath now.

17:25This is from the times of Israel. The Daily and Missile Warhead falls less than a kilometer from the Temple Mount Al-Alaqsa Mosque. Less than a kilometer. Is that thing going to get bombed accidentally? Time will tell. Chairman of Iran Supreme National Security Council Ali Larjani. We will not negotiate with the United States. President Trump is saying that many of them are calling. Let's talk. Larjani is like, nah, we're not going to negotiate at this point right now. Baba said things are going to start ramping up very quickly. The contractions are getting stronger in the birth pains. The F-15 crashed in Kuwait. Explosions in Safad and Bethlehem, Sirens in Tel Aviv, Ballistic Missile in Bahrain. Drone in missile attack on U.S. Embassy in Kuwait all within the last 30 minutes.

18:26He posted this at 12.45 a.m. last night, my time, Eastern Standard Time. But yeah, crazy. He also said the President of Cyprus confirms an Iranian UAV struck a British Air Force base in the country. This marks a significant escalation bringing the conflict directly to European soil. Via this British sovereign base area for the first time in the current crisis with Iran. Yeah, so Britain's on board now. What else? He also said this in Baba from Baba News. He said the Israeli Defense Minister Katz, quote, Hezbollah Secretary General Neem Khassam will be targeted and assassinated. And then end of quote, Baba said, Hezbollah Secretary General just got put on Israel's kill list. Hassan Nasrallah is already dead. He was the Grand Puba of Hezbollah before. And now the next man who replaced him is next. Israel is working through Hezbollah's leadership through the same way it worked through Iran's.

19:29Then we got this. A joint issue. A joint statement was issued from the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. We condemn Iran's attacks and have the right to defend ourselves. The war is just exploding right now. It's exploding. Saudi Arabia warns Iran. It will respond if coordinated attacks on its oil facilities continue. This is just something to take a little break on. And this is not a good thing I see. But in the Jerusalem post, they had an opinion piece. And its title was President Trump, Savior of Israel. President Trump is not your Savior, Israel. Jesus is. You will know one day. You will all declare it one day that remnant at the end of the seven-year tribulation. Israel today shared this Iran International reports that Iran's television networks were hacked yesterday.

20:30And Netanyahu speech was broadcast on all the channels throughout Iran with Persian subtitles. Wow. Israel today also shared this UK Prime Minister, Starmer, backtracks on his earlier position. And will now let the U.S. use British air bases to strike Iran following sustained Iranian attacks on British targets and regional allies. And he said Iran is pursuing a scorched earth strategy. Iran's IRGC claims to have severely damaged the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem and the headquarters of the Israeli Air Force. That was fake news. Iran IRGC, they said that they hit the Minister of the Prime Minister's office. That did not happen. Fake news. In just three days, Israel has deployed more munitions against Iran than it did in the entirety of the 12-day war that happened last June. Of 2025.

21:31Operation Rising Lion. Wow. Three days. Beginning of Saro's news shared this on Telegram. Lebanon, quote, we urge the United States citizens not to travel to Lebanon. If you are in the country, depart Lebanon now, while commercial flight options remain available. The security situation on Lebanon is volatile and unpredictable. It occurred throughout the country, especially in the south, parts of Beirut. Hezbollah has decided to join the war and Israel is pounding its stronghold in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon that was early, early, early this morning. Israel warned the President of Lebanon that if Hezbollah will join, Lebanon will suffer. Then there's U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee sent this message out. Is giving the IDF an opportunity to test their new laser technology, the Iron Beam. I have been in a shelter twice in the last hour.

22:32I'm grateful for Israeli innovation this morning. This was in the middle of the night last night. He sent that out because they're using the Iron Beam. And that's that laser that shoots the rockets out of the sky. And I think it's $3 to pull the trigger. $3. That's amazing technology. Non-stop Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon this morning. There is tons and tons and tons of video. Let's do a few posts from Amir Safati. He said Iran is now militarily naked. The IDF dropped over 2,000 bombs in 30 hours and achieved air superiority over Iranian airspace on day one. Read that again. Air superiority over a nation of 88 million people with the largest ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East. Accomplished before the second sunrise. That is amazing. And he also talked about it. He said the Iron Beam laser air defense system has successfully intercepted rockets last night.

23:32And UAVs this morning. This is the first operational laser system in the world. And then he sent this out on telegram about 1 am my time. So probably about 8 am Israel time this morning. According to Arab reports, a new wave of Iranian missiles and drones were launched towards Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. Iranian missiles targeted the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Iranians believed that American intelligence officers were staying there. It's all he said. I haven't heard anything else about that. And then I saw a lot of video of massive traffic jams of people trying to leave southern Lebanon. Just massive, you know. Amir said it seems that the Iranians are focusing on the Gulf states due to the particularly high hit rates.

24:35There is no concentration of air defense systems like there are in Israel. And the Iranians can cause significant damage with a minimum of missiles. The Lebanese government sent a message to Israel. Hezbollah is on its own. It's its own master. Do whatever you want to do. But please do not harm our infrastructure. You probably should have taken care of that problem a year ago. Like you said, you would honestly. But you kept kind of siding with Hezbollah, you know. What else? Amir said the Iranians have launched hundreds of drones at Israel so far. About 20 of them were shot down. Not a single one penetrated Israel an amazing achievement. Also, Greece is sending worships and fighter jets to defend Cyprus. That was breaking before I hit record here. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegsith, quote, The regime that shouted death to America and death to Israel received death from America and death from Israel.

25:42He also said this is not nation building talking about this war. They don't plan on being here forever. And I don't plan on being here much longer either, honestly. All right. There you go. You're caught up. Last 48 hours earthquake wise. 102 over 4.0, 38 over 5.0, 2 over 6.0. Busy, busy earthquake stuff going on. All right. How much time we got? I think I'm going to skip clown world today. I'm going to go right to reading some comments of the day. And we'll pick up clown world when we can. It's just been so there's so much going on. All right. Turn my comments of the day. Larry, please pray for my son. He is one of our armed forces embedded there. Currently, he and those under his command have been under heavy fire all day. This was Saturday. So please pray for Larry's son. We'll be praying Larry.

26:43Greg, please pray for our son. He is on a Navy destroyer. Thank you. We will be praying. Thank you, Greg. Sam. We are still receiving missile attacks. It's been five hours. It comes every 30 minutes or so. Please pray for us here in the Gulf. Yeah. We will be just so many people that need prayer. There's so many people that are being affected by this in the Middle East. Misty, prayers for the people in the way of this war and for ours and Israel military. Amen. Amen. Dean. Only Jesus Christ can bring peace to this broken, violent world. Come soon, Lord Jesus and take us home. Amen. Thank you, Dean. Let's do one more. Marissa, I had to cry for a minute while I watched the coverage. It may have begun with COVID, but it's certainly picked up the pace. So intense, praying for the whole world, praying for peace, for divine mercy,

27:47for salvation of souls, conversion, praying for God's will. If God is with us, who could be against us? Amen. Thank you, Marissa. Amen. And he is for us. When you belong to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and you believe in what he did for us 2,000 years ago, and you are a child of God, he is for us. He is not against us. And as we are speeding toward the 7-year tribulation, Jesus is going to take us and receive us to himself before that 7-year tribulation starts, before the wrath of God hits a Christ-rejecting world. And I'm going to tell you what Jesus did 2,000 years ago in hopes that you will realize the world is going crazy. Time is short. We're about to go home. All right. And I always say, because I have to say this too, you may not even, you know, last until the rapture. God may take your last breath today.

28:48That's why I always say today is the day of salvation. Jesus left a throne in heaven to come here 2,000 years ago to rescue us from our sin problem. And yes, we all need a rescue. We're all sinners. We all fall short of the glory of God. We miss the mark. Hamertia is the Greek word. We fall short. Jesus came here on a rescue mission. Because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin according to Hebrews 9.22. Blood has to be shed in order for sin to be forgiven, removed, erased. And in the Old Testament, they did it with animals. They slaughtered the animal. They'd sprinkle the blood in the Holy of Holies. And their sins were covered for a year. But Jesus is the Lamb of God. So when Jesus was on that cross, God blood was shed. That's the ones for all payment for sin. You realize that? You have a king. The king of kings and the Lord of lords who left a throne in heaven to come here willingly.

29:48Be born of a virgin conceived by the Holy Spirit. Live a perfect life, fulfill the law 100% because he is God and man, 100% God and 100% man in the same body. Walking this earth. And he came here to die for our sins because he loves you so much. He wants to spend forever and ever with you. He wants to rescue you from your sin problem. He provided the blood payment. He's the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. He loves you so much. He wants to spend forever and ever with you. Okay. And all you have to do to be saved is understand. The hardest part is understanding admitting that you're a sinner. You know, a lot of people don't want to say that, well, I'm more good than bad. There's not one good. No, not one. We're all sinners. We all fall short of the glory of God. We need a payment. And Jesus provided that blood payment. So to be saved, you say, Jesus, I admit I'm a sinner. Yes, I am. And I now believe I have faith in the blood that you shed.

30:51That it'll completely remove my sin problem from me. And I'm talking past sins, present and future sins. Your entire sin problem once you believe, once you have faith in that blood that was shed to rescue you, that sin problem is erased. You are washed. Why does snow? Then you say, Jesus, I believe in your finished work on the cross. You were nailed to the cross. You died. You were buried. And you rose again the third day. You are the savior of the world, the one and only. There is no other savior. And I am in desperate need of a savior. So I believe in you now. I'm turning, repenting from my unbelief to to believe in you. You are the savior of the world. I belong to you now. And when you believe in the atoning blood of Jesus and in his finished work on the cross, his death, his burial, his resurrection, you are saved. You are sealed until the day of redemption. Do you understand that? It's an amazing thing. Jesus loves you so much that he paid for your sins and my sins with his blood.

31:52And that's the only way is faith in the blood and belief in his finished work on the cross. That's the gospel, the good news. It's the only way to get to heaven. There's no other way. And time is short. Time is very short. That's what I got for you today. This morning in my prayer time, I said a prayer for every single person who would watch this video. That includes you. So like it or not, you've been prayed for. And if we're not raptured today, and I think today is a perfectly good day for the rapture. But if not, God willing, I will see you guys tomorrow. I love you guys. You