A study series from God’s First Creation

Kingdom Against Kingdom

Where we are in the stream of time

The Bible does not give a date for the end. It gives markers. Jesus gave some in his answer on the Mount of Olives. Daniel gave some. Paul gave some, and John gave the rest. Read together, they fall into an order, and this series is an attempt to read that order honestly: which event must come before which, and why the scriptures say so.

We see it in hazy outline, as Paul said we would, and the light grows as Jehovah gives more. So nothing here is fixed. Where we stand today, what looks next, and how far off the great tribulation seems are all read from scripture as best we can see it now. When something moves, a reading under Now Unfolding will say so.

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Revelation 7:3 · Sealed in the forehead

As we read it today: stage I of XX · Pangs of distress

The wars we are watching now, Iran among them, are the pangs Jesus said would come first. The cry of peace and security is what we look for next.

See all twenty stages
Matthew 24:7, 8New World Translation
7“For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. 8All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.”

Six chapters

A watchman on a stone tower before a rising sun over the sea
IThe Presence He PromisedWhy 1914 was not his presence, how that date has kept people asleep, and what the real sign will look like when it comes.Coming
Two ancient armies advancing across a plain toward a cracked water jar
IIKingdom Against KingdomJesus said wars would come first and the end would not come with them. The war against Iran is one of those wars.Coming
Warships with red sails approaching a fortress on the cliffs
IIIThe Two Kings of DanielDaniel's king of the north has a name today. In the time of the end the king of the south pushes back, and that push has not happened yet.Coming
A scribe marking foreheads in a temple courtyard while a crowned figure sits within
IVJudgment Begins at the HouseJudgment starts with God's own house. He inspects it, seals those who are his, and exposes the man of lawlessness sitting inside it.Coming
A pagan eagle standard planted in an empty temple courtyard
VThe Disgusting Thing StandsWhen the disgusting thing stands in the holy place, the judgment has already been passed. The standing is the sign that protection is gone, and the cue to leave.Coming
A crowned woman on a many-headed beast above a burning city as people cross a bridge away
VIGet Out of Her, My PeopleWho Babylon the Great is, who the eighth king is, what the 1,260 days measure, and why the command to get out comes before her fall.Coming

Now unfolding

All readings
Sep 25, 2026The war against Iran is a pang, not the endMatthew 24:6-8 · Stage IUnfolding

From the library

Every end-times article
From the libraryThe King of the North Has a NameBelongs to chapter IIIFrom the libraryWho is Edom in the End Times Belongs to chapter IIIFrom the libraryThe Ships of KittimBelongs to chapter IIIFrom the libraryA God of FortressesBelongs to chapter III

Keep on the watch.

One letter, when something in prophecy moves. No schedule, no filler. (Matthew 24:42, “Keep on the watch, therefore, because you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.”)