Prophecy Shaping Up - What Will Happen Next?

The Only Way

Daymond Duck, 

On Jan. 19, 2026, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) staff reported that Israel’s Finance Minister and head of the Religious Zionist Party, Bezalel Smotrich, said:

• Israel should issue Hamas a short ultimatum for disarmament and true exile, and once it expires—Israel should storm Gaza with all its might, destroy Hamas militarily and civilly, open the Rafah crossing with or without Egyptian consent, and allow Gaza residents to leave and seek their future elsewhere, where they won’t endanger the future of our children.
• This was the simple, self-evident position of the overwhelming majority of Israelis in the days after the massacre that began this war, and I’m sure it still reflects the majority view of Israelis who have awakened from the illusion and realized that the only way to guarantee our security, with God’s help, is to take responsibility—not run from it.”

As I understand it, Smotrich was saying:

• Israel shouldn’t look to the UN, U.S., a Board of Peace, or anyone else to guarantee its security.
• Believing any or all of these groups will guarantee Israel’s security is an illusion.
• The only way for Israel to guarantee its security is for Israelis to seek God’s help and take responsibility for securing their own nation.

On Jan. 19, 2026, William Koenig posted an article written by his wife Tania, which reveals what God’s Word says about Gaza in the book of Zephaniah and in the book of Zechariah.

Tania Koenig wrote:

• Any plan that speaks of reconstruction, prosperity, or governance while assuming this work can be skipped, outsourced, or replaced is not peace. It is illusion.
• For those who watch the fulfillment of end-times prophecy seriously, this movement cannot be separated from the prophetic texts that speak directly about Gaza.
• I approach these Scriptures with sobriety and continuity, having studied and taught them for decades.
• Prophecy is not meant to excite or alarm, but to reveal order, sequence, and consequence as history unfolds.

Concerning what God told the prophet Zephaniah to write (in Zeph. 2:4-7), Koenig said:

• The structure of the text is critical. Gaza is not simply destroyed. It is emptied. The authority that governs it is removed. The land is stripped of violent control. Only after that clearing does Zephaniah describe restoration, and the restoration he describes is not coexistence with armed hostility, but possession, rest, and security.

Concerning what God told the prophet Zechariah to write (in Zech. 9:

• Zechariah does not describe negotiation. He describes removal.
• The pride of Philistia is cut off. The violent authority that fed on blood is taken away. The language of blood from its mouth is judgment against a system that lives by violence, consumes bloodshed, and sustains itself through terror.

Koenig sums it up this way:

• Zechariah, like Zephaniah, insists on order.
• The land does not change while violent authority remains intact.
• The transformation comes after the pride, the bloodshed, and the ruling power are removed.

Here are some recent articles that seem to indicate that the end of the age is near:

More...