(7 May 2026) It is now 10 pm MST May 7, or, 4 AM GMT, May 8. As of now, the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked for 68 days.
The idea of the Second Signpost having started March 2 is still in play. And it will remain in play and either be disproven when the regime is completely disbanded, or will be confirmed when the Ram runs out across the Middle East.
A Nagging Thought
This last week, a thought has been nagging me that has not gone away and that is, did the Iranian regime plan all this?
What I mean is the following. The regime consists of radical Twelver Shias who believe that Iran’s main mission is to bring out the Mahdi. Therefore, it is very possible that attacking Israel with a few missiles last year (as well as the threat of wiping Israel from memory), and the whole nuclear weapon development theme, are all sideshows to provoke the United States to attack them. After all, Iran has been one month away from a nuclear weapon since Jerome Corsi published Showdown with Nuclear Iran in 2006. And they attack Israel with a few missiles last year and everyone loses their minds.
Let’s think about this. If Iran had just run out, destroyed the Arab oil facilities and tried to conquer the Muslim countries, the US would have stopped them. The US would have had the interceptors and the capability to pick off invading forces in the open desert. I believe this is the main human and physical reason why the Second Signpost has taken so long to happen.
How could the Persian Ram run out and no one have the power to stop them, per Daniel 8:4?
So by advancing the two sideshows, they could have provoked the US to attack, thereby expending all their regional interceptors on Iranian drones and missiles and decoys, and exhausting American will to fight a long war.
Like General Washington knowing his army could not fight the British directly, he had to resort to asymmetric warfare as well. For example, he crossed the Delaware at night at Christmas and surprised one thousand Hessian soldiers who were off guard.
The regime would have thought about its geography, the oil, and asymmetry, and used all these to its advantage. After all, the very fact that the regime holds the Strait hostage and is hanging on in the face of the greatest military power that ever existed is a remarkable achievement.
It would have known and planned setting up the IRGC as a fragmented, fight-by-the-unit force, burying drones and missiles all over the Zagros Mountains, and using that to gamble they would both survive the US attack, and hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage. And by holding the Strait hostage, then when the regime did take out the Arab oil facilities, there would be no global oil reserves remaining to cushion the blow causing maximum panic.
This is all crazy sounding, I know.
But the regime would have known the US would eventually attack with a president like Trump or Bush or Reagan, and they would have prepared. This was a waiting game. And the preparations had to use asymmetric warfare since they could never be able to go toe to toe against the US. The US has too much expensive hardware to let any of its planes and ships be defeated by other planes and ships. But against hidden drones and missiles, they could be used one at a time to draw off interceptors.
And with the Strait at their doorstep and all the Arab oil facilities paralleling in geographic layout from north to south, the Zagros Mountains, the set up would be too perfect to not take advantage.
And this on again, off again “deal” with the Strait the last few weeks is just killing time while waiting both for the global reserves to run low, and for the dead Petrodollar to destroy the US economy.
Remember, the Persians invented chess.
We know the regime follows Khomeini’s Guardianship of the Jurisprudent, calling for the conquest of the Muslim nations and causing chaos waiting for the Mahdi. They were determined to do it. It was Iran’s mission. But they also saw US military might as stopping them.
The Persian Ram knew it wanted to run out, so the Ram could do everything it wanted to do just as Daniel 8 says. So they came up with a plan to allow US might to crash on them like huge ocean waves crashing on a beach. But the beach still stands. The Ram waited for the enemy to come to them on their home turf. Just as Wallace did at the Battle of Sterling Bridge in the movie Braveheart (caution, the scenes are violent and bloody, not for the feint of heart) in which 3,000 soldiers defeated a charge of 300 heavy cavalry.
Conclusions
Therefore, the Iran War had to happen at some point, but the regime dared not start it. They had to beckon and bait the enemy. All these years, too, Iran has been testing and showing its capabilities with drones and missiles. But Iran could not just run out with the US around.
This would all be the regime’s solution. As soon as the US gets tired and goes home, and the world is in chaos, and the US economy is in shambles, then they could run out. Or, they would wait for the US to invade and harass them until the US gave up, then they would run out.
I might be giving too much credit to the Iranian regime, but maybe not. It’s their ideology, their ultra-zeal, their home turf, their knowledge of US weapons while keeping theirs hidden that all gave them an advantage.
Who right now is “winning” the war? Remember, all the regime has to do is survive, and survive enough to conduct the Second Signpost.
If this is all true and the regime planned the Iran War and the way it is going, I would say the Second Signpost is a forgone conclusion because that is the ultimate and final goal of all this, for the regime.
Therefore, if true, I believe the main part of the Second Signpost is still coming. The oil facility destruction may be in early summer, with the invasion following mid-summer.
The global famine is baked in where one-third of the fertilizer to help feed earth’s 8 billion people won’t be there to provide a harvest this winter.
Fuel shortages are hitting Vietnam and Philippines now. Europe by the end of May. The US in June.
Prepare. Anticipate. Watch.
The end times will likely soon be here with a vengeance.
Categories: Signpost #2: Iran, teaching, USA in the End Times, World in the End Times
THE FOUR SIGNPOSTS 
“This is all crazy sounding”?
No. This makes total sense.
Like China, Iran is a civilisation thousands of years old.
Like China, they looked way more to long-term goals than most Westerners do, and patiently prepared for the future.
They put most of their drones, rockets and launchers in deep tunnels, of which only the entries could be blocked by bombing. They put equipment nearby to open the tunnels again ASAP. And now it seems that even a part of the production of drones and missiles is done in tunnels. Probably they still can build them faster than USA and Israel can make interceptors. At the very least the IRGC were totally prepared against the hammering the USA and Israel gave them.
On details the regime was not prepared enough, look at the decapitation of the regime leadership by Israel. But for the whole picture they were as prepared as you can be.
Meanwhile, I try to prepare as best as I can in my situation. Maybe some who read this can still benefit from my approach:
I was already prepared for short emergencies by having enough long-lasting food, medicine, water, a water filter, an emergency radio, lamp oil, butane and a camping burner for heating, etc. All enough for no electricity and no water for at least a month.
When this war started, I immediately started to prepare, what little I can, for a much longer but slower starting heavy economic depression with inflation and shortages. I put my little savings in two different banks, and I also have cash money including some foreign currencies.
I pray every morning what I should buy now, as long as things are still cheaper than they soon will be. And I get ideas. Now this, then that. No sudden panic, not going in survival mode, just gradually, step by step.
I also pray for the insight when to stop doing all this, for I do not want to become a “prepper” for everything, but keep trusting in God.
First I ordered extra stocks of food supplements I take. Then I looked carefully what is worn down of all my necessary possessions, or will wear down in the next few years. I buy all of that now: a little furniture, a few tools, spare bike tires, clothing, shoes, housekeeping stuff. My savings allow it, though they are diminishing of course.
And if the present crisis would miraculously evaporate (unlikely), nothing of all the above is waisted for nothing, for I will need most of it anyway in the next few years.
Most important:
Having a social network is extremely important in both short and long lasting crises.
I am part of a church in my city, and also have other friends and acquaintances in my city, elsewhere in my country, and elsewhere in Europe.
If I cannot remain in my apartment and in my city any longer, I can bike to a community in the countryside that I regularly vist and help. They have invited me to come if things would get really apocalyptic.
Adamant,
Thanks for sharing. I prepare for what may be coming in the same way.
Getting things while available now. Preparations being “reversible,” i.e. you’ll use them in the next few years anyway. And keeping God Himself as God.
This is to big for one entity the Iranian foreign minister has been traveling lately. This is a plan by brics for change in the world economy.