(18 May 2026) It is now 10 pm MST May 18, or, 4 AM GMT, May 19. As of now, the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked for 79 days.
The idea of the Second Signpost having started March 2 is still in play. And it will remain in play and either be disproved when the regime is completely disbanded, or will be confirmed when the Ram runs out across the Middle East.
Checking Against Daniel Revisited, Chapter 10
It’s been a while since we looked at what’s going on in the world, and comparing it with some detail to Daniel Revisited. To those who may not know, Mideast events today are spoken of in Chapter 10. The Second Signpost called out in Signpost theory is in the process of being fulfilled and was written about in Chapter 10, several years ago.
(Chapter 9 was the First Signpost which was fulfilled with Iraq back in 2003–5, and Chapter 11 is the Third Signpost in the future.)
Like every one of the last four chapters, Chapter 10 is broken up into sections by the actions called out in the three relevant passages which are Daniel 7, Daniel 8, and Revelation 6:1–8. Table 10-1 from Daniel Revisited is shown here with an extra column showing status at this point in time.
Table 10-1 from Daniel Revisited, chapter 10, measured against current events in the Middle East.
As you can see, of the six parts of Chapter 10, two parts are fulfilled, two have started, and two remain unfulfilled and not started at this time. And Section A was done being fulfilled just two months ago.
It says in the text of Section D of Chapter 10,
“I have heard many times that the United States would never allow Iran to successfully invade the Middle East. But, the Bible says what it says, unfortunately in this case. Anyone who tries to stop Iran will fail.”
That is where we are now, I believe, if the Second signpost is indeed true. That is, “Anyone who tries to stop Iran will fail.”
So how would the world’s most powerful military force fail against Iran? The IRGC didn’t dare run out directly against the US military. Therefore, it let the US military crash against, and do its best against, Iran.
The IRGC has not been defeated yet. The fact that drones and missiles hit various targets over many days is testimony to that. If anyone who tries to stop Iran will fail, then at some point the US military will not be able to stop the IRGC from running out across the Middle East.
This is why the statement is repeated over and over toward the beginning of each post about the Second Signpost:
“It will remain in play and either be disproved when the regime is completely disbanded, or will be confirmed when the Ram runs out across the Middle East.”
We will see the regime either disbanded, or galloping as the Ram across the Middle East. We will see Signpost theory thrown on to the dustbin of failed interpretation, or we will see Chapter 10’s interpretation fulfilled.
Keep watch.
Categories: Signpost #2: Iran, In The News, USA in the End Times, World in the End Times
THE FOUR SIGNPOSTS 
“2 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia [Javan].” Dan. 11:2, KJV via BibleGateway
(I’ve ruminated over this particular verses (in its full context) more than any other in end-times prophecy.)
Are the “kings” meant to be consecutive?
How much richer is “far richer” as relates to “through his riches”?
What exactly will be the thing that will (presumably) turn Iran directly against Türkiye, in which sits Javan?
Who are the “all” who will be stirred up against Javan?
If we look at “Grecia” as Daniel would have known that people, the Ionians of Asia Minor would have been the most-familiar Greek-language-culture people-group, as Daniel’s time in Babylon corresponds to the Ionian’s heyday in western Asia Minor.
Christopher Mantei dismissed in 2021 the use of the word “Grecia” or “Greece” (per other translations). Yet my research is clear: the word “Javan” to the Hebrews clearly meant the Greek-speaking peoples of what is now the territory of Greece as well as those Greek places in Asia Minor and elsewhere. I wonder if the translators’ use of “Greece” still points us in the right direction. Daniel’s knowing the Ionians and the fact we must look through all prophecies through the lens of God’s using terms the purposed writer of resultant scripture would have known are the keys to everything on this subject.
Everything points to your work in Daniel Revisited to so far – “so far”, mind you – being on-point. This is not what you or I wanted on our bingo-card for 2026.
Your chart above is quite chilling. Nitpick: I would put a question-mark after each “FULFILLED” as in “FULFILLED?” or “poss. FULFILLED”. Blue-letters for that word are very good, and your chart is clear.
Of course, we are really only in the baby-stages of all this.
My mind had always pictured a sudden invasion by Iran that would shock us with its sudden onslaught. It turns out we will be well-warned in advance not only by scripture, but obtusely by events: the slow avalanche of events in a great crescendo with each passing day giving us better and better clarity.
As to the third and fourth kings, the jury is still out. Once the invasion begins in earnest going west, north, and south, we’ll know the identities of the 3rd and 4th king, the nature and scale of #4’s “riches”, and so-on.
As of 18 May 2026, my idea of a Shia-Mahdi claimant is still in play, but I’m not married to that theory.
Moreover, my pet-theory of the Black Stone possibly being stolen from Mecca by the Ram of Daniel 8 is still in play, as is my thought the constituent elements of that object will be used to allow a maimed Caliph-Antichrist to breathe and speak through cybernetics is still in play.
If my interpretation is correct, Antichrist himself will be the Abomination of Desolation, and his cybernetic body will be his image.
The Ram has found another way to decrease the peace of the earth:
Many physical resources are no longer coming through the Strait. There is one non-physical resource flowing through it that is yet unblocked: Data, through internet cables lying on its bottom. Most of them close to Oman, a few in Iran’s territorial waters.
Iran has only now started to realize this gives them even more power of disruption. They have begun uttering veiled threats, and demand that the Big Tech companies of the world must pay toll to Iran for their use of the Strait just as ships have to.
Destroying these cables will have serious immediate consequences for all the Gulf states. Not so much for the rest of the world, because the internet from its beginning was made to automatically reroute data through alternate routes if there is a disruption somewhere, and only 1% of all of the World’s data goes through the Strait. Indirectly there are some consequences for the rest of the world however:
There are many important banks in the Gulf region. Part of the backbone of the petrodollar system. Communication with those will become much slower and there will be delays. Should things get bad on stocks exchanges after cutting the cables, and money flows from the Gulf region are needed to stabilize things, that money might come too late.
And then there is India, providing massive amounts of outsourced services over the Internet for the rest of the world. 25% of India’s data goes through the strait. If that data no longer flows, many companies in the rest of the world that use services from India will face some disruptions and delays.
East Africa might be out of Internet altogether.
And yes, the Houthi’s could do the same in Strait Bab-al-Mandeb, making things worse.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/17/middleeast/iran-hormuz-undersea-cables-intl
Meanwhile:
When the war started, Iran had prepared itself against a three-month drawn out conflict. This is an important reason why they did not yet use 70% of their missiles.
Now it is different: all the time of the present ceasefire it is preparing for a short high-intensity conflict.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/middleeast/iran-war-retaliation-options.html
Jeff,
The end times are a wild ride and we never quite know where we will end up once an event occurs.
Some particulars follow in your comment – –
I felt the question mark wasn’t needed because what has happened has indeed fulfilled the passage, but point taken.
All good questions about those 3 or 4 kings – however it is entirely possible that passage has nothing to do with the end time, since the verses that follow (v3-v20) are all proven historical.
Chris and I held the same view on Greece/Grecia/Yavan. Yes, the Jews considered Yavan to be “Greece” and not just the Ionians. However, descendants intermarry, and nations blend. Not only did Yavan likely cover all of Greece and the west coast of Turkey (one data point: the Trojan War and the Iliad ca. 1300 BC) by the time of Daniel. And then there was the Greek/Turk population swap of 1924.
Keep in mind, too, the bigger picture of these nations.This fits the seven-nation profile of the seven heads of the four beasts, as Turkey is included and not Greece. Also, these four events with the seven heads are end-time punishment for their attacking the Jews over history (Exodus to AD 70 and beyond with Islam to 1948. Turkey/Rome attacked, as did the Albanian ancestors, but not Greece.
Regarding our bingo card for 2026 as you so aptly put it, I totally agree. I’d like to enjoy retirement and my grandkids, not endure the end of the world.
Adamant,
Good find on the data cables; I agree with you. I caught something about that but didn’t have time to follow up. Amazing how even data cables go out through Hormuz.
The EU already gave money to the fishermen because high fuel prices made fishing unprofitable. Now the EU is going to support farmers too, because very high fertilizer prices made farming unprofitable. They say there are no shortages, just high prices. But they mean: no shortages in the EU. Poorer regions of the world cannot afford fertilizer at all any more. For them there is shortage.
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/economie/10601076/brussel-komt-met-steunpakket-voor-boeren-nu-kunstmest-peperduur-is
Meanwhile El Nino is increasingly looming over us. Some meteorologists say we are already feeling its very first effects now. An El Nino is declared when eqatorial Pacific surface temperatures exceed 0.5 Celcius above average. US models predict 2.0 C, so a very strong El Nino. The European Centre for Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) points to a possible warming of 3.0 Celsius by the end of this year. This could approach or even surpass the records of 1877.
The record El Nino in 1877-1778 wiped out over fifty million people in Asia, Brasil and Africa, 4% of the world’s population then. India had no monsoon at all, its worst drought in 800 years. Colonial powers themselves did not suffer because they controlled the trade of food.
While parts of the United States and South America have to reckon with extreme heat waves and floods, large areas in India, Australia, Indonesia and Africa are threatened with devastating drought. These shifts in patterns directly affect global food security and water availability, which experts say could lead to civil conflict and migration flows in tropical countries.
These simple and short sentences mean death sentences for many. And all this not yet takes any consequences of the Gulf war and blockade with 30% fertilizer shortage into account…
Europe usually suffers the least from El Nino of all the inhabited parts of the world, but even here a hot and dry summer is expected. In all probability 2027 will be the new hottest year on record.
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/duurzaamheid/10600821/super-el-nino-kan-wereldwijde-voedselzekerheid-onder-druk-zetten-net-als-in-1877
Mark: How do you suppose that The Goat (Turkey-Daniel 8) can defeat Iran when the United States couldn’t?
Karl,
Since Daniel 8 says it will happen, it will happen. Iran’s forces will be spread thin, and the US will probably not even be present. Turkey will be the only one available, with its allies.