(31 May 2026) It is now 10 pm MST May 31, or, 4 AM GMT, June 1. We have been watching world and Mideast events surrounding the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the IRGC.
The idea of the Second Signpost having started March 2 (with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz) is still in play. And it will remain in play and then either be disproved when the regime is completely disbanded, or will be confirmed when the Ram runs out across the Middle East.
If what we are truly seeing are the early stages of the Second Signpost, the world and the church in America show no signs of seeing what is coming.
President Trump says gasoline prices will come back down after Iran. As if this whole war is a temporary thing that will end soon with no escalation, or any conceived notion of what a bunch of Twelver Shia zealots with power might do.
People at various churches in the area I live are completely oblivious to coming famine, or to the idea that gas prices could go much higher.
Even people I know, who know the Second Signpost, are talking about vacationing to places like Italy.
Normalcy bias is a powerful thing.
JPMorgan has released another oil analysis titled, “Why Hormuz Will Reopen By September… One Way Or Another.” Really? Who says the Strait will reopen by September? Reading the article one finds out that the reason they say that is in September the amount of oil flowing in global pipelines is not enough to keep all refineries open, and so fuel shortages and economic depression is in store.
It’s as if all these things will not happen and so the Strait of course would have to reopen.
But remember, this might be the Second Signpost. And if it is the Second Signpost, we are looking at what the Bible says are some fairly awful events, like no peace of mind, a great famine, butchery on a great scale in the Middle East. These are all things people have long associated with the end times.
Well, it looks like we are in the end times. So we need to set normalcy bias aside. We will see awful things. But God will also reveal his power as we live our lives going forward into this maelstrom.
Keep watch.
Categories: In The News, Signpost #2: Iran, World in the End Times
THE FOUR SIGNPOSTS 
Is the Church too much affected by the prosperity gospel to believe that God would allow them to experience any hardship?
And/or does it believe they all will be raptured before any form of suffering can ever touch it?
Even the world is more awake. At least the Exxon en Chevron bosses seem to be waking up. And in the Japan Times I encountered the first whisper in a mainstream news medium of what might be coming. Here come some quotes. Clarifications between brackets are by me:
“Nearly 90 days since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran all but closed the oil-and-gas sea route, it’s worth considering what seems unthinkable but has happened elsewhere.”
(Suez Canal closed 1967-1975.)
“The Islamic Republic has demonstrated many times before its huge capacity to absorb pain, more so when the threat is existential.”
“Tellingly, the United Arab Emirates has accelerated plans for a second pipeline bypassing the strait, which it hopes to put into service in 2027. This is prudent worst-case scenario planning — and a strong signal that Abu Dhabi thinks the waterway could remain imperiled far longer than many others believe.”
(This is not the worst case scenario but a medium case scenario. The worst case scenario is all of the Gulf infrastructure being destroyed, including the pipelines; or all of it conquered by Iran. Both are so threatening they cannot even be considered yet.)
“Qatar doesn’t have a realistic way to export liquefied natural gas (and fertiliser) other than the strait.”
“Hormuz’s long-term closure is so economically ruinous to contemplate that hardly anyone dares consider it. Ultimately, a fudged short-term deal that everyone can live with, is likelier. Still, considering the regional precedents, it’s fair to ponder traumatic what-if scenarios. They are not pretty.”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/06/01/world/if-strait-of-hormuz-doesnt-reopen/
(The writer is from Bloomberg)
Thanks for all the updates! I saw this article today and thought something might be changing inside Iran.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/01/report-claims-irans-president-looking-exit-as-terrorist-irgc-hijacks-regime/
Hi Jana,
Don’t forget the president of Iran is only an administrator and does not hold any real power.
Your latest page
https://foursignposts.com/2026/06/01/clues-to-next-and-larger-phase-of-the-war-day-93/
has no “Leave a comment” possibility.
The consequences in Europe of the war in the middle east are gradually increasing. The fact that it is growing on us slowly rather than suddenly will serve to keep many asleep, but not all. Those who are awake still have time to prepare emergency measures and crisis plans, and are doing so.
The Dutch health authorities are among the latter. They even acknowledge that we are not facing just a temporary crisis, but a permanently change of the way of life in the medical & care sector: crisis after crisis with (hopefully) now and then a little repose in between.
So much of all our medicines and medical materials come from India and
China. All that outsourcing is now causing shortages in all of Europe.
The recent experience of the corona crisis is helpful as a starting point.
Protocols are being designed to choose who will still get help and who not, based on age, urgency and availability of essential materials and medicines.
Postal and other transport agencies are cooperating in diversifying distribution of medical things as much as possible.
Planned care like knee-operations will almost certainly be “postponed until the crisis is over”. It looks like we must no longer take any risk of getting hurt by sports, leisure, exercising or vacation, but be very careful…
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/10602080/zorgsector-werkt-aan-crisisplan-voor-medische-hulpmiddelen-nu-al-last-van-tekorten
Thanks for the word, Adamant. Corrected.
Adamant,
I really appreciate, as I’m sure many of our readers do, of updates to conditions as well as your thoughts there from the Netherlands.