Russia and the Last Days

Russia's latest killing machine: The RS-26

When the United States and the European Union slapped economic sanctions against Russia for her annexation of Crimea and military incursions into the Ukraine, many folks believed that the Bear had finally been tamed.

Indeed, the sanctions, along with a glut of cheap crude oil on the international market inflicted serious pain on the Russian Ruble. While the sanctions had some effect on the Russian economy, the glut of cheap crude had a much greater effect. 

Why? Because Russia is one of the largest petroleum producing nations in the world. And her economy does well when the price of crude oil is high. 

But the price of crude is low and the U.S. is a big reason for that because the Obama administration has allowed the American oil industry to flood the global market with oil via fracking. 

Was that done intentionally to hurt Russia's economy? Does the sun rise in the east? Of course, the Obama administration allowed the American oil companies to turn up the spigots in order to tank the price of oil on the global market and hurt Russia.

But Russia doesn't figure to remain down economically for too long because the Bear recently signed a $400 billion deal with China to supply its southern neighbor with natural gas for the next 30 years.

From bloomberg.com: China and Russia deepened their energy ties with a second blockbuster deal that lessens Russian reliance on Europe and would secure almost a fifth of the gas supplies China needs by the end of the decade. Russian oil firm OAO Gazprom is negotiating the supply of as much as 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually from developments in West Siberia to China over 30 years, it said. At the same time, another Russian producer, OAO Rosneft, agreed to sell a 10 percent stake in a Siberian unit to state-owned China National Petroleum Corp.

The energy deal not only provides Russia with badly needed cash to rejuvenate her sagging economy, it also moves China ahead of Germany as the Bear's biggest natural gas customer. What's the big deal about that? 

The big deal is this: Germany is a member of the EU and NATO while China isn't. Thus, if the Germans decide to hurt Russia by buying natural gas from someone else, it won't hurt the Bear much at all. In fact, as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization continues to grow, the European Union and NATO will continue to decline in influence and power. 

What's the Shanghai Cooperation Organization? The SCO is a Eurasian political, economic and military organization made up of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. One of the SCO's goals is to counterbalance and ultimately overcome the power of the EU and NATO. 

And that will happen when global economic and military power shifts to the eastern world. The Chinese hold the key to the transfer of economic power while the Russians hold the key to the transfer of military power.

In fact, the Russians recently announced the development of their latest long range ICBM, dubbed the RS-26. According to Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the RS-26 is unstoppable: "Neither modern nor prospective American missile defenses will be able to prevent this missile from being able to hit the bull's eye." infowars.com  

As with many of Russia's current ICBMs, the RS-26 will be launch capable from silos, mobile vehicles and nuclear subs. If Rogozin isn't blowing smoke about Russia's newest missile, then the Russians will have the capability of blowing up a lot of places on earth. And according to Russia's Strategic Missile Force Commander, Lt. Gen. Sergey Karakayev, the RS-26 will be fully operational in 2016.

Will the Russians use the RS-26 and other ICBMs against their enemies? Only time will tell. However, nearly 2,600 years ago the Hebrew prophet Daniel saw a vision of the end times proceeding the return of Jesus Christ. 

What he saw was mass devastation. Concerning the coming Antichrist who'll head a world government, Daniel wrote this: "He will cause astounding devastation and succeed in whatever he does." (Daniel 8:24) 

The apostle Paul wrote this concerning the devastation that will be caused by the coming world government: "While people are saying peace and safety, destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape." (1 Thessalonians 5:3) 

And Christ issued His own caveat concerning the last days: "For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened." (Matthew 24:21-22)

The type of devastation that Daniel, Paul and Christ described can only come from nuclear weapons. And while the United States continues to emasculate its military and dispose of its nuclear arsenal, the Russians and Chinese are increasing theirs. 

And the rise of Russia and China as world powers is prophetic. What about the U.S.? According to prophecy, America's days as a global power are numbered. When will the U.S. fall? Stay tuned for Part II.