Before The "Cold War" Becomes Hot, Will We Have Cyber Warfare?

Is cyber warfare the next phase of East/West conflict? Only God knows, but I suspect He might allow it to build cultural, and political animosity until it reaches the point where hatred becomes violent enough for the real thing, instead of merely virtual conflict. So far, we have warfare limited to the international Geeks who probably played computer war games when they were kids, and learned that whole populations could be wiped out with the click of a key, with no mess to clean up afterwards. How long before these same Geeks are put in control of their respective nations' Nuclear missiles, which merely need to have their buttons pushed to truly wipe out whole populations? (See Revelation 6: 13, if you think this is unlikely to happen!)

I'm telling you folks, it not only can happen, but if you believe as I do that the Book of Revelation is truly prophetic, you will believe that it will happen, and the elements of the scenario are just about in place! All we need is for some Russian meglo-maniac, like Putin, to get fed up with western sanctions, and O.P.E.C. intransigence, to decide that the best thing for his country is to invade the Middle-East to take over the Saudi Arabian, and other Gulf State nations' oil reserves, and close their spigots until the price of oil rebounds to a profitable level, and, (oh!), while he's at it perhaps keep the spigots closed a bit longer to ruin the economies of America, and the other Western allies. After all there is no one around to put up a serious resistance to this hegemonistic move. The U.S. is led by the most whimpy, and indecisive government in their history, and they fit the bill for the ones whom God prophesied in Ezekiel 38, as responding with the diplomatically cowardly response to the Russian invasion of, "have you come to take a great spoil?" Biblical eschatologists have long believed that this response came from some future American/Saudi alliance. Well folks, the future may be just around the corner, as they say. The only real threat of military resistance to a Russian invasion would be from Israel, and Putin might feel an alliance with various Muslim nations such as Syria, and Iran, and others, might keep them busy while the Russians concentrate on the Gulf States. I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls off some kind of temporary truce between the warring factions of Syria, and the I.S.I.S. rebels and other Sunni rebels, like Al Qaida, because the prophesies of Ezekiel 38, & 39 suggest that the bulk of the destruction of the invading forces (to the tune of 83%) will result from the various factions fighting among themselves. We know that the Shiites, of Iran, Lebanon, and others hate the Sunnis, and vice versa, but they each hate Israel much more. They might be tempted to come together long enough to destroy Israel, and when God helps Israel defend themselves, they might turn against each other in a panicked retreat. This all fits the scenario set forth in God's prophesies, let's just wait and see if it all pans out that way.

But if it begins to develop in any way as I've described, the uptake on all this is that it's quite likely that whomever is in charge of the retreating Russian forces, whether it's Putin or some general, may well order a Nuclear First Strike upon America, as described in Revelation 6, and beyond. It seems that the Lord's Rapture of the whole church of believers may well follow this order, but (Revelation 7 suggests that) perhaps it will occur before the missiles actually strike. Russia has long been reputed to believe it can survive a Nuclear war with an "acceptable" number of casualties, due to it's vast underground network of tunnels that serve as subways today, but can double as fall-out shelters, if needed. Perhaps this is the basis of "Gog's" forces going underground, for a thousand years, to be released as Satan's army after the thousand-year millennium of the Lord. They may have enough freeze-dried food stored to last their population for a few months, and they may be able to come out of their holes long enough after that to cultivate crops of three-headed vegetables, with eyes and ears, and tend their herds of walking, grazing fish, long enough to survive a thousand years! Perhaps they can make quick above-ground efforts to raise their perverse produce, without becoming too irradiated, but who would want to live on a diet of vegetables that talk, etc.?

Meanwhile, while Satan's final army is living under ground, we will live forever in the "new Heaven and a new Earth" that Jesus will create for us, and it will be above ground, and we'll eat fruit from trees of "Life", described in the latter chapters of Revelation. This is why I do not fear the aftermath of "Gog's" invasion of Israel, or any Nuclear Holocaust that may follow. All I can do is remember the words of Jesus when He said, "look up, for your redemption draweth nigh"!!! Let the Russian Cyber Geeks eat their walking vegetables, and their herds of fish-cattle, if they so choose!