Now The End Begins
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
Iran Claims That Over 300 Ships Have Applied For Safe Passage Through The Strait Of Hormuz As Tehran’s New PGSA Toll Authority Moves To Control One Of The World’s Most Critical Oil Chokepoints
Well, well, well. Just when you were told that Iran had been “obliterated,” “decimated,” and reduced to rubble, here comes Tehran rolling out a brand-new maritime shakedown operation at one of the most important oil chokepoints on the face of the earth. As it turns out, the Iranian Regime that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth once said must be removed have launched a new business venture netting them millions per month. I guess no one bothered to inform Iran how defeated they are. But I digress.
Iran has created something called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, or PGSA, and according to reports coming out of Tehran, more than 300 non-Iranian ships have already applied for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Most of those ships are said to be oil tankers, and the bulk of them are trying to get out of the Persian Gulf and head east to Asia, especially China and India. In other words, this is not a symbolic move, this is not a paper tiger, and this is not the activity of a nation lying helpless in the dust. This is a calculated attempt by Iran to turn the world’s most explosive maritime chokepoint into a permanent toll booth.
The Strait of Hormuz is not just another body of water. It is the narrow Persian Gulf passageway through which a massive portion of the world’s seaborne oil trade flows. When Hormuz sneezes, the global energy markets catch pneumonia. Every president, king, crown prince, oil trader, shipping company, insurance firm, and military planner knows it. Iran knows it, too. That is why Tehran has now moved from merely threatening the Strait to attempting to regulate it, monetize it, and weaponize it under the color of a new “authority.”
President Trump has repeatedly used words like “obliterated” to describe what happened to Iran’s nuclear facilities. And yes, bombs may have fallen, centrifuges may have been smashed, tunnels may have been hit, and Iranian military assets may have been badly damaged. But the regime itself was not obliterated. Its command structure was not erased. Its strategic leverage was not removed. Its ability to threaten the global economy was not neutralized. In fact, Iran is now attempting to do what stronger powers have dreamed of doing for generations: sit astride a world chokepoint and demand tribute. That is not obliteration. That is operation. [...]
Iran Claims That Over 300 Ships Have Applied For Safe Passage Through The Strait Of Hormuz As Tehran’s New PGSA Toll Authority Moves To Control One Of The World’s Most Critical Oil Chokepoints
Well, well, well. Just when you were told that Iran had been “obliterated,” “decimated,” and reduced to rubble, here comes Tehran rolling out a brand-new maritime shakedown operation at one of the most important oil chokepoints on the face of the earth. As it turns out, the Iranian Regime that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth once said must be removed have launched a new business venture netting them millions per month. I guess no one bothered to inform Iran how defeated they are. But I digress.
“For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,” Revelation 18:17 (KJV)
Iran has created something called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, or PGSA, and according to reports coming out of Tehran, more than 300 non-Iranian ships have already applied for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Most of those ships are said to be oil tankers, and the bulk of them are trying to get out of the Persian Gulf and head east to Asia, especially China and India. In other words, this is not a symbolic move, this is not a paper tiger, and this is not the activity of a nation lying helpless in the dust. This is a calculated attempt by Iran to turn the world’s most explosive maritime chokepoint into a permanent toll booth.
The Strait of Hormuz is not just another body of water. It is the narrow Persian Gulf passageway through which a massive portion of the world’s seaborne oil trade flows. When Hormuz sneezes, the global energy markets catch pneumonia. Every president, king, crown prince, oil trader, shipping company, insurance firm, and military planner knows it. Iran knows it, too. That is why Tehran has now moved from merely threatening the Strait to attempting to regulate it, monetize it, and weaponize it under the color of a new “authority.”
The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) said the majority of the ships applying were oil tankers, with at least 77% of the applicants looking to exit the Persian Gulf to reach Asia, particularly China and India, two of the Middle East’s largest fuel buyers.The official line from Washington is that this is extortion, and for once Washington is right. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned the PGSA, identifying it as tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and warned companies against doing business with it. But the deeper issue is this: if Iran is so destroyed, why does the United States have to sanction a brand-new Iranian authority created to control safe passage through one of the most important waterways in the world? That is the contradiction no one wants to talk about. Obviously, we are not being told the truth by our government as to what’s actually taking place in Iran.
President Trump has repeatedly used words like “obliterated” to describe what happened to Iran’s nuclear facilities. And yes, bombs may have fallen, centrifuges may have been smashed, tunnels may have been hit, and Iranian military assets may have been badly damaged. But the regime itself was not obliterated. Its command structure was not erased. Its strategic leverage was not removed. Its ability to threaten the global economy was not neutralized. In fact, Iran is now attempting to do what stronger powers have dreamed of doing for generations: sit astride a world chokepoint and demand tribute. That is not obliteration. That is operation. [...]
Harbinger’s Daily
By Gary Hamrick: In 1922, after visiting the United States for the first time, English writer G.K. Chesterton observed that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. … It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. … It clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.”
Chesterton was correct. Our rights, especially religious liberty, have been granted to us by God and enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. But those rights are being threatened by a culture that is increasingly anti-God and anti-Christian.
Let’s remember that pastors were once at the center of the American Revolution. They were leaders in the fight for religious freedom, and they often recruited men from their churches to join in that fight.
Peter Muhlenberg pastored a church in Woodstock, Virginia. He famously removed his black clerical robe at the end of a sermon to reveal an officer’s uniform in the Continental Army. Three hundred men from his church formed the 8th Virginia Regiment.
Chesterton was correct. Our rights, especially religious liberty, have been granted to us by God and enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. But those rights are being threatened by a culture that is increasingly anti-God and anti-Christian.
Let’s remember that pastors were once at the center of the American Revolution. They were leaders in the fight for religious freedom, and they often recruited men from their churches to join in that fight.
Peter Muhlenberg pastored a church in Woodstock, Virginia. He famously removed his black clerical robe at the end of a sermon to reveal an officer’s uniform in the Continental Army. Three hundred men from his church formed the 8th Virginia Regiment.
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: Every generation leaves a spiritual inheritance to the next. Faithful pastors pass on sound doctrine, a love for God's Word, and a commitment to biblical truth. But what happens when pastors abandon those foundations? What happens when church leaders begin treating Scripture as something to be corrected, edited, or explained away rather than believed?
The answer is now playing out in real time across America.
One of the clearest examples may be found in Austin, Texas, where progressive pastor Jim Rigby has spent decades reshaping Christianity according to modern cultural values. Now one of his most prominent disciples, Texas politician James Talarico, is taking those same ideas beyond the walls of the church and into the public square as he runs for the Senate.
This is how theological drift works. It rarely stops with one pastor. Ideas reproduce. Beliefs spread. Teachers make disciples who become teachers themselves.
And eventually entire generations inherit the consequences.
The recent profile of Rigby and Talarico reveals far more than a simple pastor-congregant relationship. It provides a window into how progressive Christianity trains the next generation to embrace a faith that increasingly bears little resemblance to historic biblical Christianity.
The answer is now playing out in real time across America.
One of the clearest examples may be found in Austin, Texas, where progressive pastor Jim Rigby has spent decades reshaping Christianity according to modern cultural values. Now one of his most prominent disciples, Texas politician James Talarico, is taking those same ideas beyond the walls of the church and into the public square as he runs for the Senate.
This is how theological drift works. It rarely stops with one pastor. Ideas reproduce. Beliefs spread. Teachers make disciples who become teachers themselves.
And eventually entire generations inherit the consequences.
The recent profile of Rigby and Talarico reveals far more than a simple pastor-congregant relationship. It provides a window into how progressive Christianity trains the next generation to embrace a faith that increasingly bears little resemblance to historic biblical Christianity.
Israel 365 News
By Sara Lamm: Troy Miller has spent decades inside American Christianity. As President and CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters, he has watched more churches, more ministries, and more Christian media organizations than perhaps any other person in America. What he has seen troubles him deeply.
“The issue is no longer simply that Scripture is denied,” Miller wrote recently. “It is that Scripture is often no longer known with sufficient depth to be interpreted responsibly, rejected intelligently, or applied coherently. In decades past, most Americans at least knew what they were rejecting. A society that has lost the categories necessary to understand truth has entered a truly precarious condition.”
The research confirms what Miller sees on the ground. The American Bible Society found that only 17 percent of American adults have read the entire Bible, while more than half rarely or never engage with it at all. Among Christians under 35, the numbers are significantly worse. That number has been declining for years, and there is no sign it is turning around.
“The issue is no longer simply that Scripture is denied,” Miller wrote recently. “It is that Scripture is often no longer known with sufficient depth to be interpreted responsibly, rejected intelligently, or applied coherently. In decades past, most Americans at least knew what they were rejecting. A society that has lost the categories necessary to understand truth has entered a truly precarious condition.”
The research confirms what Miller sees on the ground. The American Bible Society found that only 17 percent of American adults have read the entire Bible, while more than half rarely or never engage with it at all. Among Christians under 35, the numbers are significantly worse. That number has been declining for years, and there is no sign it is turning around.
Geller Report
By Pamela Geller: Yes, Minneapolis not Mogadishu.
Front Page Magazine
By Hugh Fitzgerald: The Islamic Republic of Iran said it would stop its negotiations with the U.S. unless Israel stopped fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon. U.S. President Donald Trump, who claims he has all the time in the world to negotiate, is in fact desperate to reach an agreement with Iran that will lead to a resumption of ship traffic through the strait of Hormuz, which the President hopes will lead to a steep drop in the price of oil, and hence of gasoline at the pump, just in time to affect the midterm elections. So Trump, eager to win Tehran’s favor by saving its proxy Hezbollah from the IDF — that has just launched its deepest assault into Lebanon in the last 25 years — has just given his marching, or rather unmarching orders, to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding that he call off the IDF’s assault on Beirut. More on Trump’s demand, and Netanyahu’s response, can be found here: “Trump declares Lebanon ceasefire, calls off IDF strike on Beirut after phone call with Netanyahu,” by Tzvi Jasper and Idan Kweller, Jerusalem Post, June 1, 2026:
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Monday about the potential for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.After the call, Trump announced that Israel had agreed that “there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.”In exchange, he said, Hezbollah had agreed that all shooting will stop – “That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”That is a bit misleading. Israel agreed only to stop its attack on Beirut, but promised nothing about the rest of Lebanon. Furthermore, he made clear that if Hezbollah did not stop, or stopped only to again resume, its attacks on Israel, the IDF would again attack Hezbollah targets in Beirut.
Amir Tsarfati’s ‘Behold Israel’
Truth Be Told: Did God Replace Israel?
Synopsis: Replacement Theology is one of the most dangerous heresies infecting the church worldwide. How can the Church replace Israel when Israel has a prophetic destiny that is still to be fulfilled? If God made a promise to Israel and replaced it with the Church, what’s to stop Him from breaking His promise to you? In this episode of Truth Be Told, Amir teaches the truth of why the Church depends on Israel, not the other way around!
Amir Tsarfati is a native Israeli Christian from Galilee. He is a Bible teacher and a much sought after speaker world-wide. He was an IDF officer (hostage negotiator) and the former Deputy Governor of Jericho. He is an Israeli tour guide, a well-known author, and the Founder and President of ‘Behold Israel,’ a Christian ministry with a world-wide outreach.
Amir Tsarfati is a native Israeli Christian from Galilee. He is a Bible teacher and a much sought after speaker world-wide. He was an IDF officer (hostage negotiator) and the former Deputy Governor of Jericho. He is an Israeli tour guide, a well-known author, and the Founder and President of ‘Behold Israel,’ a Christian ministry with a world-wide outreach.
Hope For Our Times
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Synopsis: News in 15 minutes or less through the lens of the Bible.
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