From the perspective of Iran’s mullahs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time, get more concessions, advance its nuclear program and become a nuclear state. (Image source: iStock)

For a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, a true Christian there is no reason to be troubled or fearful. For those within the darkness of this world, following the ways of this world rather than the ways of God it is understandable how fear could enter, begin to consume, and eat away at a person.

This world, while in so many aspects is beyond beautiful and amazing it is inhabited by human beings, creations of God by His will, that are sinners. Each and every one of us. And we’re inherently evil. Not inherently good as the lies and philosophies and teachings of the world contend.

All any person needs to do is pay attention for one day. Where they live. Their work. Their families. The nations they reside in. The actions and words and daily carrying out of what people do each day.

Iran is a seething cancerous massive evil. And in utter blindness, ignorance, and arrogance there are many in positions of authority in America, and in Europe, that foolishly believe they can negotiate with Iran and those in power in Iran will be obliging. That deep down they are just like U.S. just like the French, the Germans, the English.

They aren’t. And so many are deceived and lost.

If anyone needs a recent example of just how lost, how blind, how messed up and ignorant and arrogant? Just look to Afghanistan.

I sincerely hope and pray there are no true believers in what God has done, what the Lord Jesus Christ has done, in what the Word of God informs us of, that are living with anxiety and fear. More concerned about events on this passing world than on what the Bible tells us, and keeping their hearts, their minds, their eyes on Jesus, on eternity. On those things which will go on — forever.

All these things are to come to pass.

This world is going to become eviler, more dangerous, more difficult to live upon. Just as the Word of God clearly tells us the last of the last days will be. And how the people, the overwhelming majority of people, the people of the world not faithful to God, not believing, not truly repentant and saved WILL BE GIVEN OVER TO [have been given over to] being utterly lost, wicked, evil, and terrible minds. Appearing like insanity. No reasoning, no rational thought, no sense, no truth, no morals, no remorse, no understanding and accepting of what transpires, accepting to the growing evil, accepting of the laws being made lawless.

But if you are one who trusts in, believes in, has faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? In God as Father (He is not Father to everyone, and everyone isn’t going to be saved, and salvation is NOT for everyone as is the growing lie in the world these days — salvation only comes to the FAITHFUL, the BELIEVING, the REPENTANT, those TRULY regenerated within, transformed within their heart and mind by the Supernatural power of the Spirit of God to do such a work in a person) then no matter what happens in Iran? In America? Anywhere at any time?

No reason to be troubled or fearful.

Look to God. Look to Jesus. Look to the Holy Spirit. Look to and reside in fervent, humble prayer and within the Word of God fighting the good fight unto the end.

Knowing what is, what is to come. And why.

And rather than living in fear live in growing confidence, in growing faith, in increasing strength to be that light unto the world, the salt of the earth as the Lord said we are to be. To spread the gospel — which is Jesus Christ and He crucified, in Christ alone, knowing and speaking and writing that Jesus IS God and that any desired truth is only found within the words, every jot and tittle, every word from Genesis through Revelation.

And with the clock ticking down? And not much time remaining? No one knows how long, but if anyone takes time to pause and look around? Listen. Inhale? See? Then they cannot help but learn that things are happening presently, at an ever-increasing speed, that has NEVER happened in human history at any other time as they are now. Look to one glaring easy to see example — what has happened to THE FAMILY. That alone ought to lead a person to come to know the truth of the how, why and what is taking place presently and to come. Such a concerted coming together of events, worldly ideologies, false teachings, the Great Falling Away, and developments as they have been unfolding at a pace far outstripping any other time in world history.

The events of the past 100 years? Throughout history would have taken at the pace of decline or advancement depending on your perspective, which would have taken no less than 1,000 years. And events that have taken place and taken hold in the past 15, 30 years, 40 years? Those never advanced or took root and were accepted over the past 6,000 years. But any culture.

Be confident in the Lord!

Be confident in the Word!

Become stronger, more faithful, and clear as the world becomes darker, more corrupt, and immoral turning evermore from God, from Jesus, from the Holy Spirit, from the inerrancy and infallibility of the Word of God.

The world is filled with liars and their lies. With a growing evil.

Believing in vain, lying once again, it will prevail and push out the Light, the Way, and the Truth. But the Light, the Supreme Power of God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit will prevail.

Every word within the Word will be learned either now, or later by the unbelieving to be the truest words ever written or spoken.

And every knee will bow, every tongue confesses, only, sadly for the vast majority it’ll be too little, too late and they will have their eternities to writhe in anguish, in pain, in a misery that is beyond comprehension alienated, apart from God.

Now THAT is something to be troubled over, fearful about, riddled with anxiety about.

Not what Iran is doing. Not what Joe Biben is doing.

Don’t become consumed in what the lost liars, the foolish, the evil are doing.

Be consumed in and by and with God, with the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of God.

Be aware. Pay careful attention. Be a watchman or watchwoman on the wall. But keep everything in order within the heart, within the mind, within the daily life.

Because what we’re about to witness will make many tremble and fall and lose what faith they may have had.

Do not be among that number.

Be among the remnant.

Be among the counted eternal throng to be in heaven with God the Father, Jesus the Lord and Saviour, the Holy Spirit, the prophets, elders, apostles, and all the heavenly hosts.

Ken Pullen

Thursday, September 9th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Weeks Away

• Apparently desperate to revive the nuclear pact, the Biden administration at once began appeasing the ruling clerics of Iran.
• From the perspective of Iran’s mullahs, Biden’s desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time, get more concessions, advance its nuclear program and become a nuclear state.
• Notwithstanding all these policies of incentives and appeasements, Iran’s mullahs continued to make excuses seemingly to drag out the nuclear talks. One of the latest overtures was that the world powers ought to wait until Iran’s newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, took office before resuming the nuclear talks.
• By now, Raisi has been president of Iran for more than a month but there has not been the slightest effort by the Islamic Republic to restart any talks; in fact, all the while, the regime appears to have accelerated its enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade.
• At the moment, the Iranian regime is reportedly 8-10 weeks away from obtaining the weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon.

Since the Biden administration assumed office, the nuclear talks with Iran have gone nowhere. Six rounds of negotiations have been concluded with no results. In contrast, two other issues have gone too far: the Biden administration’s appeasement policies towards the Iranian regime, and the advancement of the mullahs’ nuclear program.

When the Biden administration took office, it announced that it would curb Iran’s nuclear program by returning to the 2015 nuclear deal — known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which by the way Iran never signed — and by subsequently lifting sanctions against the Iranian government.

Apparently desperate to revive the nuclear pact, the Biden administration at once began appeasing the ruling clerics of Iran. The first concession was delivered when the administration changed the previous administration’s policy of maximum pressure toward Iran’s proxy militia group, the Houthis. Even as the evidence — including a report by the United Nations — showed that the Iranian regime was delivering sophisticated weapons to the Houthis in Yemen, the Biden administration suspended some of the sanctions against terrorism that the previous administration had imposed on the Houthis.

Soon after, the Biden administration revoked the designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist group. In addition, in June 2021, the Biden administration lifted sanctions on three former Iranian officials and several energy companies. Then, in a blow to the Iranian people and advocates of democracy and human rights — a few days after the Iranian regime handpicked a mass murderer to be its next president — the Biden administration announced that it was also considering lifting sanctions against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

From the perspective of Iran’s mullahs, Biden’s desperate efforts to resurrect the nuclear deal manifested his weak leadership and therefore a delectable opportunity for Tehran to buy time, get more concessions, advance its nuclear program and become a nuclear state.

Notwithstanding all these policies of incentives and appeasements, Iran’s mullahs continued to make excuses seemingly to drag out the nuclear talks. One of the latest overtures was that the world powers ought to wait until Iran’s newly elected president, Ebrahim Raisi, took office before resuming the nuclear talks.

By now, Raisi has been president of Iran for more than a month but there has not been the slightest effort by the Islamic Republic to restart any talks; in fact, all the while, the regime appears to have accelerated its enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade. This escalation has even caused concerns among some European leaders and has, surprisingly, led the EU to pressure Tehran immediately to return to the negotiating table. “We vehemently ask Iran to return to the negotiating table constructively and as soon as possible. We are ready to do so, but the time window won’t be open indefinitely” a ministry spokesperson from Germany warned.

After stating that they would resume talks when Raisi assumed office, Iran’s leaders are now saying that they are not likely to restart the nuclear negotiations for another 2-3 months. “the… government considers a real negotiation is a negotiation that produces palpable results allowing the rights of the Iranian nation to be guaranteed,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said during an interview broadcast by Iran’s state television. He added that the nuclear talks are “one of the questions on the foreign policy and government agenda… the other party knows full well that a process of two to three months is required for the new government to establish itself and to start taking decisions.”

As Iran’s nuclear policy, however, is not set by the president or its foreign minister, this declaration sounded like just another excuse by the regime to buy time and advance enrichment. It is, of course, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who enjoys the final say in Iran’s nuclear and foreign policy issues.

At the moment, the Iranian regime is reportedly 8-10 weeks away from obtaining the weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon. “Iran has violated all of the guidelines set in the JCPOA and is only around 10 weeks away from acquiring weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon,” Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz told ambassadors from countries on the United Nations Security Council during a briefing at the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on August 4, 2021. “Now is the time for deeds – words are not enough. It is time for diplomatic, economic and even military deeds, otherwise the attacks will continue.”

Once again it seems that the mullahs of Iran are masterfully playing the Biden administration and the EU by stalling the nuclear talks, buying time to get more concessions, and accelerating their enrichment of uranium and nuclear program to reach a weapons-grade nuclear breakout.

Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and U.S. foreign policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu