How old are you? Do you believe that the world has been getting better as you’ve grown older? I’m 73 years old. That places me exiting my mother’s womb post World War II by eight years. It’s easy to think that we haven’t had a world war in a long time. I have food on the table. There hasn’t been a civil war where I live. Yeah, it’s been getting better.

No, it hasn’t been getting better.

This is not being negative. At all. It’s being observationally, spiritually accurate. Truthful. Objective. Aware.

Oh, some things along the way certainly get better. That’s part of the illusion. Cars have gotten much safer but also soulless, uninspired for the most part, and they’re all expensive. Food may seem better, but it isn’t. Standards have lowered. And with each rising generation, their reference point always begins when they become aware of the world they have been born into.

No, it’s an illusion that the world is getting better. Don’t listen and fall prey to the rhetoric and smooth talkers.

Because it isn’t about things, better material things — Smartphones, 5G, 95″ televisions, and a drive-thru window where every mile in busy urban and suburban settings, where, for the most part, horrible, overpriced food can be handed to you in a bag.

The article below is about the next generation of Iranian’s to fill the vacuum of leadership in the regime will likely be worse, more dangerous [forget radical, it’s about fulfilling the Islamic teachings they hold], and we need not go any further for proof of this than the end of World War I. As a result of the outcome of that war, a very upset corporal in the German army made it his life’s goal to rectify that outcome. Now, of course, it didn’t happen overnight, but World War II resulted from the outcome of World War I. World War I never ended in the minds of many, and they just worked, bided their time, spread their message, and when the time was right?

Heil Hitler!

And we all know what happened, don’t we?

This is an excerpt from the article below:

And finally, the West must understand that this is no longer just a military problem. It is a civilizational one. Iran is now confronting the fruit of decades of ideological radicalization. When a regime catechizes children into revolutionary hatred for a generation, eventually those children grow up, put on uniforms, and start making decisions.

That is the stage we may be entering now.

And if so, the fall of Iran’s old masters may not be the end of the danger.

It may be the beginning of its most reckless chapter yet.

It will appear like victory. There will be a pause. There will be the appearance of peace and increased prosperity. Safety. Oh, the world is getting better! We took care of the evil within Iran/Persia; it’s a much safer, better world!

For a while.

To truly understand, an individual must add into the equation the spiritual aspect. The spiritual war that has never ended, never paused, never slept, never signed a treaty. The overwhelming majority of folks on earth fail at seeing and knowing this. They only see the temporal and the physical. What they’ve been told by those who fail to see and understand.

How can a solid foundation built on truth, facts, and reality exist when that is the case?

The Ezekiel 38 war is in the future. By now, if a subscriber or regular visitor, it’s likely to have at least once hit upon a page or two, mentioning this.

Ezekiel 38, 39 is lying in wait ahead. It’s going to happen. Every word of Bible prophecy that we’ve been told, past and present, has unfolded and happened. Nothing missed.

The Holy Bible is the only book that contains 100% accurate past, PRESENT, and FUTURE HISTORY.

There will be the illusion of peace, a breather, prosperity, more material things, more cool technology, toys, things to buy [which never provide the lasting pleasure they are thought to have or are advertised as providing], of course, the stage is being set. The old guard within Iran being eliminated is not the end of danger to Israel and the world, nor a time of lasting peace. Ezekiel 38, 39 is coming. That will happen.

Just as the Rapture will. Just as the rising to power of the Antichrist and his false prophet will. Just as the Great Tribulation will. Just as the Second and Final coming of the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac will. Just as two-thirds of the people of Israel will be slain during the Great Tribulation. With one-third saved. Just as there will be two witnesses to pour out plagues on the earth, that can’t be killed, yet the Beast does kill them — only to have them resurrect from death after being left dead in the street for all the world to see, and the world rejoices and gives gifts and celebrates. Only to witness them conquer death.

It’s all yet to happen.

And until and unless centered on and in Christ, within the whole Word of God, a true child of God indwelt by the Holy Spirit, this all appears as nonsense.

But it isn’t.

What you, unbeliever, cling to and believe is an illusion.

Reality is the eternal spiritual realm.

All this is temporal. Everyone, everything dies and doesn’t last; life passes. But the eternal, well, that’s forever.

The spiritual realm is reality.

Everything else is temporary. Or an illusion provided for the following by the prince of the air, The Enemy of the truth, that Old Dragon, the devil.

To know this, then to live accordingly, is the most positive thing, outlook, way a person can live this physical life.

With Jesus as the center. In the heart. Guiding the spirit and every day of life here.

Just the way it is.

Or, exist in the illusion. But the outcome isn’t going to be pleasant. At all.

Choices. I hope and pray that the right ones, the eternally lasting ones, are made to choose eternal life over the only other option.

Just the way it is.

There will be lulls. Between evil working harder. And most folks are becoming lethargic, otherwise occupied, busy, busy, busy, not paying attention. Only for evil to rise up greater again.

Don’t believe this? Time to become a student of world history and also a devoted student of God’s whole Word, going deep into it, laying the right foundation to truly build a life upon.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Friday, March 27th, 2026

Living in the illusory world…

The Next Generation Of Iran’s Regime – Even More Radical Than Before?

March 26, 2026

By PNW Staff

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch

War is often described as chaos. But the most dangerous wars are not the ones with clear chains of command, identifiable leaders, and known objectives. The most dangerous wars are the ones where power splinters, ideology hardens, and younger men with something to prove begin acting without permission. That is where Iran now appears to be.

For years, the world understood the Islamic Republic as a hostile but structured regime — brutal, radical, and expansionist, yes, but still governed by a vertical hierarchy. There was a supreme leader. There were senior Revolutionary Guard commanders. There were channels of command, factions, and power centers that, however sinister, still answered to someone at the top.

But after the reported killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and numerous senior Iranian commanders in U.S.-Israeli strikes that began on February 28, that structure appears to have been shattered. Reuters and AP reporting indicates a temporary governing framework has emerged, but the larger reality is a vacuum — and vacuums in revolutionary states are rarely filled by moderates.

That should terrify anyone hoping for a quick diplomatic resolution.

Because when the old guard is decapitated, the men who rise next are often not the most seasoned, wise, or restrained. They are the most zealous.

That is the central danger now hanging over Iran and the wider Middle East: not simply that Tehran remains hostile, but that many of the men increasingly exercising battlefield authority are younger, more ideologically rigid, and less politically calculating than the generation above them. Hooshang Amirahmadi’s warning that second-rank revolutionary officers may now be “increasingly in charge” deserves serious attention. If he is right, then we are no longer dealing primarily with strategic state actors seeking leverage. We are dealing with a dispersed revolutionary class raised from childhood to believe that confrontation with America and Israel is not just policy — it is destiny.

That generational point matters more than many Western analysts admit.

Older Iranians, even those who remained loyal to the regime, often still carried some living memory of what came before the 1979 revolution. They knew another Iran once existed — flawed, certainly, but not consumed by the totalizing religious militarism that has since defined the Islamic Republic. They remembered a country that was not built around martyrdom, proxy war, anti-Western revolutionary export, and clerical absolutism.

But the younger hardliners now stepping into the breach do not remember any of that.

They were born into the revolution. Schooled in it. Sermoned by it. Militarized by it. Their political imagination was formed entirely inside the architecture of radical Shiite ideology. For them, the regime is not a detour from normalcy; it is normalcy. Endless confrontation is not a failure of the system. It is the system.

And that makes them more dangerous than the men they replace.

The old regime leadership, for all its evil, often knew when to calibrate. It knew when to posture and when to pull back. It understood that survival sometimes required tactical restraint. Younger battlefield commanders, especially those suddenly empowered by a broken hierarchy, are less likely to think that way. They are more likely to view compromise as betrayal, negotiation as cowardice, and any concession to Washington as apostasy.

That is why talk of imminent peace should be treated with deep skepticism.

Yes, there are reports that the White House has pushed peace terms and that President Donald Trump has described contacts as “productive.” But Iran’s public messaging has been sharply defiant, and that contradiction tells us something important: whoever may still want a diplomatic off-ramp inside the regime is either weak, divided, or afraid. Reuters reporting and public statements from Iranian officials suggest that Tehran’s surviving apparatus is still functioning, but that does not mean it is unified. In fact, it may mean the opposite — a regime still firing missiles and issuing threats precisely because no one at the center is strong enough to force discipline on the men below.

That is the nightmare scenario.

A fragmented Iran does not become harmless. It becomes harder to predict, harder to deter, and harder to negotiate with. One provincial commander can launch retaliation. Another can sabotage de-escalation. A third can decide that if higher-level officials are even thinking about peace on American terms, they are traitors worthy of elimination. Once a revolutionary system loses centralized fear, internal purges become just as likely as external attacks.

That is why the current ambiguity over leadership is so significant.

The supposed son or successor now rumored to be in control has reportedly still not been seen publicly in any meaningful way, and that silence is not a minor detail. It is a flashing red warning light. In a regime built on projection, symbolism, and authority, visibility matters. If the heir apparent cannot appear, cannot command, cannot project control, then every ambitious colonel, Guard officer, and ideological enforcer across Iran receives the same message: take initiative. And in a regime like this, “initiative” usually means escalation.

Meanwhile, the global consequences are already beginning to surface. Energy markets remain on edge, and industry leaders are openly warning about the consequences of prolonged instability around the Strait of Hormuz and broader Middle East supply routes. That matters not just for traders and governments, but for ordinary families who will feel it in fuel prices, shipping costs, inflation, and the general return of economic instability. The world does not need much imagination to understand what happens if a decentralized, revenge-driven Iranian military culture begins lashing out without coherent top-down control.

So where do we go from here?

First, we stop pretending that removing senior tyrants automatically produces peace. Sometimes it does the opposite. Sometimes it leaves behind a younger, angrier, less restrained generation convinced they have inherited a holy war.

Second, any negotiation effort must begin with a hard truth: there can be no durable peace until there is a durable authority capable of enforcing it. You cannot negotiate meaningfully with fragments. You cannot sign a deal with men who may be dead by next week at the hands of their own subordinates.

And finally, the West must understand that this is no longer just a military problem. It is a civilizational one. Iran is now confronting the fruit of decades of ideological radicalization. When a regime catechizes children into revolutionary hatred for a generation, eventually those children grow up, put on uniforms, and start making decisions.

That is the stage we may be entering now.

And if so, the fall of Iran’s old masters may not be the end of the danger.

It may be the beginning of its most reckless chapter yet.