World leaders, the people of the world are either in denial or oblivious to the fact that World War III began quite a while ago. No one wants to think about it, yet the world is at war. The so-called “Superpowers” are all engaged. Worldwide.

Don’t delude yourself, America is not at war with Russia and China. Were it not for American involvement, Ukraine would have fallen to Russia long ago.

The world is at war.

In more nations, more places than most people have heard or can count.

Much is going on unbeknownst to us, we the people.

The media lies, only tells what it wants to tell, and is greatly deluded itself.

In my getting together with a retired pastor, older than myself, during our Bible study and discussion, we cannot help but mention events today. I said to him, and at first he was taken aback, when I said, “People are ignorant of history; they treat events that occur as if they are individual books to be bound and put on a shelf, since that’s how history has been treated. There is an unbroken fabric of history in which every person on earth is a thread, and no singular event can be dissected and set aside from others. World War I didn’t end, and there was only a pause for evil to gather to commence what was declared World War II, but World War II happened because of the events of World War I. There doesn’t need to be a land invasion, storming the beaches, and paratroopers falling from the sky for people to realize a world war is taking place. World War III began immediately upon what appeared the end of World War II. Communism only grew stronger. Got the bomb. Increased militarily and politically. Spread into other places around the world. World War III is going on and escalating weekly. It doens’t need an official declaration to exist. A president, or someone on FOX News, doesn’t need to say it exists in order for it to.”

After a brief silence, he said, “You’re right.”

Wake up, folks.

For all the talk of peace?

There is nothing but escalating war.

Greater delusion. More confusion within all the illusion.

Such is the time, as this world hurtles to its end, as it has been known since the beginning.

The words of the prophets are all coming to fruition. The Book of Daniel, the Book of Revelation, Bible prophecy, the coming Rapture of the church, the appearance of the Antichrist and his false prophet and the Seven Year Great Tribulation before the nations assemble in their blindness thinking they can remove Jews and Israel from the face of the earth, and the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiac returning as told in Revelation 19, with every believer, to conquer the nations with His breath, to establish His earthly reign from Jerusalem for 1,000 years — before He, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit dissolve the heavens and the earth and create a new heavens, a new earth, and eternity begins in earnest for all those eternally redeemed and all those eternally condemend for their rebellion, their unbelief.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Saturday, January 10th, 2026

WORLD WAR III UPDATE: Russia’s Hypersonic Warning Shot: Why The Oreshnik Strike Changes Everything

January 09, 2026

By PNW Staff

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch

The war in Ukraine crossed a dangerous new threshold this week — not because of territory gained or lost, but because of what Russia chose to fire.

Reports indicate that Moscow launched its Oreshnik hypersonic missile in a strike on Lviv, a city just 40 miles from NATO and the European Union. That geographic detail matters. This was not a random battlefield decision. It was a message — aimed not just at Kyiv, but at Washington, Brussels, and every Western capital watching the conflict inch closer to a wider confrontation.

Hypersonic weapons are not just faster missiles. They are strategic disruptors. And Russia just demonstrated it is willing to use one in active combat.

What Makes the Oreshnik So Dangerous

The Oreshnik is believed to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile equipped with hypersonic reentry vehicles. Once launched, it accelerates to Mach 10 or higher, separating into multiple warheads that descend toward their targets at blistering speed.

At that velocity, reaction time collapses. Radar detection windows shrink. Interceptors struggle to calculate trajectories that change mid-flight. Traditional missile defense systems — built for slower, predictable ballistic arcs — suddenly look outdated.

Russia claims that no existing missile defense system can stop Oreshnik. That statement is almost certainly exaggerated. No weapon is truly invincible. But the more uncomfortable truth is this: there is currently no reliable, proven defense against a full hypersonic strike of this kind, especially when multiple warheads are involved.

Even NATO’s most advanced systems were not designed for this scenario at scale. And Ukraine, already stretched thin, has virtually no way to counter it.

That reality is what makes this moment so unsettling.

Why Strike Lviv — and Why Now?

Lviv is not just another Ukrainian city. It is a logistical hub, a symbol of Western support, and a gateway between Ukraine and Europe. By striking so close to NATO territory, Russia was drawing a line — deliberately and visibly.

This strike came amid rising tensions far beyond Ukraine’s borders. The United States and Russia are increasingly at odds over oil shipments, sanctions enforcement, tanker seizures, and geopolitical maneuvering in places like Venezuela. At the same time, Western leaders have doubled down on long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, signaling that Kyiv will not be abandoned.

Moscow sees these moves as encirclement.

And it has responded accordingly.

Russian officials have now openly declared that any foreign troops or military units operating in Ukraine would be considered legitimate targets. That is not idle rhetoric. It is escalation language — the kind that precedes decisions rather than follows them.

The Oreshnik strike fits perfectly into that posture.

The Bigger Picture: Escalation by Design

This war is no longer confined to tanks, trenches, and drones. It has become a contest of thresholds — how far each side can go without triggering direct confrontation, and how much pressure can be applied before something breaks.

Russia is signaling that it is willing to:

Introduce strategic-level weapons into a regional war

Undermine confidence in Western defensive guarantees

Force NATO planners to confront uncomfortable new realities

The message is not subtle: your defenses may not be enough, and your proximity will not protect you.

For NATO, this presents a serious dilemma. Deterrence relies not just on military capability, but on credibility. If populations believe that advanced weapons cannot be stopped, public pressure to avoid escalation grows — and that pressure can shape political decisions.

That is exactly the space Russia is trying to exploit.

A Feedback Loop with No Easy Exit

Every escalation creates momentum. Hypersonic weapons invite counter-development. Counter-development invites preemptive deployment. And preemptive deployment raises the risk of catastrophic miscalculation.

This is how arms races accelerate — not in decades, but in months.

What makes this moment especially dangerous is how multiple global flashpoints are beginning to overlap. Ukraine, energy markets, sanctions, shipping lanes, and political instability in oil-producing nations are no longer separate issues. They are threads in the same strategic web.

Pull one too hard, and the entire structure shifts.

The Sobering Reality

The Oreshnik strike is not just about Ukraine. It is about the future of warfare — and the fragile assumptions that have kept major powers from direct conflict for generations.

Speed changes everything. When weapons travel faster than diplomacy can respond, the margin for restraint narrows. When leaders openly label foreign forces as legitimate targets, ambiguity disappears. And when advanced systems are tested in live combat, what was once theoretical becomes precedent.

The world should take this moment seriously.

Not because war is inevitable — but because the rules that once slowed escalation are eroding, one missile launch at a time.

The strike on Lviv was not just an attack.

It was a warning shot.

And history suggests that warning shots are rarely the last.