Friday, January 16, 2026
The U.S. now has the best president it’s had for many decades. I know radical Left politicians and agitators will deny that fact, but their utterly failed policies, anti-law rhetoric, violence and anti-Christ positions prove the point. But conservatives and Christians must confess that in spite of having the best president in many decades our nation is being overrun with violence, turmoil, rage, rebellion and lawlessness. And the last 12 months have brought a very unnerving change.
President Trump has changed and we as a nation will soon be entangled in places and events we will regret as WWIII looms. Multiple cities in Iran are on fire and Iranian authorities have called up terror groups to quell the protests. (Source) In America multitudes resist legitimate authority and lawlessly rebel and throw our nation into chaos. (Source) In the midst of our own uprisings our president and leaders are planning military interventions in Iran. (Source) Why?! And as if that wasn’t enough, it appears Trump will now strike drug cartels on Mexico soil. (Source) And he said “You can’t stop me” as he declares his own morality is the only limit on his unchecked power! In response, the “Mexican president mobilizes diplomats to stop Trump from attacking cartels in her country”. (Source) We can stop cartel drugs and the criminals at the U.S. border. Don’t we have enough problems in the U.S. to solve?! Indeed! But it doesn’t stop there. Now “President Donald Trump ‘orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland’” (Source); and on the heels of that “Randy Fine introduces ‘Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act’ to take over territory by any means necessary”. (Source) Really?! The U.S. is just asking for war! How can it be that Greenland, a NATO member, has to defend itself against the U.S.? (Source)
Greenland, a peaceful territory of Denmark, has done no harm to anyone or any nation. They’re their own people living at peace. “In 1776 the Danish government assumed a full monopoly of trade with Greenland, and the Greenland coast was closed to foreign access; it was not reopened until 1950. During this period Denmark tried gradually to acclimatize the Greenlanders to the outside world without exposing them to the danger of economic exploitation.” (Source) It’s a sovereign land, but the U.S. now desires to seize it “by any means necessary” according to GOP Rep. Randy Fine (R–FL.), on the auspice of U.S. national security. Well, we don’t have the right to just seize another sovereign land for our own purposes! That’s just straight up wrong! It’s not a land for the U.S. to seize and somebody with influence needs to tell President Trump that soon.
This change in President Trump should have every Christian and conservative concerned. Look at his words. According to the New York Times “The president earlier boasted of his massive foreign policy powers when asked what the limits were on what the US military could do in the region. ‘My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me’”. [My bold emphasis] (Source) And God said “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34). In President Trump’s words he’s not limited by anything except his own morality and his own mind, they are the only things that can stop him. It’s a very proud and dangerous position! Oh, but “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death” (Prov. 14:12); and “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Prov. 16:18). Let’s pray for President Trump that he would seek humility from God and not his own morality and mind.
Something’s really changed in President Trump. When he campaigned during the 2024 election cycle, he was avidly against wars and people who started them, saying if he were president when the Russia/Ukraine war began, it would’ve never begun. He said on his watch China will never invade Taiwan. We’ll see. In his first term he and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, brokered the Abraham Accords in the Middle East. Now, he’s putting multiple nations on notice: Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Iran and Greenland, that unless they bow to his demands he will use whatever means necessary to fulfill his demands. The world is much closer now to WWIII than ever before. It seems to me President Trump has become a pawn of the elite to actually push the world toward a massive war, because what he’s doing now was not part of his 2024 campaign!
During his 2024 presidential campaign he promised to close the Southern Border, and he did. He promised to deport illegal criminals, and he did, and still is. He promised to reverse Obama’s and Biden’s radical and ungodly DEI and LGBTQ+ federal agendas and he did. He said he’d reduce inflation and he has. He promised to restore law and order, and he’s trying very hard and doing a good job, but that good effort seems to be blowing up all across America. We haven’t seen the end of these wild and ungodly uprisings and rebellion. He promised to strengthen ICE, CBP and federal agents and he has. He promised the FBI and DOJ would be de-weaponized, and they are. He also promised full disclosure of the Epstein files, but hasn’t yet! For some reason he’s really dug in his heels on his promise for full transparency of co-conspirators involved with Epstein. In summary of Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, pursuing multiple nations by force as he wills, was never part of his campaign! But today he threatens other nations who don’t do according to his will. He’s meddling in the affairs of other nations which now increase the rising tides of war.
FULL STOP. As I’m writing the draft for this week’s Letter, my wife just came into my office and asked me to read an article. The article expressed similar thoughts to my own that President Trump is now likely a puppet for dark forces of the deep state or worse, being told what to do or what will be, possibly under threat to himself and family, and much more. This article is a must read. It explains in detail why the U.S. very likely invaded Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro. Here’s the link. I hope you read the whole article because it links many events, facts and truths that one wouldn’t otherwise know. The U.S. is now on an absolute war footing. It’s troubling to see President Trump now add an agenda so different from the one on which he campaigned. Sadly, it seems we’re seeing Trump bow to evil powers that will destroy and kill.
The above is a good segue to this next headline. The U.S. invasion and capture of Venezuela’s Maduro and his wife could lead the U.S. to war with President Putin. “Russians told to prepare for ‘end of the world’ in chilling nuclear apocalypse warning”. (Source) In part the article says “Alexander Dugin, 64, an ultra-nationalist philosopher often described as the spiritual architect of the Kremlin’s worldview, warned of eternity arriving imminently, claiming the moment of free choice could soon vanish forever.” Given Trump’s new agenda of his demands being met, demands that nations bend to his will, what will his last 3 years in office yield, chaos and war?
We are near the Fourth Seal of Revelation becoming reality. At the Fourth Seal “a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth” (Rev. 6:8). World population is now just under 8.3 billion people, meaning that about 2.07 billion people will be killed. Nuclear weapons can create such death by famine, sword and wild beasts. If a nuclear detonation and mushroom cloud occurs within 30 miles of your home are you ready to meet the Lord, for in that event death will be sudden or prolonged.
Note again the wording of Rev. 6:8 that “Death and Hades … was given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth”. One fourth of earth’s population will be killed. It won’t take long for inter-continental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads to fly across the globe wiping out swaths of people. Nuclear war would create an incalculable number of immediate deaths, followed by a nuclear winter of famine and hunger of both people and beasts. Many people will kill fellowman for food, and the beasts of the earth will kill any people they can find for their food source. Government leaders take solace in their nuclear weapons and deeply buried, well-stocked, underground, nuclear-safe bunkers. But little do they discern that what they’ve sown they will also reap.
Today is the day of salvation. Get your spiritual house in order with Christ, none of us have the promise of tomorrow. Gather your family. Discuss the reality of our world that’s devolving into chaos and war. Read the Bible and pray. Believe and prepare to endure to the end according to the testimony of Jesus Christ. You will never regret being prepared according to the Scriptures.
My second book “ON EAGLES’ WINGS” explains in detail how to know Christ and find God’s Bozrah sheepfold of safety and place of provision for the last 1,260 days of the great tribulation.
Marlin J. Yoder
