The USSR was perceived by wide sections of American society not only as a geopolitical, but also a sacred enemy, which was reflected in Ronald Reagan’s speech to evangelicals in 1983, when the American president dubbed the Soviet Union an evil empire.

The restructuring and subsequent disintegration of the Soviet state softened the perception of Russia in many religious communities, but the country’s activity in the Middle East revived old eschatological concepts based on a peculiar interpretation of the Bible.

The interpretation of scripture continues to give some Christian activists in the United States a pretext for detecting apocalyptic threats from Russia. As the modern writer and evangelist Joel Rosenberg states, the collapse of the USSR does not mean the death of the Russian bear, but “Ezekiel gives a clear understanding that he is in hibernation and will soon return with revenge.”

Ezekiel’s prophecy

A negative assessment of the USSR among American religious communities has always been based not only on Soviet atheism and destruction of churches, but also on the biblical prophecy of Ezekiel. In accordance with this prediction, “in the last years” the ruler Gog from the northern land of Magog will invade Israel with the Persians, Ethiopians and Libyans, as well as with the wars of Homer and the “House of Fogarma”.

The wrath of God will fall on the invaders, and a great shock will happen in the land of Israel: all living beings will “tremble” and “mountains will fall, and cliffs will fall, and all walls will fall to the ground.” However, the invaders will be defeated after “all-sinking rain, stone hail, fire and brimstone” hit them: Gog and his troops will perish, and God will send fire to the land of the invading ruler.

All this, according to the prophecy, will happen to the glory of the Lord. It is noteworthy that in the New Testament the words Gog and Magog designate pagan tribes that will go to battle with the people of God.

The events from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel were subsequently associated by theologians with the Antichrist and the last judgment. According to the blessed Augustine, Gog represents the enemies of the church, and Magog personifies the devil.

What does Russia have to do with it?

Nevertheless, the allegorical interpretation of the concepts from the prophecy of Ezekiel was never the only one, as early as the 1st century AD the historian Josephus Flavius ​​identified the people of Magog with the Scythians. Later, many readings of the Old Testament words appeared, which were attributed by researchers to different peoples living north of Israel.

The reason for Magog’s connection with Russia was the 1st verse of the 39th chapter of the book of Ezekiel, in which Gog is called the prince of Rosha (which is consonant with Russia), Meshech and Tubala (Tubala). There are no capital letters in Hebrew, which is why Bible translators often had to deal with ambiguous situations. The word “rosh” was given the meaning of a proper name only by the Greeks, while representatives of the Latin faith most often understood it as the adjective “main”.

It was this word that caused the binding of Ezekiel’s prophecy to Russia. At the same time, in the Bible of King James, which Protestants consider canonical, Gog is called “the supreme prince of Meshech and Tubal.”

This version of the Holy Scripture is considered the official one for the English language and is most widespread in the United States, therefore it is very strange when American Christian activists resort to the Greek translation when interpreting Ezekiel.

Freaks and speculators

There is no state church in the United States, and religious policy contributes to the emergence of a wide variety of spiritual communities, which is why Christian denominations are widespread in the country – organizations that are intermediate between the church and the sect. Most often, the preachers of these particular associations declare that Russia is connected with the Antichrist.

Thus, the official website of The Family International movement claims that Russia is Magog, and Meshekh and Tubal are Moscow and Tobolsk. According to supporters of such views, domestic support for Syria could lead to an invasion of Israel, which would mean the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy. The founder of the religious movement Koinonia House, Chuck Missler, who announced the beginning of the apocalypse on January 1, 2000, believes that Russia will attack Israel together with Turkey, which will withdraw from NATO.

Joel Rosenberg, mentioned above, interprets the book of Ezekiel as a prediction of Russia’s invasion of the holy land together with Muslim countries, first of all, with Iran, which in the Old Testament is understood as Persians. Typically, people who claim such things have a reputation in the United States as either eccentric or religious speculators.

Each on a different path

Throughout the history of Christianity, many social groups that called themselves adherents of the truth of the faith created their own Antichrist, which, according to the Bible, is covered with good ideas. The Protestants, including Martin Luther and John Calvin, considered the Popes to be his incarnation, the Russian Old Believers considered Peter I in this capacity.

The Bible, in isolation from its canonical reading, provides opportunities for a varied interpretation of reality, not only because of the imagery and volume, but also because of the complexity of translation from ancient Hebrew, which fell out of use in the 2nd century AD.

On the eve of each coming New Year, all newspapers, magazines and other media resources have always been engaged in promising predictions for the next 365 days. Nothing, of course, never came true, but it was like a tradition: astrologers and political scientists provide forecasts, and the people listen to them. Then, after a couple of months, everything that was promised evaporates and after another ten months, the cycle repeats again.

According to Strange Sounds, there are a lot of weird things going on in Antarctica right now. While unusual radiation from space comes to the surface of the continent, more than 50,000 tremors have rocked Antarctica since late August! Scientists have never seen such an impressive surge in seismic activity.

Large magnitude 6.0 earthquakes, as well as thousands of other small earthquakes, have been recorded in Bransfield Strait, a 60-mile (96 km) oceanic channel between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Although there are several tectonic plates under this strait and earthquakes there should be by definition, nevertheless, according to the University of Chile, the last three months have been anomalous. 

“Most of the seismicity was concentrated at the beginning of the sequence, mainly in September, with more than a thousand earthquakes a day,” the center said.

Earthquakes have become so frequent that the strait itself, once expanding in width at a rate of about 7-8 mm (0.30 inches) per year, is now expanding 15 cm (6 inches) per year. “This is a 20-fold increase … which suggests that right now … the Shetland Islands are increasingly separating from the Antarctic Peninsula,” says Sergio Barrientos, director of the Chilean seismic agency.

There is still no definite answer to this geological phenomenon. However, there are several hypotheses that help explain everything, and the first of them is volcanic activity under water. As shown on the map, Bransfield Strait contains volcanoes and volcanic regions. 

Moreover, it is known that many volcanoes are buried under thousands of meters of ice in Antarctica itself and may be one of the reasons for the sharp melting of ice on the white continent.

Also, earthquakes can be associated with the separation of icebergs. When large icebergs break off, they sometimes cause serious earthquakes, which are then recorded by seismometers around the world. 

Finally, earthquakes can be caused by the destruction of bottom gas hydrates and the subsequent release of methane. In particular, in the McMurdo Strait in the Ross Sea just 6 months ago, just such a phenomenon was discovered and documented. 

The fact that a pole shift is coming, the flooding of continents and the reformatting of geographical maps of mysticism have been warning the public for about a hundred years. However, geological processes are rather slow relative to the life time of cockroaches crawling along the lithosphere, so neither Casey nor other prophets have a special total faith in people. At best, people think that everything predicted by Casey will happen in three hundred years, in some unknown year and for their lifetime.

But, as the gaining strength of the earthquakes in Antarctica show, the reformatting of the land is already a matter of the very near future. 50,000 earthquakes in three months is an abnormally high number.

Mysterious trumpet sounds in the sky

As strangesounds.org again reports, citing Australian television broadcasts, on December 15, 2020, Sydney residents were slightly frightened when the so-called “trumpet sounds” shook the city in the middle of the night. The strangesounds.org record does not give, nevertheless, what at stake is understandable – these strange sounds are heard by people all over the world.

Weymouth, Dorset in South West England, December 16:

Alaska, December 6-9:

Texas, December 6-9:

Virginia, November 17:

In general, all these rumbles, although absolutely incomprehensible, nevertheless, are as if familiar. However, in the second half of 2020, something new appeared:

Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to search for such videos on the Internet and their purpose here is purely illustratative, nevertheless, televisions around the world give a detailed description of its scale: India, USA, USA . 

In the cited links to news broadcasts, numerous obvious ones tell how they witnessed incomprehensible “booms” in the sky. And everything is like on a video: somewhere, something bangs from above so that alarms are triggered and even spark wires, the police come to the scene, ride around the blocks – but they never find anything. At the same time, either at the moment of these “booms”, or some time before / after in this or that area, people heard the same trumpet sounds. 

The main theory of the “trumpets of the Apocalypse” has always been traditionally seismic – these noises were associated either with deformation of rock layers, or with steam emissions into some underground cavity, which at that moment was buzzing like a musical organ. However, it is now very likely that the booms and rumbles are related by some kind of correlation. Not always, of course, something buzzes in the sky and then bangs there, but the geography of messages is correlated.

In addition, reports of UFO sightings correlate with all this. So, recently in the state of New Jersey quite a lot of “little flying saucers” have been seen, and in New York – in general, there is a 300% increase in the number of observations compared to 2018. The “booms” are also reported from there – the city of Osuigo, where the surveillance camera recorded a mysterious roar, is located somewhere in this area. Therefore, most likely most of the unexplained noises are still of some kind of atmospheric rather than lithospheric origin.

And, most likely, these rumbles and booms are not natural, but represent some kind of noises generated by alien ships (or other creatures that pretend to be aliens). But what is the reason for such an increase in strange atmospheric sounds? Hardly anyone knows the answer to this question, but judging by various medieval sources, it promises little good.

So, as chroniclers write, from Roman to Chinese, before all sorts of wars, cataclysms and other adventures for the kingdoms, people certainly watched some gods on fiery carts that galloped over the clouds with bright light and roar. Therefore, it is obvious that something like the fall of Rome or the disappearance of another Chinese kingdom is being planned now.