THE IMPLOSION
Part One: Voices Crying in the Wilderness!
“…this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.” — Jesus (Matthew 13:15, ESV)
I. Declaring What Is to Come
Did you know that Jesus told His followers that the Holy Spirit would show them “things to come”?¹ The context of those profound words was the Upper Room discourse, where our Lord prepared His disciples for a changing, hostile world by anchoring their hope not in shifting cultural tides, but in the immutable revelation of God. So, what exactly did He mean? It means that God does not leave His children in the dark. He pulls back the curtain of history so that we might recognize the hour in which we live and align our hearts with His eternal purposes.
In September of 1996, I published a prophetic article warning people that God was about to judge the city of New York “in one hour.” Five years later, those very words could have been used to describe the awful, earth-shattering events of September 11. “Secretaries will hand a cup of coffee to their bosses, only to find them baptized in a pool of blood one hour later,” was one stark aspect of that newsletter.² “Men and women will be fastened to their radios and TVs to hear the tragic news of the hour” was another.³ “Buildings will scream from the squelching heat,” and *“fire trucks will not be able to stop the fury of God.”*⁴ Most terrifying of all were the words about individuals jumping from the buildings!
Beloved, I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. I am just a watchman on the wall, and I have warned individuals of coming judgment and the “signs of the times”—specifically for America—for decades.
II. Deaf to Prophetic Voices
While 9/11 opened the eyes of Americans regarding the sudden terrors of radical jihad, warnings have continually resounded from pastors, teachers, and watchmen regarding the methodical, quiet ideology of Islam creeping into Western institutions. Going back as far as 2001—and building upon decades of discernment from prophetic voices like Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe—watchmen have sounded the alarm:⁵
In 2001: Daniel Pipes, a historian and director of the Middle East Forum, warned, “The danger is within. If we don’t wake up to that now, we will have further attacks and blows that will wake us up later.”⁶ Did you hear that, beloved? “The danger is WITHIN.” That was back in 2001!
In 2006: Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT for America, warned, “Muslims are out to convert everyone…” and “In dealing with Islamic countries, insist on reciprocation or no deal.”⁷
From 2008 to 2009: Frank Gaffney, founder of the Center for Security Policy, noted, “Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance.”⁸ (This was part of his commentary following the 2008 U.S. government bailout of AIG.) Again, he warned, “The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.”⁹
Back in 2010: Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin and Andrew C. McCarthy warned in the landmark report Shariah: The Threat to America—“Most mosques in the United States already have been radicalized…” and *“Sharia [is] the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.”¹⁰
In 2011: American attorney, former federal prosecutor, conservative political commentator, and bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy stated, “The mission of classical Islam is to supersede Western tenets, not adapt to them.”¹¹
And more recently (2026): Robert Spencer, Director of Jihad Watch, testified before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government: “The US constitution and Sharia are incompatible, and the conflict between the two legal systems will grow as Sharia adherents increase in number in the West.”¹²
Unfortunately, those vital voices have gone mostly unheeded by a distracted culture. And here’s the incredible thing: it is understandable, though tragic, that Americans might close their ears to domestic warnings. But what about those who have experienced this totalitarian ideology firsthand? Why aren’t those voices being heard?
III. Disclosures from Those Who Escaped the Fire
Consider the testimony of Mosab Hassan Yousef, who stepped out of the inner sanctum of radical Islam to declare the unvarnished truth:
“It is a religious war. It’s motivated by a belief system. A totalitarian system. It’s not even a religion. It’s very dangerous, and it’s not only against the Jewish people—it’s against Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus. It’s against everyone who does not believe in Islam.”¹³
Listen also to Rita Panahi, an Australian-Iranian conservative political commentator and Sky News host, who reminds Western-minded audiences of the bitter fruit of theocracy:
“In Iran, I was forced to wear a dehumanizing hijab just to be allowed to attend school… This is a country where family members and family friends were targeted by the Islamist regime—arrested, beaten, and, yes, even some were killed. Having a picture of the Shah was tantamount to a death sentence… That’s the Iran I grew up in: a country that went from being relatively modern, free, and secular to being an Islamist hellhole.”¹⁴
“After the Islamic Revolution, women were stripped of their rights, and they remain, to this day, second-class citizens. Women can be arrested, beaten—some have even been killed—for just showing their hair.”¹⁵
She reminds us of the horrifying legal code under which millions suffer: “You can be sentenced to death for sodomy, homosexuality, adultery, political dissent, blasphemy, for repeated consumption of alcohol, pornography—for crimes that fall under ‘waging war against God’ and ‘spreading corruption on earth.’”¹⁶
Amnesty International reports that Iran, in 2024, was responsible for 64 percent of all recorded executions worldwide.¹⁷ More than 90 million people are oppressed in Iran, and women doubly so, systematically subjugated by a brutal regime. Let me be clear: the Iranian regime will hang you from a crane in the public square for crimes like blasphemy, witchcraft, homosexuality, and dissent.¹⁸
Similarly, Elica Le Bon, an Iranian-American criminal defense attorney and human rights activist, highlighted the chilling reality on The David Pakman Show:
“In Iran, they are hanging people from cranes once every 6 hours. Just two weeks ago, they amputated two people’s arms. They were accused of theft. Did they have due process or fair trials? No. When protesters came out in the streets to protest against this regime—which is our right under the Constitution in the United States—they did not get the same treatment. No. They were shot to death, and their eyes shot out as punishment.”¹⁹
Beloved, these are the voices of those who have come out of the fire! Yet, sadly, their urgent warnings go unheard by the masses.
IV. The Crucial Distinction
Maybe this apathy persists because the American people do not understand the profound difference between the current radical Islamic regime and the innocent Iranians who are trapped within that iron-fisted dictatorship.
Seyed Mehrdad Razavi (known as Mehrdad Mozart), an Iranian-born actor and TV host, addressed this directly for those in the West who are confused:
“The first thing you should know is that the people of Iran are different from the government. Iranians are people with four thousand years of culture. We celebrate life and happiness.”²⁰
“On the other side, [the Islamic Republic] government is only 47 years old, and they are the people who are celebrating death, martyrdom, and grieving. There’s a huge difference. We call them—I mean, as they call themselves, Islamic Republic. And for us, they are an Islamist occupying mafia system. And when I say mafia, I mean it…”²¹
When operations have risen to counter the nuclear ambitions of that rogue regime, courageous voices from within have cried out in desperation. Listen to the plea of a brave Iranian woman broadcast via Sky News Australia:
*“We asked for this. We want this attack. And I know that you don’t want to listen to us… The reason is we had one option to go and protest this bloody regime, and we did, and they killed 40,000 of us in two days. This is the last option we have. We asked for help, and help is here, and I know I might die, and I don’t care because I’m willing to sacrifice my life for Iran.”*²²
Tragically, the cost of resistance is staggering. Consider the case of Saleh Mohammadi, a decorated 19-year-old heavyweight on Iran’s national wrestling team. Arrested during protests and accused of killing two police officers, he confessed “under torture and other ill-treatment”—forced by the regime to incriminate himself. Alongside fellow teenagers Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoud, the Islamic Republic executed these young men in a **public hanging.**²³
V. A Defining Moment: A Call to Prayer
Brothers and sisters, we must pray for the Iranian people who suffer under incredible darkness. But just as urgently, we must pray for the American people—that God would open our eyes to the spiritual and cultural battles unfolding on our own soil. As believers in the Messiah, we have an obligation to stand in the gap, and we have a divine promise that things can change when God’s people humble themselves.
**“If My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”**²⁴
Beloved, when God’s people finally fulfill those four non-negotiable conditions—
- Humbling ourselves, by laying down pride, self-reliance, and defensiveness to bow low before a holy God;
- Praying with urgency and standing in the gap for our guilty nation;
- Seeking His face, pursuing His presence, character, and glory rather than mere political comfort; and
- Turning from our wicked ways in a decisive, 180-degree reversal that abandons compromise and sin—
heaven is moved to act, and the Divine Response will always be the same: God will step in to mend what is fractured, purify what is defiled, and bring total, unmistakable rapha—complete restoration and wholeness—to our land.
Friends, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin boldly declared, **“The Islamic flag will fly over the White House—not on my watch!”**²⁵
What about you? America is at a defining moment in her history. We can make a difference.
Beloved, start to pray. Start today.
In Jesus’ name, amen.
Endnotes
¹ John 16:13.
² John’s Prophetic Newsletter, September 1996 (referencing prospective metropolitan judgment).
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Historical prophetic commentary referencing Hal Lindsey (The Late Great Planet Earth) and Jack Van Impe regarding geopolitical shifts in the Middle East.
⁶ Daniel Pipes, public address and commentary, 2001.
⁷ Brigitte Gabriel, public address, 2006.
⁸ Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy commentary on Sharia-Compliant Finance following the AIG bailout, c. 2008–2009.
⁹ Frank Gaffney, public commentary, 2011.
¹⁰ Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin & Andrew C. McCarthy, Shariah: The Threat to America (Center for Security Policy Press, 2010).
¹¹ Andrew C. McCarthy, commentary and published works, 2011.
¹² Robert Spencer, written testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government, 2026.
¹³ Mosab Hassan Yousef, public testimony and interviews regarding Hamas and radical Islamic ideology.
¹⁴ Rita Panahi, Sky News commentary and biographical reflections.
¹⁵ Ibid.
¹⁶ Compilation of Islamic penal code statistics and human rights reports regarding capital offenses in Iran.
¹⁷ Amnesty International, Annual Global Execution Report (2024 data cycle).
¹⁸ Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) & UN Special Rapporteur reports on human rights in Iran.
¹⁹ Elica Le Bon, interview on The David Pakman Show.
²⁰ Seyed Mehrdad Razavi (Mehrdad Mozart), video commentary addressing non-Iranians, 2024–2026.
²¹ Ibid.
²² Sky News Australia / Mahsanoor.co broadcast footage featuring citizen testimony from inside Iran.
²³ Reports from human rights monitors regarding the execution of Saleh Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoud. (Note: Independent verification of the exact judicial proceedings remains heavily restricted by Iranian state media blackouts).
²⁴ 2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV).
²⁵ Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Jerry” Boykin, widely reported public speaking tour coverage, 2011–2012.