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The Watchman's Desk

Three current cycles worth a believer's attention — and what Scripture has to say about each.

Approved · July 4 Unveiling ★

Washington DC · April 16, 2026

The Triumphal Arch Is Coming to Washington

On April 16 the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved a 250-foot Triumphal Arch to be built at Memorial Circle, directly across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial. It is being fast-tracked for unveiling on July 4, 2026 — the 250th anniversary of American independence. The design is a near-copy of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, only taller.

Most Americans will see a patriotic monument. The believer who has read Scripture carefully should see something else: the architectural form of the Roman Triumph, a rite in which the victorious general was temporarily identified with Jupiter; revived by Napoleon in 1806 in direct imitation of Constantine's arch to Sol Invictus; now planted at the western gateway of a city already laid out as an Egyptian sun-temple.

The date is not an accident either. July 4 is the annual conjunction of our sun with Sirius — the Blazing Star of Masonry and the star the Egyptians identified with Isis, the Queen of Heaven Jeremiah condemned by name.

Read the full study →The Sun Temple on the Potomac
On the Ground · Iran, Syria, Lebanon ★

The Covenant Land · Ongoing

The War the Headlines Cannot Explain

News cycles will tell you who fired what missile at whom. They will not tell you who is in Jacob's land, by whose authority, or what role Scripture gives them in the closing record of the age.

The structure that signed the Messiah's death warrant in the first century — Edomite front men running the daily system, Rome holding the throne behind — never collapsed. It restructured. The Roman institution rebranded. The Edomite claim to Jacob's land rebranded. The financial network rebranded (Roth Schild — red shield — the shield of Edom). The front keeps changing. The rider in the saddle does not.

Court Appeal II, filed between Chapters 17 and 18 of The Courtroom of Heaven, places the full evidence before the heavenly courtroom — the Woman, the Beast in all its facets, and the Second Beast that has been providing the cover.

Read Court Appeal II →The Woman, the Beast, and the Second Beast
On the Horizon · May 25 ★

Arlington · Approaching

Memorial Day Returns in Five Weeks

On Monday, May 25, Americans will perform the most religious ceremony in the nation's civic calendar. A flag on every grave at Arlington. A wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Taps. A 21-gun salute. The eternal flame at JFK's grave, tended by state functionaries.

Every element is Roman. Strewing flowers on graves is the late-spring Lemuria rite, a propitiation for restless dead. The eternal flame is the Sacred Fire of Vesta — the pagan hearth of the city, extinguished by Theodosius in AD 394, revived under the Arc de Triomphe in 1923, and now burning in every Western capital. The unknown soldier occupies the place Rome reserved for the deified emperor.

The holiday is built to overwhelm reflection. This brief arrives five weeks early because once the weekend begins, the emotional pull of family gatherings and televised ceremonies makes the questions almost impossible to ask. Now is the time.

Read the full study →The Cult of the Fallen Soldier

★ Watchman ★
"But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned…" — Ezekiel 33:6