CENTCOM: US destroys 6 Revolutionary Guard boats that attempted to attack commercial ships

Ezekiel 38 presents a coalition of nations — led by Gog of Magog — that includes Persia (modern Iran) as a named military participant. Ezekiel wrote when Persia was ascendant, and he singled it out as among the armed confederates who will 'go up against the mountains of Israel' in the latter days.

While this naval engagement does not constitute the full Gog-Magog campaign, it demonstrates Iran's continuing posture as a militarily aggressive actor in the region — the same nation Scripture names by its ancient designation as a future belligerent against Israel and the international order.

The IRGC's attack on commercial vessels — just miles from the waters adjacent to Israel's strategic theater — is consistent with Iran's ongoing role as the region's primary destabilizing military force. Ezekiel's inclusion of Persia in the end-times coalition is not fulfilled here, but Iran's aggression pattern fits precisely the character Scripture assigns to that nation.

Behold Persia still bearing 'shield and helmet,' still threatening the peace of nations — exactly as the ancient prophet described.

The second seal of Revelation 6 describes the removal of peace from the earth — a condition characterized by nations turning upon one another with lethal force. The red horse's rider does not initiate one specific war but represents a global condition: peace taken away, slaughter normalized.

This is the broader prophetic category into which incidents like this fall — not a single fulfillment of the second seal, but a confirming data point in the mounting pattern of international violence and the erosion of the maritime commerce and peace that prior generations took for granted.

When a naval force attacks commercial shipping in broad daylight — and a superpower must respond with military fire — peace has visibly been 'taken from the earth' in that corridor of water. This is not a metaphor but a concrete, documented instance of the kind of lawless aggression that Revelation 6 foresaw as characteristic of the age leading to the Lord's return.

Let the reader take note: the red horse does not announce itself. It simply rides.

Psalm 2 opens with a rhetorical question that has answered itself across every century: the nations rage. Their plots are 'in vain' not because they lack power, but because their power is bounded by the sovereign decree of the Lord who 'sits in the heavens and laughs' (Psalm 2:4).

The principle is perennial and direct — the aggressive posturing of earthly powers, including the IRGC, fits the pattern of rulers who 'set themselves' against the established order that God upholds, ultimately setting themselves against His purposes.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard sending attack boats against commercial shipping is a concrete expression of the raging of nations — a calculated act of aggression by rulers who believe sea lanes and trade routes can be weaponized for geopolitical ends with impunity.

But Psalm 2 reminds every generation: those who rage against the order of nations do so 'in vain.' Their plots are bounded by a throne higher than CENTCOM and higher than Tehran.