Highlanders to Hypersonics

March 4, 2026 7:39am

In anguish, the people ask, “where is the God to whom we can pray.” Unbearable awareness; the vision into the future. Decline, dismay, weakness, confusion – these our inheritance while the universe slowly spins around us – watching, watching, uninterested and uncaring.

Friday, we were at Moore’s Creek Bridge for the 250th anniversary of a battle that saw the last time Scottish Highlanders charged with broadswords. Patriot militia shot down these Loyalists and that marked the end of the Broadsword in battle. The old adage is true, “don’t bring a knife to a flintlock fight.”

While the Highlanders prayed for victory, no one came to their aid and weapons and rationality ruled the battle. Today, we see the same futile request for intercession in our futile wars.

Proof! While we watched the hapless Highlanders, another battle unfolded in the middle east, Israel and the US bombed Iran in the latest confrontation between these perennial foes. The US again proxy for the Zionists….at some point you must ask, what would the middle east look like today if Israel had never been reconstituted in 1948?

Two-thousand five hundred years after the start of the diaspora, Zionists began the push for a Jewish homeland in the middle east. The Balfour Declaration – a short, private letter from Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community – proclaiming British support for a Jewish homeland, was propaganda designed to garner Jewish financial support for the Allied war effort which had slowed to stalemate in 1917. After the war, Jews began returning to Palestine in greater numbers and finally, in 1948, declared Israel an independent nation. An event prophesied in Isaiah 66:8?

Many subsequent wars between Arabs and Jews have followed – right up to the present hour when live news coverage shows missiles falling all over the middle east and six Kentuckians from Ft. Knox are among the dead.

What is the total number of killed and wounded in all conflicts between Israel and its enemies? ChatGPT reports maybe 200, 000 dead and 350,000 wounded. This doesn’t include 10,000 immediate/long term deaths from 9/11 and tens of thousands of wounded.

Does our support of Israel make sense in an American-first era – or do our leaders have some eschatological obsession with the “chosen”?