
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong is set to publicly rebuke China over a nuclear-capable submarine-launched missile test in the South China Sea, while warning that escalating US-Iran conflict threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz and destabilise global energy and food supplies. These converging crises — a rising nuclear China, an active Middle East war, and chokepoints being weaponised — reflect the precise geopolitical conditions Scripture associates with the lead-up to the final conflict of the age. Jesus warned that 'wars and rumours of wars' would mark the end times, and the book of Revelation foreshadows a world where trade, supply chains, and national sovereignties are upended in the final hour.