US-Iran Ceasefire Collapses, Strait of Hormuz Shipping Halts

President Trump declared the US ceasefire with Iran over after Iranian attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, halting tanker traffic and driving oil prices to multi-week highs while strategic petroleum reserves sit at their lowest levels since 1983. The Strait of Hormuz — through which a significant portion of the world's oil flows — now sits at the centre of a volatile standoff between the United States and Iran, a nation Scripture identifies as Persia, a key player in the end-times coalition described in Ezekiel 38. Economic disruption, wars and rumours of wars, and instability in the Middle East are precisely the conditions Jesus warned would mark the season preceding His return.