This is how the war on Iran was framed to the men and women ordered to fight it.

“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

This was not a sermon at a rural megachurch. It was a combat readiness briefing delivered on March 2, 2026, by a U.S. military commander to non-commissioned officers preparing for deployment to an active war zone, asfirst reported by journalist Jonathan Larsen. The officer informed his troops that the coming bloodshed was “all part of God’s divine plan” and that the violence must be sufficiently “graphic” and “bloody” to fulfill biblical prophecy. The extremist military commander openly called himself a “Christian First” supporter. With an extensive track record of pushing his faith on others, he made it clear to everyone under his command that he wanted them to share his beliefs.

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Within 48 hours, theMilitary Religious Freedom Foundationhad logged 110 similar complaints from service members across 40 units stationed on 30 military installations. In every branch of the armed forces, commanders are telling troops that the war with Iran is “biblically sanctioned,” that civilian casualties are liturgical necessities, and that their constitutional oath has been superseded by a religious mandate to trigger the End Times.

This is not a collection of rogue actors. This is the operational output of a systematic, decades-long infiltration of the U.S. military by a transnational alliance of Far-Right Christian nationalist organisations, Israeli military academies, and intelligence training programs that have remade the American armed forces into an instrument of theological warfare.

The human cost of this “biblically sanctioned” campaign is already staggering. In the first three days of strikes, theIranian Red Crescentreported at least 555 people killed, later rising above 780, including more than 165 schoolgirls and staff massacred at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab and teenagers blown apart at a girls’ gymnasium in Lamerd. Hospitals, residential towers, playgrounds, emergency‑services headquarters, media buildings and sports complexes have all been hit, often in so‑called “double‑tap” strikes that target first responders rushing to help the wounded. Observers likeTrita Parsiand documentary filmmakerRobert Inlakesh,cited in a recent report byCommon Dreams,describe the onslaught as “carpet‑bombing” and say Washington and Tel Aviv are “going Gaza on Iran,” importing the same tactics of mass civilian punishment that flattened whole neighbourhoods in the Palestinian Strip into a new theatre.

IMAGE: 165 graves being dug in Iran for the girls killed by US-Israel bombing at their school (Source: Iranian Foreign Media Department)

This pattern did not begin with the Iran war. In October 2023, following the Hamas attack on Israel, an Air Force commander told his unit that the conflict “has all been foretold by the Book of Revelation in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and no one can do anything about that,” according to anMRFF complaint publicised in 2023. When six Christian airmen, one Jewish airman, and one atheist complained, the First Sergeant advised them to take their concerns to the commander rather than “an outside NGO.” The commander apologised for getting “a little carried away” while warning them never to contact outside advocates again.

Behind those 110 complaints are human beings whose service to their country has been converted into a theatre of religious coercion.

Source: SGT Report