The Beginning of Sorrows

The week ended on March 27, 2026, interesting news items to look at for the past fortnight are:

1. The Beginning of Sorrows: Pain is a vital, protective warning system, essential for survival, designed to detect, signal, and prevent damage to body tissues. Its primary purpose is to alert the brain to potential harm, prompting immediate action to avoid danger, and encouraging behavior that promotes healing. 

Iran has stood for the cause of the Palestinians for 45 years since 1979 yet only an extremely small minority of the global village was aware of the mass concentration camp conditions at Gaza until October 7 2023. But even after that sad jailbreak, Zionists’ experts of psychological warfare have applied the “Saturation Bombing” technique developed by the Tavistock Institute and soon enough we are all distracted and moved on to other matters that demanded our attention. Nevertheless, the “Ghost of Free Palestinian” and “Greater Israel” would not rest and is now moving onto the centre stage. The world is still without solutions because nothing has been done to rid the root of evil and the pain persists.  

Christine Lagarde, a person I seldom take seriously because of her pro American ideology at last made some sense when she talked about “the war shock is beyond our comprehension”. (Fig. 1).

Allow me to present to you a picture which summarizes the initial fallout of what a chokehold on Strait of Hormuz would impact the global economy. I totally agree with Lagarde, it is beyond most people’s imagination because it hits the global supply chain beyond just energy into all agricultural, mining to basic and high tech processes. (Fig. 2).

(i) An Eschatological Perspective: As a student of bible prophecy, I reject the claims of religious zealots (Jewish Zionists, Evangelical Zionists and Apocalyptic Jihadists) that their wars would accelerate the coming of their Messiah or al-Masih. However, no sane student of Geo-politics can ignore an understanding of the eschatological perspective of the actors in these wars if one wants to be prepared for the chaos that is upon us. In just 10 verses (Matthew 24:4 to 14), the bible foretold “the beginning of sorrows” to “the coming to the end”.  (Fig. 3).

Matthew 24:4  And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. 5  For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.6  And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8  All these are the beginning of sorrows.9  "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. 10  And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11  Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13  But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14  And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.  

(ii)  The Eschatological Sequence:  The Zionists/Iranian conflict falls into the category of wars and rumors of war. We are all troubled but the end is not yet. Is it just a US military excursion or a full scale war? Will there be a ground invasion or talks? Irrespective of which talking head is in front of the TV camera or social platform, my best guess is this conflict will last a long time but with interludes of stress and relative calm. The disruption to the global supply chain will lead to economic depression, hyperinflation, famines and pestilences.

(iii) The Political Leadership will collapse before The Military Machine: 903 days have lapsed since October 7 2023 and the IDF has not been able to eradicate Hamas. Remember Gaza is a small area of 140 square miles, totally surrounded and bombed to smithereens. (Fig. 4).

Now how long would it take for US to force Iran to bend the knee given Iran has a land area of 636,000 square miles, 93 million population and underground armory and munition factories that can produce thousands of missiles and hundred of thousands of drones annually. The answer is we will see the used by date of Trump and Natanyahu long before Iran’s. If I pessimistically assume Trump and Natanyahu’s self interest is more important than their National interests, then we would have difficult days ahead for another 6 months to 2 years until a respite arrives. I said before and will repeat again it is sufficient for Iran to defeat the presidency of Trump and Natanyahu and that will be the likely outcome of the current conflict.

(iv) Change of World Order: When the presidency of Trump ends, so too will be the Dollar Hegemony. The London/New York control of commodity pricing through financial derivatives too will crumble. This will be replaced by national champions of producers /users based on monopolistic /oligopolistic /oligosonic influences. Similar to water seeks its own level, capital and resources will flow to a region of stability and a new power structure will emerge. Few can imagine where this new power base will arise but biblical prophecy has already predicted where the power base will be located. I will provide this answer to those who asks less I annoy readers with no interests in the subject.

2. Financial Market Performance: Performance of various asset class for first 3 months of 2026 are as follows: (Fig. 5)

Brent Oil (+74.28%), Uranium (+16.52%), Gold (+4.02%), DXY (+1.85%), RMB (+1.18%), EUR (-1.92%), JPY (-2.12%), Silver (-2.67%), Hang Seng Index (-3.82%), Copper (-4.01%), S&P 500 (-7.74%), Nasdaq (-9.19%), Nvidia (-11.26%), JP Morgan (-12.94%), Bitcoin (-24.67%) and Microsoft (-26.5%).

In the same period 10 Year Treasury Notes Prices fell 1.83% while 30 Year Bond prices fell 1.08% indicating the US Bond Market been artificially propped up to avoid a financial panic from spreading to the wider market. There is any reason to doubt TACO is functioning as predicted.

Proverbs 16:18  Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.19  Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, Than to divide the spoil with the proud. 20  He who heeds the word wisely will find good, And whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he. 21  The wise in heart will be called prudent, And sweetness of the lips increases learning. 22  Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it. But the correction of fools is folly. 23  The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, And adds learning to his lips.