Category: 📀Prophecy News Watch

By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026

A farmer pays more to harvest the corn. The trucker pays more to transport it. The processor pays more to manufacture and package the finished product. Another truck carries it to a distribution center. Another carries it to the supermarket.

Fuel is embedded at virtually every stage.

And Then Comes Winter

The timing couldn’t be much worse.

CNN reports that Americans who heat their homes with heating oil are projected to spend approximately 31 percent more this winter, with the estimated seasonal cost reaching roughly $2,300.
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By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026

The backlash became strong enough that the government announced discounted diesel for heating, agriculture and industry.

In Indonesia, motorists in Makassar have encountered enormous lines for subsidized fuel, some stretching more than a kilometer. Authorities have increased supplies and even introduced remote work for some government employees in an effort to ease pressure. Protests have followed.

Bangladesh is facing an even more sobering consequence. Energy shortages have contributed to blackouts and disruptions at garment factories as the country struggles with expensive imported energy.

And Europe is entering winter with another problem: natural-gas storage levels are considerably below their normal seasonal level. Reuters reports European storage at approximately 69 percent full compared with a five-year seasonal average of 85 percent.

Different countries. Different economies. Different circumstances.

But the pressure point is remarkably similar: energy becomes expensive or scarce, transportation and industry suffer, household budgets get squeezed, and eventually public anger begins spilling into the streets.
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By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026

The national average price of diesel reached $6.285 a gallon for the week ending September 14, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Just five weeks earlier, it was $5.257.
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By PNW Staff
September 18, 2026

Winter hasn’t arrived yet, but the warning signs are already flashing.

Diesel has climbed above $6 a gallon in the United States. Heating-oil customers are being warned to prepare for dramatically higher bills. Fuel shortages and rationing are appearing overseas. Factories are being disrupted. Transportation workers are protesting. Governments are scrambling to subsidize fuel, calm angry populations and keep energy moving.

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

Yet both understand something much of the world overlooks:

Jerusalem is not finished making biblical history.

For almost two thousand years, the sounds of the Temple belonged to the past.

Now, faintly but unmistakably, some of those sounds are returning.

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

Before sacrifices can be stopped, sacrifices must exist. Before Temple worship can operate, the infrastructure, knowledge, religious desire and political circumstances allowing it must somehow emerge.

We may be watching pieces of that infrastructure gradually fall into place.
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By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

Now vessels have been recreated, priestly service studied, purification requirements investigated and ancient practices rehearsed.

And now the shofar and silver trumpets have sounded together on the Temple Mount.

None of this means a Third Temple will be built tomorrow. There are still immense obstacles between today’s preparations and an operating Temple.

But that may be precisely why these developments deserve attention.

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

For Jews involved in these efforts, this is about restoring something lost nearly two thousand years ago.

For Christians who understand biblical prophecy, however, there is another reason to watch Jerusalem closely.

Several prophetic passages describe Temple worship operating again in the last days.

Daniel describes sacrifices being stopped. Jesus points His disciples toward Daniel’s prophecy of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place. Paul describes a future figure entering what he calls the Temple of God in 2 Thessalonians 2. Revelation 11 describes a Temple in Jerusalem being measured.

Christians disagree about precisely how and when these passages will be fulfilled. But generations of Bible prophecy teachers have expected that some form of Jewish Temple worship would eventually return to Jerusalem.

For much of Christian history, that required imagining a world that did not exist.

There was no Jewish state.

Then Israel was reborn.

Jerusalem was divided.

Then Israel gained control of the Old City and Temple Mount in 1967.

Jews were severely restricted from praying on the Mount.

Now Jewish prayer there is becoming increasingly open.

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

Activists are already looking toward the next step: expanding the Jewish religious practices permitted on the Mount during biblical festivals.

Nobody knows how far—or how quickly—this will go.

Enormous religious, political and security barriers remain. Any serious attempt to change the existing arrangements surrounding the Temple Mount could trigger an international crisis.

Yet something is clearly moving.

By PNW Staff
September 17, 2026
Prophecy News Watch

They are working through the details of how worship could actually begin.

Even Israeli Politics Is Changing

There is another obstacle that would have seemed nearly insurmountable only a few decades ago: Israeli politics.

The Temple Mount is one of the most sensitive pieces of territory on earth. Any change there can reverberate throughout Israel, the Muslim world and the international community.

Yet before Rosh Hashanah, Israeli lawmakers Simcha Rothman and Shlomo Karai publicly called for Jews to be permitted to pray and sound the shofar on the Temple Mount. Rothman argued that preventing Jews from fulfilling the commandment at Judaism’s holiest site infringed upon their ability to practice their faith.
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