Pastor Mark Biltz, founder of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington state, says current events are unfolding largely as he described them in his book “America at War,” published in 2023.
Biltz, who has spoken at congregations and conferences in 25 countries, teaches that biblical feast days and prophetic timelines can be used to anticipate major world events. He argues that Scripture points to recurring “times and seasons” — periods, he says, that God alone determines and that people can learn to recognize.
Biltz cites Habakkuk 2:2-3, which describes a vision “for an appointed time” that will come to pass, and Luke 19:44, in which Jesus tells Jerusalem it did not recognize “the time of your visitation.” He uses those passages to frame his broader argument that discerning biblical timing is both possible and, in his view, urgent.
Iran-Israel Conflict
In the book, Biltz wrote in 2023 that April 2024 carried a high likelihood of an Iranian attack on Israel, based on his reading of the biblical calendar. Iran did strike Israel directly for the first time that April. Biltz points to this as validation of his method, though the broader escalation between the two countries had been building for years and was widely anticipated by foreign policy analysts. What distinguished his prediction, he argues, was suggesting that the conflict could begin in April.
Domestic Unrest
Biltz also wrote about the possibility of simultaneous civil unrest: political and ethnic tension, antisemitic incidents, large teenage gatherings at retail centers, and scattered attacks on U.S. soil. He points to recent developments as consistent with that forecast, including attacks on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, protests tied to the Israel-Hamas war, and so-called “teen takeovers” — large, social-media-organized gatherings at malls and public spaces that became a nationally reported phenomenon in early 2026.
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On the question of violence against federal agents, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News in mid-2025 that assaults on ICE and other immigration enforcement officers had risen nearly 700% compared with the same period the year before. DHS has since cited even larger increases, up to and beyond 1,000%, in subsequent statements. Independent reviews by NPR and Colorado Public Radio found that DHS has not released the underlying data behind those figures, and that court-filing data reviewed by CPR showed a smaller rise, on the order of 25%, in federal assault charges over the same period. DHS maintains that court filings undercount actual assaults on agents.
National Debt
Elsewhere in the book, Biltz uses the scale of the U.S. national debt — now near $38 trillion — to argue that the country faces a reckoning. He illustrates the number by comparing units of time: counting to one million, one second at a time, takes about 12 days; counting to one billion takes about 31 years; counting to one trillion takes roughly 31,688 years. Those figures are mathematically accurate and are meant to convey the difference in scale between a trillion and the smaller numbers people can more easily grasp. Currently, we are over $38 trillion in debt, so now take that times 32,000 years to grasp the dilemma!
Biltz’s Argument
Biltz frames the current period as a “biblical time of war,” arguing that Christians are called to recognize prophetic timing but that many fail to do so. Prophecy hinges on the timing on God’s Calendar, not our Pagan Roman calendar, which is based only on the sun. The Prophetic Calendar is based on both the sun and the moon as God required in Genesis 1:14. Islam uses only the moon. His book presents his framework for interpreting current events through that lens, alongside the specific forecasts and figures described above. To know the future, you have to study the past. History always repeats itself. Too many see prophecy as a checklist and not as repeating cycles.
Pastor Mark Biltz is the founder and Senior Pastor of El Shaddai Ministries in Washington State. He is a well-known and popular speaker on the Feasts of the Lord and God’s timing for prophetic events. He has authored many best-selling books that have gone global. Mark Biltz has lectured at congregations and conferences all over the world including 25 nations on 5 continents. https://esm.us/
