The fall of the United States...

Donald Trump, in the inaugural address he gave for his second term as President of the United States, began and ended with the buoyant hope that America is about to enter its greatest golden age.

Golden ages are characterized by great periods of peace where culture and society flourish with great abundance, protected by economic and domestic stability. Golden ages are surely the goal of every culture, nation, and political leader. How wonderful when an epoch’s time is filled with abounding literature, art, science, sports, commerce and zest for life with all its possibilities, where all people are accepted and honored and encouraged in their various pursuits of happiness.

But now President Trump has bombed Iran. This is not the way to a golden age. This is the old human story of ambition, greed and vainglory. It will not end well.

While I share with President Trump the hope of an America prospering in a golden age, this book will present a different perspective. Oh, that I could shake the burden I have felt to put these words in print! Oh, that I could lose myself in some pleasure or endeavor to run from the calling of the responsibility I feel. But the hero’s journey, to which we are all called, cannot be completed by cowardice. And so, Great Source and Author of all that is good, please help me be true to my calling.

I wrote the original version of this book in 2008. I had believed what it predicts for several decades before that. That edition is still available, and anybody can check out that what I wrote is coming to pass in this war that the US is forcing on Iran. This will not end well.

This book is my freshening up of that 2008 book, written now in 2026 after the beginning fulfillment of ancient prophecy with America’s attack of Iran. This book is my offering to my calling, the fulfillment of my burden to make known what I have seen in the prophetic page.

Flee from the wrath to come.

Larry Pahl

Crossville, TN

March 2026