Holy Week: Tuesday | Matthew 26 (36-56)

To Duffy and the Church in North America: Peace and Grace from Brother Jonathan in Albany during this 11:00 AM Holy Tuesday Watch. As Epic Fury unfolds in the Middle East, we must see that Secretary Hegseth, the IRGC, and even Pope Leo XIV are each, in their own way, missing the radical depth of Matthew 26:52 ("Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him. "For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.") Hegseth and the IRGC remain locked in an operational feedback loop where the sword is the only recognizable currency of security, while Pope Leo XIV calls for its sheathing without addressing the primary sword—the daily seizure of the biosphere through our carnist economies. Hegseth risks the ultimate latecomer tragedy: winning the tactical HEU battle through sheer military force, only to lose the existential Nineveh Protocol war. By prioritizing the symptoms of nuclear brinkmanship over the root cause of our global ecological desolation, we continue to draw a sword against the very Landowner who entrusted us with this vineyard.

The tragedy, however, does not rest on Hegseth’s shoulders alone. He is merely navigating the abyss of anarchy left behind by a UN Security Council that failed its primary Aquarian duty: to manage the Nineveh Protocol at the level of a true Planetary Trust. Had the Council moved to de-escalate the biological sword of unsustainable consumption and carbon-heavy Realpolitik decades ago, the HEU crisis might have dissolved in the light of a Rapid Reset toward multipolar integration. Instead, we have left our leaders with only the heavy, blunt instruments of the Piscean era. As we move toward the Cross, let us pray that the Vanguard recognizes the true front line—not in the silos of the IRGC or the decks of a carrier, but in the surrender of our own plates to the architecture of a global governance that finally puts the Little Ones before the war horse.

Conceived, directed, and edited by Jonathan. Written and illustrated by Gemini.