Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on May 16, 2022
[Matthew 25:41] shows the Lake of Fire was prepared for both Satan and fallen angels:
“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.’” Matthew 8:29 and Luke 8:31 reveal fallen angels know their appointed future time of judgment.
[Genesis 3:15] records God promised to defeat Satan through the Seed of the woman – Jesus Christ. Also, Colossians 2:15 demonstrates fallen angels were defeated and disarmed through Jesus’ death: “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.”
👉 May 13th, 2022- THE SEED OF A WOMAN AND THE SCALES OF JUSTICE
👉 On May 13, an almost full moon moves above Spica, the brightest star in Virgo the Maiden. The following night finds the moon to the lower left of Spica, and just above the moderately bright star, Zubenelgenubi in Libra the Scales. This star offers a surprise for binocular viewers who will see it as a double star.
👉 MAY 15th to June 15th- Castor and Pollux..The Ship Arrives Safely and The Snake Has no Affect! Castor and Pollux in Gemini are twin stars that sink toward the horizon in the evening as summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere.
ACTS 28:- Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.” But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
👉 May 15th/May 16th-The Appointed Time Comes! Satan and His Fallen Angels Judged!
❖❖❖ [Joel 2:30-31] ❖❖❖
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.
The May full moon arrives during the night of May 15. It glows below the moderately bright stars Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschmali, in Libra the Scales.
Below the full moon and poking above the horizon twinkles Antares, a beautiful red star in Scorpius the Scorpion.
Later in the evening the bright full moon slides into Earth’s shadow eventually becoming completely eclipsed. This event begins at 10:28 p.m. EDT and ends 1:55 a.m. EDT on May 16. On the night of May 15-16: A total eclipse of the moon.
A huge solar storm is reported to be heading towards the Earth as per the National Aeronautics Space Agency’s (NASA) latest report. The report also suggested that the solar storm has a very high chance of colliding with the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday (March 28), however, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) believes that the solar storm could enter the Earth’s atmosphere a few hours early (around 6 am on Monday).
While space operations are expected to be disrupted by the solar storm which has erupted on the Sun’s surface, the functioning of satellites orbiting around the Earth’s surface is also expected to witness some problems. While a bright glow is expected to be seen in the areas around the UK, Dr Tamitha Skov, known for her space forecasts, shared her views on the solar storm’s collision with Earth and stated that the effects could reach the ‘mid-latitudes’. Furthermore, she even stated that the people living in New York, Southern New Zealand and Tasmania could see the northern light in the dark.
Billy Tates, an astronomer from the University of Tennessee, added that the solar storm can have an illuminating effect in the Earth’s atmosphere, but at the same time could also affect the navigation systems. Raising a warning to all, NOAA shared a statement that read: While storms create beautiful auroras, they can also disrupt navigation systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and create harmful geomagnetic currents (GICs) in the electrical grid and channels.
While a small magnetic storm was experienced last month, it ended up destroying several SpaceX Starlink satellites, orbiting around the Earth’s surface.
💭 Ethiopian Jews Can’t Get The Same Embrace From Israel as Ukrainians
👉 Courtesy: Ynetnews
Opinion: Ukraine crisis is clear evidence of a racial imbalance in how the world responds to tragedies; while many open their doors to Europeans, few do so when it comes to refugees from Ethiopia, or other countries with populations of color
The past few days I couldn’t stop crying about the situation in Ukraine. Watching the news, reading articles and hearing reports took me to dark moments in my past. My heart broke to see people being victims again in a war that they did not choose to be part of.
I have watched videos of fathers saying goodbye to their children, mothers trying to save their babies. When I watch the news it invokes painful memories of my own childhood, of my family’s history. I don’t remember the experience of escaping civil war and famine in Ethiopia as a child. However, I heard and learned about it over the course of my childhood through my father, my family and my community. With the very limited information that I had, I began to piece together the true history of my people.
I only had a few years of happy home memories before everything changed forever. This was after my family and I escaped, in 1990, from a war-torn Ethiopia where Jews were targeted, and settled in Israel, in the town of Beit She’an. My fondest memories are of gathering around the dinner table, talking about our days and laughing at my father’s jokes. I was too young to realize the realities of being a refugee and the racism around me. I was in a naive reality, before the horrors of the world were to enter my life.
My father got sick when I was still very young. I was around 10 years old when I heard him cry for the first time. I didn’t understand why, but the more I listened carefully the more I started to hear him. He repeated one name so often that I had to ask someone in my family who it might be. It was his nephew, who was killed in front of my father by agents of the Derg junta as my father watched, unable to do anything to save him.
The world around me shattered. I learned that the world is a cruel place, and that there are people who are meant to suffer unfathomable things when they don’t deserve it because of disconnected leaders with selfish agendas.
I was overwhelmed and overjoyed, then, to see how the world came together in condemning and isolating Russian President Vladimir Putin for what he is doing to Ukraine. The way Israel and the world acted so quickly to help Ukrainians to escape, and to help others to fight the war alongside them, was nothing short of extraordinary. When people started to advocate for Ukraine, I joined. I changed my profile picture on social media to the Ukrainian flag.
A few days later, however, someone from my Ethiopian community asked why I didn’t post the Ethiopian flag, when the government there has recently and regularly targeted civilians in a 16-month-old war against rebellious forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
I was ashamed. I had done what many white people do: I had brushed off what happened to my people, to Africa, to the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America. Why does the survival of one country matter more than another’s? Why does one group of people have more value than another?
When I realized my mistake, I felt rage and the urge to do something about it. I started to do research, make phone calls, ask questions. I reached out to everyone I knew in order to find out more about what is happening in Ethiopia and what we are doing about it.
There is clear evidence of a racial imbalance in how we respond to tragedies, not just in Israel but throughout the world. Many countries have opened their doors to the Ukrainian people, but not to refugees from Ethiopia, or other countries with populations of color.
Despite a pledge to speed up its evacuations of some of the relatives of Ethiopian Israelis who remain in the country in the midst of an escalating civil war, the Israeli government seems to be making it more difficult for Ethiopian Jews to make it into Israel. Case in point: The Israeli High Court has frozen the planned entrance of 7,000-12,000 Ethiopians into the country for more than a month. Meanwhile, the same government is preparing to receive several thousand Jewish Ukrainians, and to take in 5,000 non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees.
Preventing these Ethiopians from entering Israel keeps them in harm’s way while their case gets reviewed by the High Court, and it’s all because of those in Israel who question the Jewishness of those individuals. Ukrainians of any faith are rushed in, while Ethiopians of Jewish heritage are kept out.
The Ukrainian conflict is a perfect example of the world’s hypocrisy. It shows how little Black and brown skin matters. The voices of other refugees aren’t shared on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. War in Ethiopia and other countries is not as appealing to the international media.
But it’s up to each one of us to be their voice. We’re seeing big companies, sports teams, celebrities and governments boycotting Russia and blocking Putin in every way they can. But my wish is that the world will also treat Black and dark-skinned people the way they treat those who are white. A world, for example, that won’t stand for border guards in a war-torn Ukraine preventing brown students from fleeing the country while allowing white Ukrainians to get out.
What is happening in Ukraine is appalling, and we should all absolutely unite to fight oppression and murder any time it happens, but we can’t only do this when it is appealing to our racial or economic biases. Ethiopia is worthy of our time; all suffering around the world is worthy of our time. If we cared about human life more than we care about oil and military spheres of influence and our own racial biases, there would be less suffering in this world.
Let’s be a megaphone for the voices that have been drowned out.
💭 In the video, armed men burning civilians to death in Western Ethiopia. Some of the men in the crowd are wearing Ethiopian military uniforms as well as uniforms from other regional security forces.
[Leviticus 18:21]
„Never give your children as sacrifices to the god Molech by burning them alive. If you do, you are dishonoring the name of your Elohim. I am Yahweh.”
The Bible instructs believers that the AntiChrist Beast will first come in as a Peacemaker who will have the ability to get Israel (New Testament Orthodox Christian Nations) to sign a seven year peace treaty, which will enable them to build a third Temple at Jerusalem in exchange for allowing their “former” enemies to move into their neighborhoods and live together as “friendly” neighbors.
[Daniel 11:21]
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Daniel 11:21 says that the Antichrist will “come in peaceably”. Many Christians think that this means that the Antichrist will be received as a great peace maker or even be accepted as a Jewish Messiah. I don’t think that the Bible tells us that the Antichrist will be received as a Jewish Messiah. Although he may already be being received as a Muslim Mahdi.
Daniel describes a leader who will come in “come in peaceably”. This is first applied to Antiochous Epiphanies. Antiochous Epiphanies was a prince in the Seleucid dynasty. The Seleucid dynasty ruled over one quarter of the Grecian Empire and ruled from Antioch of Syria. Antiochous Epiphanies’ brother was the king over the Seleucid dynasty. Antiochous Epiphanies’ brother was imprisoned in Egypt. While the king was in prison, the king’s infant son was made king. Antiochous Epiphanies proclaimed himself as co-regent with the young boy and then killed his brother’s son making himself sole ruler over the Seleucid dynasty. So Antiochous Epiphanies became king by treacherous means. That’s what the word “flatteries” means at the end of Dan 11:21. Antiochous Epiphanies became king without military conquest. He gained power “peaceably”.
Dan 11:21 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
Now that you have had our Bible history lesson let’s see what Daniel says about future events. Most Bible teachers also apply Daniel 11:21 to the actions of the coming Antichrist.
In the past seven years Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who actually is of Georgian ancestry has gained absolute authority over Turkey. He did so in 2014 by changing the Turkish constitution and eliminating the position of Prime Minister in Turkey. Ezekiel 38:1-3 say’s that the “chief prince” or primary governor of Turkey will lead the Islamic nations into Israel. In Ezekiel chapter 39 the “chief prince” of Turkey will lead the battle of Armageddon. So the Bible tells us that the “chief prince” of Turkey is the Antichrist. Since Turkish President Erdogan has eliminated any future Prime Minister in Turkey, then Erdogan will be the only primary governor of Turkey in the foreseeable future. I think that Turkish President Erdogan is in fact the Antichrist. He has already come to power by way of treachery and without military conquest, or “peaceably”. Erdogan will one day also rise to power over the next world empire. Erdogan is already recognized by most Islamic nations as the rightful Sultan over a revived Turkish ruled Ottoman Empire.
Many Christians have a fuzzy notion that the Antichrist will be viewed as a great peace maker. Not necessarily so. In reality the Antichrist will gain power by devious political means.
👉 Thursday Mar 10th, 2022 – Revelation 17:12 The 10 horns
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Turkey on Thursday.
😈 Turkey, an Islamic nation trying to broker peace between Orthodox Christian brothers of Russia and Ukraine?
Antichrist Turkey and The UAE countries that have directly participated in the #TigrayGenocide by supporting the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia, now are trying to play a more active role in ‘mediating’ between the fascist Oromo regime of Abiy Ahmed Ali and Orthodox Christian Ethiopia which is Tigray. Countries like the UAE, Turkey, China, Russia,Ukraine support the Ethiopian central government with political, diplomatic, financial help and drones in its offensive against Orthodox Christians of Tigray. Mind boggling, isn’t it?!
💭 Similar circumstances, similar actions and actors, similar tragedies between the Russo-Ukraine war and the Ethiopian ‘civil war’.
Ethiopia managed to survive as a single state from the Aksum Kingdom (325 BC) to the reign of the fascist Oromo regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. The country was not divided into two states in the civil war that broke out due to the Tigray problem. On the other hand, there are some similarities between the Ukraine and Ethiopia crises, such as the relations between the warring parties and the fact that they come from the same origin. So, can such closeness be a factor that stops or fuels a war?
Approaches
Ukraine, which gained its independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is now the second largest country in Europe with a population of 44.9 million. The country has extensive agricultural lands as well as fields for many heavy industry sectors in its east. Both Russian and Ukrainian are spoken in the country. There are many social and political partnerships between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, as well as their histories, structures, common customs and traditions. Despite the fact that the peoples of the two countries have a common history, culture and religion, after the independence of Ukraine, its relations with its western neighbors developed more than its relations with Russia. Ukraine enjoys closer relations with its European neighbors in Poland and other regions to its west.
On the other hand, the Tigray region is located in the north of Ethiopia. An independent territory within the federal system, ratified by the Ethiopian Constitution in 1994. The history of the region has striking marital dimensions. There are abundant mineral deposits, especially gold. The Tigrayans are Ethiopia’s third largest ethnic group (7 to 10 million people) in terms of population, after the Oromos and Amhars, who make up the majority of Ethiopian people. Although the Tigrayans and Oromos retain their own language, Amharic has been the dominant language among the Ethiopian people, with Christianity and Islam, the two major religions with the largest number of members.
On a regional scale and in contrast to the polarization factor and the attractiveness of Ukraine’s neighborhood with Western European countries, Tigray’s location adjacent to Eritrea creates a political dimension that is not far from sensitive for historical rivalry reasons, despite the similarities and commonalities of the two peoples.
Beginning of crises
As for the beginnings, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine started after the Ukrainian people’s revolution overthrew the pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. After Russia lost its political hegemony with the fall of Yanukovych administration, Russia annexed Crimea using this situation and started to arm the rebel groups in the east of the country.
The danger that Ukraine posed for Russia after its independence and its orientation to Europe further increased the sensitivity of relations. The crisis erupted in its political and regional dimensions following Kiev’s intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The crisis in Ethiopia, on the other hand, began after the political transformation during the ruling People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front following the people’s revolution in February 2018, with the resignation of former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. On 27 March 2018, current Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office, with the decline of Tigrayan nationalism after nearly 30 years of domination and the political crisis in Abiy Ahmed and the neighboring country Eritrea.
💭 Ethiopia Declares State of Emergency as Tigrayan Forces Gain Ground
Bitter experiences
There were news in the media that Russia began to occupy Ukraine from the eastern Donbas region on February 24, 2020) (after the recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics). These were followed by reports that cities such as Mariupol (please look at map in the video below) and Odessa (on the Black Sea coast), Kherson (in the south of the country), Jitomir and Kharkov (in the northwest) were subjected to heavy bombardment. In the current war, military and civilian infrastructure has been destroyed in many parts of Ukraine. Several cities were occupied while services such as water and electricity were interrupted.
According to the information in the press, while people in various regions of Ukraine faced terrible situations, hundreds of civilians, including children, lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of people immigrated to Poland and other neighboring European countries.
On the other hand, the Ethiopian war, which started on November 4, 2020, (The genocidal war against Orthodox Christians of Tigray begun on Tikimt-ጥቅምት 24 ቀን 2013 ዓ.ም EC ) caused the Tigray region to be occupied by the fascist Oromo regime of Abiy Ahmed Ali and killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced only in beginning of the war tens of thousands to migrate to Sudan. Unlike Ukraine, no Tigrayan is able to leave Tigray due to a complete siege and blockade during the past twelve months.
💭 Ukrainians Blocking Africans From Getting on Trains | ዩክሬናውያን አፍሪካውያንን በባቡር እንዳይሳፈሩ አገዷቸው
A Very curious comparison: White ‘Christian’ Ukrainians block Africans from getting on European trains – while black African Christians of Ethiopia hinder their Tigrayans brothers and sisters from fleeing the besieged Tigray to safety, to Sudan. Wow! Do Africans really have the right to complain about the actions of the Ukrainians, or about the preferential treatment fellow Europeans give to them? Can Africans claim the moral high ground when they are still quite and do nothing while their brothers and sisters in Africa are barbarically abused, murdered and ethnically cleansed by fellow Africans for the past 15 months?! What a disgrace!
One other example: Headquarters of the African Union (AU) is in Addis Ababa, but protocol dictates that when a summit is held there — as it was last month — the host is the AU Commission itself, not Ethiopia. In breach of that principle, the AU invited monster war criminal Abiy Ahmed Ali to welcome Africa’s heads of state. The thematic focus of the summit was launching Africa’s “year of nutrition.” Cruel Abiy Ahmed Ali and every speaker spoke about the importance of food; none mentioned the starvation crimes perpetrated by their host in Tigray, even in passing. The AU’s own principles were tossed aside in a show of smug solidarity.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on March 10, 2022
😈 3 x Six Months = 666 – ፫/3 ጊዜ ስድስት ወራት= 666 😈
💭 Ethiopia Declares State Of Emergency Amid Continuing Protests
🛑 October 2016 – መስከረም ፳፻፱/2009 ዓ.ም
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn declared a SIX-month nationwide state of emergency on Sunday, saying months of unrest threatened Ethiopia’s stability.
Human rights groups say more than 500 people have been killed in protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, since last year, when anger over a development plan for the capital turned into broader antigovernment demonstrations over politics and human rights abuses.
The government says the death toll is inflated.
“A state of emergency has been declared because the situation posed a threat against the people of the country,” the prime minister said on state-run television.
“Vital infrastructure, businesses, health and education centers, as well as government offices and courts have been destroyed,” he said.
He also repeated promises of political changes and plans for dialogue with the opposition.
The violence in Oromia, which surrounds the capital, Addis Ababa, and to a lesser extent in Amhara Province, has cast a shadow over a nation where a state-led industrial drive has created one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies.
An American researcher was killed on Tuesday when stone-throwers attacked her car near Addis Ababa.
💭 Ethiopia Declares State of Emergency After PM’s Resignation
🛑 15 February 2018 – የካቲት ፳፻፲/2010ዓ.ም
Ethiopia announced a state of emergency on Friday, the day after the prime minister’s resignation, as pressure mounted on the country’s ruling coalition.
The coalition decided emergency rule was “vital to safeguarding the constitutional order”, state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said.
In a news conference on Saturday morning, Defence Minister Siraj Fegessa said the state of emergency would last SIX months. He said it would include a ban on protests and publications that incite violence.
💭 Ethiopia Declares State of Emergency as Tigrayan Forces Gain Ground
🛑 November 2021 – ጥቅምት ፳፻፲፬ / 2014 ዓ.ም
Ethiopia declared aSIX-month state of emergency on Tuesday after forces from the northern region of Tigray said they were gaining territory and considering marching on the capital Addis Ababa.
The announcement came two days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged citizens to take up arms to defend themselves against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Earlier on Tuesday, authorities in Addis Ababa told residents to register their arms and prepare to defend their neighbourhoods. read more
The state of emergency was imposed with immediate effect after the TPLF claimed to have captured several towns in recent days and said it might march on Addis Ababa, about 380 km (235 miles) to the south of their forward positions.
“Much like in 1977, all the conditions have come together that could turn conflicting interests into ruinous warfare across the region.”
“The 1972 famine — also named the Dimbleby Famine by the international media after the British journalist Jonathan Dimbleby who brought it to Western attention — caused what I came to see as the most important political event in all of Eastern Africa for 50 years. Without that event, it is arguable that Eritrea may never have split from Ethiopia, Somalia might still be stable, Museveni would not be president and the Rwanda genocide of 1994 would not have happened.”
“Like in 1977, Ethiopia is at war. It might be a matter of time before dreams of Greater Somalia are revived, as Mogadishu once more watches Addis Ababa’s discomfiture.”
“Almost beyond belief, Russia, in the place of the Soviet Union, could very well join China and the USA in messing up the politics of the region, which mess is already in high gear. In 2022, there could well be more AK47s poured in, but there might be other weapons as well. ”
💭 And this is no ordinary church where the killings wiped everyone out, it may be where the Ark of the Covenant has been kept. Could this holy artefact – which allegedly guarantees victory for whatever army carries it – be the real reason for the massacre? If the massacre wasn’t just retaliation against Christians – if the location was key and the purpose was to secretly obtain the Ark of the Covenant – why do so in the final days of 2020?
“Someone definitely felt it was necessary to wipe out every Christian in or near the church in Aksum, and it may have been because they want to take the Ark of the Covenant into battle soon.”
I have to admit, when I first heard that 750 people were massacred in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion church complex in Aksum, Ethiopia – my first thoughts were disbelief, and wait a minute, isn’t that where people claim the Ark of the Covenant is kept? The Ethiopian Church has long claimed that the Ark is kept safe underneath their church. Graham Hancock and other researchers concur there is a significant chance the Ethiopians are correct and that the Ark – the one we may know best from the hit 1981 movie “Raiders of the Lost Ark” – has really been kept in Aksum for thousands of years.
In one of my previous books, I wrote many years ago: “The Royal Chronicles of Ethiopia tell us that Prince Menelik was the son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of Israel. Menelik was raised by Solomon after the queen left, and was educated by Temple priests until age 19, when (as the Ethiopian national epic, the Kebra-Nagast tells us) the Queen of Sheba died, and the Ethiopian court sent for Menelik to come to Ethiopia as king. Their story claims that Solomon made Menelik a replica of the Ark, as he would be too far from Jerusalem to worship at the Temple. But Menelik was concerned with the growing apostasy in Israel, and (allegedly) with the help of like-minded priests, switched the replica with the real Ark and took it to what he believed would be a safer location in Ethiopia.” As the Ark has never officially been found, perhaps it was moved to Ethiopia as many claim.
While the following scenario is mostly speculation, there aren’t many reasons that could justify dragging almost a thousand people out of a church a murdering them – but this did happen recently in Aksum, as Wikipedia and many other web sites can confirm. The people there were annihilated so completely that we don’t even know for sure what day the event took place, though an estimated range over three days in late December 2020 has been narrowed down by Belgian analysts as of a few days ago.
And this is no ordinary church where the killings wiped everyone out, it may be where the Ark of the Covenant has been kept. Could this holy artefact – which allegedly guarantees victory for whatever army carries it – be the real reason for the massacre? If the massacre wasn’t just retaliation against Christians – if the location was key and the purpose was to secretly obtain the Ark of the Covenant – why do so in the final days of 2020?
Some believe the Ark is needed to complete the Third Temple in Jerusalem. If this is the motivation for stealing it, perhaps we should be worried about the antichrist coming to power. Though I have no particular reason to assume we are at that point (mid-tribulation) it provides one of the best potential explanations for stealing the Ark.
Yet another reason could be to bring it into a very crucial battle against overwhelming odds. Just like I first learned in the Indiana Jones movies, Adolf Hitler really did believe ancient relics were important, and he really did send teams around the world to gather evidence and artefacts. The Nazis’ Ahnenerbe wasted plenty of time, effort and money from Peru to Tibet and they absolutely looked for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant. Who else might want such things today?
Hollywood made us wonder what might have happened differently in WWII if Germany had access to something that offered a divine guarantee of victory on the battlefield (the Bible tells us the Jews believed this in 1 Samuel 4:1.) There are some who believe America is at the brink of civil war. Some expect an apocalyptic fight between good and evil. (Personally I hope America’s deep partisan divide is fixed not by civil war but by wise leadership. Time will soon tell if Joe Biden can heal the divide.) And the prospect of war is not limited to America; odds seem even higher that WWIII could start soon near Iran, Syria, Israel, China and Taiwan, and a host of other places. If any war must happen and those in charge believe the Ark will guarantee them victory, this is a possible explanation for recent events in Ethiopia.
The ark being stolen recently could also just be a baseless rumor, and if so it would not be the first time. In November 2014, there were rumors that the Ark had been stolen by commandos after the people guarding it have been gassed into unconsciousness. Unfortunately, this time the rumor has a very real body count behind it. Someone definitely felt it was necessary to wipe out every Christian in or near the church in Aksum, and it may have been because they want to take the Ark of the Covenant into battle soon.