A military convoy carrying up to six nuclear warheads was spotted late last week moving through Scotland, which comes as war between Russia and Ukraine rages on and Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear forces on high alert following his invasion.

“The convoy was carrying up to six nuclear warheads only a mile south of Glasgow city centre, heading to Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport on Loch Long, according to NukeWatch, an organization that tracks and monitors the convoys that transport the UK’s Trident nuclear warheads,” the Daily Mail reported. “The nuclear-armed convoy passed over Erskine Bridge, heading up along the M6 motorway near Kendal, before being spotted on the M74 at Lesmahagow and arriving in Loch Long at approximately 11:30pm on Saturday.”

“I think there were four warhead carriers I believe. Our reckoning is that each of those trucks can carry two but one of the trucks is empty as a spare in case [sic] breaks down,” Nukewatch UK Campaigner Jane Tallents told a local publication. “So if there’s four we expect there to be six warheads, or up to six warheads anyway.”

The organization claimed that the most likely reason that the warheads were transferred was for maintenance purposes, and not to prepare for their use in battle.

“I don’t think this convoy is of any more concern than the fact that we are always, 24/7, armed and ready to start a nuclear war,” Tallents said. “All the things that some of us have worried about constantly since the 60s, they come to pass really. People have forgotten about it but they are there.”

The move comes as the war in Ukraine has nearly reached the one-month mark since Russian forces invaded.

Shortly after Putin invaded Ukraine, he ordered the country’s nuclear forces be put on high alert.

“Citing ‘aggressive statements’ by NATO and tough financial sanctions, Putin issued a directive to increase the readiness of Russia’s nuclear weapons, raising fears that the invasion of Ukraine could lead to nuclear war, whether by design or mistake,” the Associated Press reported. “The Russian leader is ‘potentially putting in play forces that, if there’s a miscalculation, could make things much, much more dangerous,’ said a senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss rapidly unfolding military operations.”

U.S. officials now warn that Putin may brandish nuclear threats as the war is not going in his favor with Ukrainian forces grinding the Russian military’s advances to a halt.

“Protracted occupation of parts of Ukrainian territory threatens to sap Russian military manpower and reduce their modernized weapons arsenal, while consequent economic sanctions will probably throw Russia into prolonged economic depression and diplomatic isolation,” Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in a report.

“As this war and its consequences slowly weaken Russian conventional strength. Russia likely will increasingly rely on its nuclear deterrent to signal the West and project strength to its internal and external audiences.”

HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?

Christian author Terry James, in his article, ”Restraint and the Nuclear Demon,” wrote about the growing fears of Nuclear war with Russia. 

“In 2022, some are saying we are facing the greatest threat to world peace and of nuclear annihilation since the Cuban missile crisis of October 1962,” he explained. “These six decades later, I have no fear whatsoever of nuclear world annihilation. Thus, even though Russian President Vladimir Putin has said something to the effect that if anyone tries to interfere with his going into Ukraine, they will experience something that they have never faced in all of history. By this, the diplomats of the world began thinking Putin meant he would unleash nuclear attacks against the US if American forces tried to intervene.”

“At this moment of writing, it seems there is no restraint whatsoever from the Russian side. And many, including yours truly, believe that America’s current leadership either doesn’t know how to restrain the nuclear demon, or is using the attack on Ukraine in a wag-the-dog move to distract from all this presidential administration’s failures at every level,” he asserted.

“Despite the seemingly out-of-control movement toward possible nuclear conflict, like I say, I have no fear of the world ending through atomic warfare,” James insisted. “I’ve learned much since I was that naïve youth of 1962. I have learned to trust, without reservation, our God’s ability to restrain even the most horrific of man’s proclivity for self-destruction.”

“I now know the end from the beginning, because my Father in Heaven has told those who believe His prophetic Word that there will be ‘wars and rumors of wars,’ and He has said that we should look for them. But He has also foretold that ‘the end is not yet’ when we hear of those wars and rumors of war,” he noted, pointing to Matthew 24:6. “Our Heavenly Father has also told us that particular developments must take place — That process does not include all-out nuclear destruction…”

However, “following [the] great event” of the Rapture of the Church, “the red horse of war will indeed ride…” James wrote referencing Revelation chapter 6, which reads:

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭6:3-4‬ ‭KJV‬‬ – “And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out cat another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.”