We've had wars and rumors of wars (the biblical perspective you are mentioning in your SWH) since those words were penned. We'll have more, too.
I have to say that although our American Ambassdors all over the world are very important people, the fact that it is a US Ambassador doesn't make it more frightening than if it were another.
Where I used to live overseas, the Syrian Ambassdor to the country I lived in, lived in my apartment complex, just one floor below me. His bodyguards used to come up and knock on my door and sheepishly ask if the boys could stop running down the hall - the Ambassador had guests. I was never invited into his home, but we saw each other often in the elevator, and he always spoke. (Usually about food!) I am thinking about him because I have wondered for a while now, if he is dead or alive, and how his family is. And those kind bodyguards.
Wars and rumors of wars...they'll be with us for generations to come, I believe, Dad.
Dawn