A View From The Bunker

SHAKESPEARE WAS more right than he knew: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio Jim Wilhelmsen, founder of Echoes of Enoch Ministries and the author of Beyond Science Fiction, tells us how personal involvement with the UFO phenomenon changed his philosophy, and how it should shape yours. Then Paul McGuire an...

80,000 PEOPLE will meet next week in the Nevada desert to fundamentally change the world around you. We’ve got a man on the inside. Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment, will be at the annual Burning Man transformational festival again this year to see what kind of new spirituality is being cooked up for your neighborhood in the middle of the Nevada...

THE WAY we do church today would be completely foreign to a first-century Christian. How do we get back to the design of the early church? Keith Giles, author of the new book Jesus Unveiled: Forsaking Church as We Know it for Ekklesia as God Intended, shares his thoughts and experiences on how and why we need to stop treating church like a business and start treating it like a family. Plus: Jeffre...

TEACHING CHILDREN about Jesus doesn’t mean simplifying the gospel to the point that it loses its power. Preston and Kelly Condra discuss their latest book, Papa, Let’s Talk. Using family and clever strategies to depict the elements of the Gospel, Papa, Let’s Talk is a unique book that can be used with pre-school and grade school children alike. Plus: Good week for Trump; city-killer asteroid just...

SATAN MAY be the prince of the power of the air, but if there is a rebel force fighting a guerrilla war via the Internet, its leader is Josh Peck. Josh joins us to talk about his new venture, The Daily Renegade, a video hub for conservative Christian voices that are being excluded from other platforms. Check out all of Daily Renegade’s alternative platforms by clicking here, and you can find all o...

ARCHAEOLOGY CAN be a tricky business—especially when you dig in Israel. Dr. Scott Stripling, Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research at Khirbet el-Maqatir and Shiloh, talks about the importance of archaeology for better understanding the Bible, exciting discoveries from the Holy Land, and the challenges of digging in Judea and Samaria, the areas the world calls the West Ba...

THE CHURCH is rediscovering things we knew two thousand years ago. Scholar of Apologetics and Patristics (the study of the early church fathers) Rev. Jack Davila-Ashcraft explains why topics like demons, the Nephilim, and end times prophecy weren’t considered weird by early Christian theologians, and how relearning what we’ve forgotten will help us better understand the spiritual war being fought...

AMERICA’S FINEST have all too often been used as throwaway pawns in political chess games played by people who have never seen war. As we approach Independence Day here in the United States, it seemed appropriate to bring back two interviews with the late Lt. Col. Dan Marvin (US Army, Ret.), author of an important book, Expendable Elite: One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare, which documents h...

BIBLICAL GIANTOLOGY. Yes, that’s a thing. We discuss it with archaeologist, historian, and author of Interview with the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, Dr. Judd Burton. We’ll also talk about Judd’s upcoming Sons of God, Giants of Old Conference August 9-10, 2019 in Lubbock, Texas. Besides Judd, and Derek and Sharon Gilbert, featured speakers include Dr. Michael Heiser, Dr. Gregory Re...

Sometimes the answer to a difficult question is obvious. In this case, the question that has befuddled Western politicians and military minds is this: Why do violent jihadists seem to hate us? The answer is the same one Thomas Jefferson and John Adams heard from the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli in 1785: “It was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authori...

ANOTHER “ARCHAEOLOGY is cool” program tonight as we raid the archives for interviews with two archaeologists upsetting the applecart of generally accepted beliefs about the ancient Near East. First, from 2016, Egyptologist David Rohl, author of Exodus: Myth or History?, challenges the consensus timeline of ancient history. Analyzing the evidence without preconceptions, David shows how the evidence...

We bring you three interviews from the VFTB Archive: First, Kay Rubacek of Swoop Films discusses the documentary Hard to Believe, about the Chinese government’s practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience—people incarcerated because of their political or religious beliefs. Then the film’s director Ken Stone describes the difficulty of producing such a dark film and telling the story...

TONIGHT WE address one of the darkest evils that plagues our world—sexual abuse of children. First, author Nick Bryant discusses in this 2010 interview what may be the most disturbing pedophile scandal in American history. The Franklin Scandal touched a cherished institution, Boys Town, and reached the very highest levels of the American government. Then, William H. Kennedy, author of Lucifer’s Lo...

ONE OF the most famous characters in the Old Testament—in all of history, really—gives us a pretty good profile of what the prophesied Antichrist will be like. Pastor Mark Biltz, author of the new book Decoding the Antichrist and the End Times, explains why a man described as the wisest of all kings was actually a type of the end times enemy of God and Israel. Download our free mobile app! Links t...

Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-enchantment, shares his observations about a recent conference of pagans in the upper Midwest: Events like this are attended by people who might be our neighbors, many (if not most) are former Christians, and they say the old gods are telling them it’s time to stop meeting in hotels. Download our free mobile app! Links to th...

THOUSANDS OF years of past and their names have been forgotten, or at least transformed over the years into the names of heroes of myth and legend. Why is their story relevant today? Ryan Pitterson, author of Judgment of the Nephilim, joins us to explain why 21st century Christians should study the life, death, and religion of the mighty men who were of old. Also: Rockets over Gaza; persecution of...

HE RIDES thousands of miles on his motorcycle, criss-crossing the country to honor fallen soldiers. Tony Price, author of Yours, Very Sincerely And Respectfully, tells the story of the Gold Star Ride Foundation and the Gold Star families he’s met through his mission. Also: Shooting at San Diego synagogue; more rioting in Gaza; Mueller report contains claim that Russians taped compromising Bill Cli...

BEING PREPARED is not just practical, it’s biblical. Chance Gibson of American Survival Wholesale explains why being ready for anything should be part of our Christian walk. Then Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, discusses an article he published earlier this week on the epidemic of church vandalization in France and Germany. Also:...

THE REAL game of thrones takes place in the spirit realm. Chad Schafer, author of The World in the Bondage of Egypt—Under the Arch of Titus, explains how a 2,000-year-old Roman monument represents the ongoing fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Special for VFTB listeners: Get free shipping on Chad's book when you buy it at his website ( www.thearchesofegypt.com/store) with promo code VFTB! Download our...

WORKING FOR unity in the body of Christ is a crucial calling. Adrian and Cindi Appleberry of i4029 Ministries talk about their mission of giving “power to the weak and strength to the powerless,” a reference to Isaiah 40:29. The Appleberrys are also the coordinators of the Unsealed Scroll Prophecy Conference October 4-6, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio. We discuss the lineup of speakers and...

USING FICTION to expose the fiction of the modern UFO phenomenon. Darrin Geisinger, author of Zero Gs: The Armor Eternal, discusses the use of storytelling to spread the truth of the gospel. Darrin is also the conference coordinator for True Legends. We discuss the conference in Branson September 13-15, “Answering the Alien Question.” For more information, log on to www. GenSix.com . —— Download o...

GIANTS WALK among us. They may not be physical giants, but their origins go back to the Nephilim of the Book of Genesis. Gary Wayne, author of The Genesis 6 Conspiracy: How Secret Societies and the Descendants of Giants Plan to Enslave Humankind, details the role of modern-day Nephilim in Satan’s plan to install the Antichrist at the End of Days. Plus: Mueller issues report and finds no Russian co...

IS EVERY person created by God with intrinsic value, or are some people flowers while others are weeds? Robert Blaise, producer of the documentary Human Weeds, discusses the repackaging and rebranding of the eugenics movement. Check out our previous interviews with transhumanists Zoltan Istvan (here and here), Rev. Dr. Christopher Benek of the Christian Transhumanist Association (here), and Lincol...

IT SOUNDS bizarre, but there are links between the fallen angels Paul warned us about in the Bible and the modern UFO phenomenon. Ali Siadatan of Think Again Productions, producer of the groundbreaking documentary UFOs, Angels, and Gods (link opens YouTube video), joins us to discuss the connections. Here is the link to our previous interview, in which Ali tells us the story of his childhood in Ir...

IT MAY be a map to the greatest archaeological find in history. Oddly enough, it’s a retired arson investigator who may have decoded it. Jim Barfield, director of the Copper Scroll Project, and his colleague Chris Knight join us to discuss the controversial Copper Scroll, who wrote it, and what they were trying to preserve. Also: Trump walks from North Korea talks; fighting between nuclear powers...