A View from the Bunker

IT’S A GLOBAL phenomenon, and one that strikes terror into the hearts of witnesses. No one knows for sure who or what it is, but he’s generally called the Hat Man. Filmmaker and paranormal researcher Kyle J. Macias joins us to discuss his new documentary, The Hat Man: Documented Cases of Pure Evil, based on the stories people tell about their encounters with the Hat Man. Watch The Hat Man at Vimeo...

A HIGHLY FUNDED unofficial government agency, working off the books to investigate the UFO and alien abduction phenomena. That sounds like The X-Files, Project Blue Book, or Men in Black—but it’s real. The men behind Fourth Watch Films, Justen Faull, Wes Faull, and Chad Riley, discuss their new documentary that investigates a shadowy group called the Collins Elite. Working with experts like Rev. D...

With a modern jump-cut video style, dark glasses, and what he describes as 80s-style graphics, Drew Graffia teaches solid, biblical theology with a unique style that appeals to people who think the Bible is boring. Check out Drew’s YouTube channel The Radical Christian by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsFCCrrVFf8tQ11fhfOENOg —— Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes Ap...

Doug Woodward ( www.faith-happens.com ), author of Rebooting the Bible and the new book A Biography of the Christian Bible, explains why Christians can relax and know that minor changes over the centuries haven’t changed one jot or tittle of the gospel by which we are saved. —— Derek joins Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson for the ‘Look, He is Coming With the Clouds’ Prophecy Conference Sept. 20-22,...

THE CHURCH laments the fact that young people are leaving the faith in droves. Maybe it’s because we’re not teaching them theology when they’re young enough for it to take root. Doug Overmyer of Seers See Ministries is doing something about that. Drawing on the Divine Council research of Dr. Michael Heiser, Doug offers a free curriculum to teach youth groups a supernatural worldview, to help them...

WE MAY not be putting the blame for the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton, and elsewhere entirely where it belongs. Dr. Gregory Reid of YouthFire Ministries, an expert in occult crimes and crimes against children, discusses the principalities and powers behind the shooters. We discuss demons, ritual abuse, and why occult crime is so rarely reported by the mainstream media. Other links you m...

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, joins us to discuss how his personal involvement with the UFO phenomenon has changed his philosophy, and how it should shape yours....

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. Then Pastor Caspar McCloud joins us to discuss the We2019 Experience Festival next month. It run...

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. Then Pastor Caspar McCloud joins us to discuss the We2019 Experience Festival next month. It run...

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, author of an important book, Expendable Elite: One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare, which documents his service as a...

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...

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 L...

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 st...

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! Link...

THE OLD gods are coming back, and they want their temples rebuilt. 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 t...

THOUSANDS OF years have passed 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 ( www. JudgmentOfTheNephilim.com ), joins us to explain why 21st century Christians should study the life, death, and religion of the mighty men who were of old....

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:...