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BIBLE PROPHECY is really a message from outside our time-space continuum. Is it beyond the realm of possibility that God encoded messages in His Word that are only decipherable now with modern computer algorithms? Richard Shaw, director of the Watchers series of DVDs hosted by L.A. Marzulli and the fascinating film Torah Codes: End to Darkness, discusses a series of startling messages discovered b...

MANY OF us are grateful that our God allows us second chances. In this interview, I reconnect with a friend I hadn't seen in 35 years: Ed Apida, founder and director of New Horizons Christian School, talks about his personal mission field — a boarding school in rural Missouri for young men ages 18-22 who need to complete their high school education in a structured environment. Please join Derek an...

WHEN GOD divided mankind, He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. In other words, Yahweh assigned those nations to bene elohim, supernatural beings who eventually rebelled against Him and began masquerading as gods for the nations. Brian Godawa joins us to discuss his new series, Chronicles of the Watchers, and the first novel in the series, The Dragon King:...

IT MAY come as a surprise that a US citizen can be sued in an American court by a foreign national for actions in that foreign country–actions that were not illegal in either nation. Even more surprising is that the suit was filed under a law passed by Congress in the 1790s that's so vague its original meaning and purpose are unclear. Dr. Scott Lively, president of Abiding Truth Ministries, descri...

A FALLEN pastor finds himself the target of fallen angels. That's the basic premise of a new supernatural thriller from former jockey (who reportedly crossed notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger), award-winning sportswriter, and man with a self-described "checkered" past, Eddie Donnally. Eddie describes the path that led him to full-time ministry, the supernatural encounter that changed (and sav...

THE 20th CENTURY was an anomaly in global geopolitics. For the first time in 1300 years, Islam was not actively taking territory in lands that were mainly Christian. Dr. Timothy Furnish, a scholar of Islamic history, discusses his new book Sects, Lies, and the Caliphate: Ten Years of Observations on Islam.  He explains why the goals of the Islamic State aren't a new thing, but a return to the valu...

RUSSIA PLAYS a key role in the next big war in the Middle East, but most relevant to us in the West is the prophesied attack on the United States. Hold on a minute, you say — the United States isn't in Bible prophecy. Doug Woodward begs to differ. Doug joins us to discuss his new book, The Next Great War in the Middle East: Russia Prepares to Fulfill the Prophecy of Gog and Magog. He explains why...

ON MARCH 25, 1948, a craft described as a "flying saucer" was found by oilfield roughnecks on a mesa northeast of Farmington, New Mexico. Within hours, the US military arrived and hauled away the 100-foot diameter craft — containing 16 bodies — to a secret facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Frank Thayer, co-author with Scott and Suzanne Ramsey of the new book The Aztec UFO Incident, e...

MOST SCHOLARS believe that the United States is not mentioned in Bible prophecy. It's possible, however, that they have been overlooking clues in Ezekiel 38 and Jeremiah 50 and 51. Benjamin Baruch, co-author with J.R. Nyquist of the new book The New Tactics of Global War: Reflections on the Changing Balance of Power in the Final Days of Peace, discusses the evidence for identifying America in end...

WE HAVE reached a point in American history when our Christian brothers and sisters in Africa may need to start sending missionaries to us, because it appears they have a better understanding of the spirit realm than we do. Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, author of I Am Not Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare, joins us to discuss his new book, Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in...

YOU MAY be allowing people into your kids' bedrooms that you would never let past your front door. Opal Singleton, President and CEO of MillionKids.org, Training and Outreach Coordinator for Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, and author of Seduced: The Grooming of America's Teenagers, joins us to explain how the tech we take for granted — laptops, tablets, and smart phones — is gi...

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE to defeat an enemy when you don't admit that it exists. Unfortunately, that describes the state of American Christians, most of whom don't believe that Satan exists. Pastor Tim Thompson of Exposing the Darkness Ministries knows first-hand that intelligent evil is real. Before Tim got saved, he was in seven mental wards, six rehabilitation centers, and had attempted suicide five tim...

IT SEEMS odd that Islam, which has expanded since the 7th century to control almost a quarter of the world's population, would not be mentioned in Bible prophecy.  Ken Johnson of www. BibleFacts.org points out that the Bible does, in fact, refer to Islam. We discuss whether Christians can eat halal meats, the role of Islam in prophecies of the restoration of Israel, and even what the Bible says ab...

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl in Indiana is in custody, charged with stabbing her stepmother to death to please a scary fictional clown called Laughing Jack. Last year, two girls allegedly stabbed a friend multiple times, trying to kill her to please another make-believe monster, Slenderman, one of three violent incidents in 2014 linked to the character. What is behind the real-life terror linked to these so...

PEPSI RECENTLY released a slick six-minute film that features an object that's become something of a legend in UFO circles, the Black Knight. Apparently, it's been orbiting the Earth for 13,000 years, beaming a signal to the surface that was detected by Tesla in 1899, and only now, thanks to modern computing technology, we've finally decoded the secret message. It's a crummy commercial. Frank John...

PRESIDENT OBAMA is not responsible for ISIS. Neither is George W. Bush. As much as it may rankle political commentators and the politically correct, the seeds of the Islamic State were planted in the 7th century. Dr. Timothy Furnish, a scholar of Islamic history, expert on political Islam and Mahdism, and the author of the new books Ten Years' Captivation with the Mahdi's Camps and Sects, Lies, an...

EUROPE HAD its paradigm violently shifted November 13th when Islamic radicals killed at least 130 people in Paris. Where does the world go from here? Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (US Army, Ret.), author of the new book Never Submit: Will the Extermination of Christians Get Worse Before it Gets Better?, discusses the military and geopolitical situation in the Middle East, and offers some thoughts about wh...

THE APOSTLE Paul warned that our contest is not with human opponents. It is the principalities, powers, and the "cosmic powers over this present darkness" who are our true enemies, and who seek nothing less than our destruction. And yet the modern church too often behaves as though evil is simply the consequence of bad choices. Jared Chrestman and Tom Dunn join us to discuss their new project, Det...

THEY CAN'T possibly all be right, but they could all be wrong. As we move ever closer to the end of history, we see forces–political, economic, and spiritual–pushing us toward one-ness: Global government and a one-world religion. It sounds impossible. How can faiths with mutually exclusive claims coexist? Carl Teichrib, editor of Forcing Change, spent five days at the recent Parliament of World Re...

THE BIBLE is unique among holy books in that its historical claims are supported by the archaeological record. Our guests, archaeologists Aaron Judkins and Bruce Hall, were part of a team that climbed Mount Ararat in 2013 to search for Noah's ark. Their expedition is the subject of Finding Noah, a new documentary film narrated by Academy Award nominee Gary Sinise.  Aaron and Bruce describe their e...

IT'S DIFFICULT for parents to fight the flood of images that surround us at this time of year–witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts are everywhere, and thanks to popular books and movies aimed at teens and young adults, trying to explain why dressing as, say, a creature that consumes human blood might not be appropriate. Our friendly neighborhood Ph. D., anthropologist Dr. Judd Burton, author...

RUSSIA'S INTERVENTION in Syria has complicated things for the United States and its allies, especially Turkey and Saudi Arabia. It appears that Vladimir Putin, in one move, has boxed out the nations trying to overthrow Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and, strangely enough, positioned Russia as the champion of Christendom against radical Islam. Doug Woodward, author of Uncommon Sense and Is Russi...

PHYSICISTS AT CERN attempted to find evidence for "parallel universes" this week, but what they really mean are dimensions beyond the four (three spatial, one chronological) we perceive. They hoped to create microscopic black holes, which might prove that gravity "leaks" from our dimensions into those occupied by…what? Josh Peck, host of The Sharpening (now on video) and author of Quantum Creation...

THE ISLAMIC STATE has made no secret of its plan to take over the world. But it's not the only group with that goal in mind. Cris Putnam, co-author of Petrus Romanus, Exo-Vaticana, and most recently, On the Path of the Immortals, discusses the geopolitical situation in the Middle East and the possible goals of IS, Russia, and the Vatican in the how the map of that part of the world is ultimately r...

THE U.S. took a big step toward a global government last week and most of us didn't even notice. Patrick Wood, author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation, explains why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is something you should be concerned about. Click here for Patrick's new website, Technocracy News. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fe...