A View from the Bunker

IMAGINE BEING a Secret Service officer charged with protecting a head of state who's being pursued by assassins nine feet tall, weighing 800 pounds. And trained in martial arts. That was basically the job of David's gibborim, or Mighty Men–the Three and the Thirty. Award-winning screenwriter and novelist Brian Godawa describes his vision of the world of ancient Israel that shaped his latest work,...

THE STORY of the Bible is essentially a struggle over the integrity of the human genome. Our guest, Gary Stearman, is a respected prophecy scholar, host of the forthcoming Prophecy Watchers television program, and author of Time Travelers of the Bible: How the Hebrew Prophets Shattered the Barriers of Time-Space. Gary explains that the spiritual war between the Fallen and Yahweh is a long, bitter...

WE ONLY know about Nimrod from a few verses in the book of Genesis, but he has cast a very long shadow across history. Why? What did he do that prompted Yahweh to personally intervene at the Tower of Babel? Dr. Michael Lake, founder and chancellor of Biblical Life College and Seminary, discusses his new book The Shinar Directive: Preparing the Way for the Son of Perdition.  According to Dr. Lake,...

DURING RESEARCH into the effects of the psychedelic drug DMT in the early and mid '90s, Dr. Rick Strassman made a startling discovery: The experiences of the volunteers in his studies bore many similarities to the experiences of the Hebrew prophets. About his new book, DMT and the Soul of Prophecy: A New Science of Spiritual Revelation in the Hebrew Bible, Dr. Strassman writes: I tackle the major...

THE MORE things change, the more they stay the same. From the Old Testament through the present day, much of Jewish history is of surviving repeated attempts at extermination. Dr. Thomas Ice, Executive Director of the Pre-Trib Research Center, explains why the world has been aligned against Israel almost since the very beginning of its history. Also: The impact of Brittany Maynard. See the Human E...

SATAN IS described in the Bible as a "a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." Yet surveys show that a majority of American Christians — people who self-identify as "born again" — don't believe that Satan / Lucifer / Helel ben Shachar (the Hebrew name translated into Latin as "Lucifer") actually exists. Russ Dizdar of Shatter the Darkness Ministries and host of the Ragged Edge radio program...

THE APOSTLE Paul wrote that our struggle as Christians is not against flesh and blood — that is, fellow humans — but against principalities, powers, thrones, and dominions; evil, supernatural intelligences that seek to do us harm. Why, then, are so many people spending so much time and money on entertainment featuring monsters that feast on human flesh and blood? Continuing a Halloween tradition h...

WHEN EVEN the scientific community is beginning to recognize that the supernatural realm exists, it's surprising that most American Christians don't believe that the Holy Spirit or Satan actually exist. And perhaps because most Christians don't have a good explanation for unexplained phenomena, our guest contends that a neo-Gnostic spiritualism is growing among intellectuals and scientists in the...

THE STUDY of prophecy is, according to some prominent evangelicals, not what Jesus wanted from his followers. We're joined this week by some very intelligent men who respectfully disagree. Our guests hail from the fields of law, biotechnology, and information technology: John Haller, Gary Winkelman, and Doug Woodward, respectively.  Together, they are part of the team behind the Prophecy Forum, a...

A GROUP of self-anointed "prophets" have gathered quite a following in the modern charismatic movement, declaring that God is revealing new things about His work. On the other side of the spectrum, certain liberal theologians are reinterpreting scripture and doctrine in ways that have never been seen in the history of the Church. Respected Bible scholar Dr. Doug Stauffer explains the difference be...

IT'S IRONIC that the best offer the New Age movement can make is a recycled version of the lie from Genesis 3: Ye shall be as gods. The hidden tragedy is that oneness with the divine — enlightenment — is basically the realization that your individuality is an illusion; that you are, basically, an indistinct part of an infinite whole. James Fox spent five years learning and teaching yoga and other...

IF YOU think they're out to get you–well, you may be right. Brent Miller, Sr., executive producer of the documentary film The Final Prophecies, explains why those of us not among the 1% might be more valuable dead than alive to those who are. Also: Normalizing androgyny for middle-school children (see "The Trials of Transhumanism: Androgyny and the Antichrist" by Gonz Shimura); Ebola spreads (see...

NAZIS, UFOs, aliens, and ancient astronauts: It's got all the elements of a popular series on The History Channel, except that it's written from exactly the opposite worldview. Dr. Michael S. Heiser, academic editor for Logos Bible Software, joins us to discuss the sequel to his excellent debut novel The Facade.  Like his first novel, The Portent: Volume Two of The Facade Saga, follows a small gro...

ANYONE WHO has watched the Indiana Jones movies knows that Hitler tried to find the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. But did you know that he also had designs on the Shroud of Turin? Russ Breault, president of the Shroud of Turin Education Project, tells us about this fascinating chapter in the history of what may be the most intriguing object in the world today. This interview is one of mo...

IT SOUNDS too bizarre to possibly be true, but our future is being shaped, at least in part, by a bunch of people who spend a week each year dancing half-naked around a giant burning statue in the desert. Carl Teichrib, editor of the excellent journal Forcing Change, shares some of his research on "transformational festivals" — pagan gatherings with names like Burning Man and TomorrowWorld. The or...

2014 HAS been a year of nearly constant conflict in the land where the patriarchs and apostles once walked. From Gaza to Damascus to Mosul to Baghdad, the periods of peace have been short-lived. Of course, any time war seems likely in the Middle East, the question arises: Does this have prophetic implications? At the Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit in July, we asked Terry James, partner and general edi...

ONE'S VIEW of Bible prophecy tells a lot about one's view of Christian doctrine. In fact, a poor grasp of the basics of biblical eschatology can lead to serious doctrinal errors — what old-timers called heresy. John Haller, teaching pastor at Fellowship Bible Chapel and a member of The Prophecy Forum, explains how the study of Bible prophecy is important to one's understanding of the gospel, and w...

SCIENCE FICTION author Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law of Technology states that any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. But what happens when a group of elites want to put the power of the occult — magic — behind advanced technology to fundamentally change what it means to be human? In a wide-ranging interview recorded at the 2014 Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit, radio host...

ALMOST EXACTLY 205 years ago, famed explorer Meriwether Lewis, then governor of the new Louisiana Territory, set off from Saint Louis for Washington, D.C.  Besides hoping to recover expenses he had incurred on behalf of the Jefferson administration, Lewis carried with him the journals in which he recorded his experiences during the Lewis & Clark Expedition. He never made it. On October 11, 1809, L...

WHEN READING the Bible, it becomes clear very quickly that God has a plan and a purpose to human history. David Hamblin, an engineer by trade, combines his training with a longtime study of the Bible to analyze and cross-check scripture to draw out some intriguing conclusions about what lies ahead for the human race. This interview is one of more than a dozen that will be included on the official...

THERE AREN'T many things that will set Christians at one another faster than a debate of the timing of the Rapture. The issue has been debated for years and isn't likely to be settled until Christ Himself returns to explain it to us — and even then, there will probably be a few of us trying to explain why He's wrong. However, serious study of prophecy is important. Knowing where we are going, even...

THE LOCATION of Eden was certainly a compelling topic, one of two presentations delivered by our guest at the Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit. However, his second may have been just as intriguing. Author, inventor, adventurer, and futurist Stan Deyo delivered his talk "Solomon, Satan and Seduction" to a standing room only audience at the Pikes Peak conference.  He joined us to give us some information ...

YOUR CHURCH may be unbiblical. Not intentionally, maybe, but unbiblical nonetheless. Beresford Job, an elder in the Chigwell Christian Fellowship in Essex (that's in the U.K., for us Americans), has spent most of the last 40 years in full-time itinerant teaching and pastoral ministry. Beresford has pioneered biblical house church life and experience in England, and he explains how human traditions...

THERE ARE some people about whom it is easy to say, "God had a plan." When you look at the life of Pastor Billy Crone of Get a Life Ministries, it's hard to reach any other conclusion. Listen to his journey in an interview recorded at the 2014 Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit, from pledging his soul to Satan to pastoring a church, leading people to Jesus Christ, and using media to reach the lost, and yo...

THE IDEA that the Antichrist will be a Muslim is very popular in evangelical circles these days. But what if Satan brings forward an Antichrist who claims to be Jewish? Chris White, host of Bible Prophecy Talk and author of the new book False Christ: Will the Antichrist Claim to be the Jewish Messiah?, joins us to discuss the scriptural evidence for a false Messiah, the political and military impl...