A View from the Bunker

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...

IT'S NOT likely that Calvinists and Roman Catholics would agree on much except maybe the claim that they both originate with Gnostic ideas that found their way into the Church. Dr. Ken Johnson, author of 18 books, discusses two of his works that are likely to step on some toes: The Gnostic Origins of Calvinism and The Gnostic Origins of Roman Catholicism. He also talks about the beliefs of the anc...

THEOLOGY IS far too important to learn from fiction, but sadly, that's how far too many of us do it. Psychologists know that we absorb ideas presented as compelling stories more easily than we do when they're presented as fact. One of the most popular forms of entertainment for teens and young adults is anime, Japanese animation. Pop culture critic Taylor Kent, host of the podcast Snark Infested W...

IT'S NOT paranoia if they really are out to get you. And it's clear that there is an agenda to force a change on us to make us subjects of a global government, whether we want it or not. Carl Teichrib, editor of the excellent monthly online journal Forcing Change, has been researching and documenting the goals and activities of globalists for over a decade. He discusses the meeting that compelled...

THE NEW Age movement seems to have claimed quantum physics for its own. Things like Einstein's "spooky action at a distance" are held up as proof that the universe is one and that we can manipulate it with the power of our minds. Josh Peck, founder of Ministudy Ministry and host of The Sharpening podcast, offers as a rebuttal his new book Quantum Creation: Does the Supernatural Lurk in the Fourth...

THINGS ARE moving ever more quickly as we go deeper into the 21st century. It has been estimated by some experts that we'll see the equivalent of 20,000 years of technological progress in the next century. William and Claudia Koenig sat down with us at the Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit to discuss how technology has influenced the sharing of information (like Bill's news site, Koenig International New...

HE MUST have wondered why he bothered becoming a pastor as he lay dying in front of the congregation — just one week after being ordained. Pastor Caspar McCloud of The Upper Room Fellowship in Marietta, Georgia describes the path that took him from aspiring rock star to minister of the Gospel — and then to a near-death experience and a firm belief that the gift of healing is still active today. Pl...