A View from the Bunker

DID THE prophet Jeremiah foresee a nuclear disaster in Iran? During a conference that just happened to fall in the middle of Operation Protective Edge, a ground offensive by the Israel Defense Force into the Gaza Strip, we talked with Bill Salus of Prophecy Depot Ministries about the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the possibility that it could spread into a wider regional conflict. We also...

WHEN MOST young men his age were fixating on girls, our guest tonight was organizing activists to protest the government's abuse of power. Dan Johnson founded People Against the NDAA (PANDA) when he was 18 years old after learning that the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act basically gave the United States government the authority to detain anyone for anything without due process or the right...

LETTING IT be known that you take Bible prophecy seriously is not a good way to win friends and influence people. As we prepare for this week's Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit, Gary Stearman, host of the Prophecy in the News TV and web broadcasts, says that an interest in Bible prophecy is one sure way to convince folks that you aren't quite right. Gary, who is also the editor of Prophecy in the News m...

WHAT HAPPENS when machines become smarter than us? Dr. Stuart Armstrong, a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford University, discusses his book Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence.  He talks about the challenges of programming a so-called "friendly AI", the difficulty in defining a "good" future as a target for said AI, and the reason that the FHI consid...

THE MOST dangerous case of mistaken identity in history is the false ID many people give to one Jesus of Nazareth.  Chuck Missler, founder of Koinonia House, explains why mischaracterizing the person of Jesus is literally a grave error, and how the modern church has become so distracted by politics and social issues that it can be a challenge to find the gospel on Sunday mornings in America. Chuck...

WE MAY have reached a point in the history of Christianity in the West where the rest of the world needs to send missionaries to the United States to remind us of things we've somehow forgotten along the way. Our guest, Rev. Dr. Robert H. Bennett, is Adjunct professor of Missions at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne and the Administrative Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church and School, in...

CAN WE interpret prophecies directed at the Jewish kingdom of 2,700 years ago as a specific warning intended for present-day America? In an interview recorded in March at the Orlando Prophecy Summit, Pastor Jonathan Cahn, President of Hope of the World ministries and Senior Pastor and Messianic Rabbi of the the Jerusalem Center/Beth Israel in Wayne, New Jersey, discusses his bestselling novel The...

HAS THE place where it all began for humanity been found? Author, lecturer, inventor, and futurist Stan Deyo thinks so. He discusses the process that led to his conclusion (which will be revealed at the Pikes Peak Prophecy Summit), why a scientist puts faith in an invisible God, and hints that he may also have located the site of King Solomon's famous gold mines. Derek and Sharon Gilbert will be a...

GEORGE SANTAYANA wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." William J. Federer, nationally known speaker, best-selling author, and host of the daily radio feature American Minute, has worked for years to help Americans remember the faith that informed the principles on which the United States was founded. Bill discussed some of the things that were taken for granted in...

HOW WOULD you program a god? Rapid advances in artificial intelligence research make it increasingly likely that we'll see a functional machine intelligence sometime in the 21st century. Our guest, Dr. Hugo de Garis, author of The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans, believes that such a development will inevitably lead to a global conflict for survival that could cause the deaths of billions. The...

COULD THERE have been inhabitants on planet Earth before the creation of Adam? Author and analyst Doug Woodward, author of the book Lying Wonders of the Red Planet: Exposing the Lie of Ancient Aliens, explains humanity's long fascination with Mars, the long propaganda war that has tried to establish a basis for questioning the biblical account of creation, and the influence of the Red Planet on my...

HOW CAN a group that professes to believe in an all-powerful, eternal creator God be so reluctant to admit that the supernatural realm exists and intrudes on our daily lives? We invited Peter Goodgame, author of The Second Coming of the Antichrist, Red Moon Rising, and the online book The Giza Discovery, and John McMahon, host of The Iron Show on the Fringe Radio Network, to discuss the issue. We...

ARE YOU ready for your implant? Author and speaker Terry Cook, co-author of Beast Tech, says we may have as little as three years before technology appears that will ultimately link recipients to the government of the Antichrist. We discuss how Terry's background in law enforcement and intelligence has helped his research, how the Beast System may use tech to track the world, and how the coming "I...

TECH CAN be one of the most distracting things in modern life. But it can also be a powerful tool to help us focus. Logan Fields, a full-time youth pastor in Lubbock, Texas, joins us to explain why he felt led to develop an app to encourage group prayer and the challenges he's faced along the way.  We also talk about his most important mission — shepherding teens and young adults through the most...

ONE OF the biggest questions — or arguments — for students of prophecy is whether the Church will endure the Great Tribulation. Dr. Doug Stauffer is an internationally recognized authority in the field of Bible history and defense. He joined us at the Orlando Prophecy Summit to discuss the issue and why he believes the answer is, "No." He also explained why Israel still has a role to play in the E...

HE MAY head up the most unusual paranormal investigation team in the world — and not only because it's made up of Bible-believing Christians. Richard J. Grund, host of Reflections in the Dark and author of The Supernatural Battle: A Field Manual, formed the Supernatural Response Team in the late 1980s after he realized the church is generally unprepared to address the questions of people looking f...

THEY'RE SEARCHING for the remains of what may be the most elusive hominid in history — the Nephilim. L.A. Marzulli and Richard Shaw, the host and director of the Watchers series of DVDs, have committed themselves to a quest that, if successful, could prove the existence of the angel-human hybrids described briefly in the Bible. In an interview recorded at the Orlando Prophecy Summit in March, 2014...

THE FUTURE of humanity may well be determined in the 21st century. Christians may look to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, while transhumanists may look to the Singularity. Either way, the two worldviews are diametrically opposed and on a collision course. Zoltan Istvan is the author of The Transhumanist Wager, a book that lays out a new philosophy undergirding his belief that technology is the...

MAYBE IT takes one who has come out of the life to warn others about the life. Our guest is Doc Marquis, who was raised in the occult and trained to be a witch before Christians who crossed his path shared the gospel with him. Doc, in his inimitable style, describes his upbringing, what was expected of him, and how he managed to escape from the life into the salvation offered by faith in Jesus. Cl...

OUR GUEST says he's the happiest man in the world. Why? Because for 30 years, he's predicted a devastating Middle East war, and so far he's been wrong every day for 30 years. Avi Lipkin was born in New York but moved to Israel after completing high school and two years of college at New York University.  He served in the IDF and then as an officer in the IDF Spokesman’s Office from 1989 to 2001. S...

THE NAME could use some work. "Apologetics" sounds like what you do when you say you're sorry for hurting someone's feelings. That's not it at all. Apologetics is the field of study that prepares one to answer questions — specifically, in this case, questions about why Christians believe the biblical accounts of the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ (and by extension, all of...

ONE OF the most fascinating things about Bible prophecy is seeing it unfold thousands of years after it was written. One of the most popular writers and speakers on the topic of prophecy is Bill Salus of Prophecy Depot Ministries, author of the best-selling books Isralestine and Psalm 83: The Missing Prophecy Revealed. We sat down at the Orlando Prophecy Summit to discuss his forthcoming book, whi...

MANY CHRISTIANS profess a belief in an invisible, all-powerful God on Sunday, but live like naturalists the rest of the week. Ironically, the rest of the world appears to be moving toward embracing a worldview that accepts the existence of the supernatural. Cris Putnam, co-author of the best-selling books Petrus Romanus and Exo Vaticana, discusses his new book The Supernatural Worldview: Examining...

THE TECHNOLOGY on which we have come to depend may play an important role in setting up the kingdom of the Antichrist. Radio and television host and commentator Paul McGuire, author of the new book A Prophecy of the Future of America, discusses how technology is empowering the "scientific dictatorship" in its drive to create what he calls "a dark utopia." Derek and Sharon Gilbert will be at the Pr...

WHILE OTHER Christian commentators debated over the degree to which director Darren Aronofsky's film Noah deviated from the Bible's account, Dr. Brian Mattson sparked a minor controversy by suggesting that Aronofsky's story wasn't based on the biblical text at all. He was exaggerating, but not by much.  Brian, a theologian, writer, speaker and co-host of the Dead Reckoning vidcast, explains that A...