A View from the Bunker

IT SEEMS illogical, but we may be most useful to God when we're at the end of our rope. Keith Giles joins us to discuss his new book, The Power of Weakness. Drawing on examples from scripture, Keith argues that our natural Key Performance Indicators — to borrow some jargon from the business world — may actually lead us away from the path God wants us to walk, and that His glory is most evident whe...

MUCH OF what we think we know about the ancient world may be wrong. Ken Johnson of www. BibleFacts.org joins us to discuss history as it usually isn't taught.  He drops some fascinating nuggets from his book, Ancient Post-Flood History: Historical Documents That Point to Biblical Creation, such as the size and geographic origin of Nimrod's invasion force, the identity and burial location of Zeus,...

THE NEXT time you're stuck in rush hour traffic, blame the Nephilim. Well, maybe not.  The giants of old may not be directly responsible for superhighways and toll booths, there is some evidence to suggest that they did motivate our distant ancestors to give up pastoral or agricultural lifestyles for cities.  And then there are those ancient monuments constructed with stone blocks too large to mov...

SOME MIGHT find it ironic that the patron saint of Ireland was actually British. It's true:  Saint Patrick was a Briton, a Celt born and raised in a tumultuous period that saw the exit of the Romans and the onset of a long war that turned Britain into England ("Angle-land" — as in Angles and Saxons). Doug Elwell, co-author of Mysterious World: Ireland and publisher of the fascinating website www....

PEACE in our time. Sounds great! Where do we sign up? There is a movement, for the most part operating quietly and in the background, that for decades has been guiding policy discussions in world capitals toward a goal of global disarmament.  It sounds like a noble end, until you dig deeper and find that the use of force would be reserved by those who believe it's their duty (or birthright) to rul...

IF THE apostle Paul knew his stuff, then the struggles we face every day are not with other people, but with evil intelligences — "powers", "principalities", and "the rulers of the darkness of this world". It follows, then, that the so-called conspiracies we see in the world around us may be part of a conspiracy of a higher order than most listeners to late-night Internet radio realize. Gonny Shim...

IT'S NOT unusual for conservative preachers to refer to America as a modern-day Babylon. They may be more correct than they know. Rob Skiba joins us to discuss his new book, Babylon Rising: And the First Shall be Last.  He tells us why he believes the first king of the land later called Babylon — Nimrod — may literally be on his way back to try to reclaim his throne. Please join the discussion at...

SIGNS in the heavens, earthquakes in strange places, rebellion in the Middle East — what do these things have in common? Researcher and author L.A Marzulli suggests in his new 70-minute DVD, Watchers 3: Fingerprints of the Supernatural, that these seemingly unconnected events all point to a cosmic clock that's winding down to the final confrontation between Lucifer and the Captain of the Lord's Ho...

IT'S NO secret that Americans are a spiritual people. But please note: That isn't the same as being a Christian nation. Doug Woodward discusses his new book, Power Quest, Book One: America's Obsession With the Paranormal.  He believes that the U.S. may be at risk of retracing the steps that led to the unholy alliance of fascism and spiritualism in Nazi Germany. Please join the discussion at the PI...

IT'S FAIRLY well known that the Nazis were more of a cult than a political party. It may come as a surprise, however, that the Allies also turned to paranormal weapons to win the Second World War. William H. Kennedy, author of Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church, discusses his new article "The Allies and the Occult: The Best Kept Secret of World War Two". Bill shows how Ch...

EVENTS AROUND the world are moving us in the direction of global unity — political, financial, and religious.  Carl Teichrib, chief editor of Forcing Change, joins us to discuss these recent events and what they mean for you and me. Subscribe to the excellent Forcing Change newsletter at www. ForcingChange.org . Please join the discussion at the PID Radio Cafe, visit the VFTB Facebook page and che...

AS OF this writing, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is still considered a leading candidate to win the Republican nomination for president in 2012.  Assuming President Obama runs for reelection, to many conservative Christians this would mean choosing between a socialist and a member of a cult. Is that fair?  What does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints really believe?  Bill...

NOAH WAS a kick-butt warrior chief who resisted the Lord's call to build a big wooden box. That's the picture of the patriarch in Brian Godawa's new novel, Noah Primeval: Chronicles of the Nephilim Book I. Drawing on the Divine Council research of Dr. Mike Heiser, Brian paints a vivid picture of a man committed to keeping his people free of the servitude imposed by the small-G gods of the city-sta...

MOST OF what you know about Satan may be wrong. So says David W. Lowe, author of the compelling new book, Deconstructing Lucifer: Reexamining the Ancient Origins of the Fallen Angel of Light.  While he agrees that the Enemy is just as he's described in the New Testament (i.e., a sinner and murderer from the beginning), David suggests that we may need to rethink the traditional narrative about the...

BEING WISE to the enemy's designs takes some work. Thankfully, there's a way to get up to speed in the comfort of your own home. Dr. Judd Burton, our friendly neighborhood Ph. D., has introduced an apprenticeship program at the Institute of Biblical Anthropology.  The core curriculum includes studies of the Old and New Testaments; languages, religions, geography, and the people groups of the Bible...

ALMOST LOST in the news cycle already was the announcement last week that the U.S. is sending military advisers–Special Forces soldiers–to Uganda to help chase down the Lord's Resistance Army, a militaristic cult headed by Joseph Kony.  What is this group, and why should Americans care about it? Tony Kail, founder of Voice of the Accused and author of Cry From the Bush: A Christian Response to Afr...

WE CAN lose sight of the forest because of the trees just as easily when we discuss religious doctrine as when we talk politics or sports — maybe even easier, but what we believe dictates the way we live. Joe Ortiz, veteran journalist, broadcaster, and author of The End Times Passover and Why Christians Will Suffer Great Tribulation, reflects on his decades of service as a professional broadcaster...

IT'S THAT time of year again, when our culture celebrates the supernatural–ghosts, demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. How is this possible in an allegedly Christian nation? Dr. Judd Burton, director of the Institute of Biblical Anthropology and author of Interview With the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, discusses the spirit behind the popula...

AMERICA MAY be on a collision course with God. According to John P. McTernan, there is a direct correlation between the alarming number of natural disasters striking the United States and its leaders pressuring Israel to surrender land for "peace". John, founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith Ministries, discusses his book As America Has Done To Israel, sharing examples of hurricanes, fires, ear...

THE END of the world is near — possibly. If true, what good news can Christians possibly find in that? Doug Woodward, author of the new book Black Sun, Blood Moon: Can We Escape The Cataclysms Of The Last Days?, examines biblical prophecy, the world's fascination with 2012, and forecasts of natural disasters, and discusses the premise of hope at the core of the topic. Please join the discussion at...

SOMETIMES THE best watchman on the wall is actually a woman.  Proof comes this weekend in the fourth annual Women on the Watch Conference, September 16th through 18th at Calvary Chapel in Cypress, California. Jackie Alnor, publisher of ApostasyAlert.org and host of Apostasy Alert on Rapture Ready Radio, discusses the need for discernment in these times, the topics that will be covered, and how you...

A MOVEMENT is gaining momentum that would create a New Man — one not fashioned in the image of God. While this sounds like a very modern idea, it is, in fact, quite old. Carl Teichrib, editor of the excellent newsletter Forcing Change, discusses his chapter in the new book Pandemonium's Engine: Satan's Imminent and Final Assault on the Creation of God, titled "To Storm Heaven, To Be Like God, To R...

LIBYA IS a classic example of the major media serving as propaganda for the real powers behind national governments.  Those of us old enough to remember Ronald Reagan know that Muammar Gaddafi was once universally hated, at least here in the United States.  Only slightly less surprising than Gaddafi's startling makeover as a trusted ally in the Global War on Terror during the George W. Bush admini...

HUNDREDS, MAYBE thousands of children in Africa are abused, homeless, and vulnerable to human traffickers — because they've been accused of witchcraft. Tony Kail, founder of Voice of the Accused, is the author of Cry From the Bush: A Christian Response to Africa's Epidemic of Witch Hunts, Child Witches, and Deadly Exorcisms.  He draws on two decades of research into magico-religious groups to reve...

A COMMON story from the Old Testament is the persistence of the high places, sites where the Jews worshiped the false gods of their neighbors — Asherah and Baal, in particular. Tom Dunn, coordinator of the 2010 Supernatural Science and Prophecy Conference in Canton, Ohio, has partnered with Russ Dizdar of Shatter the Darkness Ministries to create Project Josiah, named for the king who is remembere...