The Final Hour

Halloween will bring in about $13 billion this year. Most people call it harmless fun for kids. But do they know where it came from? In this week’s teaching, Dr. David Bowen traces Halloween back to its roots. The Celts celebrated Samhain, a festival of harvest, death and darkness. They believed the spirits of the dead walked among the living. People wore costumes to fool those spirits and carved...

Wars, rising prices, artificial intelligence, a divided nation and a news feed that never stops. If you’ve felt weighed down by it all, you’re not alone. On this episode of The Final Hour, Pastor Dave walks through recent findings from the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and Gallup. They show how many people in America and around the world are struggling wi...

Missiles. Proxy armies. A nuclear stockpile nobody can fully account for. The Israel-Iran conflict dominates the headlines, and believers keep asking one question. Is this connected to Bible prophecy? Scripture is clear on one point. Ezekiel named Persia, modern-day Iran, in a coalition that comes against Israel in the latter years (Ezekiel 38:5). Iran doesn't need to be forced into prophecy. It's...

The world order is changing. Scripture never placed America at the center. So where does the United States fit in Bible prophecy? Dr. David Bowen examines a sobering shift most believers haven't fully processed. Power is moving. Alliances are re-forming. Nations are rearming. And the world that emerged after the Cold War is under pressure it hasn't felt in generations. What replaces American domin...

The greatest threat facing the evangelical church today may not be persecution from the outside. It may be biblical illiteracy on the inside. In this message, Dr. David Bowen unpacks a sobering reality: Christians have more access to Scripture than any generation in history, yet fewer and fewer actually know what the Bible teaches. In this video, we explore: Why owning a Bible isn't the same as kn...

What happens when proving who you are becomes a requirement for everyday life? And who decides whether you're allowed access? This episode of the Final Hour explores what Pastor Dave calls the "Digital Trinity”:  Digital identity, digital money, and artificial intelligence. Three systems. One trajectory.  AI-generated faces. Cloned voices. Biometric verification. Cashless payments. Each one is bei...

Stargate is not just another tech project. It's the infrastructure of a new global system, and Scripture already told us this trajectory was coming. Dr. David Bowen breaks down the $500 billion Stargate Project, the AI arms race between America and China, and what every believer needs to see. For centuries, prophecy students asked how one system could ever monitor commerce, identity, and participa...

Something is happening between Turkey and Syria and it may have major biblical significance. As Turkey increases its presence in Syria and tensions grow near Israel’s northern border, Pastor Dave examines how these developments could connect to Ezekiel 38, Isaiah 17, Obadiah, and other end-times prophecies. From military activity and threats against Israel to the Abraham Accords and major changes...

How do you shepherd a "remnant" church in an age of apostasy? That's the calling Pastor Brandon Holthaus received from Revelation 3:7-13. On August 28, 2011, Rock Harbor Church was born. Not to grow big. To stay faithful. To warn, to disciple, and to connect the prophetic dots most pulpits won't touch. This week Pastor Brandon joins Interpreting the Times. Question for you: is your church talking...

Something is being built right now that most Christians haven't noticed. AI needs more electricity than the world's power grids can supply. So two companies are solving that problem in ways that sound like science fiction. One wants to redirect sunlight from orbit using satellite mirrors. The other wants to move data centers into the ocean, powered by waves. Both are real. Both are funded. Both ar...

Political power. Economic control. Religious allegiance. Scripture named this convergence two thousand years ago in Revelation 13. And the infrastructure for it is being built right now. The Bible never says the antichrist will be a socialist. But Revelation describes a world where participation in commerce depends on allegiance to the system. That should sober every believer watching what is happ...

The world is marching toward war. Iran. Russia. China. North Korea. The axis of evil is forming in real time, and the Strait of Hormuz sits at the edge of the next conflict. Most believers are watching the headlines and missing the pattern. Scripture is clear. God has always prepared His people before the battle. Not with weapons first. With spiritual readiness. With obedience. With faith that fea...

Dr. David Bowen & Breanna Claussen talk about truth in media. We live in the most informed generation in history. We're also the most confused. Never before has so much information been available with the touch of a screen. Yet confidence in what's actually true keeps collapsing. That's not an accident. Scripture warned this exact pattern would define the last days. Jesus didn't open His end-t...

Is the Constitution still the supreme law of the land? Or is something else quietly taking its place? Two U.S. senators just introduced the Defeat Sharia Law in America Act. Five states passed foreign law bans this year alone. Israel now runs Sharia courts inside its own borders. And most believers have no idea how fast this is moving. What This Week's Teaching Covers: The Cornyn-Tuberville bill a...

Nearly 70% of Americans believe our founding fathers would be ashamed of what we've become. That number should stop you. This week Dr. David Bowen breaks down a new national survey on how Americans really see their country, their leaders, and their future. The numbers are sobering. But they're not surprising to anyone reading their Bible. Jesus warned us. Deception. Instability. Fear among the nat...

In 1946, the US and UK signed a secret pact to share every signal they could intercept. Then it was phone calls and telegrams. Now it's your emails, your location, your browsing history. They called it Five Eyes.   In this week's teaching, Pastor Dave breaks down: What the Five Eyes Alliance actually is, and who's in it How intelligence agencies bypass their own citizens' privacy laws Why this sys...

Join Dr. David Bowen as he talks with Dr. David Reagan about current events and Bible prophecy Connect with Pastor Dave: Interpreting the Times: https://www.interpretingthetimes.com/ Standing Stones Community Church: https://standingstonescc.org/ Support Interpreting the Times: https://www.interpretingthetimes.com/donate  

A judge in Maine just ordered a 13-year-old girl to stop attending church, stop reading her Bible, and stop spending time with Christian friends. This isn't a headline from China or North Korea. It's happening here, right now, in America. In this teaching, Pastor Dave walks through what this case actually means, why it should concern every believer, and what Scripture says about the pattern we're...

The world isn't just drifting from God. It's being conditioned to live without Him. Most people assume "antichrist" means someone who opposes Christ. The Greek tells a different story. The word also means instead of Christ. And that distinction changes everything. In this week's teaching, Pastor Dave unpacks the spirit of antichrist already at work — through the White House AI Action Plan, global...

The graduates booing AI speakers at commencement ceremonies aren't just frustrated. They're terrified. And they're pointing at something the Church needs to pay attention to.   In this week's teaching, Pastor Dave connects the AI revolution to a biblical trajectory the Church can't afford to ignore — from the Tower of Babel to Revelation 13, from Isaiah's warning about misplaced wisdom to the rise...

The world calls it tolerance. The Bible calls it a pattern. A global movement is accelerating, one that treats biblical truth as hate speech, replaces doctrine with shared ethics, and demands affirmation rather than conviction. This isn't just a cultural shift. It's a prophetic one. In this week's teaching, Pastor Dave breaks down the rise of what's being called the New Global Religion of Toleranc...

Apocalypse fatigue is real. After years of pandemics, economic fear, political chaos, and relentless crisis, most people have simply stopped paying attention. They're exhausted. And spiritually speaking, that may be one of the most dangerous conditions of our generation. In this week's teaching, Pastor Dave Bowen examines what the Bible says about spiritual numbness in the last days, why Jesus war...

Artificial Intelligence isn't just changing what we do. It's revealing what we're responsible for. AI is here. Embedded in business, communication, finance, and daily life. Predictive algorithms. Autonomous systems. The invisible engine of modern civilization. Beneath the innovation sits a deeper question. It isn't technological. It's spiritual. Who will steward this power? And to what end? FREE G...

In June 2026, a massive festival is planned near the Dead Sea—an area deeply tied to the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah. To many, it’s just another event. But to those who study Scripture, the location raises a sobering question: are we witnessing a pattern repeating itself? Jesus warned that the last days would mirror the days of Lot—people living, celebrating, and continuing on as usual,...

War is no longer just fought on battlefields—it’s happening through technology, deception, and global power shifts. In this episode, we explore what war really means in the last days and how current events are aligning with Bible prophecy. Connect with Pastor Dave:   Interpreting the Times:  https://www.interpretingthetimes.com/ Standing Stones Community Church:  https://standingstonescc.org/ Supp...