Unraveling Revelation

The seven trumpet judgments and seven bowl judgments are similar, but they are not the same. This week, we clear up some confusion Derek may have caused by suggesting a connection in time between the sixth bowl, when the Euphrates dries up to prepare for the kings of the East, and the sixth trumpet, when four angels bound in the Euphrates are released along with an army of 200 million. A careful r...

The fourth, fifth, and sixth bowls of wrath poured out in the end times finally move us into judgments reserved specifically for the spirit realm. The fourth bowl judgment, when the sun scorches the earth, is global warming that not even the most ardent climate justice warrior can imagine. The fifth bowl judgment, however, targets the kingdom of Antichrist specifically, and it’s the first judgment...

The seven bowl judgments decreed by God are reserved for a world that is beyond redemption. While we believe that a remnant will survive into the period of the Lord’s wrath, it will not be a good time to be alive for anyone. This week, we look at the first three bowl judgments: Ugly and painful sores on everyone who takes the mark of the Beast and worships his image and the transformation of the w...

One of the greatest mysteries of end times prophecy is the location of Mystery Babylon, the city of the Antichrist’s one-world religion of the end times. Doug Woodward , author of  Will Babylon be Rebuilt in the Last Days? , joins us to discuss his belief that contrary to some popular teachings, the ancient city of Babylon will not be resurrected during the reign of Antichrist. Israel is open for...

Prominent rabbis in the second century AD changed the timeline of their scriptures—what we Christians call the Old Testament. Why would they do such a thing? Doug Woodward ( www.faith-happens.com ), author of the two-volume set Rebooting the Bible, explains that years were deducted from the ages of the patriarchs (and kings deleted from Persian history) to discredit the claims of Christians that J...

Prominent rabbis in the second century AD changed the timeline of their scriptures—what we Christians call the Old Testament. Why would they do such a thing? Doug Woodward, author of the two-volume set Rebooting the Bible, explains that years were deducted from the ages of the patriarchs (and kings deleted from Persian history) to discredit the claims of Christians that Jesus was the promised Mess...

Three of the characters that prophecy scholars have tried to identify for the last 2,000 years are the two witnesses (Rev. 11:1–14) and the restrainer (2 Thess. 2:6–7). Dr. Doug Hamp, pastor of The Way Congregation in Denver and author of Corrupting the Image III: Singularity, Superhumans, and the Second Coming of Jesus, explains the connections between the witnesses, who he identifies as Elijah a...

The two witnesses of Revelation 11 may be seen by a fallen world as evil aliens, prompting a global demand for a false savior—the Antichrist. Dr. Doug Hamp, author of Corrupting the Image III: Singularity, Superhumans, and the Second Coming of Jesus, explains why what sounds like a science-fiction scenario may actually be part of the modern UFO disclosure movement. Israel is open for tourists agai...

God’s wrath will be poured out on an unrepentant world in a sequence of events you definitely want to miss. We return to the Book of Revelation this week and pick up with chapter 15. We discuss John’s vision of the angels receiving bowls of judgment from the cherubim, the throne guardians, those who had “conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name,” and of the nations (Greek ethnē...

Jesus declared war on the demonic spirits of the dead Rephaim from the very beginning of his ministry. This week, we show the geography of Galilee to explain why Jesus was baptized where he was. It wasn’t near Jericho, contrary to popular belief, but north of the Sea of Galilee in Batanaea—the Greek name for Bashan—a land covered in megalithic monuments to “the dead” believed to be the literal ent...

We take it for granted that “the Son of Man” is a messianic title. After all, Jesus applied it to himself more than 80 times in the New Testament. However, we’ve learned just recently that the title was unknown to Jews until the writing of the Book of Parables, chapters 37–71 of the Book of 1 Enoch, in the late 1st century BC. (Yes, it’s in Daniel 7, but as a description—“one like a son of man”—ra...

What do the Essenes, the Book of Enoch, and Bible prophecy have in common? A lot more than we thought! The Book of Parables, which is what scholars call chapters 37–71 of the Book of 1 Enoch, had a powerful influence on the New Testament—especially end times prophecy. It was probably written by Essenes, but not at Qumran. There was another Essene community in Galilee, near the town of Magdala. Nex...

Nearly 3,000 years ago, Solomon built cult sites for the pagan gods Astarte, Chemosh, and Milcom on the Mount of Olives. Because of this, the priests called it the Mount of Corruption. Derek showed in his book The Second Coming of Saturn that a better translation from the Hebrew is Mount of the Destroyer—which is important, because the evidence also shows that Milcom, better known as Molech, is al...

When the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis 6:1–4 came to Earth, were they disobedient from the start or were they lured into sin by Satan? We engage in some speculation this week as we discuss the entity called Shemihazah by the Jews of Jesus’ day, the leader of the rebellious Watchers who sinned by commingling with human women (2 Pt. 2:4; Jude 6–7). We believe that entity has been known by many...

Five red heifers were shipped from Texas to Israel in September. They may be used in a mysterious ritual described in Numbers 19, a precursor for construction of the Third Temple. We discuss the red heifer, how much of what is believed about the rites are actually in the Bible, and how we as Christians should process this development that is bound to ramp up religious and political tensions in Isr...

WE WRAP our six-week series based on our last tour of Israel with a look at the incredible city of the Nabataean Arabs, Petra. Petra was a cult center, a pilgrimage destination for pagans of the ancient world until the time of Muhammad in the early 7th century. That’s because Petra was the site of the original Mecca—and may have been the location of Mount Sinai, as well. Israel is open for tourist...

AT THE SOUTHERN END of the Jordan River, Sodom and Jericho were destroyed, Moses was buried, and Elijah was carried up to heaven in a whirlwind. It’s also where the prophet Ezekiel foresaw the destruction of the army of Gog of Magog. Our video tour of Israel continues east of the Jordan this week as we show you what Moses saw, explain why God called Mount Nebo “this mountain of the Travelers,” and...

WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS of Abraham, Joshua, David, and Jesus. That’s the short version of this week’s program. Our 2019 tour of Israel took us from Joshua’s altar, site of the recent discovery of an ancient curse tablet written in archaic Hebrew at a time when the Israelites weren’t supposed to be in the land of Canaan, to the Mount of Olives and the Temple Mount. Messianic Rabbi Zev Porat showed...

IN MAY OF 2019, we saw what can only be described as a sign in the sky over the ancient Hebrew holy site of Shiloh, where the tabernacle of God stood for more than 300 years. This week, we show you what we saw in the sky. Skeptics may call it jet contrails or an unusual cloud formation, but to us, it looked for all the world like the wings of the cherubim touching over the Ark of the Covenant. We...

ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS places in Israel is the recently recognized Serpent Mound of Bashan. It’s three-quarters of a mile long, 20 to 25 feet high, covered with more than 140 megalithic tombs probably more than 5,000 years old, and it’s a quarter of a mile from Gilgal Refaim on the Golan Heights. We discuss the significance of this monument to the cult of the dead and speculate on whether this...

ISRAEL IS GROUND ZERO in the long supernatural war in which we all play a part. This week, we begin a series of programs to show you Israel through our eyes. In 2019, we traveled across the country and captured the adventure on video (special thanks to our friend, Taylor Joseph, who did most of the video work). Our tour began at the town where Jesus spent his childhood, Nazareth, where you can fin...

THE SEVEN ANGELS who pour out the wrath of God will reverse an ancient pagan ritual that required humans to pour out drink offerings to the spirits of the dead. We discuss the kispum ritual of the Amorite neighbors of ancient Israel, its connection to the cult of the dead, the dolmens that surrounded the city of Sodom, the song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 (repeated in Revelation 15), and Jesus’ bap...

A DAY is coming when God’s patience runs out. When it does, seven angels will be dispatched from the throne room of God, and what they bring to the earth will be horrific. We discuss the prelude to God’s wrath, with special attention on the song of Moses. We compare it to his song in Deuteronomy 32, and note where it was sung the first time—near, and possibly directly over, the ruins of ancient So...

GOD TOLD the prophet Joel that He would “gather all of the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.” But that valley doesn’t exist on any map. At least not yet. This week, we discuss the connections between the end times prophecies of Joel 3, Zechariah 14, and Revelation 14, and explain why we believe the Valley of Jehoshaphat suddenly appears on the Day of the Lord—Armageddon—whe...

THE SUPERNATURAL soldiers of Joel chapter 2 have been interpreted as a divine army fighting for God in the end times. But when you read Joel 2 in context, it’s clear that this army is fighting for the other side. We discuss “Joel’s army” and examine the links to the evil, locust-like entities from the abyss in Revelation 9 and the connections to Revelation 14 and Zechariah 14.