In Grace Radio Podcast

How did a farmer many people doubted get an entire divided nation to show up for one battle? Jim Scudder climbs Mount Bezek with the archaeologist digging a fortress wall that dates to Saul's own lifetime.

A ruler once walked into the Jewish temple, declared himself God, and slaughtered a pig inside it. Jesus points past him in Matthew 24 to a desecration still ahead, in a temple not yet standing. Click Here to view episode images.

What disqualifies a man from the priesthood of a temple that has not even been built yet? Revelation 11 has John measuring that temple, and Jim Scudder shows you how far the preparations have gone. Click Here to view episode images.

Why does the little book John is told to eat taste like honey and then turn his stomach bitter? Revelation 10 ends with that strange meal, and Jim Scudder tells you what the two tastes stand for.

What is an angel doing with one foot planted on the sea and the other on the earth? He comes down in Revelation 10 clothed with a cloud, and Jim Scudder tells you what that stance is for.

Which name did critics call an invention of the Bible, until a carved stone turned up at Caesarea? Jim Scudder walks the Israel Museum at night, from the house of David to the great Isaiah Scroll.

Two hundred million horsemen ride, and the killing power sits in their mouths and in their tails. A third of humanity dies in Revelation 9, and the last verses turn to the people left standing. Click Here to view episode images.

Which river on today's map has four fallen angels bound in it, waiting on a date already set? The sixth trumpet sounds in Revelation 9, and Jim Scudder reads what those four are loosed to do. Click Here to view episode images.

How long does a sting from the bottomless pit keep hurting a man who cannot get away from it? Revelation 9 gives these locusts their orders, and Jim Scudder walks through every limit set on them. Click Here to view episode images.

Why does the Bible say that hell was never made for people in the first place? The bottomless pit opens in Revelation 9, and Jim Scudder lays out four things Jesus said about hell. Click Here to view episode images.

What is the biggest lie that people tell about Israel, and what is the truth that answers it? Jim Scudder asked exactly that of Christian and Jewish leaders, from a Jerusalem rabbi to Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

A third of the sea turns to blood, and a third of every living thing in it dies off. Trumpets two, three, and four sound in Revelation 8, and the world's fresh water is next.

What is left of this planet after a third of its trees burn and every blade of grass is gone? Jim Scudder reaches the first trumpet of Revelation 8 and shows you who these judgments cannot harm.

What happens to all of your prayers after you say amen and get up off your knees? Revelation 8 puts them into an angel's hand at the golden altar, and Jim Scudder follows what happens next.

Why does every voice in heaven stop at once and stay quiet for the space of a half hour? The seventh seal breaks in Revelation 8, and Jim Scudder tells you what that silence is for.

Staff Sergeant Dave Karnes turned down every dollar Hollywood offered for the rights to his Ground Zero rescue story. He says two women in a Bellevue hallway had already paid him in full — so what did they do?

A cruise sold as “all-inclusive” charged Jim Scudder extra for the crab, extra for the lobster, and extra for coffee. The end of Revelation 7 lists everything included, and the last item is not something you can buy. Click Here to view episode images.

Imagine someone walks up to you in eternity and says you are the only reason they are standing there. Revelation 7 fills heaven with a crowd that nobody can number — so who brought them, and what did it cost? Click Here to view episode images.

A black light at a prison exit revealed a mark on Jim Scudder's wrist he never saw anyone put there. Revelation 7 seals 144,000 witnesses the same way — so what mark are you carrying that you have never seen?

The worst thing that can happen to a sailor, is a dead calm with no wind in the sails. Revelation 6 ends on a question that just hangs there — so who is still standing when everything goes quiet?

On 9-11, a Connecticut accountant pulled a Marine uniform off his closet hook, prayed with his pastor, and drove a 1979 Porsche 911 toward a Ground Zero every sign said was closed — and Jim Scudder retraces those steps with Dave Karnes to learn what he found in the rubble.

When the flames refused to touch Polycarp, his executioners had to find another way — and Jim Scudder carries that courage into the sixth seal, where the sun turns black, the moon bleeds, and the mightiest men on earth go hunting for the most expensive real estate there is. Click Here to view episode images.

Jim Scudder looks at the fifth seal, where martyred souls under the altar cry out “How long?” — but first he recounts the 1993 Chicago conference gathered to prove all religions are one, where a brawl erupted and harmony was restored by someone nobody at the podium expected. Click Here to view episode images.

A quarrelsome old man swore he'd claw his way out of the grave to haunt his wife, and Jim Scudder uses what she did about it to explain exactly where the Antichrist stands as the white horse gives way to red, black, and pale in Revelation 6. Click Here to view episode images.

A rider comes in on a white horse wearing a crown and carrying a bow, promising the peace that every treaty in human history has failed to deliver — and Jim Scudder opens Revelation 6 to show how a single Greek word quietly gives the imposter away. Click Here to view episode images.

Recorded on Mount Scopus overlooking the Temple Mount, this final episode of Armageddon's Dawn asks why a thousand years of perfect peace still ends in rebellion, as Randall Price, Menno Kallisher, Joel Rosenberg, and Mark Robinson describe a city coming down out of heaven where death is gone.

A dying woman asked the priest at her bedside one strange question before he could absolve her — show me your hand — and this episode explains why his answer changed everything, as Jim Scudder unpacks the seven things the Lamb deserves and where Jesus is right now. Click Here to view episode images.

Seven creatures in Alaska — breaching whales, eagles everywhere, a halibut that looks like someone smooshed its head — set up a question about seven things the Lamb deserves, and Jim Scudder explains why your prayers rise before God's throne like incense from a golden bowl. Click Here to view episode images.

The lion isn't the biggest or fastest animal, so why does every other creature scatter the moment he appears — and why, when heaven finds the one worthy to open the scroll, does he step into the throne room looking less like a lion than a slaughtered lamb? Click Here to view episode images.

Over eight thousand peace treaties have been signed and broken, leaving barely eight percent of human history at peace, so when a strong angel asks who is worthy to break the seven seals and no one answers, what is sealed inside that scroll, and who finally steps forward? Click Here to view episode images.

In this weekend edition filmed in Israel, Jim Scudder and guests Menno Kallisher, Mark Robinson, Randall Price, and Joel Rosenberg ask why Jesus will choose the valley of Megiddo for His final battle — and what a young king of Judah, wounded on that same ground, has to do with it.

Napoleon refused to let anyone but himself place the crown on his head — and this episode explains why that scene has no place in heaven's throne room, as Jim Scudder lays out seven marks of true worship and asks whether you're seeking gold or seeking God.

Jim Scudder walks through the throne room of Revelation 4 and asks a question the modern world would rather avoid: what happens when pride stops being a warning and starts being a parade, and what does a full circle rainbow reveal about the God about to judge it all?

A valley in Israel has been named Trouble since the day a man's hidden sin cost the nation a battle — so why does God promise to turn it into a door of hope, and what might an ancient copper scroll reveal is still buried beneath that very ground?

Worship isn't just the song service, and this episode opens the throne room of heaven to prove it, where four creatures covered in eyes guard a covenant God made with Noah, and where a strange encounter at Qumran leaves Jim Scudder asking whether we're nothing more than mammals.

From Israel, with guests Joel Rosenberg and Jerusalem's Menno Kallisher, Jim Scudder reaches the vial judgments — a woman in travail, a dragon waiting to devour her child, a protected remnant — who is the woman, who is spared, and what happens when the war of Armageddon finally dawns?

Two airline pilots got so absorbed in their new iPads that they drifted out of radio contact with air traffic control and flew past Minneapolis before a flight attendant noticed — what does that have to do with the throne room of God and crowns cast at His feet?

John is called up through an open door and sees a throne, a rainbow that circles it, and a voice like a trumpet — but before the description begins, Jim Scudder asks what three W's ought to hold up every believer's day, and it isn't the World Wide Web.

Tucked into Daniel chapter 9 is a prophecy of seventy weeks that Jim Scudder says settles the question of whether the church faces the tribulation — but why does he compare Israel to a pan moved to the back burner of God's stove — still waiting for the meal?

If the rapture happened in the middle or at the end of the tribulation, Jim Scudder says you could mark the date — so what does Jesus mean when He warns that no one knows the day, and that the Lord comes like a thief in the night?

In Jerusalem, Jim Scudder hears something startling from those who want the Jewish temple rebuilt: the blueprints are drawn, the quarries are close, the funding is pledged, and they claim it could be functioning within six months — so what has to happen first, and what follows once it does?

Everyone who has set a date for the Lord's return has been proven wrong, and Jim Scudder refuses to set another — but if the day cannot be known, how much of the season can Scripture actually tell us, and why does the timing matter so much?

A roadkill cafe menu, a taco salad the dinner guests were not told about until afterward, and a word beginning with R that is mysterious to some and thrilling to others — how do all three end up in one study of Revelation 4?

Jesus dictated letters to seven real churches, and the words He chose for Philadelphia and Laodicea — one faithful with an open door, the other so lukewarm He said He would spit it out — raise an uncomfortable question worth asking today: what exactly does Jesus think of your church?

The church at Sardis in Revelation 3 had a name for being alive — a solid reputation and a busy calendar — yet Jesus told them plainly that they were dead; what was missing, and how would a church today know whether the same words applied to it?

A sealed scroll holds the destiny of the world—but who is worthy to break its seals? Broadcasting from Israel with guests Dr. J. Randall Price and Pastor Meno Kalisher, Jim Scudder reveals the Lion of the tribe of Judah and the hope hidden inside the tribulation.

Can a church do everything right and still lose the one thing that matters most? Jim Scudder opens Jesus' letters to Ephesus and Smyrna—a forgotten first love, a suffering church called rich—and asks whether just a little compromise is ever really okay.

What if the next event on God's calendar could happen before this sentence is finished? Jim Scudder turns to Revelation 2 and the moment the church is caught away—and why waiting for the signs before you believe is a gamble you can't afford.

What would it be like to see Jesus not as He walked in Galilee, but robed as heaven's great High Priest? Jim Scudder examines the dazzling portrait of Revelation 1—hair white as snow, eyes of flame—and what those golden lampstands demand of the church today.

We picture Jesus from paintings and films—but what happens when you come face to face with the Christ whose eyes blaze like fire? Jim Scudder unveils the glorified Savior of Revelation 1, whose gaze sees straight through every pretense to the real you.

What do three armies now gathered on Israel's border have to do with a prophecy written 2,500 years ago? Broadcasting from Jerusalem with guests Dr. Randall Price and Joel Rosenberg, Jim Scudder examines Gog, Magog, and the rise of the Antichrist.