Unraveling Revelation

TECHNOLOGY to make our lives easier and more secure will be important tools to build the infrastructure of the prophesied global government.Josh Davis, author of Rise of the One-World Mind, explains how Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and artificial intelligence will help bring about a one-world government and a single religion that worships the Antichrist.

THE WOULD-BE rulers of Earth are weaponizing language to brainwash us into accepting global government. Josh Davis, author of Rise of the One-World Mind, joins us to explain how media, both legacy and social, are being used to push us towards the future kingdom of the Antichrist.

IT'S GOOD the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are only carrying out God's orders.Curtis Liebl, author of The Four Horsemen: The Winds of Theopolitical Change, explains that the horsemen have been riding for centuries, but only doing what God directs (or allows)—and that prophecy could only be fulfilled with riders acting as God's change agents on Earth.

THE FOUR HORSEMEN of the Apocalypse are usually depicted as evil. What if they're actually God's agents?Curtis Liebl (note: Derek mispronounced Curtis's name, and we apologize for the error!), author of The Four Horsemen: The Winds of Theopolitical Change, explains why connecting Revelation 6, Zechariah 6, and Daniel 7 opens up a whole new understanding of the four riders.

ARMAGEDDON WILL be fought at Jerusalem. A mysterious group of warriors called “Joel's army” by some will play a role—but they're not the good guys.We revisit the scholarly explanation behind identifying the Temple Mount as Armageddon. In a nutshell, the name is based on the transliteration the phrase har mo`ed (“mount of assembly”) from Hebrew into Greek. Then we discuss who will be involved in that battle.Ezekiel identifies giants as warriors in the army of Gog (the Antichrist), both as “the Travelers” (Eze. 39:11, “travelers” being a term used by the Canaanites for the spirits of the Rephaim) and as “the mighty” (Eze. 39:18), which is confirmed by the Septuagint translation which renders “mighty” as gigantōn—giants.We explain why Joel's army is not something you want to be part of. At the end of Joel chapter 2, God tells the prophet that the army, an instrument of His judgment on the Day of the Lord, will be destroyed (Joel 2:18–20).

AS WAR continues in Ukraine and reignites between Israel and Hamas, we discuss what appears to be a deliberate effort to trigger World War 3.Why would European leaders insist on continuing a war with Russia that Ukraine cannot win even with Europe's direct involvement? What will emerge from the fractured state of Syria? Why does Hamas persist in a conflict that's seen its home destroyed and its people displaced?The answers can only be spiritual because otherwise they make no sense. Ultimately, we'll look back on these wars as preliminaries to the war that ends with Armageddon.

THE MIDDLE EAST is in turmoil as factions fight for control of Syria. One, backed by Turkey, controls Damascus while others backed by the US and Israel control the south and east of the country. It's fascinating but a fact: The prophet Ezekiel foresaw a day when Turkey would be at the center of the geopolitical and theopolitical world.The situation is fluid and recent developments have taken many observers, including us, by surprise. Where this ends only the Lord knows for sure, so we return to Ezekiel 38 and 39 and compare that prophecy with other biblical references to the Day of the Lord.

WE ARE SEEING what could be the sentiment that brings the world together to follow the Antichrist to war.Building on last week's discussion of the changing reality on the ground in the Middle East, especially with Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, we look at what might be the “hooks” God uses to drag Gog of Magog (the Antichrist) to Israel for the final battle of the age, Armageddon.

ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu says he doesn't intend to allow the armed forces of Al Qaeda offshoot HTS south of Damascus. Is this a step toward fulfilling the land promised to Abraham's descendants in Genesis 15?We discuss a new report from Avi Lipkin in Israel where he describes a new Middle East, with an Israeli-Druze autonomous zone across southern Syria from the Golan Heights to the Euphrates River, and a Kurdish autonomous zone east of the Euphrates connecting to the Kurdish zone in Iraq, linking to Israel's allies in Azerbaijan.Would this fulfill prophecy? That's up for debate, but one thing is certain—we are living in prophetic times.

SINCE OCTOBER 7, 2023, a growing number of Christians have concluded that we should not support Israel for reasons ranging from theft of the land from native Arabs to the church replacing Israel in end times prophecy.We disagree. While we acknowledge that Israel is ruled by fallen, sinful humans just like every other nation on Earth, and we affirm that all have sinned and will not go to the Father except through Jesus, we also recognize that Islam has a 1,400-year history of bloody conquest in its wake. Arabs and Jews have been trying to negotiate a two-state solution since at least 1936, even though the land “from the river to the sea” was promised to the Zionist movement by the League of Nations in 1920 (Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant; the British Mandate for Palestine was approved by the League of Nations Sept. 16, 1922).The bottom line is this: A plain reading of verses like Isaiah 54, Romans 11:1–5, and Zechariah 12:8–10 make clear that a day is coming when a remnant of the Jews in Jerusalem “will look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced, [and] they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”In context, it's clear that those verses do not apply to the church—they are directed specifically at Israel and the Jews.

PRESIDENT TRUMP shocked the world by suggesting that the United States would “own” Gaza and rebuild it into the Riviera of the Middle East. Is he serious?Doom was prophesied on Gaza by the Hebrew prophets Jeremiah (Jer. 47:1–7), Amos (Amos 1:6–8), and Zephaniah (Zeph. 2:5–7). Those prophecies were fulfilled by the Assyrians in 730 BC and Egypt in 601 BC. Were those “already-but-not-yet” fulfillments? It's possible.We discuss the world's reaction to President Trump's out of the box proposal and whether, as some Christians have suggested, this means the president is now the leading candidate for the Antichrist. (Short answer: No.)

IS 2025 the year the Mark of the Beast is introduced?It's early in the game for the mark, but it's likely we'll see major efforts to introduce Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) around the world, and this is as close to the mark as anything we've seen in our lifetimes.We look at the situation in Syria and how it may impact the Middle East in general and Israel in particular. We also discuss the claim by some that President Trump's recent actions suggest that he is the Man of Lawlessness. With respect, we disagree; the Antichrist is likely to be younger and have a much wider base of support than Donald Trump.

MANY CHRISTIANS have noticed that President Trump has promised to usher in a new golden age for America. Does he know the origin of that phrase?We think not. Still, since we've written about the New Age belief in a golden age with the return of “old Saturn's reign” in our last two books, we discuss the origin of the term in ancient Greek religion, how it was echoed in Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and how the pagan “prophecy” differs from that of Daniel.Bottom line: A true golden age will come only with the return of Christ—and that will be preceded by iron mixed with miry clay.

WHO OR WHAT are the seven heads on the Beast? This week, we compare Revelation 17 and Daniel 7 to identify what the horns represent both past and future.There is a general consensus that the seven kingdoms are Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and a future nation, possibly a revived Roman Empire, that is the global kingdom of Antichrist. As we noted last week, there are others who identify specific kings or rulers: Nimrod, Thutmose III (the pharaoh who oppressed Israel), Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus Ephiphanes, Nero, and Adolf Hitler, with the prophesied Antichrist to be the spirit who possessed one of the seven (or even a resurrected Nimrod).Here's where it gets more complicated: We believe the kings are supernatural—fallen angels, if you like. How do we identify them from among the pagan gods of the ancient world? That's a great question, and it's one we can't answer. We can speculate, but then we are looking “through a glass darkly.”We also note that the link in Revelation 17 between the seven heads on the Beast to “seven mountains” is not necessarily a geographic clue. Mountains in Second Temple Judaism sometimes represent angelic beings, as in 1 Enoch 21 (and probably the “stones of fire” in Ezekiel 28).

THE IDENTITY of the Beast and what its seven heads represent are two of the biggest unanswered questions in Christian theology.This week, we begin a study of the seven heads which John was told represent “seven kings, five who have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.” We present a list of human kings who might fit those clues, but we believe these kings are supernatural, not human.The Beast itself is “an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.” The word translated “destruction” is the Greek apōleian, which is similar to Apollyon, the “Destroyer” who rises from the Abyss in Revelation 9. Is it the same word? If so, is there is a prophesied civil war among the Fallen during the end times? Or are we going too far to make this connection?This much we know: We've only scratched the surface of this topic.

TECHNOLOGY AND GEOPOLITICS are coming together to build the infrastructure for the prophesied global government.We discuss surveillance technology, Central Bank Digital Currency, the G20's response to China's Belt and Road Initiative, Africa's “coup belt,” and the role of the Great Prostitute, Inanna/Ishtar, in assembling the Beast System.

THE OLD GODS of the Greeks and Romans, the Titans, were a violent bunch. According to the story, they were defeated by Zeus/Jupiter and the Olympian gods and banished to Tartarus.That tale echoes older accounts of the “former gods” of the Hittites and Hurrians and the Anunnaki of Mesopotamia, who, like the Titans, had once ruled the cosmos but had been supplanted by a younger generation of gods and confined to the netherworld.That's the fake news version of the rebellion described in Genesis 6:1–4, fleshed out in 1 Enoch 6–36 and Jubilees 5:1–10, wherein the “sons of God” saw that women were attractive and commingled with them, producing monstrous, giant hybrid children. In short, the Titans were the Watchers of 1 Enoch, who were the “sons of God” from Genesis 6.You may not have noticed, but Hollywood has been running a PR campaign to rebrand the Titans in recent years, most obviously through the Monsterverse series of Godzilla movies. This week, we discuss the 2019 entry in the series, Godzilla: King of Monsters.As we note during the program, we don't look to pop culture for spiritual truth, but we can discern messaging from the fallen realm. We think the movie depicts Godzilla as a sort of Saturn or Kronos, king of the Titans, rising from his lair in the abyss—making him the angel of the bottomless pit, like Abaddon/Apollyon in Revelation 9—to battle King Ghidorah, a multi-headed dragon with the power to manipulate the weather, just like the storm-god Baal/Zeus/Jupiter, who Jesus identified as Satan (Matt. 12:22–26; Rev. 2:13).In other words, while this may be nothing more than Hollywood mining the ancient religions of the world to create a blockbuster about giant monsters, the religious messaging of King of Monsters is very in-your-face—and it portrays the sinful angels of Genesis 6, the Titans, as “the original and rightful rulers of Earth.”We think this is an example of the fallen realm preparing an unbelieving world for the end times.

THERE IS PROPHECY in Isaiah 14, the chapter with the famous verse, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.”While most read it as either a condemnation of the king of Babylon or “Lucifer,” it is also a prophecy of the future destruction of the rebellious “sons of God” from Genesis 6:1–4. The entity called “Lucifer,” Enlil (AKA El, Molech, Dagon, Assur, Kronos, Saturn, Shemihazah, and many other names) and the “slaughter [of] his sons” (Isa. 14:21) is linked to Isaiah 26:13–14, which declares that in the Resurrection, “they are [Rephaim], they will not arise,” and the prophesied destruction of the Watchers—not “cities”—in Isaiah 14:21 and Numbers 24:19.We also find a fascinating difference between our English Bibles and the Septuagint translation of Isaiah 14:20, where this entity is told, “You will certainly not remain into eternity, evil seed!”

CELEBRATING THE BIRTH of Jesus has become controversial—for Christians.There is no question that unbiblical traditions have become part of the holiday. But contrary to what you may have heard, the holiday was not established by the early church to “christianize” a pagan holiday.We explain how the early church settled on December 25 (and January 6) as Christmas Day, and why, based on solid academic research into the history of the holiday, Christmas has nothing to do with Nimrod, Baal, Saturn, Sol Invictus, the winter solstice, or any other pagan tradition or holiday from the ancient world.

OUR 2023 TOUR of Israel featured a visit to Gilgal Refaim, the “Wheel of the Giants” on the Golan Heights. Why did we go there, and why is it relevant to our study of end times prophecy?We share video of our visit to this fascinating site that some call “Israel's Stonehenge.” That really does Gilgal Refaim a disservice, because it's much bigger and much older than Britain's famous megalith. The most recent excavations at Gilgal Refaim date it to about 3700 BC, but it's probably older. And it was more than likely used in rituals to summon and commune with the dead, a cult that was expressly forbidden by God. We explain the link between the Nephilim (later called Rephaim by the Canaanites and Israelites), the region of Bashan, and end times prophecies in Isaiah 26:13–19, Isaiah 27:1, and Psalm 68:21–22 that foretell the deaths of the giants, their supernatural fathers (the “sons of God” of Genesis 6:1–4), and Leviathan—the spirit of chaos that we believe indwells the Antichrist in the last days.

The death of the pagan gods has been decreed. End times prophecy is about how that sentence will be carried out.Dr. Michael Heiser, a good friend and excellent scholar who passed into glory February 20, 2023, joined us in the summer of 2021 to discuss the divine council—what it is, where we find it in scripture, and why Psalm 82, contrary to the interpretation of most Bible teachers, is a courtroom scene in heaven at which God passes judgment on the small-G gods.Here is the link to the episode of Mike's Naked Bible Podcast where he explains why Jesus quoting Psalm 82 in John 10:34–36 does not mean that the “gods” of Psalm 82 are men. At that page, you'll find links to Mike's academic paper and a narrated slide presentation on this topic.

Verses mentioning Mount Hermon and the land of Bashan are sprinkled throughout the Bible. To Israelites during the Biblical Period, they were obvious references to the land of the dead.Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, who sadly passed away February 20, 2023 at the age of 60, joined us for an interview in 2021 and explained why Bashan and Hermon were important, and why Jesus deliberately traveled there for some very specific events during his ministry—like picking a fight with the Enemy.

Jesus descended into the abyss to declare victory over the spirits who disobeyed “in the days of Noah” (1 Pt. 3:20), a reference to the “sons of God” from Genesis 6.Bible scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, in an interview recorded in July 2021, explains why this passage in 1 Peter 3 is so profound, why the apostle connected it to baptism, and how it was influenced by the Book of 1 Enoch.

The weird parts of the Bible are important! So says scholar Dr. Michael Heiser, author of The Unseen Realm, Angels, Demons, and Reversing Hermon.As you know, Mike was called home by the Lord in February of 2023. While Derek recovers from surgery, we'll feature Mike over the next four weeks from an interview recorded in July of 2021.This week, Mike discusses the controversial passages in Genesis 6:1–4 and explains why they weren't controversial at all 2,000 years ago. Jews of the Second Temple period and the early church were in agreement: Giants once walked the earth, they were the hybrid offspring of supernatural beings and human women, and the spirits of those giants, who died in the Flood of Noah, are the demons that afflict humanity to this day.

THE WARS of Antichrist will be fought in the heavens as much as on Earth—and the objective is determining who's resurrected at the end of the age.This sounds “out there,” but we have prophecies to back this up: Isaiah 26:13–19 explicitly foretells a day when the Rephaim, the demonic spirits of the Nephilim, “will not arise.” We think this is what Ezekiel meant when he wrote that the Travelers, a word used by the Canaanites for the spirits of the Rephaim, would be “blocked” at the end of the war of Gog and Magog (Eze. 39:11).We also discuss the saints of Daniel 7:21–27 and a parallel verse in Revelation 13:7, noting that the Aramaic word translated “saints” in Daniel 7 is rendered “holy ones” in Daniel 4:13 and 17 in parallel with “Watchers.” In short, the little horn of Daniel 7, the Antichrist, who “made war with the saints and prevailed over them” is not fighting against humans faithful to God, but to loyal angels as part of this “Resurrection war.”

UTTERMOST NORTH is an English translation of the Hebrew phrase yarkete tsaphon, which actually refers to cosmic north—the location of the palace of Baal.Mount Zaphon is today called Jebel al-Aqra, a mountain in southern Türkiye near the city of Antakya (ancient Antioch). But given that it was believed to be the home of the king of the pantheon worshiped by the pagans of Canaan, references to tsaphon (“north”) in the Old Testament carry a supernatural meaning.This is where the army of Gog of Magog will assemble (Eze. 38:6, 15; 39:2), and it's where the rebel in Eden wanted to build his “mount of assembly” (Isa. 14:13), which is the Hebrew phrase (har moʿed) from which John transliterated the name Armageddon.So, the idea that Christ's return may echo the Exodus, coming from the south, may convey a deeper meaning of reversing the evil that came from “cosmic north” in ancient Israel.

A lot of biblical history took place east of the Jordan River. What role does the modern nation of Jordan play in end times prophecy?This week, we discuss an interesting sequence of events that may unfold during the time of the Antichrist: If Israeli Jews take notice of the references to the “abomination of desolation” in the Book of Daniel (8:13, 9:26–27, 11:31, and 12:11) and they flee to the mountains as Jesus warned his followers to do in Matthew 24:15–21 (and as apparently prophesied in Revelation 12:6), they must return at some point because the House of Judah and House of David are in Jerusalem on the Day of the Lord (Zech. 12:1–11, 14:1–15), when God Himself goes into battle for Israel.We also discuss whether Habakkuk 3:3–5 is an “already but not yet” prophecy, fulfilled already when the Israelites followed God from Teman and Mount Paran, which are alternate names for Sinai. If the wilderness to which the woman—Israel—flees in Rev. 12:6 is Petra, as some prophecy teachers believe, then yes, Habakkuk 3 may have a “not yet” fulfillment in the future.We believe Sinai was either near or at Petra, not in Arabia, for reasons we'll explain in detail another time. So, Habakkuk may have foreseen a future return from the wilderness to Jerusalem by the people of Israel prior to the final battle of the age, Armageddon.

THE PRECISION of prophecy is stunning. For example, David saw the crucifixion a thousand years before it happened.This week, we discuss the startling connections between Psalm 22, the “crucifixion prophecy” of Isaiah 52:10 (and how it is embedded in the name “Yeshua”), and Zechariah's prophecy of the Day of Yahweh, when our Lord returns and it welcomed by the House of David in Jerusalem.

ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS places in Israel is the recently identified 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. With the release of our book ‘The Gates of Hell' this week, we revisit our discussion of the significance of this and other monuments to the cult of the dead in the ancient kingdom ruled by Og, Bashan—the “Place of the Serpent.”We also visited Tel Dan at the foot of Mount Hermon, where we showed how a misunderstood verse in the Book of Hosea reveals that the golden calves of Jeroboam marked a return to the worship of the entity who was believed to live on the mountain, the Canaanite creator-god El—who, as Derek shows in his book The Second Coming of Saturn, was known to the Hebrews as Molech.And we visit the place where Jesus declared his divinity—literally at the base of Mount Hermon, the Canaanite Olympus, standing in front of the gates of hell.

BESIDES THE WARS, rumors of war, famines, earthquakes, and nation rising against nation, there are other indicators that the year 2025 may be biblically significant.First, the prophecies of the Essenes of the Second Temple period, who identified 2025 as the beginning of the final 50-year jubilee. In addition, central banks will begin trials of digital assets—virtual money—next year, the beginning of a shift to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a big step toward creating the mark of the Beast.Then there are New Agers looking for what occultist Alice Bailey called the externalization of the Hierarchy, a vaguely defined concept that appears to mean the manifestation of… something. (Please understand we give this belief no credence whatsoever. We bring this up only to show that the Fallen have their agents on alert and ready to act as we approach the end of the age.)Finally, although we do not set dates, we note that the Feast of Tabernacles next year, which concludes on Monday, October 13, 2025 is 3-1/2 years before the arrival of asteroid Apophis, named for the Egyptian chaos-serpent, which Tom Horn suggested might be the third trumpet judgment (Rev. 8:10–11) in his jaw-dropping book The Wormwood Prophecy. If, as Tom suggested, Wormwood marks the middle of the seven-year Great Tribulation, then the beginning coincides with the end of Tabernacles, the most important feast in the annual Jewish calendar.Add to that wars in Ukraine and between Israel and its neighbors that threaten to escalate, not to mention the potential for unrest in the United States after our presidential election next month, and 2025 could be a very interesting and consequential year.

WITH THE WAR between Israel and Hamas approaching the one-year mark, things have escalated along Israel's northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon.This week, we look at prophecies by Amos, Ezekiel, and Isaiah against Tyre, the preeminent city of the Phoenicians in Lebanon, and Gaza, the home city of Hamas today. Both of those cities suffered under the Assyrian invasions of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, but it's worth asking whether any or all of them might be “already but not yet” prophecies that are about to be fulfilled today.

JESUS WARNED US to beware of false prophets and false christs in the last days. We think that a false Gog-Magog war is part of that deception.Why? Prophetically minded Jews are looking for the Messiah at the end of the war described in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. There are few scenarios we can imagine that are more evil and insidious than deceiving Jews into welcoming the wrong man as the savior of Israel in a future war as a false Messiah, which is the literal meaning of the Greek word antichristos—the Antichrist.

THE END of the war of Gog and Magog is the battle of Armageddon. This week, we discuss the parallels between Ezekiel 38–39 and Revelation 19. Jews believe that the Gog-Magog war is the conflict that brings the Messiah to Earth. They're right, but Satan and his minions may use the current Arab-Israeli conflict, or a future war like it, to deceive religious Jews into welcoming a false Messiah.

GOD REVEALED to the Hebrew prophets that Israel would be scattered to the nations and then regathered. The second half of those prophecies was fulfilled in 1948.Pastor Carl Gallups, author of Eyes to See and Gods of Ground Zero, discusses the prophecies fulfilled by the return of Israel to the land, especially Isaiah 49, in which the prophet foresaw a day when the Jews would say, “The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in” (Isa. 49:20)—which has been fulfilled by Israel's refusal to return to the pre-1967 border with Jordan, which squeezed Israel to just nine miles wide at its narrowest point.We also discuss the violent opposition to Israel's very existence, which seems unlikely if the state of Israel was, as some contend, a Luciferian state under the control of Satan.

WE LIVE in prophetically significant times—the most prophetic era since the first coming of Jesus.Pastor Carl Gallups, author of Eyes to See, joins us to explain why the Bible is unlike any other religious text, why Revelation 3's “synagogue of Satan” does not refer to modern Israel, and how Israel's return to the land in 1948 fulfills prophecy—in some cases, precisely.

NEWS HEADLINES are shadows of events in the spirit realm. It's why Paul wrote, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood.”As the world faces the possibility of World War 3, which we believe could be a false fulfillment of the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel 38 and 39, we take time to look at what's happening in the Middle East, and speculate on the identities of the principalities and powers behind the scenes.We know that Satan leads the end times rebellion, based on Revelation 12, and note that Jesus identified Satan as Baal (Matt. 12:22–26), who was known in Greece and Rome as Zeus and Jupiter. We also believe he's the most likely candidate for the prince of Greece mentioned in Daniel 10.That begs the question: Who is the prince of Persia? Is it Ahura Mazda? Marduk? Are those different names for the same entity? Are they working together, or do they struggle with one another for power while they try to knock God off His throne?Then there is Shemihazah, leader of the Genesis 6 rebellion, who we believe was the entity known to the neighbors of ancient Israel as El, Enlil, and Dagon—and who the Hebrew prophets called Molech. He's the angel of the bottomless pit, which means he gets out for five months (Rev. 9:11). Does he think Satan will hand over his kingdom when he emerges from the abyss?What about Inanna, the woman who rides the Beast? She thinks she controls the Antichrist and his kingdom, but Revelation tells us that the Beast and his ten sub-kings will turn on her and destroy her.And then there is Chaos, or Leviathan. We believe this is the spirit that indwells the human we call Antichrist. He first emerges in Genesis 1:2 (the Hebrew word translated “deep”, tehom, is a cognate for Sumerian Tiamat, their version of Leviathan). Will he be satisfied playing the role of commander-in-chief of Satan's army?

ARMAGEDDON IS commonly thought to be a battle between the forces of Antichrist and a loyal to God at Megiddo, an ancient city in Israel located at a strategic pass through the Carmel range of mountains. We disagree.While it makes sense from a human perspective, as Megiddo was the site of key battles in history as far back as Pharaoh Thutmose III—probably the pharaoh with whom Moses was raised.But the prize of the war led by Antichrist is the mount of assembly, mentioned in Isaiah 14:12 as the place from which the divine rebel plans to rule over God's creation. In the context of the final war of the age, that refers to Zion—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.It is the Hebrew phrase translated as “mount of assembly” or “mount of the congregation,” har mo`ed, that John transliterated into Greek as har magedon, which in turn was rendered in English as Armageddon.

ARMAGEDDON IS preceded by the destruction of Babylon, an event that brings the world economic system to its knees.It may also be linked to a gruesome event described back in Revelation 14, where an angel first declares, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great,” and a few verses later the “harvest of the earth” results in blood “as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia (about 184 miles).”Is the destruction of Babylon part of the trampling of grapes in the winepress of the wrath of God? Possibly. The main takeaway this week is that the seals, trumpets, and bowls don't necessarily follow sequentially, as we return to the destruction of Babylon in Revelation 18, the prelude to Armageddon.

DO GIANTS still exist? Did they ever? Why are we even talking about them in a program about Bible prophecy? Just after New Year's Day, a grainy, long-distance video appeared to show an entity some 7 to 10 feet tall which some believe was responsible for dozens of Miami police units being called to the scene. It wasn't a giant in Miami, but the spirits of the Nephilim are prophesied to take part in the battle of Armageddon.

PAUL WROTE that “we wrestle not against flesh and blood.” So, which principalities, powers, and cosmic rulers over this present darkness are responsible for what's happening on Earth today?We discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict and the long war for control of the holy ground called Israel, connecting the god of Islam to an ancient entity called Molech and the Destroyer who emerges from the Abyss in the end times—Abaddon.

THE ANTICHRIST'S KINGDOM will not be established by conquest but by law—one suffocating regulation at a time.This week, we discuss a meeting in May that sounded mundane and boring, the World Health Assembly. At this meeting, however, some 300 proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations were voted upon by the 194 member states of the WHO. Some of these amendments, which become law in May of 2025, essentially give the World Health Organization the power to rule the world.Does that sound too sensational to be true? We thought so, too, at first. But legal scholars who have looked at this are sounding the alarm. Using public health as justification, the WHO wants the power to dictate health policies, control our ability to travel, and even regulate what they consider mis-, dis-, or malinformation on social media.It doesn't take a believer in end times Bible prophecy to see how next May's seemingly boring meeting of health professionals and bureaucrats could lay the groundwork for a global government. If you have a prophetic worldview, you see exactly where this leads.

THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL is not the product of a conspiracy to deceive Christians into supporting the dark side.If Satan had wanted to create a “fake Israel,” he certainly went about it in a strange way. This week, we summarize the political intrigues of the first half of the 20th century both for and against the creation of an independent Jewish state. In a nutshell, Israel's Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948 happened despite intense resistance from American, British, German, Russian, and Arab interests, both government and private, as well as pressure from the Vatican to give it control of the holy sites in Palestine. The fact that Jews in Palestine were able to overcome these obstacles and secure the United Nations vote in November of 1947 to grant them a homeland was nearly miraculous.It seems to us that a “fake Israel” would have faced far fewer stumbling blocks on the way to becoming a reality.

19th CENTURY ANTISEMITISM fueled a desire in Jews from America to the Middle East to find a homeland where they would be safe.This week, we summarize events from 1800 through the infamous Dreyfus affair that divided France from 1894 until 1906. One of the journalists who covered the trial was Theodor Herzl—who was impacted by the injustice of it that he became the father of modern political Zionism, which led to an independent Israel in 1948.

THE EMERGENCE of an independent Jewish state in 1948 is a subject that provokes controversy, especially now with Israel engaged in a war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.What led to the creation of modern Israel? We'll discuss this over the next few programs as we look at the prophetic fulfillment of God's promise to Hebrew prophets more than 2,400 years ago. This week, we look at the historical backdrop of the 19th century, a time when Jews in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East began to realize that they weren't as safe and secure as they'd come to believe.

Aliens in the Bible? Yes, but not in the way many think.Pastor Mike Hoggard of Bethel Church in Festus, Missouri (PastorMikeHoggard.com, UFOpastor.com) explains that Nordics, reptilians, and grays have a biblical explanation, and that, even though they're not extraterrestrisl, they are rightly called “aliens” because they're not from here—and they're not supposed to be here.

THIS MAY SEEM like a fringe topic, but it's really not. Especially because more Americans believe in ET than in God.Specifically, 36% of American adults believe we're being visited by extraterrestrial beings while only 4% have a biblical worldview, defined by believing six key tenets of Christian theology.Pastor Mike Hoggard of Bethel Church in Festus, Missouri (pastormikehoggard.com, ufopastor.com) sat down with Derek at the Mysteries of the Bibleverse Conference in Cincinnati to explain why the UFO phenomenon is just a modern spin on a very old lie—one with implications for the end times.

JUST TWO YEARS AGO, we would not have seen an obvious scenario that would bring the world to war against Israel. How things have changed since then.We discuss the change in world opinion of Israel over the last few months, evidenced by the recognition of Palestine by Norway, Ireland, and Spain just a few weeks ago. This isn't a new thing; there were men feverishly working in the shadows between World Wars 1 and 2 to prevent the formation of an independent Jewish state.The good news is that all of this has been foreseen by God. While it's disturbing, it means the return of our Savior is nearer than ever.

THE WORLD has turned its back on Israel less than eight months after the savage terror attack by Hamas that left 1,200 dead.Last month, we traveled with a small group of people from three continents to bear witness to the situation on the ground without the filter of Western corporate media. This was easily the most powerful of the four visits we've made to Israel. We discuss our time in Tel Aviv at Hostage Square and the Sheba Rehabilitation Center, where we met with wounded IDF soldiers and Maya Regev, a young woman captured at the Nova Music Festival and held hostage in Gaza for 50 days.We also visited several communities in the south including Re'im, site of the music festival, Sderot, where a siege at the police station ended with 30 officers and civilians killed by Hamas, and Ofakim, where a grandmother named Rachel Edri became a national hero by stalling five terrorists in her home by cooking for them for 20 hours—until her police officer son directed a counterterrorism team that was able to neutralize the terrorists and rescue his parents.

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 take you out into the desert of ancient Edom. It's easy to see why the Israelites complained, looking at mostly sand and scrub for forty years!

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 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 us the historic locations of the crucifixion and burial tomb of Jesus on the Mount of Olives, while our visit to the Temple Mount was interrupted by angry ravens.Zev also shared with us that ancient olives from the time of Jesus have started to germinate and grow on their own—almost as though they've been waiting for this day.

ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS places in Israel is the recently identified 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 is why the ancient kingdom of King Og was called Bashan—the “Place of the Serpent.”We also visited Tel Dan at the foot of Mount Hermon, where we showed how a misunderstood verse in the Book of Hosea reveals that the golden calves of Jeroboam marked a return to the worship of the entity who was believed to live on the mountain, the Canaanite creator-god El—who, as Derek shows in his book The Second Coming of Saturn, was known to the Hebrews as Molech.