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Don't worry if you don't have to believe in curses… Robert the Doll believes enough for the both of you.Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version of #WeirdDarkness: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateDISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.IN THIS EPISODE: From creepy voices to mysterious movements to strange laughter and eerie deaths, the legend of Robert the Doll outshines many cursed object stories and has been haunting people for over a hundred years, and shows no sign of slowing down. (The True Story Behind Robert The Doll) *** In Brazil, two corpses were found on a hill, dressed in matching suits with homemade lead masks draped over their eyes. (The Lead Masks Case) *** If you were to be asked who the most horrible, terrifying figure in the Bible was, you would likely say Lucifer – that is, Satan himself. But there is a figure even more terrifying – and it is God's right-hand man in the book of Revelation. (God's Right Hand Man) *** Horror – the stories and images seem to change with each passing year, but there was a violent shift in horror shortly after the violent reality of the “War to End All Wars”. (How Horror Changed After World War 1) *** Two sisters rebel against their depressing family life by diving into witchcraft – and soon learn it was not a wise decision. (Leftover Magic) *** In 1827, young Maria Marten slipped into a red barn to meet her secret lover. It was the last time she would be seen alive. (Murder in the Red Barn) *** Madeleine Smith had a rich fiancé, a secret lover, and one heck of a secret hot chocolate recipe. A lethal secret recipe. (The Hot Cocoa Killer) *** Was the 1971 Lloyds Bank safety deposit robbery a covert operation to retrieve compromising photos of Royalty? (The Baker Street Robbery) *** From mouths nailed shut to being buried headfirst in the ground, throughout history the fear of witches has led to extraordinary measures to keep the dead from rising from the grave. (How To Bury a Witch)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00.00.000 = Lead-In00:01:26.878 = Show Open00:04:06.804 = The True Story Behind Robert The Doll00:12:49.695 = The Lead Masks Case00:17:49.768 = God's Terrifying Right-Hand Man00:29:25.952 = How Horror Changed After WW100:44:57.564 = How To Bury A Witch00:51:04.416 = The Hot Cocoa Killer00:56:04.077 = Murder In The Red Barn01:05:28.702 = Leftover Magic01:11:06.093 = The Baker Street Robbery01:31:57.360 = Show Close, Verse, and Final Thought01:33:06.815 = BloopersSOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
”The True Story Behind Robert The Doll” by Melissa Brink: https://tinyurl.com/rnlbjxp“The Lead Masks Case” by Orrin Grey: http://ow.ly/Re9h30nA2ZX“God's Terrifying Right-Hand Man” by Matthew Lavelle: https://tinyurl.com/u88mpbe“How Horror Changed After WW1” by W. Scott Poole, from the book “Wasteland: The Great War And The Origins of Horror”: https://amzn.to/2t4ZmpT“The Baker Street Robbery”: https://tinyurl.com/wltn62d“How To Bury a Witch”: https://tinyurl.com/ttqfd2c“Leftover Magic” by Weirdo family member Ilsa Beauchamp“Murder In The Red Barn” by Stephanie Almazan: http://ow.ly/CV4K30nAJDp“The Hot Cocoa Killer” by Jennifer Jackson: http://ow.ly/8bHt30nAJSg=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: May 2022EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RobertTheDoll

Collin is sickCoffee talkAbsolutely on accidentAlmost parent teacher conference againCollin went to Ha Ha Tonkaconflicted about lakesWeird lakes and the Ozarks PlateauWhy does the sun shine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjRx3o-BYZ4 Opinions on AI?Segway for assigned homework!!BUT FIRST a WWI Metal Band of the Week!Sabaton- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaton_(band)War to End All Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_to_End_All_Wars_(album)Brandon watched some moviesA Farewell to Arms (1932): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms_(1932_film)#:~:text=A%20Farewell%20to%20Arms%20is,Picture%20and%20Best%20Art%20Direction.A Farewell to Arms (1957): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Arms_(1957_film)#:~:text=A%20Farewell%20to%20Arms%20is,Selznick.&text=A%201932%20film%20version%20starred%20Gary%20Cooper%20and%20Helen%20Hayes.Based on a play???https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/a-farewell-to-arms-9440 Brandon's HaikuPage and screen divergeUnexpected twists and turnsThemes left on the floorCheck out our other episodes: ohbrotherpodcast.comFollow us on InstagramCheck us out on Youtube

Townhall Review - December 28, 2024 Hugh Hewitt talks with Thomas Conner, former career-long Professor of History at Hillsdale College, who provides a brief summary of World War I, mentioning that France lost a significant number of soldiers in 1915 and that the war had declared itself fully by that time. Dennis Prager talks with H.W. Crocker about America's role in the war, as described in his book, The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I. Crocker explains how the U.S. entry was pivotal in turning the tide against Germany, and he highlights the heroism of American soldiers while also discussing the broader cultural consequences of the war. Victor Davis Hanson interviews acclaimed figurative sculptor Sabin Howard, discussing his monumental work on the World War I Memorial: A Soldier's Journey. They explore Howard's artistic process, influences, and the cultural significance of his work, as he shares insights into the classical techniques he uses and his vision for future projects. For Victor Davis Hanson's full interview with Sabin Howard, listen here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Veteran's Day, we remember the World War I, the War to End All Wars. For an excellent read on this topic, read A World Undone by BJ Meyer. In this episode, I reflect on Veterans Day and the historical significance of World War I, drawing parallels to the current Ukraine war. In particular, I explore the question: is Ukraine War more like the events following the Sarajevo Crisis of 1914 or the Munich Crisis of 1938? I argue the former. In my view, the current geopolitical landscape resembles the prelude to World War I more than World War II, emphasizing the dangers of miscalculation and the aggressive posturing of smaller states backed by larger powers. RockneCast know that I have been beating this drum for quite some time now, but for good reason. Our leaders have cited the Munich Crisis as a reason to risk war with Russia. It's precisely the wrong lesson and nearly led us to WWIII. Let's hope that our future leaders remember both the lessons of WWI and WWII. Unfortunately, leaders like Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, and Victoria Nuland have demonstrated a level of ignorance that would make a history undergraduate blush and nearly resulted in world ending catastrophe.

This sermon discusses Obadiah, a God-fearing man who served as a high-ranking official under the wicked King Ahab. From his position in Ahab's cabinet, Obadiah secretly protected God's prophets from persecution. The sermon explores the tension between Christian faith and political involvement, arguing that Christians must engage in politics to promote righteousness and justice. It emphasizes the biblical principle of obeying God over human authorities, especially when civil commands contradict God's law.

Townhall Review - August 10, 2024 Hugh Hewitt talks with Thomas Conner, former career-long Professor of History at Hillsdale College, provides a brief summary of World War I, mentioning that France lost a significant number of soldiers in 1915 and that the war had declared itself fully by that time. Dennis Prager talks with H.W. Crocker about America's role in the war, as described in his book, The Yanks Are Coming!: A Military History of the United States in World War I.Crocker explains how the U.S. entry was pivotal in turning the tide against Germany, and he highlights the heroism of American soldiers while also discussing the broader cultural consequences of the war. Victor Davis Hanson interviews acclaimed figurative sculptor Sabin Howard, discussing his monumental work on the World War I Memorial: A Soldier's Journey. They explore Howard's artistic process, influences, and the cultural significance of his work, as he shares insights into the classical techniques he uses and his vision for future projects. For Victor Davis Hanson's full interview with Sabin Howard, listen here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at war with Serbia, Russia with Germany, and an ultimatum had been handed to Belgium. The July crisis had resolved itself in the most calamitous way possible. But how did this state of affairs erupt from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo a month earlier? Even in the wake of their deaths war did not seem inevitable, with diplomats and politicians such as the British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey manoeuvring to douse the flames kindled by the Serbian assassin Gavrilo Princip. The fires would, however, prove unquenchable, thanks to the implosion of of the Balkan powder keg beside a declining, desiccated Austro-Hungarian Empire, long fearful of Serbia, the rise of Germany under the eccentric Kaiser, as an industrious powerhouse to rival Britain, and the complex alliances and treaties that forbade the Great Powers any retreat from the coming inferno… Join Dominic and Tom as they set out upon Europe's road to the First World War - the War to End All Wars - and explain how that devouring conflagration, which would see the end of the world as people knew it before 1914, came to pass. _______ LIVE SHOWS *The Rest Is History BOOK TOUR* To celebrate the launch of our second book, “The Rest Is History Returns”, Dominic and Tom will be appearing onstage in both Oxford and Cambridge in September! *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history's greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York.  Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

IN THIS EPISODE: From creepy voices to mysterious movements to strange laughter and eerie deaths, the legend of Robert the Doll outshines many cursed object stories and has been haunting people for over a hundred years, and shows no sign of slowing down. (The True Story Behind Robert The Doll) *** In Brazil, two corpses were found on a hill, dressed in matching suits with homemade lead masks draped over their eyes. (The Lead Masks Case) *** If you were to be asked who the most horrible, terrifying figure in the Bible was, you would likely say Lucifer – that is, Satan himself. But there is a figure even more terrifying – and it is God's right-hand man in the book of Revelation. (God's Right Hand Man) *** Horror – the stories and images seem to change with each passing year, but there was a violent shift in horror shortly after the violent reality of the “War to End All Wars”. (How Horror Changed After World War 1) *** Two sisters rebel against their depressing family life by diving into witchcraft – and soon learn it was not a wise decision. (Leftover Magic) *** In 1827, young Maria Marten slipped into a red barn to meet her secret lover. It was the last time she would be seen alive. (Murder in the Red Barn) *** Madeleine Smith had a rich fiancé, a secret lover, and one heck of a secret hot chocolate recipe. A lethal secret recipe. (The Hot Cocoa Killer) *** Was the 1971 Lloyds Bank safety deposit robbery a covert operation to retrieve compromising photos of Royalty? (The Baker Street Robbery) *** From mouths nailed shut to being buried headfirst in the ground, throughout history the fear of witches has led to extraordinary measures to keep the dead from rising from the grave. (How To Bury a Witch)YOUTUBE TIME STAMPS OR CHAPTERS…00:00.00.000 = Title Story Teaser00:01:44.080 = Show Open00:04:23.389 = The True Story Behind Robert The Doll00:13:23.609 = The Lead Masks Case00:18:11.906 = God's Terrifying Right-Hand Man00:29:36.729 = How Horror Changed After WW100:45:19.832 = How To Bury A Witch00:51:13.049 = The Hot Cocoa Killer00:55:38.750 = Murder In The Red Barn01:04:52.817 = Leftover Magic01:10:31.241 = The Baker Street Robbery01:31:09.996 = Show Close01:32:19.135 = BloopersSOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
”The True Story Behind Robert The Doll” by Melissa Brink: https://tinyurl.com/rnlbjxp“The Lead Masks Case” by Orrin Grey: http://ow.ly/Re9h30nA2ZX“God's Terrifying Right-Hand Man” by Matthew Lavelle: https://tinyurl.com/u88mpbe“How Horror Changed After WW1” by W. Scott Poole, from the book “Wasteland: The Great War And The Origins of Horror”: https://amzn.to/2t4ZmpT“The Baker Street Robbery”: https://tinyurl.com/wltn62d“How To Bury a Witch”: https://tinyurl.com/ttqfd2c“Leftover Magic” by Weirdo family member Ilsa Beauchamp“Murder In The Red Barn” by Stephanie Almazan: http://ow.ly/CV4K30nAJDp“The Hot Cocoa Killer” by Jennifer Jackson: http://ow.ly/8bHt30nAJSgWeird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Weird Darkness “DARKIVES” theme by Manuel Marino.= = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2024, Weird Darkness.= = = = =Originally aired: May, 2022CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/robert-the-doll/

 In the heart of Portugal, amidst rolling hills and quaint villages where time ticks just a tad slower, lies Fatima—a place destined to be catapulted from pastoral obscurity to celestial fame. Its 1917, a world at war and a country teetering on the brink of political upheaval, when suddenly, three young shepherds claim to have seen something extraordinary. Not just any extraordinary, but a luminous lady brighter than the sun herself, right in the middle of their everyday sheep-herding duties. It's a tale blending the divine with the ordinary, where miracles meet mud, and faith clashes with skepticism. Buckle up, because this isn't just history—it's a heavenly spectacle that has left the world pondering ever since. The year is 1917. The world is embroiled in the chaos of World War I – a conflict so devastating that it's often referred to as 'The War to End All Wars.' Spoiler alert: it wasn't. But let's zoom in on a small, sleepy village in Portugal. Welcome to Fatima, where the most exciting event of the day is usually the local shepherds chasing down a particularly rebellious sheep. Oh yes, we're talking about that kind of excitement. 

The conclusion to our series on World War I & Heavy Metal in which Quinn discusses his new-found love of Iron Maiden, the Russian Revolution, the final battles of the War to End All Wars and a few thoughts on why this global conflict has become so important to the history, philosophy, and future of the genre.

The Great War. The War to End All Wars. The scope of the First World War was so large it was almost unbelievable to think any conflict could surpass the destruction it wrought not just upon Europe, but many other countries as well. The Great War was the first time classic war strategy met advancements in technology designed to inflict maximum casualties. Basically fighting like you would when the enemy had muskets when they now had machine guns. It was where trench warfare become infamous with the horrors that occurred in No Man's Land. Entire landscapes destroyed by the thousands of artillery shells fired. Empires that stood for centuries were ended by the war. Air Combat saw its birth here, tank warfare had its introduction. It was truly a conflict that shaped our future but unfortunately did not teach us any lessons except how to kill each other more effectively. 

War in Jerusalem. Revelation. Universal recognition and worship of God

Your boy Keithie is trying something new and he is hoping to provide you with some talking material for your day-to-day conversations this week! The topic is World War I, The Great War, The War to End All Wars... just a deadly bunch of battles for only a few inches of land. Join Keithie as he talks about the "powder keg" that lead up to the death of the rock band Franz Ferdinand and some of the battles of the Western & Eastern Front. All this, plus that DAMN Zimmerman, on Hail to the Keith

We wade through the trenches of WWI on Part 2, Side B of our continuing series on the War to End All Wars... WARNING: Disturbing Content

Quinn embarks on a side-quest to explore The War to End All Wars with a little help from Heavy Metal...

Former Swiss Military Officer Pascal Najadi joins me on the AJ Roberts Show to discuss in detail the deep military operation we have been in for some time under Executive Orders, the Law of War Manual under Space Force. We are at a tipping point in human history and current operations being carried out behind the scenes and in plain sight are edging us ever closer to complete removal of the Deep State and it's enslaving agendas. Pascal who has been damaged by the C19 shots has been on a mission ever since to bring charges for crimes against humanity and high treason against the globalists that have waged war on we the people. Follow ➡️ @ajrobertsshow For all AJ's Podcasts, Courses, and Community visit www.mrajroberts.com

Jesus, the glory of God and the glory of Israel, is also the ultimate prophet who proclaimed God’s judgment on the nation for its sins and rejection of Him. - SERMON TRANSCRIPT - Turn in your Bibles to Mark 13. You can also refer to Matthew 24. I'm going to be leaning on both of the chapters but mostly walking through Mark 13, as we begin to look at a topic that theologians call eschatology or the study of end times or last things. In 1925, the American poet TS Eliot wrote his masterpiece entitled The Hollow Men. It was a reflection of his generally gloomy outlook on the direction of human history after the devastation of World War I. That terrible so-called “War to End All Wars” left permanent scars in the minds and hearts of many. Pictures of bleak battlefields that were stripped of all trees, all vegetation, all life, looking more like a moonscape which had been pounded by artillery for years. Deep craters, mud and death everywhere. TS Eliot looked at that, he looked at human history and he wondered bleakly where it was all heading. In the poem he spoke of men with heads filled with straw, men without eyes groping through a valley with dying stars, in which little by little all energy just seems to leak out or drain out slowly from the universe until nothing is left. The poem ended famously with these words, “this is the way the world ends.” “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.” That's TS Eliot's opinion or poetic prophecy. But it's just, in my opinion, another example of the fascination that human beings have with where this is all heading. Where are we going in all of this and more specifically with the conceptions of the end of the world? Doomsday scenarios, apocalyptic visions, dystopian societies clawing out some existence on a dying planet after World War III has wiped out most of the human race or some other such thing. It says in Ecclesiastes 3:11, “God has set eternity in the hearts of men, but they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” We have a sense of a movement towards something but we don't know what it is. We can't figure out where we've come from. We don't really understand the history that leads up to this, and we don't know ... even James says, what's going to happen tomorrow? But we have a fascination in it. We're interested in it. In our culture, especially movie makers cash in on this kind of thing. They depict earth in its final stage after some thermonuclear holocaust, like in the movie “Planet of the Apes” or “Dr. Strangelove” or others. Or perhaps a pandemic which wipes out all of earth's population, such as in the movie “I Am Legend.” Or some kind of ecological disaster, climate change, global warming, or some kind of solar flares like in “2012” or “The Day After Tomorrow.” Or a blight that kills all vegetation except corn, that’s “Interstellar.” Or even alien invasions, that's “The War of the Worlds”, or conquest by artificial intelligence robots, “The Matrix." I'm sure I've missed a few of the ways that the world ends. How exactly will the world end and how will we know when it's coming? Is there anything we can do about it? These are questions that burn in the hearts of normal people, and they burned in the hearts of the disciples of Jesus as well. These are the questions that Jesus Christ seeks to answer in Mark 13 and also Matthew 24 and 25. One of the key issues He brings up is, what are the signs by which we can see the impending end of the world as it approaches? Jesus amazingly begins, in the account we're going to look at today, Mark 13: 1-13, by talking about things that will happen commonplace in every generation and are no certain signs of the immediate end of the world. But in the midst of it ... as we're going to talk about next week more especially, is the central purpose of history, the unfolding of history, and that is the proclamation of the gospel to the ends of the earth. The unfolding of uncertain signs that are true in every generation is a matrix or a canvas on which the painting, the masterpiece of the spread of the Gospel ... or what we call the external journey, goes on. Today we begin a fascinating and vital journey into true prophecy, not the prophecy of movie makers or of American poets, but the prophecy that flows from the mind of God. The only one who really knows the future is the sovereign God who decrees it. God is sovereign and therefore when He tells us what's going to happen, we need to listen. I. Christ’s Shocking Prediction It begins with Christ's shocking prediction there in Jerusalem, in Mark 13:2; "Not one stone here will be left on another. Every one will be thrown down." We need to understand the significance of this moment. We get it more clearly in the Gospel of Matthew, at the end of Matthew 23 and on into 24. As Jesus has finished his words of judgment, his seven woes on the scribes and Pharisees and condemns them, then the glory leaves the temple. In the Old Covenant, the glory cloud represented the presence of God, the special presence of the omnipresent God with his people, the Jews. God's glory cloud entered the tabernacle when Moses had finished constructing it. The glory cloud entered the tabernacle and filled it, symbolizing the special presence of God there in the tabernacle. So also, centuries later when Solomon completed the construction of his temple, the glory cloud entered the temple and filled it. But sadly, tragically, when the Jews forsook the true God, the only God, for idols and did this over centuries, the glory cloud departed from the temple. Ezekiel saw it in Ezekiel chapter 10, "He beheld the glory," called sometimes the “Shekhinah” glory. You're not going to see that word but it just means the dwelling glory of God. The dwelling glory departing the temple because of Israel's great wickedness and idolatry, the glory leaving the temple. That rendered the temple really nothing more than a empty or desolate pile of stones, which then the Gentiles were about to flood in and destroy, the Gentiles being the Babylonians at that point. In the kindness of God, a remnant of Jews ... a very small remnant compared to the original population that entered the Promised Land, 42,000 came back and were given permission by their Gentile overlords to rebuild a smaller version of the temple, which they did. The story is told in Haggai and also in Ezra and Nehemiah. But now in Matthew 23 and 24 the true glory of God, the dwelling glory, the incarnate glory of God leaves the temple. He walks out because the Jews have officially rejected him from being their Messiah. In Matthew 23, seven times He says, "Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites." He condemns them. They are spiritual leaders and representatives of the Jewish nation. Jesus said in Matthew 23, "They sit in Moses's seat so you must obey them." They do represent the law of God, but they were deeply corrupted men. They were whitewashed tombs that looked beautiful on the outside, but inside full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. As Jesus says in Mark 12, "They devour widows' houses and for show make lengthy prayers." That's who they were. It culminates with these devastating words in Matthew 23:37-39, "Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who killed the prophets and stoned those sent to you, how often I've longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling. Behold, your house is left to you desolate." This is an incredibly important statement. Behold, look, your house is left to you desolate ... an important word. "I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” In Matthew 24:1 and also in Mark 13, Jesus then left the temple, He walks out. It's not just the actions, it's the words and what He says, "Your house is left desolate. It's empty because I'm walking out. I'm not coming back until you say, 'Blessed is he comes in the name of the Lord.'" So out He goes, it's a hugely significant moment in redemptive history. Jesus is the ultimate prophet from God. He is the one who has been sent. After all these other servants have been sent and have been mistreated and killed, then the the absentee owner of the vineyard sends His son. But they reject him and they are conspiring to kill him, so therefore Jesus is leaving. He's departing and Israel's house, the temple is going to be left desolate. That is vacant, empty, stripped of glory. Why? Because He is leaving and He is the incarnate glory of God. Hebrews 1:3, “the Son is the radiance of God's glory in the exact representation of His being.” The glory cloud symbolizes Jesus. Jesus is the glory of Israel. He's the glory of God, and He's leaving because of Israel's wicked unbelief. They had rejected Jesus. They would officially do it at his trial. But they had already made the decision that if anyone declared that Jesus was the Messiah, they'd be cast out of the synagogue [John 9]. They've rejected him and out He goes. The glory departed the temple. Indeed, Jerusalem itself will be nothing more spiritually than an empty, vacant set of piles of stone, ready again for the Gentiles to come in and destroy. That's what's going on. At this moment the disciples who frequently weren't on message ... Do you get that sense? They're frequently just missing what's happening. They represent us. They come up at that moment, and one of them in particular just can't get over how beautiful the temple is. Look at verse 1, “As Jesus was leaving the temple one of his disciples said to him, ‘Look, teacher, what massive stones, what magnificent buildings.’" This is really remarkably poor timing but it’s significant as well. Herod's temple was indeed an impressive temple. Some of those stones were truly massive. Josephus, the contemporary Jewish historian a generation later from Jesus, tells us that some of the stones were as large as 45 feet long, 12 feet high and 18 feet in width. That's a single stone. Approximately 1.5 million pounds, astonishing. Furthermore, the building itself was lavishly beautiful. King Herod was a vicious, wicked tyrant. He was the one that ordered the slaughter of the newborns in order to kill Jesus after He was born. He's just a terribly wicked man. But he thought to ingratiate himself to his people by adorning the temple with stones of marble and with a lot of gold and other glitter. It was rather a very impressive building. Human beings in general marvel at human achievement. We get blown away by what humans can do and humans can do amazing things, created in the image of God. But from the Tower of Babel, then through Nebuchadnezzar gloating over Babylon ... “this great Babylon that I've built for my own glory and display of my splendor”, et cetera, we are drawn in and amazed at human achievements. God is not. Stephen says in Acts 7, quoting the scripture, “God says, ‘Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things and so they came into being?’" God's not impressed. God instead yearns for a people characterized by brokenhearted humility and faith and repentance. That's what He's yearning for, and the Jews did not have it. So Jesus makes this shocking prediction, verses 1-2, “As Jesus was leaving the temple one of his disciples said to him, “'Look teacher, what massive stones, what magnificent buildings.’ ‘Do you see all these great buildings?" replied Jesus, ‘Not one stone here will be left on another. Every one will be thrown down.’" "God …yearns for a people characterized by brokenhearted humility and faith and repentance." Jesus frequently used object lessons, pointing to things, “Look at it”. But this is very much the topic. They were the ones calling his attention to the stones, to the temple, that's what they're talking about. “Do you see them? Look at all these great buildings.” I don't know whether his hand swept over the temple complex itself or the entire city. As you know historically, the whole thing was going to be destroyed, not just the temple. So it could be He was talking about the entire city of Jerusalem, as He wept over Jerusalem, as He lamented over Jerusalem, but specifically the topic there was the temple. Either way, these words would have been shocking to these Jewish disciples. Every stone placed on top of another will be toppled down. This entire place will be leveled. It's going to be raised. Humanity in pride builds upward and goes lofty and high. Like in Isaiah 2, these lofty towers and these cedars of Lebanon and all this rising up, it's just a symbol of human pride. Like the Tower of Babel, God casts it downward. This is nothing less than the prediction of the total destruction, not just of the temple I believe but of the entire city of Jerusalem. That prediction would be fulfilled a generation later in 70 AD. Josephus, a contemporary at that time, a Jewish historian, tells the story of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD. It was the decisive event of the first Jewish-Roman war. It was followed by the fall of Masada three years later in 73 AD. The Roman Army was led by the future Emperor Titus. It besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by zealous Jewish defenders, zealots, since the year 66 AD. For four years they had held out. Jerusalem is notoriously difficult to conquer, very difficult, it was easy to defend. Therefore frequently what would happen is, when the Gentiles like the Babylonians or the Romans would finally topple the city, they would be so filled with rage at how difficult it had been that they took it out on the defenders and on the city and that's what they did. Despite the fact that Titus wanted the temple preserved, they didn't. They burned it to the ground and they were determined, the Romans were, filled with rage, to remove even foundation stones so that it couldn't even be seen that there'd ever been a city there. The Romans did this kind of thing. It's the fulfillment of Jesus's words, just vindicating him as an accurate and faithful prophet of God. The spiritual significance is this, Israel had rejected God, so God had rejected Israel. Ezekiel 16 poignantly portrays a spiritual marriage between God and Jerusalem, his love relationship with Jerusalem and through Jerusalem, the people of Israel. But they had betrayed that love and had been spiritually unfaithful to God, spiritually adulterous through idolatry and wickedness. Despite his incredible patience, He swore that He would level it by means of a Gentile nation. This is his regular pattern. He said it in the Song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32, before Israel even entered the Promised Land, "I'm going to make you angry by those who are not a nation. I'll make you envious by a nation without understanding." He's clearly predicting Gentile destruction of the Jews if they do not keep the laws of God. Again and again, that's what God did. He would raise up Gentile armies who would come in and trample his people. In this case it was the Romans. He would pour out wrath on the Jewish nation and it began what Jesus called “the times of the Gentiles.” Luke 21:24, “Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” We're in those times now, “the times of the Gentiles.” What does that mean? It's a shift in the focus of God. First, God would give up the Jewish nation to Gentile armies to be trampled by the Romans. Then He would pour out his grace and mercy on the elect among the Gentiles all over the world to the ends of the earth, and rescue them from every tribe and language and people and nation. He would graft them into a cultivated olive tree, a Jewish olive tree, deriving nourishing spiritual sap from the patriarchs from the Jewish heritage, so we become sons and daughters of Abraham. Meanwhile, Israel would be experiencing a hardening in part; in every generation, some Jews believing in Jesus, but for the most part not. Until we're told a mystery at the end of time when God will turn the Jews back to himself through faith in Christ and be saved, so all Israel will be saved. That's the whole story of “the times of the Gentiles”, and part of it includes Gentile domination of the city of Jerusalem. This is the prediction of “the times of the Gentiles”, the destruction of the temple. It is also spiritually significant because it signals absolutely the end of animal sacrifice and the end of the Jews' ability to perform the Old Covenant. It's physically impossible for them to do. The destruction of the temple clearly means an end to animal sacrifice. The Old Covenant has come to an end, and now Jesus's death on the cross fulfilled the animal sacrificial system. Once He died on the cross, Hebrews 8:13 says that that old system, that Old Covenantal system was obsolete and aging and would soon disappear. The writer, writing clearly before the destruction of the temple is predicting, I believe there and in Hebrews 8:13, the destruction of the temple, It would disappear, you wouldn't see it at all. The moment Jesus died, the curtain in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, signaling the end of animal sacrifice. The Jews should have known at that point, the priests should have all repented and come to Christ. There would have been no need for the temple to be destroyed. It would have been a Christian church. It would have been a symbol of the Old Covenant animal sacrificial system that has now been fulfilled in Jesus. But they had, through unbelief and hardness of heart, reestablished animal sacrifice, sewed up the curtain that was torn in two from top to bottom, reestablished all that. So God had to shut it down, and He did it by the Romans. "The destruction of the temple clearly means an end to animal sacrifice. The Old Covenant has come to an end, and now Jesus's death on the cross fulfilled the animal sacrificial system." The Jews cannot obey the law of Moses. Please do not say there is a spiritualized Judaism in which the animal sacrifice is not important. How could anyone ever say that? Read the first five books of Moses. There's an entire book, Leviticus, devoted to animal sacrifice from beginning to end. It is essential to the Jewish religion and it cannot be done. Even more later when the Muslims built the Dome of the Rock there, one of their sacred pilgrimage sites at the end of the 7th century. So Jesus makes the prediction, "Not one stone here will be left on another. Every one will be thrown down." [Mark 13:3-4] II. The Stunned Questions We have this stunned questions by the disciples in private. As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when will these things happen and what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?" That's a simpler version of the more extended question he asks in Matthew 24:3, "When will this happen?" This being, not one stone left on another. "What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" It's asked in private on the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley. They're up on the mountain, they can look down over the temple. I'm sure they could look down over the city of Jerusalem when they're sitting there privately. The disciples must have certainly been stunned and troubled by Jesus's prediction. They still fully expected that Jesus, the son of David, would just be another David, and that He would reign on a physical throne in Jerusalem and that animal sacrifice would continue, because they really didn't understand the need for his own blood to be shed for their sins—that the blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin that was waiting for the incarnate son of God to die. It was essential for their salvation. They didn't understand that. They were picturing Jesus in a palace of cedar, on a throne of gold, ruling over the Gentile nations. The idea that those Gentile nations would gain military ascendancy over Jerusalem and destroy it, would have been anathema to them. They would have hated it. They didn't understand any of these things. The key inner circle, Peter, John, James and Andrew, approached Jesus privately while He's sitting on the Mount of Olives. This probably was very wise. If the population in general had heard what Jesus was teaching here, they would not have taken it well. They're coming privately and they're asking for an explanation. Undoubtedly they could look down over the temple and over Jerusalem while this is going on. Because it's on the Mount of Olives, some scholars call this the Olivet Discourse, especially the longer version in Matthew 24 and 25, or sometimes the Little Apocalypse. In Matthew's Gospel, these three questions and Jesus's answer to them are woven together in a rather complex tapestry. What are the three questions? Question number one, "When will this happen?" Namely, the destruction of Jerusalem and of the temple. Number two, "What will be the sign of your coming?" The word “coming” is “parousia,” meaning the Second Coming of Christ, which they could not have fully understood. But certainly the parables Jesus tells in Matthew 24 and 25 will prepare them for the parousia, the coming. He also must have already been teaching, though I'm sure they didn't understand, "What will be the sign of your coming?" Then of the end of the age, the question of the end of the world. These are the three questions in Matthew 24:3. It's not as clear in Mark 13, but they're woven together. The complexity of Mark 13 and of Matthew 24 and 25 is to try to figure out what He's talking about at any moment. Is He talking about the destruction of Jerusalem? Is He talking about the end of the age? Is He talking about the Second Coming? What is He talking about and how do we understand that? As they go on, the questions go much bigger than just the destruction of the temple. They're thinking about everything. "Where is all this heading? If the temple gets destroyed, what's next? Where are we heading?" Jesus's answer I do believe does include the events connected with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans. But it goes beyond and extends to the entire age, right to the end of the world. So therefore I believe aspects of what Jesus says in Matthew 24 and in Mark 13 have yet to be fulfilled. They're still in front of us. For me an interpretive key on eschatology from Matthew 24:37 is, “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the son of man.” If I could just keep it simple; as it was, so it will be. We get recurring themes. You get the theme of the holy place like the tabernacle, the temple destroyed, rebuilt, and then this recurring theme, the abomination of desolation, which we'll talk about in the new year. On the teaching on the Antichrist, in 1 John 2:18 it says, “You have heard the Antichrist is coming and even now many Antichrists have come.” What that means is, there's lots of lesser Antichrists that come that do dress rehearsals of the final Antichrist. But there is an Antichrist coming, so that's what I would say. Also the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD is a foretaste of a final and full destruction that is yet to come. III. The Warning Against Spiritual Deception Jesus begins his answer in verses 5-6. He begins with a warning against spiritual deception. In verses 5-6 Jesus answered, "Watch out that no one deceives you. Many will come in my name claiming I am he and will deceive many." The danger in every era is false teachers and false Christs. It's the single greatest threat to the church, greater than worldliness, greater than persecution, is false doctrine. So false teachers are going to come in every generation. One of the great hallmarks of many ... not all but many cult leaders is eschatological focus, a sense of the imminent end of the world and that they themselves are the key leader that God has sent for the people at this end of the world time. It's happened again and again and again. It's a fascinating study of these kinds of cult leaders that claim themselves the key leader and that the end is imminent. The Zwickau Prophets during the Reformation were like that. The Millerites in the 19th century, they led into the Jehovah's Witnesses that made predictions of the end of the world that did not come true. The Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas and all that, making all of these kinds of ... It happens again and again and Jesus warns. He doubles down in verses 21 and 22, "At that time if anyone says to you, look, here is the Christ, or look, there he is, do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive even the elect, if that were possible." We'll talk more about that in time. I'm not getting to that today. I am mentioning it because it connects with this idea of false teachers that come and give false doctrine, and that culminates in the Antichrist himself who will be able to work great signs and wonders. He’s called the “man of lawlessness” in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11. The Antichrist was coming, the final one. The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refuse to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie. He allows the Antichrist to work miracles. Jesus says, "To deceive even the elect, if that were possible." But it's not possible because you are forewarned in the scripture. You're told ahead of time this is going to happen, so you're ready. You should take this seriously, this idea of a world leader who can do signs and wonders and miracles. Get ready and tell your children and tell your grandchildren ... and if you live long enough, tell your great-grandchildren so they'll be ready. Because there will be a generation whose eternal salvation depends on knowing these truths. Forewarned is forearmed, Mark 13:23, “So be on your guard, I've told you everything ahead of time. Now we have the convulsions of a hate-filled dying world in verses seven and eight. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.” IV. The Convulsions of a Hate-Filled, Dying World Here we have the wickedness of humanity continuing and unfolding, wars and rumors of wars, empires rising and falling. Human beings, with no love for God and no love for each other, violating overtly the two Great Commandments, will continue to hate and plunder and kill each other. That's human history and to some degree you could argue it's one of the reasons for history. We wanted an education at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This is what evil looks like. God is drawing it out and showing it to us, so we can see how awful it is. Then He mentions the physical convulsions of planet Earth, ecological disasters. He calls it famines and earthquakes. After Adam's sin, God cursed the ground because of him. It would produce thorns and thistles for him. We know from Romans 8 and from personal experience that the curse went beyond just the harvest of thorns and thistles from the ground. It extends to every area of physical life here on earth. Romans 8:20-22 makes it plain that God has cursed planet Earth because of human sin. Earth's ecology, God subjected the Earth's ecology to cycles of death and destruction and vanity. Earthquakes and famines that Jesus mentions, are just evidences of God's curse on the Earth. In every generation earthquakes and famines ... and other natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, mudslides, plagues, et cetera, display that the natural order has been cursed because of human sin. It's going to continue and Jesus says vaguely, "In various places." It's just going to happen in various places. He's not trying to be specific. He's saying, this is what life's going to be like. It's going to continue like this. These are what I would call non-specific signs. Is there any generation since Jesus in which there weren't famines and earthquakes and nations rising against nation and wars and rumors of wars? Every generation, there's no specificity to it. It's just general, but that's what life's going to be like. Jesus calls them the beginning of birth pains. He uses this language in John 16, also Romans 8:22 says, “The creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Jesus talked about the anguish of his own disciples. The anguish they would have when they would see him arrested, beaten and crucified but then on the third day raised to life, He likens it to birth pains. In John 16:21-22, "A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So it is with you. Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you'll rejoice and no one will take away your joy." That's talking about his own resurrection, which is a foretaste of the New Heaven and New Earth that's coming, but the process before is birth pains. Jesus says this, "All of the rending and convulsion of planet earth is the beginning of birth pains but the end is yet to come," He's saying. Now, that is very hopeful, isn't it? If you look at John 16, Jesus says, "It's going to be painful for a while, but after that you're going to have joy and no one will take away your joy.” Lasting eternal undimmed joy will never happen in this world but it will happen in the world to come, where there'll be no more death, mourning, crying in pain. That's what Jesus's resurrection is pointing toward. In the meantime, there is the convulsions and the pain of labor, giving birth to something joyful afterwards. "Lasting eternal undimmed joy will never happen in this world but it will happen in the world to come, where there'll be no more death, mourning, crying in pain. That's what Jesus's resurrection is pointing toward." V. The Costly Growth of a Living Kingdom In the middle of all of this is, the real point of it all, and that is the costly growth of the kingdom of God. History has a purpose and the purpose is the salvation of sinners out of every tribe and language and people and nation. That's the reason for all of it. Wars, rumors of wars, famines and earthquakes, that's just the matrix of it or the blank canvas on which the real masterpiece is being painted. What is that real masterpiece? It is the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem through Judea and Samaria to the ends of the earth, saving people for all eternity. Look what He says about that costly growth of a living kingdom. Mark 13: 10 is the thesis verse. We're going to spend a whole week on it, God willing, next week, verse 10, “And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.” It's amazing this word “gospel", right in the midst of all this darkness and sorrow and misery, is good news. The good news is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the gospel. Jesus is the good news. Salvation through faith in Christ is the gospel. It is the good news. This good news must be preached to all nations in the midst of all these convulsions. The entire Gospel of Mark has been about understanding that gospel, that good news. Mark 1:1, “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or about Jesus Christ, the son of God.” These prophecies that Christ gives here in Mark 13 are incredibly sad and heavy and dark. "Not one stone left on another. Every one of them thrown down. Wars, rumors of wars, famines and earthquakes in various places, sorrow, destruction and death." Yet, Jesus hopefully calls them birth pains and what's being birthed is a perfect people of God redeemed from every tribe, language and people and nation through the blood of Christ, through faith in Christ, and a new heaven and new earth, which will be drawn out of this present cosmos through fire ... Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3, into perfection. That's what we're heading toward. Mark 13:10 is the centerpiece of all this, the kingdom of Christ is going to spread through the world through the proclamation of a verbal gospel, the Gospel. It's not random suffering for no purpose, rather, God is orchestrating these birth pains to end in eternal joy and glory. The suffering of the messengers of that gospel is clearly predicted. The suffering of the messengers, it's a laborious, a painful journey that the church has to go on. Look at Verse 9-13, “You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me, you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them, and the gospel must first be preached to all nations. Wherever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say, just say whatever is given to you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit. Brother will betray brother to death and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.” Jesus warns us, his followers, again and again, as the world hated him, it's going to hate us. It's going to hate Christians as well, and that hatred is actually going to increase. It's going to be greatly ramped up into the world. The persecution on the messengers of the gospel will be both informal and formal. Informally, family members and friends will betray and hate Christians. Verse 12, “Brother will betray brother to death and a father, his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.” This is utterly heartbreaking. You look at Verse 12 and you're like, what would that actually mean for those people, to have those closest to you hate you and turn you over to death because they hate Jesus? That's how bad it's going to get, the betrayal. But the persecution will also be formal. It will involve synagogues, religious tribunals, governmental agencies, governors and kings and emperors and presidents and supreme courts, and all these formal tribunals that the messengers of the gospel are going to get hauled in front of. This has been a repeated scene in twenty centuries: the messenger hauled up in front of the authorities giving an account. It happens again and again and again. The Apostle Paul, the last third of the book of Acts is that; Paul on trial, Paul on trial, Paul on trial. They're standing before either religious tribunals or governmental inquiries, etc. Bottom line, all of that is going to culminate in the hatred of the Antichrist, when he controls the government of the entire world and uses his supernatural powers to seek to eradicate the church of Jesus Christ, precipitating the Second Coming of Christ I believe. So that tribunal aspect is going to keep coming and the persecution is going to get worse and worse. Summed up in Verse 13, “everyone will hate you.” It seems to me like American evangelicals need to understand, we're not going to win a popularity contest. We need to understand the truth. The more that our surrounding culture digresses from biblical Christianity, the more they're going to hate us. We need to be aware of that. That doesn't mean every single person will hate. There will be unconverted elects who will eventually cross over from death to life. But in general, the world's evaluation of Christians will be fiercely negative. In the middle of all of that persecution and tribunals and all of that, will be the powerful equipping by the Holy Spirit. The promise of the Spirit as power to witnesses. Acts 1:8 says, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the earth.” We need the Spirit's power. The tribunals will be terrifying. The synagogues and the religious councils and the governors' courts and all of that, it's going to be terrifying. We're going to in our flesh, quake and melt in front of it. But we'll be positioned to be witnesses to them [verse 9], to preach the gospel [verse 10]. Jesus speaks of the violence of the persecutions. It says that they'll be betrayed by family members to death, to execution. But before that execution happens, the martyrs die, they speak words of witness. The blood of martyrs is seed for the church. They powerfully speak words of witness empowered by the Spirit of God. He says, "Don't worry ahead of time what to say, for the spirit will tell you what to say at that time." Some of the greatest statements in church history have been made by martyrs on trial. They could never have written that material ahead of time. The Holy Spirit knew what to say through them. A very good example of this is in Acts 4 when Peter and John were arrested for doing a miracle and they're brought before the Sanhedrin, and they are so filled with the Holy Spirit and they are absolutely fearless. They say, "If we are hauled in front of this tribunal and asked to give an account for a miracle done to a cripple, then know this, you and all the people of Israel, it is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified, by whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." Wow, where did that come from? The Holy Spirit came on them. It says, when they saw the courage, the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled ordinary men, they're just regular people, they were astonished and took note that these men had been with Jesus. Stephen's whole speech was saturated with the Spirit of God. Also, Polycarp's courageous message when they burned him at the stake in Smyrna at the end of the first century. Felicitas, the Roman noble woman said, "While I live, I shall defeat you and if you kill me, I shall defeat you even more." It's one of my favorite statements ever in church history, “you can't win,” something like that. “There's no way you can win. If you let me go, I'm going to keep preaching the gospel. I'm going to keep winning disciples. If you kill me, then things really take off.” Awesome. Jan Hus said, "What I proclaim with my lips, I now seal with my blood." Martin Luther, though he was not martyred, he thought he was going to be martyred just like Jan Hus. He said, "Here I stand; I can do no other.” Courageous, bold. Do not worry ahead of time, the Holy Spirit will come on you at that trial of faith. The increase of persecution will be a severe test of nominal Christians, people who aren't serious. They're in the habit of going to church but they're not really Christians. The fires of persecution will weed those people out. In Matthew 24:10 it says, “At that time, many will turn away from the faith and betray and hate each other.” So they're apostates. The increase of wickedness, it says, will cause people's hearts to grow cold. Natural affections will be replaced by animal-like instincts. The survival of the fittest [Matthew 24:12] because the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. True Christians can never fall away from Christ. But in the Parable of the Seed and the Soils, there is that stony ground that springs up. But when heat comes, when trouble or persecution comes because of the Word, they quickly fall away. Jesus gives a warning to all of his true followers, he who stands firm to the end will be saved. You have to stand firm in your faith through all that persecution. That's Mark 1-13. VI. Applications Let's take some applications now. First and foremost, it's simple, come to Christ. Come to Christ. There is macro-eschatology, the big story of the world. But then there's your eschatology, do you know how much longer you have to be alive? Do you know when you're going to die? That's the end of your time here on earth. Do you know when that is? No one knows. All of this wickedness and convulsions and famines and earthquakes and wars and rumors of wars, all of that is caused, the Bible says, by sin. There is one and only one remedy, and that is the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross. Flee to Christ while you can. You don't know how long you have. You've heard the Gospel here this morning. All you need to do is repent of your sins, turn away from your sin and trust in Christ and you'll be forgiven. You'll be forgiven. So come to Christ, come to Christ for salvation. If you're a Christian, come to Christ for wisdom. I love what Peter, John, James and Andrew do. They didn't understand and they came to Jesus privately and said, "Explain it." Just like with the parables, Jesus gives them the secrets. The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you but not the outsiders. He'll tell you what you need to know. If you want to know things about the future, come to Christ and ask and He'll tell you the Scripture by the Spirit. He's not going to tell you more than the Scripture but the Scripture says everything you need. So come to Christ for wisdom and expect it in the Scriptures by the Spirit. Then, understand the direction of history. History has a direction. It has a purpose. This is not random sorrow and destruction like there's no purpose at all. No, there's a purpose to everything. History has a direction. Revelation 21, the second to last chapter of the Bible, in verses 6 and 7 Jesus said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." History has a journey. It's a story being unfolded and Jesus is that story. “I am the Alpha, I am the first letter and I'm the Omega, I'm the last letter. The beginning and the end.” Then He says, "To him who is thirsty, I'll give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes will inherit all this. I will be his God and he will be my son." That's the purpose of history, salvation. Come to Christ and drink. Come to Christ and drink, and never think that history is spinning out of control. God is sovereign. He is on his throne. When the so-called eternal city Rome fell to the vandals in the 5th century, many Christians thought it was the end of the world but it wasn't. When the Muslims swept across North Africa, destroying lots of good churches ... and then swept across the Strait of Gibraltar and conquered all of Spain. Then when they swept up into France in the 8th century, many thought it was the end of the world, but it wasn't. When the Vikings were pillaging and ravaging monasteries and churches all throughout the Northern part of Europe and then on into Russia and even down into the Mediterranean and all that, people begged God, deliver us from the fear of the Norsemen. They thought it was the end of the world, but it wasn't. When Mongol warriors extended the largest contiguous empire that had ever been ... coming in from the Asian steppes and no band of Christian knights could defeat them, and they just won battle after battle after battle, many thought it was the end of the world, but it wasn't. When the Black Death swept across Europe and killed a third of the population ... and all of their good luck charms and all of their incantations and all of that stuff could not drive it away. They really thought everyone's going to die of this disease. The end of the world is imminent, but it wasn't. When the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople, finally fell in the 15th century because of a new invention, cannons with gunpowder ... and the Muslim banners fluttered over Eastern Orthodoxy, over the most significant site of Eastern Orthodoxy. The backdoor to Europe was finally thrown open it seemed to Turkish invasion, many thought the end of the world was imminent, Martin Luther did, but it wasn't. The 20th century dawned with a war to end all wars and millions died in that senseless conflict. When European poets said, “I see the lights of humanity extinguished all over Europe and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” Then twenty years later, an even worse war came with an even more terrifying scourge, Nazism, subjugating one nation after another. It seemed they could never be defeated. Many thought the end of the world was imminent, but it wasn't. So also Communism when it spread from one country to the next, the dominoes were toppling in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and all kinds of places ... and it was godless atheism and openly hostile to the church, many thought the end of the world was imminent, but it wasn't. Now there will come a time, the end of the world will come but God is sovereign over all these things. In every one of these cases, the church continued and even flourished. Nothing can stop the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So let's rest assured in that and realize what our calling is. Our calling is to be holy and to spread the gospel. Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for the time we've had to begin this study in eschatology, in Mark 13. I thank you for the themes that Jesus lays out and He tells us very clearly ahead of time what's going to happen. Lord, continue to strengthen us for our mission in this world, that we'll be courageous and clear and bold, and unafraid of what's happening with governments, unafraid what's happening with natural disasters, knowing that we will suffer. It's not going to be painless but we know also all of it has a glorious purpose. We thank you in Jesus's name. Amen.

It's our first ride on the Love Train since Capt'n Max's 80th birthday & the 9th anniversary of The Bonobo Way (my 2014 bday gift to Max) so Max and I are celebrating with senior sex (it keeps you young!), medical fetish (the night nurse slipping into bed with the bday patient), bacchanalian parties, singing Christian callers & evocative reflections on 8 great decades of a bonoboesque life. Warning: Explicit Conversations About Politics, Culture, & S3xuality! It's also Naughty November, but Max can't get birthday spankings in his wheelchair, so I spank adorable Amor Hilton & Fawnia Realtor (80 times!). Other Max Bday Soiree standouts include Ana's taquitos, Dragon's Captain's hats, JD's declarations & much more, everyone celebrating Max's amazing life. Though soon celebrations give way to lamentations on this FDR, as Netanyahu & the Zionist branch of the American War Machine continue to bomb Gaza into a deathscape of cataclysmic proportions.  Much as we—& billions more (including our friend Abby Martin whose “Gaza Fights for Freedom” is a must-see)—scream “Ceasefire Now!” our leaders are too busy raking in the cash from the Military Industrial Congressional Complex, aka the American War Machine, to listen. Speaking of the War Machine, it's also Veterans Day, which started as Armistice Day, celebrating peace after WWI, the notorious “War to End All Wars,” but the wars didn't end, they became Perma Wars, & we turned Armistice Day into War Day, aka Veterans Day, honoring military force & death. Also: my Vice piece reaches 265K & our ammosexual Christian Nationalist Speaker of the House MAGAt Mike Johnson blames school shootings on teaching evolution & credits Covenant Eyes p0rn-monitoring system in which his “accountability partner” was his son (yikes!) for solving his p0rno problem. More lamentations of our dystopian world & celebrations of our beloved Prince Maximillian Rudolph Leblovic di Lobkowicz di Filangieri (Happy 80th!) ensue.. Be Bonobo: Save the Humans! Go Bonobos, read more prose, see more shows & check out the party pics: https://drsusanblock.com/fdr-max-birthday-bonoboway Need to talk privately? Call Our Therapists Without Borders anytime: 213.291.9497. We're here for YOU.

Nearly a month ago, Hamas invaded Israel and murdered over 1,400 men, women, and children. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since World War II, which was also a war against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The Israel Defense Forces are now in Gaza aiming to cripple Hamas's military capabilities, and it's a challenging mission. To discuss, host Cliff May is joined by three FDD experts: Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, and Retired Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel (former commander in chief of the Israeli Air Force).They talk about the status of Israel's ground operation inside Gaza, including why forces are current concentrated in the northern part of the Strip; how the IDF might deal with Hamas' extensive system of underground tunnels; what happened at Al Shifa Hospital and why Hamas is using ambulances; if there's a difference between a ceasefire and 'humanitarian pause' as well as Israel's conditions for agreeing to the former; how Israel's Arab neighbors are reacting to the war; Saudi Arabia's interception of missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen at Israel — and other related issues.

In the second episode, James looks at the USA's failure to apologize to or adequately compensate the people of the RMI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James begins a 4 part series looking at the history and future of the low lying atoll nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This episode looks at the islands' nuclear legacy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the dawn of the 20th century painted a new picture for humanity, the gears of progress were laced with tension. A complex web of alliances, ambitions, and anxieties bound the great powers of Europe together, hurtling them towards a conflict of unprecedented scale. It was a war that would consume not just Europe, but the world. It would be known as the Great War, the War to End All Wars - yet, in retrospect, we call it World War 1. The Western Front, a line that zigzagged from the English Channel to the Swiss border, was the beating heart of this colossal clash. Our story starts in the palaces and parliaments of Europe, with the men who believed they could control the fate of nations. It leads us to the damp, dark trenches that stretched across France and Belgium, where millions of soldiers from around the globe stood shoulder to shoulder against an enemy often just a stone's throw away. We will delve into the lives of these soldiers - ordinary men thrusted into extraordinary circumstances, their stories of courage, horror, and resilience. We will analyze the battles that shaped the course of the war, innovations that changed the face of combat forever, and the strategic decisions that would seal the fate of empires. As we turn back the pages of history, we seek to understand the significance of the Western Front, how its events rippled across the world, and how the tide of war was turned. We follow its story to the end - to the armistice, to the peace negotiations, and to the echoes of the Western Front that resonate in our world today. This is not just a story of war; it's a story of humanity. Of how we, despite our most profound crises, persist and evolve. The Western Front is more than a testament to human conflict; it is a testament to human spirit. As you journey through this history, may you find not just an understanding of the past, but a reflection on what it means to be human.

Pastor Jack Graham has said that, as believers, we have been called not to a playground, but a battleground. Join us for today's PowerPoint as he shares the keys to victorious living in the battle. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/395/29

Coming up on the Men at the Movies podcast, Britt and I discuss the movie To End All Wars. The POW camp represents the places in our lives where we feel helpless, where injustice occurs. When that happens, we can respond by our human nature, or empowered by the grace of the gospel. When we experience tragedy, injustice, helplessness and loss, we find out if the words of Jesus are hyperbole or the true way to find life. Join us as we discover God's truth in this movie. Questions How have you been each of these characters in different points? The Bard-Resigned and given up? The Major-Defiant and fighting back? Yanker-Manipulative and controlling? Dusty-Loving and forgiving? When have you been the closest to losing hope? What situations make you feel powerless and helpless? Who has encouraged you in your lowest, most helpless moments? What does forgiveness look like? How do justice and forgiveness conflict with each other? How do they align? How do we act like Jesus' words are mere hyperbole, platitudes, nice to hear but impossible to live? What would it look like to live by Jesus' words and actions? Check out our YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies) for bonus content. To dive into this content even more, visit our website: www.menatthemovies.com/podcast. You will find resources mentioned on the podcast, plus quotes and themes discussed. Find us on the socials: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies Facebook: www.facebook.com/menatthemovies Instagram: www.instagram.com/menatthemovies/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@menatthemovies Twitter: twitter.com/_menatthemovies If you would like to support our work (and get some behind-the-scenes perks), visit our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/menatthemovies). Get invites to livestreams, bonus episodes, even free merch. If you'd like to do a one-time contribution (a cameo appearance), visit www.menatthemovies.com/investors. Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (graysonfoster.com) Logo and episode templates by Ian Johnston (ianhjohnston.com) Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead). Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock Links: MATM website: www.menatthemovies.com/podcast YouTube: www.youtube.com/@menatthemovies Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/50DiGvjrHatOFUfHc0H2wQ Apple pods: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-the-movies-podcast/id1543799477 Google pods: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80ODMwNThjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/menatthemovies/message

Help spread the darkness! VOTE FOR THIS EPISODE at https://weirddarkness.com/vote – you can vote up to 3X per day! Find Weird Darkness in your favorite podcast app at https://weirddarkness.com/listen. PLEASE SHARE WEIRD DARKNESS® in your social media and with others who loves paranormal stories, true crime, monsters, or unsolved mysteries like you do! Want to advertise in Weird Darkness? Visit https://weirddarkness.com/advertise for more info!IN THIS EPISODE: In Brazil, two corpses were found on a hill, dressed in matching suits with homemade lead masks draped over their eyes. (The Lead Masks Case) *** If you were to be asked who the most horrible, terrifying figure in the Bible was, you would likely say Lucifer – that is, Satan himself. But there is a figure even more terrifying – and it is God's right-hand man in the book of Revelation. (God's Right Hand Man) *** Horror – the stories and images seem to change with each passing year, but there was a violent shift in horror shortly after the violent reality of the “War to End All Wars”. (How Horror Changed After World War 1) *** Two sisters rebel against their depressing family life by diving into witchcraft – and soon learn it was not a wise decision. (Leftover Magic) *** In 1827, young Maria Marten slipped into a red barn to meet her secret lover. It was the last time she would be seen alive. (Murder in the Red Barn) *** Madeleine Smith had a rich fiancé, a secret lover, and one heck of a secret hot chocolate recipe. A lethal secret recipe. (The Hot Cocoa Killer) *** Was the 1971 Lloyds Bank safety deposit robbery a covert operation to retrieve compromising photos of Royalty? (The Baker Street Robbery) *** From mouths nailed shut to being buried headfirst in the ground, throughout history the fear of witches has led to extraordinary measures to keep the dead from rising from the grave. (How To Bury a Witch) *** From creepy voices to mysterious movements to strange laughter and eerie deaths, the legend of Robert the Doll outshines many cursed object stories and has been haunting people for over a hundred years, and shows no sign of slowing down. (The True Story Behind Robert The Doll)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
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When discussing a historical subject as complex and dense as WWI, it is easy to reduce it to mere numbers or points on a map. Today WWII takes up so much space in historical memory, that we often overlook the equally important and compelling stories of those who experienced the tragedies and triumphs of what was once known as "The Great War." This week, in honor of Women's History Month and in remembrance of those who have been forgotten, we will be exploring the terror of WWI, and the incredibly vital role women played in this "War to End All Wars." The Great War | American Experience | Official Site | PBS The Great War In Numbers | TimelineWorld War I casualties - Centre européen Robert SchumanSeattle General Strike: Where Women Worked During World War I" by Tae H. Kim | Civil Rights and Labor History Consortium / University of WashingtonThe Dangers Of Working In WW1 Munitions Factory | IWMKatherine Feo. “Invisibility: Memory, Masks and Masculinities in the Great War.” Journal of Design History, vol. 20, no. 1, 2007, pp. 17–27. JSTORBespoke Bodies: The Design & Craft of Prosthetics | National WWI Museum and MemorialNational Army Museum | Chelsea, LondonMending the Scars of World War I - Wonders & MarvelsTrench Warfare | National WWI Museum and MemorialWestern Front | World War I, Definition, Battles, & Map | BritannicaWomen in WWI | National WWI Museum and MemorialImperial War Museums"Anna Coleman Ladd: An Artist Who Created Hope for Wounded Soldiers" – Pieces of History, National Archives Blog"Faces of War Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches" Smithsonian Magazine | by Caroline Alexander. February 2007Patreon: patreon.com/themorbidmuseum Instagram: @themorbidmuseum Email: themorbidmuseum@gmail.comArtwork: Brittany Schall Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster audiobook. The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan intent on ruling the entire world has other ideas. In his super fast helicopter (the Black Flyer) he sorties out to block the major ports and rives of the world until all nations with icebergs made by his fiendishly clever devices until they admit his supremacy and kneel before his might. The might of nations are helpless before him but he does not count on our hero, a scientist specializing in low temperatures who was also a gunner in WWI. Teamed with a daring pilot flying the latest fastest bi plane in the army, they tangle with this brilliant but deranged person and might be able to bring him down. Do they? Listen and find out in this thrilling adventure where planes zoom at up to 200 mph!!!! 

We will now be tuning your radio to 1936. The War to End All Wars is in the rear view mirror, and yet some of the greatest evil the world has ever seen is just peaking over the horizon. Every man, woman, and child will be faced with the question of who they are, and who they are going to be. Because, though no one knows it yet, this will be the fight of their lifetime…Bonus content on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/bloodandbusiness/Get ready for some major behind-the-scenes peeks, bonus content, and blooper reels!! As a Blood & Business patron, you have access to monthly minisodes, interactive videos, live Q&A's, voting rights (you get to pick what sibling set we cover next!!) aaaand this podcast will live on, all thanks to YOU!Tiktok: @bloodandbusiness https://www.tiktok.com/@bloodandbusiness?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcInstagram: @bloodandbusinesshttps://www.instagram.com/bloodandbusiness/YouTube: Blood and Businesshttps://youtube.com/channel/UC2gwWBmXHWF6P5zMHcMs98gCover Art Photo Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VVM8lp7HHe_g6pXZ8dyAh6HQ7BaK0KiXsuaUyPhU0V0/edit?usp=sharingSeneGence Our fave anti-aging skincare & makeup that lasts all day. Ethically & sustainably sourced in the US.Instacart - Groceries delivered in as little as 1 hour. Free delivery on your first order over $35.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

In December 1914, as the "War to End All Wars" raged across Europe, men spontaneously laid down their arms and shook hands with men they'd been trying to kill a few hours earlier. This is the real story of the Christmas Truce.

Secrets are revealed and sins repaid as Talice, Zek'kar, and Chaz pursue an audience with Emry.  CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Grief, PTSD Kenon Pearce as DM Jordache Richardson as Chaz and Serif Nikki Richardson as Talice  ISHNAR/KALCRIN HOMEBREW SETTING by Kenon Pearce   Sound editing and by Jordache and Nikki Richardson Kenon Pearce @mr_fugufish Jordache Richardson @jdash24 Nikki Ri @thenikkiri   Website: totrpodcast.com Twitter: @totrcast Facebook: @topoftheround Instagram: @topoftheround THANK YOU HONORARY PRODUCERS! Gail Yadon Koebaebeefboo Dawn Prewett Holden Ray Corey Pfautsch Greyson Wanna talk to the cast? 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We begin a deep dive into WWI's most controversial figures Field Marshall Douglas Haig a.k.a. The Butcher of the Somme. But before we get to the War to End All Wars. We take a look into his scottish, whiskey-distilling family, his money assisted climb up the social later and his time with the British Army in Africa.

The War to end All Wars (Revelation 16:12-21, Nov 16th 2022) by Sovereign Grace Church

They thought it would be the war to end all wars....

November 11th is currently celebrated as Veteran's Day in the United States. But it was first known here, as it still is around the world, as Armistice Day – the day in 1918 when Germany and its allies signed the armistice to end World War I. Armistice Day is still a very important day of commemoration throughout Europe.In 2014, the 100th anniversary of the start of The Great War, Paul MacKenzie, the Caroline McKissick Dial Professor of History at USC, an expert on the war, joined us to look back on the beginning of The War to End All Wars.

This interview is from 9-17-22 Hannes Van Dahl of Sabaton Joins the podcast to talk about Sabaton's tenth studio album entitled "The War to End All Wars" via Nuclear Blast Records and the continuation of stories from Sabaton's 2019's "The Great War"   SUBSCRIBE to BODS Mayhem Hour YouTube channel AND available on all streaming platforms wherever you listen to podcasts.. 

North Dakota sent many of its sons to fight in World War I. Some called it the “War to End All Wars,” though it was not. In the spirit of patriotism, young men across the state joined the military to help win the “Great War.” The recruits, 31,269 in number, came from all corners of the state.

Don't miss An Author's Afternoon when Martha Bolton joins me to discuss Dear Bob ...Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II.2020 was the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, The War to End All Wars. Although, current events and the pandemic kept many from celebrating the anniversary, the unique relationship between Bob Hope and “The Greatest Generation,” by way of the USO, is too important to go unrecognized. Never before has it been as important to remember and pay homage to our veterans and today's members of the armed services.“Dear Bob.... Bob Hope's Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.'s of World War II," by Martha Bolton with Bob Hope's daughter, Linda Hope, is a time capsule that reveals exactly how important Hope's remarkable service was to the fighting men and women of World War II. The authors have collected personal letters, postcards, packages, and more sent back and forth among Hope and the troops and their loved ones back home."Dear Bob" provides an intimate perspective on the WWII years for Bob and the service men and women as they fought, were entertained and attempted to sustain themselves. "Dear Bob" is engaging-sometimes emotional, sometimes humorous, and always memorable.The letters found in “Dear Bob…” are as relevant today as they were when Hope began entertaining our troops 80 years ago as well as 75 years ago as WWII came to an end. In addition to fans of the golden age of television; the children and grandchildren of the greatest generation; historians and teachers of history, especially WWII history; active military, veterans, and their families; the entertainment industry and fans of the entertainment industry; the audience reach for this book is almost inexhaustible. This unforgettable collection of letters and images, many of which remained in Hope's personal files throughout his life and now reside at the Library of Congress, capture a personal side of both writer and recipient in a very special and often-emotional way. This volume heralds the voices of those servicemen and women whom Hope entertained and who, it is clear, delighted and inspired him.MARTHA BOLTON was the first woman staff writer for Bob Hope, helping to write his television specials, personal appearances, and military shows for approximately fifteen years. She is an Emmy-nominated writer and author of eighty-eight books of humor and inspiration. She has received nominations for a Dove Award, WGA Award, and a Gold- en Scroll Merit Award for Fiction. LINDA HOPE, is the eldest daughter of Bob and Dolores Hope. She is the Producer of the Emmy Award winning TV Special: Bob Hope: The First 90 Years. She also wrote My Life in Jokes, a collection of jokes honoring her father's 100th birthday. Linda produced his TV shows for over 20 years, ran Hope Enterprises and has spent the last two decades perpetuating her father's legacy.Original Airdate: 11/24/2021

Today we are excited to be joined by an expert on Bl. Emperor Karl, David Ross, to help inform and instruct us on how we can learn from his holy life and Christ like example. Bl. Karl was elevated to the throne as Emperor of the Austrian Hungarian Empire in 1916 in the midst of the War to End All Wars, WWI. We discuss how he virtuously and heroically balanced his life as a Catholic Emperor, loving husband, and passionate father. He knew great suffering having been betrayed by his friend, forced into exile without his children, and ultimately dying at the young age of 35. He is a saint for modern men, join us.

As negotiations for surrender go awry, an unexpected third party gives window for a hasty retreat. Kenon Pearce as DM and Various NPCs Jordache Richardson as Chaz and Brad Nikki Richardson as Talice  ISHNAR/KALCRIN HOMEBREW SETTING by Kenon Pearce   Sound editing and design by Kenon Pearce and Nikki Richardson   Kenon Pearce @mr_fugufish Jordache Richardson @jdash24 Nikki Ri @nikkirivo   Website: totrpodcast.com Twitter: @totrcast Facebook: @topoftheround Instagram: @topoftheround THANK YOU HONORARY PRODUCERS! Gail Yadon Koebaebeefboo Dawn Prewett Holden Ray Corey Pfautsch Wanna talk to the cast? Check out our private Discord! https://discord.gg/qshNJJfKRr Or check out our channel on the CastJunkie Discord Server! https://discord.gg/napQ3Cb   Go to our website for MERCH! https://www.totrpodcast.com/merch-store.html#/   Find/Review us on Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/top-of-the-round-808056   Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/topoftheround Buy us a cup of coffee on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/topoftheround Join our Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/476203760792265/   TOTR WIKIPEDIA! https://topoftheround.fandom.com/wiki/Top_of_the_Round_Wiki   LIGHT OF THE HOPELESS BY NICK HIGHAM https://www.nickjhigham.co.uk/   Breaking News by NoiseWorld licensed through AudioJungle/Envato - Music Broadcast and Standard License - https://audiojungle.net/licenses/terms/music_standard/2.0  https://audiojungle.net/licenses/terms/music_broadcast_ten_million Music Courtesy of epidemicsound.com: Beyond Barriers by Anthony Earls A Costly Mistake by Trailer Worx Dead Bodies by Experia Grave Swap by Edward Karl Hanson Passed Danger by Farrell Wooten Entering Madness by JH Coleman Once You've Had a taste by Christian Andersen Threatening Sky by Farrell Wooten Prisms by Ethan Sloan The Eternal war by Dream Cave The Grit by Dream Cave Why So Scared by Bonnie Grace An Oath to the Gods by Dream Cave Anxiety Attack by Bonnie Grace A Chance to Escape by Alec Slayne Asylum by Dream Cave A Mother's Wrath by Dream Cave A War to End All Wars by Eoin Mantell Dungeon by Dream Cave Phoenix Rising by Edgar Hopp A Hero Will Know by Bonnie Grace Mortal Blow by Dream Cave Last Man Standing by Dream Cave For Those Who Fight by Dream Cave Unstoppable by Dream Cave Extinction by Dream Cave A Dark Future by Dream Cave The Ambush by Dream Cave Enemies Defeat 1 by August Wilhelmsson Weapons of Impact by Bonnie Grace Time Limit by Alec Slayne A Subtle Mind by Dream Cave Chukou by Ambre Jaune In the Lab by Ethan Sloan Born Sinister by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen It's Coming by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen It's Dark Outside by Mary Riddle Mysterious Lights by Edward Karl Hanson Trapped in a Maze by Philip Ayers Bad Dreams by Mary Middle Car Chase by Hampus Naeselius Impulse by Hampus Naeselius Fear is Temporary by Jo Wandrini The Deep End by Jo Wandrini Change of Plan by Experia Looking for Cheese by Jerry Lacey Jokers by Mary Riddle The Thing Behind Us by Arylinde Fields A Chase Across Borders by Bonnie Grace Clarabelle by Alexandra Woodward Humor Us by Alexandra Woodward In These Times by Kikoru Seeking Control by Eludent Enemies Defeat 2 by August Wilhelmsson Gone Without A Trace 3 by Fredrik Ekstom We Will Not Yield by Bonnie Grace The Hot Seat by Philip Ayers Interpretation Correlation by Prozody We Will Have to Go Back There by Christian Andersen In the Docks by Craft Case The Long Way Home by Hampus Naeselius Covert Affairs by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen Tales of the Uncanny by Prozody In War We Shall Rise by Experia Slow Motions by Damon Greene The Worst Call by Jon Bjork By a Thread by Christian Andersen Trail of Crumbs by Martin Landstrom In Cinemas by Pulsed Ventifacts by Anthony Earls Fear of Flying by Ted Beattie Dark Depths by Ted Beattie Circles Dissolving by Anthony Earls Liquids by Cobby Costa Borderline Dilemma by Experia Rise From the Shadows by Hampus Naeselius Minutes of Significance by Charles Holme The Thaw by Million Eyes Under the Setting Sun by Million Eyes Thrilling Moments by Alec Slayne Lost Senses by Sage Oursler Signal to Noise by Hampus Naeselius The Forgotten One by Cobby Costa Will He Hurt Me by Magnus Ringblom Rivers Run Red by Chrisoffer Moe Ditlevsen Material Design by David Celeste Shattered Glass by Lalo Brickman They Say I'm Mad by Mary Riddle Unearthly Beings by Sage Oursler Fluxture by Ethan Sloan Disembogue by Ethan Sloan He's Still Out There by Wendel Scherer The following music was used for this media project: Music: Countdown by Alexander Nakarada Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/4865-countdown License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com/ The following music was used for this media project: Music: Day of Chaos by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3620-day-of-chaos License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://incompetech.com

This is the second installment in Eric Ludy's epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode explores the impact of WW1 upon a generation of young idealists that believed the government was motivated by moral and just motives in fighting this terrible war, only to find out that there were far more carnal motives at the root of much of this four-year horror. The “War to End All Wars” proved to only be the “War to Start All Wars.” There are human frailties, misrepresentations, and propaganda all around us — how does a Christian reason and conclude? Where does our confidence lie? Hint: It's not in human leadership — it's in the Word of God, both in Text and in Person.

Episode #72. Earlyy 1900s - WW1. The story of the beginning of World War 1.  The Map for #72. Welcome to the 72nd episode in the popular podcast show for kids, Real Cool History for Kids, history adventures from a Biblical worldview. Would you like to enter your name into this month's merch drawing? Follow this link to leave a review.  Hey, parents, please snap a picture of your child listening to their special episode and send it to me at contact@angelaodell.com !  The Real Cool History for Kids shop. 

My fellow Sabaton Sluts, Tanner Hensley and Cody Campbell, join me to converse over the band's latest record, The War to End All Wars. We may be biased, but I'm warning you now, we just don't care. They're one of our favorite bands in the world and that fact hasn't changed with this latest offering. What's your favorite track on the new record?

There is a great spiritual battle that is taking place, and the battlefield is the earth where we live. There is a war that is raging, and it truly is the war that will end all wars.Support the show (https://calvary.us/give/)

Sabaton vocalist Joakim Brodén is our guest this week! On this episode, we discuss the stories behind three of the tracks on the band's new album The War to End All Wars, the history and research behind those songs, and why he decided not to watch recent hit films on WWI. We also discuss almost coming to the states for the Judas Priest tour that was eventually postponed, developing the storytelling process with each album before recording, his favorite source of research, creating the Sabaton History Channel on Youtube, and the song he is most excited about performing off of the new album. Petar and Brandon also discuss Jinjer's unfortunate cancellation of their upcoming tour dates due to the invasion of the Ukraine, Slaughter to Prevail frontman Alex Terrible addressing the conflict in the Ukraine, Matt Pike not buying into the flat-earth conspiracy theory, the return of Pete Sandoval to the world of David Vincent, and Dave Lombardo rejoining Testament. Song: Sabaton “The Unkillable Soldier” Song: Sabaton “Christmas Truce” Song: Konvent “Pipe Dreams” Thank you to our sponsor, Metal Blade Records, for their continued support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (

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In Brazil, two corpses were found on a hill, dressed in matching suits with homemade lead masks draped over their eyes. (The Lead Masks Case) *** If you were to be asked who the most horrible, terrifying figure in the Bible was, you would likely say Lucifer – that is, Satan himself. But there is a figure even more terrifying – and it is God's right-hand man in the book of Revelation. (God's Right Hand Man) *** Horror – the stories and images seem to change with each passing year, but there was a violent shift in horror shortly after the violent reality of the “War to End All Wars”. (How Horror Changed After World War 1) *** Two sisters rebel against their depressing family life by diving into witchcraft – and soon learn it was not a wise decision. (Leftover Magic) *** In 1827, young Maria Marten slipped into a red barn to meet her secret lover. It was the last time she would be seen alive. (Murder in the Red Barn) *** Madeleine Smith had a rich fiancé, a secret lover, and one heck of a secret hot chocolate recipe. A lethal secret recipe. (The Hot Cocoa Killer) *** Was the 1971 Lloyds Bank safety deposit robbery a covert operation to retrieve compromising photos of Royalty? (The Baker Street Robbery) *** From mouths nailed shut to being buried headfirst in the ground, throughout history the fear of witches has led to extraordinary measures to keep the dead from rising from the grave. (How To Bury a Witch) *** From creepy voices to mysterious movements to strange laughter and eerie deaths, the legend of Robert the Doll outshines many cursed object stories and has been haunting people for over a hundred years, and shows no sign of slowing down. (The True Story Behind Robert The Doll)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…
”The True Story Behind Robert The Doll” by Melissa Brink: https://tinyurl.com/rnlbjxp “The Lead Masks Case” by Orrin Grey: http://ow.ly/Re9h30nA2ZX “God's Terrifying Right-Hand Man” by Matthew Lavelle: https://tinyurl.com/u88mpbe “How Horror Changed After WW1” by W. Scott Poole, from the book “Wasteland: The Great War And The Origins of Horror”: https://amzn.to/2t4ZmpT“The Baker Street Robbery”: https://tinyurl.com/wltn62d “How To Bury a Witch”: https://tinyurl.com/ttqfd2c “Leftover Magic” by Weirdo family member Ilsa Beauchamp“Murder In The Red Barn” by Stephanie Almazan: http://ow.ly/CV4K30nAJDp “The Hot Cocoa Killer” by Jennifer Jackson: http://ow.ly/8bHt30nAJSg Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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