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WHAT?! The BIBLE GATEWAY the most popular online Bible website/app in the world, which is used by millions and millions of Christian’s around the world to find Bible verses bas been removed in the UK due to the ONLINE SAFETY ACT.

Author’s note: The article for this week was first posted Monday, September 20, 2010. My reason for reposting it this week might seem rather unusual–perhaps even odd. Let me explain. Upon awakening early the other day, as is my usual way, the first moments of clarity came to me out of nowhere and wouldn’t leave. The thought was that I had been saved at the age of six. Since I was born in 1942, that made the year I was born again 1948. The thought wouldn’t leave. I was “born again” the same year–1948—Israel was “reborn” as a nation into...

Have you had enough yet? Violence and lawlessness seem out of control. Senseless violence. Snipers unleashing bullets carved with evil messages on them! Who thinks this way? The line-up of atrocities never ends. An innocent Ukrainian woman coming home from her pizza job, casually scrolling on her phone on a train in North Carolina, is stabbed to death by a demonized thug. She had left war-torn Ukraine for the supposed safety of America. Yet a monster lurked in the shadows and ended her young life. And it was all captured on camera. Beyond Our Imagination My hometown made notoriety again...

A Christian lady recently said to me, I have a problem that you may be able to help me with. If my sins have been forgiven, why do I have to go before the Judgment Seat of Christ? My answer was: Understand that there are several different judgments mentioned in the Bible: the Christian’s sins were judged on the cross, there will be a judgment of the sheep and goat nations, a judgment of the fallen angels, the Great White Throne Judgment of unbelievers, we must judge ourselves, etc. Every Christian must appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ to...

In our book of some years ago, The Departure: God’s Next Catastrophic Intervention into Earth’s History, we point out crucial truth about who will go to Christ and who will be left behind when the Lord says: “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1, as prophesied by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). Even though it is “my” book in that I developed it, I say “our” book because a number of the most knowledgeable authorities in Bible prophecy wrote chapters on the most relevant topics of our day. All issues and events involving what we consider having prophetic importance are looked at...

“Millie! Get out of the street!” The yelling from the room next to me pulled me from my nap. “Millie! Get out of the street!” The plea sounded again, and a few more times. By now, I was almost fully awake while sitting upright in my office recliner. My wife was trying to reason with a cat—not even our cat—to get out of the middle of the street in front of our home. Over the many years, a number of our cats had met their demise in that street. So, the imploring wasn’t without a reason (although reasoning was a...

Unquestionably, the most important prophetic information for every generation is the knowledge of its whereabouts on the Lord’s prophetic timeline. Isaiah 46:9-10 informs us that there exists a definite beginning and end, so the question is, where are we now? The simple answer is that we are somewhere between the two prophetic events of the rebirth of the nation of Israel and the upholding of the Lord’s holy name through the nation of Israel, which results from the Gog of Magog war in Ezekiel 38-39. In fulfillment of numerous prophecies, Israel was reborn as a nation on May 14, 1948....

I can’t sing worth a flip, but several years ago, I agreed to preach at a small church for at least two Sundays. When I showed up, I was told the church didn’t have a song leader or a piano player, and the preacher always leads the singing. I told the congregation I couldn’t sing and asked for a volunteer. No one would do it, so I did. When I went back the next Sunday, the Church had hired a song leader and a piano player. Even though I can’t sing, there are some songs that I really like (Midnight...

The prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27 is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” as Sir Winston Churchill once said regarding Russia. Similarly, the mystery of this prophecy has intrigued scholars and theologians for centuries. Many believe that Daniel 9:24-27 is the most crucial passage of prophecy in all of Scripture. No prophecy in the whole Bible is more critical to our understanding of the end times than these four verses. There are numerous interpretations of the historical and biblical context (and timeframes) surrounding the events described in these four verses of Scripture. About a year ago, I wrote...

This is Calvary Chapel's Wednesday evening service. Pastor Hibbs is hosting Daniel Cohen, a messianic Jew news correspondent who is living in Israel The video is long, 1:28:29 but very good.

Most Christians take Communion (the Lord’s Supper) on a regular basis. Most have heard a sermon on the following passage (I Cor. 11:23-32). >For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread: >And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. >After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in...

“It is getting gloriously dark.” Those words were uttered by one of my favourite preachers, Adrian Rogers. One day, maybe soon, I’ll get to meet Pastor Rogers. Yet, we won’t be talking about how dark it is. When God’s prophetic program brings to fulfilment the events of Revelation 21, we will both rejoice that in the New Jerusalem: “The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and...

We are living in amazing times. A great day is coming, and it looks like we can see it approaching. Jesus talked about it. He said there hasn’t been anything like it since the beginning of the world, no, nor ever shall be (Matt. 24:21). The prophet Jeremiah talked about it. He said, “Alas! For the day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble: but he shall be saved out of it” (Jer. 30:7). The prophet Zephaniah saw it. He said, “The great day of the Lord is near, it is...

The world’s Arab countries for the first time have joined unanimously in the call for Hamas to lay down its weapons, release all hostages and end its rule of the Gaza Strip, conditions that they said could help the establishment of a Palestinian state. The surprise declaration, endorsed on Tuesday by the 22 member nations of the Arab League, also condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, which set off the devastating war in Gaza. The statement came at a United Nations conference in New York on a two-state solution to end the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. “In...

Geofencing: "Think of it as an invisible fence around you... that will be related to your face recognition, digital identity, and access control" Big Tech whistleblower Aman Jabbi exposes the digital prison being constructed all around us in this clip from The Agenda: Their Vision Your Future.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that the government grocery store plan from New York City mayoral candidate Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D) is “a new and fresh plan for New York City. But it’s been tried in other cities around the country and has had some real successes.” Warren stated that Mamdani “said, we’ve got a problem with entire food deserts where people can’t get access to grocery stores. He said, I’d like to take a look at whether or not we can have some kind of — like we do on military bases...

A new TV series, called "Polyfamily", is airing on the Warner Bros. Discovery network’s TLC TV, and centers on a "family" of two married couples living together and sharing spouses between them. To make matters worse, the "quad family" is having children without knowing who the father is, while one of the women "comes out" as being "pansexual," and seeking an extra relationship with another woman outside the ‘quad’. According to reports: "Alysia & Tyler have been married for 11 years and came into the quad [relationship of two couples] with two school-aged children of their own. Since joining the...

Catholic Zionism differs from the forms of Protestant Zionism that require a literalist exegesis of Revelation 20:2, which describes a thousand-year period of Messianic rule during which Satan is “bound” and his power restrained. Catholic Zionism does not see the creation of Israel in 1948 as inaugurating the end times. The death and resurrection of Jesus did that. Catholic Zionism does not support an “apocalyptic” showdown in the Middle East… Catholic Zionism shares one central feature of Protestant Zionism, however: It affirms that the promise made to Abraham in Genesis matters in our time. The foundation of the State of...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed today that it has launched Sejil medium‑range ballistic missiles—with a range up to 2,000 km—directly at Israel for the first time in recorded history. This marks a serious escalation in the ongoing tit-for-tat conflict between the two nations. The solid-fuel, two-stage Sejil—first tested in 2008—is highly maneuverable and difficult to intercept, strengthening Iran’s strategic posture. Spokesmen from the IRGC proudly confirmed that three Sejils—each boasting a range between 2,000 and 2,500 km, Mach‑13 speeds, and a warhead capacity up to 700 kg—were launched deep into Israeli territory under the cover of Operation True...

Iran is set to OFFICIALLY declare war against Israel, per state media