A View from the Bunker

JEZEBEL GETS too much credit for the evil in the world today. Jezebel spirit? She was human, so she’s dead and her spirit is powerless. However, there were spirits behind Jezebel, and it’s them we have to be concerned with. Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Brian Godawa (www.godawa.com) is back to talk about his new novel, Jezebel: Harlot Queen of Israel, Book 1 in his Chronicles of the Watchers series. We discuss Jezebel, Ahab, the gods of ancient Tyre and Samaria, and why Brian chose to use Jehu, one of Ahab’s military commanders, as a major character in the novel instead of the prophet Elijah. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse. That’s more than 1,400 hours of free archived audio! Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

HOW DO you reconcile soft tissue inside bones that are supposed to be 67 million years old? Joe Taylor, curator and director of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas (online at www.mtblanco.com) explains how paleontology properly understood does not contradict the Bible. You can help Joe repair the hail-damaged roof of the museum here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/friends-of-mt-blanco-museum Listen to Joe’s weekly radio broadcast Forbidden Paleontology on KGRA Radio every Thursday at 7 PM Eastern Time (UTC -5). Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse. That’s more than 1,400 hours of free archived audio! Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

IT ONLY takes a few minutes of scanning your options on a channel guide for cable or satellite TV to see that Satan truly is the prince of the power of the air. How do Christians work behind enemy lines to use the power of entertaining, compelling stories to share the truth? David Heavener, longtime Hollywood producer, director, writer, and actor, is developing The Last Evangelist, a series he describes as “CSI meets Revelation.” David discusses the challenges and opportunities of working outside the Hollywood system and why he’s turned down offers of financial support from potential backers with deep pockets. Links: * DavidHeavener.tv * LastEvangelist.com * IndieGoGo site for The Last Evangelist Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

VFTB 11/17/19: David Villanueva - Creating for Christ

DR. GREGORY REID returns this week to try to fit together the pieces of a very disturbing puzzle. Jeffrey Epstein is gone but not forgotten. ABC News anchor Amy Robach was caught earlier this year on a hot mic venting her frustration at ABC News management at killing her scoop on the convicted pedophile three years ago. (She has since walked back her comments, claiming that the story didn’t meet ABC’s journalistic standards.) Last week, the FBI released its file on a group called The Finders that was investigated by the US Customs Service and Washington DC Metro Police. Apparently, the group was trafficking children for sex and traveling to places like Moscow, North Vietnam, and North Korea from the late 1950s through the ‘70s, the height of the Cold War. Despite a shocking amount of evidence, including photographs, a video production facility, computer files, an altar, and “many jars of urine and feces” recovered from a warehouse connected to the Finders, Metro PD and the USCS were told that “the activity of the Finders had become a CIA internal matter.” The police report had been classified secret, the FBI withdrew from the investigation and “no further action” was taken. This is troubling, because if foreshadowed a strange detail in the Epstein case, reported by investigative journalist Vicky Ward: Epstein’s name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for the job of labor secretary. The plea deal put a hard stop to a separate federal investigation of alleged sex crimes with minors and trafficking. “Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?” Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he’d had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition. “Belonged to intelligence?” Like the Finders? Links for a deeper dive: * The FBI’s file on the Finders: http://bit.ly/33CaHyn * Twitter thread featuring key memos in FBI’s file on the Finders: http://bit.ly/32ERLOp * “Jeffrey Epstein’s Sick Story Played Out for Years in Plain Sight” by Vicky Ward - http://bit.ly/2Cy33cx * My interviews with authors Nick Bryant (The Franklin Scandal) and William H. Kennedy (Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church) - https://www.vftb.net/?p=7801 * My interview with Dave McGowan, author of Programmed to Kill, about what he termed “the pedophocracy”: https://www.vftb.net/?p=3368 * My discussion with Gonz Shimura about #Pizzagate: https://www.vftb.net/?p=6677 * Conspiracy of Silence (YouTube video of documentary about the Franklin Credit Union pedophile scandal): http://bit.ly/2NDeTZj

THE BIBLE did not drop from the sky fully formed and edited, much less translated into Elizabethan English. This may seem obvious, but many Christians are uncomfortable thinking about the process that produced the scriptures we take as the Word of God. Doug Woodward, author of Rebooting the Bible and the new book A Biography of the Christian Bible, explains why Christians can relax and know that minor changes over the centuries haven’t changed one jot or tittle of the gospel by which we are saved. —— Derek joins Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson next weekend for the ‘Look, He is Coming With the Clouds’ Prophecy Conference Sept. 20-22, 2019 in Sanger, California (Fresno area). Log on to www.crosspointechurch.net for details and registration. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

THE CHURCH laments the fact that young people are leaving the faith in droves. Maybe we’re not teaching them theology when they’re young enough for it to take root. Doug Overmyer of Seers See Ministries is doing something about that. Drawing on the Divine Council research of Dr. Michael Heiser, Doug offers a free curriculum to teach youth groups a supernatural worldview, to help them learn that they play a role in a story that’s much bigger than they realize. Click here (https://seerssee.com/gods-story-discover-your-part-in-gods-supernatural-plan/) for information, including PowerPoint presentations and workbooks for teachers and students, on “God’s Story: Your Part in God’s Supernatural Plan.” —— Derek joins Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson for the ‘Look, He is Coming With the Clouds’ Prophecy Conference Sept. 20-22, 2019 in Sanger, California (Fresno area). Log on to www.crosspointechurch.net for details and registration. —— Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. —— Derek and Sharon Gilbert are going back to the Holy Land in 2020! For information on the SkyWatchTV Tour of Israel October 12-23, 2020, log on to LipkinTours.com. —— Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse And check out our weekly video programs: SciFriday (www.scifriday.tv) and Unraveling Revelation (www.unravelingrevelation.tv)! —— Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

WE MAY not be putting the blame for the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Dayton, and elsewhere entirely where it belongs. Dr. Gregory Reid of YouthFire Ministries, an expert in occult crimes and crimes against children, discusses the principalities and powers behind the shooters. We discuss demons, ritual abuse, and why occult crime is so rarely reported by the mainstream media. Other links you may find of interest: * Interview with Russ Dizdar on his book The Black Awakening * Interviews with Nick Bryant and William H. Kennedy on the Franklin Credit Union scandal and other incidents of occult crime * Interview with David McGowan, author of Programmed to Kill * The Pedophocracy by David McGowan * Interview with Tom Dunn and Jared Chrestman on their film Detestable Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts -- VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship -- at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

SHAKESPEARE WAS more right than he knew: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio Jim Wilhelmsen, founder of Echoes of Enoch Ministries and the author of Beyond Science Fiction, tells us how personal involvement with the UFO phenomenon changed his philosophy, and how it should shape yours. Then Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson, co-authors of The Babylon Code and Trumpocalypse, join us to talk about Bible prophecy and why it’s relevant. Paul and Troy join Derek next month for the ‘Look, He is Coming With the Clouds’ Prophecy Conference in Sanger (Fresno area), California. Click here for details and registration. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

80,000 PEOPLE will meet next week in the Nevada desert to fundamentally change the world around you. We’ve got a man on the inside. Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment, will be at the annual Burning Man transformational festival again this year to see what kind of new spirituality is being cooked up for your neighborhood in the middle of the Nevada desert. Carl discusses the kind of people who attend Burning Man (hint: they’re probably like a lot of people you know), the purpose of transformational festivals, and the role cryptocurrencies might play in ushering in the kingdom of Antichrist. You can help Carl with the cost of setting up the Camp of the Unknown God at Burning Man by donating to his GoFundMe page. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

THE WAY we do church today would be completely foreign to a first-century Christian. How do we get back to the design of the early church? Keith Giles, author of the new book Jesus Unveiled: Forsaking Church as We Know it for Ekklesia as God Intended, shares his thoughts and experiences on how and why we need to stop treating church like a business and start treating it like a family. Plus: Jeffrey Epstein dead of apparent suicide; Universal Pictures scraps The Hunt, Baltimore Sun trashes volunteers who cleaned up neighborhood; and anti-specist says it’s wrong to kill mosquitoes. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

TEACHING CHILDREN about Jesus doesn’t mean simplifying the gospel to the point that it loses its power. Preston and Kelly Condra discuss their latest book, Papa, Let’s Talk. Using family and clever strategies to depict the elements of the Gospel, Papa, Let’s Talk is a unique book that can be used with pre-school and grade school children alike. Plus: Good week for Trump; city-killer asteroid just misses; icebergs in the desert; and the Deep State wants Epstein dead. Here’s the link to the paper by Dr. Phillip Silvia, Evidence of Shifts in Earth’s Rotational Axis at Tall el-Hammam. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

SATAN MAY be the prince of the power of the air, but if there is a rebel force fighting a guerrilla war via the Internet, its leader is Josh Peck. Josh joins us to talk about his new venture, The Daily Renegade, a video hub for conservative Christian voices that are being excluded from other platforms. Check out all of Daily Renegade’s alternative platforms by clicking here, and you can find all of Josh’s prior interviews on VFTB by clicking here. Then Pastor Caspar McCloud joins us to discuss the We2019 Experience Festival next month. It runs for two weekends in August, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Featured artists include Jefferson Starship, John Sebastian (Lovin’ Spoonful), Canned Heat, Melanie, Vanilla Fudge, Ten Years After, Iron Butterfly, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, and more—including Pastor Caspar McCloud. The big question: what’s a Christian pastor going to do in a place like that? Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

ARCHAEOLOGY CAN be a tricky business—especially when you dig in Israel. Dr. Scott Stripling, Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research at Khirbet el-Maqatir and Shiloh, talks about the importance of archaeology for better understanding the Bible, exciting discoveries from the Holy Land, and the challenges of digging in Judea and Samaria, the areas the world calls the West Bank. Check out the ABR YouTube channel, which features their weekly program Digging For Truth. Here’s the link to Dr. Stripling’s book The Trowel and the Truth: A Guide to Field Archaeology in the Holy Land at Amazon.com. Dr. Stripling leads a tour of archaeological sites with Israeli Bible expert Aaron Lipkin May 8-17, 2020. For more information, log on to www.LipkinTours.com. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

THE CHURCH is rediscovering things we knew two thousand years ago. Scholar of Apologetics and Patristics (the study of the early church fathers) Rev. Jack Davila-Ashcraft explains why topics like demons, the Nephilim, and end times prophecy weren’t considered weird by early Christian theologians, and how relearning what we’ve forgotten will help us better understand the spiritual war being fought all around us. Click here to access the archive of articles, sermons, and Bible studies by Rev. Davila-Ashcraft. Our previous interview about his book, The Messianic Secret, is available online here. Then Dr. Douglas Hamp, senior pastor of The Way Congregation, joined us to talk about the upcoming One in Messiah Convocation July 18-20, 2019 in Denver. Besides Doug, featured speakers include past VFTB guests Doug Krieger, John Haller, and Chad Schafer. For information, log on to www.OneInMessiahConvocation.com. Download our free mobile app! Links to the iTunes App Store and Google Play are posted at www.vftb.net. Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. Get all of our podcasts — VFTB, P.I.D. Radio, and the Gilbert House Fellowship — at Spreaker: www.spreaker.com/user/gilberthouse Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (www.facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network (www.RevelationsRadioNetwork.com). And we are proud to be part of the Fringe Radio Network!