A View from the Bunker

AMERICA’S FINEST have all too often been used as throwaway pawns in political chess games played by people who have never seen war. As we approach Independence Day here in the United States, it seemed appropriate to bring back two interviews with the late Lt. Col. Dan Marvin (US Army, Ret.), author of an important book, Expendable Elite: One Soldier’s Journey Into Covert Warfare, which documents his service as a Green Beret captain in Vietnam. Expendable Elite is about the good, bad and ugly of secret warfare, the first bombarding of enemy safe-havens inside Cambodia, major battles won by Hoa Hao Irregular Forces led by American and Vietnamese Green Berets, the importance of civic action and psychological warfare, and the involvement of US Special Forces in the plots to assassinate Cambodia’s Prince Sihanouk, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and US Navy LTCDR William B. Pitzer, perhaps the last victim of the John F. Kennedy case. LTC Marvin documents retribution and revenge tactics employed by the CIA and the White House against its own, and the courage of Lieutenant General Quang Van Dang in his rescue of Marvin’s A-Team, their counterparts and 400 Hoa Hao warriors from a 1,000 man South Vietnamese regiment sent by the CIA to destroy Marvin’s Special Forces camp. Until his death in 2012, Dan Marvin made it his mission to compel the U.S. government to recognize the way America’s finest have been sacrificed for political objectives in the past and to ensure that it never happens again. Visit the Expendable Elite website (www.ExpendableElite.com) and read Col. Marvin’s article series “The Unconventional Warrior.” 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!

BIBLICAL GIANTOLOGY. Yes, that’s a thing. We discuss it with archaeologist, historian, and author of Interview with the Giant: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Nephilim, Dr. Judd Burton. We’ll also talk about Judd’s upcoming Sons of God, Giants of Old Conference August 9-10, 2019 in Lubbock, Texas. Besides Judd, and Derek and Sharon Gilbert, featured speakers include Dr. Michael Heiser, Dr. Gregory Reid, Dr. Aaron Judkins, Doug Hamp, and Joe Taylor. Admission is only $5! For more information, log on to Judd’s website, www.BurtonBeyond.com. Also, why the president canceled the strike on Iran and the ICE raids, reparations for everybody, and Facebook’s new global currency. —— Richard Shaw, the award-winning director of Beat the Drum, Torah Codes, Gaza, the Watchers series and much more passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on June 20th, 2019. Because of Richard’s sudden passing, we’re asking for your help in supporting his wife, Mary. Click here for the GoFundMe page set up by L. A. Marzulli. 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!

Sometimes the answer to a difficult question is obvious. In this case, the question that has befuddled Western politicians and military minds is this: Why do violent jihadists seem to hate us? The answer is the same one Thomas Jefferson and John Adams heard from the Muslim ambassador from Tripoli in 1785: “It was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.” First, we go back to November of 2015 for an interview with Dr. Timothy Furnish, a scholar of Islamic history, expert on political Islam and Mahdism, and author of the books Ten Years’ Captivation with the Mahdi’s Camps and Sects, Lies, and the Caliphate. He explains why the roots of the Islamic State reach back much farther than America’s recent military adventures in Iraq. Here are links to articles by Dr. Furnish. Note that he predicted the rise of a group like ISIS almost ten years before it declared its caliphate: * Beheading in the Name of Islam (Spring 2005) * What’s Worse than Violent Jihadists? (July 25, 2005) Then we bring back an interview from earlier this year with historian Raymond Ibrahim, who was recently invited to speak at the US Army War College—until the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Muslim activist Linda Sarsour complained. It seems they have a problem with American soldiers hearing about Raymond’s latest book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West. 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!

ANOTHER “ARCHAEOLOGY is cool” program tonight as we raid the archives for interviews with two archaeologists upsetting the applecart of generally accepted beliefs about the ancient Near East. First, from 2016, Egyptologist David Rohl, author of Exodus: Myth or History?, challenges the consensus timeline of ancient history. Analyzing the evidence without preconceptions, David shows how the evidence for the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, and the rise of the kingdom of David has been right in front of scholars all along. Then Dr. Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University, Field Supervisor and Director of Scientific Analysis for the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project, explains why a site in Jordan about five miles from Mount Nebo is the site of ancient Sodom. You can find Dr. Silvia’s research at Academia.edu, and you can buy books about the research of the team at Tall el-Hammam from Trinity Southwest University Press. 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!

TONIGHT WE address one of the darkest evils that plagues our world—sexual abuse of children. First, author Nick Bryant discusses in this 2010 interview what may be the most disturbing pedophile scandal in American history. The Franklin Scandal touched a cherished institution, Boys Town, and reached the very highest levels of the American government. Then, William H. Kennedy, author of Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church, joined us back in 2009 to discuss the nexus of child abuse and occult crime. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

We bring you three interviews from the VFTB Archive: First, Kay Rubacek of Swoop Films discusses the documentary Hard to Believe, about the Chinese government’s practice of harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience—people incarcerated because of their political or religious beliefs. Then the film’s director Ken Stone describes the difficulty of producing such a dark film and telling the story in a one-hour format. Then we bring back a 2013 interview with Patrick Wood, author of Technocracy Rising and founder of RevelationGate Ministries, about the new religion of Transhumanism. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

ONE OF the most famous characters in the Old Testament—in all of history, really—gives us a pretty good profile of what the prophesied Antichrist will be like. Pastor Mark Biltz, author of the new book Decoding the Antichrist and the End Times, explains why a man described as the wisest of all kings was actually a type of the end times enemy of God and Israel. 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, 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 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)!

Carl Teichrib, author of Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-enchantment, shares his observations about a recent conference of pagans in the upper Midwest: Events like this are attended by people who might be our neighbors, many (if not most) are former Christians, and they say the old gods are telling them it’s time to stop meeting in hotels. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

THOUSANDS OF years have passed and their names have been forgotten, or at least transformed over the years into the names of heroes of myth and legend. Why is their story relevant today? Ryan Pitterson, author of Judgment of the Nephilim, joins us to explain why 21st century Christians should study the life, death, and religion of the mighty men who were of old. Also: Rockets over Gaza; persecution of Christians “near genocide levels”; historic flooding on the Mississippi; and how a deadly pig disease in China is affecting American farmers. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

HE RIDES thousands of miles on his motorcycle, criss-crossing the country to honor fallen soldiers. Tony Price, author of Yours, Very Sincerely And Respectfully, tells the story of the Gold Star Ride Foundation and the Gold Star families he’s met through his mission. Also: Shooting at San Diego synagogue; more rioting in Gaza; Mueller report contains claim that Russians taped compromising Bill Clinton phone calls; Beto O’Rourke’s interesting solution to “food deserts”; Big Brother is here; and Oxford professor says human-alien hybrids are here and will save us from ourselves. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

BEING PREPARED is not just practical, it’s biblical. Chance Gibson of American Survival Wholesale explains why being ready for anything should be part of our Christian walk. Then Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, discusses an article he published earlier this week on the epidemic of church vandalization in France and Germany. Also: Easter terror in Sri Lanka kills more than 200 Christians; a bad week for major media; Trump’s deal for Mideast peace reportedly leaves out a Palestinian homeland; and AI researchers warn that artificial intelligence may unleash a “diversity disaster.” 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

THE REAL game of thrones takes place in the spirit realm. Chad Schafer, author of The World in the Bondage of Egypt—Under the Arch of Titus, explains how a 2,000-year-old Roman monument represents the ongoing fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Special for VFTB listeners: Get free shipping on Chad's book when you buy it at his website (www.thearchesofegypt.com/store) with promo code VFTB! 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

WORKING FOR unity in the body of Christ is a crucial calling. Adrian and Cindi Appleberry of i4029 Ministries talk about their mission of giving “power to the weak and strength to the powerless,” a reference to Isaiah 40:29. The Appleberrys are also the coordinators of the Unsealed Scroll Prophecy Conference October 4-6, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio. We discuss the lineup of speakers and how you can register for tickets and streaming video. 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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

USING FICTION to expose the fiction of the modern UFO phenomenon. Darrin Geisinger, author of Zero Gs: The Armor Eternal, discusses the use of storytelling to spread the truth of the gospel. Darrin is also the conference coordinator for True Legends. We discuss the conference in Branson September 13-15, “Answering the Alien Question.” For more information, log on to www.GenSix.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 (www.spreaker.com/user/mxpw)!

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