A View from the Bunker

IS EVERY person created by God with intrinsic value, or are some people flowers while others are weeds? Robert Blaise, producer of the documentary Human Weeds, discusses the repackaging and rebranding of the eugenics movement. Check out our previous interviews with transhumanists Zoltan Istvan (here and here), Rev. Dr. Christopher Benek of the Christian Transhumanist Association (here), and Lincoln Cannon of the Mormon Transhumanist Association (here). See also our interview with Mark Musser, author of Nazi Oaks (here). Then Mike Kerr of Hear the Watchmen Ministries gives an update on the conference in Dallas at the end of the month. Plus: Terror in New Zealand; Israel hits Gaza hard after rockets launched at Tel Aviv; Thais flock to spiritual tattoo festival; Beto O’Rourke’s past hidden by Reuters until after the election; and researchers find AI develops prejudice on its own. —— 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)!

IT SOUNDS bizarre, but there are links between the fallen angels Paul warned us about in the Bible and the modern UFO phenomenon. Ali Siadatan of Think Again Productions, producer of the groundbreaking documentary UFOs, Angels, and Gods (link opens YouTube video), joins us to discuss the connections. Here is the link to our previous interview, in which Ali tells us the story of his childhood in Iran, his path to Jesus Christ, and his UFO encounter on a dark highway in rural Iran during a visit with his father. Then filmmaker Timothy Mahoney tells us about his forthcoming documentary Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy, which will be screened in 950 theaters across America March 14, 16, and 19 (this coming Thursday and Saturday, and the following Tuesday). Plus: Trey Smith on Bill Maher’s HBO show; Venezuela still in the dark; kids strike for the Green New Deal; and the author of The Shack is selling bad doctrine. Plus: There is still time for you to join us in the Holy Land this year! The SkyWatchTV Wars of the Gods Tour of Israel May 12-23, with Sharon K. Gilbert, Pastor Carl Gallups, and messianic Rabbi Zev Porat, includes an exclusive guided tour of Qumran with Jim Barfield, founder of the Copper Scroll Project. —— 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)!

IT MAY be a map to the greatest archaeological find in history. Oddly enough, it’s a retired arson investigator who may have decoded it. Jim Barfield, director of the Copper Scroll Project, and his colleague Chris Knight join us to discuss the controversial Copper Scroll, who wrote it, and what they were trying to preserve. Also: Trump walks from North Korea talks; fighting between nuclear powers in Asia; unsafe spaces for children; the retail apocalypse; Israel shoots for the moon; and African church walks back a miracle. Plus: There is still time for you to join us in the Holy Land this year! The SkyWatchTV Wars of the Gods Tour of Israel May 12-23, with Sharon K. Gilbert, Pastor Carl Gallups, and messianic Rabbi Zev Porat, includes an exclusive guided tour of Qumran with Jim Barfield, founder of the Copper Scroll Project. 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)!

BRIAN AND SHAWN CHRISAGIS shouldn’t be here. They were born three months premature, spent two years in incubators, and survived life-threatening allergies to the sun, grass, clothes and all types of food. And yet, here they are, in full-time music ministry, with a new book out next month and a pilot for a family-friendly television series on the way. Follow their ministry at www.ChrisagisBrothersMinistries.org. Also: Overpopulation myth; the U.S. is broke; Trump pulls federal funding from Planned Parenthood; fake hate crime shows that America’s not really that bad; and Christian witches claim Jesus was a sorcerer. Plus: Details of our upcoming trip to Israel, and how you can join us! The SkyWatchTV Wars of the Gods Tour of Israel May 12-23, with Sharon K. Gilbert, Pastor Carl Gallups, and messianic Rabbi Zev Porat, includes an exclusive guided tour of Qumran with Jim Barfield, founder of the Copper Scroll Project. You may have heard that Nathan Peck, the young son of Josh & Christina Peck, is battling T-cell leukemia. If you are led to help the Pecks financially, you can do it at Josh’s website, www.JoshPeckDisclosure.com/donate. 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)!

WHAT HAPPENS when you take a maverick archaeologist and a filmmaker from Indiana, and drop them into Qumran, Masada, and Petra? A travelogumentary that probably wasn’t sanctioned by OSHA. We talk with Dr. Aaron Judkins and Ty Towriss to discuss their film, Footsteps of Lost Truth: Qumran 2 Petra, find out why they went, what they learned, and the real treasure they found on their journey. Also: Trump declares border emergency; Democrats realize AOC is a gift to GOP; fake hate crime in Chicago; and a dangerous new online challenge encourages teens to fake their own disappearance. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

HE STARTED down a path that probably would have led to drugs, prison, or early death. Instead, he found the path to eternal life. Mondo de la Vega, Executive Vice President of Television Production and Co-Host of The Jim Bakker Show, joins us to talk about the road he might have traveled, fatherhood, the power of God’s love — and leading pro wrestlers to the Lord. Also: AOC’s Green New Deal, everybody’s mad at Ralph Northam for the wrong reason, and Mary Poppins is a racist. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

A SUPERHEATED blast from the skies obliterated the area northeast of the Dead Sea about 3,700 years ago. Radiocarbon dating and minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures may have given us the physical proof of the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Dr. Phillip Silvia of Trinity Southwest University is the Field Supervisor and Director of Scientific Analysis for the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project, working with a dig in Jordan about five miles from Mount Nebo that he believes is the site of ancient Sodom. You can see this site from Mount Nebo if you join us in Israel this May! You can find Dr. Silvia’s research at Academia.edu, and you can buy books about the research at Tall el-Hammam from Trinity Southwest University Press. Plus, even more breaking news about our Israel tour — we’re going to Qumran for a special tour with Jim Barfield of the Copper Scroll Project! Also: CBS rejects patriotic Super Bowl ad; Democrats lose their minds; Apple smacks down Facebook; record cold due to global warming; and shootout at Area 23. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

DO UFOs and the “alien” abduction phenomena fit a biblical narrative? Ali Siadatan, producer of the documentary UFOs, Angels, and Gods joins us to explain why those strange lights in the sky are real but not what the UFO community thinks. Then Ray Gano joins us to announce the new Last Days Warrior Conspiracy Summit, featuring exclusive video content from Derek Gilbert, Josh Peck, Carl Teichrib, Jared Chrestman and Tom Dunn, Alex Newman, Gary Wayne and more. Also: Trump caves—or does he; Pelosi hints at SOTU showdown and more; disturbing new Michael Jackson documentary; and new treatment promises youth through the blood of the young. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

DIRECTIONS TO the treasures of Solomon’s Temple inscribed on a sheet of copper found at Qumran among the Dead Sea scrolls? That sounds like the premise of a Hollywood action movie, but it’s true. Shelley Neese, author of The Copper Scroll Project, discusses the research of retired arson investigator Jim Barfield and how he may have decoded the location of the greatest archaeological find in history. Also: Israel attacks targets in Syria; Trump offers deal on border; BuzzFeed’s bombshell fizzles; majority of Americans want higher taxes (on other people); Gillette tries to sell razors by scolding its target audience; and the Super Wolf Blood Moon. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

Properly prioritizing scripture and Savior: Author Keith Giles joins us to discuss his provocative new book Jesus Unbound: Liberating the Word of God from the Bible. Then Mike Kerr joins us to announce two speakers just added to the Hear the Watchmen conference March 28-31 in Dallas: Irvin Baxter of Endtime Ministries and Gary Wayne, author of The Genesis 6 Conspiracy. Also: Israel smacks Syria; US planned to hit Iran; bodies at the border; Freedom of worship vs. freedom of religion; and the Russians are stealing the North Pole! Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

THE SATANIC PANIC of thirty years ago was fake news. Dr. Gregory Reid, director of YouthFire Ministries and author of War of the Ages, joins us to talk about the reality of ritual abuse and how it’s affecting our society. Also: Government shutdown continues; plague of rivers turning blood red; Earth’s magnetic field fluctuating; and new Ebola scare hits Europe. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

Drug cartels are using African religions and Latin-American cults to give them a supernatural edge in the ongoing drug war. Tony Kail, Southern Regional Coordinator of the Symbol Intelligence Group and author of Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars, joins us to explain how. Also: Pentagon panic over Russian hypersonic missile; government shutdown reaches second weekend (and no one outside Washington notices); Ebola scare in Nebraska; and a blood moon kicks off the New Year in the US. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

What people believe really does guide what they do—especially in the Islamic world. Dr. Timothy Furnish (www.OccidentalJihadist.com), an expert on Muslim eschatology, explains how. In our final segment, historian Dr. Judd Burton explains why Christians can celebrate Christmas with no guilt or fear of accidentally worshiping a pagan god. For in-depth reading on celebrating Christmas as a Christian: * “Merry Non-Pagan Christmas!” * “How December 25 Became Christmas” by Andrew McGowan, Dean and President of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Bible History Daily. * “Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind December 25” by William J. Tighe, originally published in the December 2003 issue of Touchstone. * “Was Jesus Just a Copycat Savior Myth?,” The Christian Think Tank. * “Have Yourself a Very Pagan Christmas (Not)” by Dr. Glenn Peoples, Right Reason. * “On Nimrod and Christmas Trees (Part 1),” posted at As Bereans Did. * “The Plain Truth About December 25,” posted at As Bereans Did. * “The Two Babylons” by Ralph Woodrow, his article for the Christian Research Institute explaining why he withdrew his book Babylon Mystery Religion, based on The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, from publication. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

IF PEOPLE are “born that way,” why (and how) do some people change? David Arthur of I Belong Amen Ministries describes his journey as a former homosexual and transgender person, and explains why these lifestyles are mutable and, yes, curable. Watch David’s video program Alphabet Man Live weekdays at 9:00 AM Eastern Time, and follow him at his Facebook page here. Also: Obamacare ruled unconstitutional; Democrats in House want to declare abortion a human right; scholar who declared God dead joins his Maker in the afterlife; and messianic Rabbi Zev Porat tells us what happened at the Sanhedrin ceremony to consecrate the altar for the Third Temple. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!

IT’S NOT paranoia if they’ve really been trying to kill you for 1,400 years. Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, joins us to discuss the lessons we should have learned after 14 centuries of war with Islam. In our final segment, messianic Rabbi Zev Porat talks about the significance of the Sanhedrin’s consecration of the stone altar for the Third Temple tomorrow (December 10) in Jerusalem. Also: Clinton Foundation CFO admits to malfeasance by the Clintons; US becomes net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years; fossil fuels are racist; Veggie Tales are racist; and high school principal bans Nazi symbols from production of The Sound of Music — which is about an Austrian family’s escape from Nazis prior to World War II. Get the new VFTB mobile app! It’s free in the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Derek’s new book Last Clash of the Titans: The Second Coming of Hercules, Leviathan, and the Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods of Antiquity is shipping now! For more information (and free samples!), log on to www.LastClashOfTheTitans.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. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. And we are proud be part of the Fringe Radio Network!