Muhammad Atif Shah 
Here is a striking detail. In the Book of Revelation, a rider on a white horse comes to judge the world and make war in righteousness. In the Hindu Puranas, Kalki rides a white horse with a blazing sword to end an age of darkness. The pictures look alike. So people ask a natural question. … Read more
Introduction The Book of Ezekiel almost did not survive. The Talmud tells us that some sages wanted to hide it. Its description of the temple seemed to disagree with the Torah. According to the story, a scholar named Hananiah ben Hezekiah saved it. He sat in an upper room with 300 jars of oil and … Read more
Introduction In Hindu tradition, the story of the world is not told once. It is told in cycles. In each cycle, the divine steps in when the world is in danger. Vaishnava tradition says Vishnu has done this many times. Nine of his best known descents have already come. The tenth is still to come. … Read more
Introduction A red calf is born in Israel, and the news travels the world. Websites track its coat. Rabbis inspect it. Millions of people ask the same question. Could this animal change the future? That is the power of the red heifer. It is a single cow mentioned in a single chapter of the Torah. … Read more
Introduction Few books of the Bible have shaped end times belief like Daniel. It is short. It has only twelve chapters. Yet it has been studied, argued over and treasured for more than two thousand years. Here is a striking fact. The book was written in two languages. Part of it is in Hebrew. A … Read more
Fourteen centuries ago, a man sat with his companions and described the end of the world. He spoke of rivers drying up. He spoke of buildings racing toward the sky. He spoke of widespread killing, collapsing trust, and a singular figure of deception who would mislead nearly all of humanity. He described the descent of … Read more
The theological system that gave the world the Rapture, the Antichrist as a singular end-times world dictator, the seven-year Tribulation, the rebuilt Third Temple in Jerusalem as an eschatological countdown trigger, and the neat sequential prophetic timetable that ties them all together was developed in the 1830s by a small, theologically radical, deeply earnest group … Read more
A Theology That Shapes Foreign Policy When the United States formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017 and moved its embassy there the following year, the decision was greeted with celebration by tens of millions of American evangelical Christians. For many of them, the move was not primarily a matter of … Read more
A River the Prophet Warned About 1,400 Years Ago In 2009, the Iraqi government issued an urgent warning: the Euphrates River, one of the oldest and most historically significant waterways in the world, was drying up. Ministers reported that water levels had dropped dramatically and that entire stretches of the river that had supported farming … Read more
Few passages in the entire Bible have generated as much sustained theological debate as the twentieth chapter of the Book of Revelation. In six verses, the text describes an angel binding Satan with a great chain and casting him into a bottomless pit for a thousand years, while the souls of martyrs and faithful believers … Read more