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
Picture this. Three men, living thousands of miles apart, separated by language, culture and religion, all receive the same warning: the great flood is coming. Build a boat. Take your family. Take the animals. The rest of the world is going to be wiped clean. One man is from the ancient Near East, somewhere in … Read more
Something measurable is happening right now. Searches for end times topics are climbing. Eschatology and apocalyptic prophecy content on YouTube and social media is generating numbers that would have seemed impossible five years ago. Churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples are reporting growing interest in prophetic and end times teaching. Publishers are releasing more eschatology-focused books … Read more
Billions of people across Islam and Christianity believe a great deceiver will appear before the end of the world. Muslims call him the Dajjal. Christians call him the Antichrist. And more people than ever are asking whether these two figures are actually the same being described in different religious languages, or whether they are genuinely … Read more
Two names. Three thousand years of interpretation. Three of the world’s major religions. And still, after all that time and all that scholarship, nobody agrees on who Gog and Magog actually are. They begin as a single man and the territory he rules, introduced in a prophetic vision by the biblical prophet Ezekiel sometime in … Read more
At some point in your life, you have stood near a grave and asked the question. Maybe you asked it quietly, to yourself, on the way home from a funeral. Maybe you asked it out loud, in the middle of a sleepless night, after a loss that was simply too large to process. Maybe you … Read more
Two Faiths, One Story They Almost Share Here is something that surprises almost everyone the first time they encounter it. Islam and Christianity share the same prophets. They worship the same God. They recognize the same Satan. They both await the physical return of Jesus to earth. They both describe a great deceiver who will … Read more