Skywatchtv Podcast

Dr Michael Heiser, author of the new book The Unseen Realm, explains the Divine Council, a supernatural task force that serves God, and why the Tower of Babel incident is more important than we thought.

An outbreak of H1N1, Swine flu (called California flu there), is spreading rapidly through Ukraine and other eastern European nations. Both sides in Ukraine's civil war appear to be using the outbreak for propaganda. In Latin America and the Caribbean, officials believe the Zika virus is causing an explosion in birth defects.  The government of El Salvador has advised women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018. Also: The war on cash, human skulls found at Santeria shop, and the first gay Mormon superhero.

The East Coast of the US is digging out after Winter Storm Jonas dropped 24+" of snow from D.C. through New York City over the weekend. Also: US and Russian forces may be in Libya, opposing sides can't even agree on the peace talks to end Syria's civil war, women claim to be mothers of 'hybrid children' to alien fathers, and this TV season appears to be the Year of Antichrist.

Josh Peck joins the SkyWatchTV team just in time for SCIENCE! This week: Astronomers say they've found the solar system's Planet Nine, DARPA wants to chip the human brain, and the Internet of Things is letting strangers into your baby's bedroom.

50 million Americans are in the path of what some are calling the 'potentially historic' Winter Storm Jonas, which could drop as much as 30" of snow on Washington, D.C. Also: Geologists warn the West Coast of killer tsunami, volcanoes erupt on Ring of Fire, strange sounds heard in the skies over the Netherlands and North Africa, deadly attack on college in Pakistan, and Palestinian official praises Hitler.

The death toll from Saturday's attack by ISIS on the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor is still in question, ranging from 18 to 280. However, a new UN report emphasizes the cost of the Islamic State's drive to establish a caliphate: 19,000 civilians killed in Iraq and another 3,500 enslaved. Also: Hillary Clinton's emails reveal 2011 Libya invasion was about oil and gold; the West prepares to invade Libya again; world oil glut means bad news for Canada and subzero prices for some US crude; and another Orthodox rabbi declares that Messiah is about to appear.

ISIS has reportedly killed 280 people and abducted about 400 more from the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor. Also: Russia deploying killer robots in the battle for Aleppo, huge sandstorm hits Israel, Saudis buying up American farmland, anti-immigrant 'Soldiers of Odin' patrolling streets in Finland, and another rabbinic prophecy says the conflict between Persia and Arabia signals the Messiah's imminent arrival.

President Obama signed an Executive Order Saturday lifting sanctions against Iran, part of the nuclear deal agreed to last summer. The US and Iran also swapped a dozen prisoners, and the US will repay an outstanding debt with interest (about $1.7 billion). Iran is now free to ramp up oil production, which is bad news for American oil drillers and producers–and the banks that loaned them money.

American Christians often participate in activities or hold beliefs that come from pagan traditions and not the Bible.  Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, author of Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, discusses demons, ghosts, voodoo, necromancy (communicating with the dead), and why we don’t see them for what they are.

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK hope to get the green light to begin gene editing experiments on human embryos. Can designer babies be much farther down the road? Also: New technologies, from smartphone apps to consumer drones, are eliminating privacy faster than laws can be written to protect them.

Christians in cultures dominated by animist religion, such as the island of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, have a better understanding of the nature of spiritual warfare than most American Christians. Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett, author of Afraid: Demon Possession and Spiritual Warfare in America, discusses the different approaches between the two cultures and what Western Christians can learn from our brothers and sisters south of the equator.

Chimeras–animal embryos with human DNA–are gestating on research farms in the US. Also: DARPA working to develop super soldiers, the passing of pop icon David Bowie, and is Pakistan’s nuke threat against Iran related to Jeremiah’s prophecy against Elam?

The growing conflict between Sunnis and Shias spread to Asia as a Pakistani general threatened to wipe Iran off the map if any harm comes to Saudi Arabia. This was a not very subtle threat to use nuclear weapons. Also: North Korean nuke might have been designed as an EMP weapon, stocks off to horrible start in 2016, global shipping rates drop to historic lows, and Germans outraged by government coverup of New Year's Eve sexual assault by migrants.

CERN researchers believe they've discovered evidence of a new particle--possibly the graviton, which would support the theory that there are more dimensions than the four we perceive. Meanwhile, guys with too much time on their hands create and post what they claim is a wormhole in the sky over CERN. Also: Problems with wearables, pet robot dogs, tech companies data mining schoolchildren, and an autonomous drone that carries people like a 21st century rickshaw.

North Korea claims it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, but weapons experts are skeptical. Still, it is a step closer toward an actual nuclear weapon for Kim Jong-un. Also: President Obama goes around Congress on gun control, Russia accuses ISIS of using deadly sarin gas, and technocrats work toward making the Internet of Things a reality.

Israel’s counterterrorist agency reveals a plot to overthrow the Israeli government–and replace it with a messianic kingdom. Also: Greece wants to bring back one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Hezbollah retaliates, and a schism developing in the Anglican Church.

Tom Horn, Sharon Gilbert, and Derek Gilbert discuss trends in science, prophecy, and geopolitics–and changes coming to SkyWatchTV.

The rising hostility between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the Middle East makes a map of their distribution throughout the Islamic world very important to understanding what may happen in the next few months. Also: A looming radiological disaster in Saint Louis; massive natural gas leak near Los Angeles; and Google is data mining schoolchildren.

The Vatican's formal recognition of Palestine went into effect on New Year's Day. The Roman Catholic Church has wanted control of Christian sites--and possibly all of Jerusalem's Old City--for decades. Also: The Pentagon does an end run around the White House on Syria, Saudi Arabia severs ties with Iran, and armed militiamen take over a wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Engineers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant are struggling to contain radioactive water underneath the plant, and we're just beginning to realize that officials in Japan and the US knew more about this four years ago than they let on. Also: Political correctness kills; Jews for Jesus upset with the Vatican; and a husband and father of seven leaves his family to live as a six-year-old girl.