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In a recent interview, actress Goldie Hawn, 77, said back in the 1960s she had an encounter with extraterrestrials that actually touched her. She described it as being touched by the finger of God. The Prophet Daniel wrote of the time that he was similarly touched by an angel, that resulted in several strange things happening to him. Because of the similarities between these two encounters, I ask if it was possible that Goldie Hawn also had an encounter with an angel, albeit a fallen one. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

I believe God is calling believers to start praying more, both corporately and individually. As part of this, we need to engage in prophetic prayer. In this podcast, I discuss what it means to pray prophetically. Visit our website: http://www.opentheword.org

An interview with Diane Harrison on the gift of prophecy, one of the spiritual gifts given out by the Holy Spirit to believers mentioned in 1 Corinthians 14. Diane discusses the role of the Gift of prophecy in the church, the four levels of prophetic anointing and as well how the word of knowledge works hand in hand with the prophetic gifting. Diane serves as the prophetic coordinator for LifeLinks, an international network of churches. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this video, I discuss the world’s greatest earthquake. This one, of course, hasn’t happened yet. It is one that the Apostle John saw occurring during the apocalyptic events leading up to Christ’s second coming, recorded in the Book of Revelation. John's states it will be the greatest earthquake ever seen in the history of the world and will split a 'great' city into three parts. This is one of five earthquakes that John saw taking place in the Book of Revelation. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In his book, "Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism" Paul Vitz explores the connection that our upbringing can have on our religious beliefs. He believes that many atheists have experienced a difficult childhood and this is the reason they rejected God in later years. In this podcast, we discuss Paul Vitz's theory and as well provide a Biblical explanation of why this happening. Check out our website: http://www.opentheword.org

Many of us have the tendency to treat God as little more than a good luck charm. It showed up in two battles separated by nearly 3,100 years when two armies tried to use a religious-good luck charm to bring them success in battle and it failed miserably. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I discuss two judgements mentioned in the Apostle John's vision of events that would take place in the End Times found in the book of Revelation. The first involves a bowl of wrath that God would pour upon our Sun causing it to put out so much heat that it would scorch the earth. The second involves the bowl of wrath that would be poured out upon the Euphrates River causing it to dry up. We have not entered this state of judgement yet, but we are seeing hints that it may be closer than we think. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this second of our two part series on the Bible and UFOs we try to provide a Biblical explanation for all the UFO sightings around the world. What could be behind these sightings if UFOs and aliens do not exist? Could there be a spiritual explanation? We also look at the claims by some Ufologists that the prophet Ezekiel had an encounter with a UFO and possibly even aliens when he was describing his encounter with Cherubim. Please check out our website: http://www.opentheword.org

There have been several media reports recently on Unidentified Flying Objects and in this two part series on UFOs and the Bible I discuss aliens from a Christian perspective. Though we have no concrete evidence to this point proving the existence of aliens, in this first video, I look at how believers should respond if it's found they do exist. As part of this discussion, I focus on what famed Christian evangelist, Billy Graham had to say about aliens. Graham was open to the possibility that alien life existed on other planets, but it had no impact on his personal faith. Check out our website: http://www.opentheword.org

There is a strange castle located in Southern England that is more smoke and mirrors than stone and mortar. In many ways, it reflects the strongholds of fear and anxiety that we can build in our minds preventing us from becoming who God wants us to be. Check out our website: http://opentheword.org

Many have wondered who was Egypt's Pharaoh when Moses led the Hebrews out of their Egyptian captivity. While Hollywood movies have typically portrayed Ramses as the Pharaoh, most Biblical scholars are now in agreement that it clearly wasn't Ramses. In this video, I put forward my nomination for the Pharaoh of the Exodus and as well recant of a claim I made in an early video that it was Pharaoh Amehotep.

Many believe that the ancient evil spirits that plagued Israel and the church throughout the Bible will make an appearance in the end times. In this podcast, I discuss one of these evil spirits that may try to reassert itself, the Spirit of Jezebel. I also discuss the four methods that this evil spirit will use to overthrow a nation. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I discuss two incidents in the Exodus account, when God delivered Israel out of Egypt, that has always puzzled me. Why didn't the Egyptian pharaoh order a hit job and kill Moses? Why did the Pharaoh demand that the Hebrew boys be thrown in the Nile River, rather than just killing the babies on the spot? Oddly, I believe the reasoning behind these two decisions are connected, and it reveals how God conned the Egyptian pharaoh using his own beliefs. Check out our website: http://www.opentheword.org

We all experience rejection, and it is important that we learn how to deal with them. In this podcast, I discuss a study which revealed that rejection can cause emotional hurts that are similar to real physical wounds. These rejection wounds can have a damaging impact on us emotionally. But the Bible tells us that Christ came to heal our emotional hurts, and I discuss one of the critical and necessary steps to receiving this healing. Check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this video, we study what the Bible has to say about tithing? We know that under the law, the Jews were required to tithe, but is this still expected of believers. We briefly look at the three tithes demanded under the Old Testament Law and then study what the New Testament has to say about giving and tithing. Please check out our website at: http://www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I talk about two prophecies from the Old Testament that specifically point to Jesus as the Jewish Messiah. One proved so controversial, that the Jewish Rabbis stopped reading it during their synagogue services, and the second actually stated that the Messiah would arrive in the First Century AD. Check out our website: http://www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I hope to answer the end of the age question — does end-times prophecy suggest a third temple will be built in Jerusalem before Christ’s second coming? Now let me be absolutely clear on one thing, I believe the restoration of Israel as a nation in 1948 is a critical marker in end-times prophecy. However, I am not convinced that the same holds true for the Jewish Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. In fact, there is evidence that Jesus cursed the Temple, resulting in its destruction. Along with that, the same passage seems to imply that the Temple will never be rebuilt. Check out our website at: http://opentheword.org

When people make a mistake or do something stupid, many of us start beating ourselves up. In this podcast, I discuss my personal journey of how the Holy Spirit helped me overcome my bad habit of verbally beating myself up every time I made a mistake. I would call myself a loser. I would call myself an idiot. I would hate myself. This is not how God looks at you. This is not God's plan for your life. Check out our website at: https://opentheword.org/

In this video, I talk about the only time Jesus asked if a person was healed. This miracle was also unique because It was also the only time that Jesus prayed for a person twice to be healed. It was like the Holy Spirit was trying to tell us that there is something special about this miracle. There was something different about this healing found in Mark 8. And 2,000 years later, we would discover that right within the Biblical text was confirmation that the miracle had taken place. In the video, I also briefly talk about how the Ipuwer Papyrus, that discusses the Exodus plagues but from an Egyptian perspective. Click on the following link, to check out the video that I did on the Ipuwer Papyrus: https://rumble.com/vknx89-does-the-ipuwer-papyrus-solve-the-biblical-myster-of-the-egyptian-guard.html Check out our website at https://opentheword.org

In this Bible teaching, I discuss what it means to 'pray boldly.' In Hebrews 4:16, we are told to come boldly before God's throne of grace when we pray . This verse talks about two keys to prayer. First, it talks about our identity in Christ, and secondly it tells us that we need to pray, boldly. We need 'speak freely' when we pray. Visit our website: www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I hope to answer one of the bigger Bible mysteries: what happened to the dinosaurs. According to the Genesis creation account, God created all animal life on the sixth day, which by definition would have included dinosaurs. And there is one Bible verse that may in fact explain their demise. And no, it wasn't the flood. Check out our website: www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I discuss the strange declarations that the Apostle Peter and Protestant reformer, Martin Luther, made that led to two incredible healings. It speaks of the authority and power, that Christ has given believers. Visit our website: www.opentheword.org

In this video, we discuss the several times that Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened nuclear war since his invasion of Ukraine. But this leads to a bigger question: Do any of the Bible's prophets predict nuclear war will be part of the end-times apocalypse? In this video, I look at two visions, one by the Prophet Zechariah and the other by the Apostle John, that may hint at nuclear war. Check out our website at opentheword.org.

In this podcast, I want to discuss the several mentions of giants found throughout the Old Testament. Of course, atheists, and their ilk, enjoy mocking the Bible and the Christian faith because of these giants, referring to them as little more than myths. But is there any historical and archaeological evidence that these giants existed. I believe there is, and I discuss some of the evidence in this podcast. Check out our website: www.opentheword.org

In this podcast, I want to talk about arguably the greatest cover-up of the meaning of a Bible verse in the history of the Bible. And this misinterpretation has an odd connection to an important prophetic event, the Tabernacle of David. What did King David really mean in Psalm 51:5, when he wrote: "in sin my mother conceived me?" I think it means exactly what it says, David was illegitimate and his illegitimacy played a major role in the construction of the Tabernacle of David. Check out our website: www.opentheword.org