Something DARK Is Happening This HALLOWEEN… The BIBLE Warned Us

Something DARK Is Happening This HALLOWEEN… The BIBLE Warned Us

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Oct 18, 2026  Bible Stories

Before you hand out candy this Halloween, know what the night really carries. October 31, 2026 falls on a Saturday, and on that one square of the calendar sit a Celtic night of the dead, the door Martin Luther chose in 1517, and the Sabbath God blessed at creation.

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Every custom carries a belief inside it, the way a seed carries a tree. This video follows Halloween from Samhain and the medieval soul cake, a sweet handed out for a prayer for the dead, to Wittenberg on the eve of All Saints, where Luther's ninety-five theses struck an economy built on the dead. Then it opens the Bible on the one belief that holds the whole night together, that the dead are awake and near, and shows where that belief is leading today: prayers for the dead, AI apps that speak in a dead parent's voice, and a sharp rise in exorcisms. It ends with what to do this October, and with the hope Martha held at her brother's tomb.

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📖 IN THIS EPISODE

• Why trick-or-treat began as a knock at the door for the dead

• Samhain, All Hallows and the medieval soul cake

• Wittenberg, October 31, 1517: relics, indulgences and the 95 theses

• Why the Reformation was born on Halloween

• What Luther and Tyndale saw in the grave

• What the Bible says happens when we die (Genesis 2:7, Ecclesiastes 9:5)

• The two errors the Reformation left unfinished

• Halloween 2026 falls on the Sabbath: why that matters

• AI "grief" apps and the voice of the dead

• Isaiah 8:20: to the law and to the testimony

• What your family can do this October, and the hope of the resurrection

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Who Were the AMALEKITES? The Only Nation God Ordered Wiped Off the Face of the Earth

 

 Who Were the AMALEKITES? The Only Nation God Ordered Wiped Off the Face of the Earth

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Sep 10, 2026  Great Bible Stories

Who were the Amalekites, and why did God order that people erased from the face of the earth? In this video you'll discover the complete history of the only nation in the Bible to receive a sentence of total destruction — from the unexpected origin of Amalek as Esau's grandson and the son of a concubine named Timna, through the cowardly ambush at Rephidim against the elderly, the women and the children walking at the rear of Israel, all the way to the final judgment four hundred years later. You'll understand why Moses commanded that it be written in a book so it would never be forgotten, what really happened when Aaron and Hur held up his arms on the hilltop, and why King Saul lost his crown, his kingdom and his own bloodline for sparing a single life in the middle of that order. We'll also follow the battle of Ziklag, the Egyptian servant abandoned in the desert by his own master, the meaning of the word Agagite in the book of Esther, and the astonishing way this account stayed unsettled for nearly a thousand years until it was closed inside the palace of Persia. At the end, we face the hardest question in the whole passage head-on: what about the children? A story of rejection, revenge, divine patience and judgment that spans thirty-five centuries and still says something about how we treat the weakest among us today.

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Why not use the NKJV instead of KJV?

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Some traditional readers prefer the King James Version (KJV) over the New King James Version (NKJV) because they prefer its poetic 17th-century prose, the precise singular/plural pronoun distinctions in the original languages, or a strict adherence to traditional underlying manuscripts without modern footnotes. 

Reasons for Preferring KJV Over NKJV

Literary Style and Memorization: The majestic, rhythmic language of the 1611 Authorized Version has centuries of devotional heritage, making it significantly easier to memorize for many believers. 
Loss of Pronoun Distinction: The KJV preserves specific second-person pronouns (thou, thee, ye, you) to show whether a pronoun is singular or plural, matching the underlying Hebrew and Greek. The NKJV modernizes these to standard "you," losing that immediate grammatical clarity. 
Distrust of Footnotes: "KJV-only" or strict Textus Receptus proponents dislike the NKJV's inclusion of critical text variant readings in the footnotes, believing it introduces unnecessary doubt about manuscript integrity. 
Perceived Compromise: Some traditionalist groups argue that the NKJV translation committee occasionally leaned toward modern critical texts or dynamic choices rather than staying 100% faithful to the traditional Received Text (Textus Receptus) in every single verse. 
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God Burned Sodom and Gomorrah. I Found Evidence.

God Burned Sodom and Gomorrah. I Found Evidence.

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Are Adventists Rejecting Genesis? The Mark of the Beast, Sabbath & Male Headship

 

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September 9, 2026 

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Jesus is coming soon, and the attacks on the Church are on the increase. The Christian faith stands or falls upon the authority of the Word of God. “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth” (John 17:17). Faithful Christians should therefore never treat the Bible as merely another ancient document to be reconstructed according to changing theories of scholars. We are dealing with the foundation of faith, doctrine, worship, and salvation.

This is why the rise of higher criticism and the modern critical-text movement deserves serious scrutiny. In particular, Christians should examine the textual theories associated with Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, whose 1881 Greek New Testament helped establish a radically different approach to the textual basis underlying all modern English translations.

The concern is not simply that newer translations use different English wording. The deeper issue is the Greek text upon which they are based and the assumptions used to reconstruct it. Westcott and Hort rejected the traditional dominance of the Received Text and elevated a comparatively small group of manuscripts, particularly Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, while developing theories of textual criticism that profoundly influenced subsequent generations.

This raises an important spiritual question: What influences shaped the manuscripts, textual traditions, and interpretive assumptions that have increasingly displaced the traditional Received Text?

Some conservative Christian scholars have raised concerns about similarities between certain readings in the Alexandrian textual tradition and theological tendencies associated with Gnosticism. Gnosticism radically distorts biblical teaching concerning Christ, His incarnation, His humanity, His divinity, and salvation. Christians should therefore be cautious whenever disputed readings diminish, qualify, or omit passages that have historically testified to foundational doctrines concerning the deity, incarnation, blood, and saving work of Jesus Christ.

There is another concern that deserves attention. Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, two manuscripts that have exercised enormous influence upon modern textual criticism, disagree with one another in more than 3,000 places in the Gospels. The extent of their differences should cause Christians to consider carefully why these manuscripts have been given such extraordinary weight in reconstructing the New Testament text.

There is also a prophetic concern. Many modern translations contain readings in Revelation that differ from the traditional wording in ways that can affect how readers understand the prophetic identification of religious powers. The Protestant Reformers and Seventh-day Adventists have historically understood the beast power of Revelation 13 and related passages as pointing to the papacy and its opposition to God's law and truth. When modern translations weaken, alter, footnote, or omit wording traditionally used in studying these prophecies, Adventists should take notice.

The New King James Bible Examined

By M. H. Reynolds, Editor, Foundation Magazine

WHAT ABOUT THE NEW KING JAMES BIBLE? In this article, we want to share with God's people some of the important facts which led us to reject the NKJV and warn others about it. We do not believe that the "NKJV makes the KJV even better" as its publishers cl aim. To the contrary, our study leads us to conclude that the NKJV vitiates the original, reliable, accurate KJV in a most deceptive manner. While claiming to have "preserved the authority and accuracy" of the original KJV, the actual result is a hybrid t ext which incorporates many changes identical with or similar to the corruptions found in other modern Bible versions.

Why the New King James Bible? Its publisher, Thomas Nelson Company, says its purpose is "To Preserve the Integrity of the Original in the Language of Today"-"To preserve the authority and accuracy . . . of the original King James while making it understan dable to 20th Century readers"-"To update with regard to punctuation and grammar; archaic verbs and pronouns"; and "Up-to-date accuracy with regard to words whose English meaning has changed over a period of 3 1/2 centuries." The completed NKJV text is said to be "Beautifully Clear" and "Highly Readable." Thomas Nelson Publishers has spent millions to convince Chr istians that the NKJV is "the" Bible of the present and the future.

Why do we recommend rejection of the NKJV? Space limitations preclude a full discussion of every reason, but we do urge a careful consideration of the following facts. It is essential to know that many of the word changes between the original KJV and the NKJV are not changes which result from removing archaisms, etc. Instead, many are changes which clearly reveal that, contrary to their agreed basis, the NKJV translators departed from the original KJV and its underlying Greek text, the Textus Receptus, in favor of the very same wording found in versions translated from corrupted Greek texts.

The instances in which the NKJV breaks with the original KJV by substituting wording identical to that of corrupted modern Bible versions are too numerous to be considered coincidence. And, since Nelson tells us that the NKJV scholars spent "months of prayer, research, and discussion over the handling of a single word," we must conclude that these changes were neither coincidental nor accidental.

New ‘reading’ mandate comes into effect for 5.5million Americans – and it will force ible studies

Allan Glen , News Reporter
Published: 12:48, 2 Sep 2026

Inside Trump's America-themed nine-hour prayer rally as 1,000s flock to National Mall to hear president read from Bible

A NEW reading mandate is coming into effect for millions of Americans.

The rule will force teachers in one state to ensure all students in grades 1 to 12 read passages and stories in the Bible.

Coming into effect in 2030, the mandate is part of a new reading list for public schools in Texas.

Teachers will have to follow the list, which has been approved by the State Board of Education.

This is the first time in the state’s history such a mandate has been enforced in the state.

According to reports, Texas is also the first state in the US to mandate the reading of direct religious texts.

The reading list contains nearly 200 mandatory readings for grades 1 through 12.

These range from classics such as Hickory Dickory Dock to Treasure Island and Hamlet.

Of these, 14 readings are Biblical stories or passages, amounting to one Biblical text for every 13 readings.

The list does not include any religious texts of faiths other than Christianity and Judaism.

In a blog post for the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, David R Brockman said the mandate designates “a single religious text, sacred to only two religions, Christianity and Judaism, as essential for student learning.”

He added: “The list’s Bible-only content could impair public schools’ ability to serve its religiously diverse population and potentially relegates non-Christian and non-religious Texans to the status of outsiders in their own public schools.”

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“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

John 5:39

In ancient times, copying written text was a lengthy and expensive process. Individuals known as scribes would perform this painstaking work, often to preserve important writings such as Scripture. Over time, technology improved dramatically, enabling text to be copied far more quickly and efficiently. Around 1440, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed a working concept of his movable-type printing press, which would eventually allow written text to be mass-produced at a speed never before seen. In the mid-1450s, Gutenberg printed his famous 42-line Bible in Latin, the first book printed on a movable-type press in the West. (1) Before Gutenberg’s press was invented, it would take a scribe about three years to copy a Bible. In 1454, Gutenberg produced nearly 180 copies of the sacred book. By the year 1500, there were nearly twenty million books in Western Europe, many of which were Bibles. (2)

Before the printing press was invented, it was mostly the skilled and elite members of society, such as the wealthy, scholars, and the clergy, who had access to written texts. The poor and working classes were often illiterate. Gutenberg’s press made books more accessible and affordable. Thus, those who had little opportunity to read before finally had access to materials that could help them acquire one of the most important skills a person could ever learn: the ability to read and write. Once you have these skills, they open the door to a vast body of knowledge. Today, we have unprecedented access to far more information than was available to any previous generation. Much of this information is at our fingertips twenty-four hours a day through the internet and accessible on devices we carry in our pockets. Increasingly, however, the written word has fallen out of favor. In this issue, we will examine modern trends that give us a glimpse at the next chapter of human history. It is waiting to be written but might never be read.

The End Of Reading

On July 8, 2026, The Atlantic published an essay which declares in its headline, “The End of Reading Is Here.” The piece reveals some startling statistics about American literacy in this modern age. A survey conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts found that fewer than half of all adults in the United States read a book in 2022. An American Time Use Survey, which analyzed 236,000 responses, found that only 16 percent of Americans reported reading anything for pleasure on a given day - down from 28 percent in 2004. Fewer than 10 percent of Americans still read a newspaper, and 40 percent of people who get their news online prefer to watch or listen to it rather than read it. (3)

The piece also explains that young people are especially struggling with reading comprehension. A test conducted in 2024 found that just 35 percent of high school seniors were proficient at “analyzing complex fictional themes and evaluating the effectiveness of an author’s argument.” (4) In other words, even when they can read the words in a written work, they may struggle to understand what those words mean.

Reading comprehension struggles extend even to the most prestigious universities. Margaret Rennix, who is the assistant director for humanities and social sciences support at Harvard University, reported that one student struggled to comprehend the 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange and had to turn to the AI chatbot ChatGPT to help decipher it. Meanwhile, course evaluations at Harvard revealed a number of complaints from students upset that their assignments required them to read entire literary works. “By asking them to read, professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through a more difficult medium,” Rennix said as she explained the students’ mentality. (5)

A survey conducted in 2025 found that English teachers in public schools assigned between zero and four books a year to their students. A growing number of schools no longer assign entire books at all, preferring rather to use short excerpts of written works. One principal at an elementary school in Corona, California, reported that many school administrators are instructing teachers not to assign entire books as reading assignments. (6)

For over 100 years, travelers have checked into US motel rooms and found the Gideon Bible

The Gideon Bible has become a symbol of America's roadside culture and Protestant tradition

Luis Andres Henao

Wednesday 26 August 2026 17:08 BST



“Rocky Raccoon checked into his room, only to find Gideon’s Bible.”

Paul McCartney explained those famous lines in the song by The Beatles, saying these Bibles “were in every hotel in America.” He’d never seen something like that in England.

For more than a century, countless have found it in the bedside drawers of American hotel and motel rooms. It has become a symbol of America’s roadside culture and Protestant tradition. It’s mentioned in lyrics, films, Broadway shows.

“The Gideon Bible is a peculiarly and amazingly American object,” says Lori Anne Ferrell, author of “The Bible and the People.”

It began with Gideons International, an organization of evangelical business and professional men founded in 1899.

One of its members, working on a railroad expansion project, gets off the train in the town of Superior in western Montana, and checks into a hotel. He asks the owner if he can place a Bible at the front desk. She responds with a more ambitious proposal: Place a Bible in each of the hotel rooms.

The group says that it has distributed more than 2.5 billion Bibles worldwide since that day in 1908. It was the year that Ford Motor Co. began manufacturing the Model T, the first low-priced car that introduced motoring to the masses.

The Chief Cornerstone

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:19-22.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Mattew 24:1-8.

Preparedness vs Faith: What the Bible Really Says

Ecclesiastes 9

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Preparedness vs Faith | What the Bible Actually Says

 

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Most Christians never ask this question out loud: should we be physically preparing for the end times, or is that a lack of faith?

Tonight Nick & Lisa Meissner walk through it from Scripture — the enemy's strategy for the last days, what God's Word actually says about providing for your family, and a practical framework for sustainable preparedness that applies wherever you are right now.

This is a distinctly Christian look at preparedness, with Scripture as the foundation. Just the Bible and a concrete plan. Join us live and bring your questions — Nick and Lisa will be in the chat the whole time.

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