Synopsis: The news of the day and how it affects you as a Christian. It’s the Friday News Round-Up and Comment broadcast. Here’s a sample of what host Jim Schneider presented for listeners:
• Iran and the U.S. held hours of indirect negotiations yesterday over Tehran’s nuclear program, but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the region.
• Despite diplomatic language suggesting progress, substantial gaps do persist. Iran categorically rejects U.S. demands to dismantle key nuclear facilities, to transfer enriched uranium stockpiles abroad and permanently end uranium enrichment.
• The U.S. embassy in Israel said its staff could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure could do so immediately as the threat of a U.S. strike on Iran looms.
• While Iran engages in fake negotiations to stall, deceive and lie to the Trump administration, they announced they will be buying anti-ship missiles from China.
• As President Trump pressures Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions amid rising tensions, Vice President Vance told the Washington Post that there’s “no chance” that the U.S. will enter a years-long war in the Middle East.
• Congressional Democrats are moving to force votes in the House and Senate to block President Trump from launching any military action against Iran without prior congressional approval.
• The Treasury Department levied new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday. The sanctions targeted 30 Iranian individuals, businesses and vessels that facilitate Iran’s illicit petroleum sales and the nation’s ballistic missile and weapons production.
• An Iranian opposition group took credit for a coordinated assault on the Iran Supreme Leader’s Tehran headquarters this week.
• Iran is producing ballistic missiles armed with chemical and biological capabilities in preparation for a military confrontation with the U.S. and Israel.
• President Trump has warned that Iran is working to build missiles that could soon reach the U.S.
• The U.S. has ordered non-essential personnel and their families to leave the embassy in Beirut.
• A federal grand jury has indicted 3 engineers from San Jose on suspicion of stealing sensitive trade secrets from Google and other leading semiconductor firms.
• Vice President J.D. Vance accused Democrats of cowardice on the floor in comments dealing with the President’s State of the Union address.
• Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries called Republicans cult-like for standing up and applauding the President at the State of the Union address.
• Democrat Representative Janelle Bynum said it was racist and uncomfortable when the president asked them to stand up.
• Iran and the U.S. held hours of indirect negotiations yesterday over Tehran’s nuclear program, but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the region.
• Despite diplomatic language suggesting progress, substantial gaps do persist. Iran categorically rejects U.S. demands to dismantle key nuclear facilities, to transfer enriched uranium stockpiles abroad and permanently end uranium enrichment.
• The U.S. embassy in Israel said its staff could leave the country and urged anyone considering departure could do so immediately as the threat of a U.S. strike on Iran looms.
• While Iran engages in fake negotiations to stall, deceive and lie to the Trump administration, they announced they will be buying anti-ship missiles from China.
• As President Trump pressures Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions amid rising tensions, Vice President Vance told the Washington Post that there’s “no chance” that the U.S. will enter a years-long war in the Middle East.
• Congressional Democrats are moving to force votes in the House and Senate to block President Trump from launching any military action against Iran without prior congressional approval.
• The Treasury Department levied new sanctions against Iran on Wednesday. The sanctions targeted 30 Iranian individuals, businesses and vessels that facilitate Iran’s illicit petroleum sales and the nation’s ballistic missile and weapons production.
• An Iranian opposition group took credit for a coordinated assault on the Iran Supreme Leader’s Tehran headquarters this week.
• Iran is producing ballistic missiles armed with chemical and biological capabilities in preparation for a military confrontation with the U.S. and Israel.
• President Trump has warned that Iran is working to build missiles that could soon reach the U.S.
• The U.S. has ordered non-essential personnel and their families to leave the embassy in Beirut.
• A federal grand jury has indicted 3 engineers from San Jose on suspicion of stealing sensitive trade secrets from Google and other leading semiconductor firms.
• Vice President J.D. Vance accused Democrats of cowardice on the floor in comments dealing with the President’s State of the Union address.
• Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries called Republicans cult-like for standing up and applauding the President at the State of the Union address.
• Democrat Representative Janelle Bynum said it was racist and uncomfortable when the president asked them to stand up.
NTEB Prophecy News Podcast Update
American Citizens At Embassy In Israel Are Ordered To Get Out As ‘Peace President’ Trump Prepares For Massive Iran Attack
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
All signs are pointing to an imminent Trump led invasion by the U.S. military against the Khomeini regime in Iran.
The headlines are swirling again — aircraft carriers repositioned, bombers forward deployed, evacuation advisories issued, Iran threatening retaliation, and President Trump warning Tehran that time is running out. Whether a strike comes this week, next month, or not at all is almost secondary to the larger reality staring us in the face: The Middle East is once again the prophetic epicenter of the world.
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, Iran has been tightening its grip around Israel for years — through Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, militias in Syria and Iraq, and direct missile and drone capabilities. Meanwhile, America — whether under Trump or any other president — is pulled deeper into the region’s unavoidable gravitational field. Why? Because Jerusalem is the burdensome stone. Notice what that verse says — all the people of the earth. That includes superpowers. That includes alliances. That includes nations that think they can manage the situation through deterrence, diplomacy, or force projection.
Making its debut in this conflict will be the brand-new kamikaze drone unit known as Task Force Scorpion. And what about the Board of Peace? We have all the updates you need to know about what’s happening in the Middle East, and all around the globe.
All signs are pointing to an imminent Trump led invasion by the U.S. military against the Khomeini regime in Iran.
The headlines are swirling again — aircraft carriers repositioned, bombers forward deployed, evacuation advisories issued, Iran threatening retaliation, and President Trump warning Tehran that time is running out. Whether a strike comes this week, next month, or not at all is almost secondary to the larger reality staring us in the face: The Middle East is once again the prophetic epicenter of the world.
“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” Zechariah 12:3 (KJV)
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, Iran has been tightening its grip around Israel for years — through Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, militias in Syria and Iraq, and direct missile and drone capabilities. Meanwhile, America — whether under Trump or any other president — is pulled deeper into the region’s unavoidable gravitational field. Why? Because Jerusalem is the burdensome stone. Notice what that verse says — all the people of the earth. That includes superpowers. That includes alliances. That includes nations that think they can manage the situation through deterrence, diplomacy, or force projection.
Making its debut in this conflict will be the brand-new kamikaze drone unit known as Task Force Scorpion. And what about the Board of Peace? We have all the updates you need to know about what’s happening in the Middle East, and all around the globe.
Harbinger’s Daily
By Skip Heizig: Of all the End Time events, the Rapture of the Church generates the most interest and the most controversy. I have a friend who wrote that the Rapture is third in the list of top 10 topics that have most divided the Church—right after COVID-19 vaccinations and the Harry Potter books!
There has been disagreement about both the promise and the timing of the Rapture. When I was a new believer, I thought the Rapture was nonsense. I had never heard of it before in the church I’d grown up in and it simply did not compute. Then I read texts like 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 15, and John 14. I came to believe in the Rapture and got pretty excited about the prospect that Jesus could come at any moment to take His Church with Him.
So, What Is It?
So what is the Rapture of the Church? Where did that idea come from? Is it a new idea as some purport? Is it something we should seriously consider; and if so, why? And when will it happen exactly?
Some challenge the idea of the Rapture by saying, “It’s too new to be true.” Well, to that, I have two responses. Number one, just because a belief is early or long-held doesn’t mean it’s true. Heresies like Gnosticism appeared early in the Church and had to be countered by John and others.
Number two, the early Church did believe that Christians would be rescued before the Tribulation. You could say that the early Church fathers were strongly premillennial. That includes men like the Shepherd of Hermas, Irenaeus, Ephrem of Syria, Clement of Rome, Tertullian, and Cyril of Jerusalem. I could go on and on. All of them believed that Jesus could come back at any moment and we should be ready.
John 14 is a passage that some people might think has nothing to do with the Rapture. But the more I’ve studied it, the more I have come to realize that it is one of the first mentions or intimations of the glorious Blessed Hope of the Church—Jesus’ promise of the imminent, signless rapture of the Church—in the New Testament.
There has been disagreement about both the promise and the timing of the Rapture. When I was a new believer, I thought the Rapture was nonsense. I had never heard of it before in the church I’d grown up in and it simply did not compute. Then I read texts like 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 15, and John 14. I came to believe in the Rapture and got pretty excited about the prospect that Jesus could come at any moment to take His Church with Him.
So what is the Rapture of the Church? Where did that idea come from? Is it a new idea as some purport? Is it something we should seriously consider; and if so, why? And when will it happen exactly?
Some challenge the idea of the Rapture by saying, “It’s too new to be true.” Well, to that, I have two responses. Number one, just because a belief is early or long-held doesn’t mean it’s true. Heresies like Gnosticism appeared early in the Church and had to be countered by John and others.
Number two, the early Church did believe that Christians would be rescued before the Tribulation. You could say that the early Church fathers were strongly premillennial. That includes men like the Shepherd of Hermas, Irenaeus, Ephrem of Syria, Clement of Rome, Tertullian, and Cyril of Jerusalem. I could go on and on. All of them believed that Jesus could come back at any moment and we should be ready.
John 14 is a passage that some people might think has nothing to do with the Rapture. But the more I’ve studied it, the more I have come to realize that it is one of the first mentions or intimations of the glorious Blessed Hope of the Church—Jesus’ promise of the imminent, signless rapture of the Church—in the New Testament.
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: The headlines and the heavens appear to be speaking at the same time. In a single stretch of days, the world is watching escalating tension between Iran, Israel, and the United States, while the night sky stages a rare celestial display: a six-planet alignment followed almost immediately by a total lunar eclipse--the so-called "blood moon"--falling on the Jewish feast of Purim. For students of Scripture and watchers of world events, the convergence is difficult to ignore.
A Sky Filled With Signs
According to NASA, a rare planetary alignment is visible this week, with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune appearing together across the night sky. Astronomers sometimes call this a "planetary parade," a phenomenon that occurs only occasionally when multiple planets line up from Earth's vantage point. Reports highlighted by Space.com note that while two or three visible planets are common, six at once is unusual enough to draw global attention from skywatchers.
Then comes the eclipse. In the early hours of March 3, observers across much of North America will witness the only total lunar eclipse visible in the United States until 2028. During totality, the moon turns a deep reddish hue--a result of sunlight filtering through Earth's atmosphere and scattering blue wavelengths, leaving red tones to illuminate the lunar surface.
Scientifically, the explanation is straightforward. Historically and biblically, however, blood moons have carried symbolic weight. Ancient cultures often interpreted them as omens of upheaval or war. Scripture itself references celestial disturbances in prophetic contexts, including Joel 2:31: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."
According to NASA, a rare planetary alignment is visible this week, with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune appearing together across the night sky. Astronomers sometimes call this a "planetary parade," a phenomenon that occurs only occasionally when multiple planets line up from Earth's vantage point. Reports highlighted by Space.com note that while two or three visible planets are common, six at once is unusual enough to draw global attention from skywatchers.
Then comes the eclipse. In the early hours of March 3, observers across much of North America will witness the only total lunar eclipse visible in the United States until 2028. During totality, the moon turns a deep reddish hue--a result of sunlight filtering through Earth's atmosphere and scattering blue wavelengths, leaving red tones to illuminate the lunar surface.
Scientifically, the explanation is straightforward. Historically and biblically, however, blood moons have carried symbolic weight. Ancient cultures often interpreted them as omens of upheaval or war. Scripture itself references celestial disturbances in prophetic contexts, including Joel 2:31: "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes."
Geller Report
By Pamela Geller: New York City: Muslim crowd calls for new, ‘stronger’ October 7 jihad massacre
New York City has officially become a staging ground for terror sympathizers. Under the shadow of Hamas flags, radicals are now openly calling for mass murder on American streets, promising that their next move will be even louder than the October 7th massacre.
This is no longer… pic.twitter.com/WSSqM2Jr9J
— Yossi BenYakar (@YossiBenYakar) February 21, 2026
Jihad Watch
By Christine Douglass-Williams: Germany, along with other Western countries, is slowly accepting subjugation, and is easing into an inferior dhimmi role of being subservient to Muslims. Leftists have convinced themselves that they are doing something good in laying the groundwork for the handing over of their respective nations to an Islamic takeover.
McDonald’s in Germany is hiding food from ads during Ramadan to prevent “arousing” Muslim hunger (daytime) pic.twitter.com/uKvFEYDPzX — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 25, 2026
Hope For Our Times
Emergency Prophecy Update
Synopsis: In this urgent prophecy update, Pastor Tom Hughes shares why he believes the world may be on the brink of a major, prophetic event involving Iran—possibly within days. Based on rapidly developing news, firsthand reports from Israel, and the clear teaching of Scripture, Pastor Tom connects current events with Jeremiah 49, a powerful end-times prophecy concerning Elam (modern-day Iran).
With embassies warning personnel to leave Israel, tour groups being evacuated, and growing concern over global terror threats, Pastor Tom explains why this moment should not be ignored—and why believers must remain spiritually, mentally, and physically prepared.
Most importantly, this update is not meant to produce fear, but faith. Jesus told us these things would happen and reminded us that He tells us beforehand, so we would not be afraid. As the world grows more uncertain, God’s Word remains steady and sure.
With embassies warning personnel to leave Israel, tour groups being evacuated, and growing concern over global terror threats, Pastor Tom explains why this moment should not be ignored—and why believers must remain spiritually, mentally, and physically prepared.
Most importantly, this update is not meant to produce fear, but faith. Jesus told us these things would happen and reminded us that He tells us beforehand, so we would not be afraid. As the world grows more uncertain, God’s Word remains steady and sure.
Paul McGuire
Olympic’s Occult Symbolism
About: Join Internationally Recognized Prophecy Expert, Minister, Speaker and Author, Paul McGuire as he analyzes current events through the lens of Bible Prophecy.
Erick Stakelbeck
Ex-Muslim Warns:
Islamic Sharia Law Is Coming To America
Islamic Sharia Law Is Coming To America
The Watchman Synopsis: British convert Nassar Hussain survived a brutal attack for leaving Islam. He exposes how Sharia law mandates death for apostasy, how UK authorities failed him, and why America has little time left before Western civilization falls to Islamic law.