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’s leadership is increasingly worried that a strike by the U.S. would break its grip on power by driving an already enraged public back into the streets following a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, according to six current and former officials.
• On Monday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asserted that the U.S. military was prepared to pursue aggressive action against Iran if the Islamic republic refused to negotiate with Washington on its nuclear program.
• The U.S. military shot down an unmanned Iranian drone Tuesday after it aggressively approached a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with unclear intent.
• Iran has laid out a vision for a potential war with the U.S., detailing how it believes it could strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East, cripple global energy markets and pressure Washington into backing down.
• Senior U.S. and Iranian officials held negotiations today in Oman. They came against the backdrop of a significant U.S. military build-up and escalating tensions.
• President Trump signed a spending bill Tuesday ending the four-day partial government shutdown.
• Democrats have spent years insisting that illegal immigrants do not vote, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies just gave the game away. In a letter to GOP leadership they demanded a slate of reforms as the price for funding DHS including targeted enforcement, no masks, mandatory use of body cameras and other demands.
• Ryan Routh, who was convicted last year of attempting to assassinate President Trump, has been sentenced to life in prison.
• A distraught Savannah Guthrie called her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, “God’s precious daughter.” The “Today” show host also addressed her mother’s alleged kidnappers saying her family is ready to talk about a ransom, but not before they have proof that their mother is alive.
• The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 11 people in an alleged marriage fraud ring, accusing them of setting up sham weddings for immigration purposes.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that the Trump administration is deploying body cameras for every federal agent in Minneapolis.
• Congressman Jerry Nadler calls ICE agents, “masked hoodlums.”
• A black pastor warned from the pulpit that his congregation won’t tolerate activists storming worship services.
• Border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 immigration enforcement officers will be drawn back from efforts in Minnesota.
• Iran’s leadership is increasingly worried that a strike by the U.S. would break its grip on power by driving an already enraged public back into the streets following a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, according to six current and former officials.
• On Monday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth asserted that the U.S. military was prepared to pursue aggressive action against Iran if the Islamic republic refused to negotiate with Washington on its nuclear program.
• The U.S. military shot down an unmanned Iranian drone Tuesday after it aggressively approached a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier with unclear intent.
• Iran has laid out a vision for a potential war with the U.S., detailing how it believes it could strike U.S. military bases across the Middle East, cripple global energy markets and pressure Washington into backing down.
• Senior U.S. and Iranian officials held negotiations today in Oman. They came against the backdrop of a significant U.S. military build-up and escalating tensions.
• President Trump signed a spending bill Tuesday ending the four-day partial government shutdown.
• Democrats have spent years insisting that illegal immigrants do not vote, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jefferies just gave the game away. In a letter to GOP leadership they demanded a slate of reforms as the price for funding DHS including targeted enforcement, no masks, mandatory use of body cameras and other demands.
• Ryan Routh, who was convicted last year of attempting to assassinate President Trump, has been sentenced to life in prison.
• A distraught Savannah Guthrie called her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, “God’s precious daughter.” The “Today” show host also addressed her mother’s alleged kidnappers saying her family is ready to talk about a ransom, but not before they have proof that their mother is alive.
• The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 11 people in an alleged marriage fraud ring, accusing them of setting up sham weddings for immigration purposes.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that the Trump administration is deploying body cameras for every federal agent in Minneapolis.
• Congressman Jerry Nadler calls ICE agents, “masked hoodlums.”
• A black pastor warned from the pulpit that his congregation won’t tolerate activists storming worship services.
• Border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 immigration enforcement officers will be drawn back from efforts in Minnesota.
NTEB Prophecy News Podcast
Trump And His Team Continue To Ignore The Epstein Files Even As They Are Wreaking Havock In Nations Around The Globe
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
Donald Trump says that America is not interested in the Epstein Files even as their damning revelations threaten to topple not only his entire administration but others around the globe.
The Epstein files dropped like a neutron bomb — millions of pages, decades of corruption, names that reach into the highest levels of politics, academia, intelligence, finance, and media — and Washington responds with…nothing. No emergency hearings. No subpoenas. No resignations. No righteous outrage from the institutions that never shut up about “protecting democracy.” Just a deafening silence. That silence tells you everything you need to know about why they want you to stop paying attention to it.
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, across Europe, governments are scrambling, investigations are opening, and officials are stepping aside. Names are becoming liabilities in places like Poland, Lithuania, Macedonia, and the UK with many others circling behind them. The exposure alone is enough to trigger panic because, at least on paper, accountability still exists. And then there’s America. President Trump says that “no one cares about the Epstein Files”, and that the “Department of Justice has better things to do”, all the while the American people are demanding accountability. Let me give you a real-world example of what I mean. When I post videos to the NTEB Instagram page, we do well with 2-4 thousand views on the vast majority of posts, regardless of subject matter, that we publish. Sometimes we will be around twice that, which I think is pretty good.
OK, so a day and a half ago, I posted an AI video of Jeffrey Epstein and all the names contained in his files brought to life, and guess what the reaction was? In just the past 36 hours, it has been viewed 521,000 times, with 19,700 likes, 1,597 comments, 1,717 reposts, and 24,100 times a user sent it directly to other people on thier friends list. You know what that is? That’s a video going viral. Does that level of engagement sound to you like it’s a topic that, as Donald Trump says, the American people are ‘not interested in’? Christian, America is rushing headlong into its rendezvous with God’s judgment, and on this episode we tell you everything you need to know about the Epstein Files and the counterfeit ‘Kid Rock’ Christianity sweeping it all under the end times rug.
Donald Trump says that America is not interested in the Epstein Files even as their damning revelations threaten to topple not only his entire administration but others around the globe.
The Epstein files dropped like a neutron bomb — millions of pages, decades of corruption, names that reach into the highest levels of politics, academia, intelligence, finance, and media — and Washington responds with…nothing. No emergency hearings. No subpoenas. No resignations. No righteous outrage from the institutions that never shut up about “protecting democracy.” Just a deafening silence. That silence tells you everything you need to know about why they want you to stop paying attention to it.
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” 1 Peter 4:17 (KJV)
On this episode of Rightly Dividing, across Europe, governments are scrambling, investigations are opening, and officials are stepping aside. Names are becoming liabilities in places like Poland, Lithuania, Macedonia, and the UK with many others circling behind them. The exposure alone is enough to trigger panic because, at least on paper, accountability still exists. And then there’s America. President Trump says that “no one cares about the Epstein Files”, and that the “Department of Justice has better things to do”, all the while the American people are demanding accountability. Let me give you a real-world example of what I mean. When I post videos to the NTEB Instagram page, we do well with 2-4 thousand views on the vast majority of posts, regardless of subject matter, that we publish. Sometimes we will be around twice that, which I think is pretty good.
OK, so a day and a half ago, I posted an AI video of Jeffrey Epstein and all the names contained in his files brought to life, and guess what the reaction was? In just the past 36 hours, it has been viewed 521,000 times, with 19,700 likes, 1,597 comments, 1,717 reposts, and 24,100 times a user sent it directly to other people on thier friends list. You know what that is? That’s a video going viral. Does that level of engagement sound to you like it’s a topic that, as Donald Trump says, the American people are ‘not interested in’? Christian, America is rushing headlong into its rendezvous with God’s judgment, and on this episode we tell you everything you need to know about the Epstein Files and the counterfeit ‘Kid Rock’ Christianity sweeping it all under the end times rug.
Harbinger’s Daily
By Robert Gottselig: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dannon, wrote an opinion article titled, “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?”
To answer this staggering question, Danon wrote:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to stop time. To force the world to confront the industrial murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
We remember these atrocities because memory is supposed to protect the future and because education is meant to prevent repetition. But honoring the victims demands more than ritual; it demands responsibility.
That is why remembrance ceremonies take place, year after year, in institutions like the United Nations. This body was created on the foundations of the Holocaust itself, created on the promise that the world would not stay silent again while hatred escalated into annihilation.
But remembrance without action is hollow. [cont. in full article...]
Danon is right. One would assume that the world would have learned from the evil horrors of the Holocaust. Instead, we are again living in a time when antisemitism is spreading and devouring like a wildfire.
To further answer the question “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?” we must also consider the spiritual battle that surrounds antisemitism—one that is demonic in nature. [...]
To answer this staggering question, Danon wrote:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to stop time. To force the world to confront the industrial murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
We remember these atrocities because memory is supposed to protect the future and because education is meant to prevent repetition. But honoring the victims demands more than ritual; it demands responsibility.
That is why remembrance ceremonies take place, year after year, in institutions like the United Nations. This body was created on the foundations of the Holocaust itself, created on the promise that the world would not stay silent again while hatred escalated into annihilation.
But remembrance without action is hollow. [cont. in full article...]
Danon is right. One would assume that the world would have learned from the evil horrors of the Holocaust. Instead, we are again living in a time when antisemitism is spreading and devouring like a wildfire.
To further answer the question “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?” we must also consider the spiritual battle that surrounds antisemitism—one that is demonic in nature. [...]
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: The World Health Organization says it is merely being responsible--getting ready for the next pandemic. On the surface, preparedness sounds wise. Scripture itself commends prudence (Proverbs 22:3). But prudence becomes something far darker when preparation quietly shifts power away from nations, families, churches, and consciences--and concentrates it in the hands of unelected global authorities. That is why the WHO's recent large-scale pandemic simulation should give Christians pause.
In December, the WHO coordinated a weeks-long exercise known as IHR Exercise Crystal, involving 31 countries across the Western Pacific. The stated purpose was explicit: readiness for the next pandemic. This was not a hypothetical discussion.
Participating governments were required to respond in real time--verifying alerts, sharing data, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating actions across agencies. The drill even triggered real-world airport and border systems. Some observers described it as "rehearsing the sequel."
Preparation itself is not the problem. Authority is.
In December, the WHO coordinated a weeks-long exercise known as IHR Exercise Crystal, involving 31 countries across the Western Pacific. The stated purpose was explicit: readiness for the next pandemic. This was not a hypothetical discussion.
Participating governments were required to respond in real time--verifying alerts, sharing data, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating actions across agencies. The drill even triggered real-world airport and border systems. Some observers described it as "rehearsing the sequel."
Preparation itself is not the problem. Authority is.
Israel 365 News
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: The threat was not delivered in the shadows or through anonymous channels. It came openly, from the floor of Iran’s parliament, issued by Hamidreza Haji Babaei, the deputy speaker of the Majlis, and it named its target without ambiguity. Babaei warned that any new American “mistake” against Iran would be met with a “decisive” response, adding a chilling promise: “In about a month, we will recite the funeral prayer for Trump, the United States, and their allies.” The timing of the statement, the identity of the speaker, and the precision of the language elevate this beyond routine Iranian bluster and place it firmly in the category of an explicit threat against the sitting president of the United States. But it also links it to Purim, when evil men threatening the Jews have their nefarious plans backfire.
Babaei’s words were not spoken in a vacuum. They were delivered against the backdrop of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran, Iran’s deepening coordination with terrorist proxies, and an Iranian regime that routinely frames its geopolitical struggle in theological terms. Yet the calendar adds a striking and unsettling layer. The “about a month” Babaei referenced aligns precisely with Purim, the Jewish holiday commemorating the survival of the Jewish people from a state-sponsored genocide planned in ancient Persia.
Purim records a moment when power, hatred, and timing converged. Haman, described in the Bible as an Agagite, secured royal authority from the Persian king Achashverosh to annihilate every Jew in the empire on a single, designated day. The date was fixed by lots, purim, giving the holiday its name. The decree was legal, sealed, and seemingly irreversible. Yet the entire plot collapsed. Haman was exposed, the Jews were saved, and the architect of genocide was executed on the very gallows he prepared for others. The Bible captures this reversal with brutal clarity: “the same days on which the Jews enjoyed relief from their foes and the same month that had been transformed for them from one of grief and mourning to one of festive joy. They were to observe them as days of feasting and merrymaking, and as an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor” (Esther 9:22).
Babaei’s words were not spoken in a vacuum. They were delivered against the backdrop of escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran, Iran’s deepening coordination with terrorist proxies, and an Iranian regime that routinely frames its geopolitical struggle in theological terms. Yet the calendar adds a striking and unsettling layer. The “about a month” Babaei referenced aligns precisely with Purim, the Jewish holiday commemorating the survival of the Jewish people from a state-sponsored genocide planned in ancient Persia.
Purim records a moment when power, hatred, and timing converged. Haman, described in the Bible as an Agagite, secured royal authority from the Persian king Achashverosh to annihilate every Jew in the empire on a single, designated day. The date was fixed by lots, purim, giving the holiday its name. The decree was legal, sealed, and seemingly irreversible. Yet the entire plot collapsed. Haman was exposed, the Jews were saved, and the architect of genocide was executed on the very gallows he prepared for others. The Bible captures this reversal with brutal clarity: “the same days on which the Jews enjoyed relief from their foes and the same month that had been transformed for them from one of grief and mourning to one of festive joy. They were to observe them as days of feasting and merrymaking, and as an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor” (Esther 9:22).
Geller Report
By Pamela Geller: Mamdani knows what he is saying here. After invoking Islam and Muhammad as a model for mass migration, Zohran Mamdani echoes hijrah—a doctrine that marks Islam’s turn from preaching to political and military rule.
Migration jihad.
Hijrah—often sanitized as mere “migration”—is, in Islamic tradition, jihad by emigration. It refers to Muhammad’s move with his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later renamed Medina) in 622 CE. That moment marked a turning point: Muhammad ceased to be only a religious preacher and became a political ruler and military commander. It was after the hijrah that the so-called revelations sanctioning violence against unbelievers appeared. Tellingly, the Islamic calendar begins not with Muhammad’s birth or first revelation, but with the hijrah—signaling that Islam, in its own self-understanding, is incomplete without a political and coercive dimension.
Emigration “in the cause of Allah”—that is, moving to a new land in order to advance Islam—is treated as a highly meritorious act. The Qur’an explicitly praises such movement and promises divine reward for it (Qur’an 4:100). This elevated status explains why a British jihadist group that openly celebrated 9/11 chose the name Al-Muhajiroun—“The Emigrants.” The name was not accidental; it was doctrinal.
Migration jihad.
Hijrah—often sanitized as mere “migration”—is, in Islamic tradition, jihad by emigration. It refers to Muhammad’s move with his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later renamed Medina) in 622 CE. That moment marked a turning point: Muhammad ceased to be only a religious preacher and became a political ruler and military commander. It was after the hijrah that the so-called revelations sanctioning violence against unbelievers appeared. Tellingly, the Islamic calendar begins not with Muhammad’s birth or first revelation, but with the hijrah—signaling that Islam, in its own self-understanding, is incomplete without a political and coercive dimension.
Emigration “in the cause of Allah”—that is, moving to a new land in order to advance Islam—is treated as a highly meritorious act. The Qur’an explicitly praises such movement and promises divine reward for it (Qur’an 4:100). This elevated status explains why a British jihadist group that openly celebrated 9/11 chose the name Al-Muhajiroun—“The Emigrants.” The name was not accidental; it was doctrinal.
Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer: Anyone who has been paying attention could have seen this coming a mile away. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is not just a socialist, he’s a communist. That means that, contrary to all his stirring rhetoric about fighting for the common people and making the city affordable, what he really wants to do is destroy the city and make the people suffer. And from that standpoint, after a month in office, he is doing a bang-up job: after the great blizzard that New York and much of the nation recently experienced, the city is awash in garbage.
Now, you may think that saying that communists want their people to suffer and to destroy cities is a bit of rhetorical excess from an anti-communist, but in reality, 178 years after The Communist Manifesto, the record is clear and consistent. Communists are revolutionaries, and revolution requires violent disruption of the existing order. To bring about that disruption, the masses have to be convinced that this existing order is intolerable, and so the chaos and disturbances of the revolutionary period are worth enduring in order to institute a regime that is, at least theoretically, more just and equitable.
Now, you may think that saying that communists want their people to suffer and to destroy cities is a bit of rhetorical excess from an anti-communist, but in reality, 178 years after The Communist Manifesto, the record is clear and consistent. Communists are revolutionaries, and revolution requires violent disruption of the existing order. To bring about that disruption, the masses have to be convinced that this existing order is intolerable, and so the chaos and disturbances of the revolutionary period are worth enduring in order to institute a regime that is, at least theoretically, more just and equitable.
Skywatch TV
AI Agents Hiring Humans For Physical Work
Host Derek Gilbert: A new website, RentAHuman.ai, has launched for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.”
Paul McGuire
The Occult Merging With Science
About: Join Internationally Recognized Prophecy Expert, Minister, Speaker and Author, Paul McGuire as he analyzes current events through the lens of Bible Prophecy.
Through The Lens
Things Are Getting Ready To Blow — Are You Ready?