Now The End Begins
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
The Spanish Inquisition Was The Fruit Of A Religious System That Feared The Bible, Hated Gospel Liberty, And Persecuted The Bible Believers Who Rejected Rome’s False Doctrines
The Spanish Inquisition stands as one of the darkest symbols of Rome’s long war against the Bible, the gospel, and the conscience of men who refused to bow before a priest, a pope, a wafer, a statue, or a religious machine that claimed authority over the souls of men. Rome did not persecute Bible believers because they were criminals. Rome persecuted them because they believed the Bible, preached the Bible, translated the Bible, distributed the Bible, and dared to say that the words of God were higher than the decrees of a pope. That is the part of Catholic church history Rome would rather leave buried under cathedral stones, incense smoke, stained glass windows, and centuries of carefully polished religious language. The picture at the top of this article is highly historically accurate, so you do the math.
John Foxe records the hatred that the religious authorities had for the Bible in the common tongue. Concerning Tyndale’s New Testament, Foxe says that the clergy were “not willing to have that book to prosper,” and that some cried that it must be “utterly to be suppressed.” That is Rome’s spirit in one sentence: suppress the Book, silence the preacher, and keep the people in darkness. The issue was never merely politics, though politics was often involved.
Foxe understood that Rome’s persecution was not only physical tyranny, but spiritual tyranny. In his account of the Waldenses, he called it “ecclesiastical tyranny,” and said it was “the worst kind of tyranny.” Why? Because it did not merely seize lands or imprison bodies; it presumed to command the conscience, bind the soul, and dictate what men were allowed to believe about God.
The Spanish Inquisition Was The Fruit Of A Religious System That Feared The Bible, Hated Gospel Liberty, And Persecuted The Bible Believers Who Rejected Rome’s False Doctrines
The Spanish Inquisition stands as one of the darkest symbols of Rome’s long war against the Bible, the gospel, and the conscience of men who refused to bow before a priest, a pope, a wafer, a statue, or a religious machine that claimed authority over the souls of men. Rome did not persecute Bible believers because they were criminals. Rome persecuted them because they believed the Bible, preached the Bible, translated the Bible, distributed the Bible, and dared to say that the words of God were higher than the decrees of a pope. That is the part of Catholic church history Rome would rather leave buried under cathedral stones, incense smoke, stained glass windows, and centuries of carefully polished religious language. The picture at the top of this article is highly historically accurate, so you do the math.
“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.” John 16:1-3 (KJV)
John Foxe records the hatred that the religious authorities had for the Bible in the common tongue. Concerning Tyndale’s New Testament, Foxe says that the clergy were “not willing to have that book to prosper,” and that some cried that it must be “utterly to be suppressed.” That is Rome’s spirit in one sentence: suppress the Book, silence the preacher, and keep the people in darkness. The issue was never merely politics, though politics was often involved.
The issue was authority. Would the final authority be the words of God, or would it be the decrees of Rome? Would salvation be by grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, or would it be dispensed through sacraments, priests, masses, indulgences, confessions, penances, and a church-state system that claimed power over both body and soul?Across the centuries, Bible believers, Reformers, Lollards, Waldenses, Anabaptists, Huguenots, and countless others found themselves hunted, tortured, exiled, imprisoned, and burned because they would not bow the knee to Rome’s counterfeit authority. Many rejected transubstantiation. Many rejected the pope as the head of the church. Many rejected Mary worship, image veneration, priestly mediation, and the blasphemous claim that salvation could be controlled by a religious hierarchy. And in some cases, their great crime was simply this: they wanted the common man to have the Holy Bible in his own tongue.
Foxe understood that Rome’s persecution was not only physical tyranny, but spiritual tyranny. In his account of the Waldenses, he called it “ecclesiastical tyranny,” and said it was “the worst kind of tyranny.” Why? Because it did not merely seize lands or imprison bodies; it presumed to command the conscience, bind the soul, and dictate what men were allowed to believe about God.
Harbinger’s Daily
By Answers In Genesis: Despite its promises of health, wealth, and happiness, the prosperity gospel sells a bankrupt gospel.
You can hardly watch a Christian television network without seeing preachers in expensive suits proclaiming God’s desire to bless the audience with financial and physical security. Their message goes by various names: the health and wealth gospel, the word of faith movement, seed faith, and “name it and claim it” Christianity. But perhaps it’s best known as the prosperity gospel. I should know—at one time, I was right in the middle of it.
The Hinn family is known for its association with healing services and the prosperity gospel. I was three years old when my father launched his church, following the model set up by my well-known uncle, Benny Hinn. My father even founded The Signs and Wonders School of Ministry to supposedly teach anyone—who was willing to pay—how to speak in tongues or perform miracles.
Propagating the prosperity gospel certainly caused my family to prosper. By the time I was 13, we had a 10,000-square-foot home with a sports court and private gate. We drove multiple Mercedes-Benz vehicles and vacationed in expensive hotels around the world. Not until college did God send people with the right questions to crack my false beliefs and plant seeds that would eventually lead me to the truth. My early life gave me a front-row seat to experience what I now know to be an insidious theology. In fact, the prosperity gospel is one of the most dangerous theological ideas in the world today. It spans the globe, spiritually abusing people from all walks of life in devastating ways.
You can hardly watch a Christian television network without seeing preachers in expensive suits proclaiming God’s desire to bless the audience with financial and physical security. Their message goes by various names: the health and wealth gospel, the word of faith movement, seed faith, and “name it and claim it” Christianity. But perhaps it’s best known as the prosperity gospel. I should know—at one time, I was right in the middle of it.
The Hinn family is known for its association with healing services and the prosperity gospel. I was three years old when my father launched his church, following the model set up by my well-known uncle, Benny Hinn. My father even founded The Signs and Wonders School of Ministry to supposedly teach anyone—who was willing to pay—how to speak in tongues or perform miracles.
Propagating the prosperity gospel certainly caused my family to prosper. By the time I was 13, we had a 10,000-square-foot home with a sports court and private gate. We drove multiple Mercedes-Benz vehicles and vacationed in expensive hotels around the world. Not until college did God send people with the right questions to crack my false beliefs and plant seeds that would eventually lead me to the truth. My early life gave me a front-row seat to experience what I now know to be an insidious theology. In fact, the prosperity gospel is one of the most dangerous theological ideas in the world today. It spans the globe, spiritually abusing people from all walks of life in devastating ways.
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: As President Trump works to preserve a fragile peace process with Iran, the Middle East once again finds itself on the edge of a wider war.
Over the past 24 hours, Iran launched another round of missile attacks against Israel following Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, threatening to unravel weeks of diplomatic efforts aimed at stabilizing the region. Israel has now retaliated destroying numerous Iranian targets across the country. Trump continues pushing for a broader agreement that could reduce tensions between Israel, Iran, and their respective allies, but the latest violence highlights a reality many outside observers fail to understand.
For Israel, the Hezbollah problem cannot simply be negotiated away.
To many diplomats, Hezbollah is merely one piece of a larger regional puzzle. To Israel, Hezbollah represents an existential threat sitting directly on its northern border--a threat that Israeli intelligence believes recently came within moments of carrying out a second October 7.
That context is critical to understanding why Israel continues to push aggressively against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon despite international pressure, ceasefire discussions, and ongoing peace negotiations. Israeli leaders are not simply fighting today's battles. They are attempting to ensure that a nightmare they believe was narrowly avoided can never happen again.
The reason is chilling.
Over the past 24 hours, Iran launched another round of missile attacks against Israel following Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut, threatening to unravel weeks of diplomatic efforts aimed at stabilizing the region. Israel has now retaliated destroying numerous Iranian targets across the country. Trump continues pushing for a broader agreement that could reduce tensions between Israel, Iran, and their respective allies, but the latest violence highlights a reality many outside observers fail to understand.
For Israel, the Hezbollah problem cannot simply be negotiated away.
To many diplomats, Hezbollah is merely one piece of a larger regional puzzle. To Israel, Hezbollah represents an existential threat sitting directly on its northern border--a threat that Israeli intelligence believes recently came within moments of carrying out a second October 7.
That context is critical to understanding why Israel continues to push aggressively against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon despite international pressure, ceasefire discussions, and ongoing peace negotiations. Israeli leaders are not simply fighting today's battles. They are attempting to ensure that a nightmare they believe was narrowly avoided can never happen again.
The reason is chilling.
Israel 365 News
By Zahava Schwartz: On a quiet Sunday morning, an Arab Israeli terrorist drove out of Tayibe armed with a makeshift submachine gun and went hunting. By the time police shot him dead near a quarry on the outskirts of his town, one Israeli husband and father was dead, five others were wounded, and three communities north of Tel Aviv had spent five hours barricaded in their homes. It was, said one 40-year resident of the area, unlike anything he had seen in four decades of living there.
The slain Israeli was Master Sgt. (res.) Haim Kalomiti, 55, a married father of three from Tzur Natan who stepped out to engage the terrorist and shield his neighbors. He served in the IDF’s Ephraim Regional Brigade as a regional defense soldier, a reservist whose mission was to protect his community. He died doing exactly that.
When the attack began, Kalomiti did not stand idly by. He ran toward the gunfire. That is not merely heroism in the modern secular sense; it is the fulfillment of a biblical obligation that the Jewish people have carried for three thousand years. The question that his death forces onto the table is whether the State of Israel is fulfilling that same obligation toward the communities on its front lines.
The slain Israeli was Master Sgt. (res.) Haim Kalomiti, 55, a married father of three from Tzur Natan who stepped out to engage the terrorist and shield his neighbors. He served in the IDF’s Ephraim Regional Brigade as a regional defense soldier, a reservist whose mission was to protect his community. He died doing exactly that.
When the attack began, Kalomiti did not stand idly by. He ran toward the gunfire. That is not merely heroism in the modern secular sense; it is the fulfillment of a biblical obligation that the Jewish people have carried for three thousand years. The question that his death forces onto the table is whether the State of Israel is fulfilling that same obligation toward the communities on its front lines.
Geller Report
By Pamela Geller: I am an unapologetic supporter President Trump but he’s got it wrong on Iran. His continued attempts to negotiate with these savages as though they are rational partners will continue to end in failure, with America’s allies paying the price in blood.
Robert Spencer: The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran know that all they had to do in order to emerge victorious from this conflict was wait out the United States until the conflict became politically too costly, or potentially costly, for the Trump administration to pursue. And so now that they have the alleged leader of the free world groveling and continually giving the Islamic regime second and third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh chances to make a deal, they’re dictating terms: Not only are they to be allowed to continue their jihad against the U.S. and Israel, but they want to make sure that their proxy in Lebanon remains alive and in place as well.
Front Page Magazine
By Josh Hammer: What are we, as conservatives, called to do?
The conservative’s task can be best understood as the intellectual and tangible defense of Western civilization. And Western civilization, in turn, is the collective intellectual and tangible fruit of the ecumenical Jewish-Christian biblical inheritance. It ought to be self-evident, then, that Western conservatives should be the most ardent defenders of the intellectual and tangible integrity of the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank,” in nonsensical NGO-speak).
In the face of an emboldened global jihad, especially, it is right-thinking conservatives above all who should be mounting an all-out defense of the hilly terrain of Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, and Jesus himself.
The conservative’s task can be best understood as the intellectual and tangible defense of Western civilization. And Western civilization, in turn, is the collective intellectual and tangible fruit of the ecumenical Jewish-Christian biblical inheritance. It ought to be self-evident, then, that Western conservatives should be the most ardent defenders of the intellectual and tangible integrity of the biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank,” in nonsensical NGO-speak).
In the face of an emboldened global jihad, especially, it is right-thinking conservatives above all who should be mounting an all-out defense of the hilly terrain of Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon, and Jesus himself.
Jihad Watch
By Robert Spencer: Here is yet another in a seemingly endless string of establishment media articles characterizing all opposition to Sharia in the U.S. as “hate” and “bigotry,” and misrepresenting Sharia as simply private religious law that has nothing to do with non-Muslims and is no threat to them. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others are Sharia states, and they all deny basic rights to non-Muslims and women. Yet media wonks writing for the U.S. establishment organs all consistently ignore that fact and pretend, as is stated here, that “Sharia Law is a set of religious principles for Muslims to follow.” No hint of the fact that those “religious principles” include an imperative to wage war against and subjugate non-Muslim societies, and permission to beat women and make infidel women into sex slaves, and on and on. Without these piquant details, opposition to Sharia does indeed look like simple bigotry, and the fact that the establishment media routinely leaves out those details shows up its propagandistic agenda.
Also, it’s bitterly ironic that this article leads off with sob stories about people being rude to Muslims. It’s a shame these incidents happened, if they happened, but meanwhile, Islamic jihadis are murdering Christians on nearly a daily basis in Nigeria.
Also, it’s bitterly ironic that this article leads off with sob stories about people being rude to Muslims. It’s a shame these incidents happened, if they happened, but meanwhile, Islamic jihadis are murdering Christians on nearly a daily basis in Nigeria.
Amir Tsarfati’s Behold Israel
Israel - Iran War
Synopsis: In this urgent breaking news update, Amir delivers a compelling analysis of the latest developments in the Middle East, unpacking the escalating tensions, key events, and their far-reaching implications for Israel and the world. With his signature insight, Amir explores the spiritual and prophetic significance of these unfolding events, connecting current headlines to biblical truths, and offering clarity on what it all means for the future!
Amir Tsarfati is an Israeli Christian from Galilee. He is a Bible teacher and a much sought after speaker world-wide. He was an IDF officer (hostage negotiator) and the former Deputy Governor of Jericho. He is an Israeli tour guide, a well-known author, and the Founder and President of ‘Behold Israel,’ a Christian ministry with a world-wide outreach.
Amir Tsarfati is an Israeli Christian from Galilee. He is a Bible teacher and a much sought after speaker world-wide. He was an IDF officer (hostage negotiator) and the former Deputy Governor of Jericho. He is an Israeli tour guide, a well-known author, and the Founder and President of ‘Behold Israel,’ a Christian ministry with a world-wide outreach.
Hope For Our Times
The Truth Daily News
06-08-26
06-08-26
Synopsis: News in 15 minutes or less through the lens of the Bible. Pastor Tom Hughes is joined by Bill Forliano for a thoughtful discussion on the growing rise of anti-Semitism, media manipulation, and why Israel remains central to God’s prophetic and redemptive plan. Together, they explore how modern media shapes public opinion, the importance of thinking biblically in an age of emotional narratives and selective reporting, and practical questions Christians should ask when evaluating information about Israel and the Jewish people.
They also discuss why Scripture consistently points to Israel’s unique role in God’s unfolding plan, the value of studying biblical prophecy firsthand, and how visiting Israel can deepen a believer’s understanding of the Bible, strengthen faith, and provide confidence in responding to today’s cultural and spiritual challenges.
They also discuss why Scripture consistently points to Israel’s unique role in God’s unfolding plan, the value of studying biblical prophecy firsthand, and how visiting Israel can deepen a believer’s understanding of the Bible, strengthen faith, and provide confidence in responding to today’s cultural and spiritual challenges.
The Watchman News Cast
Why Iran’s Islamic End Times Prophecies Makes War Inevitable
Erick Stakelbeck: Yair Pinto and Mati Shoshani, co-hosts of Boots on the Ground on TBN, join host Erick Stakelbeck from Jerusalem to break down the latest developments in Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza, arguing that no viable nuclear deal is possible and that military pressure is the only realistic path forward. The conversation also covers the Trump-Netanyahu relationship, Israeli internal politics surrounding Orthodox military service exemptions, and a closing assessment of Israel's surprising economic and military resilience despite years of multi-front warfare.