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:
• President Trump has insisted that the U.S. maintains total control of the Strait of Hormuz.
• The U.S. has publicly rejected Israeli Defense Minister Katz’s declaration that Israeli troops will remain in Southern Lebanon for the long term.
• U.S. officials confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. military will finish withdrawing its troops from Iraq by the end of September.
• A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Asaad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14 year conflict that left about half a million people dead.
• The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Syria and Israel for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove nuclear material stored at a covert site in Syria.
• Pakistan’s defense minister has called for Islamic nations to set aside their differences and join Islamabad’s defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey to form a military alliance along the lines of NATO.
• Colombia has become the second nation to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
• The U.S. Senate adjourned last weekend after a long night of votes in a debate that resulted in a failure to pass the Save America Act.
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune sent the Senate home for 37 days yet scheduled 11 pro forma sessions to block President Trump from making any recess appointments.
• An American missionary who was kidnapped last October has been released. Kevin Rideout was seized in the West African nation of Niger on October 21st by 3 gunmen. The 50 year old missionary pilot was on his way back to the U.S. He’s reported to be in good health and in the care of U.S. officials.
• On Tuesday, President Trump announced he had reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman.
• In mid-term election news…Lindsey Graham’s sister advances to the runoff, Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong narrowly loses to David Crowley in Wisconsin, and Mike Lindell loses in Minnesota but refuses to concede.
• Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appeared on Meet the Press where he was asked about Medicare for all. Jim provided audio from the broadcast.
• Abdul El-Sayed once declared that his sacred obligation is to follow Sharia in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies. He made those comments back in 2009.
• President Trump has insisted that the U.S. maintains total control of the Strait of Hormuz.
• The U.S. has publicly rejected Israeli Defense Minister Katz’s declaration that Israeli troops will remain in Southern Lebanon for the long term.
• U.S. officials confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. military will finish withdrawing its troops from Iraq by the end of September.
• A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Asaad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14 year conflict that left about half a million people dead.
• The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Syria and Israel for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove nuclear material stored at a covert site in Syria.
• Pakistan’s defense minister has called for Islamic nations to set aside their differences and join Islamabad’s defence agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey to form a military alliance along the lines of NATO.
• Colombia has become the second nation to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
• The U.S. Senate adjourned last weekend after a long night of votes in a debate that resulted in a failure to pass the Save America Act.
• Senate Majority Leader John Thune sent the Senate home for 37 days yet scheduled 11 pro forma sessions to block President Trump from making any recess appointments.
• An American missionary who was kidnapped last October has been released. Kevin Rideout was seized in the West African nation of Niger on October 21st by 3 gunmen. The 50 year old missionary pilot was on his way back to the U.S. He’s reported to be in good health and in the care of U.S. officials.
• On Tuesday, President Trump announced he had reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the release of former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman.
• In mid-term election news…Lindsey Graham’s sister advances to the runoff, Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong narrowly loses to David Crowley in Wisconsin, and Mike Lindell loses in Minnesota but refuses to concede.
• Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appeared on Meet the Press where he was asked about Medicare for all. Jim provided audio from the broadcast.
• Abdul El-Sayed once declared that his sacred obligation is to follow Sharia in every aspect of his life until he meets his maker on the day he dies. He made those comments back in 2009.
NTEB Prophecy News Podcast
Flock Safety Cameras Are Building a Nationwide Surveillance Grid And American Citizens Have Begun To Fight Back
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
Flock Safety Cameras Are Building a Nationwide Surveillance Grid That Tracks Innocent Americans While Government Sells Mass Monitoring as Public Safety and Protection
Flock Safety tells Americans that its cameras are about stolen cars, missing children and public safety, but the system records every passing vehicle whether the driver is suspected of a crime or not. Your license plate, vehicle description, location, direction and time of travel are captured, stored and made searchable across a growing network of police departments and government agencies. That is not simply a camera watching an intersection—it is a digital memory capable of reconstructing where ordinary citizens go, when they go there and how often they return. Public safety may be the sales pitch, but mass collection is the product.
The most dangerous part of this system is not what a trustworthy sheriff might do with it today, but what an unaccountable government could do with it tomorrow. Databases built to find car thieves can just as easily identify people attending churches, political rallies, gun shows, medical offices or protests during the next manufactured emergency. Flock cameras are not the mark of the beast, and Bible believers should not confuse modern surveillance technology with the literal fulfillment of Revelation 13. But they are helping construct the culture and infrastructure the coming beast system will require: universal observation, centralized information, artificial-intelligence profiling and a population trained to surrender privacy whenever the government whispers the word “safety.” This is how freedom disappears—not always through soldiers in the streets, but through cameras on poles, databases in the cloud and citizens who insist they have nothing to hide.
The issue is not whether these cameras can solve crimes; the issue is whether every innocent American should be tracked like a potential suspect without a warrant, public consent or meaningful accountability. Demand strict limits, short retention periods, transparent audits, real penalties for abuse and judicial oversight before this surveillance grid becomes too large to restrain. The camera may not be the beast, but the Beast architecture is being assembled one pole, one database and one emergency at a time. The Countdown continues toward the rise of the New World Order.
Flock Safety Cameras Are Building a Nationwide Surveillance Grid That Tracks Innocent Americans While Government Sells Mass Monitoring as Public Safety and Protection
Flock Safety tells Americans that its cameras are about stolen cars, missing children and public safety, but the system records every passing vehicle whether the driver is suspected of a crime or not. Your license plate, vehicle description, location, direction and time of travel are captured, stored and made searchable across a growing network of police departments and government agencies. That is not simply a camera watching an intersection—it is a digital memory capable of reconstructing where ordinary citizens go, when they go there and how often they return. Public safety may be the sales pitch, but mass collection is the product.
“The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good.” Proverbs 15:3 (KJV)
beholding the evil and the good.” Proverbs 15:3 (KJV)
The most dangerous part of this system is not what a trustworthy sheriff might do with it today, but what an unaccountable government could do with it tomorrow. Databases built to find car thieves can just as easily identify people attending churches, political rallies, gun shows, medical offices or protests during the next manufactured emergency. Flock cameras are not the mark of the beast, and Bible believers should not confuse modern surveillance technology with the literal fulfillment of Revelation 13. But they are helping construct the culture and infrastructure the coming beast system will require: universal observation, centralized information, artificial-intelligence profiling and a population trained to surrender privacy whenever the government whispers the word “safety.” This is how freedom disappears—not always through soldiers in the streets, but through cameras on poles, databases in the cloud and citizens who insist they have nothing to hide.
The issue is not whether these cameras can solve crimes; the issue is whether every innocent American should be tracked like a potential suspect without a warrant, public consent or meaningful accountability. Demand strict limits, short retention periods, transparent audits, real penalties for abuse and judicial oversight before this surveillance grid becomes too large to restrain. The camera may not be the beast, but the Beast architecture is being assembled one pole, one database and one emergency at a time. The Countdown continues toward the rise of the New World Order.
Harbinger’s Daily
Celebrating Evil: Today’s Abortion Industry Would Make Even The Ancient Child Sacrifice Of Moloch Blush
By Erick Stakelbeck: Sometimes evil lurks in the shadows. Other times, it operates openly for everyone to see. That was the case earlier this week in Massachusetts when Democrat Governor Maura Healey signed legislation legalizing abortion up until the moment of birth.
This means that little babies, fully formed, can now be literally ripped apart and murdered just moments before they’re supposed to come out of their mother’s womb. It’s almost too horrifying to comprehend the pain these babies will go through as their lives are snuffed out. But flanked by a group of liberal women who were absolutely ecstatic about the new law, Governor Healey was thrilled at a signing ceremony earlier this week.
It was what I call an Isaiah 5:20 moment. Healey and her cohorts were celebrating being able to snuff out precious young lives at the latest possible moment of a pregnancy.
Ten other states also reportedly have abortion without any restrictions, but none announced it with the same fanfare as Massachusetts.
In their hearts, people know how barbaric and ghoulish it is. Top Democrats have been assuring us for years that they don’t support late-term abortions or abortion on demand. Well, the mask is now off.
This means that little babies, fully formed, can now be literally ripped apart and murdered just moments before they’re supposed to come out of their mother’s womb. It’s almost too horrifying to comprehend the pain these babies will go through as their lives are snuffed out. But flanked by a group of liberal women who were absolutely ecstatic about the new law, Governor Healey was thrilled at a signing ceremony earlier this week.
It was what I call an Isaiah 5:20 moment. Healey and her cohorts were celebrating being able to snuff out precious young lives at the latest possible moment of a pregnancy.
Ten other states also reportedly have abortion without any restrictions, but none announced it with the same fanfare as Massachusetts.
In their hearts, people know how barbaric and ghoulish it is. Top Democrats have been assuring us for years that they don’t support late-term abortions or abortion on demand. Well, the mask is now off.
Prophecy News Watch
By PNW Staff: What if a peace agreement is not actually intended to produce peace?
That disturbing question is again confronting Israel after reports that one Arab country allegedly advised another to show flexibility toward Israel, reach an agreement, lower Israel's defenses--and use the resulting calm to strengthen itself for a future confrontation.
Some reports have suggested the countries involved were Saudi Arabia and Syria, although that has not officially confirmed.
But the alleged strategy itself should sound painfully familiar to Israelis.
Because one of the most dangerous lessons of October 7 was that quiet does not necessarily mean peace.
Sometimes quiet is when your enemy is preparing.
That disturbing question is again confronting Israel after reports that one Arab country allegedly advised another to show flexibility toward Israel, reach an agreement, lower Israel's defenses--and use the resulting calm to strengthen itself for a future confrontation.
Some reports have suggested the countries involved were Saudi Arabia and Syria, although that has not officially confirmed.
But the alleged strategy itself should sound painfully familiar to Israelis.
Because one of the most dangerous lessons of October 7 was that quiet does not necessarily mean peace.
Sometimes quiet is when your enemy is preparing.
Israel 365 News
A Third Red Heifer Is Born:
Rabbis Race To Examine The Herd Israel Has Waited 2,000 Years To Raise
Rabbis Race To Examine The Herd Israel Has Waited 2,000 Years To Raise
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz: A calf was born in a dairy barn in the Jordan Valley last week, and on Rosh Chodesh Elul, a delegation of rabbis stood over her, running their hands through her coat. She was the third heifer of her kind to be born in Israel this season, joining two others already under watch in the Galilee and the Golan Heights. Together, the three calves represent the most concrete progress yet toward a goal Jewish tradition has pursued since the destruction of the Second Temple: raising a red heifer whose ashes can restore ritual purity to the Jewish people.
The examinations were carried out by the Beit Midrash, the rabbinic study hall, of the National Institute for Red Heifer Research, a body that unites religious Zionist, Litvish, and Hasidic rabbis around a single national mission. Members of the Institute traveled to all three farms in a single sweep, checking the calves from tail to head for the disqualifying flaws that have derailed nearly every red heifer candidate in living memory.
The requirements come directly from the Hebrew Bible. “This is the ritual law that Hashem has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid” (Numbers 19:2). Since the Second Temple’s destruction nearly two thousand years ago, the ashes of such a cow have been unavailable, leaving every Jew in a state of ritual impurity from contact with the dead, a status the Bible calls tumat met. Without those ashes, the purification described in the Torah cannot take place, and full Temple service cannot resume. That is why a light hair on a newborn calf is not a minor veterinary detail. It is the difference between a heifer that can eventually serve the nation and one that cannot.
The examinations were carried out by the Beit Midrash, the rabbinic study hall, of the National Institute for Red Heifer Research, a body that unites religious Zionist, Litvish, and Hasidic rabbis around a single national mission. Members of the Institute traveled to all three farms in a single sweep, checking the calves from tail to head for the disqualifying flaws that have derailed nearly every red heifer candidate in living memory.
The requirements come directly from the Hebrew Bible. “This is the ritual law that Hashem has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid” (Numbers 19:2). Since the Second Temple’s destruction nearly two thousand years ago, the ashes of such a cow have been unavailable, leaving every Jew in a state of ritual impurity from contact with the dead, a status the Bible calls tumat met. Without those ashes, the purification described in the Torah cannot take place, and full Temple service cannot resume. That is why a light hair on a newborn calf is not a minor veterinary detail. It is the difference between a heifer that can eventually serve the nation and one that cannot.
Geller Report
Qatari Newspaper: The Day Is Not Far When A Muslim Will Be Elected US President
By Pamela Geller: There’s no question: The broader Muslim world has been tracking with Mayor Mamdani in New York City the Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrats’ nominee in Michigan.
At the rate we are going, they are not wrong. The willful blindness and abject denial of the islamization of America is civilizational suicide.
Abd Al-Rahman AI-Shammari is a columnist for the Qatari state daily AI-Sharq. He linked former President Obama in with Mamdani and El-Sayed:
“A few decades ago, the question was whether a Black could ever rule America. It happened. Then the question was whether a Muslim could rule New York. And it happened. Today, the question is whether a Muslim named Abdulrahman El-Sayed can sit in the Senate. Yes, it is possible.
At the rate we are going, they are not wrong. The willful blindness and abject denial of the islamization of America is civilizational suicide.
Abd Al-Rahman AI-Shammari is a columnist for the Qatari state daily AI-Sharq. He linked former President Obama in with Mamdani and El-Sayed:
“A few decades ago, the question was whether a Black could ever rule America. It happened. Then the question was whether a Muslim could rule New York. And it happened. Today, the question is whether a Muslim named Abdulrahman El-Sayed can sit in the Senate. Yes, it is possible.
Front Page Magazine
Abdul El-Sayed Lost Among U.S. Voters,
Won With Muslim Bloc Vote
Won With Muslim Bloc Vote
By Daniel Greenfield: Poll numbers show that Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed narrowly lost among American voters in Michigan by 48.2% to 47.9%, but won among Muslim voters 94.1% to 5.9%.
What we’re seeing in Michigan is the same thing we saw when we tried to bring ‘democracy’ to Iraq and the Muslim vote. Instead of actual elections, we got bloc voting based on ethnicity and religion, and elections simply came down to majoritarian turnout.
Since Americans don’t vote in religious and ethnic lockstep in the same bloc way, Arab Muslims in Michigan were able to steamroll them and get Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed through.
We didn’t fix this problem in Iraq and we’re not going to fix it in Michigan except by recognizing what’s going on here.
What we’re seeing in Michigan is the same thing we saw when we tried to bring ‘democracy’ to Iraq and the Muslim vote. Instead of actual elections, we got bloc voting based on ethnicity and religion, and elections simply came down to majoritarian turnout.
Since Americans don’t vote in religious and ethnic lockstep in the same bloc way, Arab Muslims in Michigan were able to steamroll them and get Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed through.
We didn’t fix this problem in Iraq and we’re not going to fix it in Michigan except by recognizing what’s going on here.
The Final Hour
AI Data Centers On Land, Sea, And Now Space!?
Pastor Curt: They’re building AI data centers on land, in the ocean, and now even looking to space and the technology being proposed to power them sounds like science fiction.
In this episode of The Final Hour, Pastor Dave breaks down the growing push for space-based mirrors designed to reflect sunlight back toward Earth, floating ocean data centers, massive AI infrastructure projects, and the role major tech companies are playing in this rapidly changing world.
Could artificial sunlight one day help power AI data centers 24/7? What happens when thousands of satellites, mirrors, data centers, biometrics, digital currency, and artificial intelligence begin working together as one interconnected system?
Pastor Dave examines these developments through the lens of Bible prophecy and Revelation 13, asking whether we are watching the infrastructure for greater global control being built right before our eyes. The technology is advancing quickly, on land, at sea, and in space.
In this episode of The Final Hour, Pastor Dave breaks down the growing push for space-based mirrors designed to reflect sunlight back toward Earth, floating ocean data centers, massive AI infrastructure projects, and the role major tech companies are playing in this rapidly changing world.
Could artificial sunlight one day help power AI data centers 24/7? What happens when thousands of satellites, mirrors, data centers, biometrics, digital currency, and artificial intelligence begin working together as one interconnected system?
Pastor Dave examines these developments through the lens of Bible prophecy and Revelation 13, asking whether we are watching the infrastructure for greater global control being built right before our eyes. The technology is advancing quickly, on land, at sea, and in space.
The Paul McGuire Report
EMF’s Targeting You!
About Paul McGuire: Join Internationally Recognized Prophecy Expert, Minister, Speaker and Author, Paul McGuire as he analyzes current events through the lens of Bible Prophecy.
Dr. Andy Woods
Headlines Aligned With Prophecy!
Synopsis: Prophecy is unfolding before our eyes. Israel's wealth grows, Turkey expands, anti-Semitism rises globally, and surveillance tech mirrors Revelation 13. The world is not falling apart — it is falling into place. Look up. Christ's return draws near.
Dr. Andy Woods is the Senior pastor of Sugar Land (Texas) Bible Church and President of Chafer Theological Seminary.
Dr. Andy Woods is the Senior pastor of Sugar Land (Texas) Bible Church and President of Chafer Theological Seminary.