Synopsis: Worldwide news from a Christian perspective. That’s what you’ll get each week when you review Crosstalk’s Friday News Round-Up & Comment. Here’s a sample of what host Jim Schneider presented this week:
• Israel faces a political stalemate following Tuesday’s national elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition falling short of a parliamentary majority despite his party emerging as the nation’s largest political faction.
• Israel’s Central Election Committee chair has ordered the Shin Bet security agency to investigate allegations that foreign interests, potentially including Qatar and Turkey, funneled money into Israel to influence Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, triggering a political confrontation over the legitimacy of the vote.
• Communist revolutionaries, socialist activists and pro-Palestinian agitators from a network of 106 organizations are preparing to stage a carefully choreographed spectacle of global unrest today at ports from Oakland, California, all the way to India, as they protest Israel and capitalist barbarism.
• The IDF announced Sunday it had killed two terrorists in associated airstrikes in the Gaza Strip last week, accusing them of transferring millions of shekels from Iran and Turkey to Hamas’ military wing throughout the war.
• The Israeli Knesset approved the second and third readings of a bill to prosecute the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre.
• Iran issued a desperate call for unity among Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani authorities despite its proxy attack on Saudi Arabia.
• Iran is preparing to disrupt the U.S. mid-term elections after attempting to interfere in Israel’s vote.
• The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump yesterday at the White House about potential military operations against Iran.
• President Trump will attend two back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa to back mid-term Republican candidates.
• Plymouth, Minnesota, has a U.S. Post Office that is inside an Islamic mosque.
• When called to testify at a Pinellas County (Florida) board meeting, a woman wearing a burqa started playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer. Jim provided audio of the incident.
• An Islamic scholar in Chicago claims it’s America that’s the cancer. Jim provided audio of the scholar’s comments.
• Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, who’s running to be a U.S. senator, does not want to talk about the Muslim Brotherhood. In an interview with Brett Bair of Fox News, El-Sayed awkwardly talked over Bair when asked about his 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Israel faces a political stalemate following Tuesday’s national elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition falling short of a parliamentary majority despite his party emerging as the nation’s largest political faction.
• Israel’s Central Election Committee chair has ordered the Shin Bet security agency to investigate allegations that foreign interests, potentially including Qatar and Turkey, funneled money into Israel to influence Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, triggering a political confrontation over the legitimacy of the vote.
• Communist revolutionaries, socialist activists and pro-Palestinian agitators from a network of 106 organizations are preparing to stage a carefully choreographed spectacle of global unrest today at ports from Oakland, California, all the way to India, as they protest Israel and capitalist barbarism.
• The IDF announced Sunday it had killed two terrorists in associated airstrikes in the Gaza Strip last week, accusing them of transferring millions of shekels from Iran and Turkey to Hamas’ military wing throughout the war.
• The Israeli Knesset approved the second and third readings of a bill to prosecute the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre.
• Iran issued a desperate call for unity among Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani authorities despite its proxy attack on Saudi Arabia.
• Iran is preparing to disrupt the U.S. mid-term elections after attempting to interfere in Israel’s vote.
• The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump yesterday at the White House about potential military operations against Iran.
• President Trump will attend two back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa to back mid-term Republican candidates.
• Plymouth, Minnesota, has a U.S. Post Office that is inside an Islamic mosque.
• When called to testify at a Pinellas County (Florida) board meeting, a woman wearing a burqa started playing a recording of the Islamic call to prayer. Jim provided audio of the incident.
• An Islamic scholar in Chicago claims it’s America that’s the cancer. Jim provided audio of the scholar’s comments.
• Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, who’s running to be a U.S. senator, does not want to talk about the Muslim Brotherhood. In an interview with Brett Bair of Fox News, El-Sayed awkwardly talked over Bair when asked about his 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
NTEB Prophecy News Podcast
The U.S. Army Launches ‘Operation Dragon Covenant’ Exercise To Prepare For Burying 2,400 Fallen Soldiers A Day
Host And Founder Of ‘Now The End Begins’ Geoffrey Grider:
OPERATION DRAGON COVENANT: Army Planners Estimate Capacity To Temporarily Bury 2,400 Fallen Troops A Day As Washington Weighs Renewed Military Attacks Against Iran
All across Europe, governments are telling their citizens to prepare for emergencies that could interrupt the services modern life depends upon. Britain’s October 22 preparedness campaign urges households to plan for disruption to electricity, water, phones and the internet. Sweden’s 2024 “In Case of Crisis or War” brochure explicitly addresses the possibility of armed attack and households surviving a week without outside assistance. The European Union’s 2025 preparedness strategy brings civilian and military readiness together, including emergency stockpiles, joint exercises and at least 72 hours of household self-sufficiency. Taken together, these measures reveal a serious planning assumption that the systems people rely upon could become overwhelmed, disrupted or unavailable. In America, the US Army has launched Operation Dragon Covenant to train soldiers on the most efficient way to bury the bodies of thousands of dead soldiers at a time. Is anyone starting to see a theme here?
At Fort Bragg, Operation Dragon Covenant brought together engineers, fatality management specialists, preventive medicine personnel and chaplains to test large-scale temporary battlefield interment. The Army describes standard plots holding 100 remains in five trenches. Based on excavation times, planners estimated that an engineer company equipped with eight bulldozers and four military excavators could prepare and close trenches for up to 2,400 remains in 24 hours of continuous operations. That figure measures estimated burial capacity; behind it lies the grim possibility of a battlefield where the dead cannot be promptly evacuated. The Army says it has not executed temporary battlefield interment at scale since the Korean War. Consider the human reality behind those calculations: fallen service members awaiting recovery, families awaiting answers, and combat conditions severe enough to interrupt the journey home. The soldiers developing these procedures are confronting consequences that every political leader contemplating escalation right now should be made to explain.
According to the Associated Press, American officials have warned regional allies to prepare for possible military action after the November 3 elections and Iranian retaliation against energy facilities and other critical infrastructure. Those warnings describe how another offensive could reach beyond the targets of the opening strikes and disrupt the systems that sustain civilian life. The much broader picture is that governments are increasingly preparing for conditions in which both civilian services and military support systems come under extraordinary strain. Households are being asked to build reserves; Army engineers are testing burial trenches. The public deserves a clear explanation of the risks driving those preparations. Before Washington launches another offensive, Americans should demand specific objectives, an accounting of the potential human cost, and an explanation of how leaders intend to prevent the next escalation from becoming a much larger war.
OPERATION DRAGON COVENANT: Army Planners Estimate Capacity To Temporarily Bury 2,400 Fallen Troops A Day As Washington Weighs Renewed Military Attacks Against Iran
All across Europe, governments are telling their citizens to prepare for emergencies that could interrupt the services modern life depends upon. Britain’s October 22 preparedness campaign urges households to plan for disruption to electricity, water, phones and the internet. Sweden’s 2024 “In Case of Crisis or War” brochure explicitly addresses the possibility of armed attack and households surviving a week without outside assistance. The European Union’s 2025 preparedness strategy brings civilian and military readiness together, including emergency stockpiles, joint exercises and at least 72 hours of household self-sufficiency. Taken together, these measures reveal a serious planning assumption that the systems people rely upon could become overwhelmed, disrupted or unavailable. In America, the US Army has launched Operation Dragon Covenant to train soldiers on the most efficient way to bury the bodies of thousands of dead soldiers at a time. Is anyone starting to see a theme here?
“Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.”
Ezekiel 39:13 (KJV)
Ezekiel 39:13 (KJV)
At Fort Bragg, Operation Dragon Covenant brought together engineers, fatality management specialists, preventive medicine personnel and chaplains to test large-scale temporary battlefield interment. The Army describes standard plots holding 100 remains in five trenches. Based on excavation times, planners estimated that an engineer company equipped with eight bulldozers and four military excavators could prepare and close trenches for up to 2,400 remains in 24 hours of continuous operations. That figure measures estimated burial capacity; behind it lies the grim possibility of a battlefield where the dead cannot be promptly evacuated. The Army says it has not executed temporary battlefield interment at scale since the Korean War. Consider the human reality behind those calculations: fallen service members awaiting recovery, families awaiting answers, and combat conditions severe enough to interrupt the journey home. The soldiers developing these procedures are confronting consequences that every political leader contemplating escalation right now should be made to explain.
According to the Associated Press, American officials have warned regional allies to prepare for possible military action after the November 3 elections and Iranian retaliation against energy facilities and other critical infrastructure. Those warnings describe how another offensive could reach beyond the targets of the opening strikes and disrupt the systems that sustain civilian life. The much broader picture is that governments are increasingly preparing for conditions in which both civilian services and military support systems come under extraordinary strain. Households are being asked to build reserves; Army engineers are testing burial trenches. The public deserves a clear explanation of the risks driving those preparations. Before Washington launches another offensive, Americans should demand specific objectives, an accounting of the potential human cost, and an explanation of how leaders intend to prevent the next escalation from becoming a much larger war.
Harbinger’s Daily
Liberty And Justice:
The Hebrew Scriptures And
The Jewish People Who Helped Make
‘The Great American Experiment’ A Reality
The Hebrew Scriptures And
The Jewish People Who Helped Make
‘The Great American Experiment’ A Reality
By Steve Herzig: The first time I visited Philadelphia, I was elated to walk the same cobblestone streets that Benjamin Franklin had walked. The city’s historical landmarks I toured—the Betsy Ross House, Independence Hall, and the Liberty Bell—all thrilled me. As I explored, I kept reminding myself, This is the heart of American history. Our country’s founders walked here.
Most Americans, like me, are proud of our citizenship and grateful for our independence because we share a common trait: Our ancestors left faraway lands to pursue freedom and economic opportunity in the Goldene Medina (Yiddish, “Golden Land”) called America. I considered this fact as I watched a parade of ships from distant countries, military-jet flyovers, and vibrant fireworks in celebration of our nation’s 250th anniversary this past summer.
My parents would have loved to watch and celebrate, as would their parents, who fled the antisemitism of Eastern Europe. My father returned to Europe, courtesy of Uncle Sam, to fight the Nazis in World War II and keep America safe. He loved our country and taught me to love it as well.
The same is true of most Jewish Americans. We feel a connection to our founders’ philosophy as expressed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We take pride in our Pledge of Allegiance, which ends, “One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
I believe God uniquely raised up America as a republic governed for the people by the people. Though certainly not perfect, it was and is a haven for the oppressed, a place to worship freely, unfettered by the government; and it has the reputation of being a nation where success is achievable through hard work, sacrifice, and commitment.
Most Americans, like me, are proud of our citizenship and grateful for our independence because we share a common trait: Our ancestors left faraway lands to pursue freedom and economic opportunity in the Goldene Medina (Yiddish, “Golden Land”) called America. I considered this fact as I watched a parade of ships from distant countries, military-jet flyovers, and vibrant fireworks in celebration of our nation’s 250th anniversary this past summer.
My parents would have loved to watch and celebrate, as would their parents, who fled the antisemitism of Eastern Europe. My father returned to Europe, courtesy of Uncle Sam, to fight the Nazis in World War II and keep America safe. He loved our country and taught me to love it as well.
The same is true of most Jewish Americans. We feel a connection to our founders’ philosophy as expressed in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We take pride in our Pledge of Allegiance, which ends, “One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
I believe God uniquely raised up America as a republic governed for the people by the people. Though certainly not perfect, it was and is a haven for the oppressed, a place to worship freely, unfettered by the government; and it has the reputation of being a nation where success is achievable through hard work, sacrifice, and commitment.
Prophecy News Watch
When Democrats Put Christ On The Ballot, Which Christ Are They Preaching?
By PNW Staff: Pastoral titles and Bible verses can make a political campaign sound like a Christian witness. But a candidate's use of Jesus' name does not tell voters whether he is faithful to Jesus' teaching. That question has to be answered by examining the whole message: what a candidate affirms, what he rejects, and what he leaves out.
That is the challenge facing Christian voters as Democrats James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas place their faith near the center of their campaigns. Talarico invokes Scripture against Christian nationalism and calls for "flipping tables." Hamilton presents himself as a pastor and bridge-builder. Both are seeking to reach voters who may be wary of Republicans or dissatisfied with the candidates on the other side.
There is nothing wrong with a Christian running for office, and no political party owns the name of Christ. Christians should scrutinize conservative candidates who use religious language while acting against biblical principles, too. But a campaign does not become Christian simply because its candidate quotes Scripture, serves as a pastor, or speaks about protecting the vulnerable.
When Scripture Is Made To Say The Opposite
Talarico's religious language raises more than a question about political style. In a Texas House prayer, he described God as "nonbinary," drawing on the biblical statement that humanity was created male and female in God's image. But Genesis is describing human beings as male and female; it is not presenting God as a nonbinary being. The passage does not support turning God into a reflection of today's gender politics.
His defense of abortion rights also raises a direct conflict with a historic Christian understanding of the value of unborn life. Talarico has argued that the Bible's account of Adam receiving life with his first breath means Scripture does not establish life before birth. But the Bible's description of Adam's creation is not a teaching that human life has no value in the womb. Scripture portrays God as knowing and forming people before birth. A campaign cannot settle the question by selecting one passage and ignoring the wider biblical witness.
That is the challenge facing Christian voters as Democrats James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas place their faith near the center of their campaigns. Talarico invokes Scripture against Christian nationalism and calls for "flipping tables." Hamilton presents himself as a pastor and bridge-builder. Both are seeking to reach voters who may be wary of Republicans or dissatisfied with the candidates on the other side.
There is nothing wrong with a Christian running for office, and no political party owns the name of Christ. Christians should scrutinize conservative candidates who use religious language while acting against biblical principles, too. But a campaign does not become Christian simply because its candidate quotes Scripture, serves as a pastor, or speaks about protecting the vulnerable.
Talarico's religious language raises more than a question about political style. In a Texas House prayer, he described God as "nonbinary," drawing on the biblical statement that humanity was created male and female in God's image. But Genesis is describing human beings as male and female; it is not presenting God as a nonbinary being. The passage does not support turning God into a reflection of today's gender politics.
His defense of abortion rights also raises a direct conflict with a historic Christian understanding of the value of unborn life. Talarico has argued that the Bible's account of Adam receiving life with his first breath means Scripture does not establish life before birth. But the Bible's description of Adam's creation is not a teaching that human life has no value in the womb. Scripture portrays God as knowing and forming people before birth. A campaign cannot settle the question by selecting one passage and ignoring the wider biblical witness.
Geller Report
Muslim Terrorists Slaughter
60+ Christians in Ethiopia,
Children Among the Massacred
60+ Christians in Ethiopia,
Children Among the Massacred
By Pamela Geller: Daily slaughter. Unimaginable bloodshed. Massacres. No protests, No street marches. No university rallies. No emergency UN secutiy meetings. Nothing. No one says or does anything because the murderers are Muslim.
When the media does reluctantly cover it, they blame the victims and “islamophobia.”
How did we get here?
When the media does reluctantly cover it, they blame the victims and “islamophobia.”
How did we get here?
Behold Israel
Why The Battle For Israel Is Now A Battle For The West
Synopsis: Why is the fight for Israel no longer just about the Middle East, but the very survival of Western civilization itself? And who is truly funding the sophisticated propaganda machine targeting the hearts and minds of the next generation?
In this powerful episode of The Anchor Podcast, Calev Myers, Chairman of the Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress, joins us to unpack the high-stakes battle over faith, justice, and truth. From rising to partner at one of Israel’s most prestigious law firms and taking landmark religious freedom cases to the Supreme Court, to escorting hostage families before world leaders after October 7, Calev offers an unfiltered insider look at the legal and spiritual frontlines. He shares his personal journey through workaholism and healing, exposes the foreign money reshaping Western universities, and reveals why a rising global remnant is standing unapologetically for Judeo-Christian values.
In this powerful episode of The Anchor Podcast, Calev Myers, Chairman of the Judeo-Christian Zionist Congress, joins us to unpack the high-stakes battle over faith, justice, and truth. From rising to partner at one of Israel’s most prestigious law firms and taking landmark religious freedom cases to the Supreme Court, to escorting hostage families before world leaders after October 7, Calev offers an unfiltered insider look at the legal and spiritual frontlines. He shares his personal journey through workaholism and healing, exposes the foreign money reshaping Western universities, and reveals why a rising global remnant is standing unapologetically for Judeo-Christian values.
Amir Tsarfati is an Israeli Christian from Galilee. A former Deputy Governor of Jericho and IDF officer (hostage negotiator). He is a Bible teacher and a much sought after speaker world-wide. 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.
Through The Lens
What These Pastors Are Teaching About Jesus Is Disturbing
Synopsis: What happens when a pastor questions the resurrection of Jesus Christ... on Easter Sunday? And why are more churches embracing teachings that directly contradict Scripture?
In this episode of Through the Lens, Pastor Curt Reed examines the growing spiritual deception taking place across America and the world, warning that the Bible foretold an increase in false teachings and apostasy in the last days.
From pastors questioning the bodily resurrection of Jesus to controversial teachings about His identity, Curt explores how biblical truth is being challenged from within churches themselves.
But the warnings don't stop there.
As central banks continue exploring digital currencies and the world moves toward increasingly cashless transactions, are we witnessing the technological foundations of the economic system described in Revelation 13?
In this episode of Through the Lens, Pastor Curt Reed examines the growing spiritual deception taking place across America and the world, warning that the Bible foretold an increase in false teachings and apostasy in the last days.
From pastors questioning the bodily resurrection of Jesus to controversial teachings about His identity, Curt explores how biblical truth is being challenged from within churches themselves.
But the warnings don't stop there.
As central banks continue exploring digital currencies and the world moves toward increasingly cashless transactions, are we witnessing the technological foundations of the economic system described in Revelation 13?
The Paul McGuire Report
Hello World: It’s Time To Wake Up!
Synopsis: Join Internationally Recognized Prophecy Expert, Minister, Speaker and Author, Paul McGuire as he analyzes current events through the lens of Bible Prophecy.
Real Life With Jack Hibbs
I Was Warned Not To Interview This Man
Synopsis: Pastor Jack sits down with evangelist and author Ray Comfort to discuss his book, Compelled, and the powerful journey that shaped his life and ministry. Through an engaging and heartfelt conversation, Ray shares his inspiring story, offering wisdom, encouragement, and a challenge to live out our faith with boldness and purpose. Don’t miss this thought-provoking episode!
A Minute To Midnite
Grid Down! What Will You Do?
Do You Have A Plan?
Do You Have A Plan?
Synopsis: From an Off grid cabin away in the sticks, serious questions and vital tips. (Along with some peaceful scenery and relaxation.)
Keeping you up to date with World Events as biblical prophecy unfolds.
Keeping you up to date with World Events as biblical prophecy unfolds.