News commentator and former law enforcement officer Dan Bongino shared with fans heartbreaking news and a supernatural encounter that shook him.

A few days ago, Bongino let viewers know his mother had unexpectedly passed away after falling down a flight of stairs.

“My mom died last night, unexpectedly,” Bongino says. “She fell down a flight of stairs, and I found out early this morning.”

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Bongino says he saw a message from around 4:43 a.m. about his mother’s passing. She had been pronounced dead at around 3 a.m., which is when he had a very strange supernatural encounter.

“For those of you who don’t believe in God, I’m not here to judge you,” Bongino says. “But I want to tell you something. I want to tell you in advance I’m not crazy, okay?”

Bongino went on to explain that around the same time as his mother’s passing, he felt someone grab him even though he was at home alone while his wife and daughter were on vacation.

“Someone grabbed me. Like hugged me like a mom,” Bongino says.

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Bongino says that this experience didn’t happen in the middle of a dream state because he had gotten up to go get a drink of water. It was when he was attempting to go back to sleep that he felt someone touch him.

“I turned over this way and someone grabbed me. [It] was real. I’m telling you it was real. I actually jumped up.”

Whether you believe Dan Bongino has had a supernatural occurrence related to his mother’s passing or not, this is a time for all people to pray for him and his family as they deal with the tragic loss of his mother.

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Is the coming Great American Eclipse a prophetic warning from God?

As the nation prepares for the celestial event, many are excited about seeing it. But what if this eclipse is more than just a fun and exciting event? What if it is an actual warning from God?

In one of her most recent messages, Amanda Grace discussed the significance of the coming eclipse in relation to historical eclipses, including the eclipse that happened in Nineveh before Jonah came with a message of repentance.

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“Jonah’s ministry would have been in the first half of the eighth century BC from about 793 to 750 BC. During this time the Assyrian eponym canon records an eclipse of the sun…modern astronomical calculations date this eclipse to June 15, 763 BC,” Grace says. “It was a total eclipse as it passed near Nineveh.”

Because the people of Nineveh would have just experienced this natural phenomenon, hearing a message like Jonah’s of a dire need to repent or else their city would be destroyed would be a very compelling argument to get right with God.

“That is why they repented so fast and they put on sackcloth and them humbled themselves because they took that eclipse as a sign they were going to be destroyed,” Grace says.

Now in 2024, we are seeing this same call for repentance as the pathway for the April 8 eclipse includes many towns names Nineveh.

It has also been debated for quite awhile whether or not an eclipse happened during the time of Christ’s crucifixion because of the darkness that fell over the land. While a solar eclipse seems less probable to some, a lunar eclipse is said to have occurred that evening.

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The day of Jesus’ crucifixion was believed to be April 3, 33 AD. As The Salt Lake Tribune notes, and a lunar eclipse did happen that night, however, it may not have been visible from Jerusalem. Still, there is greater significance to this lunar eclipse, as Grace points out that a blood moon occurred on the nights when both Jesus and Herod died.

The blood moon from the night of Jesus’ death, as she explains, finished around 7:11 p.m., which signifies another important timeline in the Old Testament.

Genesis 7:11 recounts the days of Noah when he and his family were protected in the ark while the floods raged about the earth. Judgment had come, and those who were faithful and obedient to God were the ones spared.

And now we too are about to experience both a blood moon and a solar eclipse during a time when our society has decided to call evil good and good evil. Is this all coincidence, or is God trying to send us a clear and straight-forward message?

With Purim, Passover and Holy week all right around the corner, perhaps God is using the natural to speak supernaturally to us. Judgment is coming and repentance is not an option.

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It was the event that forever changed history.

The crucifixion of Jesus Christ would forever pay the eternal debt that we as humans owed by falling for the temptation of sin. Being hung on a cross, while not a common practice today, is a most gruesome death, one so painful and horrendous we cannot actually fathom the fullness of the agony Jesus went through for us.

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As part of his teaching on Jesus’ final hours before his death, Pastor Greg Locke explained the horrors of the crucifixion.

“Crucifixion is literally death by asphyxiation,” Locke says. “In order to exhale, Jesus had to push up on His feet, so the tension on His diaphragm and His muscles would be eased for just a moment.”

But remember, Jesus’ feet were not dangling freely. They were nailed to the cross.

“But by doing this, His foot pushed through the spike, locking up against the tarsal bone, creating incredible amounts of pain. Also, He was scraping His bloodied back against the coarse wood of the cross,” Locke says.

This happened after Jesus was flogged, His flesh having literally been ripped out from His back.

“As Jesus slows down His breathing, He goes into respiratory acidosis. The carbon dioxide in His blood is dissolved into carbonic acid, causing the acidity of His blood to rise rapidly. This leads to an irregular heartbeat,” Locke says.

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As His bodily functions became nearly impossible for Jesus, He eventually gave His very last breath. Not a single one of His bones would be broken because as prophesied in the Old Testament, He as the Passover Lamb would not have any of them crushed.

When Jesus gave up His Spirit, the veil in the temple was torn, and the atonement for the sins of the world had been made. No longer did sin separate God and man; direct access to God was now available.

“Jesus simply says, ‘it is finished,'” Locke says. “What’s finished? [A] sacrificial system that for 4,000 years served as a constant reminder of the judgement of God. It is done. No more blood will have to be shed, no more lambs, rams, bulls, turtle doves, pigeons; it’s done…Nobody else has to die. It’s done.”

As we creep upon Easter in the coming days, let us remember that the offering God gave us in His Son Jesus is the very best gift anyone ever could have given us. There is no other substitute that could have washed away the sin of every single person who ever had and ever would live. It is only by the sacrifice of God taking our place that the opportunity exists for us to live as holy and righteous. Only one sacrifice could have allowed us the gift of eternity. It is the sacrifice of God giving us His only Son that has made our sins white as snow.

Praise Him for making the impossible possible.

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For many people, it is a real struggle to see God as their heavenly Father. This can be for a variety of reasons, especially if someone has not experienced a loving and kind earthly father. Yet God desires for us to come to know Him from the perspective as not just our creator, but as the One who wants to lead us and guide us.

In his exclusive Beyond the Article interview, author Mondo De La Vega opened up about his own fear of becoming a father and how God used one of his darkest moments to shift his heart.

“I never wanted to have kids. I never wanted to get married…the thought of being a father scared me because I didn’t know what a father looked like, I didn’t know what a father smelled like, I didn’t know what a father sounded like, so for me to even include myself in that category, it scared everything about me,” Vega says.  

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Yet, even with these fears of the unknown, God was still able to transform Vega’s life and his dependence on Him as Lord. After marrying his wife, the couple embarked on the journey of parenthood, eventually welcoming twins into their family. This would make Vega confront his fear of becoming a father.

“Anytime I used to come over and see her, my wife would ask me to put my head on her belly and she said to talk to them,” Vega says. “I was so afraid of being a father that I couldn’t say ‘hi guys, this is your dad.’”

However, it was during this pregnancy that Vega says God met him in his greatest valley.

“Most people think that the will of God is found at the mountaintop,” Vega says. “Instead, the will of God is found in the moment that you need God the most, in the moment of crisis…when I heard God’s voice to say, ‘it’s okay to call yourself a father, a dad,’ was at that critical, pivotal moment when my son was fighting for his life.”

Just as Vega had to trust God in that moment as his heavenly Father while he was becoming a dad, he encourages others that they too can lean on God. As the Israelites had to trust God to help them out of Egypt and into the Promised Land, God asks that we too can look at Him as our Father, provider and protector who will help us through life’s greatest hardships.

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“In that crisis moment God delivers a word to say, ‘I’m getting you out of Egypt, and I’m taking you to the promised land. You had to go by faith. It is in this crisis moment that God’s voice is louder than anything that surrounds you,” Vega says.

As Vega uncovers more harrowing details about God’s provision as his heavenly Father in his feature Charisma Magazine Online article, we too can look to God as Mondo does: the One who is able to help us overcome our greatest fears, and the one who loves and protects us, just as a Father does.

No matter what your earthly relationship with fatherhood has been, it’s possible to know God as the Father who will never give up and never fail on you.

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A preliminary hearing has begun for the tragic death of a three-year-old girl who died in 2021 after her mother, grandfather and uncle performed an alleged exorcism on her.

The trio believed the child had a demon in her because they felt she may have seen something sinister on her mother’s phone, deciding she needed to have a demon cast out of her.

The child’s family performed the supposed exorcism at a small Pentecostal church in San Jose, California. Her mother, Claudia Hernandez, her uncle, Rene “Aaron” Hernandez Santos, her grandfather, Rene Trigueros Hernandez, have all been charged collectively for felony child abuse. Rene Trigueros Hernandez is reported by KRON4 to be the church’s pastor.

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It was determined that the child, Arely, died by asphyxiation from the supposed exorcism rituals that her relatives performed. She had been strangled, smothered and suffocated. As KRON4 reported, prosecutors said, “evidence shows that the praying, strangling, and pushing on the child’s 38-pound body to cause her vomit up the evil spirit.” Injuries were found all over the child’s body from the gruesome experience.

The Hastings Tribune and The Mercury News also cited the coroner’s report determined, “…she had pressure put on her body, on her torso from the front and back, with so much force applied that she lost consciousness.”

About 14 hours after Hernandez first told her brother they were to perform the exorcism on Arely, the child was found dead by firefighters.

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The San Jose Police Department Lt. J.J. Vallejo discussed at the hearing a recorded conversation where Arely’s mother said to her uncle that God had taken her and “it’s going to look like we intended to kill her, but we did not.”

Before Hernandez was arrested for her daughter’s death, she had posted videos of herself on YouTube talking about the situation.

“It’s many reasons why God took her. At least she’s not ‘s in a better place. God knows why He allowed these things,” Hernandez said.

Trigueros Hernandez’s defense attorney, Dana Fite, made the argument that the child’s murder was not intended.

“None of these individuals said they intended to kill Arely, correct?” Fite asked. “In essence, they were trying to help her, to get rid of the demon, correct?”

The preliminary hearing will determine if enough evidence exists to move forward with a trial. It is expected to last until March 25.

This case shows that deliverance abuse is real and violent actions and murders should never be condoned in the name of casting out a demon.

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Jesus isn’t King for Kanye after all.

In an interview with radio host Big Boy, West revealed the issues he has with Christianity and the apparent lack of answered prayers he had when he was trying to pursue the Christian faith.

“I have my issues with Jesus,” West says. “There’s a lot of stuff I went through that I prayed, and I didn’t see Jesus show up.”

West says he had to place his experiences with the world around him, his children and his music in his own hands. He believes Christianity is too dependent upon prayer instead of taking action.

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“The main thing that really I don’t rock it’s just always like, ‘I’m going to pray for you,'” West says. “You can actually physically do something yourself too.”

While this statement on the surface may sound like West is talking about faith without works being dead, he continues down the trail of listing his grievances with Christianity and how he has had to fight for his empire, ultimately leading up to calling himself God.

“I’m god, and anyone to disagree, I’m the god of me,” West says. “And you can’t tell me who I ‘m the god of me. I don’t know if I’m in heaven already.”

West further described how one of his biggest complaints against Christianity is the concept of the fear of God.

“Another thing I don’t like in Christianity: the fear of God,” West says. “If God is love, why should you fear Him?”

West believes fear of the Lord makes a person easily controllable and vulnerable. He says he has decided he’s going to live his life without fear of anything.

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What West’s turn away from Christianity shows is that without a faith built on a firm foundation, it is certain that a person will crumble. Jesus does not promise that following Him will bring about an easy life, but He promises that He will be with us even when the storms of life build up and crash around us. Having a correct understanding of the fear of the Lord is also necessary to live out the Christian faith. The reverential awe of God helps us to see Him as holy and righteous. When we view God from this perspective, we can also have a greater understanding of what He truly did for us by taking on the sin of the world upon Himself. Scripture tells us that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Prov. 9:10). Walking in wisdom means learning God’s ways and following His instructions.

While West may not believe much in the power of prayer due to his own disappointments, perhaps this is the perfect time for others to pray for his eyes to be opened to the truth.

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Have Nephilim remains been found?

According to Indy 100, human remains were discovered in the state of Nevada. These skeletons were massively larger than the average-sized human today, some measuring as much as 10 feet tall and are believed to be around 3,000 years old.

Some of the bodies of these 10-foot-tall giants were discovered in a mummified state, even with red hair.

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One of the native tribes, the Paiute, have a legend that red-haired giants known as the “Si-Te-Cah” found their way to the Americas from a distant island years ago. The belief is that they came over to the area on rafts constructed out of reeds.

Could this legend perhaps be true?

In 1911 miners uncovered many different strange objects including the mummies of these 10-foot-tall giants in a cave. These giants were deemed as the “Lovelock Giants” after the name of the cave.

This begs a question worth asking: are these the remains of the Nephilim?

The Nephilim, referred to in Genesis, are believed to be the offspring of angels and humans, and as Scripture notes, “These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown” (Gen. 6:4).

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Numbers 13:33 also mentions giants, stating, “And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come from the giants, and in our eyes we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes.”

We also know of giants from the famous story of David and Goliath. So, beings who were much larger than the average-sized human are discussed all throughout Scripture.

This news comes as a mysterious 10-foot monolith was found in Wales. As the BBC noted, Craig Muir saw the monolith and said it was, “like a very fine metallic almost like a surgical steel.”

While we cannot be sure why this other type of a 10-foot giant surfaced, what we can know is that these two odd, potentially supernatural occurrences are true mysteries in the making.

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Today’s young adults are vastly different than the generations of the past.

The concept of what is expected for many emerging adults today differs vastly from what was expected of their parents and grandparents. For those part of the older generations, it was expected that most people would get jobs, get married and start their own families, all without the aid of their parents. However, the same rules do not apply to today’s emerging generations.

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For many, the sheer cost of living expenses today has made it difficult to venture out on their own. As CNBC reported, housing expenses continue to skyrocket while young adults are carrying heavier student loans with lower wages when inflation rates are factored in.

Overall, 47% of adults are receiving some type of financial help from their parents.

However, a glaring statistic sticks out in this report.

“Yet, 61% of adult children still living at home don’t contribute to household expenses at all, found.”

So, how are they contributing? Are they part of the workforce but are choosing not to help with the household? Or, are they simply avoiding the workforce altogether?

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As CNBC points out, the average monthly parents are investing into their adult children is $1,384. This continues to be the case as “58% of parents said they have sacrificed their own financial security for the sake of their adult children…”

While all parents desire to show their children love and support, a line must be drawn. Helping out during a difficult time or during a time of rising living expenses is understandable for many. However, by fully or drastically supporting adult children, it enables them to continue to live as dependents.

Proverbs 22:6 tells us: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

The manner in which children are raised, and the values that are instilled in them at a young age, are the same values they will carry with them the rest of their lives. Training children to walk on their own two feet while graciously guiding them along is vital for shaping who they will become in the long run.

Whether work ethic, the economy, culture or some combination of all of these factors are at play in this scenario, it’s important for parents to think critically about what types of future adults they are raising.

Will they become societal reformers, ablaze with a passion to share the gospel and offer their best to the world? Or will they end up entitled, having made no positive impact on the world around them?

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Today we see items from a variety of cultures wherever we go, whether in stores, restaurants or traveling the road. However, not all items are innocent and should not be brought into your house.

In one of his latest videos, Vlad Savchuk identified the eight objects associated with demonic spirits that you need to get rid of immediately.

• Any Native American jewelry, pottery or symbols that were created with the intention of acting as a spirit guide.

While Savchuk says that these items in and of themselves are not demonic, if they serve a purpose as acting as a spirit guide, that’s when they should be let out of the house.

• New Age books, objects and symbols.

Savchuk notes these are items like tarot cards or supernatural teachings that differ from Scriptural references.

“Things like teachings on angels and dreams and miracles that are new age, that’s demonic,” Savchuk says. “New age is a counterfeit Christianity. It’s not biblical Christianity.”

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• Any objects literature or symbolism of witchcraft.

Whether it’s Ouija boards, spell books, dolls or another object associated with witchcraft, these items are some of the most blatantly demonic things you can have inside of your house. Savchuk says there is no gray area with these things; they are inherently evil objects that have no room in your home.

• Good luck charms.

This is much deeper than just associating good luck charms with a cereal brand or saying “good luck” to someone. Items like crystals and rabbit’s feet should not be in a believers’ home.

“These things have no place in the life of a Christian,” Savchuk says. “We don’t believe in that kind of superstition. We don’t wear these bits around our waist, around our wrists to attract good luck and to repel evil spirits. That stuff is superstition and belongs to the world of darkness.”

• Other religious images, statues and symbols.

Savchuk describes how this could be a plethora of materials, from statues of saints and the satanic bible to skulls and pentagrams, these objects do not belong in a spot of idolatry and worship by being in our homes.

• Demonic games.

You may wonder what kinds of games are considered “demonic” and if you have them in your home. While there are plenty of clean, family-friendly activities and games, there are certain ones you want to avoid like Dungeons and Dragons or anything portraying attacks of witchcraft in them.

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“There are good games that don’t deal with Lilith and Satan and dragons,” Savchuk says.

• Entertainment like movies and music that glorify and depict pornography, horror, violence and satanic rituals.

What we take in with our eyes and our ears is what we fill ourselves with. If Christians are not consuming entertainment that draws them closer to God but instead moves them further away from Him and glorifies the kingdom of darkness, then that is what the person will become filled with.

• Letters, gifts, items and other objects from your ex.

While this last item could be considered debatable, Savchuk says this has to do with the ties to the soul that you had with this particular person.

“…especially if you were in an abusive or terrible relationship, and you’re feeling a sense of like a soul-tie, soul bond to that person, it’s best to just remove that,” Savchuk says.

Take the time to do an inventory of the types of things you have in your house and see if there are any linger objects that glorify darkness instead of Christ’s light. Consider this as a spring cleaning that will refresh and restore your soul as you go deeper with Jesus.

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A Christian actress is feeling the heat for her faith after posting a Bible verse about the truth of homosexuality.

After going to The Employment Appeal Tribunal for religious discrimination and dealing with a legal battle for five years, Seyi Omooba lost her case and must now cover costs greater than $350,000.

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As the Christian Post reported, back in 2014 Omooba posted 1 Corinthians 6:9-11. In verses 9-10, the apostle Paul is very clear about who will not inherit the kingdom of God:

“Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.”

While this section of Scripture covers a variety of people who will not see the kingdom of heaven, it is in particular those who fall into homosexuality that Omooba’s post referenced.

“I do not believe you can be born gay, and I do not believe homosexuality is right, though the law of this land has made it legal doesn’t mean it’s right,” Oomba’s post read.

It is this Christian belief that caused Omooba to lose her role from the stage production of “The Color Purple.”  Omooba was to play Celie, which the stage production decided to heavily focus on as a lesbian.

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Omooba did not desire to play a character associated with the LGBTQ community, and did not have prior understanding that she had just been cast as a character whose lesbianism would be a major part of the role. While she knew the film version of the character, she did not quite expect this part of the role to be so heavily emphasized in the stage production. Omooba had previously turned down the chance to play in the Book of Mormon because of how it targeted people of faith.

After being cast for this role, Aaron Lee Lambert, who is best known for his affiliation with “Hamilton,” questioned Omooba’s thoughts on homosexuality.

“Do you still stand by this post? Or are you happy to remain a hypocrite? Seeing as you’ve now been announced to be playing an LGBTQ character, I think you owe your LGBTQ peers an explanation. Immediately.”

Omooba’s contract was then canceled after she refused to retract her statement about homosexuality.

Omooba says she believes God’s love is for all people, but that she still stands by the biblical understanding of sexuality.

“I just quoted what the Bible says about homosexuality, the need for repentance, but ultimately God’s love for all humanity. I stand by what I wrote, but had I known that it would have come to this, I would have set my account to the privacy mode,” Omooba says.

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