Three leaders of an unregistered Christian house church in Xi’an, China have been arrested again on fraud charges by Chinese communist authorities, raising renewed alarm about religious freedom in the country.

Pastor Lian Xuliang, Pastor Lian Changnian and church member Fu Juan were taken into custody last Sunday “by the First Branch of the Xi’an Municipal Public Security Bureau,” according to ChinaAid. The group says the three are currently held at the Weiyang District Detention Center.

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This development is a repeat of their previous arrests, as reported by The Christian Post. The same three were detained on similar charges on Aug. 17, 2022, and held for nearly three years before being released on bail in April 2025.

Their church, known as the Church of Abundance or Fengsheng Church, said the case was already tried this summer. “What is shocking is that while awaiting the verdict, the authorities took the three individuals away again and detained them,” the church said in a statement.

ChinaAid reports that authorities have used standard tithes and offerings from house church members as the basis for fraud accusations. One witness identified by prosecutors as a victim has publicly said she was forced to testify and is now seeking to clear their names.

The 2022 closure of the church was tied to a broader national strategy to force Protestant congregations to join the state-run Three-Self Patriotic Movement. At the time, the church was labeled an “illegal social organization” and accused of “endangering national security.”

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Relatives have reported violence throughout the case. The wife of Pastor Lian said her husband showed visible injuries after being beaten. “His eyes were bloodshot and there was dried blood in the corner of his eyes,” she said. “His arms and hands were bruised and swollen.”

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the move, saying the actions show how the Chinese Communist Party “exercises hostility towards Christians who reject Party interference in their faith and choose to worship at unregistered house churches.”

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

In a recent episode of the John Bevere Podcast, John and his son Arden walked through Jesus’ message to the church of Laodicea in Revelation 3. Their focus was not speculation or charts. It was the danger of becoming lukewarm. They highlighted how this warning applies to the modern Western church. It is possible to think we are spiritually healthy while living in self-deception. Revelation cuts through that delusion with clarity.

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By any honest read, the risen Jesus speaks most directly to the church in Revelation 2–3. That alone should end the debate about its relevance. These letters read like performance reviews from the King: clear praise when deserved, clear correction when needed and clear promises for those who overcome. If we ignore them, we risk drifting into the same spiritual fog that blinded Laodicea—comfortable, confident and deceived.

The problem is not ignorance of Scripture but indifference to it. Many can nod along on Sunday and blend into the world by Friday. That is lukewarm faith—religion that camouflages with whatever crowd it is in. Scripture calls that self-deception: hearing the word and not doing it. Jesus refuses to flatter what endangers us. His warnings are acts of love meant to restore vision, conviction and zeal.

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How do we step out of lukewarmness? Revelation’s counsel to Laodicea gives a simple, searching path—three “purchases” that cost us nothing in money but everything in will and attention:

1. Buy gold refined by fire — embrace tested faith.
   Trials expose whether our trust in God is alloyed with convenience. Enduring and obeying in hardship purifies faith. The result is spiritual wealth that cannot be counterfeited by comfort or culture.
2. Buy white garments — practice righteous works.
   Love for God shows up in choices, not slogans. Acts of obedience—integrity, repentance, purity, generosity—become our “garments.” We are not earning salvation. We are clothing a saved life with evidence that matches our confession.
3. Buy eye salve — recover spiritual sight.
   Selective hearing breeds blindness. Obedience restores clarity. As we turn from sin and distractions, the Spirit sharpens discernment so we can see our true condition and respond before apathy hardens into unbelief.

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This is daily discipleship, not a one-time surge of emotion. Open the door where Jesus is knocking—through Scripture, prayer and honest repentance—and fellowship replaces fatigue. Examine yourself by the Word, not by social approval. Receive correction as care, not condemnation. Remember the promise attached to the warning: those who overcome share fellowship with Christ now and reign with Him then.

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Revelation is not a code to crack. It is a call to wake. Read it. Obey it. Let its sharp edges heal what dull living has numbed.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

We live in a culture where people are confused, angry, divided and searching for identity. Yet Scripture is clear. There is truth and it is not subjective, fluid, or based on trends.

Pastor Jack Hibbs recently delivered a message reminding believers that God’s truth is the only truth worth building a life upon. He said, “God’s word and the message is to shape our lives and how to be a more committed believer.” This is not about religion. This is about grounding your life in the truth of the living God.

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Hibbs pointed the audience immediately to Scripture. “The Bible tells us that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess to God and that is that Jesus Christ is Lord.” He explained that God went so far as to foretell salvation itself. Hibbs said, “One of the great things about God prophesying the future is when he prophesies what is known as the doctrine of soteriology. It is God, the God of the Bible, who prophesied salvation.” In other words, salvation was not invented by theologians. It was not drafted in a committee. It came from the heart of God.

Hibbs pressed deeper into the personal nature of this redemption. Responding to the familiar feeling of abandonment or rejection, he said, “Maybe nobody does love you. Who cares? God does.” He pointed to Genesis 3:15 and the prophecy that the coming Redeemer would crush the head of Satan. He said, “Hey, Satan, you’re going to get a head crushing by the one who’s going to come from the woman Eve.” That Redeemer is Jesus Christ.

He also emphasized Israel’s reality in God’s plan. Hibbs said, “If you say today that there is no viable existence for the nation of Israel, you are denying the Bible.” He reminded his listeners that Jesus must return to a literal Jerusalem. “He returns, his foot will touch the Mount of Olives.”

Hibbs celebrated how personal God is. “He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.” He told stories of Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah and Daniel to illustrate a God who knows His children, speaks to them, leads them, and meets them where they are. “This is the God of the Bible and he loves you.”

This personal God calls believers to bold witness. Hibbs challenged listeners not to be ashamed to speak the name of Jesus in public. “We should mention the name Jesus, and the world should turn red in their face.” And the confidence for that boldness comes from one place: faith. Hibbs quoted Romans 1:16, saying, “For I’m not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.”

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In the end, Hibbs stressed maturity in the faith. He reminded the audience that a grounded believer can withstand criticism, attacks and confusion. Salvation is offered on God’s terms, and it is entirely based on trusting His promise. “Because the gift of salvation is provided by God, paid for by God, invented by God, he’s the redeemer. Who are we to boast?”

This message stands as a direct call to believers today. God wants to be known. He invites His people deeper. Hibbs said God wants you to “really lay hold of him.”

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This is the invitation of Scripture. This is the hope of the gospel. As Hibbs reminded his church, you can live with joy, courage, and stability because the God who calls you is personal, faithful, and true. God wants to be known by His people. And He wants His people grounded in His truth, unashamed of His Son, and confident in His future.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson told Megyn Kelly during her “Megyn Kelly Live” show that he believes he was physically assaulted by a supernatural entity.

Carlson explained that he usually went to sleep at home with his wife and their dogs in bed. He said he woke up suddenly at 2:30 a.m. with no ability to breathe. “I wake up at 2:30 in the morning and I couldn’t breathe at all,” he said. “It wasn’t like I was apnea or strong as I could not breathe.”

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Carlson said he got out of bed and walked outside trying to regain oxygen. That is when he said physical pain struck him. “All of a sudden I have this horrible pain underneath my arms like on the side of my chest, like bad, I thought I’d been ripped with a knife or something. Very intense,” he said.

Tucker Carlson says he was violently attacked by a demon:

“I couldn’t breathe. So I get up, I stand in the doorway of our bedroom, and I’m like, wow, I’m dying… I had this horrible pain underneath my arms, like on the side of my chest…I flip on the light, and I have claw marks… pic.twitter.com/jk84QZE283

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 9, 2025

When he turned the bedroom light on he said he saw literal claw marks carved into his ribs. Carlson described them as bleeding scratches. “I flip on the light, I have claw marks on right and left side of my ribs and they are bleeding. There literally claw marks, four, on either side” he said. He said he tried to check the marks himself. “I put fingers in them, [they] don’t fit” he said.

After that Carlson said something in his spirit shifted. “Then I have this crazy intense desire to read the Bible, so I read the Bible and I pass out in 2 minutes,” he said.

He claims the wounds were still there the next morning. “I woke next morning, man, did I have a wild dream. Then I saw blood on the sheets. I go to the bathroom, and I have these bloody marks,” he said. His wife told him she thought it was supernatural. “My wife goes ‘I think you were attacked by some supernatural being’” Carlson told Kelly.

Carlson said he tried to be rational about the encounter but had no other natural explanation. “I was like trying to be logical about it,” he said. He also said that when he mentioned it to a producer, he was shocked when the producer did not seem surprised.

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Carlson’s story highlights a reality many Christians talk about but rarely hear high-profile people publicly acknowledge. Spiritual warfare is real.

The New Testament warns that unseen spiritual forces are at work and not every battle is physical. Carlson’s testimony describes not just a nightmare or a feeling but a physical manifestation of something he believes was demonic.

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Whether people believe him or not, his account raises the same core question that Scripture raises. If there is evil, if there are dark forces, and if they are active, then what is actually happening in the unseen realm around us?

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There are times in science when a story refuses to calm down and sit in a neat little box. 3I/ATLAS has become that story.

The Economic Times (ET) recently published another piece on this bizarre interstellar object. The headline alone tells you how strange this is getting. An object from beyond our solar system is now being linked, by some people online, to the Great Pyramids of Giza.

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The scientists are not saying that. But yes. People online are saying it.

And the very fact that this is even a conversation tells you how strange the data on this thing has become.

The new shock: 7 enormous jets

The new ET report highlights that one of the latest images of 3I/ATLAS shows seven distinct jets coming off the body of the object.

And this is not a tiny comet puffing a little vapor. Not even close.

“At a distance of 326 million kilometers from Earth, these jets span nearly 2.85 million kilometers.”

2.8 million kilometers of jets coming off something moving through our solar system.

Scientists admit this is not normal. Most objects like this do not behave like this.

The mass calculation is staggering

ET also noted: “If the object is natural, its mass may exceed 50 billion tons, suggesting a diameter of at least 10 kilometers.”

This would make it vastly bigger than the previous interstellar visitors we have had.

The Avi Loeb factor

Then, there is the wild card. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb.

He has been openly questioning whether this object could be technological. Not space rock. Not a comet. Something else.

ET quotes him as saying the jet’s behavior is like “artificial thrusters.” That alone keeps this grounded in legitimate scientific curiosity, not internet fantasy.

So where do the pyramids come in?

Not from scientists. ET makes that clear. This is coming from the public conversation.

Social media users noticed that the seven visible jets appear to have an angular arrangement that visually resembles the geometric layout of the Pyramids of Giza.

Some posts have even claimed 3I/ATLAS will be aligned across the exact angle of the Great Pyramid on Christmas Eve 2025.

🚨 3I/ATLAS BREAKING: IT FIRED SEVEN jets—each angled EXACTLY like the Giza Pyramids 😱

Ancient Egyptians built pyramids to track the stars… and now a comet is mirroring them in real time?!

Christmas Eve 2025: 3IATLAS will CROSS the Great Pyramid’s sky angle.

Coincidence? Or… pic.twitter.com/gqmV7eP8O6

— 3I/ATLAS WHISTLE BLOWER (@3IATLASEXPOSED) November 9, 2025

Again. No peer-reviewed paper. No scientific claim. Just a coincidence people are pointing at.

But the fact that this is even part of the public conversation is telling.

Because this story keeps mutating, every time a new observation comes in, 3I/ATLAS looks less like a normal rock from space, not more like one.

A saga that keeps escalating

This object:

• comes from interstellar space
• behaves strangely
• ejects massive jets on a never-before-seen scale
• shows non-standard mass loss behavior
• now is inspiring speculation about ancient alignments

At what point do we admit this is officially one of the strangest objects humanity has ever observed?

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Scientists are trying to stay cautious and grounded. But the public is not.

People feel instinctively that this thing does not fit into current categories. And honestly, who can blame them?

The real question now

When a mainstream financial paper is forced to include the phrase:

“While social media continues to link the jets to ancient structures like the Pyramids of Giza, astronomers are focusing on measurable data.”

It shows how far this has already escaped normal, controlled scientific territory.

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So here is the real question we should be asking: Is 3I/ATLAS just a weird rock, or are we watching the first object in history that openly defies the categories we have for the universe?

Because one thing is sure now, this story is not slowing down. It is accelerating.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

Influence is not random. People who carry it paid a price for it. They built it. They stewarded it. God promoted them over time because their private life matched their public platform.

Pastor Kap Chatfield said he sees this pattern clearly in Scripture. He said, “I want to not just be successful. I want to be influential. I want to be somebody that people want to follow.” His model comes from Daniel chapter 1. Daniel did not blend into Babylon. He became a voice inside of Babylon.

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Here are the five keys Chatfield draws out of that chapter:

1. Be fit
   Physical discipline matters. “Your appearance can either work for you or against you,” he said. Daniel 1 shows the young men selected had to be strong, healthy and presentable. How you carry yourself communicates something before you speak a word.
2. Be sharp
   Stay a student. “If you want to be somebody of continual influence in the culture, you’ve got to keep on learning.” Daniel and his friends were not narrow. They were “well versed in every branch of learning.” They were intellectually developed.
3. Be engaged
   You can learn the culture you are called to reach. “If you want to be a person of influence, you need to be engaged in the culture.” Daniel and his friends were trained in the “language and literature of Babylon.” They understood the ideas and conversations of their environment.
4. Be competent
   Excellence creates credibility. “If you want to be somebody that people take seriously, you’ve got to be competent.” Daniel and his friends were “10 times more capable.” They were not just nice men. They were exceptional at what they did.
5. Be holy
   This is the part that separates real influence from temporary hype. “If you want to be someone of influence, you’ve got to be somebody of character.” Daniel refused the king’s food because it violated his conscience. His holiness became the foundation of his impact.

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These five keys are not trends. They are biblical patterns. When God raises a person to shape culture, He prepares them. He strengthens their body, sharpens their mind, enlarges their understanding, trains their hands for excellence and purifies their character.

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Daniel did not gain influence by accident. He made choices. He honored God in private. And God positioned him in public.

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The same God who raised Daniel in Babylon is still doing this today.

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Back in May 2017, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signaled where this was going.

John F. Kelly wrote that the agency wanted to expand biometrics beyond fingerprints at the border. The memo literally stated DHS needed to “expand the age of the population subject to biometric collection” and directed the agency to “enhance biometric collection practices” and “identify opportunities to enhance biometric collection policies.”

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At the time, it sounded like a theory. The language was couched in “could,” “should” and “opportunities.”

Now look where we are in 2025.

Homeland Security is no longer suggesting a new biometric authority.

They are proposing a mandatory biometric identity system to track people “throughout the immigration lifecycle.”

This new expansion according to the latest report would allow DHS to require biometrics:

• from U.S. citizens
• from children under 14
• from anyone connected to an immigrant application
• from anyone encountered or arrested in immigration context

And it would allow the agency to collect:

• face scans
• voice prints
• iris and eye scans
• palm and fingerprints
• signatures
• DNA

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They are even proposing continuous vetting which means repeated biometric screening until naturalization.

That is not border control. That is lifecycle control.

And the article notes the agency plans to reuse and share this biometric data across federal, state and local law enforcement and the intelligence community.

We went from “collect prints at the border” to full-spectrum multimodal biometrics on citizens and children inside the country in eight years.

The original memo was the foot-in-the-door. This new rule is the door being removed from its hinges.

How is this a step toward a global digital ID system?

Big government never rolls this back. Once a biometric system exists for one group, it becomes the default expectation for every group. Once identity is required to interact with systems, biometrics become the system.

This is how it escalates:

• The body becomes the credential
• Identification becomes the barrier to access
• Access gets tied to compliance
• Disobedience becomes grounds for exclusion

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That is a social credit architecture.

And the Bible describes a final world order where participation in the economy is conditional on identity verification. Revelation 13 does not describe the method. It describes the outcome. No buying or selling without the system.

A global digital ID platform is the only realistic modern method that can make that possible.

This new Homeland Security rule is one more brick in that wall.

It normalizes the idea that data must be harvested at every stage of human movement and status. Not just at the border. Not just at airports. Not just for criminals. But continuously.

Continuous vetting is the quiet phrase that changes everything.

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Because that implies a world in which identity must be maintained, updated, verified and validated—not once but constantly—to remain eligible to participate in society.

That is how a national security tool becomes the mechanism of a Beast System. Not in theory. In infrastructure.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

A nearly 50-year-old prophecy from the late Bible teacher Charles Capps is gaining renewed attention.

On Feb. 1, 1978, Capps delivered what he called a word from the Lord that a “financial inversion” was coming. In that prophecy, Capps said the world’s economy would rise and fall. Still, believers who obeyed Scripture, walked by faith and sowed financially would see an unusual transfer of resources into the work of the Gospel. He spoke of vast “reservoirs of wealth” stored up by the wicked and said the time would come when those reservoirs would be “drained into the Gospel of Jesus Christ” so that “there shall be no lack in the kingdom.”

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At the time, the prophecy was treated as interesting but distant. Capps died in 2014, and the word was archived among many of his teachings on faith, confession and biblical prosperity. Today, the 1978 word is being pulled forward again as many believers ask where this season is heading.

Bishop Alan DiDio says the timing Capps foresaw is not generic or timeless but tied to real economic cycles. In a recent teaching, he said he believes a new reshaping is forming as we approach 2026. He points to AI disruption, looming layoffs and what he believes could become the popping of an AI investment bubble. DiDio says this convergence may serve as the delivery system for the “financial inversion” Capps described.

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That doesn’t mean believers chase hype or headlines. Scripture calls us to “test all things” and measure every word against the Bible. The correct response is not fear, cynicism or impulse. The proper response is to prepare spiritually, stay in Scripture, honor God with our giving and stay sensitive to the Holy Spirit in this season.

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Many have prayed for provision, open doors and multiplied resources. For those people, this prophecy is encouraging. If the Lord has indeed spoken, the days ahead are not only about volatility. They can also be about faithful stewardship, wise positioning and seeing God’s covenant provision show up in ways this generation has long believed and prayed for.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

For decades, one of the preeminent signs that watchers have been waiting to see is a renewed passion among the Jewish people with the Temple Mount. Not the casual political kind. Not the academic kind. A real passion. A return of the Temple to the national imagination. When that returns, the story changes. When that returns, the prophetic clock accelerates.

Now look at what just happened this week.

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The Temple Institute in Jerusalem recently publicly posted the following: “These heavy IDF tractors operating in Gaza are all proudly and wisely raising the flag of the Holy Temple – Beit HaMikdash! During the war our IDF soldiers discovered a picture of the Dome of the Rock in every home they entered. Now the Gazans can see the flag of the Holy Temple, ‘a house of prayer for ALL nations’ (Isa. 56:7) flying high in the Gazan skies!”

This is more than a morale-boosting photo op. This is Temple Mount messaging aimed right at the spiritual stronghold Israel has been confronting for decades.

The Dome of the Rock is not just architecture. It is a spiritual stake planted over the most contested ground on earth. And the Temple Institute is now openly celebrating the image of Temple flags flying over Gaza in direct contrast to pictures of the Dome of the Rock being found inside homes there. That is a spiritual confrontation being made visible on the world stage.

Something is changing inside Israel. For years, the Temple topic was fringe, politically dangerous or socially taboo. But here it is, posted publicly and proudly, tied directly to the war. Here it is being lifted not by politicians or rabbis or activists alone, but by Israel’s soldiers operating tanks and tractors in an active combat zone.

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When soldiers start flying Temple flags, you cannot ignore that. That is a signal.

The Temple must exist again. The sacrifices must return. The Scriptures say this will all be literal. And for that to ever happen, Israel must want it. Israel must imagine it. Israel must remember what it is.

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This is why this moment matters.

This is not the rebuilding. But this is the remembering. And remembering is where the future becomes inevitable.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.

Erick Stakelbeck did not hold back on his recent Watchman Newscast LIVE. There was an edge in his voice that comes from someone who has covered the Middle East, terrorism, Israel and global geopolitics for 20 years and sees pieces moving that should not be ignored. In his view, the prophetic storm that Bible readers have anticipated is not in the distant future. It is here. It is active. It is accelerating.

New York Just Handed Power to the Very Ideology Stakelbeck Has Been Warning About

Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral election last night. That is not just a political result if Stakelbeck is right.

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He described Mamdani in advance as “an Islamic communist” who is “viciously anti-Israel.” This is not subtle. New York, the financial capital of the world, is now governed by someone who openly rejects the foundation of Judeo-Christian Western civilization.

Stakelbeck pointed to the London model under Sadiq Khan. He called London today “a city that’s barely recognizable” and said “Winston Churchill is turning in his grave.”

America now has that model installed in its most influential city.

While This Happens the Right Is Busy Attacking Israel

Instead of focusing on this ideological takeover, Stakelbeck said a faction on the right is choosing to fight Israel.

He said Tucker Carlson platforms “Hitler sympathizers, Stalin sympathizers, historical revisionists, Holocaust revisionists, Israel bashers, and he doesn’t challenge them.”

He called their worldview a “brain virus.”

According to Stakelbeck, this is not just misguided commentary. It is helping the same spiritual forces tearing down the West from the outside.

Why Israel Is the Center of It All

Stakelbeck argues the reason the world obsesses over Israel is because Israel’s existence is proof that the God of the Bible keeps His word.

“Israel’s improbable existence, I mean against all odds, is proof of God’s existence,” he said. “Read Romans 11. Is God done with Israel? He asks. And he answers ‘Certainly not.’”

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He noted Jews make up only “0.02% of the world’s population” yet the hate aimed at them is constant and irrational.

To him that proves what Scripture has always said. This is a spiritual conflict wearing political clothing.

The Moment We Are In

You do not have to agree with Stakelbeck on every point to notice the pattern. New York just elected a man openly hostile to Israel. Antisemitism is back in the open daylight. The enemies of the West are not pretending.

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If Stakelbeck is right, the events unfolding are not random chaos. They are the alignment of Bible prophecy described.

Last night, New York did not just elect a mayor. It advanced a prophetic timeline.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.