Two days ago, a 5.6 magnitude earthquake shook the densely populated island of Java, where Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, is located. Houses, schools and mosques collapsed, and there were landslides. Some 268 Indonesians, and counting, were killed, and many more...
In the last few days, there has been a tremendous amount of rain across much of the entire continent of Australia, as incredible as that sounds. Meteorologists say, it was a 3500km line of thunderstorms (ref. 1), stretching from Tasmania...
Hell is a “prison” (ref. Revelation 20:7, 1 Peter 3:19) for evil spirits and certain souls. Jesus Christ holds “the keys of hell and of death” (ref. Revelation 1:18). Hell is a “bottomless pit” (ref. Revelation 11:7, 17:8), somewhere deep...
“We fight, therefore we are”, Menachem Begin once said. In 1944, Begin was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, which proclaimed a revolt against the British Mandate of Jerusalem, a movement that ultimately led to 14 May 1948,...
Delivering an address at Valdai forum in Moscow, under the theme “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said a “new world order” is being formed (ref. 1), and Russia, through its fight to free...
Rishi Sunak has become the prime minister of the United Kingdom, the third prime minister in three months (ref. 1). His predecessor, Liz Truss, resigned after some 49 days in office, the shortest tenure of a prime minister in the...
You might have noticed that many Hollywood movies in recent years contain biblical and apocalyptic allusions. No doubt these movies were inspired by daemons or genies, something the writer Elizabeth Gilbert once explained in a TED presentation (ref. 1). Some...
Have you ever wondered why Revelation 18 prophesies that certain merchants of the earth, which were made rich by Mystery Babylon, shall weep and mourn when her fiery end comes on the day of the LORD? And for that matter...
Two days ago, a section of the Kerch Strait Bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula to Russia was damaged by the explosion of a truck bomb (ref. 1). Completed in 2018 and inaugurated with great fanfare by Vladimir Putin himself, the...
Over the last few decades in popular fiction, a genre known as “the zombie apocalypse” has captivated many. Typically, civilisation has collapsed because of an overwhelming horde of mindless and bloodthirsty zombies. Sometimes the zombies are humans made insane and...