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Bible News Prophecy with Dr Bob Thiel

Continuing Church of God 62

Why Prepping Plans Fail and Real Biblical Preparation for the Great Tribulation with Dr. Bob Thiel

Dr. Bob Thiel joins host Steve Dupuis to argue that popular prepping plans are biblically unrealistic, and lays out the watching, praying, and gathering together that Jesus and the prophet Zephaniah command Philadelphian Christians to do before the Great Tribulation.

Are Prepping Plans Realistic?
Steve Dupuis opens the Bible News Prophecy program by asking Dr. Bob Thiel whether most prepping plans people rely on today are realistic. Thiel says no, citing an article claiming that typical prepping plans assume a healthy, young, single person able to handle physical hardship, when in reality most American households include elderly parents, young children, people on medications, and other vulnerable members that government plans do not adequately account for, especially once electricity fails. He stresses this is not a rare situation but ordinary American life, meaning most people's prepping assumptions are already flawed. Thiel distinguishes between real, biblically sound preparation and fake or false prepping, warning that the coming crisis facing the United States will be far worse than most preppers and commentators currently expect, setting up a discussion of what scripture actually says believers should do to prepare for tribulation ahead.

Tribulation Worse Than Ever Before
Asked how bad conditions will get, Thiel answers 'worse than it's ever been,' quoting Jesus in Matthew 24:21 that there will be great tribulation unlike anything since the world began, so severe that no flesh would survive were the days not shortened. He explains that many Americans, rather than dying, will become slaves, and that others fleeing to bunkers in the mountains, as described in Amos 3, will not find lasting safety either. Thiel reads from Lamentations, where Jeremiah describes enemies pursuing survivors even into the mountains and lying in wait for them in the wilderness, arguing that physical hiding places will fail because pursuers will track people down. He concludes that hiding in the mountains might protect a few people only temporarily, making that style of prepping biblically unsound, and reframes the real question as what scripture instructs people to do instead of relying on bunkers and supplies.

Watch And Pray, Jesus Says
Dupuis asks how listeners should actually prepare for what is coming, and Thiel turns to Luke 21:36, where Jesus instructs followers to watch and pray always so they may be counted worthy to escape the events to come and stand before the Son of Man. He then reads Revelation 3, verses 7 through 10, where Jesus addresses the church of Philadelphia, commending its work, setting an open door before it, and promising to keep it from the hour of trial coming upon the whole world to test its inhabitants. Thiel explains that Jesus specifically limits this promise of protection to Philadelphian Christians who have kept his command to persevere, meaning that physical safety from the coming trial depends on spiritual faithfulness rather than supplies or geography. Dupuis presses further, asking whether there is any other kind of Christian besides Philadelphian, opening the way for Thiel to describe the different types Revelation names.

Philadelphian And Laodicean Christians
Thiel answers that while there are false Christians, genuine believers fall into seven types named in Revelation, and he says Jesus indicates most end-time Christians will be Laodicean rather than Philadelphian. He reads Revelation 12:14, where the woman representing the church is given eagle's wings to flee into the wilderness and be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, three and a half years, describing this as only part of the church. Verse 17, he says, describes a second group, 'the rest of her offspring' who keep God's commandments and hold the testimony of Jesus Christ, whom the dragon makes war against after failing to reach the fleeing woman. Thiel clarifies the wilderness is not heaven, since heaven is never called a wilderness, and says those hoping for divine protection need to heed the prophet Zephaniah's instructions, which Dupuis then asks him to explain in more detail.

Zephaniah's Call To Gather
Thiel reads Zephaniah's instruction for God's people to 'gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O undesirable nation' before a coming decree is issued and before the day of the Lord's fierce anger, tying the timing to the start of the Great Tribulation. He connects this Old Testament command to Hebrews 10:23 in the God's Word Translation, which tells believers not to stop gathering together with other believers as some already are, and to 2 Thessalonians 2, where Paul urges the church not to be shaken into thinking the day of the Lord has already come while still stressing the need for the faithful to gather to Christ. Thiel reads Zephaniah 2:3's call to seek the Lord, seek righteousness, and seek humility, arguing this humility means accepting church authority under a prophet rather than remaining independent, and he notes that the old Worldwide Church of God taught in 1979 that this passage promised protection for the spiritually ready.

The Decree And Real Preparation
Dupuis asks who will issue the coming decree, and Thiel cites Amos 3:7, that the Lord does nothing without revealing it to his servants the prophets, suggesting a prophet may deliver or relay the decree, and he identifies the Continuing Church of God as the only group he believes represents the Philadelphian remnant able to do so. Thiel reads Jesus's warning in Matthew 24:15 about the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place as the decree's likely trigger, followed by instructions to flee Judea for the mountains without delay. For genuine preparation, he cites Proverbs 22:3 on the prudent man who foresees evil and hides himself, Matthew 24:43-44 on staying ready like a watchful servant, and Matthew 6 on trusting God to provide for those who seek his kingdom first. Thiel closes by insisting real prepping means gathering with the Philadelphian remnant, not stockpiling supplies or fleeing to bunkers, before Dupuis thanks him and points listeners to biblenewsprophecy.net.

Apple Pie Playground with Valerie

Title: Attitude of Gratitude

What if the power of gratitude was so much more than a "thank you," but was a practice virtually guaranteed to supercharge our best lives. Gratitude, is it really the fuel for a quantum field of potential? Let's talk.

Escaping the Why Spiral: Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude as the Great Multiplier

Valerie works through a rough week of self-doubt and what she calls a "why spiral" using teacher Peter Sapper's idea that gratitude offered in advance, not thanks after the fact, is a great multiplier that reopens the doorway to source consciousness. She then leads listeners through a live gratitude visualization and closes the hour with a Dixit card exercise imagining a painter high on a ladder in the clouds.

A Disappointing Week and the Why Spiral
Valerie opens Apple Pie Playground by admitting that the past week brought real disappointment, not from outside circumstances but from herself. She describes identifying too closely with a limited sense of who she is, an ego-identity built on baggage and old stories, and she names that misidentification as the true source of her suffering. Rather than stepping back from the discomfort, she says she stayed inside it, sinking into what she calls a why spiral: why am I not, why don't I have, why can't I, why aren't the people I love being more. She admits the spiral pulled her all the way down into blame, aimed at herself and at the people closest to her, and that sitting at the bottom of it was not pretty. She credits finding her way back out to an idea she calls too powerful not to share with listeners, setting up the episode's central theme of gratitude as medicine for the mind.

Peter Sapper and the Doorway of Gratitude
Valerie introduces the teacher whose work shapes the hour, a man named Peter Sapper, and a video of his she watched this week called The Frequency That Manifests Miracles. She explains his central claim: suffering comes from clinging to a limited physical persona instead of recognizing an expansive god-self beingness, a misidentification of true nature that convinces people they are lacking, limited, or unlucky. Escaping that trap, she says, does not come from willpower alone but from cultivating gratitude, which Sapper calls the doorway back to unlimited source consciousness. Valerie ties this directly to her own week, admitting that instead of stepping out of her self-created suffering she stayed inside the story her ego-mind was telling her. She frames gratitude not as a passing courtesy but as a discipline capable of dissolving the false identity that keeps a person feeling separate from their own expansive, unlimited nature.

Gratitude as the Great Multiplier
The discussion turns to what Sapper calls quantum appreciation, the practice of feeling grateful in advance of receiving rather than afterward, which he describes as a game changer because it treats gratitude as an expansive energy rather than a polite reflex. Valerie calls this the great multiplier and contrasts it with a simple thank-you-very-much gratitude that misses the point entirely. She recalls the line from a movie character, Stuart Smalley, that an attitude of gratitude ain't just a platitude, and uses it to ask what gratitude really is beyond thank-yous and amens. She then reaches back to Cicero, the Roman orator, who called gratitude not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others, tying it to the classical cardinal virtues of wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance. For Valerie, gratitude becomes the root from which those other qualities grow, a habit worth cultivating deliberately rather than leaving to chance.

An Internal Compass and a Matrix Hack
Valerie describes gratitude as an internal compass, a moral North Star that becomes second nature once it is integrated as a habit rather than an occasional thought. She explains what she calls the gratitude boomerang: what a person offers out into a shared energetic field returns to them, so celebrating the successes of others is said to expand one's own co-creative power rather than diminish it. She is careful to note that Sapper's teaching is not about manifesting stuff, but about connecting on a soul level to a higher self within a cosmos of co-creation. She contrasts this with judgment and blame, which she says contract energy, lower vibration, and lock people into a false material identity. Valerie calls the deepest form of this practice a matrix hack, describing gratitude as the secret ingredient for ascension, and imagines a whole family, town, or planet energized by a shared field of collective gratitude.

A Live Sixty-Second Gratitude Exercise
Valerie invites listeners into a live sixty-second gratitude exercise, an idea she attributes to a manifestation practice Sapper mentions, though she is quick to say she does not love how manifestation is usually framed as a way to get stuff. She guides the room through closing their eyes and holding an image of what they would create for themselves, then repeating phrases aloud: as a conscious co-creator, I am aligned with the field of all potential through gratitude for my creation of, filling in the blank, followed by I am grateful for and ready to receive my creation of. She leads the exercise once in the middle of the hour and returns to it again near the close, encouraging listeners to notice how sixty seconds of focused, embodied gratitude feels different from simply being thankful after the fact for what has already arrived.

A Dixit Card Visualization and Closing Thoughts
With time running short, Valerie decides to close with a Dixit card visualization instead of her usual sign-off, noting how much of her week was spent, in her words, looking into subconscious suitcases. She asks listeners to imagine a person dressed entirely in yellow, balanced on the top rung of a ladder so tall its base disappears from view and its top reaches into the clouds. In the scene, the figure paints three clouds into shapes: a white butterfly, a bird whose kind feels oddly familiar, and a third object she leaves listeners to recognize for themselves, asking what memory or emotion each image might stir. As the figure climbs back down and vanishes, Valerie invites everyone to carry the scene into the week ahead. She closes the hour thanking BBS Radio and her listeners by name, promising to return to the playground the following Sunday.

One Voice with Dr Pastor Larry Montgomery

15 Providence of God.

Providence In The Storm: The Red Sea, The Cross, And A Father's Woodshed

Dr. Pastor Larry Montgomery preaches the fifteenth message in his series on the providence of God, tracing its mixture of good and hard moments from the parting of the Red Sea to the cross and resurrection, and closing with a personal story about discipline at his father's dinner table.

Opening the Fifteenth Providence Message
Dr. Pastor Larry Montgomery opens the service by telling the congregation that this is the fifteenth message in his series on the providence of God, and he says he is enjoying every minute of it. He thanks the people for coming and for listening, calling it a blessing to know that the God of glory is still on the throne. He tells the congregation that God's people need to wake up and recognize that God is in control, using the image of a pilot rather than a copilot to describe God's complete charge over their lives. He turns to Romans chapter eight, verse twenty-eight, a passage he says he has preached on repeatedly, including an unplanned eight-week series, and tells the congregation he intends to use it to open and close the message. He asks them to let the verse speak for itself rather than filtering it through assumptions.

Providence as a Mixture of Good and Bad
Montgomery explains that the providence of God is a mixture of good and bad, not a guarantee of constant ease. He tells the congregation that if life went smoothly all the time, they would not appreciate God, and that hard times are what drive people back to prayer. He describes God's ways of getting attention, from a gentle nudge on the shoulder to a word from a friend or a preacher, insisting that God will always find a way to remind his people that he is still God. He reminds the congregation that providence means God not only creates but continues to care for everything he has made, external and internal, from the sun and stars down to each individual person. He warns that forgetting this truth invites a reminder, and that questioning God in hard circumstances amounts to blaming him, a point he repeats for emphasis before moving into examples from scripture.

Creation and the Greater Act of Redemption
Turning to the wonder of creation, Montgomery tells the congregation that of everything God has made, mankind stands as the greatest work, visible even against the vastness that instruments like the Hubble Telescope and newer telescopes still cannot fully capture. He pauses on a fresh thought that strikes him in the moment: that the greatest thing God has ever done is not creation itself but the redemption of mankind. He describes salvation as God rescuing people from what he calls the slave market of sin, calling it the greatest act of a holy God. The congregation responds with amens as he links this redemptive theme back to providence, arguing that God's ongoing care did not stop at creation but extends into the deliberate work of saving his people, setting up the biblical examples of providence in action that follow.

The Red Sea and Pharaoh's Army
Montgomery walks the congregation through Exodus chapter fourteen, describing Israel trapped at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's army closing in behind them and no way forward. He describes the pillar of cloud moving from before Israel to stand between the two camps, becoming darkness to the Egyptians and light to the children of Israel. He notes that the people's shouting on the way out of Egypt had turned to pouting once they saw the sea, with no boat and no bridge to save them. He tells the congregation that God caused the sea to open with no help from the people themselves, letting Israel cross on dry ground before closing the waters over Pharaoh's pursuing army, since chariots and armored men do not float. The people who had been complaining the day before are shouting in celebration on the far shore, and Montgomery uses the scene to argue that God's providence is often clearest only after the crossing is complete.

The Cross, the Tomb, and the Resurrection
The sermon moves to the cross, Matthew chapter twenty-seven, as Montgomery asks the congregation to picture the Hill of the Skull with him. He describes disciples who had watched Jesus heal and raise the dead now watching him beaten beyond recognition, evoking the film The Passion of the Christ as an inadequate depiction of the brutality involved. He recounts Jesus speaking from the cross to his mother and to John before dying, and describes the disciples scattering as hope seems to die with him in the tomb behind a sealed stone. He then describes the third day, when the stone is rolled away and the tomb is found empty, framing the resurrection as providence breaking through apparent hopelessness. He closes the section with the two disciples walking to Emmaus, who fail to recognize the risen Jesus walking beside them until he reveals himself, after which they hurry back to Jerusalem to declare that he is alive.

A Father's Love in the Woodshed
Montgomery shifts to a personal story about growing up with his father Warren and his mother, who he affectionately calls a tattletale, at the family dinner table. He recalls the dread of hearing his mother say "Warren, Larry" before recounting a misdeed, followed by his father sending him for switches, a whipping over the potato bin, and the trick of biting a potato to keep from screaming. He describes his father afterward pulling him into his lap and saying "I love you," calling the hug worth the whipping. He applies the memory to the congregation's own hardships, naming a preacher friend, Brother Kenny, whose son was shot dead, and a grandson who died of a heart attack at thirty-three, insisting providence still holds even when understanding does not come in this life. He closes by describing God's providence as a mixture of wrath and love, chastening and lap-sitting, and invites the congregation to stand together.

The King Is Coming with Jeff Kinley

Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, Episode 2: John's Vision of the Throne of Heaven

Jeff Kinley continues his series Revelation's Guide to Knowing God with a study of John's vision of heaven in Revelation chapter 4, walking through the occupied throne of God, the twenty-four elders, and the four living creatures who cry that God is holy.

Opening Tease and a New Series
Jeff Kinley opens the broadcast by asking listeners whether they have ever wondered what the very first thing they will see is when they arrive in heaven, promising an answer later in the program. Before turning to that question, he circles back to a project he has already been discussing on The King Is Coming, his book As It Was in the Days of Noah, first published in 2014 and now updated with new chapters. He recalls that the book reached the top of Amazon's prophecy category and led to appearances on several national programs, and he argues its warnings about a coming global storm remain relevant today. Kinley then reminds listeners that the current teaching sits inside a larger series called Revelation's Guide to Knowing God, drawn from his book God's Grand Finale: Wrath, Grace, and Glory in Earth's Final Days, which surveys thirteen attributes of God revealed in the book of Revelation.

John's Invitation Through an Open Door
Turning to Revelation chapter 4, Kinley explains that immediately after Jesus finishes evaluating the seven churches, John sees a door standing open in heaven and hears a voice like a trumpet inviting him, come up here. He notes that this same phrase appears later in Revelation chapter 11, when the two witnesses are killed in Jerusalem and a voice calls their bodies up to heaven, and he says some readers have wondered whether similar words might be spoken at the rapture, while stressing that this cannot be confirmed. Kinley describes John as being in the spirit, caught up in a supernatural vision rather than a physical journey, and prepares listeners for what John sees first once he arrives. Rather than angels, streets of gold, or reunions with loved ones, Kinley says the very first thing that captures John's attention in heaven is a throne, and he treats that detail as significant enough to build the rest of the teaching around it.

An Occupied and Sovereign Throne
Kinley walks through Revelation 4:2, where John sees a throne standing in heaven with someone seated on it, and stresses that the throne is occupied rather than empty. He argues this detail shows that God's rule is established, immovable, and unshakable, quoting Psalm 115:3 that God does whatever he pleases and is not subject to the actions of nations, presidents, or laws. From this, Kinley draws a personal application, telling listeners that if the throne scene is true, then history, humanity, and individual lives carry meaning, purpose, and destiny because God is orchestrating events rather than leaving anything to chance. He describes this as one of the greatest comforts available to believers, the assurance that God remains in charge of a world that often looks chaotic and out of control. The throne, he says, is not just occupied but sovereign, and that sovereignty undergirds everything else John is about to witness in the vision.

A Throne Beyond Human Description
Kinley moves to Revelation 4:3, where John compares the figure on the throne to jasper and sardius stones surrounded by a rainbow with emerald tones, and he treats this as John's attempt to put an indescribable sight into human language. He explains jasper as a crystal-clear stone resembling diamond and sardius as a ruby-red stone, arguing that these images point to colors and hues in heaven that human eyes have never encountered. Kinley compares the moment to standing at the edge of an ocean and trying to take in its vastness, saying language simply fails when describing something this glorious. He notes that John repeatedly uses the word like, signaling that he is reaching for comparisons rather than exact descriptions, and he points to a similar vision in Ezekiel chapter 1. For Kinley, the passage illustrates that heaven's beauty and God's glory exceed anything the human mind can fully picture or contain.

Elders Enthroned Around God
Kinley then examines Revelation 4:4, where twenty-four elders sit on their own thrones around God's throne, dressed in white garments and wearing golden crowns. He argues that these details identify the elders as the bride of Christ rather than angels, since white garments describe the bride in Revelation 19 and Scripture never depicts angels wearing crowns. Because the elders already appear in heaven at this point in the vision, Kinley concludes that the church has been taken up after the evaluation of the seven churches but before the tribulation period begins. He connects their crowns and thrones to promises in Second Timothy and Romans that believers will one day reign with Christ as joint heirs. While the exact meaning of the number twenty-four remains uncertain, Kinley suggests it may signal completeness or wholeness. The elders, he says, surround the throne in a posture of homage, reinforcing that this is a throne worthy of deep respect.

Holiness, Worship, and Resting in God's Rule
Kinley closes by describing four living creatures covered in eyes who cry holy, holy, holy before the throne, and he explains that holiness at its root means being separate and set apart rather than merely sinless. He argues that God's transcendence, not just his perfection, is what these angelic beings are proclaiming, and he connects human access to that holiness to Christ's shed blood and Second Corinthians 5:21, describing believers as receiving an imputed righteousness they could not earn. Kinley walks through the elders casting their crowns before God's throne, calling it one of Revelation's fourteen worship scenes, and says the proper response to seeing God this way is worship rather than argument. He closes the teaching by urging listeners to rest in God's sovereignty regardless of surrounding chaos, repeating that the throne in heaven remains occupied and permanent. The broadcast ends with an appeal for prayerful financial support of World Prophetic Ministries and its outreach efforts.

A St Thomas Show

Burning the Past, the Art of Release, and Living Beyond the Illusion of Time

Aero and co-host Rob Anderson trade stories of literally burning old belongings to let go of the past, work through the difference between forgiveness and release, and question whether clocks and time are illusions worth covering up, with co-host Birdie calling in midway to share her own bonfire story.

Opening the Show and a New Website
The broadcast opens with Aero greeting listeners as Saint Thomas, or Aero, and welcoming co-host Rob Anderson, who arrives moments late after forgetting to enable his microphone. Aero thanks BBS Radio for its technical support and announces that the show has a new home online at bbsradiotv.com, encouraging listeners who follow on other platforms to check out the redesigned site. She explains that regular co-host Sheila is away at an event with a mutual friend and will likely tell her own story another day, while co-host Birdie is standing by to join in if inspired. Aero and Rob trade an easy, laughing exchange about a football commercial in which grown players ignore the game to enjoy gummy bears, using it as a lighthearted way into the episode's real subject: letting go of adult seriousness and simply having fun together.

Rob's Bonfire of the Past
Rob describes a recent visit to a cousin's house where he tented out by a campfire and burned a heavy box of old belongings: photographs, journals, and workbooks dating back roughly thirteen years, to 2013. He says the clutter no longer felt worth keeping or even donating, calling it excess mental energy he wanted returned to dust rather than passed along. Before lighting the fire, he explains, he verbally commanded his spirit and body to reclaim any emotional attachment and genetic or cellular memory tied to the objects, treating the ritual as more than simple disposal. Unlike throwing items in a landfill, he says, burning them removes the energy completely rather than letting it linger somewhere unseen. He calls the experience a major timeline crash, describing how much lighter he felt afterward once the box was gone from the corner of his office, comparing the process to clearing consciousness and letting go of an old sense of identity.

Aero's Own Rituals of Letting Go
Aero picks up the thread with her own history of purging, recalling a summer spent living out of a motorhome alongside a young woman who owned almost nothing beyond what fit in her van. Inspired, Aero says she jumped off the cliff herself, keeping only what fit in her vehicle and handing the rest to her sister's three children as an inheritance, letting them decide whether to keep, sell, or donate each piece. She admits some items were harder to release, especially heirlooms she had collected from deceased relatives, and that giving them to family made the letting go easier than taking them straight to a thrift store. She then shares a tender memory of her nephew discovering a tool in his new garage that had belonged to her late father, who had carved his name into it with a nail decades earlier; finding it moved her nephew to tears and showed her that some of what she passed down still carries real meaning.

From Outer Possessions to Inner Space
The conversation turns to how physical belongings once helped both hosts define a personal sense of space and identity, whether in a shared house or a rented room, a place Aero used to call being alone with God. She says she now finds that same comfort internally, sitting quietly and observing her breathing rather than relying on objects around her. Rob connects this to his recent habit of hiking alone in the forest most mornings, saying he feels entirely at home among the trees despite going without company, and that he bought a machete less out of fear than for practical use. Aero admits she took nature somewhat for granted in earlier years and is working to spend more time outdoors again. She then steers the discussion toward a harder question: how someone actually releases old pain from a breakup, death, or lasting hurt, rather than simply being told to let go of it.

Forgiveness, Release, and Birdie Calls In
Rob answers with an exercise he attributes to a teacher named Ron, called loving it out of your life, in which a person says aloud every uncomfortable truth they are avoiding until the emotion finally breaks and genuine release becomes possible. He pairs it with an Osho line he often quotes, that repression is not transcendence, arguing that burying pain only postpones it. Aero connects this to lessons from working a twelve-step recovery program, where writing out a full inventory and later burning it helped her admit that forgiving someone did not mean excusing what they did. The two distinguish forgiveness, which they say still carries a charge of right and wrong, from simple release. Partway through, co-host Birdie joins and describes her own parallel ritual, filling grocery bags with unopened mail and shredding it, and recently letting her brother burn an entire box of unread letters in a backyard barrel without ever looking inside.

Time, New Earth, and Meeting Face to Face
The final stretch widens into Aero and Rob's shared belief in an approaching state they call ascension, with Aero describing her sense of standing on a New Earth free of old courts, medical systems, and schooling even while people around her remain caught in dualistic old-world thinking. Rob frames time itself as a construct, saying he has covered every clock in his home, including the one on his stove, to notice how constantly the habit of checking it shapes daily life. Aero adds that she reset her phone's date to 1972 and recently lost track of shifting time zones while driving cross-country in her motorhome, nearly missing breakfast with a friend. The conversation closes on the value of meeting people in person after months of phone calls, emails, and Zoom broadcasts, with Aero recalling how differently BBS Radio's Don looked from the mental image she had built of him. Birdie steps in with brief time warnings, and the hosts sign off urging listeners to love themselves and simply release what no longer serves them.