From Israel, with guests Joel Rosenberg and Jerusalem's Menno Kallisher, Jim Scudder reaches the vial judgments — a woman in travail, a dragon waiting to devour her child, a protected remnant — who is the woman, who is spared, and what happens when the war of Armageddon finally dawns?

Two airline pilots got so absorbed in their new iPads that they drifted out of radio contact with air traffic control and flew past Minneapolis before a flight attendant noticed — what does that have to do with the throne room of God and crowns cast at His feet?

John is called up through an open door and sees a throne, a rainbow that circles it, and a voice like a trumpet — but before the description begins, Jim Scudder asks what three W's ought to hold up every believer's day, and it isn't the World Wide Web.

Tucked into Daniel chapter 9 is a prophecy of seventy weeks that Jim Scudder says settles the question of whether the church faces the tribulation — but why does he compare Israel to a pan moved to the back burner of God's stove — still waiting for the meal?

If the rapture happened in the middle or at the end of the tribulation, Jim Scudder says you could mark the date — so what does Jesus mean when He warns that no one knows the day, and that the Lord comes like a thief in the night?

In Jerusalem, Jim Scudder hears something startling from those who want the Jewish temple rebuilt: the blueprints are drawn, the quarries are close, the funding is pledged, and they claim it could be functioning within six months — so what has to happen first, and what follows once it does?

Everyone who has set a date for the Lord's return has been proven wrong, and Jim Scudder refuses to set another — but if the day cannot be known, how much of the season can Scripture actually tell us, and why does the timing matter so much?

A roadkill cafe menu, a taco salad the dinner guests were not told about until afterward, and a word beginning with R that is mysterious to some and thrilling to others — how do all three end up in one study of Revelation 4?

Jesus dictated letters to seven real churches, and the words He chose for Philadelphia and Laodicea — one faithful with an open door, the other so lukewarm He said He would spit it out — raise an uncomfortable question worth asking today: what exactly does Jesus think of your church?

The church at Sardis in Revelation 3 had a name for being alive — a solid reputation and a busy calendar — yet Jesus told them plainly that they were dead; what was missing, and how would a church today know whether the same words applied to it?