THE TITLE of this week’s show is a reference to a wonderful exchange between a clothing designer and a host on the QVC shopping channel about whether the Moon is a planet or a star. Of course, it’s neither, but it led to a discussion of a panic 60 years ago when the U.S. government frantically searched for two “natural” satellites that appeared on radar, orbiting the equator at 400 miles and 600 miles above the Earth.

We believe the UFO phenomenon is real, but it’s not what UFO true believers think it is.

Also: Elon Musk plans global satellite broadband; John Kerry brings James Taylor to France; Project Gladio; more American soldiers (and weapons) for Iraq; Russia uses Gazprom to threaten Ukraine and EU, while moving to absorb South Ossetia from Georgia; Thailand recognizes third gender in its new constitution; U.S. Supreme Court to rule on homosexual marriage; George Soros finances Ferguson protests; and ISIS continues to gain territory despite hundreds of Western air strikes.

Please join us Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM Central Time (UTC -6) for the Gilbert House Fellowship at www.GilbertHouse.org, a virtual gathering to study the scriptures in chronological order. And check out the website for our forthcoming book on transhumanism, Rise of the Cybergods.

THE GREATEST threat to your freedom is not Communism, Socialism, or Fascism. It is Technocracy. Patrick M. Wood, author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation, describes the movement and explains why Christians should be especially motivated to reject its globalist agenda.

IT SEEMS as though the concept of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture is being challenged today like never before. Dr. Doug Stauffershares the scriptural support for the Pre-Tribulation view and explains why he believes the Pre-Tribulation view is being challenged.

WE PICK up the story of Abram at Genesis chapter 15.  We talk about Yahweh’s covenant with Abram, including the land promised to his descendants; Sarai’s impatience with the promise of an heir, and the trouble that created with (and for) Hagar and Ishmael; Yahweh’s promise of Isaac and the new names He gave to Abraham and Sarah; and Abraham’s humble, reverent intercession for Sodom.

Note: The Hebrew in Gen. 15:18 indicates that the “river of Egypt” is not the Nile, but rather Wadi El-Arish, which extended southeast from the Mediterranean Sea along the traditional border between Egypt and Israel, and so excludes the Sinai peninsula.

Other interpretations limit the promise to the area roughly occupied today by Israel, the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan, and most of Syria, which was occupied for a time–and thus fulfilled–during the reign of Solomon.

HOW WILL you feel if you find yourself in heaven someday — with the Son of Sam, David Berkowitz? Or the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer? Or members of the Manson Family? Donna Howell, co-author with Tom Horn of Redeemed Unredeemable, discusses the conversion stories of some of America's most notorious killers and the amazing nature of God's forgiveness.

AMERICAN EVANGELICAL Christians tend to be very supportive of the Jewish people in general and the state of Israel in particular. Surveys show that American evangelicals are far more likely to support Israel, and twice as likely to say that Israel was given to the Jewish people by God, than American Jews.

Dr. Michael Bennett, who produced and hosted the excellent FutureQuake radio program between 2005 and 2012 (click here for archives), discovered during research for a forthcoming book project, The Holy War Chronicles: A Spiritual View of the War on Terror, that prominent Jewish religious figures have for centuries engaged in what can only be called practical magic. This sometimes takes the form of calling down curses on prominent politicians with whom they disagree -- including Americans.

Please join Derek and Sharon Gilbert Sunday mornings at 10:30 AM Central Time (UTC -6) for the Gilbert House Fellowship. Our plan is to study through the Bible in a live webcast every Sunday morning. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details.

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OUR WEEKLY study continues as we return from Job to the Book of Genesis and take up the story of Abram. We’ll discuss his journey from (and the actual location of) Ur of the Chaldees, the separation from his nephew Lot, the War of the Nine Kings, and the mysterious King of Salem, Melchizedek.

As it was the first Sunday of the month, we celebrated communion during the fellowship. If you like, be prepared with a cup of juice and some type of unleavened bread such as a cracker or bit of flour tortilla.

A BOOK about End Times prophecy for children? Consumer advocate and syndicated radio host Dr. Katherine Albrecht joins us to discuss her new book based on Revelation, I Won’t Take the Mark.

Join us for a look back at 2014 and a preview of the year ahead.  There are exciting changes coming, not least of which is a new home area code for the Bunker!