Understanding the Times

Understanding the Times episodes:

• 04.19.2024

  The Center of the Storm

  Jan Markell spends the hour with Michele Bachmann. We may be in the most prophetic hour of our lifetime. Our U.S. Administration is on team Iran and not team Israel. This has terrible consequences for America. It places both Israeland...

  
• 04.17.2024

  The Spirit of the Antichrist is Unleashed!

  Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz, and their guest Jan Markell, discuss how the Antichrist spirit has been unleashed on the world resulting in war, threats of war including in the Mideast with Israel/Iran, and more. We are trending towards...

  
• 04.12.2024

  The New Global Spirituality

  Jan Markell talks to Carl Teichrib. There are shadows of a one-world religion today in Burning Man, Paganicon, and Parliament of World Religions. Jan and Carl have attended one or all and report how desperate people are trying to be...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Are We Trending Towards a Civil War?

  Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz consider the trend toward an American civil war as we move closer to the Tribulation. The trajectory is towards complete implementation of the Great Reset. There is no turning back. To support this ministry financially,...

  
• 04.05.2024

  2030: The Master Plan for Humanity

  Jan Markell and Alex Newman report that the New World Order crowd is busy, in part, worshipping the creation rather than the creator. Their 2030 agenda is racing towards reality as they prepare for heaven on earth. The coming CBDC...

  
• 04.03.2024

  Be Prepared for What’s Coming!

  Olive Tree reps Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz review the news and then give insights on how to prepare ourselves for what is coming in these last days. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

  
• 03.29.2024

  As We Ascend, They Descend!

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Billy Crone for the hour. Those left behind after the Rapture will be fooled into believing that aliens took millions of people. UFOlogy has become the new world religion! Mother Earth is just cleansing...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Lawlessness is Coming!

  There is a concerted effort to take down America and install a new form of government along with digital currency. Lawlessness is coming as the spirit of the Antichrist stirs. Our representatives Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz sound...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Satan’s Secret Society

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Billy Crone about Freemasonry, called by some, Satan’s secret society. They are striving for a one world leader, religion and government. They have successfully infiltrated some churches. While they appear to do good things for...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Message to the Bride: Be Prepared!

  Pastor Josh Schwartz and Ken Mikle conclude their interview with Jeff Kinley talking about the book of Revelation. This is a book that has a message, in part, to the Bride. Why is Jeff Kinley urging the church to be...

  
• 03.15.2024

  The Set-Up Is in Process

  Jan Markell talks to Ken Mikle, Pastor Josh Schwartz, and David Fiorazo this hour. The set-up for the conclusion of the Church Age is in process. Artificial intelligence demands to be worshipped. Theology matters! And the consequences of removing...

  
• 03.13.2024

  We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box!

  Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz welcome Jeff Kinley for this short prophecy update. Satan will use artificial intelligence to deceive the masses and run his Antichrist kingdom of seven short years. The set-up is happening now and...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Be Prepared for Contagion 2025

  Jan Markell talks to Curtis Bowers for the hour. The globalists are rushing towards 2030 with their diabolical agenda. Bowers warns of tactics they will employ along the way that we see even today. Of particular concern is Bill...

  
• 03.06.2024

  The Set-Up for the Great Disappearance

  Ken Mikle talks to Billy Crone, Tom Hughes, and Mark Henry about prophecy-related issues and how the set-up is happening now as the world prepares for the Rapture of the Church! To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

  
• 03.01.2024

  The Approaching Global Storm

  Jan Markell spends the hour with Jeff Kinley. Noah’s Ark is a type of Christ and the Rapture as it saved the righteous. How do our days reflect the days of Noah? There are consequences to the gravity of...

  
• 02.28.2024

  Are You Prepared for What’s Coming?

  Ken Mikle and our guest for the week, Pastor Brandon Holthaus, consider the woke doctrine of demons that has entered the church and then ask if we are prepared for what’s coming in the weeks and months ahead? To support this...

  
• 02.23.2024

  Preparing for the Ultimate Deceiver

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Jack Hibbs for the hour. Our generation is saturated by deception and strong delusion, but it is prepping for the Antichrist, the ultimate deceiver. The world and the church cry for unity. What is...

  
• 02.21.2024

  He Gets Us: What’s Missing?

  Our speaker representative Ken Mikle, and staff pastor, Josh Schwartz, help you understand the problems with the He Gets Us promotional video. So much is missing from that presentation that was featured at the Super Bowl. Learn to...

  
• 02.16.2024

  Is There a Rapture Rescue Cult?

  Jan Markell welcomes Pastor Mark Henry and Mondo Gonzales. If we long for the Lord’s return, we’re accused of belonging to a Rapture rescue cult. And we’re okay with a Holy Land holocaust. We care less about the world as...

  
• 02.14.2024

  The Falling Away: Apostasy or Rapture?

  Pastor Josh Schwartz and Lee Brainard examine the II Thessalonians 2 passage that references a falling away or an end-time apostasy. Is this literal apostasy or is this the Rapture? They theologically defend the traditional view that it refers...

  
• 02.09.2024

  The Most Dangerous Time in History

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Gary Hamrick this hour. Atomic scientists say it is the closest to Midnight ever and the most dangerous time in history. Believers are not looking for doomsday but rather, departure day. On God’s prophetic...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Discerning the Times: Prophets for Today?

  Our staff pastor, Josh Schwartz, and apologist Lee Brainard, examine the need for prophets today. Is there new revelation today? What is the difference between forthtelling and foretelling? Is the Bible the last thus saith the Lord’? To support this...

  
• 02.02.2024

  The End Game: The World As One

  Jan Markell talks to Gary Kah for the hour. The world’s governments are rushing toward a one-world system that will be short lived. They may employ polycrisesmultiple global crises such as the new Disease X. This year’s global...

  
• 01.30.2024

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: No Crisis? We’ll Create One!

  Pastor Mark Henry, Ken Mikle, and Pastor Josh Schwartz talk about the current agenda to make the world unstable in order to change our world and assist the globalists. Their full-time job is to create crises around the world...

  
• 01.26.2024

  When They Control Everyone

  Jan Markell hosts Tom Hughes and Brandon Holthaus. An entire post-Rapture system is being built now. The spirit of the Antichrist is active today. In 2024, expect numerous crises to get the globalist’s agenda in place which intends to control...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: We’re In the Middle of a Coup!

  In this prophecy update, Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz are joined by Pastor Mark Henry. They discuss current events including the coup being perpetrated by the world’s globalists on the free world. They are preparing the way for Satan’s...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Instability Ahead: Hang On!

  Jan Markell features two guests: Pastor Barry Stagner and Bill Koenig. The new year is already unstable and volatile. Daniel 12 tells us that the wise will understand our times, but the wicked will not. We are to watch the...

  
• 01.17.2024

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: Digital Dictatorships Coming!

  Pastor Josh Schwartz and Ken Mikle look at many current event issues in light of the Bible and Bible prophecy. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

  
• 01.12.2024

  It’s Getting Gloriously Dark

  Jan Markell welcomes Tim Moore and Nathan Jones from Lamb Lion Ministry. The nations are in a rage as the Church Age winds down. God is sovereignly moving the chess pieces, orchestrating final day events. And the church is yawning...

  
• 01.10.2024

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: Everything Is Lining Up!

  As the Church Age winds down, all the necessary ingredients for the Antichrist kingdom are coming together! Ken Mikle and Pastor Josh Schwartz of Olive Tree Ministries look at the elements coming together here in the new year. To support...

  
• 01.05.2024

  Where Did Everyone Go?

  Jan Markell opens with Dr. James De Young and John Balch discussing life after the Rapture for those left behind. We carry two products that will be survival guides for them. Then Todd Hampson and Jan talk about the book...

  
• 01.04.2024

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: 2024 – The Year That Changes Everything

  Our rep Ken Mikle talks to Pastor Tom Hughes about the new year and what we might expect. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

  
• 12.29.2023

  Unity with Babylon

  Jan Markell talks to Mike Gendron for the hour. Why are evangelicals rushing to Rome to unite with the Vatican? Is this not the woman who rides the Beast in Revelation? Knowing the things Pope Francis believes, why is he...

  
• 12.22.2023

  O Death, Where is Your Sting?

  Jan Markell’s guest for the hour is Dr. Ron Rhodes. They consider the glories of Heaven where the former things will not be remembered. We will have transformed bodies. What will our roles be? What about infants and children? And...

  
• 12.20.2023

  Olive Tree Prophecy Update: The “Times of the Jews: They’re Almost Here!”

  Jan Markell, Pastor Josh Schwartz, and Ken Mikle, look at many current event issues in light of the Bible and Bible prophecy. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

  
• 12.15.2023

  The Stage Is Being Set

  Jan Markell plays the message by Pastor Barry Stagner given at our recent Understanding the Times event in Minneapolis. The message looks at the many reasons why the hour is so late. The discussion and Q A sessions...

  
• 12.08.2023

  Rushing Towards the Time of Jacob’s Trouble

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Brandon Holthaus for the hour. The Tribulation, or the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, is to cause the Jews to come to a point of desperation and cry out to the Messiah. The stage is being...

  
• 12.01.2023

  A Light Shining in a Dark Place

  Jan Markell reviews the 2023 top stories and then talks to author Steve Miller. The Bible calls prophecy a light shining in a dark place. Why do so many want to turn the light off? Many prominent stories remind us...

  
• 11.24.2023

  The Time Clock: Jesus, the Jews, Jerusalem

  Jan Markell hosts Pastor Mark Henry and Mondo Gonzales. The Jews and Jerusalem are ground zero for understanding our times and God’s plan for the end of the Church Age. Yet many hold to theologies that do not allow...

  
• 11.17.2023

  The Day That Changed the World

  Jan Markell talks to Michele Bachmann for the hour. Many are saying that October 7 was a day that changed our world. It appears the whole world has reverted to Germany in the 1930s. Strong delusion is the new...

  
• 11.10.2023

  The Two-Minute Warning

  Jan Markell hosts Dr. Mark Hitchcock, Olivier Melnick, and Trevor Rubenstein. Hitchcock feels the world has been given a two-minute warning as the final clock ticks down. War is expanding in the Mideast. The key to the clock is...

  
• 11.03.2023

  The Silence of the Shepherds

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Billy Crone. At such a monumental time in history, why are so many of our churches silent on the Mideast conflict which is setting the stage for a peace treaty in Israel found in Daniel?...

  
• 10.27.2023

  The Elite’s Dangerous Path

  Jan Markell and her guest, Twila Brase, discuss the likelihood of Covid round two. The same cast of characters are eager to throw us back into a panic mode with new restrictions. Will the globalists finish off the last...

  
• 10.19.2023

  Blessing or Cursing?

  Jan Markell shares a short commentary on the Israel-Hamas war. Then she talks to filmmaker Stephen Briggs. Is America setting itself up for blessings or for cursings as it concerns her relationship with Israel? We carry Briggs’ outstanding...

  
• 10.11.2023

  Damascus, Gog & Magog – What Next?

  Jan Markell talks to Amir Tsarfati for the hour about the biblical and prophetic significance of the current Mideast conflict. Why are some churches silent about this? Could it be their theology? A much wider conflict is on the horizon....

  
• 10.06.2023

  Build Back Better: Turning Humans Into Gods

  Jan Markell talks to Dr. J.B. Hixson for the hour. The technology we love has been turned into a weapon in the globalist effort to be as God. What is the role of the False Prophet in this effort? Merging...

  
• 09.29.2023

  Can You Hear the Hoofbeats?

  Jan Markell talks to Pastor Barry Stagner for the hour. The hoof beats of the Four Horsemen are in the distance and are revealed in the intensity of the signs. Does King Charles play an apocalyptic role? Why would God...

  
• 09.22.2023

  When the Oldest Hatred is the New Normal

  Jan Markell welcomes Trevor Rubenstein and Olivier Melnick for the hour. God’s plan of the ages involves Jesus, the Jews and Jerusalem, yet many hate all three. Christ did not return on Rosh HaShanah this year to the disappointment...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Who’s Behind the Shadow Government?

  Jan Markell spends the hour with Alex Newman. Questionable figures really are creating a deep state and a shadow government. Can this fit into an end-time biblical scenario? We think so. They have a plan with a target date of...

  
• 09.08.2023

  A Preview of Things to Come

  Jan Markell talks to Tim Moore and Nathan Jones about the convergence of signs of the times. Maui was a preview of things to come in the Tribulation. The Rapture is the ultimate apocalyptic event. Why is a prominent...