Looking at current world events might have you wondering where this world is headed. What’s going to happen next? Join Shawn, Jean and a special guest as they unfold the predictions of Daniel chapter 2.

<p>Looking at current world events might have you wondering where this world is headed. What’s going to happen next? Join Shawn, Jean and a special guest as they unfold the predictions of Daniel chapter 2.</p>

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Voice Of Prophecy

Shawn Boonstra

Prophecy Then and Now

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Voice of Prophecy's brand new radio program, disclosure.

The Voice of Prophecy is a program that's been on the air now continuously since 1929 and originally it was recorded in an old chicken coop of all places.

This show first went on the air on CanX Radio in Los Angeles as the Tabernacle of the air and the rest is all history.

My name is Sean Boonstra, I'll be your host for the next oh however many minutes we'll be together and today I'm broadcasting from our brand new little studio in beautiful downtown Loveland, Colorado.

After 85 years in California, the Voice of Prophecy has just picked up and moved to the lovely state of Colorado, which also happens to be the place where HMS Richards, the founder of the Voice of Prophecy, actually spent his childhood.

In fact, when I walked to work in the morning, I passed the very spot where HMS Richards was baptized as a boy.

And I know that he started his preaching ministry right here in the surrounding hills, the foothills, the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Now today in studio I'm joined by the very lovely, very talented Jean Boonstra, a woman who also happens to be my wife of many, many, many decades.

And actually that's something else that I'm enjoying about this new broadcast.

So not only do we have to share the house together, you have to put up with me at work and in the studio as well.

Whenever we're on the air, you have to say I'm right.

All right, also in studio with me today is Pastor Chris Holland, the speaker for a very special ministry, 1 that's close to my heart.

And I guess, Chris, the reason I love your ministry is because once upon a time, way back in the olden days, I actually worked at It is Written Canada.

So I'm fond of it and I'm fond of you and I'm glad you're here with us in studio.

And Sean, we enjoy finding things in the office, pictures of you and Jean when you were leading that ministry when you were 12 and 13 years old and sending those pictures out to you.

There's really, there are still pictures of me in the drawers up there.

There are, there's pictures in the drawers and I'm waiting.

We're about to do a construction project and we're going to break down some walls and so I'm anxious to see what kind of things.

You'll find my unpaid parking tickets in there.

That was a special time for us though living up there and working for it.

So yeah, it does feel like a lifetime ago almost.

How are you enjoying those Canadian winters though, Chris?

You know, I was, I was telling some of the folks here at VOP, when I arrived that you all actually have winter here.

You know, everybody thinks when you move to Canada, that the entirety of Canada is the Arctic.

In reality, where we live, just out and where our ministry is located right outside of Toronto, we get very little snow actually, you know, an average winter.

And so it was nice to come down here to Loveland and see some real snow and some real winter So as we're sitting in here there happened to be a freak snowstorm outside and in Colorado You can get a winter storm 12 months of the year It turns out you can get 2 feet of snow in July and have 80 degrees in January So hey, well, I'm glad you're here Chris.

I am excited because I know that when you're in studio we all have open Bibles out on the desk here, and the listeners are going to hear a lot of pages crinkling because we love going through the Bible.

I know That's the basis for It Is Written Canada.

What's the sign-off phrase that you use in that program?

It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

That's how the name of the program was born.

So we've got open Bibles, and I think what I wanted to talk to you about a little bit today, Chris, and I know it's a burden on your heart, are some of the things that are going on.

I think a lot of people are watching the news and watching current culture, watching world events and wondering, is it business as usual?

And so you're going to be our prognosticator today and we're going to talk about the future, maybe where the world is headed.

Tell me what you're seeing as people are watching world events unfold right now.

You know it's a fascinating thing, Sean, as you see what's happening both in the US and in Canada and around the world, but just the political environment that exists.

It seems that with any political discussion, you can only find about 50% of the people that agree with 1.

And 50, you know, it is a world that is divided.

Recently in Canada, we had elections that saw a massive change in the government and a massive turnover of people who are just unhappy with what's happening.

I've often found that 1 thing that is a clear signal that human government ultimately doesn't work well is that it doesn't matter who you put in power, eventually they're going to be thrown back out and they'll elect somebody else.

Absolutely, and the fascinating thing about all of this is, here in the US and Canada, we find that the political environment, while very aggressive and very, you know, nobody can agree with anything and all of these different things.

You go around the world and it's not as civil, shall we say, as bad television ads and different things like that.

You have tremendous amounts of wars that many of us actually don't even hear about in the headlines.

Little scuffles, as we might call them, in various locations.

And there are many people around the world that just wonder what can happen next.

You look at some of the things that are unfolding.

We're watching millions of people flee Syria, moving into Europe, and there are people telling stories about that in 1 direction or the other.

We saw an attack in Paris in fairly recent history where, horrific, a shooting that cost a lot of lives, trickled over here into the US in San Bernardino.

What are your thoughts on what's happening?

Because a lot of people are saying, man, the whole world's coming unglued.

The yarn is being unwound, and nobody's in control.

We're on the, ah, look at the movie posters.

It's so many post-apocalyptic type movies coming out.

It's like everybody's thinking there's a catastrophe on the horizon.

Yeah, you know, and it's, there's a movie that just came out recently called The Martian, I think is what it's called, and it's about the development of the society on Mars, because people are looking for an escape.

I can think of somebody I'd like to send to Mars.

You know, in fact, just as a side note, you know, you all made this introduction, and geez, to be doing these shows with you, kind of made me feel like that guy who you go with somebody on a date but you're going on somebody else's date there are 2 of them and 1 of you you're kind of the third wheel so but I don't feel like a third wheel.

But I happen to know your wife is in the other room.

So the Martian, people escaping this world.

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