• Welcome to B.P.U.

    Welcome to B.P.U.

    The current Prophetic world view is changing rapidly every day. Bible Prophecy Update (B.P.U.) provides the latest updates in the field of Bible Prophecy as they relate to current events that are happening around the world. We search the internet, newspaper articles, intelligence reports and other prophecy web sites to bring to you a concise and informative one source web site
    Revelation 19:10… For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
    This means that all of the important subjects that are contained in the Bible are centered around Jesus and therefore any complete Bible Prophecy web site should contain not only updates on Prophetic events, but also many of the other subjects that the Bible deals with. For this reason you will find hundreds of practical studies on a variety of subjects that concern your life and your walk with Jesus Christ on this blog.

  • The Coming Peace Plan

    The Coming Peace Plan

    From Daniel’s description of this new world leader, his rise to prominence will occur very quickly. The power that he will gain to enable him to unite the Israeli and Arab leaders to sign a peace treaty for “One Week”, an Old Testament catch phrase for seven years (Genesis 29:27), will come from the worlds ability to accept just such a man as a peace maker in a very short period of time.
    What events could propel a man onto the world scene so quickly and enable him to make peace with two nations so diversely apposed to each other, in a way that no other man has ever been able to accomplish?
    When I opened my Amazon Kindle Saturnday morning, to the news that President Barack Obama had won the coveted Nobel peace prize, I read with great interest.
    The similarities between his rapid rise to fame and the world’s acceptance of him as a great “savior” and that World leader described in Daniel chapter 9 were incredible.

  • Devotional: Wednesday March 10, 2010

    Devotional: Wednesday March 10, 2010

    “And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. “So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 8:2-3)

    God allows us to suffer difficulties and hardships for a purpose. God led the children of Israel to wander through the wilderness for forty years in order to humble them and test them. When they refused to obey Him and enter the Promised Land, the Israelites revealed that they did not really know Him. If they had, they would have had more faith. God spent the next forty years testing the hearts of His people to see if they were prepared for His next assignment.

  • Bible Study: Isaiah 56-57

    Bible Study: Isaiah 56-57

    Let’s turn in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter fifty six, as we continue our journey through the word of God. Now this is not for your benefit, but for the benefit of the egg heads that might be listening to these tapes. I do understand that some scholars believe that chapter fifty six begins actually the third Isaiah, because of a change somewhat in style, and in content, as Isaiah now turns to sort of ethical type of instructions. I’m aware of this, what I consider to be fallacious kind of reasoning.
    I believe there was only one Isaiah, the author of the book by his name, and I reject the duotoral Isaiah, or the trilogy that they do suggest, moving in, in chapter fifty six. So that’s just a, a, a disclaimer as far as I’m concerned of the whole theory. It’s not worth even studying. It’s weak. It lacks really the confirmation of Jesus, and that’s the whole, the whole problem as I see it.

  • Ancient Primate Fossil Roils Scientific Community

    Ancient Primate Fossil Roils Scientific Community

    (March 5) –Touted as “the missing link” between humans and early primates, a 47-million-year-old fossil appears to be an ancestor to lemurs instead, a newly released study says. The debate, however, seems far from over, and it illuminates the often tricky relationship between science and the media.
    Last spring, when Norwegian paleontologist Jorn Hurum and his colleagues announced the unveiling of “Ida,” an unusually complete prehistoric primate fossil, it was portrayed in newspaper and television reports as a blockbuster discovery nothing short of an “eighth wonder of the world” that would offer a look at one of mankind’s earliest evolutionary ancestors.

  • Encouragement, Jesus v. Everything

    Posted on March 9th, 2010

    Written by B.P.U Contributor

    How I Found God and Peace With my Atheist Brother Peter Hitchens

    How I Found God and Peace With my Atheist Brother Peter Hitchens

    During his teenage years and early 20s, Peter Hitchens lost his faith and rebelled against everything he had been brought up to believe in. Here, in a moving and thought-provoking account from his controversial new book, he describes his spiritual journey back to God – and the end of his feud with his brother
    I set fire to my Bible on the playing fields of my Cambridge boarding school one bright, windy spring afternoon in 1967. I was 15 years old. The book did not, as I had hoped, blaze fiercely and swiftly.
    Only after much blowing and encouragement did I manage to get it to ignite at all, and I was left with a disagreeable, half-charred mess.
    Most of my small invited audience drifted away long before I had finished, disappointed by the anticlimax and the pettiness of the thing. Thunder did not mutter.

  • Deadly Quakes are Coincidence, Scientists Say

    Deadly Quakes are Coincidence, Scientists Say

    Is this increase in highly visible earthquakes just a big coincidence? I certainly don’t think so. The Bible says in the last days, certain things will take place to verify it is the last days. First, Israel had to come back after thousands of years and be reborn. That happened back on May 14, 1948 and officially signaled the start of the last days. Then Jerusalem was recaptured and has now become the stumbling block to Middle East peace the Bible said that it would be (Zechariah 12:3). Right now another piece of the prophetic puzzle is being played out as Israel, the US, the Arab League, and the Palestinian Authority sit down and attempt to bring peace to the region through indirect talks. As we know, the Bible is clear that this peace will not come until the man of sin is revealed (II Thessalonians 2:2-9). For other signs of the last days see my video “Rapture Signs”.

  • Pastors Could be Sued for Failure to Perform Same-Sex Marriages

    Pastors Could be Sued for Failure to Perform Same-Sex Marriages

    ritish lawmakers have tentatively approved a bill to allow churches to host same-sex marriages, prompting warnings that the measure would be one step from forcing clergy to perform the homosexual ceremonies.
    Even the head of the nation’s top homosexual activist group, Ben Summeriskill of Stonewell, is concerned about the implications for churches, according to the Christian Institute.
    “Right now, faiths shouldn’t be forced to hold civil partnerships, although in 10 or 20 years, that may change,” he said.
    The Christian Institute, a nondenominational Christian charity committed to upholding the truths of the Bible, reported protests already have erupted from Michael Scott-Joynt, the bishop of Winchester.

  • ‘Beast of a Storm’, Record Floods Hit Australia

    ‘Beast of a Storm’, Record Floods Hit Australia

    Melbourne was bracing for more bad weather Sunday after a “beast of a storm” ripped through Australia’s second largest city, bringing with it hailstones the size of tennis balls.
    The mini-cyclone which smashed into the regional capital with winds of up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) an hour was an event which had likely not been seen since early last century, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Kevin Parkyn said.
    “The weather system that brought the damage to Melbourne is known in meteorological terms as a supercell thunderstorm, an organised beast of a storm that once it gets going tends to last more than your average thunderstorm,” he said.
    The fierce storm, which flooded city streets, saw some 26 millimetres (one inch) of rain fall on Melbourne within an hour Saturday while other areas recorded up to 70 millimetres.

  • Devotional: Tuesday March 9, 2010

    Devotional: Tuesday March 9, 2010

    Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh. (Hebrews 10:19-20)
    Our generation lacks a sense of wonder and reverence toward God. We want to bring God down to our level, to the commonplace. He is God! Though we have direct access to Him as His children, we ought never to forget that this access was purchased with the precious blood of His only Son. No one who truly understands this ever enters God’s presence without a sense of holy awe. No one who comprehends the incredible price paid at Calvary ever takes his relationship with God for granted.

  • Bible Study: Isaiah 54-55

    Bible Study: Isaiah 54-55

    n the fifty third chapter, we have this most remarkable prophecy concerning Jesus Christ, God’s anointed servant. But we are told by prophecy, that He would be despised and rejected of men. He would be a man of sorrows, He would be acquainted with grief, He would be smitten, and He would be wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, that He would be numbered with the transgressors in His death, and that He would make intercession for the transgressors.

  • Hundreds Slaughtered in Nigeria Religious Violence

    Hundreds Slaughtered in Nigeria Religious Violence

    DOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria (AP) — The killers showed no mercy: They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes. On Monday, Nigerian women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.
    Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave. A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, “Jesus said I am the way to heaven.” As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang: “Jesus, show me the way.”
    At least 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.

  • Devotional: Monday March 8, 2010

    Devotional: Monday March 8, 2010

    And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)
    This verse is one of the most practical we will ever encounter in the Bible. Every one of us faces needs in our lives; at times, they are beyond our own means. Those are not the times to become anxious or to panic. Nor should we give up in defeat. It is at these times that God wants to draw from His unlimited storehouse to meet our need as only He can.

  • Bible Study: Isaiah 52-53

    Bible Study: Isaiah 52-53

    In the fifty first chapter, verse nine, the people in their dilemma, in their need, in their facing, an overwhelming enemy, and in their being defeated by this enemy, cried out to God to wake up. “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Awake as in ancient days. Lord again, manifest your power for your people, as we have read that you did in our history, when you delivered us from the hand of the Egyptians and all. Wake up Lord! Look what’s happening!”
    There are some times as I see this overwhelming flood and tide of evil, that seems to be just washing over this nation. I am prone sometimes to say, “Wake up God! Don’t you see what’s happening? Don’t you see the, the conditions that are existing? Lord, wake up!” But you know, it’s not the Lord who’s asleep, it’s His people, who are asleep!
    So in chapter fifty two, it begins with God calling to the people, and basically He is saying, “I’m not asleep, you wake up!”

  • Why the Earthquake in Chili Generated a Smaller Tsunami

    Why the Earthquake in Chili Generated a Smaller Tsunami

    It is fortunate that one of the biggest earthquakes in recent history has generated only relatively small tsunamis that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Chile to Japan.
    This is almost certainly because the rupture that generated the earthquake occurred quite deep in the Earth’s crust. The size of a tsunami, which means “harbour wave” in Japanese, is directly related to the volume of water that is displaced during the movement of the seabed during an earthquake. The bigger the amount of water that is moved up or down, the bigger the tsunami that is likely to be created.

  • Chile Earthquake: Shock Effect on Earth’s Axis

    Chile Earthquake: Shock Effect on Earth’s Axis

    The earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, according to scientists at Nasa. Richard Gross, a geophysicist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the 8.8 magnitude quake could have moved the Earth’s axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8cm) – enough to shorten a day by about 1.26 microseconds.
    A large quake can shift huge amounts of rock and alter the distribution of mass on the planet. When that distribution changes, it changes the rate at which the planet rotates, which determines the length of a day.
    “The length of the day should have got shorter by 1.26 microseconds,” Gross told the Bloomberg news agency. “The axis about which the Earth’s mass is balanced should have moved by 2.7 milliarcseconds.”

  • Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake in Northwest’s Future?

    Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake in Northwest’s Future?

    Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hot spot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, British Columbia, the kind of damage that has shattered Chile.
    The fault has been dormant for more than 300 years, but when it awakens – today or decades from now – the consequences could be devastating.
    Recent computer simulations of a hypothetical magnitude-9 quake found that shaking could last two to five minutes – strong enough to potentially cause poorly constructed buildings from British Columbia to Northern California to collapse and severely damage highways and bridges.
    Such a quake also would send powerful tsunami waves rushing to shore in minutes. While big cities such as Portland and Seattle would be protected from severe flooding, low-lying seaside communities may not be as lucky.

  • Devotional: Sunday March 7, 2010

    Devotional: Sunday March 7, 2010

    But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. (1 Corinthians 12:7)
    The moment you are born again you receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the gift. God doesn’t give you some thing, He gives you Himself. The Holy Spirit is God. As He lives out His life through you, you have almighty God dwelling within you, carrying out His purposes. The Spirit will manifest Himself through your life, not for your good alone, but for the benefit of those around you.

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