Author: Shalem John

Then I looked up again and saw four chariots coming from between what looked like two mountains made of brass. 2 The first chariot was pulled by red horses, the second by black ones, 3 The third by white horses and the fourth by dappled-greys. 4 “And what are these, sir?” I asked the angel. 5 He replied, “These are the four heavenly spirits who stand before the Lord of all the earth; they are going out to do His work. 6 The chariot pulled by the black horses will go north, and the one pulled by white horses will…

My quest for the ark of the covenant was abruptly disrupted at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. Three hours into our flight to Israel and several hundred miles south of Greenland, the pilot announced that we were turning back to the US because Israel had closed its air space. Israel’s attack on Iran had begun. Unlike Indiana Jones, I was not searching for the ark as it might exist today. The ark disappeared from the pages of the Bible during the latter days of the kingdom of Judah.  Instead of the ark’s departure from the Jerusalem temple, its arrival…

Ukrainian American pastor Alex Zaytsev has witnessed Russia’s war machine wreak havoc and tear families apart. When the full-scale invasion began in 2022, he initially remained in his apartment in the eastern city of Avdiivka and opened his church building as a bomb shelter for locals. Yet a month later, Russian attacks on his town intensified and Zaytsev fled 25 miles northwest to Pokrovsk, where he helped with evacuations and aid deliveries. Zaytsev was born in eastern Ukraine and grew up in Washington state before returning to Ukraine in 2016 to serve as a pastor and missionary with Church Without…