
Prophecy in the Spotlight with Dan Goodwin
Prophecy in the Spotlight, October 5, 2026
Prophecy in the Spotlight with Dan Goodwin Prophecy Converging: Israel, Ezekiel 38, and the Roads Coming Together Dan Goodwin and Charles Hiltibidal describe the roads of prophecy converging on one main highway, from Israel and the Ezekiel 38 war to Daniel's kingdoms and the Laodicean church, and urge viewers to be ready for the Lord's return. Roads of Prophecy Converging on One Highway Dan Goodwin opens Prophecy in the Spotlight by announcing the theme, Prophecy Converging, and describing many roads of prophecy, including the church and Israel, as lanes of traffic merging into one main road toward a city. He says the world is at the very edge of the cliff and the trumpet is getting ready to sound. Goodwin acknowledges that some listeners were disappointed when the Feast of Trumpets passed without the Lord's return, but says he was never disappointed, because he never believed Jesus would come on that day. He points viewers to video number 275 on the show's YouTube channel, a presentation he made in the studio with a PowerPoint. Co-host Charles Hiltibidal, called Doc, supplied the highway picture. The two joke about keeping a bag packed, and trade lines about taking nothing to heaven except souls reached and works remembered at the judgment seat. Before the first break, Goodwin says the traffic is building and the lights of the city are already visible. Why Preachers Avoid Prophecy Back from the break, Goodwin and Hiltibidal joke about the work of preparing a program, and Hiltibidal says they need no notes because they have worked in this field for more than 40 years. Hiltibidal marvels that he has been in the ministry for 65 years, and Goodwin admits that during a recent live stream he got so carried away listing signs of the end that he never reached his topic. The men recall the 1988 book 88 Reasons Why '88 Is the Year of the Rapture, which Hiltibidal once answered with sermons in Dallas, and they agree that date setting is not what they do, though they admit some people take their remarks out of context. Hiltibidal then describes how many pastors seem unwilling to touch prophecy, even though their people are hungry for it. Goodwin says he thinks preachers stay away because they do not know the subject and feel embarrassed, and Hiltibidal recalls pastors admitting prophecy is not their strength. Israel, Ezekiel 38, and the Antichrist's Temple Offer Dan Goodwin names Israel as the biggest road of prophecy, because the tribulation is largely about Israel, and Hiltibidal recalls an article showing how interpreters' views of prophecy shifted from 1929 to 1944 to 1948. Goodwin credits M. R. DeHaan with seeing it early, and both men trace key moments: the Balfour agreements, which Goodwin dates to 1917, the 1948 founding of the nation, and the 1967 Six-Day War. Goodwin says he cannot prove it but has long felt the Antichrist will offer the Jews a third temple as a carrot for their allegiance, and Hiltibidal expects the Antichrist to be accepted as Messiah by Jews and as the Mahdi or 12th Imam by Muslims, the 'he' of Daniel 9:27 who confirms the covenant. Turning to Ezekiel 38, the men describe a coalition including Russia, Iran and Turkey, and Goodwin links a weapon that takes seven years to burn to the seven-year countdown, a point the transcript leaves unclear. Calendars, Creation Days, and Daniel's Beasts Hiltibidal says God does everything exactly on time and questions how near the 6,000th year is, since a day with the Lord is a thousand years and God would not be late for the Sabbath. Goodwin notes that six is the number of man and points to Genesis 6:3, where God says man's days shall be 120 years, which he divides by fifty to reach a 120th Jubilee, the number he links to the 6,000th year. Hiltibidal argues the 120 years had nothing to do with Noah, whose ark took about 98 years to build, and says that taken literally, the Millennial Reign is the seventh day, the Sabbath. Goodwin then turns to Daniel 2 and Daniel 7, which give the same four kingdoms, the statue showing man's view and the wild beasts of Daniel 7 showing God's view of every government, including America's, as beasts that must be restrained by law. Goodwin adds that the coming world empire is nearly ready, and Hiltibidal links it to the beasts of Revelation 13. Data Centers, Russia in Syria, and Iran Hiltibidal raises a proposed board of peace of figures outside national government, and Goodwin says Donald Trump would still lead it after leaving office. Goodwin calls the data centers going up across America and the world the heart of the mark-of-the-beast system, and warns they will track people. Hiltibidal says he is convinced Trump is not the Antichrist, and he describes passing a camera he calls a flock camera, part of what he calls the final control network. Goodwin points to Russia's build-up in Syria, and the two note that Russia has declared Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights belong to Syria, a move they read as preparing the world for an invasion through those mountains. Hiltibidal adds that Iran is part of the Ezekiel 38 picture and that no military campaign will change the hardline Islamist theology he says. Laodicean Church, Persecution, and a Call to Readiness Goodwin identifies the final church as the Laodicean church, and Hiltibidal says full-blown Laodiceanism is visible, insisting an old-fashioned, fire-breathing preacher will struggle to build a big church because most of Christianity is lukewarm. Goodwin says old-fashioned independent Baptists are being stigmatized, and both men link the digging up of long-dead pastors' faults to a warning Goodwin attributes to Matthew, that those who kill believers will think they do God a service. Goodwin says old-fashioned preachers are the salt that irritates, and says apostasy, the falling away from truth, is already here, noting how few still use the King James Bible. The men point to a groaning creation, with storm surges along the California coast from a storm out near Hawaii, and earthquakes unlike any before, which Hiltibidal expects to crescendo at the last vial of wrath in Revelation 16. Asked for a word of admonition, Hiltibidal says being ready means being saved, which begins with recognizing you were lost on your way to hell and receiving Christ, who paid the price on Calvary's cross.






