{ "series": { "title": "The Approaching Storm", "subtitle": "A 7-Part Video Series", "tagline": "How to Prepare for the Coming Crisis", "url": "https://theapproachingstorm.com", "producer": "Voice of Prophecy", "producerUrl": "https://vop.com", "host": "Ken Norton", "perspective": "Seventh-day Adventist Christian", "language": ["English", "Spanish"], "captionsAvailable": true, "free": true, "loginRequired": false, "releaseSchedule": "Weekly on Fridays, beginning April 17, 2026", "totalEpisodes": 7, "description": "A free 7-part video series examining current events through the lens of Bible prophecy. Topics include end-time events, the Sunday Law, the Shaking of the church, the Latter Rain, and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.", "image": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/og-2.jpg", "creditsUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/credits" }, "episodes": [ { "num": 1, "slug": "last-day-events", "title": "Last Day Events", "releaseDate": "2026-04-17", "available": true, "durationSeconds": 1404, "durationFormatted": "23:24", "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/last-day-events", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep1-thumb-c.jpg", "captions": [ { "lang": "en", "label": "English", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/en_1.vtt" }, { "lang": "es", "label": "Español", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/es_1.vtt" } ], "shortDescription": "A devastating hurricane ignored — and a prophetic parallel we can't afford to miss.", "description": "In 1926, a category 4 hurricane devastated Miami Beach — despite clear warnings that went ignored. Ken Norton opens this series by drawing a striking parallel to the prophetic warnings of Scripture. What makes people so complacent in the face of an approaching storm? And are we doing the same today?", "transcriptUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/transcripts/episode-1.txt", "topics": ["last day events", "Bible prophecy", "complacency", "end times", "Hurricane of 1926"] }, { "num": 2, "slug": "preparing-for-the-storm", "title": "Preparing for the Storm", "releaseDate": "2026-04-24", "available": true, "durationSeconds": 1613, "durationFormatted": "26:53", "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/preparing-for-the-storm", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep2-thumb-c.jpg", "captions": [ { "lang": "en", "label": "English", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/en_2.vtt" }, { "lang": "es", "label": "Español", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/es_2.vtt" } ], "shortDescription": "The window to prepare is now. What does spiritual readiness actually look like?", "description": "Before the storm hits, there is a window to prepare. Drawing from Ellen White's writings and the parable of the ten virgins, Ken Norton explores what spiritual preparation looks like in practical terms — and why many who appear faithful today may find themselves unprepared when the time of trial comes.", "transcriptUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/transcripts/episode-2.txt", "topics": ["spiritual preparation", "ten virgins", "Ellen White", "readiness", "end times"] }, { "num": 3, "slug": "the-sunday-law", "title": "The Sunday Law", "releaseDate": "2026-05-01", "available": true, "durationSeconds": 1942, "durationFormatted": "32:22", "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/the-sunday-law", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep3-thumb.jpg", "captions": [ { "lang": "en", "label": "English", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/en_3.vtt" }, { "lang": "es", "label": "Español", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/es_3.vtt" } ], "shortDescription": "The wall between church and state is eroding. Bible prophecy says where it leads.", "description": "Is a national Sunday law really coming? Ken Norton examines the growing erosion of the wall between church and state — including specific policy recommendations already embedded in current U.S. government documents — and what Bible prophecy says about where this trajectory leads.", "transcriptUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/transcripts/episode-3.txt", "topics": ["Sunday Law", "church and state", "religious liberty", "Bible prophecy", "Revelation", "Sabbath"] }, { "num": 4, "slug": "the-shaking-part-one", "title": "The Shaking, Part One", "releaseDate": "2026-05-08", "available": true, "durationSeconds": 1942, "durationFormatted": "32:22", "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/the-shaking-part-one", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep4-thumb.png", "captions": [ { "lang": "en", "label": "English", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/en_4.vtt" }, { "lang": "es", "label": "Español", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/es_4.vtt" } ], "shortDescription": "It looked fine on the surface — but the walls were deadly beneath.", "description": "A tornado tears through a care facility, leaving it looking fine on the surface — but instruments reveal the walls are deadly beneath. Ken Norton uses this story to introduce the Biblical concept of the Shaking: a purifying crisis coming upon the church that will separate the genuine from the counterfeit.", "transcriptUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/transcripts/episode-4.txt", "topics": ["the Shaking", "church purification", "counterfeit Christianity", "end times", "Ellen White"] }, { "num": 5, "slug": "the-shaking-part-two", "title": "The Shaking, Part Two", "releaseDate": "2026-05-15", "available": true, "durationSeconds": 2045, "durationFormatted": "34:05", "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/the-shaking-part-two", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep5-thumb.png", "captions": [ { "lang": "en", "label": "English", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/en_5.vtt" }, { "lang": "es", "label": "Español", "src": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/es_5.vtt" } ], "shortDescription": "Knowing Jesus now is the only preparation that matters.", "description": "What causes the Shaking, and how will we know when it's happening? Ken Norton traces the Shaking back to its origins in heaven itself, examines the two missing tribes of Revelation 7, and brings the series' central message into sharp focus: knowing Jesus now is the only preparation that matters.", "transcriptUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/transcripts/episode-5.txt", "topics": ["the Shaking", "Revelation 7", "144000", "Latter Rain", "Holy Spirit", "salvation"] }, { "num": 6, "slug": "latter-rain-loud-cry", "title": "Latter Rain / Loud Cry", "releaseDate": "2026-05-22", "available": false, "durationSeconds": null, "durationFormatted": null, "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/latter-rain-loud-cry", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep6-thumb.png", "captions": [], "shortDescription": "A final outpouring of the Spirit — and every believer's role in it.", "description": "The final outpouring of the Holy Spirit will empower God's people to carry the gospel to every nation with a power unlike anything seen before. Ken unpacks Revelation 18's Loud Cry, what the Latter Rain is and how to receive it, and the role every believer is called to play in this last-days movement.", "topics": ["Latter Rain", "Loud Cry", "Holy Spirit", "Revelation 18", "evangelism", "last days"] }, { "num": 7, "slug": "earths-final-moments", "title": "Earth's Final Moments", "releaseDate": "2026-05-29", "available": false, "durationSeconds": null, "durationFormatted": null, "watchUrl": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/episodes/earths-final-moments", "thumbnail": "https://theapproachingstorm.com/assets/ep7-thumb.png", "captions": [], "shortDescription": "Not a message of fear — but the fulfillment of a promise.", "description": "From the close of probation to the Second Coming — Ken traces the final sequence of earth's history: the seven last plagues, the death decree, the time of Jacob's trouble, and ultimately the return of Jesus. Not as a message of fear, but as the fulfillment of a promise God has been keeping since the beginning.", "topics": ["Second Coming", "seven last plagues", "close of probation", "time of trouble", "Jacob's trouble", "return of Jesus"] } ] }