Made from 2,350 GOES-East satellite images, this 4-minute video shows Ian over a period of 10 days from its birth as TD9 near the coast of Venezuela, to the destructive Category 4 monster that it eventually became. Watch it as it passes over Cuba, roars across Florida and then eventually dissipates as it passes through the Carolinas and Virginia.
Have you visited the Bill’s Bible Basics website lately?
The BBB website is dedicated to presenting thought-provoking, Scripture-based perspectives regarding Bible prophecy and many other topics which are related to the Holy Scriptures and our Christian walk of faith. As of September 2025, in addition to 400 Scripture-filled articles and series which will feed, inspire and motivate you, you will also find over 5,000 shareable graphics in our BBB Graphics Library, as well as over 1,000 original Christian-oriented poems and songs in our poetry section, over 730 topical King James Version Bible Verse Lists, Bible-related maps, an online KJV Bible, and so much more!
The Bill’s Bible Basics website has been so named since September 9, 2014, and is an updated version of the Endtime Prophecy Net website, which first went online in May of 1997. Prior to that time, the website took the form of “The Treasure Trove BBS” — which later became known as the “Armageddon Christian BBS” — which began in 1993-1994, and which was a PC-ANSI based Bulletin Board Service, originally running on a Mac LC III computer.
The Bill’s Bible Basics ministry was founded by Christian writer and evangelist Bill Kochman. He has been actively involved in Christian outreach of one form or another since 1971.
Please consider visiting us today! You will be blessed! Thanks so much! Here is a link to get you started:
Folks, unless you happen to be one of my longtime Facebook friends — meaning that we have been friends for many years — who I have grown to trust, and unless you have a very IMPORTANT issue to discuss with me as one of my longtime friends, please have the courtesy to NOT private message me.
For the record, I did NOT join Facebook so that I can engage in private text messages. I joined it so that I can share the Christian Gospel in an open, PUBLIC forum; meaning on my timeline. If you are really interested in the Word of God, then please visit my timeline.
The way I see it, if something can’t be said out in the open, in public, on Facebook, then maybe it shouldn’t be said at all.
If your true interest is God’s Word, then please consider taking some time to visit my actual Bill’s Bible Basics website at:
Trust me when I say that you will find a lot more there than you will on any of my Facebook pages.
The truth is that aside from the fact that I keep rather busy here working on the Bill’s Bible Basics ministry, I get way too many private chat requests from people in African and Asian countries who have ulterior motives.
I am sure that many of you reading this know exactly what I am talking about. Such people will start an innocuous-sounding conversation with a “Hello” or an “Are you there?”, or some similar opening. After that, they will try to engage in a simple, casual conversation in their broken English for a while.
But then, they finally reveal why they are really texting you. It is not because they are really interested in being your friend and having Christian fellowship with you. It is that they have this mistaken idea that all Americans are just loaded with money, and they are hoping that you will help them out.
Trust me when I say that over the years, I have heard it all on Facebook. They want money to purchase school books. Their husband died, and now they are out on the street living with their kids. They have an orphanage full of starving children. They need money to build their church. Their children have no clothes to wear. They need Bibles for their congregants. And on and on it goes.
As I said, I’ve heard it all. It’s possible that some of these stories may be true; but I am inclined to believe that many of them are bogus, because I have caught some of these people in their deception.
The bottom line is this: I am not a rich American. I am old and retired, and I live on a fixed income. My gosh, I don’t even own a car. So I am really sorry, but even if your needs are real, I simply cannot help you.
Then, of course, there are those women who seem to think that I would make a fine, Christian husband. Sorry, ladies, I mean no offense to you, but I am not interested, so please desist.
There are also some well-meaning friends who constantly send me video links, news article links, links to petitions to sign, announcements regarding their new book, chain messages, etc.
Folks, as I have mentioned many times before, it is my personal policy to NOT click or tap on any photos or links which are contained in private messages. Doing so is dangerous business, and it is risky. One never knows what might be happening in the background when you do that. You may end up embarrassing yourself.
So I am sorry if it may offend some of of you, but I don’t care who you are, or how long I have known you. I will NOT click or tap on your photos or links. Neither will I forward ridiculous chain messages. So please stop.
Now if you choose to persist in sending me unwanted text messages, I will set you to “Ignore messages”; and if you really annoy me with your persistence, I may even unfriend you. I am serious.
To those of you who respect my wishes, thank you for your consideration and cooperation! I appreciate it.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer,
I write by the Spirit as I have heard,
Sheep delight in the soul food I offer,
While goats rant I am sick and absurd.
But our God is no respecter of persons,
He wisely chooses whomsoever He will,
So that He alone receives all the glory,
While His enemies are silenced and still.
Our God delights in using small things,
Yes, even a crazy old fool such as I be,
But knowing it’s His Spirit working in us,
Alas, I can conclude there is no mystery.
