March 13, 2004: Vision of Tribulation - Benjamin Baruch

Art Bell interviews Benjamin Baruch, a chartered financial analyst and certified public accountant who claims God speaks to him in an audible voice. Baruch describes his professional career managing pension plans and endowment funds, where he achieved returns in the top one percent of money managers. His life took a dramatic turn in late 1996 when, after nearly a year of daily prayer seeking guidance on when to sell his clients' stocks, he received a startling response from God that went far beyond market advice.

Baruch recounts specific instances of hearing God's voice, including a technical tax law solution involving community property rules that top attorneys called genius but which he insists came directly from divine instruction. He also shares a striking encounter at a church where he was compelled to approach a young man and reference something on his arm, not knowing the man had a hidden tattoo of the four horsemen of the Book of Revelation.

The interview shifts to Baruch's prophetic visions about America's future, including warnings of financial collapse, terrorism, and nuclear attack that he published in his 1996 book The Day of the Lord is at Hand. Art presses him on how he distinguishes God's voice from other sources and whether such experiences could have a darker origin.