Chronicles of the End Times
Occasionally, people say, are we really in the last days? How do we know? Does it matter one way or another? We will try to answer these questions and many others in this study. But the most important question may be, how can we reach others with hope in these changing times? One part of prophecy is often emphasized over another, causing us to lose perspective and miss the blessing and beauty of prophecy in scripture. I have taken the information in this study from many authors and teachers who have their lives studying God's word. I have added some insight that the Holy Spirit taught me. With God's help, I have endeavored to keep the whole counsel of the word of God in full view to give us an accurate picture of Christ and His great love for a lost world. I pray that this will challenge you and cause you to grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, as it has me preparing it. Let's begin!
Chronicles of the End Times
From Galileo To AI: Why Truth Outlasts Trends
What if the biggest shifts in culture are less about truth and more about timing, power, and convenience? We trace a straight line from Isaiah’s vision of the “circle of the earth” to Galileo’s house arrest and into today’s clash between climate dogma and AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity. Along the way, we ask a sharper question: when reality pushes back—through physics, economics, or simple consistency—who has the courage to adjust, and who clings to a narrative that no longer adds up?
We share why trust fractures when public advocates of climate policy live as if coastlines are safe and private jets are fine, while families struggle with soaring energy bills. Then AI enters the scene and rewrites the script. Leaders now concede that wind and solar alone cannot sustain the compute revolution; the math points to gigawatt-scale solutions like nuclear and reliable baseload generation. It’s a revealing moment where slogans meet the grid and rhetoric meets the meter.
Through it all, we ground the conversation in a promise from Genesis 8: as long as the earth remains, the rhythms of seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, day and night endure. That isn’t an excuse for neglect; it’s a framework for sane stewardship. We honor science as a tool to discover what God has already woven into creation, and we challenge hypocrisy that burdens the poor while excusing elites. Finally, we offer a word of courage: forget the weight of yesterday and press toward your high calling in Christ, whose truth does not bend to trends.
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Speaker 1
00:20
Welcome everyone. This is Russ Scalzo Chronicles of the End Times. I hope you're doing well today and growing in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today, we're going to talk about some delusions. Delusions that have been going on in mankind for a long, long time. And some new ones that we've been dealing with over the last twenty or thirty years. You know, if we read our Bible and believe it, we would solve a lot of problems, and not only that, but we wouldn't fall for these crazy delusions. How about the fact that the Earth is round?
Now the Bible says that the earth is round. Most notable is Isaiah 40:22, which mentions God sitting above the circle of the world. While the Hebrew word used can mean ‘circle,’ it can also be translated as ‘sphere’ or ‘orb.’ Some later translations explicitly use words like globe or round ball to reflect the interpretation. The scripture in Isaiah forty-two reads, It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. Now, Isaiah lived in the eighth century. He was probably prophesying around seven hundred fifty, seven hundred forty BC. So, he knew the world was round, and God's people knew the world was round because that's what the Lord said.
Now, I don't know if you know this, but there are people today who believe that the world is flat. And they have organizations and websites, and they'll just argue till the cows come home that the earth is really flat and we're all wrong and crazy. So, I guess you can believe whatever you want. That's your God given privilege. As Galileo found out years later, Galileo believed that the world circles the sun. Not only is it round, God forbid, but it is actually not the center of the universe and revolves around the sun. This was contrary to the widely accepted geocentric model of the time, which placed the Earth at the center of the universe. So the church banned Galileo, forced him to recant everything that he found out, and they sentenced him to house arrest, which he endured for the final eight years of his life.
Now I'm making a point here. This is the church that did this. Though obviously they didn't read their Bible either. A lot of that is going on today. There's a lot of debate about this. They're saying, well, you know, the Pope wasn't necessarily against the fact that this could be, but there was no proof of it, and Galileo and he had some words that were too nice, and so that's why he ended up where he was. But the bottom line is, there was a lot of argument and debate, and there shouldn't have been. There should have been, “This is the church we're talking about. They should have just stated this is what the word of God says. We believe this, we'll wait for science to catch up. And in 1992, Pope John Paul II formally acknowledged that the church had erred in condemning Galileo. Oh baby. Nothing like doing it three hundred and sixty years later. There are a lot of delusions like that that people believe, and even Christians, because we're not reading God's word. So that brings me to the next point, a more modern version of what's going on. Now we have the climate change doctrine, or religion, as I like to call it, that we bought hook, line, and sinker from people who shouted from the housetops that they believed it, when in reality, did they really? Listen to this clip from Victor David Hanson.
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03:59
What would we call it? The hypocrisy. The people who have been the avatars of climate change never suffer the consequences of their own ideology. Why would he buy a seaside estate at Martha's Vineyard or one on the beach of Hawaii if he really did believe that the oceans would rise and flood his multimillion-dollar investment? Why would John Kerry fly all over the world on a private plane and then tell the rest of us that we're flying too much commercial when his carbon imprint was a thousand times more than the individual Americans? Why would people on the California coast say we have to have wind and solar. We have to get kilowatts up to 40 cents a kilowatt the cost because we want to use less fossil fuels. Then the temperature from La Jolla to Berkeley is between what 65 and 75 year-round, where here in Bakersfield or Fresno or Sacramento, it can be 105, and poor people can't afford to run their air conditioners. Add it all up, the inconsistency of the global warming narrative, the self-interest in the people who promote it, and the logic that they have not presented empirically the evidence that would convince us that we have to radically transform our economies, on the wishes of a few elites that do not have the evidence but do have a lot of hypocrisy in the process.
Speaker 1
05:35
Interesting. Could it be that these folks really didn't care that much? It was a cool thing to do. And they went along with it because they wanted money, support, and power. I think all of the above. But then something happened. But what possibly could that be? It was AI. We can't support AI on wind farms and solar panels. It takes an incredible amount of power. So, the plans shifted. So yeah, you know, we're so concerned about that, they say, but we have to look at reality now. Oh really? How about the rest of us have been looking at reality when our electric bills went through the roof because of your inability to manage what we voted you in to do? Check out this next clip.
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06:24
There was a lot of skepticism, both by individuals who were influential and by the general public, for good cause. So what is causing this? Well, the first thing is, in reference to Bill Gates, is of artificial intelligence. It's going to require an unprecedented level of electrical generation. It takes huge amounts of electricity. We don't have it. And we will not get it by subsidizing wind turbines and solar panels. Sam Altman, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, said if the United States wants to achieve preeminence in the field, and this seems to be the greatest technological breakthrough since the industrial revolution, we're going to have to build 100 gigawatt, one gigawatt plant that's the size of a large nuclear reactor, a thousand megawatts. We're going to have to build, he says, a hundred per year, or the equivalent of clean coal or natural gas. So that influenced Bill Gates. That shook him up. That's not compatible with his prior green idea that we'll supplant fossil fuels.
Speaker 1
07:39
Okay, so it's about the money. Wow, what a shocker. Listen, folks, you know the one person we can trust who's not about the money? It's Jesus Christ. He's not about the money. When you can create the entire universe and everything that's living in it, and things we don't even know he's done. I mean, God's been around forever. You know, not just for six thousand years or a billion years or six billion years. He'd been around forever. He has no use for money. So what does this all mean to do with the Bible? Well, in Genesis chapter eight, this is after the flood. I'll start with verse twenty just to get some fuel for it. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered a burnt offering on the altar. And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. That's God's promise. So just like Galileo and others before him, and down through the ages, God is right again, and we debate and we argue and we hate, and we march up and down the streets with our banners for what? Because we don't trust the word of God. No trust. Zero. We trust science. I thank God for science and for those God is using. And you think of everything that we benefit from because of that? It's wonderful. But science is still playing catch-up. And keep in mind, science is not inventing things. It's uncovering things that God has put there for us. And I said this before, and it may sound crazy, but do you really believe that all the oil in the ground on this earth is from dinosaurs and plants that have been here for billions of years, supposedly? I don't. There are no accidents with God. Everything is here for a purpose and has been put here by God for a purpose. And that includes you and I. And I pray that you will pick up that banner, the one God's given you. Don't let the devil tell you that you're missing the boat, that you've missed the mark, that you're not going to be able to do this or do that, or you're a failure. He's a liar. Whatever we've gone through, I've made my share of mistakes for sure. And really, I think about them off and on. But I'm going along with Paul the Apostle. I'm going to forget about the past and the things that happened. And I'm going to press forward to the high calling of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I pray that you do the same. This is Russ Scalzo for Chronicles of the End Times. Keep looking up. The king is coming.
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