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 Regimes To Revival: A Call To Pray Without Prejudice
The news can feel like a storm of outrage, but there’s a deeper current running beneath the headlines. We pull focus from domestic noise and trace the arcs shaping Venezuela and Iran—overnight power plays, decades of repression, and the uneasy dance between justice, asylum, and international complicity. Along the way we confront uncomfortable questions: What happens when the architects of violence seek refuge in the very places that once amplified their ascent? When governments shut down the internet, how do citizens keep telling the truth?
We don’t stop at geopolitics. We turn the lens toward the heart and ask how people of faith can respond without hardening into tribal blame. The answer isn’t apathy or denial; it’s a return to a steady center—salvation, deliverance, healing—and a practical posture of prayer that refuses to hate people even while hating the harm caused by sin. A scene from Luke 7 anchors the episode: Jesus meets a grieving mother at a city gate, interrupts death with compassion, and restores what was lost. That story becomes a model for how we speak, share, and act when nations shake—authority without arrogance, conviction without contempt, mercy stronger than mockery.
Across these segments, we map the tension between censorship and witness, outrage and intercession, power and presence. We explore how spiritual authority grows from listening first and acting second, how daily prayer forms courage, and how hope can be more than a slogan when lives are on the line. If you’re hungry for a perspective that takes world events seriously while keeping a clear, compassionate center, this conversation will ground you and send you forward with purpose.
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Welcome everyone. This is Russ Scalzo Chronicles of the End Times. Thank you for being with me today. It's good to be back with you after a couple of weeks where I didn't get to podcast. A lot of things going on, all good things. And I ask you for your prayers because uh launching a new business slash ministry very soon to help Christian authors get their books out where they need to go, get the advertising that is needed so their voice can be heard in a greater audience throughout the world. So, you'll be hearing more about that. It's part of my Lighthouse Productions nonprofit organization. So, let's get to the news. So much news. But I'd like to focus on what's going on outside of the United States. A lot of things are going on in the US, but there's a lot of drama going on. But let's concentrate on some more weightier matters. Of course, we have the Venezuela situation where the special forces went in, and during the night they took Maduro and his wife out. Of course, those of you who do not know, he is a terrorist, a criminal, and may be responsible for thousands of deaths in this country from drug overdoses. And we also have the situation in Iran, where the people have had enough. They're revolting. After all these years, forty-seven years of oppression, threatening people, murdering people, torturing people, killing Christians. Now I don't know if you're aware of this, but France played a big part in the Ayatollah Khomeini coming into power in nineteen seventy-nine, which resulted in so much pain and death to the Iranian or the Persian people, the ancient Persian people. France allowed him to broadcast messages. They facilitated his return on an Air France flight in February 1979, which was crucial for the Islamic Revolution's success. Right now, those Islamic Iranian officials who caused all that death and all that destruction and all that hate, and also was complicit with Venezuela bringing drugs into the world. These are all things you're not going to hear on the regular news. And now they want to get asylum in France. And a French lawyer is going to help them try to do that. This is insane. These are criminals. These are murderers, terrorists. Now France, who has basically no leadership as far as I'm concerned, are they going to make arrangements for all these people, these criminals to come into their country and they're going to house them again until some other Ayatollah comes along, and they can try to take back Iran from the people who hopefully will become free in the coming months. You can't make this stuff up. Now, according to Tousi TV, and if you haven't been watching that, you need to watch it, because Mahyad Tousi has been broadcasting what's coming out of Iran and a lot of other places around the world. News that you won't hear some other places. He's an Iranian living in Britain. The news coming out of there is that Iran has shut down the internet. They want to do their best to stop the true story of what's happening coming out of their country. But from what I understand, many have smuggled in Star link. So many people do have access through Star link. Thanks, Elon. But let's get to the spiritual aspect of this. What is going on? What is God doing? Of course, depending on what side of the aisle you're on, you could blame Trump for everything that's going on. But if your coffee doesn't taste good in the morning or whatever the case may be, you didn't sleep well, everything is his fault. And whether you hate him or love him, that's not a policy you should follow. We should all be looking in the mirror and seeing who we are. What are we doing? Especially as Christians, are we praying, or do we pray with prejudice? That's interesting thought. Let's look at the big picture. Let's try to lift our minds and hearts and our spirits above all things up into the heavenlies. And let's look down on this orb we call earth and think to ourselves, what is God doing? Is he doing anything? Is he asleep during this time? Has he decided to let the world just spin for another decade and he'll get back to it? We know that's not true. We know that he's watching over every single second. So, what's the plan? The plan is what it's always been since Calvary. It's salvation, it's deliverance, it's healing. That's God's plan. Jesus is involved in everything that's going on, what we see in the world today. Nations are being realigned. People are being set free from oppression. The word of God is going to go forth as never before. We're going to see God move by his spirit. Miracles are going to transpire. People are going to be touched, miraculously changed before he comes back. Because let's remember what Prophet Ezekiel said under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. He said, God takes no delight in the death of the wicked, but that they should repent and turn and live. That's God's plan. There's a scripture in Luke I was reading this morning that for some reason I know I've read it many times, and it just hit me. It's Luke chapter seven, beginning with verse eleven. Talks about Jesus raising a widow's son. This is who Jesus is. If you're wondering who he is, or if you're doubting who he is, or if you're under attack, your faith is being attacked, you feel like you're being pulled down instead of lifted up. Listen to this scripture. Soon after he went to a town called Dane, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, Do not weep. Then he came up and touched the bearer, and the bearer stood still, and he said, Young man, I say to you, arise. And the dead man sat up and began to speak. Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has risen among us, and God has visited his people. And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. That's the ministry of Jesus Christ. Compassion, mercy, healing, life from death. Let's make that our pattern, and let's not get involved in the minutiae of hating anybody, no matter who they are. Because there's nowhere in the Bible that tells us that we can hate people. We can hate sin. We can hate the results of sin, which should drive us to our knees even more. Come against the enemy, because Jesus spoke with authority, and he gave us that authority. And that has been abused many times by many preachers throughout the land. But the truth is that we do have authority. And how did Jesus prepare for his day? He prayed. Many times, he prayed through the night. I know we're not capable of some of that, but we should prepare ourselves spiritually. And if we're walking tight with Jesus, we're going to have confidence in that authority, and we're going to hear his voice and we're going to follow him. Because Jesus said, I see my father doing it, then I do it. That's the model. We hear from our heavenly father, then we do it. Then we know that we will prosper, and what we do will make a difference. This is Russ Scalzo for Chronicles of the End Times. Keep looking up. The King is coming.
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