CN Morning Rundown: Dr. Michael Youssef Calls for Prayer, not Fear, as Response to Escalating Ukraine Crisis

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Dr. Michael Youssef Calls for Prayer, not Fear, as Response to Escalating Ukraine Crisis

As current events draw our world more and more into panic mode, we know believers must respond in faith. Rather than allowing the headlines to move us into fear, Dr. Michael Youssef says, we must look to Scripture for answers—and turn our end-times concerns into prayer for the nations.

The alarming events in Ukraine don’t surprise him, Youssef, renowned Bible teacher and host of Leading the Way With Dr. Michael Youssef, says in a recent Strang Report podcast interview. “This is one dictator who’s imposing his will on another nation. And he’s been telegraphing about this for weeks and months. And the sad part about this is what Ronald Reagan warned us about: Weakness invites war. And now we’re seeing this. The weaker America becomes, the more wars there are going to be. This is just the beginning … because they have tested the will of the United States and found it wanting.”

What Scripture Says About Gog, Magog and the Russian Tyranny for These End Times

As Russia continues an unprovoked invasion into the sovereign nation of Ukraine, political warnings abound.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the United Nations on Wednesday an outright war with Russia would be the “end of the world order.” Others are pondering what Russian President Vladamir Putin’s obstinate and dangerous acts mean for the future of international affairs more broadly.

Amid all this dismay, though, is a lingering theological conversation that has unfolded for decades around the biblical end times and Russia’s theoretical involvement in it.

Engines Are Roaring as ‘The People’s Convoy’ Heads to Washington, D.C.

Thousands of truckers are heading to Washington, D.C., over the next several days after many men and women from around the country gathered in California to form a convoy to protest COVID restrictions. They’re calling it “The People’s Convoy.”

“What we’re looking for is to end the emergency declaration—to end the mandates on the vaccine and the mask mandates, especially for our health care workers, our law enforcement officers, our federal employees and of course, our military personnel,” said Ohio truck driver Brian Brase.

A group from Pennsylvania is just one of several additional convoys that are planning to join in, heading south on Interstate 81 from Scranton. {eoa}

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