Calling It Like It: Warnings vs Fear Mongering
July 11, 2024
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Michael Snyder
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 7/11/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer: Hello and welcome to this Thursday edition July 11th already here of Stand In the Gap Today. And I’m so glad that you are joining me today and able to do that. And I trust that today’s program will be extraordinarily relevant. I know it is relevant and it’s going to be informative too, not only in its content, but balanced in its presentation and I’m going to say actionable in its application. Now those are things we try to work into. All the programs use perspective than application. If you don’t do that, we’re just presenting information and that’s not the goal ever of this program. Today. I’ve asked Michael Snyder, who has been with me before, he’s an attorney, he’s an economist and he’s a publisher of the economic collapse blog to join me again to address facts and observations about, I’m going to say stark realities, confronting not just our nation, but frankly the entire world.
Sam Rohrer: And I believe that God has put Michael in a position to be a watchman in particular areas of the physical realm. I’m going to say meaning those things which impact our lives like health, food as an example, or whether or economics, war, lawlessness and such, those things that are a part of civic society. Now, Michael’s not a preacher, but he does know the Lord and is well versed, biblically and embraces a biblical worldview of life. And as such, he’s able to bring, I’m going to say a counter countercultural perspective. What we do here in the program all the time, anytime you come from a biblical worldview perspective, it is counterculture to that which is around us. But we think that is obviously of importance to all who fear God and want to live responsibly before God and their families and all around us. That being a choice, and if you’re listening to the program, you probably are among that number. And it’s with this goal in mind that I’ve chosen to entitle today’s program, this calling it like it is true warnings versus fear mongering. And with that, Michael, welcome to the program. Thanks for being a part today,
Michael Snyder: Sam, it’s great to be with you. Thank you for having me on the show
Sam Rohrer: Today. You’re welcome, Michael. We’ve got a lot to cover. So let me get into it because what we’re talking about needs a little bit of foundational preparation. So ladies and gentlemen, let me just put this before you today we have selected four major areas which I’m personally following, have been for a long time. And I’ve dealt with in slices in many, many, many paths to stand in the gap today, programs going back many years. And Michael, you’ve written about these, which we’re going to talk about today just in the past three days. So it’s very relevant, but it’s ongoing and our people understand as we get into it. Now, the first of these is the reality. I’m calling it the reality of rising wars and collapsing economies. We’re going to talk about that in the next segment. The segment three, ladies and gentlemen, we’re going to address the reality of increasing pestilence and deepening famines.
Sam Rohrer: Okay? You say, oh man, these are bad things. Well, you’ll get the perspective as we walk into it. Then we’re going to conclude with some preparation recommendations for well putting one’s house in order as a result. That’s the application. So Michael, let’s go here. Before we get into the substance, the content of these issues, just a view of you from a personal perspective, why are you so focused on writing articles and books on what, in essence, as many would say they’re warnings because that’s really what you write about, but what many would call bad news events? What’s your motivation for doing so and what is the goal?
Michael Snyder: When you’re presenting any information to have a balance, for example, when you’re sharing the gospel with someone, they need to understand that they’re a sinner before they’ll even realize that they need a savior, they’ve got to, or if you’ve go to the doctor, you’ve got to realize you’re sick before then the doctor says, Hey, you need this medicine. And so it’s the same thing today. In the time of Jesus, when he was on this earth, he rebuked the Pharisees who studied the scriptures who were religious people, but he said, you don’t understand the signs of the times. They didn’t understand that he was literally fulfilling the Messianic prophecies right in front of their eyes. And today, there are so many, not just among the world, but among Christians, that they don’t understand the signs of the times. They don’t understand the days that we’re living in.
Michael Snyder: And so they’re not responding appropriately according to the times that we’re living in, but we are living in difficult times and they’re going to become more difficult. And that’s bad news. And you can call that bad news, and that’s true. But also every piece of bad news is also a piece of good news because there are signs that God has given to us, not that we dreamed up, not that we’ve invented, but God has given to us these signs to give us hope. Every time one of these signs happens, we look forward and we look up and we say, Hey, we’re going to be with Christ. Soon the end of the story is coming and the end of the story is greater and more positive and more amazing than anything that Hollywood could ever dream up. That’s our future and we’re looking forward to that future very much. But we’ve got some things to go through first. We’ve got some birth pains to go through first,
Sam Rohrer: And I think that’s great. That’s perfect. Lemme come back and follow up with this because you are right. The world has no consideration for God. They care nothing about God’s word. They care nothing about standing before God one day and giving an account, which we know biblically will occur. But there are many who call themselves Christians who are also as ignorant being led by the world’s view of what’s happening, not what scripture says. Therefore they’re not prepared, they’re not there. Now here’s the question I want to ask to you because when you write in your case, you speak like you are now, but you’re right, we speak on this program all the time, but there’s a difference between what I’m going to call legitimate warning and illegitimate strategic sensationalism. And I think even pastors are afraid of crossing the line one to the other. How do you differentiate between legitimate warning and illegitimate strategic sensationalism?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, well first of all, you want to be rooted in the scriptures. What do the scriptures and the scriptures do? Speak to our times, the times that we are living in, we really are living in the end times. So on the one hand, we definitely do not want to ignore what the scriptures say that is relevant to the times we’re living and God gave it to us, which unfortunately a lot of churches and Christians and Christian organizations do because they don’t want to offend people. So on the one hand, they ignore it, but then on the other hand, there’s people that speculate about all sorts of stuff and they set dates and they do all kinds of crazy things. And of course in the internet age, there’s people want to get attention and so forth and so on, and you don’t want to go there. And that’s why I try to be very fact-based. And so in my articles, you see, I heavily document things. I say if I make a claim or I state something, I say, well, this is where I got it from. This is the source, this is the mainstream media source. I actually like to use the mainstream media sources to show facts because they’re hostile evidence.
Sam Rohrer: And I think that’s perfect. So ladies and gentlemen, we’ll build this out more. When we come back, we’re going to move into this first two area, rising wars, collapsing economies. Michael’s going to share facts that are there right now relevant, and I’m going to give some biblical underpinnings for why this is appropriate to do and how we look at it and it will build out further the conversation that Michael and I just had. Well, if you’re just joining us today, thanks for being on board with us. A title given to today’s program is this, calling it Like It Is, crew Warnings versus Fear Mongering. My special guest is Michael Snyder. He’s the publisher at the Economic Collapse blog, has a lot of information, economic collapse blog.com is a site that he posts things on, does a lot of writing, and if you miss the introduction, go back and listen to it because you get a little bit of a background and a foundation for how we were approaching this matter of difficult news in amazing days.
Sam Rohrer: So lemme go into it. I said I was going to give a little bit of a biblical background to the matter of warning. So here’s some thoughts. In the Old Testament, the word watchman appears 16 times and it always carries with it the duty of a person being assigned the task of being alert and observant. And with that warning, the people of impending danger, it goes all the way back to people standing on the wall of a city. But it goes way beyond that throughout the Old Testament. Some are actually specifically given a unique task such as God did with the prophets, Isaiah and Ezekiel, to whom God specifically said this, I have made you a watchman unto the people. No, they were the people of Israel, but the entire world in reality, all persons in God’s ranked authority structure, we’ve talked about that a lot.
Sam Rohrer: God has ranked authority, Romans 13, and it starts with each individual for themselves making decisions, watching out for their own personal safety and their future eternity and destination. But it goes to parents, employers, government officials, pastors in the pulpit. Each one of them possesses the biblical duty, the moral duty of being a watchman on the wall for those under their care. Now in Psalm 1 27 verse one, the concept of watchman and warning I believe is directly connected to God’s sovereignty in God’s ultimate role in determining whether a nation receives blessings, untold, indescribable or indescribable judgment. And cursings in that process is fully detailed in Deuteronomy chapter 28, among other places, but I go there often. Now, Psalm 17, one says this except the Lord builds the house. And that builds literally means to not only erect initially as in laying down the initial foundational rocks and then putting up the walls, but it has with it in its meeting the continuance of the house, the maintenance of that house or the nation, the ability to continue to stand because it says except the Lord does this, those who build or seek to maintain the house or the nation they labor in vain.
Sam Rohrer: Then it says, unless the Lord keeps the nation that continuing maintenance according to his as the designer instructions, it says the watchman just stays awake in vain. In other words, it doesn’t do any good to watch if the Lord is not a part of that ongoing equation right now, that is the basis for what we’re talking about today, Michael, the concept of Watchman and God, calling people to watchman, warning of impending judgment to me is part of the very character and the nature of God’s justice against sin and rebellion of people and nations. And as precisely what God told Israel would be his standards, he said, fear me and keep my commandments and I’ll pour out so many blessings you won’t be able to handle them. But he said, if you walk away from me, if you become proud and idolatrous and forsake my moral laws, I’ll turn your blessings into cursings. And among them will be war and economic hardship and ultimately economic collapse where God says you once were the head, you’ll become the tail. Once a lender, you now become a debtor and a slave. Alright, now Michael, you’ve written a recent article entitled The Economic Reality of America entitled Historic Corporate Bankruptcies. Can you cite the high points of the facts and identify the warning that results from that?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, with the economy, if you look at it, Sam, there’s been survey after survey, they’ve asked the American people, okay, what are you concerned about during this election cycle? What issues are important to you? And what keeps coming up over and over again is the economy in particular inflation. People are very distressed about the cost of living, about what it takes in order to just live their lives. And so this has become a huge thing and a huge negative for Joe Biden because we’ve seen so much inflation obviously during the Biden era, but people like me, we were warning, Hey, the policies of our leaders are going to create tremendous inflation. And that’s precisely what happened. And so today we’ve got housing which is more unaffordable than it’s ever been in the entire history of our country. We’ve got food prices which have gone, I mean just skyrocketed, just gotten ridiculous.
Michael Snyder: We’ve got homelessness, which has been growing at the fastest pace ever recorded. In fact, in the city of Chicago alone, the number of homeless people actually tripled from January, 2023 to January, 2024. So we’ve got a lot of people which are really hurting, a lot of people listening today. But the BB, C, they actually went and they interviewed some people, some Democrats, and they said, Hey, tell us about what you’re going through. And so they interviewed this one woman named Stacey Ellis. She’s a lifelong Democrat, never voted Republican in Pennsylvania, so in this key swing state. And they say, okay, why are you thinking of potentially changing your vote? And she said, prior to inflation, I didn’t have any debt. I didn’t have any credit cards, never applied for a payday loan or any of those things. But since inflation, I needed to do all those things.
Michael Snyder: I have had to downgrade my life completely. So she’s so in distress economically and just trying to pay for the things that she pays for on a regular basis that she’s actually thinking of voting for Trump. And then there was another guy they interviewed, the BBC interviewed a 26-year-old security guard in Brooklyn named Dylan Garcia, and he told them that he only eats two times a day. Now he only eats two meals a day. He can’t afford to eat more. So he’s eating ramen noodles, he’s eating whatever the cheapest thing he can find at the grocery store just to make ends meet from month to month. So this is the reality of where people are at, Sam, where the rubber meets the road, people just paying for the basic things that they need to buy on a regular basis. And it’s becoming increasingly difficult for them to do.
Sam Rohrer: And Michael, we’ll just have to let it there, but I think all of our listeners can identify because everyone’s somewhere in this mix. Let’s shift to this because time of war, that was another article that you wrote, high points of that fact relative to war. I mean obviously we’re hearing it every day, but what did you cite as high points there?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, we’ve got right now, Sam, and a lot of people don’t realize this, but there are more military conflicts and there’s newspapers, articles about this recently all throughout the mainstream media, more countries are engaged in military conflict right now than at any time since World War ii. So it’s a time of wars and then of course on social media and everything everyone’s talking about what’s going to happen next? How are these wars going to develop? So it’s also a time of rumors of wars when Jesus said that Matthew 24, perfect description of what’s going on in our days. Well, one of the things I’m watching very closely is Israel and Hezbollah, where that’s really coming in the north there. That’s really coming to a crescendo where Israel has been fighting Hamas in the South, but Hamas and Hezbollah are two entirely different matters and the United States and France are attempting to broker a diplomatic solution, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible because Israel, they’ve got about a hundred thousand people that have evacuated all this time in the north and they want to go back to their homes and Israel wants to make that possible, but they can’t go back to their homes as long as Hezbollah keeps sending rockets and drones into Northern Israel, which they’ve been doing with increasing frequency in recent weeks.
Michael Snyder: So Israel’s like, we got to do something, we got to make this stop. So they want Hezbollah to go north of the LA River, they want to get Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon, but Hezbollah is like, no, we’re never leaving southern Lebanon willingly. We’re not doing this. You’re not going to tell us what to do. And they just keep sending rockets and drones into Israel. And so there’s concern because they’ve been going back and forth striking one another, but that a full-blown war could erupt. And if that happens, it’s going to look far different than what we’ve seen with Hamas in the South because Hezbollah, they’ve got an army of somewhere around a hundred thousand soldiers with reserves, but also already soldiers and militias from across the Middle East have been going into southern Lebanon to bolster those forces. So they’re massing soldiers and equipment on the Hezbollah side also, Hezbollah has an arsenal provided by Iran largely of approximately 150,000 to 200,000 missiles and rockets.
Michael Snyder: Many of them are extremely advanced. They’ve already been causing a lot of problems over there and hitting targets in Northern Israel. But Hezbollah has the capability to hit anywhere in Israel with high precision. These are highly advanced missiles in many cases. And so yeah, Israel has iron dome and some other things, but Hezbollah has so many missiles and rockets that they can easily overwhelm the air defenses there. So in the case of an all out war where literally we see Israeli cities on fire, we see thousands and thousands of rockets and missiles on both sides. It’s the kind of war that we haven’t seen in the Middle East, we really haven’t seen on this kind of scale since World War ii, but now today we have much more advanced weapons
Sam Rohrer: And with that, very concerned
Michael Snyder: About that past.
Sam Rohrer: Absolutely, absolutely. Michael and ladies and gentlemen, we’re not just because of time, obviously you’ve got Russia, Ukraine, nato, there was NATO meeting in DC just the other day. Today, right now Israeli delegation are going down to Egypt to try and broker a peace deal on this thing we’re talking about. It’s not going to happen. And as we covered on this program yesterday, we went into depth on Hezbollah. So if you didn’t catch that program, listen to that. All supportive of what we’re talking about. This is news, but if there’s warnings associated, well welcome back to the program. We’re going to continue. And if you’ve just joining us again, our theme is this, here’s the title, I’ll just give it to you. It frames what we’re talking about, calling it like it is true warnings verses fear mongering. And we’re talking about warning warnings have to do with impending danger.
Sam Rohrer: The scriptures are full of them. I’ve cited Deuteronomy chapter 28 as a place, I’m going to go there now and share some of the verses for it from that passage because it lays out the fundamental concept of warning and warning about what? Well warning about what is God’s judgment. So here anyway, lemme just go into it. Deuteronomy chapter 28 in verse 15. If you’re not going to that chapter four, read it. It is just so applicable. But in that verse, God said to Israel, and by direct application to us in America, particularly any wants, knowing God, then walking away from God. That’s the point. That is us. But this is what God said there in verse 15. He said, but it shall come to pass that if thou wilt not harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe, to do all his commandments, that all these curses or judgments will come on thee and overtake thee now.
Sam Rohrer: And then the balance of that chapter goes into detail on what those judgments are. Curses are like. And I’ll just share one example on it. I preached on this passage once number of times, but that example of overtake thee is the comparison of a rider on a horse approaching or overtaking somebody just simply walking. And you cannot walk fast enough when there’s a horse coming after you with a rider. And that’s the comparison God puts down, he said, you can’t outrun it when this happens. God says, you will not outrun it. Do not think that you can escape it. So that’s the comparison. God then describes in verses 16 to 20 how he God will collapse the nation’s economic prosperity, erode their savings, inflation, other things, deplete their inventories of food and other things, leaving them starving, moving them from feast associated with prosperity to famine associated with God’s judgment.
Sam Rohrer: In Deuteronomy chapter 28, the verses that follow 21 to 24, God details how he will replace health with sickness. And he said, you can mark this judgment with the fact that there will be increasing pandemics, pestilence of increasing in various types. Read that it’s unbelievable. And God says, I will do this and there will be no cure. Also in verse 24, God says that he will coordinate these judgments I just cited with extreme weather conditions that range from drought to flood to actions by the enemies that will ensure the result is this nation under judgment will become hungry and they’ll become sick and they will become oppressed. Now, that’s bad news, but that’s what God said because it’s his judgment. Michael, what I just read was in fact the warnings of God’s watchmen all through the Old Testament. That’s what the Old Testament prophets, that’s what they told Israel. They just repeated what God said and really that’s what any modern day watchman should do. So let’s go back now to July 11th, an article you wrote entitled, they’re a Time of famine, a Time of War. You talked briefly in the last segment about the war piece, just a small amount of what you wrote. Now go to this matter of famine. What’s happening to shortage of food here in this country and around the world?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, global supplies of food just keep getting tighter and tighter. And sometimes when I try to tell people about the Sam, they look at me from outer space because they’ve never heard this because our mainstream media is focused on Trump and Biden and the election endlessly. So they’re not reporting on a lot of these things, but this is really happening. Where in Sudan right now, the CEO of World Vision, Edgar Sandoval, he was over there and he says that in some cases people are literally fighting over anthill because that’s their only source of food that they have. So they’re literally fighting each other of who can dig into these anthill to try to get something to eat. In other cases, and I’ve reported on this previously, people are literally taking water, putting it on dirt and rolling the dirt into balls and then eating the dirt balls just to have something in their stomachs because the famine is so severe.
Michael Snyder: There’s been famines and is Sudan and there in Eastern Africa before, but this is the worst. This is the worst we’ve ever seen. Or right now according to the United Nations, 730,000 children in Sudan are at imminent risk of dying from starvation and the US Ambassador to the United Nations. This is not some fringe voice, this is not some crazy person on the internet, but this is literally our ambassador to the United Nations. She’s warning that it’s being projected that approximately 15% of the entire population of Darfur and Cordan there in Sudan, some of their major areas, 15% of the population in those areas could die by the end of the month of September. Not even by the end of the year, but by the end of the month of September, we’re just seeing mass starvation on a scale. I mean we haven’t seen before, but it’s not just that particular area.
Michael Snyder: But if you look in Africa, everywhere from the Sahara Desert all the way down to South Africa, they’ve had drought, harvests are failing, things are getting really dire all throughout from the Sahara Desert on down. And of course many other areas of the world too. As global food supplies get tighter, global weather patterns have gone nuts and lots and lots of problems. Now, here in the Western world, we’re not starving at this point, but what we are experiencing is food has gone up where a lot of things I used to buy at the grocery store, they’ve nearly doubled or have actually more than doubled now over the course of several years. And so we’re paying higher prices for our food now. We still have food, but we’re paying higher prices than we did before.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, Michael. And we get a lot deeper, but we have to shift from there. So famine Bible says it. God says one of the markers, you’re identifying it, it’s happening around the world very slow, not being discussed very much, but it should be. But here’s another pandemic, pestilence. I read that passage from Deuteronomy and it’s all through the scripture, old and New Testament, July 8th, July 9th. You wrote two different articles dealing with pandemics and different things. One was on bird flu and another was on the plague. Combine these two things they have to do with our health. But again, God says that to mark of judgment. What did you find? What’s happening?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, Sam in Matthew 24, Jesus warned there would be pestilence. That’s multiple in the last days. And so that’s what we should expect. And of course, since the start of this decade, we’ve been through quite a gauntlet where, okay, first of all, along came Covid, which basically paralyzed the entire globe. And then we had the response to covid, which I would argue is a pestilence all in itself. Then the next one to hit was the bird flu where it started ripping through chickens and turkeys and birds all over the world. At this point, well over a hundred million birds are dead all over the world from the bird flu. Now it’s gotten into the mammals, it’s gotten into the dairy cows here in the United States and all of that. And there’s a concern that it could jump to humans, and I’ll get back to that in a second.
Michael Snyder: And then we had, following that, we also had empo, which came along, spread around the world, and now a new version of the OCH has emerged in Congo, which apparently scientists say it spreads more easily and it has a higher death rate. So they’re watching that, that they’re saying, Hey, this could be a new thing which spreads around the world. And it’s actually significantly worse than the last one that emerged. And now we’re getting cases of bubonic plague. One just emerged in Colorado. We had one in March in New Mexico, a man died from it. We had a case in Oregon a few months ago, but a much bigger concern in terms of North America and Central America and South America is Deng Fever, which we’re seeing an outbreak we’ve never seen before. Unprecedented, where so far in the Americas, it’s 9.7 million confirmed cases so far this year, and we’ve got a lot more of this year still to go, but it’s primarily spread by mosquitoes and those closer to the equator at a higher risk.
Michael Snyder: But in some of these areas it is just devastating areas because people get infected with this and the pain is just horrible. That’s why they call it bone break disease because it is just so devastating and so cruel, it causes so much pain. So we’ve got all these pestilence which are coming along, but now the big concern is that there’s going to be a global bird flu pandemic. In fact, the former director of the CDC made waves when he recently came out. And he said, it’s not a matter of if, but a matter of when this is going to happen. And he says, when it happens, when there’s a global bird flu pandemic, the death rate’s going to be somewhere between 25 and 50%. And so with Covid, we saw a pandemic which had a death rate of way under 1%. So what would it do to our world if there’s a pandemic with a death rate of somewhere between 25 and 50%, how much panic and fear would that cause and what would that do to the economy and lockdowns and everything else? So we better hope that this former CDC director named Robert Redfield is not correct and that one is not coming among humans because if it does, Sam, it’s going to be a complete and utter nightmare.
Sam Rohrer: And Michael, we could go further, but time’s up ladies and gentlemen, a brief comment about that, that particular bird flu, there is an internal international bird flu summit actually scheduled to be held in Washington DC the first part of October. And they’re going through all the pieces of it, including they’re already doing vaccinations for it. It appears to be a covid rerun all over again. Again, on one hand you’ve got evil man tampering with things to create harm. On the other hand, from God’s perspective, you allow it to happen as a judgment from God. Are we looking to God? I hope so. Well, as we move into our final segment now, and if you were not with us from the entire beginning, go back and listen to this program again please, because he cannot take just a piece of it in a standalone. It ties together this theme, calling it like it is true warnings versus fear mongering.
Sam Rohrer: A lot of fear mongering going on in this world right now. The devil and all of that. And his minions. What do they want to do? Create fear. What has God told us? Do not have the spirit of fear. God gives us instruction and scripture to tell us how we ought to approach this world. And the time in which we live describes this time in which we live so that we’re not caught off guard by what we see. All of these things are there. We have to understand if we fear God and go to his word for instruction, it will give us exactly what we need. But I want you to take and go back and again, put this whole program together as we wrap it up right now, alright? We’ve shared a lot of content, just highlight, I mean the briefest amount of information, but it’s in the context of warnings, highlighting things in various effort and areas that God said he would bring on Israel and our nation by application when we turned our back on him.
Sam Rohrer: That’s what we’ve cited. And it could have done a whole lot more, but Quebec and walk through that. Now, throughout the entirety of scripture, there are certain realities. Now this, I’m going to give my final thoughts right here, and then I’m going to go to Michael for his. But through the entirety of scripture, there are certain realities, truths, unchangeable, a wise person we know will heed and live. That’s what God says. A foolish person will reject the truth and he will perish. That’s a reality. That’s what God’s word says. These realities are embedded within the essence of a biblical worldview about which we talk. So watch so much. And of that biblical worldview, there are realities. First is the reality of God and all that he is creator, perfect and holiness the judge of the whole world before whom we will all bow and more.
Sam Rohrer: Second reality is that there is reality of sin. Sin has separated us from God, condemned us from birth to an eternity separated from God in a place called the lake of fire. That’s a reality. Third reality is that God loves and his plan of salvation through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone where redemption and restoration with God is possible. That’s a reality. Fourth, there is the reality that there is one way to heaven that is very narrow, that there are very few that find it. Jesus says that the result being that this world lies in the depths of sin and rebellion against God, it’s lawless. Jesus himself said it will become more lawless as the day approaches. But there is this reality also that God’s justice will be manifest one day and his judgment against sin will be evidenced for all and all will see.
Sam Rohrer: Now, these are the realities of God’s warnings. Some would say this is bad news, but as we’ve already talked about, the good news is not possible until he heard the bad news. The good news is that God’s provided a way to redemption through salvation, but we must act while there’s yet time. There’s the good news that one day Jesus will put down all evil. One day he will rule perfectly with a wr of iron physically right here on earth from the city of Jerusalem. The goal of all biblical warning all through scripture is to do what? Warn us of the penalty of sin and to bring us to Jesus Christ in repentance and humility into an awesome biblical fear of God. The result be that we obey his commands. The result be that we are blessed then of God. That’s what Deuteronomy 28 and that whole section is all about. So I trust that you’ve responded to that loving warning of God because all these things we’ve shared are true. Now Michael, I’ve laid down a bit of my expression of God’s warnings and his purposes and all that. What would you say as you wrap it up, from your perspective, taking all of these things into account, not to make people scared, but to be prepared. How should people with ears to hear respond to the content and the whole package of what we’re talking about here today of warnings?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, well, I would encourage people to just look at the pattern of scripture because we see in scripture nations that do the right things while there are good consequences, but when nations do bad things, there are evil consequences, bad consequences for that. And now with the United States, more than 60 million children are dead by abortion. And in fact, last year we had more abortions, the number of abortions went up. So we’re actually having more abortion. And just about every form of evil that you could possibly imagine is exploding in our society today. So we’re doing bad things and as a result, there are going to be bad consequences. And so people need to realize that’s the time that we’re living in when everything we’ve done is building up to a crescendo and there’s going to be a crescendo of consequences. And so now’s not a time to party, but it’s a time to realize, hey, these are going to be difficult times and we need to take action.
Michael Snyder: Whatever God’s leading you to do individually to prepare in that environment. And people say, well Michael, where should I go? I always say, the safest place to be is the center of God’s will. So wherever God wants you to be individually, that’s where you need to be. And whatever God’s leading you to do, I’m a big believer in storing up food and supplies and doing things in the natural and physically to weather the perfect storm that we are now in and which is going to greatly intensify. People should be taking actions in the physical and the natural to prepare for that. But beyond that, of course the most important thing, it’s spiritual preparation because everything that we’ve been talking about today and everything throughout scripture, God could have picked a single day and said, that’s it, that’s the end. No warning whatsoever. But God didn’t do that.
Michael Snyder: But in the end time scenario and throughout the book of Revelation, what do we see? We see a series of judgments, a series of what I call wake up calls, where every time something bad happens, well that’s a wake up call. There’s a redemptive purpose. God is trying to say, wake up, come back to me to draw people to himself. So every time something bad happens, that should be a call for each one of us to turn back to him, of course, the nation as a whole to turn back to him. But that’s not happening. It hasn’t been happening, but every time something bad happens, it’s another redemptive call to turn back to God. And so individually, how should each one of us respond? We should get closer to God than ever before. If you’ve been off doing your own thing, turn repent, turn back to God, get right with God, because that’s absolutely critical right now.
Michael Snyder: Now, if you don’t have a relationship with God, you are not a Christian. You don’t know if you died tonight where you would go, well, I strongly urge you to repent of your sins and invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today because that’s the only hope that any of us have for the things that are coming in front of us in this life. And then beyond that for eternity, eternal life, which you’re talking about thousands of billions and billions and trillions of years, and that’s only just the beginning. Eternal life is of such value that we don’t even have the words to describe how valuable it is in terms of forever and ever and ever. But you can have it. You can have eternal life if you’ve given your life to Jesus Christ. And that’s the greatest hope of all. Sam
Sam Rohrer: And Michael did a great job, ladies and gentlemen. See Michael, he and I did not talk about what we were going to say first, but those who know the truth, true biblical truth, and have come to faith in Jesus Christ, their hope will be expressed very similarly because it’s the same because we have the prayer for our spiritual future, which this little amount of time we live in this earth down here, it’s just a vapor. It passes. It seems to us like it’s forever. It’s not forever. It’s not even on the screen. This is a moment of time given to us by God to respond to his warnings and to the good news of salvation. And I trust and I pray that you will consider that and you will do that. Alright, well, thanks for being with us today, ladies and gentlemen, Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me again as well and for all the good work that you are doing in your writing. Ladies and gentlemen, same the gaffer truth as God gives you the ability and the courage to do so. See you back here tomorrow.
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