Election Developments and World Events Converge

Election Developments and World Events Converge

Oct. 31, 2024

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest(s): Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 10/31/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:       Well, hello and welcome to this Thursday edition now of Stand In the Gap Today. And we’re now just five days away from the November 5th US elections, which obviously all of you listening to me right now are following very closely. We can’t avoid it, but I’m going to submit that it’s also being carefully followed by world leaders and people from nations all around the world because what happens here impacts them. But as we approach this important day events and developments of all types, it seems are building in frequency and scope of which we talk about many on this program, but it seems that some of them individually certainly taken collectively have the potential at least to seriously threaten the successful completion of this day next Tuesday day. And certainly what comes out of that in days like this, speculation runs high. All sides it seems are doing far more to motivate to action their identified base, those that they believe already are going to vote for them.

Sam Rohrer:       And in many cases seems like fear tactics are used generally to get the base to vote rather than to actually win over people who may yet be undecided or not, or not with them. It’s an unusual time and these are days of importance. There are also days of uncertainty since no campaign strategy, no governmental policy, no standard of justice is really any longer based on a fear of God or the biblical definition of morality of justice right and wrong. The result of that is, as we’ve talked about in previous programs, pragmatism and the lust for power driven by bribery and corruption ensures that surprises of all types should be expected. I think as we’ve witnessed already through 2024, however, in such days where lawlessness prevails, may we as believers in Jesus Christ fully understand that God is very, very much in control and regardless of the shenanigans of God rejecting people and the world system, it is God alone who raises up and puts down both nations and leaders within nations so that all that’s happening around this world is a part of fitting into God’s greater plan.

Sam Rohrer:       Great confidence for those of us who know him. And while we may be surprised from human perspective, what unfolds still unfolds both before this date and after this date, God is not, and his plan is unfolding right on time and his way. So with that bottom line assurance in place, the title I’ve chosen to frame today’s program is Election Developments and World Events, converge Election Developments and World Events Converge. And my special guest, who I hope is with me here, we’ve been trying to get him, is returning guest Michael Snyder, attorney economist publisher of the economic collapse blog with a website he has there at the most important news.com. And with that, I’m looking here at, we have Michael, are you online?

Michael Snyder:                I’m here. Sam, how are you today?

Sam Rohrer:       Hey, I am doing far better my friend no that you are there. I don’t generally go solo on this program. It’s much better when there’s a guest, particularly you. So thanks for being here today.

Michael Snyder:                Oh, it is great to be with you. And what a momentous time that we are speaking because we’ve got this such a critical election, such a heated election, less than a week away. It’s on Tuesday. And so people are fired up. People on both sides believe they’re going to win. It is so close right now.

Sam Rohrer:       Yep. And Michael, I want you to go into detail on that in the next segment. So I’m going to say, ladies and gentlemen, just hold on. He’s going to go into more detail because Michael, I want to compliment you. You do more prolific writing and writing that comes from a biblical worldview. You have a perspective across the spectrum of things that few people have. And because of that, you’ve been writing on a whole series of things, not just about the election, it’s one part, but world events and other big events that are happening that appear to be converging. And I would just like you right now in the balance of this first segment, if you could to give our listeners an overview if you could, of the big events that you’ve been tracking that are on the table that we should be watching and kind of rank them if you can, a little bit in those things, which are most important as we sit here five days before the election.

Michael Snyder:                Well, I think the war on the Middle East is not getting nearly enough attention because that is huge. We just saw the biggest Israeli attack on Iran ever. And at the same time that Israel, dozens of fighter jets were involved, a lot of important targets in Iran were hits. And then also, a lot of people don’t realize this, but at the same time, Israel hit a whole bunch of targets inside Syria, but it was really played down by the Biden administration and thus it was really played down by the mainstream media. So they said, oh, not that big of a deal. It was a really big deal. And Iran is pledging, Hey, we are going to defend ourselves, we’re going to hit back. And then Israel has already said, if you hit us back, we’re going to hit you back. So this kind of existential conflict, I believe between Israel and Iran is reaching a very dangerous level. Meanwhile, Israeli forces are in southern Lebanon. They are engaging Hezbollah forces and that conflict, the final showdown I believe, between Israel and Hezbollah is really heating up. So this thing in the Middle East, whoever wins the election is going to have to deal with it. This is a really, really big deal.

Michael Snyder:                And look in Ukraine,

Sam Rohrer:       Go ahead, go there next. So you’ve got that one in the Middle East, I would agree with you. That’s their Okay, go to Russia, Ukraine.

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, in Russia and Ukraine. In fact, just this week a mainstream news outlet admitted, I believe it was the Daily Mail, but admitted that the Russians are gaining more territory in Eastern Ukraine than they have since the invasion in 2022. So the front there in Eastern Ukraine’s kind of breaking down, the Ukrainians are getting desperate. They’re begging the Biden administration, please let us use us supplied missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. Russia is saying, Hey, if you do that, we’re at war with NATO and we could potentially use nuclear weapons. So this thing with Russia and Ukraine, I believe this is really going to blow up too, and this is something whoever wins the election is going to have to deal with this.

Sam Rohrer:       Okay, Michael, 45 seconds until we got to break away here. Just list, just without going into detail, just give other areas that you’ve been tracking that are on the table.

Michael Snyder:                China and Taiwan, I’m tracking. North Korea is threatening to invade South Korea. Of course you’ve got the election, which I believe is likely to lead to civil unrest, and you’ve got millions of illegal immigrants that are ready to potentially engage in that as well. So much is going on, Sam. I mean, we really are reaching a very dangerous time.

Sam Rohrer:       We are indeed. And you didn’t even mention digital currency and the dollar and all of those things, ladies and gentlemen, all of these things, Michael, you’ve been writing about, but they’re all on the table, they’re all moving in. A lot of these things, those who are involved in them have tagged this election as a date, which something will be done or certainly precipitate something done afterward. While we’re going over today, when we come back, we’re going to go to and look at election developments and eight things that Michael, you’ve noted about where we are at this point. Well, if you’re just joining me today, our theme today is this, election developments and world events converge. So we’re talking about those things that are coming together of big importance election. We’ll talk about here in this segment, world events touched on some of those things happening out of the Middle East, things happening in Russian, Ukraine, they’re not all, those are just some.

Sam Rohrer:       And then we’re going to conclude with navigating how to navigate in these kinds of days. My special guest is Michael Snyder. He does a tremendous amount of writing on broad range of issues and all of those you can find at his website at the most important news.com, the most important news.com. Alright, Michael, let’s go back and the election’s five days away, so it’s natural. We’re going to spend a little bit of time here on the election, but you have been very, very current on keeping up to date with what is happening with so many different people, voting early and looking at what we can deduct from that. You just did, an article came out yesterday, you entitled it this alert, you say, here are eight major election developments that everyone needs to know about. Alright? And I would agree, and you cited eight different things in that, but let me just start here, what’s kind of walk down through, we’ll cover what we can and as you identify them, I may follow up with a question inserted, but one of the things that you noted, which hardly anybody is actually noting as currently as what you are, is that as of yesterday and over 57 million Americans have already voted.

Sam Rohrer:       That is a truly historic number obviously, because early voting hasn’t been a thing, so it’s going to be historic no matter what, but that is a big number. Now let’s walk down through that. Let’s start with this, 57 million Americans having already voted. Everybody’s trying to speculate on what this means, but from an objective perspective, what does this mean and what can we determine based on these numbers?

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, to me the early voting numbers are far more important than the poll numbers because the poll numbers are skewed and biased in many cases. But this is people that are actually showing up to vote and many states give us data or information about the people that show up to vote. And in some states they actually tell us whether they’re registered democrat, republican or independent and so on. So in looking at the numbers last time, if you remember in 2020, Democrats completely and utterly dominated the early voting period. In fact, nationally, according to University of Florida, they had built up more than a 14% lead going into election day in which Trump had to try to make up that ground on election day itself at that point. Now this time around, it’s completely different this time around. Democrats only have a 2.5% lead nationally during the early voting period.

Michael Snyder:                So we’ve gone from 14% to 2%. So that’s a dramatic swing. Now some people are saying, well, the Republicans are just pushing forward voters into the early voting period that would’ve voted on election day. So they’re cannibalizing that vote. Well, maybe we’ll see. Others are saying, well, the Democrats that haven’t voted so far, they’ll show up on election day because Democrat turnout is way down all over the nation. Well, they’ll show up on election day anyway. Well, we’ll see. But if I am in the Trump campaign, I’m looking at these numbers and I’m really, really excited. For example, you look at the swing state of North Carolina because the swing states are going to determine the election, of course. So you look at the swing state of North Carolina, and for the first time ever, Sam, the Republicans have a lead in the early voting period in North Carolina, and everyone expects that in North Carolina that Republicans are going to win on election day. So the fact that the Republicans are leading now, it’s only by 1.3%, but this has never happened before. So this is a huge deal.

Sam Rohrer:       Can I insert something there, Michael, today on a call we had internally, one of our members, one of our co-hosts here lives in North Carolina and was on a call there just recently. And what he said this morning was that already in North Carolina, this early voting, not the voting that’ll take place on Tuesday, but the early voting is already either at or just tipped the 50% vote of all registered voters. That’s an absolutely astounding turnout. That is the pre-vote, that’s the early vote. That’s not what will come out on that day. So I’m just underscoring what you are saying from the ground there in North Carolina that is truly something quite historic. Go ahead, please.

Michael Snyder:                It’s, yeah, we’re seeing a huge turnout among Republicans because Republican turnout is actually up compared to the last cycle. But Democrat turnout is actually, in terms of votes, cast at this stage is down by more than 300,000 votes. So Democrat turnout is way down, but Republican turnout is up. In fact, the state was hit really hard by Hurricane Helene and there had been concern about these areas that were hit by the hurricane. Is turnout going to be down in those areas because people aren’t able to vote? Actually, turnout is slightly up in the 25 counties that were declared disaster areas. So if on the Trump campaign, I’m loving what’s happening in North Carolina and the Harris campaign has actually canceled close to $2 million in advertising in North Carolina in the final days of the campaign. So some are seeing this as an indication that the Harris campaign is actually throwing in the towel in North Carolina, and that’s a huge win for Trump, but it’s not just in North Carolina that we’re seeing this sort of thing.

Michael Snyder:                Sam, if you go out to the state of Nevada unprecedented, where this is a state that’s been going consistently democrat for the last few cycles, but right now Republicans have built up a lead of 4.8% in the swing state of Nevada among in the early voting period. That’s huge. You look at Arizona, which is what’s such a critical swing state in Arizona, Republicans have built up a lead of more than 7% of the latest numbers today. So is huge. And it’s very interesting, Sam, because what Democrats did for this election cycle is they put abortion on the ballot in both Nevada and in, I’m sorry, in Nevada and in Arizona. And they’re thinking, well, this is going to be a huge boost for the Harris campaign in those states because in fact, polls have shown that voters are overwhelmingly unfortunately going to vote for the pro-abortion ballot measures in Arizona and Nevada.

Michael Snyder:                So they think if they’re going to vote pro-abortion, they’re going to also vote for Kamala Harris. But instead what they’re finding out is very large numbers of these pro-abortion voters are also going to vote Trump. So things are looking really good all across the Sunbelt, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, the polling in Georgia and the turnout in Georgia where white vote is up black vote, which traditionally goes Democrat is down in Georgia. And so things are looking very good throughout the Sunbelt for Trump. And so at this point, the Harris campaign is saying, Hey, kind of our only path to victory is we’ve got to sweep the blue wall states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and we could still get a very, very narrow victory if we do that. Of course, things aren’t necessarily looking good in those states for Harris either, Sam.

Sam Rohrer:       No. And you’ve given a number of those eight things that you’ve observed in this article, but there are significant evidences of fraud and corruption, ballot boxes being burned and the voters being turned away here in my own state of Pennsylvania, a number of things comment on what you’ve observed there in this early voting.

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, there was concern that in Bucks County, Pennsylvania that voters were being turned away early. So the Trump campaign actually went to court and they said, Hey, you need to keep the voting open in Bucks County for longer because people were turned away, people weren’t able to vote, and so the judge ruled in the Trump campaign’s favor in this case. And so now voting will on demand mail-in ballot voting has been extended until the close of business on Friday, November 1st. So that was a huge victory for the Trump campaign. There was also just a ruling, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Virginia could move forward with the Virginia, the state of Virginia was trying to remove approximately 1600 non-citizens. These are people that are not citizens of the United States. They’re trying to remove 1600 non-citizens from the voter rolls. And they were initially blocked by one judge, but the Supreme Court said, no, Virginia can go ahead and they can take these voters off the voter rolls. So that was a major victory, another major victory for the Trump campaign.

Sam Rohrer:       So there are a lot, I think I heard 180 some lawsuits have been filed across the country here already that a great many of them, the majority of them have been ruled, I’m going to say not in favor of Trump, but in the favor of justice because that’s basically what they’re appealing. So all of those things are significant. Anything else you want to say relative to the election at this juncture? In the segment here,

Michael Snyder:                And we should be very thankful for the election officials that are doing a good job. There’s election officials out there that are just trying to do their job, just trying to do the right thing. And so we’re seeing that, for example, in Colorado, they caught some fraudulent ballots and they said, Hey, something’s wrong here. And so they’re going back and they’re looking at some of the other ballots and the same thing in Pennsylvania. They caught some fraudulent registration, potentially thousands of them. They’re going back and taking a look, and so they’re so thankful for honest election officials that are just trying to do their job. Sam.

Sam Rohrer:       Yep. And ladies and gentlemen, for that, we can pray and we should pray that justice is done, that corruption and fraud does not occur. That is something legitimate. When we come back, we may touch on election a little bit more, but then we’re going to move to this broader area of war and threat from developments of war. Well, Michael, at the first segment, when I ask you to kind of give it an overview, a global view of things that you’ve been writing about, tracking things that are in headline news, things frankly we talk about regularly on the programs you went first election, obviously we started there because that is driving so many of the things that we are seeing, and it’s only just five days away from now, but I think the second area you went to was what is happening in the Middle East and then you went to Russia, and that’s probably where I would’ve gone to if I would’ve been asked that question.

Sam Rohrer:       But I want to take and build that part out now in this segment because it seems to me as I’ve been observing and as you’ve been writing as well, the drums of war, let’s put it that way, have begun to beat a lot more loudly and steadily just in the last 24 hours. There are these two areas that mean are two areas that I think you mentioned that we shouldn’t overlook, and I want you to go a little bit deeper into it. And that is obviously Israel, Iran, and the other is Ukraine with Russia and the entrance of North Korean soldiers into that battlefront, Russia’s threat directly to the United States, they’ve threatened the United States directly because, and this is how this whole thing has gone. I want you to comment on it, but the converging of it I think is interesting. Ukraine had said North Korea was going to send soldiers that was disputed then it was confirmed by the Pentagon.

Sam Rohrer:       South Korea confirms 10,000 North Koreans there. Now Ukraine begging to use long range US supplied missiles to attack deep inside Russia. Russia says, if you do that, we’re going to take it as if the United States attacked us directly and we will retaliate directly against the United States. Well, in the last 24 hours, the North Koreans have been confirmed to be there. The Pentagon has confirmed they are there. The Pentagon told Ukraine, if they are there, we’ll give you permission to launch long range missiles into Russia. And Russia said, if you do, we’re going to come after the United States. These things have all linked themselves. I have been observing as appears that responding even prior to the election. So the enemies abroad are linking to our election as well. Okay. Now I’ve given a few thoughts about, I’m seeing you have some other things to add into it, but what’s your perspective and view on these matters of war that seem to be converging, unusually right around our election? Your thoughts?

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, I totally agree with your entire analysis, Sam, and this is very, very dangerous. The US is kind of looking at this and saying, Hey, North Korean troops involved in the Ukraine War, and they’re kind of regarding it almost as a North Korean declaration of war on Ukraine. And one NATO official even said, Hey, North Korean troops fighting against Ukraine. That’s an open target for us. We can hit them, we can strike them ourselves. And as you mentioned, it ties into they’re saying, Hey, if you’re using North Korean troops, we’re going to give Ukraine these long range missiles they wanted. And the whole thing, it’s extremely dangerous because once Ukraine starts firing long range missiles at Moscow and other cities deep inside Russia, the Russians are likely to do anything. I mean, this is kind of being greatly overshadowed by the election, Sam, but we are closer to direct conflict with Russia, potentially nuclear conflict than we’ve ever been before in my opinion.

Michael Snyder:                And that is a very dangerous place to be. Now speaking of North Korea on the Korean peninsula, there’s this road which that had been constructed to someday reunite South Korea and North Korea, this really major road. Well, North Korea just blew it up, just destroyed that road, and they’re openly threatening to invade South Korea. Now the North Korean military is far, far, superior to the South Korean military, and so North Korea decides to invade. The only way South Korea survives is if we intervene, we would have to be directly involved in that war very, very heavily like the original Korean War in order for South Korea to survive. So that could potentially happen at any time. Meanwhile, the president of China, Xi Jinping, he recently decked himself out in full military fatigues and he told the public, he said, Hey, it’s time for the military to prepare for war. Now, no one’s going to attack China, so why would China have to prepare for war?

Michael Snyder:                The only reason why is if they’re going to invade Taiwan and if they invade Taiwan, the instant China invades Taiwan. In fact, the first step will probably be a blockade. And the moment China blockades Taiwan, the US and China will be in a state of war. Most people don’t understand that, and it appears this is getting close. In fact, China’s been aggressive. They just had military exercises where they surrounded Taiwan and practicing for the upcoming blockade, the first step in that invasion. And so that is coming up as well. So the US could potentially be involved in a war on the Korean peninsula, war with China, potentially war with Russia. And then when Israel and Iran go at it full blown, the US will potentially be involved in the Middle East as well. So the US could find itself involved in four major wars. Meanwhile, we just had a congressional hearing in which the whole topic was the US militaries not ready to be involved in one major war, Sam. So we’re potentially facing a global crisis that we are not ready for

Sam Rohrer:       When we consider this. On one hand it is odd that what we’re talking about here is well-known in certain circles, it is being addressed overseas, but it’s not very much in our media. As you said earlier, it’s kind of neglected, I think, on the heart of those who are in government positions right now because how it may impact the election, they think negatively from their perspective. But the fact that this pot is swirling and these elements, even last night, North Korea fired an ICBM that was recognized around the world as being highly successful with that firing of that ICBM, they are able to strike our mainland. And so they themselves are saying, United States, we’re going to come after you. Russia. Now, because of Ukraine is saying, we are prepared to come after you Iran, who considers us the big Satan Israel, the little Satan have said the same thing. It is interesting that these are all being directed against us, and it seems to have some kind of alignment almost even to the election or certainly right afterwards. Your thoughts.

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, I believe what we’re witnessing, well, Jesus warned us in Matthew 24 wars and rumors of wars. So we’re seeing these wars have already erupted. We’re seeing these rumors of wars, and I believe that we are getting dangerously close to kind of the hot phase of World War III of multiple major global conflicts, all kind of coming together at once. And that’s just one element of this perfect storm which is emerging Pastor Sam. Meanwhile, we’ve got this election and we’ve got certainly the potential for civil unrest for massive protests. I mean, just imagine what would happen if Trump actually won, if Trump actually gets back into the White House, how the left is just not going to take it sitting down. We’re going to see, I believe the greatest temper tantrum on the left that we’ve ever seen in our entire history. It will be completely nuts and not just those that are on the left, but meanwhile we’ve had millions upon millions upon millions of illegal immigrants who have come in during the Biden administration into this country that all of a sudden Trump wins and they’re hearing, oh, you’re going to be deported.

Michael Snyder:                Your time is up and the Trump administration wants to get rid of you. They’re going to be in an emotional state as well and potentially participating in all the chaos that erupts around the country. I think it’s going to be a very troubled time no matter who wins the election, but particularly if Trump wins. Sam, I’m extremely concerned about the potential for tremendous civil unrest. And of course what they’ve been calling Trump, all these names they’ve been saying, Trump’s a dictator, Trump is the enemy of democracy. Trump wants to round you up. And so if there is civil unrest and if Trump tries to bring in the National Guard or tries to control the unrest, well it’s just going to confirm what they’ve been saying all this time, Sam, right? And so it’ll just fuel it even more. So Trump is going to be in a position if he wins, where if he tries to crack down on the civil unrest, well that’s just going to confirm everything they’ve been saying about him. So it’s going to be a very, very difficult situation for Trump if he wins. But Sam, I’m far more concerned about what’s coming after the election than before because right now, both sides still think they’re going to win. But once reality sets in, once one side wins, and right now honestly things are looking very, very good for Trump. If Trump wins, I mean the left is going to completely lose it.

Sam Rohrer:       Well, something Michael here we just have a bit before and go into our next break is that some years ago, I mean during this administration, the threat was this election coming up. The threat was that those who would support Trump, if they did not win, they would create civil unrest on the ground. But what you’re saying is speculating, if Trump wins the other side will create trouble on the ground. That literally, that’s just your idea. That’s what many, many on the left are actually saying. That’s what they are saying. So it’s almost like ladies and gentlemen, it will be difficult no matter who wins. It may even be more difficult if Trump wins, which is what we hope and pray that that will be the case. But anyways, things have shifted. Next segment, we’ll try to come back and put some resolve to this thing.

Sam Rohrer:       How do we navigate these? Well, as we go into our final segment now, we’ve presented a lot of information, most of it tied around what’s coming up in the election, what we know, what we can deduct from information to the early voting, that kind of thing. We’ve talked just briefly about the swirling evidences of war, the drumbeats of war. Now we do this because there’s a reason we need to cover it because it’s in the headline news. There are a lot of other things that we have not talked about that are swirling on the table, such as what’s happening to our dollar and moving into digital type of currency or these kinds of things. All of which all of you listening to the program, it’s out there. And we’ve touched on that. There’s a lot of things that we can put on the table. But Michael, I want to go back to you now here to get some comments from you because you and I have talked both on air and we’ve talked off air at length, and as I feel God has directed me and our team to bring biblical principles to bear relative to headline news, so that what is happening can be viewed from a biblical worldview perspective rather than a no Bible, no God perspective, which is what comes out of the general media and the press God’s gifted you as well to take and write, to observe these things that we’re seeing and connect dots and put things together.

Sam Rohrer:       Today’s program’s been somewhat in that vein as I view us here. I know you view yourself, that is in part everybody that God has put in a position of authority has as a part of their role to be a watchman on the wall, so to speak, to warn of the wolf in the street, which is what Jesus said. And any pastor who does not warn about the wolf in the street, the Bible calls a hireling. So it’s a very high calling not to be sensational, not to just get people all whipped up to do things because you’ve got some design on it. But where there is warning, we try to do that. So in that vein, we’ve laid a lot of things here. And here’s the logical question. How do we navigate these days where there are so many converging events and global developments? Literally almost everyone that we’ve talked about today you write about are not within the control of any single person. So we’re observing things. You refer to some prophecy earlier on relative to Israel as a believer, we have an ability to do that. But alright, I’ve done enough talking at this point, but here’s my question to you. What words of counsel would you offer in light of these things we’ve discussed today in regard to how to successfully navigate these days where there is an increasing and a converging challenge and certainly a great deal of uncertainty?

Michael Snyder:                Yeah, Sam, there is one word that Jesus used repeatedly as he spoke about the end times, and I believe we are living in the end times. And when he spoke of the end times over and over again, Jesus used the word watch. And I believe that’s what we need to be doing. We need to have a mindset of watching global events and being in prayer so that we can have wisdom about how to respond. Now as we come to this election, Sam, if Trump wins the overwhelming narrative among Christians, conservatives, patriots, good people, people that we know, people that are friends all over the country, the overwhelming narrative is going to be Trump is won, everything’s going to be wonderful, everything’s going to be great. The years ahead are going to be fantastic. Now let me give you my personal opinion on that, and this is my personal opinion, but I would say no, no, whoever wins, whether it’s Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, I believe we are moving into one of the most troubled times in American history is going to be very, very difficult.

Michael Snyder:                And there’s going to be chaos, I believe in this country no matter who wins. And then longer term, I believe we are moving into apocalyptic times as described in the Bible. And so the approach needs to be totally different from the overwhelming narrative that we are going to hear unfortunately. And this kind of grieves me because people are going to relax, they’re going to celebrate, they’re going to think everything’s going to be great, and reality will set in soon afterwards. But my counsel would be we need to get closer to God than ever before. We need to be seeking him for guidance and for wisdom. And we need to be gearing our plans and our direction for very, very troubled times in the short term and in the longer term for the times and the end times as described in the Bible,

Sam Rohrer:       When somebody talks the way you were talking, it’s very easy to say, oh, come on, you are just being negative. And that’s one of the reasons I have found that there’s so little preaching on prophecy. It’s remarkable in these days when we see prophecy being fulfilled that there is so little preaching about it because in most cases, Michael, I found that when there is a preaching about prophecy, and the Lord says that there will be the events like we are describing, they will increase, they will be marked by great deception, they’ll be marked by lawlessness. Those things are by their very nature negative, they sound negative, but God is bringing them about for the purpose of bringing justice on a God rejecting world. And ultimately it’s not going to be negative. It’s going to be the most glorious because we know that Jesus Christ will reign and it’s going to reign right from Jerusalem. So a lot of this is keeping these things in perspective and it’s not being negative, it’s being understanding of what the Lord himself says. And he says, don’t be perplexed when you see these things happen, Matthew 24, because they must come about now. Those are just some additional thoughts I’m throwing in into what you were talking about because it does determine one’s direction, does it not?

Michael Snyder:                It does. For those of us that are believers, we have a future that is far more glorious than I even have words to describe. We have an ending to our story that is far greater than anything that Hollywood ever came up with. So our message, the end times message is an extremely positive message. But yeah, we do warn about what’s coming because imagine a young woman if she got pregnant for the first time and no one ever told her about the birth pains. And so then if she got to the birth pains, she would be like, oh, I’m dying. What’s wrong with me? I don’t understand.

Michael Snyder:                I’m dying. No, no. The birth pains are necessary to get to the birth of the child. And that is ultimately what we’re going to have to go through. We’re going to have to go through the birth pains and all the things that are coming, but there are signs of the glorious ending that’s ahead of us that gives us hope. So the message of the end times is a message of hope. God is in control. God has a plan, and God wants us to understand what’s coming so that we can have hope, not so that we’ll fear, but so that we can have hope.

Sam Rohrer:       And with that, Michael, we’re right at the end. Thank you so much. I’m going to go ahead and close the program in prayer and just put us all this before the Lord, heavenly Father, thank you that you’ve given us the platform to be able to communicate to millions across this country. We thank you for those who are listening. We thank you for those who have been a part and have prepared themselves by putting their faith and trust in you. I thank you for those who have gone beyond that and they not only fear you, they’ve trusted in you and doing their very best with your help, Lord, to keep your commandments to obey, to live holy lives. I would pray that in these days that we would not be impacted negatively by a world that has rejected you in a media that has rejected your truth, but that we would, with faith and confidence and courage, embraced the truth and stand in the gap for truth today. And Lord, with all these things, we put them before you, we pray. In Jesus name, amen. Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with us Ladies and gentlemen. His website again for all of his articles, the most important news.com, the most important news.com, be faithful in praying. Be faithful in living holy lives, ladies and gentlemen. That is more important than anything else. And God will prove himself faithful.