NATO/Biden/West & The Crazed Rush(ia) to War
Nov. 27, 2024
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Michael Snyder
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 11/27/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer: Well, hello and welcome to this Wednesday edition of Stand in the Gap Today, and it’s the day before we officially observe Thanksgiving. On one hand, it’s America’s first traditional observance of a special day, having begun in 1621 by the pilgrims, although it was not officially made a national holiday until 1863. But I trust that whatever your plans are for today or where you plan to observe Thanksgiving tomorrow, that you’ll be grateful and that you’ll make gratefulness, as I mentioned yesterday in the program, make gratefulness a way of 24/7 life with a deepening trust and dependence on not ourselves, not government, but the Lord God above who is the only source of all blessing. And today’s program, we’re going to conclude with things for which we should be grateful. So stay with us throughout the entire program. For the first three segments, returning guest Michael Snyder and I will give the latest update, have a conversation about what’s clearly, I would say, the lead headline news item of the day, and that’s imminent war with Russia.
Sam Rohrer: We’re all hearing about this now. The title I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation is NATO/Biden/ West because it’s all together in that regard and the crazed rush to war. Now, Michael, my guest is an attorney, an economist publisher of the economic collapse blog and a most prolific, and I’m going to say trustworthy journalist, producing an almost daily update on most significant events, which can be found at two different sites here, the most important news.com or Michael Snyder dot substack.com, and I’ll give that again. But with that, and welcome to the program right now, Michael. Michael, thanks for being back with me.
Michael Snyder: Thank you, Sam. Thank you for I’m so glad to be joining you today.
Sam Rohrer: Well, Michael, you are right on a full range of themes, and we, again, we’ve covered a lot of these over past program, economics and finance, part of your background, the geopolitical, military, certainly health and weather. You cover the gambit, and I’d say that from my perspective, you do it as more of a watchman on the wall perspective, where your goal is to inform those who have ears to hear and warn of approaching danger or storms, which makes me think of the verse for which the prudent, seeing the danger as Proverbs 22 verse three says, can neither take heed and prepare or avoid or hide depending on the circumstance. Now, you shared some of your calling in a past program and it was very helpful in many ways, but for today, to get us started here, because you write from a breadth perspective, I’d like for you to identify the greatest threats to American life as we have known it about, for which you’ve been writing 10 years or more.
Sam Rohrer: Now, for instance, just yesterday, according to the economic times, the US debt to GDP ratio crossed 200%, meaning that every US citizen now has a debt of over a hundred thousand dollars bankruptcy, national bankruptcy, bankruptcy is the consequence. That’s just one item that’s boiling. That was brand new. That was yesterday. Now that just being said, other historic dams are also being breached, not just the economic and the financial. Here’s my question. As of this, Thanksgiving time, 2024, would you identify and rank what you believe to be the greatest threats to American life as we have known it, and briefly state why?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, that’s a great question because there are so many. I mean, you mentioned the national debt, 36 trillion, we just crossed the $36 trillion mark for our national debt. Of course, state and local government debt is out of control. Corporate debt’s an all time high consumer debt. In terms of US households are now $18 trillion in debt. That’s an all time high. So debt, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the world starting to burst. We were starting to see tremendous economic problems, which have been building over the last four years. New home sales on a month-to-month basis just fell at the fastest pace since 2013. That was yesterday, leading economic indicators down eight months in a row. So we’ve got economic problems, certainly we’ve got political turmoil now. A lot of people were excited, very excited. There was a lot of euphoria when Donald Trump won the election, Biden and Harris out because they’ve done so much damage to our country.
Michael Snyder: Just the whole liberal worldview, the whole godless socialist liberal with abortion and the whole gay agenda and all that has done an extraordinary amount of damage, just abortion alone, if we continue to kill children on an industrial scale. And Roe versus Wade was overturned, but then the number of abortions went up, and then this past election, abortion was on the ballot in 10 states, and in eight of those states, a majority of the voters voted for the pro-abortion position. The only ones that didn’t were the lightly populated states of Nebraska and South Dakota. So even in many red states like Arizona and so on, a majority of the voters are saying, we want abortion. We want grow versus wade back. And if we stay on that path, there’s no future for America at all. There’s no future unless we repent and we change direction on abortion, there is no positive future for us.
Michael Snyder: So I mean, in terms of greatest threats, I mean, I don’t know how you can get any bigger than that, but in terms of imminent threat, this thing with Russia has gotten very, very serious, Sam, and a lot of people don’t realize the seriousness of it because it’s really played down by our corporate media. In fact, if you went on the streets and you start asking average Americans, Hey, are we at war with Russia? They would say, oh, no, no. Ukraine is at war with Russia. We give them some money, but we really don’t have anything to do with it. But over in Russia, they have a totally different perspective, Sam, where they’re looking at it. And Vladimir Putin and the Russian leadership said way in advance, Hey, if you give missiles supplied by the United States and other NATO countries to Ukraine, and then Ukraine launches those missiles at us with your help and with your satellite guidance systems, bringing them all the way to the target, well, you’re a party to the war.
Michael Snyder: You’re at war with us if you do that. And of course, we went ahead and did that. Anyway, the Biden administration on the way out the door, on top of everything else they’ve done to us, they said, man, we’ve got about two months left. We’ve got to do even more damage. So Joe Biden right after the election, and we will talk about how that timing is no coincidence, but Joe Biden said, I’m going to approve this. I’m going to let Ukraine fire our missiles at Russia, even though we know the Russians say, now we’re at war, and the Russians are going to have a huge response. Of course, we saw a huge response, Sam, we saw Russia launch a new hypersonic missile at Ukraine’s, fourth largest city, this new incredibly dangerous and powerful missile, and we saw the weapons reign down at block 10.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, Michael, we’ll save that. We’ll go into that in the next segment. But ladies and gentlemen asked Michael, the bigger issues, Michael, you cited three, I just noted. One would be, I would say moral, decadence, abortion, and things related to that. Financial, economic, we talked about that in geopolitical, in reference to Russia, war, rumor of war. Those are three, ladies and gentlemen. They are out there, they’re big, they’re in the news. We’ll come back. We’re going to go and then begin to focus on Russia, America, and the ent. Well, if you’re just joining me today, my special guest is Michael Snyder been with me many times before. He does a lot of different things, but he is very, very active in writing about news of the day. Most important news.com is one site. You can find his articles or the, let me see Michael, what was it?
Sam Rohrer: Michael Snyder dot substack.com. That would be the other one that you could find his work located at, and I would encourage you to do that. The theme I’ve chosen for today is this, NATO/Biden/West. I kind of have to break them all out because they’re all different, but they’re all very much the same. But those the west generally and the crazed rush to war. Now, Michael, in my title for today’s program, I made a play on words the West Rush, and I put down in IA Russia because that’s really what it is. It’s a rush to war with Russia, although I think the same group would seem to be in liking war almost anywhere. But certainly there’s something here with Russia and because of the escalating war of words between Biden and Russia is so apparent, and that’s also not extended to the West, to NATO and Europe and that this narrative back and forth us versus them Russia, it’s been building not just over the last year or two, but really for years and using Ukraine as an excuse.
Sam Rohrer: I am saying as an excuse, this rushed war has increased steadily, officially for 10 years. That’s the 2014 being the date of some. If you Google it, ladies and gentlemen, you’d come up and say, when did the conflict between Ukraine and Russia begin? They’ll take it to 2014. That’s give or take. But now it seems, Michael, that with the speed of escalation of this rhetoric, and I’m saying approximating the supersonic nature of the most recent Russian missile, which was launched by Russia, this warning to the West, this entire entanglement or engagement seems to be out of control. Now, here’s my first question in this segment. Let’s discuss the mentality of the West. So in this segment, let’s just talk about the west attitude toward Russia from your research, and you’ve been doing it for a long time, why is war? That’s the question. Why? Why is war with Russia so seemingly craved by Joe Biden, the deep state, the West generally? Go ahead and flush that in a little bit.
Michael Snyder: Yeah, it is no coincidence that right after the election, Donald Trump wins. And this kind of put the deep state, the Western in a state of panic because they were saying, wow, Trump is talking about ending this war, but we desperately want this, and so we’ve got to escalate this to such a degree that Donald Trump or anyone else is not going to be able to end this. Because you have to go all the way back to 1990 where the United States made an agreement with Gorbachev saying, okay, if the Russians allow Germany to be reunified, and East Germany comes in and merges with West Germany, and United Germany is part of NATO, then from that point forward, NATO will not expand one inch eastward. So that was the agreement with Russia. Of course, we started breaking that agreement four years later during the Clinton administration in 1994, we started adding countries to NATO, and then we started creeping closer and closer to Russia’s borders. And at first Russia was weak. Russia was in turmoil in the nineties, and they couldn’t do anything about it. They objected, but there wasn’t much that they could do. So they kept getting closer and closer, and we saw what happened with the war in Yugoslavia and all that. And then eventually we get to Ukraine. And Ukraine is one of the most populous nations in Europe on the European continent, and then under Eastern Ukraine are trillions and trillions of dollars of natural resources, just immense wealth under the ground there in the Donbass region in particular.
Michael Snyder: And the west sees that, and they’re like, we don’t want Russia to have that. We want to have that. In fact, our own members of Congress openly have talked about this, about the tremendous welfare there, particularly in eastern Ukraine. And so Ukraine’s kind of a crown jewel to add to the European Union to add to NATO, and that is why we get to 2014. And the US and the Western powers participated in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Ukraine, and they set up a western friendly government. Now, Eastern Ukraine, some of the provinces out there didn’t go along with that. They said, we’re not going along with this new government. We want the old government. So there was a civil war, a tremendous civil war, and Russia backed one side. We backed the other side, and then there was an agreement, the Minsk agreement, which was supposed to put an end to it, and it did for a few years.
Michael Snyder: But then we get to 2022, Joe Biden’s now in office, and he’s given the Ukrainians, the green light, saying, okay, the Ukrainians massed 70,000 troops along the border there with the LPR and the DPR, and they were shelling the living daylights out of them. And the Russians were like, you can’t do that. We have an agreement. You’re not supposed to be attacking them, and you’re not supposed to be preparing to invade. And also at the whole thing with Ukraine, Russia said, look, Ukraine can’t be in NATO and you can’t have NATO missiles right on our borders, so we can’t have that. Let’s sit down at the table and talk and make come an agreement where Ukraine will be neutral. We can’t have this and we can’t have Ukraine invading the LPR and the DPR. But the Biden administration said, no, we’re not talking to Russia. This is it. And refused to negotiate, refused to talk, and the shelling continued. Russian forces moved into the LPR and DPR to support them, but then the shelling continued and then Russia eventually invaded. But most people have totally forgotten all that history. But my point, Sam, is that this has been building for a long, long time. The Russians said, Hey, look, we can’t have NA
Sam Rohrer: Miss on our, hold it, Michael, Jill on that. I want to go to Russia’s perspective in the next segment, but go back on here. Motivation. We talked about the why is war, what you were saying as much as anything was you alluded to the fact of great value under the ground in Eastern Ukraine, that the European Western side wants to get ahold of it. Or from your research, would you say that’s the greatest motivation for why the West wants fighting to continue with the hopes of getting ahold of what’s under the ground in Ukraine? Or is it more,
Michael Snyder: But it’s not just about the money. It’s not just about the money and the tremendous wealth under Eastern Ukraine, but it’s also you have to get in the mindset of these people are globalists, the Western elite, we call them globalists for a reason, and they want to expand their global empire. Ukraine is a great prize in terms of expanding their institutions. The eu, they want Ukraine in the eu, they want Ukraine in NATO. That greatly expands the amount of land, the amount of people in their western globalist empire, which eventually they want to dominate the entire globe. It’s sick, it’s twisted, but that’s what they want. They want to have the western values and western institutions dominate the entire globe. And so it’s an expansion of their empire, and it’s a way to expand the reach of their values and what they want. So ultimately, go ahead, Sam.
Sam Rohrer: Okay. Lemme go ahead and ask you another question here and get it in this segment. There are not just Joe Biden, it’s not just NATO, it’s not just the Western leaders, but there are many who are on Republican side as well. It’s not limited to one party, it’s a mentality. But many of those who are looking at what’s taking place are saying that this push, this prodding, almost asking for a response from Russia is either one of these four things. I want to ask you just for your quick opinion. One of them is that these guys are just full of greed and stupid. Two, they see what’s going on, but they’re covering their eyes willingly, ignorant. Three, they’re arrogant. And I think that’s a lot of it where they’re playing a game of Russian roulette and they just think that Russia and Putin are bluffing. And so they’re going to go as far as they can go. And there’s a fourth one that I’ve put in. There’s unknowingly perhaps being providentially led of God to pass political or I mean prophetical events. Now, it could be a little bit of all of those perhaps, but what are your thoughts about how and why this mindset seems to be driving forward so aggressively?
Michael Snyder: Well, I think your last part where in the scriptures we see God harden the heart of Pharaoh to do the things he did to eventually bring about his purposes. And I think we’re seeing some of that now where God is hardening the heart of leaders on both sides to bring about ultimately prophetic events, end times events. So I think that, and the other factors you mentioned as well are at play, but people need to realize this war. Very early in the war, the Russians and Ukraine came to a peace agreement in 2022, right after the war started, they came to an agreement, but the West vetoed it. Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine and said, no, we’re not doing this. We’re vetoing this Ukraine. We have your back. Keep fighting. Since then, more than 600,000 Ukrainians have paid with that decision with their lives. But Sam, what we’re looking at in Ukraine now, when Donald Trump gets in office, he says, I want to stop the war, but he’s going to be surrounded by European allies that’re absolutely determined to keep it going. Plus members of Congress on both parties want to keep it going too. So it’s not going to be so easy to stop it.
Sam Rohrer: No, it will not. And ladies and gentlemen, that’s why it’s important to have a lot of these things we’re talking about in perspective because we’re witnessing something that is much larger than what it appears to be. And that’s why I bring in the fact we talk about God’s will ultimately at the end. We cannot ever cut that out. We come back, we’re going to shift and look more at now from Russia’s perspective and the warnings that they are issuing. Well, continuing in our discussion here about the Wests and the crazed rush to war Russia with Russia, and that’s really what we’re talking about here. Although you’ve got conflict in the Middle East, although yes, China, Taiwan is still an issue. Absolutely, yes. Even North Korea, South Korea is an issue. You’ve all of these, the primary one that’s dominating most media headlines as of this day, this day before Thanksgiving, is that surrounding Russia.
Sam Rohrer: And from the beginning, and we went through a little bit of history in the last segment, special guest Michael Snyder and I did, but from the beginning, Russia and its current leader, Vladimir Putin, have drawn red lines in regard to, well, a couple different things, mentioned a couple different names. One of them was for instance, geographical placement of NATO, NATO, military in Ukraine, meaning on the border with Russia. They had put a red line there. And Michael, you went through what happened with the Minsk court and after East Germany, west Germany came together. That was a good piece of history there because there’d been a lot of promises that have been made by the West that have not been kept. There have been red lines drawn that have not been observed.
Sam Rohrer: And so Russia has made some drawn some red lines, one of them relative, they don’t want NATO military on the border directly with Russia. They have said they don’t want Ukraine to become a member of NATO. And then some other things. And then as other prominent stand on the gap today, guests like JR McGee, Ted and Leo Hohmann as an example of three ladies and gentlemen we’ve just had on recently, they have all said that Putin has a history as an individual, a history of not bluffing, unlike many of our own American leaders from Barack Obama to Joe Biden who love to draw red lines and then either erase them or move them at will or to make agreements and then break them and change them at will. So we’ve got circumstances where there’s not trust on either side. But Michael, let’s go here now from Russia’s perspective and try to bear down on that. From your research, from Russia’s perspective, what have been Russia’s most significant red lines, and from your opinion, have they erased them, changed them, or have they remained pretty much the same?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, Vladimir Putin’s not bluffing Sam, and he wasn’t bluffing At the beginning of the war. Russia said, look, leave the LPR and the DPR alone, Ukraine. You can’t attack them. And number two, Ukraine, we can’t have Ukraine and NATO. We can’t have NATO missiles on Ukrainian soil. And look, if you guys won’t negotiate, we’re going to have to use our military. And he wasn’t bluffing. He went in, he went in and he did this. And so this war began, and now one of Russia’s greatest fears is being realized where NATO missiles are on Ukrainian soil and they’re actually being fired into Russia. And then the Russians keep telling us, look, look, you are getting us to the brink of World War iii because imagine, Sam, how would Americans respond if missiles supplied by Russia or China were say given to Mexico, and then Mexico was being used as a launchpad to fire long range missiles on American cities?
Michael Snyder: We would want to nuke someone. That’s what Americans would be saying. Well, the Russians feel the same way. They’re like, look, you can’t fire long range missiles at us, and if you keep doing this, you’re going to push us to nuclear war. And so the Russians keep issuing warning after warning, but what the leaders are saying, what Russian leaders are saying, it’s not having an impact on the west. And so the Russians were like, look, we’re going to have to have an exhibition. We’re going to have to do something so over the top that it’s unmistakable that they’re going to understand that we’re serious. So we saw the Russians with this brand new hypersonic missile. People need to understand the US does not even have any operational hypersonic missiles. We’re trying to develop them, but we don’t even have any operational hypersonic missiles. The Russians do.
Michael Snyder: They just use this brand new, the Aura Schnick Hypersonic Missile, which has six independently targetable reentry vehicles the first time in human history that reentry vehicles have been used in combat. And we saw them over Ukraine’s fourth largest cities. Now, each of these reentry vehicles had six submunitions, and they would reenter the atmosphere, hit their targets at Mach 10, Ukraine says actually they reached Mach 11, but we saw the footage of them hitting and being used, and we’re also being told that this new missile can be equipped potentially with nuclear warheads. So the Russians were sending us a message, look at what we can do, but also the message was, next time it might be nuclear.
Sam Rohrer: And I think that’s interesting, Michael, because in your research and mine as well, and some of the team that I’m in communication with regularly day by day, one of the things that came out of that particular missile that the Russians used was most interesting because the West, including the United States, it appears, were totally unaware that they had made such a thing that was a surprise or should have been a major surprise. They thought that they had cobbled it together and maybe put something together overnight. Now it comes out that they’ve been working on that for a long time was first positioned as an experimental launch, but then appears now to come out that it was not experimental, that they already have these in production and they have a supply of them.
Sam Rohrer: And this was the other thing I thought that was interesting, Michael, and you give comment, is that whereas they can fix a tactical nuclear weapon, which we’ve talked about in other programs of the guests here about the speed of this one, the speed of it and the impact of it, where it hit in its location there in Ukraine was totally, totally devastating. Having almost literally dissolved what it hit in a large area and is what is now called kinetic energy, which means it has the impact of a nuclear, but it doesn’t actually have the harm to life as a nuclear would it just because of its speed and impact, it just makes everything just fall apart and dissolved. And so it does raise the perspective, but the NATO, the NATO spokespeople, Michael that I’m hearing are kind of talking it down saying, ah, well disregarded. It doesn’t make any sense. But anyways, Russia has said your perspective is it was a warning and they have threatened to do more if the west comes back and threatens to do more. But the West has threatened to do more, haven’t they?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, actually since that time, since Russia launched that missile and conducted that stunning attack on Ukraine’s fourth largest city, there have been more strikes by missiles provided by NATO. Ukraine has launched more of these long range missiles into Russia, and I posted some footage of this yesterday, more ATCMS missiles striking inside Russian territory since that happened. So saying, Hey, we’re not backing down. The west isn’t backing down. Russia isn’t backing down. So yesterday the Russians announced they’re preparing another response could happen today, could happen tomorrow, could happen at any time, but I expect probably the next Russian response will be at least as large as the previous one may be even more. So this is very alarming because this new missile we’ve been talking about is a game-changing weapon. But of course, the Russians have been preparing to fight a nuclear war for quite a long time where just today in the headlines, Russian has put the Satan two missile that a long range ICBM, nuclear missile on combat duty, super advanced, the most advanced ICBM out there.
Michael Snyder: And the United States is still relying on minuteman missiles, which went into service in the early 1970s, Trident missiles for our submarines, which are based on 1980s technology. So the Russians actually have far superior in terms of the strategic nuclear arsenal. Far superior missiles. Russians also have the most advanced anti-missile systems in the entire world. The S 500 is vastly superior to anything that we have or anyone else has around the world can very easily handle 1970s and 1980s technology. Meanwhile, we have no defense against the new NIK or the Satan two or anything of that nature because our anti-missile systems are far inferior to what the Russians have. So people need to understand if we’re getting closer and closer to nuclear war, we are not prepared to fight a nuclear war, Sam.
Sam Rohrer: No, we’re not. And that is we’ve raised again, again, we don’t have only about a minute left here in this segment, the next segment, I want to shift gears and talk about being grateful. It seems strange to be grateful to God in such a time as this, but that’s exactly when we should. But what should the prudent man person do in regard to these kinds of things we’re talking about? Because in reality, we don’t have the ability to have any of these leaders making these kinds of statements change what they’re doing. So how should a prudent man respond right now?
Michael Snyder: Well, we do need to be putting pressure on our leaders. We need to be putting pressure on Trump because he’s bringing people in. For example, secretary of State, Marco Rubio, very much pro Ukraine War, other new members of his administration. Then as I mentioned earlier, members of Congress on both sides, a majority in Congress, and both parties want the war to continue, and then all the European allies are going to be putting on pressure on Trump to keep this war going. We need to let Trump know that we don’t want this.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, ladies and gentlemen, and that is a very, very valid time. There is a window here before these cabinet members are seriously considered by the Senate and actually put in position there is, there’s an ear that we have with President-elect Trump, and that should be taken and should be observed in addition to of course, praying for God to intervene. Stay with us. We’ll be back in just a minute. We’ll change gears and say, let’s talk about blessings. Well, in our program today, we’ve covered a lot of big things, right? You’re talking about anything regarding war or economic or debt or these kinds of things, which again, the only reason for mentioning them is that they are in the news and we deal with headline news here on the program, but try to bring to those things a biblical worldview perspective because how we perceive what is going on about us, how we respond to those things which come into our life, what we say, what we think then changes and adjust and predicts our behavior and how we live, how other people view how we live.
Sam Rohrer: And of course that’s why we’re here to be different in the way it is. So these things we present. So that’s why I want to conclude here today, not just because it is Thanksgiving tomorrow, a day of Thanksgiving, but some other thoughts that Michael and I would like to conclude the program with the day, the attitude of gratitude. That’s a great little phrase going, remember the attitude of gratitude or the spirit of gratefulness I think is one of the most important character qualities for any person to ever cultivate. Because without gratitude, just think about it. Without gratitude, we become arrogant and proud and self-centered without being thankful to God for all things. Not just the good things, but all things like a job who went through difficult times of his life thankful to God for all things. If we’re not thankful, we start thinking that our blessings came from our own hands.
Sam Rohrer: And when that happens, then God is dethroned and we are exalted. The quickest way to violate, I think the first two commandments and embrace idolatry is through being unthankful because that’s the result of it. And that’s why God in the Old Testament told the Israelites, do not get to the point where once I bless you, you think that you did it by yourself because there’s a predictable consequence. The quickest way to ask for God’s judgment and the curtailing of his blessing individually, nationally certainly is to become proud because we know that God hates pride and God promises to debase all who are proud, and that includes nations. When we’re grateful as God designed us to be, we can thrive in all of life. We’ll be humble and moral. We’ll serve others we’ll. Not think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. We will pattern our lives after Christ and be the kind of salt and light that God intended us for to be being grateful and thankful is powerful. Michael, just on a personal perspective, give me a couple things of for what you are personally thankful, would you mind sharing some of those?
Michael Snyder: Yes, Sam. I’m so thankful for the cross. Without Christ, without what Jesus did for us on the cross, I would be lost. I don’t think I would be even alive today. I’m so thankful that I’ve been born again and we should all be so thankful that we’re those of us that know Jesus, we’re headed to heaven, we’re headed to eternity, an eternity with God, an eternity that’s perfect. The greatest ending to any story that anyone ever dreamed up of, greater than anything Hollywood ever imagined. That is our future. We have a future that is far more glorious than I even have words to describe, and I am so thankful for that. I’m so thankful to be alive today. I’m so thankful to live at a time from my home in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. I can literally speak with you and through the things that I do touch people all over the world through, I’m so thankful that through my substack alone, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, we’re reaching people in more than a hundred different countries every single week. And that’s just one of the things that we do. We’re digital missionaries reaching countless people all over the globe, just ordinary people. We live at a time when that’s possible to do sharing the truth with people literally all over the planet.
Sam Rohrer: And Michael, I can say ditto to what you just said as well. Now, let me ask you this question. Just take about a minute and a half no more, and that is this being thankful personally from what you just explained. And you could have, there’s a whole lot more than what you shared, but it’s beautiful. But as Americans, this is a Thanksgiving day. It’s a national holiday. For what should we as Americans be thankful for this thanksgiving?
Michael Snyder: Yeah, this is going to sound a little strange to people because of all the things we talked about in this program, all the bad things that are happening. But I believe we should be incredibly thankful to be alive at this moment in history because the great battle between good and evil has been building up to a grand crescendo. And we get to be here for it. We get to be here at this period just before the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We get to live at a time when there are 8 billion souls on the line. We get to live at a time the end times we get to prepare the way for the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What an incredible moment in history to be alive. There’s no other time in all of human history that I would’ve rather been alive than right here and right now, and we get to be here. And that is something to be thankful for.
Sam Rohrer: And I’d say ditto to that. Again, we are at a time when saints of the last 2000 years only dreamed of what it could be, but we are here at that time and we know that biblically, ladies and gentlemen, there are so many things to be thankful for. You ever think about this? And I’m going to share a song some verses from a song that I think is familiar to all of us written by a fellow named Johnson Oatman Jr. In 1897, count your blessings. Count your blessings. See if this doesn’t ring with you. What a great way to conclude. I think today’s program, he wrote this, when upon life’s bellows, you are tempest tossed. When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, count your many blessings. Name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done. And then the refrain.
Sam Rohrer: Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your blessing. See what God has done. Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your many blessings. See what God has done. And then the second stands there. Are you ever burdened with a load of care? Does the cross seem heavy? You are called to bear. Count your many blessings. Every doubt will fly and you will be singing as the days go by stanza. When you look at others with their lands and gold, think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold. Count your many blessings. That money cannot buy, your reward in heaven and your home on high. And the four stands so amid the conflict, whether great or small, do not be discouraged. God is overall. Count your many blessings. Angels will attend, attend and help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
Sam Rohrer: And then the refrain again, count your many blessings. Name them one by one. Count your blessings. Just see what God has done. Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your many blessings. See what God has done. Ladies and gentlemen, let that be the thought of our minds as we go through this Thanksgiving weekend. But every day there are so many blessings to counting our many blessings because when we count our blessings and are grateful, our attention goes to God in thankfulness for what he has done. And with that, we conclude the program today. Thank you for being with us. Michael Snyder. Thank you. What a blessing for you to be with us today. God bless you and your family as you celebrate this weekend. Ladies and gentlemen, you and your family as you get together, whatever you do, rejoice in the Lord. Count your blessings. Be surprised what God has done.
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