When the World Quakes and Shakes

When the World Quakes and Shakes

March 31, 2025

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 3/31/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:

Hello and welcome to this Monday edition of Stand In the Gap Today. And as we close out the month of March and open the month of April, the events of this past week, the events well of the last several months of 2025, and the events frankly of the last four years, they all, we put all these things together, they point to continued instability globally and also as well, right here in America, we can see that in fact over the weekend there was a display of literal instability as the world witnessed a 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar and in Thailand, where reports are suggesting that perhaps upwards of a hundred thousand people have lost their lives to this largest earthquake in over 200 years, at least in that part of the world. But a quaking and a shaking, if not just the ground, but the very political and financial foundations of this world are happening literally everywhere it seems.

And I’m going to say as described as birth pangs by Jesus himself in Matthew chapter 24 in verse eight. And that verse, Jesus said, referring to the deception, the false prophets, the wars, the rumors of wars, the famines, the pestilences, the earthquakes, all kind of converging together where he said this, all these things are but the beginning of the birth pains. So that’s why I use that phrase because Jesus did. Today I’ve asked Michael Snyder, attorney, economist, publisher of the economic collapse blog, end of the American Dream and the most important news, all of those things, and a whole lot more to join me for a more focused look at some of what is shaking and quaking, why it’s happening and how we as God’s people should respond with stable ground upon which to stand. The tide I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation is this, when the world quakes and shakes. And with that, Michael, thanks for being back with us again here in Standing the Gap today.

Michael Snyder:

Sam, it’s great to be with you today. Thank you for having me on and we’re definitely going to have a lot to talk about today.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, we do, Michael, in just the last couple of weeks, actually the last week, you’ve written, I don’t know, at least a half a dozen articles, maybe more on various big events from financial and economic here in America to Earthquakes and Myanmar. You wrote right on that within hours almost after that happened. And you also talked about and wrote about the egregious reality of America’s love affair with abortions in our nation to name just a few, all of which we’ll discuss at least in part here today in the program. But let me ask you this first question, and I think I’ve asked you before, but it’s good to restate it, Jared, briefly, why do you feel that has called you to the noting, the writing, the informing, the analysis of these types of events, which definitely falls into the category of not so good news, let’s put it that way.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. Well, Sam, God has told us history in advance. And in fact, much of the Bible is God communing to us history in advance. The book of Isaiah says, God tells us there that he’s the one that tells us to end from the beginning. And in particular, the Bible has a tremendous amount to say, I believe about our times and what is coming in our future. And that’s very, very powerful and is very powerful evidence for the Christian faith because ultimately you can show people that what’s in the headlines today was talked about in the scriptures, what is happening in our world all around us right now. God warned us about nearly 2000 years ago in the Book of Revelation and of course other scriptures as well, which go back even farther. If you can show people that well, that is, and I believe in the times we’re moving into will be the most powerful tool that we have to win people to Jesus Christ to share the gospel.

Because if you can say to them, Hey, look, God told us about all this stuff nearly 2000 years ago. Bam, that’s powerful. That opens people’s eyes. And then also Christians who need to have a stronger walk with the Lord or need a waking up or whatever, this is a way to meet them where they’re at, to wake them up, to help them realize, hey, God is real, God’s alive. You need to get right with your walk with the Lord. So ultimately the motivation is a ministry motivation because we’re not just talking about the news. We’re not just talking about current events, but we are talking about a grand drama, God’s plan for human history, which has been unfolding for thousands of years. And God has been telling us all throughout that time what’s going to happen in advance. And particularly the Bible focuses tremendously on our time on what’s going to be happening in our future. And so we need to focus on that. We need to address that because God put that in there for a reason.

Sam Rohrer:

He did indeed, Michael, and actually I was reading in Hebrew chapter 12 here today, and there’s a passage in there where it says this quote At that time, his voice, God’s voice shook the earth, but now he has promised yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens. This phrase, it’s all part of this passage there yet once more indicates the removal of all things that are shaken, that is things that have been made in order, that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. And I think it’s just interesting as we look at that Michael, that God himself says he’s going to shake the world literally, but in all types of things. And of course that’s some things you write about, but one of the things that you wrote about even in our own nation here is our love affair with murdering our baby, share just a few of that because that invites the actual judgment of God, not just the end times shakings that talked about in the book of Hebrews.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, we look back in history, for example, in World War ii, Nazi Germany, they killed 6 million Jewish people and Christians and so forth and so on. But then we think, oh, we’re so much better than that. But then look at us. And since 1973, since Roe versus Wade was decided, there have been more than 60 million abortions in the United States since Roe versus Wade was decided. Okay? And then Roe versus Wade was overturned in 2022, but in the 12 months following the overturning of Roe versus Wade, the number of abortions in the United States actually went up. And now we’re actually back up to a rate, which hadn’t been the case for about a decade, but we’re more than a million abortions are being performed each year in the United States. Now, and let me put that in perspective in terms of the end of the disaster that this is because you go back to nine 11 and approximately 3000 Americans lost their lives that day on nine 11. But every single day in the United States, more than 3000 American children are killed by abortion. So we have literally a nine 11 in this country every single day. And yet most of our churches don’t even talk about this anymore. Or if you total up all the babies that have been killed by abortion each year, it’s roughly equal to the number of US military deaths in all the wars that have occurred in the entire history of this country. Sam

Sam Rohrer:

And ladies and gentlemen, my guest today is Michael Snyder, been with him before, but we’re just identifying, God says that in the days in which we live, there will be a shaking that which can be shaken, be shaken, but there’s also God’s judgment and we just laid out the blood that has been spilled right here in our nation, has nothing to do with other things that are happening. These are occurring together. That’s we’ll discuss more today. Well, if you’re just joining us today here on this Monday, staying in the Gap Today program, thanks for being on board. My special guest today is Michael Snyder. You can find him. He does articles on a whole range of things that he’s been on with me before. So if you’re a regular listener, you recognize him, he’s got a website, the economic collapse blog.com or his personal at substack Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, either one of those, and I’ll give those again, but you can go there for more on very, very update articles and analysis.

And always from a biblical perspective, the theme I’ve chosen for today is this, when the world quakes and shakes, alright, and we talked about that in the book of Hebrews, the Lord himself, God says he will do a great shaking of the world in the days in which we live. And those things that frankly the things that are temporal will fall, only the things that are eternal will remain. But we have a whole lot more shaking literal Michael in the Hebrew passage I just referred to, that it actually is referring there to an actual physical earthquake or earthquakes because the Bible does say that they will increase and there will be some major big ones, particularly at the time that Christ returns where the amount of olives is actually split. So it’s literal we’re talking about. But over the weekend there was a big one in Myanmar in Thailand. And so here’s my question. Can you share the significant points anyways from your perspective about that earthquake, which is most recent one and it appears to be quite a deadly one. What do we know today?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, they’re still cleaning up Sam from this horrible, disastrous earthquake in Southeast Asia. Magnitude 7.7 was apparently the most powerful earthquake to hit that particular region in nearly 200 years. And so the death toll, it’s going to take a long time until they have a final death toll. But they’ve already confirmed thousands dead, and one estimate says it could be up to a hundred thousand as you mentioned there earlier. But as I looked at some of the footage on Friday of just watching a skyscraper just crumble to the ground within just seconds, very much reminiscent of what we witnessed on nine 11, just very, very alarming. And some of the news reports we were seeing where at one news report some of the tallest skyscrapers in Bangkok, Thailand appeared to explode suddenly almost as if detonated from the inside, just immense, horrible destruction. So many have died, so many are missing, and it’s going to be ages before that area of the world is functioning normal again.

But we’ve seen this so much where we’ve seen, I mean not just the earthquakes, but the volcanoes, the fires, natural disaster. Sam are becoming hitting us so frequently and so often, and then we’re talking about this one now, but pretty soon another, they happen so fast, we will talk about one for a few days and then another one will come along. In fact, just in the United States alone, Sam, last year in 2024, we averaged a billion dollar disaster about every two weeks. And that’s not normal. It’s not normal to have a billion dollar disaster twice a month, about twice a month. But that’s what we averaged last year and actually 2023 as well about that much 2023. So we’ve entered a time when we’re seeing so much instability with earthquakes, volcanoes, natural disasters, and this exactly fits into the end times paradigm Jesus warned us about. And we see in the book of Revelation where natural disasters are going to be a very prominent element of the overall picture.

Sam Rohrer:

And let me just go and ask that because some will listen and aren’t listening would say, well, you know what? This sounds like fearmongering. And it’s an easy way just to take and just put down anything because the secular media is all about fearmongering. They create things in order to make people unstable. But Jesus, as we’re talking about, talks about the increase of these things. And he was not a fear monger, he was a warner of that, which is true. So here’s this question I have for you. Some would say that, well, you know what, the only reason that there are more examples of maybe earthquakes or volcanoes is because we have more sensitive sensors now than we used to. And because we have immediate news reporting, we just know about it more, but it’s always been this way. Do you have any facts that you can bring to that?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, yeah. And some people alleged that, well, let’s talk about one of the most famous seismologists in the world, seismologist Lucy Jones based there in California. And she said that last year we witnessed more earthquakes in Southern California of magnitude 4.0 or greater than she’s ever seen before. So this is the top seismologist that’s constantly interviewed on the news there in California, Dr. Lucy Jones. So she’s one of the top experts in the entire world, and she says, we’ve never seen anything like this in Southern California in all my years, in all her years. And so that’s just one example, and I like to use it because close to home, and then this year, 2025, it’s continued where we’ve just been seeing southern California get hit over and over again, particularly the Malibu area. Something’s going on in Malibu, I’m not sure what, but it’s been over and over again, these sizable earthquake, these earthquake swarms.

And over the past seven days, we’ve seen approximately 800 earthquakes of all types in California and Nevada according to the latest numbers. So we are seeing a lot of shaking in southern California, and I’ve been watching for a long time because I’m very, very concerned about the California coastline. Then over in Italy, Naples, Italy, the Naples, Italy area, I’ve actually been there, but it is one of the largest super volcanoes in the world, is right in that region there. And people think of Pompeii, the destruction, Pompeii and whatever it is very, very prominent in terms of that particular region. In fact, there’s a super volcano that covers an area of 77 square miles. And one expert recently came out and said, Hey, this area, this super volcano could erupt at any moment. That was the term he used and this Italian expert. And they’ve had just record earthquakes there. And in fact, there has been an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide that’s being emitted from the sulfa Tara Crater. I’ve actually been there. It’s increased fivefold. It’s increased to more than 5,000 tons per day. So that area, there’s a constant earthquakes, a tremendous concern about what is going to happen there. Of course, then just in Indonesia, we just had a massive volcanic eruption of volcano on Flores Island. The ash from that reached to a level of 53,000 feet in the air in Alaska. They’re saying Mount Spur could erupt. They’re calling,

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, I’m just going to interrupt you because of time. But you could literally go around the world around the ring of fire and you could go, as you’ve written about even to our own country, where you’ve got the new Madrid fault line, you’ve got the Yellowstone, which is a gigantic volcano, all of those things. Point being, you had no difficulty in answering my question because these things are that frequent in the last minute and a half. I got to shift here because not only is the ground literally shaking, of which you’ve just given just a few examples of which you could give a lot more, but there’s also a great political shaking that is taking place, and we should not overlook that.

Michael Snyder:

You’re right, Sam, the Republican headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico just got firebombed, of course, mainstream media, downplaying, downplaying all these incidents, constant vandalism of Tesla vehicles, of Tesla dealerships being firebombed. There’s been incident after incident after incident. But Sam, what people need to realize, this is part of a larger trend, the far left, if you look at what they’re saying on social media, their websites talk about the far left, the communists, the socialists. They’re openly talking about a revolution, a violent revolution, and we’re starting to see it. And so sometimes Republicans say, oh, isn’t that cute? The left is getting, they’re vandalizing Teslas, they’re kind of getting a little bit violent, but this is serious, Sam. They’re very serious. And we’re seeing the civil disorder, the civil unrest. I believe this is just the beginning of what we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But the left is very, very serious about a revolution. That’s what they’re calling it. And we’re seeing this incident after incident of violence all over the nation.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, that brings us pretty much up to the break. But it’s not just the fact that these things happen. Scripture talks about it, but it’s actually the fact that these pieces are all verging. There seems to be a convergence of these things. 30 seconds.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, yeah. All the elements Jesus talked about, Matthew 24 and things we expect to see moving into the end times, it’s all coming together all at once in this political shaking, the civil disorder, this is just one element, kind of this perfect storm that’s now upon us

Sam Rohrer:

And ladies and gentlemen. So when we see these things, Jesus said, don’t be perplexed. Don’t get all anxious. What do we do? He said, these things have to come about and we’ll talk about in the last segment. Now, how do we respond to these things? Can we prepare? Should we prepare? What should we prepare? We’ll answer that and deal with that. In the last segment, stay with us. We’re going to talk about certain other shaking, well, financial, economic, that’s also happening as well. And I’ll talk to Michael Snyder about that when we come back next. Well Michael, we’ve chatted a little bit about the overall aspect of shaking and quaking that even the scripture talks about. Hebrews chapter 12, we’ve talked a little bit about how God brings judgment on specific nations, and he refers that that’s through scripture. And you cited the fact of even the horrendous increasing numbers of abortions in our nation is a cause for the judgment of God.

Two actual factors kind of coming together and scripture refers to that. We’re just highlighting some of these things right now in the theme of chosen for today, when the world quakes and shakes, then we went over to the Southeast Asia where the 7.7 earthquake over the weekend has killed thousands of people and may never actually know how many because that part of the world is run by terrorists and rebels, and they’re not even doing hardly anything to help. So that may never be known, but it’s a big deal. But beyond that political shaking, and you refer to that just a little bit, we can see the instability in governments around the world, the aligning of nations as they are galvanizing either for or against, for instance, the United States and the West are all kind of things happening as well as what’s happening on the ground, Tesla dealerships and all that that you’re talking about that is taking place and evidence of lawlessness that scripture talks about.

But moving beyond that, earthquakes that occur are literally felt. You can feel them. And anybody who’s been in a place where the ground been an earthquake, the ground shakes and you can feel it. And if it’s large enough, then buildings and bridges collapse as they did over the weekend in mine mar in Thailand, earthquakes occur suddenly. You don’t know for sure when it’s going to happen, but when they happen, you feel it. And even though there’s been many warnings that conditions may be right for them to occur, it still comes quickly. And when they do, you can’t run fast enough to escape because everything around you is moving. And it’s very significant. I think even how the Lord describes judgment against Israel, he said, when I bring it upon you, it’ll happen so fast, you cannot escape it. I think it’s interesting, but such shakings and earthquakes of a different type, including financial, economic, and other types of shakings are also occurring. So in that, you wrote an article recently where you just took the most recently released data talking about economic shakings that we’re seeing here in our country. Share the high points of what you put in there, starting with, for instance, employment reports that just came out.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, we’re starting to see layoffs. In fact, according to Challenger Gray and Christmas, this is a company that tracks it on a monthly basis. But according to their latest report, employers in the United States announced 170 2017 job cuts last month during the month of February. And that was the highest level that we’ve seen for the month of February since the depths of the Great Recession in 2009. And we remember how bad it was back then, but it’s not just February. If you take the total for the year that we have so far, the total for January and February, the first two months of 2025 were 33% higher than 2024. And once again, that combined total for the two months of this year is the highest we’ve seen for the first two months of a year since going all the way back to 2009. So that’s very, very alarming because back in 2009 we had this great recession.

So we’re starting to see these layoffs. It’s accelerating. Meanwhile, of course, the housing market is continued to be in a depressed state. In fact, according to economists at Wells Fargo, total home sales in the United States in January were only modestly above the weak rate experience between 2008 and 2010. Once again, going back to the Great Recession, similar thing there. Meanwhile, we see retailers shut down stores. Kohl’s just shut down 27 stores last weekend. Just over the weekend, 27 stores. Macy’s has announced they’re going to be closing 150 stores. So we’re seeing retailers and overall Sam is being projected that a grand total of approximately 15,000 stores will close in the United States last year, which would be about double that. We had more than 7,000 in 2024 all time record. And now we’re going to supposed to double that this year. So we’ve got, things are trending in the wrong direction very much economically.

We’ve got the s and p 500 down five of the last six weeks entered correction territory. The Nasdaq is down way down again today as we record this, but that’s also in correction territory. And then we just had the CBS news poll, which just came out, which 28% of Americans believe that we’re in a recession right now. We’ve already entered in one, and that number is increased by 5% over the last month. So all these numbers were trending in the wrong direction. Meanwhile, inflation’s starting to kick up again. The cost of living has become exceedingly oppressive. Most Americans are just scraping by just living paycheck to paycheck. So it’s a time when so many Americans are struggling and all the economic numbers are moving us in the wrong direction. I mean, after four years of Bidens, I mean the Trump administration has inherited this economy, which is a complete and total mess, and it really is going to take an extraordinary effort to try to turn things around.

Sam Rohrer:

And with that, we didn’t even touch on the amount of debt, credit card debt, national debt, all of which we’ve talked about before. Gold and silver prices, which generally go inversely to economic effects are at the highest levels that they have ever been. So really a combination of all of these factors. Now, let me just ask you a question here and just see what you sense because you are an attorney and an economist as well, the president, and obviously you said obviously clearly, I think most people know the last four years of Biden were destructive totally in policies in every way, penalizing those who did well and trying to layer down stumbling block after another one on top of another. So yes, the president did inherit that. That’s true. But all of the tariffs and the things that are being put in place, all of these things are factored into it. What is your sense, in your opinion, are the changes that the president is making, can they turn around what is taking place? How long do you think it’ll take?

Michael Snyder:

Well, the long-term goal with the tariffs is to basically level the playing field in a lot of instances with other nations that have been imposing tariffs on us. But then in other cases, Trump is hitting nations because they’re doing things he doesn’t like. But in any event, the goal is to get jobs and manufacturing back into this country, which is a very admirable long-term goal. And that’s what we want. We want jobs, we want to make stuff. If you’re going to be a great economy, you can’t just consume stuff, you got to make stuff, you got to produce stuff. And we want to produce things here in this country. But that’s a long-term goal because it takes a period of time for you impose tariffs. And then so manufacturers say, oh, it’s cheaper to make things in the United States, so let’s decide to build a factory.

Okay, it’s going to take a couple years to build this factory, and then eventually you get some jobs. So it takes a period of time before you start seeing the benefits of tariffs. Meanwhile, there’s a short-term impact immediately where tariffs come in, they’re disruptive economically, they cause the cost of things that we buy. For example, if things coming in from China, all of a sudden there’s a tariff, then retailers have to charge more when you go to the Dollar Store or Walmart or Target. And that’s going to hit people, particularly on the lower end of the economic spectrum, particularly hard. So the short-term pain comes very, very quickly. While there’s some long-term benefits down the road, and of course the short-term economic pain from tariffs is coming at a time when, as we’ve discussed earlier, we’re already having serious economic problems and things are rapidly moving the wrong direction. So this short-term economic pain from the tariffs threatens to accelerate some of our short-term economic pain. So without a doubt, Sam, I believe there’s reason for concern

Sam Rohrer:

And the President himself has said, and I think all of those who understand that the effects of policy changes. Somebody who’s been in office before as I have been, we know that when a law is changed or when a policy has changed, the effect of it is months down the road. In most cases, it doesn’t happen overnight. So these corrective changes like a ship liner that’s out there, it’s going the wrong direction. They realize that they’re going the wrong direction and they begin to turn it around. It doesn’t turn around on a spot. It takes quite a while for that ship to go around. And I think that’s what the president was saying, I think correct on it, that the road will get bumpier before the road gets smoother. That’s what you’re talking about right there, right?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. And President Trump has acknowledged it. He’s acknowledged there’ll be some pain because of the tariffs, but now he’s hoping we get to the stage where we start seeing long-term benefits from it and we start bringing jobs and manufacturing back to this country. But in the short term, there will be disruption.

Sam Rohrer:

And ladies and gentlemen, with that, we’re going to move into the next segment. Now, at the end of the day, policies are critically important. They really, really are. But the Lord himself does say that prosperity comes as a result of fearing God and keeping his commandment. That’s what’s said all through the Old Testament, and that part is very, very important. We come back, we’re going to talk about, alright now, what do we do in light of this? Prepare. How do we prepare? For what degree do we prepare? Well, as we go into the final segment, can I just chat a little bit personally with all of you who are listening to me? Michael Snyder is my guest today. If you’ve listened before you’ve heard him, he tends to write. God has really kind of directed him to get into the zone of warning. His forte is economics and legal profession.

And so being a believer, he writes from that perspective. And so that’s where he is. I asked him at the beginning of the program about why he does what he does. And I have chosen to go this direction today because as someone who God called myself to be a minister of God in government years ago, and I was in office about 20 years and called me to preach, I have found that throughout scripture there is a command given to all of those who are in authority, whether you call them a watchman on the wall, whether you call them someone responsible to warn the people. And Jesus said, a pastor of a church that does not warn his people of the wolf in the street is but a hireling, a false prophet, the duty of all in positions of authority, fathers, mothers, in the home, employers, those in office, those in the pulpit have as a part of their duty if they fear God and understand that they’re going to be an account to God, will not only instruct the people in the ways of God, but they will also warn them about the justice of God.

And that is what is all through scripture. So in part that’s what we’re trying to do today to warn about those things which are happening. The world I will say, is in this state of heavy deception. And the scripture tells us they are all about creating fear, but God has not given the believer the spirit of fear, has he? We shouldn’t have that because when God warns us, he tells us what will happen under his hand of righteous judgment and that sin and death and ultimately devil himself will be brought to bear. And we know at the end of the day how all these things end. Because even the devil himself will be after the millennial kingdom. He’ll be left out after he’s been locked away for a thousand years and there’ll be a final battle with he and his hoards. And God will lock them all away forever.

And there will come a time when there will be no more sin. There’ll be no more death. There’ll be no more Satan roaming about that’ll all be gone. But in the meantime, we’re not at that time. So the devil is roaming about. So we have to be aware. And that’s why Jesus says in Matthew 24, don’t be deceived. And he warns about wars and rumors of wars and pestilence and the Godly person will note these things, but it will not drive them to despondency. No, it will drive us to action. It will drive us to looking up and it’ll drive us when the world is increasingly unstable, it’ll drive us like the psalmist in Psalm 16, eight where he says, I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand. I shall not be shaken. Now, I hope that you’ve done that.

You’ve trusted in the Lord, I hope. And on that you can stand solidly. That is the purpose for this as God’s people. If we are no more stable than an unstable world, how can we point people to the Lord? Right? So that’s the deal. This is not a bad news program. This is a good news program. But only when we take all of these things into perspective, because in these days of increasing shaking where God has set himself, only the eternal will remain after he shakes it all out, he also says, only what we’ve laid up in heaven will endure. So I hope that that is where our mind is focused. Michael, in the remaining moments here, add to this challenge of what I’ve just shared, but you’re also your own thoughts and some practical things on preparation because how do we respond to this is a big deal. We can prepare some degrees, some degrees we can’t. How should a person who is godly in fearing God, prepare and respond to the things we just talked about?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, as you said, this is a good news program because just as birth pains tell us that the baby’s almost here, well the birth pains we’re going through prophetically tell us that we really are living the end times. And that means the time when we get to be with Jesus is getting close. We’re going to be with him soon, and that’s very exciting. But yeah, here on earth, Jesus said in the gospel of John, Hey, in this world you will have trouble. And every generation has their own form of trouble. And we have to be wise about the circumstances that we’re facing in the short term difficult economic times, civil disorder. There are a lot of unhinged people in our society that are going to attack Tesla dealerships or people that look like they’re Trump supporters. And we need to be aware of that.

We need to be wise about our finances, about things going on in our society and keep our family safe in the short term, in the longer term, in the bigger picture. I’m so glad we talked about abortion today because in my article about abortion, I asked a very important question. And the question is this, what does a society that has killed 60 million of their own children deserve? And I really hope that people will reflect on that because on the one hand, we could repent and I believe God has given us one final opportunity where Republicans are in control of the White House and the Senate and the House of Representatives. And so they could pass a law to end abortion in America tomorrow. And that’s what repentance requires. Repentance requires altering your behavior, stop doing the evil, stop the killing and choose a different path.

Unfortunately, right now, the killing continues at a rate even higher than before. Roe versus Wade. And if we continue to do this, and globally since Roe versus Wade was decided, 1.5 billion children have been aborted. And the total population of the world right now is only about 8 billion. So a very large chunk of the global population is missing because of abortion. And America has done more to promote abortion around the world than any other nation by a wide margin. And so this is the reality. If we stay on this path of killing our own children, of course, every other form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding on our society today. If we stay on this path, judgment is coming, judgment is inevitable. That’s what we see in scripture. So we must pray for our leaders that they take a different course, but if not, we need to prepare for that judgment because it will surely come.

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, that is true. And we’re just about out of time. And I’m going to submit, and I know what you’re saying, that judgment can come. I’m going to submit that we’re already have been under judgment. Everything we’ve talked about is an indication of God’s judgment. What has not yet happened is final judgment. And ladies and gentlemen, that is something that if you read the scripture, that is what is laid out. God has been speaking to us for a long time. Lemme just conclude with these words. Physical preparation, as we talked about, is important. It is a biblical principle. If the ant lays up time for the winter, we know that. However far more important than filling the cupboards, our cupboards in preparation for increasing days of trial is being filled with the Holy Spirit. First through faith in Jesus Christ. If you have not trusted him, that is where it starts.

And then if we know him, walking by faith in total submission and holiness, praying for wisdom and looking unto Jesus, the author of our faith, and soon returning king of kings, that is where preparation should be. Make sure it’s physical first. Then we do what we can physically. But in the end, all that we see around us will be gone. Only that which is laid up in heaven, eternal will remain. That is where our mind needs to go. And with that, this great stability and confidence. Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with us again today on the program. Ladies and gentlemen, God bless you. Stand in the gap for truth.