True Warnings – Truly Helpful

True Warnings – Truly Helpful

October 27, 2025

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 10/27/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

Disclaimer: While reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate transcription, the following is a representation of a mechanical transcription and as such, may not be a word for word transcript. Please listen to the audio version for any questions concerning the following dialogue.

Sam Rohrer:

Hello and welcome to this Monday edition of Stand In the Gap Today as we now enter our last week of October and quickly move once this happens, then we’re on our way. Doesn’t it seem to Thanksgiving and the Christmas season and the end of the year and wow how times flies. And I have personally found that this year of 2025 has seemed to literally fly by. In fact, in just the last week, I think about a dozen people have voiced to me the same perception. So I think you’re probably in that same boat. Time does fly, and I think in part the massive volume of news and media and impressions and major events framed as historic and unprecedented, it seemed like this year has been full of those kinds of things, many of them by design to just keep us occupied. There’s really no time for solace or for rest or reflection.

And the result of that is there’s less consideration of God and the word of God and designed I think for maximum distraction and diversion. Our own government system and leaders, the globalist wannabes, the media and the world system generally all about are on overload. And part of that is very strategic because it leads to confusion and overload. Well, in the midst of overload and distraction, that’s when Satan most successfully entices people to ignore the warnings of God and to embrace his lies and his deception. The calendar on the clock, they just keep happening. They move forward regardless. The sun comes up, the sun comes down another day, another week, another month. That’s God’s design. There’s nothing we can do to slow that down. So unless we intentionally step aside from that rat race and then look to the Lord and God’s word for direction and wisdom and discernment, and to heed what he’s told us will come, we’ll get caught up in that same thing.

And that’s not really for us in this sense, this context today that I trust that you’ll stay with me and join us every day, all week as we look at the important events and issues from God’s perspective. Now today I’ve asked Michael Snyder to join me again as he does about every month or so, and consider an overview of the truly big events about which he writes that often gets crowded out in a busy world. Now, Michael’s an attorney by training. He’s an economist publisher of The Economic Collapse blog and of the American Dream, the Most Important News, he puts a lot of attention there, but he’s one of the more prolific writers from my perspective, investigative journalist, writing from a biblical perspective. But Michael shared in the past that he writes most of his articles from a perspective of, I’m going to say seeking to warn people and particularly God’s people of that which is happening in accordance with what God’s word would tell to consider. And it’s in the context of this that I’ve chosen the title to frame our conversation today. And that’s true warnings, truly helpful. Michael, thanks for being back with me today. Always a pleasure to have you on.

Michael Snyder:

Sam, thank you so much for having me on today.

Sam Rohrer:

Before we get into the actual areas of different areas we’re going to talk about today, I’d like you to share a couple of things and that is first, you’ve shared before, but I want to have you repeat it, how you feel the Lord has led you to be a watchman on the wall. That’s a biblical term comes from the Old Testament, but from your perspective, what is the biblical purpose of warnings and a watchman on the wall from God’s intent? Why is that role and what is put forth as warnings, why is that important?

Michael Snyder:

Well, it’s important because we see it all throughout scripture. If you go back to from the very beginning of the Book of Genesis, all the way to the very end of the Book of Revelation, we see warnings and the purpose of warnings is to turn people back to God, turn people in the right direction. And that’s so important today because as you mentioned earlier, there’s so much confusion today because there are literally in our time, there’s millions upon millions of voices on the internet, the television, the movies. Most Americans are literally exposed to thousands of hours of programming each year through the television and the movies and the video games and the music and all of that. And it’s almost all worldly. In other words, it’s not Christian, but it’s aligned at least in some way with the world system, pointing them in the directions that they want to point people. And so we need voices that will point people to the Bible, that’ll point people to Jesus Christ, that’ll point people to the reality, to God’s reality. Not the false matrix of the world system, but the reality of God. Because God has told us history in advance, and particularly in our time when we really are living in the end times, we really are living and God has told us about these times in advance, not so that we can be afraid, but so that we can peace in the midst of the storm.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, and that’s excellent. And let me just follow up quickly and you’ve already kind of touched on it within that, but there are true voices, I’m going to put true warnings, but then there are false warnings, scare tactics. We could put it into that. How does a person distinguish Michael, if there’s a quick way from your perspective between the true warning and the scare warning, the scare tactic?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, that’s a great question, Sam. A true warning is always going to align with the word of God and specifically more in our time. It’s going to align with what God has told us in advance about our period of history. So a true warning is always going to align with the Bible. Secondly, a true warning is always going to align with the gospel of Jesus Christ and point to Jesus and Jesus being the solution. And then another aspect of it, a scare tactic, are often based on speculation or rumors, but a true warning is going to be based on facts. And I have a legal background. I went to law school, university of Florida Law School, and I was trained to look at the facts, build your case on the facts. So if you look in my writings, I’ll talk about something and people say, wow, that’s pretty outrageous. But then I’ll link to the news source where I got it from. I’ll provide the statistics. So I’m always going back to the facts, always bringing the facts that support the case that I’m building rather than just so many people out there are just rumors and speculation. So those are kind of three things in my mind that distinguish true warnings which are very important and vital and so important for the body of Christ today as opposed to the scare tactics and rumor mongering that we see often on the internet.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, Mike, that’s an excellent thing and it brings us right up here to the brakes. That’s perfect. Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. If you’re just tuning in. My theme today is this true warnings truly helpful. Now you get the idea with that there are true warnings, there are fake warnings, there are false warnings, there is that person who cries wolf all the time. We’ve heard that. But there is true warnings, true warnings are found in the word of God. Michael Snyder, my guest here today again has been back with as many times website, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com is with me. And we’re going to walk through some of the areas that are well deserve to get our attention and about which there should come legitimate warnings. The next one we’ll talk about economic warnings. That’ll be the next segment. Well, Michael, one of the areas about which you most frequently write, it’s in the area of economics and finance and money and budgets and so forth because you’re not only an attorney, as you said in the other segment, but you’ve also done a lot of work in economics.

So part of the reason you write about that I’m sure is because it’s an area of expertise, but on the other hand, there may be more to that, I assume, for instance, it’s not just because of your training, but it’s in the news all the time. So it’s almost difficult to talk about what’s happening without talking about the economic side. In the last few weeks alone, I didn’t actually add up all that you’ve done, but you’ve done multiple articles on things touching upon economics. So let’s look at that area in this segment if you don’t mind. So let’s start here. If I were to ask you to highlight what I would say would be the top most significant economic warning signs important for the average family, and we could go globally, but right, not at this point. Let’s look at America in Americans here for the average family, for the average citizen to know what’s taking place economically, what warning things would you cite as important to relate and why?

Michael Snyder:

So many things I could talk about Sam, but imminently the thing that we are facing just days away. We’ve got this government shutdown 26 days to today so far, and there’s no end in sight because neither side intends to back down. So it looks like it’s going to go for quite some time. And the US Department of Agriculture has just come out and they’ve announced the well has gone dry. That’s their words. And they’re saying November 1st, that’s it. No more money for food stamps. No one’s going to be getting any more money for food stamps, but we’ve got 42 million Americans on food stamps. In other words, one out of every eight Americans is getting fed by the government every month, and so they’re going to get to the beginning of November and there’s going to be no money on their EBT cards. And already there’s so much anger out there, Sam, we’re seeing all over YouTube and Twitter and TikTok.

People are making videos where they’re expressing just rage that they’re not going to be getting their food stamp money and they’re, many of them are openly warning that they’re going to go into the grocery stores, they’re going to go into Walmart like they normally do. They’re going to fill up their carts with food and they’re going to go right out the front door and they’re going to dare anyone to stop them. And if they do, some have said they’re going to commit acts of violence if anyone tries to stop them, and this isn’t just one or two or a few people, this is all over social media right now where we’re seeing this. So Sam, you can do a lot of things. A lot of things can go on in Washington, a lot of people, but a lot of ordinary people on the street aren’t going to pay much attention.

But when you start messing with people’s food and when you take food out of the bellies of one out of every eight Americans, that is a massive shock to the system. In fact, one food bank executive just said that this is going to be the biggest hunger shock since the days of the Great Depression. And that’s really what we’re facing. And I honestly, I don’t think our country is going to be able to handle it, especially if this thing extends for weeks and through the month of November, we could see rioting, we could see looting, we could see and we could see lots and lots of confrontations uncomfortable and potentially violent confrontations in our grocery stores. So this is something which could really, because we’ve already seen a lot of protests. We’ve seen in fact, the number of political protests through the first nine months of Donald Trump’s second term is more than three times higher than the number of political protests during the first nine months of Donald Trump’s first term. So we’ve already seen far more political protests and we’ve seen the anti ICE riots often get violent in Portland and Chicago and whatever. So all that’s been kind of percolating. But now that they’re taking food away from people, particularly in urban areas, particularly from Democrats, to be frank, this could give a tremendous amount of fuel to the protests and the rioting and the things we’ve already seen. This could be a major turning point if this government shut down stretches on for an extended period of time.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, and Michael, again, you’re just citing things that happen and I agree, I’m following the whole agricultural impact and there’s a lot of things happening out there economically as a result of the tariffs and China not buying our agricultural products. These things are happening behind the scenes. They don’t generally come to the forefront, but it’s causing unrest and you are totally correct. Historically, nothing causes people to react in unpredictable ways or predictable ways depending on you look at it then not to have enough food. So that is a warning that that may happen in a disjuncture. I also agree with you Congress, neither side wants to back down from where they are. So November 1st comes up this Saturday, it may be enough to cause a decision to be made, it may not. So anyways, we’ll let that sit there. We’ll come back and maybe deal with some more of those things.

But let’s go to another area of the economic aspects, and that’s the whole area of economic statistics. Under past administrations, for as long as I’ve been alive, there have been official numbers that come out every month or every so often. If I’m citing employment rates to unemployment rates to savings rates to debt rate, inflation rates, all of those kind of things in administrations, I have felt Michael over the last several anyways, have attempted to manipulate those numbers. Sometimes you delay them, sometimes the glass half full. So you report one way or it’s however you want to look at it. Recently Donald Trump fired the head of the bureau and labor statistics because he said they were reporting untrue numbers. Now because of the shutdown, they’re actually not even producing numbers. So that’s very interesting. Here’s my question. Are the official government numbers that we hear, are they true? Are they not true? What challenge does this produce for people who want to know the truth, but listening to these numbers to determine what is true economically?

Michael Snyder:

Well, yeah, there was a debate about this for a long time, and particularly 2024 election season, every month the government reported, Hey, we’re producing enough jobs, we’re producing plenty of jobs. And the whole narrative was, yeah, we’re producing jobs, vote for Kamala Harris, keep this democratic administration going. We’re producing jobs. And all along Donald Trump said, no, those are fake numbers. Everyone can see we’re not producing jobs. It is ridiculous. And Donald Trump was ultimately proven right? Because then we get to 2025 and then all of a sudden there’s this big, big adjustment and they say, oh, wait a second. The revised numbers show that the vast majority of those jobs that they say were created never even existed. Just hundreds of thousands of jobs just wiped out. Of course, they never existed in the first place. Well, fake numbers all along like Donald Trump said. And that’s the reality where our government numbers have become completely unreliable, where they tell us inflation is low and the American people are like, that’s a joke.

I mean, come on a poll after poll is shown. The cost of living is the number one concern Americans have right now. A recent AP survey that was just released just days ago found that 68% of US adults consider the condition of the economy to be poor. And that’s consistent with the last several years where the government keeps telling us economies is in good shape. But the vast majority of the population keeps saying, no, no, to me, what I’m experiencing, what I’m feeling is that the economy is in poor condition. And we’re seeing this, people have gotten into debt now we’re seeing people, a lot of those debts go bad. In fact, the number of vehicle repossessions in the US this year will be the highest that we’ve seen since the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. We’re seeing in terms of mortgages, people are getting behind on their mortgages.

In fact, foreclosure filings in the United States are 18% higher than they were last year. So we’re seeing a surge in foreclosures like we did in 2008 and 2009. In terms of student loan debt, nearly 10 million Americans are either in default or late state delinquency. Student loan delinquencies and defaults are just exploding. So people, they piled up debt for a long time, now they’re getting behind, they can’t make their payments. And these are real world numbers. This is what’s really happening in the economy, Sam. People are in debt, they’re getting behind. Meanwhile, layoffs are spiking. Challenger gray in Christmas, a private entity. They said the layoffs were way up last year and now this year they’re way, way up compared to last year. So we’re moving the wrong direction. We’re seeing mass layoffs all over the nation. But meanwhile, the official government numbers continue to look pretty good. But the real world numbers that we’re getting from private sources that the American people themselves are telling us, paint an completely different story.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, just a minute left. That’s all What warning as are looking at this? Okay, those are the information. Those are the facts. What is the warning that comes out for those who are listening, who have ears to hear and what should be the response could be the response of a wise person to that.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, everything is pointing to economic trouble. Even gold and silver spiking dramatically. It’s telling us, Hey, there’s something going on in the financial system. And so what wise people will do, they’ll kind of batten down the hatches saying, okay, let’s get lean and mean. Let’s get out of debt. Let’s reduce our spending. Let’s focus on the things that really matter. And then financially, you want to be safe. You want to be concerned about safety at this time as opposed to speculating and trying to make big returns. But how can I be safe with my money and looking forward, what do I need to do to weather the severe economic storm, which has already begun?

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, it’s interesting that, well, we’re going into ladies and gentlemen, one of the things, what does the Bible say about debt? Just as one example, if you’re in debt, you are a servant to the lender. And that’s why always it is good to be out of debt and not to overspend that which you don’t have. That’s just all the way through history. It’s all the way through scripture. That’s just one takeaway. Alright, we’ll come back and we’re going to move to the area of war and peace. Well, welcome back to Staying in the Gap. We’re halfway through the program now. Thanks for being with us today. My special guest again is Michael Snyder. He is the publisher of a number of things. He writes, publishes on Substack and elsewhere. I’m going to give you one place you can go here, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. You can subscribe.

That’s how he stays in business, people subscriptions and allows him to write. And Michael, I appreciate you being back with me today. Let’s move into this because one of the areas that you write on, you write a lot on the economic. We just touched on just a couple of items in the last segment, and we will wrap up some of these more broadly in the last segment. But another one that you write about things about which warnings should be known in the area. I’m going to say of war and peace. And I say this because again, what’s the headline news talking about? Well, it’s a constant threat of war. That’s why you hear all the time from Ukraine to Russia, that war to the Middle East, quickly changing impacts all around, even with a potential US invasion with Venezuela to our south. I mean, it’s all over.

And then you’ve got the Gaza Peace Plan that stuck there in the Middle East, which has with it a commitment. US troops being there. I mean, there’s a lot of things happening. So Michael, let me just go here first with you on this. Again, you’ve written a lot about all of these from your research and writing is the president’s threat of more sanctions. And we’ll go to Ukraine right now since that’s been there longer, perhaps is Trump’s threat of more sanctions against Russian oil going to, in your opinion, cause Russia to give in to either Trump’s recommendation of what he says, just draw the line where they are and stop there. Or to Ukraine’s demands, which are basically Russia, get back and walk away from everything that you’ve gained. There’s a lot on the table. What warning would you offer in regard to the Ukraine Russian War, and I’m going to put it this way again, the right action a wise person would take in regard to that?

Michael Snyder:

Yes, Sam. I’m extremely concerned about what I’m seeing in the first number of months of Trump’s term. I believe he did the right thing by choosing to talk with the Russians. We had that summit in Alaska where the Russians actually presented what they want to end the war. They presented their plan and now the Russians were asking for quite a bit. But Trump and the other Western leaders, and especially Zelinsky, rejected that plan, didn’t like that plan. And so now since that time, things have broken down. And so Trump and Western leaders, they have said, well, since the Russians won’t agree to what we want, we’re going to escalate matters to try to break Russia and to get them to agree to what we want. And from the Russian point of view, the Russians are saying, we’re winning this war. Why should we accept the terms of the people that have lost the war when we’re actually winning the war?

We’re gaining more ground all the time. In fact, the Russians have just encircled thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian troops, some of their best troops there in Eastern Ukraine. But I’m extremely concerned where this is going because the Russians are not going to respond to threats historically they never have. And it’s not going to happen now. Instead, our relations with Russian will just go downhill. In fact, the Russians reacted very angrily to these new sanctions. The Russians have been developing new nuclear weapons. The Russians are preparing for a potential ultimate conflict with NATO down the road. And that’s ultimate we need to understand. The longer this war in Ukraine drags on Ukraine, they know Zelinsky knows the only way they can win is to get NATO directly into the war. That’s the only way they can win this thing. And so it’s in Ukraine’s best interest to do whatever they can to drag NATO into the war. And if that happens, of course, if the US and NATO are directly fighting, Russia will be one step away from nuclear war. So Donald Trump needs to avoid that scenario. However he can. Now threatening Russia, hitting Russia with sanctions is not going to work. It’s not going to move us in that direction. But that’s the direction we’re moving right now, Sam.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, let’s just move to the Middle East and we’ll kind of wrap this whole section up before we leave here. Now here’s the Middle East. The Gaza Peace Plan has come into it since the last time you were with me. I’m going to say it’s created a temporary lull in the fighting. It hasn’t stopped the totally, and that’s why JD Vance was sent over last week to try and pull things together. But it’s also introduced Michael, some other complicating factors. For instance, Envoy Witkoff and the Vice President JD Vance and Secretary State Rubio. They are declaring and they just declared over the weekend that the us, they actually stated that US is taking over the Gaza situation and that the US is now in charge, not Israel. And that’s causing a lot of heads to be turning inside Israel saying, wait a minute, wait a minute. So things are in flux As you look at that, what’s the warning you would issue about what’s taking place there in the Middle East and the whole Gaza peace plan, so to speak, in the response of wise persons should take, I want to say in response to what’s happening there

Michael Snyder:

In terms of what’s happening in Gaza and the 20 point peace plan that has been initiated and moving forward. Of course, Hamas has said they never intend to disarm. So at some point this is going to break down anyway, but it’s another effort to divide the land of Israel because the peace plan calls for a technocratic government, which will ultimately transition authority over to the Palestinian authority, which will set the stage for a full-blown Palestinian state, including the West Bank and Gaza. And that must not happen because we’ve seen ever since 1977, Jimmy Carter and the whole peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, which dividing the land. And every time since then when there has been an effort by the United States to divide the land of Israel, we’ve had major disaster here in the United States. And now this is the biggest one of all, because ultimately this 20 point plan is setting the stage for the formal division and the formal establishment of a permanent Palestinian state, which would be the biggest step in dividing the land of Israel that we’ve ever seen.

This is the big one. And so if that happens, we will, I believe, see the biggest disaster in terms of God’s judgment on us for dividing the land of Israel. So we must not divide the land of Israel, but that’s what this 20 point peace plan moves us toward doing. And of course, the whole world is clamoring for a Palestinian state. They say we want peace in the Middle East. We want a Palestinian state that’s going to bring peace, which is ridiculous of course, but that’s what they want. And the United States must not be involved in that because the consequences for the United States, I believe would be

Sam Rohrer:

Apocalyptic. And Michael, you and I had not actually talked about that. I didn’t know exactly what you would say in regard to that. But to that, I would second that a hundred percent because in the middle of that just well end of last week as a part of JD Vance’s trip to the Middle East, it was in when he was there that the Knesset actually took a vote. Not all of the Knesset were there, but they can do that when they have enough people. And they did. And that vote was to give the Knesset in the IDF basically declaring sovereignty over the heart of Israel, Judea Samaria, which is, I mean that is Israel. And they said, you will not do that. Well when asked about it afterwards, JD Vance, his comment on that was a stupid move on the part of the Knesset, those are exact words.

He said that there was a stupid move and they shouldn’t think for a moment that they will ever have that West Bank because he and President Trump have decided that it will not happen. And then it came out a day or two after that that the president as actually as a part of the peace deal, made an agreement with the Arabs that he would prevent Israel from declaring sovereignty. Well, that’s part of the whole thing that you’re talking about there with the dividing up the land. That’s just compiling everything, isn’t it? I mean, your comments on that

Michael Snyder:

100%, Sam, JD Vance and President Trump are doing there. Evangelical Christians all over the country should be screaming outrage over this. But of course we’re not seeing that reaction. But this is, it should be a red line issue for every Bible believing Christian, we must not be involved in dividing the land of Israel. But that’s precisely what we’re doing. And by doing so, we are literally inviting the judgment of God.

Sam Rohrer:

There we are. Okay, we got about a minute left. Let’s go down to Venezuela because right down to where south our Navy is assembling and the President has said, we’re going to use the naval forces to attack Venezuela and we’re going to put soldiers on the ground if need be, but there’s been no declaration of war. That’s another pot that’s stirring. Any comments on Venezuela?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, bombing drug boats. That’s something that pretty much everyone can support because we don’t want drugs coming into this country, but invading Venezuela or regime change starting another war at a time when we’re facing issues with Russia and China in the Middle East and all that. Not a good idea to get involved in a full blown war regime, change war in Venezuela, sending troops or whatever. We don’t want that. But certainly preventing drugs from coming into this country. Most of us should be able to support that. But I’m extremely concerned because if we devote tremendous amount of military resources to fighting a war in Venezuela, we could find ourselves shorthanded elsewhere considering everything else that’s going on in the world.

Sam Rohrer:

Yeah. There you go, Michael. Ladies and gentlemen. So just be aware of these things I’ll just put in here from legal perspective, drug boats and those kinds of things that are happening have always been something that the Coast Guard has with not the military. So there’s a lot of things going on. And again, things of which we must be aware because it’s in the news, we must be very careful about what is taking place. We can control that, but we need to be aware of what is taking place. And we come back, we’re going to tie some of this into now spiritual warnings, our physical warnings, there are spiritual warnings. We’ll wrap all of these things up together in the next segment. Well, as we go into our final segment, again, thanks for being with us today. And if you did not join us at the beginning of the program, as a reminder, again, you can go back and you can pick up this program again.

Stand in the gap radio.com one place. Or if you have not downloaded our app, that is really a convenient way because then you can go back and you can find all of the programs. Listen to them in your completion, listen to them. Again, many of the programs I know, we share information that most people are not in a position where you can even sit down and write out certain notes or whatever and you can listen to them again. But you can find all of those on the app. Stand in the gap is what you just enter in that phrase. Go to your store, put in the phrase stand in the gap. The app is free, it’s quickly downloadable. And then you can find this program. You can sort by speaker, you can look down through, just scroll down through. You can find the date. All the titles are there, a brief description of the programs are there very easily to find.

And you can forward them. When you bring up that screen, there’s a little arrow there on the right and you can just forward that via text very easily to any of your friends, anybody that you communicate to by text. So it’s a very easy thing to do. You can partner with us financially very easily off the app, which I would encourage you to do. We need your help. You can be also reminded to join us in prayer because we need your prayer partnership as well. So I emphasize that just because it’s practical all the way around and I hope that you will do that. Alright, now, at the heart of most biblical warnings, the theme today was true warnings, truly helpful. And we started out with this true warnings. Biblical warnings are given because of God’s love and God’s care. It’s for those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

But not all people respond appropriately to warnings. And then we live in a world where there are bogus warnings, they’re not real. They’re made to scare people, scare tactics, and we’re hit by those all around us. And Michael Snyder, my guest today, explained that a little bit from his perspective in the first segment. And it’s important to understand all of these things. Now at the heart of most biblical warnings, I’m going to say is a spiritual response. In some cases though, like when the angel warned Joseph and Mary, for instance, to flee to Egypt, it was because Herod was seeking to kill baby Jesus. That was a warning that had a physical component piece get out because Herod’s on the hunt in Matthew 24, Jesus tells of the time when the antichrist will desecrate the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem. And we’re getting very close to those days, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, because all of the elements are now in place to build that temple.

There’s a lot of things happening. I would not be surprised that we see come out of this development of the gospel plan. Some aspect for that temple may not just what I think could very likely happen, but we’re at those days the point being. But in Matthew 24, Jesus says to the Jews who are alive at that point, that when that happens, he says, physically get out into the wilderness, leave Jerusalem because the antichrist would begin his hunt to kill all remaining Jews. Now those are physical warnings, but in so many other cases, the warnings to mankind should be considered, for instance, such as it is appointed unto man once to die. And after this, the judgment. Okay, that’s a statement of fact, but it’s also a warning, meaning prepare for that. Alright, now Michael, warnings can be physical, as I just said, escape to Egypt. They can be spiritual unless a man’s be born again, he’ll not see the kingdom of heaven that’s in there. From your perspective, what overall warnings would you give be they physical or spiritual? For those listening today with the events of the day we’ve just talked about, of which we’ve not talked about all but just a few slices of them, how would you summarize the overall warning, physical, spiritual, however you’d put that together for the person who have ears to hear and eyes to see in these days?

Michael Snyder:

Well, this is what I would say, Sam, for a lot of people listening out there today, hearing all this bad news is difficult. It’s difficult to hear. And that’s the perspective that most people have. They hear about pretty much anyone that reports on the news. It seems like what most people are reporting is bad news. And then especially with me, because I have such a focus on end times events, people say, well, Michael, just about everything you talk about is bad news. Now I’ll agree it is bad news. If your hope is based in the world system, if you based your life in the world system and your hope for the future on the world system, it is indeed bad news. That’s why it’s so important to have the proper perspective about why God has told us history in advance. God didn’t tell us the history in advance so that we could be fearful or that we could be afraid, but so that we could have peace and so that we can have joy.

Because everything that we’ve talked about today, everything that I write about points to the reality that what we believe is true and that is good news. And it also points to the reality that the hope that Christians have been looking forward to for thousands and thousands of years, ultimately the return of Jesus Christ. And we get to be with God the Father and the Lord Jesus forever and ever and ever. That is the greatest news. That’s greater news than anything that Hollywood ever dreamed up. And it’s greater news than I even have words to describe. And that is our future that we’re looking forward to. But in the meanwhile, we’re in the storm. We’ve got to endure the storm. God wants us to have peace in the storm. He wants us to realize he’s in control and he has a plan and he has a job for us to do. So right now, what we need to do, our response is to return to Jesus Christ, to live for him and to win as many souls for Jesus Christ as we can while we still have an opportunity to do so because there’s 8 billion souls hanging in the balance and we won’t be able to win them for the kingdom once we get to heaven.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, and Michael, you summed that up perfectly from my perspective. That is what the Bible is all about and that is so important, ladies and gentlemen. I hope that you sense that and because frankly, from my perspective as a host of this program, and I frankly don’t like the bad news type of a concept again either. But when I go to the Old Testament and I find the prophets of old where God sent them on a mission to warn the people of Israel back then, that because of the choices that they had made or their parents had made or their national leaders had made, that certain things were going to come about and judgment was going to be at hand. He warned them about it. But all through the Old Testament and through the New Testament, it was all that a day would come when after the earthly kingdoms of the world and the earthly leaders would prove that they did not have the capacity to bring peace.

They had no capacity to deliver the promises that only God can deliver through Jesus Christ, that Christ himself would come and would set up that kingdom. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. That is what it’s all about. There will come a time when Jesus Christ will as king set up that kingdom. And then all of the things for which people have hoped that there would not be rampant lawlessness in the streets, that there would be an attitude of worship, there would be an understanding that God is God and Christ is king, would come about reality. That’s when it will come. Until then, we have that hope, but we see the bumps along the road, and that’s what we’ve talked about today. Why do we say these things? Because the Bible has told us, as Michael made so very, very clear today. So Michael, thank you for being a faithful watchman on the wall and for pointing people to Christ in the hope in God’s word, because that is true, ladies and gentlemen. True warnings, true help. That’s where it goes. Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me as always. His website, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, and then of course ours here, stand in the gap radio.com. Until we meet again, stand in the gap for truth. Ladies and gentlemen, stand firmly on God’s word and your feet will never be moved.