Two Tales of the Same City: Which One is True?

December 15, 2025

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 12/13/25. 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 it’s the last full week before the week of Christmas 2025. Hard to believe, isn’t it? But if you listen to this program often, I think you’ll note that we try to select important headline news or measurable cultural trends and consider them through the lens of a biblical worldview. And we attempt to be current. And we have on many occasions actually presented breaking news before that news became mainstream. Although I’ll say that that is not our driving goal. Our goal is to be consistent with scripture, emphasizing the things that God says is important, and in all cases, seeking to encourage people, you listening and ourselves to do that, which scripture says is most important and that is to fear God and keep His commandments. Now, when this choice is made to pursue truth, God says that he’ll make sure this person finds that truth, that truth is a person, the person of Jesus Christ, the son of God, the holy one of Israel, the prophesied Messiah about whom we celebrate his first coming 2000 years ago now, and we look forward to his very soon return as king of kings.

So that’s the focus and that’s the heart, and that’s where we try to keep the focus on this program. So whether the emphasis is politics or geopolitics or health and wellness, the constitution, the focus on Israel, biblical prophecy, economy, the family or anything, whatever it is, we try to make the focus Jesus Christ, who he says is the way, the truth, and the life. Now that being established, I frequently will make the focus of certain selected programs like this one today to be on that area of warning warnings of some type because the Bible is literally full of warnings. Jesus himself being very clear on that. And my returning guest today is Michael Snyder. He’s an attorney. He’s a publicist. While he publishes the economic collapse blog, he’s the end of the American dream. He does a whole host of things, most important news. He writes prolifically on the latest breaking news, and he does try to be right there and does a tremendous job in my opinion. His news articles and in all can be found easily on his website, Michael T. Snyder, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. The title I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation is this, two tales of the same city, which one is true, and the application of this title is becoming clear, I think as we’ll pursued into the program today. But with that being said, Michael, really good to have you back with me today.

Michael Snyder:

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

Sam Rohrer:

Today, Michael, I’m going to just set this up a little bit more. In the Dickens Christmas story of The Tale of Two Cities in One Story or tale, that’s what it is. The tale Dickens relates the contrasting events occurring in two different cities, yet Michael, I think for a long time, but increasingly in this year, 2025, it seems to me that when viewing the condition of our nation in particular, but really the entire global condition, a politically driven narrative, a tale so to speak that says All is well, all in fact is great and better than ever, particularly in our nation from the current administration. Yet I find that in reality whether that is in regard to economic conditions or weather conditions or war and peace conditions, that there is another tale and people are confused. That’s my title, the Two Tales of the Same City, but asking this question, which is true. So here’s my first question. To what extent are you as someone who is observing things around the world and writing about it, are you observing the same kind of observation where there is one tale that we’re being seen being told, and yet there is another? Is it causing any kind of a dilemma in your mind? How do you handle that in your writing and analysis and all?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, and I think we see this in the scriptures, in fact, in reference to the end times where Jesus warned when they say peace and safety, well then sudden destruction will come upon them where there will be this narrative in the end times and we see it in our country and all over the world where those in authority, those that are running the system, and this has been true for many years, they want people to say, Hey, things are going to be good, things are okay, things are going to get better. But meanwhile we see Bible prophecy being fulfilled. We see the system globally starting to crumble. And so there’s a disconnect between those two narratives. And really a lot of people are not buying ultimately the narratives that we are being fed anymore. In fact, just the other day there was a survey came out which found that 87% of Americans, for example, 87% almost the entire country, is they say, Hey, grocery prices are going up. I’ve noticed that grocery prices are going up in my local grocery store, is what the survey was about. And so people are seeing through the narratives that were being fed and saying, Hey, conditions are really deteriorating around me. We’re seeing terrorism, we’re seeing wars, we’re seeing all these things happen and people are concerned.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, it’s a normal thing. It’s a normal thing for people not to want to consider those things which are not good and challenge the comfort of the day. And there are people who do like to focus on those things which are not good. Alright? But the Bible is full of warnings and we’ve talked about it before, but I find that any person who speaks truth, whether it’s a father in the home or a pastor in the pulpit or somebody in office, anytime you stand up and you give anything that looks like a warning or something that does not sound good, people either turn you off. And I don’t want to hear the bad news, but why do you feel that you’re called to be a watchman on the wall? A person who warns? Why does Jesus warn, why does the Bible give so much warning?

Michael Snyder:

And we see in the Bible warnings from Genesis all the way to the very end of Revelation, and God warns so that we can make choices so that we can make different decisions. God warns. So hey, if you keep going down a certain road, there’s going to be these certain consequences, but if you choose a different path, then this can be the end result. So warnings are often for our navigation there, their instructions, and they’re trying to point us a certain direction. And we see this spiritually, we see this throughout the scriptures. And then even in such a basic thing as government spending for years and years and years, the government’s been spending too much money or then the federal reserve’s been pumping too much money into the financial system, and the consequences don’t show up right away. They start doing these things and putting this down a certain road, but then the consequences can show up later and some cases much later. And they’re showing up now all around us as we can get into. But that’s the thing, when people start taking a certain course of action, the consequences may not hit right away. They may not be apparent right away. People might think, oh, we’re getting away with this. We’re spending all this money and it’s fine because we’re not experiencing the severe consequences now, but they’re going to be coming later. That’s why we need to warn. And for example, we warned

Sam Rohrer:

About, okay, just hold that. Just hold that, Michael, we’re about out of time, ladies and gentlemen. Stay with us. Our theme today is this, I’ve entitled it Two Tales of the Same City, nation or we’re looking at that globally, but which one is true? When we come back, Michael and I are going to focus now on economic things, then we’re going to change our focus and the balance of the program. Well, welcome back if you’re just joining us today here on Stand In the Gap Today. Thanks for being aboard. My theme today is this, I’m entitled to two tales of the same city, which one is true of the little play on words from the Dickens title, but the focus is that around we hear a particular narrative, we hear a tale, a story, but in reality it does not comport with that, which really is.

And my special guest today, Michael Snyder, is an attorney. He’s an economist. He publishes and writes regularly under a couple of different titles. Most important news is one, and he has a website at Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, very, very current. And writing on things from a wide range of areas of importance is on with me fairly regularly, at least once a month, sometimes more often. But we’re going to take a look at some of these things today to talk about a view, and then there’s the real view and how we should look at it. But Michael, as a result of being an economist and attorney, investigative journalist as well, you focus a lot on economic things because you’ve been there experientially as well as by training. But as a result of that, I’m going to start there because we’re hearing much about the economic condition. So let me go this direction first, and we commented a little bit in the last segment.

From a political perspective or organizational perspective, whatever leaders, elected leaders, political leaders in particular, they want to be positive. They want to lean towards the glass being half full rather than the glass being half empty on the political scene. We’re so much into the corrupted and bribed sense that those in office think that their purpose is handing out money, which then gets into big trouble promising people everything even though they can’t deliver. That’s an issue for another discussion perhaps. But nonetheless, we’re at a time where we’ve been hearing all year that things have never been better. We hear those kinds of terms never been better. Golden age is here, but at the same time, there are other indicators that that’s not true. So here’s my question, would you please share some of what you’ve written about in regard to that? And for instance, is inflation really under control? Are prices really falling? Is unemployment really going down? Is the dollar strong and looking stronger, that kind of thing. Which tail is true?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. Is the dollar strong? No, the US dollar index is down 9.4% over since the beginning of the year. And so the dollar has been falling against other currencies around the globe, which they’re actually losing value too. They’re being devalued, they’re losing value, but it’s just the dollar’s losing value even faster than that. And we see this with exploding prices of commodities, particularly silver. You see the price of silver, which is more than doubled in 2025. Those that have invested in silver are loving it, loving what we’re seeing with the price of silver just exploding, particularly in recent months. But this is, it shows just what’s happening with these paper currencies and with the dollar, we’ve added more than $28 trillion to the US government debt since Barack Obama first entered the White House, $28 trillion additional since Barack Obama entered the White House. And we continue to spend money out of control.

Sam, where in October, the first month of the new fiscal year, we set a record, 248 billion deficit just for that month, all-time record for the month of October. So instead of going the right direction and reducing our spending and our debt, it’s just exploding. And this is highly inflationary when the government borrows and spends money into the economy, highly inflationary. Then the Federal Reserve. For years, they were pumping money in buying bonds, monetizing the debt essentially, and highly inflationary. Of course, the financial markets love that. But did they learn their lesson? No, they just announced they’re starting to do it again, pumping. It’s restarting qe, although they’re not calling it quantitative easing, but they’re pumping more money in buying bonds, monetizing the debt, highly inflationary. So we’ve got this situation where we’ve got inflation out of control. In fact, Fox business just reported, and let me just read you a line from this Fox business article, the share of small businesses raising their selling prices jumped by an all time high in November as inflationary pressure continued to impact businesses and consumers according to a new report by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.

So we’ve got small businesses raising their prices at a rate we’d never seen before, all time high according to Fox Business. So we’re seeing this all throughout the system, all throughout the economy, prices on everything are exploding, they’re going up, and this is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on the average US consumer.

Sam Rohrer:

And it is, and it’s an interesting thing. I did another program some days ago and I was doing some looking at the value of our currency. And there’s many different ways, many different ways a person can look at it, but I just went back and took like 1950 and I went back further, but you can go anywhere. But from 1950, if a dollar was worth a hundred cents and 1950 today, it’s worth 94 cents. It’s worth 6 cents. It is basically evaporated. And that is a fact. I mean, that’s a number. It’s not made up. It’s not a political hype. That is a fact that undergirds what you are saying. Now, you just did an article, one of the recent ones you did, where you talked about as somewhat proof of this more or less, that according to some research you had that people were making six figures or more were saying that they were just barely making it and calling it almost survival. So a hundred thousand dollars income, many are saying that’s just survival. What was the thrust of that article?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, I talked about the results of a brand new Harris poll that just came out in which they interviewed people at different income levels, but they talked to people that were making six figures. And among the people that are making six figures, 64% of them, almost two thirds of them said that six figures is no longer a sign of wealth, but survival mode, in other words, a paycheck that just cover costs not comfort. So you’ve got people making at least a hundred thousand dollars a year and they’re saying, Hey, this isn’t enough for me to live the American dream, not I don’t feel successful. I feel like I’m in survival mode. These are people toward the upper end of the income scale that just feel like, Hey, I’m just barely scraping by. I’m just barely paying the bills. I’m not able to save anything. I’m just able to pay for the basics. So if that’s true for people on the upper end of the scale, what is life like for people more toward the middle or particularly the bottom end of the scale? What is life like for them at this point, Sam?

Sam Rohrer:

Well, it has to be different, obviously in your research that you have found, because a lot of people listening to me right now, some may find themselves in that condition, some may not at all and say, I don’t see that. Are you finding in the research that there are significant variances for that around the country? And I wonder also about this, if a person has segue way through one way or another, discipline has obviously made in part of it, either not gotten in debt or eliminated their debt so that they are not in debt right now, are they experiencing and saying the same thing?

Michael Snyder:

Same thing, yeah, there’s regional differences and then there’s a huge difference when it comes to age. Because if you’re an older American, if you purchased your house many, many years ago when housing prices were still cheap, maybe you’ve even paid off your house, well, you’re in a much better position than people coming in. Young people that are facing just extraordinarily high housing prices plus high mortgage rates, they have to try to afford housing and it’s just out of reach for most younger Americans. And then rents, the average rent in the United States is now more than $2,000 a month. So there’s a huge difference between the young person coming in trying to get housing now benefit, you’re an older American, and that’s going to be the case of many people listening to this show, people in their sixties, seventies, and eighties that purchased homes when they were very inexpensive or that have already paid off their homes.

So that’s an enormous difference right there. Or there’s going to be a huge difference between people that are maybe on Medicare or then you’ve got middle class younger people today that are trying to afford these exploding health insurance rates, which are off the charts. So there’s a massive gap between the wealthy and the poor. There’s a massive gap between older Americans and younger Americans because the cost of living crisis is hitting younger Americans, Americans in their twenties, thirties and forties, much harder than Americans in their sixties, seventies and eighties. And of course, there’s exceptions to every rule, but it is just tough out there for a lot of people. Or if you have a job that’s secure, your business is secure, you might be feeling pretty good. Meanwhile, according to Challenger, during Christmas, US employers have announced almost 1.2 million job cuts so far this year. That’s 54% higher than during the first 11 months of 2024. So if you’re in a situation where you’ve just lost a job, then you’re in a crisis situation. But if you’re feeling secure or you’re retired, then you don’t have that to be concerned about. So depending on your own personal situation is going to greatly influence what you’re personally experiencing in this economic environment.

Sam Rohrer:

So ladies and gentlemen, all right, what’s the reason for all of this is this? That this broadcast covers people who are listening in all 50 states, including certain countries in Africa. So when you give a Gallup survey result, for some it is very true. For some it is more true. For others, it is not as true, but the numbers don’t lie. And as we had knowing we know individually or nationally, when you spend more than you have and you are in debt, you are in trouble. That’s the economic condition. Switch topics. Alright, Michael, let’s shift topics. We talked a little bit about economics. We could have gone so much deeper than what we did, but in the last segment, but the point being that economically the world is in a circumstance where the value of currencies around the world are going down. National debt all around the world is exploding and it’s causing tremendous impacts, be it Japan or Germany or Italy or any of the countries there pretty much in Europe, here in the United States, because of our dollar and because of our overspending, it’s impacting the cost of the things for everyone all over the country, all over the world rather.

And so we could go much, much, much deeper and there is a narrative that says, all is well, don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry. But the reality is, as you’ve made clear many times that we’ve talked about, you cannot just excuse away our 38 going on 39 trillion in debt and the damage that it is making. And one of the things that’s being witnessed right now even in the price of silver is that basically it has run out. There’s a fight going on now between the banks that have been lying about how much they’ve had and things happening. All of those are indications. We are in this transition. You cannot violate God’s principles who says the lender or the borrow will be servant to the lender. It’s never good to be in debt, yet we are over our head. So just that being said, but shift from that another area that you’ve written on quite regularly, and frankly there’s been a lot to write about because something’s always happening it seems, and that is the area of weather, particularly earthquake and volcanic action.

It used to be that when a volcano went off, it was like the news for a long time. Now they seem to be going off that are not even covered, but you’re talking about it. That’s why same thing, two tails, nothing new, just like always, whether is that kind of thing. But Jesus said in Matthew 24, you’ve talked about it, we’ve talked about it together here. When the disciples said about signs of the time, one of the things he called out was that there would be an increase in shaking. The earth would literally groan, earthquakes, pest, that kind of thing. So in that area, what is happening in what is true? Are we seeing more than normal or are we seeing just what is normal?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, yeah. What we’ve been seeing is very unusual, so much shaking, particularly along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which runs roughly along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean. Of course the west coast of the United States sits right along the Pacific Ring of Fire. And just today, the Drudge Report. Today I checked the Drudge report, there was another headline on Drudge report about another earthquake swarm in the state of California. It’s been almost happening on an almost daily basis in recent weeks where it’s California’s been hit by an earthquake swarm after earthquake swarm. Fortunately, the quakes have been relatively small, not done any significant damage, but there’s been all this shaking, all this rumblings, earthquake swarm after earthquake swarm along the state of California. Meanwhile, in Alaska earlier this month, we had the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that really shook people up there in Alaska, and that was part of a series of 164 earthquakes that rattled the state of Alaska in less than 24 hours.

Then you look on the other side of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Last week we had a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Japan, and Japan’s just been hit by earthquakes, so many earthquake swarms. This year in particular, there was one earthquake swarm of 1,198 earthquakes that stretched from late June to early July. But since then we’ve seen just earthquake swarms, often of hundreds of earthquakes shaking Japan like crazy. Of course, we also saw the Kamchatka Peninsula there in Russia. At the end of July, we saw a magnitude 8.8 mega thrust earthquake, which was the sixth largest earthquake that’s ever been recorded, and that was part of a series of a global swarm of 494 earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater within a 30 day period. So we’re talking about a very large earthquakes, 494 of them within just 30 days. And you say, is that more than usual?

Oh yeah. That was about four times as many earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater that we usually experience in a typical 30 day period globally. And so that was just off the charts for that 30 day period. But we are seeing this happen in the news every day constantly. Meanwhile, Sam is not just earthquakes but his volcanoes. We’re seeing all these dormant volcanoes we’re told that they’ve been dormant for thousands of years. For example, there’s a volcano in Ethiopia’s northeastern region. They said it’s been dormant for 12,000 years. That’s what the scientists say. But in any event, it’s never erupted in all of recorded history, but it just erupted. It just boom that they say it was like a bomb went off there. In Afghanistan, there’s a volcano, which has supposedly been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years. I don’t know how they can tell that, but that’s what they’re telling us.

But once again, never erupted in all of recorded history, but now is roaring to life in Greece. There’s the Santorini, which has been dormant since 1950, but it’s been hit by over 25,000 earthquakes in 2025. It’s coming to life. And then we’ve got the flagrant fields there in southern Italy, which there’ve just been thousands and thousands of earthquakes releasing massive amounts of gas. We’ve seen the largest earthquakes there this year than we’ve seen in decades. If that super volcano goes off, it could create a volcanic winter, which could affect global food production all over the world. And it literally plunge us into the volcanic winter, which would be similar to a nuclear winter. So we’re seeing all these one dormant volcanoes coming to life. There’s dozens actually of volcanoes that are erupting around the globe right now at this moment. Meanwhile, we’ve got all this earth troubling earthquake activity along the Pacific Ring of Fire. And it reminds me, Sam of Matthew 24, what Jesus said, he said, there will be earthquakes in diverse places as one of the signs of his soon coming return.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, that’s where we have to go as a businesses and looking, because Jesus gave that passage of which the things you just talked about and there’s so much more that you could say, but the point that you’re making and then others who are following it is that what we are seeing, and maybe I’ll turn it back to you in a question. You’ve been tracking it for a long time. When you go back and you look at numbers, can anyone say that what we are witnessing is the same as we have been seeing both intensity and frequency, or is it undeniable that what we are seeing is an increase and not something that is normal?

Michael Snyder:

Well, once again, we have a debate, right, Sam, because we’ve got the conflicting narratives where the experts at the USGS, many of the top scientists, they’ll say, oh, hey, it’s all normal. We’ve always had earthquakes, but we’re getting better at detecting them. That’s why we’re detecting more earthquakes. That’s kind of the party line. Or even last year in 2024 when we had more significant earthquakes in the state of California than we’ve ever seen before, you had someone like Lucy Jones who said, yeah, there’s more significant earthquakes in California than we’ve ever seen of a certain size, but it’s just temporary. That’s the thing. Or when it spiked. Earlier this year when we had the 494 magnitude 5.0 earthquakes in a 30 day period, scientists said, oh, it’s just temporary. So when there’s a spike in the data, they say, oh, it’s just temporary. Things will return to normal. So they go to great lengths to try to assure us that everything’s going to be just fine, just like we see in the economic realm. Meanwhile, those of us that are watching the signs of the end times, they’re saying, hold on a second. It really does appear that something unusual is happening.

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, don’t have much time left. But in what you are tracking, do you find a nexus, a connection between what is, for instance happening on the sun? The sun’s been very active and people have seeing Aurora borealis all over the world, which never see it, any connection with that and activity and earthquakes and volcanoes.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, scientists have studied these things have found a connection, but when there’s more solar activity, there tends to be more earthquake activity. And this goes back hundreds and even thousands of years in the research. And of course there’s still a debate about that in the scientific community, but I’m very much persuaded by those studies. And so I’m personally convinced that when we see an increase in solar activity, we see an increase in seismic activity. And that’s certainly been true here recently.

Sam Rohrer:

And again, from a coming guy, from a biblical perspective, the scripture does talk about signs in the sun and the moon, and that’s obviously questionable. What exactly does that mean? But there very clearly is some interaction between heavenly bodies and this earth. And of course we know the magnetic, the geomagnetic activity is clearly there. It makes a difference. The moon controls the tides, all that kind of thing. So again, to sum it up, Michael warnings in this area, we have two choices. It’s to say, well, it’s not an issue. Don’t worry about it. You can’t do anything about earthquakes and volcanoes anyway. But what should it be doing relationship to how we view these things?

Michael Snyder:

Well, I think what it should be doing is pointing us to the scriptures. It’s one of the things Jesus talked about. So we need to be watching. We need to be aware and not just say, then when the experts and the authorities say, everything’s going to be fine, don’t worry just with economics, this is another realm which I think we need to be paying attention, particularly in the West coast, I believe is a danger zone. You talk about some place like Mount Rainier earlier this year, hundreds of earthquakes. And we need to be aware of these things because I believe that we are moving into a time of great geological instability on our planet.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, and ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. We’ll be back. Our final segment will be next. We’re going to talk about one other area that the Lord Jesus talks about there in Matthew 24 Wars, rumors of wars. That’s all a part of these things taken together. We’ll try to conclude this entire emphasis here. Well, as we go into our final segment, again, thanks for being with us today on this program. My guest, Michael Snyder, again, his website that you can find his articles and you can easily subscribe. There’s no cost to subscribing. You may want to become a paid member and do that because fellows like him, there’s a few that we have on the program that are independent like Michael, and they depend on listeners to support them. That’s how they survive. And what they do is made possible just like we are here on this program.

But I don’t hesitate to share that information about some of the guests that we have because I view them as partners in the communication of truth. There’s not that many, in my opinion, that are out there that are consistently promulgating and communicating the truth. And I have felt long for a long time that it’s the Lord who owns the cattle on the thousand hills. And for far too long, many that I’ve met in Christian ministry have often not wanted to mention somebody else for fear that they would take the money that should come to them. That to me, that’s ridiculous. So the guests that we have here, like Michael and others, when they are in that kind of condition, I mention it. And if the Lord touches your heart, then follow up on that. If he doesn’t, then that’s fine too. But with us, I will say as we come to the close of the year, it’s a good time for people to think about giving.

If you’ve not done anything partnered with us at all financially of this year, would you consider doing that? Becoming a monthly regular giver? That is fantastic. And for those of you who are doing that, thank you so very, very much because God is using you to make this program possible and what we do here, but for those who have not done anything, please consider and all there is no cost to this. Pray with us consistently. That is so very, very important. So I put that out there before you. And with that, I’m going to transition back here, Michael, another area about which you routinely write, and again, it’s because it’s where issues are out there, headline user out there. We talk about it, I talk about it with other guests on this program, different perspectives and perhaps what you take, but it’s the same idea. But there have been many things over this weekend as an example. I mean war, rumor of war shootings. Brown University had a shooting focused their attacks against Jews at the beginning of Hanukkah, Australia and Amsterdam. And on one hand there’s some mention, but basically not much mention here again. So what’s the true story of these types of things when we see them? Is there peace and everything is peaceful, or is there an increasing absence of peace? What is the truth?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, of course the truth is we’re seeing wars and rumors of wars all over the globe. But my article, why is Europe, feverously Preparing for World War III is one of the featured articles on Zero Hedge today as we record this program. So nations all over Europe are mobilizing their armies. They’re preparing for war with Russia. You’ve got situation in South America where the US is mobilized against Venezuela, just seized an oil tanker, which is a great concern because China buys more oil than Venezuela from Venezuela than everyone else combined. So we’re seeing it’s a time of wars and rumors of wars, and also a time of terrorism, a time of rising hatred against Jewish people and Christians, and this is part of the whole time scenario, but we’re seeing antisemitism, of course, from Muslims, the tragic attack that killed 16 and wounded dozens of others in Sydney, Australia.

We just saw the attack in Brown University. We’re seeing antisemitism. Of course, we expect it from Muslims. That’s been the case for decades. Ever since nine 11. People have been very aware that Muslims hate Jewish people. And that’s come to kind of a crescendo with the whole thing with Hamas and the Palestinians and the war in the Middle East, but then also with the, we’ve seen it from the far left, tremendous protest within the past couple of years about the war in the Middle East, the war in gaze and so forth. But Sam, what is a really alarming me right, right now is the tremendous increase in antisemitism from the so-called right, from so-called Christians all over the alternative media. I see this every day where there’s so many prominent voices now that are tremendously anti-Israel, tremendously anti anti-Jewish voices. These are people that call themselves conservatives, call themselves Christians.

And for many of them, it’s even to the point of an obsession where it’s like they’re literally obsessed with hating the Jews and hating Israel. And many particularly young, if you look at the survey, Sam, older Christian evangelical Christians still support Israel, but among younger adults, among evangelical support for Israel has fallen dramatically. And that’s a crisis. That’s a huge crisis because what US does toward Israel is going to go a long way to determining our fate as a nation. So we’ve got to stand for Israel, we’ve got to speak for Israel, and we’ve got to speak against many prominent voices now that call themselves Christians, that calls themselves conservatives, but they’re tremendously viciously anti-Israel. And that is a major crisis for the conservative movement and the evangelical and Christian movements in this country, Sam,

Sam Rohrer:

Yes, it certainly is. But again, that comes off the pages of what Jesus himself talks about in Matthew 24 persecution. For those, from my sake, and we’ve talked about it here in the program before, ladies and gentlemen, those who are persecuted for the name of Jesus, who are they? Well, those are Christians for namesake, but I’m going to also put in there they are Jewish people because Jewish people, though they have not yet come and recognized broadly Yeshua, the Messiah for whom we celebrate Christmas, his first coming, they will, they are chosen of God. God is working his plan through them. And so oftentimes when you see persecution of Jewish people goes up, it also wraps itself around true believers. So there’s a lot of things walking together. Mike, we only have about a minute and a half left. Take about a minute and a half and just say it right now again, God’s purposes for issuing warnings. What should be the result of people who are hearing what we’re talking about here today?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, when we see these warnings, when we see all these things happening in all these different areas, it should point us to the reality of the word of God, the reality of the Book of Revelation, the reality of all the prophetic scriptures. And God told us in advance what conditions would be like what was going to happen so that we could understand and so that we could have peace and hope, knowing that hey, God knew about all this in advance, he’s in control and he has a plan for us. And we need to be seeking God particularly about the particular plans that he has for us, for our families, for our congregations, so that we can serve God at this hour, so that we can prepare the way for the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, winning souls, building the kingdom with a sense of urgency. We know time is short because once we get to heaven, we can’t win any more souls. That’s going to be it. But right now, we need to spread the gospel. We need to build the kingdom, and we need to be what God has called us to be because put us here for a reason and we need to figure what that is for each one of us individually.

Sam Rohrer:

And ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Michael, so much for that. Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll just add to it again, the Lord has told us to fear not. Warnings are not to make us fear. Warnings are to help us to be aware and to focus our trust, not in that which we see around us because it will disappear, but to trust in the Lord. And that’s what scripture says, trust in the Lord. And also because we’re in the days that we’re in these things all merging together, we should look up and anticipate the return of Christ and we should be more salt and more light than ever before in the spreading of the gospel. That’s what Michael said. That’s why we’re here. Alright, Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me today. His website, again, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, and again for us, it’ll be on there. Again, stand on the gap radio.com and thanks for being with us today.