Remain Alert: Big Changes are in Motion

Host: Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 1/29/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:

Welcome to this Thursday edition of Stand In the Gap Today. And it’s, believe it or not, it’s the last Thursday of this first month of January of 2026. Time is flying. I’m sure it is for you because it sure does seem like it for us. But if there’s one word, as I consider what’s happening that seems to describe our current day, perhaps more than any other, it would be change literally the foundations of law and policy, truth and justice, international relations, politics and geopolitics. It seems that all are in transition, but on one hand this is not to be unexpected. The word of God makes it clear and it warns all of those with ears to hear that what we are seeing and eyes to see is that he said this will be it, and days will become more perilous. The people, the culture as a whole will become more lawless, the culture more proud and arrogant.

And with that, the return of Christ closer. Now those are God’s words, so that’s important to hang on here. But in the midst of increasingly unhinged change, the true remnant believer, the true believer is to remain calm in the midst of that storm because we can not to be perplexed what Jesus said to the disciples in Matthew 24 and always trusting in God’s unfolding plan because it is right on time. And also to be fervently sharing the gospel with others in these days. And at the same time like the five wise virgins that the Lord talked about to be excitedly waiting for the return of Christ, working and waiting while we await the bridegroom coming for the bride. Now, all of what I just shared there is right off the pages of scripture, but that worldview and that view is important as we look about and see what’s going on because it is not the view that the news media embraces and frankly, far too many who say they believe in the Lord don’t actually believe that either because they’re not filtering what is happening through that grid.

Now, with that introduction in place, I want to welcome back to Stand on the Gap today, Michael Snyder. He’s an attorney economist, an investigative journalist, and we’ve talked with him many times before a watchman on the wall from that perspective as he looks out to what is happening and then puts it together in a way that observant and God-fearing people can have a place to go to get a sense of what is happening. And so he’s also the publisher of the Economic collapse blog, the End of the American Dream, the most important news and other things, and it’s got a website at Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com and I’ll give that again. But the title I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation with Michael is this Remain Alert, big changes are in motion. And with that, Michael, welcome back. There was a lot of action, a lot of technical issues that we thought just seconds before the program went live that you were not actually going to be able to join us. I’m glad you were here.

Michael Snyder:

I’m so glad to be with you, Sam. We’ve got to keep it exciting. We’ve got to have some suspense, right? But sometimes God works things out right at the last minute and that was certainly the case today.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, he did and I am glad for that. So Michael, let’s get into it. Lemme just a little bit of a further background here, I would say is that as we’ve laid out the program here, I’m going to go into four broad areas that people are listening, we think they need to remain alert about. One is economic change. We’ll deal with some of that here in this segment. Currency and global finance changes. Next segment, global changes including peace board advances in the Middle East, potential war with Iran and all that. That’s boiling there. That’ll be in the third segment. And then conclude with imminent or I’m calling next up changes as we may see them unfold here in the United States or perhaps globally. And I’ll ask you that in a general sense. But for all these things you’ve written numerous articles in the past days or weeks.

Let’s get right into that. Here’s our first one. Let’s start with the economy and economic changes. I know that yesterday the Federal Reserve decided to let interest rates unchanged, citing unpredictability in the economy despite the president’s calling for lowered rates because he wants to do that because of our high debt obligations. Every bit that cost goes up, increases our national debt. He wants to keep it down for other reasons, even though that might mean inflation and all of that. Now, here’s my first question to you from your observation, Michael, what is the actual condition of the US economy? Is our economy better than ever as the president and others recently shared in Davos at the World Economic Forum meeting? And then give some evidence to kind of back up what you’re saying?

Michael Snyder:

Sure, Sam, you look at our balance sheet numbers, the national debt has exploded to $38.5 trillion continues to soar to skyrocket out of sight. Then you look at households $18.5 trillion in debt. You look at the condition of our currency, the US dollar index is down about 10% over the past year. It’s just been plummeting. And you have to keep in mind the US dollar index, the dollars being measured against other global currencies, which are also losing value, losing purchasing power. And so we’ve got debt levels, we’ve got currency losing value, and so we’ve got a cost of living crisis. Consumer confidence in the United States just dropped to the lowest level that we’ve seen in 12 years, not at any point during the pandemic did we see it get that low because people are really struggling. One recent survey discovered that 56% of US workers are experiencing financial strain and just trying to pay their bills from month to month, very difficult.

The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, they just came out with a report that said that the share of the US workforce that is functionally unemployed, which means they’re either jobless, they’re seeking, but unable to secure work or they’re earning poverty level wages that is increased to 25.2% now more than a quarter of the population. Meanwhile, we’ve got mass layoffs all over the nations just within the past few days. Amazon, Pinterest, Nike, UPS, 30,000 workers, the Washington Post, so many companies announcing mass layoffs. In fact, I recently published a list of more than 100 companies that have filed notices for mass layoffs in the early stages of 2026. Meanwhile, you look at the housing market, pending home sales in the United States just dropped to the lowest level for any December that we’ve ever seen. So the home sales, they’ve been depressed for a long time. They just fell to a new record low for the month of December. So everywhere around us, Sam, we see our economic problems, which have been building for many, many years. I mean, this just didn’t happen recently, but all the numbers tell us that we are certainly moving in the wrong direction.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael. And so that sets it up. So those are changes, ladies and gentlemen, again, are those negative sounding? Well, they are because those are not good numbers. But again, they’ve said for a long time when a nation goes into debt and borrows debt in order to look like things are good and then calls it good, well from God’s perspective, you can’t beat it. You can’t beat what God says. You go into debt, you are going to incur consequences. Those are some of the changes, economic, we’ll just bring them up at the beginning. The next segment, we’ll talk about currency changes and other things around the world.

Well, if you’re just joining us today, welcome aboard. This is Thursday edition of Stand in the Gap today, and my guest today is Michael T. Snyder is a writer’s been with me many, many times, so if you’ve listened to us before, you probably have caught that has a website at Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. And what Michael does is really writes on events that are happening, things that are taking place, some global, many domestic, but from literally every perspective, from economics to finance, to geopolitics to international relations to weather, to anything that has a component to it that can be linked to biblical principle. And from that help to bring a perspective view with the purpose of calling to attention things that are happening that those who fear the Lord and have ears to hear should be aware and also are things that you generally do not hear. Like programs that we do here on this program, you don’t hear in the regular controlled media.

Now that being the case, that’s a little bit of a background today the theme is remain alert, which is what the Lord tells us to do. Big changes are in motion and we’re talking about changes that are taking place. Last segment was looking at economic changes, big things that are happening primarily in this country, but other changes are taking place in the area of what we will consider commodities, precious metals including gold and silver and rare earth minerals about which we have heard a lot relative to Greenland and other countries. So that’s in this area. But in addition, there are other things that are happening too. The collapsing bond market that is an area in which the United States depends because bonds are how we sell our debt. And generally foreign nations buy that debt in order to keep us going. And when they don’t buy that debt, then we begin to run in trouble.

Some of those things are happening that’s impacting finances. Organizations like the Brix nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, that has now grown to about 11, officially 34 that have applied, that represents about half of the population of the entire world and 40 some percent of GDP of the world. So it’s a big entity, but they have been working to produce an alternative to the US dollar system reserve currency. And all of these things are creating major changes converging in some respects I would say, that are driving the world to a new monetary system where the dollar in the US are no longer going to be in the driver’s seat. And you can see this happening all over. Now that being the case, that’s just a setup. Michael, most people do not know how much we as Americans and the high standard of living that we’ve enjoyed for so long has been created by the fact that we fell into a position where the US dollar became the reserve currency after World War II and gave us the ability to kind of set the standard financially for the world. And by the fact everybody needed our dollar, which was linked to oil at that point, made both our friends and our enemies kind of come to us and we could wield it like a stick. And in fact, we’ve done that forcing friends and enemies to do our bidding and frankly, the world is really upset about that. How would you sum up the global financial changes right now which are occurring, and I’m going to say the dilemma it’s become for America of the West, frankly, the entire world.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, for decades, the United States has had the reserve currency of the world. That means all over the world, people use it to trade with one another. In fact, most Americans don’t even realize that far more dollars are used outside of the United States than inside the United States. And this has created a tremendous global demand for US dollars and has kept the value of our currency high. And when the value of our currency is high, our dollars have more purchasing power. So we’ve been able to import gigantic quantities of goods from all over the world at very inexpensive prices, and that raises our standard of living. But now things are changing because the rest of the world is starting to move away from the US dollar. In fact, the share of the marketplace, if you will, of the US dollar compared to other global currencies is steadily falling.

It’s in fact it’s starting to fall down toward an overall rate of 50%. And in fact, in recent months it’s kind of accelerated because we’ve seen much of the rest of the world. They’ve been kind of upset with the United States. They’ve been saying, Hey, we got to start moving away from the us moving away from the dollar. And so we’re seeing an acceleration of that trend. And that’s one of the reasons why the value of the US dollar has fallen. The US dollar index has fallen about 10% over the past year. And of course, as I mentioned earlier, that’s compared to other currencies which are also losing value. But overall, the whole world is kind of losing faith in fiat currencies in national currencies because your Europe has their own problems, they’re drowning in debt. There’s problems in Japan. Japan bond yields are going through the roof, the yen carry trade is breaking down so many things with the global financial system, we’re seeing these rumblings, we’re seeing these shakings, these kind of cracks in the system. And so that’s one of the big reasons why people are turning to gold and silver.

Sam Rohrer:

And let’s go there Michael. And just one thing before we go into the gold and silver, because one of the things that has happened is because everybody’s needed one of the dollar and it’s been the standard reserve currency for the world, everybody wants dollars. It’s allowed us to take in literally the only country in the world that could actually print money. And so we have printed a lot of money, which has then created a devaluation of the dollar so that it doesn’t buy today for Americans what it used to buy as an example. But by so doing, we went into debt, we began to live on debt. And when we printed money and the world wanted the money, we were able to ship our debt burdens and inflation to the rest of the world, which is in part the reason why other countries are also in debt issues. Because we’ve somewhat, we’re not the sole reason, but we’ve contributed to the financial issues existing in other countries as well. Comment on that quickly. And then I want to go to gold and silver,

Michael Snyder:

Sam, because the world has needed so many of our dollars that’s allowed us to export a lot of our inflation because we created just trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. But in recent years, a lot, so much of that money has ended up going outside of the United States and it doesn’t stay here. And that’s allowed us to create so much money, but then a lot of the money goes out of the country. And then we didn’t have so much inflation here, but now that’s not happening to the same degree that it once did. And so now we’re kind of paying the piper.

Sam Rohrer:

Alright, ladies and gentlemen, there’s a lot of places we could go on that, but that’s a moral issue. That’s a moral issue when we do that to the rest of the world. There’s a lot of things that are happening that again, we’re just staying on the high points here, but these are changes. But Michael, back to the gold and silver part of it, because what is happening there is significant gold has this morning crossed over $5,500. It’s gone up. 70.74% is the actual number in the last six months. That’s dramatic. Silver hit $120 this morning, it’s down a little bit. There’s been a lot of fighting going on. Anyways, stop at that. But the increase of 274% in 12 months, 212% increase in the price of silver in the last six months. Alright, there’s a number of reasons given for that, but what are your thoughts on this historic, because it’s never been higher. Why is that happening and what changes do these things that we’re seeing rise in gold and silver and frankly most commodities, but why is this happening? What’s it mean relative to change?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, those that control the levers of power in the western world in terms of financial levers of power, they’re losing control because they’ve always been able to keep gold and silver relatively suppressed. But now in fact, CME group just raised margin requirements on gold and silver again, and that’s keeping the rally down for today. But every other time they’ve tried to do it in recent weeks, it’s failed. And silver and gold have continued to break out wildly because to a certain extent they can’t control it anymore because silver in particular is needed in thousands of our high tech products like electric cars, cell phones, et cetera, et cetera. And then in all these AI data centers, which there are thousands being constructed in the United States alone, silver is needed for those AI data centers. And then China has restricted the export of silver. That’s another reason it’s going up.

But gold and silver, and this is one of the things when people are moving away from the dollar, other fiat currencies around the world, they’re flocking the gold and silver for that reason. And then they see all the instability with the war and everything else we’re going to talk about for the rest of the program at times of instability that drives investors to gold and silver. So it’s kind of this perfect storm which is driving gold and silver to unprecedented heights. They’ve been trying to do their best to suppress it, to stop the rally, but nothing is working. We’re seeing an explosion and really, I believe it’s a canary in the coal line, which indicates that once again, we’re seeing cracks in the global financial system is starting to get out of control. And that I think this is a huge sign that we’re starting to see tremendous instability behind the scenes. And there’s big financial institutions out there which are starting to experience huge losses because they had huge short positions, particularly in silver. And I think this is going to have enormous implications in the months ahead.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, I agree with you a hundred percent. I’ve been following this closely as you have and you’ve written some good articles on that as well. But ladies and gentlemen, think about this because we have money. You ever hear of fiat? Fiat money means it’s just existing, it’s paper money and it depends on faith. People have to trust the government to issues the paper money. But when that faith begins to wane, then people begin to say, I want something that I can hold in my hand. Gold, silver, commodities land. That is what is happening to a large degree and that is what those in government are not wanting to happen. So this is a struggle that’s underway. Next segment, global changes. Well, we’re at the midpoint of our program now. Again, if you perhaps are just joining us, theme today is this, remain alert, big changes are in motion.

And my guest today, Michael Snyder and I are really just looking at four big areas that we’re looking at one as economic. We commented on some of those major economic changes which we in this country are sensing and feeling. We didn’t touch them all, but we just commented on that. Changes underway, fundamental systemic changes economically. Last second, we talked about currency and finance changes that are happening around the world as other countries are moving away from the dollar. They’ve disliked for a long time the United States and foreign policy by multiple presidents and administrations using our dollar to force other countries, threatening them with sanctions or threatening them with tariffs or whatever. You can only do that when people need your money, but they’re tired of that. And the move away from the US dollar has been occurring. We’ve talked about this for years, that it’s coming.

It’s a slow motion move, but it’s building. It appears in steam as other countries around the world are saying, ah, we finally got you over a barrel and now’s our time to get back at you. And they don’t like what’s being said, frankly, the threatening from the current administration and they comment all around the world and these things are kind of coming together in part, driving up the price of gold and silver and commodities. Price of oil is up to $65 now for a couple of reasons. The dollar is going down in value making all of those go up. But at the same time, a lot of that is happening on the oil, which we’re going to see an increase in pump price and all that because Canada, who has not liked being referred to as the 51st state and being demeaned publicly, and they have made it publicly, the new Prime Minister Carney has made it very public.

He’s now reached a deal with China. And so Canada and China has lined up on some major things and they’ve cut export of oil and some things to the United States and we get a lot of our oil from Canada. So change the point being there are changes across the board no matter where you look, we’re hiding just some of those. All right, Michael, with that additional being said, and you can comment and add anything to that if you want, but going globally right now, you’ve been alerting people write about some things that are international and so forth, but clearly what’s happening in the Middle East, there’s a couple of areas right there. There’s the peace board, which the president sits. That whole thing was brought to fruition actually officially begun last Monday at the World Economic Forum. Actually this week actually literally kicked off. There’s things happening there and now there’s pending involvement with Iran at any point. So here go as far as we can. If there were three top leading global changes underway that you were to cite and we’ll get all three, fine. If not, we will go where we can. But what would be your number one as you look global changes overall that would be most significant about which we should be alert? What would it be?

Michael Snyder:

Sam? This thing with Iran is number one thing I’m watching right now. President Trump told Iran don’t kill the protestors. So what did Iran do? They’ve shut down the internet and Iran so nobody could see what was going on. Then they sent trucks with the machine gun, heavy machine guns mounted on them to these massive protests, and they literally opened fire with heavy machine guns on unarmed protestors. They had snipers on the rooftops firing at will. And Time Magazine says 30,000 protestors were killed in these protests in just two days, January 8th and ninth, the biggest slaughter of protestors that I’ve seen in my entire lifetime. So they didn’t just cross Trump’s red line, they obliterated it. And so now President Trump, he said, okay, so he sent this armada, he sent air power to the Middle East. It’s the biggest buildup of air power in the Middle East of us air power that we’ve ever seen bigger than Operation Desert Storm or the Iraq War, the Afghanistan war.

We’ve never seen anything like it. In fact, just President Trump just posted on true social. He says, Hey, Iran, I’m sending the USS Abraham Lincoln. It’s an aircraft carrier. I’m sending all these other ships. Basically people were interpreting it as saying, Hey Iran, this is your last chance you make a deal or we’re going to get you. Time is running out. He used that phrase in the post. So right now we’ve got this giant military buildup. Things in the region are super, super tenses, and the Iranians, they’re not backing down, they’re saying, president Trump, we’re not going to agree to any deal under threat, and your terms are nonsense anyway, so there’s not going to be a deal. But Iranians just posted a video depicting what it would look like for a US aircraft carrier to be destroyed. And then they have this giant billboard there that they’ve put up depicting a US aircraft carrier running with blood and so forth.

And so they actually very much have on their minds the destruction of US aircraft carrier, which the mainstream media has been talking about. Iran, if they launched a whole bunch of missiles, for example, at the SS Abraham Lincoln that could overwhelm their defenses or drones, the Russians have been using Iranian drones in Ukraine very effectively. The Iranians make very sophisticated drones if they suddenly set hundreds of drones at the USS Abraham Lincoln, for example, could overwhelm the defenses. And of course, Iran has sunburn, anti-ship missiles we’ve known about for many, many years. Those are very formidable anti-ship missiles. But in any event, if I was the US’ Abraham Lincoln or any other US aircraft carrier, I would want to keep my distance there. But in any event, it looks like the Trump administration is poised to attack. In fact, Marco Rubio just told the US Senate yesterday that it looks like we might have to preemptively prevent the Iranians from striking US bases.

There’s been talk about the Iranians. They may might make a preemptive strike if they think they’re going to be attacked, but tension with Iran are just sky high. But once the missiles start flying, for example, US attacks Iran. Iran just has repeatedly threatened Israel. In fact, they just, a top official says, Hey, we’re going to Tel Aviv. And so the Iranians are going to fire missiles at US targets, but also Israeli targets. And Israel has already said, Hey, if Iran hits us, we’re going to respond with overwhelming force and then it’ll be on. And this time around as opposed to the 12 day war when really Iran’s nuclear program was the target, the Iranians know there’s been all this talk about regime change in Iran, that Trump wants to bring down the regime. So you’ve got this very dangerous predator that’s been backed into a corner, and when you’ve got a predator backed into a corner, they’re more dangerous than ever.

And so if the Iranians get hit, they’re going to figure, Hey, we might as well strike back with whatever we’ve got because hey, they’re trying to bring our regime down. And their number one concern is survival for the religious zealots, the Islamic zealots that are running Iran more than anything else they want to survive. So they’re going to use everything that they’ve got, including conventional weapons and potentially including unconventional weapons where Iran International, they have footage which they claim that shows that the Iranians actually used in at least one instance, chemical weapons against protestors there in Iran. So if they’re willing to use chemical weapons against their own people, well, do they have chemical warheads that they could fire at Israel? And if that happened, how would Israel respond back to Iran? I think we’re at a real potential tipping point where, like I said, once the missiles start flying, anything could happen and Iran is going to use whatever they have.

They’re not going to fight fair because they consider their very survival to be a stake. Sam, I think that we could potentially be right on the brink of the most apocalyptic war the Middle East has ever seen. If that happens and the Strait of Hormuz is closed because about a third of all global oil that travels by sea goes through the Strait of Hormuz that could create a massive global oil crisis with CNBC says, Hey, could double or even triple global oil prices almost overnight. Sam, I believe we’re right on the brink of really bad things if things go a certain way.

Sam Rohrer:

And again ladies and gentlemen, the context is not to give bad news. That’s not the point, but that’s what it sounds like. That’s not the point. The point is that we are witnessing change in every direction that you look, and these are changes that the Bible, the word of God says would happen. So we have to keep these in the context, but as a believer, we are not to become perplexed. Matthew 24 says, we are not to become confused in our minds. We are to remain content in the fact that these things must come to pass, but we do need to be aware of them. That is the context for what we are doing and sharing at this point. And it is not to make us feel weary or as the regular media does, the media shares things to make people nervous, to make them to run to government or to run to some kind of pharmaceutical drug to placate them.

No, as believers, we run to God, we see these things, and so this is the context. It’s important that we share that. And Michael, in addition to that, with Iran talking about change, other countries have weighed in. For instance, Turkey just weighed in and said, you do anything, United States to Iran, we’re going to get involved. Saudi Arabia based on something that I just saw just a little bit ago, has said, you’re not going to use our airspace. So all of those things represent change. Adding to Michael what you said at this moment today, probably the leading focal point of change, potential change underway globally, not surprisingly, is right there in the Middle East again. So let’s leave that at that point. When we come back, we’re going to talk to Michael about those, I’m going to call them next up changes what things based on what we are seeing, may most likely be a change meet here in the United States or perhaps abroad.

I’ll ask him those questions when we return. Well, Michael, again, please jump for you. I’ve been with us from the beginning. Lemme just give you the website for Michael that you can go, can look at the whole list of articles that he has. You can also become a subscriber. A number of the guests that I have recurring that are on this program like Michael are independent and they fear God. Those two together give them an ability to remain independent and not become wholly owned subsidiaries, which is part of the problem with the normal news networks that give analysis on things. If you have people compromised on truth, if they don’t know truth, or they are compromised because they’re supported by somebody who wants them to do their bidding, that’s one of the biggest problems of today. I’d like those who are independent, who know the Lord and know that they answer to God alone.

And so that’s why I share that with you because if you do become a subscriber, then things end up in your email quickly and you can access a lot of information. But Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com is the site. I’ll give you Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. Alright, Michael, in the last weeks you’ve written about, well, a lot of events, impending events that are increasingly likely to unfold here in America. You’ve written a lot on economic stuff. We touched on that first segment. You’ve written about the larger picture involved in what’s getting a lot of attention, and that is all the difficulties, the trouble on the ground in Minneapolis with ice and immigrants and all of those kinds of things that all that’s happening. You’ve mentioned, we’ve talked about here, things such as weather events, significant weather events. Now from my perspective, literally all aspects of our national structures of government and authority and finance and economy and religion and attitudes of people, it’s all in change. And we’ve dealt with many of these things with other guests on this program. But again here now, and lemme just go in this direction with you, what would be some of the larger, I don’t know where you want to go, the biggest and most, or however you want to do it, but next up, changes that from your observation in your research would represent some of the bigger possible changes that may come either here to our nation or globally. I don’t care where you go first, but just address that

Michael Snyder:

Sam. To me, one of the biggest things internally in the United States is civil unrest. I believe this is going to be such a major story throughout this year that just the civil conflict, which is erupted on the streets of our countries, the radical left is far more organized than most people realize. In fact, they’ve organized these rapid response teams in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York City, where they’re recruiting thousands of radicals for their teams There other major cities around the United States. But these rapid response teams really operate in a very similar way to military units where they deploy spotters, which essentially operate as scouts, which are deployed around the cities, the communities there. And what they’re watching for is they’re watching for ice. And when they spot a vehicle and they’ll say, Hey, look, there’s an ice vehicle. Or if they’re not sure, but they’re suspicious, they’ll say, Hey, it looks like that might be an ice vehicle.

They take down the license plate, they call into headquarters and they say, okay, run this through the database. And they actually have a database of federal vehicles that they run it through and then they say, yep, that license plate just came up. That’s an ice vehicle. Now we’re going to deploy a ground team to go to either follow that vehicle, harass that vehicle, or try to block that vehicle. But the whole idea of the rapid response teams is to impede the operations of the ice officials to keep them from deporting people. And so they’ve got whistles and to sound the alarm for the neighborhood where the ice people are saying, Hey, the ice people are here, run away, get away. And so they’re blowing their whistles or making other types of noises to alert people in the area. And then they’re literally standing in front of the ice vehicles or they’re standing in front of the ice officers so they can’t even walk down the street, which is of course is illegal.

It’s illegal to interfere with the law enforcement officers as they conduct their duties. They’re, in fact, this most recent incident where a man was killed, federal law enforcement officers, and most people haven’t even heard about this. What were they trying to do? They were trying to arrest an illegal immigrant with a criminal record that had been involved in domestic violence. We don’t want someone like that in the country who is committing domestic violence. So they were actually trying to go arrest him and deport him out of the country. Of course they didn’t want that. But one of the big mistakes the Trump administration has made is they’re letting these protestors block the ice vehicles, get in the faces of the ice officers and do all these things which are illegal to impede the activities of these law enforcement officers. What they should have said is, okay, you’re going to stand in front of my vehicle.

Boom, you’re arrested, boom, you’re arrested. And that would’ve helped keep it from escalating, but instead they allowed them to smash into the ice vehicles, get in the faces of these ice officers and really get things very, very heated. And then it gets to such a point where it’s like, oh look, someone’s pulling out a gun. It gets to such a tension point that, okay, someone starts shooting and then people get hurt and whatever. But at the very beginning, when they start to impede the operations, the ice officers, they should just be like, you can’t do that. You’re arrested or taking you off the street. And that would’ve really done much to diffuse the situation in my opinion. But in any event, they’ve allowed it to get wildly out of control. And we’ve seen these tremendous confrontations. People have died, and that’s extremely sad, extremely tragic.

Americans fighting Americans, but now the left feels like they’ve gotten a victory in Minneapolis. They feel like it’s working. They feel like what they’re doing is working. They feel like public opinion is on their side because of the things that have happened. And so that’s empowering them, that’s fueling them, that’s giving them enthusiasm for their side, for their civil unrest. And I believe that we’re going to see it intensify in the months ahead. We’re going to see a lot more confrontations, a lot more people get hurt. And I think that’s very, very unfortunate. And I believe as both sides escalate matters eventually throughout the months, I believe that we could eventually see the insurrection act invoked. And I don’t think that will solve the problem either. I think things will continue to escalate eventually down the road. I believe that we will see martial law major US cities, and that’s extremely unfortunate.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, the discussion that you’ve just laid out right there is something that is of a great concern should be to everybody. The lawlessness, as you’re describing, the lawlessness that’s taking place is becoming further motivated. The rhetoric of those in office on both sides seems to be incendiary. It’s escalating the threat of imposing insurrection. Act. Martial law becomes something that anybody conservative or not conservative becomes greatly concerned about. That is not what we want. Ladies and gentlemen, you get to that point. Change is underway. We need to pray for those who are in authority. We need to pray that people have some conscience to follow the law that’s there, that are officials enforce the law in a way that’s limited by the law in justice and does not go beyond because one thing tends to fuel the other, but again, change. And that’s the focus of today’s program. We must remain alert. Big changes are in motion. Literally it’s all around. But if our feet are anchored on God’s word, that will never change. And our faith and trust in him alone must not change. So that is where I want to anchor and finish the program. Change is all about us, but if we’re have our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, planted on the word of God, that will not change. That’ll keep us anchored. See you back here tomorrow.