The World Today: Two Completely Different Realities

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 4/20/26. 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 What Promises to be another full week of headline news by its very nature, designed to distract and mislead and create with increasingly competing views of reality. Why is it? Because it’s the world’s system that’s doing it, that’s why. But let me share upfront that God’s word presents nothing misleading or distracting and is the only unchanging source of true reality with the tools to decipher lies from truth. So that’s why on this program, when we consider any headline news or world events, and not all of our programs are the same, but where we do that, and I generally am on some type of headline news, there will always be a connecting biblical thread through which headline news is considered through what we call biblical worldview lens. Now today, my recurring monthly guest, Michael Snyder, joins me once more.

He’s an attorney, an economist, a publisher of the most important news in his almost daily reviews because he is so prolific in his writing that you’ll find on his Substack location at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. And I’ll give that again as we go through the programs. But today, there’s so many different areas worthy of comment. There really are. And areas about which Michael, which I want to bring him in just a moment, has written it in just the last few days about many numerous significant events have occurred that today we’re going to select just a few important ones. And title I’ve chosen to frame our conversation today is this, The World Today, two completely different realities. That’s the title. The world today, two completely different realities. And with that, Michael, I’m going to welcome you to the program. Thank you for calling in. You live out in the Western United States in a great part of the country, and it’s great to connect with you again here on radio.

Michael Snyder:

Well, thank you, Sam. It’s so great to be with you today. And certainly there’s so much going on in the world, even so much since we last talked last month. So we’ve got a lot to talk about today.

Sam Rohrer:

We do. And I want to get right into it. As I was thinking about this, this has been, as you just said, but it’s been an extraordinarily busy news weekend. And we’ve talked about, I’ve mentioned it many times that many big news items occur on Friday, Friday night before the weekend, because the weekend just kind of sticks right in there as a pause and people are doing other things. But this has been a big weekend, national and international. One of your articles, by the way, you highlighted an observation to which I think any observant person would agree. And that is the fact of competing realities. And that’s what I framed the program off of, two completely different realities. There are two realities. There are two official narratives, and sometimes there are even more than that, completely opposing perspectives about what is. And this is what you wrote just a few days ago in one of your articles.

I’m just going to quote it, then we’ll go into it. You said this, quote, “It is crazy how much things can change in just 24 hours.” You wrote three days ago, this article. You said, “In this case, has the reality of what is becoming or what is happening in the Middle East actually changed, or is it just our perception of what is happening in the Middle East that has changed?” You go on to say, “To a certain extent, I feel like we’re all living in an episode of the Twilight Zone right now. Some of the things that we are hearing on the mainstream media and on social media do not correspond with reality at all. ” All right, here’s my first question to you, Michael. Share a bit about the concept of two perceived realities about which we’re focusing today’s program since in truth, there is only one truth.

There is only one reality. There’s only one genuine. And you mentioned the Middle East specifically, but it does extend way beyond the Middle East, doesn’t it?

Michael Snyder:

Oh, it sure does. But our perceptions are so shaped by what we take in. And most of us are plugged into the matrix of the mainstream media and we’re fed certain narratives which don’t always correspond with reality. And we saw a perfect example last Friday, the mainstream media said, “Oh, Iran has completely opened up the Strait of Hormuz and we were told, oh, they’ve agreed to never close it again.” But then of course within 24 hours, it was completely closed once again and they were literally shooting at commercial vessels going through the straight or on Friday we were told that, “Oh, Iran has agreed to hand over all their enriched uranium to the United States.” But of course, Iranians have all along said, “No, we’re never going to hand it over under any circumstances. It’s not even up for negotiation.” And so we’re hearing completely different things.

People are very confused, people are frustrated, but every time leaders in the Western world make some of these pronouncements, we see the markets move, the markets … And so to a certain extent, the stock market does not reflect reality or the price of oil even has been moving all over the place. Meanwhile, what I’m more concerned about than anything else, and people think there’s going to be a quick resolution to this, this war in the Middle East, not that big of a deal. It’s going to end quickly, but people don’t understand an incredible amount of damage has already been done, particularly to energy infrastructure, and we’re being told it’s going to take years for energy production in the Middle East to be rebuilt and to return to normal. And so even if the Strait of Hormuz opened up tomorrow, we’re still facing a long-term crisis, but we’re not feeling it yet because the last tankers and commercial vessels that left the Strait of Hormuz before the war began, back at the end of February, they’re arriving at their destinations this month.

So things in many parts of the world still feel at least somewhat normal because the ships are still arriving, but that’s going to stop happening this month. And we’re going to start to already, they’re saying Europe could run out of jet fuel in six weeks. We’re already seeing shortages of diesel in many gas stations in Australia and petrochemicals, a lot of petrochemicals come out of the Middle East as well. And in South Korea, they’ve been panic buying garbage bags, Sam, because people are concerned, “Hey, there’s going to be shortage of plastic,” which we’re potentially facing because so many petrochemicals come out of the Middle East. So it’s a very, very big deal. And now the straight forward move is completely … Iran has closed it. The US Navy is blockading everything coming out of Iranian ports. So things are shut down coming out of that region, both from Iran and then from the Persian Gulf and China is very upset because they get more than 50% of their energy in total oil and natural gas from the Middle East region.

They have huge reserves they can draw on for the moment, but they’re very concerned about what this could mean for their economy down the road as they run through the reserves. So Sam, this is a major, major crisis for the whole globe, and yet in the Western world, we’re not treating it like that as that kind of a reality because of what we’re hearing from the mainstream media.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. And with that, ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. Our theme today is this, The World Today, two completely different realities. I know you’re faced with it just like we are. And my special guest, Michael Snyder, with website michaeltsnyder.substack.com is with me. And we’re going to talk about this next segment, Iran and War. All right, Michael, let’s return to your recent article and even more, which has arisen in just the last day regarding war, the theater of war and the reality of war. And in this segment, again, we’re focusing today on an article that you had written several days ago where part of that quote I mentioned in the last segment about people being confronted, and I agree 100% with what you were saying there, we’re confronted with at least two narratives that are out there in the world’s media system, and everyone should be … And make no mistake about it, the media and the social media system and the media system is of the world.

It is. And so when you hear things across the perspective, ladies and gentlemen, and see common things happen, that is the world’s system feeding you and feeding me the world’s choice. Now it can come from different places. In America, it comes out of Washington. In China, it may come out of Beijing and Russia may come out of Moscow. So you get the idea. It comes from different places depending and people in those places hear those things, but believers in every one of those locations are confronted with, “But wait a minute, is that true?” All right, and that is part of it, the reality that somebody gives, but then there is the truth. All right, those two perspectives. Now, Mike, let’s go back to that because you quoted a little bit of this, but let me give the exact quote. On Friday, for instance, just a couple days ago in regard to Iran, the president tweeted, it was at 7:40 AM, and the world seems to be driven by tweets.

It’s an amazing thing that has happened. No president has ever tweeted like this one, but the whole world gets the tweets. But he said this, “Iran has agreed to never close the strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the world, President Donald J. Trump.” That was the tweet. The president then repeated this again, identical words when he spoke to a gathering sponsored by TP USA on Friday night. So one was on a Friday morning, one was on Friday night. Yet right after the president’s tweet, likely designed to influence Wall Street and the price of oil, and that’s been happening all over. That’s not a subjective thing. That’s exactly what all economists and those who looking know is happening because you can follow it. But right afterwards, the Iranian speaker of the parliament, Muhammad Bagher Galabof, he said this, “The president of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.

They did not win the war with these lies and they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either.” And that’s exactly what I just quoted there is all over media in the Eastern world. All right now, and we’re here too. It was achievable here. So Michael, this is the type of contradiction and opposing realities that continue to confuse what really is and what is theater. So go a little further and share what information you have about the war with Iran, the US, what it is, what it’s not, particularly in light of Iran now shutting down the straight as you talked about completely in response to the US shutting down the entire Gulf because you can’t have both. It’s either open or it’s shut. We’re at war or we’re not. And talk about this. What does this kind of reality dichotomy, if you’d put it that way, what’s it actually produce in people?

What’s the harm of having things so contradictory?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. Well, there’s such confusion for people out there and generally in society and the markets have been manipulated and people are losing trust because they’re hearing one thing from one side, one thing from the other side. But let’s try to break down what just happened over the past several days because people are so frustrated because they’re being told one thing and then they see another. But what happened is there was a two week ceasefire that was announced between the United States and Iran and President Trump came out at the beginning of the ceasefire. He said, “Hey, during this ceasefire, Iran has agreed to fully open the Strait of Hormuz.” Of course, that did not happen because from the Iranian point of view, they said, “Hey, what’s going on in Lebanon is supposed to be part of this ceasefire.” And they saw that Israel and Hezbollah were still fighting.

So they said, “We’re not going to open up the Strait of Hormuz yet because they’re still fighting going on over there.” Well, we get to last Friday and then Israel and Hezbollah, they agreed to a 10 day ceasefire and then Iran said, “Okay, that condition has been satisfied and so we’re going to fulfill our obligation to open the Strait of Hormuz for the remainder of the ceasefire with the United States, not forever, not for all time, like Donald President Trump said, but for the limited amount of time remaining in the ceasefire and said, okay, we’re going to fulfill our obligation to open it. ” But they also said that, “Hey, we’re going to close it again if the US does not reciprocate and end the blockade temporarily for the duration of the ceasefire on us.” And then President Trump said, “Well, no, we’re not doing that.

We’re going to keep this blockade in place to pressure Iran to make a permanent deal.” And it’s his prerogative to do that. Now from my point of view, it would have been a gesture of goodwill to say, “Okay, you’ve opened this Strait of Hormuz. We’re going to temporarily lift this blockade, and that would have allowed potentially hundreds of commercial vessels that are trapped in the Persian Gulf to get out and bring much needed oil, natural gas and fertilizer to the rest of the world.” It would have been a great blessing to the whole planet, at least for a few days or as long as the ceasefire lasted, but that didn’t happen. So Trump said, “No, we’re keeping our blockade in place.” So Iran said, “Okay, we’re completely shutting down the Strait of Hormuz again, just hours after opening it up and actually only a very limited number of ships actually got through, but they closed it and they started actually shooting at a number of commercial vessels.

The Iranians were shooting and actually hit a number of ships that had approached the Strait. And then on the other side, Iran actually sent a commercial vessel to try to break through the blockade of the United States and the US Navy blew a giant hole in the side of an Iranian cargo vessel on Sunday. And so we’re kind of back to square one with the whole Strait of Hormuz and now we’ve got these peace talks. Trump is saying, I’m sending people for peace talks in Pakistan on Tuesday.” And the Iranians said, “Well, we’re not going to participate because of all the reasons that we stated before and we’re miles apart and there’s no really sense in talking with the US at this point.” But now we’re hearing, well, Iran might send somebody, they might not. We’ll see on Tuesday, but the bottom line is both sides are miles apart and they’re not even in the same universe in terms of what an actual peace deal would look like because the US has their red lines, Iran has their red lines.

So there’s no compromise that’s going to satisfy either side, it appears at this point, but Trump is saying, “Hey, this is the last chance. And if you don’t agree to the deal we’re offering Iran, we’re going to blow your whole nation up.”

Sam Rohrer:

So now we’re back to kind of where we were coming off of Easter. And that brings up another item where I’ve noticed a dichotomy of reality, Michael, and that’s where the area of peace, because there are two different realities. Now, the president has stated, and again, the reasons for stating it is because he is the leader of the free world. So he has stated and restated many, many times, including just recently on Friday night at TP USA, he said, “We stopped wars that everybody said could never be stopped. Some of them were going on for decades.” And then he said at TP USA, “I was the only president in a very long time who didn’t start a war. Instead, we had peace, real peace. I alone have stopped eight wars and we’re moving on to nine or 10, talking about the nine or 10th one being perhaps Iran.” Now, Michael, that’s a narrative that again, that makes a perspective.

We are at peace, we’ve stopped eight wars, but in the meantime, we’re talking about this ongoing war, and you’ve written about it, wars are continuing ongoing like they are in Ukraine. As you approach this opposing realities, speak a little bit about that and other things perhaps you’ve written about these things.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, since October 7th, 2023, when Hamas invaded Israel and took hostages, and negotiations almost began almost immediately to end that conflict and bring peace to the Middle East, and then things with Hezbollah erupted, and all the things that have happened since then. But in reality, for more than two and a half years now, we’ve had war in the Middle East, and now it’s worse than ever, and yet we’ve been told that peace was right around the corner the entire time or you look at the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which began in early 2022. It’s now been over four years, and the entire time we’ve been told, “Oh, peace deals in the works, peace is right around the corner, and yet war has been raging in between Russia and Ukraine for more than four years.” And so people need to understand that the war between Russia and Ukraine is now almost as long as the entirety of World War I, in just a couple months, it’s going to be longer than the entirety of World War I, or the US was only involved in World War II for three years, eight months, and 26 days.

So these wars with the war and with Ukraine and Russia, this war in the Middle East, with no one in sight from my point of view, these things have been going on for an extended period of time now. Now, the way I look at it, when you look at World War I, when it first erupted, people said, “Oh, another pointless war in Europe. Germany is fighting France in the UK, not that big of a deal. It won’t last that long, but ultimately it was a really big deal. And later, it became known as World War I. ”

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. And Michael, with that, we’re going to have to jump off because of time. Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. I wanted that to continue at the maximum time. We’ll take a break. We’ll be back in just a little bit. We’ll finish that statement and then we’ll talk about reality of the economy. Well, if you’re just joining us, thanks for being with us. We’re halfway right smack in the middle of the program today. And our theme is this, the world today, two completely different realities. And if you’re following the news, whether it’s on social media or listening to regular TV or however it may be, wherever you get your information from, don’t you find it interesting? And note along with my guest today, Michael Snyder and I, that there appears to be two completely different views that are put forth, which becomes confusing because one side says, “This is the truth.” The other side says, “No, this is the truth, and they happen not to be the truth, or the same side changing what they are saying.” And as I’ve said, it’s happening all around the world.

So the communist leaders in Beijing tell their people one thing, and then you have the believers in China, I know, say, “Well, you know what, that’s not the truth, because they compare it to what they know to be the truth or the word of God as it specifies truth.” Same thing for believers in Russia or the United States. We’re no different, and we shouldn’t think any differently because the world system is the world system and it is the world. And that’s the part. It’s not just us and it’s not just China, it’s not just the UK, it’s the world system. And the world system is not geared to tell the truth and point people to Jesus Christ. It’s not. And the Bible tells us that, be not a part of the world or the world system. Now, that being the case, we’re talking about those realities that are set up and we have to choose as godly people, people who fear God.

And Michael, one of those we were talking about the matter of war and peace. And you were about to conclude something we ran up time. So finish your thought there and then we’ll move into the area of what is the truth relative to economics and the economy.

Michael Snyder:

Thanks, Sam. Yeah. When war erupted in Europe in 1914, most people had no idea that it would become World War I. It was only called that much later. And then when war erupted again in Europe in 1939, most people had no idea that it was going to become World War II, and it was only called World War II much later. And then I believe we’re in a similar situation today where we’ve got wars been raging in Europe for years, war has been raging in the Middle East for years. And I believe it is my opinion that World War III has begun that we are actually in World War III, but most people are not going to call it that until a later point of time, but I believe that it has already started.

Sam Rohrer:

And that’s a great perspective. And I think it stands on its own well established. Thank you for sharing that. We’ll just move into this other area now. Michael, on the economic reality, because not only does there seem to be two opposing realities of what we were just talking about, war and peace that we see in today’s news, but it’s also out there regarding economics. Now, for instance, while every administration, and it’s the way it’s always been, but for every administration, they love to report numbers relative to the economy to favor their interpretation. That’s just the way it is. And it’s that way for the Biden administration, for the Obama administration, for Clinton. It doesn’t make any difference, but it’s also certainly that way for the Trump administration. So keeping it on our current, because it factors into it, under our current administration, they have stated very, very clearly in the last weeks that we have in their words, “The roaring economy, roaring like never before.” So those are the words.

We have the roaring economy, roaring like never before. Another one is that energy prices slashed by 50%, direct quote. In reality, the economy has … Well, we’ve lost 92,000 jobs. That’s also confirmed now just in February. I’ve looked it up and just this morning, electricity costs are up today here in 2026, 15%, home heating oil up by 44% and gasoline 18%. In addition, consumer, corporate, government debt continues to climb into historic territories, and you can’t have that without having some economic reality. So that being the case, Michael, what are the two economic realities you are observing and what is the truth and why is there such a continued presentation when what is stated is so different than reality and both numbers are right there?

Michael Snyder:

Yes, Sam. What they’re saying that we have a K-shaped economy where the people at the very top have been doing really well. The stock market is hovering around all time record highs. The wealthy are swimming in money and there’s a very small segment of society that has been thriving up to this point. Meanwhile, the majority of the population is really struggling. There was on the drudge report today, there was a headline from the Los Angeles Times, a brand new survey shows that the majority of the US population believes that the American dream is no longer achievable. Why? Because people are hurting. They’ve been hurting for a long time during the Biden administration. The survey showed that the economy was the number one issue. Now during the Trump administration, the economy is the number one issue. Why? Because the cost of living has been rising much faster than paychecks have.

And so, and we’re seeing, like you mentioned earlier, electricity bills, utility bills, skyrocketing, home insurance, health insurance going way up. Housing costs are absurdly high. Most, especially young people can’t afford to buy homes. And then we’ve got the matter of food has become so expensive. You go to the grocery store. When I go to check out with my groceries, I feel like asking, “Well, what Oregon do they want me to donate to pay for my groceries?” Unfortunately, grocery prices are going to go higher because this crisis in the Middle East, diesel prices are going absolutely nuts all over the world and farms are run on diesel. And in addition, fertilizer prices have been rising at an exponential rate. I posted a graphic on my Substack showing this how literally the price of fertilizer around the world has been rising exponentially since this war began. And farmers, in fact, a recent survey found 70% of US farmers say they’re not going to be able to purchase all of the fertilizer they need this year because the price of fertilizer is just too high.

Of course, we’re a wealthy nation around the rest of the world that’s much, much worse. But we know a third of all globally traded fertilizer normally travels through the strait of hormones and then a lot of natural gas that is exported normally through the strait of hormones that goes to countries like India where they make their own fertilizer. Well, India just announced, they said every fertilizer plant in the nation cannot go beyond 70% production because we’ve just got to cut back. We’ve got to conserve. So fertilizer plants in the entire nation of industry are limited to 70% production. And so all over the world, we’re seeing this incredible fertilizer crunch sand, which is going to affect annual crops, crops like wheat and barley, which we’re in the spring planting season in the northern hemisphere and nitrogen fertilizer has to be applied within a specific window of time or it won’t be effective.

It won’t work. And so we’re at that time. Or farmers need this fertilizer and they need to get it planted, but the strait of hormones is closed. So this year in 2026, we’re going to see global production of annual crops like wheat and barley and corn be way down all over the globe, especially in impoverished countries. That’s going to be the reality of the situation. Meanwhile, crops that are not grown annually, such as grapes and olives, for olive oil, well, grapevines can live 50 to 100 years and just keep producing grapes over and over again each year. They’re going to keep producing grapes this year. And olive trees, some olive trees have lived for over a thousand years and are still producing olives. So they’re going to keep producing normally like they always do. They won’t be effective. The olives and the grapes, meanwhile, wheat and barley and corn are going to be greatly affected in six to nine months from now when the harvests are supposed to come in and then beyond into 2027.

Sam Rohrer:

And that’s significant. We don’t have too much time here, but we’ll just complete this a little bit. The awareness that not only because of what’s happened in the Middle East has stopped the flow of oil with the consequences you’ve talked about, but you referred to it earlier, and I’ve looked at it as well. The damage to the machinery there, the processing, the refining, and all of those have been so damaged. You’re talking two to three years. So the question would be from, as you look at it, is there any way that the price of food, the quantity of food will not be affected to some degree? It almost seems like it’s impossible not to, because even if everything stops in the Middle East tomorrow, a lot of the refineries and all that are not able to get back to business because they don’t exist anymore.

Michael Snyder:

Well, we’re going to have some impact no matter what, but if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow and the fertilizer got out to the farmers that needed all of the Northern hemisphere and the oil and natural gas start flowing, well, things would be a lot better than if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for an extended period of time, for months. I mean, the longer the strait of Hormuz is closed, the more damage that we are going to see, Sam.

Sam Rohrer:

And I think that that would be a very, very safe way to go it. But as you’re saying, Michael, ships that were in transit before all this started there in Iran, are now at port and things are happening there, but we’ve now gone six weeks, seven weeks with nothing there. So you’d have to have seven weeks, even it would stop tomorrow and they could all be filled up That’s going to be another month. Well, they will have missed the planting time in the Northern hemisphere because now you’re into May. So wheat and corn, you’ve got to plant almost before then. So the point being, ladies and gentlemen, there’s some things we know, some things we don’t, but what has happened so far will have impact to one degree or another. And the longer it goes, they’re in the Middle East with no oil. Obviously, the greater the impact will be the end of this year and certainly into 2027.

So those are some realities as we look at them. Then we come back, we’re going to go to here and we’re going to talk about biblical truth realities. Another area that Michael’s been watching, and then we’re going to talk about biblical truth reality. Well, as we go into our final segment, just a reminder for those of you who are listening, my guest today is Michael Snyder. Been with me a number of times. He’s an attorney. He’s an economist. He does a lot of writing. And he has a website at Michael T, it’s important to put in a michaeltsnyder.substack.com, where all of his articles are there. You can go and you can sign up. You can be a paid or unpaid. And I would recommend being a paid because you’ll get some additional articles that way. But it’s also what I found in many of those that have in a program like us ourselves here at Stand in the Gap.

We’re independent. We do not have big funders behind us. And I wouldn’t be taking money from people who expect something in return like happens in government. Happens all the time. That’s called bribery. We don’t want that. And I found that the only ones that are really able to write independently are those who understand what scripture is and have their feet anchored on biblical truth and are not compromised by being a part of some world organization that demands that they write their way. And I think that makes sense to all of you listening, but it doesn’t happen by accident and it’s difficult to do that in order to survive. But that’s why we look to God for providing the funds for this program to continue. And God’s way is to use people through which to funnel his wealth and what is needed. And so that’s why I don’t talk about it often, but if you are benefited by this program, pray for us.

That’s an easy thing, doesn’t cost anything. But also consider sharing financially with us because that is essential. And if at some point you don’t give or there’s no funds coming up, then this program could go off the air. Now we’re not at that point right now, but that is a reality of how things work. I just shared that. And the same thing for Michael and his website again, michaeltsnyder.substack.com. Now, Michael, before we conclude how we, with biblical reality, I want to ask you one other thing and you keep it short and then we’ll go into the biblical reality. But there’s a reality about one thing that is happening that impacts the weather. And you comment on the weather a lot. You write on that and we’ve talked much on previous programs, but there is one thing that is happening that is contributing to the warming of the Pacific Ocean as an example.

And you wrote about that. I want to have you share just a little bit about that because the world says we’re in the matter of global warming as an example, and that’s because of what mankind is doing and all of the things, but you say there may be a different reason. Tell us about that.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam. I just want to first preface this by saying I don’t believe this has to do with manmade global warming or whatever theories they have out there at all. But what we’re witnessing in the early portion of 2026 is extremely unusual. And it’s a big change from recent years where we’re witnessing what scientists are calling an extreme marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean. For example, on April 15th, just a few days ago, off of the coast of California, the surface water temperature was 7.7 degrees above average for that particular date for ocean temperatures. That’s extreme. But then at the bottom of the ocean, the temperature was the hottest that we’ve ever seen on April 15th and approximately a hundred years of records going back a hundred years, the hottest ever on that date, on the bottom of the ocean. But this heat wave is not just one day or a few days, but this heat wave has been going on for a long time.

They’re saying it’s very deep and the worst of the heat wave is on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It’s persistent, it’s been going on for months and it’s widespread over a very, very large area of the Pacific Ocean. And so the scientists are saying, “Oh, they’re blaming it on, oh, there’s been this ridge of high pressure in Southern California. There’s been weaker than normal coastal winds.” They’ve been blaming some different things, but to me, that doesn’t explain why there’s so much heat on the bottom of the ocean, so that the explanations that were being given don’t really kind of resonate with me personally, but everyone agrees that this tremendous heat, it’s in the Pacific Ocean, this isn’t worldwide, but particularly in the Pacific Ocean, it’s generating some absolutely massive monster storms. For example, we just saw a super typhoon, which had sustained winds of 180 miles per hour, gusts of 220 miles per hour, but it hit the Northern Marianas islands there in the Pacific.

It’s actually a US territory, belongs to the United States, but devastated those islands with this super typhoon. I mean, these storms are becoming so powerful, Sam, they’re going to need new categories to describe them. And then scientists are saying, in addition to all these crazy storms we’ve been witnessing in the Pacific, all this warm water, it’s not just going to create an El Nino for this in 2026, but they’re saying, “Hey, we could be facing a super El Nino, which we haven’t seen for decades, but this super El Nino could affect our weather all over the United States in the days ahead because the water temperature has been so hot.” And scientists, like I said, they’re giving us all kinds of reasons, but I think that, because we’re seeing so much seismic activity in the Pacific Ring of Fire. For example, there was just a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Japan today.

Last month there was a 7.3 near Vanuatu a few days later than that in early April, there were significant earthquakes in the US, Japan, Indonesia in a 24 hour period. And then we just saw a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Nevada. Of course,

Sam Rohrer:

California’s been rocked quite a Michael- Michael, I don’t want to step in on you. I didn’t want to step in on you, but I need to because we’re just about out of time. And I said, I need to share with you about the fixed nature of God’s word as the definer of what is real and how you factor that into what you write and how we interpret what we’re talking about today to competing realities.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, we really are facing … The reality that is true is the word of God. And the word of God is true, has always been true, and it’s our rock that we can depend upon. And from my perspective, as I read it, the word of God is speaking about our time that we really are living in the end times. So we’re going to see war and famine and pestilence and natural disasters, but meanwhile, we often get a completely different narrative from the world system.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. And you didn’t have to go real long on that, ladies and gentlemen. We’re about at the end here, and I’ll just add to what you said, Michael. And that is this. Ladies and gentlemen, why do we talk about the authoritative word of God as much as we do in the program is because that is reality. The word of God never changes. Why? Because God, the author never changes. It’s the same forever and ever. All right. If that is the case, then under a biblical worldview where we have the word of God that speaks to all issues of life, either in command or in principle form and provides for us biblical prophecy, which talks about that, which was and is and will come, then that should be our definer of reality. And the world system does not consider God, nor God’s word, but all God fearing people must, what we try to emphasize here, start with God’s word, look at all that goes on around us and then filter it through what God’s word says, and then come back and anchor on what God’s word says.

Then what does that give us? The real. That is the reality. And that’s where our feet ought to be anchored, and that’s where I hope your feet are anchored. Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me again today. And ladies and gentlemen, again, his website, michaeltsnyder.substack.com. All of his materials you can find there and you can sign up and be a subscriber to his news that he puts out. Again, Michael, thanks so much. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being with us today. Join us tomorrow. Dr. Jamie Mitchell will be leading the program, and I think you’ll enjoy that program. Join me again on Wednesday.