Strait of Hormuz Gridlock
Energy Shock & Conflict Escalation
Sept. 10, 2026
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Michael Snyder
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/10/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to Stand in the Gap today. And this is our monthly Watchmen on the Wall update. I’ve termed a call this time that we’re together with our special guest, Michael Snyder. He’s an attorney, author, and he’s a publisher of the most important news, writes prolifically on events of importance literally around the world. And with me, as I say, about once a month. Well, today we’re going to focus on a critical intersection of geopolitics, energy, of which we’re hearing so much energy security and global stability. And the title is this, the Strait of Hormuz Gridlock: Energy Shock and Conflict Escalation. And within that title, we’re going to touch on multiple things that relate to the strait of Hormuz gridlock and energy. It’s not going to be the only thing, but it’s going to be a lot. For decades, foreign policy analysts and military strategists have warned of a nightmare scenario where the primary transit artery for global crude oil there in the Gulf becomes entirely locked down.
And we are no longer discussing theoretical warnings. A lot of that was sensationalism perhaps at one point, but it’s no longer that. It’s real because we are witnessing the very live unfolding of that exact reality. And following high stakes naval maneuvering, as we know in direct exchanges, US Central Command confirmed as an example, they’ve targeted strikes that destroyed just recently five Iranian crude oil tankers linked to the IRGC, and maybe more than that now. But in rapid retaliation, Iranian forces launched a barrage of precision missiles hitting multiple commercial vessels and targeting naval assets and effectively bringing commercial transit through the strait to a grinding halt. And as Michael highlighted in his September 9th article, Straight of Harmu’s gridlock, oil surges past $100, foreign policy experts warned for decades about a closure. And now today as we do this program, Brent Crude has shattered the $100 per barrel psychological barrier.
Panic is moving rapidly now through international financial markets as shipping lanes refuse to send vessels into a shooting gallery. And it’s leaving the world energy markets in frankly uncharted territory with no easy exit strategy. So today we’re going to address and connect the dots between what is known as of today, what is likely to occur because of the damage already done to refineries and things like that. And in the end, how to respond to what’s clearly unfolding. With that in place, Michael, welcome to the program. It’s great to have you back.
Michael Snyder:
Oh, thank you so much for having me on today, Sam. It’s great to be with you.
Sam Rohrer:
Michael, you’ve written a lot. We have a lot to go over, so let me get into it. You’ve been writing about the matter of crude oil, supply chain, fragility, the coming together of a near perfect storm of, I’m going to say economic war, pandemic warnings, weather patterns, droughts and famines. You’ve been writing about that and we’ve talked about it a lot and you’ve done it and we’re doing it well before the February 28th US attack against Iran. But since that point, things have seemed to spiral from that time to now and you have noted that. And as you and I have talked prior to this program, Michael, we agreed to focus more specifically on this matter of the Strait of Hermes oil impact and that kind of thing. But that being said, given the unprecedented military escalation, not just in the Gulf, but literally around the world and the direct targeting of commercial shipping there in the Middle East, is there any realistic, from your perspective, diplomatic or naval, I’m going to say mechanism that remains that can reopen the strait or are we now really facing an indefinite physical closure?
What do you think?
Michael Snyder:
Well, I think the reality that we are facing a long term closure of the Strait of Hormuz is starting to set in on Wall Street where today the price of rent crude actually hit $105. And then West Texas crude, US crude hit $100 a barrel for the first time since May. And so financial markets are starting to move. We’re starting to see some real concern among investors because they’re looking at the situation and the two sides are not even talking. Of course, for a number of months we were told, “Oh, a deal with Iran is close. They’re talking. We’re going to work something out.” Of course, we aren’t hearing that anymore because the two sides aren’t talking at all. Trump wants a deal that includes Iran’s nuclear program and a comprehensive thing that’ll end the whole thing. Iran’s not interested. They have their own demands.
The two sides are not even in the same universe. And so it does not appear a diplomatic solution of any sort is going to happen anytime soon. So well, the US, there’s been fighting and originally the Trump administration was hoping that if we just bomb them enough, they’ll just give up. Well, that didn’t happen. Well, now the focus is really on economic pressure. They’re saying, “Well, we’re just going to keep this blockade going, this naval blockade, which is keeping any oil or pretty much anything else from getting in or out of Iran by sea.” Iran’s economy is collapsing. It is a total mess. And they’re saying, “Well, if we just put enough economic pressure on Iran, they’ll give in eventually and give us a deal.” I do not believe that’s going to work either. But basically the situation is we’re in this for the long haul, Sam, and that is a very, very bad place to be because that means that the global energy crisis, which right now we’re experiencing it here.
The price of gasoline in the United States is the highest that it’s ever been this late in the calendar year and it keeps going up. The price of diesel is the highest it’s ever been in the entire history of our country. It’s about to cross on average, the national average about to cross $6 a gallon for diesel. And in California, it’s getting ready to cross $8 a gallon on average in the state of California. In fact, in some areas of California, it’s up around $9 a gallon per diesel. And of course our trains, our trucks, our tractors for our farmers, all kinds of farm equipment run on diesel. So diesel is so important for our economy. So we’ve got a real genuine crisis on our hands, Sam.
Sam Rohrer:
Michael, there’s not much time to go much further here, but a lot is being said even from the administration. It says, “Hey, but not a problem. We’ve got plenty of oil. We struck a deal with Venezuela. We’ve got 85 billion barrels and all that.” But on another program, I had done some research on it. And in reality, we can’t use that oil from Venezuela, not for a long time because we don’t have the refining capacity and diesel prices for the East Coast come from a different place and the refining capacity is at maximum capacity on the East Coast, which means East Coast diesel is going to continue to go up. So point being, as you’re saying, there are a lot of factors connected in that which we are hearing. Ladies and gentlemen, just in so many cases, it’s just not reality. And with that, we’ll just leave it at that for a moment.
Stay with us. We’ll be back in a minute. My special guest, Michael Snyder, and we’re going to look at this whole concept of this strategic petroleum reserve because we’ve been told this is keeping us out of a real problem. We’ll give you the truth in the next segment.
Well, if you’re just joining us today, welcome aboard. Today, my special guest is Michael Snyder. He’s an attorney. He’s an economist. He’s a publisher of the most important news and has a website at michaeltsnyder.substack.com and writes prolifically. And if you’ve been listening to the program, you recognize his name and perhaps you are even a subscriber to his work. He’s independent and depends upon that. And so I would just encourage you to go there. I’ve really found it to be very, very helpful and I look forward to his articles. Our theme is this. We’ve decided to kind of focus in on the strait of horn moves. It’s in the news. It’s a focus. It’s a headline item. And why is that important? Well, because what’s happening there is now economic in its impact. It does revolve around oil, not exclusively, but significantly. And the impact of that is growing with crude oil now, rent crude above a hundred per barrel.
And we’re going to talk more about that. So stay with us because the impact of this is much greater than what we are hearing from the controlled media and from this administration, frankly. So that being in mind, let’s just go forward here because we’re going to look past the headline crude prices, which we just shared briefly. And I’m going to say examine the physical buffer or lack thereof that holds the system together, at least at this moment. And what is that buffer? Well, it’s that thing called the Strategic Petroleum Preserve, but something frankly that our current political leaders in Washington are refusing to do. They’re telling us one thing, but they’re not telling the whole story. Now up to this point, as we’re doing this program here today on September the 10th, the public has been lulled into a false sense of security that, well, all is well, current gas and diesel prices are not really that bad and they’re going to shortly return to low levels.
How many times have we heard that? And very recently, just days ago. Yet the current prices, though already high, are there. They would be higher if it weren’t for manipulation because government has burned through emergency stockpiles to cushion the blow. My guest today, Michael Snyder documented in August 17th, just about a month ago report where he entitled it, the world is running a huge oil deficit. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits a four decade low and diesel shortages are looming. That was a title because the safety net Strategic Petroleum Reserve has effectively vaporized. Now officially, the US reserve has crashed, now get these numbers, has crashed down over 30% from 415 million barrels, which were in the reserve pre-February 28. It went from 415 million barrels to the current today about 285 or so million barrels. That’s a 40 year low. However, if the truth was told, since engineers are warning us that the salt caverns that hold the crude cannot go below 220 to 250 million barrels because hydraulic pressure that keeps those cavern walls open will collapse and then you’ve lost everything.
So the outflow reaches a point where it can no longer be pulled out. So if you figure that we are almost at that point, the current administration in order to manipulate the prices down have pulled down our reserves, not 30%, but by four fifths just under 80%. And what does that mean? Well, that means there’s basically no reserves left, even though we’re told everything will get back to normal. All right, Michael, let’s get on with it here. With official reserve levels down so low, and you were one of the early ones to call that out. And the numbers I just gave, I did today. I just pulled these numbers today. That’s where we sit. We’re at a point where literally, if much more is pulled out, the walls of the caverns that hold the reserve will collapse. And here’s the question, what happens when Washington literally runs out of operational barrels to dump on the market and the truth comes out that there’s frankly no more left in the reserve?
Michael Snyder:
Well, in short, we’re going to be facing a real crunch, the real painful chapter of this crisis because for months since fighting with Iran began, the world has been using more oil than it’s been producing. And so we’ve been running this deficit all this time, but we were able to do that because when the war with Iran began, there was a ton of oil sitting in commercial inventories, but now that is almost all gone. And then governments around the world had their strategic reserves, just like we have the strategic petroleum reserve in the United States, but we’ve been draining that to dump oil into a market to keep things going. But now we’re getting to rapidly approaching a critical level there. Meanwhile, the amount of oil coming out of the Middle East because of the renewed fighting between the US and Iran, hardly anything’s getting through the strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, because you’ve got the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, for example, they couldn’t get much oil out of the Persian Gulf. So they said, “Well, we’re going to start sending a lot of it out through the Red Sea.” Well, then the Houthis started hitting their tankers, but now just within the past 24 hours, the Houthis conducted a major ground offensive in the direction of the Red Sea, and they’ve captured Mayun Island in the middle of the Red Sea. They’ve captured the port of Mocha, the most important port there along the Red Sea in Yemen. They captured Zukar Island and the all Omari military heights. And what this has done, so now they’ve got two islands right in the middle there, basically that are able to block the Bob El Mondeb straight from very close range. They’ve got the most important port there in Yemen right along the Red Sea.
But what this is going to enable them to do now is Saudi Arabia is not going to be able to get anything out without Houthi permission. And so of course, Saudi Arabia is the biggest exporter in the region. Meanwhile, the US Naval blockade’s blocking any oil from Iran getting out, and that’s causing great concern in China and so forth. So a lot less oils coming out and that is going to make things even worse. At the same time in Russia, well, the Russians, they keep getting their refineries hit by long range drones and missiles being provided to them by Germany and the UK. Russians are very angry about this, but the Russians, they’re normally the second largest exporter of diesel in the world. They’re not able to export diesel. In fact, they’ve put restrictions on that because they don’t have enough for themselves. They’ve got a major energy crisis there now because their refineries keep getting hit.
So this is one of the reasons that the price of diesel is so high right now. So you add all this together, Sam, and it’s a major crisis. And then you’ve got so much damages already. Even if we could open up the Bob L. Mondeb Strait and the Strait of Hormuz tomorrow, well, so much damage has been done. In fact, the Houthis just this week have been hitting Saudi production facilities this week. So much damage has been done to energy production facilities in the Middle East. Some of the damage will take months to repair. Some will take literally two to three years to fully repair that the level of oil coming out of the Middle East is not going to be restored for a long time until they get back to pre-war levels. And so we are facing a oil deficit for the foreseeable future.
And so the strategic reserves all over the world are going to continue to get run down. Commercial inventories have already disappeared to almost nothing. And so prices are going to go higher. Eventually I believe we’re going to start to see shortages and rationing in different areas, particularly Asia probably first and Europe and so on. And the bottom line is the global energy crisis, the real painful part of it, that’s in front of us. It’s going to get really hairy.
Sam Rohrer:
And we’ll talk about that more in the next segment. Michael and ladies and gentlemen, stay with us because just trying to prove the point here that where we are and the false security that we have generally been given is because inventories, strategic reserves, not just in our country, but other nations of the world have been continually drawn down. And even in our country, covered this in our earlier program, the president had indicated, “Well, we’ve got all this oil from Venezuela. It’ll solve our problems.” No, it can’t because that oil from down there, you cannot put into the salt caverns. Even if you could actually bring in boatload after boat load, they can’t use that thick, dirty oil in our caverns because it will wreck them all. So there are games that are being played. We’re just trying today to say, look, things are happening and there are consequences to all that has taken place right now.
And so we’re in the next segment, we’ll talk about it because the reserves are gone. The inventories are basically used up and the supply out of the Gulf primarily is limited and the refining capacity, if you could get it, has been basically decimated. All of that does bring you to the point of saying, all right, well, what are the consequences? What do we know for sure without speculation? We’ll cover some of that in the next segment.
In our focus today on the Strait of Hormuz gridlock, that’s the theme that we’re talking about. Iran Strait of Hormuz oil, that we’re talking about that. We’re going to go further into now the consequences. I think we’ve established thus far in the program that the limitations on the supply of oil out of the Gulf, be it here, the depletion from strategic reserves of nations around the world, including right here in our nation, all of these things have come to a point and we’re at that point now where the reserves are effectively gone. The prices are high, but they can only go higher, I’m going to submit. And we’ll talk now about some of those consequences because we’re going to follow here the domino effect, put it that way of this energy gridlock where the oil fields and refineries we’ve talked about, they do impact and ultimately will find their effect as we would look at what’s on or not on store shelves or freight that’s being carried or not carried by our trucks and ultimately dinner table.
Energy shocks never remain contained within the energy sector. In other words, you get rid of oil as an example, it doesn’t affect just the refiner. It’s because it affects everything because diesel fuel, for example, is the lifeblood of transportation. Without it, you can’t farm. The logistics of making everything work depends on diesel. And as diesel prices break records, and they are, and Michael just shared some of that in the last segment, shippers and distributors are hitting consumers. They’re having to pass along significant surcharges because as their costs go up, they’ve got to pass it along and who picks it up? We do, the consumers. But the crisis running through the strait of our moves, which is our real focus today, hits an even deeper, I’m going to say chemical consequence and a broad foundational impact because it’s not just the diesel that comes from crude, but the Persian Gulf is a primary conduit for natural gas and ammonia, which is the base of global nitrogen fertilizer.
As Michael, you warned back in your March 12th article, again, proving the point, you’ve been going back looking at this for a long time, you said there, that title was Thanks to the War in Iran, a moment of reckoning has arrived for the entire global economy. That was your title. But you cited that roughly half of the world’s population relies on synthetic fertilizer for food. With Middle Eastern natural gas and chemical exports choked off, one third of the global trade in urea and nitrogen fertilizer is trapped. It can’t get out of there. And when it can’t get out of there, it can’t go anywhere around the world where farming takes place. Over 70% of American farmers report severe cost spikes, already felt it, or total supply lockouts. Result, turning an energy crisis directly into an impending food production catastrophe. Michael, you have written about this for a long time.
I want to go there because while most people focus strictly on gasoline at the pump and diesel and natural gas, they’re the foundational pillars of fertilizer and freight. So here’s the question. With fertilizer supplies severed and farm fuel spiking, how quickly will these inputs and disruptions translate into physical crop shortfalls and skyrocketing grocery prices? What do you
Michael Snyder:
See? Well, Sam, we’re facing that crisis now because harvest season is starting to arrive in the Northern hemisphere. And so the consequences are going to start to show up. You go back to the spring and the nitrogen fertilizer that normally comes out of the Middle East, about a third of all global trade in nitrogen fertilizer comes out of the Middle East. And then in addition, I’m sorry, in addition, a lot of the natural gas that comes out of the Middle East is exported and then used to create nitrogen fertilizer in other countries. So the fact that the straight forward moves traffic has been greatly restricted coming out of there for moves has really, really affected the trade of fertilizer and fertilizer production around the world and the ability of farmers around the world to have enough fertilizer. So a lot less fertilizer was used during the spring planting season this year by farmers all over the Northern hemisphere, but the consequences of that were not felt immediately.
They haven’t been felt yet, but now we’re getting to, we’re arriving at the fall harvest season and estimates for different crops and different harvests all over the world, they’ve been going down and down and down and we’ve seen prices going up for different things. In fact, rice futures in Chicago are up 50% this year and about half the world eats rice, but a lot less wheat is going to be grown in this country. For example, this year, less wheat’s going to be grown in Australia, which is one of the biggest global exporters. And this kind of thing is happening all over the world. So we’re talking about food that’s going to be harvested, processed, packaged, and that we’re supposed to eat in 2027. And so we’re going to see higher prices in wealthy nations such as the United States, other parts of the world. And there’s just not going to be enough food for everyone.
And so a combination of higher prices and farmers are being hit by so many input costs because it’s not just fertilizer, which if you can get it, it’s a lot more expensive than it once was. Same thing for diesel, which almost all of our farm equipment runs on diesel. So diesel’s a whole lot more expensive than it used to be. Meanwhile, global weather patterns with the super El Nino and everything else that we’ve talked about previously, all over the world, we’re seeing weird droughts, weird storms, lots of weird weather, which is affecting global crop production as well. So it’s kind of like this perfect storm for global crop production, which now that we’re at harvest season and the harvest isn’t going to be like it’s been in previous years. So food’s going to be even more expensive than it is now. I know when you go to the grocery store, I feel like when I go up to pay for my groceries, I feel like asking, “Well, what organ do you want me to donate to pay for my groceries?” But food prices are going to get even more expensive.
Now, if you go to, we can handle that to a certain degree, although people are financially stressed all over the country. But if you go to poorer countries and the price goes up significantly for staple foods, well, that can be the difference between being able to buy food and not being able to buy food, or in some cases, the difference between life and death. Now coming into this year, coming into 2026, and we talked about this before, according to United Nations, the number of people around the world facing acute food insecurity was at the highest level ever recorded. We had a global food crisis before the war with Iran, before the super El Nino, before diesel prices went haywire, before all of this, all the things I just talked about, the global food crisis was at the worst we’ve ever seen according to the United Nations.
And now all these things have happened this year. And so the global hunger is rising, but especially now with this harvest, with this food that we’re depending upon for the next 12 months, and then looking ahead on the street of Hormuz, the Bob L. Mondeb Strait, the amount of natural gas coming out of Russia is going to be lower. All these things we’ve talked about in this program with these wars causing these supply chain disruptions, it’s going to affect natural gas, fertilizer, diesel moving into 2027. So yeah, this crisis, this global food crisis is going to escalate now that we’ve gotten a harvest season, but then looking ahead to 2027, if these wars continue and these supply chain disruptions are not resolved, well, it’s going to be an escalating crisis over time. It’s going to develop over time. It’s going to intensify over time. And so Sam, what we’re facing, I mean, in the entire modern history of the world, we’ve never seen anything quite like
Sam Rohrer:
This. Again, ladies and gentlemen, this say, “Oh, well, I’m tired of hearing bad news.” It’s not fun to present news of this type. Michael views himself, we’ve talked about in his program as a watchman on the wall. We rely on those in positions of authority and with knowledge to be able to look at what is and actually communicate the truth, not communicate what people want to hear. And I’m just going to interject at this point that while we’re not making this program a program about fulfilled prophecy, those of you who have ears to hear and eyes to see, you know that within the context of all that we’re talking about, there are things about all of these facts that actually align perfectly with what the word of God says will come about. And so to that extent, We’ll talk about how we should respond in the next segment, but these are things we’re talking about here that because we’ve been living off of inventories for most of 2026, inventories of oil, we’ve seen some higher prices, but not that bad yet.
Other place around the world, yes. But because of the fact that oil is a part of necessary fertilizer, that if you don’t have it, you don’t eat. We didn’t even talk about this. It’s also in pharmaceuticals and plastics and packaging that all of these areas are feeling an impact and it’s going to happen. That’s the point. It’s not a sensational thing. It’s a matter of saying, all right, the clouds are in the sky, they’re coming, you know it’s going to rain. That’s the point of saying this. Statement we’ll be back pretty close.
Well, as we go into our final segment, again, let me give the website for my guest today, Michael Snyder, Michael T. Snyder, Michael T as in Tom, Michaeltsnyder.substack.com is the address that I will give that you can go there and find his articles. You can become a subscriber as well if you would consider doing so. Now, as we have covered a number of things here today, primarily revolving around crude oil and the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea and all that’s involved in it, doing that because that product, that what we call crude oil, we literally depend upon it. The economy revolves around it and literally almost everything you touch has it within it. We put it in our cars, it runs our tractors, it runs our trucks, it’s diesel, it heats many homes in the winter. It finds our way into pharmaceuticals and plastics and all of that.
You got the point. So therefore, when there is a shortage, refineries have been damaged with two to three years to repair them, if then, be it in the Middle East or increasingly in Russia, as an example, all of this backs up and it has impacts that cross. Well, it affects everything from financial mechanisms around the world, it upsets and impacts political frameworks. Nations are realigning. As we know, they’re realigning around economic matters, they’re realigning around security agreements, new alliances are forming in the Middle East. We see all these things and we’ve talked about it quite regularly on this program. But when you look at all that, big changes are happening and they’re happening quickly. The US debt now over $40 trillion, something we’ve talked about a lot. And with increased spending, actually spending more quickly now, faster than ever under the current and the previous Trump administration we’ve covered out of given the numbers in the past, far more spending under this president, first term, second term than any of the other presidents.
It shows that something is really up. There’s a rapid exodus of other nations who have been buying our debt, no longer buying our debt. All of these things are being reflected in a global order change, of which again, we’ve talked about many times. Nearly every president we’ve had for many, many terms have all had their idea of a new order. Our president now have talked about his version of a new world order. So it’s all coming about and we’re seeing these things, but the point being for believers, and I’m going to say alert observers, this convergence of energy shocks and economic volatility and geopolitical conflict that we’re seeing is not and should not be cause for panic. There’s going to be an increasing move coming out of government and media to do just that. Then they’ve telegraphed it, but it should not be for the believer, but it should be a call, I would say for clear thinking and practical preparation and I’m going to say biblical discernment greater than ever.
Michael, as these shocks force major consuming nations of which we are one across Asia and Europe and they scramble for vital resources, from your perspective, how is this crisis permanently reordering global power alliances and accelerating the decline of Western economic dominance? And go from there as you conclude right into how these things should direct the person with eyes to see the believer who understands that there is a God, how we should be responding to these things.
Michael Snyder:
Question, Sam. China right now, normally China gets a tremendous amount of oil from Iran, but because of US Naval blockade, China’s not getting any oil from Iran right now. So China’s going all over the world bidding up oil prices. That’s one of the reasons right now the price of Brent Crude is 106.87 and the price of West Texas oil is 101.52. Live while I’m looking at it, oil prices are rising and we’re seeing that for months there was such an effort by authorities in the Western world to keep the price of oil below the psychologically important $100 barrier because they knew if it went over, well then global investors would start to panic. Panic would start to creep in and we’re seeing that in the bond markets. Talk about Western economic dominance all over the Western world and in Japan, bond yields are rising. They’re starting to get out of control.
People are demanding higher interest rates on government debt and as government debt explodes all over the world, the financial system is starting to be shaken and we’re starting to see all kinds of cracks emerging. They’re not able to hold things together and that’s a whole other element which we don’t have time to discuss today. But as we see all these things happen, people need to realize, believers need to realize, “Hey, look, the Bible tells us, Matthew 24 tells us in the last days there will be wars and rumors wars. We’ve got that. There will be famines and we’re starting to see that develop. And yeah, these things are horrifying. The things that are happening and the challenges that are emerging all around us, they’re difficult and it’s okay to grieve and mourn. But on the other hand, God told us these things in advance so that we wouldn’t be afraid, so that we could realize he’s in control and he has a plan.
And what we can do is, yeah, we can prepare in the physical and make wise decisions realizing, yeah, these are going to be difficult times. These really are the end times and there’s decisions we need to make that are prudent. Then secondly, man, it’s a time to get close to God. It’s a time to seek him with all of our hearts and it’s a time to witness to others, to share the gospel of Jesus Christ so they can hear the gospel and receive Jesus Christ as their savior and Lord and be saved. There’s an urgency to that because the clock is ticking Sam.
Sam Rohrer:
Michael, you summed that up really quite well. It’s what we say here and you and I have talked. We talked before the program. We’ve talked. Well, I guess when we first met each other years ago, we’ve had discussions in presenting that which God’s word presents, connecting it as we try to do in this program to the headline news of the day, bringing biblical principles and just like you said, Matthew 24, where Jesus himself told the disciples. All right, I’m going to give you indications of things that will come about. Now, it’s for us, ladies and gentlemen, today that those scriptures are there and Jesus made it clear. Michael, just as you said, he said, “Don’t be perplexed. These things have to happen. They must occur.” And that’s the great thing, Michael. I know that’s what helps drive you and your writing as you’re looking at all this information, not to say, “Oh boy, throw up your hands and say, well, there’s nothing to do about it.” No, no, there is.
Connected to the word of God and strengthen our relationship with the Lord and the fear of the Lord and keeping his commandments. Ladies and gentlemen, that’s what I would encourage you to do. I’m just going to close this briefly at the end of this program and just ask the Lord’s blessing. Heavenly Father, we thank you that for those moment, we have the freedom to communicate over the airwaves as we are. Thank you for those who are listening. I pray, Lord, that all of those who have ears to hear, if they fear you, that they would claim and grab hold of the promises of your word, that their relationship with you, first of all, would be made secure and then that they, by faith, would apply what you say in your word and live it out around the world and those around us. We pray these things in Jesus’ name, amen.
Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me. Always a blessing. Michaeltsnyder.substack.com is his website. More information about the articles he’s written, you can find there. And of course, on ours at standonthegapradio.com and on our free app you’ve not downloaded, please do that. Stand in the gap and then you can listen to this program on all of our programs in archive form. God bless you. We’ll see you back here tomorrow.
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