Assessing U.S. National Security:
Better to Trust in the LORD
April 14, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: JR McGee
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 4/14/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Well, good morning and welcome to this Monday edition of Staying in the Gap Today, and for some this is afternoon or evening, so I’ll say good afternoon or good evening depending upon where you are. But for this, we know this is the beginning of Good Friday and Easter week as those of us who fear God reflect on the tremendous sacrifice Christ made on the cross for the sins of the whole world and because of Christ’s death and barrel and resurrection from the grave 2000 years ago. Now we can trust in him fully and if we have done so to look for his soon return for as the angel said upon the ascension as you have seen him go, so shall ye see him come again speaking of course of his second coming in the clouds in military victory as king of all kings following the conclusion of the seven year tribulation period.
But because the rapture of the church comes first and in the twinkling of an eye that Trump can sound at any minute and no one will see that, and I trust that you are ready for that spectacular resurrection event which could happen before this program is done and what a thought that is. So I hope that is in your mind. Well, with that wonderful reminder in place, I’m going to welcome back to the program with me today in just a few moments for our monthly security and prophecy update, JR McGee, extreme Leadership Group founder and CEO student of Biblical prophecy as well and well-known to all of you. Our program title for today is this, assessing US National Security Better to Trust in the Lord, so you get an Idea in US National Security. We’re going to give an overview of that today and this will leave you that thought because it’s always true. No matter what level of assessment we are in, it’s always better to trust in the Lord, isn’t it? With that jr, welcome to the program
JR McGee:
Sam. As usual, it’s a delight to be with you and our audience. I always get a pleasure talking with people about these subjects and bringing some kind of an insight into it that people can understand.
Sam Rohrer:
Amen. And we’re going to do that with God’s help. And we prayed before we went on the air today JR. And I believe the Lord will guide us now, let’s get right into this. God’s granted us here in America amazing victories over powerful nations. Ladies and gentlemen, just think with me for a little bit over to Great Britain, the most powerful nation in the world. In 1770s, we won amazing to the demonically led world powers in World War One and two. We won then too. And since then we’ve become strong and wealthy because of what we know God has done. Yet we’ve also become proud and self-sufficient. We’ve violated one of God’s greatest warnings to Israel and to any nation whose God was once the Lord and to me Jr, that warning is found in Deuteronomy eight. I’m just going to read just a little bit that there’s power in reading scripture.
Let me read that a portion of it from Deuteronomy eight. It says this, for the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees, a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness. Thou shalt not lack anything in it, but beware that thou forget, not the Lord thy God in not keeping his commandments and his judgments, lest when you have eaten and are full and have built goodly houses that thy heart be lifted up and you forget the Lord thy God, which brought you forth out of the land of bondage and you say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth in it shall be if thou shall do at all, forget the Lord thy God and walk after other gods and serve them.
I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. Then J in Psalm 20, verse seven, king David makes this statement that most people recognize as well, some trust in chariots, some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. So here’s my question for you, JR King David had horses in chariots, he had a military, it’s a good thing, neither it yet in the end, he remembered what God had instructed Israel way back in the section I read from their Deuteronomy and he came to the conclusion that we will remember the name of the Lord thy God not to trust in the military thing. So as a military guy, can you apply the Deuteronomy warning and the summation of King David in application to America today as a foundation for our assessment of US national security on today’s program.
JR McGee:
It’s a very good topic and a great question. No, I’ll give you another example. Also. This one I’ve studied a lot because it’s got great meaning for me personally. I’ve spent a lot of my life with the special forces community and Joshua epitomized that and Joshua selected 300 warriors to defeat a vastly superior foe. Not because he had the military strength, but because he had the Lord on his side and most importantly, Joshua trusted the Lord to do exactly what the Lord said he would do. Even then, Joshua had to have the jars, he had to have the lamps, he had the swords that he and his people could do. The Lord’s will. I’m always aware that a little bit is a whole lot when it’s in God’s hands. God’s blessed us greatly, man, but when we turn our back on him, I think there’s going to be or will be severe consequences.
Now, when I look at the United States today, I look to see where we are. For many years we have had a vastly superior military. We were the world’s number one unquestioned superpower and there was nothing that we couldn’t do wherever we wanted to go do it. Those days are not where we are today. The last 25 years we’ve gone through a lot of our military equipment. We’ve not kept pace with technology the way some of our foes have. We still are a very strong force to be reckoned with. Do not let anyone think for one second, I’m demeaning. The US military, the men and women of the military today are some of the finest people I’ve worked with in my life and they’re capable of doing that. And God bless Pete for returning our military to a focus on what is designed to do and not this a social experiment.
We now have the ability to recover, but that’s going to take time and money, effort, and material. And the one thing that we’re incredibly short time, it’s not money and it’s not technology, it’s time. Do we have the time to redevelop, re-equip, resupply, rebuild, and retrain our military where it needs to be? Because our adversaries have used this time where we’ve been fighting in other areas to support other governments and they’ve used this time to not only catch up with us, but in some areas, especially in space and in communications surpasses that puts us in a very dangerous place. Sam, it concerns me greatly. I’m encouraged by what I see us beginning to go do, but there’s a long road ahead of us in order to do the need to be done for us to be able to maintain the advantage. And I believe having seen this my entire life, that there is peace, strength,
Sam Rohrer:
And ladies and gentlemen and ladies and gentlemen, you’re listening to Standing the Gap today, our theme today as assessing US national security better to trust in the Lord, you got a little bit of an indication of where we are. I hope your trust is in the Lord and not in horses and chariots. That’s what King David said. It applies to us today. We’ll be back in just a moment. JR McGee is my guest. We’ll be returning but a few minutes if you’re just joining us, welcome aboard. Today, JR McGee is my guest again, and this is our monthly focus. When we look at geopolitics, we weave in certain prophecy elements because you cannot evaluate global events when you’re talking about nations and national leaders without looking at the pages of scripture. But when you do, it permits from confusion to come. Clarity and clarity is a good thing, and so we’re doing that today.
Our theme is assessing US national security. We’re looking at, well, we’re going to in this segment, we’re going to move from this overall area of national security. We talked about military and its necessary, but we focused on a little bit of David’s comment in Psalms 20 where he says some trust in horses and chariots, the elements of military. He said, but meaning in contrast, you have a choice. You trust in those things or you trust in the name of the Lord. So with that as a foundation, if you missed it, we’re going to move into the next segment of actually getting an assessment of where we are. So JR let’s just go here. Let me ask you this first. When it comes to an analysis of our national security, that’s something you’ve done by training, you’ve done by experience, and we as citizens of this nation hope and assume that somebody with good eyes and good ears and thinking well are doing it from the standpoint of looking at our nation compared to what’s happening. So that being the case, what are the components that anyone doing an honest assessment must be included when considering potential threats. What kinds of things are our national security folks supposed to be looking at when it comes to our security?
JR McGee:
If you’re going to do an effective risk assessment of another country or another power, you’ve got to look at several things. First and foremost, their economic strength. With money, you can accomplish almost anything. Then they have to look at their military capability. What kind of capability do they have? What equipment do they have? Then thirdly, what is their ability to create and innovate new technology? Then I’ve got to look at why does their ability to use that technology effectively. Then I have to look at their national objectives and their strategic interests. Sam, I’ve got to look at what is their risk tolerance? How risky are they willing to do things in order to achieve those national objectives and then most importantly, the national will and is that will the desire of a single dictator or leader or is it the will of the entire people of that nation? If I look at those things, I can put together an assessment to determine exactly how capable a country is, how dangerous they are, or how significant an ally they’re going to be and what I can depend on them to do and not do and what I think they will do and what I think they won’t do under certain circumstances.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, that’s excellent. So it’s not just one area, it’s a multiple number of areas and it’s linking together. And so all right, let’s go from that. Now that being in mind and established when you apply these types of evaluation, let’s go there. What nation comprises, in your opinion, the greatest threat to the United States in our way of life? In short word or two, why? We’ll go into further explanation in the next segment, but why
JR McGee:
I think China by far is the most dangerous opponent we have now because of technology, because of their will, because of the things that they’re willing to do, they’re willing to pursue a very risky strategy that’s designed to achieve their goals and objectives very quickly. Then I put Iran as second. That’s because of their instability and the fact that they’re now acting out of fear that makes them very dangerous. Third, I put Russia fourth, Turkey and Turkey only because they want to be a much bigger player than they are, and then North Korea and Sam, I’m beginning to add parts of Europe into this list of our potential adversaries. There are some European countries that for a long time have been at best apathetic supporters of NATO and the US and now are somewhat hostile to both NATO and the US. This entire world orders up in the air. I don’t think it’s going to remain the same for much longer.
Sam Rohrer:
I think that’s a good overview and this makes me think of one thing I just got to mention here because of the timeliness of it. When I was in the Pennsylvania house years ago, I was in a circumstance where I was being shown some things as a committee member of quite secret nature here in Pennsylvania. There was a general, the military that was presenting it to us, he was showing us technology that I had never seen before. It had been classified, but then President Bill Clinton had declassified a lot of information and he called it a peace dividend where some military advantages we had were being made public to everybody, and we were told that in that setting, actually two settings here in Pennsylvania, the Chinese military delegation was here and they were shown every detail and absolutely every part of it. I went berserk.
In the quiet moment, I asked the general, how in the world can this be possible? He’s made this statement. He said, I cannot comment fully, but I will say this, all of this was done on the assumption that we were 12 years ahead of the Chinese and we would forever stay 12 years ahead. But if that assumption was wrong, he said, or anything changes, we are in serious trouble. That kind of goes to the point of what you’re talking about there. Let’s go to the next part of it. Alright, so you’ve named them, you put them in order of your perspective. China, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Turkey. Alright. Now into all of this has walked this new administration you and I talked about in February about the president’s multilayer moves. We compared it to a blitz creek of action of policies and moving pieces around all over the place. What is your perspective now of our president’s multilayer moves as compared to a month or two ago? Because regardless of promising, he did promise a near immediate peace in Ukraine that has not yet happened and in the Middle East has not yet happened. So all of that being said, give some perspective on our strategy, I suppose, in responding to these things.
JR McGee:
Sam, I think the overarching message is what most people see as chaos and crazy. I think it’s some of probably the most strategic chess playing we’ve seen in my lifetime. Let’s look at the Middle East. Trump has gotten Middle East players like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Oman and others to come to the table and finally begin serious discussions about what to do with the Palestinian people. They cannot remain where they are. There’s no electricity, there’s no water, there’s no telecommunication, no housing, no hospitals, no stores, nothing that’s required to support 2 million people in the desert. His proposal was outrageous by design and that was to get the people who need to solve the problem to finally work at developing the solution and we’re seeing real movement on that and Hamas is fast realizing they’re not going to survive this situation they placed themselves into in this time and place.
I think that’s major progress. Turkey is also rethinking their strategy as regards Syria because they made moves toward occupying three of the major air bases that Syria had before they collapsed and Israel bombed them into oblivion as a serious message to Turkey. Stay out of there because we’re not going to allow you to interfere with our ability to operate in areas where we’re providing for our national security. I think the moves that Trump has made for the tariffs actually were incredibly good. He put the threat of those tariffs out there and now he’s gotten more than 90 countries to come to the table to offer proposals, to eliminate the tariffs and level the playing field with the United States. That was the whole purpose all along. It was to just simply level the playing field so that the American worker, the American manufacturer, the American retailer, could compete on an even playing field with the rest of the world.
I think that not only has been effective, we’ve seen progress faster than I would’ve ever suspected that it could have taken place except for China. China Trump is not removing the tariffs from China. They’ve actually gone over a hundred percent now. China’s continued to escalate that Trump’s going to escalate that I believe he’s going to make them sweat and I am actually enjoying watching this play out except for the fact that it’s incredibly dangerous because China will make moves when they feel threatened that other countries wouldn’t make those moves. I see progress across the board. I think his comment that he was going to stop the Russian Ukrainian issue in one week was a little unfortunate. I think he counted too much on his relationship with Putin and his relationship with Zelensky. Zelensky turned out to be a third grader when it comes to strategic negotiations and Putin cannot be seen negotiating a solution that appears to be a standoff with no progress. His population and his politicians will not allow that. So there’s some dynamics going on behind the scenes there that’s got this to be very complicated, but I’m seeing some movement and they’re finally beginning to talk and they’re having bilateral conversations between the three of them. I see that as incredibly, incredibly important, Sam.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, I do too. And at the same time there are other many factors also in work, as we talked about in February, we’re talking about this Blitzkrieg of policy because even complicating factors like this, ladies and gentlemen just yesterday, French president Macron has made very, very clear they are going to be supporting a Palestinian state. What’s all this about? Well point being as an example and other moves of NATO and European members. There are so many pieces moving around that frankly only the Lord knows exactly how they will all come out. But in the meantime we’re able to give commentary on what we see. We’re doing that today. When we come back, we’re going to go a little further into then looking at our US security response where we are vis-a-vis these other nations. Well, JR it’s been great discussing this theme with you today, although not all the news is great and positive in actuality.
It’s quite serious when it comes to our national security and it starts with, as you were talking about in that last segment, a comprehensive assessment. You can’t just look at one area, measure a China for instance on their economy and not also evaluate them on their military. Both creativity, their level of engagement, all those kinds of things. So that’s one point you made and that to be done. Honestly, when I referred to King David in Psalms 20 made that statement, some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but we will remember the name of the Lord. He was speaking as a military leader, a king, somebody who had led his soldiers to battle many, many times and he had come to learn that sometimes you need to know what you have under your control and sometimes you just need to trust. But it makes me think of this at times throughout the history of Israel in particular, there was a numbering of the soldiers.
The kings would sometimes number them in order to know how to assess, for instance, the human estimation of going to battle and you refer to that one of, but Joshua, sometimes the man started out with thousands and God kept them narrowing it down, narrow it down, narrow it down to prove a point that it wasn’t just in who you had on the battlefield, it’s where you were and you stood before God. So today we typically measure national security it seems in terms of number of ships we have or guns or planes or soldiers or technologies and more. And then information is relayed to the people, citizens by government based on I’ve found generally what they want the people to know. Negotiations with other nations like China, Iran, and Russia is the same. We try to intimidate others to do our will by making ourselves look big or perhaps bigger than we really are, but that’s exactly what our enemies do too. So someone in the end will ultimately make an incorrect assessment perhaps and then war begins. That seems like it always happens, but when it comes to the strength of our nation right now, be that militarily, politically, economically, other factors you mentioned will and all those kinds of things, would you compare, contrast us against the nations now comprising our greatest threats, let’s start China and then we’ll just work our way down
JR McGee:
Sam. First I’d like to talk about our situation. The US is in the worst situation we’ve been in since before World War ii. What we haven’t used up shot at or worn out in the last 25 years of war ourselves. We’ve given away to others predominantly Ukraine, but we’ve also given stuff to South Korea, we’ve given things to the Middle East. We’ve supported other people with some of our military logistical supplies and our supply chains in horrible conditions. We cannot manufacture enough serious weapons quickly enough. Our stocks have consumables, the bombs, missiles, ammunition, artillery shells or historic lows. Then you’ve got to assess our ability to deploy rapidly and forward supply to where we need these things. We don’t have enough C seventeens, air tankers, armor, air defense systems, supply ships, oilers or what’s called a roll on roll off ship. Those are used to transport armor and trucks and mechanized forces to wherever they’re going to be needed as soon as they’re needed.
It’s a mess. But just like Joshua, I believe faith can move more than mountains when God wants to show people who he really is, and we’re in a position now where we’re going to have to trust God more than we’re going to be able to trust ourselves. The parallel path that you mentioned with China, they’re following a parallel path with pre-war Hitler that I think is both astonishing and very instructive, and China’s denying the things that they’re actively doing and they’re so easy to prove. You’ve got to ask yourself why are they doing that? And I believe the answer is that to buy time, they know that time is short. Any time they can buy allows them to strengthen their position and their advantage and their advantage is moving towards our key weaknesses, our internet, our telecommunications, and our energy. Those are the three things that we are critically vulnerable on and China is moving in a very distinct, very, very dominant way to be able to dominate those.
China believes in her destiny of being the world’s dominant superpower. You and I have talked about that. I think they’ve lost patience with having to follow the rest of the world when they feel disrespect and now they’re beginning to be able to take the risks that they think is necessary to achieve what they desperately crave and they’re doing everything from maneuvering in the South China Sea. The threats against Taiwan are escalating daily. Sam, I hear people say, oh, they’re going to attack Taiwan in the next five to seven years. I don’t think we’ve got nowhere anywhere near that kind of time. They’re putting troops into Russia and in Ukraine we’ve actually got the passports. They’re moving aggressively with the Silk and Belt Roads initiative. They’re manipulating world currencies and world economic forums. It’s all designed for one thing and that’s to position China to win the opening salvos of this coming war.
They learned a lesson in World War II and that is Japan did not deal a decisive blow to the United States to take her fully out of the picture. And when the US recovered, Japan couldn’t keep up, China’s not going to make that mistake. What we forget is that we almost lost World War II because we were terribly unprepared and the only reason we didn’t is because Hitler and Japan didn’t press their advantage in taking England and Europe when Hitler had the chance and for Japan to deal a crippling blow to Hawaii and the Pacific fleet when they had the chance.
When these kinds of mistakes are made, they have serious consequences and when people learn from those mistakes, they make sure that they’re not going to do the same things. I think that we are going to have to fight whatever war that’s coming with what we have on hand, and as I just said before, we don’t have enough on hand. We don’t have it in the right places. We don’t have enough of the right equipment in the right places, and our military has been decimated by overuse under training, and frankly, the DEI is taken our focus off of training people for what the military is designed to do and that is to kill people and break things.
Sam Rohrer:
That’s
JR McGee:
Why I believe the military is supposed to be the point of last resort not using it first.
Sam Rohrer:
Yes, I agree Now just because of time, that’s China. Alright, go quickly to Iran and then Russia and then link them because it’s everyone that we’ve described are in alliance with each other, which makes their strength any one of them much bigger because they’re in alliance with each other.
JR McGee:
Absolutely. Sam and Iran is beginning to act out of fear because they know that Trump is going to do things Biden would never have done. Iran has now processed hundreds of pounds of uranium. They’ve got the capability of processing one nuclear weapon per month, which is far more than most people give them credit for doing, and they’re weeks away from being able to detonate a weapon to prove that they have them. The fact that they’re afraid means that they’re going to be doing things that they wouldn’t do under any other circumstances, and that is because they know that Trump and Netanyahu are not going to allow them to continue on this path. Now, Iran has linked with both Russia and China, more Russia than China because they view Russia as a military protector. They view China as a financial lifeline. China’s buying most of the Iranian oil that is supporting their economy.
Russia is providing most of the military equipment and the support that they need. This alliance is growing because everybody views that part of the world as being essential for both energy and transportation of goods through those critical waterway choke points. I can’t overemphasize how dangerous this area has become and how much of our influence we’ve squandered over the last four or five years through very, very poor diplomatic initiatives and frankly some very bad choices. We can recover from that, but it’s going to take a lot of time for people to trust us and I’m not sure that they’re going to trust us to the level that needs to be in order for us to form the alliances that we need to mount a defense against that area. Sam, it’s getting worse
Sam Rohrer:
Daily and of course time is what you said at the beginning time. We don’t have a lot of an alliance these nations already have and we didn’t even mention the fact that those nations plus 40 others waiting in the wings and things are happening are all wanting to go to a different method of monetary base rather than the dollar. A major, major challenge us. So things really have indeed changed. Here’s a question that I want to ask you because you could talk for hours. This whole emphasis, there’s so much more we could bring to the table, but here is the question based on all these things in your analysis, if you were to establish a one to 10 scale, 10 being absolutely and one being absolutely insecure, in light of all of these things taken in balance, where are we really from a military strategic perspective as Americans, that is we’re talking about our security, all these things taken in balance.
JR McGee:
Sam, it breaks my heart to answer that question. It’s a great question, but I give us a three at best. The areas where we’re the most vulnerable is the internet, telecommunications and energy. If we lose the internet, our entire economy goes down, our businesses go down, everything that operates the United States ends instantly that vulnerability exists and it’s not being addressed because we’re seeing that the cables across,
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, hold that. Just hold that right there Jr. We’ll come back ladies and gentlemen because he put it at a three. Alright, and talked about our vulnerability and communications. Now to what extent are our enemies do they know about that and have made plans to do something about? We’ll talk about that in the conclusion in the next second before we go into our final conclusion here. Just a reminder, the week here in advance tomorrow, Dr. Marlene McMillan will be joining me on a topic of great relevance from an apologetic perspective. I’ll give that theme tomorrow. Join us Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, then will join me on Wednesday as we talk about vaccines. Some good, all bad, what you need to know that’ll be very relevant on Wednesday, Thursday, Patricia Engler from Answers in Genesis will join me as we discuss, not the amazing, they’re sad, but the great expansion of what we put into the category of euthanasia. It’s grown much bigger than what you would have thought. And then on Friday, good Friday, we will be playing a special Good Friday program because of the nature of that day. Now that being the case, JR, back to you. You were talking about communications as an example. Build that out just a little bit, just as some evidence perhaps of why you gave our national security a rating of three with 10 being secure and one being absolutely no secure.
JR McGee:
Sam, if you look, both the Russians and the Chinese have been very aggressively cutting undersea cables, fiber optic cables and power cables. The vast majority of our internet runs under these cables. There are some that go through satellites, but that’s a small percentage of the amount of internet travel that is made up of all of the information that travels amongst everybody every day. The vast majority of that goes through these cables and China just demonstrated a new ship that they claim is capable of cutting the most heavily armored, most heavily protected cable anybody can make. Those cables are very vulnerable, and if we lose that, we lose everything. It will be very, very difficult for anything to operate. That’s why I think that that vulnerability alone puts us at a three and we’re not doing enough to protect that, Sam.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, in addition to that, J, are you and I and some others are in communication pretty regularly, ladies and gentlemen. What JR just said about the potential of China to cut cables is something that has been confirmed for a long time. They’ve mapped the underground cable system in the southeast in the North Sea and the Baltic Jr comment on this as well. Russia has cut a number of cables and already been involved in this. And so in this case it’s not just China, but it’s also China and Russia together, right?
JR McGee:
Absolutely. And it’s a coordinated effort and these are preliminary cables that they’re cutting and I think they’re doing it to prove the capability because they don’t want to do it to the point to where it would create retaliation. They want to demonstrate the capability and project force without having to trigger a war. If that doesn’t work, if the United States continues to protect Taiwan, they continued to protect, the dollar is a reserve currency. China will begin to escalate this and I think that’s where they’re going to attack. It’s not going to be a war like World War II was. This is going to be an electronic information war. It’s going to be a war in space. It’s going to be a war unlike anything any of us have ever seen. And it will not happen over a period of months, Sam. It’ll be happening over a period of minutes.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay? And that is very important to know, which brings the comment about we don’t have a lot of time into play because they know that too. And for that you don’t have time to prepare. Anyways, we’ll just leave it at that. Let’s go back as we try to wrap it up from a biblical assessment perspective. Now, what we’ve talked about here today tried to cover the perspective of how assessments, security assessments are made. We’ve talked about the aspect of you have to know what you have, but you can’t have your trust in what you have. That lesson from King David and other things that you’ve said, we’re vulnerable. You’ve made that very, very clear. And time is short. How confident should we be in our national security and therefore moving it from there into where should the believers trust and sense of security be today in light of all of these things and with it just wrap it together, how then should we pray? How should we respond in our thinking? Wrap all of that together in a concluding response, please,
JR McGee:
Sam. I think we have an incredible military. It’s a very strong military, but it’s been overused. It’s been undersupplied and undertrained and under equipped that’s going to have significant consequences where we have the equipment, where we have the missiles, where we have the wherewithal, we can project considerable power. We are still a formidable foe, but we’re not the immutable foe that we were even 10, 15 years ago. On the battlefield, it’s a lot like a magician. Magicians deceive you and distract you with the left hand and with the right hands when they’re doing what they’re really doing. And on the battlefield there’s always a distraction. And then the right hand decapitates, that’s how modern warfare operates. And this works also in civilian life. It works in business and it’s because of greed and sloth. I think people just want the gravy train to continue and they want to do the bare minimum to get the maximum result.
That’s human nature. What we’re looking at, I think is a world of sin, waiting on a man of sin to lead them into a false nirvana. I think all of these rumors of war and wars are creating a sense of desperation. People are wanting someone to come in to put a stop to all this and whoever comes out of the woodwork, and you and I both know who that is, people are now set to listen to that. And I think that only God has the power to protect us. We can have the best military in the world. We’ve seen other countries in the past over the last 2000 years that had magnificent militaries that were defeated. Look at Nebuchadnezzar.
There’s just numerous examples of where people trusted in their military might and they were taken by surprise and overnight they were defeated. I think God has the power to protect his and he will protect his people, not the United States, but he will protect his people. And I don’t believe all of us are going to be protected. God also tells us it’s going to rain on the just and on the unjust, but this is going to be resolved and it’s going to be resolved in God’s favor. God’s the one that’s going to work this all out. God knows exactly how he’s setting this up. And believe it or not, some people may have trouble believing this. God has planned all of this. He’s allowed Satan to do what Satan is doing in order for God to have his plan executed. It defies logic sometimes to think that God would let a bad thing happen.
But we know that God uses good leaders, he uses bad leaders, but they’re always being used for his purpose. And I think the big thing to realize is we’re seeing prophecy come to light daily. Now, you and I have talked over the last several years back in 1947 when Israel came into being. We saw prophecy happen on that day. Then we saw prophecy happen every few years, and then it became every few months, then every few weeks. Now we’re seeing things that are happening on the world stage daily. And birthing pains are just that way. They come upon a woman gradually, then an increasing frequency. And then when it hits, boy does it hit. And I believe Sam, the birth of something truly spectacular is upon us. And I don’t think that militarily we’re ready. I don’t think economically we’re ready. I don’t think sociologically we’re ready, but it’s coming whether we’re ready or not. I think that God has got this planned out and it’s beautiful to watch how his word in the Bible is coming to light in ways that nobody can say is false fate or just written by men even. So come quickly, Lord.
Sam Rohrer:
Amen. And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I trust as we are in this Easter week that the Lord came first as a shepherd, as a suffering savior. He will come again soon. He said he will as a victorious king. And that’s what we’re talking about and all that we’ve expressed and the confidence that JR expressed and what I have and what I hope you have is because God has given us his word and what is unfolding is exactly what he said would take place. And with that even so, come quickly. Lord Jesus.
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