Too Much to Ignore:
Considering Some Undeniable “Signs” of Our Time
May 21, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Co-host: Michael Snyder
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 5/21/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to this Wednesday edition of Stand in the Gap Today. Today I’ve asked Michael Snyder to join me again, my background. He’s an attorney, an economist, a journalist, publishes the economic collapse blog in the most important news also is authored seven books. The last one titled, Chaos is available on Amazon. Actually, I think all of his books are, and you can find it, his name, Michael Snyder. If nothing else, you can find it there. But if there’s one observation from my opinion that all alert people can make and agree about, it would be that in our day as we see those things that are around us, that the frequency and the intensity, two key words, frequency and intensity of change impacting our world is more than anyone alive today can remember. Now, for the youngest among us, perhaps they’ve never known anything else, of course, but for those of us who grew up perhaps pre-internet and pre iPhone as I did, and in days before, digital media, digital money and fingertip entertainment, distractions, life was slower.
It was more intentional and less stressful. I think for all back then, at least that’s how we remember things to be. Oh, those days though they were not without difficulty of course, but not like today where everything is in transition, confusion seems to reign, and there’s a spirit of lawlessness and spirit of antichrist. As the scripture speaks, we see that abounding, that’s different. The difference also is that in fulfillment of biblical prophecy, the evidence of being in the latter years of the last days, which are terms that are used in scripture, the end days being the time from the day of Christ’s ascension or resurrection to the time of a second return, where all these last 2000 years have all been end days, but the latter years are the time in which we live right now, and we are living in days where we’re increasingly close to the tribulation period where God pours out his wrath on a lawless and God rejecting world and then his glorious appearing at his second coming where he comes back this time as conquering king.
These are facts. This is what the Bible says. This is what we look forward to and now viewed from this biblical lens, Jesus himself in Matthew 24, identified the most significant signs of the times for which we should be looking and living including, and he said there in Matthew 24 is talking to disciples, deception, false Christ, false Christ, teaching wars and rumors of wars, famines, pestilence, earthquakes in various places, persecution. He mentions all of them in that section that these things would be increasing. And while these things ultimately develop into what I’m call final active labor and birth during the early days of the tribulation period today, almost perhaps like Braxton Hicks contractions that are not actual labor that brings forth a baby, but they do prepare the body for the real thing I’m going to say such as like we are today. But with all the evidence of these signs increasing in frequency and intensity, we are to be aware, not to scare, but to prepare. So the title I’ve chosen to frame today’s conversation with Michael Snyder is this too much to ignore considering some undeniable signs of our time. With that introduction, Michael, welcome to the program. Great to have you back.
Michael Snyder:
Oh, thank you so much for having me on today, Sam.
Sam Rohrer:
Michael, let’s do this here right now. You’ve done it before, but I’d like to ask you now before you build out, you’re writing so many articles, you are turning out to be one of the more prolific authors and journalists of the day writing on things of most importance. That’s my words and I think other people are agreeing. But before you build out the comprehensive list of all the things that we know biblically we should watch for do this, why do you believe it’s important for you to be acting in this role as a watchman on the wall, which is really what you’re doing in this area of journalistic focus?
Michael Snyder:
That’s a great question, Sam. We live at a time that is more prophetic from a biblical perspective than in my entire lifetime any of our lifetimes. This in fact this year things, prophetic events are just exploding all around us, and yet there is less interest in end times Bible prophecy than I’ve ever seen in my entire lifetime. So it’s kind of ironic where events are moving forward so rapidly and yet it it’s less of a focus for churches, for Christian organizations. There’s just less interest in it from what I’m seeing. But Jesus, and then scriptures talk an enormous amount about these times. Jesus specifically warned us about these times and had a great deal to say about the times just prior to his return, and he also told us what our response to that information is supposed to be. So I want to read for you four verses, and I want you to notice that there’s one word that comes up three different times.
Jesus tells us, commands us three different times to do something in response. So this is from Mark chapter 13. Let me read this for you, starting in verse 34. For the son of man is a man taking a far journey who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to every man his work and commanded the porter to watch ye. Therefore for ye no not when the master of the house cometh at even or at midnight or at the cock crowing or in the morning lets coming, suddenly he find you sleeping. And I say unto you, I say unto all watch. So three times there in four verses, Jesus commands us to watch. And in Mark chapter 13, that whole chapter, just like Matthew 24, is a listing of things that will happen during this period just before he returns the end times Bible prophecy playing out.
And so he lists a laundry list of signs in that chapter, and at the end of the chapter he says, look, this is what I want you to do. I want you to watch so that you can understand so that you can make good decisions. And he wants us to be aware, not so we can be afraid, but so that we can have peace in the midst of the storm and do the jobs, the specific jobs that he has for us to do during this incredibly important time in human history. And we should be honored that God specifically put us at this specific time in human history at such an important time and we’ve got important jobs to do.
Sam Rohrer:
Absolutely. And just in the raining time that we have here, we’re going to talk about the economic factors and some weather signs, economic signs, weather signs that are here, but just give a few more of the broader area of things, the areas of which we are to watch.
Michael Snyder:
Yes, Sam, one thing just this morning I saw an article about the bird flu pestilence are one of the signs that we’re to be watching for. And just today an article about how the CDC is telling us, and this is from Cytech daily, and they said the most deadly strain of bird flu is highly infectious and makes up the majority of cases in domestic cats with a current 90% case fatality rate. So we’re seeing domestic cats die at a very high degree to the deadliest strain of the bird flu where of course the bird flu has already killed millions upon millions of chickens and turkeys and birds all over the globe.
Sam Rohrer:
And with that, Michael, we’ve just run out of time, but ladies and gentlemen, pestilence is one of those broader areas and there are so many, we’re going to focus on the next segment, those things happening in the weather, which the Lord tells us to be very watchful of what happens in that area. Well, if we’re just joining us here today on this Wednesday standing after day program, thanks for being on board. Our theme today, I think one that will be of interest is too much to ignore considering some undeniable signs of our time. Now obviously by that title, signs of our Time. You know what that means? That comes right from scripture. My special guest is Michael Snyder, publisher of many books and almost daily, sometimes twice a day. Michael, you’ve been turning out items on two different sites that you have. The economic collapse blog.com is one.
The more regular one I think is Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com, and I’ll give that again, but the articles are there, but they relate to things that are happening around us and it’s on a broad range. We talked about that in the last segment. Things may be happening in the weather or economically or technology wise or health wise, all of these things, but it’s for the reason that the Lord told even the disciples, Matthew 24 and other places, and you read from the book of Mark 13 about the reason that we should note these things is that we are to watch certain things will occur prior to the Lord’s return, the days in which we are, and we should not overlook it. We should not go to sleep at the very time we should be awake. And so that’s what we’re talking about today is these two issues I’ve chosen here weather and the next segment economics just because there’s so many things happened, but you’ve also written in that.
So just about two days ago, Michael, you wrote a timely article entitled, why is the US being hit by One Apocalyptic Disaster after Another? And right now that’s the way you phrased it. In that article, you started with these words, you said this quote, have you noticed that America has been getting pummeled by a series of major natural disasters In recent days, dozens of immensely powerful tornadoes have carved trails of destruction across the middle of the country. Chicago was hit by an apocalyptic wall of dust. Most people never heard that. I put that in and you go and say a plague of millions upon millions of crickets is causing chaos in Utah. Some have pointed out that what we’re going through is eerily similar to what the US experienced during the days of the Great Depression in the 1930s. And then you went on said other things on Mondays, stand on the gap Today program.
Michael, I even mentioned the enormous tornado picking up on some of what you were then saying that ravaged over 5,000 homes and churches and businesses in St. Louis on Sunday, baseball size, hail in Minnesota in part of Wisconsin I believe. But in every case, even the National Weather Service is using the words of catastrophic or historic. And I think some of those words are being worn out because there’s so many things that are falling into that category. But here’s the question. Can you share some weather details as you’ve written about and have seen? And if the description of catastrophic, historic and apocalyptic are really true and why, or they just being used to generate readership and most people discount things like that as just being sensational. But where are we?
Michael Snyder:
That’s a great question, Sam, and it’s so important to put this in perspective because there’s been tornadoes, there’s always been storms, there’s always been these other destructive events. But are they getting worse? Are they becoming more frequent? Well, Sam, if you go back to the year 2000, and you can look this up in terms of a billion dollar disasters, 25 years ago in the year 2000, how many billion dollar disasters were in the United States that year? There were zero. Okay, now last year in 2024, how many billion dollar disasters did we have? We had 27 an average of more than two per month where we go from zero in the year 2000 to 27 in 2025. So we’re seeing disasters, bigger disasters, more frequent disasters. In fact, you talk about the tornadoes, the tornadoes on Sunday, St. Louis, it was just one of the tornadoes that to alone in St.
Louis, they’re saying it’s going to, it cost about a billion dollars in damage, but everyone’s going to forget about it soon because another massive disaster will come. I mean it’s day after day after day. At the end of last week, Friday into Saturday, there were more than 70 tornadoes that caused catastrophic destruction. Kentucky was hit particularly hard then everyone forgot about that because Sunday comes along a tornado with maximum winds of 152 miles an hour rips through St. Louis. There is a couple dozen tornadoes ripping all across the middle of the country. Meanwhile, over in Chicago, we just saw the first dust storm warning ever in the city of Chicago. A wall of dust from the Dust bowl days of the 1930s just enveloped the city of Chicago. It was so large that you could literally see it from space.
And this kind of thing has never happened to Chicago before, but now it’s happening in the cities all over the Midwest as the western half of the country dries out. Meanwhile, in Utah, we’ve got millions upon millions upon millions of cannibalistic insects, these crickets, which are just eating crops, they’re eating everything. They’re covering the highways and causing the roadways to be dangerously sick causing traffic accidents. But these are just a few examples within the past few days that have been in the news, Sam, that it’s a repeating pattern. We’ve seen it month after month and now year after year, 2024 into 2025 we’re being hit by one disaster after another. And we’re being told this is the new normal, but there’s nothing normal about it at all.
Sam Rohrer:
And I think the tracking of the dollar damage, as you’re saying, the damage, the billion dollar already way up, just the one tornado, a billion dollars in St. Louis, these are evidences that are objective measurements they bring with them also economic impact things as a result, and we’ll talk about that in the next segment. But in May 12th, May 13th, this not long ago, you also wrote about other things that are increasing earthquakes and volcanic actions. We can’t ignore them no matter what people should think. And here’s the question, since earthquakes and volcanoes are linked, can you share the most significant evidence and examples about which you’ve recently written? And again, you’re concluding advice about these. And again, we’ve always had earthquakes, we’ve always had some volcanoes are what we seeing today different than before.
Michael Snyder:
And this is another area where we’re seeing a difference. And now scientists have proven over time that there is a link between solar activity and then seismic activity on the earth. And now we’ve seen a lot of strange activity on the sun. Sunspot AR 4 0 8 7 just unleashed the most powerful solar flare of the year. A massive X 2.7 class solar flare sun is being behaving very strangely. We saw a solar filament that was more than 600,000 miles long, that made it over twice as long as the distance from the earth to the moon. So the sun’s been very, very active. Meanwhile, this month we’ve seen a magnitude 7.4 earthquake just strike right off the coast of Argentina here in California. California has been getting rattled by hundreds of earthquakes. In fact, we just saw three sizable earthquakes right along the San Andreas fall. We just saw a magnitude 4.0 earthquake in Nevada where the crust of the earth is literally being pulled apart.
That’s the wording that was used in the news article that I quoted in my article. Salt Lake City was just hit by a magnitude 3.9 earthquake. Then up in the Alaska Mount Spur, they say it could erupt at any moment off the coast of Oregon, there’s a massive underwater volcano that they say could also literally erupt at any moment. Meanwhile, you go to the other side of the world, Sam and the flagrant fields in southern Italy. It’s a super volcano like the Yellowstone super volcano. It’s absolutely massive. It covers approximately 77 square miles. That’s how big the super volcano is. But they say, an expert says, Hey, when this erupts, it’s going to erupt with 10 times the power of the eruption that destroyed Pompeii. But that whole area has been rattled by thousands of earthquakes recently that the ground is lifting up. In fact, there was a swarm of earthquakes the other day that was so intense.
People were literally running into the streets because there was so much panic they didn’t want to be crushed if the buildings fell down. But there’s an incredible amount of concern Now, if a full blown eruption of this super volcano in southern Italy, it could send up so much material into the atmosphere that it would create a volcanic winter, which would last up to 10 years causing global food production and global crops just to be absolutely devastated, instantly creating a worldwide global famine which would last for years. So a lot of people aren’t concerned about what’s going on on the other side of the world, but if that super volcano erupts, it will be a cataclysmic event causing global famine in which millions upon millions would perish.
Sam Rohrer:
And so Michael, as you say, there’s so much more. I mean, we’ve got places here, numerous dread fault here in the middle part of the country. You’ve written about that. We’ve talked about it before. It’s a fault in the ground that is actually the place of the largest earthquake in the history of our country before it was settled. But if it were to occur now, you couldn’t describe the damage, but the ground is literally shaking all over the world. That’s the point, isn’t it? Volcanic action in the ground, shaking frequency and intensity without any doubt is increasing, right?
Michael Snyder:
Yeah. And I didn’t even mention the magnitude 4.1 earthquake that happened in Tennessee the other day. So yeah, we’re very concerned about the middle of the country, but more than 30 volcanoes around the world have recently erupted. We’re seeing one dormant volcanoes like in Bolivia come roaring back to life. There’s seismic activity in Hawaii right now. It’s, I’m sorry, it’s literally all over the world right now, increasing in frequency and intensity just like Jesus warned us in Matthew 24.
Sam Rohrer:
And ladies and gentlemen, again, the reason that Jesus gave that warning we’re calling attention to it now, is because he said, watch. Because these things, when you see these things begin to occur, watch because my return is soon. That’s the reason for talking about this. Alright Michael, let’s shift from the area of weather. And we just touched on the fact that in the area of weather, which could be storms, it could be tornadoes, it could be hurricanes, it could be droughts, it could be flooding, too much rain, it could be the ground shaking as in earthquakes, it could be the fact that volcanoes blow their lids and throw dust into the air and do the kinds of things that volcanoes do. This is only apart, but it’s an important part to mention because it falls within that category of what the scripture talks about, about weather being in frankly the God controls the weather.
The Book of Job talks about the Lord having his way in the whirlwind that means tornado. So one of the things that we do to our harm, I think Michael is not connecting what is taking place around us on these events that the Lord said to watch for, that he manifests them as evidences of blessing when you have enough rain and when there is tranquility to his judgment when there is flooding and these other kinds of things that happen. And that’s all through the Old Testament got told to Israel. So anyways, those things, I put it out there for that reason. Now again, let’s go to the economic because there are plenty of economic events and signs in our time too. We know that for instance, according to scripture in the early days of the tribulation, which means it’s going to be in process before I think now, but there will exist a globally, individually trackable system in place that will assure global economic control because at that point of time there will be a global government and we can see that push that’s been happening for a long time.
But we know that it has to be of that nature because it’s going to be able to control buying and selling to each individual, which means it’s got to be comprehensive and it’s got to be right to the individual. So I would submit that all economic transactions are included in that, including travel and healthcare, not just buying or selling an apple or a car. The quickly coming AI run digital system now being increasingly pushed and being pursued by our president right now. He’s really heightened it twice right after the inauguration and then the recent meeting to Saudi Arabia. The whole economic reason for going over there was to advance the AI development system and all of that. So at some point implementation of this broad AI system controlling travel and buying and selling and digital currency and health, which is what they’re talking about. It’s waiting for just a trigger to make it happen, I believe.
Now those are my thoughts. Now Michael, you’ve written so much over the last years about increasing levels of national and personal debt and in the last couple of weeks you’ve written more articles because you can’t avoid it about our national debt and where we are as a nation and about increasing prices being passed along at the retail. But let’s talk now about national and personal debt at this point, which alone can trigger a financial crisis and the implementation of a global digital currency and more. In other words, focus on America right now and then tie in other nations to augment that. It’s not just even here in America,
Michael Snyder:
Here in the United States right now. There’s this debate about this big beautiful bill that they’re trying to push through Congress, which would add approximately 20 trillion to the national debt in the years ahead. That’s what they’re projecting on top of the $36 trillion of debt we’ve already got. And every country on earth has been doing this. Sam just adding tremendous amounts of debt every single year drowning in debt. And I think Japan’s a perfect example of what’s going on right now because the other day the prime minister of Japan came out and he said, Hey, the financial condition of our country is even worse than Greece. And that made a lot of headlines, got a lot of attention, but it’s true. Japan is drowning in debt, but now their economy is shrinking because of the global trade war and this is happening all over the globe, the countries.
But Japan, their GDP went negative in the first quarter already. It’s going to be almost certainly even more negative in the second quarter. But so they’ve got an economic downturn. So there’s a lot of concern out there. Hey, is Japan with this giant national debt? Are they going to be able to meet their obligations? So bond yields are rising, it’s becoming more expensive for them to borrow more money, which they need to do to keep the game going. So the bond yields are rising. But what that means is the prices of existing bonds fall. And that’s a big problem for financial institutions all over the globe that’re stocked up on Japanese bonds when bond yields were very low because the prices of the value of their bonds is going way down and that’s going to be okay as long as they can hold onto those bonds until they mature.
But if there is, for example, a run on the banks and then they have to liquidate their bonds, that mass of losses, well that’s what caused the kind of a wave of bank failures in the US a couple of years ago, if you remember. But this is happening on a global scale because if you look at bond yields right now, in fact there was more headlines about in the us a yield on the 30 year bond gone up to about 5%. Very important psychological barrier. We’ve seen a spike in Europe, bond yields are spiking. So all over the world we’re seeing bond yields go nuts, a bond we’re rapidly developing a bond market crisis that is unlike anything we’ve seen in ages. And if bond yields continue to go into the stratosphere all over the globe, I mean we’re going to see problems with derivatives.
We’re going to see problems, as I said, with major financial institutions, some of the biggest banks you can name, but all this is a storm is brewing with this financially because of government debt, bond yields all of that. And now of course the US Moody’s just reduced our bond rating here in the United States, and that’s one of the reasons this week bond yields have been spiking. But Sam, we’re seeing storm clouds with the global financial system unlike really anything we’ve seen since 2008 and 2009. And if this continues, it is going to mean big trouble ahead for the global financial system.
Sam Rohrer:
And Michael, and here’s the thing you and I were talking about before we went on the program about how Congress, as an example, can just continue to spend and to spend and the spend to spend and not just Congress, but as you talked about nations of the world. It’s almost as if they are on some kind of a drug that they cannot think or it’s the spirit of antichrist, which I think a lot of it is, but it ultimately, they’ve so told themselves, well somehow it will always work out in for an America here we just print more money. But that can’t just happen either. And so therefore there is going to be some correction that crisis. Some are talking about the president said about he’s going to make some kind of currency statement by the end of May. I don’t know what that’s going to be, but there’s a point by which something has to be done now in addition to the prices and debt going up, individual debt is up.
And you’ve written a lot about that. And right now as we speak, you have companies like retailers, Walmart, target, Amazon, who are the biggest buyers and distributors of Chinese made goods because of tariffs are having to pass along increases. The president called the president of Walmart and told him, don’t you dare pass them along, eat the increase. And the Walmart president says basically, you’re crazy, we can eat it. And they’re already driving up cross. Talk about that a little bit and the timing of what we see happening in the price increases of the average stuff that people buy.
Michael Snyder:
Yes, Sam, right now US consumers are approximately $18 trillion in debt. A recent survey found that 70% of Americans say they are the most financially stressed they’ve ever been in their entire lifetimes right now 70% of the country. And it’s because of the rising cost of living. It’s because of all this government debt destroying the value of our currency, tremendous inflation over the past number of years, especially during the Biden administration. And so the cost of living crisis that never seems to end really stressing people out. And now the global trade war, what we’re seeing, thankfully, we had this 90 day cooling off period with China, which will allow products to continue to go back and forth across the Pacific for at least 90 days. We’ve avoided the shortages for now, but during that period, there’s still going to be the 10% tariffs plus the 20% Fentanyl tariffs, 30% tariffs on Chinese goods, plus 25% tariffs on all automotive products and vehicles from around the world.
Plus there’s other tariffs on other countries. But what we’re seeing at retailers right now, the shortages have been avoided for the moment, but we’re seeing price increases. For example, I cited an example the other day. A worker went on to a social media forum and showed that hey, he was increasing the price of one particular product. In this case it was a U-S-B cord at Target from the old price was 9 99. It was being increased to 1799 and increased on that particular product of about 80%. And we’re starting to see this at Walmart, at Target, on Amazon of different retailers around the country. Painful price increases, which is just going to make our cost of living crisis even worse. In fact, the CFO of Walmart just went on CNBC and said, yeah, there’s going to be price increases. You’ll start to notice them toward the end of May and then definitely into June. So we’re not even at the end of May or into June yet. And people that go to the stores regularly, you can’t help but notice the price increases. But the CFO of Walmart says, Hey, we’re going to be implementing price more price increases end of this month and into next month. These price increases are coming, they’re being rolled out. Meanwhile, our paychecks aren’t going up the same rate. So our standard of living will be going down.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, you get the idea economic factors and see these things when they come into convergence, whether health related items, technology, advancements that facilitate all of these things when they begin to come into convergence. That is another reason why the time in which we sit is different than in the past and why we should do exactly what Jesus says. Be aware. Don’t be perplexed, but be aware and watch. Well, before we go into our final segment, again, just want to thank all of you who’ve been with us during the program. If you began with us, fantastic. If you joined partway through, I know how things happen when listening to the radio or perhaps you heard something and you would like to remember more about what was said, remember you can always go to our site, stand in the gap radio.com and pick up all of the programs in archive form this program.
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And so if it means something to you, share it with a friend, they’ll also appreciate that. And again, my special guest today has been Michael Snyder. His website is Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. He is independent and he needs subscriptions, which is not very expensive, but you can get a copy of all of the articles that he writes sent right directly to you. If you do something on that site, Michael T. Snyder dot substack.com. Alright, now with that in mind, let’s wrap it up here Michael and bring some concluding thoughts to this. So far we’ve focused on the weather and the economic signs of the times for which many people either don’t consider that they’re linked. They don’t know enough Bible to know that they are to be looking for these things. They don’t care about God. So there’s no connection to even think about where’s God’s hand in what I’m seeing, which is what every believer should do every day.
The Lord meaning to say, God, prepare my pathway today and understand that every event that comes into our life, every circumstance is not an accident. We know that as a believer, but yet we as believers can discount and put to aside and say, ah, well, it’s nothing, but yet it is. And you read from Mark 13, we talked about Matthew 24, about observing these signs that are evidence, particularly when they converge as we’re talking about here today. And I think that’s been demonstrated in these two areas. But let’s just go here. We’ve talked about the what take just a little bit from the why perspective. There is an explanation as you talked about the sun having some impact. In most cases, Michael, people would prefer to explain away every event. Though they may use the word apocalyptic, they may use the word catastrophic, they may use the term as we see so many times, biblical and proportions. How many times have we seen that yet? They don’t believe the Bible and they don’t know what that means, but they’ll use that. So in some cases there are natural justifications, but link into that as well. Why should we consider the hand of God as he is involved in all of these things since he told us to watch these things, blend those together as to the why. And then I want to conclude with what we should do about it.
Michael Snyder:
Yes, Sam, I’ve even seen many, many prominent Christian leaders try to explain away what’s happening and say, oh no, God would never judge America. We’re such a wonderful country. Meanwhile, abortion is 7% higher, number of abortion, 7% higher than before Roe versus Wade was overturned. Gay marriage is so accepted, it’s not even a political issue anymore. Next month, the month of June is a month long nationwide celebration of sexual immorality. God has been very patient with us for decades in my opinion. But throughout the scriptures people point to Deuteronomy 28. But throughout the scriptures what we see, we see a pattern of where God warns. And then God ultimately brings judgment of blessing and cursing. If we do things God, God’s ways, there’s blessing. But if we turn and do what is evil, there is judgment. And the Book of Revelation is a book that describes the tremendous judgment ultimately upon humanity, the most apocalyptic times in all of human history.
And that’s what we’re on the verge of. That’s what we’re moving into. That’s what the future of the world is going to look like. And so unfortunately, circumstances and things around us are going to become difficult and more challenging and more challenging. And yet God has put us here. He’s got a job for you to do. And if God didn’t think you could handle what he has for you to do, and these times we’re living in, he wouldn’t have put you here. But time is short. We’ve got a job to do. We’ve got souls to win. And so this is such an exciting time of human history to be alive, but also very, very challenging.
Sam Rohrer:
It is indeed. And the devil controls this world right now. I mean the Lord, we know superintendents, the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. He raises up those he wills. So those who are in power in civil government or authority, God has brought to power, the devil is working hard because he knows his days are getting limited. All of these things, we know this because this is what the Bible says is the case. So we see these things happen and we can either choose to ignore, we can choose to discount or as you say, the world is basically saying, God, who we don’t fear God. We are God. And that’s what we see pretty much running the show. So speak to the believer here right now. Again, we’ve already kind of commented on it, but why should all alert persons Michael, not discount, not ignore what is happening around them as just thinking, well, what I see is just happening to the other guy and this happens. It happens. And understand that there is something, there’s a reason why God said watch in Mark 13 and why he said, observe in Matthew 24, but don’t be perplexed, but be aware that these things must come about. Wrap it up.
Michael Snyder:
Yeah, Jesus told us to watch. He wants us and he’s got an individual plan for each one of us. We need to be seeking God about what to do and then to take action to get prepared because apocalyptic times are ahead of us. We didn’t even talk on this program about the fact that CNN just published a bombshell article about that Trump administration officials are saying that Israel is preparing to strike Iran militarily. Trump had hope to make a peace deal with Iran, but Iran says, Hey, no matter what, we’re going to keep enriching uranium red line for us and the Trump administration saying it’s a red line for us that you’ve got to stop enriching uranium. And so both sides are dug in. It appears there’s not going to be a deal. And so either the US is going to take military action, but even if Trump doesn’t decides not to do so and back down, Israel’s going to go in anyway. And I believe that war with Iran will be a spark. That’s the word I’m using, spark, which so much is going to start happening after that. And I think once this thing with Iran goes crazy, then all of a sudden people will start to understand we really are living in the end times. We really are living in a time of wars and rumors of wars. And I think global events will really accelerate once we get to that stage.
Sam Rohrer:
And with that, Michael, we’ll just wrap it up here, ladies and gentlemen, again, why say all these things, is it fun, fun to be a watchman on the wall? Is it an easy thing to declare that sin brings death and all the world sits guilty before God? And unless we accept Jesus Christ as a personal savior, that we will spend any eternity in hell separate from God? Is that a fun message? No, it’s not. But is it a true message? It absolutely is. So may all of those who have ears to hear and eyes to see, may I encourage you to take what has been said in the context in which has been said, read the scriptures to which we’ve referred and walk away not with the spirit of fear, but with great anticipation and be more watchful than ever, as the Lord’s return is literally at the door. Michael Snyder, thank you for being with me. Ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being with us today.
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