Ask Sam – Looking Back & Looking Ahead Episode 77

Host: Dr. Isaac Crockett

Co-host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 1/9/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Isaac Crockett:

Well, hello, welcome. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett, and joining me today is the Honorable Sam Rohr, the president of the American Pastors Network and the regular host of this program. And Sam, you and I recently did a Stand in the Gap TV program. I think it aired three weeks ago on the Prayer of Moses, which is Psalm 90. As far as we know, it’s the oldest Psalm in the Psalm book. And that Psalm in it, Moses talks about our age, our years. It’s ironic because Moses and his sister and his brother all apparently live to be 120 years older, older. But in that he talks about living to be 70 or possibly up to 80 years old. But he says this in Psalm 90 verse 12, he says, “So teach us to number our days. Teach us to number our days.” He says that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Sam, as we number our days, we reflect. We’re at the beginning of the year, we’re in the January, we’re looking back still at this past year, 2025, the 365 days we had, and we’re looking forward to the next year. And we saw last year that it was a significant year politically. We saw some shifts in the global elections, but especially in the US. We had a lot of elections going on in 2024 that changed 2025. We saw the new administration, President Trump’s administration taking office and all sorts of global tensions going on. I just wonder, how have you seen the truth of what the Bible tells us in Daniel? Two, he says that God changes the times and seasons and he, God, removes kings and sets up kings. He’s saying that God is sovereign over all of these changes. How have you seen him seen that playing out in our nation and around the world as we look back a number of the days of 2025?

Sam Rohrer:

That’s a great question, Isaac. And I think a number of things. What you cited there between what Moses said when he looks back and saying, after all is done from an individual perspective, let’s be very careful about how we spend our time. So teach us to number our days and why that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. Wisdom, meaning the application and the putting into effect of God’s truth. In a way that’s actually glorifying to God, that’s wisdom as the scripture talks about. And so as a believer, I’ve thought about that this entire year. And as I grow older physically and in the Lord, I think about seasons of time change and that takes you to Daniel, changes times and seasons. Life changes. We’re only here for a little while.

The truth that Daniel said, as I think, and I look around this world is that in this time of change, and the change is only increasing, nations are aligning, they’re realigning. New leaders stepping up, leaders disappearing. Nations collapsing economically right now around the world, all those kinds of things, that takes us back to me that takes to the truth and the confidence, as you said, that allowed Daniel to say, God is the one ultimately that controls the times and the seasons, not just spring and fall, which God established and said it’s going to happen until he comes back and the son coming up and going down. It’s not just those times and seasons, but the seasons of our life. And he is actively involved. God is actively involved in all those things that impact our lives individually and nationally. And that goes to the heart of actually taking down kings and sets up kings.

And another passage talks about nations, God ruling through the nations of the world. They operate at the bequest of God himself who put the plan together. Isaac, to me, that is great confidence in these days where things are increasingly confusing and designed to make people anxious so that we look to government or somebody else. God says, “No, no. At those times like that, don’t look there. Look to me, be confident. I am working out my plan of redemption through the nations. Leaders are a part of nations. Be confident in that. Do your job. Be light and salt in this world. And use that time for me and things work out.

Isaac Crockett:

” Well, Sam, we see Daniel talking about that God is in charge of the seasons and the times and he raises up kings. He puts kings down. Proverbs King Solomon says that the heart of the king is in the Lord’s hand and he controls it. Romans 13 tells us that God has given us authorities and government authorities for his purpose and for his structure. So as we look back, we’re looking back in this program and looking forward to at the same time. But as we count the days, as we number the days, were there times in 2025 where maybe you believe God was raising certain leaders up for maybe a particular blessing or maybe raising people up for judgment and anything that we could learn from, again, seeing God’s hand at work in the way things went last year?

Sam Rohrer:

Well, yes, extending what we just talked about, it’s easy to look around and say, “Oh no, there is a Vladimir Putin of Russia and what is he doing? And then President Z of China, what an evil guy and what is China trying to do? ” And then here comes Donald Trump of the United States and then all the things that are happening. Kier Starmer of the UK and Nicholas Maduro, frankly, of Venezuela who’s in the news and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Emmanuel Macron of France, wherever you go. And you say, “How do these people get there?” Well, it’s just that we talked about. They got there because God in his sovereign plan wanted them where they are. And you say, how do they work? How do these things work together? Well, it works together because it’s not accidental. And that is the thing I think we sometimes lose even as believers that we think everything hinges on our guy getting elected.

Well, we may want our guy elected. We may, but God may want somebody else elected for his purposes. In the end, our confidence is the fact that God is in charge. Jesus Christ has gone and come back sooner than we think as king of all kings, but along the way, you have the evil king, you have the righteous king. You have the Hitler of the past. You have the pilot and the hair of Jesus day. You had the Nebuchadnezzar of Daniel’s day. None of those were surprised to God and God’s people who were alive at those times needed to respond just as we respond today. God is in charge. He chose my timing of when I need to be here, but my purpose doesn’t change then or now. And as I can be confident in what’s occurred in the past and what God said he would do, he’s done to the letter.

What he said about will happen and come about in the future will also happen and therefore be anxious for nothing.

Isaac Crockett:

Well, that is a good reminder. Be anxious for nothing. Actually, I was just reading about that in a devotional today and all the different things that we’ve been anxious about and all of that we’re supposed to give to the Lord. And as we head into 2026, if you’re listening and you’re a pastor or maybe you want to share this with your pastor, if you’re a parent, a grandparent, anybody that you have in your sphere of influence, remind them that no authority exists except that God has established it. And God is still in control. And as you said, Sam, there’s all these political machines and all these factions and fractions and fighting and going on, but ultimately we know that the King of Kings is in control and that he is going to make all things right. But there’s a lot to talk about as we look at these different factions, a lot to talk about as we look at what has happened in the last 365 days and what we look forward to and surmise may be the path forward in 2026.

And so we want to look at some of these realities from last year, but continue developing what God could do this year and what we should do for the Lord. So we’re going to be back shortly as we have more questions to ask Sam today. Well, welcome back to our Friday program. It’s an Ask Sam edition of our Friday Stand in the Gap Today program. And Sam Rohr and I, and I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett with the Honorable Sam Rohr. We are talking about numbering our days, which Sam, this goes back just a few weeks ago. We had a program air on Stand in the Gap TV, which some of you maybe listen to our radio program and watch our TV program. You can get all of that on our app. In fact, if you go to Facebook right now just on Thursday, I posted the verse that we’re talking about, Psalm 90 verse 12, so teach us a number of days.

And in the link, there’s a link in the comment section there that takes you to our YouTube channel and you can watch the full segment of us talking about the prayer of Moses. But Sam, we are looking back on the year 2025. We’re looking forward to 26, and I’m asking you questions. Many of these are questions that have come to me over the last few weeks and months even, and even some of them from last year. And we’re trying to apply a biblical worldview to some of the most pressing issues of the day. And that’s kind of what this Ask Sam Friday program is about when we do these. One of the things that keeps coming back, and one of the things a lot of people are struggling with and worried about is the economy. And when you tie in the economy, you have to look at our huge US national debt.

I was just looking at the calculator and it’s around 38.5 trillion. It’s over 38 trillion. And some analysts are projecting that it is going to hit or maybe go well above the 40 trillion mark in 2026. From a biblical stewardship perspective, you’ve been talking about this. Sam, I think you’ve been talking about this for a decade. I think we’ve been on air for about a decade. It seems like you’ve been talking about the debt and the issues with it. What does this mean for us? What kind of this escalating debt in the priorities of our nation? What does it teach us as we look through this from a biblical worldview, Sam?

Sam Rohrer:

Well, when I ran for office the first time, Isaac in 1992, I actually went back and I looked at something there. And one of my campaign promises that what I ran that year was I would vote for no tax increases. And how many times politicians run for office? I’m not going to vote for tax increase and low and behold, the taxes just keep going up and up. Yeah. Okay. So this is the point. We are now at a point in our nation where because the spending has not been controlled, meaning spending has exceeded the income, there is now debt. And there’s reasons for it. And that purpose is not really to get into that, although we have to a little bit. But now it’s over $38 trillion, as you’ve cited. And this is just one of those things. It doesn’t seem to make any difference, Isaac, whether the Democrats or the Republicans are in office.

It’s become inherent with federal government. The state governments have to balance their budget. There’s been a check and a balance that has kept … It’s kept at least everything in balance. The federal government has been able to just print money. The Federal Reserve just prints money.

The United States got the prize of being the one most responsible for winning World War II. And when the other nations of Europe and the United Kingdom and all that were out of money, spent everything, we emerged as being the victors. And with that, went an ability to say, “All right, the United States, now the biggest industrial power of blessings is how I’m going to put it. God had blessed us like unbelievable.” The world, because of things, adopted the dollar and everybody’s needed the dollar. And so rather than to preserve that benefit, we as a nation have tended to abuse that benefit because it’s allowed us to increase debt and print even more. But here’s one thing about it. God makes it clear, as you and I have talked about many times, God established the concept of nations and rulers. We talked about that last segment.

He raises up, he puts them down. The book of Daniel who talked about, and we’ve talked about in our TV program before, gave Daniel the idea of the kingdoms of the human kingdoms of the world that would come about, that would play a part in God’s plan of redemption and bringing forth Yeshua, the Messiah, and then leading up until the time in which we now live and then the second coming of Christ. That was what that was all about. And so, but in all of that, that was part of God’s plan, but all the way through the scripture, debt is an area about which God speaks extraordinarily. And God makes it clear that from an individual perspective or a nation’s perspective or an attitude, the attitude that exists regarding money and property and wealth and resultant prosperity, God says is directly connected to his blessings or his judgment.

And that comes from Deuteronomy chapter eight, where God says, “You fear me and you keep my commandments.” And one of the things that would happen would be that blessings of all time, including wealth, would be poured out from God on a nation and would come about. And God said, “But if you do that, I will make you the head.” He told Israel that in 28, “And I will make you a surplus nation.” In other words, you will not be in debt and you will not be a servant to somebody else from which you need to borrow. But he said there as well, “You walk away from me or you think that the blessings came from your own hands rather than me, then you’ll see it evidence itself in that you will become a debtor nation.” And so Isaac, that’s where we sit. We’re the world’s largest debtor nation in the history of the world and we are increasing our debt at over a trillion dollars and now 90 days.

It was 100 days for a while. Now it’s not 90 days and it’s actually sped up during 2025. It hasn’t slowed down. So God directly connects his blessing to the nation’s fearing him and keeping his commandments and he connects debt and a debt load to God’s judgment and a failure of a nation or an individual to understand that property and wealth and all that comes about is a blessing of God, not something that man just generates on his own.

Isaac Crockett:

Sam, one of the Proverbs that we’ve often referenced in regard to debt is Proverbs 22: seven, Solomon writes that the borrower is slave to the lender. And when we look forward to 2026 and that the potential of the financial strains that could be there, I mean, we look back in 2025, I think we had the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history and there could be more of that, I’m afraid. But what could happen positively? What should happen? And maybe you could address what could happen on a national level, even for individuals or churches or whatever, but what could happen if we would try to follow biblical rules in regards to paying our debts in a timely fashion and understanding that the borrower is slave to the lender?

Sam Rohrer:

Isaac, the only way there’s going to be a change. The only way is when there is a broad based repentance and a return to God. And an understanding that blessing does not come from one’s own hands. It doesn’t come from a set of policies, greatness of a nation, make America great again. That’s the brand that’s out there. We’ve all heard it. That without God will not happen. God says it cannot happen. And if you think it will happen, or that you can become wealthy by, well, snickering somebody else, or from a government’s perspective, stealing from the people, stealing their wealth by doing what like we’ve done through the last years, spending more than we have, or through the use of inflation. Inflation is a theft. It’s a legalized theft. People don’t think about that, but what’s actually happening? It’s a stealing of people’s wealth. But if we do not understand from God’s perspective, that property ultimately is for the purpose of glorifying God, and that individually earned property is their property and government’s perspective is to protect it, not take it.

See, everything comes back to recognizing and fearing God and saying that his plan for individual, for family, for civil, for nation is the only one that works out. We’ll never return to it. Here’s a number I thought was interesting. The amount of wealth that has happened because there’s been no fear of God in our land and slowly, and people don’t think about it, but here’s what it is. Here it is, 2026 now. You know our dollar is worth today right now, only 7.4 cents compared to what it was in 2020. Actually, no, I’ll change it back. No, that was 1950. Compared to 1950, it’s only worth seven and a half cents right now. If you look at your 2000, just 20, 25 years ago, whatever, 26 years ago, it was 53 cents. So the value of our dollar has been cut, stolen. Put it that way, biblical perspective, stolen by government.

Why? Because we spent more than what we have had, we have printed, but the extent has been that we have stolen from the people. So every dollar that a person has right now in their pocket, 90 some, well, 50% of it has been stolen just from 2000. This is something, Isaac, that God says he will step in to protect his people and to bring judgment when in fact it’s not done by those who are in government. So there is no return, there is no restoration until there is a returning to God and saying, “We have sinned and we’re going to return to your plan.”

Isaac Crockett:

I’m glad you went that way, Sam, because all of this points us back to God and looking to him for our salvation, for everything. And far too often, it’s interesting that on our currency he says, “In God we trust.” And so many times it’s exactly opposite of that. All the more reason why we need to trust God, we need to be on our knees praying and witnessing and being a light to those around us. There’s a lot more we want to talk about. We’re going to take a quick time out, come back and I have some questions for Sam about antisemitism and artificial intelligence. You don’t want to go away, we’ll be right back after this brief timeout. Welcome back to Stand in the Gap. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett. I’m talking with the honorable Sam Rohr, the president of the American Pastors Network. This is one of our special Ask Sam Friday editions.

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Tim Schneider:

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Isaac Crockett:

Well, thank you very much, Tim. And just good reminder of how we can use technology and be good stewards of the tools and resources that God gives us and just some amazing free tools there that Tim was talking about that I hope you can use and take advantage, maybe share with friends or family members. Sam, as we look back at 2025, I know one of the neat things you got to do towards the end of the year, there were a lot of big events in your life, everything from grandchildren born to your youngest getting married and all these different things, but you had the neat opportunity of going over to Israel again. And I think this is the first time you went since the last time was shortly before the October 7th incident, and this was your first time after that. But one of the things you came back reporting about was this rise of global antisemitism.

It’s been alarmingly high, especially in the year 2025. I thought with October 7th, it would go the other way. And there have been reports all over the world, including our own big cities like New York City. And I’m just wondering, do you view this rise of antisemitism? At the heart of this, is this a spiritual issue or what is this, Sam?

Sam Rohrer:

Clearly it’s at the heart of a spiritual issue. And again, you and I have talked about this, but it was interesting just a couple of days ago on Wednesday. My guest here was Chris Katulka, who’s the vice president of Friends of Israel. And I asked Chris the question about the big events of 2025, and he was pretty much … It was good. He talked about the election of Donald Trump, but from an Israel perspective, but then the pros of peace plan and the rise of antisemitism. And then we had a discussion about that, but that was from an Israel perspective because those things have really impacted Israel. But when I was in Israel, that time you talked about my wife, Ruth Ann and I were there.

As we were meeting with members of government and other Christian media from around the world, it was very clear. The thing of greatest concern was the increase of global anti-Semitism. So there was a lot of discussion there, but even referring back to what we did on Wednesday, I encourage people who are listening now if you didn’t catch Wednesday’s program to do that, but yes, where does that come from? It comes from ultimately the devil himself. Satan has attempted to thwart God’s plan of redemption, which God has identified as through the Jewish people, a land called Israel, and God’s city, the capital of Jerusalem, God’s capital city, it says in scripture, Jerusalem. And so the devil has always thought if he could somehow derail God’s plan of redemption, and he tried it. He tried killing babies in the past. When Jesus was born, he tried … He’s tried over and over again, thinking that if he can keep God’s plan from happening, then he will come out on top and he can foil God’s plan.

Now that’s not going to ever happen. However, ultimately at the end of the day, the devil is a liar.

He is hate and he is stirring up the hatred towards God’s people and God’s plan. But secondarily, in Matthew 24 on talks about Jesus said, the signs that would occur before he returned would in fact be increased persecution. Against who? Well, it’s really both. It’s two people. It’s God’s chosen people, the Jews, for whatever reasons I just said, but also when we as Gentiles or Jews trust Jesus as our savior, we become one of God’s elect. We become chosen of God, his children. And that’s why almost always persecution of true Christian believers in Yeshua happens because of trusting in Jesus Christ and the hatred toward the Jewish people, even though they may or may not yet have come to faith in Yeshua, but that is the purpose and that will happen as a nation during the end of the time of the tribulation. So that’s really at the heart of it.

And so we are seeing that as the nations of the world arise and ultimately may not be all that far off. The nations of the world, God will pull them down into the valley of Jehosaphat, which is really the valley of judgment and he will judge them because of their opposition to ultimately God, God’s plan, ultimately Jesus Christ, but focused on the Jews, Israel and Jerusalem.

Isaac Crockett:

Well, Sam, another big area that I get a lot of questions and we’ve talked a lot about is this generative artificial intelligence capabilities, which we’ve seen it just really grow leaps and bounds this last year. And I can just imagine somebody listening right now say, “Well, I’m not using AI. I’m not talking to the chatbots. I’m staying away from that. ” What would you say to them about AI and why it’s important for all of us to be thinking about it biblically and about the ramifications when we become dependent on AI in certain areas?

Sam Rohrer:

Well, AI, Isaac, for one reason that I can think is that it’s been very clear, it is artificial. It’s appropriately named. It’s artificial intelligence. It’s counterfeit intelligence. The devil is the counterfeiter. He is the counterfeit Christ. He’ll manifest himself that way. He’s going to deliver himself as a substitute Holy Spirit. His partner in crime, the prophet will attempt to replace the Holy Spirit, which will be removed when the rapture occurs and the churches go. The artificial intelligence is one of those things that operates in the background. It’s already happening, but it is there almost becoming the source of truth. People are becoming dependent on AI to do things for them that maybe they’d They did themselves, or instead of going to God’s word as a source of truth, it’s easier to go to AI and say, “What do you think about this? Or what is that?

” And so AI is very rapidly becoming the God of this age. It is providing the answers to things that are happening. It’s being held out even by our own government that it’s going to become the thing that will provide for justice to be applied equally, which is man’s job. And man’s going to give an answer to God about that. Government will. But it will analyze all of the data, and that’s where we get the surveillance aspect of it, the cameras and the surveillance and the permission to do that and wrap everything. Isaac, people think right now, “Well, I don’t know anything much about AI, so it’s not going to impact me. ” Back to the matter is AI, though they don’t understand it, is already impacting them a lot. It is if they use their iPhone, they’re already being impacted. If they go to the internet, they’re already being impacted.

And anybody who is conscious of it is actually becoming more dependent by the day because they find it, frankly, fairly convenient, and that’s the trap. And this is where it’s going. I view it’s a methodology. It’s hopeful in some ways, but it becomes the mode for dependence and actually becoming the God of this age.

Isaac Crockett:

Well, you know, Sam, we started this broadcast, this program, talking about the sovereignty of God, even in our nations and in our leaders. And I think it’s appropriate that we go that direction as we finish up, is looking at that we make sure we are trusting in God. In God, we trust not in money, not in finances, not in technology, not even in artificial intelligence or anything else, but we trust in the Lord. So we’re going to take our final quick time out to hear from some of our partners, and we’re going to come back and have some questions for Sam to help us focus on putting our trust in God in this new year. Well, welcome back to our program. I’m Pastor Isaac Crockett. I’m talking with the honorable Sam Rohr, and we are asking him questions. Sam, we started out looking at the prayer of Moses and what he said in Psalm 90:12, that we should number our days and ask Lord to give us wisdom and to fill our hearts with that and direct us.

And as we pull all this together and we’ve already left 2025 behind and we’re looking forward to 2026, we’ve seen God’s clear sovereignty in spite of the nasty ugliness, the darkness of this world amid the debt crisis and the cultural battles and technological leaps and antisemitism rearing its ugly head and all of the deception out there. What is the greatest lesson maybe that you could look back on and seeing God’s control over the nations and leaders as we leave one year and start the next, what would you say as far as just trusting the Lord and realizing that ultimately he is still king of kings?

Sam Rohrer:

Isaac, I think it’s a great question. It’s a great place as we end the program to go there. On programs I’ve done here before with our mutual friend, Dr. Carl Broggi, who joins us here generally once a month when we look at Israel and biblical prophecy in the Middle East, we’ve had that kind of discussion before a little bit, and this is how I would direct that question. My greatest lesson in trusting God’s control over nations and leaders goes back to some discussions we’ve already had. And that is that he has done and prophecy that he has laid out long ago have been fulfilled and has been fulfilled to the letter. So that which God said in Genesis 3:15 that he would bring forth a redeemer once sin came into this world. And when he went to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and promised that through Abraham would come a blessing to the world, Jesus Christ old man and promised a redeemer to come the Messiah.

And he came regardless of what we talked about, the devil’s attempts to try to stop God’s plan. And it happened right on track. And now we hear in 2026, on the cusp of the end of the age of the Gentiles, Luke talks about when the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled, that’s the church age. That’s the time that we’ve been a part of for the last 2,000 years since Christ’s ascension. And then the shift to what Daniel then talks about, we’ve heard about Daniel, where he talked about the kingdoms that would come and they came and he’s talking about a kingdom that will come, a global antichrist government will come. And in the midst of that, God’s going to change his attention to the focus on Israel. Well, we’ve talked about that and we’ve seen Israel now back in the land and we see the increase in the hatred, antisemitism, Israel.

That’s not accidental. Isaac, that is all exactly what God has said would happen. And what, so therefore what he has said will yet happen, we can with the fullest of confidence, know that it will occur just exactly as God will say, and no one, not the devil himself, can deter God’s plan. Isaac, I can only answer that question that you gave me in that list. My greatest lesson is simply to choice to believe God and God’s word and that what he said will come to pass and that’s it. It’s a choice. And I think that’s really what it is. We can choose to be confident and trust in God, or we can choose and not be confident and trust in everything else under the sun.

Isaac Crockett:

That is so good. As we close this program, we’re getting your final thoughts here and we’re focusing back on trusting in God. I do want to hopefully leave time for you to close us in prayer, but how should we pray? Are there maybe specific things we could pray about or maybe actions that we could take? Maybe there’s pastors listening to this, maybe actions that could be done from the pulpit or just listeners. What can we do as we enter 2026, especially regarding just a vigilance against deception, against the disinformation that’s out there, against the deceiver, Satan himself, and ways that we could put our hope and ways that we can look towards revival, starting with ourselves, starting in our own home, starting in our churches, what might some of those things be that we could put our focus on this year?

Sam Rohrer:

Well, I think Isaac, I go right to Matthew 24. Jesus said certain things are going to happen of which we’ve mentioned them, increase in the persecution, deception that you’ve mentioned, increase in all of that. But Jesus said, “Don’t be deceived.” Well, how are we not deceived? We’re not deceived by staying dependent upon God’s word and reliant upon his promises and being more motivated about doing what God has said to do in this time and that is to share the gospel. Pray for those who are around us, fear God and keep his commandments, one of which is, do we love our neighbors? Do we love our family? Are we sharing the gospel? We ought to be more motivated by that. Isaac, I tell you personally, even though I spent time in office and I can get exercised about political things, but as of, I’m just not anymore.

I note what’s taking place. We commented on this program, but I get exercised increasingly. I pray that I would become more and more exercised in considering and asking Lord, am I doing everything I can for you? Am I living as much as late as you want me to be and being salt? Am I acting selflessly like Christ as I should and not getting caught up in all of the distractions which will come to not. I think Isaac, that’s how we ought to pray. And as pastors and the pulpits, we’d be encouraging our people to do the thing. I mean, be aware of what’s going on. That’s what we do in this program, but don’t get consumed about it. Don’t become perplexed with that. God is in control and he’s raising up and he’s putting down all the things that you’ve put together into this program.

And I think within that is both how we conduct ourselves. We recalibrate our thinking and our heart every day by going into God’s word and we then execute, carry it out, fear God, keep his commandments, live holy lives in this age. Isaac, there’s nothing better that we can do nor that for which we can pray.

Isaac Crockett:

That is so true. And in our world, it does seem to be increasingly unstable and yet we are called to hold onto the hope of Christ’s ultimate victory for us individually, for the world, and staying faithful and staying in the gap. That’s the name of our program. Sam, I want to turn the rest of the time over to you. Any maybe final comments, but give you a time to close this program in prayer as well.

Sam Rohrer:

Well, Isaac, again, it’s a pleasure to start out this year with you here on the program. And as we go into 2026, I pray. I mean, I don’t know whether we’re going to be here a year from now. In many respects, I honestly believe that the return of Christ and the rapture is going to be here much sooner than we think, but I certainly want to live and act that way. And ladies and gentlemen, as you’re listening to us right now, I trust that you think that way too. Keep priorities, biblical priorities and all the concerns of this world. They will tend to fall away. So let’s close in prayer. Heavenly Father, I thank you, Lord, that you are in control. You’ve given us your word all we need. We don’t know everything we need to know, everything we would like to know, but we have everything that we need to know.

You’ve given that to us. You’ve given us a more sure word of promise. You have told us what will take place. You have said that you will soon return for those who are a part of your family. And Lord, we also know by other evidence that there are very few who actually know you. So we pray for those who are listening, that they truly would know you as Savior. And then together, Lord, those who do know would live it so that we would be lights in this increasingly dark world, which would give people the reason to come and ask for us, the reason for the hope that is within us. And then we can point them to you. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Isaac Crockett:

Amen. Amen. Well, thank you so much, Sam, for that. Thank you for answering these questions. And I want to thank you who are listening for listening to us today. Please, please pray for us, for all the ministries at the American Pastors Network, especially here at Stand in the Gap Media. We appreciate that you listen to us. I hope that you’ll listen to this again, share this with somebody else. And until next time, I pray that you will stand in the gap for truth wherever you are today.