The Failing Food Forecast: The Facts & Factors

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 5/4/26. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:

Hello and welcome to Stand in the Gap today. And this is the first Monday also of the month of May here in 2026. Hard to believe, isn’t it? But as we begin this week, earlier this morning, I was involved in some final preparation for today’s program. And when I was doing certain things, I noted an event that occurred over the weekend that caught my attention. And while not directly related to our theme today, it did contribute to the reason why I’m dealing with the theme of today, which I’ll say what upfront what it is. It’s about food, food scarcity, famine, or no problem. That’s the theme today. But here’s what I listened to this morning that made, I think this important. Over the weekend, you may have heard already, it was made official that the United States has now officially reached a dangerous milestone. The US debt to GDP ratio crossed 100%.

This means that the US federal debt now exceeds the size of the US economy. This is no small matter. This is the first time that this has happened since World War II in the mid 1940s. Economists and fiscal watchdogs treat this as a major symbolic threshold because it means that the US has now borrowed more than it produces in a year. That debt levels are at an historic high, never been higher, and that our interest payments now exceed $1 trillion a year, or one out of every $7 spent now goes to pay the interest. Well, the added problem is that the US spending, our current spending now under the current administration, where we’re at right now, where this record has been reached, has not only not gone down, it’s adding a trillion dollars to the debt faster than at any time in history, other than during the COVID disaster.

But what caught my attention was hearing from government insiders I was listening to, explaining all of this away as if things have never been better. Not a problem. I heard the one saying, “Nothing to see here. All under control. Don’t concern yourselves with this fact and just be glad we’re all in this pristine, luxury swimming pool.” They didn’t actually use those words, but it was kind of that description. Enjoy yourself, basically it was. Yet in reality, the economic and the fiscal pool, in my opinion, in which we find ourselves is a cesspool, from which government officials care less about pumping it out and cleaning out the corruption, though they’ve all promised to do so under many previous Congresses and presidents. In reality, perspective is one thing, but reality and truth, that’s another. And that very recent example added to the impetus for addressing the steam about today’s program, but which we’re about seeing and hearing and experiencing at the grocery store, frankly, that subject is food, and the narrative is increasingly including such words as global famine, food, crisis.

Other adjectives that are out there are words like scarcity, unaffordability, or supply chain stress. Okay, but what is the truth? And since food is essential for all human beings, we all need it. And since my guest, Michael Snyder, attorney economist and publisher of the most important news and prolific author of Nearly Daily blog that he puts out, he’s written on this topic for so long, I’ve decided to ask him to join me again today to focus just on this theme of food. And the title I’ve selected is this, The Failing Food Forecast: The Facts and the Factors. And with that, Michael, welcome back to the program.

Michael Snyder:

It’s great to be with you today, Sam.

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, in America, I think one of the dilemmas that we have, we hear news, we discount it, particularly when it comes to food because God has so blessed us in this nation. That food’s never really been an issue. It’s always been plenteous. It’s generally always been affordable to most people, except certain times, perhaps during the last hundred years during a Great Depression, when I know it was not for many. So when entities like the United Nations declare actual famines, and they use those words in places like Sudan and Nigeria, and other places around the world. And then they further raise that by talking about the 50% reduction in oil from the Middle East, about which you’ve written so much, and all that comes out of that. It’s easy for most people to think, “Well, I haven’t seen any change here.” And well, if the United Nations says it, it can’t be true anyways.

It’s just fear mongering, but there is also truth present in these things. That’s what I want to talk about today. So from your research and your studies, Michael, are food shortages truly happening right now as we speak, or likely to happen either globally or in the United States during the balance of 2026 and into 2027? And if so, what’s the difference now in 2026 as compared to the past?

Michael Snyder:

Well, that’s a great question, Sam. And for my starting point, I’d like to go to the word of God because that is our foundation. And if we’re really living in the end times, which I believe that we are, well, we know that in the future, looking forward, there will be famine. Jesus talked about it in Matthew 24, he said there will be famine. And then in the book of Revelation, we see famine in Revelation chapter six, we see a situation where wheat and barley prices go up dramatically in Revelation chapter six, but then the oil and the wine are not affected and we’ll talk about that later in the program. But so if we really are living in the end times, that is in humanity’s future. And what we’ve seen over the past number of years, in fact, during all the time that I’ve been coming on your program, is we’ve seen the global food crisis get progressively worse due to drought, supply chain issues, depletion of the top soil.

And there’s a number of other long-term trends, which I’ve talked about. But what we saw even before this war with Iran erupted is according to the United Nations, the number of people around the world in the category of acute hunger, which means they’ve got a severe lack of food, which requires immediate intervention to save lives, that’s acute hunger. The number of people in acute hunger was at the highest level ever recorded, and that was before the war with Iran began. Now we’ve got this war that erupts in the Middle East. We have the strait of hormones blocked. We have more commercial vessels attacked today, missiles flying at the UAE. Ships aren’t getting through, haven’t been getting through for a couple of months, and that’s a really big deal for food production because normally approximately one third of all global fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Then in addition, a lot of the natural gas that normally comes through the Strait of Hormuz, which goes to places like Pakistan and India and so forth, well, they use that natural gas to make their own fertilizer. So global fertilizer production and global fertilizer supply has been dramatically affected by this. And that’s a really, really big deal because the only reason why we can even come close to feeding the world is because of nitrogen fertilizer. It’s really been a miracle nitrogen fertilizer. In fact, if you look at a graph or a chart of the use of nitrogen fertilizer over the past a hundred years and global population growth, they correspond almost perfectly because it’s really the nitrogen fertilizer that has allowed us to produce enough food to almost feed eight billion people. Now, of course, we can’t quite get that done because we’ve got famine around the world and so forth, but-

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, Michael, we’re out of time. We’ll have to cover when you come back. Ladies and gentlemen, we’re talking today about this, the failing food forecast. We’re all hearing about it, but the facts and the factors, we’re going to get into that, the facts and the factors contributing to it in the next cycle. Well, if you just join us today, welcome aboard. This is Stand in the Gap Today. My special guest today is Michael Snyder. He’s with me once or twice a month. He’s an attorney by trade. He’s an economist, a publisher of the economic, well, the most important news, a number of things, but he’s also writing on events, headline news type things that are of interest or should be of interest to, I would say, God fearing people, those who have eyes to see. And he has a website that I would encourage you to go to, MichaelTsnyder, michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

All of his articles can be found there. And even if you’d want to support him, since he is independent, you can do so on that site. Now, while not a part of the American experience, we talked about that, ladies and gentlemen, just a little bit in the other segment, that here in America, we just don’t really know what it’s like to be hungry, but a lot of the world does. If you go back and look since our founding 250 years ago, there really isn’t a time. If you were to do research and say times of great hunger or famine or whatever, it doesn’t come up in America’s history. Yes, there were shortages to be true, absolutely during times the Great Depression. My parents went through that time, and perhaps some of you, looking back, remember the stories perhaps as well, but that’s different in some respects.

We generally have not seen that, but that’s not true globally. And when viewed biblically, as Michael, my guest said just in the other segment, scripture does speak about lack of food and even prices of food and shortages and famines. Jesus himself stated that clearly and how that would increase in the years in which we live right now and would even grow even faster during the tribulation period. It would be marked by pestilences and famines on a global basis. But to help us understand real history, I just did a little bit of research. Let me just cite a little bit of this because there are eight different regional famines. We’ve never had a global famine where the entire world has been involved in something at the same time. But regionally, there are eight different ones that are cited, I’m going to say since America’s founding for the last 250 years, the most recent, it happens to be the deadliest is what’s referred to as the great Chinese famine of 1959 to 1961.

In that famine, that’s actually called a famine, the best to guess 50 million Chinese. 50 million are believed to have died due to radical agricultural changes and grain requisitions imposed by the government. All right now that was the most recent and that was perhaps the biggest. But before that, going back, 22 million people lost their lives in the nation of India in a period of time from 1783 to 1792, close to when we began as a nation. And that was due to two back to back droughts. In 1845 to 1849, Ireland witnessed the death of over a million people due to the great Irish famine caused by a potato blight. Between 1932 and 33, there were five to seven million Russians who died in the Russian famine due to forced collectivization and grain seizures under Joseph Stalin. All right, so periods of time, many people, not all the same reason.

Right, Michael, famines are real. People can and they do starve, but famine is a technical term where people actually starve to death, but there are many other steps along the way. So for instance, almost no food, almost died, food scarcity, that kind of thing where people go to bed hungry for a long period of time or food’s so expensive that people can’t really buy it and they can’t afford hardly to buy crumbs. All right, that’s different, but all of this is part of the reality of inadequate food or food failures. Here’s my question. According to your research, let’s identify the leading factors, if you could, that are impacting shortages or increases in prices perhaps already felt or will be felt by known factors, I’m going to say already baked into the pie. Certain things have happened that are going to come to fruition, you refer to it.

Talk about some of that, please.

Michael Snyder:

Yes, Sam. What we’re experiencing now is the greatest fertilizer crisis that any of us have ever experienced. And as war erupted, right as we are entering spring planting season in the Northern Hemisphere, and now we’ve got farmers all over the Northern hemisphere that either can’t get a fertilizer or can’t afford it because it’s gone up so much. In fact, here in the United States, 70% of US farmers, according to our recent survey, said, “Hey, I’m not going to be able to afford all the fertilizer that I need this year.” So they’re going to use either none or less fertilizer this year. And so with a reduction in the amount of nitrogen fertilizer used all over the world, because of the crisis in the straightforward moves, yields are going to be way down for certain crops, could be 30 to 50% because the use of nitrogen fertilizer in some cases allows farmers to produce more than twice as much food for other crops as less.

But for all the crops that it’s used on, nitrogen fertilizer causes a dramatic increase in production and now we’re not going to see this. So right now we’re still eating the food that was grown last year, but then the food that’s going to be grown this year and harvested later in the year, well, by the time we get to the end of the year, we’re going to have food shortages and price hikes hit us like a freight train all over the world and is really going to be a global phenomenon in terms of what we’re facing with this fertilizer crisis and all of a sudden it’s not simply not going to be enough food to feed everyone.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, so you got fertilizer and that’s the fertilizer lag and that is a lag you’re saying because we haven’t seen the impacts of that yet, but we will. Okay. Another one is inventory depletion. And you did refer to that, that we’re living off the supplies of the past. What about inventory levels? Do you know where we are and how that would factor into the matter of supply in particular?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. Well, let’s talk about beef for a second here in the United States because of a multi-year drought, scientists tell us that the Southwest United States is the driest that it’s been in 1200 years, in at least 1200 years. This multi-year drought-

Sam Rohrer:

Do you mean 1200? University

Michael Snyder:

This year, in fact, more than 60%

Of the US is currently in at least some level of drought, but it’s particularly bad in the southern half of the country and particularly bad in the Southwest, where so many ranchers are located. But so in recent years, the size of the US cattle herd has been getting smaller because of the drought and now it’s now the smallest that it’s been since 1951 when we had less than half as many people living in this country. So we’re trying to feed more than twice as many people with the same amount of beef and that’s caused beef prices to go way up. And now for the first time in US history, the price of a pound of ground beef is now higher than federal minimum wage in many parts of the country. Never happened before. And the beef has become a luxury meat because of this long-term crisis of drought and the shrinking size of US cattle herd and that’s why beef prices have gone so crazy and many of us can’t afford beef anymore.

And so that is hitting us at the same time, Sam, along with drought affecting winter wheat, which 70% is not in good condition right now. That’s going to affect us even sooner than the fall because the winter wheat harvest is coming up and so on. So this drought is hitting us at the same time as the fertilizer crisis. And so US farmers are really stressed out right now. In fact, coming into this year, we are facing the worst farming crisis in the United States in 50 years, and now this war, now this drought’s getting worse. For farmers all over the country, these really are the worst of times.

Sam Rohrer:

All right. Now, we’re talking about the US here right now. And earlier you said 1200 years. I think you meant 120 years, right?

Michael Snyder:

No, no. This is the worst drought in the Southwest, the worst multi-year drought in the Southwest United States in at least 1,200 years.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. So you didn’t mean that’s a hard one to grasp because that to me says extraordinarily significant. All right. Okay. So you did mean that. I just wanted to clarify it. All right. So we’ve got the issue of when it comes to food, you have supply and you’re talking about some things that would indicate supply. And then there are factors that would talk about price. And we’ll go into some of the more of those price things in the next segment. But one of the things I found you can talk on briefly is that when farmers don’t have enough fertilizer for the main grains here in the United States, corn, wheat, somewhat rice, rice overseas is a big grain. I’ve seen that they are either not planting or putting a whole lot more into soybeans, which is a nice thing, but it doesn’t really factor into the grains that keep people alive.

Talk about the acreage shifting. Talk about that.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, because of the drought and lack of fertilizer, some farmers, and that includes the United States, they’re either shifting to other crops, like you said, soybeans, or they’re not planting anything at all. As a result, the number of acres of wheat being planted this season in the United States is the lowest that we’ve seen since 1919, since records have been kept in 1919. It’s the lowest, the number of acres of wheat. Now, if you go back to 1919, we had about 104 million people living in this country. Today we’ve got about 340 million people living in this country, so more than three times as many people, and yet the number of acres of wheat being planted is the lowest ever recorded in records going back to 1919. So that means we’re going to have a really restricted supply of wheat being produced this year, but demand is still very, very strong.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, with that Michael, I’ve got to go on. Ladies and gentlemen, so the idea, there’s supply, we’re talking about that, and then there are a lot of things that affect price, and we’ll talk about that in the next segment. Okay, Michael, let’s continue our discussion here now. We spoke in the last segment, really identified two different areas when it comes to food. One, there have been famines in the past. I cited some history of that over the years, but that when people hear the word famine or when media uses the word famine, that is a very scary word. That’s a sensational word, but that does happen. And as you cited, and I referred to, the Bible does prophetically speak of the days in which we live and the days right ahead of us that will buy pestilence or other things lead to food shortages and famines, and therefore it’s worthy that we talk about that here today.

So we talked about it, but here in America, we have not really had that to worry about. And it’s very easy for us to think that we’re immune to difficulties of that type and discount what we may hear come from the United Nations, of which we ought to, because a lot of what they say is not true. But within all of that, there is an issue. And so we were talking last segment about supply issues and you talked about that. And then there are things that contribute to pricing where in fact, maybe food is available less, but you can get it, but you can’t afford it. So let’s walk into this because for most that are forecasting food failures, those that I’m following and you’re looking at, I mean, they tend to look at the areas of the grains like wheat, rice, and corn. There’s the inventory level.

We talked about that. The forecasted yield from what will happen the next crop, you talked about that, fertilizers and so forth, but let’s go into this now. Would you explain where inventories now said, I already asked you about that. Expected crop harvest for 2026, you did refer to that. And then there’s another aspect that’s showing up in official documentation. That thing referred to as what’s called a yield cliff and how the fertilizer shortage may factor into this piece of the equation. Any thoughts on that expanded thing? And then we’ll go further beyond that.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. And this goes to a long-term trend where globally topsoil has been getting depleted for a very long time, for decades, topsoil all over the world. In fact, there’s some areas of the world where the topsoil has just basically disappeared in certain areas, but here in the United States, we’ve got a situation where topsoil has been depleted in much of the heartland, and that’s why fertilizer is so important. They got to keep putting nutrients into the soil just so you can grow something. So if you’re talking about a situation where farmers are using less fertilizer or no fertilizer at all in certain cases, well, then all they have left is the depleted soil that they’ve been farming in year after year, decade after decade, well, it’s going to be hard to grow much at all, and that’s kind of what they’re talking about with the yield cliff there.

But in any event, if farmers, whatever the condition of their top soil is, if they’re trying to grow wheat or they’re trying to grow rice or corn or whatever it is, if you’re looking at a situation where you’re still using nitrogen fertilizer, but you’re using less, which some farmers are just saying, “Hey, I’m going to cut, just cut back, but still use some, but not as much.” Well, yields are going to be way down. And that means that the amount of food that is produced is going to be way down, and that means prices will go up. And this is something not just happening in the United States, but globally now here in the United States, wealthy countries will buy up whatever just happens to be available, but it’ll cost more. You’ll go to the supermarket, you think food prices are high now. Well, they’re going to go even higher, but there’s going to be a delayed impact because the consequences are not going to hit us for a number of months, but we get a number of months down the road and food prices will be up and more painful than even they are now, which right now they’re painful.

But in impoverished countries around the world, well, there’s simply not going to be enough food for everyone. And then what do we just see in other times this has happened, the Arab spring, there was problem with food production, there wasn’t enough food, people got really angry. And then we had the whole Arab spring, we had the rioting and so forth. And so we’re potentially facing that type of situation a number of months down the road.

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, at the beginning, I don’t know if this is in the first segment or the second, you made a reference in regard to prices and referred to the passage and revelation that talks about the tribulation period where very clearly there will be famines. So in some areas, people will be dying, not that the food will be totally absent. There’ll still be some food, but you talked about what scripture refers to about the oil and the grain. Speak about that as it refers to prices of food.

Michael Snyder:

Yes. Sam, as a student in the book of Revelation, I would always be so puzzled when I would get to Revelation chapter six, verse six, because I thought, well, how in the world can this be fulfilled? Because it talks about a scenario or a situation which will happen in the future, in which the price of wheat and barley will both go up dramatically, but it says, “Do not touch the oil and the wine, the olive oil and the wine.” And so I always tried to come up with different scenarios in my head. Well, how could that happen? How could wheat and barley be hit so hard, but then nothing happens to the oil and the wine. And I could never figure that out. And I would listen to different Bible teachers and their explanations, they would try, but their explanations never really rang true with me, but I didn’t have any answers either, but now for the first time in history, I believe we can see how such a scenario could actually play out because with the lack of nitrogen fertilizer that we’re seeing right now not coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, not getting to farmers all over the Northern hemisphere, yields for wheat for annual crops such as wheat and barley and corn are going to be way down this year.

And that means prices for wheat and barley and corn will go up as a result. Meanwhile, for crops that are not grown annually, for example, you take a look at grapevines. They can live and produce for 50 years, some for a hundred years. Year after year, they’re just going to keep producing grapes just as they normally do. They’re not planted this year and they don’t need fertilizer to get them going by harvest season. They’re just going to keep producing. Or you look at olive trees. There are some olive trees that have lived for 1000 years and are still producing olives, so they’re not an annual crop. They’re just going to keep producing year after year after year. So this year, the grapevines and the olive trees, they’re going to keep producing. They’re going to be fine. Meanwhile, the annual crops like wheat and barley and corn that we become so dependent on nitrogen fertilizer for their production, well, they’re going to be affected so, so greatly.

So we can see a situation where globally certain types of crops are tremendously affected just like Revelation six: six says, but meanwhile, then the crops that do not have to be planted annually, but that just keep producing year after year are going to be not affected. So when I first realized that, Sam, it blew me away, but I believe for the first time ever, we can understand how that verse could literally become a reality in our future.

Sam Rohrer:

I think that’s a very interesting interpretation and the first time I had heard that, but it does make sense. Now let’s move on to this in the balance here. In my research, Michael, as you’ve done as well about famine and remote chance of it happening here in America from the standpoint of not having a supply, I also note that in times of when there may be a major blizzard or a hurricane or something of that type that in certain areas, the grocery store shelves do run out. And in reality, there’s only a three day supply of food in supermarkets. So as I searched that, I thought, hmm, I wonder about such things as weather events or an earthquake or drought in the bread basket of the country. The electrical grid is taken down. There’s a lot of discussion about that. And there is a thing that government officials refer to as a defacto famine.

It’s a logistical famine, not a productive famine. Speak to that as well because most people live in places so far away from food that they actually could run out even though the food would still be there. What do you think?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. And we see this whenever there’s a major winter storm, what people go to the store and bang, all of a sudden all the bread’s gone, all the milk’s gone, people are just stocking up. But in the event of a major national emergency, whether it’s a coronal mass ejection, it’s some type of massive solar storm that fries our power grid, all of a sudden there would be no more food in the stores and supply chains would be disrupted or some type of major natural disasters or war. Many of the things that the Bible tells us are coming in our future in terms of the end times, well, there would be an interruption and there are not big storehouses of food or sitting out there, but we’ve gone to so much of a really just in time inventory system, even with our food where if the trucks stop running and the supply chains break down, we would be facing … We wouldn’t be able to go to the store and get what we need very, very rapidly.

And so in that type of situation, or if another pandemic comes, and I’m not talking about the last one where you could still go to the stores, but if one comes with a death rate of 30, 40, 50%, and you can’t go to the store, because if you go to the store, you might catch the disease and die while you’ve got to stay home. Well, what are you going to do? Do you have enough food to get you through a situation where you might have to stay home for weeks or months or even longer Most Americans are not able to do that. Most Americans don’t have that kind of food stored up. And so I believe those are the kind of scenarios which we will face as a nation down the road here.

Sam Rohrer:

So ladies and gentlemen, stay with us. All right. We said, “Oh, here’s a lot of news.” And he said, “I don’t like to hear that kind of news.” Well, we’re trying to separate fact from fiction, what is real, what is happening. And then we’re going to conclude with, all right now, what do we do in light of all of this? What can we do? We’ll talk about that. Well, as we go into our final segment here now, again, before we go into that and try to wrap it up and give some foundational thoughts, my guest today is Michael Snyder. He does a lot of writing. He’s been on the program with me before, but if you’re interested in either subscribing to his articles so that you’re either notified about them and get them or go to the website and read them, you can find it at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

Michael T as in Tom, michaeltsnyder.substack.com. All right. Michael, what we’ve discussed here today is in some respects, I find it difficult. You’re in the space where you’re, as a watchman on the wall, are writing about a lot of things. You are warning, warning, warning. I think to the prophets of old, of Jeremiah and others who kings said, “Get away from here. Throw him in prison or throw him in a well,” or however it was because they didn’t like what they were saying, but they were just delivering the message that God had delivered. But we live in an age where people are so driven by sensation and getting clicks on digital media that lying and deceiving things just to create a response is what we are subjected to. And it’s very, very easy in a setting like that to discard the true warning from the sensational, which is all about anything other than the truth.

And I was thinking about this because every prudent person, every God-fearing person, most of you listening to me, ladies and gentlemen, in that category, we understand that preparation and life is not only wise and prudent, but it’s necessary. We get a job. Why? Well, in order to work, to provide for our families. I mean, that’s a command by God, obviously, but it’s a necessary thing. And so we prepare in that way. We work so that we can save for retirement so that when we’re not able to work, we have some things to live off of. We buy health insurance to help us when we get sick, which we all do from time to time. We’re all going to die. So most of the time we’ll try to buy life insurance to help lessen the load, perhaps on those that may be left behind. We make sure that we have oil in the furnace, in the oil tank.

Particularly we live in cold climates so that we have the heat when the time of cold comes. People live in California, close to fault lines build homes with different zoning rules so that they can endure a certain amount of the shaking of the ground. So you get my point. It’s clear. Preparation is biblical. And in a most important sense though, I don’t want to leave this until we say this. Whereas we should be making plans for these kinds of things of preparation. The single most important is making plans for where we’re going to spend eternity. And of course, the only way to do that is to put our faith and trust in Jesus Christ who is the only way to heaven. So it starts with our eternal preparation as being the most important, but then it extends to physical and the extent that we are able to do the things that we’re looking at here today.

Then along the way, we trust in the Lord always, we do our best knowing that he’s promised to supply all of our needs according to his purposes and his riches in glory. Now, Michael, I just gave a bit of a synopsis treatise to how I perceive the preparation aspect and look at it, but you’re committed to being a watchman on the wall. I’ve mentioned that, warning people about that, which is to come with the idea that they can prepare. So in this matter of food, what can people do in reality since we can’t control droughts, we can’t control oil coming out of the Middle East as an example. And how should people think about that which we’ve talked today?

Michael Snyder:

Yes, Sam. It can be so easy to get so confused because there are so many voices out there, so much confusion, so much deception, but we’re grounded in the word of God. And the word of God tells us that in the end time, certain things are going to happen. And God didn’t do that to scare us. But when God gives us warnings, that’s God’s grace. That’s God’s grace because we can understand, we can say, okay, these things are coming and we don’t have to be afraid because all these signs, we leave at a time when the signs, the warnings are all leading up to the time we get to see Jesus. And I want to see Jesus so much. I am looking forward to that day with everything inside of me. I can’t wait to be with Jesus and that’s in our future. And we’re looking forward to that.

Now, in the meantime, there’s some birth pains, there’s some things that are going to happen and some different things. And right now we’re looking at drought and fertilizer shortage and war and different things that are happening and food shortages looming. And in the Bible, for example, you go all the way back to the book of Genesis. You have Joseph and Pharaoh and Joseph interpreted his dream and said, “Hey, Pharaoh, God has shown you there’s going to be seven good years, but then seven bad years.” And so what did they do? They said, “Well, we’ll relax during the seven good years and the seven bad years come. We’ll just trust God to do something about it. We don’t have to do anything.” No, no. Joseph used the seven good years to institute the greatest program of food storage in history and it saved the nation of Egypt, it saved his family, saved the future nation of Israel and the rest is history.

But Joseph took action and I believe that’s what we need to do. So I do believe in storing up food and supplies and different things that are going to become more expensive, things that might be in short supply in the months ahead. And then I believe in becoming more self-sufficient now that this time of year is a great time of the year to start growing a garden if you don’t have one going already because you may have noticed fruits and vegetables are becoming very expensive in the grocery store. So I believe in becoming self-sufficient, storing food up, storing supplies up and getting ready for more difficult times because if we are living in the end times, that’s the trend. That’s the direction we’re moving into, not in a spirit of fear, but in a spirit of trusting God, acting in faith to obey the warnings that he’s given to us and because the Bible says the prudent man sees what’s coming and does something about it.

And I believe that’s what we need to be doing.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay, Michael, so I thought for sure that that’s the direction that you would go. And I think it’s a great direction because that’s what the Bible says. The Bible does talk about that. And ladies and gentlemen, there’s a whole other aspect of this, of why it happens and so forth. I mean, God told Israel of old that when they feared God and did what he said, one of his blessings would be they would have plenty of food. But when they turned their back on him, he would bring judgment on those people. And one of the first areas that they would see would be that their warehouses would be depleted from inventory. They would not have sufficient food. We don’t think that way in this country, and we have a tendency to think, “Well, it’ll never happen to us here.” Well, I look and I say, “Well, why not?

” Are we any different than Israel of old? Have we turned our back on God? Yes. So there are a lot of reasons, but for the prudent person, the God fearing person, knowing what God has said will come is linked to why what he said will come and that along the way, we put our roots down firmly into his word, learn to discern, pray for wisdom, pray for discernment so that we’re not confused and distracted and taken off track by the world and the world system that leads us away from God, not to him, and that we daily get up and we thank God for what he’s given to us, gratitude, and then we pray for wisdom, pray for discernment to act upon that, which we hear as best as we can, always trusting in the Lord for the supplying of our needs, which he will do.

Anyways, within that, well, there’s no fear of the future. I’m looking forward, Michael, to the Lord’s return to and just like you, I cannot wait because I know that that is coming very soon. So Michael Snyder, thank you so much for being with me today. His website again is michaeltsnyder.substack.com and then our website as well, standinthegapradio.com, this program you can find, transcript is there, read it and follow along again, pass it along to a friend. A great way to share what you’ve got here.