Escalation: War, Elections, and a World on Edge

Escalation: War, Elections, and a World on Edge

Oct. 26, 2026

Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer

Guest: Michael Snyder

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 10/26/26 To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Sam Rohrer:

Hello and welcome to this Monday edition of Stand in the Gap today, and it’s also our monthly Watchmen on the wall update with attorney, economist, and independent journalist, Michael Snyder. Now, as we begin this week, several major events are converging in ways that frankly have the attention of a broad number of people, military leaders, economists, policy makers, and ordinary citizens around the world. Israel is conducting national elections at a time of extraordinary regional uncertainty, their elections tomorrow. Iran continues to issue increasingly aggressive warnings. The United States is approaching, as we all know, critical midterm elections, and all of this is occurring against a backdrop of military tensions that many analysts believe could easily flare into a much broader conflict with, well, very global consequences. In recent articles, Michael has repeatedly pointed to a pattern of escalation. That’s going to be our focus today. In one article, Michael wrote that, “Both sides are preparing to greatly escalate the great Middle East war.” And in another, he argued that major conflicts often expand because leaders convince themselves that the next level of escalation will still remain manageable.

Now, for decades, the Middle East has experienced periodic military crises, that we are all aware. But what makes this moment different is the convergence of, well, political transition, military preparedness, economic vulnerability, and increasingly direct rhetoric among leaders who appear to believe that decisive action may soon be necessary. So today we’re going to begin by considering where things stand in Israel, Iran, and the broader region, and that the escalation of tension witnessed worldwide in just the past few days is signaling the beginning of a much larger chapter, not just in the Middle East, but because of its broad implications, the entire world. And with that, I welcome to the program right now, Michael Snyder. Michael, thanks for being back with me. Always great to have you on.

Michael Snyder:

Oh, thank you so much, Sam. It’s great to be with you again today.

Sam Rohrer:

Michael, let’s go here. For years, you’ve written about the tension in the Middle East. We’ve discussed together many of those escalating threats and accompanying consequences, and I, on other program other guests, have talked much about the biblical aspects of prophecy that come together, and there’s a lot of things coming together, but here’s my question. As you survey events from the last several days, even, what developments in Israel, Iran, and the broader Middle East concern you the most and why?

Michael Snyder:

Right now, Sam, we’re watching all three nations, US, Israel, and Iran get prepared for war. In fact, CNN is reporting just a little while ago that two US officials have confirmed to CNN that US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch a new major military campaign against Iran, “within 96 hours” of getting an order from President Trump to go ahead. So the preparations have been made. We’ve seen the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, along with a Marine amphibious readiness group deployed. So now three US aircraft carriers will be in the region along with additional Marines. We’ve seen in recent weeks a tremendous amount of air power being deployed to the Middle East region, just like we saw before the air strikes on Iran earlier this year, at the first part of this year, and just like we saw before the 12-day war in 2025 last year.

And then in addition, another thing we’re seeing, which is similar to those previous instances is we’re seeing evacuation of personnel from embassies around the Middle East, especially non-essential personnel are being pulled out warnings, embassies are issuing warnings about the potential for additional conflict. So clearly something is up. President Trump has been speaking about this on the campaign trail regularly saying, “Hey, either Iran’s going to give us what we want or hey, we’re going to hit them, we’re going to bomb them.” And Iran has been very steadfast in saying, “We’re not going to make any nuclear compromises.” In fact, today officials from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey went to Iran for a diplomatic gathering top officials. But Iran said, “The nuclear issue is not even on the table. We’re not even going to talk about it today.” And they’ve said for the United States, “For this war to end, the US has to agree to all the conditions we’re demanding and we’re not even going to talk about the nuclear until that happens.” And so obviously that’s not acceptable to President Trump.

There’s not going to be a deal. And so the US is preparing. But even if the US wasn’t preparing for new strikes, even if Trump didn’t order a new campaign, Israel’s ready to go in anyway. In fact, they were ready to go in earlier this month, the month of October, but Trump kind of vetoed it. He kind of said, “You know what? You’d like us to come in as well. We’ll come in, but not before the midterms.” And Trump’s been very honest about it saying, “We’re not going to go back in before the midterms because he’s concerned it might hurt him during the upcoming midterm elections.” And so apparently the plan is to go in after the US midterm elections, but Israel’s been preparing. They’re basically raring to go. They would have gone in this month if things would have worked out, but they’re definitely ready to go after the midterms.

But interestingly, on the campaign trail as Israel prepares for elections, literally tomorrow, but on the past number of weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s up for reelection, but he’s been saying over and over again, the goal is not just to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, but he has stated numerous times publicly that the goal and that he’s instructed the IDF and the Mossad, that the goal of the Israeli government is now regime change in Iran. And he believes it’s close, Sam. He believes that we’re almost there. We’re most of the way there, which I don’t understand how he’s come to that conclusion, but that’s what he believes. And he’s saying, “We’ve got to finish the job. We’ve got to end the regime in Iran.” So that kind of raises it to an existential situation where in Iran, they’re saying, “Wow, these guys want to finish us off.” And then of course in Israel, they believe Iran wants to finish them off, which if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it’ll inevitably be used against Israel.

And in fact, just yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on social media, he posted an image of a nuclear weapon going off in Tel Aviv and that kind of shocked the world, but that’s his mindset and that’s what he believes is at stake. So Israel and Iran, Sam, both believe this is an existential conflict.

Sam Rohrer:

Yes, they do, Michael, and I have to jump away. Ladies and gentlemen, if you’re just tuning in, escalation, war, elections, and a world on edge is our title. Michael Snyder is my guest. We’ll come back. We’re going to move from escalating events in the Middle East to the escalation of consequences. Well, if you’re just joining us today, welcome aboard. Michael Snyder is my guest today, and we do this about once a month. We kind of term this Watchmen on the wall update because that’s the perspective from which Michael tends to write and we’ve talked about that in previous programs. Our theme today is this. It’s a matter of escalation. If you look about and you look all that’s happening in the news from all fronts, the one theme that seems to be a part of all of them is escalation, be it the tempo, the velocity, whatever it is about it, it’s continuing to build.

We all feel and sense that. So it made the theme today escalation, war, elections and the world on edge. And then we’ll resolve this at the end. But in the last second, we talk about the escalating circumstance in the Middle East war and Michael was sharing why he’s written the things he has. We’re talking about what’s happening today and I’m reading articles right now that have just come out that are anticipating from an Israeli perspective that perhaps Iran will do something preemptively toward Israel. We don’t know, but that’s the point, escalation. Now, if that happens, there’s always the matter of consequences, like throwing a stone into a pond. It will create ripples and they will go in all directions in ways that are quite unpredictable. But if, as we’ve just discussed and I’m talking now, the strategic environment in the Middle East has entered a new phase, which it seems to have, then the next question becomes, well, what could be the broader consequences?

And it’s legitimate to ask that question. History reminds us that military conflicts of which what we’re talking about is that as a central part, but military conflicts rarely remain confined to the battlefield, like a ripple effect that goes way beyond. They affect energy supplies, transportation networks, financial markets, food production, government spending, consumer confidence, and ultimately the daily lives of people around the world. One of the consistent themes in Michael’s recent writing has been the connection between geopolitical instability, which we’ve referenced some, and economic disruption. In one recent article, Michael wrote this, he said, “We are facing a global energy crisis.” I think we all know that. We’ve talked about it. “A global food crisis that is also happened. We’ve talked about that. A European financial crisis. “Those are what he wrote and has repeatedly warned, Michael has, that an expanded Middle East conflict could accelerate each of those pressures.

Now today, many nations are already struggling with stubborn inflation just as we are here. Debt burdens, debt higher than any time in the history of the world, housing affordability concerns and slowing economic growth. Now that’s happening around the world. And against that backdrop, Iran continues to threaten retaliation against American and Israeli interests while global markets remain highly sensitive, particularly energy markets, to any disruption involving the straight of the Hormuz or the broader Persian Gulf region. Now, all of that said for this reason, the concern therefore is not simply a military confrontation that it expands, but how an expanded conflict will fuel a wider chain reaction affecting energy, food, commerce, and financial stability already very measurable around the globe. Now, I had to do that introduction to kind of set that up. Michael, if the current situation is indeed different than what we’ve witnessed say since October seven and certainly heightened greatly since February 28 following the strikes on Iran early this year, here’s the question.

What economic consequences are most likely to be significantly escalated and emerge first? Take a look at that because you write about all of these things.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. We’re facing a number of things. For example, the price of oil brent crude is way above $100 a barrel now. That could go up even more. Global energy supplies getting even tighter, but people are pretty familiar with those consequences at this point. But there are other things that Iran could do. For example, they’ve talked about cutting the undersea internet cables that go through the Persian Gulf and the straightforward moves, and that could have severe implications for the global internet in terms of global internet traffic, especially in the region there in the Middle East. But in addition, Iran saying, “Hey, if you hit us, United States and Israel, we’re going to hit back even harder.” And they’ve been using the term asymmetric warfare quite a bit in recent weeks. So they’re saying, “The way you hit us is not necessarily the way that we’re going to hit back.” And one of the things, for example, Ibrahim Azizi, who is the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, he just posted on his social media accounts.

He wrote in Hebrew, he said, “Hey, if you attack us,” he basically said, “We’re going to make Israel uninhabitable in less than an hour.” And Iran has just published lists of potential targets where they’re looking at targeting international airports in Israel, Saudi Arabia, in the region, including Ben Gurian International Airport. They’ve listed desalination plants in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and elsewhere. And of course, desalination is incredibly important. That’s the major source of drinking water in the region. But then what concerns me more than anything else is Iran has threatened to hit the Demona nuclear facility in Israel. If they were to hit that, severely damage that, that could mean the release of nuclear material there in Israel and Israel, how the Israelis would respond to that would be, I think Israel would potentially go way up the escalation ladder if that happens. And then of course there’s always the potential that Iran could use some type of unconventional weapons, which using chemical weapons.

We saw them use chemical weapons back in January against the protestors. That would certainly be a major escalation, potentially manageable though. But if Iran were to use biological weapons, for example, either firing them in Israel or Iranian agents releasing them in the United States, that would create an unimaginable scenario in which… And people say, “Oh, Iran doesn’t have those capabilities.” I’ve documented in my books and on my websites that the US officials have known about Iran’s biological weapons program since the 1990s. For 30 years, we’ve known about it. And I’ve gone through each decade of US officials talking about the advancement of Iran’s biological weapons program. They have biological weapons that they could intentionally use. And then of course there’s the question about nuclear and so forth and so on. So my point is there’s lots of ways that this could spiral out of control.

I think Donald Trump is envisioning some type of limited strike for a few days or so on in which Iran gets bombed and Pickax Mountain gets attacked and so forth and so on. But Iran is like, “If you attack us, man, we’re going up the escalation ladder. We’re going to attack targets all over the Middle East.” And once they start hitting many of these sensitive targets, it’s not going to be easy to stop things at that point. In fact, if they go far enough, there’s going to be no turning back. If we have an event which changes everything, which turns a conventional conflict into a non-conventional conflict, there will be no turning back. It’ll be all out war, and then it’s going to be either Iran or Israel, one or the other is going to be left standing. So Sam, I believe we have reached a very dangerous junction at this point.

Sam Rohrer:

Yeah. And Michael, as you’re saying, the rhetoric, that’s the thing that I noticed, the rhetoric on all sides. So as you say, Netanyahu says, we will not be satisfied until there’s a complete regime change. Our president repeatedly says, “We’re just going to destroy the entire civilization,” which is obviously what a statement. And then Iran says, “All right, you do any of that, we’re just going to let go on everything.” Now, the thing about it, and from a realistic perspective, Iran is far more prepared now than they were before February 28th. It appears from everything that I have been able to see, they’ve gotten a lot of Russian aid, Chinese aid, new plants underground, which most of theirs are, producing a much greater supply of missiles than before. So point being, these are elevated. One question, we don’t have much time left here, but from your research and observation, if you talked about the internet cable, Iran has been playing an economic issue with the United States.

Force the price of energy to go up, it’ll hurt economically inside the United States, and it is, and it’s a factor in upcoming elections. The world is suffering because of that, but they now say when we cut internet cables, of which I believe the numbers like 25 or 30% of all the world banking transactions happen every day through those cables, there would be a global economic shock. Just a quick response to the extent of what you might see that would be.

Michael Snyder:

Could potentially create a panic on global financial markets when you’ve got a good segment of the global financial system potentially having difficulty communicating or potentially cut off there because there’s a lot of banking, a lot of financial interests right there in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East region. So I do believe that’s a huge concern. I think any renewal fighting will spook the financial markets, but if Iran starts doing some of these things they’re talking about, it could be a real shock to global financial markets.

Sam Rohrer:

Yep. So ladies and gentlemen, Michael Snyder’s my guest today. Our theme is escalation. That’s the thing what we’re sensing all around, war, elections, and a world on edge. We talked about consequences, just a portion of them in the last segment, just finishing. Next segment, come back and join us, the escalation of risk. Well, welcome back and let me just share at this point that my guest today, generally with me about once a month as we call this focus Watchmen on the wall update, just simply because of the nature of how Michael writes across the breadth of items that are of significant concern, primarily for Americans here, but touches on the entire world. But he has a website that I’d like to give to you. It’s Michael T, as in Tom, Michaeltsnyder.substack.com. And he, like Leo Homan, who I have in the program as well, are independent journalists.

The only way they remain independent is that they are not on the dull of government and/or some corporate entity with deep pockets. They depend like we do here on Stand in the Gap today. We depend on you, the listener, and those who benefit from telling the truth. And on this program, we come at things, as you know, from where it is able to apply a constitutional perspective, but in all things, a biblical world view perspective because we are anchored in biblical truth first. And without that, you’re not anchored in truth. So that being the case, I just wanted to throw that out to you, michaeltsnyder.substack.com. Now, as we’ve been discussing here in the program here today, there are a few wars that remain confined to the original battlefield. Once economic pressures begin to mount, strategic calculations often change as well. Nations begin to look around for alliances and leverages and agreements and treaties are tested.

All of those we’re watching take place right now in regard to what’s happening in Ukraine has been for a long time and in the Middle East. And new participants are like a magnet pulled in and they become involved. And the range of potential targets then expand far beyond military installations and in a very limited area. They grow. Now today, concerns about the Middle East already extend well beyond Israel and Iran. American military assets, while they remain throughout the region of the Middle East, but they’re all over the world, frankly. International shipping routes continue to carry a significant percentage of the world’s energy supplies, of which we all witness that day by day. Communication systems that we’ve just referred, internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz, cyber networks, financial infrastructure that’s connected to all of those. These undersea cables, again, as we’ve mentioned in various locations and places, they’ve all emerged as potential pressure points and they become legitimate targets in modern conflict.

One of the recurring themes in Michael’s writing is that major crises often become more dangerous when leaders assume that the next step in escalation is somewhat… Well, they think they can still control it. Yet history suggests that wars frequently grow beyond their original objectives. They draw in additional nations. They create unintended consequences that, frankly, no one was able to anticipate. The question now facing military planners and political leaders is not simply whether tensions will increase, but whether the scope of this conflict, and we’re looking primarily to Middle East, could broaden geographically, economically, and strategically in ways that affect nations far removed from the Middle East itself. And I think we’re already seeing some of that. But Michael, beyond the direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran, what broader strategic risks, that’s not quite the same as consequences, talk about that, but risks concern you most at the moment.

It kind of gets into what you said that things can grow beyond the ability of anybody to control.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. And one of the things we’re seeing right now, we’re seeing the rioting in Europe and people don’t connect that to the war in the Middle East, but it’s directly related. And let me explain, because right now, today, the price of Brent crude is up to $117 a barrel. So we’re seeing gasoline, we’re seeing diesel, so expensive. In Italy right now, truckers have gone on strike in Southern Italy. I mean, they’re just parking their trucks, blocking the highways and not delivering food to the stores. And so in a lot of the supermarkets, you go in and there’s nothing there, nothing for people to buy. And so Southern Italy’s been thrown into a state of chaos because of these trucker strikes. We’ve seen the rioting in Milan, in Bologna, in Rome this past weekend with a lot of the anger and frustration. And a lot of it, what people are feeling is economic.

Same thing in France, we were told there’s student protests, but it’s not really students. It’s a bunch of leftists. It’s a bunch of Muslims carrying Palestinian flags. But a lot of what the frustration is being fueled by economics. People are like, “Oh, we want more. Our conditions aren’t good. The government’s not doing enough.” Meanwhile, the French government’s totally broke. And of course, governments all over the world are absolutely drowning in debt. So the French government can’t do much more because they’re drowning in debt. They got to do something about their out of control budget, but the people are demanding more. And then we’re seeing rioting in Albania, we’re seeing rioting in Brussels, Belgium, and then in Bangladesh, there’s rioting because of a shortage of cooking gas in the Philippines that we’re seeing protests. And it’s starting to occur all over the world, and so much of it is being fueled by high fuel prices.

So much of it is being fueled by economic conditions. But then if the war fighting escalates again, and as you said, President Trump may think, “Oh, if we bomb Iran again, that’s going to be manageable. We can manage it.” But as we talked about in the last segment, it could easily spiral out of control, especially depending on Iran’s response. And we could see the price of Brent crude go from 117 to 150 or even higher than that. That will put a lot more pressure economically all over the world and then fuel more civil unrest. People can’t afford cooking gas. People can’t afford to buy food. People can’t afford gasoline for their vehicles. Truckers can’t afford diesel. Farmers all over the world are being crushed by high diesel prices, fertilizer. Of course, if more fighting erupts in the Middle East, well, that’s going to extend the fertilizer crisis in terms of getting fertilizer out of the Middle East and make the global fertilizer crisis even worse, more intense.

And so all these things that we’re facing, whether the global energy crisis, the global fertilizer crisis, chaos with the global bond crisis, which has already erupted, but that could potentially get a whole lot worse. We’re facing on multiple fronts, big problems. And then if fighting erupts again in the Middle East, all of those things could escalate with the civil unrest, which would accompany all of that. So Sam, we really are facing basically a perfect storm.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, I asked you about the risk and you cited a number of those. And I just want to remind all of you listening to us today that what is the reason that we’re mentioning these things? Well, I just want to remind everyone that generally on Mondays of each week in particular, I try to deal with what’s happened over the weekend because many significant things happen over the weekend that kind of falls within the Wall Street meeting. A lot of banking things tend to stop. The media and the journalistic window tends to cease over the weekend. So oftentimes I’m saying some of the most major things are kicked off on Friday afternoon that go through the weekend that impact the next week. That’s why I tend to deal with a lot of these things on Monday. Now, the reason for mentioning these things here today and highlighting what Michael Snyder, which his website michaeltsnyder.substack.com, that he’s been writing about these last few weeks is that you cannot separate what is happening globally from economically to energy, to food, all of those impact on supply chains, which we’ve become very dependent and it’s not hard to disturb those things.

And all of these things seemingly are coming together and converging. And it’s just further heightened by political fears, an election in Israel, an election in America coming up here on November the 3rd, and so many people trying to influence that. Michael, it’s about a minute and a half and I guess there’s a couple different things I could go, but let’s go this direction. Should observers who observe all of these things we’re talking about completely dismiss the possibility of political pressure, election concerns, leadership vulnerabilities, and how should they view these things? We’re laying them out because you’ve connected and they are connected, but how should somebody approach them?

Michael Snyder:

Yeah. We’ve got all these elections right now. We just had election in Brazil. We’re having an election in Israel, very important election tomorrow that’s going to decide Netanyahu’s fate. And then next week, we’ve got the midterm elections here in the United States. And all these, especially with Israel and the United States, the outcome of those elections will directly influence policy decisions that our leaders make. So that’s part of the drama of all of this is that what the vote Voters decide is going to directly influence what occurs next, what happens next. Particularly here in the United States, if the Democrats were to take control of the House or the House and the Senate potentially, which the mainstream media thinks they might, well, Trump might feel a lot of pressure to do something before the new Congress is installed in January. So at that point, the window between the election in November and the new Congress coming in in January becomes very, very important in terms of potential military action against Iran.

Sam Rohrer:

Okay. And thanks Michael for that, ladies and gentlemen. So the fact is risk. All these things are risks. In this next set, we’re going to come back and say now in light of the escalation of events, the convergence of events, all the things we’re talking about, which there’s a lot more, here’s the question for those who fear God. Most of you probably listen to this program right now, true believers. How should we respond? And again, we deal with it a lot, but let’s deal with it again. Well, as we enter to our final segment here, we try to resolve in every program we do here, resolve what we’re presenting in some way that brings it back where it needs to be. And that is, and in fact, what does God say about it? And what do those who fear God, how should they think and respond in light of the turmoil that we find about us, which the Lord Jesus himself said would happen in Matthew 24 and other places that difficulties would arise, lawlessness would increase, that false profits would increase, that deception would be very, very broad.

And he said, “Don’t be perplexed. Don’t be anxious.” So I want to start off with that because we need to bear and keep that very firmly in mind. So in this last segment, we’re going to look at the escalation of events and how should believers respond. So as we’ve discussed throughout today’s program, military conflicts rarely remain confined to battlefields. That’s a fact. Political pressures, economic concerns, strategic calculations in human nature all combined to produce outcomes that can be difficult to predict and even more difficult to control. And particularly when we’re in a situation where the world is governed by the devil himself, as the Bible tells us, and those who are in positions of leadership are far more often than not like the Psalm two leaders who have a mindset that they are God and they’re smarter than the Bible. And as Psalm chapter two talks about, they lift their fists against the God of heaven in brazen pride.

That’s the scenario in which we are. Yet now, while political leaders in their own mind pragmatically weigh elections and what’s going to happen and what it means and military leaders weigh risks, which by nature they do, and financial markets react, which it does to uncertainty in particular, followers of Jesus Christ are called to evaluate the same events, the current events through an entirely different lens. Now scripture reminds us that nations rise and fall. Alliances form and dissolve. Economies expand and contract and conflicts come and go. And as God told Israel of old and Deuteronomy in many places that when a nation spends more than it has available and they go into debt, God says you’re going to bring consequences upon your own head because of that. You walk away from me, I will send judgment instead of blessing. So all of these things are at work.

Now, one of the challenges I think facing believers today is separating legitimate awareness from unhealthy fear and biblical watchfulness, which we’re commanded to do from speculation, which is what the world loves to do. In my travels and communication with believers around the world, responses to the events that we’ve highlighted today vary. In many cases, I’ve noticed that globally, believers in other countries have been and are often tempted to look to the United States as the protector of freedom, their freedom, and without thinking about it, almost make America their earthly savior. Now here in the United States, many believers have increasingly looked to a political party or political leaders or even our unique national heritage as the guarantor of our freedom and security and aspirations and human desires. Now in the end, if not careful believers here can be deceived and distracted from our primary responsibilities as ambassadors for Christ.

The role of the watchmen, Michael’s in that role here today, is to observe danger and sound the alarm. The role of the believer goes a step further where we’re called not only to recognize the times in which we live, but to respond with faith, wisdom, courage, prayer, and unwavering confidence in God above. So Michael, as believers, we watch these developments unfold. How can Christians remain properly informed, which is what we’re trying to do, and discerning about significant world events without becoming consumed by fear, anxiety or speculation, which is the tendency.

Michael Snyder:

Yeah, Sam, I like to go back to the gospels. If you look in particular at the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent an extensive amount of time talking about the period just before his return to this earth. And I believe that’s the time we’re living in and we’re living in the end times, I believe. And there’s one primary instruction that he repeated, that Jesus repeated over and over again as you look through all those passage. And that instruction is to watch. He told us to be watchful. He told us to be watching for the signs of his return. Not that we would be afraid, but so that we could be informed and make wise decisions, but also that we would not be afraid. The proper response to end times events is not to go over into a corner, curl up into a fetal position and cry and be depressed and be fearful.

No, the proper response is to not be afraid, but we can have confidence that the things that the Bible says are true and we point them out to unbelievers to draw them to Christ. But then also for us, we know that our hope is drawing near. We know that our future is secure. We know that our home is in heaven and that soon we will see Jesus one way or the other. Whether the worst thing that could happen is we die and we go be with him right now or it’s a little bit down the road and we’re going to be with him anyway forever and ever and ever. So that’s our future. This world is not our home. So we need to have an eternal perspective, Sam, as you pointed out, and not look at, oh, my stock prices are going down. Oh, people are losing their jobs.

Oh, the world is going crazy. My plans and programs are being interrupted. No, ultimately God is in control and his plan. Jesus said, these things must happen. He wanted us to know that they would happen. He wanted us to have peace in the midst of the storm. And also he wants us to have a sense of urgency to do what he put us here to do because he put us here for a reason. He put us at this specific moment in human history for a purpose. And of course, the purpose is different for everyone that’s listening, but we’ve got work to be done. There’s souls to be saved. There’s things to be done for God that we’re not going to be able to do once we get to the other side. So we’ve got a purpose, we’ve got work to do, and we need to hurry up and do it because the clock is ticking.

Sam Rohrer:

Excuse me, Michael. We don’t have much time left. Actually very, very short. I want about a minute. A question. If there was one single most important message that you would want to give to professing believers, you may have already given it, it’s okay if it is restated, that should carefully be considered in light of these things, what would it be?

Michael Snyder:

Get as close to God as you can. We are all going to have to be walking with God extremely close. As the world gets more chaotic, we need to be closer to God than we’ve ever been before. And if you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, invite him, repent of your sins, invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today, because that’s the only way you’re going to be able to handle what is in front of us. And then beyond that, it’s the only way that you’re going to have eternal life.

Sam Rohrer:

And Michael, that’s a great final challenge. And ladies and gentlemen, let me just pray just quickly in prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you that we have the freedom yet in this nation to be able to communicate truth on this radio program literally around the world. I pray that you should watch over Michael, my guest and him and his writing give him discernment and direction. For all of those who are listening, who have ears to hear, Lord, may we all turn, if we are not already, firmly to your word, unchanging truth. In it, you’ve told us how we should think and act and live in these days. And may we, we know you, let our light shine brighter than ever. This we pray in Jesus’ name. Amen. Michael T. Snyder, thanks for being with me today. His website against michaeltsnyder.substack.com and then ours, web address will be given here or Stand in the Gap app.

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