Is there a hidden message in Facebook’s new name?  Like most of you, I was quite surprised to learn that Facebook is going to be called “Meta” from now on.  As one of the biggest corporations in the entire world, this is not something to be done lightly.  I am sure that much deliberation, research and market testing went into that decision.  So either a colossal mistake was made, or Facebook chose a name with a very particular Hebrew meaning on purpose.  According to the Jerusalem Post, Facebook’s new name actually means “dead” in Hebrew…

The name in question, in Hebrew, is the conjugation of the feminine form for “dead” in both present and past tenses, leading many social media users who speak the language to ridicule the rebrand, leading to the hashtag ‘#FacebookDead.’

The Israeli emergency rescue unit Zaka, whose job is to collect human remains to ensure proper burials, shared their take on the rebrand last week, tweeting: “Don’t worry, we’re on it. #FacebookDead” in Hebrew.

If a giant corporation is evaluating a new name for the company, one of the very first things that should be done is to translate it into every major language on the planet to see what it might mean.

So I have a hard time believing that this was just an accident.

And Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg certainly has no excuses, because he was actually raised in the Jewish faith…

Zuckerberg, who was raised as a Reform Jew, made no response to the online ridicule.

Needless to say, a lot of Jewish people had a lot of fun with the announcement of this new name on social media.

But is there something deeper going on here?

Facebook just chose a new name that means “dead” in Hebrew right before Halloween, which is a global celebration of death.

That seems like a really odd “coincidence” to me.

Either intentionally or unintentionally, could it be possible that this name change is foreshadowing something?

This year, we have certainly seen a lot of death.  The number of “excess deaths” is way, way up all over the globe, and this has greatly alarmed many of us.  If you want an example, just check out this chart for the state of Vermont.  People have been dying at an extremely unusual rate, and I believe that we will see much more death in the months ahead.

But is the Facebook name change pointing to something even more significant?

We have been warned that another pandemic is coming for a long time.  Earlier this year, Bill Gates was openly speculating about the pandemic that is going to come after COVID during television interviews, and that definitely raised a lot of eyebrows.

Without a doubt, I believe that our planet is headed toward a time of great death and destruction, and the fact that this Facebook name change was revealed to the public just before Halloween definitely got my attention.

According to Wiccan high priestess Doreen Valiente, the modern celebration of Halloween comes directly from the ancient pagan festival of Samhain…

“Halloween is one of the four Great Sabbats of the witches that everyone has heard about. To witches, Halloween is a serious occasion, however merrily celebrated. It is the old Celtic Eve of Samhain.”

If you look at a Wiccan “wheel of the year”, you will see that Samhain is one of their most important high holy days.  And it is very important to Satanists as well.  The founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, once made the following statement about Halloween…

“I am glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year. Welcome to Halloween.”

A lot of people think that Halloween is just “innocent fun”, but many of the elements can be traced all the way back to ancient spiritual rituals.  According to the History Channel, ancient Druids would dress up in costumes when it was time to offer “animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities”…

To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes.

So when you wear a “Halloween costume”, you are participating in a very ancient tradition that originally involved sacrificing animals to appease pagan gods.

Earlier today, the following question that was posted online really got my attention: “In Honor Of Halloween What Is The Most Evil Thing You’ve Done?”

Why would anyone want to ask a question like that?

And why would anyone want to answer?

Sadly, millions of people have eagerly embraced evil, and Halloween has now become one of the most popular “holidays” on the entire planet.

And it is just before this global “celebration of death” that Facebook announced that it would be adopting a new name that means “dead” in Hebrew.

No, none of this is weird at all.

Last week, it was also announced that the CDC is going to start “allowing” some people to get a fourth COVID injection…

People over 18 who are “moderately to severely immunocompromised” and have received three doses of an mRNA vaccine may get a fourth shot (of either the Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccines) at least six months after getting their third Pfizer or Moderna dose, per the CDC.

How long will it be before people start getting their fifth and sixth shots?

Many people are completely fed up with the handling of this pandemic, and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s poll numbers are sinking about as fast as President Biden’s poll numbers.

In fact, at this point a majority of Americans believe that Fauci should resign…

A majority of voters said President Biden’s chief medical advisor, Anthony Fauci, should resign, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.

The survey, which was conducted from October 26,27, found that 52 percent of registered voters polled felt Fauci should resign.

By contrast, 48 percent of respondent said he should not.

Of course he isn’t going to resign.

He is just going to keep doing what he is doing, and he has Biden’s full support.

And if the next great pandemic suddenly erupts in 2022, Biden will inevitably put Fauci in charge of that too.

We appear to be trapped in a nightmare that doesn’t seem to want to end, and I have a feeling that a lot more death is on the horizon.

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For this episode of Survival & Basic Badassery, they talk about living without a grocery store in the past months.

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I think that they actually believed that they could get away with it.  I think that they were actually convinced that they could create, borrow and spend trillions upon trillions of dollars without any serious long-term consequences.  But they should have known better.  The people running things are very highly “educated”, and after spending decades getting to their current positions they are supposed to be “experts” that we can trust with very difficult decisions.  Unfortunately, the “experts” have put us on a path that leads to currency collapse and financial ruin.

All throughout history, there have been many governments that have given in to the temptation to create money at an exponential rate, and it has ended badly every single time.

So our leaders should have known better.

But it is just so tempting, because pumping out money like crazy always seems to work out just great at first.  For example, when the Weimar Republic first started wildly creating money it created an economic boom, but we all know how that experiment turned out in the end.

This week, the mainstream media is full of talk about inflation, and many of the talking heads seem mystified that things have gotten so bad.  But anyone with half a brain should have been able to see that this was coming.  Just look at what has been happening to M2 since the start of the pandemic.

What we have been doing to the money supply is complete and utter lunacy, and this is inevitably going to kill the U.S. dollar eventually.

Next, I would like for you to take a look at how rapidly the Fed balance sheet has been rising.  This is the sort of thing that you would expect to see in a banana republic.

I think that our leaders deceived themselves into thinking that they could get away with creating money so recklessly, but they haven’t.

Very painful inflation is here, and on Wednesday we learned that prices have been rising at the fastest pace in more than 30 years…

The consumer price index, which is a basket of products ranging from gasoline and health care to groceries and rents, rose 6.2% from a year ago, the most since December 1990. That compared with the 5.9% Dow Jones estimate.

On a monthly basis, the CPI increased 0.9% against the 0.6% estimate.

If inflation continues to rise at about 1 percent a month, it won’t be too long before we are well into double digits on a yearly basis.

Of course I don’t actually put too much faith in the inflation numbers that the government gives us, because the way inflation is calculated has been changed more than two dozen times since 1980.

And every time the definition of inflation has been changed, the goal has been to make inflation appear to be lower.

According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if inflation was still calculated the way it was back in 1980, the official rate of inflation would be close to 15 percent right now.

This is a real national crisis, and it isn’t going away any time soon.

One of the factors that is driving up the overall rate of inflation is the price of gasoline.  If you can believe it, the price of gas is almost 50 percent higher than it was last year at this time…

Gasoline prices last month shot up nearly 50% from the same month a year ago, putting them at levels last seen in 2014. Grocery prices climbed 5.4%, with pork prices up 14.1% from a year ago, the biggest increase since 1990.

Prices for new vehicles jumped 9.8% in October, the largest rise since 1975, while prices for furniture and bedding leapt by the most since 1951. Prices for tires and sports equipment rose by the most since the early 1980s.

Even Joe Biden is using the term “exceedingly high” to describe the current state of gasoline prices.

Other forms of energy are also becoming a lot more expensive…

The price of electricity in October increased 6.5% from the same month a year ago while consumer expenses paid to utilities for gas went up 28%, according to numbers released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fuel oil rose 59%, and costs for propane, kerosene and firewood jumped by about 35%, the data show.

It is going to cost you a lot more money to heat your home this winter.

I hope that you are prepared for that.

Speaking of homes, they continued to shoot up in price during the third quarter…

The median price of single-family existing homes rose in nearly all — 99% — of the 183 markets tracked by the National Association of Realtors in the third quarter, with double-digit price increases seen in 78% of the markets.

If our paychecks were rising fast enough to keep up with inflation, then at least our standard of living would remain the same.

But that isn’t happening, is it?

In fact, the Labor Department’s own numbers show that real average hourly earnings are going down…

The Labor Department reported Friday that average hourly earnings increased 0.4% in October, about in line with estimates. That was the good news.

However, the department reported Wednesday that top-line inflation for the month increased 0.9%, far more than what had been expected. That was the bad news – very bad news, in fact.

That’s because it meant that all told, real average hourly earnings when accounting for inflation, actually decreased 0.5% for the month.

What this means is that our standard of living is going down.

And it is going to keep going down.

In a desperate attempt to maintain the status quo, many Americans are taking on more debt than ever before…

American households are carrying record amounts of debt as home and auto prices surge, Covid infections continue to fall and people get out their credit cards again.

Between July and September, US household debt climbed to a new record of $15.24 trillion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.

How in the world did we allow ourselves to get 15 trillion dollars in debt?

Of course many would point out that the federal government is an even worse offender.  Very shortly, the U.S. national debt will cross the 29 trillion dollar mark.

As our leaders in Washington continue to engage in the greatest debt binge in world history, the U.S. dollar will steadily lose value.

This is going to deeply affect everyone and everything in our society.  For instance, just check out the pain that inflation is causing for one food bank in the San Francisco area…

In the prohibitively expensive San Francisco Bay Area, the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland is spending an extra $60,000 a month on food. Combined with increased demand, it is now shelling out $1 million a month to distribute 4.5 million pounds (2 million kilograms) of food, said Michael Altfest, the Oakland food bank’s director of community engagement.

Pre-pandemic, it was spending a quarter of the money for 2.5 million pounds (1.2 million kilograms) of food.

I warned you way ahead of time that this was coming, and what we have experienced so far is just the beginning.

The “experts” running the Fed and our politicians in Washington aren’t going to suddenly reverse direction.

In fact, Congress just passed another gigantic spending bill that Joe Biden desperately wanted.

Our course has been set and there is no turning back.

Our destination is economic collapse, and life in America will never, ever be the same again.

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About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book I have written five other books that are available on Amazon.com including  “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, “Get Prepared Now”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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For this episode of Survival Preppers, they talk about racism in the media.

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In today’s show, we pose the question “Has the world gone mad?” With everything being labeled racist, the media being more of a lapdog than a watchdog of the government, and disregarding anything that goes against the accepted narrative, it sure seems like it.

Is this a symptom of life being so good that we need to create issues? A sign that we are experiencing a tyrannical government taking shape? Or is the almighty dollar behind it all? Unfortunately, all of these are probably true, and parts of a complicated puzzle taking shape.

It’s getting harder and harder to figure out what the truth is anymore.

Big Media no longer concerns itself with facts. News stories are sensationalized to scare the masses. How can anyone make a clear decision with the constant barrage of ever-changing news? The cycle has become so fast that no one ends up being accountable for their actions – by the next day, everyone has moved on.

The media is supposed to be a watchdog for both sides but is no longer doing its job. The mere fact that they buried the Hunter Biden story should frighten everyone. In doing so, the media attempted to influence the election directly. Major corporations now control and manipulate the narrative by suppressing real news.

The government is also going to great lengths to ensure that we only hear what they want us to hear. Just look at the epic series of coincidences surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, who, although he had a wealth of info on both sides of the aisle, failed to realize that he was, and always had been, the expendable frontman.

The only way to prevent people from becoming more corrupt as they climb the political ladder is to impose term limits and convince our citizens to start voting people into office who have values that align with theirs.

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The forces of political correctness ruin everything that they touch, and that includes our major sports leagues.  I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, and that was truly a golden era for sports in America.  Back in those times, men were still men, entire cities would erupt with euphoria when an important game was won, and the most intense rivalries spawned legends that will never be forgotten.  When the newspaper arrived each day, I couldn’t wait to devour the sports section, and that is because the sports section was actually about sports in those days.  Today, our soulless sports leagues inspire very little joy, and most of what constitutes “sports journalism” at this point is absolutely sickening.  Sadly, most stories are about who has done something that is not sufficiently politically correct and needs to be punished by the media.

The Aaron Rodgers saga is the latest example of this.  The corporate media has engaged in an all-out assault against him, and they have no intention of ending their vicious attacks any time soon.

And so what “crime” did Aaron Rodgers commit that was so bad?

He didn’t get vaccinated.

Of course that isn’t a “crime” at all.  Just like every other American, he has the right to make his own personal health decisions.

But that is all the “football world” wants to talk about right now.  Endless hours are being devoted to talking about how horrible Aaron Rodgers is, and it makes me want to throw up.

I was never an Aaron Rodgers fan before this, but from now on he is going to be one of my favorite players.  If he is not afraid to stick it to the NFL, the owners, the media and the vaxx police, then he deserves our respect and our admiration.

The NBA is another example.

I grew up watching Julius Erving, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.  In those days we didn’t know how our favorite players felt about political issues and we didn’t care.

We just wanted to watch great basketball.

Unfortunately, today the NBA has become more about political correctness than anything else, and so I refuse to watch it.

But I may make an exception if Kyrie Irving is ever allowed to play again.  Because of New York City’s ridiculous mandate, the Nets have banned Kyrie Irving from playing because he refuses to bow the knee and get vaccinated.  The Nets could have allowed him to participate in the games that they play away from home, but they decided not to do that.

While he is not playing, he is not being paid, and so Irving’s bold stand is literally costing him millions of dollars.

That is the sort of principled stand that I can respect.

Like Aaron Rodgers, I was never a fan of Kyrie Irving before this, but now he is my new favorite basketball player.

But the NBA as a whole absolutely sickens me, and I would like the league to know that they have lost a fan permanently.

Major League Baseball has also become a soulless politically correct entity.  When they took the All-Star game away from Atlanta because of a voting law that was passed in Georgia, that was the last straw for me.

So I didn’t watch the World Series, but I was absolutely thrilled to hear that the Atlanta Braves had won.

What poetic justice.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred was relentlessly booed by Braves fans during the trophy presentation, and he deserved every bit of it.

When will the major sports leagues finally understand that we don’t want political propaganda with our sports?

We work so hard during the week, and we just want to find a little bit of joy in our favorite teams during our free time.

Is that too much to ask?

Unfortunately, the forces of political correctness have infiltrated all forms of entertainment at this point.  There is endless propaganda in our movies, there is endless propaganda in our television shows, and there is endless propaganda in our music.

The Internet was one of the last bastions of free speech, but now the level of censorship has become extremely oppressive, and of course the forces of political correctness are the ones that are doing the censoring.

They spend so much time, energy and money telling you what to do, what to think and what to believe.

And to a very large degree, it is working.

If you doubt this, just check out these numbers from a recent study conducted by George Barna…

• 29% of younger Millennials (ages 18-25) are counted as having some type of mental disorder. Overall, 54% of those surveyed acknowledged some degree of emotional fragility or even mental illness.
• 24 out of every 25 Millennials (96%) lack a biblical worldview.
• 75% say they lack meaning and purpose in life.
• Only one-third claimed to believe in God.
• 39% of younger Millennials ages 18-24 year olds identify as LGBTQ.

The way that Millennials view the world is radically different from how previous generations of Americans viewed the world, and that isn’t by accident.

From the time they were born, the minds of Millennials have been endlessly shaped by relentless propaganda, and now we have nearly an entire generation that is deeply lost and deeply confused.

I am doing my best to try to wake people up, but it is not easy to overcome such a mountain of propaganda.

Having said that, let me try to end this article on a positive note.  We just learned that Joe Biden’s approval rating has hit another new low…

A year before the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans hold a clear lead on the congressional ballot as President Joe Biden’s approval rating sinks to a new low of 38%.

A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, taken Wednesday through Friday, found that Biden’s support cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.

And the approval rating for Kamala Harris is even lower…

Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval rating is 28% – even worse than Biden’s. The poll shows that 51% disapprove of the job she’s doing. One in 5, 21%, are undecided.

If you love this country, you have got to be excited by those poll numbers.

But no matter who has been in control in Washington, the forces of political correctness have continued to march forward for decades.

The very fabric of our society is systematically being ripped to shreds, and the forces of political correctness will never be satisfied until they have literally ruined everything that they possibly can.

***It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book I have written five others that are available on Amazon.com including  “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, “Get Prepared Now”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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Why won’t our politicians ever listen?  Just two days after voters made it exceedingly clear that they hate mandates, the Biden administration has announced that the nationwide OSHA mandate will go into effect on January 4th.  Are Biden and his minions this dense, or do they just not care what the American people think?  It has been estimated that the new OSHA mandate will cover approximately 80 million Americans, and it could potentially result in millions of highly qualified workers losing their jobs in early 2022.

What the Biden administration is trying to do is completely unconstitutional, and red states are already challenging it in court.  Many people may not realize it yet, but this is one of the most important turning points in U.S. history.

From an economic standpoint, this new mandate is going to be absolutely disastrous.  We are already in the midst of the worst worker shortage in all of U.S. history, and we are currently dealing with a supply chain crisis of epic proportions.  Forcing millions of Americans out of their jobs right in the middle of the upcoming winter will take both the worker shortage and the supply chain crisis to entirely new levels.

But Biden is going to do it anyway.

On Thursday, we learned that January 4th has been set as the official deadline for compliance with the new OSHA mandate…

Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly. The new government rules were issued Thursday.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says companies that fail to comply could face penalties of nearly $14,000 per violation.

If the company that you work for has 100 or more employees, you are covered by this mandate.

Needless to say, many employers will be frightened into submission by the extremely high financial penalties.  Those companies that are deemed to be “repeat offenders” could potentially “face a maximum fine of $136,532”…

Repeat offenders or those found to be willfully noncompliant could face a maximum fine of $136,532. It is not immediately clear what constitutes a repeat offender.

Of course many businesses across the country have no intention of ever complying with this new mandate.

Realizing this is the case, the Biden administration will be secretly sending out OSHA spies to conduct surprise inspections…

OSHA staffers will be doing random inspections to check if businesses are complying and employees could have to pay for their own tests out of pocket. The agency is using emergency orders that usually deal with workers exposed to ‘grave dangers’ to enforce the standards.

GOP lawmakers responded with fury and said some unvaccinated Americans were being forced to decide between putting food on the table or getting the shot, while retailers said the new rules will put an ‘unnecessary’ burden on businesses before the holiday season.

It’s official.

We now live in a dystopian nightmare.

And many local regimes are also choosing to become increasingly authoritarian.  For example, just check out the new rules for children that will soon be implemented in San Francisco…

San Francisco will soon require children as young as 5 to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to enter certain indoor public spaces like restaurants, entertainment venues and sporting events, public health officials said this week.

The local mandate already requires children and adults over the age of 12 to show proof that they are vaccinated before entering those places. Now, city health officials are planning to extend the health order to children ages 5 to 11, the group newly eligible for the shot.

America used to be the “land of the free”, but that is clearly not true anymore.

The months ahead are not going to be pleasant.  As mandates choke the life out of our economy, the ongoing shortages are going to get even worse and prices are going to go a lot higher.

In fact, we are already being told to brace ourselves for “sticker shock” when we go to buy meat…

For America’s meateaters, this is a problem. Some cuts have soared 25 percent over the past year, while others are fetching near record prices, making meat one of the biggest contributors to pandemic inflation. And industry experts expect meat to keep gaining through the holidays and beyond.

“The sticker shock is what we all need to be prepared for,” said Bindiya Vakil, chief executive officer of supply-chain consultant Resilinc. “This is here to stay, at least through the summer of 2022.”

The good news is that nobody in this country is starving at this point.

The bad news is that food prices around the world continue to escalate dramatically, and this is pushing millions upon millions of people in poorer countries into hunger.  This week, we learned that global food prices shot up another 3 percent in the month of October…

A United Nations index tracking staples from wheat to vegetable oils climbed 3% to a fresh decade high in October, threatening even higher grocery bills for households that have already been strained by the pandemic. That could also add to central banks’ inflation worries and risks worsening global hunger that’s at a multiyear high.

As I have been relentlessly warning, a plethora of factors have combined to create a “perfect storm” for food prices…

Bad weather hit harvests around the world this year, freight costs soared and labor shortages have roiled the food supply chain from farms to supermarkets. An energy crisis has also proved a headache, forcing vegetable greenhouses to go dark and causing a knock-on risk of bigger fertilizer bills for farmers.

Many of these factors will continue to intensify in 2022.

So be thankful for what you have, because in some parts of the world things are already starting to get quite crazy.

For example, in North Korea citizens are now being encouraged to eat black swan meat due to the “crippling food shortage” in that nation…

North Korea has started touting the “exceptional” health benefits of consuming black swans after breeding them, while also farming rabbits as the country battles a crippling food shortage, according to state media.

“Black swan meat is delicious and has medicinal value,” the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in an article published Monday.

I have been warning that this was coming, and things are only going to get worse from here.

So I would stock up while you still can, because food prices are only going to go higher.

If you are one of those that may lose a job in the months ahead, I want you to know that our prayers are with you.

Don’t give up, and don’t lose hope.

I know that things are really dark right now, but sometimes the darkest valleys in life are where the light shines the brightest.

***It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael Snyder and my brand new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book I have written five other books that are available on Amazon.com including  “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, “Get Prepared Now”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  By purchasing the books you help to support the work that my wife and I are doing, and by giving it to others you help to multiply the impact that we are having on people all over the globe.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  During these very challenging times, people will need hope more than ever before, and it is our goal to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as we possibly can.

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