That’s what I’ve been saying - we’re near the end, and every human has a sense of that.
Those that don’t have the truth of God’s Word, and the Spirit to understand it, are truly anxious and worried and looking for something to pin that anxiety on.
Sun spots. Meteors. Peak Oil. EMP.
People of Christ, look UP, for your redemption is nigh.
Here’s another side of that. I think God expects his people to be ‘DOERS’ and some think that just faith is enough.
If it’s God’s call to end the world there’s nothing a prepper can have or store that will save him, but his faith in the Lord. That said there have been thousand of times in the history of men that they or nature have caused such destruction and misery that people have cried out for the Lord to end it all.
Reminds me of this joke:
God granting miracles
A religious man is on top of a roof during a great flood. A man comes by in a boat and says “get in, get in!” The religous man replies, “ no I have faith in God, he will grant me a miracle.”
Later the water is up to his waist and another boat comes by and the guy tells him to get in again. He responds that he has faith in god and god will give him a miracle. With the water at about chest high, another boat comes to rescue him, but he turns down the offer again cause “God will grant him a miracle.”
With the water at chin high, a helicopter throws down a ladder and they tell him to get in, mumbling with the water in his mouth, he again turns down the request for help for the faith of God. He arrives at the gates of heaven with broken faith and says to Peter, I thought God would grand me a miracle and I have been let down.” St. Peter chuckles and responds, “I don’t know what you’re complaining about, we sent you three boats and a helicopter.”
Amen, Bro! AMEN!
Sun spots. Meteors. Peak Oil. EMP.
People of Christ, look UP, for your redemption is nigh.
Christ is the answer to that anxiety.
1 Peter 5:6-7 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
People without Christ need to look to Him as well, because when it's all said and done, everybody dies some time and then what? Being prepped is a good thing for the here and now but what about when that's over?
Eternity is a long time. People need to be ready for that as well.
I am prepped for the short term but if I'm going to survive, it's going to be God's doing and if I don't, I'll be in a way better place anyway, so it's no great loss. If someone doesn't know Christ, they really ought to be planning an hanging around as long as possible. They can use whatever of mine they find when I'm gone.