Good posts all.

I have been convinced for years hard times and even harder testing are both coming for all including Believers until the Rapture and have spent the first 2.5 years of my retirement (and many years before) preparing for them, especially spiritually. I have two cases of Bibles in my hayloft and need to buy more and some appropriate tracks.

Have developed a tight little circle of Christian neighbors and friends who I think will be able to stay on their knees during the testing without falling over or shaking their fists in the air.

I agree, there are many unprepared Christians (spiritually, mentally and physically) who will fold like cardboard boxes in the rain.

For me turning retirement into a modest working farm made sense both to keep from rusting, for self-sufficiency, and to prepare for whatever is coming these last days, weeks, months, years…but I don’t think this system will last another decade, and now is the time to prepare.

Hi Klaus,

Well said. Reading your second to last paragraph made me aware of my hunger pains. Since I read that I have been sitting here for at least a minute enduring it. Now I must go stuff my face. 😉

We are up against intelligent, organized evil in the heavenly places. The only thing holding this back is truly Gods grace. Well guess what, the Lords grace is coming to and end and he returns to the God of wrath as the seals are opened on the unrepentant masses. Everyone I speak with is like, “oh no it will not happen anytime soon, it just can’t. Have we become that selfish in our thinking? I say let it come and let it come much sooner rather than latter. The people that are just retiring think nothing of anything except just seeking pleasure for themselves and thats it. Their thinking revolves around, What will I do next for myself and where do I want to go?

A certain time will come when the harvest of the earth will be ripe. When this point hits the fruit will be gathered, it must or the fruit will perish. Any person with a fruit tree can understand this. Besides this whole entire creation including every single little thing is not ours anyway. We are, always have been and always will be merely stewards. We do not even own our bodies. We come with nothing and we leave with nothing.

We are commanded by scripture to watch. What better way would it truly be for our Lord to truly test our faith than losing our material items and retirement. How many so called Christians will then still thank God for anything. Some of the so called Christians I know feel blessed simply because they have much material items, good retirement or Job income coming in. Lets see how they truly feel when it is removed from them. Who will then say I am a blessed Christian? I will and I am ready to die for my faith and my beloved Lord Yeshua.

I truly feel it could not come at a better time. I also feel that if time was to continue that society would become entirely Godless without even a remnant left.

We are a created being living in a created world for God. we are not here to simply seek our selfish desires of pleasure and entertainment.

Just look at life of the Apostle Paul. Paul traveled thousands of miles. He was shipwrecked, beaten, and suffered countless hardships. In the end he had his head chopped off. Most so called Christians want this world to go on and they want enjoyment and pleasure until they die.

The Bible I read says these things Must happen. The bible doesnt say it may or might happen. This new system thats coming is judgement. We as biblical christians are suppose to have faith and patience with longsuffering. Most can not even endure a hunger pang that lasts more than few seconds.

Any christian that wants this system to continue is living in the flesh. They are putting their selfishness first.

This assumes God decides to prolong the times of the Gentiles, right? When I think of our founding, it seems God opened the door to it and enabled it, through costly struggle. I don’t detect much consensus among believers that He is likely to do that for us again (i.e. against encroaching tyranny) or that the populace is up for such a struggle. As much as I cherish God pulling the rug out from under the rulers and authorities over and over, I hate the thought of us being drawn in to a negative adventure against authority, not blessed by God.

Should He support us, our small arms will be more than sufficient.

With the excuse of ” potential terrorist key words” compilation by NSA:

http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-prism-keywords-for-domestic-spying-2013-6

And all the other dark Federal Orwellian pre Anti-Christ interconnected technologies in effect, I have no doubt that we all are being sifted, categorized, labeled and listed for potential future action that will far surpass the Commie round up of those who would have been trouble makers in Czechoslovakia.

On top of that we are being financially herded into a digital pen that will further increase individual control far past the wildest dreams of Tito and his thugs.

However there is honor and supernatural protection in being part of the remnant that assault rifles will never provide:

1 Kings 19:18 “Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

I just read your post and Don’s reply and I agree with him 100%.
As a former Marine and infantry combat veteran who fought in over 30 firefights I can tell you a semi-automatic rifle in the hands of a determined and experienced enemy is formidable no matter what other weapons are deployed.

Don is also correct about a divided military and Police and Sheriff’s department, especially outside the blue bubbles. I can guarantee you the vast majority of good ole boys in my local National Guard and Sheriff’s department would not side with a government disarming of their families, neighbors and friends. I can say the same thing for many active in the military, especially in the Marine Corps.

If you have never been on the Oath Keepers website check it out. You will find a wide and deep network of Veterans, Police, Sheriffs and Deputy’s and a host of others who have taken the Oath and will defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the death, from enemies (both foreign and domestic) and they will do it mostly with semi-automatic rifles.

Now, after America is hollowed out after the Rapture and or devastated in other ways, outside of God…who knows?

Hi Jeremy,

They want our guns so there can be no counter revolution against the socialist totalitarian government they will intend to set up to control everyone.

You may be assuming that the military would just fall in line with the globalist agenda and use its high tech weapons to put down the people. Military people in America are American patriots. Factions would rise that would hinder an all powerful military take over of America.

Sure, a government could use a loyal military to take over cities but they cannot be everywhere. We see that play out all over the world. The cities are held by those loyal to the government but the resistance comes from countrymen using small arms. Any civil war in the world is still fought and won with the use of small arms. Where there are no small arms there are no civil wars. That is the reason they want them.

From my understand of past history governments wanted the weapons so that they had all the weapons and power or so they where more powerful

Truth is today our little hand guns we have would not protect us from them because they have access to such better weapons of war

So past was sword vs fist so sword better
Past gun vs fist so gun better
Today gun vs drone and other advance weapons

so basically our guns are no more than fist compared to what they have access

again the idea behind getting the weapons away from us is to make it easier to subdue us but with the weapons they have now we could keep our gun and we would be subdue and out matched

Now if they want to give us access to drones, new tech weapons, bombs, etc. then we would be back on equal footing