What are most Christians doing to prep?

[JohnB445]

I have seen a documentary of preppers, a bunker underground, radiation detectors and protective gear, a years worth of food and water supplies, generators.

I have no idea how much money that costs, but from what it looks like I don't think most people could afford to do that. How much do you believe Christians should prepare? Should they do everything they can to get to that level of prepping or do you think that's too much?

 

[AlexB23]

I have seen a documentary of preppers, a bunker underground, radiation detectors and protective gear, a years worth of food and water supplies, generators.

I have no idea how much money that costs, but from what it looks like I don't think most people could afford to do that. How much do you believe Christians should prepare? Should they do everything they can to get to that level of prepping or do you think that's too much?

I am not a prepper, so I might have bias, but having a few months of food (6 months), a rainwater collection system + filtration system for potable water, and some solar panels could work. Radiation gear is overkill, cos eventually, one has to go outside, and radiation would still be deadly after a year, depending on how radioactive the outside is (distance to ground zero of the nuke).

 

[SavedByGrace3]

We have been prepping for 12 years. Our priorities are common sense survival items, including water, food, shelter, medications, and shelter.
Do not assume the banks will be operating, nor the water or power. But you can only do so much, so even after 12 years, we have no solution for power or sustainable water. That is a big issue for us. We have considered having a well dug and then installing a hand pump or solar-powered pump. We do have a water catchment system, but I do not want to depend on that.

 

[timf]

Most people "prep" by having a flashlight available in case the electricity is shut off for some reason. Some at the other end of the spectrum prep by trying to equip for any possibility. It is usually a balance of what one anticipates and what can afford. One consideration might be that if one lives in a high population density area that having a lot of resources simply makes you a target. An alternative way of "preping" is to make friends with a farmer and keep a motorcycle so that you can get there quickly if needed.

 

[Diamond72]

I have no idea how much money that costs, but from what it looks like I don't think most people could afford to do that.

Just the opposite. I can not afford to throw away food that is beyond the expiration date. So I do all I can to buy food that will last for long periods of time. Food that I eat every day. But that is easy for me because the doctor wants me to mostly eat soup. Even veggie soup if at all possible.

 

[Diamond72]

radiation would still be deadly after a year,

The cold war came and went. There is very little chance of a nuclear war under this administration. I wish I could say the same for pandemics and biological warfare. Although I worry more about the vaccines that the warmongers want to capitalize on. Gates and Buffet are going to continue with their good image to get into peoples pocket to steal their money. Although with the advent of AI I have done very well with my Microsoft stock.

 

[Diamond72]

We have been prepping for 12 years.

I have been stocking up for a long time. We are starting to use stuff now. I bought back when things were a LOT cheaper and better quality. Just the 20% tariff they want to change on stuff is substantial.

 

[Lost4words]

Just trusting in God. No need for anything else...

 

[Diamond72]

Just trusting in God. No need for anything else...

Yes God provides abundantly above and beyond all we could ever ask or think.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Just trusting in God. No need for anything else...

I am curious... you do not do anything else? I cannot find anyone in the Bible or anyone else in life who does nothing. Of course, many people use this phrase to suggest preppers are not trusting God. Yet the scripture is replete with examples of people who love and trust God and who, in fact, do prep. I am willing to bet you do something else other than sit around doing nothing and call that trusting God. I trust God and have done so all my life. I also have faith in God and, therefore, act in accordance with His warnings and revelation. Like Noah, who heard God, believed what He said, and "prepared" an ark to save His family... that is faith. Sometimes, God tells us something and expects us to do something in faith. This is what I, as a prepper, do... I believe what God said and am acting according to what He said. So, I appreciate your sentiment about believing God. We all should exhort each other to trust God. But faith without works is dead. If we believe God, we will act like it.

 

[Lost4words]

I am curious... you do not do anything else? I cannot find anyone in the Bible or anyone else in life who does nothing. Of course, many people use this phrase to suggest preppers are not trusting God. Yet the scripture is replete with examples of people who love and trust God and who, in fact, do prep. I am willing to bet you do something else other than sit around doing nothing and call that trusting God. I trust God and have done so all my life. I also have faith in God and, therefore, act in accordance with His warnings and revelation. Like Noah, who heard God, believed what He said, and "prepared" an ark to save His family... that is faith. Sometimes, God tells us something and expects us to do something in faith. This is what I, as a prepper, do... I believe what God said and am acting according to what He said. So, I appreciate your sentiment about believing God. We all should exhort each other to trust God. But faith without works is dead. If we believe God, we will act like it.

Nope. Nothing. Let God's will be done.

God hasnt told me to store stuff away.

The only prep you need is making sure you follow God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That you are ready at any given moment to meet your maker.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Nope. Nothing. Let God's will be done.

God hasnt told me to store stuff away.

The only prep you need is making sure you follow God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That you are ready at any given moment to meet your maker.

So today you do not work? No house? No clothes? No shopping for food? No insurance? No car? No retirement plan? Nothing?
Kudos to you!

 

[Lost4words]

So today you do not work? No house? No clothes? No shopping for food? No insurance? No car? No retirement plan? Nothing?
Kudos to you!

I dont hide stuff away. I dont store mounds of food etc etc......

I live normally....

I dont 'prep' for end times etc...

 

[Diamond72]

that trusting God.

He said trusting IN God. The trusting really is not the focus. The being ONE WITH GOD is the objective. The song says to trust and obey, there is no other way. Singularity is the current word to indicate we are to be one with God. As He is all in all.

 

[timewerx]

I have seen a documentary of preppers, a bunker underground, radiation detectors and protective gear, a years worth of food and water supplies, generators.

I have no idea how much money that costs, but from what it looks like I don't think most people could afford to do that. How much do you believe Christians should prepare? Should they do everything they can to get to that level of prepping or do you think that's too much?

I can't afford it either. I can't even afford to have a "proper" meal.

But I am preparing myself in another way by the way of physical health, strength, endurance, and physical adaptations to scarcity, and radiation (not entirely voluntarily!).

Subjecting yourself to extreme physical conditions, hard physical training, and scarcity (without using any drugs) would trigger creation of new and enlargement of existing blood vessels by a large factor as well as lose lots of weight. This makes it much easier for the body to get rid of unwanted matter in the body including mutated and cancerous cells and even damaged DNA. Thus, making yourself physically more resistant to both cancer and radiation.

It also gives you exceptional endurance despite little food and water. To allow you to cover large distances simply running or bike or skating without getting dehydrated nor starving of nutrients even if you're eating and drinking so little. More fun to survive the apocalypse than just hunkering down in one place. You can even live in the high radiation zones (the fantastical "red forests") for safety against other humans. Plants and animals don't avoid high radiation zones either so you'll have plenty of food to eat as well.

This isn't really "prepping" in the worldly sense because Jesus did ask us to live our lives in such way. Denying ourselves, subjecting ourselves to trials and difficulties is more like prepping for the Lord's coming, not for the apocalypse but quite coincidentally, it achieves the same results.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

He said trusting IN God. The trusting really is not the focus. The being ONE WITH GOD is the objective. The song says to trust and obey, there is no other way. Singularity is the current word to indicate we are to be one with God. As He is all in all.

Yes, faith is the prime thing. You cannot please God without it. So, like Noah, who heard God, believed, feared, and acted accordingly, many of us believe God and are preparing. Perhaps we are being told to prepare to help those who are not and will need our efforts. Maybe we are the fruit of their faith, and this is how God will save them. I like to call us the Antioch Preppers.

Acts 11:27-30 KJV
27 And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea:
30 Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

I can't afford it either. I can't even afford to have a "proper" meal.

But I am preparing myself in another way by the way of physical health, strength, endurance, and physical adaptations to scarcity, and radiation (not entirely voluntarily!).

Subjecting yourself to extreme physical conditions, hard physical training, and scarcity (without using any drugs) would trigger creation of new and enlargement of existing blood vessels by a large factor as well as lose lots of weight. This makes it much easier for the body to get rid of unwanted matter in the body including mutated and cancerous cells and even damaged DNA. Thus, making yourself physically more resistant to both cancer and radiation.

It also gives you exceptional endurance despite little food and water. To allow you to cover large distances simply running or bike or skating without getting dehydrated nor starving of nutrients even if you're eating and drinking so little. More fun to survive the apocalypse than just hunkering down in one place. You can even live in the high radiation zones (the fantastical "red forests") for safety against other humans. Plants and animals don't avoid high radiation zones either so you'll have plenty of food to eat as well.

This isn't really "prepping" in the worldly sense because Jesus did ask us to live our lives in such way. Denying ourselves, subjecting ourselves to trials and difficulties is more like prepping for the Lord's coming, not for the apocalypse but quite coincidentally, it achieves the same results.

Christian preppers are not prepping for the "apocalypse." Rapture believers will tell you that we are not going to be here. Most Christian preppers prep for an economic collapse, food supply collapse, natural catastrophe, political/socialist upheaval, and war. Just look at recent years.
But if you consider starving your family and children so they will benefit spiritually... well, I recall this verse.

1 Timothy 5:8 KJV
8 But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

Prepping is not overly expensive. Not if you practice it over time... even years.
We are not even adding to our preps. The Lord told us to stop adding to what we have and that it is enough. We are using up some older items and replacing them with new ones, keeping the stock fresh.
If God is telling you, "Do not prep, " then bless you and most certainly obey God! He is telling many of us to prep both by the Word and by His Spirit. I wish people could bless us in like manner. We have to obey God just as you do. He may even be telling us to prep for the good of those who do not. Perhaps He is answering your prayers by telling us to help you!

 

[Diamond72]

many of us believe God and are preparing.

I have been preparing for 20 years and I am glad I did because the prices are going crazy. I only buy stuff I actually use.

 

[timewerx]

But if you consider starving your family and children so they will benefit spiritually... well, I recall this verse.
1 Timothy 5:8 KJV
8 But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

I'm never married and without any children but I'm personally taking care of my mom who is disabled and unable to survive on her own.

We're poor yet my mom is able to eat normally and have proper meals.

That's one reason I'm starving myself because my little income cannot buy proper meal for the both of us. One must sacrifice and I volunteered myself.

I work but I just don't fit in. I've been handicapped since childhood with brain damage from a concussion and then paying off a debt for many more years. I've done all I could, pray, fast, fast even more (which comes easy if you really don't have much to eat!) and ofc waiting. Many Christians have prayed for us as well.

 

[Diamond72]

That's one reason I'm starving myself because my little income cannot buy proper meal for the both of us.

Food does not cost that much. I can easily eat on three dollars a day. A dollar for veggies, usually a freeze dried soup mix because I am lazy and I want quick and easy. A dollar for protein that we cannot seem to live without. Then a dollar for the carbs that we crave so much and is the cheapest part of what we eat. If I eat more then I should it is going to be carbs and not the veggies or protein. My food has a very long shelf life so I do not have to worry about throwing away expired food as much that way. Also I can buy it at the best price.

I do most of my cooking in a rice cooker. Again for convenience so it shuts itself off if I forget about it. They say you are allowed to use them in dorms where they do not allow any other form of cooking. So I take my mix off the shelf and use water or soy milk. Or I cook beans because they are high in protein.

Eating out is getting to be expensive but I can usually get something at Taco Bell for a dollar or two. Food is available and they are not letting people starve. But people can go crazy. My son said he ate a $100 meal once. His company gives him a $60 a day budget for food.

Eggs cost 33 cents. One is plenty for me. But my wife will eat two and with a piece of bead that is a dollar for breakfast for her. Although we do cheat a little bit there because she brings home the jelly and little contains of things like that from work. She actually gets a lot of food from the churches. Day old bread or donunts or things like that. She gives a lot of that away. Sometimes she sends it overseas in her mission box or she will cook it for a pot luck dinner.

I have money for food. I can buy potatoes and fresh veggies if I want. I am just lazy to prepare them at times. Veggie soup takes about half an hour and I can add a table spoon of freeze dried pretty quick. The freeze dried was actually made for camping if you want light and easy to carry. Just add water. I like the bear soup and right now they have been putting it on sale for $3.30 for eight servings. Even at regular price that is still only 50 cents a serving.

I am not trying to eat for less money, it just does not cost that much. I do not need the eggs, butter and milk in my mix. I am happy just to use water. But most people may not be content with that.