Luke 9:3, “And He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.”" (NAS)
“PREPPING FOR DISASTER” FOOLISHNESS
(Inspired by Holy Spirit)
The devil, implementing two different paramount strategies, has two distinct groups of people he loves to herd his deceived and victimized masses into: (1) the first group of people are unaware or in denial of his existence; (2) the second group are not only aware of him, but they have an overt preoccupation and morbid interest in his diabolic methodologies, strategies and disasters - and thus miss Christ’s sovereignty, peace, victory and plan for their lives. Both categories above are spiritually poisonous and will do nothing to draw you closer to the Lord and His salvation, but will only blind and distract you, ushering you on board the enemy’s doomed one-way train wreck into hell .
Raised as a Baptist from my earliest memories, I personally have never been in group category #1 above. However, from about the mid-2000’s up until that fateful Spirit-led day of Saturday, September 14, 2013 when God had Rodith and I walk through the doors of Fire of God Church for the first time, I was fiercely and wholeheartedly caught up in group category #2 above. And I can tell you all about it . . . .
It was with passion, pride, and an ego-led indulgence of self-preservation that I had labeled myself a “prepper.” I just “knew” the inside scoop, and I was the enlightened one. Most others, if they were not on board this bandwagon of heightened insight and wisdom so as to prepare for the assured coming disasters – they were the blind ones, in the dark, and just plain stupid. I even had a regular saying for them - (my family can verify) - they were “lobotomized victims of the social engineering primetime brainwashing matrix,” the diabolical engine of society controlled and manipulated by the Bilderbergs, Illuminati, and New World Order gurus, the faceless think-tank manipulators of mankind behind closed doors controlling and calling the shots on everything that happens in this world - everything from economic crashes of entire continents, to HAARP manipulated weather-controlled typhoon catastrophes, to even clandestine negotiations with extraterrestrial diabolical cohorts strategizing a planned Earth invasion engineered to look like a fake “rapture.”
I left no stone unturned, and I had a contingency plan for it all. The problem, of course, is that I failed to see that it is actually God Who is in control, not the enemy.
If there was a famine, I had vacuum-packed dried food with expiration dates 25 years out. If there was a drought, I had military grade hand-held water pumps with top-of-the-line bio filters and sterilization pills. If there was a nationwide power outage, I had solar battery chargers, hand-crank flashlights and radios, large arrays of candles, and matches ad nauseam (all waterproof, of course). I also knew, with complete power grid failure, that the United States’ nuclear plants would melt down and make Japan’s Fukushima look like a walk in the park – so I had iodine pills to counter radiation poisoning, and I had gloves and masks of every sort. If there was civil breakdown and social bedlam, I had all my protection meted out, including gas masks and a bullet-proof vest. Waiting for Planet X-Nibiru and the coming 2012 pole shift per the Mayan Calendar, when the earthquake and tsunami struck, I knew exactly what sea level position my house was at - (52 feet above sea level) - and I knew the direction to run when it happened. I had a perfect conglomerate of “bug out” paraphernalia to “run for the hills,” including zero-temperature-rated sleeping bags, tents, tarps and ropes, flashlights of every sort, portable stove, bags of charcoal, warm clothes, and extra gas containers to keep my car going to get there.
If it weren’t for Pastor Steve getting ahold of me and jolting me out of my madness, next on my agenda was to have my car retrofitted with a 700-mile surplus gas tank capacity and anchor a storage container on the roof. With all the load in the car, I was brainstorming how to fit extra spare tires, spare batteries, and several hundred pounds of drinking water containers on board. I even quietly wondered to myself how on earth I was going to fit Rodith’s Mom and Dad in the back seat of the car with all the gear? - We couldn’t possibly leave them behind!
Then . . . . the Holy Spirit said, “Enough!” Lance had crossed over the line from sanity to insanity. I was quickly losing touch with reality and practical-minded living for the Lord as He had intended for me. I was listening to all the wrong doomsday voices, Alex Jones from Infowars being one - after I received my daily dose of his anti-Government hate fodder for the day, I would quickly deteriorate from a “decent” mood into a tirade of anger, vowing to protect our country’s freedom from this “Communistic onslaught” at all cost. But I was not listening to God - even though He WAS talking to me during this time and trying to guide me. I just wasn’t heeding Him properly.
Then, in His grace and mercy, He began a healing and enlightening process through Fire of God Church which led Rodith and I (more “I” really) to His real truth. That truth being, of course, that God is actually in control of world events and our lives (not the enemy) - something I really knew from childhood, but I had stepped off that path and was headed in a very wrong direction. I was not putting my trust of Him into practice. The enemy liked to make me think evil had an upper hand on everything, but in reality it doesn’t. God is in full control.
I have further come to realize that this country’s current phenomenon of loyal and patriotic passionate call to “constitutionalism,” anti-government preservation of our freedoms, vehemental fight for our 2nd Amendment right to bear arms (I’m an NRA member), and demand for personal freedom from socialistic authoritarian Government “control freaks” – all this is actually a tactic from the devil himself. Although it looks ostensibly patriotic, this movement, at its very core, is based on nothing but pride, rebellion of authority, fear, denial of God’s sovereignty, and self-idolatry. It contains almost very core trademark element of satan’s plan to stumble the misguided and eventually claim their souls.
Rodith and I thank our dear Lord God for bringing us into His true Spirit-filled house to train us, heal us, and bring us up in His real truth. I now know God has specific plans for our lives, and there’s nothing random circumstance, nor the enemy and his rogue scheming power-trip hoodlums, can do to deter His plans for us.
Testimony, member from Fire of God Church
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