Emergency Preparedness
Trying circumstances can affect everyone in our country at any time. They come in many guises and forms such as: Floods, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Terrorist Attacks and many other smaller scale social upsets like: Work strikes, Bank closings, Riots, etc.
It is the wise person who prepares for and plans action to avert serious events from affecting their friends and family in a negative manner. The number one action you can do to help your family is to store up food and water and items to trade so that you and your loved ones can survive a short term emergency without panicking.
If you believe like I do, that our nation is in for some hard times, I would like to offer some suggestions to help you and your loved ones survive the events that the future may bring about.
FINANCES:
1.) Liquidate all your stocks, bonds, mutual funds and treasury notes into cash or easily portable items such as gold and silver coins. A stock market crash is definitely going to happen, but no one knows when. It could happen any day. The market is supported by air and empty promises. Get out while the getting is good.
2.) Try to keep at least three months cash expenses on hand so you won’t get caught ” a day late and a dollar short”.
3.) Buy emergency items now while you still can. Camping equipment, extra food & water, guns, knives and ammo for hunting and protection. One needs to realize that society as a whole has changed from the people that lived through the Great Depression. People are more ruthless and uncaring then they were back then. In hard times today, as witnessed by the L.A. riots, people will kill and steal at the slightest provocation.
FAITH:
1.) Come to realization that no matter how well you plan, if you don’t take God into consideration, you will fail. The events that will eventually happen were prophesied long ago by Biblical authors. God warned His people of these things to come so they would trust in Him for guidance and protection and most of all for salvation. When it comes right down to it, what’s the point of surviving if you’re going to spend eternity apart from God. Let’s face it, many people will die in the coming events, so the most important thing that should be on your mind is: Where will you and your loved ones spend eternity?
2.) Have a Bible on hand and memorize scriptures for those times your Bible may not be on hand. In the near future, Christians will be very unpopular and will most likely be blamed for the hardships that will fall upon our beloved country. Martyrdom is a definite possibility that you should take into consideration. The Book of Revelations tells us that many people will die for their belief in Christ in the last days.
GEOGRAPHY:
1.) If you are financially able to do so, you should consider selling your city or suburban dwelling and find a place in the countryside with land for farming. If you farm already, try to plant hybrid seeds that regenerate themselves year after year.
2.) If like most of us, you can’t buy a house in the country, try to find a place in the country that you are familiar with and feel comfortable in. Places like a favorite camping spot or a relatives home or somewhere you go hiking frequently. You will need a spot like this because inner city neighbor-hoods will not be a safe place to stay during hard times and the problems will quickly escalate outside to suburbia.
3.) The optimum places to be are at least 200 miles away in every direction from major cities, military bases and coastal areas.
COMMUNITY:
1.) Family members, friends, neighbors and fellow believers can be a source of inspiration and unity in hard times. These people make up your personal community.
2.) Try to plan and coordinate with those in your inner circle, where to meet, what to bring, and who’s responsible for what in an emergency situation.
3.) An important thing to remember is that the more people that are in your personal community, the more items that will need to be set aside, but as in the best circumstances, “many hands make the work light,” so it can be in difficult times. Everyone in your personal community should plan and store for their individual families and some extra items to share within their personal community. Co-ordinate these items so that for example, three families are saving candles, two families are saving flashlights, but no one is saving batteries or matches, doesn’t happen! Remember that God is in control and you can depend on Him to assist you when you need it most. The sooner you start building a base of supplies, the easier it will be to survive the hard times and the longer they will last. Just begin by adding a couple of extra items to your shopping list every week and watch for good sales that you could utilize to stock up your pantry and shelves.
No one is able to afford everything or has space to store it all. Just pick out a few items that everyone could use at one time or another and stock up on it. Every house-hold should have an emergency plan when things start to go wrong in our society. The people that lived through the L.A. riots can give strong testimony to the fact that stores that weren’t looted sold out of most items in a matter of hours and were unable to be re-supplied by their distributors. Don’t let this happen to you!
As events start to escalate in their frequency and seriousness, Don’t panic! Watch them closely because timing will be important. If you evacuate too early, your supplies won’t last as long and you’ll miss out on opportunities to get more needed items, but if you wait too late then traffic jams will make it harder and more dangerous to get to where you’re going safely.
May God bless you and keep you in these times that are about to come!
