Although
some people don’t want to admit it, the world is in a great state of
commotion. It saddens me to see how far
our country has devolved from the righteous tenets that it used to stand
on.
I feel
much like Nephi (the son of Helaman) crying on his garden tower and mourning
over the corruption of his people and his fallen country; bemoaning the
corruption that filled his government and the judgment seat.
Perhaps I should
put it into a more modern perspective. I feel like Sarah Connor in “Terminator
2”, trying to warn people of a coming apocalypse; all the while being mocked
for being a crazy “prepper”.
I see the
trouble that is coming and I only seek to warn people to get ready. But because of things like "normalcy bias" and "cognitive dissonance",
most people just cannot grasp the idea of something terrible happening in their
world. They say, “Nothing that bad has EVER happened to us here in the United
States.”
People can’t bring themselves to imagine a time so hard,
that they would have to survive for a year on their own resources.
The
scriptures can give us an interesting guideline for temporal preparedness. Here is a list of 5 people that were warned
to have temporal storage, to last them for an extended period of time.
Who Food
to last how long
Joseph - warned the Pharaoh of the coming famine 7
years (Gen 41)
Gidgiddoni - prepared against Gadianton robbers 7
years (3 Nephi 4:4)
Noah - was
on the Ark 360-370
days (Gen 8)
The brother
of Jared - was on his boat 344
days (Ether 6:11)
Lehi’s
family - was on the boat Many
days (1 Nephi 18:9)
-About 1- 2 years (591-589 B.C.)
I think
it is significant that these events in scripture all mark a time where
individuals were warned to have enough food and supplies to last them through a
period of trouble. It’s also interesting
to note that all of these periods mentioned are about 1 year or more in
duration. Similarly we have been told to prepare food and water to last us also…about
1 year or more.
What if
Noah, the brother of Jared or Lehi decided to only bring a 72 hour kit? What if
they only brought a 3 month supply of food? Maybe they imagined that a 6 months
supply should be enough. This kind of thinking would have made their journey very difficult indeed. The scriptures don’t
mention it but I believe that the Lord told them how much food and supplies they
would need, to last them through their difficult journey.
None of
them had ever crossed an ocean. They had
no way of reckoning how long a journey like that would take. Nothing that difficult had EVER happened in their world.
So now we
come to the troubled times we live in now. We are a society that is unfamiliar with hard
times. Grocery stores are stocked with
food and many are open 24 hours to satisfy our wants and needs. Yet we have
been warned that this will not always be.
We have been counseled to prepare an emergency supply of long term food
and water to last us for 1 year.
To
prepare for...
A time
when famine and drought will make food and water very scarce…
(Ezra Taft Benson)
“The revelation to store food may be as
essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people
in the days of Noah."
["Prepare
Ye", Ensign, Jan
1974]
(Spencer W Kimball)
“But if you fail to serve me (Christ)…trees will be
without fruit and the fields without verdure.
There will be
rationing and a scarcity of food and hunger sore…Famine will stalk
rudely through your doors and the ogre cannibalism will rob you of your
children and your remaining virtues”
[Conference Report, October 1961, pp.
29-34]
A time
when economies will fail; when money and gold will lose all its value…
(Ezra Taft Benson)
“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize
that the ravages of war, economic
disaster, famine, and earthquake cannot happen here. Those who believe
this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not
believe them.”
[Conference Report, October 1980]
(Brigham Young)
“The time
will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat. Gold is not to
be compared with it in value. Why would it be precious to you now? Simply
because you could get gold for it? Gold is good for nothing, only as men value
it.”
[Journal of Discourses, 1:250]
A time
when the only thing of REAL value, will be food…
(Heber C Kimball)
“Lay up your stores, and take your silks and fine things, and exchange them for grain and such things
as you need, and the time will come when we will be obliged to depend
upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will
be dropped between us and the United States.”
[Journal of Discourses, 5:10]
(J Reuben Clark Jr)
“...when we really get into hard times, where food is
scarce or there is none at all, and so with clothing and shelter, money may be no good for there
may be nothing to buy, and you cannot eat money, you cannot get enough
of it together to burn to keep you warm, and you cannot wear it."
[Church News, November 21, 1953, p.4]
A time
when farming, production and all industry and commerce will cease…
(Brigham Young)
“By and by there will be a gulf between the righteous and
the wicked so that they
cannot trade with each other and national intercourse will cease.”
[Journal of Discourses, 12:284]
(Orson Pratt)
“…manufacturing
will, in a great measure, cease, for a time, among the American nation. Why? Because in
these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture, there will be
too much bloodshed too much mobocracy too much going forth in bands and
destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation
with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon
that land? They will leave
their farms and they will remain uncultivated.”
[Journal of Discourses, 20:151]
A time
when our government will fall and war will come to America…
(Duane S. Crowther)
“…a series of
internal wars which
will bring about the collapse of the government and dominion of the United States.
[These] wars will cause
the complete collapse of national and state governments in the United States!
[Duane S. Crowther, Prophecy: Key to the Future, 1967, pp. 65-66]
(Orson Pratt)
"…What then will be
the condition of that people, when this great and terrible war shall come? It
will be very different from the war between the North and the South. Do you
wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood,
city against city, town against town, county against county, state against
state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed and
manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease, for a time, among the American nation”
[Journal of Discourses, 20:151-154]
“Party will be
arrayed in deadly strife against party; State against State; and the whole
nation will be broken up;
the sanguinary weapons of the dreadful revolution will devour the land. Then
shall there be a fleeing from one city to another, from one State to another,
from one part of the continent to another, seeking refuge, from the
devastations of bandits and armies”
[Millennial Star, 28:633-634]
This is
just a small number of quotes from modern day Apostles and Prophets, warning us
of what is coming. This is to say
nothing of the multitude of witnesses from the visions already posted here.
These humble people saw in dream or vision, all these
things coming to pass:
1. A
period of drought, famine and starvation
2.
The
collapse our government and economy in America
3.
The
loss of electricity, gasoline and transportation.
4.
The
beginning of a World War that would break down into civil war everywhere
5.
Many
Great Tribulations: Earthquakes, Plagues, Flooding and Great Storms
So I sit back and see the
beginning of this tribulation starting. We are experiencing record droughts
across the country. The drought in California is devastating
crops and food prices are skyrocketing. California is responsible for more than ½ of America’s
fruits and vegetables. They will be
completely out of water in just 2 years.
There are 7 other states in the U.S. in similar circumstances.
We see a staggering amount of corruption in government. Politicians seek their own self interests while the Constitution is
being violated and ignored so regularly, that some don’t think it even applies
anymore. Our country’s economy lays in a
coma, while Federal Reserve doctors keep pumping massive amounts of “Quantative
Easing” into the failing veins, hoping that no one will realize, that it is too late.
The dollar is destined to fail; it’s just a
matter of time.
Racial and political tension is at
all time highs across the land. Never has America been more frustrated or
more divided. This tension is felt
worldwide with a new Cold War with Russia and as tensions with China also increase... How long will it be before the Cold War becomes Hot?
We see new diseases spreading and old diseases coming back. We suddenly have the spreading of new strains of incurable diseases like MRSA. We see the near pandemic spread of Ebola coming to America from Africa; not
to mention new virulent strains of Influenza and Tuberculosis crossing our unguarded borders to the south.
As all of
the multiple events fall into place, I see that time is getting short. What is coming is inevitable. How prepared you are when it gets here is up
to you. We see that eventually money,
gold and other material possessions will not matter. The
only thing that will matter is can you feed your family.
So put
off buying that new * insert materialistic item here *…
...And go buy your food
storage.
Sell off some
of that “stuff” that you think that
you can’t live without….
...And go buy your food
storage.
Pull some money out of your savings or your
retirement. It may not be there for much
longer….
...And go buy your food
storage.
No amount of physical assets will matter
if you cannot feed your family in a crisis; and that crisis is near, even at the door.
I
encourage you to use the LDS cannery in your area. It is by far the cheapest…
Here is a
location map…
If you don’t
have the time to go pick it up, they even deliver it to you…
A month supply for one person is
only about $30 – A year supply for one person is around $300.
They even have starter kit boxes, that have a variety of things all in one box.
One box feeds / one person/ for one month.
Remember
to get water storage also. 55 gallon drums are only about $50 at Wal-Mart.
Remember to only use food grade barrels.
The human body can survive for weeks without food; but can only survive
about 3 days without any water!
I will
repeat again what Ezra Taft Benson had to say:
“The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal
salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of
Noah."
A final warning from Ezra Taft Benson
“Should the Lord decide at this time to
cleanse the Church–and the need for that cleansing seems to be increasing—a famine in this land of one year’s duration could wipe out a large
percentage of slothful members, including some ward and stake
officers…
…Yet we cannot say
we have not been warned.”
[“Not Commanded in All Things”, Conference
Report, April 1965]
~Scott~
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