What Are You Preparing For? - Page 8

bbyrd009 · #71 04-19-2012, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dalton

Oddly enough, 4 years ago I would've said zombies, two years ago and up until a few months ago it would've been revolution. Now, I'm done preparing... I'm waiting. Just walking in the best way I know how.

Hey, I might die before anything happens so :P

Ha--I do some (amateur) writing; my fave line so far is
"Armageddon ends for you when you die."

bbyrd009 · #72 04-19-2012, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sam

I'm prepared for the rapture.

I'd like to think I am.

Ha, gotcha. Obviously something happens there in I Thess, Sam; I think I just got a little too strong an emphasis on it in my Apo/Pent days, and witnessed that its fruit seemed to be an introspective generation, simultaneously pointing fingers and proselytic, supposedly not worried because they were flying away, and God was going to remake the planet, so why worry about conservation, etc...just not good. I have since heard many more balanced rapture doctrines; it is, at the end of the day, divining, in my opinion, to speculate too deeply on it, and I only object to its improper application.

bbyrd009 · #73 04-19-2012, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

I'm preparing for the Rise of the Machines.

(there heeeeere...) well, getting closer. I wonder if the internet is the beast?

bbyrd009 · #74 04-19-2012, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

I dont have time or money to do much physical preperation. We have a few months supply of food and water on hand. We moved from a medium size city (Dayton, Ohio) to a rural area in Southern Ky. We probably wont do much more than this.

It COULD still be decades before the great tribulation. Nonetheless our personal "end of the world" meaning death is sure for all. I seek intimacy with Jesus every day. I want him so real that I can enter any situation with the confidence he is with me.

Now if we are at the end of the last days we should be spiritually prepared to be living on a planet where BILLIONS of people will soon die through war, famine, plagues, and other disasters. Living on a planet of satan worshippers. Living on a planet where to buy or sell one has to sell their soul to the devil.

No one is going to be able to live for Christ in those days if they cannot live for him now. Now is the time to seek the favor of YHWH. To have real experience with him so that when times are hard your vision our Heaven wont be closed. So that as he pours out his specialness in relationship to us our devotion and loyalty to him will increase.

Right now we are forerunners. Pioneers walking through the wilderness calling men and women out of the world and into the kingdom of God. We must be faithful witnesses to teach them the whole counsel of God.

Whatever generation is the "Armegeddon" or "end time" generation will I believe see the best of the best with Jesus and the worst of the worse with the world. I want to help that generation by encouraging wholeheartedness in regards to the first commandment.

You shall love YHWH YOUR ELOHIM with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

The more we give ourselves to that love and that life the more prepared we will be.

You make some good points. It's mostly about "love your neighbor," and I don't see myself getting much better at that after...35 years, lol. yikes.

The thread title was kind of meant to address your first paragraph; but I'm sure I've made it plain now that I think believers should be preparing for a wedding. Your "prep" seems pretty ideal to me.

There are doctrines that put us in the tribulation right now, at some certain trump; Sam would know better than me there. I note Christ spoke of "last days" in His time; and recall accounts that strongly suggest that our time here on earth, "alive time," might be compared to a time when one is doing something they hate, time seems to drag forever? v something they love, where time flies--and that at Judgement, people will be like, "Man; all I had to do was Love My Neighbor for a measely 100 years!" lol.

RevDWW · #75 04-19-2012, 08:43 PM

First off we need to prepare for eternity.
Secondly we need to be prepared for the end of the world as we know it.

bbyrd009 · #76 04-19-2012, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by RevDWW

First off we need to prepare for eternity.
Secondly we need to be prepared for the end of the world as we know it.

I wonder if the two aren't more closely connected than we realize.

I believe in an "afterlife," but have come to see the model that is
preached to us--that I prolly would have preached, too--is surely from a child's pov, so to speak. When does "eternity" start? The "immediately after "free beer tomorrow" model just seems deficient, to me, not so much in theory, maybe, as in practice.

And we live in a completely different world than even a generation ago?
When does the end of the world end? Lol.

RevDWW · #77 04-19-2012, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bbyrd009

I wonder if the two aren't more closely connected than we realize.

I believe in an "afterlife," but have come to see the model that is
preached to us--that I prolly would have preached, too--is surely from a child's pov, so to speak. When does "eternity" start? The "immediately after "free beer tomorrow" model just seems deficient, to me, not so much in theory, maybe, as in practice.

And we live in a completely different world than even a generation ago?
When does the end of the world end? Lol.

The end of the world as we know it is not the same as the end of the world. The end of the world as we know happened for the folks of New Orleans with Katrina, it happened resently with the mass tornados in Mississipi and the Midwest. Folks need to be prepared to survive and even thrive when the world around them falls apart.

Sam · #78 04-19-2012, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by RevDWW

The end of the world as we know it is not the same as the end of the world. The end of the world as we know happened for the folks of New Orleans with Katrina, it happened resently with the mass tornados in Mississipi and the Midwest. Folks need to be prepared to survive and even thrive when the world around them falls apart.

the "end of the world" can mean different things to different people.

reference this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcy-V6YIuI

Sam · #79 04-19-2012, 10:05 PM

700 some years before the birth of Jesus Christ, Amos preached:

"prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" Amos 4:12

bbyrd009 · #80 05-03-2012, 10:00 AM

I'll check out the vid when I can Sam, on wrong pc right now.

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Originally Posted by RevDWW

The end of the world as we know it is not the same as the end of the world. The end of the world as we know happened for the folks of New Orleans with Katrina, it happened resently with the mass tornados in Mississipi and the Midwest. Folks need to be prepared to survive and even thrive when the world around them falls apart.

I don't have a problem with this; until it becomes putting up extra veggies in prep for "The end of the world, prolly tomorrow maybe," which let's face it, to most people's minds, Armageddon might happen, but hasn't started yet (you think), and so, by process of elimination, becomes more likely tomorrow. And then even more likely the day after that.

BAM, "Be prepared." It should be like, a motto or something.
But the world as you know it, right now, has ended.
Did you see that? It just ended again.

Teaching me how to build a fire from nothing, today,
that I can use tonight, just takes my brain to a different place
than "It's Armageddon, that's where we're headin'-"
"Better prepare for tomorrow."

If you are preparing for an imagined tomorrow, you cannot possibly be walking with Christ today. If you had prepared for Christ's tomorrow, you, who cannot divine, would have surely done something completely different than go to Jerusalem--and He knew what was coming.

Am I alone here? Is this just my opinion?