Be sure to read Part 1 of this article: Preparing for Hard Times: Forging Relationships and Skills to Survive
This morning I was offered a ride on a small plane by a friend. Taking off from Colorado Springs Airport, we did a short tour of some farmlands of eastern Colorado.
Our farmlands are devastated; years of drought, high winds and mismanagement leave us on the precipice of the Dust Bowl 2.0. While most of us have no clue what that looked like, a good description of it can be gotten from the novel Grapes of Wrath.
From 10,000 feet, topsoil erosion was obvious in nearly all of the cultivated areas. The yellowish sand underneath was clearly visible. One could easily see the wind’s footprints all running northwest by southeast. Once the topsoil is gone, it’s gone never to return in our lifetimes.
Even in irrigated circles, sprouting crops were marginalized by the sand’s encroachment, or shall we say, the topsoil’s exodus.
Many crop circles are no longer irrigated. The government shut them down due to the drop in the Ogallala Aquafer, the life blood of farming from Texas to South Dakota. Even these dry portions were being farmed, or shall we say, trying to be farmed.
Farming on land with little or no topsoil requires huge amounts of chemical fertilizers, and at some point that becomes impossible.
This is just another of the many signs that we are on the verge of something at least equal to the so-called “Great Depression.” Moderns have been so coddled, they have no clue what to do when Walmart runs out of groceries. Our modern metropolises are degenerate, rife with a growing disregard for law and order. Anything even remotely approaching the Great Depression could overnight turn our cities into blood baths as lawless people violently take what they want.
God’s wrath works in a certain way: He tolerates and tolerates, and tolerates, then it all hits the fan. In the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the stanza says, “He is trampling down the Vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.” Whatever wrath will be unleashed, it has been generations in the making. We see this in the Amorites of Genesis 15. There is always a breaking point, God is patient until…………..While many get away with sin, evil, idolatry, even for generations, at some point, there is a reckoning. More and more it looks like this generation will see it.
There is individual judgement and there is group (nations, peoples, etc). Woe to that generation that falls under the judgement of their generation and the previous ones. While this seems unfair, it makes no difference what we think.
The way to conquer, control, manipulate any people is to take away their food. And if they have no clue how to make it themselves, that is a totally compliant people.
‘Politicians know when they control the food, they control the people’
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— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) April 16, 2023
Like it or not, things are lining up for major upheaval.
People can forget God only for so long. Then payday arrives and the wine press of judgment begins.
St John said, “Who hath warned you to escape the wrath to come? You brood of vipers.” Escaping whatever comes may not be just the result of some smart choices. Rather, your survival may require an act of God. You may want to start up a conversation with Him about that.
Even so, here as some suggestions for ways to prepare that can increase your chances if things go as bad as they could.
Practical Application
- Get out of town. If your city has 5G towers popping up overnight, you will be better off in a more country setting. You will also be safer from rampant crime. To learn more about 5G’s possible affects, click here.
- If you are raising children, double down on point one (1). Children are our most precious asset and raising them in the system, will make them slaves of that very same system.
- Think in terms of multiple options for the things you buy. We do not know exactly what the situation will be in our local areas. It’s best to have options. When I bought a generator, I got one that burns either gas or propane. In a crisis, I have no idea which power source will be available. As the answer could be “neither”, it is important to also think about non-electric living.
- Have a few rain barrels, set to collect water off the roof. While you would not want to drink this water (see chemtrails), it can be used to flush with or for an emergency.
- Have a large deep freezer(s). Freezing is one of the best ways to preserve food. Obviously, the drawback is it requires electricity. Before refrigeration, most rural homes had an ice cellar. Underground it was packed with ice during the winter, and it kept cold all Summer because the earth insulates.
- Fill the top of the freezer with frozen water. Plastic vinegar jugs make nice containers that will flex when the water expands. This will serve a dual purpose; first, it will give you drinkable water and second, when the power goes out, it will hold the frozen foods much longer before you have to light the generator to cool. By placing them in the top, they will hold cooling for the whole.
- Store food. For the record the Mormons are the world’s best at stored food technology because their theology says everything will crash and Mormonism will be the one world religion—which in some measure is true; but it is a Luceferian cult same as other “religions” likely to survive during hard times. Buying from Alex Jones supports Mormonism, so find another source for emergency food.
- Canning (jars) used to be a staple of every American home. It will be making a comeback.
- Dry storage, many staples are fine in a dried state. Properly dried, many grains have a long shelf life. Many companies sell dried food for emergencies with a 20 year shelf life.
- Think non-refrigerated. There is something special about foods that do not require refrigeration. Honey, butter, and many oils can be stored without refrigeration. Peanut butter has a long shelf life even without preservatives. Its high oil content preserves it at room temperature. Additionally, peanut butter is high in protein. In a pinch, peanut butter by itself could hold one out for a long time.
- Think fuel for your body. Foods high in fat are actually best for fuel: lard, coconut oil, palm oil. Any healthy fat can provide fuel for the body at low expense. Bacon grease is a great fuel to cook eggs and other foods in. Avoid grain oils; canola is the worst.
- Learn how to grow your own food. Especially consider raising chickens. Obviously, this is a long term solution, but those that can, will have provisions when others have exhausted their supplies.
- Know those who grow food. Befriend a dairy farmer, veggie farmer, and/or cattle ranch owner.
- Learn wilderness survival. Those who live off the land will be the better for it.
- Learn the art of barter. Establish a network of likeminded individuals who can share services and products.
- Make sure your Faith in God can survive a church shut down. It happened before and it WILL happen again. Hold family devotions.
- Toss the vegan. Vegans are some of the most unhealthy people around. Grains are the most engineered of all food groups going back over a hundred years. All grains now are hybrids, even the most healthy ones. Meats are the healthiest food on the planet, when properly raised.
- Learn the art of detox. Our air is contaminated, our soil is stripped of all necessary minerals, and our water contains many toxins, including antidepressants, and all manner of pharmaceuticals peed off into the environment.
- Don’t trust your 401k; it might not be there when you need it. With the extreme volatility in the markets, hard assets may be preferred. Keep secured cash and precious metals close to hand. Silver was historically the common man’s trading metal of choice.
- Build family relationships, especially where the younger look after their elders in old age.
- Think about, and plan for, a world in which there is no Internet.
While I would love to say this is advice for “if” things go badly, we must all admit that a catastrophic crash looks inevitable.
For more advice, watch this video Make Preparations // Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou – More Will Come After The War.
John Lee – an Orthodox Christian
At this point in the game, I think most folk’s opinions regarding whatever worth arguing about, has settled in. While the COVID scam was current, people were upset enough to pay attention. Now that things seem more normal, everyone has gotten back into the established rhythms of life, and making points of what is Orthodox and what is not, has become quite pointless.
In my desire to help my fellow Orthodox, I would focus on other things more dire. My advice: get the hell out of Dodge ASAP, leave the big cities especially if you see 5g hardware popping up everywhere.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/the-coming-crisis-of-cities-get-out-now-while-you-still-can/
Led by the Holy Spirit (providence beyond my control), I relocated to a small rural town, where the smell of bullsh-t in the morning, is almost as strong as what comes from Elpi, and the EP (catch my drift?). Like the GOA, fly control is at a premium here. I prefer incense.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZuuweGTpIeqG/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4SezAwle1pnV/
I got to tell ya’ brothers and sisters, I have found paradise. The bank, the grocery store, the fishing pond, the coffee shop, my insurance agent, the gas station are all within a half mile of my house. Most of the time I just walk or ride my bike.
If/when it all goes south, I will be fine. Most everybody around here knows how to grow food in one way or another. Even my insurance agent has a herd of cattle to help bring home the bacon; actually, in her mind the insurance income stabilizes things, the kids are raised: teenagers, she has time to be industrious. Most desire to live by agriculture, things that grow by the mysteries of life from the creation a la Adam and Eve. It sort of sets the standard. Everything else supports that. With the wheat harvest in full swing, everybody is holding their collective breath that a hail storm does not take out a year’s worth of hard work in 10 minutes. This alone instills an appetite for risk surpassing anything in Vegas. All family owned farming is playing the high risk stakes nature dishes out. This year’s wheat harvest looks to be very good in this locale due to the first continuous spring rains in years since I showed up—they don’t call me aqua man for nothing (ok, ok, that was a joke). .
With less distraction, I have time to reflect and be a lot more monkish. Perhaps, I’ll finish one of the dozen books I have started.
Country folks/towns are different:
1. They will indulge you to talk their ear off, without interruption. I have actually done this just to see.
2. The LGBT thing really does not get traction here (even though it tries): with first hand knowledge of bulls and cows; billies and nannys, hens and roosters, stallions and mares, it just cannot get traction. I wonder why that is? Duh….When your livelihood is dependent upon gender doing its job, it’s hard to twist. People here are not that stupid.
3. Now that school is out, the kids come out of the wood work. They run all over town without parental supervision. Really, it’s safe for children to go and be most anywhere.
4. Sunday is sacred. Only the grocery store is open; the pool after 2pm, the theater at 2:30.
5. The local Methodist church marks the time each day with the tolling of the bell followed by some hymn written by one of the Westley brothers.
6. The widow across the street offered to make me an afghan. She had run out of takers as she had made them for everyone she knew. I said, sure. Expecting it to take a month, a few days later she brought it out, a gift free of charge. I was impressed not just at her generosity, but her industry.
In this, the biggest way agrarian folk are different, they are prepared and no hardship is insurmountable (except cancer, which afflicts many farmers due to chemical use). While most have no clue what’s coming by way of the push for globalism, when things disintegrate, they will fare much better, dealing with it like any tornado or commodity market crash.
One of my ambitions in coming out here was to set up my Tool School like I had in the big city teaching boys the use of power tools to make things—wood working. Here, there really is not much market for it, perhaps preschool.
Here is what I mean: while riding my bike around the fishing ponds, two boys were fishing. For whatever reason, their jubilations caused them to call out to me, to explain the fact that fishing the ponds was better when you wade out into the pond (in regular clothes), even chest or neck deep, not just from the shore; in my mind risky business. It reminds me of my own youth, boys just being boys and exploring everything without much in the way of boundaries and learning common sense through experiencing the natural world.
Dismounting my bike I sat down on the park bench about ten yards from the shore to watch and chat. Both boys were 13. With one, not only could he do metal welding, he was versed in TIG, MIG, Stick, Wire etc, and knew a whole lot more about it than I; and could do any kind of wood work; their farm had all that stuff, and dad expected it of them. My suggestion of tool school was so….. bo…….ring….Now I feel like I am selling ice to the Eskimos.
At the local farmers market, I ran across a man who is a master forger. He makes minimum $1000 (up to 7k) at any show he brings his wares to. Additionally, he teaches others how to forge knives, crosses, you name it; charges nothing but whatever they want to give. Dropping in on one of his classes; an organic-farm family from western Colorado came over for their weekly lessons on forging. The classmates were mom, three boys and a girl. The dad stopped in for a minute to say hi, but had errands to run. The oldest boy 15—forging a knife—was in the stages of sanding and polishing the blade. The 2nd son was forging crosses.[1] The mom and daughter (8 I think) were forging ornamental bird feathers chiseling detail into glowing steel. The toddler was playing with toys, in the other room and never wondered out the open garage door while mom was forging.
All working at the same time, I watched them maneuvering glowing bright pieces of metal in and out of the forge (even the girl), never running into each other. I was taken back at how young country children play with the most dangerous things without getting hurt. On one occasion, even the toddler (not in diapers—they potty train early here) was near the anvil and given a hammer. Reaching over his head to the anvil (about 3’ tall), he too wanted in on the action. This was all within less than a 10 foot square.
All city children are raised in bubble wrap: all my own grandkids are being raise in bubble wrap; its disgusting. When it all hits the fan, none will survive, because they have no clue how to find work arounds, solve problems, use any kind of tool, or do anything on their own. Their parents and the system does everything for them.
Kids here will talk to adults. Unless homeschooled, city kids almost never talk to adults and for good reasons. Just the other day, riding my bike around town, three boys—out of the blue— challenged me to a bike race up a hill road. Feeling my oats, and admiring their venturesomeness I saw developing masculinity; I took the challenge.
They were 11 and 12 (I ask questions). One boy went up the hill to set the finish line at about 75 yards, the other two raced. (of course, the old fart must brag—yeah I’m still a kid: with a slow start, (he said “go”) I beat them at the finish). They were not playing video games or watching porn, or TV, it was time to get outside and move about, make some noise and looking for adventure, I was an easy challenge. And I needed some HIIT.
Other than the tenants of the Faith, a few things define my processing of life:
1. The globalists do exist, and they want to either kill us all, or bring us under control under some form of “smart grid.” I have been tracking them since the 1970s. Yeah, they are for real. We are living St John’s Revelation. https://www.bitchute.com/video/qrKj63fBm51C/
2. The financial systems are about to change to implement social scoring: https://www.bitchute.com/video/HROcFovg5ZWm/
3. The medical system has been pirated for depopulation. https://www.bitchute.com/video/jrWzPjMnqo5o/
4. Viruses do not exist as publically understood but are other things man made (St Paul never had a cold, the flu, or COVID, there was a time when cancer was not); all symptoms are the body trying to discharge something toxic whether from the food, the air, cell phone radiation or whatever. For me, the paradigm has worked great, have had no colds, flu, COVID anything, since 2018. https://www.bitchute.com/video/PGHlUgE6rqGN/
5. Detox is not a convenience or just a “spring cleaning” of the body, but every day.
6. The food delivery, energy delivery systems will at some point fail; but nobody knows when. Better to be prepared.
7. To survive, one must live by faith trusting God…alone…daily. “Give us this day our daily (not a 401k investment), bread”.
Returning to my boyish instinct to investigate everything, I have taken up the study of the healing power of crystals. This art is common among all eastern religions other than Christianity (Christianity is THE eastern religion that trumps all others).
I can attest to the healing power of crystals, they do work, and they are cheap. Some would say, using crystals to heal is dabbling in the occult, demonic, and forbidden for Christians. I would say, no, God put them here in the creation with special properties as seen in Scripture and you going to get a drug (pharmakia—spells) are participating in the occult. The symbol of modern medicine is two snakes—get the picture. Gemstones are stolen treasures belonging to God’s people, not “eastern religions”. It’s time to take them back and wean us off big Pharma—the epitome of the occult by every definition.
Anyway, equipped with a rock tumbler I picked up for $5 at the local thrift store, I had no grit. To polish rocks, you have to have grit. Then I remembered videos saying the graphene put into the vaccines can self-assemble into the hardest material known to man (diamond is also carbon), and, often assembling into layers only one molecule thick creating the sharpest of razors. With my lightning fast mind (chuckle), I remembered noticing the roofing grit on my roof was no longer sand, but this very same graphene in sizable particles. It got my attention when I noticed it was magnetic responsive (try it—I lie not).
When loading the graphene roofing washed off by the rain into the rock tumbler with the hardest rocks—quartz—adding h2o I ran it for two days. The graphene won. The rocks were polished with very little change in the texture of the roofing grit. Graphene in Kevlar, tennis rackets, skis, frankenshots, is not manufactured, but rather grown through chemical processes similar to how living things regenerate. Producing it under certain RF waves can train it to behave in certain ways when in the body when exposed to RF (cell phone). Call it what you will, it is functionally kill on demand, by remote control set at a certain frequency. Those blood clots everybody is getting, it’s one ingredient found in them.
When you bleed, does the scab form as excessively black material? Around the edges? If so you are full of graphene, time to detox. Do you have “Morgellons”? time to detox. It is in the chemtrails. I have stories: but I’ve taken too much space already.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H72reAmWzhA
Don’t prepare nothing, that to will run out! NOTHING lasts, not even our mortal body.
It’s hard to listen to when your kids and grandkids are hungry. It could be the last sound you hear in this life. That happens all over the world for all kinds of reasons. War such as in Ukraine and Sudan. Natural disaster. Government collapse taking law and order with it. Christians used to be communitarian and made of stern stuff. We are considerably less impressive at the moment.
For those whom can’t afford big expensive preps, there are a few cheap things that I do.
Bags of wheat are cheap and last for decades- Roman soldiers marched on boiled wheat. I buy from the feed store.
Chickens are the second best source of protein (eggs) and are really easy keepers.
Lard- you want high calories. If you talk to your local butcher they often throw out the fat and rendering lard is easy. If the hogs were raised outdoors that lard has a VERY high vitamin D content
Make a little space to take in someone. I worry about the seniors whose families neglect them. They are valuable!
Those are great ideas Sarah, you are thinking in the right direction. Wheat in its natural seed form has a very long shelf life and maybe can be ground with a coffee grinder or, like you say, just boil it.
As it turns out eggs are an excellent source of protein and–i have heard–they can be stored without refrigeration if the bloom of natural bacteria is not washed off. The whole thing about cholesterol was a lie. I know a former bodybuilder who lowered his blood pressure with 30 eggs a day. Eskimos eat a diet of 80%+ fat with nearly zero heart disease, much of it raw. (See: Weston A Price Foundation info).
Making space for others will be important. In our modern world of plenty, we have lost touch with our humanity in our concept of community. Without the ancient sensibilities of community, we have become either too independent or totally co-dependent. God’s design is interdependence. Again, this highlights the virtue of trust, who can you trust? Don’t take in anyone you cannot trust. Are you trustworthy? Honesty and transparency is in short supply, too many shadowing things still yet concealed.
Situation awareness is key: for this we must rely upon the Holy Spirit to guide us. The rabbit holes are bottomless pits. Yet, God would not have us ignorant of the nature and operations of evil in this day and time. All we need is a working knowledge, the right information at the rite time, to bring the rite preparation for what is in our area and situation. This can only come from God.
In all of this, fear is our greatest enemy. The enemy’s ploy is always to get us to do something stupid out of fear, if not out of pride. Drive out fear, and God’s path is revealed through even the valley of the shadow of death.
Word of wisdom: nearly always when hitting an impossible situation, the answer is rite there, or even in your hand already; the problem is we are blind to it. God will never fail to provide. Fear blinds the mind to solutions. Leading the Israelites out of Egypt–here the correlation is clear to our situation–he complained to God about being trapped between the Red Sea and the Egyptian chariots. God said, (I’ll paraphrase), Don’t complain to Me, what is that in your hand, (yeah, the rod of God), stretch it out over the sea (problem). Escaping evil’s icy grip will take an act of faith in the impossible situation and often with something we already have. or it will all open at the last minute; God is never late, and sometimes He allows us to test our faith and get out of the boat to walk on water, do the impossible. Look around you He is always there. The days of miracles are not over, but more than ever God searches out through the earth to find those whose heart is perfect toward Him so He can “show off” (miracles/ my words) His power Just like He did with Moses. When you locate the (what I call) the Sweet Spot in His heart, He will defend you no matter what.
Churches closing was mentioned. I would recommend that while the internet is up that you look into Orthodox Reader’s Services and print them off to have available. Talk to your priest about this for guidance.
When Daniel and his men didn’t eat the king’s diet, what did they eat? Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.
I commend your foresight; there are not very many people that have the gumption to post things of the nature described in your article. I do hope that there are many that will take head of what you have said. The signs are all around us we just have to open our eyes and have a look then put our trust in Christ. To put that trust anywhere else would simply be fool hardy.
I have read what some prophets are saying and it is basically the same as you have said. So the time is short with the only solution being for us to get right with God.
Darm
The most important virtue is trust. Jesus said to love my neighbor, but he never said I was to trust him. Only in trust can relationship occur. This is why God never deals with Man without a covenant.
The first COVID go round demonstrated who you can trust and who you should not, even among our clergy.
During the iconoclasm, the test of loyalty was the kiss. No iconoclast could bring himself to kiss. And everyone could see it.
Now, the test of loyalty is the shot, or the endorsement of it. All who subject the Church to Caesar are subverts. It’s that simple. The emnity from the beginning is now obvious.
To love God-or anyone -is hard to define. But to trust, is pretty straight forward. Be very careful where you place your trust. “Let God be true and everyman a liar.”