Reply To: Bible and Prepping

  • MartHale7

    Member
    October 11, 2022 at 1:42 am

    Reading the bible I find there are times that Jesus told his disciples to not prepare…..

    Luke 10:4

    Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

    Then there was another time they were to prepare:

    Luke 22:36

    He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.

    I do find that the key is to be listening to the Shepherd of the sheep, to prepare as the holy spirit directs (not as man directs ) . If you look at when Joseph in the OT prepared, it was with the direction of God via a dream that he got ready for the 7 famine years.

    In the book of Acts, God by the prophets warned of a coming famine.

    Act 11:27

    And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

    Act 11:28

    Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that there was going to be a great famine throughout all the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar.

    Ok, now God spoke by Agabus, now watch what the church does with this information ->

    Act 11:29

    Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea.

    Act 11:30

    This they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

    Notice, that they took up a collection per the ability of each to give and sent it to those in need of the church. So those that had gave to those in need per their ability to give.

    Myself, I have good Christian brothers and sisters who have warned of impending hard times ahead, in my reading of the bible I have seen that God instructed Israel to store up over a year’s provisions in the 6th year. Therefore having provisions for times of need, as Jesus said in the later times there would be famines, does seem reasonable to me.

    Luke 21:11

    There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

    The problem seems to be when we don’t seek God, and replace God with our provision store, we start trusting more in our bank account, more in our stored food than trusting in God, and stop asking God to provide, and we starting thinking that we are the ones that provide….. as the man who built bigger barns but was not thinking about the things of God….

    Luke 12:18 ……

    So, as I understand it we are to always trust God to give us our daily bread, sometimes by the sweat of our brow, but God gives us the breath to breath so that we can earn our food. We should store up when those of understanding in the body of Christ are directed to do so by dreams, visions… The key always seems to be the intention of the heart, why do we store? Do we do it to be prepared for future need, or to trust in our own resources instead of trusting God. This is why it is so important to be walking with the Holy Spirit to know the direction God is leading us, and to read the bible to align our will to God’s plan.