Everyone is scared of the end.
Nuclear war.
The End Times.
Asteroids.
But… why? And, more importantly, why do we want to survive the end?
I have yet to find a satisfactory answer for either question, which is kind of funny, given that I am what many would consider to be a prepper or survivalist type. But the truth is, there is only so much you can prepare for, and only so much that is worth preparing for.
Take, for example, a civil war in the United States. This is something worth preparing for, and surviving. Why? There is a purpose to surviving. Wars end. Peace returns. And society rebuilds and often comes back better.
Alternatively, the End Times of the Bible. Simply put, you can’t survive. You can prepare, and if this is something you believe in, your only path is to come to Christ. Otherwise, you’re toast, and there’s really not much you can do about it.
As a Christian, I find the fear of the apocalypse by Christians to be a sign of spiritual immaturity. Our Christian ancestors often looked forward to the end, hoping and praying for the return of Christ and fearing no fate other than to be separated from him.
If you believe in God, and you believe the Bible is Scripture, this is a perfectly reasonable way to live your life. Why fear anything other than what creates and destroys at will? Why fear the tribulations and trials that come from earthly leadership?
Even further removed from the simplicity of war, is surviving the fires of nuclear Armageddon. There is essentially zero way for one to survive a nuclear war and find a world worth living in afterwards, unless you’re totally down with inbreeding and being the only people left in a world that will likely be incredibly hostile when you can finally leave the doomsday bunker you managed to build. Is it possible? Yeah, it is. Is it worth it? Highly unlikely.
So, why am I a prepper? Why do I put time and money into equipment, into learning, into developing myself? It’s for the little things. It’s for people around me, that I care about. It’s for the chainsaw accident, the car wreck, the financial nightmare. It’s to be able to help people around me, because that is the kind of person I want to be.
