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Section One
SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
So much Christian, Patriot and Prophetic information tends to be
truthfully informative, but also alarmist, and downright
frightening. It is hard
not to be. The ugly
facts of the deplorable condition we have degenerated into as a
nation, and as a “church” is truly sickening and terrifying.
However, I once heard Bob Spears, a preparedness leader, say that in
the military, an officer should never bring a problem before his
commander, unless he has developed “at least two workable solutions
to the problem.” There
is no need for me to recount how deep the “mire” is into which we
have sunk. What follows
is a workable plan to achieve survivability for many who desire to
obey the command to flee, literally, to use John Bunyan's phrase,
“the city of destruction.”
As in the introduction to the novel, Systemic Shock,
by Dean Ing, I know that there is another workable, albeit less
desirable solution.
Things were getting bad quickly, “but Americans knew there would be
a solution. There was.
It found 100 million Americans.
It was called sudden death.”
What I envision is a way to avoid that for as many as will
listen.
Twelve years ago, I made up a saying, which came from my assessment
of the situation as I saw it.
It still is true; “A lot of people are going to die because
they thought they were smart enough to think for themselves.”
Recently, we watched the movie, The Druids, about
Vercingetorix, the great leader in Gaul who stood up to the Romans.
The people failed to heed the wisdom of his advice, and so
thousands were slaughtered.
My son pointed out that “it is what you have been saying,
Dad. A lot of people die
when they think they are smart enough to think for themselves.”
Often, we need to subject our intellect to that of another
greater, or more informed mind.
I deliberately did that, and ended up where I am now, after
four years in Kansas, “boot-camp for Missouri,” as my wife says.
SURVIVALIST VS SURVIVOR
To begin with, we have the “survivalist” who is living in the city.
He has his bucket of wheat, along with his book on how to
live on a bucket of wheat and no electricity.
He has a “good-to-go” pack, his survival pack.
Now please understand, I’m not knocking those things; that is
pretty much where we were at for twenty some years.
We were accumulating a large number of things, with no better
plan than to “head for the hills” when “the posterior excrement
began to impact the rotating oscillator”.
But you have that city person, versus the farmer or rancher
who has grown up on the land and lived out in the country his entire
life. He has a well, a
septic tank or a lagoon, chickens, a garden, a milk cow, perhaps
some goats and maybe a greenhouse.
He runs cattle, and perhaps grows corn, as well as hay for
his cattle. Now, I ask
you, what is the difference between those two insofar as “surviving”
goes? Which one is in a
better situation, a more survivable situation?
It takes many people years to understand that the
“survivalist” is merely that - he is a survivalist; he is not a
survivor. There were
many “survivalists” leaving fingernail marks on the outside of
Noah’s ark. Noah was a
survivor. We need to
have an ark; we need to be survivors, living and working in a
survivable area, not mere survivalists, whose last minute plan is
not workable for even one out of a thousand people.
WHAT IS TRUE WEALTH?
Next you transition from the concept, or attitude, of “us four and
no more” versus that of beginning to look at the ability to keep
other people alive.
These people might be friends, family, fairly new acquaintances, or
they might be complete strangers.
They may be refugees when it comes down to that.
One truth, which we would do well to keep at the forefront of
our plans is a statement by Buckminster Fuller.
For anyone who does not know who Fuller was; he designed the
geodesic dome and thousands of other inventions.
He was a very far-sighted man, a Solomon of his generation
insofar as his inventiveness went.
He said this: “We now know what true wealth is.
True wealth is the ability to regenerate forward life.
In other words, how many people can you keep alive for how
many days?”
Now I would ask that question of anyone who is reading this booklet.
You may “own” a half a million dollar home; you may have a
five million dollar estate.
But if all you have is paper money, and bricks and mortar and
stone, with green grass out front and an SUV in the garage, you
really have nothing. I
ask you this question: do you have the ability to regenerate forward
life? As a believer,
unless you are willing to put the things you “own” to work for the
building of the Kingdom of Heaven, of Zion, you are not wealthy.
I’ve said for many years, that someday things are going to be turned
upside down, topsy-turvy.
When the economy crashes or whatever happens, how many people
can you keep alive for how many days?
If your answer is zero, then you’re not wealthy.
The sum total of everything you own will be worth nothing.
There will be people who were relatively poor who will
suddenly be wealthy because they will have true wealth.
AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE WEALTH
To put it into a different perspective; let us look at something
that happened to us. We
were going to be moving and while we were visiting, we went to look
at land that a friend of ours was planning to buy (this is the
person that we would be working with).
He had a large family.
They lived in the country with a garden and chickens.
They lived as close to the land as they could, and they had a
vineyard. They had the
ability to make vinegar and wine.
They had good neighbors around.
They were surrounded by good people, and they were working
with good people. They
had a business from which they could ship product nationwide.
We went to see the land, and as we were driving away, we
hadn’t gone but a quarter of a mile, and my son, who was seventeen,
said something very insightful to me.
Now you have to understand that he and I traveled all over
the country during the Y2K concern.
We did expos in many major cities.
We met some wonderful people; I met some very wealthy people
who were literally millionaires.
They had visited the Whitehouse, and were big supporters of
political candidates. We
have done work in million dollar homes.
My son has met some very influential, great leaders, and very
wealthy people. As we
were pulling out of there he said, “You know, Dad, of all the people
that we have met in our entire life, Kent is the wealthiest man that
we know.” And this
is true because he had the ability to regenerate forward life.
That was true wisdom and insight on his part.
A BIBLICAL EXAMPLE OF TRUE WEALTH
Now to put it into another light- the classic example is that of the
story of Joseph in the Bible.
Joseph, when explaining the dream, and then being asked to
put that dream into practice, stored up what?
He did not stock up gold or silver, he stored up food.
And what did that in turn become?
He stored up the ability to keep people alive.
He stored up the ability to regenerate forward life, and so
when famine came, people came to him and traded their money, goods
and land for food. He
stored up the ability to regenerate forward life and that became
wealth. But the true
wealth was in the food or the ability to regenerate forward life.
And in doing that, I might point out, he saved his own
family; he saved the entire House of Israel.
So the life of the patriarch Joseph is the most powerful
illustration we have of what I am trying to get across here.
MEAT ON THE HOOF AND CROPS IN THE GROUND
This is where we need to be heading if we want to consider ourselves
wealthy. We need to have
food and it needs to be food that is growing.
The best form of food preservation is meat on the hoof and
crops in the ground.
Another experience my son and I had, way back when we were in
Denver, happened in a restaurant which “counter-culture” types often
frequented; you know, you’d have radicals and patriots and all kinds
of different people.
This one gentleman was sitting up at the counter and we were sitting
at a booth. He was
talking to somebody about his investments and buying stock in DIA
(Denver International Airport).
I made a comment out loud to him while they were talking.
Later I made another comment out loud, and so a while later,
after his friend left, he came and sat down at the booth with us and
told us about how you could get a ten percent discount on Canadian
gold maple leaves if you drove to Canada and bought a quarter of a
million dollars at a time.
And I said, “Ian, what are we waiting for, let’s go.”
THE GARDEN WAS WORTH MORE THAN THE GOLD
He did recognize, however, that while talking about buying massive
amounts of gold coins, and knowing people who did, that gold is not
true wealth when times are hard.
He told us about Germany in World War II and how people would
come down the country roads and see a farm with a garden, and they
would come up to the door of a farm house and they would knock on
the door. When the
farmer would come to the door, they would offer to buy food with
gold and they were sent on down the road.
The man said three times “the garden was worth more than the
gold” and this has stuck with me.
“The garden was worth more than the gold.”
We need to have food in the ground; we need to have gardens,
orchards, vineyards, olive yards, bees, goats, chickens, and cattle.
We need to have meat on the hoof and crops in the ground.
I wrote a poem sometime back and it is entitled “Alas
Babylon.” This was
written about the time of Pentecost.
ALAS, BABYLON
In wrath remember mercy, the prophet
Habakkuk pled,
Their judgments are our blessings, is how that could be read.
Were not 3 million people by plagues from Egypt freed?
May we by Yahweh’s catastrophes from Babylon us lead.
Yeah, it would be wise to heed the writing on the wall.
Relocate our families before the empire’s fall.
We’ll learn to grow a garden- worth more than lifeless gold,
Build our new communities and our new borders hold.
Cut your losses! Burn your bridges! You’d better do it now.
Don’t look back; escape the fire; put your hand upon the plow.
It takes some time to settle in, be trusted, learn the ropes,
We must build a house and grow some crops if we’re to live our
hopes.
The war we fought for freedom 200 years ago,
Dragged on for 8 long dark years; hunger pangs did many know.
We’ll never last the coming wrath unless our storage food abound-
And that is meat upon the hoof and crops within the ground.
It is not just for “us four- no more” from our stores we’ll have to
draw.
Shan’t we our brother’s keepers be, thus obeying Bible law?
Would Joseph have been blessed of God with an attitude like that?
See the world starve to death while only the rich grew fat?
But no, in blessing all the world he reached his own family too,
Thus saved all Israel from death and received the double birth right
too.
America is Joseph’s house, Manasseh tribe by name,
And parts of all
the other twelve, who gather in his name
For Shiloh soon is to return
whose right it is to rule.
He’ll crush the nations with His law and in righteousness us school.
It falls to Joseph once again to savior all the rest.
Thus the entire world looks on as we begin the test.
Our test begins right now to use what we thought we owned.
To build a kingdom we can’t yet see with what God to us has loaned.
To lay our every resource down in sacrifice before his feet
Will seem as nothing when at last the nail scarred man we meet.
He will not own you then, if you do not own Him now.
Obey His word, escape the world and- yes begin to plow.
If with His image- our children- we’ll fill up all the world,The
millennial Kingdom will have come, His glorious banner unfurled.
So that poem brings out several ideas: 1) we’re headed for hard
times, 2) we need to be living closer to the land, 3) whether we
believe it or not, whether we like it or not, if we are living in a
safe area, we will most likely see vast numbers of refugees pouring
out of the cities as the social infrastructure deteriorates in this
country, and 4) storage food, when we speak of storage food, needs
to be utilizing the best method of food preservation that there is,
and that is meat on the hoof and crops in the ground.
It needs to be growing.
ALMOST THE THREAT OF FAMINE
Back in the 1830s, Joseph Smith made a prophecy.
He said that the area of SW Missouri would be so flooded with
refugees that there would almost be the threat of famine.
It was not because the land was not capable of producing
enough food for such a massive amount of people, but because you
just can’t store enough food for the vast numbers he saw coming as
refugees. Yes, there
should be food storage, but the main part of your “food storage”
needs to be crops or growing food.
No matter what one may believe about Joseph Smith or the
Mormon Church in general, this statement has a lot of wisdom and
foresight in it. And I
would also point out that were it not for the Mormon movement, there
would be precious little capability in this country in the way of
food storage technology.
So that is one part of the big picture I saw ten years ago.
Had this area of food production been left to the churches of
general Christendom, with their rapture or their preterism, there
would be no long term food storage plants anywhere in America.
So this is what we will be faced with, refugees, or homeless people.
When, not if, judgment begins in this country, we’re going to
see some massive amounts of changes.
As they come into a part of the country that I believe will
be ruled by God’s law (and this is an area we’re going to cover
briefly, what area of the country to go to), things are going to
change. Life is going to
be very different. We
can refuse to be a part of the solution, but in so doing, we will be
making ourselves a part of the problem.
We need to be as prepared as possible.
As many people as possible need to do things ahead of time.
In other words, we need to do these things now.
It is virtually too late now, but a lot of good can still be
done. A lot of
preparation and groundwork can still be laid, and so we need to have
the utmost in cooperation.
We do not need to have perfect doctrine.
We do not need to have the splitting of hairs and arguing and
screaming and yelling about doctrinal points of view, we need to
work- and work together.
One of this country’s founding fathers stated, “Gentlemen, we shall
either hang together or we will most assuredly hang separately.”
May I suggest that an untold amount of suffering could be
avoided by cooperative preparedness?
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