How do you prepare yourself for starvation and grotesque torture while going thru the plagues God is going to send down on you??? I suspect there's going to be a lot of suicide...
Simple.
If I am left behind, I will spend the first three and a half years in Israel being safe from the plagues. Apparently Israel will be immune from much of the misery.
Then, after the Abomination of Desolation (desecration of the Temple) and announcement by Antichrist of his own divinity, I’m going to hightail it to Petra. Once I’m safely ensconced in Petra I’ll be preaching regularly to reach those suffering and confused and likely see Christ come, safe from the incursion of the military that Antichrist will assemble, stupidly, to do battle with the King of Kings! I’ll make sure I have a front row seat and shriek mockery to the forces of evil. I’ll make the most of all of it.
I’m not stupid enough to doubt scripture or the timeline of events, so frankly I think I’ll make it relatively unscathed.