Posted on 08/24/2015 5:04:07 PM PDT by Kartographer
Funny you should say that. I think we probably are still eating some flour and rice we sealed back then.
Pretty cheap grub.
Secondly, perhaps you should 'hold yourself' to what the CONTEXT of what Ezekiel 33 says, rather than merely cherry pick one verse that defends your belief that 'What's mine is mine and I WILL defend it!'
Here is what Ezekiel 33:1-11, which provides the CONTEXT, says:
1 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman,
3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,
4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.
6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’
7 “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.
8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.
9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 10 “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘Thus you say, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?”’
11 Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Unfortunately, you've taken that passage of Scripture completely out of context! As you can see from the Scriptures quoted above, the Lord called Ezekiel to be a watchman and warn the Israelites about their WICKEDNESS, to TURN from it! The passage is NOT about defending against human enemies but against SPIRITUAL enemies, in particular, the spirit of WICKEDNESS. God usually chastises the Israelites by the sword (war) of other countries. It is His 'watchman's job (Ezekiel's job) to give the Israelites a warning to give up their wicked ways. In fact, most prophets are sent to WARN the Israelites to CHANGE! Their NOT changing their wicked ways results in death and conquest by foreigners, yet a faithful remnant always remain to repopulate His people. The 'watchmen' are prophets, WARNING the people to change their ways, NOT to rouse them to defence against human enemies. 'Twas ever thus!
IF we are going to 'hold' to one Scripture, as you claim to do, let's have some fun with this. The shortest verse in the KJV Bible is John 11:35, "Jesus wept." Following your lead, should Christians, who should be trying to live like Jesus, following the leading of the Holy Spirit, be weeping at all things and sad? Of course not! The CONTEXT of both passages is the key! In the case of John 11:35, most of the chapter (John 11:1-44) concerns the death and resurrection, by Jesus through the Holy Spirit, of his friend Lazarus. Likewise, to comprehend the meaning of Ezekiel 33:6 it must be read in CONTEXT!
If you choose to be a 'survivalist', unwilling to share with anyone and ready to kill to protect your 'stuff', go ahead! I have no problem with that. THAT is merely human nature at work. DO NOT, however, use the Name of the Lord as JUSTIFICATION to do such actions while breaking His instructions and commandments. It is one thing to break His commandments and instructions, it is quite another to do such and claim you are DOING His commands and instructions. Lord knows, I have problems with the former but not the latter! If what is coming makes the Great Depression seem like a cakewalk, and He CHOOSES to keep me alive, I'll depend on His Word that He will provide for me until either He returns or He calls me home. I cannot win in a battle against God's will, nor can anyone.
It is so obvious. I want to thank you so much for sitting me straight. Have a blessed day.
15 year old rice and beans? You are one bad ass prepper.
“So I figure I’ll go hunting.”
You and 25,000 other armed people, most of whom have never hunted in their lives. It will get ugly when two groups of heavily armed “hunters” get into a serious argument over who shot the squirrel.
“The only cooked food will be on your Bar B que.”
Nope.
Check it out: Iwatani Stove Butane Single W/Case 12,000 Btu.
I use it for the majority of my table top cooking. Works with disposable butane cans. One butane can, under normal cooking, lasts three days or more. Fries bacon and eggs in under 5 minutes. Warms a small pot of soup in a few minutes. Ditto coffee. Can be used indoors, and won’t attract hungry zombies the way outdoor bar-b-q will.
Amazon has the best price - about $35. Butane fuel is about $7 for four cans. Cheapest price for fuel is at your local Asian grocery store.
“Nobody will be evicting anyone when we’re all sitting in a fema camp.”
The only thing the fat affirmative action federal bureaucrat jellyfish will be rounding up is jumbo bottles of pop and giant bags of potato chips to wait out the storm. And most won’t survive.
“1. Banks shut down so you can’t get cash.”
Banks won’t shut down. Cash will be available. The fed will tell people to wait a few days and the banks will be flooded with trillions of fed $100 bills.
Inflation, yes. Lack of cash, no.
Wow, were they lucky! Mine only had a bean.........
yeah we vacuum seal with a oxygen eliminator inside. Then put in mylar packaging and vacuum seal again. Then it goes in a 5 gallon bucket.
All is frozen for 7 days to kill any eggs from weevils and such before the vacuum sealing.
We do this with all of our dehydrated fruits and vegetables to.
Hell if someone would build a pyramid over my place they could dig it up in a few hundred years and have a feast.
A magic bean?
If there was a way to make it myself, or if there were a substitute that worked even half as well, I'd switch over to it today.
For me, I've just had to accept the fact that when the SHTF I'm more than likely going to be one in one of the first waves of casualties (easily within the first 60-90 days.)
That's just the fact of the matter. It is what it is. My concern beyond that is making sure my wife and son's have what they need to survive without me.
OK, why not Tetracycline?
COOL!! i WILL CHECK OUT THAT BUTANE COOKER.
When tetracycline expires - which is pretty quick - it can cause severe kidney damage.
It’s those few days when they are shut down, before the cash infusion, before the inflation, and before the shelves become empty, when cash I sc still king.
There are examples of this in history, do I’m pretty sure it will happen this way again.
Sorry about the inevitability you must face. :-(
It is what it is. I didn’t choose my condition I just have to make the best of it. That’s all there is to it. We’re all gonna die of something or other sooner or later.
Ah. Thanks.
Ah, sergeantdave, the RINO of Portland.
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