What do you imagine a world in which TSHTF is like?
Me, I say when the farms stop producing, when your local grocery stores have nothing, when trucking & transportation is halted completely, when the grid goes down, when the water stops pumping, when hospitals and EMS’s run out of supplies and begin to start using the parking lot as operating space, when maraudering gangs declare open warfare on everybody and begin burning homes down, when whole invading armies coming invading killing everybody on site with prejudice, when these armies (or our own) begin to use biological and chemical warfare on everybody.
Not many people could survive those circumstances. The smell of decomposing bodies (not to mention their decay contaminating everything) alone would be enough to drive out even the most stubborn prepper. Again MHO.
Matthew 24:21-22 describes a holocaust not seen ever, or that anything comparable will happen remotely close to it’s destruction. If Christ doesn’t intervene when He will, nobody would survive.
He only says “the elect” will survive. That can be defined in several ways. But how they survive is thru Supernatural means, not on their own accord.
I never advocated zero prepping. I just think there’s a fine line between absurd quantities of food & supplies that will eventually expire and be useless and the idiot who has nothing but 3 days worth of food in his pantry.
“absurd quantities “
Therein lies your short sightedness. There is no such thing as “absurd quantities”.
The more we have on our side the better. NOTHING will ever go to waste. In war everything is made use of, everything. You cannot possibly have too much. If single a person can’t use it, the community at large can.