[AmericanSamurai]

Those verses don’t mean stockpile. Enough Christians are hurting enough in this economy that they can’t ever stockpile enough.

I believe in doing the best you can and saving, but ultimately sustenance will come from God.

[GeronL]

I think a small closeknit town and a church with a basement could be used very well. Everyone would fend for themselves too, but the church basement full of wheat, beans, seed and stuff could be used if the disaster goes for the long haul.

[Kartographer]

I believe very much that's what those verses mean. The bible has many stores in which God warned people to prepare for bad times.

God didn't send food to feed the people during the great famine, he told Joseph to make great stores of food to preparations for the famine.

God didn't send an Ark to save Noah and his family he told Noah to build one.

If a man sees a great storm coming and takes no action to protect his family as well as he can from it then has he not failed the word?

But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8

[Kartographer]

God Will Save Me

A terrible storm came into a town and local officials sent out an emergency warning that the riverbanks would soon overflow and flood the nearby homes. They ordered everyone in the town to evacuate immediately.

A faithful Christian man heard the warning and decided to stay, saying to himself, “I will trust God and if I am in danger, then God will send a divine miracle to save me.”

The neighbors came by his house and said to him, “We’re leaving and there is room for you in our car, please come with us!” But the man declined. “I have faith that God will save me.”

As the man stood on his porch watching the water rise up the steps, a man in a canoe paddled by and called to him, “Hurry and come into my canoe, the waters are rising quickly!” But the man again said, “No thanks, God will save me.”

The floodwaters rose higher pouring water into his living room and the man had to retreat to the second floor. A police motorboat came by and saw him at the window. “We will come up and rescue you!” they shouted. But the man refused, waving them off saying, “Use your time to save someone else! I have faith that God will save me!”

The flood waters rose higher and higher and the man had to climb up to his rooftop.

A helicopter spotted him and dropped a rope ladder. A rescue officer came down the ladder and pleaded with the man, “Grab my hand and I will pull you up!” But the man STILL refused, folding his arms tightly to his body. “No thank you! God will save me!”

Shortly after, the house broke up and the floodwaters swept the man away and he drowned.

When in Heaven, the man stood before God and asked, “I put all of my faith in You. Why didn’t You come and save me?”

And God said, “Son, I sent you a warning. I sent you a car. I sent you a canoe. I sent you a motorboat. I sent you a helicopter. What more were you looking for?”