Problem is, if TEOTWAWKI takes place, the whole system that puts value on gold also goes away. In such a case, I can see a case of whiskey and a jerrycan of .45 ACP getting you a lot further than the equivalent amount of gold by pre-collapse value.
Well, the Bible says that the time is coming when those who hoard and keep gold and silver will find it to be worthless. It's talking about the end of the last days, just before Jesus, the Messiah of Israel comes to set up His one-world government over all the nations of the world.
Those who are holding onto silver and gold will find that they've become worthless in their hands.
James Chapter 5 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you. 7 Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
The New King James version says the gold and silver has become corrupted. The King James version says cankered ... the original word means to become rust covered -- it's not talking literally, but figurately, and thus made useless.
Gold and Silver will be of no use and value at that time of the coming of the Lord. It will have lost all its false value that people perceive in it now -- and it is only a "perception" and nothing more.
The word “cankered” is still in use, in the KJV sense, in this part of the south. Meat gone bad is described as cankered. It means variously rotted, spoiled, disfigured or pocked with sores, among the usages I’ve heard over almost a lifetime lived here. I believe canker and cancer have the same root.
I agree. Typically, we tend to think that any bad times are the beginning of the end - but we don’t know that. Jesus may come in five minutes, or in five centuries (though I tend to think it’s closer to the former than the latter!).
Point is, we ought to take wise precautions for the future, but at the same time, we should not make money, gold, etc, into our security. God only can be that. But it’s much about our attitude as anything else!
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33)