Consider the evidence:
Preppers throughout the world sense a coming, apocalyptic event. If you are a prepper, God’s warnings, in part, are already clearly formed in your heart: “A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself [knows how to escape calamities]: but the simple pass on, and are punished”–Proverbs 22:3. [Words in brackets mine] In the book of Hebrews, we read of perhaps the most famous prepper of all time: “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith,” (Hebrews 11:7). Notice, Noah was prepared because he feared [heeded] the Lord’s warnings: the fact that we believe the scriptures is made evident in that they change the way we live our daily lives. God warns that a time of trouble worse than anything ever before witnessed in human history will occur at the end of the age: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be (Matthew 24:21).
Preppers believe in storing food and ensuring access to clean water. God advises us that the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer (Proverbs 30:25). Like the ants, we must lay up a storehouse of food. This is God’s way of preparing His people for difficult times. [Notice, the political leaders of many nations lack the godly wisdom to prepare in this way; in fact, just the opposite is occurring (running up high debts and living on short-term inventories).]. In the Old Testament, God warns Joseph in a dream of a coming drought of seven years duration, counseling him to use the seven years of abundance that will precede the drought to store up food for the time of adversity. Because Joseph follows God’s counsel, the people of Egypt are spared: and the dearth was in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread (Genesis 41:54).
h/t Bob L.
