September 15, 2012

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  DAY TWENTY-NINE:  Prepping Others for your Rapture
  

  
  Okay, so that’s a really weird sounding thing to say, isn’t it?  But I really do feel strongly about this.  There are people who choose NOT to believe what I believe.  It’s not my job to try to change their thinking – that’s the Holy Spirit’s job.  I provide information, live the way I know I am called to, am true to my self, my Lord, and my beliefs, and that’s ALL I can be accountable for.  What you choose to believe is your responsibility.  Kind of like survival preps.  What you set aside as a ‘cushion’ for hard times is your responsibility, not mine.  I can’t make decisions for everyone in the world.  And it took a long time for me to STOP trying to convince people to think the way I do.  Because that’s what the church teaches you to do.

  
  ‘Your choice is Your Way’ by Osokin
  

  
  Yeshua was NOT like that, by the way.  Have you ever read John 6:66?  ((LOVE the number – so ironic, y’know?))  In it, a good portion of those listening to what Yeshua said just got up and walked away.  Did He petition them to stay?  Did He try to sugar-coat the Truth to make it more appealing?  No.  He never did, and on some occasions the scriptures show people saying, “This teaching is HARD, who can hear it?!”  (John 6:60)  But He let people make their own choice, and He had to be good with it.  Because if He wanted a bunch of robots, He wouldn’t have created people to have the ability to reason and choose.

  That doesn’t change my beliefs.  I believe that a day is coming - SOON – in which the dead who served Messiah will rise from their graves and we who follow Him who are alive will be caught up with them, meeting Messiah in the air (1 Thess 4:13-18), where we will be changed from corruptible (bodies that age/die/hurt/are flawed) to incorruptible.  The Bible says this will happen in ‘the twinkling of an eye’… it will be amazing.  It also says that we will be taken to the Lamb’s Throne and given crowns according to our obedience and deeds in His name.  Then it says we’ll be invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb – and be seated at a table with Messiah Himself… then escorted to the mansions He has been preparing for us in His Father’s Kingdom.

  I also believe that those who are left behind are going to have one HELL of a really bad life, from then on out.  And they’re going to need all the help they can get.  Of course they have access to the same scriptures I do, but that’s not terribly helpful, considering they don’t *get* that religious mumbo-jumbo, anyhow.  ((< Which confirms my attestment that people CANNOT choose Yeshua without the leading of the Holy Spirit.  Scripture says the Bible is wisdom to those who have Him, but foolishness to those who don’t.))  Anyhow, having a Bible doesn’t help them figure out what happened to you or what to do with your stuff that’s left behind, either.  Can they access your accounts to pay your bills?  Do they know what bills you even HAVE that need to be paid?  And if you’re a prepper, do they know what you have, where it is, and why it’s important (what’s coming)?

  Every year, I’ve directed people to a site (Build-a-Will) with really reasonably priced wills in form letter style.  You add your information, print it out, take it (and a trusted friend or two) to the bank and have it notorized.  Okay, so wills aren’t the best way to go – nobody knows what *IS* nowadays, with the legal BS you have to schlep through regardless, but at least you have something that says what your wishes are in regards to who handles your estate, who takes care of your kids, etc.  And this isn’t just a RAPTURE thing… what if you were in a car crash tomorrow?  This is something worth having.  I called attorneys, but wills are expensive, hello!!  This was something I could afford… it was $20(ish) when I did it several years ago.  The link is here.

  The other thing that you might want to do is compile a ‘box’.  The box is a GREAT idea, anyhow… as a precautionary measure.  If you have to get up and go fast (house on fire, flood, etc.), you don’t have the TIME to collect all of your information.  Maybe you don’t want to keep all your important papers in one place, but at least make COPIES and have them together so you can grab them and go.  Car titles, account numbers and information, copies of your SS card and other info, inoculation records, etc.  I have one of those fireproof lock-boxes well hidden that has all our information in it.  On top is a list of things we pay for (Homeschool Association, our Internet carrier, our trailer loan, etc.) and their phone numbers so that the person who takes over for us can just call and cancel service easily and not miss anything… and if we have to go for some reason, I can grab the box and have no worries about gathering anything up.  Savings bonds, birth certificates, car titles and more… they come in handy.

  I’m pretty well set, after having YEARS of prepping for fall feast season.  I’ve got stuff set up, and have a lot of time to cover all bases.  Better still, I have THIS SITE that tells people what I believe, what’s happened, and what’s in store for those left behind.  It’s like a huge database of information they’ll need (if they bother to slog thru it).  I’ve ‘prepped’ this little corner of the ‘Net so that people can access what they need to know if I disappear.  And while it’s a paid account right now (and renews the first of September, so will remain as such for one year after the feasts), I’ve also set up the unpaid side of things to look as close to as possible, (except it won’t have the sidebar, sadly!) so it’ll be here as long as the ‘Net is still around.  My little gift to those left behind… lacking the convenience of what you see now, though.

  But there’s one other thing you might want to consider… a rapture letter.  In other words, leaving a letter on the table that says, “Hey… guess what, I’m not on the lamb, kidnapped, missing or anything like that – I’ve been raptured!  My calendar STOPS at Yom Kippur – and says ‘Potential Rapture Date’ across the feast days.  It’s on the fridge… there’s NO missing what happened if someone walks in wondering where I am.  And a rapture letter just lets you break the news to my father in law, in the hopes that it’ll help him understand just what happened, and where the will/box are, and what’s in store for him.  Directing him to my site for help, and telling him what’s in store for him in the future.  It seems hokey, but let’s be honest… if your sister suddenly disappeared and nobody could reach her, her car was in her driveway and house unlocked, but no sign of her… wouldn’t a letter give you a clue as to where she was?

  I have to go over my letter every year, because things change.  For example, I have goats and chickens that I didn’t have the last year… they need to know how old they are, how to tend them, and the purpose for our getting them.  ((If I’m raptured, you’re going to need eggs, meat and milk in a bad way in the very near future - don’t get rid of them!!))  We bought a deep-well hand pump… that is, a hand pump that hooks up to a regular well that will provide access to water even if the power goes out – VITAL to their future in a post-rapture world.  It’s not assembled, it’s got pieces all over the place… they’d NEVER find it or know what it was or how useful it will be if we don’t tip them off.  Stuff like that.  I give them my debit card PIN so that they can get to our money to pay our bills – I simply use code clues only they’ll know (‘the last digit in the year your great-grandmother went into a retirement home’, ‘the number of dogs your sister has owned in her lifetime’, for example).

  There’s less than two weeks to Yom Kippur.  Consider taking a half an hour and writing a letter.  Don’t preach in it – just state the facts and let them choose what to do with the information from there.  You found Truth on your own, they can, too, if they really want to.  But it’s their choice.  Your job is just to make the transition to a life without you a little easier on them.  And really, isn’t that what someone who cares about their family/friends would do?
  

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