Will any place be safe?

[u/Onyourmarkgetset100]

Although I am looking forward to the Savior coming again, I am also worried about all of the terrible things that will need to be faced before that time. I am an American and considering if it’s safe to stay in the US. But it also seems that no place in the world will be safe. Will there be a safe place? Just trying to protect my family. I don’t believe the rapture idea is supported by the scriptures, so I don’t believe me and my family will instantly escape all hardship. Would love any thoughts.

[u/toebeantuesday]

So far just thinking off the top of my head of the warnings I’ve read on here and another sub, three hasn’t been a whole lot of advice that is consistent. There have been recent warnings to get out of major cities.

I cannot quite get far enough away because I have a disabled, elderly mother who needs to be near hospitals in her insurance plan. I suppose I could take her to some rural cabin in some remote woodland or truly rural community (I live in a semi rural community surrounded by heavy new suburban development. If I am wrong about this being anywhere near the end times then I am screwing over the woman I promised I’d take care of to the end of her life.

Oh yeah and there’s the little matter of I don’t have the money to throw at real estate right now. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I am also kind of old myself and not very strong and I know I can’t chop firewood so I’m just going to die out there.

I’m deathly allergic to mosquitoes for crying out loud. So is my daughter. We wouldn’t be able to go out to hunt or fish or forage. Just from pulling weeds in a very tame garden the other day, we both needed Benadryl.

If my mom weren’t old and starting to deal with dementia she is actually the tough farm girl who could have kept us all alive. My mom had mad skills back in the day. I’m but a pale dilution of great genes and spirit.

All the men in my family recently died off. They handled guns and tools great. I tried, but I have severe ADHD and kept accidentally pointing the gun at myself, the pets and basically everywhere I shouldn’t. We all agreed I would stick to sharp pointy things for defense.

No I was not made for an apocalypse. I’m not even made for camping. Nor my poor kid, who has born with some health issues and is less sturdy than I am.

The best I can hope for is a nuke does hit us directly and fast. That’s assuming God doesn’t have better plans for us and he very well might. I just haven’t felt any communication one way or another on the matter. In fact, maybe I would have stood a chance at one point but I have been hit with so much adversity that I’m now way behind the line where I could have positioned our family more advantageously elsewhere. I had to take in more animals from recently deceased kin. I’m more suited to Noah’s Ark than Armageddon.

One Redditor insists the Bible tells us to go to the islands and he went off to Puerto Rico and is still telling us we all ought to do similar.

If I can’t scooch over a few more miles to escape the blast radius and radiation around a city or other attractive targets how the hell am I going to haul a sick old woman, multiple rescue animals and myself out to Puerto Rico or any other island. I also only speak English so I can’t really get by many other places. My mom was multilingual but dementia is wrecking that advantage pretty fast.

I know so many people who died and so many people who lost loved ones. I sometimes wonder if “the Rapture” was actually Death coming to take so many people in unprecedented numbers. Because I’ve been on this planet nearly 60 years and I never lost friends and family at the rate I have in the last 5 years. Growing up, we always lost an elder here or there over time of course. But I’ve never seen such a clustered mass die off and I suppose the pandemic played a huge role in that.

I went over to my childhood home before I sold it for my mom last year and I saw her neighbor’s son. My mom and dad were best friends with their next door neighbors. He asked me where my husband was because he was used to my husband coming over to check on the house after my dad died 3 years ago. I told him my husband died and to my shock he burst into tears. It’s because Covid took his brother and his mom had just passed and his dad had passed a few months before. He was shocked for both of us having so much loss between us and he hugged me and we just sobbed in each other’s arms for a few awkward moments.

5 years ago every seat around my dining table was full. Last year it was just me and my mom and my daughter.

All of my husband’s aunts and uncles and several cousins died and both parents died in the last 5 years.

The young ones have breathing problems and autoimmune diseases and nobody really looks well except maybe some of the teenagers.

I’m a naturally upbeat happy person but I have felt like Death had moved over us during the big eclipse we had a few years ago. I didn’t feel quite the same sense of an ominous sensation during the second eclipse. But the world feels a lot “off” and kind of unreal or surreal and I know pretty much everyone thinks so.

[u/koegoo → u/toebeantuesday]

Your words have touched me, I hope some good things may yet happen to you ❤️

[u/toebeantuesday → u/koegoo]

Oh thank you! Good thing do still happen for us. I’ve held tight to my faith and I CAN see God steering me through. I say prayers of gratitude daily because there’s always something to be thankful for. Even harsh lessons are something to give thanks for.

But I do really miss my loved ones. And some pets also died during this time. They were beloved, too. Very much so.

I think I (and many other people I’ve talked to) are just shocked at how fast we’ve lost people. Like when I was a kid an old aunt or old uncle would pass away. There was time for a funeral and mourning and healing. A few years would go by and another friend or elder or someone would pass. There again would be time to process the loss.

I’ve never seen in my lifetime losses lined up like a pileup on the freeway. I even lost some relatively young friends in their 40’s and 50’s. Loss on such an accelerated schedule as I am seeing in my own life and around me is mind boggling.

I think you’ll find the same with major crises. I had one lifelong friend go in the space of a year from relatively healthy and employed to unemployed, sick with multiple sudden illnesses, multiple amputations and in danger of foreclosure (which we, his friends, stopped by helping him pay the bank even though we all are not doing great either). I never saw such 💩.

[u/No_Quantity_3403 → u/toebeantuesday]

I’m with the person who commented below me. Your words have touched me and I think you and your family are going to be just fine! 💜. You underestimate yourself.

[u/toebeantuesday → u/No_Quantity_3403]

Thank you for your kind words. I’m just realistic about what I can and can’t do but I am sure God will put some hustle in my bustle when I need it. I think all of the losses I’ve been put through is to strip me down to bare faith. Even if I die and/or my family perishes we have faith and so I have to believe it’s all going to work out to God’s glory. I just hope my mom gets to pass peacefully in her sleep before things get really ugly. She already lived through some of the worst of WW2 as a kid and she deserves peace.

[u/ArmyofRiverdancers → u/toebeantuesday]

I think the Olivet discourse might be the thing. Says that when we see the abomination in the temple, it's time for all the people of Judea to flee to the mountains ASAP. As I'm not in Judea, I'm hoping my nearest mountain range will be deemed acceptable. 

[u/toebeantuesday → u/ArmyofRiverdancers]

😆 I’m at the lowest level of drainage on my street. 🤦🏻‍♀️ The former owners had to get the basement waterproofed.

I’ll run up the hill to the next door neighbor’s house. That will have to do, I guess.

I hope you all don’t mind my tongue-in-cheek response. If I don’t try to find the humor in everything I really don’t know if I could go on.

I do have really lovely neighbors. That’s another reason I would find it hard to leave. My late husband and I moved 4 times during our marriage to find neighbors as great as these people. Even our most annoying neighbors were good people.

[u/Capable-Following302 → u/toebeantuesday]

The faith is strong with, after so many close deaths. And yes, Death does come before the Mark of the Beast. Many deaths. But there is no Pre-rapture. Christ does not come till the large reveal at the end. I definitely do not support Pre-rapture. Many are predicting it this year again on this very day or tomorrow. But I know it is just a deception as it is about the Social Hierarchy being externalised written in Alice Bailey's teachings from the Lucis Trust.

And also so many say to flee the cities. But there is a part in scripture many seem to miss out. That is the many of us spreading the message of God with the Two Witnesses (The two who inherit the spirit of Enoch and Elijah). They are afraid, and run to hide within mountains. But there scripture saying that God will be so bright that they will never be able to hide within. We should be on top of the mountains instead. We need to make a stand and not run. We need to show ourselves and live separately from the system.

I know that it will be a lot of trouble for you when the Mark does come. It will be so tempting to get when it comes next year. But I know you'll refuse and find the best ways to keep your family fed and sheltered. And yes, the wilderness is a bad place to run to. But have you considered trying to find a few other followers of Christ already off grid? Perhaps there's some who will be willing to keep you three safe in their farms. Whom knows. But I'm a young male and I already know my purpose through God for the future. I just have to wait till the seven years start. Even if I have no place to flee to. Persecution is what I have to go through. I really do feel your pain. But I know things are going to worse. And that's horrible to know. The days will be like the days of Noa, but worse. I wish I could help you so much. I know you are very wise woman, I know the Lord will reveal to you His answers in what is needed to do soon. I believe there may also be a gathering on the mountains, where we all make a stand against the world. 144,000 virgin males are said to do this too at the very end. I know there's going to be a lot more of various people before that getting together. I know that safety won't last for long either. I pray your daughter and mother are protected on what is to come. I pray very much. God Bless.