Country Living Off Grid

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Not From the Pulpit

It's very unfortunate that the message to move out of the cities and into the country is not spoken about from the pulpits of our churches as often as it should if at all. There are many that believe and teach that the time to move into the county is not until the enforcement of the National Sunday Law. My question to them and to you is, if you wait until then, what are your plans? Where will you go? How will you feed your family? Where will you find water or shelter for your love ones?
The common answer that I've heard is, "My provisions will be provided," or my favorite, "God has promised that my bread and water will be sure." I have to say to them, this is absolutely true in what we call the "Big Time of Trouble" however we are commissioned to prepare for, "The Little Time of Trouble." Too many examples in the Bible urge us to get out of the city because living in the city was never God's plan for his children. It encourages us to move to locations where there are not worldly distractions in order for our characters to be built to withstand the big time of trouble where this world will be in such a state that the provisions that we have made for the little time of trouble are not longer sufficient and the Lord will supply all of our needs. The devil has our thinking just where he wants it. If we do nothing on our part to prepare, to read and study God's word, to heed to its council, to magnify the word with the Spirit of prophecy, for the lack of knowledge professed christians will accept the mark of the beast in order to buy or sell to provide for their temporal needs without giving their decision a second thought.
Here is where most people wear blinders, the Bible will not have and excerpt in it where your name is a glow and it specifically tells you to pack your bags, sell your home and move out of the city. This is what most are looking for and let me be the first to tell you, you will not find it. When we study the Bible to show ourselves approved rightly dividing the word of truth it is telling us to find the direction in which we are looking for from God's word, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. We must be all over the Bible and believe that if it is God's inspired word, He will guide our paths to answers.
Below are issues we must be aware of...

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