Christians Need to Prepare for Post-Election Societal Unrest. Here's How.

The American "Prepping Community" Has Strong Christian Roots, For a Reason

When I began to engage in “prepping” many years ago, I didn’t necessarily consider it a part of the Christian faith. While I found resources, like the Mormon suggested food list guidelines,` helpful in my preps, the advice of a cult hardly made me consider my hobby to be Christian-based. But over the years, I began to see things quite differently.

Prepping, the concept of preparing generally for various scenarios of crisis, ranging to societal unrest, to economic collapse, to an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP), just made sense to me. I used to sell insurance of various kinds. Why wouldn’t the head of a household desire a little bit of food insurance in the event of any of these scenarios, or the more likely event of a personal economic crisis? When I was laid off from my day job in finance because my company closed down after 22 years in business, I admired the several years of 30-year shelf life food storage I packed away nine years ago. It would be there if I needed it.

But one day, I was notified by a friend that my church had shown up on a directory of “prepper-friendly churches” at Survivor Blog, which at the time was the preeminent place online to find out about prepping. It was owned by James Wesley, Rawles (I don’t know why he puts the comma in there, but he does) the grand-daddy of American prepping culture.

The directory did not explain why those churches were selected, so it confused me that somehow a guy several states away knew that my small Baptist church was full of preppers (especially considering operational security requires not talking about prepping much).

Later, I had the opportunity to get to know Rawles through my media news company. By that time, I had already ascertained he was an evangelical believer from reading his excellent books called The Coming Collapse, which I have listened to in audio book format 3 or 4 times over. At one point, in the fictional-but-educational story-telling, he tells of a young man having to make his way to the U.S. from Central America on a horse. As he bedded down one night in the woods, he could hear footsteps approaching his camp and he subsequently blew them away without asking questions. The young man then prayed that whoever he shot might have had the opportunity to ask Jesus into his heart before he died. For some reason, that humored me, but also told me a bit about the author.

I interviewed Rawles on my terrestrial news program, and he explained that the aforementioned directory weighed heavily whether or not churches were Baptist and, in particular, if they were Calvinist. He is not a Calvinist, but he noticed that there are a lot of Calvinists in the prepping community. He’s absolutely right about that. I’ve never heard this explained, but I suspect it has something to do with the doctrine of depravity, which ultimately sees your fellow man in a pretty negative light.

Meanwhile, the warning signs for potential societal unrest in the the aftermath of the 2024 election is pretty screaming high…especially if Trump wins.

Liberals will tell you the real threat to the Republic, excuse me, they would call it a Democracy - is armed Republican poll watchers who have the gall to exercise their Constitutional rights while in public (of all places). Never mind that they didn’t care about Black Panthers carrying arms outside of polling places in 2008. When Republicans do it, it’s dangerous and ominous.

Yet, I’m fairly confident that conservatives have proven that when they act up, Capitol Buildings receive unauthorized guided tours. When liberals act up, whole neighborhoods get taken over and police departments burn to the ground. And trust me, when Donald Trump whens the election on November 5, you’re going to see unmatched demonstrations of the most violent order between then and Trump’s inauguration in January.

Several factors that could potentially occur between November 5 and January 20 include the following:

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