James L. Paris Bible Prophecy And Survival

Survival and the Home-Based Business

One of the challenges that immediately face those who begin thinking in terms of survival preparation has to do with…surprise…money. As with just about everything in life, having money and the ability to continue to make more of it can go a long way to solving just about whatever problems you may have. A great way to meet the need of having more money for your survival planning is with a home-based business. The home based-business is an excellent choice because it allows for you to have an additional income stream while at the same time being able to establish a measure of independence that will one day become essential in a survival environment.

 

Regardless of how you come to realize additional income, it’s important to do so in order that you have the resources to accumulate the additional assets and equipment you need to properly convert your living situation into one characterized by complete readiness for actual survival circumstances. Assuming you are serious about planning for living in a world characterized by long-term distress, you will need money. In order to create an existence that will allow you and your family to live comfortably, you will need more cash to purchase everything from extra batteries and medical supplies, to stores of food and precious metals, to generators, extra vehicles, lots of other miscellaneous supplies, and at least one parcel of real estate, with a living structure to go on it, as well as an associated infrastructure. Survival preparation, of the kind that is meaningful, is not cheap.

Beyond the basic need for additional money, you have to begin thinking about the best way to make money as a survival-minded person. For a few reasons, it’s in your best interests to do so by working for yourself, and preferably in a business that you can do entirely from home. For one thing, if you take a second job as an employee somewhere, you’ve made no step toward transitioning away from dependence on a local economy that may well become compromised as a part of the troubles to come. Additionally, and on that same note, once your home-based business starts to thrive to the point where it can replace your primary income source, you then have the flexibility to live where you want, to include from your ideal survival retreat.

 

When thinking about what to select as a home-based business, choose something that is not just home-based in the sense that your office or workshop is located at home, but also where you, again, do not have to rely on local customers or the local economy in order for the business to remain open. The advent of the Internet and other technologies has made it possible for people to work from home in businesses like freelance writing, Internet marketing, outsourced customer service, medical billing, and many other fields where one’s physical location is now irrelevant to the job. The ability to make money not just away from the local economy, but from customers based all over the world, will go a long way to ensuring that you can continue to earn money for as long as it’s possible to do so.

 

Another advantage to home-based self-employment is that as you become known locally and through your circle of friends and acquaintances as someone who is part of the survivalist community, you need not fear losing your job because of your perspective. We live in very politically correct, hypersensitive times, and many companies, to say nothing of government agencies, are intolerant of those who can be perceived as being discontent enough with what’s going on in America to plan for survival conditions taking hold. While self-employment does not automatically guarantee that you won’t experience any backlash because of your notions, as you still have to rely on a willing flow of customers to stay in business, the reality is that as a self-employed, work-from-home businessman, you have a much more manageable situation in that regard than you would as an employee at an organization that has no tolerance for even the incidental expression of these sorts of ideas.

The things we talk about at Christian Internet Income.com are going to be good considerations for you as one who is serious about developing additional streams of income from home. That said, whether you go that route or decide to try another, the point is that effective survival planning includes not just stocking up on food and guns, but giving some real thought as to how you will finance your preparations and continue to make money during the period when there is still commerce being transacted somewhere…just not in your local community.

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James L. Paris is the Editor-In-Chief of Christian Money.com and the author of more than 20 books on personal finance.  He studied biblical prophecy while a student at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.  Along with completing ROTC survival and marksmanship training, he is certified as a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.   Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Bob Yetman, Editor-at-Large at Christian Money.com, is an author & instructor in the realm of personal finance and investing, as well as on topics of fitness and self-defense.  A U.S. Army veteran, he has earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Stetson University, numerous licenses and certifications in the financial services industry, and the Certified Fitness Trainer and Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning designations from the International Sports Sciences Association. He is the co-author of the yet to be released book, Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

The Importance of Functional Labor Skills to Survival

In a survival situation precipitated by a societal collapse, there won’t likely be much need for executives, salesmen, and a whole host of other “white collar” professionals whose efforts make up so much of the economic engine of our country during normal circumstances. While important occupations in a high-functioning economic climate, those and many others like them will be of no use to anyone when there is no longer any sort of modern, synergistic business infrastructure in place, and all that remains are the concerns and tasks associated with surviving from one day to the next. In that environment, those who can build and repair will go a long way to representing the fittest…as in, survival of the fittest.

If you are not handy, you would be well advised to get handy. Start with trying the simple repair jobs, the ones that you could have probably accomplished all along if you had ever applied yourself to them. You need not cultivate the skills of a professional builder or mechanic in order to be able to perform functional tasks on your property, to include the basic maintenance of your vehicles. Even society’s wealthier members may find no shortcut in this area. Depending on the nature of the collapse, your money may be worthless (unless you have had the foresight to keep some precious metals on hand), but even if it is not, the availability of skilled craftsmen and laborers to be able to assist others, even those with a lot of money, when they have their own families and close friends over which to watch may be nil. For perspective, we need only refer back to recent natural disasters throughout the U.S., where the waits were weeks, even months, to have repair crews arrive on site in order to deal with destroyed roofs and a host of other property-related safety and security issues. If you are one of the many on such a waiting list, you can’t very well just let the elements destroy what’s left of your abode. You have to be able to make whatever effective repairs you can, and if you have no such skills, you may be in a world of trouble.

 

It’s important to note the special relevance this issue has to women. Single-parent families are now a natural part of the fabric of our society, and women, more than ever, may find themselves having to take care of the sorts of tasks historically regarded as the sole province of men.

 

If you are currently someone whose first instinct is to grab the Yellow Pages or computer mouse, instead of a toolbox, when it’s time to fix the toilet or change the spark plugs, you might want to start reconsidering the way in which you approach all of that. The distance between a comfortable, safe existence and one fraught with peril is much shorter than most of us realize. It doesn’t take much destruction of property and breakdown of mechanical or electrical systems to hurl a family from 2011 back to 1811. The speed with which that happens, or whether it even happens at all, may well have a lot to do with your ability to keep structures and equipment functional throughout whatever upheaval is in store.

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James L. Paris is the Editor-In-Chief of Christian Money.com and the author of more than 20 books on personal finance.  He studied biblical prophecy while a student at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.  Along with completing ROTC survival and marksmanship training, he is certified as a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.   Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Bob Yetman, Editor-at-Large at Christian Money.com, is an author & instructor in the realm of personal finance and investing, as well as on topics of fitness and self-defense.  A U.S. Army veteran, he has earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Stetson University, numerous licenses and certifications in the financial services industry, and the Certified Fitness Trainer and Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning designations from the International Sports Sciences Association. He is the co-author of the yet to be released book, Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

We Have Met the Enemy…and He Is Us

 

The issue of how we are to manage other people and populations can be sort of tricky when it comes to the subject of survival.  On the one hand, survival situations, like many other obstacles in life, may be more easily negotiated when you have some help.  On the other hand, human nature being what we know it to be, people can oftentimes be more of a problem than an asset.  How often do you find yourself changing the channel when the local news comes on, simply because you grow weary of one story after another detailing man’s cruelty to other men?  We cannot build jails fast enough to house everyone who rightfully should be kept away from so-called civilized society…but just how truly civilized the rest of us really are may be the bigger issue.

 

The sad truth is that much of what keeps people civilized are the creature comforts that we all have a tendency to take for granted.  How often have you heard of people going nuts (at least in the non-clinical sense) simply because their cable was out for a day or two?  Now ask yourself what they will be like when not only the cable is gone, but electricity is out for an extended period, fuel supplies are interrupted, and grocery store shelves are bare? 

 

One of the biggest mistakes you can make, as you think through your survival planning, is to put too much faith in the goodness and decency of your fellow man; that’s a disquieting notion for many people, particularly Christians, to accept, but being a Christian and recognizing that dangerous people exist are hardly mutually exclusive ideas.  You may know your fellow man to be good and decent today, when he is not only wanting for nothing, but probably has too much of everything.  Who has anything about which to be miserable when those are one’s circumstances?  The real person within becomes evident to us when hardships must be faced – when the cupboard is empty, when there’s no booze in the cabinet (and the local liquor store has long since been ransacked), when the TV won’t turn on, and even those modern conveniences at which we now look as being the most minimal of requirements for basic living…refrigerators, washing machines, and toilets, for example…no longer function.  What happens to the members of our “civilized society” then?

 

This is why it is important to establish good kinship with neighbors and others on whom you expect to rely when things go bad.  When such kinship is established, those connected by it will be much less likely to turn on one another in the way that strangers too often will.  That kinship, that fellowship, then…beyond simply being a good and decent way to persist through life…serves the functional purpose of helping to keep you, and the others who are a party to it, protected from the madness of others. 

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James L. Paris is the Editor-In-Chief of Christian Money.com and the author of more than 20 books on personal finance.  He studied biblical prophecy while a student at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.  Along with completing ROTC survival and marksmanship training, he is certified as a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.   Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Bob Yetman, Editor-at-Large at Christian Money.com, is an author & instructor in the realm of personal finance and investing, as well as on topics of fitness and self-defense.  A U.S. Army veteran, he has earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Stetson University, numerous licenses and certifications in the financial services industry, and the Certified Fitness Trainer and Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning designations from the International Sports Sciences Association. He is the co-author of the yet to be released book, Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

UFO's And Biblical Prophecy

In a recent article on the Nephilim we made reference to the possibility that UFO's may play a significant role in prophetic events.  There is a shocking new video of a UFO over Israel in the the exact location of Dome Of The Rock on The Temple Mount.   This is the precise location that the antichrist will appear (see Abomination Of Desolation).   Is this just a coincidence?

  

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James L. Paris is the Editor-In-Chief of Christian Money.com and the author of more than 20 books on personal finance.  He studied biblical prophecy while a student at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.  Along with completing ROTC survival and marksmanship training, he is certified as a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.   Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Bob Yetman, Editor-at-Large at Christian Money.com, is an author & instructor in the realm of personal finance and investing, as well as on topics of fitness and self-defense.  A U.S. Army veteran, he has earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Stetson University, numerous licenses and certifications in the financial services industry, and the Certified Fitness Trainer and Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning designations from the International Sports Sciences Association. He is the co-author of the yet to be released book, Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Strength in Numbers

 

When we think of survivalism, our first mental impression is often that of the single family, toughing it out in a simple cabin in the wilderness. The reality, though, is that when a survival situation arises, not all of us will have the means to travel to the American “outback,” nor, for that matter, be inclined to do so. Accordingly, chances are very high that your survival environment will be characterized by something more urban, to include large numbers of people in your immediate surroundings. In those kinds of settings, well-populated and with little ability to use the lay of the land to fortify one’s family against that which may come, the nature of the associations between people will become a lot more important; it will be most prudent to have developed a network of allies on whom you can rely (and vice versa) when conditions deteriorate.

 

For starters, if you do not have good relationships with your neighbors, it is a good idea to begin cultivating them at once. You don’t want the first time you meet your neighbors to be when you need something from them, or when you must hurriedly forge an alliance that could make the difference between life and death. Before that point in time arrives, you already want to be emotionally invested in them to a degree that at least a basic kinship has been established. This is important even for more regular situations that fall well short of the characterization of survival, like a dead car battery, but it becomes much more of an imperative during times of crisis.

 

You may find it useful to establish two levels of alliances within your immediate neighborhood/community. The less exclusive level might be comprised of everyone in your immediate area who will have the same general interests as you in a distressed situation: the physical safety of the immediate surroundings or neighborhood, access to shelter, electricity, food, etc. From there, you might have an even more closely-held group of people who represent those with whom you would actually effect a move elsewhere should it become prudent to do so. The members of that group will likely be those who share your personal belief and values systems, and are otherwise those folks with whom you could persist long-term in a more remote environment - an “inner circle,” if you will.

 

The point is that while the idea that you should look at your survival planning from a “lone wolf” perspective is popular in Hollywood myth, it is not only impractical, but even disadvantageous, in practice. As is the case with most things in life, survival is a lot easier when you have help. While you have to remain mindful that your “group” does not become so big that it causes problems, it should be big enough to deter and defend against invaders and thieves, and provide a functional, working mini-community that affords each of its members a better chance to survive in the long run than if each individual or separate family is left to handle the distressed conditions on their own.

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James L. Paris is the Editor-In-Chief of Christian Money.com and the author of more than 20 books on personal finance.  He studied biblical prophecy while a student at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.  Along with completing ROTC survival and marksmanship training, he is certified as a first degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.   Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.

Bob Yetman, Editor-at-Large at Christian Money.com, is an author & instructor in the realm of personal finance and investing, as well as on topics of fitness and self-defense.  A U.S. Army veteran, he has earned a B.A. degree in psychology from Stetson University, numerous licenses and certifications in the financial services industry, and the Certified Fitness Trainer and Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning designations from the International Sports Sciences Association. He is the co-author of the yet to be released book, Selling The Mark Of The Beast – How The Antichrist Will Convince The Masses To Willingly Take The Mark.