What's really sad is that someone who makes such a claim would rather want all of that death and destruction just to appear in favor of The Lord and with others than for it to not happen at all.
Threads like these make me sick.
Jim Berkland is not a born again in Christ believer, as far as I know, just a geologist who has been learning about the magnetic forces and the changes in them in the heavens and earth, which cause weather changes and earthquakes.
He has a 75% correct prediction track record, based on Coronal Mass Ejections, super moons that are full, low tides, fish die offs in oceans, and so on and so forth. He has a 25% record of failed predictions based on the above, and it has nothing to do with anything but the earth sciences and the sciences of the magnetic forces of the heavens and earth, and changes in them, as far as I can tell.
To be prepared with food and water is not bad. IF one survives an earthquake or terrible weather catastrophe and conditions are such as we see in Japan, one needs to at least be prepared for markets to be stripped bare and fuel to not be available, and to have water, food, and clothing readily available to take them through -at the minimum- two weeks.
My mother canned food in season to last for one year, from the garden, when I was growing up. My sis in KY still grew all her own food and had her freezers full and some canning until a few short years ago, when the summer droughts effected the crops and the winter storms cut off power and her freezer contents were lost. She does not depend on electricity now, to trust her crops to be safely put by, and buys her garden stuff -except for a small amount of growing berries and some vegetables -but she and her hubby are near mid-70's, and he had major heart surgery a few years ago which stopped the gardening, about totally.
But anyway: best to have dried food, canned food, and a source to cook -gas for electric grill, etc.
And why not have some extra to share with others, in bad times.
We told my husband's mom to stock up at least two months supply of food, and rotate it, when a hurricane disaster cut off trucks from delivering to some stores in Fla for a couple weeks, some years back. She has done that since then, and with water also, and she is none the worse for it.
About two years or so ago, we had a flood in the Pacific Nothwest that isolated us from fresh food and fuel for over a week, the roads were so bad. They were rationing food and fuel supplies at the base of the Olympic Peninsula, on the Pacific coast in that time, and mothers with small children got priority.
Why not at least always be prepared to do what we can, and trust God to do what we cannot?
If we go, we go, and if we remain, why depend totally on "others" to give us what we need in times of disasters which come from "whatever" reasons?
Remember Egypt, when Joseph was installed second in power to preserve the land from famine.
