“Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter …”
It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew that when the disciples asked Jesus to tell them about “the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world” that among His comments, Jesus admonished them to pray that their flight was not in the winter.
He did not tell them to pray that they would not have to flee.
In another instance Jesus said of Himself, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
In the last few years, the Lord has revealed His truth to people of every walk of life, and from every background imaginable. He has instructed them privately, often telling them specifically where to move to, who to seek out as friends and associates, and how to begin making preparations for a coming time of dramatic change, social upheaval, political unrest, and economic collapse – even great tribulation and gross darkness falling across the globe.
He has instructed many of them to leave organized congregational Christian fellowships – and began to lead them into a simpler daily exercise of their faith in their homes, and in sharing the Gospel from shop to shop and house to house.
Many of them have been instructed to prepare themselves for independent survival – and in many cases they have been given the specific knowledge that the time might come where they will have to flee, and forsake their present surroundings.
Some have been given the understanding that the coming darkness will bring severe limitations to their abilities to function – and will bring not only a total disruption of the present social and economic order – but that the darkness will ultimately mean a curtailing of all public and private freedoms.
With so many people coming to the same conclusions independent of one another – and with many of these conclusions containing detailed information and direction, including similar lifestyles, locations, values, standards, and preparations – the question arises of how to proceed in cooperation with one another; considering that eventually, cooperation will not be an option – it will become a necessity.
All too often, when we are presented with impending change – we procrastinate.
It is my conviction that in order to establish a community of trust – that there needs to be a basis and a standard for the assimilation of new members into an ever expanding structure of cooperative and productive believers – the coming underground church – “the called out ones – the ecclesia”.
It is fairly simple – really.
The blueprint is there for us – it is written in the Gospels and the Book of Acts. We just need to follow it.
We still have the opportunity to follow it voluntarily. The time is coming when we will be forced by the darkness to work with those around us – or we will have to flee – flee to another place where we will then be forced by the darkness to have “all things in common” – whether as refugees or in bonds.