Why Every Christian Family Needs a Survival Plan (Even Pre-Trib Believers)

I'm a pre-tribulation believer. I believe the rapture will take the church out before the seven-year Tribulation begins. So when people find out I prep — that I think about survival skills, stockpile basics, and wrote a fifteen-chapter survival guide — they sometimes give me a funny look.

If you think you're leaving, why prepare to stay?

Because it's not about me. It's about the people I might leave behind.

The Question That Changes Everything

Think about your family for a minute. Your spouse. Your kids. Your parents. Your brother who keeps saying he'll come to church "one of these days." Your best friend who believes in God but hasn't committed to Christ.

Now imagine the rapture happens tonight.

You're taken. They're not.

They wake up to a world in chaos. Millions have vanished. The news has no explanation. Governments are scrambling. Fear is everywhere. And the person they would have called — you — is gone.

What do they have? What did you leave them?

That question haunts me. It's one of the reasons I wrote Surviving the Antichrist.

What Preparation Actually Looks Like

I'm not going to pretend I've built an underground bunker or invested thousands in survival gear. I haven't. My preparation is practical and modest — the kind of thing any family can do without going overboard.

But the principle matters more than the specifics. The principle is this: if you love someone who might be left behind, you owe it to them to leave something useful behind.

That starts with knowledge. The survival guide in the back of my book covers fifteen chapters of real-world skills: purifying water, building shelters, growing food in harsh conditions, evading a surveillance state, surviving outside the economic system when refusing the mark of the Beast. These aren't hypothetical scenarios. They're drawn from scripture — the seals, the trumpets, the bowls of Revelation — and paired with practical responses.

But here's something even simpler that every single Christian can do right now.

Leave Bibles in the Open

After the rapture, when the world falls apart and desperate people start going through abandoned homes looking for food, water, and supplies — they're going to find things. Let one of those things be a Bible.

Don't tuck your Bible in a drawer. Don't leave it buried on a bookshelf spine-out between novels. Put it somewhere it can't be missed. The kitchen counter. The coffee table. The nightstand. Prop it open. Make it the most visible thing in the room.

Think about it: a person who never would have picked up a Bible is now raiding houses for canned food. They're terrified. They're confused. Everyone they trusted is gone. And there, on the counter, is a book they've ignored their whole life — but now the world has fallen apart in exactly the way that book said it would.

That Bible could save their soul.

This is something that costs you nothing but could mean everything to someone you'll never meet. Place Bibles in prominent positions — in your home, your car, your workplace. Make them impossible to miss. This could be your gift to a dying world.

Teaching Your Family Now

Beyond leaving resources behind, there's something even more important: having the conversation now.

Talk to your kids about what the Bible says is coming. Not to scare them — to prepare them. Teach them the basics of what happens in Revelation. Make sure they know that if people suddenly disappear, it's not aliens, it's not a government conspiracy — it's exactly what the Bible said would happen. And then they'll know what to do: turn to Christ immediately.

My son is thirteen. He knows what I believe. He's heard me talk about the end times more than he probably wants to. But if something happens and I'm gone tomorrow, he won't be lost. He'll know exactly what's happening and who to call on.

That's what preparation really is. It's not just water filters and canned beans. It's making sure the people you love have a spiritual roadmap for the worst-case scenario.

Why I Put It in the Book

The survival guide in Surviving the Antichrist exists for a specific reason: so that if someone finds this book after the rapture, they have everything they need in one place. The fiction shows them what's happening — prophetically, spiritually, globally. The survival guide shows them what to do — practically, physically, daily.

Warning without a plan is just fear. I didn't want to write a scary book. I wanted to write a useful one.

Whether you believe the rapture is tomorrow or a hundred years away, having a plan is an act of love. Not for yourself. For the people you'd leave behind.

Surviving the Antichrist is available now on Amazon. 40 chapters of prophetic fiction. 15 chapters of survival training. 500+ pages.

Faith meets fire. Are you ready?