good morning homesteaders I wanted to
talk a little bit about how the corona
virus or kovat 19 virus is affecting us
here on our homestead right now and how
it might in the near future well here's
how it's affecting us right now it's not
affecting us at all and that's kind of
the point right it's kind of the point
of this lifestyle and to do what we're
doing is to avoid or try to avoid these
issues like a global pandemic or writing
in the cities I II and II file in
Portland so on so forth
but right now is not affecting us at all
why because we have gotten ourselves
into a place where we can be more
self-sufficient right we are trying to
grow all of our own food
we are not Preppers at all but we are
prepared people and I think that's
important for everybody everybody to do
and people used to do that in this
country and then we got fat happy and
lazy and lazy is the key word we stopped
thinking about a little bit into the
future and maybe a couple of what-ifs
and started thinking about you know
what's going on just in this moment and
I think that's kind of silly well I was
gonna walk and talk with you around the
property is beautiful green right now
it's been raining a lot spring showers
and there's a lot of flowers out but
it's raining again right now so here we
are next to the tractor all right let's
continue with our conversation we moved
out of the city about four and a half
years ago roughly to become more
self-sufficient and I'm gonna get into
something a little bit later maybe a lot
of my Christian followers will
appreciate but so we're more
self-sufficient and we're away from big
crowds of people we live a half an hour
or 25 minutes give or take away from a
city of a hundred thousand people that's
not a big city our nearest town is five
miles away and it's like 1,100 people
and my wife works in the larger city a
lot of you know we're nice
Texas but there aren't huge crowds of
people which is very helpful when
something like this crazy global
pandemic is happening and even our local
grocery stores are taxed to the limit
because people don't think nowadays you
know I've got neighbors out here in the
country but they don't grow their own
food and I think that's a big mistake
because our local little grocery store
is completely out of everything the next
closest is the Walmart and that's about
twenty two minutes away and they are
okay they have a good stock of things
except they don't have any toilet paper
or baby wipes or milk or eggs or meat
although that's fine for me because I
stopped eating meat a long time ago but
their vegetable section is fully stocked
the canned goods are also pretty picked
over but they're getting a decent amount
of stuff hit but that doesn't matter for
us as much because we're working on this
gorgeous garden out here or growing our
own stuff now it's very difficult to do
so and to get to that point is it takes
a number of years to do which is why I'm
saying if you're thinking about this
lifestyle do it now it has afforded me a
lot of comfort and I am thankful to God
for that because he's the one who led us
here it has afforded us a lot of comfort
because we're not only away from that
diseased area well kind of on I'll talk
about that in a second but we have been
blessed with this piece of property
where we can grow our own food and you
can do that on any size piece of
property the larger the better of course
but you can do that you can start to do
that today and I would recommend that
back in the 40s during World War two
people were encouraged to start Victory
Gardens because supplies were short it
was all going to the war front in the
war effort and things were starting to
be rationed especially in like Great
Britain III not 100% sure my history
here and how much rationing took place
but
yeah people are encouraged to start
their own garden I encourage you do the
same thing it's not only therapeutic it
helps feed your family so it's it's a
win-win for everybody and there are a
lot of benefits to it so this also gives
us the ability to share with friends
what am I talking about I'm talking
about I have a difficult time growing
certain things like the past couple
years tomatoes have been horrible in my
garden
but I've been able to grow cantaloupe
like crazy and carrots like crazy and a
few other things and with some other
friends who are doing the same thing we
exchange you know my friend Pete he's
got a great garden and what did he bring
me I can't even remember we exchanged
something the other day and another
friend come over he found some toilet
paper at the Dollar General and I
grabbed a couple of packets just to be
safe and I gave him some carrots because
we're overloaded on carrots so perfect a
great way to trade and barter with your
friends now let me talk to my Christian
friends okay so all of my Bible reading
Christian friends need to understand
last day events and those last day
events correlate and they're up
throughout the whole Bible but most
prevalently in Matthew 24 Luke 21 the
whole book of Revelation and the whole
book of Dan'l Daniel and they correlate
Daniel and revelation correlate so if
you're paying attention and you're
studying not just reading studying those
books of the Bible then you'll notice
some interesting things about where we
are in the stream of time now is this
crisis the last crisis no but they're
getting more frequent world calamities
are getting more frequent and that's
documented and things are increasingly
getting worse and even my secular
friends can see that so I place my hope
in Jesus Christ and the hope of things
unseen which
is in Hebrews Hebrews 11 so that gives
me great comfort and I can put a smile
on my face even in this type of crisis
which if you study the Bible is no
crisis at all
this is a tiny bit that our tiny crisis
compared to what is to come in as we get
closer to Christ's second coming so as
an aside this is how much rain we've
gotten in the last day and a half we've
got our own little waterfall here and a
runoff across the road this is usually a
dry creek so it's usually totally dry
it's essentially just runoff and you can
see how much water is coming into it
right now so let me talk about why the
virus could affect us soon and that is
because my wife is a nurse and at her
hospital she has an entire Northside of
one floor the hospital now that is
cordoned off it is now a what do they
call it it's just completely sealed off
I don't know the word for it it's sealed
off and nobody's allowed in there
because there are 16 patients whom may
or may not may or may not have the
corona virus and one person from our
locality has died that is one of the
deaths in Texas she works there and yes
they are short on masks and it's called
PPE personal protective equipment they
are short on things and they're not the
greatest who knows why I don't
understand why our hospitals are going
through that it's kind of annoying but
she is potentially at some point she she
has a higher risk of being exposed to it
so she told me not to go to the store
she would go to the store after she come
home from work
that's that's fine by me but that is
something we're gonna deal with and I
think we're both comfortable because we
have our faith to hold on to so if we
get sick we get sick and we know that
God protects you through a storm not
necessarily always from the storm now of
course he can protect you from the storm
and we're thankful to him for that but
we're also thankful being protected
through a storm so the storm may be
going on around us and may be affecting
us a little bit but he'll bring us
through it so again we're good and put
on a happy face Keep Calm carry on
because our hope isn't something greater
now for all my Christian friends who
study a little bit longer and this is
relating to home studying or being in
the country major characters in the
Bible who spoke of Christ's coming and
Christ Himself himself where did they
live they lived outside of the city okay
so when Christ was in his ministry he
did not stay in the city
he retired out to the mountains or
retired outside of the city study yet
whenever he had completed his daily
ministry in that city so did John the
Baptist he lived a simple life out in
the wilderness so did Elijah he lived
away from the city in a little stone
house so did and so did and so did he
can go on and on and I think this is an
object lesson in the Bible for us now
for all the members of my church who
understand that one of the founders of
our church is a last day prophet then
you need to heed her words that are in
sync with the word of God and don't
supersede it but are in sync with it
they call the country living because
those words were told to us a long time
ago so if you're watching this and you
know who you are then I may
employer you to heed those words and to
move yourself out to a quiet country
lifestyle where you can provide for your
family and you can commune with God
easier and most of all work on your
character to become more christ-like
here's our example and and christ-like
character is what we are to have so to
conclude is this crisis affecting us now
no will it in the future maybe am I
worried about it no because why because
of my faith and I want that to be a
comfort to you whether you are a
Christian or not and you're watching
this I want that to be a comfort to you
that someone cares about you he created
you and he wants the best for you so do
not worry love you all stay prepared and
I'll see you on the next video
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