The Book of Revelation is filled with plagues, pestilence and destruction. Though these are not meant for God’s people, we most possibly will be affected. While it is important to obey God and to prepare the best we can, we could lose everything. If there is a time when we cannot buy or sell, if God still wants us to be here, He will provide; Our trust needs to be in Him
So, let’s survey the Bible to see some ways
God supernaturally provided for His people
Keeping in mind that Jesus is the same yesterday, and today and forever Hebrews 13:8
After Abraham had been willing to offer his beloved son to God, God provided a ram that got stuck in the bushes: And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. Genesis 22:14
God was very pleased with Abraham’s willingness
to give up such a precious gift God Himself had given Abraham
God blessed him immeasurably
Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his own brothers,
was moved up the ranks by God
so that Pharaoh listened to him
God warned Joseph that a great famine was coming
and that they should store up for the future
God was very specific:
And the seven years of dearth began to come,
according as Joseph had said:
and the dearth was in all lands;
but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. Genesis 41:54
I was watching a survivalist video the other day
The man in the video said,
“It will be next to impossible for you to prepare
at this point and have all the knowledge and supplies
that we have since we’ve been storing up for years”
If your hope is in Jesus and you are trusting in Him,
listening to Him,
obeying Him,
doing your best,
you will not fail
How does that man know
that devastation will not come to his land?
The only One who knows such things is God
Maybe things will not turn out exactly as the man planned
and maybe His land will be used as a resource
for many to be fed and sheltered
It is hard to say
The only One who knows those answers is God
When Moses led the people out of Egypt,
God sent them manna, that is, bread from heaven
that came down like the dew,
every day except Saturday
They were to store up on Friday
to have enough so they could eat on Saturday
However, if they stored up any other day,
worms would come and spoil the manna so it was inedible:
Then said the Lord unto Moses,
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you;
and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day,
that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day
they shall prepare that which they bring in;
and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. Exodus 16:4-5
Also, their shoes never wore out:
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness:
your clothes are not waxen old upon you,
and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Deuteronomy 29:5
There was a great famine in the land
and Elijah heard from the Lord
and God told him where to go:
And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward,
and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook;
and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. 1 Kings 17:2-4
Then, because the famine was so great,
the brook dried up. God was not surprised:
Arise, get thee to Zarephath,
which belongeth to Zidon,
and dwell there:
behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1 Kings 17:9
Not only did God provide for Elijah,
but for the widow and her son as well
as she stepped out in faith. (1 Kings 17)
With God’s power, Elijah filled the widow’s vats
with an over abundance of oil
Her creditors were close to taking her two sons
to be slaves to pay for her debt
as she had nothing else
The only thing she had was a vat of oil:
And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?
tell me, what hast thou in the house?
And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house,
save a pot of oil. 2 Kings 4:2
Elijah had her borrow as many vessels as she could gather
and filled them all
with the never-ending supply of oil from the Lord:
Then she came and told the man of God.
And he said, Go, sell the oil,
and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings 4:7
How can we forget the two stories of Loaves and Fishes?
One of the miraculous feeding of 4.000
And they had a few small fishes:
and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
So they did eat, and were filled:
and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
And they that had eaten were about four thousand:
and he sent them away. Mark 8:7-9
And the boy’s lunch Jesus expanded to feed 5,000
There is a lad here,
which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes:
but what are they among so many? John 6:9
And they that did eat of the loaves
were about five thousand men. Mark 6:44
or the empty nets that Jesus filled (Luke 5)
or when Jesus needed a donkey for his triumphant entry,
a donkey was provided (Matthew 21:2)
or when it was time for the Passover, a man was there for them
and he had prepared an upper room for the disciples to make the last supper (Mark 14:15)
Jesus told the disciples take neither bag
nor even a change of clothes (Luke 9)
When it says the Son of Man had no place to lay His head:
that was not because He felt sorry for Himself,
that was because He was not attached to anything here on earth
and He knew that God would provide anything He needed
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God
and we overcome by the blood of the Lamb
and the word of their testimony
We know He will also care for us if we look to Him
Scriptural References:
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes,
and birds of the air have nests;
but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Luke 9:58
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony;
and they loved not their lives unto the death. Revelation 12:11
Be not ye therefore like unto them:
for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of,
before ye ask him. Matthew 6:8