Today, we return to the theme of Doomsday Prepping, a follow-up from a listener named Matt.

Pastor John, hello.

It seems to me that your response in episode 1118 on preparing for a nuclear doomsday was

all predicated on the assumption that anybody who prepares for a possible disaster does

so out of self-preservation.

As a father and a husband, I have intentionally put myself in situations that cause extended

periods of great personal discomfort and danger of injury and death for what I believed

was the good of others.

I say this not to puff myself up because I certainly have strains of cowardice within

me.

But to make the point that some degree of preparedness for possible disaster may be from

a desire to protect the people I am charged by God with protecting.

In fact, in your book, this momentary marriage, you say it is a husband's duty to protect

his wife physically and spiritually.

I have no great compulsion to preserve my own life because I can honestly say it with

Paul to live as Christ and to die as gain.

But if ever I found myself in a situation where the people I love are suffering, when I

could have prevented it, I would feel like I have failed in my God-given responsibility

to protect their physical well-being.

Is this wrong?

Let me restate the question.

Have I failed in my responsibility, my God-given responsibility, if the people I love are suffering

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