Why worry about preparing when we can be part of the true church and be taken out of all this? Didn't God promise us that He would take care of us? The churches have fallen away, I've known that for about 30 years now. The real true church will be removed right after the antichrist is revealed. The falling away that Paul mentioned has already happened and it totally complete now. Those who have ears to ear and have heeded God's warning do not have to worry about making it through the tribulation. Repent and fill your lamps with oil now before it's too late. I tend to agree that no amount of preparing will help much when God's wrath is started to be poured out. People wake up! Time is short, get on your knees and pray, fast. Read the bible and be watching and praying, we don't know the hour the Lord will come. Be in your prepared state always from now on out. He's coming very soon, soon as in our sense of soon. Get in the ark now.