November 2025 - Magazine - Page 38
Mi n i str i es
OUT of TIME
Flee The Cities: The Biblical Case
For Bugging Out
Many survival writers and instructors have tackled the problematic question of bugging out
versus bugging in. For the most part, we all say that the average person is better off bugging in, than they are bugging out. I9ve taken that stand myself on more than one occasion, but I9m not so sure that the Lord agrees with me.
Jesus Himself actually addressed this issue in the Gospel of Matthew, saying:
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand) 16 Then let them
which be in Judea flee into the mountains. 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come
down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back
to take his clothes. (Matthew 24:15-18)
This is about as clear a description of bugging out as you can ask for, taking into account
biblical language, as compared to today9s language. The term
