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To the Editor:
The largest U.S. power grid just declared “Emergency Alert” for the second day according to Tyler Durden of zerohedge.com.
PJM Interconnection LLC declared another energy emergency alert level 1 through Friday, July 28. The PJM grid covers 13 states from Illinois to New Jersey, with over 65 million customers. A new movie is coming out called “Grid Down, Power Up.” According to their website, “Grid failure is a real and imminent threat, a devastating deadly occurrence leading to life-threatening shortages of heat, food and water. If protective measures are not taken, we will experience catastrophic failures leaving citizens in states of starvation, death, destruction, and darkness for months. Reports released from Texas’ three-day (grid shutdown) indicate a minimum death toll of 246, with some estimates climbing as high as 702. An outage of 1-2 years would lead to 10 million (10,000,000) deaths. One thing is evident: the clock is ticking and if nothing changes the power may go out for good.” Without electric power there would be more crime, civil unrest and riots. Four star General Lloyd Austin said, “our power grid will be attacked and shut down.” General Austin said, “It’s a matter of when and not if!”
Disasters are coming. A worker at FEMA said they expect the grid to go down in the next six months and be down 37 days. The record number of hackers and record sun activity could shut it down at any time. The record heat and the smoke from Canada is causing more people to have to stay indoors and run the air conditioning. Experts say every family should keep a full tank of gas, have a preplanned meeting place, flashlights, batteries, first aid kit, duct tape and plastic sheeting. Experts say have a month’s supply of water, canned or non-perishable food and non-electric can opener. Vitamin C is also great for cold and flu relief and helps your immune system. Proverbs 30 praises ants as “extremely wise” for storing up many months of food. The book of Proverbs twice says, “A wise man foresees evil and hides himself; but the simple pass on and are punished.” It would be wise to have a year’s supply of food and water! In Tennessee the sales tax holiday goes from August 1, 2023 until October 31, 2023. So it would be wise to stock up these three months while you don’t have to pay tax on food.
In these end days the Bible teaches disasters will increase. Things can change quickly and our government can’t protect us from everything and we should plan ahead and value preparedness. People need to prepare spiritually for death by trusting and having a saving relationship with Jesus. Call 1-888-need him. The most important preparedness or the ultimate preparedness is found only in Jesus. Disasters strike at anytime without notice. The Bible says in the future a disaster will happen when people are saying, “peace and safety.” The United Nations (U.N.) established The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) and it’s observed around the world each year on September 21. The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5, “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape.”
A world-wide famine is coming. Most countries have grown less food than ever because of fires, drought, floods and other disasters. Also, some countries controlled by environmentalists have outlawed fertilizer claiming it’s bad for the environment. Crop levels worldwide are at the lowest levels because of the high cost of fertilizer and the U.N. working to outlaw fertilizer. More of the world has more wildfires than ever. A record number of food processing plants in America have burned. The Bible says in the future during the tribulation a day’s wages will buy a little bread for one person. One Christian dreamed of $70-a-gallon of gas in America during the tribulation. China is also working to crash the American dollar and destroy the American economy according to Kevin Freeman. Electricity drives our economy and if the power grid goes down for a long period of time it would destroy our economy. The late Dr. Peter Pry said the greatest threat to America is destruction of the electric power grid. The electric power grid could be destroyed by an EMP from the sun or from a nuclear bomb high above America or by terrorists or computer hackers. This would kill the majority of those in the cities from starvation. People in Carter County could survive off of plants like kudzu and dandelions. According to Clare Lopez, Iran has terror cells in the U.S. awaiting orders to strike as they did on 9-11. It’s believed we now have thousands of terrorists in America because of the millions of illegals that have come into America. Evil demonic terrorists gave us 9-11 but only Jesus gives us peace 24-7.
Christians need to be as prepared as possible and store up extra food to help others when disasters happen. The Bible says help first your families and churches. Most of all, Christians need to share the gospel of how Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose, and is coming again. Christians don’t agree on when the rapture is but most agree it’s close. The shutdown of the electric power grid is very likely, however the return of Jesus is certain. The power we need most is the power that is in the blood of Jesus! It never fails!

D.D. Nave
Elizabethton