And, in the Book of Revelation 12:14-17, we're again told that the remnant church would be birthed in and protected in the wilderness.Īs Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. It's also interesting to note at this point that in Matthew 24:16 that those residing in Judea at the time of the end he (Jesus) instructed to run to the mountains- the very place the Essenes lived at that time. As such, they developed their own strategies for group membership and training noted in their scroll called The Community Rule, they also taught that all those that believed in the covenant of God would reside in the ' wilderness of the people' a special place of refuge where they would be protected during a time of calamity and before the emergence of the armies of the sons of darkness (Anti-Messiah) at which time the people would rally to camp in the ' wilderness of Jerusalem' to battle these evil forces (As noted in the War Scroll). The Essenes were essentially the first 'Prepper Group' described in scripture and historical documents (see Josephus, Antiquities).

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