Can your body keep up during survival scenarios? Most preppers only focus on gear and supplies and often neglect physical fitness training. Without enough strength, you’ll most likely struggle to carry bug-out bags and execute survival plans. This guide covers prepper fitness exercises to help prepare your body for physically demanding tasks.

Prepper Fitness Exercises: Full-Body Training for Survival Situations

Fitness training helps you build the endurance to cover long distances and develop the grit to push through stressful situations. With that in mind, here are seven prepper exercises along with instructions on how to perform them correctly.

Squats

Practicing squats builds leg strength and core stability. Doing so will enable you to hoist heavy loads and ascend rugged inclines.

Steps:

1. Stand with feet hip-width apart and put your toes forward.
2. Brace your core and lift your chest.
3. Push your hips back as if you’re sitting in a chair and bend your knees until your thighs are level with the floor.
4. Press through your heels to return to standing position.
5. Perform six to ten reps per set. Start with unweighted exercises, then use a kettlebell first before progressing to a barbell.

Lunges

Lunges are a great exercise for building single-leg strength, which is essential in navigating the trails.

Steps:

1. Stand with feet hip-width apart.
2. Step one foot forward and bend your knees until they form right angles. Maintain a straight back and an engaged core.
3. Press through the front heel to rise back up.
4. Perform eight to twelve reps per side. To add difficulty, you can carry dumbbells while lunging.

Deadlifts

Deadlift training develops hip hinge and strengthen lower back muscles. It will also help you safely raise gear from the ground and move heavy items.

Steps:

1. Stand with feet hip-width apart and position the weight slightly in front of your feet.
2. Push your hips back and bend your knees to grip the weight.
3. Keep your back flat, brace your core and pull your shoulders down and back.
4. Drive through your heels then straighten hips and knees to lift the weight in one smooth motion.
5. Reverse the move by pushing hips back first, then bending knees to lower the weight. Rest 90 seconds between sets.
6. Lower the weight by hinging at the hips first, then bending your knees until it reaches the ground. Rest 90 seconds between sets.

Planks

Plank exercises strengthen the core and provide spinal support. They’ll also allow you to carry heavy backpacks and supplies over long distances.

Steps:

1. Place forearms on the floor and extend your legs straight behind you.
2. Engage your glutes and engage your core to protect your lower back.
3. Keep your gaze on the floor to maintain a neutral neck position.
4. Repeat 3–5x. Plank for 20 seconds, rest 30 seconds, then increase each hold by 5 seconds.

Triceps Dips

Performing triceps dips builds upper body strength that’ll help you to push debris and climb over obstacles.

Steps:

1. Sit on a bench with hands shoulder-width apart and fingers pointing forward.
2. Slide your hips off the bench and let your arms bear your weight.
3. Bend your elbows until your upper arms are parallel to the floor.
4. Push your palms into the bench, straighten your elbows, and avoid lifting your shoulders.
5. Perform three to four sets of eight to twelve reps.

Biceps Curls

Biceps curls help improve elbow-flexion strength and grip endurance for hauling gear and pulling ropes.

Steps:

1. Stand with feet hip-width apart and hold weights at your sides.
2. Bend your elbows to raise the weights until they reach shoulder height.
3. Keep your elbows close to your torso when lifting.
4. Lower the weights in a controlled motion to maintain tension.
5. Perform three to four sets of eight to twelve reps.

Shrugs

Shrug exercises strengthen the trapezius and shoulder muscles that can help you carry heavy equipment.

Steps:

1. Stand holding dumbbells or a barbell at your sides.
2. Keep arms straight and shoulders relaxed.
3. Lift shoulders straight up toward your ears and pause briefly. Then lower them under control.
4. Perform three to four sets of ten to fifteen reps.

Final Takeaways on Prepper Fitness Exercises

The prepper fitness exercises above can help develop joint range and build the endurance required when moving for long hours. Improving mobility, stability, and strength also reduces the risk of injury when hiking rough trails or navigating obstacles. Which routine will you add to your workout this week?

FAQs: Prepper Fitness Exercises

1. What are prepper fitness exercises?
   They’re functional movements designed to build strength, endurance, and stability for real-world survival tasks like carrying gear or navigating rough terrain.
2. Do I need gym equipment to start?
   No. Many prepper exercises use body weight or simple gear like backpacks, dumbbells, or kettlebells.
3. How often should I train?
   Aim for 3 to 4 sessions per week, focusing on total-body movements that mimic real tasks.
4. What’s the difference between regular workouts and prepper fitness?
   Prepper workouts prioritize functional strength over aesthetics, targeting movements used during emergencies.
5. Can beginners do these exercises?
   Yes. Every movement can be scaled by adjusting reps, range of motion, or resistance.
6. How long should each workout take?
   Most routines can be completed in 30 to 45 minutes, depending on sets and rest periods.
7. Which muscles are most important to train?
   Focus on legs, core, and back—these are key for lifting, carrying, and staying balanced under stress.
8. Is cardio part of prepper training?
   Yes. Hiking, rucking, and intervals build the stamina needed for long-duration activity under load.
9. What’s a good starter routine?
   Begin with squats, planks, and loaded carries. Add lunges and overhead presses as strength improves.
10. How do I track progress?
    Measure improvements in reps, load, and recovery time. Also track how you perform with actual tasks like rucking or carrying heavy gear.

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. 

I have to admit that I am feeling pretty frustrated today.  Last week, there was so much optimism that we could finally see peace, but now “war fever” has returned with a vengeance.  The situation in the Middle East threatens to spiral out of control; there is a very real possibility that the U.S. military could soon be conducting operations in Mexico and Venezuela, and it appears that our last chance for peace with Russia could be going up in smoke.  I was writing about a coming war with Russia many years before it became fashionable, and I continue to warn in the strongest terms possible about what will happen if we do not reverse course.  But of course, world leaders do not listen to people like us, and they continue to make decisions that could drag us into the unthinkable.

Last night, the Russians absolutely pummeled Ukraine with drone and missile strikes.  One of the targets that was hit was an American-owned manufacturing facility…

In its overnight attacks, Russia launched a total of 574 strike drones and 40 missiles on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, hitting as far west as the city of Lviv.

Missiles also struck an American-owned manufacturing company, Flex Ltd., in the western region of Zakarpattia, in an attack that injured at least 19 people, Ukrainian officials said. Flex is a American-Singaporean company that provides electronics manufacturing services and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

“Overnight, Russian missiles attacked one of the largest American investments in Ukraine – Flex – an active member of the American Chamber of Commerce,” said Andy Hunder, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine. “Russia continues to destroy and humiliate US businesses in Ukraine, targeting companies that invest and trade on the US stock markets.”

I am very displeased that the Russians chose to target a U.S.-owned business, because they should have known that this would really upset the Trump administration.

Whoever authorized this attack is not thinking rationally, because it threatens to further derail the peace process.

Of course the Ukrainians are going to try to squeeze as much out of this incident as they possibly can…

“It was an ordinary civilian enterprise, an American investment,” Zelensky wrote. “They produced such familiar household items as coffee machines. And this is also a target for the Russians. Very telling.”

Russian forces “delivered this strike as if nothing had changed at all,” he said. “There is still no signal from Moscow that they are really going to go into meaningful negotiations to end this war.”

I think that it is a valid point that if the Russians were truly serious about peace, they would not have done this.

Now President Trump is steaming mad, and he just posted an extremely ominous warning on his Truth Social account…

It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President – ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!!

What in the world does that mean?

Is Trump going to allow the Ukrainians to use long-range missiles provided by the U.S. to hit targets deep inside Russian territory?

If so, how will the Russians respond when long-range missiles provided by the U.S. start hitting Moscow?

Everyone needs to calm down and think very carefully about their next moves.

At the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, it really did seem like talks were moving in the right direction.

But since that time, both sides have hardened their positions.

Ukraine is demanding that any peace agreement must allow large numbers of European troops on Ukrainian soil in order to prevent the Russians from attacking again.  But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov just warned that European troops on Ukrainian soil would be “absolutely unacceptable for Russia” and that trying to arrange security guarantees without Russia’s approval is a “road to nowhere”…

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov followed up comments dismissing Europe’s bid to arrange security guarantees for Ukraine as utopian and a “road to nowhere” with fresh remarks on Thursday that may amount to a fresh bid to slow or derail peace talks by introducing new demands.

While President Trump had revealed on Monday that “President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine”, it was never made clear what it was Putin had signalled his consent to and now Russia is finessing its conditions in public. Lavrov said today that any foreign military deployment to Ukraine — the very core of what European nations have in mind for Ukrainian security guarantees — would be “absolutely unacceptable for Russia”.

The Russians are determined to keep NATO completely out of Ukraine.

That has never changed.

So why do Western leaders keep talking about sending troops to Ukraine as part of any peace agreement?

And the Russians are also demanding that Ukraine must hand over the remaining portions of the Donbas that Russia has not conquered yet…

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

For the Ukrainians, handing over the rest of the Donbas is a non-starter…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has repeatedly dismissed the idea of withdrawing from internationally recognised Ukrainian land as part of a deal, and has said the industrial Donbas region serves as a fortress holding back Russian advances deeper into Ukraine.

“If we’re talking about simply withdrawing from the east, we cannot do that,” he told reporters in comments released by Kyiv on Thursday. “It is a matter of our country’s survival, involving the strongest defensive lines.”

So the fighting will continue.

And if long-range missiles start hitting Moscow and other Russian cities, the war will greatly escalate.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military is preparing to conduct military operations against Mexican drug cartels inside Mexican territory…

Now, NORTHCOM has tasked its subordinate Special Operations Command (called SOCNORTH) to undertake “operational preparation of the battlespace” inside Mexico to set the stage for future military operations, and to prepare cartel-related “target packages” for potential strikes and “direct action” attacks on the ground against high-value individuals, compounds, and supply chain targets associated in particular with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Direct attacks could also involve air and drone strikes.

“Direct action” is a term special operations forces use to describe small-scale offensive operations carried out by Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, or Marine Corps raiders. Think of the airstrikes on Iran this summer as a kind of direct action, against a discrete target with a “strategic” or national purpose.

The Mexican government has already told us that it will not give us permission to do this.

But preparations are going ahead anyway.

And it also appears that we are getting dangerously close to war with Venezuela…

The White House confirmed 3 warships and 4,000 marines are being deployed toward Venezuela. When asked about the possibility of boots on the ground, officials said the President is ready to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into the US and hold those responsible accountable.

“The Maduro regime is not a legitimate government—it is a narco-terror cartel,” the statement added.

On top of everything else, Israel’s new offensive in Gaza has now begun…

Israel launched strikes on Gaza City overnight as it moved forward with a new offensive in the Palestinian enclave despite international condemnation and mounting domestic protests.

Explosions rocked neighborhoods in the city on Thursday, after Israel said its military had entered the first stages of a planned assault that includes calling up 60,000 reservists. The operation has sent civilians fleeing once again, intensifying fears about the starvation crisis unfolding in the territory.

Israel also carried out strikes on Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and Deir al-Balah in the center of the territory on Thursday. Video from Deir al-Balah showed people running away from a large plume of smoke.

As I discussed yesterday, nobody can deny that we are in a time of “wars and rumors of wars”.

In a world that is absolutely teeming with weapons of mass destruction, flirting with an apocalypse is not wise.

We are literally dancing on the brink of disaster, and it won’t take much to push us over the edge.

Michael’s new book, entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next,” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book, entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next,” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com, including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books, you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream, and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

What I am about to share with you is some of the clearest evidence yet that the middle class in America is being systematically destroyed.  Young adults are forming middle class households at an extremely depressed rate, and that is because the American Dream is simply out of reach for most of them in this very harsh economic environment.  If you can’t get a good job that pays an adequate wage, you aren’t going to be able to live a middle class lifestyle.  Sadly, many older Americans simply do not understand how difficult things have become for our young adults in this day and age.

The Census Bureau has produced a paper entitled “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood” that absolutely blew me away.

According to the Census Bureau, the 5 major milestones of adulthood are living away from your parents, completing your education, getting a job, marrying, and living with a child.  Since 1975, the success that our young people have had in attaining these milestones has declined dramatically…

According to the working paper, “Changes in Milestones of Adulthood,” almost half of all young adults in 1975 had reached four milestones associated with adulthood: moving out of one’s parents’ home, getting a job, getting married and having a child.

Five decades on, that progression has changed dramatically. The share of young adults that have followed the traditional pathway to adulthood has dropped to less than a quarter, according to the paper.

After reading that CBS News article, I had to go find the original paper.

I found it on the official Census Bureau website, and it says that in 2023 only 17 percent of young adults had attained the 5 major milestones of adulthood…

In 2005, the most common combination was young adults who had all five milestones (about 26% experienced all five milestones). By 2023, however, the proportion of young adults who experienced all five markers of adulthood declined to about 17%, and young adults who reported only experiencing the three economic milestones of living away from parents, completing education, and participating in the labor force was the modal combination. Finally, the residual category in Figure 2 representing the proportion of young adults who experienced any other combination of milestones declined from 36% to 30%, suggesting that the experiences of young adults have become more homogeneous for contemporary cohorts.

17 percent!

Just think about that.

If our society was in good shape, most of our young adults would be in a position to achieve all 5 milestones by the age of 25.

But our society is not in good shape.  According to the Census Bureau paper, the primary reason why young adults are not achieving these milestones is because they are “facing economic barriers”…

The reason for this, according to the paper, is that more young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 are facing economic barriers compared with previous generations. Changing societal attitudes around family formation are also contributing to the sharp decline in the share of young people reaching what the U.S. Census Bureau considers to be “key milestones.”

If I keep hitting people with more evidence day after day, maybe the skeptics will finally start getting it.

Our young adults are not entering the middle class fast enough to replace the older middle class adults that are dying off.

As a result, the middle class is steadily shrinking.

To be a part of the middle class, you have to be able to get a middle class job.

And right now the competition for middle class jobs among our young people is extremely fierce.

If you doubt this, just consider what a 23-year-old college graduate recently admitted to NBC News…

“Every guy I know that is without a job right now wants to work, but they just can’t get it,” said Eli McCullick, who has been looking for a job for more than a year after he graduated with a degree in sociology from the University of Colorado Boulder. “It’s demoralizing for guys who really want to get ahead and it’s just not happening.”

McCullick, 23, said he hasn’t even been able to get an hourly job at a restaurant or doing cleaning work at a hotel in the Boulder area, where he’s living at a property his father owns. The only way he has been able to earn money to cover his food and daily expenses has been to do odd jobs for friends and relatives, like shoveling horse manure, mowing lawns and helping an older woman prepare for a yard sale.

There is no way that I would want to be a fresh college graduate looking for a job right now.

It is terrible out there.

Another recent college graduate told NBC News that nearly all of his friends are unemployed and living with their parents…

Sean Breen, who graduated this spring with a communications degree from California State University, Long Beach, said he and nearly all of his high school friends, both men and women, are back home living with their parents and unemployed. He said even those who went to top-ranked colleges and got seemingly in-demand degrees are unable to find work.

“It is like a high school reunion,” Breen said. “We’re all, we are back in Marin County this summer, all unemployed, all trying to find a barista job, a part-time something, because we haven’t found anything.”

After having applied to hundreds of jobs, he said, Breen now plans to go to graduate school in the fall at Trinity College in Ireland, where tuition is significantly lower and, he hopes, jobs will be more plentiful.

This is the reality of what is really going on out there.

Those that keep insisting that “everything is fine” just need to stop.

The job market is freezing up and layoffs have absolutely skyrocketed compared to last year…

Layoffs have risen 140 percent from a year ago, a new report reveals.

Companies have already announced more than 800,000 job cuts this year alone, the highest since the pandemic upended the economy in 2020.

US-based employers cut 62,075 jobs in July compared to 25,885 in the same month last year.

Those numbers are staggering.

Unfortunately, 62 percent of U.S. consumers believe that unemployment will continue to get even worse during the months ahead…

• About 62% of consumers believe unemployment will worsen in the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan’s latest monthly survey.
• That’s bounced around a little in the last few months, but consistently hung around levels not seen since the Great Recession.

Do you remember how difficult it was to get a good job during the Great Recession?

Well, now we are entering a similar time.

That may help to explain why “job hugging” has become a thing in 2025…

Job hugging is the act of holding onto a job “for dear life,” consultants at Korn Ferry, an organizational consulting firm, wrote last week.

The rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving their jobs — known as the quits rate — has hovered around 2% since the start of the year, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Outside of the initial days of the Covid-19 pandemic, levels haven’t been that consistently low since early 2016.

The quits rate is a barometer of workers’ perceptions of the broader labor market, said Laura Ullrich, director of economic research in North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab. In this case, they may be nervous about getting another job or aren’t enthusiastic about their ability to find one, she said.

If you have a job that you highly value, don’t let go.

Hold on to it as tightly as you can, because if you lose it you may not find work again for a long time.

A lot of people are shocked by what is happening, but the truth is that nobody should be surprised.

There was no way that we were going to be able to defy the laws of economics forever.

The inexorable march of time cannot be stopped, and our future is going to look a whole lot different than most people anticipated.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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A number of people have asked me about the red heifer sacrifice that took place in Israel on July 1st, and so I decided to look into it.  I had heard that it was just a “practice run”, and so I didn’t understand why some people were making such a big deal about it.  Well, it turns out that those that actually conducted the red heifer sacrifice did not consider it to be a “practice run”.  That definitely shocked me.  Meanwhile, the Temple Institute is insisting that the ceremony on July 1st used “a disqualified heifer” and therefore could not be the real thing.  So there is a debate about the legitimacy of the ceremony, but everyone agrees that a lot of emotions are being stirred up because of what just took place.

Byron Stinson helped bring five red heifers from Texas to Israel in 2022, and he organized the sacrifice of one of those red heifers on a remote hilltop in northern Israel on July 1st at 6 PM…

Stinson told RNS about the details of the practice ritual, which was held at 6 p.m. local time July 1, and released photos and video of the ceremony. That video shows a flaming pyre on a remote hilltop with what looks like the animal carcass engulfed in flames. A rabbi led the ceremony after the heifer was driven there from Shiloh in the West Bank, where the selected red heifers have been kept.

Plans for the ritual have been years in the making. Stinson, who has a home in Israel and lives there part of the year, funded a search to find heifers that would fit the exacting requirements found in the biblical text. Those requirements include having no flaws or blemishes, even from the ear tags commonly used by ranchers in the United States.

I mentioned this “practice run” in a previous article.

But to Stinson, it wasn’t a “practice run”.

On Facebook, Stinson claimed that “it was real and the first in 2000 years”…

This is the burning from July 1. It was not on the Mount of Olives and some Jewish leaders feel it does not pass all requirements they support. But it was real and the first in 2000 years. Some will say all you need is to follow the Torah. We did that. Others have a higher standard under the Oral Torah. Many will never agree. But the world is changing fast. And I believe this ceremony changed something in the world. So it should be recognized as the first in over 2000 years. Will there be more?

Yes.

Will everyone agree that those will be the “right” one.

No.

Many will continue to question and fight against the ceremony. I just think the world needs to know. The ceremony went perfect. With a perfect Priest. In a place outside of the camp. And, in the opinion of those I respect, we used a perfect red heifer.

According to Stinson, all of the requirements for a red heifer sacrifice that we actually find in the Bible were met.

But not all of the Jewish traditions about a red heifer sacrifice were satisfied.

So the Temple Institute and other Jewish authorities are never going to recognize the sacrifice that occurred on July 1st.

However, there are some Jewish voices that are embracing what just happened.  For example, Adam King had a sample of the ashes of the red heifer that was just sacrificed sent to him, and he showed that sample off on Tim Pool’s podcast.  King is claiming that people that have been sprinkled with the ashes of this red heifer have actually been healed…

I don’t know what to make of that.

Apparently the recent sacrifice produced 10 and a half gallons of red heifer ashes, and samples have supposedly been sent all over the world.

So nobody will ever be able to track all of the ashes down.

But the Temple Institute, which will actually be overseeing the future Temple in Jerusalem, says that all of the red heifers that had been brought to Israel ended up being disqualified and thus the ceremony that took place on July 1st was just a “test run”.  In a lengthy Facebook post, the Temple Institute detailed precisely what they believe will be necessary for a legitimate red heifer sacrifice…

Our longtime supporters are certainly aware that the Institute’s efforts to raise or discover a red heifer suitable for the purpose of achieving the ashes of the red heifer go back more than two decades. We have forged deep connections with cattle growers in the United States, both professionally and personally. We have worked with cattle growers in Israel. We have raised red heifer candidates here in Israel and flown over red heifer candidates from Texas. The halachot concerning the eligibility of a potential red heifer are very strict and unfortunately all our efforts so far have been frustrated by the appearance of more than one non-red hair on all our potential candidates. Nevertheless, our efforts continue.

Attaining a suitable red heifer, however, is only one aspect of the work of achieving the longed for purifying ashes. Once a viable red heifer has been achieved it needs to be slaughtered and burned into ashes. Simply to create a fire that will burn at a temperature capable of converting the heifer into ashes is a task that has required much research and experimentation.

Kohanim who are free of the impurity of tamei met must be located, for only kohanim enjoying such a status can be involved in creating the ashes. This requires kohanim who were home-birthed and have never stepped inside a hospital or cemetery, where the impurity of tamei met is a given. The Institute has successfully located and brought on board eligible kohanim.

Pure waters from the Shiloach spring located at the foot of the City of David must be collected and cedar wood, hyssop and wool dyed red with the tola’at shani insect must also be acquired and added to the ashes. Fortunately all these elements are readily attainable.
The actual burning of the heifer must take place on the Mount of Olives at a vantage point from which the kohen performing the ceremony can see into the great entrance of the Temple Sanctuary, (or, at least where it stood).

All throughout the Institute’s continuing efforts, tremendous research has formed the basis for every step forward we have taken. Rabbi Azarya arial of the Temple Institute has devoted years of his life researching and overseeing all these aspects.

Recently a groundbreaking test run was taken using a disqualified heifer. The experience better prepares us for the ultimate performance of the ceremony with a kosher heifer.

I am sure that there will be a lot of debate about the ceremony that took place on July 1st for a long time to come.

And I am sure that the Temple Institute will eventually conduct their own sacrifice when they feel that they have found a suitable candidate.

But that is not what I am focusing on.

Personally, I am focusing on all of the very clear signs of the end times that are literally being fulfilled right in front of our eyes.

God has told us history in advance, and the Bible has a tremendous amount to say about the days that we are currently living in.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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This article was originally published by Vincent Cook at Natural News. 

In previous “Tariffs Won’t . . .” articles, I pointed out that President Trump’s tariffs won’t reverse the decline of America’s industries, save the US dollar, or optimize the well-being of productive Americans. The White House summary of the US-Japan Strategic Trade and Investment Agreement, the first deal of Trump’s “Golden Age” negotiated with a major trading partner, provides disturbing confirmation of just how perverse and outlandish the economic fallacies driving Trump’s policies have become.

The major trade provisions are that American importers will generally have to pay 15 percent “reciprocal tariffs” to the American government for the Japanese goods they buy, though for certain sectors the tariff rate will be much higher, 50 percent tariffs in the case of steel and aluminum products, for example. Specific American exporters will benefit from reductions in Japanese regulatory or quota barriers and from Japanese government purchases of their products, like a pledge to buy 100 commercial aircraft from Boeing.

There are, however, another important set of provisions dealing with what is euphemistically labeled “strategic investments” of $550 billion by the Japanese government in particular American industries—specifically loans and loan guarantees for LNG production, production of advanced fuels, and grid modernization; for semiconductor manufacturing and research; for the mining, processing, and refining of rare earth minerals; for pharmaceutical and medical device production; and for commercial and defense shipbuilding.

The curious thing about these supposedly Japanese investments in America is that the US government will retain 90 percent of the profits—in other words, only $55 billion will function like a genuine loan providing an investment return to Japan in the form of interest payments. The other $495 billion is effectively tribute being extorted from the Japanese government by the American government. Trump will control how the $550 billion is invested, giving him his own vast slush fund to play with. Trump is stepping into the role of a socialist central planner, taking a majority ownership stake in the means of production of various businesses in what almost amounts to a Leonine partnership with the Japanese government.

One important detail that is missing from the White House summary is what happens in the event that an investment generates losses instead of profits, which seems almost inevitable in the case of things like shipyards. Since the loan is being made to a fund controlled by Trump, it seems likely that the Trump administration would come up with even more costly interventions or subsidies to boost purchases of overpriced “strategic” goods rather than tamely accept the failure of one of its “strategic” investments and perhaps saddle the Japanese with partial defaults. One costly market-warping, chaos-inducing intervention naturally begets another.

Another important missing detail is how the Japanese government is supposed to come up with $550 billion dollars. While it can create unlimited quantities of yen out of thin air, yen are of little use to anyone outside Japan except to purchase Japanese exports or to invest in Japan, both of which would defeat the stated goals of the American protectionists. Another possibility is that a large portion the Bank of Japan’s existing reserves of US Treasury securities could be dumped onto American bond markets to obtain the required dollars (which would probably have to be newly created out of thin air by the Federal Reserve), but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seems to have ruled that out by stating that the sum represents “all new capital.” Either way, the plan seems to be to finance the loan by reducing the reserve cover for the yen while inflating the supply of dollars.

While some tariff advocates have claimed that “reciprocal” tariffs are meant only to provide negotiating leverage to pry open closed foreign markets for American exporters, what we observe with this deal is that such leverage is also being used to pick winners and losers among American companies and to erode the stability of the global financial system. The US-Japan trade deal represents an unholy brew combining taxes, central planning, and further inflationary destruction of fiat monies.

Of course, the Trump administration and pro-Trump pundits don’t characterize the deal this way. They are instead touting it as rebuilding and expanding America’s “core industries” and as an important component of a “once in a century industrial revival” and are particularly thrilled about what Japanese-subsidized capital expenditures will supposedly do for American industries as they try to exploit newly-protected domestic markets and newly-opened foreign markets. So how can Trump go wrong with over half a trillion dollars’ worth of capital expenditures at his discretion?

The fallacy that increased capital expenditures necessarily equals increased formation of useful capital goods leaves out of account changes in the price of capital goods and the possibility of mispricing such goods by misjudging their usefulness and the timeliness of their outputs. When people restrain their present consumption—that is, when they engage in acts of thrift—it becomes possible to divert some labor and natural resource inputs away from the production of immediate consumption goods towards the production of capital goods used in earlier stages of production. Thrift makes higher input productivity possible by furnishing additional time for the transformation of inputs into outputs. Thrift is a necessary element of all capital formation for this reason, though the returns on that capital also have to be high enough to justify the time spent waiting for them—that is, prospective returns must exceed an investor’s rate of time preference.

Without thrift providing more of the inputs physically needed to produce investment goods as well as providing the financing (as in this deal), additional capital expenditures (which then have to be financed by money creation instead) merely bid up the prices of capital goods without adding to their supply. Such asset bubbles cause costly boom-and-bust cycles that waste inputs due to mispricing of capital goods, fooling entrepreneurs into thinking that more time is available for completing production projects than is actually the case. The more time-intensive boom goods become unprofitable and have to be written off as wasted malinvestments of whatever inputs were consumed to create them. Malinvestments (in this case due to inflation-driven boom/bust cycles) are a strategic liability.

Likewise, simply increasing the physical supply of capital goods is not an end in itself; the price paid for them has to be justified by the timing and consumer valuation of their outputs. Private capitalists choose among prospective investments based on their expectations of profits or losses, using market price information to calculate which of the possible configurations of production will likely be the most profitable. As the results of their chosen production plans are realized, they then account for whatever profits and losses arise from these plans in order to help detect and correct errors in their plans.

On the other hand, governments that abolish market pricing of producer goods or otherwise defy profit-and-loss incentives when they interfere with production decisions necessarily generate non-cyclical malinvestment losses. Government planners, unconstrained by profits and losses and lacking market exchanges for whatever assets they monopolize, can’t calculate or do proper accounting and thus can’t correctly price capital goods. Rational cost-benefit calculations are impossible for Trump’s slush fund, so its planning will generate strategic liabilities too.

There is no market test to tell us which American companies should or shouldn’t be rewarded with investments from a tribute-financed slush fund, which American companies should or shouldn’t have their sales boosted by Japanese government-subsidized purchases, or which American companies should or shouldn’t join Japanese companies in having privileged access to Japanese consumers. There is no rational economic basis whatsoever for this selection of winners and losers under this agreement; just a cynical political judgment that some potential cronies in the business world will deliver more votes to Republicans and/or more swag to the Trump clan than others.

Once we dispose of these economic fallacies concerning inflation-financed capital expenditures, we are left with the sobering reality that thrift is something that has been conspicuously diminished in both the US and Japan over the past half-century, and that neither country is on a path towards an industrial revival. Policies like high tariff rates designed to curtail America’s current account deficits must curtail America’s access to foreign savings in equal measure, since net imports are what pay for foreign lending to America and for foreign direct investments in America. The US can’t look to protectionist trade deals to rescue it from the dire consequences of its own capital-consuming welfarism.

Indeed, Japan is a prime example of how protectionism fails to preserve industrial strength when profligate politicians discourage thrift and consume savings over the course of several lost decades. Japan is a country whose population is aging and shrinking at an alarming rate, and whose industries (apart from large conglomerates that have moved most of their production overseas already) are in even worse shape than America’s. Honda and Nissan recently shut down their flagship automobile plants near Tokyo. Is this the example Trump supporters want to emulate?