Or, at least, it shouldn't be...
There are two sides to this. No amount of prepping can allow you to "survive" the tribulation. On the other hand the Lord told us to "occupy till He comes" and that no one knows the day or the hour.
Imagine if Christians did know the day or the hour? would they behave irresponsibly?
Yet at the same time the Lord told us to watch and if we didn't watch He would come at an hour we don't expect.
So which is it? To me this is like a violin string, it is being pulled from two equal and opposite forces so that it is taut and makes a good sound.
We should be watching at what is happening around us. We see a great depression looming on the horizon. Some can say that this is not evidence that the day of the Lord is here because we had a great depression in the 1930s. To that I would say that Israel returned to the Jews in 1948 in one day. That is a major fulfillment of prophecy. Psalm 48, ie 19th book, 48 chapter, prophesied of this and said to "tell it to the terminal generation". Likewise Jesus told us that when the fig tree buds again this generation shall not pass away until all the things He had just listed take place. A generation is 80 years and in May of 2029 Israel will become 81. Hence prior to that all these things must take place.
Judging by how long a "great depression" would be tells us that this will be the one and only one that precedes the Lord's coming in great glory on the clouds.
Now a great depression is very significant because you need something that will encourage all the people in the world to take the mark of the beast. It is quite obvious from Revelation that one of the goals of this "mark" is to eliminate people being able to barter, hence it is a desperate move of a tyrannical government to maintain control in the midst of a great depression.
So then we should watch, we should pay attention to the meeting this month in which the US wants to hand over sovereignty to the WHO, we should pay attention to this coming great depression, and we should be well aware of the verses in the Bible that tell us where we are at.
Interestingly the book of Joel tells us a worldwide pandemic will be the signal that the Day of the Lord is at hand. Once again, we had a worldwide pandemic with the Spanish flu. However, when you read the description in Joel you realize they did not have that reaction to the pandemic. Perhaps in one or two cities, but it was not a global response like we had with Covid 19.
Of course the idea of putting a chip in every person that could be read by a scanner allowing people to buy and sell was certainly not an option back during the Spanish Flu but is something that is being discussed today.
So we can certainly see the day approaching. We can see the day of one world government approaching the day of the mark of the beast approaching, and even Ezekiel 38 seems much more likely now that just a couple of months ago.
But we need to be balanced. Provide for your family while at the same time be absolute for the Lord. There is no salvation in any other name than in the name of Jesus.
