"it is not your physical family and town that is going to be destroyed, necessarily."
the physical is always a shadow of the spiritual. but you need to decide which is more real - the physical or the spiritual?
2 Kings 6:17
And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.