He selected Thomas and a bunch of other imperfect humans to be disciples. I take great comfort in that, for obvious reasons.
I believe Lon knew he was getting ready to meet his Creator too. And although only God knows for sure...I believe we will see Lon in Heaven one of these days.
No matter what happens you have prophecies of people predicting the end, to be safe buy some of Jim Bakers freeze dried food buckets just in case.