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The Second Coming: part 5

Destruction of the Wicked

What do we know about the destruction of the wicked that is to occur at the second Coming of Jesus Christ? The Lord and His prophets have told us a great deal about this part of the second coming. Unfortunately, over the centuries, ever since Christ taught that He would be coming again to the earth to cleanse the earth from sin, there have been many false doctrines taught that have confused the minds of Christ’s followers.

Here is a list of a few of the things that the scriptures and modern day prophets have assured us will occur:

1.Prior to Christ’s coming, the world will greatly increase in evil
2.There will be a separation of the wheat and the tares
3.The righteous will be brought to the safety of Zion
4.The Lord will be wearing red at His coming
5.The wicked will be destroyed
6.There will be a second and final destruction of the wicked after the millennium
7.The righteous need not fear

Prior to Christ’s Coming, Evil will Increase

“And in that day shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be in commotion, and men’s hearts shall fail them, and they shall say that Christ delayeth his coming until the end of the earth.
“And the love of men shall wax cold, and iniquity shall abound.”
(D&C 45:26–27.)

Evil is increasing in the world. As the church progresses and grows, so will evil. President Spencer W. Kimball said:

“The progress of the church will be paralleled by a growing wickedness among mankind… in proportion to the spread of the gospel among the nations of the earth so would the power of Satan rise.”
(in Church News, 30 June 1979, p. 5)

One of the prophecies of the Latter-days is that peace would be taken from the earth:

D&C 1:33-35
33 And he that repents not, from him shall be taken even the light which he has received; for my Spirit shall not always strive with man, saith the Lord of Hosts.
34 And again, verily I say unto you, O inhabitants of the earth: I the Lord am willing to make these things known unto all flesh;
35 For I am no respecter of persons, and will that all men shall know that the day speedily cometh; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand, when peace shall be taken from the earth, and the devil shall have power over his own dominion.

That prophecy has been fulfilled.

Dallin H. Oaks:
“We are living in the prophesied time ‘when peace shall be taken from the earth’, when ‘all things shall be in commotion’ and ‘men’s hearts shall fail them’. There are many temporal causes of commotion, including wars and natural disasters, but an even greater cause of current ‘commotion’ is spiritual. Viewing our surroundings through the lens of faith and with an eternal perspective, we see all around us a fulfillment of the prophecy that ‘the devil shall have power over his own dominion’…. Evil that used to be localized and covered like a boil is now legalized and paraded like a banner. The most fundamental roots and bulwarks of civilization are questioned or attacked. Nations disavow their religious heritage. Marriage and family responsibilities are discarded as impediments to personal indulgence.”
Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, May 2004, 9

President Joseph Fielding Smith also confirmed that the prophecy of peace being taken from the earth has been fulfilled, and warned us what the result of that curse is:

“Now the Lord has withdrawn His Spirit from the world. Do not let this thought become confused in your minds. The Spirit He has withdrawn from the world is not the Holy Ghost (for they never had that!), but it is the light of truth, spoken of in our scriptures as the Spirit of Christ, which is given to every man that cometh into the world, as you find recorded in Section 84 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

“Now because of the wickedness of the world, that Spirit has been withdrawn, and when the Spirit of the Lord is not striving with men, the spirit of Satan is. Therefore, we may be sure that the time has come spoken of in Section 1 of the Doctrine and Covenants. . . . Peace has been taken from the earth. The devil has power over his own dominion. The Spirit of the Lord has been withdrawn. Not because the Lord desires to withdraw that Spirit, but because of the wickedness of mankind, it becomes necessary that this Spirit of the Lord be withdrawn.” (The Predicted Judgments, Brigham Young University Speeches of the Year [Provo, 21 Mar. 1967], pp. 5–6.)

Without the light of Christ (conscience) to guide it, society is quickly approaching the fulness of iniquity that always precedes the destruction of the wicked. From ancient to modern times, the most common reference to the fulness of iniquity has been Sodom and Gomorrah. Obviously this is because that is a city that became so wicked that the Lord simply had to destroy it. Our society is not so different.

Gordon B. Hinckley:
“We live in a season when fierce men do terrible and despicable things. We live in a season of war. We live in a season of arrogance. We live in a season of wickedness, pornography, immorality. All of the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah haunt our society. Our young people have never faced a greater challenge. We have never seen more clearly the lecherous face of evil.”
Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Nov. 2001, 4

Gordon B. Hinckley:
“No one need tell you that we are living in a very difficult season in the history of the world. Standards are dropping everywhere. Nothing seems to be sacred any more…I do not know that things were worse in the times of Sodom and Gomorrah…We see similar conditions today. They prevail all across the world. I think our Father must weep as He looks down upon His wayward sons and daughters.”
Gordon B. Hinckley, Worldwide Training Meeting, Jan 2004

Richard G. Scott:
“Much of the world is being engulfed in a rising river of degenerate filth, with the abandonment of virtue, righteousness, personal integrity, traditional marriage, and family life. Sodom and Gomorrah was the epitome of unholy life in the Old Testament. It was isolated then; now that condition is spread over the world. Satan skillfully manipulates the power of all types of media and communication. His success has greatly increased the extent and availability of such degrading and destructive influences worldwide.”
Richard G. Scott, Ensign, May 2004, 100

Boyd K. Packer
“Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that which surrounds us now. Words of profanity, vulgarity, and blasphemy are heard everywhere. Unspeakable wickedness and perversion were once hid in dark places; now they are in the open, even accorded legal protection. At Sodom and Gomorrah these things were localized. Now they are spread across the world, and they are among us.”
Boyd K. Packer, CES broadcast, Feb 6, 2004

Boyd K. Packer:
“I know of nothing in the history of the Church or in the history of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds the wickedness and depravity which surrounds us now. Satan uses every intrigue to disrupt the family. The sacred relationship between man and woman, husband and wife, through which mortal bodies are conceived and life is passed from one generation to the next generation, is being showered with filth. Profanity, vulgarity, blasphemy, and pornography are broadcast into the homes and minds of the innocent. Unspeakable wickedness, perversion, and abuse—not even exempting little children—once hidden in dark places, now seeks protection from courts and judges.”
Boyd K. Packer, BYU Law Society Devotional, 28 Feb. 2004

Thomas S. Monson:
Today we have a rebirth of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah. From seldom-read pages in dusty Bibles they come forth as real cities in a real world, depicting a real malady—pernicious permissiveness.”
Thomas S. Monson, Ensign, July 2001, 5

These judgments will come. It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when.

Joseph Fielding Smith said:

“The world is rapidly coming to its end, that is, the end of the days of wickedness. When it is fully ripe in iniquity the Lord will come in the clouds of heaven to take vengeance on the ungodly, for his wrath is kindled against them. Do not think that he delayeth his coming. Many of the signs of his coming have been given, so we may, if we will, know that the day is even now at our doors.
(Doctrines of Salvation, 3:2–3.)


Separation of the Wheat and the Tares

Which causeth silence to reign, and all eternity is pained, and the angels are waiting the great command to reap down the earth, to gather the tares that they may be burned; and, behold, the enemy is combined.
(D&C 38: 12)

This prophecy was given in 1831. Sixty three years later, President Woodruff declared:

“God has held the angels of destruction for many years, lest they should reap down the wheat with the tares. But I want to tell you now, that those angels have left the portals of heaven, and they stand over this people and this nation now, and are hovering over the earth waiting to pour out the judgments. And from this very day they shall be poured out. Calamities and troubles are increasing in the earth, and there is a meaning to these things. Remember this, and reflect upon these matters. If you do your duty, and I do my duty, we’ll have protection, and shall pass through the afflictions in peace and in safety.” (Young Women’s Journal, Aug. 1894, pp. 512–13.)

President Woodruff spoke of these angels at the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple. Joseph Fielding Smith was present at that dedication, later spoke on the subject:

“One day while I was sitting in the presence of my father [President Joseph F. Smith] back about 1908 or 9, somewhere in there, I called attention to these statements of President Woodruff, and I said I would like to go over the records from the time of the dedication of the Temple up until now and see what we can find in regard to calamities, destructions, plagues; and he encouraged me to do it, and so I did. So I went over the newspapers and over the magazines and jotted down year by year the destructions, the commotions among men, everything in the nature of a calamity, and to my great astonishment each year they increased, and they have been increasing ever since I quit making that record. I was greatly astonished by it; and when I called the attention of one of my neighbors to it, he almost got angry at me and he said, ‘Oh, well, we have got better facilities now for discovering these things. I don’t believe it.’ And he is a member of the Church, too, but seemed to lack faith in these predictions. . . .

“This will be astonishing to you, I am sure, and I copied this from the [Literary] Digest of January 20, 1934.

“‘Two scientists charting the European record find that the indexed number of Wars rose from 2.678 in the twelfth to 13,735.98 in the twentieth century.

“‘Does war tend to decline as nations become more civilized? Many philosophers have said so; but now two sociologists of Harvard University have turned the cold and dispassionate eye of science upon the question, and have decided that future wars, fiercer than any ever fought before, apparently can be avoided only by a miracle. Far from declining, wars increase in number and intensity as nations progress, and the worst flareup since the dawn of history has occurred in our own century.’

“‘Now, of course, he had reference to the war from 1914 to 1918.

“‘These scientists are Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard, and Nicholas N. Golovin, formerly Lieutenant-General in the Imperial Russian army. They have reached their conclusions through a study of all the wars known to have taken place in Europe since Greece and the Western Roman Empire over a period of more than 2,400 years—from 500 B.C. to 1925 A.D. During this period in Greece, Rome, Central Europe, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands and Russia, there occurred 902 wars (not battles).

“‘Each was studied from five points of view, the duration of the war, the size of the fighting force, the number of casualties, including killed and wounded, the number of countries involved, and the proportion of the combatants to the total population of the belligerent nations.

“‘From these five “variables” a total indexed number was computed for each war, in order that they might be reasonably expressed in terms of a common denominator.’

“Now, that’s the quotation. Then [in 1936] I made these remarks.

“Out of this study these scientists declare that they have discovered that war has tended to increase over all Europe in the late centuries. They say they have learned that in these countries war grew from 2.678 in the twelfth century to 13,735.98 in the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century. Their tables show the growth by centuries. Up to the seventeenth century the wars were comparatively insignificant. Beginning with that century war increased during the eighteenth, with a lull in the nineteenth, yet in that century they were more than 100 times greater than in medieval times.

“‘These men conclude that “all commendable hopes that war will disappear in the near future are based on nothing more substantial than hope of a belief in miracles.”’

“And then I made this prediction:

“‘If prophecy is to be fulfilled, there awaits the world a conflict more dreadful than any the world has yet seen.’ (Progress of Man, pp. 402–404.)

“Now I want to make some comments in regard to the statement by President Woodruff and this parable.

“The Lord said that the sending forth of these angels was to be at the end of the harvest, and the harvest is the end of the world. Now, that ought to cause us some very serious reflections. And the angels have been pleading, as I have read it to you, before the Lord to be sent on their mission. Until 1893 the Lord said to them no, and then He set them loose. According to the revelation of President Woodruff, the Lord sent them out on that mission.

“What do we gather out of that? That we are at the time of the end. This is the time of the harvest. This is the time spoken of which is called the end of the world.”
(Signs of the Times, pp. 116–21.)

The righteous will be Brought to the Safety of Zion

This topic will be discussed in part 8 of this series

The Lord will be Wearing Red at His Coming

“And the Lord shall be red in his apparel, and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine-vat.”
D&C 133:48

President Joseph Fielding Smith:
“Isaiah has pictured this great day when the Lord shall come with his garments, or apparel, red and glorious, to take vengeance on the ungodly. (Isa. 64:1–6.) This will be a day of mourning to the wicked, but a day of gladness to all who have kept his commandments. Do not let anyone think that this is merely figurative language, it is literal, and as surely as we live that day of wrath will come when the cup of iniquity is full. We have received a great many warnings. The great day of the Millennium will come in; the wicked will be consumed and peace and righteousness will dwell upon all the face of the earth for one thousand years.”
(Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:191–92.)

Neal A. Maxwell:
Soon, He who was once mockingly dressed in purple will come again, attired in red apparel, reminding us whose blood redeemed us. (See D&C 133:48–49.)
Neal A. Maxwell, “‘O, Divine Redeemer’,” Ensign, Nov 1981, 8

Why will He be wearing red? Isaiah asked the Lord the same question:

Isaiah 63:2-4
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

The Wicked will be Destroyed at His Coming

“And again, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come, or the destruction of the wicked”
(JST, Matt. 24:32)

Part of the destruction of the wicked will take place at their own hands.

“And there shall be earthquakes also in divers places, and many desolations; yet men will harden their hearts against me, and they will take up the sword, one against another, and they will kill one another.” (D&C 45:31–33.)

Elder Bruce R. McConkie:
“Those with refined senses find it difficult to conceive of the desolation, destruction, and death that will prevail during the final great battles ushering in Christ’s reign of peace. So great shall be the slaughter and mass murder, the carnage and gore, the butchery and violent death of warring men, that their decaying bodies ‘shall stop the noses of the passengers,’ and it shall be a task of mammoth proportions merely to dispose of them. Then shall Ezekiel’s prophecy be fulfilled that every feathered fowl and every beast of the field shall assemble to ‘eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth.’ (Ezek. 39.) And then shall the cry go forth of which John wrote: ‘Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.’ (Rev. 19:17–18.) That all this is an actual, literal supper, an horrible but real event yet to be, has been specifically confirmed in latter-day revelation. (D. & C. 29:18–21.)”
(Mormon Doctrine, p. 772.)

President Joseph Fielding Smith:
“I know these are unpleasant things. It is not a pleasant thing even for me to stand here and tell you that this is written in the Scriptures. If the Lord has a controversy with the nations, He will put them to the sword. Their bodies shall lie unburied like dung upon the earth. That is not nice, is it, but should we not know it? Is it not our duty to read these things and understand them? Don’t you think the Lord has given us these things that we might know and we might prepare ourselves through humility, through repentance, through faith, that we might escape from these dreadful conditions that are portrayed by these ancient prophets? That is why I am reading them. I feel just as keenly as you do about the condition, and I pray for it to come to an end, but I want it to come to an end right.”
(Signs of the Times, pp. 154–55.)

What is not destroyed by man’s own hand will be destroyed by fire. At Christ’s coming, everything that is of a corrupt or telestial nature will be destroyed.

D&C 101:24
And every corruptible thing, both of man, or of the beasts of the field, or of the fowls of the heavens, or of the fish of the sea, that dwells upon all the face of the earth, shall be consumed;

Gospel Principles:
When Jesus Christ comes again to the earth… He will cleanse the earth… At that time the wicked will be destroyed. All things that are corrupt will be burned, and the earth will be cleansed by fire (see D&C 101:24–25).
“Chapter 43: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ,” Gospel Principles, 277

Though there is great symbolism in the use of the term “fire,” the prophets have taught that much of this destruction by fire will be literal.

President Joseph Fielding Smith:
“It is not a figure of speech that is meaningless, or one not to be taken literally when the Lord speaks of the burning. All through the scriptures we have the word of the Lord that at his coming the wicked and the rebellious will be as stubble and will be consumed. Isaiah has so prophesied. . . . Surely the words of the Lord are not to be received lightly or considered meaningless.” (Church History and Modern Revelation, 1:238.)

Isaiah 13:9, 11-13
9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 24:5-6
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

At this destruction, the wicked will be destroyed.

Joseph Smith:
“The earth will soon be reaped—that is, the wicked must soon be destroyed from off the face of the earth, for the Lord hath spoken it, and who can stay the hand of the Lord, or who is there that can measure arms with the Almighty, for at his commands the heavens and the earth must pass away.”
“Chapter 21: The Second Coming and the Millennium,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007),248–60

These warnings are not limited to those who are not members of the church. All within the church who have become wicked will also be destroyed at His coming.

Joseph Fielding Smith:
I… testify, that unless the Latter-day Saints will live their religion, keep their covenants with God and their brethren, honor the priesthood which they bear, and try faithfully to bring themselves into subjection to the laws of God, they will be the first to fall beneath the judgments of the Almighty, for his judgments will begin at his own house.

Therefore, those who have made a covenant with the Lord by baptism, and have broken that covenant, who profess to be saints and are not, but are sinners, and covenant-breakers, and partakers of the sins of Babylon, most assuredly will “receive of her plagues,” for it is written that the righteous will barely escape [see Revelation 18:4; D&C 63:34]. This is my testimony in relation to these matters. We rely upon the word of the Lord in these things, and not upon the word of man, for not only have angels, but God Almighty has spoken from the heavens in this our own age of the world, and we know his word is true.
“Chapter 44: Preparing for the Second Coming of Christ,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, 389

The Second and Final Destruction of the Wicked After the Millennium

One of the reasons it can be confusing to study the end of the world and the end of the wicked is that there is to be two separated times that the wicked will be destroyed. At Christ’s coming, the wicked will be destroyed, and only Terrestrial and Celestial people will remain once that destruction is complete.

But After the Millennium, Satan will be released for a time. During the short season that he is again at large, much of mankind will again become wicked, again reaching the fulness of iniquity. There will be a great battle at that time between good and evil. Then will come the final destruction of all wickedness on the earth.

Speaking of the time at the end of the Millennium, when this great battle takes place, Orson Pratt said:

“There will be a great division of the people. The Saints then, will have become very numerous, probably more numerous than ever before; and they will be obliged to gather together in one place, as we now do from the four quarters of the earth. . . . Satan will gather his army. . . . He with his army will come against the Saints, and the beloved city, and encompass them round about. His army will be so great that it will be able to come upon the Saints on all sides: he is to encompass their camp. Because of the favorable position he is to hold, in that great last battle, and because of the vast number of his army, he doubtless believes that he will get the mastery and subdue the earth and possess it. I do not think he fully understands all about the designs of God.” (In Journal of Discourses, 18:346.)

Orson Pratt goes on to say that those who are fighting with satan do “not rebel in ignorance or dwindle in unbelief, as the Lamanites did; but they will sin wilfully against the law of heaven, and so great will the power of Satan be over them, that he will gather them together against the Saints and against the beloved city, and fire will come down out of heaven and consume them.” (Orson Pratt, in Journal of Discourses, 16:322.)

This great battle is often referred to as the battle of Gog and Magog, or the battle of Armageddon. However, these terms are also used in reference to a great battle to precede the second coming of Christ. To read more about these two great battles, go to the footnote, Wars.

The scriptures speak of a new heaven and a new earth.

Speaking of the passing away and renewal of the earth, President Joseph Fielding Smith:

“[It] does not mean that this earth shall pass away and another take its place, and the heaven thereof shall pass away, and another heaven take its place, but that the earth and its heaven shall, after passing away through death, be renewed again in immortality. This earth is living and must die, but since it keeps the law it shall be restored through the resurrection by which it shall become celestialized and the abode of celestial beings. The next verse of this revelation explains this as follows: [D&C 29:24–25].

“So we see that the Lord intends to save, not only the earth and the heavens, not only man who dwells upon the earth, but all things which he has created. The animals, the fishes of the sea, the fowls of the air, as well as man, are to be re-created, or renewed, through the resurrection, for they too are living souls.” (In Conference Report, Oct. 1928, pp. 99–100; see also D&C 88:17–19, 25–26.)

The Righteous Need Not Fear

Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen.
D&C 87:8

With all the destructions about to occur, how can the righteous be sure of safety?

Vaughn J. Featherstone:
“Before the Savior comes the world will darken. The time will come when even the elect will begin to lose hope if they do not come often to the temples. I believe that the Saints will come to the temples not only to do vicarious work but also to find a God-given haven of peace. True and faithful Latter-day Saints the world over will long to bring their children to the temple for service and for safety. The Lord has promised that He will ‘suddenly come to [His] temple.’ We need to prepare for that day. There are those among our youth today who will be someday called to the holy apostleship. The rest of us are walking with them daily, unaware that one day God will move His hand and the mantle of apostleship will rest upon them. We must keep those who have been so foreordained sweet, clean, and pure in our wicked world. Mothers cradle in their arms babes who will yet become God’s living oracles.

“There are great, unseen hosts in the temple. I believe deceased prophets of all dispensations visit the temples. those who attend the temple will feel their strength and companionship. We will not be alone in the house of the Lord. Faithful, endowed members of the Church who keep all their covenants and properly wear their sacred coverings will be safe as if protected behind temple walls. The covenants and ordinances will fill them with faith as a living fire. In a day of desolating sickness, scorched earth, barren wastes, sickening plagues, disease, destruction, and death, we as a people… will abide in places of refuge from the storm. The Savior will come and honor His people. Those who are prepared and therefore spared on that glorious, triumphant day will be a temple-loving people. They will know Him…the redeemed ‘shall mention the loving kindness of their Lord, and all that he has bestowed upon them according to his goodness.’ “D&C 133:48″D&C 133:49They will all join in one grand hosanna that will ring from one end of eternity to the other, a hosanna shout to God and the Lamb…They will bow down at His feet and worship Him as the Lord of lords, King of kings. They will bathe His feet with their tears, and He will weep and bless them for having suffered through some of the greatest trials ever known to man. He will be filled with compassion, His heart will swell wide as eternity, and He will love them as no mortal can love. He will bring peace that will last a thousand years, and they who have become his children of the covenant will dwell with Him. Let us prepare this special future generation with faith to surmount every trial and every condition. We will do it in our holy, sacred temples.”
Vaughn J. Featherstone, The Incomparable Christ, p. 7.

One of the great messages of the Book of Mormon is that the righteous need not fear. Speaking of these destructions to come, Nephi said:

1 Ne. 22: 17, 22
17 Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if it so be that the fulness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore, the righteous need not fear; for thus saith the prophet, they shall be saved, even if it so be as by fire.
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22 And the righteous need not fear, for they are those who shall not be confounded. But it is the kingdom of the devil, which shall be built up among the children of men, which kingdom is established among them which are in the flesh—

23 …yea, in fine, all those who belong to the kingdom of the devil are they who need fear, and tremble, and quake; they are those who must be brought low in the dust; they are those who must be consumed as stubble; and this is according to the words of the prophet.

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The Second Coming Series

Part 1:Studying the Signs of the Second Coming of Christ

Part 2:The Restoration and Spreading of the Gospel

Part 3:The Earth in Turmoil

Part 4:The Gathering of Israel

Part 5:Destruction of the Wicked

Part 6:The Day is at Hand

Part 7:Three Comings

Part 8:Zion

Part 9:Conditions During the Millennium

Part 10:The Work and Purpose of the Millennium

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2 Responses

  1. sagetracker says:

    This is so fascinating. I was especially interested to read the part where President Woodruff said that the increasing calamities on the earth are brought about by the hands of the angels of destruction. It was was also interesting that when Joseph Fielding Smith decided to track the increase in natural disasters and such his neighbor replied by saying ‘Oh, well, we have got better facilities now for discovering these things. I don’t believe it.’ How often do we hear that today?! I had no idea people were saying that back then. That is so interesting.

  2. Chas Hathaway says:

    Yeah, and they’ve been saying it ever since. But even since we’ve had such ability to track the calamaties around the world, they’ve been increasing.

    So now they just change it to things like, “oh, well, this is just what we’re doing to ourselves by causing global warming.” If it is global warming, then the way I see it, we better get ready even faster than we’ve been doing, because now scientists are projecting major natural calamities to come out of this problem. The prophets never said global warming wouldn’t be the cause of some of these disasters.

    If science is now backing up what the prophets have been saying, then I think it’s time the world starts paying attention to the prophets.

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