The Second Coming

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The Second Coming

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Tabloid Predictions

• 1989 - A frozen Viking, found by oil drillers,
  will be revived by modern science.
• 1990 - Mike Tyson will be boxing champ until
  1998.
• 1994 - An earthquake will turn Florida into an
  island.
• 1995 - Disney World will be destroyed by a
  hurricane.
• 1996 - A nuclear missile will destroy an
  asteroid.
• 1998 - Rosie ODonnell will announce she will
  marry the band leader of her show.

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Childrens Questions...

• Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look
  like that or was it an accident? -Norma
• Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed
  right in church. Is that okay? -Neil
• Dear God, It rained for our whole vacation and is
  my father MAD! He said some things about you that
  people are not supposed to say, but I hope you
  will not hurt him anyway. Your friend (But I am
  not going to tell you who I am)
• Dear God, Please send me a pony. I never asked
  for anything before, You can look it up. -Bruce
• Dear God, Of all the people who work for you I
  like Noah and David the best. -Rob
• Dear God, We read Thomas Edison made light. But
  in Sunday School they said you did it. So I bet
  he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna

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Youth Questions AboutSecond Coming...

• When will be Christs second coming in glory?
• What is life going to be like before and during
  Christs return?
• How do I prepare myself so I will be ready?

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Wilford WoodruffJournal of Discourses 18111

• There never was a generation of the inhabitants
  of the earth in any age of the world who had
  greater events awaiting them than the present.
  And an age fraught with greater interest to the
  children of men than the one in which we live
  never dawned since the creation of the world.

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Marion G. RomneyConference Report, October 1966

• I hope we are all familiar with these words of
  the Lord and with his predictions concerning
  other coming events, such as the building of the
  new Jerusalem and the redemption of the old, the
  return of Enoch's Zion, and Christ's millennial
  reign. Not only do I hope that we are familiar
  with these coming events I hope also that we
  keep the vision of them continually before our
  minds. This I do because upon a knowledge of
  them, and an assurance of their reality and a
  witness that each of us may have part therein,
  rests the efficacy of Christ's admonition, be
  not troubled.

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Purposes of Prophecy

• Peace of Mind
• 23 Behold, I speak these things unto you for the
  elect's sake and you also shall hear of wars,
  and rumors of wars see that ye be not troubled,
  for all I have told you must come to pass but
  the end is not yet.(JS-Matt 123)

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Purposes of Prophecy

• Peace of Mind
• Why is it that the Latter-day Saints are
  perfectly calm and serene among all the
  convulsions of the earth--the turmoils, strife,
  war, pestilence, famine, and distress of nations?
  It is because the spirit of prophecy has made
  known to us that such things would actually
  transpire upon the earth. We understand it, and
  view it in its true light. We have learned it by
  the visions of the Almighty.(JM Grant, Journal
  of Discourses, 2147)

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Purposes of Prophecy

• So We Can Prepare and Repent
• 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? (continued)

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Purposes of Prophecy

• So We Can Prepare and Repent
• Dont 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.(Joseph
  Fielding Smith, Signs of the Times, p. 154-155)

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Purposes of Prophecy

• Strengthen our Faith
• 5 Telling them of things which must shortly come,
  that they might know and remember at the time of
  their coming that they had been made known unto
  them beforehand, to the intent that they might
  believe.(Helaman 165)

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Purposes of Prophecy

• To Keep Us From Being Deceived
• 37 And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be
  deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he
  shall send his angels before him with the great
  sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
  together the remainder of his elect from the four
  winds, from one end of heaven to the other.(JS
  Matt 137)

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Orson F. WhitneyConference Report, April 1920

• Saturday Evening of Time
• According to our Prophet's teachings, God gave to
  this planet, Mother Earth, seven thousand years
  as the period of "its temporal existence" and
  four thousand years, or four of those great days,
  had passed before Christ was crucified, while
  nearly two thousand years, or two more days, have
  gone by since. Consequently, we stand at the
  present moment in the Saturday Evening of Time,
  near the close of the sixth day, at the week's
  end of human history. Morning will break upon the
  Millennium, the thousand years of peace, the
  Sabbath of the World.

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Seven Seals

• DC 7766 Q. What are we to understand by the
  book which John saw, which was sealed on the back
  with seven seals?
• A. We are to understand that it contains the
  revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God
  the hidden things of his economy concerning this
  earth during the seven thousand years of its
  continuance, or its temporal existence.

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Seven Seals

• DC 7777 Q. What are we to understand by the
  seven seals with which it was sealed?
• A. We are to understand that the first seal
  contains the things of the first thousand years,
  and the second also of the second thousand years,
  and so on until the seventh.

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Seven Seals

• The world has had a fair trial for six thousand
  years the Lord will try the seventh thousand
  Himself "He whose right it is, will possess the
  kingdom, and reign until He has put all things
  under His feet" iniquity will hide its hoary
  head, Satan will be bound, and the works of
  darkness destroyed righteousness will be put to
  the line, and judgment to the plummet, and "he
  that fears the Lord will alone be exalted in that
  day.(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,
  5252)

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When Will the Lord Return?

• DC 7712
• 12 Q. What are we to understand by the sounding
  of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of
  Revelation?

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Christ Will Return in the 7th Seal

• DC 7712
• A. We are to understand that as God made the
  world in six days, and on the seventh day he
  finished his work, and sanctified it, and also
  formed man out of the dust of the earth, even so,
  in the beginning of the seventh thousand years
  will the Lord God sanctify the earth, and
  complete the salvation of man, and judge all
  things, and shall redeem all things, except that
  which he hath not put into his power, when he
  shall have sealed all things, unto the end of all
  things and the sounding of the trumpets of the
  seven angels are the preparing and finishing of
  his work, in the beginning of the seventh
  thousand yearsthe preparing of the way before
  the time of his coming.

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Christ Will Return in the 7th Seal

• DC 7713
• 13 Q. When are the things to be accomplished,
  which are written in the 9th chapter of
  Revelation?A. They are to be accomplished after
  the opening of the seventh seal, before the
  coming of Christ.

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Can the Lord Return Today?

• Judah must return, Jerusalem must be rebuilt, and
  the temple, and water come out from under the
  temple, and the waters of the Dead Sea be healed.
  It will take some time to rebuild the walls of
  the city and the temple, Etc. and all this must
  be done before the Son of Man will make his
  appearance. There will be wars and rumors of
  wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth
  beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the
  moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the
  seas heaving beyond their bounds then will
  appear one grand sign of the Son of Man in
  heaven. But what will the world do? They will say
  it is a planet, a comet, etc. But the Son of Man,
  which will be as the light of the morning cometh
  out of the east.(History of the Church 5337)

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Can the Lord Return Today?

• The people called Millerites, believe in the
  second coming of the Savior, and they have set a
  great many days when it should take place. But he
  did not come and he never will come until the
  revelations of God are fulfilled and a people are
  prepared for his coming. He will never come until
  the Jews are gathered home and have re-built
  their Temple and city, and the Gentiles have gone
  up there to battle against them. He will never
  come until his Saints have built up Zion, and
  have fulfilled the revelations which have been
  spoken concerning it. He will never come until
  the Gentiles throughout the whole Christian world
  have been warned by the inspired elders of
  Israel.(Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses,
  18111-112)

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Can the Lord Return Today?

• Before the coming of Christ, the great war,
  sometimes called Armageddon, will take place as
  spoken of by Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39. Another
  war of Gog and Magog will be after the
  millennium.(Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines
  of Salvation, Vol.3, p.45)

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He that feareth me shall be looking forth for the
great day of the Lord to come, even for the signs
of the coming of the Son of Man. (DC 4539)
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The Battle of Armageddon

• Revelation 1616 JST
• 16 And He gathered them together into a place
  called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

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Armageddon(Har Megiddo - Mountain of Megiddo)
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Gog and Magog

• Revelation 916
• 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen
  were two hundred thousand thousand and I heard
  the number of them.

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Gog and MagogShall Come Like a Storm

• Ezekiel 384,9
• 4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
  thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all
  thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them
  clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great
  company with bucklers and shields, all of them
  handling swords.
• 9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou
  shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou,
  and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

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Jews Refining FireTwo Thirds of Jews Will Not
Survive

• Zechariah 138-9
• 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the
  land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be
  cut off and die but the third shall be left
  therein.
• 9 And I will bring the third part through the
  fire, and will refine them as silver is refined,
  and will try them as gold is tried they shall
  call on my name, and I will hear them I will
  say, It is my people and they shall say, The
  LORD is my God.

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Two Prophets

• DC 7715
• 15 Q. What is to be understood by the two
  witnesses, in the eleventh chapter of
  Revelation?A. They are two prophets that are to
  be raised up to the Jewish nation in the last
  days, at the time of the restoration, and to
  prophesy to the Jews after they are gathered and
  have built the city of Jerusalem in the land of
  their fathers.

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Two Prophets 3½ Year Ministry Typifies Christ

• Revelation 112-3
• 2 But the court which is without the temple leave
  out, and measure it not for it is given unto the
  Gentiles and the holy city shall they tread
  under foot forty and two months.
• 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses,
  and they shall prophecy a thousand two hundred
  and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

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Two Prophets HavePower Over Elements

• Revelation 113,4,6
• 3 And I will give power unto my two
  witnesses...4 These are the two olive trees, and
  the two candlesticks standing before the God of
  the earth.6 These have power to shut heaven,
  that it rain not in the days of their prophecy
  and have power over waters to turn them to blood,
  and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often
  as they will.

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Two ProphetsWill Become Martyrs

• Revelation 115,7
• 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth
  out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies
  and if any man will hurt them, he must in this
  manner be killed.7 And when they shall have
  finished their testimony, the beast that
  ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make
  war against them, and shall overcome them, and
  kill them.

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Gog and MagogWill Not Bury Two Prophets

• Revelation 118,9
• 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street
  of the great city, which spiritually is called
  Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
  crucified.9 And they of the people and kindreds
  and tongues and nations shall see their dead
  bodies three days and an half, and shall not
  suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

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Savior Provides Way of Escape For Israel

• Zechariah 144-54 And his feet shall stand in
  that day upon the mount of Olives, which is
  before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of
  Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward
  the east and toward the west, and there shall be
  a very great valley and half of the mountain
  shall remove toward the north, and half of it
  toward the south.
• 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the
  mountains for the valley of the mountains shall
  reach unto Azal yea, ye shall flee, like as ye
  fled from before the earthquake in the days of
  Uzziah king of Judah and the LORD my God shall
  come, and all the saints with thee.

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Mount of Olives
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Moses Typified Christ

• All things which have been given of God from the
  beginning of the world, unto man, are the
  typifying of him. (2 Nephi 114)
• The third of the Jews that remain are huddled
  against the Mount of Olives in the Kidron Valley
  with Gog and Magog descending upon them.
• Just as Moses divided the Red Sea, the Mount of
  Olives divides and provides an escape for the
  Jews from their enemies.
• Christ is the Deliverer for the Jews spiritually
  and physically at the Mount of Olives.

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A Great Plague

• A great earthquake, such as was not since men
  were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and
  so great.(Revelation 1618-19)
• Jerusalem is divided into three
  parts.(Revelation 1618-19)
• And there fell upon men a great hail out of
  heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent
  (70 lbs).(Revelation 1621)

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Judah Will be Converted in One Day

• DC 4551-5351 And then shall the Jews look upon
  me and say What are these wounds in thine hands
  and in thy feet?
• 52 Then shall they know that I am the Lord for I
  will say unto them These wounds are the wounds
  with which I was wounded in the house of my
  friends. I am he who was lifted up, I am Jesus
  that was crucified. I am the Son of God
• 53 And then shall they weep because of their
  iniquities then shall they lament because they
  persecuted their king.

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Christ will Enter Jerusalem Temple Through Golden
Gate

• Ezekiel 432, 4
• 2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
  came from the way of the east and his voice was
  like a noise of many waters and the earth shined
  with his glory.
• 4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house
  by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward
  the east.

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The Golden Gate
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At Night it Will Appear as Day

• Zechariah 14 6-7
• 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the
  light shall not be clear, nor dark
• 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to
  the LORD, not day, nor night but it shall come
  to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

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Neal A. Maxwell Conference Report, October 1981

• Yes, Armageddon lies ahead. But so does
  Adam-ondi-Ahman!

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Christs Latter-day Appearances

• Adam-ondi-Ahman
• Will appear to the righteous Saints who have
  gathered to the New Jerusalem here in America.
• Another appearance of the Lord will be to the
  Jews at the Battle of Armageddon.
• Yet another appearance of Christ will be to the
  rest of the world His coming in glory.

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How Do We Prepare for the Coming Events?

• DC 4556-57
• 56 And at that day, when I shall come in my
  glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I
  spake concerning the ten virgins.
• 57 For they that are wise and have received the
  truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their
  guide, and have not been deceived--verily I say
  unto you, they shall not be hewn down and cast
  into the fire, but shall abide the day.

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Ezra Taft Benson The Teachings of Ezra Taft
Benson, 552

• The way to prepare for the responsibilities of
  manhood and womanhood is by living up to the
  responsibilities of youth. The way to build a
  solid basis for meeting big problems in the
  future is by carefully and soberly meeting
  smaller problems in the present.

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Ezra Taft Benson The Teachings of Ezra Taft
Benson, 106-107

• There is a real sifting going on in the Church,
  and it is going to become more pronounced with
  the passing of time. It will sift the wheat from
  the tares, because we face some difficult days,
  the like of which we have never experienced in
  our lives. And those days are going to require
  faith and testimony and family unity, the like of
  which we have never had. We must prepare for the
  great day of the Lord. This preparation must
  consist of more than just casual membership in
  the Church. We must be guided by personal
  revelation and the counsel of the living prophet
  so that we will not be deceived.

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J Reuben Clark, Jr.Conference Report, October
1948

• Now our Prophet, Joseph Smith, and the prophets
  since his time gave certain great principles that
  would save the world if the world would but
  listen. We do not lack a prophet what we lack is
  a listening ear by the people and a determination
  to live as God has commanded. That is all we
  need. The way has been made perfectly clear.

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Gordon B. HinckleyConference Report, April 1995

• This is a time to be strong. It is a time to move
  forward without hesitation, knowing well the
  meaning, the breadth and the importance of our
  mission. It is a time to do what is right
  regardless of the consequences that might follow.
  It is a time to be found keeping the commandments.