So, I got a clearly ex-Mo comment on the blog about the slowing growth rate of the Church.
I want to address this right now. This is a time where there is a massive sifting in the Church. It has been prophesied from the beginning. IE; wheat/tares/chaff. This happens right before the fire - where the field is cleansed prior to a new beginning of a new planting season. It is part of the deal. If people are too dense to not be able to figure out that they are either on one side of that equation or the other - then, they have spiritually de-selected themselves from a glorious opportunity to thrust themselves into the Millennial awesomeness that is coming.
I persist day to day, simply because I want to be PART of that awesomeness - and not part of the fire and the tree that has NEITHER root nor branch - because of not passing the "de-selection" process that the Savior outlined in Matthew. I want to raise my departed son in that felicity - and enjoy grand kids from my other children who qualify for those blessings. That is what drives me day to day - and to repent when I need to.
So - let me address this snide comment on the Daniel stone that rolls forth to fill the earth......(and that is supposedly not the LDS who will do it):
After the fire and the purging, those that survive will be those who are of a terrestrial order, or higher (who live a Consecrated Life). Others who refuse, simply will end up fighting other telestial people to the death, just as the Nephites and Lamanites did after they fell from their lofty Terrestrial/Consecrated perch. They will self-extinguish, if the plagues, the fire, the seas heaving and so much else do not take them. Those that remain will be those who great tens or hundreds of millions of our brethren who were led north in 721BC and at other times. There may be billions. There will be maybe a billion or so who are not LDS who are honorable and good people who, like the Jews who remain in Jerusalem, will figure out where the "true vine" is - and will largely join with God's people. The "LDS" church will shortly (within a few decades), number in the billions.
So, for the shill out there - I would probably shut my mouth and work on getting your crap together. The day comes when those who have not figured it out will have no more "second chances".
Just sayin'.....
Rant off. Charity back on.....
"The "LDS" church will shortly (within a few decades), number in the billions."
ReplyDeleteAre you sure about that?
Aren't the latter days ending within perhaps a decade?
How can there be an LDS Church when the last days are behind us?
Aren't the 144,000 going to seek out, help bring people into and administer the Church of the Firstborn?
Isn't the LDS Church preparatory to the Church of the Firstborn?
I'm confused.
It's the other way around. Billions are going to be wiped off the face of the map during the great cleansing.
Delete"For the Lord will drive men away and great shall be the exodus from the centers of the land. And while yet a TENTH of the people remain in it, or return, they shall be burned. But like the terebinth or the oak when it is felled whose stump remains alive, so shall the holy offspring be what is left standing.
There's a reason it's called a "remnant". A small piece remaining of what's left that used to be much bigger.
ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com is a very good resource that details the worldwide growth of the Church. There were one hundred stakes created during the year 2016. While some areas are stagnating (USA, EU) there are others that are booming such as Africa, parts of Latam, and Asia.
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