THEY THAT COME WILL BURN THEM - A MARVEL OUS MYSTERY

 I have scratched my head over this statement in scripture about those that are coming in the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord.

I always interpreted this phrase to be the fire that would consume the entire planet when it is purified entirely by fire.  It really will not be that event.  It speaks of a people that will come that will destroy the wicked that oppose them.

A friend of mine pointed out that it will be a people of superior technology - likely the ten tribes that are returning.  They will back up Ephraim at a critical time when we are getting chastened by the wicked for having been the drunkards that we are/have been.  For having really screwed things up when we could have done markedly better in our roles.

So, here is our future from the comments on a recent piece:

They won't come walking. My father saw them in vision arriving outside of Cardston by large flying ships that didn't require runways.

These guys will come with the tech they have which is appreciably greater than our own.  We tend to thing we are pretty special stuff.  If we were righteous enough over 2500 years, we would actually have amazing tech.  But many times, wars and etc either serve to improve or stifle tech.  Many times, it is a stifling for those who lose in that the efforts that they could have put into peacable pursuits, are wasted on killing our fellow man over trivial reasons.  All of that talent mouldering in the soil could have been among those who made the next amazing breakthrough to bring mankind to the next level.  For those who survive war, often the dysfunction they bring home (horrific scenes playing out in their minds over and over) can be a debilitating thing.  For my wife's stepdad, it was a stumbling block for him knowing the people he had killed as he was lobbing shells over the hill into a village.  The orders may have been just a simple set of coordinates, but the knowledge was there that lives (some innocent - just people trying to defend their wives, their homes, their lands from a foreign invader), were being taken in the process of carrying out his orders.  Those feelings of guilt often translate into "Why try? My salvation is already in jeopardy....".  It is a real phenomenon among those of us who end up going down the path of sin and thus my constant attack of the "gateway sin" whether is be drugs, swearing, stealing, lying, pornography, etc.  Once you start down a path, the great deception is that you cannot turn back and turning back becomes exponentially harder the further down a dark path one ventures.  Until you are circled about everlastingly in the chains of addiction and hell, as scripture says.  And there truly is a point of no return wherein the devil seals you his and it becomes everlastingly too late.  Yes, there is a point.  So that thinking, along with a personal weakness of his (actions of another selfish person against him as well as a drinking problem), is what led to his violating my wife's innocence.  And we already know about the statement of the millstone and drowning, etc.  That is a much heavier sentence than wondering if your salvation is in question over acts of war (possible crimes against humanity in a war-zone grey area of active civilian combatants/guerillas vs innocent civilians).

So, in short - we have wasted COLLOSSAL amounts of efforts fighting wars against our fellow man when we could have applied that effort to coming up with amazing tech to feed our populations and to provide clean water.  My wife and I get disgusted and very upset when we consider that a large proportion of the population today STILL do not have clean water and proper sanitation in the world.  We should be WELL beyond that hurdle.  The wealth of the west should be used to single-handedly strike a blow to these relatively simple problems.  If I know people are dying and I have a thousand bucks in the bank and that money can relieve their suffering, then my role is to simply provide relief and worry about wealth later on.  The thinking that a $110 Billion (with a B) rainy day fund is going to be used to bring in the millennium, then the thinking is selfish, greedy or misinformed at best.  I think using even just a portion of that wealth to alleviate some world problems is among the things that will do the most good at spreading the word or to bring in the Millennium....  A good well punched in the right spot likely will last forever.  Stock gains and dividends have a habit of melting away....

When these people do show up, their tech will dwarf ours.  Movies like Independence Day and most of the recent Marvel comic movies show these people who come as the oppressors and ones that must be fought.  I am sorely afraid that I will be on the wrong side of the equation again and we will have statements from the One World gads including from those in leadership in the Church that will be clamoring for us to strike hard to eliminate the "threat".  Just as with my clamor that the current situation is neither safe nor effective and that you are being a good global citizen to reject the hoax, my overtures to embrace the ones that come will be drowned out by those who will say that they will endanger the global citizenry and that they are indeed "hostile" and a "threat".  Again, I will be considered an apostate for not following the leadership of the day.

I maintain the position that, just as we have been propagandized to believe that "doctor knows best", we are being conditioned to believe that the watchers that the 10 tribes will come to alleviate us from, are actually the good guys.  Just as with this stupid jab, a lion share of the Church will get it wrong and be actually fighting on satan's side.  And as it says in the D&C, these will be the good people of the earth who were deceived and whom will be give a place of glory - just not in Father's presence.  I maintain this jab debacle is the same kind of thing.  People who cave over money, job, land, position, title, or due to peer pressure will find they have sold themselves short.  I possess no keys to the final judgment, but the D&C is abundantly clear on the fate of those who are not valiant and who were deceived.  And YES, we are in the middle of a worldwide deception of epic proportions.  This is a greater struggle than 1776 was.  It is on scale with the premortal struggle for the minds and wills of the people.

Do not be deceived.