This will happen per Heber C Kimball and Joseph Smith, and we are closer than any think as the combined West pushes the Bear into the corner and she eventually does what any wounded and cornered bear does:
"[Summary: Upon first meeting Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Wilford Woodruff was invited to join Zion's Camp. After he did, he was invited to a Sabbath meeting at the Prophet's home, which included many future Apostles, although at the time in Kirtland in 1833 there were no Apostles aside from Joseph and Oliver Cowdery.]
The prophet called upon the Elders of Israel with him to bear testimony of this work.
When they got through, the Prophet said, "Brethren, I have been very much edified and instructed in your testimonies here tonight, but I want to say to you before the Lord, that you know no more concerning the destinies of this Church and kingdom than a babe upon its mother's lap. You don't comprehend it." I was rather surprised. He said, "It is only a little handful of Priesthood you see here tonight, but this Church will fill North and South America - it will fill the world." Among other things, he said, "It will fill the Rocky Mountains. There will be tens of thousands of Latter-day Saints who will be gathered in the Rocky Mountains, and there they will open the door for the establishing of the Gospel among the Lamanites, who will receive the Gospel and their endowments and the blessings of God. This people will go into the Rocky Mountains; they will there build temples to the Most High. They will raise up a posterity there, and the Latter-day Saints who dwell in these mountains will stand in the flesh until the coming of the Son of Man. The Son of Man will come to them while in the Rocky Mountains."
Quoted by Wilford Woodruff, GC April 1898, p 57. I have a copy of the Conference Report and have confirmed that Pres Woodruff did indeed say it.
Glad somebody finally found this quote. It dovetails with what somebody else said because of what they saw in a near-death experience and wrote down.
ReplyDeleteI really don't see the significance of this quote, except that some say the Lord won't return until after the church's headquarters have been moved to the New Jerusalem. Is that why you find it significant?
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