THIS BLOG ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP WITH REVEALED RELIGION

THIS BLOG IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT ALL THE COOL STUFF THAT I BUMP INTO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND EVENTS THAT LEAD UP TO IT INTO ONE LOCATION.
THE CONTENTS WILL BE FROM AN LDS PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING IN HERE, I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE TO ARGUE, UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THIS BODY OF WORK. I HAVE AN OPEN MIND, THAT IS WHY I READ STUFF FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND SEEK LEARNING FROM THE BEST BOOKS. I JUST AM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT IT - BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE WHERE OTHERS CAN PERUSE/PURSUE IT. I TAKE PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HONEST SEEKERS OF TRUTH AND BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REVEALED RELIGION'S BEST ALLY. YOU WILL SEE ALOT OF TOPICS IN THIS BLOG THAT SHOW SCIENCE BACKING - AND SLOWLY CATCHING UP WITH - REVEALED RELIGION.
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Friday, April 3, 2009

SECOND COMING QUOTES AND PROPHECIES

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AN INTERESTING COLLECTION:

Disclaimer: Most prophecies concerning the judgments of God’s children are conditional upon performance of contracts, implied or expressed. There is usually an if and a repent portion of the collection clause of the contract.
Prophecies that appear to have been, or that appear to be in process of being, fulfilled are differentiated by italicized font.

CHURCH HEADQUARTERS AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
1) The headquarters of the church will not always be located in the top of the mountains. The center stake will be located in Jackson County, Missouri. Discourses of Brigham Young, pg 74.
2) Jackson County, Missouri is the location of the Garden of Eden. Wilford Woodruff, pg 481.
3) The Lord will come to his temple at Zion in Jackson County. D&C Commentary, pg 196.
4) “An army of Elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect if that were possible. Our sons and daughters must live so as to be prepared for what is coming.
After a while the Gentiles will gather by the thousands to this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the results will be financial bondage.
Persecution comes next and all true Latter-Day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize and others will be still not knowing what to do. The judgments of God will be poured out upon the wicked to the extent that our Elders far and near will be called home, or in other words, the gospel will be taken from the Gentiles and later carried on to the Jews.
The western boundary of the State of Missouri will be swept so clean of its inhabitants that, as President Young tells it, when you return to that place, there will not be so much as a yellow dog left to wag his tail. Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to the tests that will try the integrity of the best of them. The pressures will become so great that the more righteous among them will cry unto the Lord day and night until deliverance comes.
Then the Prophet (Joseph Smith) and others will make their appearance and those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri and take part in the upbuilding of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem.” Deseret News, May 23, 1931
Heber C. Kimball

PROPHECIES RELATING TO FUTURE EVENTS IN AMERICA
1) The Gentiles will be allowed to possess this land provided they remain humble and do not utterly reject the mission of the Latter-Day church. 3 Nephi 21: 22-24
2) Faithful Gentiles in the last days will help in the building of the New Jerusalem.
3 Nephi 21: 23-24
3) America will remain a land of freedom only as long as the people who inhabit it continue to serve the God of the land. 2 Nephi 1: 6-7
4) The inhabitants of America in the last days to become so great, so politically powerful, and economically prosperous that their pride would be lifted up “above all other nations”, and above all people in the whole earth. 3 Nephi 16: 10

5) The inhabitants of America in the latter days will become a nation of liars, hypocrites, and murderers - addicted to all manner of licentiousness and practicing fraud upon one another through secret combinations. 3 Nephi 16: 10
6) The Gospel will be taken from the Gentiles. 3 Nephi 16:10
7) Forces will then be released that will then cut the Gentiles from off the face of the earth.
3 Nephi 21: 11,20
8) The American Indians will be driven by the Gentiles. 3 Nephi 16: 9

9) The Indians will be the means of conquering the Gentiles in the day of the Lord’s wrath. 3 Nephi 16: 5, 20:15-17, 21:12
10) The complete political and economic collapse for the Gentiles of this land if they become a wicked and degenerate nation. They will be deprived of their means of transportation, their chariots to be destroyed, their strongholds and fortresses will be torn to pieces and their mighty cities made a desolation. 3 Nephi 21: 15-20
11) New York, Albany, and Boston specifically mentioned as places to be destroyed if they reject the word of the Lord. D&C 84: 114-115
12) “And I am now prepared to say by the Authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the history of our nation; pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquakes will sweep the wicked of this generation from off the face of the land, to open and prepare the way for the return of the lost Tribes of Israel from the north country.” Teachings of the Prophet J. Smith, pg 17
13) The children of Israel to be gathered and to inherit this land and the Gentiles to make the desolate cities to be inhabited. 3 Nephi 22: 3

14) “The American nation will be broken in pieces like a potter’s vessel and will be cast down to hell if it does not repent - and this because of murders, whoredoms, wickedness, and all manner of abominations, for the Lord has spoken it.” Wilford Woodruff, pg. 500

15) Joseph Smith said that the time would come when the Constitution of the United States would hang by a thread. Discourses of Brigham Young pg. 361

16) Joseph Smith said that in the hour that the Constitution would be in danger, the Elders of the Church would labor with their might to save the vestiges of democracy. The Progress of Man pg. 342

17) The Constitution will never be completely destroyed because at least the Latter-day Saints will hold it inviolate. The Progress of Man pg. 339-40
BUILDING THE NEW JERUSALEM (ZION)
1) The calling of the Saints to go back to Jackson County, Missouri will be after that section of the country is swept clean of all life. The desolate cities will be inhabited by the Ten Tribes after they come from the North. 3 Nephi 22: 3

2) “I saw a short distance from the Missouri River, where I stood, twelve men dressed in the robes of the temple. They stood in a square nearby, and I was given to understand that they represented the twelve gates of the New Jerusalem. Their hands were uplifted while they were consecrating the ground; and later they laid the cornerstones of the House of God. I saw myriads of angels hovering near them, and above their heads there was a pillar-like cloud. I heard the most beautiful singing in the words, “How is established the kingdom of our God and His Christ, and he shall reign forever and forever, and the Kingdom shall never be thrown down, for the Saints have overcome.” I saw people coming from the river and distant places to help build the temple. It seemed as though there were hosts of angels helping to bring material for the construction of that building. Some were in temple robes, and the pillar-like cloud continued to hover over the spot.” Wilford Woodruff, pg. 505

3) Site of the New Jerusalem and the Temple given by revelation.” 3 Nephi 16: 10
4) The building of the New Jerusalem to come only after much tribulation. 3 Nephi 16:10
THE GREAT PRIESTHOOD CONFERENCE AT ADAM-ONDI-AHMAN
1) Not far from the town of Gallatin, in Davies County, Missouri, is a place known as Spring Hill. By the Lord, however, this place was named “Adam-Ondi-Ahman” because it is the place where Adam shall sit, as spoken of by Daniel, the prophet. D&C 116
2) Adam held a great last meeting with his posterity at Adam-Ondi-Ahman shortly before his death. D&C 107: 53
3) Adam predicted at this last meeting all that should befall his posterity until the end. D&C 107: 54-57
4) Adam will prepare the Saints for the Second Coming of the Savior. Documentary History of the Church 3:386-7
5) At that meeting the Savior will receive the keys of all of the dispensations since Adam. The Way to Perfection pg. 40
6) ”When this gathering is held, the world will not know of it; the members of the Church at large will not know of it, yet the Savior will be there and it will be preparatory to the coming in the clouds of the glory of our Savior.” The Way to Perfection pg. 40
7) The pre-millennial appearance of the Savior at the New Jerusalem is clearly taught in the scriptures.
3 Nephi 20: 22, 21:2, D&C 45:66-67, 84:4-5, 97:15-17
8) Under the direction of the Savior three events will take place:
a) The Lamanite nations will be converted. 3 Nephi 21: 26
b) The Ten Tribes will be brought down from the North. 3 Nephi 21: 26
c) The righteous blood of Israel will receive a final call to gather out from all other parts of the earth and fell to America. All of this must be accomplished before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 3 Nephi 21: 25-29


THE CONVERSION OF THE LAMANITES
1) When the Lamanites are converted, they will become white like unto the tribes of Ephraim. 2 Nephi 30:6
2) They will be highly spiritual, living all the commandments of the Lord, and considered by the other tribes of Israel as a righteous branch. 2 Nephi 9: 53
3) They will become progressive in their habits, attractive, cultural and gain in intellectual attainments. D&C 49: 24


THE COMING OF THE TRIBES FROM THE NORTH
1) The prophets among the Ten Tribes will spend a hundred years preparing for their return. The apostle John, as a translated being is fulfilling a mission to their tribes also preparing them for their future return. Essentials of Church History pg. 125
2) The Ten Tribes are separated from the main body. 3 Nephi 15: 19

3) The main body of the Ten Tribes is not among the Gentiles at all. 3 Nephi 15: 15-24
4) Brigham Young taught that the Ten Tribes of Israel are on a portion of the earth -- a portion separate from the mainland. Wilford Woodruff pg.442

5) The Ten Tribes are called outcasts because they are cast out from the knowledge of the nations unto a land by themselves. Voice of Warning pg. 30
6) Rocks and ice shall flow down at the presence of the Tribes coming from the north. D&C 133: 26
7) As they come to the great body of water, dry land will be cast up in the midst of it so that a great highway will spread before them. D&C 133: 37, Isaiah 11:16
8) The Ten Tribes will receive great blessings under the hand of the tribe of Ephraim. D&C 133: 32

9) Any enemies that will try to stop the migration of the Ten Tribes will literally be marched over in their progress. D&C 133: 28
10) The great highway across the water will be unsafe for the use of any other group other than the Ten Tribes. Isaiah 35:8-10
11) The Ten Tribes will bring with them their histories, records and scriptures. 2 Nephi 29:12-13
12) They will tell of many experiences including the visit of the Savior in the meridian of time. 3 Nephi 15: 12-13, 16: 1-3
13) The Ten Tribes will bring with them their precious metals, rare gems, and works of art, all to be used to establish the temple of the New Jerusalem. D&C 133: 30

14) When they arrive they will fall down and receive the crowning of glory under the hands of Ephraim. D&C 133: 32
THE GATHERING OF ALL OF THE SAINTS TO ZION
1) The Saints will come to Zion, not in haste nor as fugitives from persecution, but as Saints of God joyfully returning to the Land of Inheritance. 3 Nephi 21: 28-29
2) The Saints will come from all nations as the watchmen on the Mount of Ephraim urge them forward. Jeremiah 31: 6

3) The watchmen of the tribe of Ephraim are the officials and the Priesthood holders of the Church and the kingdom of God -- to whom all of Israel, save Judah alone, will come to receive their blessings. D&C 88: 84

4) From these Sons of Ephraim the Lord will select by revelation his special servants, they will:
a) Go to all sections of the earth finding the Saints and telling them to gather
b) Warn all nations and kingdoms and gather any repentant and righteous to Zion. They will seal all of those who reject their testimonies unto the day when the arm of the Lord will fall. Jeremiah 16:16, D&C 29:5, Rev 18: 4
5) The Priesthood must prepare themselves to exercise the sealing power of the Priesthood against those that reject them. D&C 88: 77, 133: 37
6) All will have the chance to hear the gospel in their own tongue. D&C 90: 11
7) The missionaries will be so pressed for time that they will teach it in the market places and along the road, and when they have done all that they can in the time allotted, they will leave that place never to return again. Micah 2: 12
8) The gathered Lamanites and members of the Ten Tribes will be so great in numbers that they will make a great noise by reason of their numbers. Micah 2: 12

9) There will be such a great group that they will overflow the land and spread out over the plains.
3 Nephi 22: 3
10) Water will be miraculously provided for the land of Zion. Isaiah 41:17-18
THE BEGINNING OF THE END
1) Lucifer will show his great powers when the missionaries are gathering the people. D&C 1: 35
2) Lucifer will give the sign-seeking telestial people great signs and wonders.
Revelations 16: 14

3) Lucifer will call down fire from heaven. Revelations 13: 13-15
4) Lucifer will raise up false Christs and prophets, and the very elect will be deceived, if not careful. Pearl of Great Price 7: 23

5) Satan will have control of all places other than Zion in those days and all his will have an identifying mark on their hand or forehead. Revelations 13: 16
6) Economic sanctions will be brought against anyone that does not have the mark. Revelations 13: 17
7) As a result of the sanctions nations will rise against nation causing famine. Mark 24: 15, P of GP 44: 29
8) The inhabitants of Zion will be the only ones on earth that will not be subjected to war. D&C 45: 69-70

9) Because of the rejections of the testimonies of the missionaries and the great wickedness of the people, the great destructions caused by nature will commence. D&C 88: 89-91
10) The earth will reel to and fro. D&C 88: 87
11) The stars will be hurled out of their places and the remainder will not give of their light. D&C 34: 9; 88: 87
12) The sun shall suddenly be darkened and the moon shall be bathed in blood. D&C 45: 42; 88:87

13) “…..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, etc. But the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning, cometh out of the East.” April 6th, 1843. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith DHC 5:336-387.

AMERICA TO BE CUT OFF FROM OTHER NATIONS
1) No flesh shall be safe on any water -- only those from other countries which are upright in their hearts will be allowed to go up to the land of Zion. D&C 61: 15-16
PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS
1) Read the complete parable. Mathew 25: 8-12
2) “I have sworn in my wrath and decreed wars upon the face of the earth, and the wicked shall slay the wicked, and fear shall come upon every nation, and the Saints shall hardly escape...these things that ye must look for; and, speaking after the manner of the Lord, they are nigh at hand, and in a time to come, even in the day of the coming of the Son of Man. And until that hour there will be foolish virgins among the wise; and at that hour cometh an entire separation of the righteous and the wicked; and in that day I will send Mine angels to pluck out the wicked and cast them into an unquenchable fire.” D&C 63: 33-34; 53: 54

PROPHECY CONCERNING PALESTINE
1) “.....the Lord has decreed that the Jews should be gathered from all the Gentile nations where they have been driven, into their own land, in fulfillment of the words of Moses, their law-giver. And this is the will of your great Elohim, O house of Judah, and when ever you shall ever be called upon to perform this work, the God of Israel will help you. You have a great future and destiny before you and you cannot avoid fulfilling it; you are the royal and chosen seed, and the God of your Father’s house has kept you distinct as a nation for eighteen hundred years, under all the oppression of all the Gentile world. You may not wait until you believe on Jesus of Nazareth, but when you meet with Shiloh your king, you will know him; your destiny is marked and you cannot avoid it. It is true that after you return and gather your nation home, and rebuild your city and temple, that the Gentiles may gather together their armies to go against you to battle, to take you a prey and to take you as a spoil, which they will do, for the words of your prophets must be fulfilled; but when this affliction comes, the living God that led Moses through the wilderness, will deliver you , and your Shiloh will come and stand in your midst and fight your battles; and you will know Him, and the afflictions of the Jews will be at an end, while the destruction of the Gentiles will be so great that it will take the whole house of Israel who are gathered about Jerusalem, seven months to bury the dead of their enemies, and the weapons of war will last them seven years for fuel, so that they need not go to any forest for wood. These are tremendous sayings -- who can bear them? Nevertheless, they are true and will be fulfilled according to the sayings of Ezekial, Zechariah, and the prophets. Though the heavens and earth shall pass away, not one jot or tittle will fall unfulfilled.” Wilford Woodruff pg 509-510

2) On October 24th, 1842, Orson Hyde, a Jewish apostle (of the Quorum of the Twelve) of the Latter-Day church, journeyed to the city of Old Jerusalem, and from the Mount of Olives, poured out his heart in a prayer of dedication to the Lord. Essentials of Church History pg. 284



3) In the year of 1875, George Albert Smith, (another apostle of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles) was sent by Brigham Young to again dedicate the land and pray unto the Lord that his work might be hastened unto an opening of the way for the return of the exiled Jews. Comp. Hist. of the Church Vol5, pp 474-5


THE SECOND COMING
1) A single Gentile nation is going to eventually encompass all other Gentile nations of Asia and Europe so that they will form one large company together. At the head of this army of nations will stand a dominating prince of Japeth, an uncompromising, ruthless Gentile dictator. Ezekial Ch 38& 39
2) This great leader will “speak great words against the Most High....wear out the Saints of the Most High and think to change times and laws.” Daniel 7: 25

3) In the days of this leader any man who refuses to take up his sword and fight must flee to the American continent. D&C 45: 68-70
4) John saw the march of the highly mechanized armies under the leadership of this great dictator whom they called Gog. Revelations 11

5) The number of the ranks of this great army will number 200,000,000. Revelations 9: 16
6) The great army will make their last fight against the Jews and trod down a great portion of the city of Jerusalem, but they will not have power to destroy the people as a whole, for three and one half years the people will continue to survive the onslaught of Gog. Daniel 7: 25, Revelations 11: 2
7) The Jews will withstand this great army through the help of the Lord. He will raise up among the Jews two mighty prophets, and through their efforts the mighty war machine of Gog will grind to a halt as they meet the unexpected oppositions of these prophets when they march on the world capital of Judah. Revelations 11: 5-6
8) The two prophets will be killed and their bodies will lie in the streets of Jerusalem for three and one half days and then they will be resurrected. When they are, the Lord will come. Revelations 11

THE MILLENIUM
1) The Millennium to be a time of winding up the affairs of the earth life existence. D&C 76: 106-107

2) The great work of the Millennium is to bring about the literal brotherhood of man and prepare the whole human race for the great final judgment. D&C 133: 23-24, Revs. 16:18, Isaiah 40:4

3) The surface of the earth is to be changed. The earth will become smooth and productive. Luke 3: 5
4) The sea to be driven back into the North countries, the islands shall become one land, and the earth shall be like it was in the days before it was divided (in the days of Peleg - Genesis 10:25). D&C 133: 23-24

5) Great forests will grow up in the wilderness. Wilford Woodruff pg. 481
6) Rivers and springs will change the deserts and wastelands into farmlands. Isaiah 35: 7
7) Noxious weeds, briars, and thorns will give way to groves, orchards and profitable plant life. Isaiah 55: 13

8) The earth will become a “new earth” and the earth that we now know shall not be remembered or come to mind. Isaiah 65: 17-19

9) The earth will be transfigured in this state. D&C 63: 21
10) There shall be no sorrow because there will be no death. D&C 101: 29

11) Men shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye from a mortal to a resurrected being. D&C 65: 51
12) There will be no sin among the younger generations. D&C 45: 58

13) All enmity to cease between man and all of the rest of God’s creations. Isaiah 11: 6-9, 65: 25; Moses 2: 18
14) During the millennium, the language spoken will be that of the pure Adamic language. Zephaniah 3: 9
15) Satan will be bound during the millennium due to the righteousness of the people. D&C 88:110
16) The city of Enoch, which was caught up into heaven before the days of the flood shall be brought back to earth and joined with the City of The New Jerusalem. Moses 7: 63

17) A history of the world will be shown a thousand years at a time. D&C 88: 108-110
18) Astronomy and geology will be taught by revelation during the Millennium. Abraham 3:3, D&C 121: 28-31; 101: 32-34

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