No man knows the hour when the WHOLE earth is met with utter destruction as the entire earth receives her baptism by fire - which is called "the end". I will ever be grateful to Spencer to have shed more light on the sequence of events and firming them up in my mind that there is still much work to be performed over a series of years as the Ten Tribes are returned home and the 144,000 do their work amongst the heathen who have never had the Gospel in its entirety since their fathers fell away from the teachings of Noah. This event must be AFTER the ten tribes return, otherwise, where are you going to get the 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulon, for example...... Not gonna happen under the current paradigm..... I am yet to run into one person who hails from that tribe - let alone 12,000 of them who are of such a nature that they can carry out a terrestrial work to the rest of the inhabitants of the earth.... There must needs be a return first - and then that great work will go forward. Those 12 tribes will return to the New Jerusalem. In order for that to happen, it will require a miracle in Missouri - so you see, there is a logical progression to how things have to happen.
The key to being part of that throng who makes it through and is of one heart and one mind, is tithing. It is the filter that will be used to separate the righteous from the wicked. Those who cannot abide the lesser telestial law, will NEVER abide a consecrated terrestrial law. It simply does not work that way - as God prepares His people line upon line from one glory to the next.
Here is the scripture that got me thinking along these lines:
2 But who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap.3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts. But ye say: Wherein shall we return?8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say: Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house; and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it.11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the fields, saith the Lord of Hosts.12 And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of Hosts.13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say: What have we spoken against thee?14 Ye have said: It is vain to serve God, and what doth it profit that we have kept his ordinances and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard; and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
A whole lot of burning and refining going on with Chapter 24. Here is Chapter 25:
1 For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.2 But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall.3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of Hosts.4 Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
And here is Chapter 26 - where the God of Love is talking about destruction - because people REFUSE to follow Him and the Father of us all:
The things that were withheld will only be given after the purge (Civil War, plague, EQ and much death and destruction) until we are sufficiently humble as a people. Then we (the survivors) receive the Sealed Portion in preparation to prepare the New Jerusalem and bring about Zion. Since we could not get it done because of slothfulness, we will have to be driven about as a dumb ass and smitten and humbled by those things that we must suffer. Zion will not come about by means of a fallen, telestial people. There is still alot of work to be done between now and then.1 And now it came to pass that when Jesus had told these things he expounded them unto the multitude; and he did expound all things unto them, both great and small.2 And he saith: These scriptures, which ye had not with you, the Father commanded that I should give unto you; for it was wisdom in him that they should be given unto future generations.3 And he did expound all things, even from the beginning until the time that he should come in his glory—yea, even all things which should come upon the face of the earth, even until the elements should melt with fervent heat, and the earth should be wrapt together as a scroll, and the heavens and the earth should pass away;4 And even unto the great and last day, when all people, and all kindreds, and all nations and tongues shall stand before God, to be judged of their works, whether they be good or whether they be evil—5 If they be good, to the resurrection of everlasting life; and if they be evil, to the resurrection of damnation; being on a parallel, the one on the one hand and the other on the other hand, according to the mercy, and the justice, and the holiness which is in Christ, who was before the world began.6 And now there cannot be written in this book even a hundredth part of the things which Jesus did truly teach unto the people;8 And these things have I written, which are a lesser part of the things which he taught the people; and I have written them to the intent that they may be brought again unto this people, from the Gentiles, according to the words which Jesus hath spoken.9 And when they shall have received this, which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if it shall so be that they shall believe these things then shall the greater things be made manifest unto them.10 And if it so be that they will not believe these things, then shall the greater things be withheld from them, unto their condemnation.11 Behold, I was about to write them, all which were engraven upon the plates of Nephi, but the Lord forbade it, saying: I will try the faith of my people. (WE GENTILES HAVE FAILED IN THIS..... :( )12 Therefore I, Mormon, do write the things which have been commanded me of the Lord. And now I, Mormon, make an end of my sayings, and proceed to write the things which have been commanded me.
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