QUOTES ON "TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL"

I just got this in from Jennifer - and it definitely is worth sharing.  Especially the quote in there by James Talmage...... Just above the one from BY and Heber Kimball.  As if on queue - very nice Jennifer.  I may have to tone down my previous rant on Brother Talmage.  I just do NOT like anyone who promotes anything to do with evolution - WAY TOO morally relativistic for my tastes considering the sea of that garbage that we have to wade thru today:

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"Thus, clearly, the Lord has placed the responsibility for directing the work of gathering in the hands of the leaders of the Church to whom he will reveal his will where and when such gatherings would take place in the future. It would be well before the frightening events concerning the fulfillment of all God's promises and predictions are upon us, that the Saints in every land prepare themselves and look forward to the instruction that shall come to them from the First Presidency of this Church as to where they shall be gathered and not be disturbed in their feelings until such instruction is given to them as it is revealed by the Lord to the proper authority."
--Harold B. Lee Conference Report, April 1948.

"I do not know but that it would be an utter impossibility to commence and carry out some principles pertaining to Zion right in the midst of this people. They have strayed so far that to get a people who would conform to heavenly laws it may be needful to lead some from the midst of this people and commence anew somewhere in the region round about in these mountains."
--(Orson Pratt, J.D. 15:361), or Kindle Location 154068, Journal of Discourses Volume 15.

"The giant earthquake, and the tsunamis it sent crashing into the coasts around the Indian Ocean, is just the beginning and a part of what is to come, terrible as it was. You remember the words from the Doctrine and Covenants which now seems so accurate: And after your testimony cometh wrath and indignation upon the people. For after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able to stand. And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds. And all things shall be in commotion; and surely, men's hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people (Doctrine and Covenants 88: 88-91). Fear shall come upon all people. But you and I know that the Lord has prepared places of safety to which He is eager to guide us."
--Henry B. Eyring - Raise the Bar (BYU-Idaho Talk - January 2005)

"...that the Saints of God may have a place to flee to and stand in holy places while judgment works in the earth; that when the sword of God that is bathed in heaven falls upon Idumea, or the world,—when the Lord pleads with all flesh by sword and by fire, and the slain of the Lord are many, the Saints may escape these calamities by fleeing to the places of refuge, like Lot and Noah."
--Wilford Woodruff - (History of the Church, 6:26)

"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion?  We have none; for without Zion, and a place of deliverance, we must fall; because the time is near when the sun will be darkened, and the moon turn to blood, and the stars fall from the heaven, and the earth reel to and fro. Then, if this is the case, and if we are not sanctified and gathered to the places God has appointed, with all our former professions and our great love for the Bible, we must fall; we cannot stand; we cannot be saved; for God will gather out his saints from the Gentiles, and then comes desolation and destruction, and none can escape except the pure in heart who are gathered."
--Joseph Smith The teaching of the prophet Joseph Smith, Section 2, P.71

"In addition to all temporal blessings, there is no other way for the Saints to be saved in these last days, than by gathering..."
--Joseph Smith DHC 4:272

"Great and grand as is this people, mighty as are the works that have been accomplished through the blessings of God through his servants in these days, there is too little real prayer among the Latter-day Saints, too many prayerless homes, and hence the spread of spiritual contagion among some of us. Thank the Lord not among many, relatively speaking. I have faith in my people, for I knew that they are the Lord's people, and I am proud to be one of them; but when the cry shall come, as come it shall: "To your tents, O Israel," for there are struggles ahead, the Lord knows where to find those who have been faithful."
--James E. Talmage, Conference Report, October 1921, p.188

"And they shall be gathered into the garners, that they are not wasted. Yea, they shall not be beaten down by the storm at the last day; yea, neither shall they be harrowed up by the whirlwinds; but when the storm cometh they shall be gathered together in their place, that the storm cannot penetrate to them; yea, neither shall they be driven with fierce winds whithersoever the enemy listeth to carry them. But behold, they are in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, and they are his; and he will raise them up at the last day."
--Book of Mormon Alma 26:5-7

"He [President Brigham Young] conversed freely on the situation of the Saints in the mountains, and said that he dreaded the time when the Saints would become popular with the world; for he had seen in sorrow, in a dream, or in dreams, this people clothed in the fashions of Babylon and drinking in the spirit of Babylon until one could hardly tell a Saint from a black-leg. And he felt like shouting, "To your tents, Oh Israel!" because it was the only thing that could keep the people pure."
--Brigham Young, Mosiah Hancock Autobiography, typescript, BYU-S, p.73

"This people know enough to be righteous, honest, pure, and virtuous; and those who will not practice that which they know to be good will become habituated to folly and vice, just in the same way that men became habituated to using tobacco, to stealing, drinking, and lying. When the time comes that the Lord says, 'Arise and to your tents, O Israel;' then men be pure inside and out; they must be for God, or they will have no part in the blessings conferred upon the righteous." 

--Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Vol.9, p.154, June 19, 1862

"In every dispensation of the gospel, the Lord has insisted on segregating his covenant people from the rest of the world: if they were not ready to "come out of her, [O] my people" (Revelation 18:4 - And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues) willingly, he saw to it that the world was more than willing to persecute and expel them.  Two ways were placed before Adam, to see which one he would follow.  Cain followed the one; Abel, and after him, Seth, the other.  But soon Seth's posterity drifted over to the camp of Cain.  Things being very bad, Enoch, the super-missionary, was sent out and was able "in [the] process of time" (Moses 7:21) to draw many after him into his city of Zion, which was then totally  segregated from the rest of the world, pending the world's destruction.  After the Flood, things went bad again, so that the call to Abraham was lech lecha - get out of here!  And he kept moving all his days, forming his own society as he went, initiating all his followers into a special covenant with God.  The law of Moses insists before all else that the Chosen People preserve their aloofness from the world by constant purification and instruction: the people must be qadosh, "sanctified," both words having the basic meaning of "cut off," "separated."  God has always given his people the same choice of either living up to the covenants made with him or being in Satan's power; there is no middle ground (Moses 4:4).  True, we spend this time of probation in a no-man's land between the two camps of salvation and damnation, but at every moment of the day and night we must be moving toward the one or the other.  Progressive testing takes place along the way in either direction; the same tests in every dispensation and generation mark the progress of the people of God"

--Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion 1989, 342.

O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain (Isaiah 40:9)

And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem (Ibid., 2:2-3)

...The Prophet said, "Brethern, 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 it's mothers lap. You don't comprehend it." I was rather surprised.  He said, "It is only a 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 blessing of God. This people will go unto 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" (Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report, April 1898, p.57)

We are blessed in these mountains; this is the best place on earth for the Latter-day Saints.... You cannot find another situation so well adapted for the Saints as are these mountains.  Here is the place in which the Lord designed to hide His people... It has been designed, for many generations, to hide up the Saints in the last days, until the indignation of the Almighty be over.

His wrath will be poured out upon the nations of the earth (Brigham Young Deseret News, Vol. 11, no. 9, May 1, 1861

Lay up your stores, and take your silks and fine things, and exchange them for grain and such things as you need, and the time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States.  When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing.  I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and prolong, it as much as you like, you have got to do it (Heber C Kimball, Journal of Discourses Vol. 5:10)

And it came to pass that the Lord commanded my father, even in a dream, that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness.  And it came to pass that he was obedient unto the word of the Lord, wherefore he did as the Lord commanded him.  And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness.  And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and departed into the wilderness.  1 Nephi 2:2-4

And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent they shall possess the land of your inheritance, and the Lord God will lead away the righteous out from among you.  Jacob 3:4

“The cry of the angel unto the righteous of this dispensation is “Come out of (Babylon) O my people, that ye partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 19:192

“I prophesy, that the man who tarries after he has an opportunity of going, will be afflicted by the devil, Wars are at hand; we must not delay.  We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object.  When wars come, we shall have to flee to Zion.  The cry is to make haste…” Joseph Smith, Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Alma P. Burton [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1977], 234.

Joseph Smith, History of the Church 2:52 “Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion?  We have none, for without Zion and a place of deliverance, we must fall; because the time is near when the sun will be darkened, and the moon turn to blood, and the stars fall from the heaven, and the earth reel to and fro.  Then, if this is the case, and if we are not sanctified and gathered to the places God has appointed…we must fall; we cannot stand; we cannot be saved; for God will gather out his Saints from the Gentiles, and then comes desolation and destruction, and none can escape except the pure in heart who are gathered.

D&C 33:6 Even so will I gather mine elect from the four quarters of the earth even as many as will believe in me, and hearken unto my voice. 

D&C 49:25 Zion shall flourish upon the hills and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall be assembled together unto the place which I have appointed.

“There are remnant people in every religion, even the Mormon splinter groups, but right now we are like a Symphony warming up before the conductor comes, each playing our own squeaky tune.  But when the Master comes, we will play beautiful Celestial music together.  We can’t be gathered until we are mature wheat – until we have repented and become submissive enough to be part of Him – until we live in Him.  Jeanene Custer, Seeking Zion, Summer 2011

“God will preserve a portion of this people of the meek and humble to bear off the kingdom to the inhabitants of the earth, and will defend His Priesthood; for it is the last time, the last gathering time.” Brigham Young, Contributor vol 10 (Nov. 1888-Oct. 1889), Vol X. August, 1889. No 10. 362.

“Before the Lord destroyed the old world, he directed Noah to prepare an ark; before the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, he told Lot to “Flee to the mountains” before Jerusalem was destroyed, Jesus gave his disciples warning, and told them to “flee out of it;” and before the destruction of the world a message is sent; after this, the nations will be judged, for God is now preparing his own kingdom for his own reign, and will not be thwarted by any conflicting influence, or opposing power… The whole world is in confusion, morally, politically, and religiously; but a voice was to be heard, “Come out of her, my people, that you partake not of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” John Taylor, The Government of God Gerald N. Lund, The Coming of the Lord [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1971], 85.

I do not know but that it would be an utter impossibility to commence and carry out some principles pertaining to Zion right in the midst of this people.  They have strayed so far that to get a people who would conform to heavenly laws, it may be needed to lead some from the midst of this people and commence anew somewhere in the regions round about these mountains.  Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses 15:36

But behold, I , Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart.  Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction…And the time speedily cometh, that except ye repent they shall possess the land of your inheritance, and the Lord God will lead away the righteous out from among you.  Jacob 3:1,4

“The next I knew I was just this side of Omaha.  It seemed as though I was above the earth and looking down at it.  As I passed along upon my way east, I saw the road full of people, mostly women, with just what they could carry in bundles on their backs traveling to the mountains on foot.”  Wilford Woodruff, Prophetic Years, by Anderson, p.54

“The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, “Let’s divide up the lands of the United States”, then the people of the U.S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided.  Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one have of the U.S. army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle.  They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up – when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin.  And they will say, “Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God’. Then you will have friends but you will save the country when its liberty hangs by a hair, as it were.”  Joseph Smith, Mosiah Hancock Autobiography, BYU Special Collections, pg 28.

There has been a great discussion in relation to Zion – where it is, and where the gathering of the dispensation is, and which I am now going to tell you.  The prophets have spoken and written upon it; but I will make a proclamation that will cover a broader ground.  The Whole America is Zion itself from north to south, and is described by the Prophets, who declare that it is the Zion where the mountain of the Lord should be, and that it should be in the center of the land.”  Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 6:318-19

Enjoy,

Jennifer