THE TIME FOR TEMPLE WORK IS RUNNING OUT - A QUOTE FROM A BLOG READER

“The great and dreadful day of the Lord is the end of the world. Jehovah, the Messiah, will come in glory. The wicked will all be destroyed. We live in the last days. Time could be running out for us to do what we have promised to do.” Elder Henry B. Eyring “Hearts Bound Together”. 

Happy Sunday!

Here’s a few more points worth pondering about temple work and the blessings (again my own work and research includes my own bold and/or highlights below):

1.     Time could be running out – “The great and dreadful day of the Lord is the end of the world. Jehovah, the Messiah, will come in glory. The wicked will all be destroyed. We live in the last days. Time could be running out for us to do what we have promised to do.”  (Note: this was in 2005, has time gotten any shorter since then - 10 years’ time)  “I will see those missionaries in the spirit world, and so will you. Think of a faithful missionary standing there with those he has loved and taught who are your ancestors. Picture as I do the smile on the face of that missionary as you walk up to him and your ancestors whom he converted but could not baptize or have sealed to family until you came to the rescue. I do not know what the protocol will be in such a place, but I imagine arms thrown around your neck and tears of gratitude. If you can imagine the smile of the missionary and your ancestor, think of the Savior when you meet Him. You will have that interview… He has trusted you by letting you hear the gospel in your lifetime, giving you the chance to accept the obligation to offer it to those of your ancestors who did not have your priceless opportunity. Think of the gratitude He has for those who pay the price in work and faith to find the names of their ancestors and who love them and Him enough to offer them eternal life in families, the greatest of all the gifts of God. He offered them an infinite sacrifice. He will love and appreciate those who paid whatever price they could to allow their ancestors to choose His offer of eternal life…. There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been… The Lord has poured out knowledge about how to make that information available worldwide through technology that a few years ago would have seemed a miracle… With those opportunities there comes greater obligation to keep our trust with the Lord. Where much is given, much is required.  After you find the first few generations, the road will become more difficult. The price will become greater. As you go back in time, the records become less complete. As others of your family search out ancestors, you will discover that the ancestor you find has already been offered the full blessings of the temple. Then you will have a difficult and important choice to make. You will be tempted to stop and leave the hard work of finding to others who are more expert or to another time in your life. But you will also feel a tug on your heart to go on in the work, hard as it will be.  As you decide, remember that the names which will be so difficult to find are of real people to whom you owe your existence in this world and whom you will meet again in the spirit world. When you were baptized, your ancestors looked down on you with hope. Perhaps after centuries, they rejoiced to see one of their descendants make a covenant to find them and to offer them freedom. In your reunion, you will see in their eyes either gratitude or terrible disappointment. Their hearts are bound to you. Their hope is in your hands. You will have more than your own strength as you choose to labor on to find them.” Elder Henry B. Eyring “Hearts Bound Together”. 
2.     More power – “No work is more of a protection to this Church than temple work and the family history research that supports it. No work is more spiritually refining. No work we do gives us more power. No work requires a higher standard of righteousness.” President Boyd K. Packer “The Holy Temple,” Ensign, Oct. 2010, 35
3.     Experiences – “In my own family, some of our most sacred and treasured experiences have occurred when we have joined together in the temple to perform sealing ordinances for our deceased ancestors. . . . The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God.” President Thomas S. Monson In Conference Report, Apr. 2011, 87; or Ensign, May 2011, 93
4.     Blessed and protected – Temple and family history work can bless and protect you and your family. President Boyd K. Packer promised: “The Lord will bless us as we attend to the sacred ordinance work of the temples. Blessings there will not be limited to our temple service. We will be blessed in all of our affairs. We will be eligible to have the Lord take an interest in our affairs both spiritual and temporal. . . . “Our labors in the temple cover us with a shield and a protection, both individually and as a people” (The Holy Temple [1980], 182, 265). As you prepare your family history and go to the temple for your ancestors, you will feel the influence of the Holy Ghost more powerfully in your life. You will be strengthened to do this work and the other tasks of your life more efficiently. As you do the work of the Lord, you will know Him better and become more like Him. (Member’s Guide to Temple And Family History Work – 2009)

THIS IS SERIOUS, TURKEY! NO BOLOGNA!

I should not ham it up with such serious stuff, but Turkey just stepped in it.  Russia just got the real time provocation they need to take Turkey down and suck the USA into this war.  I am sure they were coached on what to do by the USA.

Here is another grave step into WWIII:

Turkey BLOCKADES Russian Shipping; Black Sea Fleet Completely Cut off

Turkey has begun a blockade of Russian naval vessels, preventing transit through the Dardanelles and the Strait of Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Mediterranean.

According to the AIS tracking system for the movement of maritime vessels, only Turkish vessels are moving along the Bosphorus, and in the Dardanelles there is no movement of any shipping at all.

This has completely strangled the Russian Navy Black Sea fleet, which is now unable to leave the Black Sea to travel anywhere else in the world AND is unable to return to its home ports!

Under the terms of the Montreux Convention, Turkey is only permitted to block warships when it is "threatened with aggression" or when it is "at war."

Since it was Turkey who shot down a Russian military jet last week, I'll leave it to all of you to decide whether Turkey sees itself "threatened with aggression" or "at war."

This is a terrifyingly dangerous escalation of hostilities between Turkey and Russia and moves us a giant step closer to actual World War. This isn't a game and it isn't a joke. This is exactly how wars start.

GENTILES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE NEW JERSALEM

This is a GREAT comment from a reader that I had to get into the news feed:

When a person joins the church they are still Gentiles until the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost make each person who experiences this epiphany a literal seed of Abraham and thus the Remnant of Israel. Gentile members who will not allow Christ to convert them are the Gentiles who reject the fullness of the Gospel prophesied in the BoM.The North American Indians who have had their calling and elections made sure are the ones who build the New Jerusalem under the direction of chosen members of the church who are of the tribe of Ephraim. The only way any of us can come unto the Lord is through His church. Period. 

OH - and Happy Thanksgiving!!

Let us all be grateful for what we have - no matter how meager our circumstances may be....... IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE........  And it will, soon.

CREEPY - PUTIN SHOWS UP IN NEW YORK

I would be mildly curious to know if those were black birds, crows or what......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201119/This-warning-creepy-moment-thousands-birds-flying-New-York-merge-form-Vladimir-Putin-s-face.html

The fact (at least in my mind) is that Koyle talked about Russia hitting the east coast with something and the USA kind of laughs it off.  And then disaster strikes.

It may be around that time that the callout happens (after the first hit) and then it is doom on.  Just musing out loud here.

SIXTEEN SHOTS - THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD UNTIL THE CLIP WAS EMPTY......

This shooting by cop happened over a year ago.  The family has sued and settled for a multi-million dolla settlement and the offending cop is off the streets on charges of murder.  I believe it was most likely an excessive force kind of situation - but how and why is this protest going down??

Did we not give the most generous of situations to the family of the thug that was breaking into cars and wielding a knife in the presence of a police officer (refusing to drop it)?  I do not get it.  When reason or logic does not work, what is next? 

Prolly CWII:

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1mrxmVgAbXdKy

This is part of the problem with an entitled culture.

CLEON SKOUSEN - THE RISE OF RUSSIA AS THE SECOND DICTATORSHIP

We are just about at the point where the transition of power goes from bummer (who has caused war to be poured out upon all nations, to Gog (Putin) who will finish the alliance with China and all other nations and bring it down the homestretch into Jerusalem.  We are within a year of all of this happening - believe it or not.  Most people cannot fathom it.  I barely could three or four years ago, though there is nothing stopping this from happening pronto with all going on in Syria right now:

THE RISE OF THE SECOND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

While all of this orderly progress has been occurring in “sealed-off” America something totally evil will have been hovering over the rest of the world. After the collapse of the first military dictatorship, it will immediately allow numerous world leaders with satirical ambitions to begin maneuvering for an opportunity to claw their way to the top and build another world empire. Here is the way Johndescribed what he saw happening:
“And I beheld ANOTHER BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE EARTH; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake like a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the FIRST beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
“And he doeth great wonders, so he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth, by the means of these miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword and did live.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free or bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark; or the name of the beast, or the number of his name…. and his number is Six hundred three score and six.” ⁶⁴
It was the ambition of the second dictatorship to exercise “all the power of the first beast. . .and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.” ⁶⁵
Ezekiel tells us that this second dictatorship was designed to mobilize all the gentile nations of the world under a massive army. But what happens to the heathen nations? (See 3 Nephi 21:21) The leader of this vast army will be known as Gog, prince of the Gentiles. ⁶⁶ As the prophetic story unfolds, we learn that since the fall of the first dictatorship some remarkable things have happened in Israel.
First, the Jews have gathered their people and their wealth from all over the world to the security of Israel. They will have built their capital city of Jerusalem into a magnificent metropolis secured by heavy walls. (Ezekiel, chapters 40-43)
Second, the prophet Zechariah (6:12-13) tells us that a beautiful temple will occupy the heights of Mount Moriah where the “Dome of the Rock” once stood.
We cannot help wondering how all of this can happen.

SOMETHING IMPORTANT MUST RAVE HAPPENED TO THE ARABS DURING THE FIRST WORLD DICTATORSHIP

It will be recalled that ever since 1967 – when the Israeli forces took over Jerusalem – the Jews have wanted to rebuild their temple. But the traditional site for the temple has been occupied since 691 A.D. by a very sacred building of the Moslem faith. This shrine is known as the “Dome of the Rock.” It covers the huge threshing floor of Araunah where Abraham is said to have offered Isaac as a sacrifice. It is also the spot where Mohammed says he ascended to heaven on a white horse to commune with the ancient patriarchs and receive the teachings of the Moslem faith.
Once the Jews had occupied Jerusalem in 1967 the Moslems feared the Israelis might destroy their sacred building, but they were assured by the leading rabbis that the Jews would never desecrate the sacred places of other faiths.
The press felt the rabbis were saying: “If God wants his temple on Mount Moriah, he will have to make the necessary arrangements”.
By the time of the second dictatorship, Ezekiel indicates this will have been accomplished. None of the prophets tell how it would happen, but several scenarios have been suggested.

WHAT IF THE ARABS LOST CONTROL OF THEIR OIL?

One theory is that the first dictatorship might undertake to confiscate the Arab’s vast treasure of oil. The Soviet Union has proposed this for many years since possession of the Arab oil could be the key to taking over Europe. As late as 1996 this was being proposed by a militant Russian political leader.
It is speculated that if the first world dictatorship undertook to confiscate the Arab oil there would be a mighty resistance and very likely the Dome of the Rock would be destroyed during the struggle. Furthermore, if the Arabs were robbed of their oil, the Moslem influence would be greatly reduced. It is therefore speculated that if the Dome of the Rock were destroyed and Arab influence diminished, there would be virtually no significant resistance to the rebuilding of the Jewish temple.

THE WORLDWIDE GATHERING OF THE JEWS

Ezekiel describes in chapter 34 how scattered and distressed the Jews will be when the Lord reaches out to rescue them. The Lord said to Ezekiel:
‘.. .yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out….and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the river, and all the inhabited places of the country…. And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, EVEN MY SERVANT, Davida prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.” ⁶⁷
Many scholars, including the King James translators, thought these passages referred to the Savior. However, as we have just seen in Ezekiel, chapter 34, verses 23 and 24 the Lord specifically refers to this particular David as his “servant.”
Joseph Smith referred to this Prince David and said he would replace his great ancestor temporarily because “the throne and kingdom of David is to be taken from him [ancient David] and given to another by the name of David in the last days, raised up out of his lineage.” ⁶⁸
The administration of this outstanding leader apparently will last a long time, clear over to the time when the Ten Tribes return and become one with Judah. ⁶⁹
In Ezekiel, chapter 46, we read how David, the prince, will conduct the services at the temple when they come to worship the Lord, and Jeremiah said:
“For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his (Israel’s] yoke from off thy neck and.. .they shall serve the Lord their God MID DAVID THEIR KING, WHOM I SHALL RAISE UP TO THEM.” ⁷⁰
Notice that in all of these passages “David” is identified as a servant of the Lord and not the Lord himself.
Isaiah speaks of this great leader of Israel in the latter days as a “rod” that would come from “the stem of Jesse,” which is Christ, ⁷¹ and in a modern revelation the Lord said:
“Behold, thus saith the Lord, It (the rod) is a servant in the hands of Christ, which is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on whom is laid much power.” ⁷²
There has been some question as to whether this refers to Prince David or Joseph Smith. In either case we have an interesting disclosure by the Lord that this distinguished leader is a mixture of both Juda and Ephraim. It would be amazing to the Jews if David turned out to be partly Ephraim and it certainly would be somewhat surprising to the members of the restored kingdom if Joseph Smith turned out to be part Jewish.
As David the prince gathers the Jews from all over the world to the land of Israel, there will be both wealth and manpower to beautify the city of Jerusalem. We learn later that he will raise up its mighty walls as a defense and then rebuild the temple. ⁷³
For the Jews, this will be their 4th temple. This is the temple seen by Ezekiel in vision and the one to which the Savior will come. The three previous temples – One built by Solomon around 950 B.C., the one built by Zerubbabel around 516 B.C., and the one built by Herod at the time of Christ were all destroyed, and while this fourth temple will be attack fl, it will continue to survive right into the Millennium.

GOG, THE MIGHTY EMPEROR OF THE SECOND WORLD DICTATORSHIP

Ezekiel says the second dictatorship which will arise at this time is headed up by a fierce and ambitious tyrant named Gog the height of his power he will be like the leader of the first dictatorship and consider himself totally invincible, but the Lord said to his prophet:
“Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesy against him.” ⁷⁴
This happens right at the time the beautiful edifice of the temple is being raised up to crown the heights of Mount Moriah. ⁷⁵ This will be the most elaborate “house of the Lord” ever constructed, and no doubt Prince Gog will have his spies carefully reporting every phase of its construction. Of course, he will be contemptuous of the Jewish belief that this is a holy place – a center of sacred worship. On the contrary, Prince Gog will look upon this temple as a mighty treasure house in which the Jews have stored away their wealth from all over the world.
As the greedy eyes of Gog are focused on the loot he will derive from a raid on Jerusalem, the Lord is saying:
“Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief of princes of Mesheck and Tubal; and I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them, clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.” ⁷⁶
The Lord had Ezekiel describe precisely what this bloodthirsty tyrant would do:
“Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.” ⁷⁷
Because the Lord could read Gog’s mind, he said:
“Thou shalt think an evil thought: and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without wa1ls and having neither bars nor gates, to take spoil, and to take a prey, to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land..” ⁷⁸

GOG LOOKS TOWARD JERUSALEM

It appears that Gog will have conquered all of Europe and Asia before he turns his greedy war machine on the land of Palestine. This man will have established terroristic Gadiantonism and a murder-cult criminal spoils system everywhere but in America. John says:
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” ⁷⁹
It is interesting that the whole earth will be under his domination exept North and South America. As we have mentioned earlier a modern revelation says he would have invaded America except for his fear of the consequences. Gog and his cohorts are quoted in this scripture as saying:
“Let us not go up to battle against Zion, for the inhabitants of Zion are terrible, wherefore we cannot stand.” ⁸⁰
Some of this may have been due to heavenly powers possessed by God’s servants in Zion similar to that which Enoch exhibited during the first thousand years of human history. It says:
“…their enemies came to battle against them; and he (Enoch] spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions were heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him.” ⁸¹
But in the beginning of the second dictatorship seen by John, the violent Gog and his hordes of ferocious military forces will be spreading their “abomination of desolation” in every direction. ⁸²

JOEL WITNESSES A VISION OF HORROR – THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION

A prophet named Joel – living several centuries before Ezekiel – used two whole chapters to describe the terrifying weapons of modern warfare which Gog would employ to set up his second dictatorship. Joel could scarcely find words to describe what he saw. In fact, until the nuclear age, no generation could have completely comprehended what Joel was trying to describe:
“A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.” ⁸³
Joel felt he was seeing the very ultimate in destructive warfare. He said:
“There hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.” ⁸⁴
Joel did his best to describe what he saw:
“The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.” ⁸⁵
But these were not like any horses he had ever seen. Notice his bold attempt to describe the strange mobile units which he saw:
“Like the noise of chariots [not of horses] on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble;…they shall run like mighty men [once more the simile changes] they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break ranks: neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses: and they shall enter in at the window like a thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble.” ⁸⁶
It sounds very much as though the prophet is attempting to describe helicopter gun ships and a modern armored division rumbling across a city with cannon and flame-throwers spreading destruction all around.

THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

But at Jerusalem Gog and his mighty host will come to a sudden halt. It turns out that Prince David has two powerful allies that Gog would have never suspected. He has 2 prophets whom God will raise up among the Jews with powers unlike anything Gog has seen. An angel describes what he sees the two prophets will be able to do:
“If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.” ⁸⁷
For three-and-a-half years these prophets will hold Gog and these great gentile armies at bay. ⁸⁸
When the prophet Joel saw the predicament in which the Jews would find themselves, he knew there was no human power that could save them. Apparently, even before Joel saw the two prophets demonstrating their powers, Joel pleads with the Jews to begin their fasting and prayer with fervent pleadings that God will intervene and save them. He cried:
“Rend your hearts ⁸⁹ and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God…. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; gather the people, sanctify the congregation … let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach.” ⁹⁰

Here is the link to the source data:

http://www.latterdayconservative.com/w-cleon-skousen/what-we-might-expect-in-the-next-twenty-five-years/

CLEON SKOUSEN - THE FOUR GROUPS WHO WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE REBUILDING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM

I have a FB pal that aligns with my thinking more than anyone - who believes that she will be part of the group to create the NJ and to participate in the gathering afterwards.  This is a description of that event by Cleon.  It aligns closely with what Spencer had to say - however, Spencer focused more on the mechanics of the spiritual aspect as opposed to this more temporal visage of it:

THE LORD WILL DEPEND UPON FOUR GROUPS TO REBUILD AMERICA AFTER THE CLEANSING

There will be a gigantic task to perform after America has been cleansed of her wickedness but the wreckage and ruin of a whole civilization has been left behind.

THE FIRST GROUP

The first group will be the righteous saints whom the Lord has preserved. All these will have been disciplined in Priesthood principles and will have studied God’s law so they will know’ what to do. In very short order, the other groups will lean upon this first group for guidance.

THE SECOND GROUP

The second group will be made up of the members of God’s kingdom from all over the world. After America is cleansed and the clouds of the second dictatorship are beginning to replace the first dictatorship the Saints will be anxious to rally when the Priesthood leaders sound the trumpet and call them to gather to America. The Lord says:
“Yea, the work shall commence among all the dispersed of my people, with the Father, to prepare the way whereby they may come unto me, that they may call on the Father in my name. Yea, and. then shall the work commence, with the Father, among all nations, in preparing the way whereby his people may be gathered home to the land of their inheritance.” ⁵²
And of course for the members of The Church, that’s America! The Lord speaks of these gathering Saints from all over the world in a modern revelation:
“And it shall come to pass that the righteous shall be gathered out from among ALL NATIONS, and shall come to Zion, singing with songs of everlasting joy.” ⁵³

THE THIRD GROUP

The third group to help reconstruct the western hemisphere will be the righteous gentiles who survive the cleansing. This is an interesting group of people. They are of many faiths. They love the Lord, they bow the knee in contemplation of his coming. They admire his Church and love the Saints. But they don’t join the Church. Nevertheless, they want to live under God’s Law and be part of God’s kingdom. The amazing part is that God extends an invitation to the righteous gentiles to be part of the political kingdom of God.
Brigham Young knew that a lot of the Saints would expect the kingdom of God to be only members of the church, but President Young said that is not the way the Lord planned it. Here are his words:
“The Kingdom of God [Those living under God’s Law] consists in correct principles; and it mattereth not what a man’s religious faith is; whether he be a Presbyterian, or a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a Latter-day Saint or ‘Mormon,’ or a Catholic or
Episcopalian, or Mohammedan, or even pagan, or anything else, if he WILL BOW THE KNEE AND WITH HIS tongue CONFESS THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST, and will support good and wholesome laws for the regulation of society, we hail him as a brother, and will stand by him while he stands by us in these things; for every man’s religious faith is a matter between his own soul and his God alone.” ⁵⁴

THE FOURTH GROUP

Finally, there is the fourth group will help restore the western hemisphere. These are the peacemakers . They are people in other parts of the world who see they are about to be drafted into Prince Gog’s vast, second dictatorship. They may have even heard that he has ambitions to set up an army of 200,000,000. ⁵⁵ So all of these are allowed to flee to America. The Lord says:
“And it shall come to pass among the wicked, that every man that will not take up his sword against his neighbor must needs flee unto Zion for safety.” ⁵⁶
How grateful these peace-loving families will be after Prince Gog gets going with the second dictatorship. The scripture says:
“And there shall be gathered unto it out of every nation under heaven; and it shall be THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT SHALL NOT BE AT WAR ONE WITH ANOTHER.” ⁵⁷

SETTING UP THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS

Once all of these choice groups of people are in place they will set about building the New Jerusalem and setting up ideal Zion cities from one end of the American continent to the other. To accomplish this, the whole structure of government and economics will be changed as well as the adoption of a highly elevated society. Here are the highlights:

1. The people will be organized by families into tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands. The unit of around one hundred families will be called a secular, non-denominational “ward” similar to the Anglo Saxons and ancient Israel.
2. The judges or captains over each unit of ten, fifty, hundred and thousand families, etc. shall be elected each year and will be selectively nominated by the supreme councils and their officers as described in Exodus, chapter 1. This procedure eliminates the need for political parties.
3. The people will be governed by the original inspired Constitution as revealed to the Founding Fathers and endorsed by the Lord in 1834. ⁵⁸
4. Civil and criminal law are to be administered according to the law revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai as set forth principle by principle in chapters three to nine inclusive in the author’s text, The Majesty of God’s Law, Ensign Publishing Company,1996, pp.3
5. The economy will be practiced in harmony with the principles laid down byAdam Smith in 1776, but in the spirit of the Golden Ru1e.
6. The money system will be based on gold and silver with silver as the basic medium of exchange and gold circulating at free market value. Paper money issued by the government will be redeemable in precious metal and have reserves in the vaults for any currency issued. Borrowed money will be based on guaranteed collateral at market value.
7. God’s “law of consecration” will be allowed to operate under the control of God’s kingdom for those who have qualified in the temple and prefer its practice to the system of competitive free enterprise.

CLEON SKOUSEN ON AMERICA'S DEMISE AFTER SHE MAKES WAR WITH THE SAINTS

We are currently "in it".  Notice how all things are coming together in a perfect storm and at an alarmingly increasing pace??  It is breathtaking - and I love it.  Giddyup!:

And so, as John says, it will continue until at some point the first dictatorship will attain a position of absolute power for three-and-a-half years. Then an amazing thing will happen.

THE FIRST DICTATORSHIP WILL MAKE A DEADLY MISTAKE

However, at this point, John saw that the first dictatorship would make a lethal mistake which will eventually wipe it out of existence. Here is what happens:
“And he [beast or dictator] opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
“And it was given unto him to make WAR AGAINST THE Saints and to OVERCOME them: and power was given him over all mankind, and tongues and nations.” 34

FROM THIS POINT ON, THE FIRST DICTATORSHIP WILL DRIFT INTO OBLIVION

Just as John’s account reaches a point of supreme suspense with the monster declaring war against the Saints – and overcoming them – John tells us the first dictatorship has been obliterated.
But what happened? He doesn’t tell us what happened! He simply closes the account of the first dictatorship with this rather amazing philosophical comment:
“If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” ³⁵
In other words, the first dictatorship has disintegrated into ashes and the faith of the saints is vindicated.
But what brought this about after the first dictatorship turned on the Saints and overpowered them?
Perhaps John left out this vital part of his story so it could be told by his Master. In any event we now have the whole story in the Book of Mormon, and it probably gives us far greater details than John could have provided.

THE RESURRECTED JESUS TELLS WHAT HAPPENS TO THE FIRST DICTATORSHIP

When the resurrected Jesus appeared to his “other sheep” on the American continent in 34 A.D., he talked a lot about America in the latter days. He talked about the Gentiles coming from Europe and setting up the first free people in modern times. He talked about their riches and their power. But he also talked about their wickedness . He said the pure original gospel would be restored among them but unless they embraced it as a people, America would be entirely cleansed of its gentile wickedness and this continent would be largely depopulated.
Here is the way Jesus said it:
“And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret combinations, and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I WILL BRING THE FULNES MY GOSPEL FROM AMONG THEM.” ³⁶

BUT HOW WOULD AMERICA BE CLEANSED?

On God’s prophetic time line, the cleansing of America was recognized in heaven as such a monumental watershed in history that God was talking about it with his prophet Micah clear back around 700 B.C. ³⁷ Having already discussed this momentous event with one of his prophets, Jesus therefore quoted Micah to the Nephites. He introduced it by saying:
“And the Father hath commanded me that I should give unto you this land for your inheritance.
“And I say unto you, that if the Gentiles do not repent after the blessing which they shall receive, after they have scattered my people – then shall ye WHO ARE A REMNANT OF THE HOUSE OF Israel go forth among them, and ye shall be in the midst of them who shall be many, and ye shall be among them as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
“Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. I will gather my people together as a man gathereth his sheaves into the floor. For I will make my people with whom the Father hath covenanted, yea, I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass. And thou shalt beat in pieces many people; and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. And behold, I am he who doeth it.” 38

WHERE IS THE SEED OF JACOB THAT WILL CONQUER THE FIRST DICTATORSHIP?

The predominantly Lamanite-Nephite nations – which comprise the seed of Jacob today – are not difficult to identify. They are the Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina.
But what would provoke them to attack the gentile nations which are located primarily in North America? And how would they ever have the military strength to win a decisive victory of a dictatorship that had ruled the whole world for three-and-half years?
As we have already seen, John the Revelator said the first dictatorship would disintegrate right after it commences to “make war with the saints, and overcome them.” ³⁹
But is this the CAUSE of its downfall or merely a COINCIDENCE which occurs incidental to the collapse of the first dictatorship?
During the past twenty years something has been occurring among the Latin American countries which has kindled a violent bitterness toward the United States, although it has received practically no publicity. Here is what happened.
According to Dr. Patrick S.J. Carmack, the massive privately-owned banks which dominate the United Nations World Bank and International Monetary Fund went down to the Latin American countries around 1980 and offered them huge quantities of money on loan. The Latin American countries and their corrupt leaders eagerly accepted the money.
However, they have not been able to pay the interest on these loans, let alone the principal. The banks said they would just add the unpaid interest to the principal and soon these poverty stricken countries found themselves paying vast amounts in COMPOUND INTEREST on huge sums which represented not only the original loan but the accumulated interest they have not been able to pay. This is called COMPOUND INTEREST.
Dr. Carmack points out that the anguish of the Latin American countries is reflected in the fact that between 1980 and 1990 they paid $418 billion in interest on the original loans of 80 billion. ⁴⁰
The bank managers knew from the beginning that these nations would never be able to pay off these huge debts, but they had a scheme to liquidate the debts by exchanging them for valuable national assets of these nations.
Dr. Carmack reports that such a proposal was made during the Fourth World Wilderness Conference in 1987. The plan allows Third World debtors to transfer their debt to the World Conservation Bank which then negotiates with each nation in terms of their national assets (such as undeveloped mining sites, wilderness areas, etc.) until the full indebtedness is liquidated. This scheme has already been implemented in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Ecuador. ⁴¹
The main significance in all of this is the discovery that there are powerful engines of resentment and desperate hatred being generated among the Latin American countries. They are focused on the United States because they feel these financial traps were engineered by the IMF and World Bank under the control of the United States.
Under certain provocative circumstances this is the type of explosive indignation that might generate an uprising. This would be particularly true if the United States was suddenly engulfed in some natural disaster or plague THAT LEFT HER SUDDENLY WEAK.

THE CRASH OF THE FIRST DICTATORSHIP MAY BE FACILITATED BY DIVINE INTERVENTION

In one revelation the Lord mentions some divine intervention which will be operating during the cleansing of America. He says:
“For behold, and lo, vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly as the whirlwind; and who shall escape it? The Lord’s scourge shall pass over by night and by day, and the report thereof shall vex all people. It shall not be stayed until the Lord comes.
“Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her.”
“But if she observe not to do whatsoever I have commanded her, I will visit her according to all her works; with sore affliction, with pestilence, with plague, with sword, with vengeance, with devouring fire.” ⁴²
Joseph Smith saw a vision of the cleansing of America and wrote:
“And now I am 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 earthquake 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.” ⁴³
There are three other accounts by those who were allowed to see a vision of what it will be like when the cleansing of America occurs.
The first is the account by John Taylor who was allowed to see the nation in the grip of a terrible scourge which he said would leave whole cities without any life whatever. ⁴⁴
The second is Brigham Young who also saw the terrible plagues and scourges which would make the United States extremely vulnerable to any hostile invasion. ⁴⁵
The third is by Charles D. Evans who describes the nature of the plague which is horrible to contemplate. ⁴⁶
Finally, a modern revelation verifies the reality of this terrible pestilence and it is just as ghastly and abhorrent as that which these three men saw in vision. ⁴⁷
The Lord also says:
“And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.” ⁴⁸

UNDER SUCH CALAMITOUS CONDITIONS HOW COULD THE RIGHTEOUS PROTECT THEMSELVES?

Perhaps the reason Nephi was so anxious to tell us about the things he saw was to assure us that our Heavenly Father would not be unmindful of us. As we have already seen, the Lord said:
“Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her.” ⁴⁹
This is confirmed in another revelation where the Lord says:
“But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved; but among the wicked, men shall lift up their voices and curse God and die…When all these things shall come to pass, ye may know that the promises which have been made unto you will all be fulfilled.” ⁵⁰
As President Heber C. Kimball described these prophecies of the latter days, the people asked him, “What will become of this people?” He replied:
“That will depend, altogether upon our conduct. We have it within our power; God has given it to us to save ourselves from the desolation and calamities that will come upon this nation. How? By doing that which is right… .If we do this, prosperity will be upon the inhabitants…prosperity will be upon the towns and cities erected by this people, the hand of the Lord will be over us to sustain us, and we will spread forth…
“Now we have the choice. It is within our reach… .And on the other hand, we ca n reach forth the hand and partake of wickedness and bring desolation and destruction upon our borders.” ⁵¹

CLEON SKOUSEN ON RUSSIA AS THE BEAST

Interesting:

The Soviet Union tried to compete with the United States but finally went bankrupt and in 1989 the whole Soviet Union fell apart. Russia became an isolated, despondent, disorganized non-entity, and the Cold War was over.
Now we go back to John who saw something amazing happen. He says:
“And I saw one of his heads as [if] were wounded to death; and his DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED: and all the world wondered after the beast.
“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying Who is like unto the beast? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?” ³²
One of the amazing things about the Cold War was the fact that the Soviet Union was crushed into near annihilation. It was completely fragmented and left with only the original, isolated Russia as a wounded remnant of what had been a world super-power. Never had there been such a golden opportunity to require the Soviets to disarm, defuse or destroy her intercontinental ballistic missiles, get her factories converted over to domestic production and launch a massive road construction so her farmers could get the vast food supply from the muddy Russian fields to the central markets. But none of this happened. John saw what did happen.
The United Nations extended a generous helping hand to the Soviet Union – which had previously set out to conquer the world – and used the resources of the free world to begin building her up again. Eventually, this bloody head that was saved by the rest of the UN may prove to be once more the most dangerous facet of the first world dictatorship.
So the coalition of many heads and horns John saw in vision, will continue to strengthen itself until it becomes a world-wide dictatorship of ruthless proportions. It will dominate the whole human race for 3.5 years. This is still future.

JULIE ROWE SOON TO RELEASE THIRD BOOK

I have not read either of the first two books, relying on reports and anecdotal stuff indicating that it is more of the same that Wolfgramm, Menet and Spencer have written - but I may read this book.

It is coming out soon:

Excited to Announce a Third Book! by authorjulie Excited to let you know that I will have a third book released this coming February 2016! This book will include information from both book one and book two, but will also have some additional information included. I will once again be publishing with Chad Daybell of Springcreek Books. The plan is to write this book to a more general audience and to include more updates and some of the information I am now able to share. Time is close. ..

OH CRAP - THIS MAY TURN INTO A TURKEY SHOOT......

Yowsa!!

https://www.rt.com/news/323329-russia-suspend-military-turkey/

Could things get any hotter over there????

Wait - do NOT answer that.......

I have to wonder if Peru will get sucked into this by Thursday.....

FYI - RUSSIA HAS NUKES AND PLANS TO USE THEM ON NATO

IF required.

Not fun.  Chariots no longer work in this scenario.....:

I think it was back in 2011 or 2012 that chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov stated that Russia has no intention of fighting NATO's superior conventional forces by conventional means. Makarov stressed that Russia will use it's nuclear forces in any conflict with NATO.

TURKEY (NATO) SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN JET USING US-MADE EQUIPMENT.....

Yowsa - things over there are getting pretty Syrias.....

Man, this stuff gives me the jitters knowing that Bishop Koyle said that Russia declares war on Turkey, as well. 

I KNOW Putin is a REAL man - and real leaders (like Reagan was) do not screw around.  You take them to the brink - and then they swing.  And the knockout punch can be brutal when it does come.  This is no metro-sexual punch.....  it is more of a "mandibular reset"......  Hmmm..... new term.  I have been on the receiving end of one of these when I was asked to put on a set of gloves in the boys locker room in high school.  The guy with the other set of gloves outweighed me by 100 pounds, was all state lineman and was a state champ shot thrower.  I was the state champ discus thrower and I had just surpassed him in the discus and he was pretty upset.  He wanted to sweep the throwing events and I was putting a damper on his plans even though I was alot more nimble and less bulked.  Well, before I even realized what was going on, he threw a beautiful punch (sucker punched me) and lets just say I could not eat steak for the next month.....  It was legit - he did not technically punch me so he would get thrown out of school - but he nailed me nonetheless.  Russia is the smaller guy here - and they will sucker punch us.  If they do, I hope it is DC - all of it; and preferably when they are in a joint session (how about January 20th).  Beheading the beast would be a fine move and I would be quite happy......  We could then rebuild the Republic or whatever the Lord has in mind (after the civil war that surely would follow and the purging is over).

Just sayin'......

http://news.sky.com/story/1593241/putin-downing-of-jet-a-stab-in-the-back

Thanks bummer for getting us into this hellish mess......

THE GOD I KNOW - CURSING FOR THE SAKE OF THE WICKED

I have structural differences in how I perceived God (the Father) and His dealings with His children through the Great Mediator, the Son of Righteousness.

For those that believe in the Book of Mormon and those great words of wisdom - here is an excellent scripture that hones that perspective:

1 Nephi 17:38
38 And he leadeth away the righteous into precious lands, and the wicked he destroyeth, and curseth the land unto them for their sakes.

Now, I want to say that any withdrawal of promised or otherwise deserved blessings is a cursing - by definition.  How can someone bless someone they love if they simply have trodden the blessing under foot over and over again - showing total lack of concern and utter contempt, at times, for the blessing.  A cursing, or complete withdrawal of the blessing is in order.

In the very act of cursing (withdrawing the blessing) until the wicked are humbled is an act of mercy and tenderness.  Leaving our children without parenting them (no consequences - good, or bad for their actions) is the greatest disservice that we can do to them.  We can extrapolate the same logic up a level to the Father of our Spirits.

CHICAGO - READY TO START CIVIL WAR?

Video to be released of white police officer shooting black teen 16 times:

http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/53401769-story

THE STORY THAT A PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON IS A SHAM

I have talked about this before - the testimony that the cab driver gives.  Watch this vid clip until the end where he is being recorded from the rear of the car seat when he does not know it.  He admits that he is just a small player and that it is a conspiracy.  He was paid $60,000 for his trouble as a crisis actor.  His wife, a manager for the FBI recruited him for this role:

https://youtu.be/kvyQ0vVwjqc?t=589

 

Folks - if the people that are paid to protect us are responsible for the lies - then we are pretty much screwed over.  We are toast.  I know that a large recruiting field for the FBI/CIA is among members of the Church (due to language and people skills).  If this is so, and they are aware of any of this - then damn them to hell for complicity - regardless of their flimsy excuses.  As members of the Church, we are to fight against evil in high places, even if it puts our lives in danger.  I quite understand that it is too late to do anything once it "becomes general among you" - but we had a chance back in the Benson days - and we squandered it.  I think the last good shot was in the Kennedy days and then it took off.  Now, there is nothing to do but kill the beast and start over from the ashes, for this nation will burn - and fiercely so for the crimes committed against humanity in the name of "freedom".

WE ARE BEING INFILTRATED AS WE SPEAK

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/exclusive-150-flight-mexico-skip-customs-leave-jfk-article-1.2443629

We have people in power looking the other way......

THE SAINTS WILL BE DRIVEN FROM CITY TO CITY

This will occur in the last days.  I literally mean, the last days as in the last few months before the fire.  When the CW starts, those who are evil in the fold will combine with those who have hated the truth from the beginning and it will be a terrible scourge.  The only places of safety will be in the cities of light.

This action will be the final act that tears families apart - wives against husbands, mothers against daughters, fathers against sons.  Pretty much cats, dogs and total chaos.  It will be a contest of values that will pit the former best against those who are clinging to the iron rod.  Those who choose to follow the counsel of the Brethren and who have the Holy Spirit as their guide will make it.  All else will be/are being sifted as we speak, for they do not know how to doubt their doubts and increase their faith.

This analysis in from a blog reader I highly respect:

How Lehi’s Dream applies to the last day saints of North America
1 Nephi 8: 9-16, 30 -The wise virgins. These partake of all of the blessings of the gospel and are truly converted through the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost. These are temple worthy and have a year or more supply of food, water, and supplies. These gather to wherever the Holy Spirit guides them. These are the ones that survive the purging of the church in the near future.
1 Nephi 8:21-23 -The tares (the 50% of the total adult church membership who will apostatize from the church per John Taylor). These have very little spiritual conviction. They started down the straight and narrow path that leads to the iron rod (joined the church) but would not give up the things of the world including their sins. These join with evil nonmembers who persecute the unwise virgins.
1 Nephi 8:24-28 -The unwise virgins. These saints have only testimonies (a burning in their bosoms) and are not truly converted (baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost) to Christ. Many have gone through the temple but their hearts on set on the things of the world. These are the additional 25% of the total church membership who will apostatize from the church because of the persecution they receive from the tares and evil nonmembers. These are not able to gather with the wise virgins because they are not worthy nor ready.
1 Nephi 8:31-33 - The nonmembers. These are incited by the apostate tares to persecute the unwise virgins into denouncing their membership in the church. Some of these help slay apostles and other faithful saints as well. But many will flee unto Zion (in this case the church) for safety both physically and spiritually (join the church in large numbers).

THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY GHOST

This is interesting - how the HG spreads His influence.

I have always thought of it like this:

http://www.gregtrimble.com/science-behind-feeling-the-holy-ghost/

THE THREE FORMS OF INTIMACY - EMOTIONAL/SPIRITUAL AND SEXUAL

Folks, I have learned volumes on this topic recently.  I have always kind of known most of this stuff - but the principles were driven home lately.

In a non-worldly relationship, it develops usually in these three areas and in this sequence when it is done right.  When a relationship (that ends in marriage) starts, it usually begins with two people that are emotionally available; who would like to sync themselves to another for the purpose of strengthening beyond what one can do alone.  The human condition dictates that no individual (that is fully functioning and not dysfunctional), likes to be alone.  We crave companionship - most likely with someone who is our equal.  No relationship can make it if there is not mutual respect between the two.  We MUST be equally yoked - otherwise, it becomes a relationship of caretakership and it can lose it's luster quickly.

This desire to couple for emotional stability and fulfillment leads two people to a relationship.  In the worldly model, right after this coming together happens, sexual intimacy occurs (the FIRST

A POSSIBLE SPARK THAT IGNITES THE CONFLAGRATION IN THE CHICAGO AREA??

We drove through Chicago/Gary area for well over two hours this summer.  Much of what we saw was ethnic/ghetto areas that I felt better getting out of (knowing how I am viewed being a white guy).

If people are this hacked off about this whole race thing, it will not take long for a bon fire to erupt.  I do not get it - but then the only black/minorities I deal with are not fed up with a system that they largely cannot navigate; being that, those I mostly deal with are college educated and have fled the ghettos themselves to live a comfortable, well-adjusted life in the country away from the dysfunction that has become the black families' lives today (70% fatherlessness in the home, addiction, etc).

So, yeah.  I have ZERO pulse on this thing that is percolating below the surface in America.  The only exposure I got was my neighbor across the street married a stunning black woman (Halle Barry beautiful) and their gangsta relatives would swarm into town from the big city on Holidays and I simply felt like I needed to sequester the kids in the house due to the hip-hugger pants, tats, flat brimmed hats and just plain nastiness.  WAY TOO MUCH for me.  I see a gangsta-type (black, white or Mexican) and my first impulse is to go over pull the rat's pants up around his ears for the atomic wedgie moment and sucker punch him, telling him to get lost...... 

Yep - I know, simply NOT charitable of me.  But, that is how I feel.  See someone without the tats of the same race, but dressed nicely and well-comported and all I want to do is shake their hand and introduce myself.  I think it was PTSD from living in my first fixer-upper house in West Jordan, UT.  I was counting the days until I could my family out of there and developed quite a strong aversion to the gangsta culture......

Here is the article.  And this DOES have to happen prior to CWII in this country.  Just like the nuke hitting Tel Aviv, the EQ in Utah and a few other things, I am just patiently waiting and watching.  Once it happens, it is game on bro!:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/20/white-student-union-challenges-black-lives-matter-at-university-of-illinois/