Signs of the 2nd Coming

D&C 130 Joseph Smith asked when the 2^nd coming would be; he got no answer.

It will be like the sun rising – all will know.

Parable of the 10 virgins 

members of the Church waiting for the groom.

The lamps = testimony;

Bridegroom = Jesus

Bridegroom = Jesus

Wedding = 2^nd coming

Bride = Church

5 virgins were ready; 5 virgins were not ready. Many members won’t be ready – half of the Church!

We need our 72 hour physical emergency pack and also an emergency pack of Spiritual preparation.

Those not ready will be cast into fire.

Non-tithing payers are not worthy

Parable of the Fig tree – the fig tree is called a late leafer and the last to produce in the season. Matt 24:37

Signs: D&C 45, 88 29, 133, JST Matt 24 = P of GP

1.       Coming of the Book of Mormon

2.       Restoration

3.       Earthquakes all over the world and desolation (natural disasters)

4.       Tempests and hurricanes

5.       Iniquity will abound

6.       Men’s hearts will fail – lose heart, fear, depression, heart disease

7.       Famine, pestilence, disease always follows famine

8.       Saints will gather to Zion. They will be called to Independence

9.       Love of men will wax cold

10.   Jews will gather to Israel – 1948 Nation of Israel was  established. 40@ of Jewish population is in Israel.

11.   Gospel will be preached to the world – D&C 84:62; Internet missionaries

12.   Great hailstorms  D&C 29:16; size of volleyballs

13.   Battle of Armageddon – siege of Jerusalem

14.   Temple in Old Jerusalem when there are enough faithful LDS members; the blueprint is in Ezekiel. Holland is over that and the middle east.

15.   False prophets – apostates

16.   Wars and rumors of ward – threats, fears, 44 armed conflicts, war on drugs

17.   No rainbow - because of drought. Laurel taught her kids the signs and whenever they say a rainbow, they would be happy and say, well, the 2^nd coming isn’t this year because there’s a rainbow!

18.   Establish the New Zion and build a temple D&C 45. We will be the only people on earth not at war.

The gang motto is kill, rape, destroy

1 week after the youth were asked to pray for the missionary work, Trump met with Harold B Lee.

China youth learn English and then join the Church and go home and teach their families.

Israel will be the last to get the Gospel

There is an increase in suicide and depression. Provo has the highest depression mediation rate.

Missionaries are called home when it is no longer safe for them. In Nicaragua the missionaries were sent home. D&C 88:88 is to missionaries. It says that when missionaries have to go home because a country is no longer safe, God will preach His own sermon to the people with natural disasters.

The last great war before the 2^nd coming, all armies in the world will be against Israel. It will be under siege 3 ½ years and will break down the walls. They will be saved by 2 priesthood holders to fight through the power of the Priesthood. They will be killed and lie in the street for 3 days; Jesus will coe and finish the battle and appear to them in the temple and they will know He is Jesus.

There will be signs in the heavens. The last sign – leaf – no more time to prepare. The sun will go dark, the moon will turn to blood, the stars will fall from the heavens because the earth will be moved to its original neighborhood. The stars will appear to fall because the earth will be hurling through the skies to return to Kolob. The earth was not always in this solar system. This is a Telestial neighborhood. The Garden of Eden was terrestrial. The earth will go back to the Celestial neighborhood.

The scriptures say that the earth will move like a chased deer.

Men will fall on the ground and not be able to stand, but the disciples will stand in holy places and not e moved. The righteous will not fear.

The Rapture, Matt 24, we need to be ready to be taken up.

Those left behind will be burned by the brightness of His coming.

There is an experience a man had who was in an airplane crash. He ws the only survivor and watched others die. He would see a light go up from the body. He saw that children had more light.

We need to have enough light to qualify. Those living a terrestrial law – the honest, morally clean good to others, will be in the terrestrial world in the millennium.

After the earth burns, it will be renewed and be paradise. The land masses will be gathered; it will now have a perfect climate – the hymn Now Let Us Rejoice

Celestial spirits will be lifted up, the already dead and the living.

When the scriptures say we will shout, it means CHEER. We’ll sing and we’ll shout, then the millennium will begin.

Read Neal Anderson’s talk, Thy Kingdom Come