Daniel

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Daniels Dream

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Which Path Do You Follow?
FEAR
NOW
2nd Coming
FAITH
What determines the difference?
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Daniel 2

• Thou, o king, sawest, and behold a great image.
  This great image, whose brightness was excellent,
  stood before thee and the form thereof was
  terrible. This images head was of fine gold, his
  breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his
  thighs of brass. His legs of iron, his feet part
  of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a
  stone was cut out without hands, which smote the
  image upon his feet that were of iron and clay,
  and brake them to pieces.
• Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the
  silver,and the gold, broken to pieces together,
  and became like the chaff o the summer
  threshingfloors and the wind carried them away,
  that no place was found for them and the stone
  that smote the image became a great mountain, and
  filled the whole earth.

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• Orson Pratt
• The nations of modern Europe,
  including England, and the Gentile
  nations of America, compose the legs, feet
  and toes of the image, while the other
  portions of the image will be found mostly
  among the Asiatic nations. The geographical
  position of the image is from east to
  west its head is found in Asia, and its
  toes in Europe and America.
• When the kingdom of God is set up, it
  must be somewhere near the western
  extremity of this great image, for the toes
  and feet are first broken by it, and
  afterwards all the other portions, from
  which we learn that its advancement is from west
  to east. The progress of the kingdoms of the
  world has been from east to west the progress of
  the kingdom of God is from west to east, in a
  retrograde direction. This stone, according to
  Daniel 245, is to be "cut out of the mountain
  without hands." "Cut out of the mountain,"
  signifies its location before any part of the
  image is broken.
• The present location of the Latter-day Church is
  in the valleys among the Rocky Mountains this
  appears to be its appropriate position, according
  to prophecy. The stone is to be "cut out without
  hands" this signifies that it is a kingdom, not
  formed by the will of man, but by the will of
  God human wisdom has no hand in its formation
  it is "the God of heaven" that sets it up, and by
  Him it will be sustained and never be destroyed,
  nor broken to pieces, nor left to other people.

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Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Here we have seen the kingdoms of this
  world, kingdoms drenched in blood and held
  together by the arm of flesh, one following
  another until the set time for the great
  latter-day restoration of all things.
• Then a stone is cut out of the mountain without
  hands and a kingdom is set up by the God of
  heaven. It is a new kind of kingdom. The arm of
  flesh plays no part in its creation. It is
  created without man's hand. It comes from God. It
  is established by revelation. It is the Church
  and kingdom of God on earth." (Millennial
  Messiah, p131)

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DC 652, 5-6

• The keys of the kingdom of God are
  committed unto man on the earth, and from
  thence shall the gospel roll forth unto the
  ends of the earth, as the stone which is
  cut out of the mountain without hands
  shall roll forth, until it has filled the
  whole earth. . . .
• Call upon the Lord, that his kingdom may go forth
  upon the earth, that the inhabitants thereof may
  receive it, and be prepared for the days to come,
  in the which the Son of Man shall come down in
  heaven, clothed in the brightness of his glory,
  to meet the kingdom of God which is set up on the
  earth. Wherefore, may the kingdom of God go
  forth, that the kingdom of heaven may come. . .

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President Benson

• "This work will prevail in spite of all
  the opposition which might be mustered against
  it. This work will prevail! It will never be
  thrown down or given to another people.
• God's kingdom has been established upon the earth
  for the last time in preparation for the second
  coming of the Master. We have the word of Jesus
  Christ whose name this Church bears to that
  effect." (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p394)

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Question

• As the 2nd Coming draws near, what kind of
  opposition do you think Satan will use prevent
  the work from going forward?

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Elder Holland

• I was 17 years old before there was any stake
  of Zion anywhere outside North America. There
  are now well over 1,000 stakes on those
  distant continents and isles of the sea. We
  now have 125 temples operating or announced,
  more than half of which (64) are outside the
  United States. Again I was nearly 16 before
  there was even one temple beyond the states
  and provinces of the USA and Canada.
• We have lived to see the revelation extending the
  priesthood to all worthy males of appropriate
  age, a blessing which has accelerated the work in
  many parts of the world. We have lived to see the
  publication of our scriptures, wholly or in part,
  in nearly 100 languages. We have lived to see the
  long-awaited creation of the Quorums of the
  Seventy with great men drawn from many nations
  and, in turn, deployed to serve in many nations.
• Most recently President Hinckley has announced a
  Perpetual Education Fund that has the potential
  to bless many in even the most distant locations
  of the earth eventually. And so the
  internationalizing of the Church goes on.

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President Hinckley

• My brethren and sisters, do you realize what
  we have? Do you recognize our place in the
  great drama of human history? This is the
  focal point of all that has gone before. This
  is the season of restitution. These are the
  days of restoration. This is the time when
  men from over the earth come to the mountain
  of the Lords house to seek and learn of His ways
  and to walk in His paths. This is the summation
  of all of the centuries of time since the birth
  of Christ to this present and wonderful day.
• The centuries have passed. The latter-day work of
  the Almighty, that of which the ancients spoke,
  that of which the prophets and apostles
  prophesied, is come. It is here. For some reason
  unknown to us, but in the wisdom of God, we have
  been privileged to come to earth in this glorious
  age. There has been a great flowering of science.
  There has been a veritable explosion of learning.
  
• This is the greatest of all ages of human
  endeavor and human accomplishment. And more
  importantly, it is the season when God has
  spoken, when His Beloved Son has appeared, when
  the divine priesthood has been restored, when we
  hold in our hand another testament of the Son of
  God. What a glorious and wonderful day this is.