Signs of the Times

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Signs of the Times

• Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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Things we will cover today -or not..

• Will there be an Anti-Christ?
• What is the Mark of the Beast?
• Are the Lost Tribes really lost?
• Is there really going to be a rapture?
• Just who is going back to Missouri?
• Will a nuclear device cause the desolating
  scourge?
• Will the two prophets, be apostles?
• How will the constitution hang by the thread?
• Will the Savior come on a Sunday?
• or maybe not!

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• Will we recognize the signs when we see it?

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Joseph Smith

• Judah must return,
• Jerusalem must be rebuilt, and the temple,
• and water come out from under the temple,
• and the waters of the Dead Sea be healed
• There will be wars and rumors of wars,
• signs in the heavens above and on the earth
  beneath,
• the sun turned into darkness and the moon to
  blood,
• earthquakes in divers places,
• the seas heaving beyond their bounds
• then will appear one grand sign of the Son of Man
  in heaven.
• But what will the world do? They will say it is a
  planet, a comet, etc. But the Son of man will
  come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man,
  which will be as the light of the morning cometh
  out of the east. (April 6, 1843.)

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DC 45

• 48 And then shall the Lord set his foot upon
  this mount of Olives, and it shall cleave in
  twain, and the earth shall tremble, and reel
  to and fro, and the heavens also shall shake.
• 49 And the Lord shall utter his voice, and
  all the ends of the earth shall hear it and
  the nations of the earth shall mourn, and they
  that have laughed shall see their folly.
• 50 And calamity shall cover the mocker, and the
  scorner shall be consumed and they that have
  watched for iniquity shall be hewn down and cast
  into the fire.
• 51 And then shall the Jews look upon me and say
  What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy
  feet?
• 52 Then shall they know that I am the Lord for I
  will say unto them These wounds are the wounds
  with which I was wounded in the house of my
  friends. I am he who was lifted up. I am Jesus
  that was crucified. I am the Son of God.

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President Gordon B. Hinckley 

• "How do you prepare for the Second Coming?
  Well, you just do not worry about it. You just
  live the kind of life that if the Second Coming
  were to be tomorrow you would be ready. Nobody
  knows when it is going to happen.
• Our responsibility is to prepare ourselves, to
  live worthy of the association of the Savior, to
  deport ourselves in such a way that we would not
  be embarrassed if He were to come among us. That
  is a challenge in this day and age."

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Elder Jeffrey Holland2004 CES Fireside

• My theory is that those great men and women,
  the leaders in those ages past, were able to
  keep going, to keep testifying, to keep trying
  to do their best, not because they knew that
  they would succeed but because they knew that you
  would. I believe they took courage and hope not
  so much from their own circumstances as from
  yours
• One way or another, I think virtually all of the
  prophets and early apostles had their visionary
  moments of our timea view that gave them courage
  in their own less-successful eras. Those early
  brethren knew an amazing amount about us.
• Prophets such as Moses, Nephi, and the brother of
  Jared saw the latter days in tremendously
  detailed vision. Some of what they saw wasnt
  pleasing, but surely all those earlier
  generations took heart from knowing that there
  would finally be one dispensation that would not
  fail.

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Elder Holland

• Ours, not theirs, was the day that gave
  them heavenly and joyful anticipations and
  caused them to sing and prophesy of victory.
  Ours is the day, collectively speaking, toward
  which the prophets have been looking from the
  beginning of time, and those earlier brethren
  are over there still cheering us on!
• In a very real way, their chance to consider
  themselves fully successful depends on our
  faithfulness and our victory.
• I love the idea of going into the battle of the
  last days
  representing Alma and Abinadi and what
  they pled for and representing
  Peter and Paul
  and the sacrifices they made. If you cant get
  excited about that kind
  of assignment in the
  drama of history, you cant get excited!