Signs of the Times

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Signs of the Times

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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?

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Why Dont We Have Answers To These Questions?
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Elder Dallin Oaks

• April 2004 Conference

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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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Lorenzo Snow

• If you are on a moving train of cars, as long as
  you sit still and occupy your seat
  that train will take you to the point
  you wish to go but if you step off the cars it
  will be dangerous, and it may be a long time
  before another train will come along.
• It is the same with usif we are living right,
  doing our work, we are going along, and if we are
  keeping our covenants, we are doing the work of
  God and accomplishing His purposes, and we will
  be prepared for the time when Jesus the Son of
  God will come in honor and glory, and will confer
  upon all those who prove faithful all the
  blessings that they anticipate, and a thousand
  times more.

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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."