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The Book of Revelations

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Brigham Young

• Arza Hinckley records that in 1845 he was
  working down in the rock quarry, in Nauvoo,
  when Brigham Young walked by. Seeing Arza and
  another man working to quarry rock for the Nauvoo
  Temple. President Young remarked
• Boys, weve got to finish the temple and move on
  to the Rocky Mountains. Then, one day, well come
  back to the center stake.
• Arza Hinckley Journal

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Question

• The early Saints thought the 2nd Coming was
  imminent. Now, more than150 years later, we still
  wait.
• What signs do we have the 2nd coming is very
  close?

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Revelation 5

• And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on
  the throne a book written within and on the
  backside, sealed with seven seals.
• And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud
  voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to
  loose the seals thereof?
• And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under
  the earth, was able to open the book, neither to
  look thereon.
• And I wept much, because no man was found worthy
  to open and to read the book, neither to look
  thereon

1 Nephi 1 And it came to pass that Lehi cast
himself upon his bed, being overcome with the
Spirit he was carried away in a vision, even
that he saw the heavens open And it came to
pass that he saw One descending out of the midst
of heaven And he also saw twelve others
following him and the first came and stood
before my father, and gave unto him a book, and
bade him that he should read. And he read,
saying Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen
thine abominations! Yea, and many things did my
father read concerning Jerusalemthat it should
be destroyed
DC 77 Q. What are we to understand by the book
which John saw, which was sealed on the back with
seven seals?  A. We are to understand that it
contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the
works of God the hidden things of his economy
concerning this earth during the seven thousand
years of its continuance, or its temporal
existence.
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Question

• What does it meant to learn line upon line and
  why is that important in learning the gospel?

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The Opening of the Seals

• Keys
• Raphael? (Elder McConkie)
• Elias- Gospel of Abraham
• Moses- Keys of Gathering of Israel
• Elijah- Sealing Power
• Key of the Melchiezedek and Aaronic Priesthood
• Keys Restored (DC 110)
• Keys and Offerings at AdamOndi Ahman

• First seal (Rev 6 1-2)  
• Adam and Eve Enoch
• Second seal (Rev 63,4)  
• Noah and the Flood. 
• Third seal (Rev 65-6)
• Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses the
  Exodus judges. 
• Fourth seal (Rev 67-8)  
• Reign by kings kingdoms divided 
• Fifth seal (Rev 69-11)  
• Ministry of Jesus Christ, the Apostles the
  Apostasy. 
• Sixth seal (Rev 612-17)  
• Apostasy restoration. 
• Seventh seal (Rev 20 1-6)  
• 2nd Coming of the Lord. Millennium . 

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Orson F. Whitney

• "'The book which John saw' represented the real
  history of the worldwhat the eye of God has
  seen, what the recording angel has written
• "According to received chronologyadmittedly
  imperfect, yet approximately correctfour
  thousand years, or four of the seven great days
  given to this planet as the period of its
  'temporal existence,' had passed before Christ
  was crucified while nearly two thousand years
  have gone by since.
• Consequently, Earth's long week is now drawing to
  a close, and we stand at the present moment in
  the Saturday Evening of Time, at or near the end
  of the sixth day of human history.
• Is it not a time for thought, a season for solemn
  meditation? Morning will break upon the
  Millennium, the thousand years of peace, the
  Sabbath of the World!"
• (Saturday Night Thoughts, pp4-5)

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Now, what is our part?

• Rev 121,2
• Who is the woman and the child?
• Rev 12 3-17

John's "man child" represented a real political
kingdom that was to be established by God to
govern the whole earth.  Brigham Young taught
that this political power actually grows out of
the Church.  Speaking of the latter-day event, he
explained, "The Church of Jesus Christ will
produce this government, and cause it to grow and
spread, and it will shield round about the
church. And under the influence and power of the
Kingdom of God, the church will rest secure and
dwell in safety"
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Elder Holland

• There they were, approximately thirty members of
  the Church meeting in that tiny Peter Whitmer
  home in Fayette, planning to overthrow the prince
  of darkness and establish the kingdom of God in
  all the world. All the world?
• What presumption! Were they demented? Had they
  lost all power to reason? Thirty very average,
  garden-variety Latter-day Saints willing to work
  the rest of their lives? To what end? Persecution
  and pain and maybe thirty more members--for a
  grand total of sixty?
• Perhaps they did see how limited their immediate
  personal success would be, and maybe they even
  saw the trouble ahead, but they saw something
  more. It was all in that business of the
  influence of the Holy Ghost and heavens being
  opened to their view. President John Taylor said
  later of that experience
• A few men assembled in a log cabin they saw
  visions of heaven, and gazed upon the eternal
  world they looked through the rent vista of
  futurity, and beheld the glories of eternity . .
  . they were laying the foundation of the
  salvation of this world.HC 6295

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Elder Holland

• I have a theory about those earlier dispensations
  and the leaders, families, and people who lived
  then
• 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 Continues

• 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!

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In Conclusion

• We are engaged in a desperate struggle for the
  souls of men and women. While not as spectacular
  as holding the line at Gettysburg or storming the
  beach on D-Day, it is far more critical.
• If we teach a primary class, we are on the front
  lines. As we work with our own children or
  someone else, we are standing in the breach.
• Quietly, gently, we are preparing warriors for
  the worlds last, greatest battle.

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Winston Churchill

• This is one of the most awe-striking periods in
  the long history of France and Britain. .
• . Behind us gather a group of shattered States
  and bludgeoned races the Czechs, the Poles, the
  Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians-
• upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will
  descend, unbroken even by a star of hope,
• unless we conquer, as conquer we must as conquer
  we shall.