The Gathering 101

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The Gathering 101

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Flight Attendants

• On landing, the stewardess said, 'Please be sure
  to take all of your belongings. If you're going
  to leave anything, please make sure it's
  something we'd like to have.
• After a particularly rough landing during
  thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a
  Northwest flight a announced, 'Please take care
  when opening the overhead compartments because,
  after a landing like that, sure as shootin,
  everythings shifted.'
• 'Welcome aboard Southwest Flight 245. To operate
  your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the
  buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every
  other seat belt and, if you don't know how to
  operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in
  public unsupervised.'
• 'In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure,
  masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop
  screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your
  face. If you have a small child travelling with
  you, secure your mask before assisting with
  theirs. If you are travelling with more than one
  small child, pick your favorite.'
• 'Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with
  some broken clouds, but we'll try to have them
  fixed before we arrive
• 'Your seat cushions can be used for flotation
  and, in the event of an emergency water landing,
  please paddle to shore and take them with our
  compliments.'

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The Gathering

• Wherefore, he will bring them again out of
  captivity, and they shall be gathered together to
  the lands of their inheritance
• he shall set his hand again the second time to
  recover his people (Jacob 62)
• in the dispensation of the fulness of times he
  might gather together in one all things in Christ
  Eph (110)
• how often would I have gathered thy children
  together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
  under her wings, and ye would not! Matt 2337
• and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with
  a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four
  quarters of the earth (Moses 762)

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December 1830DC 37

• Behold, I say unto you that it is not
  expedient in me that ye should translate
  any more until ye shall go to the Ohio, and this
  because of the enemy and for your sakes.
• And again, a commandment I give unto the church,
  that it is expedient in me that they should
  assemble together at the Ohio

Question As Latter Day Saints, what does it mean
to be gathered and why is it expedient?
Question How did they (and us) know they are
safely gathered in?
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The Gathering 101

• 1- We must first know we are scattered!

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The Gathering 101

• 2- When we gather, He will first show unto us
  our weakness and our weaknesses.

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The Gathering 101

• 3- He then endows us with power

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Prophet Joseph Smith

• The main object of gathering was to build unto
  the Lord a house
  whereby He could reveal
  unto His people the ordinances of His house
  and the glories of His
  kingdom, and teach the people
  the way of salvation for there are
  certain ordinances and principles
  that, when they are taught and practiced, must be
  done in a place or house built for that purpose.
• It was the design of the councils of heaven
  before the world was, that the principles and
  laws of the priesthood should be predicated upon
  the gathering of the people in every age of the
  world. . . .
• It is for the same purpose that God gathers
  together His people in the last days, to build
  unto the Lord a house to prepare them for the
  ordinances and endowments... (History of the
  Church, 542324.)

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The Gathering 101
Mosiah 52 And they all cried with one voice,
saying Yea, we believe all the words which thou
hast spoken unto us and also, we know of their
surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the
Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty
change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no
more disposition to do evil, but to do good
continually.

• 4- He then changes our hearts

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Question

• In most cases, how are we an Active Latter Day
  Saint before we are a Converted Latter Day Saint?

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The Gathering 101

• Finally,
• 5- When we are qualified for the work, He sends
  us out to find and feed other lost sheep

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Israel, Israel, God is Calling

• Israel, Israel, God is calling,
• Calling thee from lands of woe.
• Babylon the great is falling
• God shall all her tow'rs o'er throw.
• Israel, Israel, God is speaking.
• Hear your great Deliv'rer's voice!
• Now a glorious morn is breaking
• For the people of his choice.
• Israel, angels are descending
• From celestial worlds on high,
• And to man their pow'r extending,
• That the Saints may homeward fly.
• Israel! Israel! Canst thou linger
• Still in error's gloomy ways?
• Mark how judgement's pointing finger
• Justifies no vain delays.
• Come to Zion, come to Zion!
• Zion's walls shall ring with praise.