The Second Coming
Watch, Pray, Take Heed
and be Ready!
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1989 - A frozen Viking, found by oil drillers, will be
revived by modern science.
1990 - Mike Tyson will be boxing champ until 1998.
1994 - An earthquake will turn Florida into an
island.
1995 - Disney World will be destroyed by a
hurricane.
1996 - A nuclear missile will destroy an asteroid.
1998 - Rosie O’Donnell will announce she will marry
the band leader of her show.
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Children’s Questions...
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Dear God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? -Norma
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Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay? -Neil
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Dear God, It rained for our whole vacation and is my father MAD! He said some things
about you that people are not supposed to say, but I hope you will not hurt him anyway.
Your friend (But I am not going to tell you who I am)
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Dear God, Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before, You can look it up.
-Bruce
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Dear God, Of all the people who work for you I like Noah and David the best. -Rob
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Dear God, We read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday School they said you did it.
So I bet he stoled your idea. Sincerely, Donna
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Youth Questions About
Second Coming...
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When will be Christ’s second coming
in glory?
What is life going to be like before
and during Christ’s return?
How do I prepare myself so I will be
ready?
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Wilford Woodruff
Journal of Discourses 18:111
There never was a generation of the
inhabitants of the earth in any age of the
world who had greater events awaiting
them than the present. And an age
fraught with greater interest to the
children of men than the one in which we
live never dawned since the creation of
the world.
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Marion G. Romney
Conference Report, October 1966
I hope we are all familiar with these words of the
Lord and with his predictions concerning other
coming events, such as the building of the new
Jerusalem and the redemption of the old, the
return of Enoch's Zion, and Christ's millennial
reign. Not only do I hope that we are familiar
with these coming events; I hope also that we
keep the vision of them continually before our
minds. This I do because upon a knowledge of
them, and an assurance of their reality and a
witness that each of us may have part therein,
rests the efficacy of Christ's admonition, “be not
troubled.”
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Purposes of Prophecy
Peace of Mind
23 Behold, I speak these things unto
you for the elect's sake; and you also
shall hear of wars, and rumors of wars;
see that ye be not troubled, for all I
have told you must come to pass; but
the end is not yet.
(JS-Matt 1:23)
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Purposes of Prophecy
Peace of Mind
Why is it that the Latter-day Saints are perfectly
calm and serene among all the convulsions of the
earth--the turmoils, strife, war, pestilence,
famine, and distress of nations? It is because the
spirit of prophecy has made known to us that
such things would actually transpire upon the
earth. We understand it, and view it in its true
light. We have learned it by the visions of the
Almighty.
(JM Grant, Journal of Discourses, 2:147)
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Purposes of Prophecy
So We Can Prepare and Repent
I know these are unpleasant things. It is not a
pleasant thing even for me to stand here and tell
you that this is written in the scriptures. If the
Lord has a controversy with the nations, He will
put them to the sword. Their bodies shall lie
unburied like dung upon the earth. That is not
nice, is it, but should we not know it? Is it not
our duty to read these things and understand
them? (continued)
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Purposes of Prophecy
So We Can Prepare and Repent
Don’t you think the Lord has given us these
things that we might know and we might prepare
ourselves through humility, through repentance,
through faith, that we might escape from these
dreadful conditions that are portrayed by these
ancient prophets? That is why I am reading
them. I feel just as keenly as you do about the
condition, and I pray for it to come to an end,
but I want it to come to an end right.
(Joseph Fielding Smith, Signs of the Times, p.
154-155)
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Purposes of Prophecy
Strengthen our Faith
5 Telling them of things which must
shortly come, that they might know and
remember at the time of their coming
that they had been made known unto
them beforehand, to the intent that they
might believe.
(Helaman 16:5)
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Purposes of Prophecy
To Keep Us From Being Deceived
37 And whoso treasureth up my word, shall
not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall
come, and he shall send his angels before him
with the great sound of a trumpet, and they
shall gather together the remainder of his
elect from the four winds, from one end of
heaven to the other.
(JS Matt 1:37)
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Orson F. Whitney
Conference Report, April 1920
Saturday Evening of Time
According to our Prophet's teachings, God gave
to this planet, Mother Earth, seven thousand
years as the period of "its temporal existence;"
and four thousand years, or four of those great
days, had passed before Christ was crucified,
while nearly two thousand years, or two more
days, have gone by since. Consequently, we
stand at the present moment in the Saturday
Evening of Time, near the close of the sixth day,
at the week's end of human history. Morning will
break upon the Millennium, the thousand years
of peace, the Sabbath of the World.
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Seven Seals
D&C 77:6
6 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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Seven Seals
D&C 77:7
7 Q. What are we to understand by the
seven seals with which it was sealed?
A. We are to understand that the first
seal contains the things of the first
thousand years, and the second also of
the second thousand years, and so on
until the seventh.
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Seven Seals
Seal 1
Seal 2
Seal 3
Seal 4
Seal 5
Seal 6
Seal 7
4,000-3,000
3,000-2,000
2,000-1,000
1,000-1
1-1,000
1,000-2,000
2,000-3,000
BC
BC
BC
BC
AD
AD
AD
Adam
Noah
Abraham
Isaiah
Peter
Millennium
Enoch
Shem
Moses
Joseph
Smith
The world has had a fair trial for six thousand years; the
Lord will try the seventh thousand Himself; "He whose
right it is, will possess the kingdom, and reign until He has
put all things under His feet;" iniquity will hide its hoary
head, Satan will be bound, and the works of darkness
destroyed; righteousness will be put to the line, and
judgment to the plummet, and "he that fears the Lord will
alone be exalted in that day.“
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 5:252)
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When Will the Lord
Return?
D&C 77:12
12 Q. What are we to understand by the
sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in
the 8th chapter of Revelation?
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Christ Will Return in the
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7 Seal
D&C 77:12
A. We are to understand that as God made the world in six
days, and on the seventh day he finished his work, and
sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the
earth, even so, in the beginning of the seventh thousand
years will the Lord God sanctify the earth, and complete
the salvation of man, and judge all things, and shall
redeem all things, except that which he hath not put into
his power, when he shall have sealed all things, unto the
end of all things; and the sounding of the trumpets of the
seven angels are the preparing and finishing of his work, in
the beginning of the seventh thousand years—the
preparing of the way before the time of his coming.
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Christ Will Return in the
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7 Seal
D&C 77:13
13 Q. When are the things to be
accomplished, which are written in the
9th chapter of Revelation?
A. They are to be accomplished after the
opening of the seventh seal, before the
coming of Christ.
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Can the Lord Return
Today?
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. It will take some
time to rebuild the walls of the city and the temple, Etc.;
and all this must be done before the Son of Man will make
his appearance. 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, which will be
as the light of the morning cometh out of the east.
(History of the Church 5:337)
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Can the Lord Return
Today?
The people called Millerites, believe in the second coming
of the Savior, and they have set a great many days when it
should take place. But he did not come; and he never will
come until the revelations of God are fulfilled and a people
are prepared for his coming. He will never come until the
Jews are gathered home and have re-built their Temple
and city, and the Gentiles have gone up there to battle
against them. He will never come until his Saints have built
up Zion, and have fulfilled the revelations which have been
spoken concerning it. He will never come until the Gentiles
throughout the whole Christian world have been warned by
the inspired elders of Israel.
(Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Discourses, 18:111-112)
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Can the Lord Return
Today?
Before the coming of Christ, the great
war, sometimes called Armageddon, will
take place as spoken of by Ezekiel,
chapters 38 and 39. Another war of Gog
and Magog will be after the millennium.
(Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines of
Salvation, Vol.3, p.45)
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He that feareth me shall be looking forth for the
great day of the Lord to come, even for the signs
of the coming of the Son of Man. (D&C 45:39)
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The Battle of Armageddon
Revelation 16:16 JST
16 And He gathered them together into
a place called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon.
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Armageddon
(Har Megiddo - Mountain of Megiddo)
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Gog and Magog
Revelation 9:16
16 And the number of the army of the
horsemen were two hundred thousand
thousand: and I heard the number of
them.
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Gog and Magog
Shall Come Like a Storm
Ezekiel 38:4,9
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into
thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all
thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them
clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great
company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm,
thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land,
thou, and all thy bands, and many people with
thee.
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Jews Refining Fire
Two Thirds of Jews Will Not Survive
Zechariah 13:8-9
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the
land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall
be cut off and die; but the third shall be left
therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried: they shall
call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
say, It is my people: and they shall say, The
LORD is my God.
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Two Prophets
D&C 77:15
15 Q. What is to be understood by the two
witnesses, in the eleventh chapter of
Revelation?
A. They are two prophets that are to be raised
up to the Jewish nation in the last days, at the
time of the restoration, and to prophesy to the
Jews after they are gathered and have built
the city of Jerusalem in the land of their
fathers.
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Two Prophets 3½ Year
Ministry Typifies Christ
Revelation 11:2-3
2 But the court which is without the temple
leave out, and measure it not; for it is given
unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they
tread under foot forty and two months.
3 And I will give power unto my two
witnesses, and they shall prophecy a thousand
two hundred and threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth.
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Two Prophets Have
Power Over Elements
Revelation 11:3,4,6
3 And I will give power unto my two
witnesses...
4 These are the two olive trees, and the two
candlesticks standing before the God of the
earth.
6 These have power to shut heaven, that it
rain not in the days of their prophecy: and
have power over waters to turn them to
blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues,
as often as they will.
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Two Prophets
Will Become Martyrs
Revelation 11:5,7
5 And if any man will hurt them, fire
proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth
their enemies: and if any man will hurt them,
he must in this manner be killed.
7 And when they shall have finished their
testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the
bottomless pit shall make war against them,
and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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Gog and Magog
Will Not Bury Two Prophets
Revelation 11:8,9
8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street
of the great city, which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was
crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and
tongues and nations shall see their dead
bodies three days and an half, and shall not
suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
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Savior Provides Way of
Escape For Israel
Zechariah 14:4-5
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount
of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and
the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof
toward the east and toward the west, and there shall
be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it toward the
south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for
the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea,
ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the
earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and
the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with
thee.
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Mount of Olives
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Moses Typified Christ
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All things which have been given of God from the
beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying
of him. (2 Nephi 11:4)
The third of the Jews that remain are huddled
against the Mount of Olives in the Kidron Valley
with Gog and Magog descending upon them.
Just as Moses divided the Red Sea, the Mount of
Olives divides and provides an escape for the Jews
from their enemies.
Christ is the Deliverer for the Jews spiritually and
physically at the Mount of Olives.
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A Great Plague
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A great earthquake, such as was not since
men were upon the earth, so mighty an
earthquake, and so great.
(Revelation 16:18-19)
Jerusalem is divided into three parts.
(Revelation 16:18-19)
And there fell upon men a great hail out of
heaven, every stone about the weight of a
talent (70 lbs).
(Revelation 16:21)
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Judah Will be Converted
in One Day
D&C 45:51-53
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
53 And then shall they weep because of their
iniquities; then shall they lament because they
persecuted their king.
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Christ will Enter Jerusalem
Temple Through Golden Gate
Ezekiel 43:2, 4
2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel
came from the way of the east: and his voice
was like a noise of many waters: and the
earth shined with his glory.
4 And the glory of the LORD came into the
house by the way of the gate whose prospect
is toward the east.
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The Golden Gate
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At Night it Will Appear as
Day
Zechariah 14: 6-7
6 And it shall come to pass in that day,
that the light shall not be clear, nor
dark:
7 But it shall be one day which shall be
known to the LORD, not day, nor night:
but it shall come to pass, that at evening
time it shall be light.
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Neal A. Maxwell
Conference Report, October 1981
Yes, Armageddon lies ahead. But so
does Adam-ondi-Ahman!
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Christ’s Latter-day
Appearances
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Adam-ondi-Ahman
Will appear to the righteous Saints who
have gathered to the New Jerusalem here in
America.
Another appearance of the Lord will be to
the Jews at the Battle of Armageddon.
Yet another appearance of Christ will be to
the rest of the world – His coming in glory.
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How Do We Prepare for
the Coming Events?
D&C 45:56-57
56 And at that day, when I shall come in my
glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I
spake concerning the ten virgins.
57 For they that are wise and have received
the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for
their guide, and have not been deceived-verily I say unto you, they shall not be hewn
down and cast into the fire, but shall abide the
day.
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Ezra Taft Benson
The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, 552
The way to prepare for the responsibilities
of manhood and womanhood is by living
up to the responsibilities of youth. The
way to build a solid basis for meeting big
problems in the future is by carefully and
soberly meeting smaller problems in the
present.
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Ezra Taft Benson
The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, 106-107
There is a real sifting going on in the Church,
and it is going to become more pronounced with
the passing of time. It will sift the wheat from
the tares, because we face some difficult days,
the like of which we have never experienced in
our lives. And those days are going to require
faith and testimony and family unity, the like of
which we have never had. We must prepare for
the great day of the Lord. This preparation must
consist of more than just casual membership in
the Church. We must be guided by personal
revelation and the counsel of the living prophet
so that we will not be deceived.
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J Reuben Clark, Jr.
Conference Report, October 1948
Now our Prophet, Joseph Smith, and
the prophets since his time gave
certain great principles that would
save the world if the world would
but listen. We do not lack a prophet;
what we lack is a listening ear by the
people and a determination to live
as God has commanded. That is all
we need. The way has been made
perfectly clear.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Conference Report, April 1995
This is a time to be strong. It is a time to
move forward without hesitation, knowing
well the meaning, the breadth and the
importance of our mission. It is a time to
do what is right regardless of the
consequences that might follow. It is a
time to be found keeping the
commandments.
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