The Second coming

I got an email yesterday from Nathan asking questions about the second coming, I though I would post it. This is my opinion, but it comes from years of reading the scriptures. One important thing about the scriptures is that they have to agree with all other verses. That is why you can not take one scripture out of context and make it say what you want it to say. Many people do this but other scriptures belie the point. I will point out below where this is the case.
The Second Coming materials are all through the scriptures. And because of that you can not go to one place to find all that is there. But that being said there are groups that contain more 2nd coming stuff. The books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Revelation, D&C 29, 45, 84, 88, 101,103,105, 133. 1 Nep 11-15. Matthew 24 and JS Matthew in PofGp. That is a lot of reading to do but you also need some keys to understanding it all.
These keys are taken from Avarham Gileadi
Spirit of Prophecy this is using the Holy Spirit as you read the scriptures. 2 Nep25:4, Rev. 19:10 testimony of Jesus, 2 Peter 1:21, and 1 Cor. 2:11 This includes prayer, about what you are reading.
Letter of Prophecy this is reading and understanding the scriptures. 2 Nep. 25:5 this takes a great deal of time. But as you apply these 4 items to your reading you will be able to understand far better in a very short time. I get new meanings from the scriptures each time I read them.
Searching this is what it says it is, searching going over the scriptures time and time again. Looking up cross-references and making your own. When a reference is given read the whole chapter to get the feeling of the verse. 3 Nep 23:1-2
Type and shadows this is a little more complicated. If the scripture talks about Babylon, it can be the city of Babylon, or the state of being of Babylon, wickedness. Likewise if they talk about Zion then that is a state of Righteousness, as also a physical place called Zion, in Jerusalem or Independence, Mo. 3 Nep 23:3, 2 Nep 11:4
Now to finally answer your question.
I have made a few changes from the letter I sent to Nathan. D&C 1:37-38 "Search these commandments for they are true and faithful and the prophecies and promises which are in them shall all be fulfilled. What I the Lord have spoken I have spoken and I excuse not myself; and though the heavens and the earth pass away, my word shall not pass away, but shall all be fulfilled, whether by my own voice or the voice of my servants, it is the same." JS Matthew 1:28-32 talks of wars and rumors of war but the end is not until the Gospel has been preached to all the world, then the abomination of desolation (Daniel 12). Then Christ will appear. See also JS Matthew 1:37 "And whoso treasureth up my word (Scriptures), 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 and from one end of heaven to the other"

1. Ezekiel 38-39 talks about a war from the neighbors of Israel. In that war God will destroy 5/6 of the army that attacks Israel. The Jews have won all their wars with the help of God but from their viewpoint it is they that did it themselves. 80% of the Jews in Israel are not religious. The Jews will be loosing the war and then nature; earthquakes, hail etc will destroy this army. As you read these chapters see how they learn to believe in God. They have to believe in God before they can believe in Christ. These wars we are seeing in the middle east are to be watched but until we see 5/6 ths of the attacking army killed it is not Ezek. 38-39.

2. The Jews will then realize that God won the war and will give him credit for it. They will then rebuild the temple. The LDS church will not build the temple, as a lot of us believe because it will be a temple where sacrifices are performed. See Matt 24 and Daniel 12. Here is an example where scripture from different books of the scriptures clarify the meaning of the verse. A temple will be built in Jerusalem the Church builds temple so me must do it. No we do not build sacrificial temples the Jews do. Our temples are Melchizedek Priesthood temples and theirs are Aaronic Priesthood temples.

3. This temple will be built and 3 1/2 years after they are using it the antichrist will come and stop the sacrifice in the temple. This is known as the Abomination of Desolation in Daniel 9,11,12. Just a word about this antichrist, JS Matthew (PofGP) verse 22 says "For in those days there shall also arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenat." In Matthew 24 in NT the "elect according to the covenant" is not there. That means that we (LDS) who have convented with God in the temple could be deceived. You can imagine what the world is going to be doing.They are going to be following the antichrist. Rev. 13
During this time frame things will be happening with the Church as well as in the world. I have put them it the order I have because to me that makes most sense. But the order may be different. The temple has to be built in Jerusalem to set in order other things. But all of these things will need to happen before Christ comes.

4. A man will be called in the church to set in order the house of God, D&C 85. He is called the one might and strong. Part of where the Church is not in order is we are not living the Law of Conscration or the united order. A reading of the D&C will show how much time Joseph spent on the Law of Conscration. D&C 42:70-73 and a lot of verses after these verses. We have to be living the full laws of God in Zion. D&C 105:5

5. We as a church will return to Jackson County Missouri and live the united order. This is Zion. We have to be living in Zion before Christ comes. Becasue we will be caught up to meet the Zion of Enoch at Christ's coming. Moses 7:62-63

6. The ten tribes will return from the North Country to Zion in Jackson county Missouri. D&C 133:26-35 they will bring their scriptures with them. They will have prophets among them who will lead them back to Missouri. See number 9 below.

7. 144 thousand high priests Rev, 7 and 14 will be called and sealed on their foreheads (Ezekiel 9:4) to preach the Gospel to the entire world. There will be 12,000 from each tribe of Israel. That means the Church could have upto 24,000. (Ephriam, and Manssah)

8. Christ will also appear at Adam-ondi-Ahman in Missouri during the seven years after the temple is built in Jerusalem. Daniel 7 and D&C 116 and all priesthood keys will be returned to Adam who will then give them to Christ.

9. Two prophets who will be Jews (D&C 77:15 and Rev. 11) will preach in Israel for 3 1/2 years. In the end they will be killed and their bodies will lie in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 days. Then they will be caught up into heaven. Contrary to what some members of the church think, God can call prophets whenever he wants, to be a prophet does not mean they have to hold all the keys. The president of the church holds all the keys. But these prophets will preach to the Jews.

10. The war of Armageddon will be fought at this time. (Rev. 16:16-21) People falsely say other wars are Armageddon, including Ezek 38-39, (different people and different ending) but this war all nations of the earth will fight against Israel. God will win.

11. Christ will then appear on the Mount of Olives and an earthquake will divide the Mount of Olives in two. Zechariah 14:4 and they will ask what are these wounds in hands and feet. Zech: 13:6 and D&C 45:51-53

12. The saints in Zion will be caught up to meet the Zion of Enoch with Christ. This is why we need to be living the united order and a Zion life to be caught up.

Well there it is in a nutshell. There are many more things that go on but these are the most important. I hope I have answered your questions.

A Little History

George and Amy put up a blog so now the whole family is blogging. Their last post had some very cute pictures of Sarah and Kate when Kate was a baby. I know that I have told this story a million times, but I want to put this down as history. When Rebekah was born we lived in a two story house in Wentworth, Mo. All the bedrooms were up stairs. Amy being the little mother that she was would get Rebekah out of bed. Here is this little two year old lifting a baby who was half Amy's size over the crib bars and into her arms. We told her several times she was not to do this. I got more response from the wall because the wall did not take Rebekah out of bed. I also told Amy that she was not to carry Rebekah down the stairs. Well one day as I was going up the stairs I saw Amy with Rebekah in her arms. Seeing me Amy paniced, and started to fall down the stairs. As I watched my two youngest children go tumbling down the stairs I was heart broken. But Amy had clutched Rebekah so tight in her arms protecting her from injury, while she took the brunt of the fall. I have never forgotten this story until today. My how it broke my heart. But Amy is no different today, she still cares for her brothers and sisters.

My Day

My day started at one in the morning when I woke up, and did not go back to sleep tell 4:00. But during that time l learned how to bend spoons. If any of you are interested to know I can send you a file so you can learn. I then set up one more pair of parakeets. we now have 3 pair, one has 4 egg another has 3 and 0 eggs. at 1:00 p.m. I laid down for a nap and woke up at 3:p.m. then I got really sick, I ate and that made me feel a little better. Then I went back to bed at 3 and slept tell 8. I think I am going through my second childhood. Tomorrow is my acupunture session, that will make me feel a little better. I was very glad to see George and Amy' s new blog. I really think these keep us more informed of what is going on. Our ward started reading the BofM again. So we started reading during lunch time. We are also in the book of John and I did not want to stop reading that so we are reading another book at the same time. I am also reading from the Old Testiment in Hebrew. Since we have been reading the scriptures in Portugues it has help me in this language. So why can I not learn Hebrew the same way. I am not very good at it yet but I have a place that has the OT in Hebrew so I read along with him. I am able to keep up most of the time, and it will help me with the pronuciation. I am going over and over Gen 1, then as I get better I will read more. I have a program that I have had for years (PC Stufy Bible) that has Hebrew letter, English translation, strongs numbers and transliteration. So now all I need now is practice.

New House 2

On the road coming to our land, is a BLUE house, I aways thought it was too much. There are some really pretty light greens and orange houses down here. I was hoping for that. Guess what I got? The pictures are not quite right but they will have to do.
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!!!!! BLUE !!!!!!!

New house

Well we are just about done with the house. Mother picked the color of the paint. It is not quite what I wanted but we will live with it. The bluest part is the old porch, new living room.
Here I am standing by the front door. It is a sliding door so that will be nice. It also has a glass panel that we can let the air come in. The picture on the right is the new living room. We took the window from the old house and moved it to the front of the new part and left it open so we can see into the living room from the kitchen.

Here I am looking out the new window in from of the house. They did a really nice job. That is tile you see on the floor. Every house down here has tile on the floors. The wall are built out of 8x8x4 inch red tiles then cover with plaster.
The only wood used is for the roof. There are so many termites down here that the house would be eaten in weeks if they were made of wood like the US.
The picture above really shows how blue this house is. Uncle Duane painted his house this blue and Aileen made him paint it over. It is kind of pretty, maybe I will paint some dolphins on it and become an enviromentalst.

Genealogy

As you all know I wrote a happy birthday letter to Uncle Ross. I also sent him the genealogy files and he in return sends me back his work. He said he had only done a little but there were over 1000 names. So he has done a lot. That his way I asked you for your information because you kids are there but not your kids. Your trip to SLC really hit me hard. Seeing all of the grandchildren except Kate made me want to make sure that all of our people had their families sealed to each other. So I have really been working hard on it. About three to four hours per day. There is a lot of information that we have, but a lot of duplicate temple work done. So I am going through the IGI files and making sure that all is correct. It is not hard work but very time consuming. I have a program called PAF Insite. It searches the IGI files in SLC from Brasilia. It is really cool what it can do. Then when I have found 3-30 names I have to look at each one and make sure that they are related and get the information. Some names have been done 5 or 6 times. So I record the earliest date but save all the notes of the other temple work done. That way when Dawn and Ross get the temple ready stuff they will have the notes to prove who was whom. (sorry Jethro) I was not an honors English student. I also have been trying to do a little blog each day. I am liking this quite well. It is like a journal.
Also on the 24th of April I will be a father again. We have one pair of parakeets with four eggs all fertile. I know that is counting my parakeets before they hatch, but it is fun. I may let Ana hand feed one so she can get over Rondzinho. By the way how is he doing?

Sunday

Today we had a very good Sunday. In priesthood meeting we talked about service. Our bishop here needs help with his house, so for the past few weeks we have giveing money because we need to hire professionals to work on the house. So we raised the money but I felt we needed to also be there in person to help him also. Some members of the quorum said he was embarrassed, and then the talk went from there. Well it came to me that while Jesus helped everyone in need he also allowed people to help him in need. The example is when Mary Magdalena pour oil on his feet and wiped them with her hair. (Now she did that so she would have claim on him in the resurrection (she being his wife)). He still allowed it. Even though Judas was against it. We also need to allow people to help us in our needs. I love going to Church to hear important examples of love taught. After I talked in priesthood, they are going to have a work project at the bishops house. I remember what Jethro told me a few years back, how he hated to go to our little service projects, but when he grew and saw what it did for those who were served he changed his mind. I hope all of you (which I do see in your lives) will continue to serve your fellowman. For when you do that you are only in the service of your God.