Today I was listening to the radio while I was doing my thing. Glenn Beck was on and his comments spurred my mind to wander. Often he is accused of an extremist or on "the fringe" due to the things he talks about. As I have listened I have heard more deep connections with prophecies concerning our time before the second coming than anything else. He sounds to me like an lds guy who knows his scriptures and is watching for the prophecies. As he see's things coming to pass he is tying it into his show and views of what is happening.
My mind's adventure led me to a book I greatly enjoy regarding the second coming, "prophecy and modern times" by W. Cleon Skousen. I wanted to review what is supposed to happen on the American continent as prophesied in the scriptures. It was not long before I stumbled across a most interesting prophecy. I will enter it below so you can read along. Please notice that these prophesies are not occurring over night, but rather they are gradual (much like the story of boiling a frog in a pot of water, its best when it's slow). Look for the following...
1: What things have happened.
2: Look for what is happening right now, I refer specifically to the section on financial bondage. This has been occurring and the first presidency has been trying to advise us to be safe and smart with our money but it has only gotten worse and economic indicators are not showing any signs of solid improvement
3. What is going to follow the financial bondage. What struck me is the immediately following prophecy and how things are going to unfold?
"An army of elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect were it possible. Our sons and daughters must live pure lives so as to be prepared for what is coming.
After a while the gentiles will gather by the thousands to this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the saints, and the results will be financial bondage.
Persecution comes next and all true Later day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize and others will be still not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the extent and gross darkness the minds of the people. The judgements of God will be poured out on the wicked to the extent that our Elders from far and near will be called home, or in other words the gospel will be taken from the gentiles and later on carried to the Jews.
The western boundary of the stat of Missouri will be swept so clean of it's inhabitants that as President Young tells us, when you return to that place there will not be left so much as a yellow dog to wag his tail. Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to tests that will try the integrity of the best of them. The pressure will become so great that the more righteous among them will cry unto the Lord day and night until deliverance comes.
Then the prophet and others will make their appearance and those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri, and take part in the upbuilding of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem."
President Heber C. Kimball
Deseret News, May 23 1931
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