Psalm 50:3-5 –
Our God shall come, and shall not keep
silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he
may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a
covenant with me by sacrifice.
Psalm 96:12,13
– Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of
the wood rejoice before the Lord: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the
earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his
truth.
Psalm 98:8,9 –
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together before the
Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the
world, and the people with equity.
When the Lord comes the
second time, He will come in the fulness of His glory. The effect of this
fulness on the earth and its inhabitants will be such that:
1.
Mountains will flow down at His presence
(D&C 133:40,44; Micah 1:4)
2.
The waters on the earth will boil (D&C
133:41)
3.
All nations will tremble at His presence
(D&C 133:42)
4.
The sun will hide, the moon will withhold
its light, and the stars will be hurled from their places (D&C133:49)
5.
The wicked will be burned by the
brightness of fire of the glory of the Lord (Malachi 4:1-3; 2 Thessalonians
2:8)
“When Christ comes the
saints who are on the earth will be quickened and caught up to meet him….A change
will come over all who remain on the earth; they will be quickened so that they
will not be subject unto death until they are old. Men shall ‘die’ when they
are one hundred years of age, and the change shall be made suddenly to the
immortal state. Graves will not be made during this thousand years….death shall
come as a peaceful transition from the mortal to the immortal state. (Elder
Joseph Fielding Smith, Way to Perfection, pp 298-99, 311)
Nephi saw us in our day
and testified that the ‘power of the Lamb of God descended upon the saints of
the Church of the Lamb’, and upon the covenant people of the Lord…and we were
armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory’ (1 Nephi
14:14). It is time for us, the covenant people, to rise to that privilege. We
are the chosen for this time and this place to usher in the greatest event of
the history of mankind. The winding up scenes will not be easy, they will not
be pleasant, but they will be worth the sacrifice, the perseverance, the wait…and
when He comes, the tears of the faithful…..
When You appear
in the Millenial day;
Those who know Your grace
Will gather like Your sheep
In the blazing sun of glory
To come to Your embrace.
- Cathryne Allen
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