The host of the video, above, picked up on a comment that President Nelson made hear the close of his talk at the end of this Spring 2023 General Conference. Specifically, Pres. Nelson quoted from 1 Nephi 14:14 about the power of the Lord descending upon the Saints and that they were being "armed with righteousness and with the power of God" and that this is in the process of happening.
The host notes that the very next verse--1 Nephi 14:15--states:
And it came to pass that I beheld that the wrath of God was poured out upon that great and abominable church, insomuch that there were wars and rumors of wars among all the nations and kindreds of the earth.
In fact, the next several verses are about God pouring out His wrath on "the mother of harlots, which is the great and abominable church of all the earth, whose founder is the devil". Consequently, the host speculates that perhaps Pres. Nelson's comment was a warning that God is about to pour out his wrath.
I still think that the war of Armageddon is still a ways off--at least a decade or more--just because of all that must first occur. For instance, the city which is the latter-day Babylon--the harlot of Revelation 17--still has not been revealed even if we are surrounded by its "religion"; and the Beast or Antichrist has not been revealed, let alone prosecuted a war against Israel.
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Throughout the Old Testament God poured out his wrath many times. As to the end of times, only God knows.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think that in times past things got so bad that people thought surely this is the end times?
There has been and there will be very bad times. Stay strong in your faith.
You are correct, and I probably should have been clearer and written that the events of Revelation could occur no sooner than a decade out, and probably will be farther. Between religion and my interest in the survivalist/prepping movement, I've been aware of predictions of impending doom for most of my life, from nuclear war and economic collapse in the 1970s and '80s, to the surge of interest in Revelation and Nostradamus starting in about 1994 and leading up to 2000, the Y2K panic, the angst about 2012 because of the Mayan Calendar, and so on. Similar beliefs that the end was near have occurred at times throughout history, although there were wide-spread disasters that provided some justification. I can only imagine what it would have been like to live in the time of the Black Plague, or 536 AD (the year the sun disappeared), or 1816 (the year without a summer), or during other times of famine and disease and war.
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