Disclaimer: This is my opinion. I haven’t received inspiration, revelation or any such communication or confirmation from the Spirit concerning the following. It is just what I think will be the causes that allow the church finally to be sanctified, in preparation for the Lord’s Second Coming.
I will try to keep this post short and to the point. There are three things I believe will cause the church to be cleaned of all the hypocrites:
- The Law of Consecration
- The Practice of Plural Marriage
- The Brass Plates (and other new scriptures)
The Law of Consecration As anyone who has read my anarchy articles ought to know, I believe the Lord has intentions of bringing his church into tribal anarchy. The current food crisis (as well as other things that are fast coming) may be the catalyst in bringing us back into the practice of the law of consecration. As the church is largely plugged into the Babylonian system, relying upon it for virtually everything, the current crisis will cause Babylon, and all connected to it, to suffer tremendously. This may be the impetus for the more righteous LDS to desire again to disconnect itself from Babylon and live the law of consecration. However, our current society is largely incompatible for the law of consecration to work properly, unless the current society is completely broken up and replaced by anarchy. I believe that we may be in the stage just before all this happens, namely, that the Lord is going to use the current crisis to initiate tribal anarchy so that the law of consecration will have no impediments and his people can worship him as he intended.
Both tribal anarchy and the law of consecration will naturally clean out many church members (hypocrites, who say they will follow the Lord, but in reality will only follow him so far) because many members are addicted to both money and statism.
The Practice of Plural Marriage The raid on the FLDS has brought a lot of attention to the practice of polygamy recently, essentially vilifying it anew in the eyes of all people. As eyewitness testimony makes its way to the populace of all the horrifying conditions these people were subjected to, the general public will intensify its repugnance of the practice. This plays into the hands of Satan well, as it may be that the whole “gay marriage” push for legality, an obvious plan of the devil, may end up legalizing polygamy, something Satan doesn’t want. So, by putting polygamy in a bad spotlight now, if polygamy ends up becoming legalized, he can then incite the masses against the saints who will have no moral basis to refuse to participate in the practice, creating persecution of a level experienced only by saints of previous dispensations. This may cause another mass exodus from the church, as it will no longer be worth it to remain a member. Also, many members will not want to be a part of a polygamy practicing church, regardless of the persecution.
The Brass Plates The plates of brass are prophesied to go to every nation, kindred, tongue and people of the seed of Lehi. It is my belief that these plates will be revealed before the Second Coming, not after. When the remnant of the church is left, after the mass exoduses from the law of consecration and the re-establishment of the practice of polygamy, the people may be sufficiently righteous to finally receive more of the word of God. The plates of brass, when revealed, will further put a split between the saints left in the church and all other Mormons who have broken away, as well as all other churches, be they Christian or other. Additionally, other ancient scriptures may come forth which will try the faith of those left, as they will undoubtedly contain new laws or information that the saints will need to live. As the LDS now have a hard time believing and living the Book of Mormon alone, more ancient scripture will put us in a further bad light before the world and make it that much harder to be a LDS. This may finally get the last of the hypocrites out of the church, making the church justified, purified and sanctified.
Afterward
What the church will look like at this point is anyone’s guess, but I don’t think it will quite look like it does now, though it will probably resemble the scriptural organization much more closely. One thing I believe is that this sanctified remnant church will be empowered to finally establish the New Jerusalem and actual stakes of Zion in preparation of the Second Coming. And in case anyone is wondering, yes, I believe the scriptures are very clear that the New Jerusalem (in Independence, Missouri) must and will be built prior to the Lord’s coming, not after. But the present unsanctified church cannot do it.
I have passed these thoughts through what4anarchy and he doesn’t think these scenarios are out of the realm of possibility. Time will tell.
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You didn’t run them by me.
I love it!
Whether or not it is accurate is yet to be seen, but definitely seems plausible to me.
I often find myself shaking my head during Sacrament or Sunday School as I hear something absolutely ridiculous being taught then accepted and embellished through class comments. My spouse teaches primary and does not always have the enjoyment of hearing the things taught in Sunday School so every Sunday on the way from work they ask me how my classes were and let me “vent” on how off base they sometimes are.
While on my mission I hit a point were I began to struggle a little, not with my testimony or the work, but with the fact that the church was dramatically different from the church of previous times, even the church that Joseph set up was quite different from the one today. I never questioned whether the church had gone astray, but I often wondered why it had taken the direction it did. One morning, I had a marvelous experience where I had my eyes opened, just a little bit, but enough to get a better idea of what was going on. In that experience I realized that there are many members of the church who are, for lack of a better term, “fair-weather” members. I came to the realization that the church would need to be cleansed in the events leading up to the return of the Savior. I have had many similar experiences as I grow older and wiser
and pray that when the time comes I will be one of the strong ones and help my family as well.
Your scenario, whether it actually happens or not, would, I think, be an effective way to get the job done.
What a great article, and site!! I’m very glad I found this blog. I’ve been thinking very similarly about the church and the future, lately.
Another supporting fact comes from the D&C, when the Lord “put the church under condemnation” – I don’t know the exact reference. And then it was (I think) Pres. Benson who stated that “the church is _still_ under condemnation.”
We have no reason to believe that just because polygamy might be made legal, that the church would therefore bring it back. It is a change that would require another revelation to start it back up again. There is no reason to believe the Lord would do such a thing. The Church is on course for the moment, and further revelation will keep it on course. There is nothing at the present time to indicate that there will ever be a future revelation to bring it back.
I’m not convinced that there was ever a revelation to shut it down, so to speak.
There is much too what you believe here. i appreciate reading this from you. My two bits…
The Marvelous work of cleansing will be based around the revealing of the sealed portion of the plates, of a revelation of the word of Christ. This revelation will of course lambaste the Gentiles for our lazy practices, and give commandment to all those within earshot to conform to the already revealed doctrines and laws; consecration being the biggest, polygamy being part and all of the other doctrines that would separate this people as truly peculiar. That MAN who is called to reveal it will then perform the restoration of Jospeh to Israel, and drag as many of us Gentiles who will repent with them.
Anyway, Thanks for the comments and website.
though not nearly so updated or trafficked, my blog is…http://mormonmilkman.livejournal.com/
Thanks again! Dan
Excellent read. Very thoughtful site!
You basically have nailed it down when it comes to the events that will happen in the near future.
There will be a great cleansing of the world and it will start with the Church’s inner vessel first – and then it will be taken to the world. I hope our lamps are all full. It will take everything that we have to endure what is coming.
I now think my first two points, the law of consecration and polygamy, are secondary to the plates of brass. It will be the brass plates and not the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon, that will be sent first by the Lord. I’m getting this feeling and it won’t go away, so perhaps I’ll write up a post on why I think it will happen this way.
Interestingly enough, after having my mind wrapped up in this idea, I discovered that there happened to be another set of brass plates making news.
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