end of Days

I am graduating in Poltical Science and I have been on a question to study a lot about Political Science/world Events and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. I cannot even begin to know the day Christ will come but I think with signs of the times and events we can understand a least a period of time that it COULD happen. When studying this topic you must be careful that you are not deceived so I don't assume somthing has happend until a Prophet speaks on the subject.(JS Matt 1:6,21-3) Some of the Doom and Gloom things that must happen before Christ comes.

1) Armegedon-Before the coming of Christ, the great war, sometimes called Armageddon, will take place as spoken of by Ezekiel, chapters 38 and 39. Another war of Gog and Magog will be after the millennium.
(Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.3, p.45)

2) 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. (Rev 6:12)

3) Another Great war in the US worse that the civil war. This is long but I think worth while.

But what about the American nation. That war that destroyed the lives of some fifteen or sixteen hundred thousand people was nothing, compared to that which will eventually devastate that country. The time is not very far distant in the future, when the Lord God will lay his hand heavily upon that nation. "How do you know this? inquires one." I know from the revelations which God has given upon this subject. I read these revelations, when they were first given. I waited over twenty-eight years and saw their fulfillment to the very letter. Should I not, then, expect that the balance of them should be fulfilled? That same God who gave the revelations to his servant Joseph Smith in regard to these matters, will fulfil every jot and every tittle that has been spoken, concerning that nation. What then will be the condition of that people, when this great and terrible war shall come? It will be very different from the war between the North and the South. Do you wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed and manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease, for a time, among the American nation. Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture, there will be too much bloodshed�too much mobocracy�too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon that land? They will leave their farms and they will remain uncultivated, and they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus will they go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation, now consisting of some forty millions of people, will be wasted away, unless they repent.
Now these are predictions you may record. You may let them sink down into your hearts. And if the Lord your God shall permit you to live, you will see my words fulfilled to the very letter. They are not my words, but the words of inspiration�the words of the everlasting God who has sent forth his servants with this message to warn the nations of the earth. The Book of Mormon contains many of these predictions. This book has now been printed forty-nine years, and the prophecies contained in it are being fulfilled with great rapidity; and every prediction yet in the future, recorded in that book, will be fulfilled literally, according to the words that are spoken. The Lord our God has already destroyed two great and powerful nations that once occupied the western hemisphere, because they fell into wickedness and would not repent. We have a record of this. The first nation he brought upon that hemisphere, were a people from the Tower of Babel. They were led by the hand of the Lord. They were located upon the north wing of that continent, and they became a great and powerful nation. They inhabited the land for some sixteen or seventeen centuries after they came from the Tower of Babel. But the Lord made a decree, when he first led them forth to that land, that if they or their descendants should fall into wickedness, and would not repent, that he would visit them with utter destruction. He did so. About 600 years before Christ, that great nation were entirely swept off by the judgments of Almighty God, and their bones were left bleaching upon the plains and mountains of that land�left unburied by the numerous armies that went forth slaying and being slain, and another colony was brought from Jerusalem in their stead, being a remnant of the tribe of Joseph. The same decree was passed respecting one branch if that colony, that was made regarding the first nation. Said the Lord to them, "Inasmuch as you keep my commandments, you shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as you keep not my commandments in the land, you shall be destroyed from the face thereof." That was literally fulfilled. After living upon that land till nearly the close of the fourth century of the Christian era, they fell into wickedness and were destroyed, with the exceptions of a few who went over to the opposite army.
And the Lord also made a similar decree, recorded, too, in the same book, in regard to the present great populous nations called the people of the United States. They must perish, unless they repent. They will be wasted away, and the fullness of the wrath of Almighty God will be poured out upon them, unless they repent. Their cities will be left desolate. A time is coming when the great and populous city of New York�the greatest city of the American Republic, will be left without inhabitants. The houses will stand, some of them, not all. They will stand there, but unoccupied, no people to inherit them. It will be the same in regard to numerous other cities, or, in the words of the Lord, "I will throw down all their strongholds, and I will execute vengeance and fury upon them, even as upon the heathen, such as they have not heard." It will all be fulfilled. But there will be a remnant who will be spared. It will be those who repent of their sins; it will be those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and are willing to obey his commandments, willing to hearken to his voice, willing to be baptized for the remission of their sins, willing to be born of the spirit, or receive the Holy Ghost, by the laying on of hands, willing to walk uprightly and honestly with all men, and justly one with another.
These and these only will be spared, for it is the decree of Jehovah, and this is not all. We have thus far, only told you that which will take place upon the people of Great Britain, upon the European nations, and upon the people of the United States. But great tribulations will also be among all of the nations of the earth, who will not repent. They will be wasted with various judgments; but the heathen will be spared longer than these Gentile nations who have had the scriptures in their midst, but would not obey them.

(JD, O PRATT 20:151-4)

the last 3 months in review

For those of you who don't know we are getting close to the end of days. One of the major signs is wars. I have been reading the Jerusalem Post and other newspapers on a weekly basis. Here are some of the things I have seen happen.

1) Putin banished the free press and had journalists assisnated in Russia and the US that have spoken out against him. (one major step leading to tyranny is to restrict free speach)
2)Iran's President has continued to say that Israel should be wiped off the map.
3) The fed is creating a monetary crisis by printing more money and having nothing to back it. (inflation will skyrocket)
4) The first black president of the United States. I guess this is a great feat. I do not believe race exists because I think of skin color as a pigmentation, not as a seperate race. I know a lot of people put a lot of stock in it. As long as he defends the Constitution he will have my support.

Socialism

What is redistribution of wealth? It is an enemy to prosperity and it is a Progressive tax that takes away from one class to give to another. In the USA, many people do not pay taxes but get tax credits back. When I was a student and only worked part-time I received a lot of money after the tax season was over. Now that I work 40+ hours a week, they are not so generous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvyi1Gt0Pf8