EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS - INTRODUCTION

THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH GO ALONG THEIR MERRY WAY.

Many ask themselves, who is God and why does He even care about us? 

WHO ARE WE?

Since we are His sons and daughters, we have a spark of Deity in us and He wants us to be like Him.  He knows we will not get there in this life, but after this life, depending how we choose.

Most of the world does not realize that they are all sons and daughters of God, the Father.  He has sent our spirits here to obtain a body and be tested in all things and to learn how to take care of this body.  He has given us Free Agency to choose between Good and Evil. 

This shows Him who we really are and how much we can be trusted with responsibility when we return. 

It also teaches ourselves who we are also.  He shows us our strengths and our weaknesses so we can correct the weaknesses and make them strengths and to improve on our strengths.

The coming, as a spirit, into a body for this test was just as scary for us, as much as we are now scared of dying.  

He has made it that way so that we will try to stay alive as long as we can to postpone dying and accomplish the mission he sent us to do. 

We all have experiences to go through and things to learn.  He has also given each of us a mission or responsibility to accomplish the things we promised Him we would do.  

We are not here by chance.

THIS EARTH LIFE EXPERIENCE.

We are taught by our earthly parents to be honest, kind and be hard workers.  They tell us how to survive after they are gone back to Heaven. 

We live alone at first, then marry and have children and we teach them what we were taught. 

The Lord knows we will have trials and challengers, and bad times.  This is especially true for those of us who now live in the Last Days before the Second Coming of his Son, Jesus Christ.

He has given His children on the earth prophets at different time in history to guide us and teach us. 

In these Last Days it has not changed, no matter what anyone else says.  He has not left us alone.

Jesus Christ has Restored His church and also Restored the Fullness of His Gospel.   He has given us prophets again.  We have not had a prophet since 421 A.D. 

PREPARING FOR WHAT IS COMING. 

Because He knows what is coming in cleansing the earth of the wicked, He has told His prophets to tell us to prepare.

The Prophet Heber J. Grant in 1936 was inspired by the Lord to institute and teach the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to become self sufficient. 

Forty four years later in 1980, Apostle Ezra Taft Benson of the church and former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower,  told us to Prepare for the Last Days of Tribulation.  

He became the Prophet of the Church in 1985.  He knew what was coming and stressed strongly to be prepared.

Do not expect prophets in this day to look like or dress like prophets in ancient days.  Prophets act and dress like those in their day.

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Even if you are NOT a member, this is important for you to hear. 

When this Church was Restored by the Lord, and He chose a prophet, the prophet was to be for the Whole World, not just the church.  

If they would listen.  

He knew many would not.

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THE VALUE OF THE SCRIPTURES TODAY

What are Scriptures?

Any message that comes from God to man, whether written or spoken, by the power of the Holy Ghost is scripture.

Doctrine and Covenants 68: 2-4

2 And, behold, and lo, this is an ensample unto all those who were ordained unto this priesthood, whose mission is appointed unto them to go forth—

3 And this is the ensample unto them, that they shall speak as they are moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

4 And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

Scriptures are here to guide us in our earthly test or journey. 

They teach us how to live according to Eternal principles and laws.

Living Prophets Are Not Usually Listened To.

Here is a summary of the parable of the rich man and the beggar.  Luke 16: 19-31

The Savior gave a parable about a rich man and a beggar named Lazarus, who laid at his gates, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. 

Lazarus died and the Angels took him to Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man died also and was buried.

The rich man was now in Spirit Prison or Hell and looked up to Abraham and asked him to have mercy on him. 

Abraham told him that he had received the good things of life and Lazarus received evil things, now it was reversed.  He said there was a gulf fixed between them which neither could pass.

Then the rich man said that he had brethren still alive and asked that they be sent a warning so they would not end up like him.

Abraham told him, they have Moses and the prophets, who are living, let them hear them. 

The rich man said they would not listen to Moses, but if someone from the dead came from the dead and told them, they would repent. 

Abraham said, No, if they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, who are with them, they will not listen to those who rose or spoke from the dead.

Today.

The world is in that situation today.  There is a Living Prophet Today; he is President Thomas S. Monson, President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

The Lord has restored His church and His Gospel in its fulness to the earth.

The Book of Mormon is that restored gospel. 

The writers of the Book of Mormon were all prophets.  

Each writer was a descendant of Lehi who was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem in 600 B.C. and with Jeremiah, another prophet, had called repentance to the people of Jerusalem.

They were angry with Lehi and Jeremiah. 

Jeremiah left to Egypt with some of the righteous. 

Lehi being warned of danger was instructed by the Lord to leave Jerusalem and was told that he would be led to a Land of Promise in the Americas. 

They were instructed to keep a record. 

It was kept from 600 B.C. to 421 A.D. of the wars and the sacred things that had happened to their civilization during this thousand year period. 

It was made on gold plates.  Gold was plentiful in that day, so they used it to record the records.  This would insure that the record would last through a long period of time to come out of the ground for us today.

The Lord sees the end from the beginning and prepared this record for us in the Latter Days.

This record was not recorded specifically for them, but was written by inspiration from the Lord to prophets during that time period, who are now dead, to come forth, in this day to us.  

This makes it scripture.  It is a companion with the Bible, not a replacement.

Those prophets are saying to us, listen to us and learn what we went through so you do not have to repeat our mistakes. 

It also tells us of the many blessings that they received from the Lord.

This is especially true when the Savior, just after His resurrection, appeared to the people in the Americas and gave them His gospel.

He told them they were the “Other sheep” he had mentioned to the Jews during his ministry, that He would go to.

In Jerusalem He said:

John 10: 16

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

And He told them in the Americas as recorded in the Book of Mormon:

3 Nephi 15: 21

21 And verily I say unto you, that ye are they of whom I said: Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

This living prophet spoken of above receives revelation from the Lord for the direction of His church and the world today.

The Lord has revealed that President Thomas Spencer Monson is not only the prophet of this church, but is the prophet to the whole earth. 

The mission of Latter Day church is to spread the Restored Gospel and gather Israel again from the four quarters of the earth before the Lord’s Second Coming.

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