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This is kindof a mini rant…. The whole idea of revelation is ethereal and confusing to me. I mention that because I am aware (as I posted in another thread) that there are groups who have been pretty certain that the stock market would crash in October with this being a Shemitah year, the blood moons, and LOTS of what many have called revelations.
Is revelation so ethereal and slippery that if received at all, the interpretation is next to impossible to grasp and understand? Is mass hysteria, and all shades of grey not as intense, responsible for such movements and confusion?
And the most important concept, why are there not more “revelations” happening at the highest levels of the church?
Many in this site have mentioned they don’t understand why the prophet doesn’t receive more revelations, and why there haven’t been new things revealed for our general cannon for so long. We do, after all, believe “God will yet reveal many great and important things….” right?
I want to generally say I have heard since I was a small child that the end is near…that we are in the eleventh hour before Christ returns, that the winding up scene is just around the corner. Those statements create a state of anxiety,…but at this point, it all feels like Chicken Little. I’m not apt to believe anything about it ever again.
The best news I heard on the matter was when Boyd K. Packer said in GC, it’s not happening. Go on get married, get an education, we’re going to be here a while. I’m with him on that one. It’s not happening. I will die before any “final days” actually arrives. When a church group is new, marginalized, or oppressed then the end of the world (along with their righteous reward and vindication) is very compelling. As that group becomes more mainstream or “establishment” then the end of the world is not as appealing and tends to feature less prominently in our collective church narrative. This happened with the early Christians and it similarly happened to us LDS.
I find it interesting that within the lifetime of JS, he seemed to be less anxious for the end times as the church was flourishing in Nauvoo.
I suppose we all want God to upend the established power structure until we become a part of it.
On a lighter note….I was convinced the Lord wouldn’t come until AFTER my student loans were paid off. Why?…because that would have been too easy. I mean, after all, I had to launch blood, sweat and tears and pay those dang loans off..because that was poetic justice, or so I supposed. And, for the record, I am also of the opinion that the winding up scene will be years away. Again why?…because NOW I have a bunch of more debt to pay off, and that just wouldn’t be fair if I somehow didn’t have to pay that off as well…NOT!
mom3 wrote:I will die before any “final days” actually arrives.
End times prophecies grip us so hard when we’reyoung, but I look at my medical record and am much more concerned with the end of “my” world, not “the” world. Ann wrote:mom3 wrote:I will die before any “final days” actually arrives.
End times prophecies grip us so hard when we’reyoung, but I look at my medical record and am much more concerned with the end of “my” world, not “the” world. I’m sorry you feel this way. What is sad for me?…I feel the same way. YIKES!
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