General Conf was on the Last Days‏

From:Kathy ...
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 3:23 PM
Subject: FW: General Conf was on the Last Days
 
 >>General Conference continues to resonate through my heart and mind as I ponder
>>the whisperings of the Spirit that accompanied the music,talks and testimonies.
>>
>>But where were the warnings to prepare? some may ask. Let me share with you the
>>comments and observations of a wonderful young man that some of you may know
>>from his YouTube videos where he goes by the name of davidkat99. David shared
>>some thoughts after last April's General Conference which came so forcefully to
>>my mind this past week that I requested and received permission to post them
>>here.
>>

 
>>What follows next is David's message:
>>April 2009:
>>
>>For the past couple of years, I have wondered why in General Conference, the
>>Brethren have been relatively silent in warning, giving counsel in preparing for
>>the last days etc. I have prayed and yearned for Samuel the Lamanite-like talks,
>>or President Benson's or Bruce R. McConkie's talks... yet instead we have been
>>getting talks on Faith, on Hope.. on Charity/Service etc.. Every conference that
>>we have we seem to hear more on hope, on charity. President Monson’s talk on the
>>mother that needed hope despite having to bury her children in
>>frozen ground with a spoon was almost more than I could bare. Why these talks on
>>the big 3 (Faith, Hope, and Charity) instead of one year’s supply of food,
>>emergency preparedness,preparing for eminent catastrophes?
>>
>>On my knees asking my Father… here the world is crumbling, disasters are
>>eminent, people are not prepared and need to be. I was very frustrated and
>>wondered WHY ARE WE NOT GETTING THE WARNINGS...
>>
>>Well… ask and you shall receive.
>>
>>I then had a wonderful phone conversation with my mother-in-law, and she felt
>>impressed to tell me one thing in particular. She said things are so very close
>>to all of the "prophesied" things to begin happening. We talked about the
>>“cycle" (talked about in the Boyd K Packer's Priesthood Talk in given in
>>conference in April 2009) . We noticed that just before things completely fall
>>apart and collapse with utter destruction, the Lord's anointed stop warning, and
>>start speaking about faith, hope and charity. IT IS THE LAST STAGE IN THE
>>CYCLE.
>>
>>Then it hit me... The Book of Mormon is a template for this as well. Case in
>>point. We read in Ether... we get all the warnings about secret combinations
>>etc. and how the wickedness is abounding and that the people will be destroyed
>>if they don't repent.. then just before
>>the entire civilization gets destroyed we get the 12th chapter on FAITH, HOPE
>>and CHARITY.. then the destructions in the following chapter to the complete
>>destruction of that civilization.
>>
>>Another example we find in Moroni chapter 8.. just before telling us that the
>>people will perishand the prophecies will be fulfilled, Mormon teaches his son
>>Moroni (and us), about Faith, Hope and Charity.
>>(Note also, the Apostle Paul speaking to the Early Christian in I Corinthians 13
>>on Faith, Hope and Charity before the fall of Roman and the Christian
>>persecution)
>>
>>Okay... fast forward to [recent] conferences.. what messages are we hearing...
>>FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY!!!!!
>>
>>WOW.. it hit me like a ton of bricks.. It was the answer that I needed to hear
>>about why we aren't receiving the voice of warning like I wanted.
>>
>>Here is how I see the cycle now: As a people we move from being Humble… to
>>Obedient…to Blessed…. to Living Righteously…. to Ease… to Laziness… to
>>Prideful…. to Selfishness… to Immorality/Sin…. to Having the prophets warn us to
>>repent….. to Wickedness…. to Ripening to the Point of no return….. to No more on
>>Warnings, but teaching the humble followers to have Faith, Hope, and Charity…..
>>-THEN DESTRUCTION, CALAMITIES for the wicked, etc.- and purifying the righteous
>>and unfortunately compelling us back to being HUMBLE.....
>>
>>So, we probably won't see the prophets speaking to us to warn us.. we are past
>>that time, we are in the final stage. This is the Lord's way, just as He has
>>done with the 2 prior civilizations (Jaredites, and the Nephites).. It is my
>>opinion, the more we hear about HOPE, don't DESPAIR, etc. .. THE CLOSER WE ARE!
>>
>>Just as a side note that just hit me, In one of my last videos, "Great
>>Trials Lie Ahead".. Please watch if you haven’t already. Here is the
>>link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVECvTYpN0&feature=channel_page
>>
>>I started out with all of the warnings of  Elder McConkie, President Benson,
>>President Eyring.... and felt very strongly to end the video with the statements
>>of HOPE by President Uchtdorf... This is a pattern, it is pattern seen in the
>>Book of  Mormon and we are following that same pattern today... NEXT STEP for
>>ALL OF US: The Destruction of the Wicked and the Saints being Humbled.. Which
>>especially here in Salt Lake is needed. and by the way....the Book of Mormon is
>>true.