Continue listening for Part 2 with Professor Shima Boffman, Doctrine Covenant Section 45.

Are we ready to talk about the signs of the Second Coming?

I broke it down to three different categories.

The first one I want to talk about is the physical suffering.

So people broken by illness, a broken earth.

The passages really highlight these plagues in the last days when the earth is

filled with sin and rebellion. Describe this kind of global catastrophe that we're going to be

witnessing. So we have a lot of verses on this all over the chapter. Wars and rumors of wars.

Desolations, verse 33. Overflowing scourge, which is flooding in 31. Earthquakes, 33.

The earth trembles and the heaven shake, 48.

Sun, dark, moon, blood, stars from the heaven fall, 42.

Blood, fire, vapors of smoke, 41.

Men kill one another, as we see 33.

Earth in commotion.

All of this suffering is happening.

And I wanted to point out a couple things,

because I think we see a lot of these signs. And I remember in verse 31 talking about desolations

or desolating sickness that covers the land. I remember thinking during the time when we had COVID,

I remember for me, it drastically changed my life. And I don't know what happened for you all.

But in 2020,

when COVID shut down the world and the prophet instructed us to prepare now for the Lord's coming,

I started praying, you know, what can I do to consecrate my life more and build God's kingdom?

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