aug 19, 2023 - ?Righteous Saints "taken up" to escape the Great Tribulations

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Matt 24:37
JST Gen 14:32
D&C88:96
D&C45:56
D&C89:21
Ether 13:6-8
Rev 12:6,14
Matthew 24:15-21

Rev12: 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

"Time, Times, and a half time" If Time is a year, this would be 3.5 years

Righteous members of the church taken away to the New Jerusalem to avoid the great woes




Matthew 24
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judæa flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.




Just as Noah and his people who listened were taken up onto the ARK before the flood....This is a type of our day
We will be RESCUED from the destruction PRIOR to the earth's baptism of fire

I would expect this to happen at Passover (4th April 2021) just like the Israelites started the first Passover the night before leaving Egypt and escaping the plagues


Matt 24:37
36 ¶ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 ¶ watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.10 Virgins Parable
The 5 wise virgins (members of the church that are prepared, keeping covenants, and watching) will be translated and taken away into the new Jerusalem away from the worst of the destruction about to happen after the 4th Angel sounds the trump.

JST Gen 14:32
32 And men having this faith, coming up unto this order of God, were translated and taken up into heaven.

From <https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/jst/jst-gen/14?lang=eng>


D&C88:96
96 And the saints that are upon the earth, who are alive, shall be quickened and be caught up to meet him.



D&C45:56 And at that day, when I shall come in my glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I spake concerning the ten virgins.
57 For they that are wise and have received the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their guide, and have not been deceived—verily I say unto you, they shall not be hewn


The 5 unwise virgins (members of the church and good people of the world will still have time to repent but will have to endure the wrath of God and witness the Big Woes, the wrath of God through his angels trump

D&C45:44
44 And then they shall look for me, and, behold, I will come; and they shall see me in the clouds of heaven, clothed with power and great glory; with all the holy angels; and he that watches not for me shall be cut off.

45 But before the arm of the Lord shall fall, an angel shall sound his trump, and the saints that have slept shall come forth to meet me in the cloud.

46 Wherefore, if ye have slept in peace blessed are you; for as you now behold me and know that I am, even so shall ye come unto me and your souls shall clive, and your redemption shall be perfected; and the saints shall come forth from the four quarters of the earth.

47 Then shall the arm of the Lord fall upon the nations.


Concerning this meeting of the two Zions, President John Taylor (1808–87) said: “When the time comes that these calamities we read of shall overtake the earth, those that are prepared will have the power of translation, as they had in former times, and the city will be translated. And Zion that is on the earth will rise, and the Zion above will descend, as we are told, and we will meet and fall on each other’s necks and embrace and kiss each other. And thus the purposes of God to a certain extent will then be fulfilled” (“Discourse,” Deseret News, Sept. 8, 1880, 500).

From <https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-pearl-of-great-price-student-manual-2018/the-book-of-moses/moses-7-42-69?lang=eng>



D&C89:21"...The destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen"




Who will go to the New Jerusalem?
Ether 13:6-8
6 And that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of joseph, for which things there has been a type.

7 For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of Egypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not, even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph that he should perish not.

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