200 Year Hinge Point (jan 1, 2020 – dec 31, 2020)

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A change in direction

Downhill from here
2021 - Start of a dramatic change of iniquity and division.

"It has been 200 years since the Father and His Son first appeared and commenced the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ in 1820. The account in 4 Nephi in the Book of Mormon includes a similar 200-year period after the Savior appeared and established His Church in ancient America.

Unfortunately, 4 Nephi then describes a dramatic change that began in the “two hundred and first year,”16 when iniquity and division destroyed righteousness and unity.

At this 200-year hinge point in our Church history, let us commit ourselves as members of the Lord’s Church to live righteously and be united as never before. President Russell M. Nelson has asked us “to demonstrate greater civility, racial and ethnic harmony and mutual respect.”18 This means loving each other and God and accepting everyone as brothers and sisters and truly being a Zion people."

-Quentin L. Cook October 2020
Hearts Knit in Righteousness and Unity
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/15cook?lang=eng



Elder D. Todd Christopherson reiterated:
"Unfortunately, as Elder Quentin L. Cook noted this morning, the ideal society described in 4 Nephi of the Book of Mormon did not endure beyond its second century. Sustainability is not guaranteed, and a thriving society can fail in time if it abandons the cardinal virtues that uphold its peace and prosperity. In this case, yielding to the temptations of the devil, the people “began to be divided into classes; and they began to build up churches unto themselves to get gain, and began to deny the true church of Christ.”8
Elder D. Todd Christopherson, Oct 2020
Sustainable Societies
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/22christofferson?lang=eng




29th Dec 2019 - President Russell M. Nelson called the dedication of the Rome Italy Temple “a hinge point in the history of the Church.”

“Things are going to move forward at an accelerated pace,” said President Nelson. “The Church is going to have an unprecedented future, unparalleled. We’re just building up to what’s ahead now.”

The time to act is now. This is a hinge point in the history of the Church, and your part is vital.”


Event prior to this
D&C88:95-96
95 And there shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled;

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

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