The Reign of the Anti-Christ
(Sources and comments in purple.)
Why this happens next: The president has been removed, a quick succession of others have been brought forth only to be taken out as well. Finally, the New World Order is brought forth after much chaos, violence and calamities in a compression of events, and the leader chosen goes after the Saints, Christianity, Israel and Capitalism by implementing the Mark of the Beast and killing anyone who will not denounce Jesus Christ. (Rev 13)
Revelation 13:5 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. This is the scripture that changes the anti-Christ from a beastly system to a leader that will rise up in the end times and go against Israel and the Saints. Also note the word "continue". This person may have been in power before!
Satan knows his time is limited now to 3.5 years. He will unleash all his power. The days of tribulation have begun. (1) Although this leader is in power, the gangs, marauders and foreign troops make it difficult to accomplish this New World Order.
(1) The 7 vials in Rev. 8, are the judgments/punishment/wrath of God and when they start, the tribulations begin. The last of the vials are the Woes and the Anti-Christ is responsible for bringing those to pass.
Since the Saints have been called out, the Lord's work will not be impeded. New Jerusalem will need to start soon so the two prophets who are sent to Jerusalem (from New Jerusalem) can go to hold off the world's army for 1,260 days (3.5 years). In the meantime, the Lost 10 Tribes are starting their trek towards New Jerusalem and their extraordinary power and strength give the Saints (from the CO) the help they need to arrive safely and join the City of Enoch for an epoch building project. It won't be much longer now that the Savior arrives to gather the 144k+ to go to Jerusalem and destroy the world's army, rescue the Jews, and prepare them for his ultimate future return - The Second Coming.
LDS Guide definition of anti-christ: Anyone or anything that counterfeits the true gospel plan of salvation and that openly or secretly opposes Christ. The son of perdition... He deceives them by means of miracles...Nehor, Korihor...
Biblical references:
The period of time under the Anti-Christ will bring persecution and apostasy to the Saints.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell BYU Speeches, October 10, 1978
But make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters; in the months and years ahead, events will require of each member that he or she decide whether or not he or she will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions (see 1 Kings 18:21).
Heber C. Kimball, Deseret News, May 23, 1931
An army of Elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect if that were possible. Our sons and daughters must live pure lives so as to be prepared for what is coming. After a while the gentiles will gather by the thousands to this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the results will be financial bondage. Persecution comes next and all true Latter-day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize and others will be still, not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people. The judgments of God will be poured out on the wicked to the extent that our Elders from far and near will be called home, or in other words the gospel will be taken from the Gentiles and later on carried to the Jews. The western boundary of the State of Missouri will be swept so clean of its inhabitants that as President Young tells us, when you return to that place, there will not be left so much as a yellow dog to wag his tail. Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to tests that will try the integrity of the best of them. The pressure will become so great that the more righteous among them will cry unto the Lord day and night until deliverance comes. Then the prophet and others will make their appearance and those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri, and take part in the up-building of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem."
Clue: Persecution of the Saints seems to be the first thing after the Anti-Christ comes to power.
Heber C. Kimball, Dec 13, 1857, Journal of Discourses, 6:126
The world is ripe, and there are no saving principles within them, with a very few exceptions; and they [the righteous] will gather out, and the rest of mankind are ready for destruction, for they will have no salt to save them. I know the day is right at hand when men will forfeit their priesthood and turn against us and against the covenants they have made, and they will be destroyed as Judas was.
Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 107
There is a real sifting going on in the Church, and it is going to become more pronounced with the passing of time. It will sift the wheat from the tares, because we face some difficult days, the like of which we have never experienced in our lives. And those days are going to require faith and testimony and family unity, the like of which we have never had.
Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, April 1969
Sometimes we hear someone refer to a division in the Church. In reality, the Church is not divided. It simply means that there are some who, for the time being at least, are members of the Church but not in harmony with it. These people have a temporary membership and influence in the Church; but unless they repent, they will be missing when the final membership records are recorded.
It is well that our people understand this principle, so they will not be misled by those apostates within the Church who have not yet repented or been cut off. But there is a cleansing coming. The Lord says that his vengeance shall be poured out "upon the inhabitants of the earth. . . . And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me. . . . (D&C 112:24-26.)
Terry Bennet Prophecy: Period Three – 2022-2028 – The Rise of a One-World Religion The governmental troubles will be in preparation for, particularly in Europe, the arising of the spirit of antichrist. What is coming is called the New World Order, but behind that is the spirit of antichrist and the false prophet spirit a one-world religion.
Terry explained, “I was told it would be a combination of three world religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all brought together into a one-world religion. Those three would be combined as a compromise, a mixture. Each of those three religions believes in one god whereas other religions have many gods. The one-world religion will be presented as a solution that will bring peace, when in reality it will be a compromise and a mixture offered by Satan to turn the world away from the absoluteness that there is no other name under heaven whereby men can be saved but the name of Jesus Christ. Anybody who refuses to accept the new one-world religion will be labeled as a radical terrorist and a threat to world peace. As it goes forward it will move to murder. It will be declared by a religious leader in Europe that this person whom they will receive as their governmental leader is god, when in reality it is the antichrist”
When this religious leader declared this man to be god, Terry saw hundreds of thousands of Catholics rose up and said no. They resisted what they knew was an attack against the Lord Jesus himself. As a result, many Catholics were murdered. He also saw many Protestants resisting and they were also put to death in great numbers. He saw millions of these resisters put to death, martyred for their refusal to accept the divinity of the antichrist.
Terry explained, “There will also be resistor nations and tribes of people, even in the European area, who will be unwilling to go down that path, but it was at great cost of life that they will resist, and some of them will resist. Satan is going to push for worldwide acceptance of the antichrist, but he will never be fully accepted. There will be sheep nations that absolutely resist and there will be people groups who absolutely resist.”
The Anti-Christ establishes the Mark of the Beast. (Rev 13:17)
This new means of buying/selling/trading will cause the monetary system in place to be removed. (This will further damage the U.S. economy and wealth in addition to the initial dollar devaluation.)
The Anti-Christ (beastly system) shall make war with the Saints and he shall overcome them. (Rev. 13:7)
The temple(s) are closed until the 7 vials have been poured out. (Rev. 25:8)
The beast, the false prophet, those who received the mark of the beast were cast alive into a lake of fire after Armageddon. (Rev 19:20)
White Horse Prophecy, attributed to Joseph Smith, 1843
The sometimes disputed White Horse Prophecy states "a man who had heard the Prophet give the toast returned to visit the mansion of the Prophet, and so abused him with bad language, that the man was ordered out by the Prophet. It was while the two were out that my attention was attracted to them and hearing the man speaking in a loud tone of voice, I went toward them; the man finally leaving. There were present the Prophet Joseph Smith, Theodore Turley and myself. The prophet began talking to us of the mobbings and drivings and persecutions we as a people have endured, but, said he, "We will have worse things to see; our persecutors will have all the mobbings they want. Don't wish them any harm, for when you see their sufferings you will shed bitter tears for them."
Vision of Heber Kimball, told by Amanda Wilcox, 1868
After a while the Gentiles will gather to this place by the thousands, and Salt Lake will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the result will be financial bondage.
Persecution comes next, and all true Latter-day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize, and others will stand still, not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people.
Although many leave the church (apostasy precedes the Second Coming) because of the persecution is too much to bear, there will be many who are led to the Zion for safety and a great hastening of missionary work will take place.
Cardston Temple Vision, Sols Caurdisto
I saw that the opposing forces were roughly divided by so-called Christianity on the one side, and by the so-called followers of Mohammed and Buddha on the other. I saw that the great driving power within these so-called Christian nations, was the Great Apostasy of Rome, in all its political, social and religious aspects. I saw the worldwide dislocation and devastation of production and slaughter of people occur more swiftly and upon a larger scale than ever before. I saw an antagonism begin to express itself from those so-called Christian nations against your people. I saw those with a similar faith to yours in the far east begin to look toward Palestine for safety....
I saw the other officials obeying the inspired instructions, carrying their message and exhorting the people to carry out, from time to time the revelation given them, whilst all around throughout the Gentile world the chaos developed in its varying stages, faction against faction, nation against nation, but all in open or secret hostility to your people and their faith. I saw your people draw closer and closer together, as this became more tense and as the spiritual forces warned them through the mouth of your elders and your other officers. I saw the spiritual forces influencing those members who had drifted away, to re-enter the fold. I saw a greater tithing than ever before.
Vision of Alma D. Erickson (1930s)
I see our church represented by a high building, and we are in the top thereof, or the most recently constructed portion, which is very shaky; and I perceive that this last constructed portion is going to fall, and we must get down to the lower part of this great structure, which rests solidly upon its foundations. And while I am thus viewing it, the top, or last part built, does crash with a loud and fearful crash.
(Sources and comments in purple.)
Why this happens next: The president has been removed, a quick succession of others have been brought forth only to be taken out as well. Finally, the New World Order is brought forth after much chaos, violence and calamities in a compression of events, and the leader chosen goes after the Saints, Christianity, Israel and Capitalism by implementing the Mark of the Beast and killing anyone who will not denounce Jesus Christ. (Rev 13)
Revelation 13:5 - And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. This is the scripture that changes the anti-Christ from a beastly system to a leader that will rise up in the end times and go against Israel and the Saints. Also note the word "continue". This person may have been in power before!
Satan knows his time is limited now to 3.5 years. He will unleash all his power. The days of tribulation have begun. (1) Although this leader is in power, the gangs, marauders and foreign troops make it difficult to accomplish this New World Order.
(1) The 7 vials in Rev. 8, are the judgments/punishment/wrath of God and when they start, the tribulations begin. The last of the vials are the Woes and the Anti-Christ is responsible for bringing those to pass.
Since the Saints have been called out, the Lord's work will not be impeded. New Jerusalem will need to start soon so the two prophets who are sent to Jerusalem (from New Jerusalem) can go to hold off the world's army for 1,260 days (3.5 years). In the meantime, the Lost 10 Tribes are starting their trek towards New Jerusalem and their extraordinary power and strength give the Saints (from the CO) the help they need to arrive safely and join the City of Enoch for an epoch building project. It won't be much longer now that the Savior arrives to gather the 144k+ to go to Jerusalem and destroy the world's army, rescue the Jews, and prepare them for his ultimate future return - The Second Coming.
LDS Guide definition of anti-christ: Anyone or anything that counterfeits the true gospel plan of salvation and that openly or secretly opposes Christ. The son of perdition... He deceives them by means of miracles...Nehor, Korihor...
Biblical references:
- Beastly System - oppressive governments of the world.
- Anything that does not believe in the divinity of the Savior, Jesus Christ and his Atonement. (All non-Christian religions)
- Already here, and yet more to come, including a charismatic leader.
- Lawless, changes times and laws, Destroyer
- Appears to be peaceful - though peace time will kill many,
- Satanic power to know the unknowable, occult, (riddles)
- Craft to prosper (endless debt), power given by Satan
- Causes global economic crash to bring about cashless society
- Blasphemes God, called Son of Perdition
The period of time under the Anti-Christ will bring persecution and apostasy to the Saints.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell BYU Speeches, October 10, 1978
But make no mistake about it, brothers and sisters; in the months and years ahead, events will require of each member that he or she decide whether or not he or she will follow the First Presidency. Members will find it more difficult to halt longer between two opinions (see 1 Kings 18:21).
Heber C. Kimball, Deseret News, May 23, 1931
An army of Elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect if that were possible. Our sons and daughters must live pure lives so as to be prepared for what is coming. After a while the gentiles will gather by the thousands to this place, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the results will be financial bondage. Persecution comes next and all true Latter-day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize and others will be still, not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people. The judgments of God will be poured out on the wicked to the extent that our Elders from far and near will be called home, or in other words the gospel will be taken from the Gentiles and later on carried to the Jews. The western boundary of the State of Missouri will be swept so clean of its inhabitants that as President Young tells us, when you return to that place, there will not be left so much as a yellow dog to wag his tail. Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to tests that will try the integrity of the best of them. The pressure will become so great that the more righteous among them will cry unto the Lord day and night until deliverance comes. Then the prophet and others will make their appearance and those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri, and take part in the up-building of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem."
Clue: Persecution of the Saints seems to be the first thing after the Anti-Christ comes to power.
Heber C. Kimball, Dec 13, 1857, Journal of Discourses, 6:126
The world is ripe, and there are no saving principles within them, with a very few exceptions; and they [the righteous] will gather out, and the rest of mankind are ready for destruction, for they will have no salt to save them. I know the day is right at hand when men will forfeit their priesthood and turn against us and against the covenants they have made, and they will be destroyed as Judas was.
Ezra Taft Benson, The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p. 107
There is a real sifting going on in the Church, and it is going to become more pronounced with the passing of time. It will sift the wheat from the tares, because we face some difficult days, the like of which we have never experienced in our lives. And those days are going to require faith and testimony and family unity, the like of which we have never had.
Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, April 1969
Sometimes we hear someone refer to a division in the Church. In reality, the Church is not divided. It simply means that there are some who, for the time being at least, are members of the Church but not in harmony with it. These people have a temporary membership and influence in the Church; but unless they repent, they will be missing when the final membership records are recorded.
It is well that our people understand this principle, so they will not be misled by those apostates within the Church who have not yet repented or been cut off. But there is a cleansing coming. The Lord says that his vengeance shall be poured out "upon the inhabitants of the earth. . . . And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me. . . . (D&C 112:24-26.)
Terry Bennet Prophecy: Period Three – 2022-2028 – The Rise of a One-World Religion The governmental troubles will be in preparation for, particularly in Europe, the arising of the spirit of antichrist. What is coming is called the New World Order, but behind that is the spirit of antichrist and the false prophet spirit a one-world religion.
Terry explained, “I was told it would be a combination of three world religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all brought together into a one-world religion. Those three would be combined as a compromise, a mixture. Each of those three religions believes in one god whereas other religions have many gods. The one-world religion will be presented as a solution that will bring peace, when in reality it will be a compromise and a mixture offered by Satan to turn the world away from the absoluteness that there is no other name under heaven whereby men can be saved but the name of Jesus Christ. Anybody who refuses to accept the new one-world religion will be labeled as a radical terrorist and a threat to world peace. As it goes forward it will move to murder. It will be declared by a religious leader in Europe that this person whom they will receive as their governmental leader is god, when in reality it is the antichrist”
When this religious leader declared this man to be god, Terry saw hundreds of thousands of Catholics rose up and said no. They resisted what they knew was an attack against the Lord Jesus himself. As a result, many Catholics were murdered. He also saw many Protestants resisting and they were also put to death in great numbers. He saw millions of these resisters put to death, martyred for their refusal to accept the divinity of the antichrist.
Terry explained, “There will also be resistor nations and tribes of people, even in the European area, who will be unwilling to go down that path, but it was at great cost of life that they will resist, and some of them will resist. Satan is going to push for worldwide acceptance of the antichrist, but he will never be fully accepted. There will be sheep nations that absolutely resist and there will be people groups who absolutely resist.”
The Anti-Christ establishes the Mark of the Beast. (Rev 13:17)
This new means of buying/selling/trading will cause the monetary system in place to be removed. (This will further damage the U.S. economy and wealth in addition to the initial dollar devaluation.)
The Anti-Christ (beastly system) shall make war with the Saints and he shall overcome them. (Rev. 13:7)
The temple(s) are closed until the 7 vials have been poured out. (Rev. 25:8)
The beast, the false prophet, those who received the mark of the beast were cast alive into a lake of fire after Armageddon. (Rev 19:20)
White Horse Prophecy, attributed to Joseph Smith, 1843
The sometimes disputed White Horse Prophecy states "a man who had heard the Prophet give the toast returned to visit the mansion of the Prophet, and so abused him with bad language, that the man was ordered out by the Prophet. It was while the two were out that my attention was attracted to them and hearing the man speaking in a loud tone of voice, I went toward them; the man finally leaving. There were present the Prophet Joseph Smith, Theodore Turley and myself. The prophet began talking to us of the mobbings and drivings and persecutions we as a people have endured, but, said he, "We will have worse things to see; our persecutors will have all the mobbings they want. Don't wish them any harm, for when you see their sufferings you will shed bitter tears for them."
Vision of Heber Kimball, told by Amanda Wilcox, 1868
After a while the Gentiles will gather to this place by the thousands, and Salt Lake will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the result will be financial bondage.
Persecution comes next, and all true Latter-day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize, and others will stand still, not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people.
Although many leave the church (apostasy precedes the Second Coming) because of the persecution is too much to bear, there will be many who are led to the Zion for safety and a great hastening of missionary work will take place.
Cardston Temple Vision, Sols Caurdisto
I saw that the opposing forces were roughly divided by so-called Christianity on the one side, and by the so-called followers of Mohammed and Buddha on the other. I saw that the great driving power within these so-called Christian nations, was the Great Apostasy of Rome, in all its political, social and religious aspects. I saw the worldwide dislocation and devastation of production and slaughter of people occur more swiftly and upon a larger scale than ever before. I saw an antagonism begin to express itself from those so-called Christian nations against your people. I saw those with a similar faith to yours in the far east begin to look toward Palestine for safety....
I saw the other officials obeying the inspired instructions, carrying their message and exhorting the people to carry out, from time to time the revelation given them, whilst all around throughout the Gentile world the chaos developed in its varying stages, faction against faction, nation against nation, but all in open or secret hostility to your people and their faith. I saw your people draw closer and closer together, as this became more tense and as the spiritual forces warned them through the mouth of your elders and your other officers. I saw the spiritual forces influencing those members who had drifted away, to re-enter the fold. I saw a greater tithing than ever before.
Vision of Alma D. Erickson (1930s)
I see our church represented by a high building, and we are in the top thereof, or the most recently constructed portion, which is very shaky; and I perceive that this last constructed portion is going to fall, and we must get down to the lower part of this great structure, which rests solidly upon its foundations. And while I am thus viewing it, the top, or last part built, does crash with a loud and fearful crash.