
Be
it remembered that tribulations lie ahead ... We do not know when these
calamities and troubles of the last days will fall upon us as individuals
or upon the bodies of the Saints. The Lord deliberately withholds from
us the day and hour of his coming and of the tribulation which shall
proceed it, all as part of the testing of morality ... We do not say
that all the Saints will be spared and saved from the coming day of
desolation. But we do say there is no promise of security except for
those who love the Lord and who are seeking to do all that he commands.
It may be for instance, that nothing except the power of faith and the
authority of the priesthood can save individuals and congregations from
the atomic holocausts that surely shall be.
(Bruce R. McConkie, CR, April 1979, pp. 131-133) |