Prophecies of the Second Coming

Today I read Revelation 11 which is about the 2 prophets who prophesy for 1260 days, a little under 3 and a half years. I don't know why, but the idea of 2 prophets standing up to the world and causing natural disasters and withholding the rain has always fascinated me. Probably because it strikes really close to magic in the sense of something like Harry Potter or sci-fi/fantasy which has always been my favorite genre for reading.

But this chapter made me think. In this day and age there are always so many people who claim to know when Jesus is going to come again, or that the world is going to end on 12/21/2012 because of a Mayan calendar. There are always those who prophesy that the end is near, either out of delusion or some other reason. Now, no Latter-day Saint should be taken in by this because we know that before the Savior's 2nd coming the Gospel has to be preached in every nation and there are still several nations that we are not allowed to preach the Gospel in yet. There are other prophecies I could name, but this one will suffice. No Latter-day Saint should be deluded or taken in by false prophets that the end is here because the prophecies have not all been fulfilled.

But even non-Latter-day Saint Christians should know better than to believe such nonsense. Because of prophecies like this one from the Bible. For the world to end in December of this year, these two prophets that are talked about in this chapter would have to have started prophesying and causing disasters with the Priesthood over 2 years ago! Since they didn't, we can safely conclude that the world is not going to end on the Winter Solstice this year. And there are other prophecies that are in the Bible, but for some reason people latch on to these ideas from false prophets and from so called experts and forget all about the Bible, God's own word.

Jesus Himself stated that no man knows the hour when He will come again. This is by design so that people will live their lives how they will live them and not in some false pretense of how they are when they think He is coming. When/If the Lord reveals His time and date for His return, it will be to His prophets. There is no need to get upset at the doomsayers out there or the people who buy in to every wind of fate that comes along. Have faith and know that He is God. When all the prophecies have been fulfilled, that is when He will return again, not before. Until tomorrow.