We hear little from the TBM community about the second coming of Christ being close.
They used to talk incessantly about it, then there were all the indicators that would precede the event.
Here are two my mom used to teach:
The ten lost tribes of Israel would rise up from the "North" &
Missionaries would lie dead in the streets of Jerusalem and be resurrected publicly just prior to the long awaited event.

Correct me if my recollection is foggy and/or add some of your own.

Wasn't the church supposed to flood the earth and actually claim a decent percentage of the earth's population? Like much more than 5 or even 15 million out of 7 billion would make? Better hasten that work, Tommy! Jesus is getting impatient!



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The city of Enoch will descend. I think I'm making up this next part, but I always sort of imagined all the righteous climbing aboard and flying up to heaven while all the rest of the world burns. :-P

I was also taught that Jerusalem will be surrounded, things will look desperate, and then at the last minute the Mount of Olives will split in half and create a passage of escape for the Isrealites.

alyssum Wrote:
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> The city of Enoch will descend. I think I'm
> making up this next part, but I always sort of
> imagined all the righteous climbing aboard and
> flying up to heaven while all the rest of the
> world burns. :-P
>
> I was also taught that Jerusalem will be
> surrounded, things will look desperate, and then
> at the last minute the Mount of Olives will split
> in half and create a passage of escape for the
> Israelites.

Good call alyssum. The way I recall was the city of Enoch was actually located in The Gulf of Mexico, it would descend and then the righteous would be translated "in the twinkling of an eye" into their resurrected and eternal bodies thus being spared the "death experience."

The world would rise against Israel.

how could there be a second coming when there wasn't a first coming ?

Or....

Wouldn't it be the 3rd coming since Jesus showed up in the Americas already?

Well, if you count the 1st vision of Joseph's Myth, it would be a 4th coming.

Sing it with me now, "Jesus will be coming around the mountain, when he comes..Jesus will be coming around the mountain when he comes, he'll be coming around the mountain, be coming around the mountain..." Actually, he ain't coming.

"Missionaries would lie dead in the streets of Jerusalem and be resurrected publicly just prior to the long awaited event."

In my TBM days I heard that one of the missionaries in the prophecy had been identified in his patriarchal blessing. Did anyone else hear the same thing? Does anyone else have more information about it?

I heard that these would be apostles and there was a "revelation" that one would be named David. I have TBM family that think it will be Bednar. Of course, before he joined they thought it would be Haight...and before him, McKay...

Sounds like an X-rated B Movie Title.

I will always remember the 60s bumpersticker:


JEEZUS IS COMING AND, BOY, IS HE PISSED!

always liked 'Jesus is coming. Look busy'

My opinion is that the "Second coming" is not a physical event but rather an evolution of human mind/consciousness (referred to as "Christ consciousness", "Buddhic consciousness", etc. depending on the philosophy). It also does not happen overnight, but is an evolutionary process over decades, or more likely hundreds of years (assuming we don't in the meanwhile manage to blow up the place into smithereens).

Kind of like singularity.

Cloistered Mormons still talk about the 2nd Coming. They're more convinced than ever that it's happening soon, based on "evidence" of more wars, natural disasters, and political turmoil. The prophecies are all being fulfilled in these last days!

I don't know a Mormon alive that would recognize Jesus, if such a being exists.

I've done it a few times, but man! It takes stamina.

And youth

Haven't so called Christians been thinking that this event was imminent for the last 2000 years ?

So Jesus first miracle was being born in a city that did not exist for another century.

Perhaps his return will shock everyone, as it will occur neither in Israel or Missouri.

I would think Jesus would make a greater entrance, such as bumping Bette Midlers spot during the Oscars.

Which would be somewhat humorous if one drunken Kanye West would steal the mic from him.

Of course all mormons would be unaware since the Oscars are broadcast on a sunday.



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And the Oscar goes to...Jesus Christ?
Maybe the new Son of God movie is the setup for this scenario ;)

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> And the Oscar goes to...Jesus Christ?
> Maybe the new Son of God movie is the setup for
> this scenario ;)

It certainly is not going to Noah.

In the 70's it was constantly talked about how we would be walking back to Missouri. We all had hiking boots in the back or our closet. They changed girls camp from fun to supposedly teach skills women would need on the trail. Things like cooking over a fire.

As teenagers we were constantly fed a line of fear. We grew up in fear. It worked quite well for the mormon leaders.

Then....the interneet arrived on the scene. It's the antidote to all cults that now exist, or will attempt to exist.

Very similar to growing up in the 90s. My dad had an RV for 2 reasons: fun-filled family outings and shelter during the second coming. When bills were stressful, my mom would say we were just going to walk away from it all soon anyway. We heard constant talk about the HUGE water infrastructure the church had supposedly built under their land in Missouri to prepare for a new city to be built there. And the fear was definitely real, I had nightmares of it often. For some reason I'd gotten the idea (from a bishop? scout leader? I forget) that the world would end in 1996. Being a chronic masturbator and certified homosexual made this prospect rather terrifying.

If there was one thing I remember from all my years in seminary, it was that we would all have to walk back to Missouri. It would be a real test of faith, our teacher mentioned, because as we would be leaving our homes, we would look back and see our neighbors looting our color t.v. and furniture.

So it must be very soon.

Mormons are probably just sitting at home wringing their hands until the next frantic date, like they had in 2000 and 2012. My parents live for this stuff. They were never happier than when they were snowed in, without power, and running the fireplace and living off their canned peaches and salsa.

Hahahaha. That is like a kimball era Mormons wet dream. Canned peaches and salsa.

That's gonna leave a smile on my face for the rest of the day.

Nothing controls and manipulates more then the Fear Factor. When I left this B.S., my bad dreams disintegrated like BYU Football!

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Mormons thought the second coming was imminent in the 1830's. It's been getting less and less imminent as time goes on.