Book: Doctrines & Visions of the Future: Analyzing Themes from Prophetic Teachings of the Latter-day Saints by Nate Richardson & Renee Martin

 

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ABBREVIATED CONTENTS:

Part 1: The Doctrine

  • Doctrines of the Gift of Prophecy & Visions
  • Doctrines of the Time Being Near & Needed Preparation
  • Doctrines of Trials, Persecution, Evil Government, & Needed Cleansing
  • Doctrines of Escape & Gathering for Safety
  • Doctrines of the Latter-day Mission to Build Zion
  • Doctrines of Disaster: Economic Collapse, Civil War, Plagues, Invasion, Earthquakes
  • Doctrines of Spiritual Powers: Angels, Translation, Veil, Teleportation
  • Doctrines of the Final Stages: Lost Tribes, 144,000, New Jerusalem, Second Coming
  • Topical Summaries of Prophet Quotes on the Future from Crowther’s Prophecy Book

Part 2: The Visions

  • Proposed Sequence of Events
  • Summaries of the Visions
  • Themes in the Visions
  • Full Text of the Visions of the Latter-day Saints (Classic and Recent)
  • Protestant Visions
  • Highlights & Analysis of the Visions of Glory Book: The Controversy, The Nature of Spiritual Things, & Future Events

About:

The scriptures and quotes are hand selected from reputable sources. Contact the author if you find any errors or have something to contribute. For the free PDF or questions discussion or teaching opportunities contact RichardsonStudies@protonmail.com or visit RichardsonStudies.com.

This work is based on a decade of collecting quotes scriptures and visions on the last days and finding themes running through them. Once someone said to me that there’s nothing doctrinally accurate about visions, and that comment spurred me to launch this project to put together not just a collection of visions, but a collection of doctrines supporting themes found in the visions. This investigation has revealed consistent themes appearing through many visions, scriptures, and teachings of latter-day prophets over the past 200 years. This extensive research will empower the reader to come to their own conclusions on the nature and usefulness of visions as related to studying future prophecy.

The authors have chosen not to make any profit on this work. The PDF document is available for download at no charge, and the paperback is available at minimal printing cost allowed on Amazon. The only interest in releasing this research is to benefit Zion, and we therefore do not perform this labor for money.

Usage Terms: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You are free to share and adapt this work, provided proper credit is given to the author. Full license text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The full text visions and scriptures related in this book are CC0, fully in the public domain.

The authors are longtime active members of and teachers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Back Cover Description:

Ponder Anew What the Almighty Can Do!

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been blessed with visions dreams and prophecies in “the last days” (Acts 2:17). In this book we will dive into doctrines of the future and themes regularly appearing in the visions of the saints, on topics both dreadful and exciting! May we embrace the gift of prophecy, and benefit from the many messages the Lord is sharing with His Saints in these last days!

First we study many scriptures and quotations from Latter-Day Saint leaders on future prophecy. Many latter-day saints are unaware of the many teachings of the prophets about future events. Becoming acquainted with these doctrinal teachings will expound the mind and help the saints cultivate the gift of prophecy. In addition to many scriptures and quotes of latter-day prophets, many summaries of quotes of the prophets from Duane Crowther’s book on future prophecy are included. Some topics of future prophecy treated include economic collapse, wars, plagues, flooding, collapse of the government, foreign invasion of America, persecution of the Saints, earthquakes, miraculous preservation of the faithful, gathering, translation, the lost tribes, the redemption of Zion and building of the New Jerusalem, Adam-ondi-Ahman, the Second Coming, and more. Some topics on the spiritual nature of things include the nature of visions, spiritual communication, ancestors, angels, cosmos, the pre-mortal spirit world, elemental intelligence, and more.

Rather than focusing on specific dates and predictions, we value visions for the themes they provide. We recognize that some elements of visions are symbolic, and that a focus on key doctrines rather than specific predictions. We caution students of the visions to avoid extremes and stay strong in the church. Similar to a study of the apocrypha, a discerning reader can find many treasures from these visions. We will study visions from early church history from Joseph Smith, Heber C Kimball, John Taylor, George Albert Smith. We will also study themes appearing in more recent supplementary visions of the saints including Patriarch Charles Evans, Alma Erickson, Sols Caurdisto, Moses Thatcher, Bishop Koyle, ‘Spencer’ and others including several protestants. In addition to the full text of many visions, this book provides analysis including an apparent sequence of events, vision summaries, and topically organized excerpts from many visions.

Proposed Sequence

Here are 3 pillars of sequence based on a combination of 2 things Joseph Smith said to Theodore Turley:

  1. Dollar devaluation. They’ll announce the dollar is going to be de-valued.
  2. It’ll trigger a civil war. It’ll make us so weak that,
  3. Foreign nations will invade us.
    (All of this happens before the deliverance of Adam-ondi-Ahman.)

Prequal – Jews to Jerusalem in 1948 (If you were looking for a sign… this is the generation all will be fulfilled)

Sequence Overview: Phase 1: Cleansing & Refuge

  • WW3 in the Pacific
  • Economic Turmoil: Dollar devaluation, Stock market collapse
  • 7-year Famine
  • Civil War in America (again): 3-5 months long. After it are 3 months of climate calamities. Then probably within a year is the call to places of refuge. Plagues begin. US President dies in office. Missionaries are called home.
  • Refuge from war & famine in the Rocky Mountain corridor.
  • 3 plagues happen within the space of a year. Ebola is the last and worst, brought by foreign invaders, leave to places of refuge before this.
  • Calamities happen back-to-back (God preaches his own sermons of big tsunamis and earthquakes on both coastlines). Famine, drought, pestilence.
  • The wicked NWO ruler comes to power. With him comes persecution. Mark of the beast. FEMA camps and martial law. Persecution of Christians. Apostacy among the latter-day saints. Saints are driven into the wilderness.
  • Saints are called by the church to places of refuge.
  • Invasion: US nuked, hit with Ebola, then invaded by China and Russia.
  • Big Utah earthquake, sinks part of California, don’t be on the Wasatch Front when this happens. Refugees who survive the quake will go to Cashe Valley and Sanpete County.

Sequence Overview Phase 2: Redemption of America

  • The wicked ruler dies. Exit places of refuge to build New Jerusalem.
  • The Saints build New Jerusalem in America during the wrath taking place around the world. The wrath is not for the saints. (1 Thes. 5:5-9.) (Joseph Smith says only the pure in heart are spared, they get brought to New Jerusalem.)
  • Adam-Ondi-Ahman. Worthy saints receive translation. The Lost 10 tribes drive out remaining foreign troops and gangs from the US. The Saints build Zion throughout what remains of the USA (the East Coast is gone, as is most of California.) This is the time of deliverance for the saints – the rest of the world has a more trouble.
  • The vials and trumpets are opened after New Jerusalem begins, the days of wrath have begun, and the 7th seal has now opened (see Rev. 8).
  • Armageddon ends soon with the Lord and His 144,000, ending the 1260 days that the 2 prophets held off the world’s army.
  • The days of wrath are ‘shortened lest no flesh survive.’ (Matt. 24:22)
  • The Second Coming comes in as Armageddon ends.

 

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