6/23/2017 - Section 45:7-34
June 23, 2017 Section 45:7-34 Earth’s Time, Lord’s Time, Gospel is Preparer For Us, End of the World, Last Days, Scripture’s Love and Prophecies, Peace VS Turmoil, Agency, This has to do with yesterday’s reading and I wanted to keep it as a reference to ‘time’: p 92 “ Three scriptures contribute to an understanding of this phrase. Modern revelation states that the earth’s temporal history spans seven thousand years, divided into periods of one thousand years each (see D&C 77:6-7). Peter and Abraham taught that time on earth, compared to the time where God dwells, is at a ratio of a thousand of earth’s years to one day of God’s time (see 2 Peter 3:8); Abraham 3:4). Since the earth will have a temporal existence before it is celestialized, and since it is known that the earth is now in the sixth period of a thousand years, or the period is ‘today’ and Christ will come ‘tomorrow’. In a later revelation, the Lord used this same terminology, indicting that “now it is called tod...