RussellM.Nelson, The Future of the Church: Preparing the World for the Saviors Second Coming, Ensign, (April2020), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klg4aj7C5vk, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets?id=3438179d-a8c0-499d-a2cc-82d6a239cef7, https://archive.org/details/conferencereport1918sa/page/56/mode/2up, https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Joseph_Smith/Prophecies/White_Horse_prophecy, https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record?id=f7fda731-7fd2-48f6-adb5-ce3236a2b841, https://sites.google.com/site/kieransmissionnotes/quotes-spiritualthoughts-extracts/elder-vaughn-j-featherstone-given-at-the-manti-temple-in-april-1987, https://web.archive.org/web/20000916092439/http://www.ldstemplepage.org/vjfeathr.html, https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/vaughn-j-featherstone/things-wonderful/, https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/gordon-b-hinckley/need-not-fear-coming/, https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/m-russell-ballard/shall-things/, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/04/the-future-of-the-church-preparing-the-world-for-the-saviors-second-coming?lang=eng, https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/15_10_2013_Devo.mp3, Letter For My Wife Rebuttal, Part 6: The Early Church The Translation [B], Come, Follow Me with FAIR: Faithful Answers to New Testament Questions Matthew 8; Mark 24; Luke 7, For the Strength of Youth: A Higher and Holier Way, The Prison Journal of Belle Harris now available from Church Historians Press, Letter For My Wife Rebuttal, Part 5: The Early Church The Translation [A]. Ican see temples in Charlotte, Columbia, Birmingham, Jackson, Nashville, and in Louisiana and Arkansas. God bless each one of you, I pray from the depths of my soul as I ask a blessing upon you, in the name of Jesus Christ. He gave the whole talk without moving his arm. Doug was in Washington, D.C., not too long ago, riding in a taxicab. We will take you home tonight. Featherstone, To My Beloved Fellow Saints in the Twenty-First Century., 17. I think thats what happens when someone begins to have an inner beauty. You will always find diamonds.. 218 University Press Building
13. As a young man, Douglas Snarr developed a serious problem with stuttering and stammering. The darkest clouds in the history of the world are on the horizon.3. The Arab concluded his story by saying that Ali Hafids farm was the Golconda mine, the richest diamond mine in all the history of the world. Elder JohnE.Enslen, To Any Who May Be Interested, (letter, February 15, 2010). Those of you who read this letter have witnessed the second coming of Christ, the day for which we have long awaited. The Church History Library houses all sorts of documents that could be significant for preserving the Latter-day Saint past, not simply what has received official endorsement. Genealogy for Vaughn J Featherstone (1931 - 2018) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Then I said, But you know, you need to develop a Job-like attitude. Were called to the harvest, Its the day of the South! (BrettD.Dowdle, correspondence with the author, April 30, 2020. Doug wouldnt move, so the bus driver stopped. There would be drunks and others lying on benches out in the park, but Id go out and put the newspaper over my arm while reading or talking to myself, with my arm moving back and forth under the paper with every syllablepracticing! Find signed collectible books by 'Vaughn J Featherstone' The Aaronic priesthood and you. He was granted emeritus status in 2001, and was called to be the president of the Logan Utah Temple from 2002 to 2005. Others can help us be attractive on the surface, and I think its important to look attractive. I have first-hand knowledge of a recent Mission President who excommunicated relatively soon after returning home. [Author unknown]. Then my second brother came along, and I supported him on his mission. Ive got them on all my walls, and Ive tried to read every one of them to educate myself, because when I was younger I couldnt go through schoolat least I thought I couldnt. Jeremiah31:34, quoted in Hebrews8:11. What I am saying is that if the Lord will take a scroungy little kid like that, who had to wear nurses shoes to church and had to go and beg for groceries, and if he will make him a high councilor or a stake president or the second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, can you believe what he would do for you? What have other recent general authorities suggested about knowing the timing of the Second Coming? He was often open about these beliefs in away in which others might have been more cautious. To watch the entire presentation entitled, "7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE" by Millennial Reign, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klg4a. McConkie also commented on the half-hour period of silence that follows the opening of the seventh seal in Revelation 8. He remembered in particular one summer night when he went up to his girlfriends house. vaughn j featherstone excommunicated. In this essay, Iexamine this document to understand its limitations for the argument Montemayor makes. . But while neither Inor any other man knows when He will come, there are some things that Ido know and that knowledge comes from the scriptures, and the testimony of its truth comes by the power of the Holy Ghost. Vaughn J. Featherstone, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, offers words of encouragement as students seek to fulfill their God-given potential. During that time (and this is the part I would rather not tell), my dad was an alcoholic, and my mother wasnt a member of the Church. I could feel it under my arms. The professor went down the whole list and said, Wed like to have Douglas Snarr come up and give the opening prayer., Doug said, I made my way out and walked down, and I stood in front with my head bowed. ), 15. His name is Douglas Snarr. Not too long ago a news item came over from Scotland. He suggests apossible reading of this half-hour as aclue to the timing of prophecy. It might be seven years, or fifteen years, or maybe not in this life. 26. Blythe, Vaughn J. Featherstone's Atlanta Temple Letter 313 Enslen stated it was used by Church leaders in the South in the years after 1983.15 The language in these two portions of Featherstone's letter are distinct. 28. In the past, when this letter circulated among the Saints, it was usually to discuss Featherstones prophecy of the American South, rather than his statements on the Second Coming. I am going to tell you something I would rather not tell yousomething Ive told just a few people, a select group. Every man must be tested. I can affirm the general correctness of this article from my own experience. No matter what the problems arephysically, mentally, or in any wayyoud say, I am grateful, dear God, that I am what I am and that I have all these things. We ought to start looking for the positives in our lives instead of the negatives. Cobbled together by Dennis B. Horne Note: In his earlier years, in some talks given in the 1970s, as a counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone referenced a marvelous spiritual experience he received.The below contains both published text and newly transcribed wording that was withheld for whatever reason (perhaps felt to be too . I have a formula for success that I quote quite often, and some of you might have heard it, but let me, for those few who havent heard it, go back through it again. Did they ask for this calamity? So I voluntarily lengthened my skirts. In Lunds words, The scholars disagree on exactly how many years the earth has undergone since the Fall of Adam, however, so it cannot be said that the Millennium will occur in the year 2,000 A.D. (as some enthusiastic interpreters of scripture would like to conclude).23McConkie similarly stated, that we cannot tell with certainty how many years passed from the fall of Adam to the birth of Jesus, nor whether the number of years counted by our present calendar has been tabulated without error.24. Can passion be selected? If she needed braces, I guess they did this. My older brother was the only one at the wedding from our side of the family. There are several copies on the internet. As he pulled it out, he noticed that it caught all the different hues of the rainbow, so he took it in the house and set it on his mantel. He kept waving, and pretty soon I succumbed to the temptation and looked over at him. I watched, but, do you know, not one of those eight-and nine-year-old children in that class laughed at me. A short time after that I went one day to see my sweet mother. I was about thirty and I thought, Now I can get married. A short time later I found the fellow, and we fell in love and got married. Iknow that the spirit of the Lord is brooding over the South. I came across a letter that I thought would interest you. In The Incomparable Christ: Our Master and Model, Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone of the First Quorum of the Seventy discusses the Savior's role in the Plan of Salvation, the Savior and the temple, the Savior and emotions, praying through the Savior, the Savior's mercy, the depth of the Atonement, the power of charity, our need to . You are a royal generation. Can you begin to understand how I feel about her? I have seen her stand there from four-thirty to six-thirty, nine-thirty, and ten-thirty at night. He said that, when he got into high school (I think his junior and senior years), the stuttering became more intense, until finally he withdrew into a shell and would hardly speak in any of his classes. We didnt say anything for ten days. Youve put a time limit on the Lord. Featherstone spoke on the importance of temple attendance in the last dispensation, when "Satan has unleashed every evil." He was also quoted as saying, "I believe we may well have living on the earth now, or very soon, the boy or babe who will be the prophet of the Church when the Savior comes. Elder Featherstones testimony, however, was really founded when he was fifteen years old. I wouldnt dare tell you, Ill teach you how to live with it, because you would say, as Doug Snarr did, Youre no good! I dont like that answer. I think it was Michelangelo, blind and reaching his ninetieth year, who said as he felt a sculpture that someone else had done, Even at ninety I continue to learn.. No food in the house, nothing. When I was your age I had a problem very similar to yours. Then Doug climbed into the back of the taxi, and the black driver turned aroundtears streaming down his cheeksand said, Thats the first time in my life that anyone has ever stuck up for me.. Vaughn J Featherstone (born March 23, 1931) is an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). God bless each one of you that youll feel your sense of worth, that youll understand who you really are. 3. Id go off to church that way, and everything was fine until those shoes wore out. She asked, Bishop Featherstone, before I leave, would you please give me a blessing? And so I gave her a blessing, and she left. He would continue to do so all through her life. [Alan Jay Lerner,Camelot, 1.11.1137]. In our day we have many things that come into our lives that seem to be great obstacles and great handicaps. I even avoided trying to speak or taking a chance. Not really. Millennial Reign, 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE, 48:57. This is also how[Page 313]Enslen stated it was used by Church leaders in the South in the years after 1983.15The language in these two portions of Featherstones letter are distinct. Both Lund and McConkie, however, acknowledge the problems of assuming we can pinpoint when the Millennium would begin. You have a great deal to offer. Enslen had only acquired this letter the week previous.9However, Enslen, who was serving in an Alabama stake presidency in 1983, recalled that he had heard Featherstone read this letter at ameeting in Alabama ashort time after the letters date.10We have no way of knowing whether Featherstone shared his letter with other general authorities, but its inclusion in the Church History Library does not imply it came with any official approval. If dogged and grim, you besiege and beset it, youll get it! I went home, and for the first time in my life I got down on my knees and started asking God for something. The year 1986 could be the one were looking for. In a1979 devotional at BrighamYoung University, Elder Hinckley addressed this rumor and had this to say: Iassume that no one in the Church would think that amember of the Council of the Twelve would make such statements as these attributed to me. I remember that on payday my mother would go over and stand against the mantel and look out the window up the street. And so I said, Very good, Spike, Id like to. So I went over to Primary with him, and after I had been there a short time, a year or so, I remember noticing a little box the Primary leaders checked off to show whether you were baptized or not. The light turned green, but the fellow was preoccupied and didnt notice it. Were here on the earth, and were going to have the benefit of all those great things that President Brownas a prophet, seer, and revelator in the First Presidencycould probably see were ahead for us. Why are you weeping? I want to tell you I was terrified. Later on my mother and father were divorced. In fact, these include documents critical of the Church and others that have been repudiated by Church leaders. (As you can see, were still going on with having our family. Strength and sagacity; faith, hope, and confidence, stern pertinacity; In one of his General Conference talks (I think one of his first) Elder Featherstone indicates that he did receive a powerful spiritual experience regarding 3 Nephi 11, and that he was an independent witness that the events therein described were true. If anyone were to ask me the day and the hour of the Second Coming, Icould only answer that Ido not know. VaughnJ.Featherstone, The Incomparable Christ: Our Master and Model (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995), 45. I also recall an incident that ties into the subject Id like to lead into in a minute. We paid our tithing all those years. Donate to us by shopping at Amazon at no extra cost to you. I believe my bishop, and hes a great man, and I believe in the stake presidency and the president of the First Council of the Seventy. I think youre getting the message. A man would become mighty, and a woman powerful. 2 Years of Service and 10 Years of Experience with Happy Clients / Customers. Is there any doubt of their devotion . I didnt hear a word of the lesson. If the problem persists, copy the info under View Details and paste it into the Feedback form opened from the side of the screen. I was looking all the time. Furthermore, should any such idea have come into my mind, it would not have stood unchallenged with the President of the Church seated immediately behind me. That you want; When the light turned green, the driver started inching up until the bus window was right against Dougs nose. I answered, Youre a sweetheart. There are those kinds of people that help others feel as if their idiosyncrasies really arent all that much of a problem. Horns were honking in back, and pretty soon a policeman came over and said, Whats going on here?, Doug answered, This man tried to force that black driver off the road. As a giant tide came in between the Pillars of Hercules, unable to resist the terrible temptation, he threw himself into the incoming tide and sank beneath the crestnever to rise again in this life. The words wouldnt come. But I promise you, as surely as God is in heaven, that those promises made by righteous priesthood bearers will take place in your life. Youll git water; the well has never run dry. I havent been through that kind of a test. I used to go out and sit in the park with a newspaper. Why, at that very instant God had been answering her prayer, but she didnt even know it. The video presents alast days timeline that places the Second Coming in the very near future. The bus driver looked down, saw this black driver, and started trying to force him off the road. So they went out and dug in the sands nearby, and with almost every shovelful of sand, they turned up more diamonds. I told a group of Aaronic Priesthood holders out in the congregation tonight, if they are pure in heart, they may . He just cannot believe that anyone cant succeed if he wants to succeed. I have heard very intelligent peoplepeople who hold temple recommends, but who have been involved in serious errorsay, Is that really wrong? There isnt any question about it. In a little note on the front door, the branch president had left his name and address. He was 87. My goal is not to criticize ElderFeatherstone or to disparage sincere Latter-day Saints among them presumably this videos creator who like myself are eager to be present for our Saviors coming. This is the time of King Arthur, and violence is not strength and compassion is not weakness. My teacher didnt look. Please click Sign In to try again. I didnt know what baptism was, but I wanted that little box checked off. Ive tried to compensate for it. Thats a diamond! A Wise and Understanding Heart. 18. You are a person of worth. Is that really you? I know this speech is on TV and will be on tape, and I thought about this at the time I prepared what I would say. This is a great life, and it is a marvelous time to live. These documents are published on the Church History Library website in order to assist historians in their work. Hed go get a big grocery cart, and then he would push it around the store and fill it up with all those things. 14. He started his remarks by reading apassage from the Book of Jeremiah describing the Millennium, when they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them.21Featherstone then said, It is my conviction that most of you will live to see that day.22Montemayor also pointed to this passage as confirmation of Featherstones letter.
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