No More Second Coming Talk?

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:05][music] >> Hi everybody. Welcome to Christian Homestead. My name is Jared. I was checking the church magazines and I came across this in the May issue for the strength of youth.

[00:00:21]And uh this part it's called Guide and Seek. And then it says, "Why are there new sections in the guide?"

[00:00:30]"You are the rising generation. This is an important time in your life, a time for making and keeping sacred covenants, sharing the gospel, and preparing the world for the second coming of the Savior.

[00:00:41]That's why For the Strength of Youth guide has gone from just five sections to 12." And then it goes over the seven new sections.

[00:00:51]When I was looking through the church magazines, of course, I was looking for anything having to do with the second coming, and this was the only thing that popped up.

[00:00:59]I'm not going to add it to my spreadsheets, but I was thinking about my second coming spreadsheet, and it's been a while.

[00:01:08]It's been a while since I've added any second coming quotes to this.

[00:01:12]Now, you can see here, today I did add these four second coming quotes from general conference, but that's not the same as the quotes that we get from social media posts and quotes from church news or YouTube videos that the church posts and elsewhere.

[00:01:33]Uh those would come in pretty frequently, and for the month of April at least, it's essentially stopped.

[00:01:43]Uh unless I missed something.

[00:01:45]Now, I'm not trying to cause panic or anything like that. Uh I don't see it as an issue. I'm just pointing out my observations. I don't think anybody else is doing anything like this where they're uh collecting every second coming quote that they come across.

[00:02:01]I just want to report that for the month of April, outside of general conference, in so far, I'm recording this on the 21st, so far, I haven't gotten any of the regular second coming quotes that I typically find to put on the spreadsheet.

[00:02:21]Um so, let me show you how it's been.

[00:02:25]Uh the big I guess you could say concern that I had when President Nelson passed away was that we weren't going to get as many second coming quotes because maybe uh priorities would shift. Maybe during his time it was appropriate to really be thinking about the second coming and preparing for it, but maybe the Lord would have something else in mind for this next phase with President Oaks. Not that the second coming wouldn't be a priority, but that our attention should shift shift elsewhere.

[00:02:56]Well, what happened, as you know, if you've been watching my channel, I feel like there was actually an increase in second coming quotes. Uh not just in the number of second coming quotes, but also the intensity.

[00:03:11]So, for example, this is one of my favorite ones, and this is from President Eyring uh in the new the newly formed first presidency, and this was just 2 days after President Oaks was ordained the next president of the church.

[00:03:27]This is a social media post from President Eyring, and I'm just going to read this part. He says, "I'm so grateful for the people whose faith I know will sustain us in this great work of the restoration and the final preparation of the Lord's church for his coming."

[00:03:48]So, because he said the final preparation, I put it into a category of second coming quotes that I've termed the final phase.

[00:03:58]Quotes that are just like that make it really clear that the second coming is soon, uh even imminent. The word imminent has been used by various general authorities and general officers of the church.

[00:04:14]Okay, so I was surprised by that. Now, what I did in column B, and this is just a temporary thing just for this video, in column B, I counted up the number of second coming quotes that I have uh by month. So, you know, October, we had four.

[00:04:32]In November, we had three, including two final phase quotes, the way that I classify them.

[00:04:40]December, there were three.

[00:04:42]January, there were seven.

[00:04:45]Um February, there were six. March, there were five.

[00:04:50]And April, let me just get rid of this because I'm not counting the the general conference quotes.

[00:04:59]April, we've had zero like regular second coming quotes from sources other than general conference.

[00:05:08]I'm not I I know this confuses this is going to confuse some people. I'm just trying to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. General conference is kind of a different thing. I'm just trying to you know, uh get the pulse of the second coming talk of the church outside of general conference. So, excluding general conference, April has been quiet.

[00:05:31]It's been quiet.

[00:05:33]Um now, >> [clears throat] >> I don't know what's going to happen for the rest of the month. We'll just wait and see, and whatever happens happens, and it's what the Lord wants to happen.

[00:05:45]I will remind you in Matthew chapter 24 verse 44, the Savior says, "Therefore, be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."

[00:06:01]There's also the scripture, I'm not going to pull it up. I just barely thought about it. But there's also also the script Well, I think there's a couple scriptures that talk about the half hour of silence.

[00:06:11]It's not clear what that is. I have tried to get to the bottom of it, and it doesn't seem that that's been revealed. We don't know if it's a literal half hour. We don't know if it's, you know, the 21 years, if you think about God's time, how a day to him is a thousand years on Earth.

[00:06:27]We don't know, but it seems to be a period of quiet of some sort.

[00:06:34]Um so, I'm not suggesting that that's what's happening now, but it has gone kind of quiet all of the sudden when it comes to second coming talk.

[00:06:46]I wouldn't be alarmed. If anything, I might be even kind of excited because Christ is going to come at a time that we think not.

[00:06:54]Um that's why I'm not a big fan of second coming timelines because there is sure a lot of thinking that goes into that and putting limits on when the second coming can happen because people think uh that they know exactly how things are going to play out. I don't take that approach.

[00:07:10]Okay.

[00:07:11]So, what I thought would be a good thing to do for right now, let's revisit just really quick our most recent second coming quotes from general conference because there were some pretty good things that were said in those talks in regards to the second coming. And then, maybe we can just do a quick review of some of the main quotes that we've had since President Oaks became president of the church.

[00:07:38]So, the first talk, um again, unless I'm missing something, it's it's possible I may have missed something that was said in in another talk.

[00:07:48]But the first talk that I'm aware of that mentions the second coming from this general conference was from President Eyring in his talk called Prayers for Peace.

[00:07:56]And toward the beginning of it, he says, "It was at the la- It was at that last supper that he gave those faithful disciples a promise which continues to comfort and encourage his faithful disciples today in whatever difficulties we face in our own lives.

[00:08:13]He said, 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.'

[00:08:25]Now, here's the part right here.

[00:08:27]The world today seems to be in commotion.

[00:08:30]There are wars and rumors of wars. The economies of whole continents seem to be faltering.

[00:08:37]Prophesied wickedness seems to be accelerating as the Savior's return draws near."

[00:08:45]So, if you're familiar with the scriptures, you know that these are signs of the times.

[00:08:49]Commotion is a key word. Wars and rumors of wars, of course.

[00:08:54]Um and then just the idea of problems in the economy. Uh you you can see that worded in different ways in the scriptures.

[00:09:04]And then, of course, uh wickedness increasing.

[00:09:09]So, he points out these signs of the times, and he mentions the fact that Christ's return draws near.

[00:09:17]And of course, it's drawing near. Every day that goes by, it draws near.

[00:09:22]But when you say it in a talk like this, you're pointing out it's getting nearer.

[00:09:27]It's not just like like pay attention. We are getting closer to it. Of course, we're getting nearer, but pay attention because it may be closer than what you think.

[00:09:38]All right. And then he says, "Yet despite turmoil and difficulty, faithful Latter-day Saints in hardship across the world have flooded heaven with prayers.

[00:09:47]In public and in private, they are petitioning the Lord for help, for comfort, for direction, and for personal peace for those they love."

[00:09:56]I just want to point out President Holland uh during his near-death experience, he was told that prayer is really important, and when he came back, he said that he feels like part of the reason that he was given that instruction uh about prayer uh when he was out of his body uh it has to do with the hastening.

[00:10:19]I'm not going to pull that quote up right now. I do have it. He said it during RootsTech.

[00:10:25]But he said that he felt like it had to do with the hastening of the work, which of course, when we're talking about the hastening, we're hastening uh to be as ready as possible for the Second Coming.

[00:10:35]Okay, so then we have this from President Christofferson.

[00:10:41]So, it's interesting. We We have these two members of the First Presidency that are talking about the Second Coming.

[00:10:48]His talk was called The Character of Christ. And right at the beginning the Apostle Peter reminds us that in the latter days, there will be doubters who question the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

[00:11:02]There shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying, "Where is the promise of his Second Coming?"

[00:11:12]You guys, I just want to point out sometimes it's not going to be obvious that people are doing this because I I think surface value, we would say, "Oh, yeah, the people that are outside the church, uh people that are not religious." Yeah, that that is some of this group.

[00:11:30]But there are others in this group that are members of the church.

[00:11:34]And sometimes they even blast out their opinions on social media and downplay the Second Coming or would have you believe that it's not anywhere close.

[00:11:45]And they cast a lot of doubt on the signs that we're seeing and doubt on the things that the Lord's servants are saying.

[00:11:53]Like this, for example.

[00:11:56]So, be careful who you listen to.

[00:11:59]Continuing Peter reminds us that the Lord is not slack and that if there's any seeming delay in his return it is because of his long-suffering mercy in giving us more time to repent before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

[00:12:17]I do want to point out he used the word if.

[00:12:21]If there is any seeming delay.

[00:12:24]I say that because I have other quotes.

[00:12:26]I'm not going to pull them up.

[00:12:28]They talk about the fact that the time of the Second Coming, the final appearance is set.

[00:12:34]It's not going to change because of righteousness. It's not going to change because of wickedness.

[00:12:39]It's not going to change because of anything. It's programmed.

[00:12:43]We have that from Elder Bruce R.

[00:12:44]McConkie and President Joseph Fielding Smith.

[00:12:48]So, he he's not saying here like for certain, yeah, well, it is dependent on this or that. It We're giving you more time to repent. He's saying if there is any seeming delay. Like if you think that the Lord is delaying. Well you should maybe reframe that or look at it in such a way that uh you should use this time that you think you have to repent.

[00:13:16]Uh and I just want to point out he's talking about repentance. Uh recently, I did a video about members of the church who think that the ch- that the church isn't being bold enough in calling people to repentance.

[00:13:30]Well, here's an example right here.

[00:13:32]He He tells the entire church uh that we need to repent in association with being prepared for the Second Coming uh before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. If you need fire and brimstone and then he says But the day of the Lord will come.

[00:13:50]Peter forcefully declares in the which the heavens shall pass away with great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

[00:14:04]There's your fire and brimstone if you need it.

[00:14:08]He continues, "Since we know that the Lord will come and establish a new earth where the righteous where righteousness prevails Peter asks, "What manner of persons ought ye to be?"

[00:14:20]He counsels that we should be preparing diligently now so that when the Lord comes he will find us in peace, without spot, and blameless leading lives of holiness.

[00:14:33]So, in other words the church doesn't need to add to the contention in the world and do things that uh do things in the way that your favorite politician does things throwing people under the bus um shouting, yelling being all defensive and no, that's not the way that Christ's church operates.

[00:14:55]All right. And then toward the end of the talk he comes back to the topic of the Second Coming. He says, "I return to the matter of Jesus Christ's Second Coming.

[00:15:07]Adopting the character of Chri- the character of Christ is not only a question of our personal preparation but a primary element of preparing the world for the Lord's return and his glorious millennial reign.

[00:15:20]Now, pay attention to this purple part.

[00:15:23]I had always kind of wondered what it meant to prepare the world for the Second Coming.

[00:15:31]Obviously, part of it means to um share the gospel with others and help them come into the church. That's one way because you're you're literally converting the world to Jesus Christ and helping them become disciples and get on the covenant path.

[00:15:48]Another way that I thought that we're preparing for the Second Coming is the more tangible uh changes that are taking place in the church as it seems to be preparing for a much more global church and a much larger um membership. So, for example, all the temples that are being announced because if there's that initial influx like Bradley R. Wilcox talked about where 2 billion people want to join the church in a day we're going to have to have all hands on deck and as many temples as possible and as much as everything as possible.

[00:16:26]So, like preparing now to prepare the post-Second Coming world.

[00:16:31]The The To prepare the world for the Second Coming experience.

[00:16:37]So, I think that is another way of preparing the world. But then President Christofferson gives this additional insight.

[00:16:43]We tend to underestimate the influence of Christ-like individuals in the world.

[00:16:49]But working one by one has always been Jesus' approach to changing society and establishing his kingdom.

[00:16:58]It is the aggregation of individual choices over time that forms and changes societies for good or ill.

[00:17:08]No one of us can change the world, but each of us can have an influence in the world.

[00:17:15]And so this purple part uh that I have highlighted purple it may be even more broad than what I said. It certainly has to do with finding new converts. Certainly has to do with preparing for the Second Coming in a tangible way.

[00:17:32]But also just generally outside of of seeking seeking new converts.

[00:17:39]Although that is the best case scenario.

[00:17:41]Outside of that, just being Christ-like and being a light to the world and he's pointing out that we have more influence than what we probably realize.

[00:17:51]That we really do need to be a light at work, at school, and in our social circles, our families.

[00:18:01]Okay, later in this last paragraph, he says, "On this joyful Easter Sunday, I bear testimony of the resurrected living Jesus Christ. He is the head of this, his church.

[00:18:13]You know what? I have a testimony of that, so I'm not going to criticize the church. Not that the church can't make mistakes, but I think that if you're noticing any sort of trend in the church it's because Christ is at the head of the church.

[00:18:28]President Dallin H. Oaks is called by him to preside over the church on the earth and to be the Lord's prophetic spokesman to the world.

[00:18:36]With faith in Christ, may our character come to mirror his so that when he shall appear right, the Second Coming we shall be like him.

[00:18:47]That we may have this hope that we may be purified even as he is pure.

[00:18:55]All right. On to the next talk. This is by Elder Chi Hong Sam Wong of the Seventy.

[00:19:03]And at the end of his talk uh it's just a brief mention of the Second Coming. He says "Let us pray unitedly that we will that we will keep his commandments, use our moral agency wisely every day and prepare for his glorious return in his resurrected body."

[00:19:20]Okay, and the last one comes from Elder Qu- Elder Qu- Oh my gosh.

[00:19:25]>> [laughter] >> Elder Qu- Quentin L. Cook.

[00:19:27]The name of the talk is Keys, Covenants, and Easter.

[00:19:31]And kind of toward the mi- the middle of the talk um he just in passing mentions the Second Coming.

[00:19:41]He says "It is also significant that when Christ visited the people on the American continent, he specifically recited to them the Old Testament account in Malachi concerning Elijah and his role of uniting families eternally prior to the Second Coming of Christ.

[00:19:58]All right. So, that's all that we have from General Conference. As far as General Conference goes, >> [sighs] >> I don't have a spreadsheet that really that's like set up in such a way where I can be like, "Oh, there were this many mentions of the Second Coming in this General Conference and that General Conference."

[00:20:21]The closest thing that I have is my spreadsheet called timeline phrases, but it it's not by conference, it's by year.

[00:20:28]So, it's by you know, each General Conference per year.

[00:20:32]Um I don't know I don't know if I'll go so far as to like create a separate spreadsheet to count how many times the Second Coming is mentioned in General Conference.

[00:20:41]If I did, I guess it would probably be here. Maybe I'd create another row to somehow indicate that. Yeah, maybe that's what I'll do. I don't know.

[00:20:49]But, um these last two General Conferences since the passing of President Nelson, there there has not been very much talk of the Second Coming compared to previous General Conferences. Since I started my channel in 2021.

[00:21:06]So, that has definitely slowed down. And then for the month of April so far as of the 21st and at the time that I'm making this, uh which is 8:44 p.m. Central, uh there haven't been any of these like regular quotes about the Second Coming.

[00:21:23]So, let's just look really quick at some of the highlights. We already talked about uh this, one of my favorite quotes from President Eyring where he said uh that these are the final preparations for the Second Coming.

[00:21:36]Um let's see.

[00:21:39]Let's go to Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve.

[00:21:45]This was the November 2025 worldwide devotional for young adults.

[00:21:50]Uh this was in Washington, D.C. You can find it on YouTube. Posted on the church's YouTube channel.

[00:21:57]And I'm just going to read this part right here.

[00:22:01]As his disciples in the very last days, preparing for his return.

[00:22:08]And then he continues.

[00:22:10]I just it's this part right here. He didn't have to add it.

[00:22:14]The very last days. It's similar to other like phrases and words that have been used such as Sister Nelson and President Nelson saying that this is the these are the latter we're in the [clears throat] latter part of the latter days.

[00:22:31]Uh we have have other quotes that say that we're in the final minutes.

[00:22:35]Um and stuff like that. So, the very last days.

[00:22:42]Sounds a lot like President President Eyring's the final preparations.

[00:22:48]Okay. And then let me see.

[00:22:52]Yeah, we'll move on from that.

[00:22:54]We have this one from Elder Ronald A.

[00:22:57]Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve, Church News, November 7th, 2025.

[00:23:02]"Ultimately, the work of the Church involves bringing people closer to their Savior, Jesus Christ, and helping them be prepared for his Second Coming," Elder Rasband said.

[00:23:12]"And events occurring around the globe underscore how important that preparation is and show how close that day may be."

[00:23:23]"A lot of things are happening.

[00:23:26]I recognize that this is the Lord hastening his work. He has his plans and his timing, and we have to be ready for it.

[00:23:34]We know that the purpose of the restored Church of Jesus Christ is to prepare a people for receiving the Lord when he comes back."

[00:23:42]All right.

[00:23:44]Um let's do this one from President Eyring.

[00:23:49]It's a social media post, December 4th.

[00:23:51]"The Lord is preparing his Church and his people, those who bear his name, to receive him.

[00:23:58]Uh as our as part of our preparation for his coming, he will lift each of us so we may rise to spiritual challenges and opportunities unlike any seen in the history of this world."

[00:24:12]So, that's kind of exciting.

[00:24:15]Um a little frightening, too, uh as far as like spiritual challenges go, "Unlike any seen in the history of the world."

[00:24:24]I I don't know if that has to do with AI. I don't know if that has to do with the adversary having more power to tempt and to uh deceive.

[00:24:34]Uh that's been a big topic ever since President Oaks became President of the Church is increasing deception in the world.

[00:24:42]Um but that's a big that's a big statement.

[00:24:46]Uh that we may so we may rise to spiritual challenges and opportunities unlike any seen in the history of this world.

[00:24:56]Uh we and then later he says, "We become a vital part of the Lord's work as he prepares the world for his Second Coming."

[00:25:06]I would encourage you, look inside yourself and think about your spiritual gifts and your talents and your possessions and everything that you have to do good in this world and um to consecrate yourself and uh tap into that.

[00:25:24]Do [clears throat] do whatever you can.

[00:25:26]Uh We all have different gifts and abilities and opportunities. What You may have opportunities that aren't available to other people.

[00:25:35]Uh it might be where you were born. It might be the family that you're in. It may be you just have some kind of an innate knowledge or talent of something.

[00:25:45]So, don't let it go to waste.

[00:25:48]Um Elder Rasband.

[00:25:53]No.

[00:25:54]Let's not do that.

[00:25:57]Oh, yeah. And then we have this about the 10 virgins.

[00:26:00]Um So, President Oaks, he brought up the 10 virgins in his first public address as President of the Church. It was a BYU devotional, February 10th of this year.

[00:26:12]"Coming closer to Jesus Christ" is the name of the talk.

[00:26:16]He said, "To have humility is one of the powerful commandments we have been given to guide us in our mortal journey.

[00:26:23]It prepares us for for our appointed meeting with our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

[00:26:29]Take care not to become distracted. See, there it is right there.

[00:26:34]Remember his parable of the 10 virgins.

[00:26:38]We want to be among the five humble ones who were admitted to the presence of the Lord.

[00:26:45]Okay. So, he brings up the 10 virgins.

[00:26:49]Which I I already as soon as he said that, I thought it was so interesting because we had already noted on this channel that there's been an uptick in talking about the 10 virgins. There was that General Conference, I can't remember which one.

[00:27:03]I think it was I think it was April 2025 when just days before conference, they installed the new statue of the of the five wise virgins on Temple Square close to the Relief Society building.

[00:27:20]Um there was a Church News article where uh Bishop Waddell, uh he said that this was divine timing. It wasn't by mistake. And then in that General Conference, there were several General Conference talks that that included the parable of the 10 virgins. So, when President Oaks said this, I was like, "Oh my gosh, it's another 10 virgins." And then the 10 virgins parable has to do with the Second Coming. It's about the Second Coming.

[00:27:46]When is the bridegroom going to come? We don't know, but it's soon.

[00:27:50]And you you better make sure that you have enough oil.

[00:27:54]You better be prepared.

[00:27:56]>> [snorts] >> You know, it's a Second Coming parable.

[00:27:59]And then just a couple weeks later, Elder Andersen spoke at BYU-Idaho in a devotional.

[00:28:07]The name of his talk was "President Dallin H. Oaks and the Law of Witnesses."

[00:28:12]And I feel like this is one of the biggest hints that we've been given uh as a church that the Second Coming is soon. I think of it this way.

[00:28:25]Think of um when the Second Coming happens, afterwards, we're going to we're all going to have this 20/20 hindsight.

[00:28:35]We're going to be able to look back and be like, "Oh my gosh. Yeah, look, he said this, she said that. This was said X number of times. Look at President Nelson. He was so focused on the Second Coming." And oh my gosh, just a year after he passed away, 2 years, 3 years after he passed away, whatever, the Second Coming happened. We're going to look back and we're suddenly going to be like, "Oh my gosh, it was there all along."

[00:29:01]But, this is one of those stunning examples of a big hint uh that you're really going to kick yourself if you didn't pay attention to this, I think.

[00:29:14]So, he said, "In counseling us to prepare for our appointed meeting with our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, President Oaks said, 'Take care not to become distracted. Remember his parable of the 10 virgins.

[00:29:26]We want to be among the five humble ones who were admitted to the presence of the Lord.'

[00:29:32]How many here are familiar with the parable of the 10 virgins? Could you tell me where it is found? Yes, Matthew 25.

[00:29:39]Who else in the First Presidency or Quorum of the Twelve have spoken about the parable of the 10 virgins recently?

[00:29:47]Interestingly, Elder Bednar has spoken about the 10 virgins three times in general conference. Elder Rasband spoke of the parable 3 years ago.

[00:29:56]And Elder Renlund spoke about it just last April.

[00:30:00]With President Oaks' invitation and three apostles explaining the principles of this important parable, I have thought again about President Eyring's message of the law of authorized witnesses.

[00:30:12]I have found myself riveting my attention on this parable.

[00:30:18]Um and then he goes into their talks, Elder Rasband, Elder Renlund, Elder Bednar, and pulls out some quotes uh from those talks.

[00:30:31]And then let's see.

[00:30:35]At the end, he says, "And once again, President Eyring, quote, one of the ways we may know that the warning is from the Lord is that the law of witnesses, authorized witnesses, has been invoked. When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention and fill our hearts with gratitude to live in such a blessed time."

[00:31:00]This was a huge huge hint.

[00:31:05]For for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to feel, here's an apostle doing something similar to what I'm doing right now, where he's listing the number of times that in this case, this parable has come up.

[00:31:21]He's like, "Are you guys paying attention?

[00:31:24]Uh you may want to pay attention to this. Remember what President Eyring said? This should rivet our attention.

[00:31:31]It's a huge hint.

[00:31:33]It's a huge It's a huge hint.

[00:31:37]Um so at this point, I think once he said this, I decided to add this as one of my topics on this spreadsheet, the 10 virgins.

[00:31:48]You go back in time. Let's go back.

[00:31:50]Um Okay.

[00:31:53]Here we are. Here's that general conference. Yeah, it was April 2025.

[00:31:57]April 2025, you have these three talks that mention the 10 virgins, President Oaks, Elder Renlund, and President Camille N.

[00:32:07]Johnson, Relief Society General President.

[00:32:10]Um but I had done a video uh talking about all the times that President Oaks has brought up the 10 virgins. Go back to January 18th, 2024. President Oaks, social media post.

[00:32:26]Uh look, he's he said, "People often inquire about the exact time of the Second Coming. While we cannot know that, what if the day of his coming were tomorrow?

[00:32:36]If you knew that you were you would meet the Lord tomorrow through a premature death or through his unexpected coming, what would you do today?

[00:32:44]As Jesus taught in his prophecy of the Second Coming, blessed is the faithful and wise servant who is attending to his duty when the Lord comes."

[00:32:54]All right. And then let's go back some more. I think I have one more time on my spreadsheet anyway that the 10 virgins come up.

[00:33:05]And where is it?

[00:33:10]Oh, maybe I didn't put it on my spreadsheet, but in uh let's see.

[00:33:16]Dallin H.

[00:33:19]Oaks um prepare for the Second Coming.

[00:33:26]I covered it in my video, but I guess I haven't put it on my spreadsheet yet.

[00:33:33]10 Here it is.

[00:33:36]This was President Oaks' big Second Coming talk, April 2004.

[00:33:41]Later that year, there was um the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami that killed over 200,000 people. That is very rare.

[00:33:50]You might think, "Oh, yeah, you know, natural disasters, they kill a lot of people." No, not that many people. That stands out.

[00:33:58]Since the year 2000, the only two that I'm aware of that have killed that many people was the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami, and then in 2010, the Haitian earthquake.

[00:34:10]Um and then this is when wildfires took off. We started getting all these record-breaking wildfires and in other things, too.

[00:34:19]But um you know, he he says this, "A parable that contains an important and challenging teaching on this subject is the parable of the 10 virgins. Of this parable, the Lord said, 'And at that day, when I when I shall come in my glory, shall the parable be fulfilled which I spake concerning the 10 the 10 virgins.'

[00:34:38]Given in the 25th chapter of Matthew, this parable contrasts the circumstances of the five foolish and the five wise virgins.

[00:34:46]All 10 were invited to the wedding feast, but only half of them were prepared with oil in their in their Oh my gosh, in their lamps when the bridegroom came.

[00:34:57]And then I'm going to skip down because this phrase right here, this sentence has always stuck out to me.

[00:35:06]He says, "The arithmetic of this parable is chilling.

[00:35:10]The 10 virgins obviously represent members of Christ's church, for all were invited to the wedding feast and all knew what was required to be admitted when the bridegroom came, but only half were ready when he came."

[00:35:25]He he basically said the same thing in um that April general conference, the the arithmetic.

[00:35:34]Leading me to believe that it may be more literal than what we realize, like 50% of the church.

[00:35:44]Which I don't know. Maybe that's not too hard to believe cuz you think about all the people that they join the church, they get baptized, but um there's a bunch of them that that don't stick around for very long. I've seen that time and time again.

[00:35:58]It was really disheartening on my mission whenever that happened because you got all excited, somebody was now getting on the covenant path and for one reason or another, they they fell away from the church.

[00:36:10]There's one in particular I'm just going to share with you.

[00:36:15]When I was in Palma de Mallorca, uh it's a Mallorca is a island off the coast of Spain, uh like the East Coast of Spain.

[00:36:25]And Palma is the city.

[00:36:27]Um one time we had set up like a street uh what do we call it? Uh what like what is it in English? It's like like a street preaching thing, where you have like a display that you put on the ground and people walk by and look at, you know, we would like draw things and whatever. And I just I felt called to like approach this one man.

[00:36:52]I mean, we were we were doing that anyway, but like there was just something that was like, "Him. Go go talk to him." And so I did.

[00:36:59]And he was in a different area. Like he wasn't in my area.

[00:37:05]But they ended up they ended up taking the discussions and the mom and dad did not join the church, but the two kids did.

[00:37:14]And I was able to sit in on at least one of those discussions.

[00:37:18]And I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is happening because I approached them on the street."

[00:37:23]Um and then I had the honor of um baptizing the girl. So these were two these were this was like a Bolivian family cuz there were a lot of like Latin Americans in Spain.

[00:37:36]And >> [sighs] >> I I was just like so happy. And then I stayed in contact with them after my mission a little bit, just like on social media.

[00:37:45]And then um I lost contact with with the boy, but the the girl uh she left she she left the church. I I don't know why. I don't know what happened.

[00:37:57]But it's just it's sad. And unfortunately, if it continues like this, like she's going to be part of this half of the the 10 virgins, the the ones that are not prepared.

[00:38:10]So there I know there's a lot of stories like that. So when somebody comes to church, like if they're new, it's it's really important to reach out to them, make them feel welcome, um become friends with them. Like if you've ever been a missionary, I'm sure that you know the feeling. If you've seen this, you've like put in so much work to help somebody join the church and then just to see it fall apart. And especially if it's because the ward is not welcoming, that's just that just kills me.

[00:38:43]All right. Well, anyway, I think that's good. I'm not going to go over all the rest of these.

[00:38:48]Um well, with the 10 lost or the the 10 lost virgins, I'm I'm combining uh the 10 lost tribes with the 10 virgins.

[00:38:58]Uh with the 10 virgins, we had one more uh since Elder Anderson and and it came from again President Camille N. Johnson.

[00:39:10]And uh I'm not going to read it, but it comes from the March 2026 Liahona.

[00:39:17]And she, you know, she just men mentions it.

[00:39:21]"Matthew 25 contains three telling parables. First, the parable of the 10 virgins." And then she explains it. And yeah, I don't think there's anything I I really want to highlight, but you get the idea.

[00:39:35]All right. Well, please help me.

[00:39:39]Keep your eyes peeled.

[00:39:41]Watch for any social media posts or articles.

[00:39:45]Whether it's in a church magazine, whether it's Newsroom, Church News, some other news outlet, if you see anything having to do with Second Coming, you know, let's do this crowdsourcing project. Let's do this together. I'll keep track of everything. Just let me know. Send me an email. And ideally, send me the links so I can easily get to it.

[00:40:07]But anyway, that's going to be it for this one. Thanks for watching. I'll talk to you guys later.

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