Elder
Boyd K. Packer quoting Brother Brigham, saying something in the mid-1800s that
turns out to be just as relevant and applicable today as then:
“When President
Brigham Young announced that a temple was to be built in the Salt Lake Valley,
many were afraid. They had experienced terrible persecutions and hardships.
They thought another temple would be an invitation to call it all upon them
again. “Some say, ‘I do not like to do it, for we never began to build a Temple
without the bells of hell beginning to ring.’ I want to hear them ring again.
All the tribes of hell will be on the move, if we uncover the walls of this
Temple. But what do you think it will amount to? You have all the time seen
what it has amounted to.” (Discourses of
Brigham Young, page 410.)
We just heard of seven new temples being announced.
How loud and long will the bells of hell ring now? What should we expect? Will
opposition increase? Should we be surprised when it does? Where will the
satanic sounds of craven counsel come from? The answers to these questions are set
before us in many forms, but are easy to recognize (blogs, newspapers, media,
social media, anti-Mormon forums, websites, etc.).
For example: before, during, and since the recent
April General Conference, the opinion pages of the Salt Lake Tribune have been filled with the thrill tones of bells
ringing with the spirit of anti-Christ; anti-Mormon activists doing their best
to shout and distract and divert and influence anyone they can for the worse.
We have one of the worst of them clanging his bell for all he is worth, feebly trying
to tell the prophet of God to listen to him instead of to Jesus. In some ways
it is almost pitiable/pitiful to observe the stark contrasts between what the
devil has to say and what Jesus Christ is saying. The man speaking for Satan (using
the Tribune) is proclaiming that
people are leaving the church in droves and that President Nelson must reform
the church into a politically correct organization of the telestial world in
order to keep these masses that he says are leaving (he lies but that is a
secondary point).
Meanwhile, the prophet
of the Lord testified to faithful members that the Lord spoke to him at Conference: “Our plans were to announce six new temples at
conference time,” said President Nelson. “The Lord told me on the eve of
conference: ‘Announce a temple in India.’ … That was the Lord's doing.”
I for one am filled
with awe and joy and gratitude. My prophet, the leader of my church, The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is doing as he is told to by the
resurrected Jesus of Nazareth, and is ignoring the bells of hell as they ring
in the Tribune or anywhere else. The
voices of apostasy and wickedness and evil are clamoring to be heard, heeded,
and followed—and some do follow them instead of the voice of the Good Shepherd.
(Jesus prophesied that in the last days even some of the very elect would be
deceived.) But most members know that voice and follow it and are now striving
to be and do something holier and higher.
And what was it that
President Young said?—“I want to hear them ring again!” because when Satan is
working so hard and talking so loud, he and we know that something heavenly is
happening; that the harps of heaven and the celestial choirs of the Saints are
singing and and rejoicing and God’s marvelous work and wonder is moving
forward. These prophets and Saints have great courage. A righteous and valiant people
is being prepared as a great body of morally clean, commandment keeping
believers to be accepted by the Lord at His second coming, when all the wicked
will be burned as stubble. It’s just not a hard choice to make; the voice to
follow.
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