Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Esther 4:14 Reserved 6000 years, President Ezra Taft Benson:

“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance before the second coming of the Lord.  Every previous gospel dispensation has drifted into apostasy, but ours will not...While our generation will be comparable in wickedness to the days of Noah, there is a major difference this time.  It is that God has saved for the final inning some of his strongest children who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly.  And that is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God.  All through the ages the prophets have looked down the corridors of time to our day.  Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes upon us.  Make no mistake about it-you are a marked generation.  There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short period of time as there is for us” ("In His Steps," BYU speeches of the Year, 1979 [Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1980], p.59).