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THE NEW JERUSALEM AND THE MILLENNIUM (McConkie & Millet)

"True, no man knows or shall know the day or the hour of our Lord's return; that knowledge is retained in the bosom of heaven, for good and sufficient reasons. But all men may read the signs of the times… They also know there are many things yet to be done before earth's rightful King comes to change the kingdoms of this world into the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. One of these is the building of the New Jerusalem in Jackson County, Missouri."  {Zion and the New Jerusalem, Bruce R. McConkie, New Witness for the Articles of Faith (1985)}

"It should be obvious that Satan's final conquest over the souls of men at the end of the Millennium will be limited to mortals. Exalted, immortal beings—those who have been changed in the twinkling of an eye, or resurrected personages who minister on earth from time to time—cannot fall, cannot apostatize. Their salvation is secure. The father of lies will thus have his way only among those living during the final years of the Millennium, those who have not arrived at the age of one hundred.

 Those who choose to reject the Lord and his plan at this late date do so against the light of heaven; they in essence say that the sun does not shine while they see it. They are thus consigned hereafter to a kingdom of no glory as sons of perdition.  "It is easy in our busy and complex world to become ensnared by programs, points of view, and ways of life that have no lasting value, no everlasting import. We are eternal beings involved in a mortal experience, and one of the tasks of this estate is to see to it that we do not become preoccupied with that which is wholly temporal, In a not too distant day, the light of the great Millennium will dawn, and things will be very different on this earth.

When the Lord of Sabaoth, the Lord of Hosts, literally the Lord of armies, returns in glory, every corruptible thing will be destroyed. "The presence of the Lord shall be as the melting fire that burneth, and as the fire which causeth the waters to boil. . . . It will be a selective burning, for those who are of a celestial or a terrestrial state or order shall abide the day; all else will be cleansed from the surface of this planet… The Second Coming in glory is 'the end of the world,' meaning the worldly…" Life in the Millennium Robert L. Millet.