WARNINGS from President Russell M. Nelson

As you study JS-Matthew, Mark 13 and Luke 21, you may want to also consider these latter-day warnings of President Russell M. Nelson:

Given between April 2018-May 2019

As cited in the Come Follow Me Podcast for May 27-June 2, 2019

by Scot and Maurine Proctor

Scot:

We live in such troubled times and they will get worse.  President Nelson just counseled the saints in the South Pacific with these words:  “Now here’s a warning for you: There’s trouble ahead.  Prepare for attacks from the Adversary.  He will attack you through your God-given appetites. Please protect yourselves from Satan’s traps, including harmful drugs and pornography."
 (May 25, 2019, Papeete, Tahiti)

Maurine:

Here’s another warning from President Nelson:

Now, as President of His Church, I plead with you who have distanced yourselves from the Church and with you who have not yet really sought to know that the Savior’s Church has been restored. Do the spiritual work to find out for yourselves, and please do it now. Time is running out. (“Come Follow Me”, April 2019 General Conference. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2019/04/46nelson?lang=eng)

Scot:

“There are difficult days ahead,” the 94-year-old prophet said at an outdoor devotional in Samoa. “Please protect your children. Help them to know the Lord and love Him and keep His commandments and be free from the shackles of addiction and bondage.”

He also said:

“The battle with sin is real. The adversary is quadrupling his efforts to disrupt testimonies and impede the work of the Lord. He is arming his minions with potent weapons to keep us from partaking of the joy and love of the Lord.
(We Can Do Better and Be Better.” –Russell Russell M. Nelson, April 2019 General Conference)

Maurine:

And in his major talk on revelation in the first general conference when he spoke as President of the Church, he said:

“I am optimistic about the future. It will be filled with opportunities for each of us to progress, contribute, and take the gospel to every corner of the earth. But I am also not naive about the days ahead. We live in a world that is complex and increasingly contentious. The constant availability of social media and a 24-hour news cycle bombard us with relentless messages. If we are to have any hope of sifting through the myriad of voices and the philosophies of men that attack truth, we must learn to receive revelation.

“Our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, will perform some of His mightiest works between now and when He comes again. We will see miraculous indications that God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, preside over this Church in majesty and glory. But in coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.”
(Revelation for the Church, Revelation for our Lives. President Russell M. Nelson, April 2018, https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2018/04/revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives?lang=eng)