Monthly Message, March 2022
The main answer: He will come to bless all mankind. This is also why He came the first time. And that is how he spends all of His time when he is in heaven. In fact, He exists to bless this universe. That is His joy. And associating with Him in blessing others is the joy of each of his faithful disciples.
Before the Second Coming Christ has restored his gospel and his church and priesthood authority so that His servants can prepare everyone for that Coming. This they are doing by preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in its restored fullness so that each human being who is accountable will be able to choose between good and evil and align himself or herself with either good or evil. And in this process His church will gather Israel and establish Zion.
Let us count some of the blessings Jesus Christ will bring at His Second Coming:
- All persons who have chosen good over evil and have become true Latter-day Saints will be preserved and caught up to meet him in the air as He descends in His crimson robes. D&C 88:96–97; 133:56
- All persons who have kept the Ten Commandments but would not join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will not be caught up to meet Christ but will watch Him come and be preserved from the fire. D&C 88:99
- All persons who insisted upon breaking the Ten Commandments will be consumed by fire at His coming as a blessing to them not to incur more debt of sin. This will include the entire destruction of the great and abominable church, its leaders and participants. 1 Nephi 22:13 D&C 88:94, 101; 133:64
- The enmity of man against man and man against nature will be done away at His coming. The animals of this world will all be benign with each other and with mankind. The earth will return to the paradisiacal glory of the Garden of Eden. D&C 101:26
- The earth will be restored as one single continent as it was in the days of Adam. Many mountains will be made low and many plains lifted up. The waters of the earth will be driven to the north. D&C 133:22–23
- The physical earth will be cleansed by fire to remove every corrupted thing. D&C 101:24, 133:41
- There will be no more war nor any person persecuting other persons. Isaiah 2:4
- Disease will be controlled, and each person will live to the age of a tree. When humans die, their bodies will not be interred, but they will be resurrected in the twinkling of an eye. D&C 101:29–31
- All persons who have ever lived on the earth will be present to see the Second Coming. D&C 101:23
- Christ will reign on earth a thousand years, and there will be no government but His government. He will govern through His Zion. D&C 45:59, 133:25
- Satan will be bound during the millennium because no one left alive will heed his temptations. 1 Nephi 22:26
- Satan will again gain followers at the end of the Millennium and there will be a great and final battle between those who choose Satan and selfishness against those who choose Christ and ministering to others in His power. D&C 43:31 D&C 88:111–114
- At the end of the millennium, the earth will die and be resurrected to a celestial state to be inhabited by those who lived righteously on earth and were worthy of a celestial glory. Ether 13:8,9
And what has to happen before He comes again?
- Every accountable soul on earth must be invited to accept the New and Everlasting Covenant with Christ. D&C 133:37 Moses 7:61–62
- Israel must be gathered out of all nations unto the New and Everlasting Covenant. 3 Nephi 16:5
- Zion must be established, a people who keep the New and Everlasting Covenant unto being of one heart and one mind, who dwell in righteousness, and have no poor among them. They can be trusted. 3 Nephi 16:18–20. Moses 7:18