Elder Neil L Andersen
"Our faith grows as we anticipate the
glorious day of the Savior’s return to the earth. The thought of His coming
stirs my soul. It will be breathtaking! The scope and grandeur, the vastness
and magnificence, will exceed anything mortal eyes have ever seen or
experienced.
In that day He will not come
“wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger,” but He will appear “in the clouds of
heaven, clothed with power and great glory; with all the holy angels.”We will hear “the voice of the
archangel, and … the trump of God.” The sun and the moon will be
transformed, and “stars [will] be hurled from their places.” You and I, or those who follow us, “the
saints … from [every quarter] of the earth,” “shall be quickened and … caught up to
meet him,” and those who have died in
righteousness, they too will “be caught up to meet him in the midst … of
heaven.”
Then, a seemingly impossible
experience: “All flesh,” the Lord says, “shall see me together.” How will it happen? We do not know. But
I testify it will happen—exactly as prophesied. We will kneel in reverence,
“and the Lord shall utter his voice, and all the ends of the earth shall hear
it.” “It shall be … as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of a great thunder.” “[Then] the Lord, … the Savior, shall
stand in the midst of his people.”
There will be unforgettable reunions
with the angels of heaven and the Saints upon the earth. But most important, as Isaiah declares,
“All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God,” and He “shall reign over all flesh.”
In that day the skeptics will be
silent, “for every ear shall hear … , and every knee shall bow, and every
tongue shall confess” that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God, the Savior and Redeemer of the world" (General Conference, April 2015).
