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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, Sept. 16, 2000

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For this is a day of warning, and not a day of many words. For I, the Lord, am not to be mocked in the last days.

— Doctrine and Covenants 63:58

"The voice of warning is to all people by the mouths of His servants," said President Ezra Taft Benson, then president of the Quorum of the Twelve, during the October 1975 general conference. "If this voice is not heeded, the angels of destruction will increasingly go forth, and the chastening hand of Almighty God will be felt upon the nations, as decreed, until a full end thereof will be the result. Wars, devastation, and untold suffering will be your lot except you turn unto the Lord in humble repentance. Destruction, even more terrible and far-reaching than attended the last great war, will come with certainty unless rulers and people alike repent and cease their evil and godless ways. God will not be mocked."