End of Time

With all of this talk about the End of the World today I thought I would put my 2 cents into the bucket.

"Isn't it great to be alive and in the Gospel today!" My Grandpa Coker's favorite line to start his testimony. Isn't it really great to know that the same priesthood power that was on the Earth when Jesus Christ was alive is here again today! The same blessing and healing powers are restored to the Earth! But on top of that the great gift of a prophet, seer and revelator are also here.

There is much confusion on the Bible and the teachings in the Bible here on this Earth. There are many different practices and many different opinions. It is a very sneaky thing how Satan has turned mens hearts to see certain truths and to turn and twist it a little. How things that are meant to be for our benefit are construed and turned into things that can in the end be harmful to us.

Lets take a look at Baptism by water. (* There are many forms of baptism and many diff reasons on why they do it and how, I am speaking from my knowledge and what I have read and heard from members of different Christen groups) There are some that believe there is no need for water to be baptized. It is a belief that to them that all that is need is a renewed faith in Christ, for by which they become baptized through the spirit of God. Another form of baptism is a sprinkling of water on the head. This can be done as an infant, a new born child, or as a converting adult. The holy water is blessed and put on the head as a symbol of the washing away of the sins of the parents, for an infant. As another form there is a complete immersion into the water as a washing away of the sins of the person who is being baptized. All of these baptism's have a leader of sorts who is either conducting or dealing with the water and the person that is to be baptized. Some say they have been chosen of God and other says they have priesthood power. All baptisms are pieces of truth that are for our benefit, but Satan has gotten a hold of man and thus turned their perception of how baptism is to be done. This is why there are so many different types and forms of it. I believe there is one true form and that is the way that Jesus Christ was baptized. For he came to show us the way to return to our Father in Heaven. It was through the priesthood that we are to be baptized and the priesthood is to be ordained through the laying on of hands (as talked about in the Bible) by one who has the priesthood power already, which has been handed down by the laying on of hands through time. I also believe that there is no need for infants to thus have a baptism for did the Lord himself not say to the multitude about children Matt 19:14..."For of such is the kingdom of heaven." If this statement be true then there be no need for baptism for children. There are other versus that talk about how we must become baptized, and maybe just the fact that we are to follow the example of Jesus Christ.

Now as we see Man has changed this thing and there are many other things that man has changed. Man now thinks that he can change the scripture that says "But of that ^aday and ^bhour knoweth no man, no, not the^cangels of heaven, but my Father only." Matt 24:36.

Wow oh wow, Satan sure does work hard. Now I am sure that these people that believe the end of the world is upon us are not bad people. They are people who believe in the Bible, but they are a people that have been turned by the enticing of man and the flattering words of man who have been influenced by one who has power to turn the hearts of men away from that which is pure and holy.

No I do not believe the end of the world is today, or next year. I believe there is much more evil that will be spread upon the world before the end comes. We all will be tested and we all must make a stand for that which is pure and holy and for that which allows us to have our freedoms! There is no grey with God. You can not stand sit on the fence with most of your body for that which is right and still have your butt hanging over into that which is not. We can't have our home in Zion and a summer getaway house in Babylon, even if its just for a weekend :)