Signs of the Times

Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Second Coming of Jesus Christ

I’m reading in the Joseph Smith Manual about the signs of the second coming of Christ. Here they are:

  1. pestilence
  2. war and bloodshed, sword, great wars, rumors of wars
  3. moon will be turned into blood
  4. famine
  5. great destruction
  6. great distress
  7. judgements
  8. “whenever you see the [rain]bow withdrawn, it shall be a token that there shall be famine, pestilence, and great distress among the nations, and that the coming of the Messiah is not far distant.”
  9. Judah must return
  10. Jerusalem must be rebuilt
  11. temple must be rebuilt
  12. water come out from under the temple
  13. waters of the Dead Sea be healed [see Ezekiel 47: 1-9 for numbers 9-13]
  14. signs in the heavens
  15. signs on the earth
  16. sun turned into darkness
  17. earthquakes in divers places
  18. seas heaving beyond their bounds
  19. one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven. But the world will say it is a planet or comet or something similar, but it will be “as the light of the morning cometh out of the east”
  20. all flesh subject to suffer (righteous and wicked)

There is probably more…