alaris wrote: ↑June 25th, 2017, 10:36 amAre there any references that the ten tribes return during the sixth seal?Z2100 wrote: ↑June 25th, 2017, 7:42 am
The Ten Tribes have to return, the 144k called, and THEN the seventh seal opens and the 144k have to preach to The World one last time during the plagues.
The 144,000 are sealed "in their foreheads" during the sixth...seal but this doesn't necessarily happen on this side of the veil.
Edit :Revelation 3:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
Here is a great post on the subject.
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Joseph Smith said the gathering of Israel would be a combination effort with angels and men. I'll see if I can find it.
Edit edit : found it.
The Glorious Resurrection
Now I understand by this quotation, that God clearly manifested to Enoch the redemption which
He prepared, by offering the Messiah as a Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world;2
and
by virtue of the same, the glorious resurrection3
of the Savior, and the resurrection of all the human
family, even a resurrection of their corporeal bodies, is brought to pass; and also righteousness and
truth are to sweep the earth as with a flood. And now, I ask, how righteousness and truth are going
to sweep the earth as with a flood? I will answer. Men and angels are to be co-workers in bringing
to pass this great work, and Zion is to be prepared, even a new Jerusalem, for the elect that are to
be gathered from the four quarters4
of the earth, and to be established an holy city, for the tabernacle
of the Lord5
shall be with them. ~Joseph Smith. Tpjs.
Sorry if I'm responding too late, but Articles of Faith #10 that we believe in the literal gathering of Israel so it stands that 12,000 from each tribe would be literal. While you do make a good point on work in another sphere, I read somewhere that the 144k were foreordained in the pre-existence, they just need to come to Earth and preach. It also seems to stand that they will live to see Christ return again.