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So I've researched this a bit but wanted to confer with the experts on this forum... If Lehi et al. sailed from Dhofar, Oman around the coast of India then to North or South America, they might have stopped/gone ashore in a region of India where Siddartha was before he was enlightened and became the Buddha. Do you think they met like when Nephi et al went ashore to resupply, trade? Maybe they exchanged similar beliefs (fasting, pondering/meditation, eternal progression through different stages/forms existence, etc.) ?

Agree or disagree?

Dear Rhoades, Moving to geographically safe areas is not like Jonah taking a ship to escape his calling. Moving away from highly populated areas, where starving people will break down your door, take yoru food, and kill you and your family (spiritually prepared or not), is not an attempt to evade a calling. Claiming that anywhere you live will have the same amount of catastrophe and calamity ignores physics, gravity, geology, etc. by which God operates. Example, people living in Pikes Peak, CO - at 10,000+ ft above elevation will be protected from Tsunamis, nukes hitting big cities, hurricanes, etc. That's not prophesy but common sense. We really shouldn't expect the GA's to tell us that currency debasement will lead to massive inflation, and have the apes in COngress pass a law saying the CHurch is not a non-profit organization. Nor will they tell every LDS person aroudn the world to come to UT, as this woudl most assuredly mean no officila recognition and no misisonaries in many countries. They have to say these things spiritually, to those who are prepared to see and hear and apply what's being said.

Wow! Thanks everybody for your input. I do appreciate it. Might I just ask one last but very important and related question: - With all of the signs and destruction prophesied to happen in the last days, does it not seem prudent to live in places protected from large populations, atomic fallout, etc. like the Rocky Mountains or Appalachian Mountains? Tsunamis, etc. could wreak havoc on cities near the ocean as well...so? Perhaps I'm missing the main point here, which migh tbe: be spiritually and temporally prepared. So even if you die / are changed in the twinkling of an eye, you'll...be ready

1. Interpretation is an individual affair. Asking for references only on this one. 2. The reason for being prepared does matter, as I find it hard to believe that prepared LDS-ers will share their food storage and then die by running out of food....seems like for short term set backs - not specifically a 12-month time when no other food is available. 3. Revelations chapter 11:3 - 1,260 days. Not symbolic at all, actually. Number of days. Unlike the "40 days" text in scriptures that some people interpret as not literal, this is a different arrangement of numbers in a different context. Either way, unless all satellites are not working, the news will likely broadcast 2 Senior LDS Members of the Twelve prophesying from Jerusalem. 4. Asking for opinion here, not doctrine. Surely each one of us has an opinion based on our own interpretation, no?

I see. Thank you.

That's right. I'm asking for opinion, not doctrine.

1. My wife is 8th generation LDS. Kids are 9th. Grand kids - in 10 or 20 or 30 years - will be 10th generation. Dispensations of old and new Testaments are generally 14 generations in duration. Any quotes or references regarding 14 generations from Restoration to Second Coming? 2. Re: food storage - those of us who have a 12-moth supply of food; I'm not sure how we're supposed to use that for a year since our siblings, friends, loved ones won't have that same food storage? So is it actually nto meant to last a year but just for rainy days, so to speak, like the next Recession, unemploymnet, etc.? 3. Since current, existing General Authorities minster or are assigned to every country in the world, including Israel, how will we and the rest of the world not know when two prophets are slain in Israel? Or when they are prophesying in Israel? Last, am I the only one - I doubt it - that sees John the Revelation's prophecy in Revelations chapter 11:3 - 1,260 days is awfully close to the length of time a mission president serves, which is 1,277 days = 3.5 years. Are geographical assignments of General Authorities 3.5 years in length or...? 4. Also heard a theory that the Lord likes to do certain things on certain dates, like the early Restoration Temple miracle son the Day of Passover, etc. Perhaps some 200th anniversary of the Church's organization - might be a celebration to remember, if you know what I mean...

Got a question about food storage, like is it supposed to be like 1 Kings 17 - Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath wher we keep eating from it and sharing it and it never runs out - or is it supposed to be like for realsies / on the real / like each family will live on that supply for 12 months - or is it like we consecrate it via the law of consecration - at, say the nearest stake center or Temple, and then take only what we need (if this is the case, I'm not sure I understand how this rewards those who prepared vs. those who didn't, liek the Parable of the 10 Virgins...) - or is it like we can provide meals for our neighbors during disasters like LDS people with food storage did in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?