Imagine
if you would for a moment that a man from a different country stood on your
city wall and began to preach of a Christ that would come. This Christ would
be born of a virgin in a place called Bethlehem, a country far across the sea.
Would you stop and listen. Would you believe in the things that he was
teaching? Now imagine that he was
telling you that the life that you were living was not good and that you needed
to repent. Would you repent or would you walk away. Then after a few hours of
thinking about what was said would you return to this wall and try to make him
stop. Would you shoot at him and throw rocks at him. What would you do if you
could not hit him? Would you then believe that what he was saying was true, and
that God was protecting him? Would you still have anger toward him because what
he was saying made you feel guilty? Do you not like your sins being pointed out
to you?
Imagine
that you did believe in this prophet, and you did repent of all your sins. You
could then seek out the prophet that is in your city and learn more of this
Christ that would come to save us all. There would be signs to look forward to
like a new star that would appear in the sky. Can you imagine seeing a new
star? You could look for a night with no darkness. The sun will set but the
darkness will not come. If you believe
in him who the signs tell of you can have everlasting life. You then plan to
prepare for Christ to come. You anxiously await his miraculous birth and his
appearance to your people. You tell all your friends and family of his coming
and they all join with you in repentance and good living. Then there will be
signs of his death and resurrection. The earth is dark for three days. There is
earthquakes and storms all around. You have no idea where your children and
loved ones are, or if they are even alive. You come to a realization that the
prophet on the wall was right. He prophesied of all these things. My question
to each of you is did you listen. Will you listen to the prophets on the wall
of today? They speak from a wall in the Conference Center every six months. Do
you listen and repent or do you throw mental rocks at them because they make
you feel guilty. Will you look for the signs for Christ to come again or will
you be in three days of darkness not knowing where your family is or if they
are spiritually alive.
