To Your Tents O' Israel
To Your Tents O Israel. A
scriptual basis for prophetic places of refuge in the last days.
Author: Roger K. Young
Publication Date: December 15, 2007
Format: 6 x 9, 135 pages
“Great and grand as is this people, mighty as are the works
that have been accomplished through the blessings of God through his servants
in these days, there is too little real prayer among the Latter-day Saints,
too many prayerless homes, and hence the spread of spiritual contagion among
some of us. Thank the Lord not among many, relatively speaking. I have faith
in my people, for I knew that they are the Lord's people, and I am proud to
be one of them; but when the cry shall come, as come it shall: "To
your tents, O Israel," for there are struggles ahead, the Lord knows
where to find those who have been faithful. “
James E. Talmage
FORWARD
As a young missionary in Chile in 1973, after a night of being able to preach
the gospel to a large group of potential investigators, I was recording in my
journal the details of that wonderful opportunity. As I was feeling the strong
spirit that had been present and was still present as I was writing, all of
a sudden the veil grew thin and among other things I saw long streams of people
in the desert, some in vehicles, but many walking with mostly what they could
carry in their arms. I saw that the area they were coming to was just South
and West of St. George, Utah. I watched as a city of tents near St. George began
to be quickly established in peace and tranquility. I puzzled over this in my
mind wondering what was going on. I was given to understand that they were primarily
fleeing from the Los Angeles area and were called to come there by the Church
leaders. I was given to understand several things concerning the event, including
that they were invited to leave just prior to something very bad which was about
to happen, suddenly and in the near future to that area. I also understood that
most members of the Church did not heed the invitation to come and would perish
because of what was coming. All of this and other details I dutifully recorded
in my journal.
For many years afterward, every once in a while I puzzled over what I had seen
and recorded, but for the most part it lay forgotten while the matters of life
occupied my time. A few years ago, while I was beginning to give firesides and
lectures concerning the events of the last days, a number of people began sharing
with me their own personal dreams and visions. After a while I started hearing
a few of the people describe in their visions & dreams almost exactly the
same things that I had seen in my brief vision. I then began to research more
into the Saints fleeing at a moment’s notice to remote places of refuge
where they usually lived in temporary tent encampments for a period of time.
Some of the questions I was primarily asking were; Are there many historical
examples of this type of event that might shed light on this possibly happening
in the last days? Are there any prophecies or statements possibly describing
this type of event? This short book is a brief review of the historical and
scriptural traditional research concerning this type of event.
As I researched I came to understand that there actually was a historical pattern
of righteousness, prosperity, division, apostasy and then the fleeing of a righteous
few to remote places of refuge. I also found that instead of this happening
occasionally, this had actually happened in every single instance of the establishment
of a righteous society throughout the history of the world. Sometimes this cycle
was delayed or interrupted by a....
PURPOSE
(Part 1 of a 2 part Series)
Currently, the command of the Lord is to physically gather to the Stakes of
Zion wherever they are located. However, previously, the command was to gather
out from the world to a certain location or locations as directed by the living
prophet of that time. It is important to note that in almost every instance
of this command to gather, one of the major reasons, if not THE major reason,
was to gather together for safety.
This book is dedicated to the personal belief that sometime in the very near
future (within a few years perhaps) there will possibly come a call from the
Prophet of the Church (the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve), through
the proper priesthood channels, to the members of the Church to voluntarily
gather to remote places of refuge to escape some impending catastrophic events.
Many of these places of refuge, but not all, will be primarily located in and
around the Rocky Mountains. It will not be by commandment (as in “thou
shalt”), but it will be an invitation to gather in a time of burgeoning
adversity.
I believe that initially, such an invitation would come during a time of increasing
widespread financial/depression like conditions, (increasing unemployment, loss
of houses and personal property, scarcity of food, power outages, social disruption)
but before such conditions become “desperate” and will precede by
a few months or perhaps by as much as a year or more....
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FORWARD 11
PURPOSE 14
CHAPTER 1
Historical Patterns 17
The Repeating Cycle 23
The Prophicies of the Apostacy 26
A vision of the Plagues 31
CHAPTER 2
The gospel principle(s) behind the cycle of Tent Cities 38
A false assumption 41
Conclusion 57
CHAPTER 3
What are the prophesied catastrophic events that might cause such a gathering
for safety 58
A blessed land or a cursed land 58
CHAPTER 4
Another principle at work.... 80
The great false assumption #2 80
The First Principle 81
The Second Principle 81
What about the Law of Mercy? 87
A Key Message For Us In The Parable of the Ten Virgins 91
CHAPTER 5
Noah and The Ark, a type and a shadow of our Dilemma 93
CHAPTER 6
Common questions 98
A five year old’s dream of Tent City Temple 105
Tent City Temple Impression 107
CHAPTER 7
Opposing questions & concerns 113
Examples from the Nauvoo Years 123
Joseph Smith's Lament 123
What does preparation hurt? 131
The farm hand who could sleep through anything 133
