We also reflected on the counsel we had received from our Church leaders over the years to store food, water and supplies.Īnd so we started prepping, modestly at first. Our doubts aside, reading these predictions caused us to consider how well spiritually and temporally prepared we were for such times if we ever encountered them. Almost all of them point to a timeline in the very near future.Īs compelling as these accounts are to people who know they are living in the last days, we both realized it was possible that 1) the author was lying, 2) the author had been deceived or 3) the author had misinterpreted their experience. Since then, he’s read other books by people who say they have seen similar if not identical visions of the same events, usually as part of a near-death experience. Isn’t this the same kind of thing people were saying on New Year’s Eve in 1999? Harrison of Salt Lake City) who claims to have seen visions of events that will happen in the near future involving economic collapse, natural disasters, and the invasion of America by foreign troops. I couldn’t wait to hear about his experience, but all he wanted to talk about was a book he’d come across (suggested by another family member) called “Visions of Glory.” The book is an account by a Church member (who some believe to be Thomas G. When he got back, his mood was more somber than I would have expected. Below is an excerpt.įor my husband, it all started a few years ago, when he went on a camping trip to Zion National Park. rich in historical and social contexts.This article was originally posted on LDS.net. “A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.” - Boston Herald Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.” - Chicago Tribune pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. One cannot do better than this book.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer “Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in drama. one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.” -Russell Baker Praise for The Last Lion: Visions of Glory From master biographer William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times-and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy. Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.” - People
“An altogether absorbing popular biography.
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