## The Final Gathering of the Saints will be to One Place

The Doctrine and Covenants teaches that because of increasing wickedness with the threat of destruction the saints will need to separate and gather as one people. D&C 29:7-9: 29:7-9: “And ye (the elders) are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect; for mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts. Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the father that they shall be gathered in unto one place upon the face of the land, to prepare their hearts and be prepared in all things against the day when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked. For the hour is nigh, and the day soon at hand when the earth is ripe; and all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall not be upon the earth.” The rest of Section 29 explains more about the destructions that will precede the Second Coming which will necessitate the gathering of the Lord’s people for their preservation. To escape these devastating events The City of the New Jerusalem and surrounding cities are identified as the ‘one place’ to which the saints will gather for their safety and protection: D&C 42:8-9: 42:8-9: “And inasmuch as ye shall find them that will receive you ye shall build up my church in every region until the time shall come when it shall be revealed unto you from on High, when the City of the New Jerusalem shall be prepared, that ye may Gathered in One, that ye may be my people and I will be your God” D&C 42:35-36: 42:35-36: “And for the purpose of purchasing lands for the public benefit of the church, and building houses of worship, and building up of the New Jerusalem which is hereafter to be revealed-that my covenant people may be gathered in one in that day when I shall come to my Temple. And this I do for the salvation of my people.”

The Lord has Promised to Protect His people through this Gathering as One people: D&C 45:65-69: “And with one heart and with one mind, gather up your riches that ye may D&C 45:65-69: “And with one heart and with one mind, gather up your riches that ye may purchase an inheritance which shall hereafter be appointed unto you. And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God and the glory of the Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there, insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion. And it shall come to pass among the wicked, that every man that will not take his sword against his neighbor must needs flee unto Zion for safety and there shall be gathered unto it out of every nation under heaven; and it shall be the only people that shall not be at war one with another.”

The Saints are to warn by both ‘word and flight’ that desolation will come upon the wicked:

D&C 63:32-37: 63:32-37: “I, the Lord, am angry with the wicked; I am holding my Spirit from the inhabitants of the earth. I have sworn in my wrath, and decreed wars upon the face of the earth, and the wicked shall slay the wicked, and fear shall come upon every man; And the saints shall hardly escape; nevertheless I the Lord am with them…Wherefore, seeing that I, the Lord, have decreed all these things upon the face of the earth, I will that my saints

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