From the book “A Remarkable Live,” Wilford Woodruff is quoted:
“This is the only dispensation which God has ever established that was not foreordained, before the world was made, not to be overcome by wicked men and devils. . . . The prophet [Enoch] asked the Lord if there ever would be a time when the world would rest; and the Lord answered that in the dispensation of the fullness of times the earth would fill the measure of its days, and then he would establish his kingdom upon it, to be thrown down no more forever. Then a reign of righteousness would commence and the honest and meek of the earth would be gathered together to serve the Lord, and upon them would rest power to build up the great Zion of God in the latter days. . . .
This dispensation is the one that all the patriarchs and prophets had their eye upon, and the Lord has commenced it, and has carried it on. . . .
The work that is to be so marvelous in the eyes of men has already commenced, and is assuming shape and proportions; but they cannot see it. It will consist in preaching the gospel to all the world, gathering the Saints from the midst of all those nations who reject it; building up the Zion of God; establishing permanently in the earth his kingdom; preparing for the work of the gathering of the Jews and the events that will follow their settlement in their own lands, in preparing for ourselves holy places in which to stand when the judgments of God shall overtake the nations. This is truly a good work. ~President Wilford Woodruff (From the book A Remarkable Life, compiled by Claire Ellen Koltko, Natalie Rose Ross, Michael Marsh, Cedar Fort, Inc. Springville, Utah 2006) 43-44)
(The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, 109-11) Wilford Woodruff was the Lord’s Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 to 1898.
