Year:1984
Scriptures:
Isaiah
28:15, 18
15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with
hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass
through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge,
and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
18
¶ And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your
agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge
shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
D&C
5:19
19
For a desolating scourge shall go forth among the inhabitants of the
earth, and shall continue to be poured out from time to time, if they
repent not, until the earth is empty, and the inhabitants thereof are
consumed away and utterly destroyed by the brightness of my coming.
D&C
45:31-32
31
And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not
pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating
sickness shall cover the land.
32
But my disciples shall stand in holy places, and shall not be moved;
but among the wicked, men shall lift up their voices and curse God
and die.
D&C
97:22-25
22
For behold, and lo, vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly as the
whirlwind; and who shall escape it?
23
The Lord's scourge shall pass over by night and by day, and the
report thereof shall vex all people; yea, it shall not be stayed
until the Lord come;
24
For the indignation of the Lord is kindled against their abominations
and all their wicked works.
25
Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things
whatsoever I have commanded her.
In
April Conference 1987 President Gordon B. Hinckley, First Counselor
in the First Presidency, provided the following commentary on the
plague of AIDS:
“There
is a plague of fearsome dimensions moving across the world. Public
health officials are greatly concerned, and everyone else should be.
. . .
“AIDS
is a commonly fatal malady caused primarily from sexually transmitted
disease and secondarily from drug abuse. Unfortunately, as in any
epidemic, innocent people also become victims.
“We,
with others, hope that discoveries will make possible both prevention
and healing from this dread affliction. But regardless of such
discoveries, the observance of one clearly understandable and
divinely given rule would do more than all else to check this
epidemic. That is chastity before marriage and total fidelity after
marriage.
“Prophets
of God have repeatedly taught through the ages that practices of
homosexual relations, fornication, and adultery are grievous sins.
Sexual relations outside the bonds of marriage are forbidden by the
Lord. We reaffirm those teachings. Mankind has been given agency to
choose between right and wrong. . . .
“Each
of us has a choice between right and wrong. But with that choice
there inevitably will follow consequences. Those who choose to
violate the commandments of God put themselves at great spiritual and
physical jeopardy.”
The
desolating sickness of AIDS began to proliferate in 1984. A cure will
not be found, but it will continue to grow and fill the world with
its devastation. The Lord tells us it will not be stayed until the
Second Coming.
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