By Frank M. Keele

We begin with a quote form Wandle Mace as follows:

“Wandle Mace, a trustworthy Church member in Nauvoo, reported that he heard Joseph Smith ‘speak of the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which all should see’ and that it would be ‘the return of the City of Enoch to the earth.’ [Sayings of Joseph Smith as reported by those who claimed to hear him make the statements, LDS Church History Library]

Joseph Smith said of the Sign of the Son of Man:

How are we to see it? As the lighting up of the morning or the dawning of the morning cometh from the east and shineth unto the west, so also is the coming of the Son of Man. The dawning of the morning makes its appearance in the east and moves along gradually. So also will the coming of the Son of Man be. It will be small at its first appearance and gradually become larger until every eye shall see it. Shall the Saints understand it? Oh yes. Paul says so [1 Thes. 5:4-5]. Shall the wicked understand? Oh no. They [will] attribute it to a natural cause. They will probably suppose it is two great comets coming in contact with each other. It will be small at first and will grow larger and larger until it will be all in a blaze, so that every eye shall see it.” Joseph Smith | Discourse of 6 April 1843, recorded by James Burgess; WJS, p. 181

And so, after fifteen years of intense and in depth scriptural study of the sequence and timing of our Lord’s second coming… I feel compelled to say that I think we are there, soon the abomination of desolation which Ezra Taft Benson said would be thermonuclear in nature will be poured out upon the wicked gentilles or the whore of all the earth, the sun will be darkened and the moon turned to blood, the stars of heaven will fall to the earth and the heavens will depart as a scroll when it is rolled together.

“And angels shall fly through the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the judgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” (D&C 88:92)

The sign of the Son of Man will be seen in the heavens and in preporation for His coming the Lord “shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

I believe that Zion, the holy city, the heavenly New Jerusalem, the city of Enoch (the sign of the Son of Man, which the which the wicked will think is a comet) or God’s tabernacle, will return durring the feast of tabernacles… is it already on it’s way? Just such a comet is slated to arrive next year just in time for tabernacles… and it, like the sign of the Son of Man, will make “its appearance in the east“…