In 2002, my brother passed away from cancer. My mother followed him a number of years later. In the wake of their jarring deaths, my family held to our faith that their spirits had not “ceased to exist”—and that one day we would be able to be with them again.
But when would that be? Like Christians the world over, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus Christ will one day come to earth, to usher in a thousand years of peace, healing, and joy for the human family. Since those painful years, my family began to speak of that anticipated day of His coming as the “family reunion” we longed for…and so, started paying a little more attention to the many scriptural prophesies of that coming millennial day.
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