This was sent to me by a friend.  I'm going to have to track down a copy of the book and read it.  Gerald Lund's book The Coming Of The Lord has a chapter on this topic that is very good too.





A new book, His Return - Prophecy, Destiny and Hope by Richard N. Skousen, using scriptures and modern revelations, explains the authors understanding of events that will occurr prior to the Saviors Second Coming. Largely for the edification of myself and a few family and friends, I have extracted the following from Chapter 7, Establishing the Political Kingdom of God. I hope you enjoy it.

N.B.: the kingdom of God is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, while the Kingdom of God will be a non-denominational political organization.


When the Church was established in 1830, it laid the foundation for the creation of the Kingdom of God. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the kingdom of God - the spiritual organization set up to preach the gospel, administer the saving ordinances and strengthen the faith of the Saints. But is not the Kingdom of God, which will be a non-denominatoinal political organization that will protect the rights of all citizens and religions. When Joseph is resurrected, he will help to complete the establishment of the Kingdom of God, which will first grow from within the Church.

The establishment of the Kingdom of God will be a momentous undertaking that will create the political foundations to rule the nations during the Millenium....it must be established before the Second Coming and Millenium can occurr.

God is in control of the nations of the world.

The Kingdom of God....will fulfill the prophetic dream of Daniel. It is the stone cut without hands that will break down and replace the wicked nations of the world.

While it is true that the Church - the kingdom of God - has been restored, it does not act as a political entity and cannot fulfill Daniels prophecy of replacing the political nations of the world.

The Kingdom of God, which is the government that will rule the people through righteous laws, is the political organization that will be able to fulfill the prophecy of Daniel. The Kingdom will grow out of the Church and become an independent organization, as Brigham Young explained:
...that Kingdom grows out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but is is not the Church, for a man may be a legislator in that body which will issue laws to sustain the inhabitants of the earth, and still not belong to the Church of Jesus Christ at all.

We also learn from John Taylor....Before there could be a Kingdom of God, there must be a church of God....because of the impossibility of introducing the law of God among a people who would not be subject to and guided by the spirit of revelation. Hence the world has generally made great mistakes upon these points. They have started various projects to try to unite and cement the people together without God, but they could not do it.

Daniel Wells told the Saints: When will the Kingdom be given into the hands of the Saints of the Most High God?....Just as soon as the Lord finds that He has a people upon the earth who will uphold and sustain the Kingdom, who shall be found capable of maintaining its interests and of extending its influence upon the earth,...

It will be the duty of the Saints to teach the people how they should be organized under righteous principles of government.

Those who refuse to obey these laws will not be allowed to live in the communities of the Kingdom of God.

...President Young prophesied that the flag of the Kingdom of God will be the flag of the United States,...The Church of Jesus Christ will produce this government, and cause it to grow and spread, and it will be a shield round about the Church. And under the influence and power of the Kingdom of God, the Church of God will rest secure and dwell in safety, without taking the trouble of governing and controlling the whole earth. The Kingdom of God will do this, it will control the kingdoms of the world.

The Kingdom of God will bring political unity and peace.

As the Church comes under attack by the wicked, the Saints will be forced to withdraw from the influence and control of Babylon, especially when the wicked halt all commerce with the righteous. Since the Saints will then be cut off from the government of the United States, the political Kingdom of God will begin to be established among the members of the Church.

At the same time, as the corrupting influence of wickedness spreads among the people of the United States, the Constitution will continue to be shredded until ist is merely a tattered document.

It will be the Kingdom of God that will provide the leadership for the people during this critical time when the government of the United States is teetering on the edge of colllapse.

The prophets have testified that it will be the Latter-day Saints who will have the privilege of establishing the Kingdom of God and extending its marvelous influence throughout the earth.

Once the Kingdom of God has been established among the Saints, it will begin to fulfill the prophecy of Daniel that a stone was cut without hands, which smote the image [representing the nations of wicked men] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces....And the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

Eventually, the Kingdom of God will cover the entire earth with righteous leadership.

As various government collapse because of war, internal strife and chaos, the people will naturally turn to the Kingdom of God, which will be the only source in the world for hope and order.

Because the Kingdom of God will replace the wicked nations that Satan has influenced and controlled, he will lose his ability to manipulate the nations of the earth.....It is for this reason that he has been in strong opposition to the kingdom of God from the very beginning, and he will continue to oppose the future establishment of the Kingdom of God.

The Lord has said that the Prophet Joseph will help to establish and spread the Kingdom of God throughout the world. Additional revelation will be needed to fully establish the Kingdom of God, which the Prophet Joseph will be privileged to receive.