“Then Will I Cause the Good and the Bad to Be Gathered”
As it was in the meridian of time among the Nephites (4 Nephi), so it shall be at the end of the thousand years: pride, costly apparel, and a yearning for the “finer” things of the world shall grow up in the hearts of many. Once again the forces of good will face the forces of evil. “Satan will be loosed to gather his forces after the Millennium,” stated President Joseph Fielding Smith. “The people who will be tempted, will be people living on this earth [mortals], and they will have every opportunity to accept the gospel or reject it. Satan will have nothing whatever to do with little children, or grown people who have received their resurrection and entered into the celestial kingdom.” (Doctrines of Salvation 2:56-57; see also The Life Beyond, pp. 115-16.)
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