“The Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord”

Study Zechariah 10–14 and Malachi.

• Zechariah and Malachi prophesied of many events of the last days. What events are described in the following passages?

  Zechariah 12:2–3, 8–9

  Zechariah 14:3–4 (see also D&C 45:48)

  Zechariah 12:10; 13:6 (see also D&C 45:51–53)

  Zechariah 14:5 (see also D&C 88:96–98)

  Zechariah 14:9

  Zechariah 14:12–13; Malachi 4:1–3 (see also 1 Nephi 22:15–17, 19)

  Malachi 3:1

  Malachi 4:5–6 (see also D&C 2; 110:13–16)

• Malachi said that people “rob God” when they do not pay tithes and offerings (Malachi 3:8–9). How is this true?

• What does it mean to “turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers”? (It means to be sealed for eternity to all our ancestors—our “fathers”—and to all our posterity—our “children”—through the sealing power of the priesthood and the temple ordinances for the living and the dead.)

• How have you felt your heart turn to your ancestors as you have done family history and temple work for them? How do the promises of temple covenants turn your heart to your parents, spouse, and children?

Additional reading: Doctrine and Covenants 45.