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The Saints have a work they must perform in order to prepare for the coming of
Christ, who will renew the earth to a state of paradisiacal glory. In a very real sense, we
are co-workers with the ‘Lord in making the necessary preparations to usher in the
millennium.
God’s design, the prophet Joseph Smith wrote, is “to bring about the millennial
glory.” When the Lord’s purposes are accomplished, the earth will “yield its increase,
resume its paradisean glory, and become as the garden of the Lord.”1 But if this work is
not done, the earth will be “utterly wasted” at Christ’s coming.