“For behold, this is my work and my glory – to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” This scripture is found in the book of Moses where God reveals his grand purpose for His children. While studying the Renaissance and Reformation, I have noticed in particular how God’s hand played a role in the very details of events transpiring in this time span. Throughout the 14th – 17th century and then later in the 19th century when the gospel of Jesus Christ was brought back to the earth in what we know as the restoration.
The restoration of the gospel was happening long before the spring of 1820. Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught, “Beginning in the 14th century, the Lord began to prepare those social, educational, religious, economic, and governmental conditions under which he could more easily restore the gospel for the last time among men.”
