“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord….God has saved for the final inning some of His strongest and most valiant children, who will help bear off the kingdom triumphantly. That is where you come in, for you are the generation that must be prepared to meet your God. In all ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it—you are a marked generation. There never has been more expected of the faithful in such a short period of time than there is in us” (Ezra Taft Benson).