See the video clip Nelson: Pay tithing or else you will burn at the day of vengeance by Thoughts on Things and Stuff. The description of the video states:
In the April 2011 General Conference, [LDS] Apostle Russell M. Nelson teaches that one must pay tithing to the church in order to receive certain blessings and that if you do not pay tithing, then you will not be counted among the Lord's people and you will not be protected at the day of "Vengeance and burning."
While recently traveling on the Africa continent, President Russell M. Nelson stated: “We preach tithing to the poor people of the world because the poor people of the world have had cycles of poverty, generation after generation. That same poverty continues from generation to another, until people pay their tithing.” It is living the law of tithing that will break the cycle of poverty. Those who live this law will join the millions of faithful members of the Church who bear solemn and joyous testimony that the Lord keeps His promises to those who love Him and keep His commandments.
On page 12 of An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton, edited by George D. Smith, we read:
Victims of the Industrial Revolution [in tne 1800s] found it easy to believe that the end of the world was imminent. Farmers and craftsmen had left their ancestral villages to find employment in large cities. Factory workers lived in crowded tenements with poor sanitation and rampant disease; unemployment and homelessness were prevalent.
Latter-day Saint missionaries to England brought the good news that Jesus would soon introduce a glorious new kingdom over which he would rule for a thousand years. Nineteenth-century ministers of several faiths preached the Millennium which would close out the history of the world (Rev. 20:1-5), but the Mormons offered a concrete plan of action. Regardless of class distinction, members were invited to “gather” to help build the Kingdom of God, first in Illinois and then in Utah.
In his journals Joseph Smith had recorded a vision telling him that “the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors.”[17] Unlike other millennialists Smith avoided the pitfall of predicting an exact date for the end of the world. However, when he resided in Missouri the prophet designated a spot on the Grand River in the northwest part of the state as the location of the biblical Garden of Eden and the place where Jesus Christ would return.[18] In 1835 he said that “fifty-six years should wind up the scene” and eight years later added “there are those of the rising generation who shall not taste death till Christ comes.”[19] Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt even wrote to England’s Queen Victoria to tell her that the end of the world was at hand, that governments and churches would vanish, and that God was about to establish “a new and universal kingdom, under the immediate administration of the Messiah and his [Latter-day] Saints.” Pratt reflected the general feeling in the Mormon British mission during the 1840s that the millennial kingdom would be on the earth by the end of the century.[20]
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