Using the Signs of the Times to Strengthen Your Testimony

Studying the signs of the times can instill fear and even panic. This is not the intent of God in giving them. Regarding these prophecies, the Savior instructed "see that ye be not troubled." 

In his latest book, Using the Signs of the Times to Strengthen Your Testimony, bestselling author David J. Ridgeslists 96 signs of the times and provides a brief description of each, grounded in the scriptures and the words of modern prophets. Each sign is categorized as fulfilled, being fulfilled, or yet to be fulfilled. Ridges uses these God-given signs to strengthen testimony and bear witness that we indeed live in the marvelous and much-prophesied time when the gospel is going forth into all the world and the Spirit of the Lord is being poured out "upon all flesh" (Joel 2:28).

Use this book to strengthen your testimony and promote your own inner peace, stability, and happiness. You'll see that this is a day of miracles—a prophesied day of spreading the gospel to all the world.

David J. Ridges taught for the Church Educational System for thirty-five years and is in his twenty-fifth year of teaching at BYU Campus Education Week. He has taught adult religion classes and Know Your Religion classes for BYU Continuing Education for many years.

He has served as a curriculum writer for the Sunday School, as well as for the seminaries and institutes of religion of the Church. He has served in many callings in the Church, including gospel doctrine teacher, bishop, stake president, and patriarch. He and Sister Ridges served a full-time eighteen month mission, training senior CES missionaries and helping coordinate their assignments throughout the world. He is currently serving as the executive secretary for the Sunday School general presidency of the Church.

Brother Ridges and his wife, Janette, are the parents of six sons and daughters and make their home in Springville, Utah.