Last Days... anybody with a Biblical believing heart (of any denomination or independent) probably won't dispute that the world is in trouble, and that we are in the last days of life as we know it, because so many things hard things are happening which line up with "the signs" from the scriptures. The last days are a time to be a better person and prepare for hard times but also prepare to ascend mightily, spiritually (and all those things that go along with positive, perfecting changes). That's why I picked "Last Days."
"Gems" has to do with a gem being a nugget of wisdom. In Matthew 25, in the parable of the Ten Virgins, five of them are wise and prudent. Prudent is practical, and being wise in our daily choices leads to having the characteristic of having our soul's vessel filled wisdom.
A gem can also denote a person being refined to be a precious stone. In Malachi, it says (chapter 3):
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
16 ¶ Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son [children] that serveth him.
The Lord is Jesus Christ.
Jesus = Yeshua ("Salvation") Christ = Anointed One = Messiah = Moschiah (gutteral -ach)
Isaiah 12:
2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation [Yeshua/Jesus].
3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation [Yeshua/Jesus].
This gives a whole new meaning to the story in John 4 when Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well. Most LDS also do not know that at the time of the Biblical Feast, Feast of Tabernacles (in the Fall) they had a ceremony named Celebration of the Water Drawing.
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