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As yet another dimension of the signs of the time, the Lord said, "The love of many shall wax cold." We next hear that theme centuries later from the Lord himself, who said, "And the love of men shall wax cold", which words were used in the Prophet Joseph Smith's translation of the 24th chapter of Matthew.
Consider, too, as a part of those engulfing and ending episodes the parallel accounts of the two prophets who will testify in Jerusalem in the last bloody and climactic days there. John speaks of two witnesses, duly appointed emissaries of the Lord and of his church, who will witness to the besieged city and then will be slain: "And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city . . . three days and a half." Joseph Smith identified these two individuals in a revelation given in 1832 as being "two prophets that are to be raised up to the Jewish nation in the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to prophesy to the Jews after they are gathered and have built the city of Jerusalem in the land of their fathers." Here we see once again the tight fit and perfect matching that carries on from prophet to prophet. Should we be surprised?
Source: Kimball, Spencer W., Things As They Really Are, 94 - 95.