Question: In Mosiah 12–15, Abinadi is confronted and challenged by the priests of King Noah to interpret Isaiah 52:7–10. In Mosiah 15:10–15, Abinadi explains that the feet of the messengers on the mountains declaring good tidings refers to God’s servants the prophets. In Mosiah 15:18-20, however, he quotes the exact phraseology of the Isaiah verses […]
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Jesus’ twin chiastic discourses to the Nephites after his resurrection from the dead show a great reversal of circumstances between the Gentiles and the house of Israel that precedes his second coming. While the Gentiles are identified as those who migrated to the Americas—specifically Latter-day Saints or “my people who are of the covenant” (3
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Question: When Jesus quotes Isaiah 61 in Luke 4:17-21, he says “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Your interpretation of the verse is that it indissolubly refers to the Lord’s end-time servant. So why would Jesus use the conclusive term “fulfilled”? It sounds to me he was teaching us that that prophecy
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The Price of Searching the Words of Isaiah Are you unreservedly committed to keeping Jesus’ commandment to search Isaiah’s words? Are you willing to devote four or more hours per week for an indefinite time period of time? Are you open to learning new ways of studying layers of truth embedded in the scriptures? Are
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God’s servant and son—his vassal—is “appointed” to restore God’s people Israel (See the terms “servant” and “son” to denote vassalship; 2 Kings 16:7) Isaiah 42:1, 6–7 My servant whom I sustain, my chosen one in whom I delight, him I have endowed with my Spirit; he will dispense justice to the Gentiles. . . . I
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Origins Comes from the east (Isaiah 41:2, 25; 46:11) Is a man of God’s counsel (Isaiah 46:11) Is named David (Isaiah 37:35; 55:3) Helped create the heavens and the earth (Isaiah 45:12; 48:13; 66:2) Arises from within God’s end-time people (Isaiah 1:21) Is chosen as God’s end-time servant (Isaiah 49:5–7) Was called of God before
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Key: Blue—God’s servants; Purple—God’s servant; Red—the king of Assyria “I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea,
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Question: I’m having a difficult time reconciling that we are to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ while, on the other hand, temple ordinances teach us to prepare to see the Father, not the Son. My question is, from a scriptural standpoint who comes first? Does preparing for Jesus’ second coming involve seeing
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A mandate we have received from the pulpit to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ resonates in a big way with the scriptures narrative epitomized by the words of Isaiah and Book of Mormon prophets. These shed light on the question of how to prepare for that event as both scriptures essentially define
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Question: With at least three major fires in the Los Angeles area having been observed from space erupting simultaneously; with the path of the fires purportedly coinciding with a proposed a high-speed rail route connecting a future smart city or cities; with firemen reporting that this fire was strangely “resisting” being put out; with blue-roofed
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Considering that Book of Mormon writers wrote only those things that most typify the time of their descendants’ end-time restoration, it makes sense that the more than seven exodus accounts in the Book of Mormon tell a story all their own. Common elements in these accounts create an “exodus pattern” that is prophetic of an
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The expression “fullness of the Gentiles” (Hebrew melo’ haggoyim) appears four times in the scriptures. Let’s follow its thread and see where it leads. The first instance occurs in Jacob’s patriarchal blessing of Ephraim, the younger son of Joseph. There, Jacob identifies Ephraim’s end-time descendants as “the fulness of the Gentiles”: “The Angel who redeemed
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