Questions: (1) Is the Savior a type for the servant? Or can someone greater be the type of someone lesser? (2) Could our continual focus on the servant be in some ways eclipsing the Savior himself? Answer: Rather than seeing the Savior as a type of his servant, it is more in line with typological […]
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Question: I hear conflicting reports on where the Isaiah Institute stands in relation to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Does your organization support the church? Answer: As new subscribers to the Isaiah Institute’s publications and social media are often not fully informed about where it stands in relation to the church, we
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Question: Does Isaiah teach that we’re “born again” more than once as when we’re baptized and receive the Holy Ghost? Answer: Of the seven spiritual categories of humanity that Isaiah identifies in his prophecy, five experience “creation” or “re-creation” and two undergo “de-creation.” Each re-creation or ascent from one category to the next constitutes a
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“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken
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The question of entering into the “rest” of the Lord will surely hang over the heads of the saints as the world counts down to the “Day of the Lord”—God’s worldwide Day of Judgment. That day should hold no fear for those who have entered into his rest, who have broken through the obstacles the
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At the time God reverses his end-time people’s circumstances from curse to blessing, what is it that causes their enemies to confess, “Surely God is in you, and no other gods exist!” (Isaiah 45:14)? Is this a reference to the Holy Ghost’s dwelling in them, as when he says, “This is my covenant with them,
Lest our hearts fail us and we assume we can’t bridge the divide between where we are today and where we need to be to restore the house of Israel—the Jews, Ten Tribes, and Lamanites—let us recall that the Lord will bring to pass a compression of events. When the days come—in his “own due
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Question: I was wondering, how does your translation of the book of Isaiah fit in with the Joseph Smith translation made to the Book of Isaiah? Answer: The prophet Joseph Smith did not do a translation of the Book of Isaiah. The Book of Mormon chapters of Isaiah are taken from the King James Version,
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Question: You’ve mentioned that in the temple certain elements of the Davidic Covenant used to be more obvious prior to some changes. Was that part of the sealing or the endowment? If I’m married in the temple, am I already supposed to be acting as a father under the terms of the Davidic Covenant? Is
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There are those who say in all sincerity of heart, “I will do anything God asks me to do” and then wait for God to tell them what to do. There are others who say, “The gospel has been restored, and all we need to do is follow the prophet.” Yet others say they look
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Question: Isaiah 41:25 says, “I have raised up one from the north who calls on my name, who shall come from the direction of sunrise. He shall come upon dignitaries as on mud, tread them as clay like a potter.” What does it mean to be “raised up”? Does this mean the Davidic servant was
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When Jesus prayed to the Father for his disciples and for the multitude gathered at Bountiful, they prayed to him directly “without ceasing” (3 Nephi 19:23–32). Only when he asked them to cease praying in order to break bread with them and teach them from the words of Isaiah did they stop: “And it came
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