The “cause of truth” (Isaiah 42:3), the “God of truth” (Isaiah 65:16), and doing all things “in truth” (Isaiah 48:1)—these all emphasize the need to be truth-based in order to please God and accomplish anything good in his eyes. And what can bring us closer to his truth in this journey through life than our […]
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Question: Does Isaiah say anything about a millennial temple in America, considering Isaiah lived only in the land of Israel? Answer: Isaiah’s prophecy about ancient “Egypt”—which name acts as a codename of end-time America—mentions an “altar” in the midst the land of Egypt and a brotherhood of covenanters who perform temple ordinances. The context of
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Isaiah’s mention of “ordinances” doesn’t leave us wondering very long about which ones he is speaking of. Imagery of temple ordinances appears throughout his book. Says he, “The path of the righteous is straight; you pave an undeviating course for the upright. In the very passage of your ordinances we anticipate you, O Jehovah; the
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Question: Why doesn’t the Church teach us about the Davidic Servant? Is it because the Times of the Gentiles are soon to be transitioned to the Jews? Or, that the prophet complies with the instruction of Jesus Christ to keep him unknown? Answer: A lack of deep scriptural knowledge within the church and an unbelief
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If the Ephraimite Gentiles will be “as much mistaken” about Jesus’ second coming as the Jews were about his first (JD, 8:115), it will be because they assume Jesus’ second coming will vary from scriptural patterns of the past. That is, there will occur no traumatic events like those at his first coming to the
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Question: Do the scriptures touch on anything concerning modern plagues, such as Covid 19, and how church members should respond to continued WHO and CDC policies sponsored by the church to take vaccines into their bodies? Answer: While it remains a personal decision whether to take any vaccine—including the now much discredited Covid 19 shots—the
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When Isaiah says, “They are not a discerning people. Therefore their Maker shows them no mercy; he who formed them favors them not” (Isaiah 27:11), he is speaking of the aftermath of God’s people’s addictions to idols or the things of this world. Inevitably—with or without their knowing—opportunistic forces step into the vacuum created by
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Question: Regarding the story of the Prodigal Son in the Bible, I understand the word “Prodigal” is never used. That term was assigned by someone’s using it through time. I also understand that the two brothers represent Judah and Ephraim. Judah has maintained the feasts, etc. Identifying someone as a “Jew” prompts immediate recognition of
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Israel’s ongoing assault by enemies surrounding it—Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthies—and America’s providing it with ordinance to defend itself, resonates with Zechariah’s prophecy that says, “I have bent Judah for me and filled the bow with Ephraim.” In that day, “his arrows will go forth as the lightning” and he will “subdue with sling stones” (Zechariah
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Question: I have been pondering the meaning of Mathew 7:7-8: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” I believe it has a
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When the Lord says, “The ox knows its owner, the ass its master’s stall, but Israel does not know; my people are insensible: (Isaiah 1:3), what does he mean? And when he also says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says Jehovah. But as the heavens are higher than
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Question: Who is the “remnant” who shall be in the midst of the Gentiles “as a lion” (3 Nephi 21:12)? This is a question I’ve struggled with because on one hand, Isaiah 10, where the word first appears, seems to denote those Israelites among the Assyrians who are not destroyed (Isaiah 10:19-21) when the Lord
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