Question: Is the “angel of his presence” who delivers God’s people in Isaiah 63:9 the end-time servant, or is he only a type of the servant? Answer: Word links to the verb “deliver” in the Book of Isaiah—as, for example, “from my hand none can deliver” (Isaiah 43:13) and “was my hand too short to […]
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What set Jesus’ three Nephite disciples apart from his nine disciples was that they “desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me,” which was “that ye might bring the souls of men unto me, while the world
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Question: So far, we have seen very few Jewish people accept Jesus. Yet the scriptures speak of a mass conversion of the Jews. Do we have any idea when that will happen? Answer: A search of the scriptures reveals three distinct phases of Jewish conversion to Jesus. The first phase consists of a “beginning” of
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Peter’s depicting the time before Jesus’ second coming as the “restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:21) tells us that this hasn’t happened yet. In relation to it, the scriptures define the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through
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The Law When “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:26–27). In other words, God didn’t leave wiggle room for gender affirmations deviating from his children’s biological makeup: “In the likeness of God made he him: male and female created
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Question: Does Isaiah say that God’s end-time servant helped to create the earth? Answer: Isaiah reveals many mysteries of God through the different literary devices he uses that come to light only through searching. Those who keep Jesus’ commandment to search Isaiah’s words diligently are bound to discover many truths embedded in his book that
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Question: Do we have any idea what the “new things” are the Lord will do that Isaiah predicts? Answer: Isaiah’s literary devices, such as word links, leave few mysteries unanswered to one who searches his words diligently. Two instances of “new tings” (Hebrew chadashot) appear in the Book of Isaiah: “The prophecies of the former
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To latter-day saints who desire to “live by every word which proceeds forth out of the mouth of God,” how many are keeping the commandment to “seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children; and again, the hearts of the Jews unto
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How much confusion from a discordant society, chaotic world, and political and ecclesiastical leadership do we need to wake us up? When Isaiah points out our wickedness and abominations, we say, “That can’t be us! We attend church.” Well, so did others, until the very hour of their destruction. “Let’s hit on the messenger!” Well,
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: In Part One of my answer, I laid out the larger picture of God’s plan of salvation and exaltation from
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Question: Does the “first estate” mentioned in Jude 1:6 and “second estate” in Abraham 3:26 mean that God’s children get just one chance at eternal life, or are there multiple mortalities or probationary states? Answer: In Part One, I laid out the larger picture of God’s plan of salvation and exaltation from scriptures presently available.
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We may have noticed that when Book of Mormon prophets make predictions about the time preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, they base them on the words of Isaiah. Nephi, Jacob, and Jesus, for example, quote a third of the Book of Isaiah as they interpret, nuance, or expand upon different aspects of Isaiah’s
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