Cameron Mayer

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, […]

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

In our day, as in Book of Mormon times, what the scriptures depict as an “eternal hatred” is manifesting itself in a cruel vindictiveness on the part of those who—like the Lamanites—believe they have been “wronged,” “robbed,” and dispossessed. But having “hardened their hearts against the Lord,” “they understood not the dealings of the Lord”

As Isaiah is the first prophet to address the “line-upon-line” principle of learning, his words are key to understanding what it is. In an end-time prophecy directed at the “drunkards of Ephraim,” their straying prophets and erring seers (Isaiah 28:1, 7), he decries their failure to advance beyond the infant stage of learning and their

When truthers in the world warned against dubious measures implemented against the kind of plagues prophesied to occur before Jesus’ coming to reign on the earth, many inside and outside the church cried “conspiracy theory!” Persons who declined to become “good global citizens” by complying with injurious procedures were shamefully mocked and persecuted. But when

Because literary devices transform the entire Book of Isaiah into an end-time scenario—in which the events of Isaiah’s day act as types and shadows of the end of the world—the gathering of Israel, as Isaiah and other prophets define it, is an end-time event. In other words, it occurs within a window of only a