Question: Will the Davidic King perform his work under the keys of the current President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Because the Davidic King is one of the central figures in the end times I am wondering how the Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ fits into the picture in […]
Question: We have been studying Isaiah quite a bit using your materials. We are also LDS. When Isaiah talks about Ephraim and its leaders’ wickedness, do you think it applies (in general) to God’s people who have received His ordinances and made covenants, or does it apply to all peoples who are trying to follow
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Question: What will it take for the servant to emerge? A falling apart of the current ecclesiastical order? Would it be through martyrdom or apostasy? Answer: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel all predict that God raises up his servant in response to abuses by the shepherds of his people, that his principle task is to gather
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Synchronous holistic structures in the Book of Isaiah allow us to read Isaiah’s writings in their entirety as foreshadowing an endtime scenario. In that case, the events that occurred in Isaiah’s day act as an allegory of the endtime. So it is with “my servant Eliakim,” who displaces Shebna, another servant who entertains ideas of
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There comes a time in life when you have to take stock and ask yourself whether you are, in fact, doing what you came to do in this world. We read scriptures that speak of heroes and heroines who valiantly served God and accomplished miracles that saved much of humanity. Maybe they didn’t do so
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The mark of which I’m speaking is one a growing number of scripture enthusiasts are looking beyond in their attempts to go directly to the end goal of becoming one of the 144,000 servants of God. A prideful sense of entitlement has gripped some in the church who openly discuss their anticipation of serving as
If we continue from grace to grace on our journeys through mortality; and if, as Jesus was called the Son of God, so we are called Jesus’ sons and daughters; and if we go on and attain a ‘fulness’ of grace as he attained it, what is the process? Nephi the son of Helaman, on
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Question: How do we overcome iniquities? How do we know we are forgiven? Answer: We overcome “iniquities”—our inherited or our own dysfunctional patterns—the same way we overcome our “sins,” which are our transgressions of God’s commandments. That is, we keep repenting of them until the perfect day. When we fully repent of transgressions, we receive
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The Sinai Covenant—God’s covenant with his people Israel as a nation—although a conditional covenant (whose blessings and privileges depend on whether his people keep the terms of the covenant), was never done away, even when Israel transgressed and ultimately apostatized. Today, the Sinai Covenant still forms the basis on which a nation may become God’s
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“While ‘just men made perfect’ (Hebrews 12:23) have achieved perfection on a celestial level (Doctrine & Covenants 76:69), they haven’t yet attained the perfection of Jesus Christ. To become ‘partakers of the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:4), they too must go from grace to grace as Jesus did: ‘I, John, saw that he received not
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When Jesus promised his three Beloved Disciples that “ye shall be even as I am, and I am even as the Father” (3 Nephi 28:10), he signified to them in so many words that they would become Saviors of worlds. While on the one hand he informed his Nephite disciples that “the works which ye
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Isaiah’s prophetic ministry begins in 742 B.C. at Jehovah’s appearance to him in the temple. Jehovah forewarns him, however, that his people’s reception of him won’t be favorable (Isaiah 6:1–13). Isaiah nevertheless faithfully performs his role as Jehovah’s oracle. As was the custom, his early prophecies are likely spoken inside the gates of Jerusalem or
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