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The Pulpit Narrative
The growing dissonance between the pulpit narrative and the scriptures narrative can become disconcerting when...
God’s Covenant
The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants: they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances,...
Scarcity and Famine
“The waters of the lakes shall ebb away as stream beds become desolate and dry....
Wars and Rumors of Wars
With end-time “Assyria” openly displaying threats and thuggery, and end-time “Egypt” gross ineptitude, the world...
Idols of Prosperity
“Their land is full of silver and gold and there is no end to their...
Who Is Who
“The elders or notables are the head, the prophets who teach falsehoods, the tail. The...
Doctrine of Proxy Salvation
Many who testify of the atonement of Jesus Christ and its power to cleanse them...
Divine Protection
“Though your people, O Israel, be as the sands of the sea, only a remnant...
True or False
“My people are taken over without price; those who govern them act presumptuously, says Jehovah,...
Coming Soon
“Woe to the land of buzzing wings beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends emissaries...
Question about the Imperative to Understand Isaiah
Question: What is so important about understanding the words of Isaiah that the Savior makes...
Question about Church Members Being Gentiles or House of Israel
Question: In a class discussion, the question arose as to when Gentiles become numbered among...
Question about a Seeming Last Days Discrepancy
Question: If we are living in the last days, how should we account for the...
Question on Church Members Being Caught Up
Question: Will members of the church be saved from major calamities and caught up in...
Question about Identities and End-Time Roles
Question: Would not the spiritual kings and queens of the Gentiles who gather God’s “sons”...
Question about Living in these Times
Question: What does Isaiah teach about how to live through the time when his prophecies...
Question about the Savior and the Servant
Question: How can you tell the difference between when Isaiah is speaking about the Lord...
Question about Using the Manner of the Jews
Question: On one hand Nephi says that in order to understand the things of the...
Question about the Law of Translated Beings
Question: How is the law translated beings observe different from that of other celestial people?...
Question about Single Servants or Handmaidens
Question: How can one who is single act as a king or queen as that...
Question about Who Will Reign with Christ
Question: Does Isaiah indicate who it is that will reign with Christ for a thousand...
Question about Isaiah’s Prophecies Being Fulfilled
Question: With so much craziness in the world, are the prophecies of Isaiah already starting...
Metaphors as Aliases of End-Time Persons
I sat spellbound as a rabbi taught that the clean animals Isaiah mentions allude to...
Salvation Leads to Exaltation
The roles Israel’s God fulfills when redeeming humanity from evil—of Father and Son, Priest and...
The Servant as a Seraph
Continuous with Jehovah’s re-creation of persons who attain Isaiah’s seraphs level—who “ascend as on eagles’...
Personifications in Metaphor
Isaiah characterizes Jehovah as a personification of “salvation”—as the epitome of a Savior of his...
Two Opposite End-Time Entities
Isaiah describes God’s people who descend spiritually as a “whore” or harlot. That imagery identifies...
Messianic Intersection of Jehovah and Israel
If it is inherent within the terms of Jehovah’s covenants with his people Israel and...
The Call of Abraham
When Abraham’s people, including his own father, worship idols and a famine sweeps the land,...
Higher Law Leads to God’s Presence
The prophet Malachi identifies “righteous” people in God’s Day of Judgment not as those who...
Redemptive Suffering
In the redemptive context of the second unit, the burden of suffering that precedes or...
Following Jesus Christ
Nephi sees that “because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine”—which “pervert...