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God’s Laws Pertaining to Isaiah’s Seven Spiritual Levels
As a pivot point on Isaiah’s spiritual ladder, the Jacob/Israel level consists of people in...
A False Messiah which Should Deceive the People
Nephi’s prophecies of the end-time restoration of the Jews identify two phases: (1) after they...
A Day of Small Things
When the angel of the Lord asks, “Who has despised the day of small things?”...
What Is a Prophet?
Scriptural definitions of what constitutes a prophet start with Moses: “If there be a prophet...
Overnight Experts on the Words of Isaiah
With the Internet flooded with podcasts about end-time events, we are seeing a sudden surge...
Righteousness out of Heaven and Truth out of the Earth
When the Lord says, “Righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will...
Rending the Veil of Unbelief
Because as a church, Latter-day Saints are still “under condemnation” for having “treated lightly the...
The Hidden “Knowledge” of the Brother of Jared
As a singular type of the end-time Gentiles’ kings and queens who restore the house...
Birthing Process of End-Time Deliverers
Perhaps many in our day never expect to be called to fulfill their Ephraimite birthright...
End of the Times of the Gentiles
When Jesus said, “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of...
Good Out of Evil: A Great Reversal of Circumstances
The type and precedent of an end-time great reversal of circumstances among God’s people happened...
How Israel’s Patriarchs Typify the Life of Jesus Christ
When Jesus said, “All the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many...
Question about ‘Seven Noahite Laws’ Taught by Rabbis
Question: How do the seven laws of Noah, which some people advocate, relate to the...
Question about Messiah the Son of Joseph and Messiah the Son of David
Question: Where does the Jewish expectation of a “messiah the son of Joseph” come from,...
Question about Not Searching the Words of Isaiah
Question: When I tried to interest my bishop in the words of Isaiah, he instead...
Question about Living Prophets vs. Dead Prophets
Question: Some say the living prophets supersede the dead prophets. I’m confused because aren’t all...
Question about the Scriptures Narrative and Pulpit Narrative
Question: What is the right thing to do when we encounter things being taught in...
Question about Another Nation Bringing Forth the Fruits Thereof
Question: Is it possible that the entitled and accusatory attitude many members of the restored...
Question about Lehi’s Descendants Being a “Dead Branch”
Question: Several church authorities have claimed that those who are called Lamanites today, some of...
Question about Persecution in the Church
Question: It is disturbing to see several prominent figures in the church being persecuted by...
Those with Visions
The book Visions of Glory by John Pontius, based on the near death experiences of...
Question about the Translation of Isaiah Passages in the Book of Mormon
Question: “My anti-LDS friend says “See! According to Avraham’s answer he proves that Joseph Smith...
Question about Jesus’ Being the Veil of the Temple
Question: Some have interpreted Hebrews 10 to say that the Savior is the veil of...
Question about the Gentiles’ Being Mistaken about Jesus’ Second Coming
Question: I’m troubled by Brigham Young’s statement that the Gentiles would be just as mistaken...
Descent Precedes Ascent
In Isaiah’s Seven-Part Structure, ascent to a higher level is preceded by a temporary descent....
Analogies between the One and the Many
Linked ideas throughout the Book of Isaiah demonstrate how God’s people respond to his end-time...
Isaiah Uses Historical Precedents as Types of Things to Come
Have you wondered whether the Hebrew prophets wrote down revelations precisely as God gave them,...
A Literal Fulfillment of Prophecy
Many persons maintain that God will nullify prophecies of doom if people repent. They cite...
Spiritual Levels—De-Creation
Explanation: Souls who choose the opposite of keeping God’s laws atrophy to where they no...
Spiritual Levels—Re-creation
Explanation: As people ascend the spiritual ladder by keeping the laws of God’s covenants pertaining...
The Lord Is Judge, Lawgiver, and King
In God’s Day of Judgment no one will be able to say “You have no...
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’...
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