Blogs
The Sprig of Jesse by John Underwood—Isaiah Workshop Participant
From Isaiah we learn that the “sprig of Jesse” (Isaiah 11:1, 10) is an end-time servant or messianic...
Dispossessing Ourselves of Modern Idolatry by Ben Weathers, bishop and Isaiah Workshop participant
When people think of idolatry, they usually think of a golden calf or something from...
How Isaiah Impacts Individuals by Brenda Jensen, Seminary Teacher and Isaiah Workshop Participant
Studying Isaiah has helped me personally, it has helped me see Isaiah as a guide for becoming better, not...
Removing the Stumbling Blocks from the Path of His People
The Lord’s directive to remove the stumbling blocks from the path of his people increases...
Foster Fathers and Nursing Mothers: Female Imagery and Covenant Restoration in Isaiah by Jessica Prado Shipp
Feminine metaphors in scripture mark movement along what today’s leaders call the “covenant path,” a...
Covenant Loyalty and the Law of Sacrifice by Emily Caldwell
The Law of Sacrifice is not about outward offerings but about covenant loyalty proven in...
Are We in a State of Spiritual Blindness?
Krystal Potter—Isaiah Workshop Participant As we near the second coming of Jesus Christ, and the...
Proxy Salvation under the Terms of the Davidic Covenant
The role of “savior” or “deliverer,” which God’s end-time sons/servants take upon themselves, is grounded...
Isaiah’s Antithetical Themes by Jeff Weddle
I want to speak plainly and say clearly that I am not an academic, nor...
Isaiah—The Master Key by Randy Lasson
Isaiah functions like a “master key” for scripture because his book is intentionally written on...
God’s End-Time Fulfilment of His Covenants
In spite of the fact that temple covenants were restored through the prophet Joseph Smith...
Relationship between the Gentiles and House of Israel
Isaiah Prophesied of the House of Israel 2 Nephi 6:5 5 And now, the words...
Question about Regrafting the Branches of the Olive Trees
Question: My question is about how the regrafting of the branches from the three natural...
Question about Jesus’ Quoting Isaiah 61 in Reference to Himself
Question: When Jesus quotes Isaiah 61 in Luke 4:17-21, he says “This day is this...
Question about Seeing the Father before the Son or the Son before the Father
Question: I’m having a difficult time reconciling that we are to prepare for the second...
Question about Unnatural Disasters
Question: With at least three major fires in the Los Angeles area having been observed...
Question about Inconvenient Parts of Moroni’s Prophecy
Question: In my gospel doctrine class, I rarely find topics discussed that touch on censuring...
Question about Who Were the Magi or Wise Men
Question: Do we know who the wise men were who came from the east, bringing...
Ancient and End-Time Gift Bearers
As all that happens in the end-time has a type or pattern in the past,...
Question about Why People Aren’t Being Translated in Our Day
Question: Why don’t we hear of persons that are translated in our day? It seems...
Question about Temple Covenants and the Davidic Covenant
Question: How are temple covenants “manifestations of the Davidic Covenant” as you have taught in...
Question about Making Sure Your Calling and Election
Question: Does Isaiah teach anything about making one’s calling and election sure as the prophet...
Question about the Queens of the Gentiles’ Ministering Role
Question: According to Isaiah, what is the end-time role of the queens of the Gentiles...
Isaiah’s Context of Malachi’s Prophecy of Fathers and Children
From Isaiah’s covenant theology, Malachi’s prophecy of the hearts of the fathers turning to the...
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’...
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...