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Of Gods and Men, Humanoids and Cryptids
With increasing public interest in cosmic phenomena and the subject of aliens, more people are...
Two “Cities” Symbolize God’s End-Time People
God’s End-Time People Turn into a Harlot Isaiah 1:21 How the faithful city has...
Seven Don’ts People Do to Interpret the Words of Isaiah
Do as Jacob says, “set it aside, supposing they know of themselves” (2 Nephi 9:28)....
Book of Mormon Parallels to Isaiah—God’s Arm
God’s Making Bare His Arm Is a Redemptive Event “Hark! Your watchmen lift up their...
Book of Mormon Parallels to Isaiah
Apostasy of God’s People “These people approach me with the mouth and pay me homage...
Five Pillars for Understanding Isaiah
1. The “manner of prophesying among the Jews” (2 Nephi 25:1, 5) The key to...
Isaiah Institute Upgrade to HighLevel Platform
We in the Isaiah Institute are excitedly anticipating the upgrade of our entire operation to...
Forty First Principles of Isaiah
Forty principles drawn from the Book of Isaiah and supported by the Standard Works, offer...
Isaiah Verses Part 4: “What God Does for His Servant, He Does the Opposite to His People”
God awakens him to hear (Isaiah 50:4–5), but he puts them to sleep (Isaiah 29:10)....
Learning the Language of Isaiah An Alphabet Chiasm of Key Concepts
A ¹ How Is the End of the World Contained “In the Beginning”? B ¹...
As God Does for His Servant, So He Does for His Elect
As God formed him from the womb (Isaiah 49:5), so he did them (Isaiah 44:2;...
Eliakim as a Type of God’s End-Time Servant
Given that Isaiah’s holistic literary structures such as his Seven-Part Structure transform the entire Book...
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...