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Question about Isaiah’s Prophecies Being Fulfilled

Question: With so much craziness in the world, are the prophecies of Isaiah already starting to be fulfilled? Answer: Although Isaiah’s prophecies deal with a specific end-time scenario called the “Day of the Lord”—God’s Day of Judgment upon a wicked world—the backstory of that time period contains elements already familiar in our culture today. Here …

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Question about the Gathering of Israel

Question: How does Isaiah describe the gathering of Israel? Answer: The gathering of Israel is an integral part of Israel’s end-time restoration. It takes the form of a literal, physical exodus of elect remnants of Israel’s twelve tribes from among all nations at the onset of a worldwide destruction: “I will bring your offspring from …

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Question about Taking Offense

Question: What does the Savior mean when he says, “Then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another” (Matthew 24:10)? What will offend them? Answer: Jesus is speaking of the time shortly before his second coming, of which Isaiah prophesies, when those “who are vigilant for his word” would …

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Questions about the Servant

Question: Does Isaiah 20 mean the Lord’s end-time servant will preach to the USA for three years before the great destruction? Answer: Egypt’s function as a codename of America in the Book of Isaiah, and Isaiah’s typifying the servant, suggest that he will indeed give three years’ warning before three years of God’s judgments upon …

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Questions about the Savior and the Servant

Questions: (1) Is the Savior a type for the servant? Or can someone greater be the type of someone lesser? (2) Could our continual focus on the servant be in some ways eclipsing the Savior himself? Answer: Rather than seeing the Savior as a type of his servant, it is more in line with typological …

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Question about the Isaiah Institute’s Stance on the Church

Question: I hear conflicting reports on where the Isaiah Institute stands in relation to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Does your organization support the church? Answer: As new subscribers to the Isaiah Institute’s publications and social media are often not fully informed about where it stands in relation to the church, we …

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Question about Spiritual Rebirth

Question: Does Isaiah teach that we’re “born again” more than once as when we’re baptized and receive the Holy Ghost? Answer: Of the seven spiritual categories of humanity that Isaiah identifies in his prophecy, five experience “creation” or “re-creation” and two undergo “de-creation.” Each re-creation or ascent from one category to the next constitutes a …

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Question about Joseph Smith’s Translation

Question: I was wondering, how does your translation of the book of Isaiah fit in with the Joseph Smith translation made to the Book of Isaiah? Answer: The prophet Joseph Smith did not do a translation of the Book of Isaiah. The Book of Mormon chapters of Isaiah are taken from the King James Version, …

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Question about Ordinances

Question: Does Isaiah mention anything about the changing of sacred ordinances? Answer: Isaiah describes both the blessings that come with observing pure ordinances and the curses that come from changing them. The purpose of temple ordinances or sacred rites of passage, for example, is to enter into God’s presence—as “when you come to see me” …

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Question about Heavenly Mother

Question: Does Isaiah mention anything about the existence of a heavenly Mother? Answer: Isaiah uses a beautiful a–b–a mini-chiasm to identify humanity’s “Maker” as our “Father” (‘av) and his “Wife/Woman” (‘ishah) as she who gives birth to his “sons/children” (banai). Isaiah 45:9–11 Woe to those in conflict with their Maker, mere shards of earthenware pottery! …

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