Avraham’s Mailbox

Question: The prophets and apostles are not teaching false teachings now, nor are they going to. The church is not going to fall away. The church does not and will not need to be set in order (other than as directed by Christ through President Nelson and the next prophet if there is another before […]

Question: If the scriptures say the end-time church has apostatized, why should we continue to be members of it? Answer: Although there exist many prophecies that speak of a general apostasy of God’s end-time people—and of the judgments of God that come upon all nations as a consequence—a prophecy of the church’s ceasing to exist

Question: Many verses of Isaiah are quoted in the Book of Mormon, some with changes from the Old Testament Isaiah. I assume these verses were taken directly from the Plates of Laban. The question is when and who changed the wording, or was it in the translation? Answer: While Isaiah passages quoted in the Book

Question: My wife is Native American. Being of Manasseh, she would like to know something about Manasseh & Ephraim and what they were promised as blessings? And what are the titles of books we could read about them? Thank you. Answer: In Jacob’s birthright blessing of Ephraim in Genesis 48:19, Jacob mentions that Ephraim (or

Question: If we (LDS) are the covenant people in the scriptures how did Brigham Young and everyone after him obtain the keys necessary for baptism if he/they did not rise to the level of a prophet? How do we have the keys to perform this basic ordinance? Can we still be labeled as covenant people

Question: I’m trying to understand the marring of the end-time servant. It seems to me that it is the apostate people of Jehovah, the drunkards of Ephraim, who actually do the “marring.” Is this correct? Answer: The context of Jesus’ comments about his end-time servant’s being marred “because of them”—that is, because of those who

Question: My instinct tells me not everything we are taught is true. There are so many confusing voices these days. What is the best way to search the scriptures to find out if something is true? Answer: A simple way to search the scriptures and determine for yourself if something is true is to use

Question: I have always wanted to follow the prophet but I’m having difficulty doing so recently. My friends say the prophet will never lead people astray because if he did the Lord would take him away. Is this true? Answer: The beliefs that we should follow a prophet and that a prophet of God won’t

Question: Can you give the signs needed to identify the “Endtime or Davidic servant”? Will his coming be easily detected? Answer: Because the servant is “hidden” from the world for the purpose of testing God’s people at the time God calls him, I tend to stay away from talking about this person’s identity other than

Question: What is the Lord’s “Strange Work” in Isaiah 28:21? Answer: Word links in the Book of Isaiah show that the Lord’s “work” or “act” (Isaiah 5:19; 10:12; 40:10; 45:9; 62:11) is twofold: (1) the destruction of the wicked; and (2) the deliverance of the righteous. Both define the Lord’s “great and marvelous work” in

Question: Can you give the signs needed to identify the “Endtime or Davidic servant”? Will his coming be easily detected? Answer: Because the servant is “hidden” from the world for the purpose of testing God’s people at the time God calls him, I tend to stay away from talking about this person’s identity other than

Question: I’ve encountered a lot of division on the topic of Isaiah. How do you account for that? Answer: Isaiah’s words are themselves divisive as they predict a great division among God’s people prior to Jehovah’s coming to reign on the earth. Isaiah uses different kinds of imagery to describe this, such as a Covenant