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The Law of Sacrifice is not about outward offerings but about covenant loyalty proven in “the furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10). Isaiah teaches that God tests his people through loss, uncertainty, and challenge before he exalts them (ibid. Isaiah 49:4–7). Abraham’s life offers a clear example. His sacrifices were never merely ritual acts. They were moments that revealed where his loyalty truly rested […]

Krystal Potter—Isaiah Workshop Participant   As we near the second coming of Jesus Christ, and the world more closely resembles prophetic descriptions of the end-time, God’s people still exhibit spiritual blindness. “Jehovah has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep: he has shut your eyes, the prophets; he has covered your heads, the seers”

The role of “savior” or “deliverer,” which God’s end-time sons/servants take upon themselves, is grounded in the covenant God makes with individuals and resembles the role of ancient Near Eastern vassal kings. That role reached its full development when Israel became a monarchy out of a need for divine protection. With King David, Jehovah first

I want to speak plainly and say clearly that I am not an academic, nor am I a scholar. I am, however, able to think for myself, search knowledge, learn how to read and absorb information, and ask God in the name of Jesus Christ if it is true and for help in understanding. I’m

Isaiah functions like a “master key” for scripture because his book is intentionally written on multiple levels at once: it addresses real events in his own day and lays those events over an end-time template that later prophets repeatedly quote, adapt, and build upon. Avraham Gileadi’s work argues that when you learn Isaiah’s method—his covenant

In spite of the fact that temple covenants were restored through the prophet Joseph Smith as an integral part of the restored gospel, Latter-day Saints know little of their true nature and how they fit into the larger scheme of God’s covenants with his people. As covenant relationships provide the only context in which God

Isaiah Prophesied of the House of Israel 2 Nephi 6:5 5 And now, the words which I shall read are they which Isaiah spake concerning all the house of Israel; wherefore, they may be likened unto you, for ye are of the house of Israel. And there are many things which have been spoken by Isaiah

People apply the name “Babylon” to many things today. But how do the prophets, specifically Isaiah, define Babylon? Especially as Isaiah uses ancient peoples and events as an allegory of an end-time scenario. Did the regulatory Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi influence his idea of an end-time Babylon? Did the idolatrous, materialistic empire of King Nebuchadnezzar, which Isaiah saw in vision, impact his

If God foretold “the end from the beginning” and commanded the prophet Isaiah to “write it in a book for the end-time,” then where in his prophecies does he talk about the Anti-Christ who is mentioned in the New Testament? If Isaiah’s manner of prophesying includes predicting end-time events patterned after the events of his

If God foretold “the end from the beginning” and commanded the prophet Isaiah to “write it in a book for the end-time,” then where in his prophecies does he talk about Russia? And if Isaiah predicts what happens at the end of the world based on what happened in his own day or soon thereafter,

If God foretold “the end from the beginning” and commanded the prophet Isaiah to “write it in a book for the end-time,” then where in his prophecies does he talk about America? Wouldn’t we assume that America would play a huge role in any end-of-the-world scenario just as it did, for example, in the first and second

A “precept of men”—an idea or interpretation which lacks scriptural support—that has gained a lot of traction the past half century is that the Lord’s “great and marvelous work” in the Book of Mormon is the restoration of the gospel through the prophet Joseph Smith. In reality, however, the gospel’s restoration is defined as the beginning or foundation of