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“The people walking in darkness have seen a bright light; on the inhabitants of the land of the shadow of death has the light dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice at your presence as men rejoice at harvest time, or as men are joyous when they divide spoil.” (Isaiah […]

Isaiah prophesies an end-time scenario in which the people of the Lord are “taken over without price” by godless political leaders. The Lord responds by sending his servant to herald his coming as the embodiment of his people’s Salvation (yeshu’ah—also the name of Jesus: Yeshua). His people’s coming to know his “name” in that day

“Hear me, you who know righteousness, O people in whose heart is my law: Do not fear the reproach of men; be undaunted by their ridicule. For the moth shall consume them like a garment; moths shall devour them like wool. But my righteousness shall endure forever, my salvation through endless generations.” (Isaiah 51:7–8) “Your

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken

The question of entering into the “rest” of the Lord will surely hang over the heads of the saints as the world counts down to the “Day of the Lord”—God’s worldwide Day of Judgment. That day should hold no fear for those who have entered into his rest, who have broken through the obstacles the

At the time God reverses his end-time people’s circumstances from curse to blessing, what is it that causes their enemies to confess, “Surely God is in you, and no other gods exist!” (Isaiah 45:14)? Is this a reference to the Holy Ghost’s dwelling in them, as when he says, “This is my covenant with them,

Lest our hearts fail us and we assume we can’t bridge the divide between where we are today and where we need to be to restore the house of Israel—the Jews, Ten Tribes, and Lamanites—let us recall that the Lord will bring to pass a compression of events. When the days come—in his “own due

There are those who say in all sincerity of heart, “I will do anything God asks me to do” and then wait for God to tell them what to do. There are others who say, “The gospel has been restored, and all we need to do is follow the prophet.” Yet others say they look

When Jesus prayed to the Father for his disciples and for the multitude gathered at Bountiful, they prayed to him directly “without ceasing” (3 Nephi 19:23–32). Only when he asked them to cease praying in order to break bread with them and teach them from the words of Isaiah did they stop: “And it came

The divine paradigm for happiness and everlasting joy God has revealed in the scriptures tells us that anything less than that paradigm is incapable of bringing his children to their full potential. As a case in point, newly spawning alternatives to male–female identities and relationships are in reality as old as humanity. Making a mock

Just as we are saved by grace “after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23), so we are exalted by grace after all we can do through a process of purification and sanctification until we become “holy, without spot” (Moroni 10:33–33). Indeed, “we know also that sanctification through the grace of our Lord and Savior

Have we taken to heart the invitation to “rend that veil of unbelief which doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and hardness of heart, and blindness of mind” (Ether 4:15)? Says Isaiah: “None calls upon your name, or rouses himself to take hold of you. For you have hidden your