Weekly Newsletter

God’s servant and son—his vassal—is “appointed” to restore God’s people Israel (See the terms “servant” and “son” to denote vassalship; 2 Kings 16:7) Isaiah 42:1, 6–7 My servant whom I sustain, my chosen one in whom I delight, him I have endowed with my Spirit; he will dispense justice to the Gentiles. . . . I […]

Origins Comes from the east (Isaiah 41:2, 25; 46:11) Is a man of God’s counsel (Isaiah 46:11) Is named David (Isaiah 37:35; 55:3) Helped create the heavens and the earth (Isaiah 45:12; 48:13; 66:2) Arises from within God’s end-time people (Isaiah 1:21) Is chosen as God’s end-time servant (Isaiah 49:5–7) Was called of God before

Key: Blue—God’s servants; Purple—God’s servant; Red—the king of Assyria “I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea,

A mandate we have received from the pulpit to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ resonates in a big way with the scriptures narrative epitomized by the words of Isaiah and Book of Mormon prophets. These shed light on the question of how to prepare for that event as both scriptures essentially define

Considering that Book of Mormon writers wrote only those things that most typify the time of their descendants’ end-time restoration, it makes sense that the more than seven exodus accounts in the Book of Mormon tell a story all their own. Common elements in these accounts create an “exodus pattern” that is prophetic of an

The expression “fullness of the Gentiles” (Hebrew melo’ haggoyim) appears four times in the scriptures. Let’s follow its thread and see where it leads. The first instance occurs in Jacob’s patriarchal blessing of Ephraim, the younger son of Joseph. There, Jacob identifies Ephraim’s end-time descendants as “the fulness of the Gentiles”: “The Angel who redeemed

As humanity grows increasingly hedonistic, unforeseen calamities take effect. There is no stopping them because that is God’s universal law: what goes around comes around. No mantras proclaiming a nation’s becoming great again can reverse its collective guilt without that nation’s wholesale return to the one who made that nation great in the first place.

John’s prophecy in the Book of Revelation of three antichrist persons—the Beast, the Dragon, and the False Prophet—identifies the Dragon as “that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world” (Revelation 12:9). A search of the scriptures, on the other hand, shows that Old Testament prophets traditionally identify the Dragon as

Knowing that the time is coming, and is well-nigh at hand, when the Lord “will hasten my work” (Doctrine & Covenants 88:73)—when “he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness” (Romans 9:28; cf. Doctrine & Covenants 52:11; 84:97)—what do we suppose are the dynamics behind such an extraordinary event? If God is

Since I’ve taken up studying Isaiah, “Jesus, Once of Humble Birth” has become a favorite hymn of mine. I noticed a few years ago that each line describes a “descent” phase in the Savior’s life, followed by a subsequent “ascent” phase: Jesus, once of humble birth, Now in glory comes to earth. Once he suffered

If salvation is by grace, not works—made possible through Jesus’ atonement for humanity’s transgressions—then how do men attain exaltation? On a parallel: if “justification through the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is just and true,” and also “sanctification through the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is just and true,”