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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,”

Whenever we see mention of “the Father” in the scriptures, particularly in an end-time context, that may signal a transition from the usual interaction of his people with Jehovah/Jesus to the Father’s intervention among his covenant people on the highest spiritual levels. Particularly is that evident in the Father’s manifesting his power to bring about

Among a series of “woes” or covenant curses the Lord pronounces on his end-time people are the consequences of their vain attachments to the things of this world: “Woe to those drawn to sin by vain attachments, hitched to transgression like a trailer, who think, Let him quickly hasten his work so we may see

Paul and Silas’ missionary experience with the Jews in the synagogue at Berea reveals a telling contrast between the early saints who searched the scriptures daily to determine what God was saying in his Word and those who remained content to listen to the brethren’s preaching: “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in

A dear friend received three signs of the end-time from Elder Neal A. Maxwell before his death more than twenty years ago, which I cite here with my friend’s permission: First, there will occur division in the nation followed by division in the church. Second, a power in the Middle East will gain the capacity