Weekly Newsletter

What set Jesus’ three Nephite disciples apart from his nine disciples was that they “desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me,” which was “that ye might bring the souls of men unto me, while the world […]

Peter’s depicting the time before Jesus’ second coming as the “restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:21) tells us that this hasn’t happened yet. In relation to it, the scriptures define the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ through

The Law When “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them” (Genesis 1:26–27). In other words, God didn’t leave wiggle room for gender affirmations deviating from his children’s biological makeup: “In the likeness of God made he him: male and female created

To latter-day saints who desire to “live by every word which proceeds forth out of the mouth of God,” how many are keeping the commandment to “seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children; and again, the hearts of the Jews unto

How much confusion from a discordant society, chaotic world, and political and ecclesiastical leadership do we need to wake us up? When Isaiah points out our wickedness and abominations, we say, “That can’t be us! We attend church.” Well, so did others, until the very hour of their destruction. “Let’s hit on the messenger!” Well,

We may have noticed that when Book of Mormon prophets make predictions about the time preceding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, they base them on the words of Isaiah. Nephi, Jacob, and Jesus, for example, quote a third of the Book of Isaiah as they interpret, nuance, or expand upon different aspects of Isaiah’s

In our day, as in Book of Mormon times, what the scriptures depict as an “eternal hatred” is manifesting itself in a cruel vindictiveness on the part of those who—like the Lamanites—believe they have been “wronged,” “robbed,” and dispossessed. But having “hardened their hearts against the Lord,” “they understood not the dealings of the Lord”

As Isaiah is the first prophet to address the “line-upon-line” principle of learning, his words are key to understanding what it is. In an end-time prophecy directed at the “drunkards of Ephraim,” their straying prophets and erring seers (Isaiah 28:1, 7), he decries their failure to advance beyond the infant stage of learning and their

When truthers in the world warned against dubious measures implemented against the kind of plagues prophesied to occur before Jesus’ coming to reign on the earth, many inside and outside the church cried “conspiracy theory!” Persons who declined to become “good global citizens” by complying with injurious procedures were shamefully mocked and persecuted. But when

Because literary devices transform the entire Book of Isaiah into an end-time scenario—in which the events of Isaiah’s day act as types and shadows of the end of the world—the gathering of Israel, as Isaiah and other prophets define it, is an end-time event. In other words, it occurs within a window of only a

Among many things God showed Nephi in his vision of the end from the beginning was the prevalence of precepts of men among latter-day saints—God’s people “in Zion” (2 Nephi 28:24). A double jeopardy of this is that distorting a truth of God not only negates it but also robs people of the power to

The question of yielding fruit worthy of God’s acceptance ought to concern all. As Zenos’ olive tree allegory informs us, prior to the restoration of Israel’s natural lineages—Jews, Ten Tribes, and Lamanites—all the trees of the vineyard, including the mother tree, are producing “evil fruit” and are “good for nothing save it be to be