THIS BLOG ATTEMPTS TO SHOW HOW SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP WITH REVEALED RELIGION

THIS BLOG IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT ALL THE COOL STUFF THAT I BUMP INTO ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND EVENTS THAT LEAD UP TO IT INTO ONE LOCATION.
THE CONTENTS WILL BE FROM AN LDS PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANYTHING IN HERE, I DO NOT PARTICULARLY CARE TO ARGUE, UNLESS YOU CAN ADD TO THIS BODY OF WORK. I HAVE AN OPEN MIND, THAT IS WHY I READ STUFF FROM ALL DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND SEEK LEARNING FROM THE BEST BOOKS. I JUST AM NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT IT - BUT TO PUT IT OUT THERE WHERE OTHERS CAN PERUSE/PURSUE IT. I TAKE PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HONEST SEEKERS OF TRUTH AND BELIEVE THAT SCIENCE IS REVEALED RELIGION'S BEST ALLY. YOU WILL SEE ALOT OF TOPICS IN THIS BLOG THAT SHOW SCIENCE BACKING - AND SLOWLY CATCHING UP WITH - REVEALED RELIGION.
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Friday, July 15, 2016

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE GIFTS OF GOD

So, we have a little conundrum here.

If these gifts are not among us, then we are all pretty much damned and our futures are bleak.  The judgment will not be well for us.

It is for this reason I am always pushing these gifts - and the free exercise of them.  And doing my darndest in my exasperation at our awful state, to exercise the greatest of all - which is Charity, or the pure love of Christ.  I sure hope I do not have to exercise it towards obummer.  Right now, my greatest desire is to see him six feet under (along with soros and clinton), so I can save up for a day or two and take a monster pee on the headstones......  It will be quite the moment....... if I can swing it.

Here is the scrip that got me spun up.  Every time I read it, I get a sinking feeling - because I realize that if you try to exercise any gift openly in any way in the Church (or out of it), you are swatted down for it.  At the very least, you have to operate in hushed tones and do a little "ichthusing" to navigate the crowd without incurring damage:



 24 And now I speak unto all the ends of the earth—that if the day cometh that the power and gifts of God shall be done away among you, it shall be because of unbelief.
 25 And wo be unto the children of men if this be the case; for there shall be none that doeth good among you, no not one. For if there be one among you that doeth good, he shall work by the power and gifts of God.
 26 And wo unto them who shall do these things away and die, for they die in their sins, and they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God; and I speak it according to the words of Christ; and I lie not.

This is part of the awful situation we are in, as a group.  We have collectively largely denied the Gifts of God.  There is a collective price to pay for this.  We are judged individually, as couples, as families, as wards, as cities, as states, as a nation, as a world.  We collectively merit our portion that was given (or not given) toward the greater good.  We choose our outcome.  It is quite simple - there is no mystery to it.

4 comments:

  1. It may be a minority but there are plenty who still believe wholeheartedly in the gifts of God and the free exercise of those. These include both LDS and others.

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  2. They are here. Gifts of God include anything that can help further his work and glory. With increasing darkness can be found compensatory increasing light. "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
    And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
    And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke." (Joel 2:28-30)

    That's our day.

    The Ensign magazine recently reprinted a wonderful short discourse on the topic, written more than a hundred years ago, yet just as applicable today.
    https://www.lds.org/ensign/2016/04/seeking-spiritual-gifts?lang=eng

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  3. Rhonda, don't those verses occur AFTER Christ's return in the Millennium?

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  4. Two things regarding the verses quoted from Joel.

    First, if theses verses occur AFTER Christ's return, then the next verse is out of order:

    "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." (Joel 2:31)

    Verse 31 very clearly states "before." My understanding is these verses are all part of the last days and events and prophesies which are to be fulfilled before the Second Coming.

    Additionally there is President Hinckley's October 2001 General Conference talk, Living in the Fulness of Times. He states, "The vision of Joel has been fulfilled wherein he declared," and then he quotes Joel 2:28-32.

    https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/10/living-in-the-fulness-of-times?lang=eng

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