THE WOOD ZONE: WELL, MY DAD IS GONE

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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Sunday, December 18, 2016

WELL, MY DAD IS GONE

He passed away Saturday at noon. Peacefully - and I have felt peace over it; the same peace I felt when Dallin died (though I still cried my eyes out over not holding a sweet little baby again - until the resurrection).

He was a good man - and I am blessed to be called his son. He left a good name and a good legacy and footsteps for me to follow. He was not perfect - but neither am I. I think he meets the grade of what it takes to quality as a good man - becoming just and holy. Where I think I am at. I would like to be considered just and holy one day. There is still much work ahead of me.

It really does not matter where one is at in that process - so long as the slope is positive when the mortal sojourn is cut short. God requires a willing heart and mind - He does not require perfection; though we have all been charged with that end-goal.

So now I get to throw my work schedule into chaos and get out and go face a few siblings who did not have a good relationship with their father over selfish and dumb things. Mostly over sin and greed on their parts. I warned them some time ago that it was folly to maintain a hostile stance with someone over petty things - when that person was obviously closer to the veil than most are.

As usual, I will stay aloof and observe from a distance. They will now have a more difficult than usual row to hoe. One sibling that they have bullied pretty much out of the social circle will no doubt be there. I am hoping it will be a positive thing. Time is short people - wake up and get your crap together before the day comes wherein no works can be performed. Then, it is everlastingly too late. Today is the day to perform those labors...... but then, I might as well be talking to a wall......

Sigh....

3 comments:

AnonymousDecember 18, 2016 at 8:20 PM
So sorry for your loss...lost my Mother and Father within 8 weeks of each other. Though they were both in their nineties, I will forever miss them...their voices...I love. A bittersweet good-bye for you...hope for you the very best at this time!
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AnonymousDecember 18, 2016 at 10:39 PM
My condolences. All my best.
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AnonymousDecember 21, 2016 at 8:22 AM
Very sorry for your loss. I lost my Father on 12/18/1998 from a very sudden and unexpected heart attack. I have to say that it was the most spiritual Christmas that I have ever experienced. The veil was so thin we could feel my Father's joy of being on the other side. The family drew together and some of family members that had turned from God renewed their belief and turned their lives around.
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WHY SHOULD WE STUDY THE HIDDEN THINGS RELATED TO THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST?

But the Latter-day Saints are not in darkness; they are the children of light, although many of us will actually be asleep. We shall have to wake up and trim up our lamps, or we shall not be prepared to enter in; for we shall all slumber and sleep in that day, and some will have gone to sleep from which they will not awake until they awake up in darkness without any oil in their lamps. But, as a general thing, the Saints will understand the signs of the times. Others have their eyes closed upon the prophecies of the ancient Prophets; and not only that, but they are void of the spirit of prophecy themselves. When a man has this, though he may appeal to ancient Prophets to get understanding on some subjects he does not clearly understand, yet, as he has the spirit of prophecy in himself, he will not be in darkness; he will have a knowledge of the signs of the times; he will have a knowledge of the house of Israel, and of Zion, of the ten tribes and of many things and purposes and events that are to take place on the earth; and he will see coming events, and can say such an event will take place, and after that another, and then another; and after that the trumpet shall sound, and after that certain things will take place, and then another trump shall sound, &c., &c.; and he will have his eye fixed on the signs of the times, and that day will not overtake him unawares.

JD, O PRATT 7:190

JOSEPH SMITH SAID THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING AND WAITING, WILL KNOW THE HOUR:

"Christ says no man knoweth the day or the hour when the Son of Man cometh. This is a sweeping argument for sectarianism against Latter day ism. Did Christ speak this as a general principle throughout all generations Oh no he spoke in the present tense no man that was then liveing upon the footstool of God knew the day or the hour But he did not say that there was no man throughout all generations that should not know the day or the hour. No for this would be in flat contradiction with other scripture for the prophet says that God will do nothing but what he will reveal unto his Servants the prophets consequently if it is not made known to the Prophets it will not come to pass; again we find Paul 1st of Thesslonians 5th Chapter expressly points out the characters who shall not know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh for says he it will come upon them as the theif or unawares. Who are they they are the children of darkness or night. But to the Saints he says yea are not of the night nor of darkness of that that day should come upon you unawares. John the revelator says 14 chap 7th verse that the hour of his judgements is come they are precursers or forerunners of the comeing of Christ. read Matthew 24 Chap and all the Prophets. He says then shall they see the Sign of the comeing of the Son of Man in the clouds of Heaven. How are we to see it Ans. As the lighting up of the morning or the dawning of the morning cometh from the east and shineth unto the west—So also is the comeing of the Son of Man. The dawning of the morning makes its appearance in the east and moves along gradualy so also will the comeing of the Son of Man be. it will be small at its first appearance and gradually becomes larger untill every eye shall see it. Shall the Saints understand it Oh yes. Paul says so. Shall the wicked understand Oh no they attribute it to a natural cause. They will probably suppose it is two great comets comeing in contact with each other It will be small at first and will grow larger and larger untill it will be all in a blaze so that every eye shall see it." (Joseph Smith, General Conference, April 6, 1843