THE WOOD ZONE: FIRE, PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE

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.
ENJOY!!

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

FIRE, PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE

A reader sent me a great piece about the temple that I am grinding my way through and will likely post after reading it. The promises in this quote seem to fit Spencer’s narrative of what happens in Utah as it comes upon “my house first”. I cannot help of think about the new BoM vids showing Lehi warning his constituents about the impending destruction that awaited Jerusalem and the reactions portrayed in the movie. I have experienced the same thing when warning friend and family who dwell in Utah. There are also many who are awakened to their awful situation who are fleeing:

A PROMISE AND A WARNING

The promises that go with the temple are a key to the real meaning of a holy building. These are the promises and warning of the Lord:
ìAnd inasmuch as my people build a house unto me in the name of the Lord, and DO NOT SUFFER ANY UNCLEAN THING to come into it, that it be not defiled, my glory shall rest upon it: yea and my presence shall be there, for I will come into it, and ALL THE PURE IN HEART that shall come into it shall see God. But if it be defiled I will not come into it, and my glory shall not be there; for I will not come unto unholy temples.î (D&C 97:15-17)
It was made clear that just as the day of Pentecost was an endowment of power, so was it understood that the temple would serve as a place for such a blessing in this dayto all who entered. But the blessing was conditional just as the promised Zion was conditional. Zion was to be the place for the pure in heart and then it would also be a place of peace and joy.
ìFor the indignation of the Lord is kindled against their abominations and all their wicked works. Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatso- ever I shall have commanded her. But if she (Zion) observe not to do whatsoever I have commanded her, I will visit her according to all her works, and with sore afflic- tion, with pestilence, with plague, with sword, with vengeance, with devouring fire.
THE TEMPLE ENDOWMENT 10
Nevertheless, let it be read this once to her ears, that I the Lord, have accepted of her offering; and if she sin no more none of these things shall come upon her; and I will bless her with blessings, and multiply a multiplicity of blessings upon her, and upon her generations forever and ever, saith the Lord your God.î (D&C 97:24-28)
Such instructions, the Saints were to discover, were not idle warnings. Jackson County, then Kirtland, and finally Far West all felt the devastation of ìsore affliction, with pestilence, with plague, with sword, with vengeance.î

2 comments:

AnonymousOctober 9, 2019 at 8:12 AM
Could it be viewed that the 4 year closing of the SLC temple for construction, during which it will be "defiled", could be viewed as a testing period for the saints?
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AnonymousOctober 9, 2019 at 4:17 PM
I have an aunt who is a SLC temple worker. We went there a few months back and she gave us a tour. On the lower level there was a locked door... she said "some bad things happened in that room so it is now locked" she didnt know details, but basically she said that room in SLC temple has been defiled. I wonder if the closing down and rededication has something to do with it in addition to earth quake proofing it.
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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