THE TEN TRIBES AND TECH

 I got an interesting comment from LeBlanc on the previous post.

Anyway, here it is:

Technology and the priesthood are both knowlege based. God and his priesthood has used technology to further his agenda is many ways over the span of our history. The two are not mutually exclussive. All knowledge originates from God.

And here is a second comment from Gruden that LeBlanc was responding to (I swear this guy was on LDSFF back when I used to go there):

People who believe stuff like this don't understand the fullness of the priesthood. Can tech beat a man who literally has the power to make mountains move and set armies in disarray? No. Look at how Enoch was described. No tech needed, just the power of God. We have no idea what real priesthood is, we've been surrounded by tech all our lives we have no idea of anything else.

I love a good debate or reasoning together, but I have to say I will go with LeBlanc (first comment).  I think most all tech we have will evaporate away as our chariots cease to function and things like our phones are done away with (no, they are no substitute for a real Urim and Thumim - especially with the censoring that is going on by CIA-backed front companies such as Google, etc).

When I think of tech, I enjoy it - but I also look forward to the day when it is wiped out and we learn to live without it.  I often talk to people who believe they will not need to use guns and will just raise their arm to the square.  It essentially cost me a friendship here in Cardston because we were so far apart in our thinking....  I was heavily chided for being unbelieving and it strained our working relationship.   I look forward to the time when that will be the case.  But, in the transition to a terrestrial way of thinking and acting, I am afraid I do not have the faith to do so in the current state.  Even Spencer went through a transformative period where they bore arms as they went along.  After the Cardston period where they hooked up with the Ten Tribes and Dallin H. Oaks as the Prophet up here, they then were able to move forward without the use of physical weapons.  But, at that point, they had a fulness of the Priesthood and were healing instantaneously (had been in the physical presence of the Savior, etc).  What they commanded was instantaneous - and they would do nothing that was contrary to the will of the Lord.

The Ten Tribes, in order to have a fulness of the Priesthood, would have to be endowed with power and have the higher priesthood.  They currently possess only the Levitical (or lesser) Priesthood.  The very reason they are coming to Cardston and other temples is to take care of that detail because they have the lesser priesthood right now and will until they fall at the feet of Ephraim (the non-drunkards who are considered the remnant) and are crowned with the higher blessings in Zion.

On the notion of the remnant, I want to say this: picture one of those large rolls of carpet that you get from the warehouse.  Between 2-3 feet in diameter.  There might be one thousand yards on that roll.  Think of going to the back part of the same store selling bulk rolls of carpet, where they sell the off-cuts or remnants.  They might sell them in a 5x7 size or a 6x10' size.  Just a few square yards.  Nowhere near what a full roll can carry in terms of yardage.  Think about the parallel - and who will be considered the tenth of the tenth.  Not much.  Get ready for large scale death if you plan on sticking it out in the cities.