I just got off the phone with my SIL from the midwest area who is a great woman on par with my good wife. We would like them to join us in the hills on our insane little exercise of self-preservation. I don't know if she realizes it - but there will (at some point) be as much devastation there as there will be here. It may be of a little different form, but utter chaos and devastation nevertheless. They will need to evacuate soon enough. Each couple has to come to that conclusion for themselves and act accordingly. That inspiration is the divine "filter" that God uses in the separation of the righteous and the wicked. Those that are able to heed the still small voice due to their spiritual proclivities automatically select themselves for continuance. The equation is simple - the effects of decisions total.
My wife struggles with how/why God would allow so many innocents to perish (kids, etc) and I just refer her to what happened during the flood. It was better that God hit the reset button and allow the succeeding generations of innocents to have a fair shake than to continue to allow his sweet ones to go to perverse homes where, due to surroundings and environment, their innocence would be sacrificed to the hellish whims of how their parents chose to live their lives. Sometimes, when we are lowered into the abyss and due to the ever so slight gradiations, cannot sense our impending danger, we become victims ourselves. Thus the analogy to those who have fallen into a deep sleep - it is intoxicating.
So, back on topic. My sister-in-law was telling my wife and I last night that as a 15 year old (living in the Portland area), she had a very vivid dream of a massive wave topping the coastal range and sloshing into the Willamette valley. That is a massive wave in order to get over those hills. She, for months, has been worried about her family here on the west coast. I now am just as incrementally concerned just a little bit more when that sounds in. My Catholic friend who had the incredible three nephites healing and conversion to God said it would make it as far inland as Eastern Washington and slosh around in that basin. My MIL had a similar dream where she was barely above the level where she was affected - I do not think that something under 2500' would be enough.
One more little piece of data with interesting implications. I think this M12.5 may come about, just as predicted.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
ALL OF THE POSTS WITH THE KEY WORD ELIZA R SNOW
So, you can see I have been doing alot of recapping lately. I think I finally hit the mother lode of data I have been "mining" for over the last three years - and I want to go back and put some of the most influential players in the spotlight. Without having to read the entire blog, I am trying to give a flavor of the quotes/people who led me to this insane hypothesis (which I now consider fact). Here is Eliza's repertoire. Hope you enjoy it as much as I have:
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After last Friday night's experience in the Temple, I am now at a 100% confidence level and am pulling all the stops out to be ready to leave by September 10th in anticipation of the opening of the 7th seal the last week of September.
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After last Friday night's experience in the Temple, I am now at a 100% confidence level and am pulling all the stops out to be ready to leave by September 10th in anticipation of the opening of the 7th seal the last week of September.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
ONE OF JOSEPH'S LAST DREAM
Truly a descendant of Joseph of Egypt.
This is touching - please take a minute to view it. My love for the man grows and I feel to shout hallelujah for having lived after him and being able to look back and see his might works. He will sit high in the constellation of the great ones with the Savior and our God.
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Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!
This is touching - please take a minute to view it. My love for the man grows and I feel to shout hallelujah for having lived after him and being able to look back and see his might works. He will sit high in the constellation of the great ones with the Savior and our God.
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Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!
PREPARING FOR STORMY WEATHER AHEAD
I just talked to my friend from Church tonight before coming in for work. He is one who is awake and walking a very interesting walk to prepare for what is coming. I have never seen the kind of faith the he and his supportive companion are experiencing. He quit his job cold-turkey and made a jump into the dark to pursue direction that he was receiving from the Spirit. I have been at a loss to explain their actions - but then realized that they know more than I have in the past - even though they may not fully comprehend their future, they know that God knows the beginning from the end and that they just need to follow the promptings of the Spirit. He mentioned that he has also had a dream of an impending earthquake and that he was given instructions on how to mitigate its effects.
I have told him that I would like he and his wife to raise our children if there were ever anything to happen to my wife and I. We feel they are easily of a terrestrial nature. I just need to somehow get them up to speed on the nature of the doctrines about what is coming shortly to pass. I think they will see things clearly once they have the vision that Eliza R Snow was given. The more good people you surround yourself with, the better chances you have of threading the needle. The Lord will provide miracles commensurate with the level of faith and diligence. I have such a strong witness of that principle.
So, there are many others out there who are expectantly watching and waiting - and I am heartened and pray for them. One of them is my old mission companion, David Christenson whom I have featured before on this blog with some of his videos. I watched this one and it sent a thrill through me in light of what recently felt is coming:
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My only regret is that he did not go back further and get quotations talking of a 7 year food storage, then the 2 year, and dovetail it in with the Pres Benson quote of a one year store and then the latest which is basically 'just get something!!!'.
May we all feel the urgency of our situation - the children and innocents will suffer for our lack of concern. And we ultimately will pay for that indolence as we are weighed in the balance.
I have told him that I would like he and his wife to raise our children if there were ever anything to happen to my wife and I. We feel they are easily of a terrestrial nature. I just need to somehow get them up to speed on the nature of the doctrines about what is coming shortly to pass. I think they will see things clearly once they have the vision that Eliza R Snow was given. The more good people you surround yourself with, the better chances you have of threading the needle. The Lord will provide miracles commensurate with the level of faith and diligence. I have such a strong witness of that principle.
So, there are many others out there who are expectantly watching and waiting - and I am heartened and pray for them. One of them is my old mission companion, David Christenson whom I have featured before on this blog with some of his videos. I watched this one and it sent a thrill through me in light of what recently felt is coming:
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My only regret is that he did not go back further and get quotations talking of a 7 year food storage, then the 2 year, and dovetail it in with the Pres Benson quote of a one year store and then the latest which is basically 'just get something!!!'.
May we all feel the urgency of our situation - the children and innocents will suffer for our lack of concern. And we ultimately will pay for that indolence as we are weighed in the balance.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
SEEKING OUT A SIGN FOR MY WIFE
Marriage is designed as the ultimate check and balance as one sees the other maybe straying a little too far out of the accepted bubble the pair has agreed to work/live within (if things are not in harmony, the imbalance is often manifested as shown above with the pissed-off woman attempting to fillet her pleading partner over the deemed stupidity....).
So, after (she) initially proposing that we head over to MT, my wife is now seeing the enormity of the prospect and is understandably beginning to balk at the road ahead of her. I understand that from her. It is human nature. When I told her to buckle up in our 33rd year, she didn't even connect and then wham, we lost our 9 month old. When the dream I had the night he died predicted we would receive a sign that things were fine and then he showed up with my Mom to my Dad to deliver a message, just as predicted, my wife asked for a sign, not believing that my Dad could be the recipient of such a revelation. I had to pray for several weeks and then wham, another overwhelming sign that she could not ignore from the other side while my Dad was in the West Jordan temple. The Lord always comes through - every time, if the desires are righteous. Part of her disbelief over some of this stuff is that, she, being the mother should have had those experiences for herself - and not someone else she deems less able or relevant to her experience. After all, she birthed the baby, she gets the mother of all revelations. And, I generally think that should be the case. Maybe, that very lack of believing is the source of the others being the recipient of such largesse and not herself. Maybe it just simply comes down to genetics/lineage/eternal order of things; I really can't say. Some people (groups) just simply have these kinds of things in spades.
So Thursday night, at my DSW's request that I make absolutely sure of my lunatic's self, decided to make it to the temple (alone so I would not be distracted) and seek out a direct answer from the Lord. I was not going for the open day vision, first because I was not going fasting for three days or anything like that (I had a bag of honey BBQ wings in the freezer that would not allow me to do so) and secondly have never had one of those ever (even though that would be cool and is on my bucket list), but I was in a state of prayer and contemplation, nonetheless. I would prefer to not have to make a move, be away from my family for some time, etc - I am a family man through and through. This will arguably be nearly as hard on me as it might be on my wife, although I have work to distract me every day....
So I went to the Seattle temple alone last night. As is customary when I have a big decision, I got my name (which I jotted down and directly translates, to "Gentle_patriarch God_is_with_us Proper" and who was born on the exact middle date of of the week of Passover of 1934) and headed to the chapel early to wait for the next session and specifically chose a place to sit away from the others, "feeling my way" until a particular bench "felt" right. I sat down and grabbed the D&C in the pocket said a little prayer and flipped it open to the Facsimile No.1 of the Book of Abraham. I read over the meanings of all of those elements and found nothing in there that I could use - and then I glanced to the other page and immediately read Abraham 1:1;
In the land of the Chaldeans, at the residence of my fathers, I, Abraham, saw that it was needful for me to obtain another place of residence;
I just about burst out laughing - you can't make any of this stuff up. We are definitely in the land of my fathers where I was raised - and with all this gay marriage crud, and ridiculous political stupidity that I have to deal with, Babylon/Chaldea is pretty much in the bag.... The message here is - its time to get the heck out regardless of Elenin or anything else. Seeing that New York just approved gay "marriage" a day ago, Boston,MASS (stupidity) and that mess, California has activist judges shoving it down peoples' throats, Oregon, etc, the areas all previously described/slated for destruction are on the docket, having begged for their demise and now I am stuck in the middle of this (CLICK LINK). I prefer not to be a hapless victim of it all - NO THANKS!!!! So would I be surprised by an Elenin-style event? Not in the least. Has it moved from an isolated thing in an exceedingly wicked city such as San Fran to consume the left coast? Absolutely. From a biblical perspective, are we ripened in the areas defined in D&C and my personal revelations (west coast), I say so. Whats the answer? Get out to a place where most people still farm and have a healthy sense of the common - which is; put a pair of bulls or cows in a pen and feed them til they die, and you will have two dead carcasses and ZERO progeny when it is all over. Game over, folks. The plan follows satan's deal to the letter - carefully dragging gullible idiots carefully down to hell til they are bound and there is no escape. The trap has been set, the bait oddly enticing to many who are blinded (even Steve Young has listened Solomonically to his "strange woman" and is on board - too much time as a 49er, I guess....), and the deserved fate determined for those who insist on dabbling in and supporting Babylon. NO THANKS!!
Soooo...., I then noticed that someone had put the white book mark ribbon on that page. I then cleared my mind and flipped through to the next page that fell open which was D&C 88 (no book mark on this one...) and without even looking around, my eyes fixated on verse 81 - the very verse I have been thinking about greatly since first putting this together for myself. Do I let anyone else know of my lunatic feelings since there will be collateral implications for all others who live here? - or do we just quietly move and just tell folks that we know and love that we are just "living the dream" (and leaving the nightmare this place has become)?? Well, I got my answer - and I think in spades. We truly, once we have been warned, must tell our neighbors and warn them of what is coming. I then read further on (and I had forgotten this from previous readings of Section 88)(CLICK LINK), where it goes into all of the destruction that will occur during the opening of the seventh seal - and then the destruction when the Lord actually comes after the half hour of silence. Man, are we ever in for some interesting times - and who knew it to be so close at hand?? I guess human nature just drives it further out there into the future of the mind because the reality of the near possibility is just too much for the human mind to process.
Such it is with my sign-seeking wife. There is not an ounce of wicked/adulterous/fornicatious (CLICK LINK for a great read) badness in her - but she has a hard time with this stuff - probably due to her mis-trust of men in general due to some bad events she went through as a little girl. She has seen me go through so many of these kinds of events where the needle was threaded properly - but then having witnessed all of my human-ness in all of its diminishing glory, it is hard for her (still) to believe it. So, her self-appointed task is reading about Sarah and how she put up with Lehi's seemingly ridiculous antics.... that ultimately saved their bacon.
As I was leaving the Celestial room, I decided to see if there were any more "messages" for me and went over to one of the tables where the D&C were. I went to pick up the first one - it was the spanish version. I then walked across the room to where two others were lying on a table - first one spanish - next one spanish and then glancing over to the other book (a Bible) - it was in english..... C'mon, this is the Seattle temple - not the Mexico City, Mexico temple!! I guess I had my message.
So, my conclusion is that I have all the answer I need for myself - that kind of cemented it for me. All that fasting that my wife did to help me have the right answer (for her) did not pay off (for her). I guess we will know in a few short months. For those of us on the west coast, there mostly will be NO SECOND CHANCE..... I feel for people I have told out here. Hopefully, there will be a calling out by local leadership not mired in a deep sleep (institutional hypoxia); or someone at the top from SLC (I really feel they know and will talk about something I know further down in this topic). I don't have those keys to make a call for the masses - and have no institutional credibility even if I did. In fact, I have been laughed at and scorned for having exercised the keys for my family (whom I do have sole ultimate responsibility for) in the past - and I forgive those people who should know better, but resent having gone through the experience precisely because I expect better from the caliber of people I am surrounded with.
So, revisiting the topic of a callout from the top. I have a pretty solid feeling that the top brass know where/when/what is coming. I was talking to my old Bishop from Kent about second coming stuff (we were pretty much the only people in the Ward who seemed to care about it), and he is tied into a guy named Joel Skousen (son of Cleon) who is a disaster consultant to the rich/powerful. He (Joel) indicated that the Bretheren all have shelters at their places in the mountains. Dug in. Not sure if that is just a general statement, or what, but it is what it is. I have a feeling that most of the people at the top of most governmental organizations also are in the know and have made preparations. It is the poor suckers like me that will get chewed up.... I like to call myself fodder.
Anyway, enough ramblings. Hope anyone that is taking this stuff seriously has the direction and wisdom that is needed to thread the needle. I would be gratified to know that, for all of the late nights tapping away on this blog, that it saved the bacon of just a few folks - especially innocent children - as the adults have enough resources such as access to personal inspiration, means, etc that they have no excuses. Being the catalyst for the saving of a few people would be payment enough for the countless hours I have put in.
God bless you in your efforts - and please pray for me. I am going to finally head over on or around September 10, 2011 just to make sure if things get weird on September 11th, I am not around. That would be the tenth anniversary - and we just stirred the hornets nest by killing the queen bee. We may (not will) be in for a surprise.... I was over in Kali working on our place on the zero anniversary - and it was a great feeling of safety when things went outside of normal in a big way. When things do get weird in our future (such as an Iranian nuke flying out of Libya towards Israel - and the ensuing limited nuclear exchange) or any other host of possibilities, there most probably will be martial law and movement between states will be limited or non-existent. The trap set and sprung two weeks later if you live on the west coast.
It will NOT be fun.
APOPHIS - JPL DATA FOR PASSOVER, FRIDAY 13TH, 2036
I have always said the good stuff will happen on Jewish High Holy days.
This particular one may prove interesting:
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COOL STUFF!
This particular one may prove interesting:
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COOL STUFF!
ELENIN - DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Ever since I watched the Gulf War with the Army psy-ops specialists (openly) strategically located in every news room (CNN, FOX, etc), I knew that our "free" press was not so much. I later came to the conclusion that we at some future point would be less free than the Russians were during the cold war. Truly sad. This country has dropped into the abyss. The result of our collective complacency is bondage - Book of Mormon style. The only thing that will free us from it is alot of death and alot of repenting and extracting ourselves from "our awful state" that we have allowed ourselves to become mired in. First of all, turn off the tv and don't listen to the propaganda. Find the truth for yourselves through alternative means while the net is still free (bama workin that angle right now).
Here is one example from MSNBC - a site I never go to, unless I want to see what the "other side" is up to: CLICK LINK
Usually, I just take their crap, invert it; and I then have the truth. Josef Goebbels would be proud.....
Here is one example from MSNBC - a site I never go to, unless I want to see what the "other side" is up to: CLICK LINK
Usually, I just take their crap, invert it; and I then have the truth. Josef Goebbels would be proud.....
ANOTHER "INCOMING ORB" KOOK LIKE MYSELF
I love good company. This guy is a pastor who seems beyond sincere - who has been watching and waiting - who has a strictly Biblical perspective. I may e-mail him and let him know his package has arrived....
I would love to have the time to go over the scriptural references and ponder them as a further witness. I have stuck mostly to references from the New Testament, Book of Mormon and some Doctrine and Covenants stuff. I would love to jump in up to my elbows in the Old Testament and see what is in there. What is there that I have delved into is off the charts - that collection has some awesome funk to it. Isaiah was cryptic and deep. Fantastic stuff. Maybe someone else can benefit from this stuff
Planet X
By Pastor F. M. Riley
February 1, 2011
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away,” Matthew 24:35.
Introduction
In 2001 I began seriously studying and writing about Planet X and the role it would play in fulfilling end-time Bible prophecy. My interest in this subject was kindled by receiving documentable information sent to me by reliable sources at that time. After carefully confirming the information I received and studying what the inspired Scriptures actually say about the role the heavenly bodies have to play in fulfilling the end-time prophecies of the Tribulation, I have continued to study and write about the coming of Planet X without apology to anyone.
Oh yes, I have been mocked, ridiculed, scorned, falsely accused, lied about, and called every vile name my critics could think of [mostly “dedicated Christian believers” ???] to label me, for teaching that Planet X is real and that it will play a vital role in the fulfillment of the Tribulation prophecies of God’s Word. So what? I couldn’t care less! I am not the first follower of Christ who has suffered for standing for the truth of God’s Word, and I am sure I won’t be the last.
Nine years have now passed since I first began studying and writing about Planet X. In previous articles I repeatedly pointed out that information on this subject was being deliberately kept from the public by the “insiders” that have known the truth about Planet X since 1983. I have also repeatedly pointed out that the time would come when the wicked “insiders” could not conceal Planet X any longer, and would be forced to admit that it is real. THAT TIME HAS NOW COME! Therefore I am sending forth this article as a brief review for those readers who have never heard about Planet X, and also as an UPDATE on the subject for those who have read my studies on Planet X in the past. Read on…….
The Discovery of Planet X
Planet X was discovered and photographed in modern times by JPL’s deep space Infrared Electronic Telescope. The year was 1981. At that time the astronomers and scientists working on the project were so elated with their discovery that they released the news of its discovery to the public news media. The story of its discovery was published in the New York Times and the Washington Post in 1981, then picked up by other newspapers and carried all over the world. I have copies of both of the original articles printed in those two major newspapers in my files right now. Any reader can obtain copies for themselves by researching the subject on the Internet.
After the discovery in 1981 the astronomers and scientists began seriously studying Planet X in an attempt to find out every little detail about this tenth planet in the solar system. What they soon learned must have scared some of them half to death. They learned that the writings of the ancient Sumerians were really true. Up to that time in history the writings of the ancient Sumerians about Planet X had been regarded by “modern” scientists as exaggerations, myths, or outright fiction. It must have been quite a blow to the ego of some of these “brilliant” scientists of today to suddenly learn that the ancient Sumerians WERE NOT the stupid primitive peoples they have been made out to be by modern “intellectuals.” Sic!
Some of what these modern scientists learned is that Planet X is a huge DARK planet possibly five to six times or more LARGER than the earth. It is so large that it had to be classified as a planet, yet it has an elliptical orbit more like that of a comet than a planet. Its orbit is so elongated that it spends most of its time in the darkness of outer space, but comes back into the inner solar system flying past the earth and the other planets every 3,630 years. Wow!
Because it is so large, Planet X also has an electro-magnetic field surrounding it that is second only to that of the Sun in the solar system. In other words, it acts similar to a powerful “magnet” in space, pushing all kinds of space debris out in front of it as it advances through space and trailing a million miles or more long tail of space debris behind it.
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The astronomers and scientists who lived in 1981-82 also learned that Planet X was INBOUND into the solar system, and they calculated that it would be somewhere between 25 and 30 years before it would come flying through the solar system and past the earth. In view of the gigantic size of Planet X and its powerful electro-magnetic field, the scientists knew that when it comes flying through the solar system it will cause all kinds of destruction to the planets in the solar system. This destruction will be caused by Planet X virtually wiping out or overwhelming the gravitational and electro-magnetic fields of each of the planets in the solar system. The far greater gravitational and electro-magnetic fields of Planet X will cause great earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and geological changes on all of the planets in the solar system. Compare Psalm 102:25-26. Significantly, this is exactly what was recorded by the ancient Sumerians as happening the last time Planet X came flying through the inner solar system some 3,600 years ago.
If the earth was exempt from this there would be no problem, for man’s modern technology has revealed that earth is the only planet in the solar system that is actually inhabited by mankind. But the earth is not and will not be exempt! This planet will be affected terribly by the passing of Planet X, just as the records of the ancient Sumerians record the terrible destruction and death that occurred the last time Planet X came some 3,600 plus years ago. When Planet X comes through the solar system and flies past the earth the whole earth will shake. Compare Haggai 2:21, Hebrews 12:26-27, and Isaiah 2:12-22. There will be great earthquakes, volcanoes all over the earth will erupt, terrible tsunamis will sweep over whole continents, mountain chains will fall and others will rise, some land areas will sink beneath the oceans and some land presently beneath the seas will be raised above the waters. There will be weird and even instant climate changes, causing strange and terrible storms to ravage the earth with terrible winds, floods, freezing temperatures in some areas, and blistering heat in others. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE! The infrastructure of every nation on earth will be destroyed. There will be massive death and destruction all over the earth, and the world as we have known it in the past will cease to exist.
Scriptural Verification
If this sounds like the raging fanaticism of a wild eyed “conspiracy nut” to some of our readers, then perhaps they should read Psalm 46:2-3, 83:13-15, Isaiah 2:10-22, 14:1-13, 24:1-6, 24:17-20, 40:4, Ezekiel 38:19-20, Micah 1:3-4, Nahum 1:5, Haggai 2:6-7, 2:21-23, Hebrews 12:25-28, Revelation 6:12-17, 11:13, 16:17-21, and many other similar Scriptures throughout God’s Word. Then after these Scriptures have been read, tell the Lord Himself who gave us His inspired Word that He is just a wild eyed “conspiracy nut” and that these clearly stated prophecies in His Word will never happen. Good luck! You will need it!
The Great Coverup
These terrible truths are what astronomers and scientists studying Planet X laid out before those attending a top secret meeting of world leaders in 1983. At that meeting were Illuminists [the movers and shakers who behind the scenes literally run the world], government officials from all leading industrial nations, top military brass, the CEO’s of the world’s leading corporations and banks, the ultra-rich one world globalists, and selected heads of the world news media. They were all informed of what is going to occur when Planet X comes flying through the solar system. The general consensus at that meeting was that in order to avoid a world wide panic possibly resulting in the collapse of the world economy and the infrastructure of the nations, the public SHOULD NOT BE TOLD about the coming of Planet X and the destruction and death that its coming will cause on the earth. It was therefore agreed upon at that meeting in 1983 that a blanket of secrecy should be imposed upon all who were privy to this information, and that no further news releases should be made about Planet X being discovered, and that even the existence of Planet X should be denied. Those attending that meeting were sworn to secrecy. So for these now 28 years since 1983 world leaders have been denying that Planet X was discovered and that it even exists. Over and over again official representatives of our government [U.S.] and other governments of the world have lied and lied and lied to the public about the existence and coming of Planet X and are still lying about it.
How do I know all this? Because some of the people who attended that meeting in 1983 had a conscience. A few of those people could not live with the knowledge that millions of their fellow human beings were going to die in the future without even an opportunity to know what they were facing. There were a few who felt that the public had a right to know what was coming in order to make whatever preparations were possible. So from time to time there have been “leaks” of information. Little by little more and more information has been “leaked” until the whole grim picture has come together.
In fact there were so many “leaks” of information about Planet X that some “brilliant insider” [Sic!] came up with the idea of planting disinformation designed to discredit the whole subject in the eyes of the public. So in 2001, 2002, and 2003 there was all kinds of information about Planet X being deliberately “leaked” to the public. Much of the information being released at that time claimed that the coming of Planet X would occur in May of 2003, and the public should prepare themselves for imminent destruction. On the one hand “official” sources were denying the whole story, while on the other hand equally “official” sources were steadily “leaking” disinformation to the public. Their SCAM worked like a charm. When Planet X DID NOT show up in May of 2003, most people labeled the whole subject of Planet X a hoax and began ridiculing anyone who would even bring up the subject.
How sad it is that the whole world wasn’t told the truth about Planet X clear back in 1983. Yes, there might very well have been panic on the part of some. But it is also possible that if the public had been told what they are actually facing, many hundreds or even thousands of people might have turned to the Lord. I personally believe that Satan himself, “the god of this world,” [2 Corinthians 4:4] absolutely does not want the masses of humanity to know what is coming in order to keep them from calling on the Lord. I don’t believe for a minute that the wicked world leaders at that meeting in 1983 were trying to protect humanity. Rather, I think what they really wanted was to keep the cash registers ringing to the very last minute. They couldn’t care less about the people. Too harsh you say? Too judgmental? Well let’s just see…..
Lies and Hypocrisy
Immediately after that meeting in 1983 the ultra-rich “elite” and the governments of the world’s leading industrial nations began the building of vast underground structures which they believe will protect them and their “chosen” servants from the terrible destruction coming. Over these past 28 years hundreds of these underground “bunkers” have been built all over the earth.
These bunkers are constructed of vast amounts of reinforced concrete and steel. They are equipped with the very latest in human technology to guarantee the safety of those who will occupy them while “riding out” the passing of Planet X. These underground bunkers have been built in sizes which can accommodate anywhere from a few people up to several thousand people. Over the past few years these underground sanctuaries have been stocked with vast amounts of food and water, fine wines and liquors, medicines and drugs, clothing, gold and silver bars, cash, and other forms of wealth, works of art, fine automobiles, fuels, and every other conceivable comfort and luxury that the idle rich might even imagine that they may need when they enter them. Why? If Planet X is not real and is not coming, which is the “official party line” of the “insiders” of the world, then why such preparations? Well…??
The plan is that at a certain time the “elite” of the world and their “chosen” servants [spell that S-L-A-V-E-S] will just suddenly disappear into their well stocked underground “bunkers,” leaving the masses of humanity to fare for themselves the best way they can until Planet X has passed and the devastation it causes is over. Then the wicked “elite” plan to emerge from their bunkers with all of their hidden wealth and rule as kings over whatever portion of humanity which was left on the outside will have managed to survive. Sic!
I am certain that some of our readers will think that this is some wild fantasy that I have dreamed up. Not hardly! If you are one of those readers who think I am some kind of “nut,” then do yourself a favor. Start quietly inquiring about the existence of these massive underground “bunkers.” Carefully and selectively ask the ultra-wealthy civic and political and business leaders that you may know on a personal basis about these underground bunkers. I am urging caution, for you could end up dead for asking too many questions of the wrong people.
I can assure every reader that there is one of these underground “bunkers” located within a reasonable driving distance of every major city in the United States today, and the major cities of most of the other industrial nations of the world. I personally know about two such underground bunkers located just a short distance from where I am at right now. One of these bunkers is large enough to accommodate and take care of 2,oo0 or more people. I have received information on bunkers in the U.S. and other countries which are much larger. Even as I write I have an article laying on my desk, containing details and maps revealing the locations of some of the more than 200 underground bunkers which have been built over the past 28 years right here in the United States under the guise of “military projects” for national security. Sic!
Now why would the ultra-rich leaders of this present world system spend vast amounts of money [billions of taxpayer dollars] SECRETLY building such underground sanctuaries for themselves unless THEY KNOW that Planet X is real, and THEY KNOW the destruction and death its passing is going to cause on the earth? Perhaps some of these “super smart” mockers and scoffers would like to explain all of this to those of us whom they have labeled “conspiracy nuts.” Well…??
Update on the Coming of Planet X
Hubble…….Our readers may not be aware of this, but the real reason for the construction of the Hubble Space Telescope WAS NOT to explore the solar system and the Universe, as some claim from time to time. The real reason for spending the billions of dollars to construct the telescope, place it in orbit, and then almost immediately repair or replace some of its lenses, was for the purpose of viewing inbound Planet X. I have received this information repeatedly from several different reliable sources, so I really don’t care whether some want to believe it or n0t. Their unbelief won’t change the truth.
The Big Bend…….In the past few years the U.S. government has also financed the building of a major observatory in the Davis mountains in the Big Bend area of Texas, built for the specific purpose of monitoring the incoming of Planet X into the solar system. More millions of taxpayer dollars spent to observe an incoming planet which according to the “official party line” statement doesn’t even exist. Sic!
The Vatican…….Yes, even the Vatican hierarchy in Rome have their hands in all of this. They have spent millions of dollars quietly building one of the most technologically advanced observatories in the world in northern Arizona here in the United States, specifically for the purpose of viewing and tracking Planet X on its inbound journey into our solar system. Significantly, there are NO major highways or paved roads leading to their observatory. It is not even listed in the phone book or in any publication which might reveal its location. They have deliberately made it as inconspicuous as possible. But it is there! Some sources have gone to the trouble of searching out the location of this observatory in the mountains of Arizona and even photographing it, so its existence has been carefully DOCUMENTED. But why all the secrecy? The Vatican hierarchy in Rome regards Planet X as the prophesied and much dreaded “wormwood” of Revelation 8:10-11. They KNOW it is coming, and they are spending millions of dollars to track its inbound journey. I could say much more about the Vatican’s reason for wanting to monitor Planet X, but to save time and space in this study I won’t.
Antartica…….The United States government has also spent millions [billions?] of dollars more on other projects to daily watch Planet X as it is inbound into the solar system. It has long been known that the orbit of Planet X will bring it into the solar system from beneath the earth. In other words, from the deep south. Two new observatories have been quietly built in Antartica in the past ten years for the express purpose of watching the progress of Planet X into the inner solar system. These two new observatories are some of the most technologically advanced observatories in the world today, and cost millions of taxpayer dollars to build and operate. But who cares about the cost? The gullible American “sheeple” provide an unending source of revenue for our “brilliant” politicians, world leaders, and ultra-rich internationalists. Sic!
Estimated Time of Arrival
Now nearly three years ago [2007] reliable “leaks” revealed that Planet X would show up on really good telescopes [expensive] by the Spring of 2010. Did it happen? It sure did! I have been receiving reports on its approach ever since last Spring. Planet X is still far out in space, but it can now be seen by those who have the proper telescopes and know where to look.
But just how far out in space is it? The latest “leaks” report that it will show up to the naked eye as a tiny dot in the sky, appearing like a very faint star, by April of this year [2011]. It can then be easily seen if one has good eyesight or a powerful pair of binoculars and knows where to look. It will then from night to night gradually appear larger and brighter in the night sky over the next several months, becoming easily visible to the naked eye in the night sky by October of this year [2011]. During the last three months of the year the world’s “elite” should begin disappearing into their underground bunkers. When the “elite” leaders of the world just suddenly disappear it will cause absolute chaos among those left on “the face of the earth.” YES! IT IS MUCH LATER THAN MANY TODAY WANT TO BELIEVE!
Planet X will continue to appear larger and brighter in the night sky until it will take on the appearance of a “second moon” in the sky at night. As it comes closer and closer the entire earth will begin to shake, earthquakes will increase all over the earth, massive volcanic eruptions will occur and increase with many new volcanoes coming into existence, tsunamis will become much more frequent, and yes, the earth will literally and actually be bombarded with large and small rocks and asteroids from out of space. Due to every [presently] extinct volcano on earth going into eruption, and many new volcanoes coming into existence, the entire earth will become shrouded in darkness and gloominess both day and night. Read Joel 2:1-2 and Zephaniah 1:14-17, and BELIEVE what you read.
The Demise of America
Here in the United States there are now FOUR GREAT PROBLEM AREAS just waiting for the
right catalyst to set them off. These FOUR are (1) the San Andreas fault in California, (2) the Yellowstone Super Caldera in Wyoming, (3) the New Madrid fault along the Mississippi River, and as of this past year (4) the man made time bomb now ticking in the Gulf of Mexico.
The whole earth has been slightly trembling since the great Indian Ocean quake of 2004, and earthquakes all over the earth have dramatically increased since that time. The interior of the earth is now so unstable that if any one of these four problem areas in the U.S. breaks loose, it is highly likely that it will trigger the other three areas into also breaking loose. When [not “if”] this happens it will be the end of the United States, very likely in one terrible 24 hour day. MILLIONS WILL DIE! Psalm 9:17 is still in the Bible whether some want to believe it or not.
Planet X, according to information received from “leaks,” will come flying through the solar system and ultimately past the earth beginning in late 2012. The effects which precede its coming have already been occurring for several years, and will continue to increase throughout this year [2011]. Major destruction upon the earth will continue to occur as Planet X approaches and flies past the earth and continues on its journey back out into the blackness of outer space.
Even the wicked unbelieving “elite” are aware that the major destruction that will be caused by the approach, fly by, and departure of Planet X will cover approximately SEVEN YEARS. Now isn’t this interesting? Or is it just a “coincidence?” Sic! This timing appears to totally harmonize with the seven year Tribulation plainly predicted in The Book of Revelation and many other inspired prophecies throughout the Word of God. Compare Psalm 111 through Psalm 118, which correlate with the years 2011 – 2018. The timing even appears to correlate with the pagan prophecies of the Hopi, Navajo, and Mayan Indian tribes. Well how about that! And some folks are so spiritually dense they don’t think the Bible is “relevant” to the times we are living in today.
Think about it…..Carefully!
Crazy huh? The raving of a “conspiracy lunatic”? If you think so, then YOU apparently haven’t read The Book of Revelation lately? Or maybe you have never read it? Or maybe you have read it and don’t believe it? Well rest assured that if you fit into one of these categories, the Lord Himself has already made provision for YOU in His Word. Read John 3:16-18 and Revelation 21:8. YOU will either repent of your sins and believe on the One who made provision for your eternal soul’s salvation, or YOU will burn in the lake of fire and brimstone “for ever and ever.” The choice is yours to make. Choose carefully!
More Scriptural Verification
Isaiah…….I have already referred to the prophecies of this entire earth being shaken “terribly” as recorded in Isaiah 2:12-22, Haggai 2:21, and Hebrews 12:26-29.
Now look at Isaiah 13:1-14. These Scriptures are another inspired prophecy of the coming of “the day of the Lord” [the Tribulation]. It is explicitly stated in this prophecy that the Lord is going to bring His “sanctified ones” [13:3] “from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land [erets…earth],” 13:5. Planet X is coming from the blackness of space on the far outer fringes of the solar system. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make the connection. Hello!
Notice also in this prophecy that the Lord explicitly states that He is bringing “the day of the Lord” [Tribulation] “as a destruction from the Almighty” [13:6], and that it will effect the stars, the constellations, the Sun, the Moon, and the earth, literally moving the earth out of its present orbit, 13:6-14. Do any of our readers who really believe the Scriptures have any doubts that this prophecy is describing the coming of Planet X and also other heavenly bodies into the solar system? Also study Isaiah 24:1-20, 28:17-23, and many other similar Old Testament prophecies.
I would emphasize to our readers that the Lord God of Heaven DOES NOT NEED mankind’s silly little nuclear bombs and planes and missiles and other modern weapons to bring judgment upon the wicked of this earth. All He has to do is command His creation and it obeys His will explicitly. Thousands of years ago the Lord, when speaking to the Patriarch Job, said, “Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? Job 38:22-23. Hey! You never thought of these “natural” elements as “weapons”? Almighty God has! Now read Psalm 148:7-8. Do these verses say that the Lord’s creation fulfills His Word or not? Well…?? There is more [controlled] raw power unleashed in one huge thunderstorm than a hundred nuclear bombs. Think about it! Now read Nahum 1:3 and “be not faithless, but believing,” John 20:27.
The Lord…….In Matthew 24:35, after telling the disciples to “learn a parable of the fig tree,” the Lord explicitly stated, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away.” Most believers who read this verse assume that they understand what the Lord was saying, therefore they never bother to look up the literal meanings of the words used in this verse. The word translated as “pass away” twice in this Scripture is the Greek word, “parerchomai.” This Greek word occurs 31 times in the New Testament, and literally means, “to go by; to pass by; to come by; to come past; to pass away; to be led by; to be carried past.” See Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, page 488, Strong’s No. 3928.
In view of the literal meaning of this Greek word and the way it is used in various places in the New Testament, a literal translation of Matthew 24:35 would read, “The heavens and earth shall pass by and away from each other, but My words shall never pass by and away.” In other words, the heavenly bodies in the solar system [which are believed by men to be absolutely stable] will leave their present orbits and come flying past the earth, and then “pass” on out into the vastness of space, Psalm 102:26. But the words of the Lord, which alone are truly stable, will never “pass away.” “For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven,” Psalm 119:89. Praise the Lord! Glory to God!
In making this statement the Lord clearly prophesied that one or more of the planets in the solar system is going to come flying past the earth causing even the earth to leave its present orbit, Isaiah 13:13-14; 24:17-20. It is now a documented fact that Planet X is the tenth planet in the solar system, and that it is the only one of the ten planets whose orbit IS NOT STABLE. Since it is presently inbound into the inner solar system, it doesn’t require a lot of intelligence to believe that the Lord MAY have had Planet X in mind even as He spoke these words in Matthew 24:35.
I would also remind our readers that it was the Lord Himself, in speaking of the “signs” that are to precede His second coming, who explicitly said, “…Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven,” Luke 21:11. How fearful? And to what extent? In the same chapter the Lord also added, “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity [no way out; no solution]; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken,” Luke 21:25-26. It ought to be obvious to our readers that these passages of Scripture establish a direct connection between whatever is going on in the heavens at that time and “men’s hearts failing them for fear” because of what they anticipate occurring on the earth. This isn’t hard to understand!
The Apostle Peter…….Significantly, the inspired Apostle used the exact same word in his epistle in 2 Peter 3:10 as the Lord used in Matthew 24:35. “But the day of the Lord [the Tribulation] will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away [pass by; fly past] with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” I have already pointed out that the passing of Planet X is going to cause great earthquakes and every volcano on earth will begin erupting. Can our readers even imagine the tremendous HEAT AND FIRE AND SMOKE that will be generated all over the earth when this happens? Add to this situation the red hot flaming rocks and asteroids that will fall on the earth during the passing of Planet X. Read Revelation 6:12-17 again. Compare it with the account of Israel’s coming out of the land of Egypt some 3,400 years and take it to heart, Psalm 105:32-33.
The best laid plans of mice and men…….…..often come to naught!
The plans are already made and the underground bunkers already prepared for the ultra-rich “elite” of the world. They have carefully and secretly made every preparation for their own survival during the coming Tribulation period when Planet X comes flying through the solar system and past the earth. Their plan is for them to enter their underground bunkers and “ride out” the storm in style, and they couldn’t care less about the “ignorant masses” who will be left outside of their bunkers to survive the best way they can or die. Figuratively speaking, the ultra-rich “elite” have dotted every “i” and crossed every “t”. They have left nothing to chance! So what could possibly go wrong?
Hoo boy! Have they ever underestimated their enemy; the holy and just and altogether righteous LORD GOD OF HEAVEN. Yes I said “their enemy.” Read Psalm 5:5-6 and 7:11.
I realize that some of my readers may be so deceived by the silly, super emotional, “love gospel” being proclaimed from many pulpits today that they find it hard to believe that the tender lowly Lamb of God could be an “enemy” of anyone. Folks, your “Jesus” may be a spineless, gutless, wimp, but my “Jesus” isn’t! If some reader doesn’t grasp what I am saying, then I suggest you carefully read 2 Corinthians 11:4 again, and this time let the truth stated there soak in.
Yes, I most certainly do believe in preaching and teaching and putting into practice the “love of God.” But I also have spiritual sense enough to know that the greatest act of love ever witnessed in human history was when “…God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,” Romans 5:8. The Lord Jesus Christ came into this world for two basic purposes; (1) to save those who will repent of sin and believe on Him as their own personal Savior, who when saved, will rejoice in God’s righteousness, and (2) to destroy out of God’s Kingdom those who obstinately refuse to repent, and who hate God’s righteousness. I can assure every reader that the “real Jesus” of the Bible, whom I serve in truth, is perfectly capable of accomplishing both jobs. The “real” Lord Jesus of the Bible IS NOT A WIMP!
What does the inspired Word predict for these ultra-rich incorrigible wicked “elite” who have laid their plans so well? Listen and learn…..
“Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he [the just or righteous man] doth not resist you.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh,” James 5:1-8.
The clear implication in this prophecy is that when the Lord comes, it will be the ultra-rich incorrigible wicked of the earth who will be in BIG TROUBLE. Is this a correct understanding of this prophecy? Let’s see…..
I have already pointed out in this study that the plans of these “elite” world leaders are to go into their underground bunkers in order to escape the destruction they KNOW is coming. Is it then just “coincidence” that the inspired Word tells us…..
That they will flee into their Bunkers…
“And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the idols He shall utterly abolish.
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to accounted of?” Isaiah 2:17-22.
This prophecy speaks of these men who are “proud and lofty” [verse 12] going into the exact parts of the earth [tops of mountains; caves; ragged rocks; isolated areas] where the ultra-rich have built their secret underground bunkers, and have placed in them their silver and gold and other treasures which they so highly prize. Is this just “coincidence” too? Also compare Revelation 6:15-17.
Notice that the Lord says that they are going to leave those treasures “to the moles and to the bats.” Now why would they do that? Because Almighty God is going to totally upset their plans. In so terribly shaking the earth, those underground bunkers are going to become “death traps” for everyone foolish enough to remain in them. If Almighty God could rip the earth apart as He did in the days of Peleg [Genesis 10:25], dividing the one great land mass into the continents and islands that exist today, then how silly it is for men to think that their reinforced concrete and steel underground bunkers will pose any challenge to the Lord. Yes, they will flee to their bunkers as planned…..
But they will also flee from their bunkers…..
“They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of Thee,” Micah 7:17.
When the Lord begins to “shake terribly the earth” all of these secret underground bunkers of the “elite” will then be seen for what they really are; merely the silly, futile, efforts of wicked, willingly ignorant, men to resist Almighty God. Sic! Listen again to the inspired Word of God…..
“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His Anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my King upon My holy hill of Zion,” Psalm 2:2-6.
“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded;
but ye have set at nought all My counsel, and would none of My reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh;
when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Then shall they call upon Me, but I will not answer; they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me:
for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
they would none of My counsel: they despised all My reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their
own devices,” Proverbs 1:24-31.
Imagine if you can, being sealed up in one of those underground bunkers when the whole earth begins violently shaking, so much so that the bunker itself literally splits apart and water, mud, rocks, and only the Lord knows what else begins pouring into your bunker.
Or, being sealed up in one of those bunkers when the section of the earth where your bunker is located literally splits wide open in a vast chasm and the whole bunker falls thousands of feet deeper into the earth, and then the earth closes up on it sealing off all the exits from the bunker “for ever.”
Or, being sealed up in one of the bunkers when the violent shaking of the earth causes the whole area of land where your bunker is located to sink, bringing the waters of the sea in to cover the whole area with the sea. Trapped beneath the sea with no way out “for ever.”
Folks, “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” Galatians 6:7.
Every reader needs to remember that our just and altogether righteous Lord God has lovingly counseled with mankind by appealing to all men…..
“Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near,” Isaiah 55:6.
This Scripture makes it quite plain that THE ONLY TIME anyone can ever be saved is when the Lord Himself is drawing them through His Word and through the wooing of His Holy Spirit, John 6:44-45; Romans 10:17. When men then set their hearts and minds and will against the Lord and against His Word and refuse to acknowledge God, they are willfully choosing their own eternal damnation!
Again remember…..”It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God,” Hebrews 10:31.
Conclusion
Yes! Humanity today is living in “the time of the end,” Daniel 12:4.
Yes! The Seven Year Tribulation period is staring humanity in the face RIGHT NOW!
Yes! Planet X is real and it is inbound into the solar system, and men left on this earth after the rapture of God’s people will see it with their own eyes.
Yes! Some living today will “escape all these things that shall come to pass, and …..stand before the Son of man,” Luke 21:36. Why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ is coming “in the air” to resurrect and rapture His New Covenant saints to glory BEFORE the Tribulation, exactly as He promised in His Word. See John 14:1-3, Romans 5:9, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-18, 5:9, and Revelation 3:10.
Yes! Salvation is still available for those who are willing to hear, repent, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as their own personal Savior, John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 10:8-13. But hurry! Time is running out! Read 2 Corinthians 6:1-2. If you put off the salvation of your eternal soul until the rapture actually occurs, you may have waited too long, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.
Yes! I DO CARE about the eternal salvation of my readers! I will be glad to hear from any reader needing spiritual help, and will do everything I know to do to help you find salvation and peace in the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. As I close this study I admonish every reader to, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” 2 Corinthians 11:5. See also 2 Peter 1:10.
THE RAPTURE…..Don’t miss it for the World!
“Because thou hast kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth,” Revelation 3:10.
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I would love to have the time to go over the scriptural references and ponder them as a further witness. I have stuck mostly to references from the New Testament, Book of Mormon and some Doctrine and Covenants stuff. I would love to jump in up to my elbows in the Old Testament and see what is in there. What is there that I have delved into is off the charts - that collection has some awesome funk to it. Isaiah was cryptic and deep. Fantastic stuff. Maybe someone else can benefit from this stuff
SEEKING A SIGN FOR MY WIFE - HITTING A HOME RUN WITH ABRAHAM
Marriage is designed as the ultimate check and balance as one sees the other maybe straying a little too far out of the accepted bubble the pair has agreed to work/live within (if things are not in harmony, the imbalance is often manifested as shown above with the pissed-off woman attempting to fillet her pleading partner over the deemed stupidity....).
So, after (she) initially proposing that we head over to MT, my wife is now seeing the enormity of the prospect and is understandably beginning to balk at the road ahead of her. I understand that from her. It is human nature. When I told her to buckle up in our 33rd year, she didn't even connect and then wham, we lost our 9 month old. When the dream I had the night he died predicted we would receive a sign that things were fine and then he showed up with my Mom to my Dad to deliver a message, just as predicted, my wife asked for a sign, not believing that my Dad could be the recipient of such a revelation. I had to pray for several weeks and then wham, another overwhelming sign that she could not ignore from the other side while my Dad was in the West Jordan temple. The Lord always comes through - every time, if the desires are righteous. Part of her disbelief over some of this stuff is that, she, being the mother should have had those experiences for herself - and not someone else she deems less able or relevant to her experience. After all, she birthed the baby, she gets the mother of all revelations. And, I generally think that should be the case. Maybe, that very lack of believing is the source of the others being the recipient of such largesse and not herself. Maybe it just simply comes down to genetics/lineage/eternal order of things; I really can't say. Some people (groups) just simply have these kinds of things in spades.
So Thursday night, at my DSW's request that I make absolutely sure of my lunatic's self, decided to make it to the temple (alone so I would not be distracted) and seek out a direct answer from the Lord. I was not going for the open day vision, first because I was not going fasting for three days or anything like that (I had a bag of honey BBQ wings in the freezer that would not allow me to do so) and secondly have never had one of those ever (even though that would be cool and is on my bucket list), but I was in a state of prayer and contemplation, nonetheless. I would prefer to not have to make a move, be away from my family for some time, etc - I am a family man through and through. This will arguably be nearly as hard on me as it might be on my wife, although I have work to distract me every day....
So I went to the Seattle temple alone last night. As is customary when I have a big decision, I got my name (which I jotted down and directly translates, to "Gentle_patriarch God_is_with_us Proper" and who was born on the exact middle date of of the week of Passover of 1934) and headed to the chapel early to wait for the next session and specifically chose a place to sit away from the others, "feeling my way" until a particular bench "felt" right. I sat down and grabbed the D&C in the pocket said a little prayer and flipped it open to the Facsimile No.1 of the Book of Abraham. I read over the meanings of all of those elements and found nothing in there that I could use - and then I glanced to the other page and immediately read Abraham 1:1;
In the land of the Chaldeans, at the residence of my fathers, I, Abraham, saw that it was needful for me to obtain another place of residence;
I just about burst out laughing - you can't make any of this stuff up. We are definitely in the land of my fathers where I was raised - and with all this gay marriage crud, and ridiculous political stupidity that I have to deal with, Babylon/Chaldea is pretty much in the bag.... The message here is - its time to get the heck out regardless of Elenin or anything else. Seeing that New York just approved gay "marriage" a day ago, Boston,MASS (stupidity) and that mess, California has activist judges shoving it down peoples' throats, Oregon, etc, the areas all previously described/slated for destruction are on the docket, having begged for their demise and now I am stuck in the middle of this (CLICK LINK). I prefer not to be a hapless victim of it all - NO THANKS!!!! So would I be surprised by an Elenin-style event? Not in the least. Has it moved from an isolated thing in an exceedingly wicked city such as San Fran to consume the left coast? Absolutely. From a biblical perspective, are we ripened in the areas defined in D&C and my personal revelations (west coast), I say so. Whats the answer? Get out to a place where most people still farm and have a healthy sense of the common - which is; put a pair of bulls or cows in a pen and feed them til they die, and you will have two dead carcasses and ZERO progeny when it is all over. Game over, folks. The plan follows satan's deal to the letter - carefully dragging gullible idiots carefully down to hell til they are bound and there is no escape. The trap has been set, the bait oddly enticing to many who are blinded (even Steve Young has listened Solomonically to his "strange woman" and is on board - too much time as a 49er, I guess....), and the deserved fate determined for those who insist on dabbling in and supporting Babylon. NO THANKS!!
Soooo...., I then noticed that someone had put the white book mark ribbon on that page. I then cleared my mind and flipped through to the next page that fell open which was D&C 88 (no book mark on this one...) and without even looking around, my eyes fixated on verse 81 - the very verse I have been thinking about greatly since first putting this together for myself. Do I let anyone else know of my lunatic feelings since there will be collateral implications for all others who live here? - or do we just quietly move and just tell folks that we know and love that we are just "living the dream" (and leaving the nightmare this place has become)?? Well, I got my answer - and I think in spades. We truly, once we have been warned, must tell our neighbors and warn them of what is coming. I then read further on (and I had forgotten this from previous readings of Section 88)(CLICK LINK), where it goes into all of the destruction that will occur during the opening of the seventh seal - and then the destruction when the Lord actually comes after the half hour of silence. Man, are we ever in for some interesting times - and who knew it to be so close at hand?? I guess human nature just drives it further out there into the future of the mind because the reality of the near possibility is just too much for the human mind to process.
Such it is with my sign-seeking wife. There is not an ounce of wicked/adulterous/fornicatious (CLICK LINK for a great read) badness in her - but she has a hard time with this stuff - probably due to her mis-trust of men in general due to some bad events she went through as a little girl. She has seen me go through so many of these kinds of events where the needle was threaded properly - but then having witnessed all of my human-ness in all of its diminishing glory, it is hard for her (still) to believe it. So, her self-appointed task is reading about Sarah and how she put up with Lehi's seemingly ridiculous antics.... that ultimately saved their bacon.
As I was leaving the Celestial room, I decided to see if there were any more "messages" for me and went over to one of the tables where the D&C were. I went to pick up the first one - it was the spanish version. I then walked across the room to where two others were lying on a table - first one spanish - next one spanish and then glancing over to the other book (a Bible) - it was in english..... C'mon, this is the Seattle temple - not the Mexico City, Mexico temple!! I guess I had my message.
So, my conclusion is that I have all the answer I need for myself - that kind of cemented it for me. All that fasting that my wife did to help me have the right answer (for her) did not pay off (for her). I guess we will know in a few short months. For those of us on the west coast, there mostly will be NO SECOND CHANCE..... I feel for people I have told out here. Hopefully, there will be a calling out by local leadership not mired in a deep sleep (institutional hypoxia); or someone at the top from SLC (I really feel they know and will talk about something I know further down in this topic). I don't have those keys to make a call for the masses - and have no institutional credibility even if I did. In fact, I have been laughed at and scorned for having exercised the keys for my family (whom I do have sole ultimate responsibility for) in the past - and I forgive those people who should know better, but resent having gone through the experience precisely because I expect better from the caliber of people I am surrounded with.
So, revisiting the topic of a callout from the top. I have a pretty solid feeling that the top brass know where/when/what is coming. I was talking to my old Bishop from Kent about second coming stuff (we were pretty much the only people in the Ward who seemed to care about it), and he is tied into a guy named Joel Skousen (son of Cleon) who is a disaster consultant to the rich/powerful. He (Joel) indicated that the Bretheren all have shelters at their places in the mountains. Dug in. Not sure if that is just a general statement, or what, but it is what it is. I have a feeling that most of the people at the top of most governmental organizations also are in the know and have made preparations. It is the poor suckers like me that will get chewed up.... I like to call myself fodder.
Anyway, enough ramblings. Hope anyone that is taking this stuff seriously has the direction and wisdom that is needed to thread the needle. I would be gratified to know that, for all of the late nights tapping away on this blog, that it saved the bacon of just a few folks - especially innocent children - as the adults have enough resources such as access to personal inspiration, means, etc that they have no excuses. Being the catalyst for the saving of a few people would be payment enough for the countless hours I have put in.
God bless you in your efforts - and please pray for me. I am going to finally head over on or around September 10, 2011 just to make sure if things get weird on September 11th, I am not around. That would be the tenth anniversary - and we just stirred the hornets nest by killing the queen bee. We may (not will) be in for a surprise.... I was over in Kali working on our place on the zero anniversary - and it was a great feeling of safety when things went outside of normal in a big way. When things do get weird in our future (such as an Iranian nuke flying out of Libya towards Israel - and the ensuing limited nuclear exchange) or any other host of possibilities, there most probably will be martial law and movement between states will be limited or non-existent. The trap set and sprung two weeks later if you live on the west coast.
It will NOT be fun.
JAPANESE EQ IS PRECEDED BY HEATING IN THE ATMOSPHERE
I have a wild-eyed guy at work who blames everything in the world on HAARP (High Altitude Aural Research Project) - but then the tin foil hat may be a little loose-fitting these days.... I think he is into the little green men "crop circles are real, man" bull puckey, as well.
Anyway, if I am correct that it may be more of an external factor such as gravitational effects of other bodies on our own, etc - this may be another piece of the puzzle. A piezo-electric effect of sorts as the earth's crust is stressed which then heats the atmosphere. This is just a wild guess as to what this may be:
CLICK LINK
I think it may be possible to manipulate the weather if there is anything to this HAARP thing - but not the earth's crust. That is too far outside the fringe for me.
Anyway, if I am correct that it may be more of an external factor such as gravitational effects of other bodies on our own, etc - this may be another piece of the puzzle. A piezo-electric effect of sorts as the earth's crust is stressed which then heats the atmosphere. This is just a wild guess as to what this may be:
CLICK LINK
I think it may be possible to manipulate the weather if there is anything to this HAARP thing - but not the earth's crust. That is too far outside the fringe for me.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
INSTITUTIONAL HYPOXIA
This is a topic that has long been on my mind and it has caused me great distress - how we as individuals (me and my family included) and as a group can be basically asleep at the wheel of life when there is so much going on around us.
I am a guy who runs perpetually on too little sleep - and more than once it has almost led to my demise. More than just a few of these blog pieces were written under the influence of too little sleep - thus the rambling nature of most of them.
Once, I was in a situation where sleepiness was brought on by too little oxygen - a nice little state of drowsiness called hypoxia (hypo oxia). I was working in Flight Test Engineer and, as part of a test, we had commanded an (cabin pressurization) outflow valve open by opening a breaker and then inadvertently left it open, thinking it was closed. As we were climbing up to 37,000 feet, I began to feel very light headed and then my thought processes began to slow and a nice feeling of well-being came over me at around 14,000 feet. If someone had given me some terrible news, I would have been just fine with it - I didn't have a care in the world.
At that point, I was just behind the flight deck and heard the warning sirens going off and the masks suddenly dropped. I had enough presence of mind to then grab the mask and activate for a nice whiff of oxygen which then quickly revived me and my full cognition returned and my mind comprehended the slow state of death I was entering into that could have taken my life had I not acted.
So it is in this life. We must never get too distracted or complacent and lose awareness of the danger around us and the fragility of our situation so that we are too slow to react before it is too late. When the warning bells begin to go off and the Spirit is warning us to our imminent demise, we must spring into action and put our full effort into maintaining focus and acting according to the commands we are given. When I tell people they should be ready - and watching and waiting, people perk up and then slowly descend back into that dreamy spiritually hypoxic state where it is so comfortable and there are no cares. Truly it was that very condition that Isaiah warned about in the Book of Mormon:
In talking about that condition, a friend of mine last night mentioned that one of her relations perked up when told about what may be coming, asked for the expected date, and promptly fell right back into metaphorical sleep. Its like, C'MON!!! Makes you want to shake people. Is it just me? Or is anyone else as frustrated with people??
I guess we are just creatures of habit. We will wait until there is no more time, maybe see which team is winning and then go root for that team. Fence sitters most of us - and we all know what happened to that lot in the high-stakes game in the pre-existence.
So lastly, I want to draw attention to the quote on the right side of the blog near the top. It is God's expectation that we be watching and waiting with our lamps trimmed and ready to go.
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
God does not look favorably on the last-minute lookie-lous that want to just jump in at the last minute knowing they were going to get a free ride.
I am a guy who runs perpetually on too little sleep - and more than once it has almost led to my demise. More than just a few of these blog pieces were written under the influence of too little sleep - thus the rambling nature of most of them.
Once, I was in a situation where sleepiness was brought on by too little oxygen - a nice little state of drowsiness called hypoxia (hypo oxia). I was working in Flight Test Engineer and, as part of a test, we had commanded an (cabin pressurization) outflow valve open by opening a breaker and then inadvertently left it open, thinking it was closed. As we were climbing up to 37,000 feet, I began to feel very light headed and then my thought processes began to slow and a nice feeling of well-being came over me at around 14,000 feet. If someone had given me some terrible news, I would have been just fine with it - I didn't have a care in the world.
At that point, I was just behind the flight deck and heard the warning sirens going off and the masks suddenly dropped. I had enough presence of mind to then grab the mask and activate for a nice whiff of oxygen which then quickly revived me and my full cognition returned and my mind comprehended the slow state of death I was entering into that could have taken my life had I not acted.
So it is in this life. We must never get too distracted or complacent and lose awareness of the danger around us and the fragility of our situation so that we are too slow to react before it is too late. When the warning bells begin to go off and the Spirit is warning us to our imminent demise, we must spring into action and put our full effort into maintaining focus and acting according to the commands we are given. When I tell people they should be ready - and watching and waiting, people perk up and then slowly descend back into that dreamy spiritually hypoxic state where it is so comfortable and there are no cares. Truly it was that very condition that Isaiah warned about in the Book of Mormon:
2 Nephi 1:13 O that ye would awake; awake from a deep sleep, yea, even from the sleep of hell, and shake off the awful chains by which ye are bound, which are the chains which bind the children of men, that they are carried away captive down to the eternal gulf of misery and woe.
2 Nephi 27:5 For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and ye have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and the seers hath he covered because of your iniquity.
In talking about that condition, a friend of mine last night mentioned that one of her relations perked up when told about what may be coming, asked for the expected date, and promptly fell right back into metaphorical sleep. Its like, C'MON!!! Makes you want to shake people. Is it just me? Or is anyone else as frustrated with people??
I guess we are just creatures of habit. We will wait until there is no more time, maybe see which team is winning and then go root for that team. Fence sitters most of us - and we all know what happened to that lot in the high-stakes game in the pre-existence.
So lastly, I want to draw attention to the quote on the right side of the blog near the top. It is God's expectation that we be watching and waiting with our lamps trimmed and ready to go.
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
God does not look favorably on the last-minute lookie-lous that want to just jump in at the last minute knowing they were going to get a free ride.
JEWISH CALENDAR OF FESTIVAL DATES
I THINK ALL OF MODERN ISRAEL SHOULD LISTEN TO THEIR ROOTS AND PAY ATTENTION TO IMPORTANT DATES ON THE CALENDAR SUCH AS ROSH HOSHANA, PASSOVER, ETC.
ALL PAST IMPORTANT OCCURRENCES IN THE LDS CHURCH HAVE FALLEN ON THESE HOLY DAYS - AND I SEE NO REASON NOT TO DOUBT THAT IMPORTANT THINGS WILL OCCUR ON THOSE DATES IN THE FUTURE.
HERE IS A CALENDAR FOR THE CURIOUS. NEXT BIG STOP FOR MODERN ISRAEL IS OCTOBER 18-20 FOR 2011. HERE IS A CALENDAR TO PLAY WITH: CLICK LINK http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tDate=10/19/2011
Click on Hoshana Rabbah on the calendar - and you get this, for example:
So Hoshanah Rabbah is a day of divine judgement - and a potential date for the "BIG ONE" in Utah with the Elenin alignment date. Interesting times we live in......
ALL PAST IMPORTANT OCCURRENCES IN THE LDS CHURCH HAVE FALLEN ON THESE HOLY DAYS - AND I SEE NO REASON NOT TO DOUBT THAT IMPORTANT THINGS WILL OCCUR ON THOSE DATES IN THE FUTURE.
HERE IS A CALENDAR FOR THE CURIOUS. NEXT BIG STOP FOR MODERN ISRAEL IS OCTOBER 18-20 FOR 2011. HERE IS A CALENDAR TO PLAY WITH: CLICK LINK http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tDate=10/19/2011
Click on Hoshana Rabbah on the calendar - and you get this, for example:
"The seventh day of Sukkot is called "Hoshana Rabbah" and is considered the final day of the divine "judgment" in which the fate of the new year is determined. The Psalm L'David Hashem Ori, which has been added to our daily prayer since the 1st of Elul, is recited for the last time today."
So Hoshanah Rabbah is a day of divine judgement - and a potential date for the "BIG ONE" in Utah with the Elenin alignment date. Interesting times we live in......
Monday, June 20, 2011
GAYLE'S NDE - EARTHQUAKE PROPHECY THAT FITS IN WITH ELENIN'S SCHEDULE
A friend of mine in Utah brought this to my attention. I forgot that Gayle had a significant experience and describes the event, time (of year) and location that all dove tail in perfectly with the events coming this fall. I still have to dig up the other corroborating stories (from my Dreams and Visions books) that led me to say with a level of certainty that there would be an earthquake on those late September and October dates - that later were discovered to be the Elenin alignments. So here is Gayle's story (CLICK LINK).
What can someone say after reading this stuff?? Another slam dunk for the date, event and locations. Way too random to dismiss - and too many unassociated different voices to let slide.
Gayle also nails the time of year and event when Apophis comes in around 22 years after this thing and it nails us with a direct hit on Passover (and get this - Friday 13th, 2036). That is the curtain call for the wicked before we settle in for the 1000 years. Repentance is in order for all of us no matter where we are at in our personal progression to prepare to meet God - and our great Aunt Dinah..... If there is something in your lives that is not right, now is the time to get things in order. Time is short - and, if this stuff is spot on; what a unique thing to know and be able to use the little time that is left to prepare. Most people will just get bowled over and, for the most part, not even know what hit them. In some ways that would be more merciful - but I have a great sense of adventure and like messing with the odds to see what God can do for me, my wife and my little ones in punching through the eye of the needle into the Millennium. After it is all over, I want to be able to wear the t-shirt that says, "I survived Elenin, Apophis and the Anti-Christ". The stories that come out of the whole ordeal will make for killer "around the campfire" fare. That has been the purpose of this whole blog and preparedness - to figure out what is coming and be at the ready - not from a temporal "arm of the flesh" standpoint, but from a "watching and waiting with anticipation" standpoint. I am as excited as I can be for this stuff. I have no fear - I have been on the hoary edge of death many times - so I am running on life's reserve tank and just taking it one day at a time.
We are in for a ride! Buckle up and enjoy!!
What can someone say after reading this stuff?? Another slam dunk for the date, event and locations. Way too random to dismiss - and too many unassociated different voices to let slide.
Gayle also nails the time of year and event when Apophis comes in around 22 years after this thing and it nails us with a direct hit on Passover (and get this - Friday 13th, 2036). That is the curtain call for the wicked before we settle in for the 1000 years. Repentance is in order for all of us no matter where we are at in our personal progression to prepare to meet God - and our great Aunt Dinah..... If there is something in your lives that is not right, now is the time to get things in order. Time is short - and, if this stuff is spot on; what a unique thing to know and be able to use the little time that is left to prepare. Most people will just get bowled over and, for the most part, not even know what hit them. In some ways that would be more merciful - but I have a great sense of adventure and like messing with the odds to see what God can do for me, my wife and my little ones in punching through the eye of the needle into the Millennium. After it is all over, I want to be able to wear the t-shirt that says, "I survived Elenin, Apophis and the Anti-Christ". The stories that come out of the whole ordeal will make for killer "around the campfire" fare. That has been the purpose of this whole blog and preparedness - to figure out what is coming and be at the ready - not from a temporal "arm of the flesh" standpoint, but from a "watching and waiting with anticipation" standpoint. I am as excited as I can be for this stuff. I have no fear - I have been on the hoary edge of death many times - so I am running on life's reserve tank and just taking it one day at a time.
We are in for a ride! Buckle up and enjoy!!
Sunday, June 19, 2011
WILL THERE BE A GENERAL CALLOUT BY OUR GENERAL AUTHORITIES??
First of all, I want to throw a disclaimer out there on this blog. What you may be reading is just strictly my personal musings and journey that has brought be to this point in my life. Each individual (couple) have to decide what is right for themselves through the instrumentality of the Spirit of the Lord and then act decisively on that information and direction.
I have no stewardship other than for my own family and for our situation - and then maybe the information and direction I am given may be used by others and applied to their individual circumstances. And I am quite fine with that - because it is an excessive burden to even begin to care about my own family - let alone others. I have passed this information along to my good Bishop - and he now bears the burden for his own family and the extended ward family over which he has stewardship. I once tried to pass on the (now) fact two years ago to our Stake President (in a temple recommend interview) that we were just entering a full-blown depression in which home values would ultimately plummet 40% and inflation (here in the US) would eventually reach Weimar Republic levels. I got the roll of the eyes and the 'move along' body language - and we are now fully in it (hyper-inflation just around the corner) just as stated. I don't get most of this stuff for myself - I just study the existing stuff that is already out there, obtain a witness for myself and just watch it unfold. Pretty easy stuff to do. It reads like a book when compared against existing case histories from the past.
So are we going to be warned and spoon fed by the Bretheren in SLC when this stuff unfolds? I think not. Name one time in the recent 100 years when we have been spoon fed information that should flow to us along the lines of personal revelation? I personally cannot think of one time. When the first Great Depression was looming, there was not a peep that I am aware of from official channels and yet there was widespread suffering among the Saints. Not a peep that I am aware of from the top level officials or local officials in the case of the Japanese disaster. There was much reactionary actions to be sure - but no direct foreknowledge and preparations made. We already have been given all we need - make a seven/two/one/0.5/0.25 years food supply ready for a time of disaster and need and stay out of debt. Where is that taking most people? Well, that counsel has somehow led many to buy a 52" LCD, a mini-mansion on the fault line (with a view, of course) and live it up filling your homes with the filth of Babylon - but no savings of at least six months in case of a rainy day.
If we will not heed the basics - why should they give us something that might "save" us when we have trampled everything else they have said. The trap is set, the prey has taken the bait, and it is about to spring and snap our necks. Living in SLC years ago, I used to go to City Creek with the Youth on clean-ups for service hours and was shocked to find discarded clothing all over in the bushes where people had left it after hooking up following a 'casual encounter'. Much of that involved non-members, but it never-the-less left me impressed as to the wickedness of that city, just as predicted by Heber C Kimball. There must needs be a separation of the righteous and the wicked - so that the tares can be burned. This will be the object of what is coming and we should take heed to avoid it - or leave Babylon. If we are still flirting with Babylon - we will never get it out of our system because we can never fully divest ourselves of it. It has to be a conscious decision to do it - there has to be a will that wells up from in us or we will never be "millennial material". If the thought of going to Vegas excites us - pretty much forget about it. That place will have a nuke squarely planted on it - and then what will it be? Before that happens, hopefully the honest in heart will feel the need to flee and get the heck out while the getting is good.
Here is some material from a previous post that I hope answers questions in peoples' minds about why the Lord does what He does and how he does it: CLICK LINK
It is hard even for my family to digest this stuff at times - but then, we are probably caught a little too much in Babylon - even though we try to live simply.
May God bless you in your quest to find the answers you are in search of.
I have no stewardship other than for my own family and for our situation - and then maybe the information and direction I am given may be used by others and applied to their individual circumstances. And I am quite fine with that - because it is an excessive burden to even begin to care about my own family - let alone others. I have passed this information along to my good Bishop - and he now bears the burden for his own family and the extended ward family over which he has stewardship. I once tried to pass on the (now) fact two years ago to our Stake President (in a temple recommend interview) that we were just entering a full-blown depression in which home values would ultimately plummet 40% and inflation (here in the US) would eventually reach Weimar Republic levels. I got the roll of the eyes and the 'move along' body language - and we are now fully in it (hyper-inflation just around the corner) just as stated. I don't get most of this stuff for myself - I just study the existing stuff that is already out there, obtain a witness for myself and just watch it unfold. Pretty easy stuff to do. It reads like a book when compared against existing case histories from the past.
So are we going to be warned and spoon fed by the Bretheren in SLC when this stuff unfolds? I think not. Name one time in the recent 100 years when we have been spoon fed information that should flow to us along the lines of personal revelation? I personally cannot think of one time. When the first Great Depression was looming, there was not a peep that I am aware of from official channels and yet there was widespread suffering among the Saints. Not a peep that I am aware of from the top level officials or local officials in the case of the Japanese disaster. There was much reactionary actions to be sure - but no direct foreknowledge and preparations made. We already have been given all we need - make a seven/two/one/0.5/0.25 years food supply ready for a time of disaster and need and stay out of debt. Where is that taking most people? Well, that counsel has somehow led many to buy a 52" LCD, a mini-mansion on the fault line (with a view, of course) and live it up filling your homes with the filth of Babylon - but no savings of at least six months in case of a rainy day.
If we will not heed the basics - why should they give us something that might "save" us when we have trampled everything else they have said. The trap is set, the prey has taken the bait, and it is about to spring and snap our necks. Living in SLC years ago, I used to go to City Creek with the Youth on clean-ups for service hours and was shocked to find discarded clothing all over in the bushes where people had left it after hooking up following a 'casual encounter'. Much of that involved non-members, but it never-the-less left me impressed as to the wickedness of that city, just as predicted by Heber C Kimball. There must needs be a separation of the righteous and the wicked - so that the tares can be burned. This will be the object of what is coming and we should take heed to avoid it - or leave Babylon. If we are still flirting with Babylon - we will never get it out of our system because we can never fully divest ourselves of it. It has to be a conscious decision to do it - there has to be a will that wells up from in us or we will never be "millennial material". If the thought of going to Vegas excites us - pretty much forget about it. That place will have a nuke squarely planted on it - and then what will it be? Before that happens, hopefully the honest in heart will feel the need to flee and get the heck out while the getting is good.
Here is some material from a previous post that I hope answers questions in peoples' minds about why the Lord does what He does and how he does it: CLICK LINK
It is hard even for my family to digest this stuff at times - but then, we are probably caught a little too much in Babylon - even though we try to live simply.
May God bless you in your quest to find the answers you are in search of.
THE BRETHEREN ARE "IN THE KNOW"
I HAVE A FRIEND IN UTAH WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS COMING. HER QUESTION IS WHY WE HAVE NOT HAD A WARNING FROM THE BRETHEREN ON THIS THING. I WILL ANSWER THAT QUESTION (ACCORDING TO MY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE/SPECULATION ON THE SUBJECT). IN THE MEAN-TIME, HERE IS SOMETHING FROM ONE OF MY BEST SOURCES OF INFO, LDSFREEDOMFORUMS.COM (CLICK LINK):
Re: Elenin evidence to judge for yourself
Postby Zkulptor » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:04 pm
Rass922 wrote:
Zkulptor wrote:Rass,
What do you think would be the best and worse case scenario? Do you feel this will change the way we live? or maybe just fireworks in the sky? and when will we see this happen?
Consider as that brown dwarf moves closer to Earth the changes will continue to escalate; in other words, it won't go zero to sixty in thirty seconds. The changes will continue to escalate, both in quantity and intensity. Eventually something big will snap, but overall you will "see" it coming even before it is visible in the sky just by watching the increase in earth changes.
I suspect however that once something big does happen (and that can include more than just a tectonic plate moving -- tides rising worldwide, a first-world city evaporated by an incoming bolide or a massive earthquake,the possibilities are endless) you will see a panic that will suck up survival commodities in a heartbeat. Then whatcha gonna do?
I wonder if this is the event Elder Scott spoke about according to Elias Returns ( member here)... he said the following was stated 6 months prior to his post, he posted this Monday January 24th 2011 , so it has been almost a year since this was said, I am not saying this is Church Doctrine, I am just wondering about what said brother posted... food for thought...:
Elias Returns wrote:WOW!......this is an exciting post. We had Elder Kim B. Clark from BYU-Idaho preside over our last Stake Conference and he had stated a certain conversation that he had 6 months prior with Elder Scott at dinner. Elder Scott had stated " that the Brethren of the Church are very concerned, because we as a Church do not have enough teachers (missionaries) available to help teach the massive amount of new members that are going to be coming into the Church in the next couple of years. We know that we are close to the Saviors return, and that the times ahead will get much, much worse. And because of what is coming, we will see millions coming into the Church for help, and as a place of refuge from what is coming. This will happen very soon, and we need to get our Brothers and Sisters prepared to help."
This was a word for word account given by Elder Clark, as written down from both myself and my wife who both attended, together, this Stake Conference.- (Disclaimer Added to protect our good name) :D
I believe that this will happen after AOA, because that is when as we are counseled through modern revelation and direction by the GA's that the cleansing in His own House will start as well as the cleansing of America, such as wars, scourges, food shortage, economic collapse and such. The time I feel is very close, and no we won't know when AOA takes place, but I have a feeling we will right afterwards. :wink:
Re: Elenin evidence to judge for yourself
Postby Zkulptor » Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:04 pm
Rass922 wrote:
Zkulptor wrote:Rass,
What do you think would be the best and worse case scenario? Do you feel this will change the way we live? or maybe just fireworks in the sky? and when will we see this happen?
Consider as that brown dwarf moves closer to Earth the changes will continue to escalate; in other words, it won't go zero to sixty in thirty seconds. The changes will continue to escalate, both in quantity and intensity. Eventually something big will snap, but overall you will "see" it coming even before it is visible in the sky just by watching the increase in earth changes.
I suspect however that once something big does happen (and that can include more than just a tectonic plate moving -- tides rising worldwide, a first-world city evaporated by an incoming bolide or a massive earthquake,the possibilities are endless) you will see a panic that will suck up survival commodities in a heartbeat. Then whatcha gonna do?
I wonder if this is the event Elder Scott spoke about according to Elias Returns ( member here)... he said the following was stated 6 months prior to his post, he posted this Monday January 24th 2011 , so it has been almost a year since this was said, I am not saying this is Church Doctrine, I am just wondering about what said brother posted... food for thought...:
Elias Returns wrote:WOW!......this is an exciting post. We had Elder Kim B. Clark from BYU-Idaho preside over our last Stake Conference and he had stated a certain conversation that he had 6 months prior with Elder Scott at dinner. Elder Scott had stated " that the Brethren of the Church are very concerned, because we as a Church do not have enough teachers (missionaries) available to help teach the massive amount of new members that are going to be coming into the Church in the next couple of years. We know that we are close to the Saviors return, and that the times ahead will get much, much worse. And because of what is coming, we will see millions coming into the Church for help, and as a place of refuge from what is coming. This will happen very soon, and we need to get our Brothers and Sisters prepared to help."
This was a word for word account given by Elder Clark, as written down from both myself and my wife who both attended, together, this Stake Conference.- (Disclaimer Added to protect our good name) :D
I believe that this will happen after AOA, because that is when as we are counseled through modern revelation and direction by the GA's that the cleansing in His own House will start as well as the cleansing of America, such as wars, scourges, food shortage, economic collapse and such. The time I feel is very close, and no we won't know when AOA takes place, but I have a feeling we will right afterwards. :wink:
Saturday, June 18, 2011
A PICTURE OF ELENIN FROM CHANDRA, OUR ORBITING X-RAY OBSERVATORY
ELENIN SHOWS AT LEAST TWO ORBITERS (I BELIEVE FOUR SHOW UP - AND A BUNCH OF JUNK SHE PICKED UP ON HER WAY THRU THE ASTEROID BELT) AROUND HER. VERY INTERESTING STUFF, INDEED!
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THE DOCTRINAL IMPLICATIONS ARE HUGE....
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THE DOCTRINAL IMPLICATIONS ARE HUGE....
NO WAY - THE END OF THE MAYAN CALENDAR IS DECEMBER 24, 2011????
STICK WITH ME THROUGH THIS YOU-TUBE! THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST ELABORATE HOAXES PERPETUATED BY TPTB IN ORDER TO WIPE OUT AS MANY "USELESS EATERS" AS THEY CAN:
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THAT IS OFF THE CHARTS!!
AND THEN LOOK AT THE GRAPHIC AT THE END OF THE CLIP. THE FOUR OBJECTS ORBITING ELENIN ARE WHAT WE WILL SEE - BEING PARTS OF THIS EARTH THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY SEVERED THAT ARE RETURNING TO THEIR ORIGINAL LOCATIONS.
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AND THEN LOOK AT THE GRAPHIC AT THE END OF THE CLIP. THE FOUR OBJECTS ORBITING ELENIN ARE WHAT WE WILL SEE - BEING PARTS OF THIS EARTH THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY SEVERED THAT ARE RETURNING TO THEIR ORIGINAL LOCATIONS.
OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL - ELENIN HAS ALL OF THE MARKERS
WENT TO LDS FREEDOM FORUMS AND HAVE BEEN WANTING TO POST SOMETHING FROM A THREAD ON THE OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. ELENIN FITS ALL MARKERS:
When I see the sign of the Son of Man coming (the one spoken of by Joseph Smith and in D&C), I will look to the New Jerusalem for his arrival because it happens before the 1/2 hour of silence. When you see the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, you will be looking at Old Jerusalem and will think you missed the boat because the 1st trump in your mind will already have sounded and the first resurrection will have already occurred because Christ comes to the Old Jerusalem with the seventh trump.
There are three appearances of Christ as you know. Take a look at when those three signs are given. One before the 1/2 hour of silence, which is the signal of the opening of the seventh seal, one at the sound of the trumpet to Old Jerusalem, well after the 1/2 hour of silence, and one after that when he appears to all the world. We have not even seen the first one yet. The half hour of silence has not begun yet. The opening of the seventh seal has not happened yet.
I know we are all anxious to have it happen, but it has not.
Take a look at this sign I speak of. Joseph Smith spoke of it. The D&C teaches of it. It happens before the 1/2 hour of silence. Even everyone on this forum speaks of it as if it has not happened. That is because it hasn't.
(Doctrine and Covenants 88:92-95.)
92 And angels shall fly through the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the judgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
93 And immediately there shall appear a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.
94 And another angel shall sound his trump, saying: That great church, the mother of abominations, that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, that persecuteth the saints of God, that shed their blood—she who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of the sea—behold, she is the tares of the earth; she is bound in bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them; therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.
95 And there shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled;
In regard to these signs the Prophet Joseph Smith has given us the following: "There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the seas heaving beyond their bounds; then will appear one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven. But what will the world do? They will say it is a planet, a comet, etc. But the Son of Man will come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning cometh out of the east." (D.H.C. April 6, 1843. "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 286-7.)
(Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, 4 vols. [Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1946-1949], 1: 145.)
We read in the scriptures (Daniel ch. 7) that there is to be a grand council in the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, at which will be gathered all those who have held keys of dispensations, and a multitude of others. At this council reports will be given of stewardships by these servants who held the keys, Jesus Christ will come to take his rightful place as King of kings on the earth. At this council Adam will deliver up his stewardship along with the others, but will retain his standing as the head, or presiding officer, over the human family. Adam is named the "Ancient of Days," because, as the Prophet says, "Daniel in his seventh chapter speaks of the Ancient of Days; he means the oldest man, our father Adam, Michael, he will call his children together and hold a council with them to prepare them for the coming of the Son of Man." (D.H.C., Vol. 3:386.)
(Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, 4 vols. [Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1946-1949], 4: 39 - 40.)
(Daniel 7:13-14.)
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
This is the opening of the seventh seal, the Millennium. Christ will have the keys, He will reign, but the earth will not know it because it all happened in a Priesthood Meeting at Adam ondi Ahmen.
When I see the sign of the Son of Man coming (the one spoken of by Joseph Smith and in D&C), I will look to the New Jerusalem for his arrival because it happens before the 1/2 hour of silence. When you see the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, you will be looking at Old Jerusalem and will think you missed the boat because the 1st trump in your mind will already have sounded and the first resurrection will have already occurred because Christ comes to the Old Jerusalem with the seventh trump.
There are three appearances of Christ as you know. Take a look at when those three signs are given. One before the 1/2 hour of silence, which is the signal of the opening of the seventh seal, one at the sound of the trumpet to Old Jerusalem, well after the 1/2 hour of silence, and one after that when he appears to all the world. We have not even seen the first one yet. The half hour of silence has not begun yet. The opening of the seventh seal has not happened yet.
I know we are all anxious to have it happen, but it has not.
Take a look at this sign I speak of. Joseph Smith spoke of it. The D&C teaches of it. It happens before the 1/2 hour of silence. Even everyone on this forum speaks of it as if it has not happened. That is because it hasn't.
(Doctrine and Covenants 88:92-95.)
92 And angels shall fly through the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the judgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
93 And immediately there shall appear a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.
94 And another angel shall sound his trump, saying: That great church, the mother of abominations, that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, that persecuteth the saints of God, that shed their blood—she who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of the sea—behold, she is the tares of the earth; she is bound in bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them; therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.
95 And there shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled;
In regard to these signs the Prophet Joseph Smith has given us the following: "There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the seas heaving beyond their bounds; then will appear one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven. But what will the world do? They will say it is a planet, a comet, etc. But the Son of Man will come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning cometh out of the east." (D.H.C. April 6, 1843. "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 286-7.)
(Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, 4 vols. [Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1946-1949], 1: 145.)
We read in the scriptures (Daniel ch. 7) that there is to be a grand council in the valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, at which will be gathered all those who have held keys of dispensations, and a multitude of others. At this council reports will be given of stewardships by these servants who held the keys, Jesus Christ will come to take his rightful place as King of kings on the earth. At this council Adam will deliver up his stewardship along with the others, but will retain his standing as the head, or presiding officer, over the human family. Adam is named the "Ancient of Days," because, as the Prophet says, "Daniel in his seventh chapter speaks of the Ancient of Days; he means the oldest man, our father Adam, Michael, he will call his children together and hold a council with them to prepare them for the coming of the Son of Man." (D.H.C., Vol. 3:386.)
(Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, 4 vols. [Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1946-1949], 4: 39 - 40.)
(Daniel 7:13-14.)
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
This is the opening of the seventh seal, the Millennium. Christ will have the keys, He will reign, but the earth will not know it because it all happened in a Priesthood Meeting at Adam ondi Ahmen.
A SHIFT TO GRADUALISM WITHIN THE CHURCH - JOINING THE HERD IN THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE
A NICE EXPOSE BY ANTHONY E LARSON ON WHY CATASTROPHISM HAS BEEN ERODED FROM OUR CHURCH'S PSYCHE IN THE LAST 150 YEARS. I CAN'T STAND GRADUALISTS AND AM LOOKING QUITE FORWARD TO THE TIME WHEN THEY ARE SITTING ON THE CORRECT SIDE OF THE FENCE....(IF THEY SURVIVE THE MASSIVE COMING SHAKING/LIQUEFACTION). EVEN DOLTS WITHIN THE CHURCH WHO READ THE BOOK OF MORMON, AND PROFESS BELIEF IN IT, DENY CATASTROPHISM - ABSOLUTELY WAY TOO MUCH FOR ME TO COMPREHEND - REALLY. I HAVE AN EASIER TIME COMPREHENDING THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF A M12.5 EARTHQUAKE THAN I DO OF OUTRIGHT INDOLENCE AND STUPIDITY....
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Children of the Light?
Latter-day Saints' opinion on the subject of potential planetary near impacts, past and present, differs little from that of the general public. Sadly, most Mormons seem as indifferent to this concept as their secular and sectarian contemporaries. Yet, it probably should not be so.
Joseph Smith clearly held a catastrophist view of history and prophecy that included disasters originating in the heavens, which would have had devastating effects here on Earth. Speaking of the Second Coming, he said, "It is not the design of the Almighty to come upon the Earth and crush it and grind it to powder . . . ." (History of the Church, 5:337.) These words are not those of a gradualist or uniformitarian. They bespeak a catastrophist point of view. It is well established by this author that Joseph Smith's teachings on past and future events are patently catastrophist. (See The Prophecy Trilogy, Vol. 3, Ch. 1.) Given that fact, why are so many Latter-day Saints loath to accept this interpretation of history and prophecy? For the answer to that question, we will have to examine history.
Abandoning our roots
The restoration of the gospel began at the same time as a revolution in geology and biology. Popular opinion in Joseph Smith's day held that the Creation and Noah's Flood had largely shaped the world. Today they would be called creationists. Geologists like Hutton and Lyell disputed that view, noting that a rational interpretation of the geologic record argued for a very old planet altered only by slow processes over eons of time. They were gradualists.
In Joseph Smith's day, the gradualists were a minority, but by the latter half of the 19th century, the scientific and academic communities had spurned creationism and catastrophism to embrace gradualism completely. The general public was somewhat slower to shift opinion. Still, by the turn of the century, gradualism dominated the thought of the general public since it was, by that time, the only way the subject was taught in almost all academic settings.
Mormons in flux
This ideological shift presented a problem to Mormons who were in the process of trying to integrate with the larger American culture. Historically, the church and the government had been at odds, as any student of early church history knows. The Saints' exodus to the Great Salt Lake Valley originally put them outside the confines of the United States. However, they eventually found themselves once again within its boarders due to the westward expansion of the nation. This left the Saints with a difficult decision: move yet again, just as they had left Jackson County and then Nauvoo, leaving behind another city and temple erected from raw land, or accommodate the laws and cultural standards of the United States so they could keep their new desert home. The decision to remain and conform prevailed, and the Saints undertook the daunting task—-as history records that painful adversarial process—-of qualifying for statehood and citizenship.
To diminish tension and facilitate the process, Mormons sought to emphasize cultural similarities with the rest of America and suppress dissimilarities in hopes of reducing the antagonism of earlier days. This, they trusted, would help avoid further confrontations—-like the Johnston's Army incident, for example—-and ease tensions so that the church could finally put down permanent roots and better carry out its revealed mandate to preach the gospel.
Like the larger American population, the Mormons eventually embraced gradualism and for much the same reasons. Even though the position of the Prophet and early church members had been catastrophist, Mormons eventually found the idea of gradualism irresistible.
As a result, a new generation of Mormons did not entirely share their forefathers’ worldview because of the pressures from the greater society around them to conform to the common precepts taught by almost all educational institutions, including gradualism.
This ideological reversal on the Saints' part produced the desired effect. It opened doors to Mormons in American society that had formerly been closed, allowing them to pursue careers in politics, science and education; some eventually even attained tenure in prestigious institutions. There was now one less difference between Mormons and their American contemporaries.
A split personality
Yet, all this progress came at a price. The Saints' ideological shift to gradualism created an intellectual dichotomy in the 20th century. Their scriptures—-especially those new revelations that came with the restoration—-tell of a catastrophic Earth history. They also proclaim, emphatically and dramatically, a catastrophic future. Yet, the cultural beliefs Mormons had adopted to "fit in" with the rest of the Americans precluded such notions, categorically denying any such possibility.
This produced an intellectual dichotomy in the Saints’ worldview, creating a spiritual and academic scotoma that has only grown larger in the many years since.
This resulted in church members shifting ideological gears on a consistent basis. In a religious setting, they read and mouthed an ideology with catastrophist underpinnings; in a secular setting, such as the public and private educational system, they espoused the opposite ideology of gradualism. This has endured, strangely, to the present. It has become institutionalized, resulting in a sort of intellectual and religious schizophrenia.
In addition, there may have been one other, even more profound loss: Mormons no longer understood their scriptures as they were meant to be understood. While Joseph Smith's interpretation of prophecy and history may not seem essential to our salvation, it performs a vital function in our interpretation of revealed knowledge. Revelation regarding past or future events comes from a perspective that acknowledges the role of planetary catastrophes in Earth's past, present and future. The language of the prophets is steeped in it. So, if our paradigm does not include this perspective, we have no frame of reference with which to completely understand the revelation.
This is what the Apostle Peter meant when he wrote, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter 1:20,21.) If the parties involved in any exchange do not share a common understanding—if one is a gradualist and the other a catastrophist—there will be a fundamental misunderstanding in the exchange of information. They do not share a common view, background or experience. Therefore, they do not interpret the data, information or truths, in the same way. Hence, there can be no "private interpretation" of the scriptures or prophecy. Both parties must have the same frame of reference. The fallible "will of man," or opinion of man, will only lead to misunderstanding.
To correctly understand the scriptures, prophecy or revelation itself, one must have the same frame of reference as the text itself, which is catastrophist. Thus, it may be that this paradigm shift in the last century left Mormons incapable of properly interpreting what had been given them by revelation regarding historic and prophetic events.
A systematic method of interpretation
The systematic method for interpreting historic and prophetic events, given us by Joseph Smith, is based on symbolism. (See The Prophecy Trilogy, Vol. 1, Ch. 3, for a list of such metaphors and their origins.) This puts the prophet squarely in the center of ancient prophetic tradition. In both the revelations he communicated to us and in the sermons he gave, Joseph used these symbols correctly and consistently.
For example, history speaks of water turning to blood, of stars falling from the heavens, of migrating seas and oceans. Knowing what has occurred in the past to give birth to such descriptive metaphorical phrases, one can determine what is meant by the same metaphor in another context—-prophecy, for example. That knowledge allows a consistent system of interpretation, rather than the extravagant guesswork and speculation engaged in by most scriptural exegetes. It also acknowledges a celestial origin for most religious iconography, ritual and metaphor.
The two faces of symbolism
Such symbolism has two aspects or facets: one literal, the other metaphorical. The literal aspect in the water-turned-to-blood example refers to a time in the past when Earth's waters were polluted by exogenous, ferriferous dust. Its use in prophecy refers to a repeat of this phenomenon. Its metaphorical aspect is simply a rhetorical, poetic representation of a physical event or phenomenon. The water does not turn into anything, much less blood. Such is the nature of all metaphor.
This aspect is also a reflection of the ancient mind that turned to dramatic imagery in order to describe the inexplicable. This does not imply that the ancients were somehow less intelligent, that they could not discern the reality in what they saw. Indeed, some—-Plato, for example, or Mormon—-clearly grasped the true nature of catastrophic events and so described them. (See Helaman 12: 8-17.) However, the extraordinary nature of the events ensured that most of the time they would be characterized in symbolic terms, as opposed to analytical terms. The colorful nature of metaphor is always more dramatic and appealing than cold, dispassionate analysis. In any case, the imagery of past catastrophes captured the imagination of the masses, leading to its widespread adoption and use.
The past is the key
It is vital that one have a firm grasp of the events and conditions in antiquity that produced gospel symbolism. The Lord alluded to that fact when he revealed that ". . . truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come." (Doctrine & Covenants 93:24.) The intimate relationship between past, present and future events implied here must be recognized in order to correctly understand the truth when it is presented. This tripartite concept (past = present = future) is often repeated in the scriptures, especially in prophecy.
Undoubtedly, one of the functions of the School of the Prophets, if not the primary function, was educating the brethren in the many prophetic metaphors and symbols employed anciently, their variations, elaborations, their proper application and interpretation. By teaching the systematic interpretation of scriptural metaphors, religious rituals and iconography, the prophet ensured that the priesthood brethren understood their proper use and interpretation. They could interpret this symbolism wherever they came across it and not be misled by doctrinal distortions.
Equipped with this knowledge, any Latter-day Saint can also see that temple and religious iconography is the physical counterpart to rhetorical metaphor. That is to say, the metaphor reflects the meaning of the icon and the icon reflects the meaning of the metaphor. Those things depicted in religious art, architecture, rite and ritual, can also be found in religious rhetoric.
Knowledge: a key to discernment
Indeed, this is one of the keys used to discern a false prophet in a day and age when the meaning of these symbols and metaphors is largely unknown. Because a false prophet is not schooled in the knowledge of these things, he or she lacks the ability to properly use and interpret such symbolism and metaphor. Thus, the pretender's "revelations" and teachings lack these elements. They fail to properly employ the time-honored literary devices known to all true prophets because they are ignorant of the iconography of antiquity. Hence, they interpret prophecy no differently than any run-of-the-mill evangelical exegete.
For much the same reason, the apostate who has turned against the true religion can be a threat. Once intimately schooled in this knowledge of symbolism, the perpetrator has the power to do tremendous damage because he or she can deceive even the "elect," or those who know these symbols and their proper use.
This, too, is an excellent test for a true prophet: He will employ this symbolism properly and in a manner consistent with ancient tradition. While only the whisperings of the Spirit can completely confirm a prophet's claim to revelation, this is additional, intellectual confirmation, if you will. A true prophet will easily and correctly employ traditional, scriptural symbolism in his teachings, and that symbolism will certainly be present in all revelation he passes along to the Saints. In this respect, as in every other, Joseph Smith passed the test successfully.
Left to their own devices
Once the Saints had abandoned Joseph Smith's symbolism-based interpretation of scripture and prophecy, a vacuum appeared in their theology. They no longer had a yardstick or touchstone for interpreting most gospel symbolism. Since nature abhors a vacuum, a ready replacement was soon found in the eschatological thinking of sectarian Christianity. Mormonism, therefore, has largely adopted the prophetic interpretation of sectarian Evangelism, epitomized today by the writings of Hal Lindsay in his book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, or the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong, a popular millennialist and radio evangelist of the 1950s, in his radio program, "The World Tomorrow." One can see evidence of this when comparing the views of the aforementioned evangelists with those of recent Mormon writers Cleon Skousen and Dwane Crowther. As one aphorism has it, "There ain't a dimes bit of difference between 'em."
Hence, we find Mormons generally interpreting prophetic utterances, ancient and modern, in remarkably similar ways to their evangelical, Christian cousins: metaphor is made literal and symbol is made modern. This leads to gross distortions in the interpretation of prophecy. For example, consider the unfounded interpretation of the year 2000 as the date for the second coming or the obsession with the number 666. It also leads to the creation of fictitious characters such as the Antichrist and fictitious events such as the Rapture. It seems apparent to this author that we may have allowed harmful sectarian notions to find their way into our catechism, just as Elder McConkie repeatedly warned before his death.
Time to reevaluate
Given all the recent discoveries coming out of the sciences regarding impacts and the prophetic warnings that repeatedly forewarn us of spectacular celestial events before the Second Coming, would it not be prudent for Latter-day Saints to reexamine our views? Would it not be wise for us to acknowledge, as modern science already has, that such things may happen? Should we not want to return to our roots in catastrophism, given us by Joseph Smith? If it was once our desire to conform to a trend that led us to abandon our catastrophist base, then why not conform to the newest trend of science, neocatastrophism, in order to return to our former beliefs?
Signs, ancient and modern, in the heavens
When we consider the magnitude and import of seeing the Shoemaker/Levi comet impact giant Jupiter in our own time, one wonders if this astronomical visual aid might not have been God's way of making a point. Was it done merely to amaze or amuse us? Was it done to keep the astronomers, scientists and scholars busy? Or was it, indeed, a sign, meant to awaken us from our apathetic complacency about the times we live in and the planet we live on? Should not Latter-day Saints be the first to recognize this?
The Nephites were given a sign of the Savior's birth. “. . . for behold, at the going down of the sun there was no darkness; . . . . And it came to pass that there was no darkness in all that night, but it was as light as though it was mid-day. And it came to pass that the sun did rise in the morning again, according to its proper order; and they knew that it was the day that the Lord should be born, because of the sign which had been given. . . .
“And it came to pass also that a new star did appear, according to the word.” (3 Nephi 1:15, 19,21.)
Thus, we see that God used the heavens, a celestial canvas, upon which to paint the sign of his Son's advent.
Recent history has given us a rather remarkable sign of our own. “On July 16, 1994, the first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 entered Jupiter's stratosphere traveling at the speed of 60 kilometers per second—-that's about 134,000 miles per hour. Seconds later it exploded. A plume of shock-heated cometary material mixed with hot gases from Jupiter's atmosphere soared more than two thousand miles above the tops of Jupiter's clouds. As material from the plume fell back into the stratosphere of Jupiter, it left a large, crescent-shaped dark spot partly surrounding a smaller intense dark cloud that formed along the entry path of the comet.
“Two days later, Fragment G hit Jupiter with such force that its plume was, in some wavelengths of observation, fifty times brighter than the entire planet. By the end of impact week, Jupiter was bruised with the markings of 21 impacts, dark scars larger than Earth. Not in the 400-year history of the telescope has any planet displayed such dramatic new features. Nine months after the impact ended, Jupiter's southern hemisphere was graced with a belt of dark material, still easily visible through small telescopes.
“We are only now beginning to grasp the magnitude of what has happened.” (Cosmic Collisions, pp. 6, 7, from the foreword by David H. Levy and Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker.)
Was the impact of a comet with Jupiter in our time any less of a sign than that given to the Nephites? The intent of that sign was to verify that, as Samuel the Lamanite had prophesied, the Son of God had been born. Could it be that the Shoemaker/Levi event was a demonstration to a disbelieving world—-Mormons in particular—-that such things can happen—-indeed, will happen—-to us?
Certainly, it was a verification of assertions by this author, the scriptures, the prophets and a multitude of modern catastrophists that such things do happen; that we live in an uncertain solar system that has seen numerous cosmic disasters in historic times; that old assumptions about a steady-state Earth wherein ". . . all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation . . ." (2 Peter 3:5.) are flawed; that we have been "willingly ignorant" in this enlightened, modern age, of the truths that the ancients sought to preserve in ritual and stone; that ". . . the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the Earth, which are now . . . are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment . . . ." (Ibid. 3:5, 6.)
As Latter-day Saints who have been given the restored gospel, we have a greater obligation to recognize and receive these things than does the rest of the world. Are we not designated as the “children of the light?”
© Anthony E. Larson, 2003
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Children of the Light?
Latter-day Saints' opinion on the subject of potential planetary near impacts, past and present, differs little from that of the general public. Sadly, most Mormons seem as indifferent to this concept as their secular and sectarian contemporaries. Yet, it probably should not be so.
Joseph Smith clearly held a catastrophist view of history and prophecy that included disasters originating in the heavens, which would have had devastating effects here on Earth. Speaking of the Second Coming, he said, "It is not the design of the Almighty to come upon the Earth and crush it and grind it to powder . . . ." (History of the Church, 5:337.) These words are not those of a gradualist or uniformitarian. They bespeak a catastrophist point of view. It is well established by this author that Joseph Smith's teachings on past and future events are patently catastrophist. (See The Prophecy Trilogy, Vol. 3, Ch. 1.) Given that fact, why are so many Latter-day Saints loath to accept this interpretation of history and prophecy? For the answer to that question, we will have to examine history.
Abandoning our roots
The restoration of the gospel began at the same time as a revolution in geology and biology. Popular opinion in Joseph Smith's day held that the Creation and Noah's Flood had largely shaped the world. Today they would be called creationists. Geologists like Hutton and Lyell disputed that view, noting that a rational interpretation of the geologic record argued for a very old planet altered only by slow processes over eons of time. They were gradualists.
In Joseph Smith's day, the gradualists were a minority, but by the latter half of the 19th century, the scientific and academic communities had spurned creationism and catastrophism to embrace gradualism completely. The general public was somewhat slower to shift opinion. Still, by the turn of the century, gradualism dominated the thought of the general public since it was, by that time, the only way the subject was taught in almost all academic settings.
Mormons in flux
This ideological shift presented a problem to Mormons who were in the process of trying to integrate with the larger American culture. Historically, the church and the government had been at odds, as any student of early church history knows. The Saints' exodus to the Great Salt Lake Valley originally put them outside the confines of the United States. However, they eventually found themselves once again within its boarders due to the westward expansion of the nation. This left the Saints with a difficult decision: move yet again, just as they had left Jackson County and then Nauvoo, leaving behind another city and temple erected from raw land, or accommodate the laws and cultural standards of the United States so they could keep their new desert home. The decision to remain and conform prevailed, and the Saints undertook the daunting task—-as history records that painful adversarial process—-of qualifying for statehood and citizenship.
To diminish tension and facilitate the process, Mormons sought to emphasize cultural similarities with the rest of America and suppress dissimilarities in hopes of reducing the antagonism of earlier days. This, they trusted, would help avoid further confrontations—-like the Johnston's Army incident, for example—-and ease tensions so that the church could finally put down permanent roots and better carry out its revealed mandate to preach the gospel.
Like the larger American population, the Mormons eventually embraced gradualism and for much the same reasons. Even though the position of the Prophet and early church members had been catastrophist, Mormons eventually found the idea of gradualism irresistible.
As a result, a new generation of Mormons did not entirely share their forefathers’ worldview because of the pressures from the greater society around them to conform to the common precepts taught by almost all educational institutions, including gradualism.
This ideological reversal on the Saints' part produced the desired effect. It opened doors to Mormons in American society that had formerly been closed, allowing them to pursue careers in politics, science and education; some eventually even attained tenure in prestigious institutions. There was now one less difference between Mormons and their American contemporaries.
A split personality
Yet, all this progress came at a price. The Saints' ideological shift to gradualism created an intellectual dichotomy in the 20th century. Their scriptures—-especially those new revelations that came with the restoration—-tell of a catastrophic Earth history. They also proclaim, emphatically and dramatically, a catastrophic future. Yet, the cultural beliefs Mormons had adopted to "fit in" with the rest of the Americans precluded such notions, categorically denying any such possibility.
This produced an intellectual dichotomy in the Saints’ worldview, creating a spiritual and academic scotoma that has only grown larger in the many years since.
This resulted in church members shifting ideological gears on a consistent basis. In a religious setting, they read and mouthed an ideology with catastrophist underpinnings; in a secular setting, such as the public and private educational system, they espoused the opposite ideology of gradualism. This has endured, strangely, to the present. It has become institutionalized, resulting in a sort of intellectual and religious schizophrenia.
In addition, there may have been one other, even more profound loss: Mormons no longer understood their scriptures as they were meant to be understood. While Joseph Smith's interpretation of prophecy and history may not seem essential to our salvation, it performs a vital function in our interpretation of revealed knowledge. Revelation regarding past or future events comes from a perspective that acknowledges the role of planetary catastrophes in Earth's past, present and future. The language of the prophets is steeped in it. So, if our paradigm does not include this perspective, we have no frame of reference with which to completely understand the revelation.
This is what the Apostle Peter meant when he wrote, "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Peter 1:20,21.) If the parties involved in any exchange do not share a common understanding—if one is a gradualist and the other a catastrophist—there will be a fundamental misunderstanding in the exchange of information. They do not share a common view, background or experience. Therefore, they do not interpret the data, information or truths, in the same way. Hence, there can be no "private interpretation" of the scriptures or prophecy. Both parties must have the same frame of reference. The fallible "will of man," or opinion of man, will only lead to misunderstanding.
To correctly understand the scriptures, prophecy or revelation itself, one must have the same frame of reference as the text itself, which is catastrophist. Thus, it may be that this paradigm shift in the last century left Mormons incapable of properly interpreting what had been given them by revelation regarding historic and prophetic events.
A systematic method of interpretation
The systematic method for interpreting historic and prophetic events, given us by Joseph Smith, is based on symbolism. (See The Prophecy Trilogy, Vol. 1, Ch. 3, for a list of such metaphors and their origins.) This puts the prophet squarely in the center of ancient prophetic tradition. In both the revelations he communicated to us and in the sermons he gave, Joseph used these symbols correctly and consistently.
For example, history speaks of water turning to blood, of stars falling from the heavens, of migrating seas and oceans. Knowing what has occurred in the past to give birth to such descriptive metaphorical phrases, one can determine what is meant by the same metaphor in another context—-prophecy, for example. That knowledge allows a consistent system of interpretation, rather than the extravagant guesswork and speculation engaged in by most scriptural exegetes. It also acknowledges a celestial origin for most religious iconography, ritual and metaphor.
The two faces of symbolism
Such symbolism has two aspects or facets: one literal, the other metaphorical. The literal aspect in the water-turned-to-blood example refers to a time in the past when Earth's waters were polluted by exogenous, ferriferous dust. Its use in prophecy refers to a repeat of this phenomenon. Its metaphorical aspect is simply a rhetorical, poetic representation of a physical event or phenomenon. The water does not turn into anything, much less blood. Such is the nature of all metaphor.
This aspect is also a reflection of the ancient mind that turned to dramatic imagery in order to describe the inexplicable. This does not imply that the ancients were somehow less intelligent, that they could not discern the reality in what they saw. Indeed, some—-Plato, for example, or Mormon—-clearly grasped the true nature of catastrophic events and so described them. (See Helaman 12: 8-17.) However, the extraordinary nature of the events ensured that most of the time they would be characterized in symbolic terms, as opposed to analytical terms. The colorful nature of metaphor is always more dramatic and appealing than cold, dispassionate analysis. In any case, the imagery of past catastrophes captured the imagination of the masses, leading to its widespread adoption and use.
The past is the key
It is vital that one have a firm grasp of the events and conditions in antiquity that produced gospel symbolism. The Lord alluded to that fact when he revealed that ". . . truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come." (Doctrine & Covenants 93:24.) The intimate relationship between past, present and future events implied here must be recognized in order to correctly understand the truth when it is presented. This tripartite concept (past = present = future) is often repeated in the scriptures, especially in prophecy.
Undoubtedly, one of the functions of the School of the Prophets, if not the primary function, was educating the brethren in the many prophetic metaphors and symbols employed anciently, their variations, elaborations, their proper application and interpretation. By teaching the systematic interpretation of scriptural metaphors, religious rituals and iconography, the prophet ensured that the priesthood brethren understood their proper use and interpretation. They could interpret this symbolism wherever they came across it and not be misled by doctrinal distortions.
Equipped with this knowledge, any Latter-day Saint can also see that temple and religious iconography is the physical counterpart to rhetorical metaphor. That is to say, the metaphor reflects the meaning of the icon and the icon reflects the meaning of the metaphor. Those things depicted in religious art, architecture, rite and ritual, can also be found in religious rhetoric.
Knowledge: a key to discernment
Indeed, this is one of the keys used to discern a false prophet in a day and age when the meaning of these symbols and metaphors is largely unknown. Because a false prophet is not schooled in the knowledge of these things, he or she lacks the ability to properly use and interpret such symbolism and metaphor. Thus, the pretender's "revelations" and teachings lack these elements. They fail to properly employ the time-honored literary devices known to all true prophets because they are ignorant of the iconography of antiquity. Hence, they interpret prophecy no differently than any run-of-the-mill evangelical exegete.
For much the same reason, the apostate who has turned against the true religion can be a threat. Once intimately schooled in this knowledge of symbolism, the perpetrator has the power to do tremendous damage because he or she can deceive even the "elect," or those who know these symbols and their proper use.
This, too, is an excellent test for a true prophet: He will employ this symbolism properly and in a manner consistent with ancient tradition. While only the whisperings of the Spirit can completely confirm a prophet's claim to revelation, this is additional, intellectual confirmation, if you will. A true prophet will easily and correctly employ traditional, scriptural symbolism in his teachings, and that symbolism will certainly be present in all revelation he passes along to the Saints. In this respect, as in every other, Joseph Smith passed the test successfully.
Left to their own devices
Once the Saints had abandoned Joseph Smith's symbolism-based interpretation of scripture and prophecy, a vacuum appeared in their theology. They no longer had a yardstick or touchstone for interpreting most gospel symbolism. Since nature abhors a vacuum, a ready replacement was soon found in the eschatological thinking of sectarian Christianity. Mormonism, therefore, has largely adopted the prophetic interpretation of sectarian Evangelism, epitomized today by the writings of Hal Lindsay in his book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, or the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong, a popular millennialist and radio evangelist of the 1950s, in his radio program, "The World Tomorrow." One can see evidence of this when comparing the views of the aforementioned evangelists with those of recent Mormon writers Cleon Skousen and Dwane Crowther. As one aphorism has it, "There ain't a dimes bit of difference between 'em."
Hence, we find Mormons generally interpreting prophetic utterances, ancient and modern, in remarkably similar ways to their evangelical, Christian cousins: metaphor is made literal and symbol is made modern. This leads to gross distortions in the interpretation of prophecy. For example, consider the unfounded interpretation of the year 2000 as the date for the second coming or the obsession with the number 666. It also leads to the creation of fictitious characters such as the Antichrist and fictitious events such as the Rapture. It seems apparent to this author that we may have allowed harmful sectarian notions to find their way into our catechism, just as Elder McConkie repeatedly warned before his death.
Time to reevaluate
Given all the recent discoveries coming out of the sciences regarding impacts and the prophetic warnings that repeatedly forewarn us of spectacular celestial events before the Second Coming, would it not be prudent for Latter-day Saints to reexamine our views? Would it not be wise for us to acknowledge, as modern science already has, that such things may happen? Should we not want to return to our roots in catastrophism, given us by Joseph Smith? If it was once our desire to conform to a trend that led us to abandon our catastrophist base, then why not conform to the newest trend of science, neocatastrophism, in order to return to our former beliefs?
Signs, ancient and modern, in the heavens
When we consider the magnitude and import of seeing the Shoemaker/Levi comet impact giant Jupiter in our own time, one wonders if this astronomical visual aid might not have been God's way of making a point. Was it done merely to amaze or amuse us? Was it done to keep the astronomers, scientists and scholars busy? Or was it, indeed, a sign, meant to awaken us from our apathetic complacency about the times we live in and the planet we live on? Should not Latter-day Saints be the first to recognize this?
The Nephites were given a sign of the Savior's birth. “. . . for behold, at the going down of the sun there was no darkness; . . . . And it came to pass that there was no darkness in all that night, but it was as light as though it was mid-day. And it came to pass that the sun did rise in the morning again, according to its proper order; and they knew that it was the day that the Lord should be born, because of the sign which had been given. . . .
“And it came to pass also that a new star did appear, according to the word.” (3 Nephi 1:15, 19,21.)
Thus, we see that God used the heavens, a celestial canvas, upon which to paint the sign of his Son's advent.
Recent history has given us a rather remarkable sign of our own. “On July 16, 1994, the first fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 entered Jupiter's stratosphere traveling at the speed of 60 kilometers per second—-that's about 134,000 miles per hour. Seconds later it exploded. A plume of shock-heated cometary material mixed with hot gases from Jupiter's atmosphere soared more than two thousand miles above the tops of Jupiter's clouds. As material from the plume fell back into the stratosphere of Jupiter, it left a large, crescent-shaped dark spot partly surrounding a smaller intense dark cloud that formed along the entry path of the comet.
“Two days later, Fragment G hit Jupiter with such force that its plume was, in some wavelengths of observation, fifty times brighter than the entire planet. By the end of impact week, Jupiter was bruised with the markings of 21 impacts, dark scars larger than Earth. Not in the 400-year history of the telescope has any planet displayed such dramatic new features. Nine months after the impact ended, Jupiter's southern hemisphere was graced with a belt of dark material, still easily visible through small telescopes.
“We are only now beginning to grasp the magnitude of what has happened.” (Cosmic Collisions, pp. 6, 7, from the foreword by David H. Levy and Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker.)
Was the impact of a comet with Jupiter in our time any less of a sign than that given to the Nephites? The intent of that sign was to verify that, as Samuel the Lamanite had prophesied, the Son of God had been born. Could it be that the Shoemaker/Levi event was a demonstration to a disbelieving world—-Mormons in particular—-that such things can happen—-indeed, will happen—-to us?
Certainly, it was a verification of assertions by this author, the scriptures, the prophets and a multitude of modern catastrophists that such things do happen; that we live in an uncertain solar system that has seen numerous cosmic disasters in historic times; that old assumptions about a steady-state Earth wherein ". . . all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation . . ." (2 Peter 3:5.) are flawed; that we have been "willingly ignorant" in this enlightened, modern age, of the truths that the ancients sought to preserve in ritual and stone; that ". . . the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the Earth, which are now . . . are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment . . . ." (Ibid. 3:5, 6.)
As Latter-day Saints who have been given the restored gospel, we have a greater obligation to recognize and receive these things than does the rest of the world. Are we not designated as the “children of the light?”
© Anthony E. Larson, 2003
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