CASTING LOTS - THE POWER OF SEVEN

 Interesting:

https://youtu.be/llf5Y_v70jA

I never fully understand what the phrase meant or how they did it.

US GENERAL; GAME ON WITH CHINA BY 2025

 None of his surprises me;

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna67967

It will not end well…

I have a friend who was secretary to this General and he said he is a very gentle and good man.  I read from that description of him that making a statement that is as direct and firm as this one, it is a serious thing.

I reminded this friend that Sols Guardisto, Sarah Menet, and Joseph Smith all spoke of the Chinese threat.  Joseph specifically spoke of "if you (the Saints of the day) are not careful, you will have to deal with the heathen Chinese beyond the lands to which you will be driven (the Rocky Mountains)".  He was obviously referring to the West Coast.  The Chicoms are heavily entrenched on the West Coast.  I trusted none of them (first genners that still had strong ties to the motherland) at Boeing because they had stolen us blind at White Sands and so many other places.  Why we allow them into our higher education and into our military and civilian aero programs is beyond me....  The loyalty is to the dollar - almost completely across the board.  Hate to stereotype - but this is my conclusions just as the redheaded Irish are all drunkards of Ephraim and love to pick fights and Judah is an adulterating lot (wHollyweird).  Did I leave anyone out?!?  I am an equal opportunity bigot, I know.

JESUS IN UTAH

 This will happen per Heber C Kimball and Joseph Smith, and we are closer than any think as the combined West pushes the Bear into the corner and she eventually does what any wounded and cornered bear does:

"[Summary:  Upon first meeting Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Wilford Woodruff was invited to join Zion's Camp.  After he did, he was invited to a Sabbath meeting at the Prophet's home, which included many future Apostles, although at the time in Kirtland in 1833 there were no Apostles aside from Joseph and Oliver Cowdery.]

The prophet called upon the Elders of Israel with him to bear testimony of this work.

When they got through, the Prophet said, "Brethren, I have been very much edified and instructed in your testimonies here tonight, but I want to say to you before the Lord, that you know no more concerning the destinies of this Church and kingdom than a babe upon its mother's lap. You don't comprehend it."  I was rather surprised. He said, "It is only a little handful of Priesthood you see here tonight, but this Church will fill North and South America - it will fill the world." Among other things, he said, "It will fill the Rocky Mountains. There will be tens of thousands of Latter-day Saints who will be gathered in the Rocky Mountains, and there they will open the door for the establishing of the Gospel among the Lamanites, who will receive the Gospel and their endowments and the blessings of God. This people will go into the Rocky Mountains; they will there build temples to the Most High.  They will raise up a posterity there, and the Latter-day Saints who dwell in these mountains will stand in the flesh until the coming of the Son of Man. The Son of Man will come to them while in the Rocky Mountains."

Quoted by Wilford Woodruff, GC April 1898, p 57.  I have a copy of the Conference Report and have confirmed that Pres Woodruff did indeed say it.

AN EXPLANATION FOR THE UPTICK IN DEPRAVITY IN AMERICA

 I love my Rabbi, Jonathan Cahn.

No puffed up intellectualism (sorry, Isaiah scholars…).

Just straight shooting when it comes to scriptural interpretation:

https://youtu.be/Ii4GXIN8wgU

I have a daughter that released her grip on the iron rod. Now, unless she repents, she is the habitation of devils. It is sad to watch.

America is quickly becoming the habitation of devils.

Enjoy!

HIDDEN IN THE HEARTLAND - THE NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE

 This is a nice documentary:

https://youtu.be/QaBHIPxteMo

If you type in "Madrid" in the search engine on this blog, you will find alot of companion information.

THINGS ARE "TANKING" IN THE UKRAINE

 Well, this is not good.

Right now, all NATO countries are debating about how much and when to send advanced arms over to Russia.  I consider eastern Ukraine Russia.  These tanks are not like a car where most anyone can hop in and go for a joy-ride.  Good tanking takes months and years of practice to get it right.  If you are on a tight timeline, you send battle-hardened tank crews to go with said tanks.  Tanks that end up right on the hard border with Russia - and just hours from decapitating Russia in a takedown of her capitol city.  And we say Putin is paranoid and aggressive....

Putin's only concern was that he not have a line of NATO countries right up against his hard border.  Since WWII, Russia has justifiably felt safe only have loyal and sacrificial nations on her western flank so that time could be bought in the case of aggression of a western power (like Germany, historically).  She paid HORRIBLY for not having gone first against Germany in WWII.  They were just throwing people at the Germans in basically suicide missions.  We thought the Japanese were maniacal in their zeal during kamikaze attacks.  The Russian soldiers were not quite so brainwashed in loyalty to their emperor - they had a sharp-shooter trained on their back in case they did not perform well or tried to raise the white flag of surrender.  Terrible times.  Brutal actions.  But the Russians did manage to hold the Germans off long enough and through enough winters to bleed them dry and help bring an end to the war on that front.  If the Germans had made it into Russia, with her wealth of minerals and oil etc, it would have been over for the rest of us.  We never could have gotten her out and she would have taken over all of the continent of Asia, with the help of the Japanese coming into China from the east.

So, now we have a bunch of large economic powers threatening Russia with a "you go first" attitude.

They know that, if they can convince each other to go, and that, if they have the backing of the USA, they will not be the one that stands out like a sore thumb, if the west loses this gamble (and the West will lose that gamble if they keep pushing the bear into the corner).

Years ago, I read a prophecy (and I have never been able to find it again) about Russia one day driving tanks through German towns and encountering ZERO resistance.  Fighting-age males would be sitting in a beer haus and drinking away while the tanks rolled by outside.  The Spirit testified that what I was reading was a future scenario.  In other words, the people would be conquered with little to no resistance.  Same thing in Italy and that Rome and the Vatican would be sacked.  This same prophecy also stated that Europe would be over-run by Muslim males and conquered partly from within.  I marveled (questioned what I was getting from the Spirit) thinking that it did not seem possible.  This was before Syria fell and the mass-migration occurred from there into Europe and Canada etc.

Since then, and especially today, in regards to this article and Germany, I can see this.  If everyone is emboldened to take on Russia by sending tanks and direct troops into the battle, Russia will feel justified at some point when she is almost completely cornered, to use tactical and conventional nukes.  She will hit our ability to prosecute the war in places such as HAFB, etc.  The dreams and visions will be fulfilled to the letter.  What I saw was precise.  Other than timing, there was very little to interpret from it.  While we were coming back from AZ, I had the impression to take pen and paper in order to take down information because I was going to run into someone to warn in the Lava Hotsprings where we overnighted.  Sure enough, a couple from Layton came to our hot pool.  They had two mid-teen twin daughters, one of whom was in a device to help her walk.  As they were getting in the pool, I turned to my wife and said one of the twins had difficulty with oxy during the birth and that had caused her medical issues.  Once they had settled in, I proceeded to create a conversation by telling the crippled girl that I was using a walker just like hers a year prior.  It was an awkward start, but we eventually turned the talk to where froms, etc and then the wife opened up about her crazy dreams about a massive EQ in Utah and I shared about the future of HAFB.  Even though it was a Thursday night (odd time of week for them to be there for just a night) and a long way from Layton, UT for them to come to soak in the hot pools, our two trajectories had crossed and one more person was made aware of what I have been shown.

So picture this:  Russia gets backed into a corner.  The NATO troops do the unthinkable and press into hard Russian territory, even performing air attacks on Muscovite military targets, etc.  It becomes a hard war.  Basically turns into WWIII and Russia is down on the count.  She is going to cease to exist as a nation and have to succomb to the globalist gadiantons.  She has to do or die - and she decides to do...  Russia finally decides they have to do what Medvedev just warned us yesterday they would do, if pushed too far; they pre-emptively strike the USA and knock out our ability to do war and to strike back decisively.  At that point, those other nations that were relying on the USA to provide military cover, just throw their hands up.  Russia, that has the support of the Russian Ortho church then gets the ability and prize of sacking and permanently taking down the Vatican and that rivalry is ended.  Many scores are settled.  Eventually, the WEF, the NWO, the Agenda 2030 etc all are taken down as their world domination plans backfire.  I am perfectly fine with that....

Russia then moves south to take down Israel with little to no resistance.  Israel cannot stand without the aid of the USA.  As we fight internally and deal with the effects of Russian nuclear sabotage, Russia has free reign to settle old scores.

Eventually, after Israel is punished for her lack of diligence, Jesus comes and heals all wounds as people give up on the globalist "saviors" who have failed them.

The long-count future is incredibly bright.  The short-term future is going to be grim and bleak.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-politics-military-technology-joint-chiefs-of-staff-lloyd-austin-1b505c88a5a6f331cd482762c62fa29c

This is the beginning of some really bad juju.  That prophecy was correct.

THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING - PARABOLIC DIE EXTRUSION PROFILES, COUNTENANCES AND GUT FEELINGS

So years ago, right out of college, I worked for a company called TheraTech up at the UoU research park.  In retrospect, it was a really cool job and, after a very rocky start (my first lead at the job took exception to me being LDS and having gone to BYU), I ended up smashing it with a few very successful projects and then lept from there to Boeing Flight Test, which was my dream job.  Something I always knew I would do since high school.

At TheraTech, I left my first area in Quality and ended up as Lead over Pilot Scale Mfg R&D with a budget of about $500,000 which was not bad for a $22M a year company.  It was a little overwhelming going from college grad to having more responsibility than I could handle.  I felt I was at my limits which caused a lot of sleepless nights and felt great when I was able to smash something.  One day, my boss approached me and asked me to solve a coating problem.  At TheraTech, we were developing proprietary transdermal drug delivery via skin patches.  The drug was in the adhesive that was attached to a polyester backer (much like a band-aid).  The trick was to get the adhesive at just the right coating thickness to deliver a prescribed amount of drug and to keep it in tolerance.  We fiddled with different patch sizes and coating thicknesses while being cognizant of allergic reactions to adhesives and drugs.  That stuff was all on the clinical side.  They would just reach out to us and tell us what they were looking for.  Much of my work was just day-to-day stuff and directing several associate engineers while working with the other pilot scale staff.  The one nut that Pilot Scale and Plant Scale could never crack was how to get the coating thickness consistent across a web that was 12" wide.  The drug/adhesive matrix was homogeneously mixed in special explosion-proof mixers and then pressure was put to the mixing pot to drive the mixture through a coating die and onto the polyester web and then compressed through a set of pinch rollers and then dried to drive off the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).  This left just the drug with the adhesive with a low solvent content, that would prevent skin rashes, etc.  Then, just like a bandaid, the backing material was peeled away and the patient could apply the substrate with the adhesive/drug formula onto the skin to deliver the drug to the body.

Great little system!  The problem was that, at Production Scale, the linear dies (shaped like a coat hanger) would deliver drug to the substrate in a parabolic shape with much more adhesive in the middle of the coating profile, than on the outsides.  This required the line to stop, then have samples removed, and run them over to a lab for quick analysis (there was no way to do a real-time analysis using gamma ray back-scatter or other methods that were not fully matured in the 1990's).  Once the desired drug profile was verified, then the line could start up and 100,000 patches could be produced in a shift.  All of which required continuous testing throughout the run to verify that the systolic pumps were still delivering drugs at the target delivery rates.

So, with a kid fresh out of college and the new rising star in this small company of less than 20 engineers, I was tapped to go to Boston to have a bunch of national and world experts on fluid dynamics from MIT, Yale and Harvard lecture for a week on the mathematics and principles of fluid mechanics.  Of course, even though I had a math minor after making it through engineering school, it was all well over my head.  It was Masters or Phd level stuff - and I really sucked wind at the Undergrad level fluid dynamics courses at BYU....  I still took notes and prayed for guidance even though most of what I was hearing was gobbledygook and Greek to me.  Towards the end of the Conference, I started to get excited, because the stuff I was seeing on a whiteboard, was forming a picture in my mind.  I knew that our linear (straight line - shaped like a coat hanger) die, was making a parabolic presentation on the laminate when we would turn on the pump with drug thicknesses heavy in the middle and almost non-existent (starved out) at the ends.  In my mind's eye, I saw a novel solution where the die fluid cavity would be parabolic in shape (not linear like the coat hanger) and the output on the substrate would be linear.  I had no math to back it other than generalities.  I headed home and put a linear coat hanger die on the machine and created several consistent profiles on a polyester web.  I then put them into a curve-fitting program which produced a 2D mathematical equation.  I then used this mathematical curve fit equestion and cranked out a few thousand points into a spreadsheet, which I then tweaked to make the data into a 3D model that resembled a Texas longhorn, which I promptly dubbed the "cow horn die".  This file was then given to the machinist who used a 1/8" ball end mill to produce the die out of aluminum, since it was experimental.  The production side used non-magnetic stainless steel for durabilities and some other proprietary reasons.  The aluminum was easy to machine and I got the quick and dirty die back from the machine shop for under $5,000.  A real bargain on a massive, seat of the pants gamble on a hunch I had been given (likely from heaven - I felt very guided).  We made a batch of goo and plugged in the die to the coating machine and I was breathless.  

My future at that company literally hinged on the $20,000 I had blown on this Conference and hunch.  Had it not worked, I would have been quietly moved to a desk job and the glamour would have dissipated.  We switched on the machine and then the pump and wallah!  The profile was perfectly flat and NOT starved out at the edges.  We cut samples from the web and, instead of just having a single usable sample in the middle of the web, we were able to use the product across the entire web!  Over the course of a production run, tens of thousands of dollars could be saved.  This could amount to millions over the course of a year in a full production mode.  Especially with testosterone patches, where just a gram of the drug is prohibitively expensive, so scrap rates were a massive cost center.  We scaled it up on a SS extrusion die for the larger production webs with bang on results.  It was near the end of the year when victory was declared.  My bonus was huge and my salary nearly doubled the next pay review.  I was in heaven.  Gratitude for inspiration.  Credit given to the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Tithing.  Promises of treasures of knowledge given; windows of heaven literally opened.  That was a 20-30K bump in a single year, but it paid dividends at Boeing because I was able to come in high and ride that increased pay rate over the next 20 years.  It was definitely a six figure windfall right before I left TheraTech to go to my dream job of fooling around with airplanes.

In this case, it was a matter of taking a hunch and then proving (not by mathematics - but by raw output data) that something has merit.  Proof in the pudding - literally.  Even though (I am sure), brilliant arguments were made for why a particular fluid dynamic theory would produce such and such an effect in a coating profile, none had any effect on me other than day-dreaming after 30 hours of the Phd's droning on and having an epiphany there in a hotel conference center.  I go with my gut on a spiritual level.  This is why I was right about the efficacy and safety of the waxseen.  Pure and utter garbage.  The same thing applies to the DoC garbage view that Joseph was murdered in a plot by Brigham and JT.  Pure, utter garbage.  I do not need to read the opposing arguments to come to that conclusion.  I already have the Spirit telling me to tell those spouting it, to "Get thee hence" without further contamination from the filth...  Just as the Savior did when He was being tempted by the father of all lies and utter garbage.

I had a Boeing co-worker who was bible thumper.  A good fellow and family man.  We shared the back seat of a 45 minute bus ride home every day and had many good talks about religion, etc until he found out my true identity as LDS...  Before he withdrew, he shared the following with me: He was sent on an MRB assignment at a 777 mod center in Singapore.  He was away from his family for six months.  One evening in the hotel, he was approached by a beautiful young lady (late 20's - and he in his mid-50's).  They chatted at the bar and I am sure he had a few drinks and was not using his best judgment (he later told me that our WoW was way out of line and not biblical, even though his addiction to alcohol had led to this indiscretion... go figure).  One thing led to another and she convinced him to just take her up to his room to "talk".  Well, one thing led to another and they were naked on the bed.  He ended up committing full adultery with her.  I think it was unpaid adultery....

In a rational mind, most people would know where this situation might end up.  He had compromised his judgment, possibly compounded by loneliness and lack of female touch over several months away from Momma.  He could have nipped things in the bud and told the honey trap to "Get thee hence" and saved his crushing guilt and alcoholism that he had been driven to over that guilt.  Yes, there is safety in the WoW, in the garment as a reminder of covenants to a spouse and to God and in making and honoring covenants in regard to the Law of Chastity, Natasha.  But what do I know?  I am just a "follower of Rusty"....  No, actually I follow God's Plan of Happiness and it is just that and it leads just there....  

So to the commenter that was trying to support the spawn of satan that came out with the film maligning God's servants and this Latter-day work and it's mission; your arguments are weak and have no merit, your pudding has no proof and get thee behind me where you belong.

THE GODLESS VACUUM AND SUICIDE

 Folks, I have talked a lot about the vacuum left in peoples' lives as they have released their grip on the Iron Rod, abandoned God and just wandered away from a solid thing and into the quicksands of the adversary.

I have a situation where someone I know who was an unfortunate victim of sexual abuse, decided that Joseph was part of a murder plot by Brigham and John Taylor and that the Church was just a scam largely due to her hatred of the polygamy narrative.  This person has revoked membership in the Church and is now sippng lattes, (for sure) not wearing the garment of the Holy Priesthood and attending the Baptist church.....  Just wow....  Even through my strident warnings, this person has persisted (reminds me of those who are mentally ill and cannot pass good judgment in spite of it being obvious and right in front of them) and will likely lead their family right to hell.

It is truly bizarre in that they leave the truth - knowing that their actions have consequences (we all know that satan and minions stepped away from it all and will now no longer qualify for a body, nor the things that come with it, such as a posterity both physical and spiritual) and any part of God's increase and portion of His glory.  This is not some kind of game; this is serious as all hell (literally, in this case).  It would be one thing if they were on an upward journey of faith where they went from one high point to another increasing high point until they got to the apex (say someone who was  a naturist, finding God attending the Catholic church, then finding the Baptists and then arriving at the apex of Mormonism), this person has majorly digressed and is falling and will continue to fall (possibly arriving at rock bottom with little of their former life [word of wisdom, higher temple covenants, chastity, etc] intact).  As I observe these meteoric falls and attendant diminishing of countenances, I wonder if they seem to notice themselves, or is it so gradual and subtle that they, in their spiritually drunken states (of pride, of sin and of so much else) cannot detect their own slide.

Here are some pics of one of the principles of the DoC crowd that is pushing this anti-Brighamite trash:

They have removed their current pictures because their countenances have fallen so much; to the point I was literally unsure if they were the same people when I saw a current picture.  And I was distinctly reminded of the question by Moses to the adversary; where is thy glory that I should worship (listen to) thee?!?

The spiritual implosion is real and you cannot hide it.  When God questioned Cain after his nefarious deed, and asked why his countenance had fallen.  No matter the lies, you cannot hide it.  Across the board, the countenances fall.  

Therefore, my statement of:  I am not aware of a single person that, having loosened their grip on the Iron Rod, is in a better place for having done so.  Not one.  They trash on the WoW, yet wonder why their kids are involved in alcohol addiction and worse.  They trash on the temple covenants and wonder why their kids are messing around outside of the bonds of marriage or why their own marriages are falling apart as they left the rock their relationship was founded upon.

This, without a swift course correction, is the very definition of mental illness in my mind.  I have my oldest child who is about to get permanently tossed from her second job because of erratic behavior caused from her condition, yet she refuses to assess causation correctly.  Even, when given a medication that made her well enough to be able to function in a job interview well enough to land a great job in a great firm.  Yet we sit back and observe the wreckage - as painful, but predictable as it is....

And then there is this:  

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/deaths-of-despair-may-be-driven-by-loss-of-religion-new-research-paper-argues-11673876749

Suicides, suicide attempts, despair, alcoholism, drug use, erratic and chaotic lives and so much else.  But the imaginary sky god "cultists" are the delusional ones with the problems.....  Go figure.  If my "sky god" gives me a brighter hope for tomorrow, then I will run with it.  I was talking to my daughter while down in AZ over the Christmas holidays and I affirmed that, even if it were all a completely made up lie, it is the best lie and one I can live with.  Why?  Because the proof is in the pudding and there are no "do-overs".  You cannot screw your kids and their spouses up - and then go, "Oopsie!!" and then erase the wreckage and then just start fresh.  You cannot poop in the punchbowl and then attempt to fish the turd out while assuring everyone that you were just kidding and did not really mean to do it.  Repentance only goes so far - once you have a knowledge.  If not sure of that, just ask Cain.  Be sure to query satan himself.  He gets NO do-overs.  Nor do the people he dragged down with him.  Christ himself (yes, the very God of Love) said from his own lips that any person having put their hand to the plow - and looking back - is NOT FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.  That is exclusionism.  That is rejection.  That is the God I know.  Yes, there is forgiveness of stupid human tricks - but for those who deceive (Bradford/Tony) and lead others (innocents, as far as the Gospel goes) astray, when they had such a great knowledge, it would be better that they had NOT BEEN BORN and a millstone had been hung about their necks and drowned in the depths of the sea.  This wording directly from the lips of the God of Love.  Not very loving sounding is it?  It was said to drive home a point.  Heed it.

I have had complaints lodged against me over being a little overzealous when it comes to exposing the charlatan pictured above, etc.  When Christ talked of wolves among sheep, he was talking to a largely pastoral people in the NT.  Their culture centered around lambs and ewes and sacrifice and so much else.  He used that allegory for a reason.  When a shepherd of the day would find that there was a wolf lurking in the enclosure in the night he would not go out among the sheep and gently request the wolf leave or just yell at it in it's direction and then drift off to sleep.  He would dive in even at peril of his own safety and drive out and/or kill that wolf and expose it to those who were shepherding in the area if it got away.  The whole poor "wounded" me act goes nowhere with me.  I just go for it.  In other words; strident/decisive/bold action.  I am a Peter when there is a Judas that has manifested himself.  Ears go missing or at least silver tongues do....

To those who attempt to tear it down, all I can say is; I pray you will have a "love bump" from heaven or a good swift kick in the arse from life before you completely blow it all to shreds in your arrogant machinations/marinations....

Time is short.  This is NOT a game - and there are REAL consequences for actions.  If you are not so sure, just ask satan and his minions that thought they had it right at one point.  Everyone is so sure of their position until time kicks them in the ass.

ATTACK FROM SPACE A THING?

 I firmly believe that the USA has used the Rod from God on a Chinese port in the past.

Since that event, China has stepped up their space-based weapon systems programs.

In regards to this, China is back n the news.  I trust the British news and even the Russian Reuters more than our own propaganda organs:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/12/attack-from-space-would-trigger-collective-defence-say-us-and-japan-amid-china-fears

Ignore at your own peril.

HANNAH STODDARD AND ROD MELDRUM - THE USE OF THE SEER STONES OR INTERPRETERS TO TRANSLATE THE BOOK OF MORMON

 This is a great interview - and wow, always impressed with Hannah Stoddard.  What a gal!:

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/l-hannah-stoddard/

I love that they are both pushing the Conservative view of LDS theology.  Of course, the Progressives can just go to hell where they belong until they have marinated for awhile and the knee can bend a little easier and the tongue confess a little more.

The Progressives want to push less power.  The Conservatives push more power.  The truth is there; there is no "dual track" on historical views.  It is either what it is, or there is this washed out version.  Same thing with Brigham's teachings.  It is either what it was, or it is something else.  There is NO dual track:

https://youtu.be/6V5pbIBRaBc?t=1577

People need to get that through their thick heads.  The alternative is a HARD row to hoe.  And God will require it at all of their hands.  Those who are throwing BY under the bus are part of this.  I will ensure those who have influence over my children, who refuse to repent, will spend their share of time in spirit prison, if I do not have my wish that they receive punishment/sorrows in this life.

It astounds me that they reject the truth and then wonder why their kids are astray and having issues with chastity, WoW and so much else.  It is like:  No Duh!!  Wake up people.

Again, I state and concurrently warn:  

There is not a single individual who has loosened their grip on the Iron Rod, who has experienced an increase in spiritual power, has an increased countenance or that truly has more joy in their lives.

HIGHLY FAVORED OF THE LORD

 Great quote that I lifted off of FB with no attribution other than it is not mine:

Last night as I was reading in the New Testament, I noted that the angel Gabriel told Mary she was "highly favored" of the Lord. That stuck out at me, and eventually I was reminded that "Hannah" and "John / Johannan" mean exactly that phrase: "highly favored of the Lord". It is an unusual phrase in the scriptures - it only occurs 7 times (aside from the names) in the Book of Mormon, and once in the Bible that I can find.

Then, as I pondered that, I remembered that Hannah's situation in the Old Testament is remarkable in a couple of ways that tie directly to the Savior.

First, her son Samuel was dedicated to the Lord completely from his very youngest years. While not exactly the same method, the Savior also was dedicated completely to God from His youngest years.

Second, Hannah was called "favored" because she had been blessed when she was barren. Her child's birth was prophesied, as Mary's child's birth was prophesied.

And third, Hannah's psalm after learning that she would have a child is the first instance in the Old Testament that overtly discusses the coming Messiah.

I believe that the angel used this phrase with Mary to reinforce his statement about Who this new baby was going to be.

THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED (THOSE WHO PROMOTE EVIL)

I have been working on this one for a long time (like since I became a sensiate being) - and after a nice long vacation with a bunch of driving/thinking and a nice nap just now and a little more crunching, I think I have a foundation for the algorithm God uses and am willing to take a stab at it.

I have been hesitant to put anything down because it is so complex, yet so simple that it might sound like a bunch of deranged rambling.  Here goes:

I have repeatedly said that I am yet to encounter anyone who is actually better off for having loosened their grip on the Iron Rod or who have forsaken the principles of the Restored Gospel.  All of the principles or any of them.  The fact is this:  the Restored Gospel is the Apex Religion.  No one - nay, not a one, can do better or find better.  This is what has caused such extreme distress in many who did not read the response to the scamdemic properly (including myself).  Those who have loosened their grip on the Rod in the Mists of Darkness have exposed themselves and their achilles heels when it comes to the Restored Gospel.  It might be a problem with their love of money (manifested in tithing issues, which is actually the lower law, preparatory to the higher law of Consecration), it might be their love of immorality (manifested in a reason to leave their spouse, etc and break temple covenants or repudiate Joseph and Brigham over things related to polygamy), it might be their love of the pleasures of the world as manifested in breaking the WoW - which is a protection against the destroyer in these last days as scourges are poured out upon the people in order to cleanse the earth in preparation for Christ's return (remember that only a Terrestrial people, or higher will be allowed to remain upon the earth).

The only way that we can qualify for higher laws and higher blessings is through obedience to lesser laws with exactness.  The wicked will attempt to tear down those who are living, or attempting to live, the higher laws because they are not capable of doing so on a lesser level - but will call those who attempt to live the higher laws, as being in league with the Pharisees.  God does NOT see it that way.  He loves obedience.  "If ye love me, keep my commandments".  Simple and straightforward.  God does not like hypocrisy; but He does love obedience which is construed as loyalty to His plan.  God dwells in everylasting burnings.  Only those who have been purified through His Son, can ever have a hope of entering back into His presence.  The relationships are simple and bear to reason.  Those who have loosened their grip will attempt to tear away at those who are moving to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Life by either badmouthing the Laws or the servants sent to teach those laws.

Here is where the punishment enters in: those who tear down or seek to deceive will be increasingly subjected to the buffetings of Satan until they are sealed his.  Those who seek to bring others to a higher law are shielded from those buffetings and have a protection about them.  For those who have partaken of the blessings of the Temple, this is the effect of the endowment.  For those who have rejected the Endowment, they reject the very thing that provides them with power and with protection against satan's inroads.  As increased power is sought, angelic ministrations will be possible and increased power will be given.  This is an upward spiral.

The opposite is a downward spiral.  Anything that takes anyone away from truth or from greater obedience will result in a diminishing of their power until they have shrunken from greatness to nothingness.  I can read countenances.  I spend time on FB poring over photos of those who have fallen and do a "spiritual progression/regression" over time.  Without fail, there is a diminishing of their "glory" as manifested in their pictures.  I do not do it to be judgmental or mean.  I do it to gather data and to bolster my theory.  When I was in the hospital recovering from the ventilator, I was able to juke the oxy numbers by specific breathing patterns and convinced them I was probably better than I actually was so I could get out and go see my daughter that was home for the Christmas break.  In like manner, some can evade detection in quoting scripture and talking of Christ.  But in the end, it is mere deception and I always come to the conclusion of:  where is thy glory that I should worship (listen to) you?

Alma the Younger sought to tear down the teachings of his father.  He went about in a state of rebellion, as he kicked against the pricks.  The only way he was able to turn it around was through a divine intervention that his father asked for.  Then, in order to attempt to repair the damage he had caused, he spent the rest of his days preaching to those who were astray.  A sort of blood atonement in this war of words that has trailed us from our pre-mortal battlefields.

There are no cursings by those with Priesthood authority, per-se.  There are pleadings that those who are not acting in good principle be stayed from receiving further blessings.  For Jesus' injunction to those who were sent as agents to teach, to dust their feet off against those who rejected their testimonies, it simply was a way by one of a higher order (who was attempting to bring others to a higher state of being), of pleading their cause to remove an obstacle from the way of promoting righteousness.  I think bearers of the Higher Priesthood live far below their means in this respect.  As promoters of a higher way, we should be blessing (or impinging upon) the lives of those around us in a much more active manner - and only as moved upon by the HG.  As power in the Priesthood increases through living commandments with exactness, we will only ask and seek to do the will of Father.  This ability increases until one arrives at a fullness of the Priesthood, as Enoch had.  A Nephi of 3 Nephi had.  There have been a few modern contemporaries who possessed/possess this same ability.

There in the pre-mortal contest, the correct choice was the prize of receiving a body and experiencing mortality and all of it's possible pitfalls (the devil and minions will never have that privilege).  The prize of correct choices in this life, is that of receiving all of the covenants and promises made in the temple and the ability to have eternal increase.  Those who fail this segment, will have no increase.  It is very simple.  The gate is strait, the way narrow.  It is meant to be a filter to keep those who simply are not capable of wielding heavy things, out of areas where they not able to tread.  It is part of the survival of the spiritual fittest strategy.  The only way that the eternities can perpetuate - otherwise heaven would become a foul place, unfit for nobleness and something worth having or striving for.

That is not exclusionism.  It is the only way forward.  God is Just.  God is Great.  God is Perfect.  God will have a perfected people or they simply will not reside where He dwells.  Very simple.  This is the punishment of the wicked.  God does not punish them.  They punish themselves for being too willful and for remaining in ignorance when the truth is for the asking or taking.  I have a child who is languishing right now.  Because of willfulness, this child consistently chooses to forego blessings that otherwise could be glorious.  Blessings of lucrative employment, stable living and even of meaningful relationships with people who love this child.  It is painful to watch - but this child has the ability to choose and no one else can do it for them.

Please pray for my wayward child.

THE 101ST BACK IN EUROPE AND TIGHT ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER

 Well, this is going to make Putin feel just cozy:

https://eurasiantimes.com/us-deploys-101st-airborne-division-very-close-to-russia-us-troops-build-trenches-stage-helicopter-attacks-fire-artillery/US Deploys 101st Airborne Division 'Very Close' To Russia; US Troops Build Trenches, Stage Helicopter Attacks & Fire Artillery

https://eurasiantimes.com/us-deploys-101st-airborne-division-very-close-to-russia-us-troops-build-trenches-stage-helicopter-attacks-fire-artillery/

ZERA PULSIPHER

 Ignore testimony like this at your own peril:

Zerah Pulsipher – Zerah was a Protestant minister of a large congregation.  Missionaries had taught Zerah about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and provided him with a Book of Mormon.  Soon after, while working in his barn one day, Zerah related that “a bright light came over my head which caused me to look up.  I thought I saw the angel with the Book of Mormon in his hands in the attitude of showing it to me and saying ‘this is the great revelation of the last days in which all things spoken of by the prophets must be fulfilled’.”  Zerah and most of his congregation were baptized.  Zerah was a mighty missionary and taught the gospel to Wilford Woodruff, who Zerah baptized in December 1833.