PUTIN THREATENS HAFB AND OTHER US MILITARY TARGETS?

 I perked up when I saw this.  Putin just spelled out his military doctrine to attack any place that supplies the missiles that are hitting his country:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/we-re-inching-towards-a-nuclear-war-says-military-intelligence-analyst/vi-AA1uG27x?ocid=socialshare

Interesting turn of events.

THE AMISH SEALED PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY

 It turned when Pennsylvania came in:

https://youtu.be/woCTR--uvFM?si=1-NyiPOF_OgXV8ta

I have always wondered what would bring persecution on Conservatives in the USA.  Could it be that the Mormons get lumped in with others of that genre that supported Donald Trump?!?  Maybe after power is lost for some reason?  A coup?  Many possibilities here, but you just know that many vengeful leftists are licking their wounds…

AND BIDEN PURSUES A POSITION OF POKING THE BEAR BEFORE TRUMP CAN CUT OFF THE WAR MACHINE

 The deep state will have war at ANY cost.  Hopefully Putin hangs on until Trump gets in.  If they take Trump out - as they have already tried - I hope Putin hits them when they are all at Davos.  Deep State gotta go!!

Wow!!  This is escalating FAST!:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/12924729/germany-world-war-three-secret-doc-nato/

The Deep State knows they have to operate fast before Trump puts the kaibosh on this madness.  Just pray that cooler heads prevail.  Though, there are some prophecies that state that the nuclear (limited) war will happen around T-giving or Christmas.

If the case, then screw the fishing limits and the back-taxes....lol

Just please, please target DC when all the scumbags and Rinos are in session and drain it by evaporation, if trenches will not get the job done....

THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS AVAILETH MUCH

 I cannot count the number of times in the past week or two that tears have welled up in my eyes when I think of the mercy of a God who has protected Trump and those who are a force against satan's control freak leftists/marxists.  Literally 1cm away from a head exploding and brain damage severe enough that he could not effect a Presidency, any Conservative can only dream about (as the leftist heads on CNN and elsewhere literally explode...).

Every time I think of the dream team of Musk/RFKJr/Ramaswamy/Tulsi Gabbard/etc or the name of Trump, please just pray for their protection and that they get to complete their righteous designs on DC and fat-cats everywhere.  Think of just a few dozen prayers going up to heaven on their behalf, say three times a day.  Not bad - but not effectual when you think of the task at hand.  As Sylvester Stallone put it, this is on the scale of Ronald Reagan or more likely George Washington.  As effectual on American democracy as Lincoln healing the nation after an unCivil War.  Free speech once again being restored without cancelling or having a paid censor shut you down?  Priceless.

But, picture if you will, tens of millions of prayers going up to the heavens on an hourly basis seeking protections and blessings.  How could an even indifferent Father not pay attention.  How could a Moroni not be called into action or the Three Nephites be put on alert to descend and do mayhem on those who want to destroy what is good and right?  If a prayer of one very righteous man and his fellows can bring an intervention to Alma the Younger - of an angelic being, then what will 50 - 200 million petitions of lesser people (like us) a day bring to the table?  I dare say, we would see miracles in ceaseless fashion until the Good Ship America is righted and no longer foundering.

I really feel hope - for the first time in a decade.  Please pray for Trump and his team.  We can literally have angels seen and unseen doing our bidding against evil - and the heavens themselves will not be able to rebut the requests.

THE TRUMP CABINET APPOINTMENTS - I AM ON CLOUD 9

 I can say I have been in the depths of despair over the last four years - and it has been reflected in my state of health.

For the first time,I am just feeling overwhelming joy and satisfaction and this sums up why I feel so amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v8ocSSQHe0

Lord, please bless those takign the reins with humility and inspiration.

I am so humbled.  Just amazing.

AGENCY - A SCI-FI THRILLER THAT MAY BRING INTO PLAY WATCHERS AND ANGELS

 Sometimes, I feel like I am in the Matrix and it is all a big stage:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPba81Nq7tg

This movie will bend your mind.  Simple, but thought provoking.

Brings to mind the pivotal role of Moroni at Valley Forge when the Continental Army was at it's lowest.  The fog on the Delaware River giving Washington the cover he needed to evacuate the troops.

The few weeks before my kid died of SIDS - called over to the other side to handle affairs there, while I was assigned to stay on this side to care for my wife and family.

Pivotal times when the earth has been hell-bent on wiping itself in a nuclear holocost.  Untold angels and beings stepping in to nudge the course of history a little.

The Battle of Trafalgar.  The Divine Wind for the Japanese.  So many other pivotal times - literally billions of times.  

A President-to-be turning his head at the precise time to avoid tragedy at the assassin's hand.

Keyholes that key elements of humanity passed through to deliver change to the world.  Abraham having a son and eventually Israel and the billions who have been blessed by his effect.

For the very universe - an angel warning a young family to flee to Egypt to avoid certain death at the hands of a despotic Herod.  Only to have a relatively young man die on a cross after expiation in the Garden of Gesthemane.  All critical events with so many key happenings leading up to the crowning event.  Little, if anything left to chance.  No detail unattended to.  

It will be fascinating to watch world history from and interventionist standpoint.  I personally am on my 12th direct intervention, where I am certain help from the other side, kept me from going over there prematurely.

Fascinating reminder that we are not alone.  One way to stay humble and acknowledge our nothingness before God and man.

ARE THE MULTIPLE PROPHECIES ABOUT IMMINENT UTAH DESTRUCTION OUT OF LINE?

 So, we have an authoritative statement by "the prophet to the Prophet", Heber C Kimball stating that SLC would be classed among the wicked cities of the world.  That around 150 years ago.  And today?  Yes, I think so.  Parts of the west side are gang-riddled.  The Avenues are gay-riddled with copious amounts of rainbow flags waving in the wind every June (since when do we boast of our sin and defiance of the first commandment to multiply and replenish the earth - which cannot be done with butt sex and other gay practices not involving sperm and an egg?!?).  We have wife-swapping and soft-swinging as a regular occurrence in the south end of the valley.

And, as I try to warn my friends and family in the valley of the impending judgments, all I get is a glassed-over stare in response.  In other words, the people believe they are chosen and will therefore be saved, no matter the level of depravity that they engage in.

And then there is Utah County with BYU going woke and you really cannot tell a Saint from a sinner around here.  At the heart of BYU housing south of campus, I find that there are now doggie poop bags everywhere as if it is now normal to have a pet while going to school.  And sure enough, I saw a greasy-haired Millennial couple walking a dog (and of course, not being responsible for the poop their dog was extruding in the planting strip).  I wondered if these could be some of the "plants" active up on campus, trying to change the culture and influence students away from traditional values.  I do not remember having time for a frivolous thing like a designer dog during my time at BYU - let alone the budget for grooming and feeding, etc

I attended my neice's sealing in the Payson temple last Saturday.  She is a real gem - one I am proud to call family.  She is so goal oriented that she makes me feel like a complete slacker etc for what I was up to at that same age.  I got to the reception a little late in Spanish Fork and found the groomsmen out doing what they do - decorating the Groom's little pick-up truck.  All I saw going into the venue, was the fellows in white shirts and ties putting on the ribbons etc that you would expect.  Several of them I recognized from the sealing room in the Temple.

About an hour later, I emerged from the building to find the truck parked in a corner and something in the street lights caught my eye.  I thought someone had used candle wax to make a phallic symbol complete with testes on the side of the bed of the truck.  Mind you, this was about 4' long.  There was a bunch of other stuff hidden in code all over the truck - but the thing that was REALLY egregious was a depiction of what appears to be my neice giving fellatio to a male on the passenger door of the same truck.  The door she would be using to leave for her honeymoon on.  How distressing!!  Either that her groom hung out with these buffoons or that she had to go to a carwash to attempt to clean this filth off when she should have been leaving for wedded bliss on her most memorable night of her clean/pure life.  She is not about that kind of garbage. 

I was completely in shock.  When I told some people who saw it, they just laughed it off.  The problem is, this kind of low-brow humor has been normalized in our schools and among today's youth.  I call it de-sensification.

The first thing that went through my mind after the shock dissipated a bit, was that Koyle's prophecy of being able to move from Payson to Lehi without touching the ground and stepping only on the corpses of the dead after some future desolating scourge, were about to come true (in other words, the boys from Spanish Fork are just bad news).  And then I remembered back to my BYU days and me driving my then fiance's Subaru with 8 BYU students inside and two on the roof through a treacherous stretch of Diamond Fork and some drunk cowboys coming up behind us in their redneck get-up cutting us off and threatening us with bodily harm as we were leaving the hotspring parking lot because they were too drunk to make any sense of the situation.  And I remember just being glad that I did not have to live in Utah county after college was done.  That was 35 years ago.

Then there was the statement by a daughter that the kids at Cardston High were like over 70% non-virgins.  I asked if that was the kids from the Reserve or predominantly LDS kids and it was the latter including the Seminary teacher's daughter who "fell pregnant" by another Bishop's son (isolated case?, or common??).  Not very Latter-Day saintish if you ask me.  Bottom line is, our culture is in extreme trouble - and we should not be surprised if judgments come down on us.

Then there was a convo I had with SEVERAL of the women who are divorced who were complaining about the men on LDS dating sites and how they expect to have sex with you on the first date - or you are otherwise a prude.  Or the reports out of Utah that there is such a thing as "soaking" where it is not sex if the guy puts his unit into a girl's unit but does not thrust in and out.  And so we go down that slippery slope....

And we have people wondering after us in amazement when we talk of the long-overdue destruction that we have coming to us....

THE HAIRY KAMELTOE WAS NEVER QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT - MARRIED TO A FOREIGN NATIONAL??

 This is a moot point - but, if true, is illustrative of the leftist trend to lie to get their puppet into office and then scrub the net.  They really have no shame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZqQjS3qPFs

Love Candace.  If you have not subscribed, you should.  She is GOLDEN.  And she puts up with zero crap in the whole race baiting thing of the left - even as a black woman.  She sees herself as a daughter of God - and that is all.

DREAM TEAM - TRUMP/RFK/MUSK MAKE THE FOOD AND WATER GREAT AGAIN

 If we can get this Trump train over the finish line, I will be most relieved.  The leftists have not called the goons into the streets in full force yet, so I feel like they have a trick up their sleeve.  Just, PLEASE pray for the safety of these three and those who earnestly work with them to clean out the crap in DC and elsewhere.

If RFK gets in, our food and medicine will finally be secure and we will have choice again (let the people who want to poison themselves, shoot themselves full of mercury and aborted baby cells and let their autoimmune systems fry for all I care).  All I care, is that the truth is spelled out in a truth campaign and that there is a single source to access 100% of the information about both sides of the argument.  That is what brought Musk around - the withholding of information, so he did a full end run and simply bought out Twitter.  Then slashed the cushy org to the bone.  Freakin hero in my mind....  And he needs to head the DOGE - and incite complete fear, chaos and confusion into the minds of the beaurocrats and fat cats in DC, who for once, will have to experience the reality that their stupid policies have imposed on the private sector employees and businesses.

RFK (got the food and water - but don't touch the oil...) will get rid of fluoride in our water (which calcifies the pineal gland - the radio transmitter that allows the brain/soul to communicate with God).  And we wonder why so many have lost their connection and direction.  My wife keeps pushing me to drink more water.  My response is "no way" if it has fluoride in it.  It is trash and putting an industrial by-product in our water to supposedly throttle back on the number of cavities, makes about as much sense as taking a vaccine for the public good when those who were stupid/gullible enough to take the vaccine were supposedly immune from the spread of the "dread disease" by all those "uninformed" that were too dumb to get the poke....  Freaking illogical and it is so bad that it literally starts to blow circuits in the mind of anyone associated with logic (engineers, primarily).  This is why they typically round up the engineers at the beginning of a radical societal shift such as Mao's nightmare and the Cultural Revolution - because the engineers will sense the stupidity of their plans (no matter how subtle the presentation of the poison pill) and start calling them out, while the lemming public just saunters over the cliff with the rest of the horde.

JFK will save the lemming crowd from themselves:

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4981959-trump-robert-kennedy-health-agencies/

It cannot come soon enough.  Please pray for them every time one of their names crosses your mind.

https://dnyuz.com/2024/11/12/kennedys-f-d-a-wish-list-raw-milk-stem-cells-heavy-metals/

JOSEPH SMITH AND MODERN MEDICINE VS HEALING

 Amazing quote:

In his journal, Joseph Smith wrote:

“I had been called to thousands of cases in sickness, and I have never failed of administering comfort where the patient has thrown himself unreservedly on me; and the reason is, that I never prescribed any thing that would injure the patient, if it did him no good. I have lost a Father, Brother and child, because in my anxiety I depended more on the judgment of other men than my own; while I have raised up others, who were lower than they were… [P]eople will seldom die of disease, provided we know it seasonably, and treat it mildly, patiently and perseveringly and do not use harsh means. It is like the Irishman’s digging down the Mountain, he does not put his shoulder to it, to push it over, but puts it in his wheelbarrow and carries it away day after day, and perseveres in it, until the whole mountain is removed; so we should persevere in the use of simple remedies (and not push against the constitution of the patient) day after day and the disease will be removed and the patient saved” (“History, 1838–1856, volume D-1 [1 August 1842–1 July 1843],” p. 1537, The Joseph Smith Papers).

DOGE - AND IT AIN'T A PICK UP

 https://youtube.com/shorts/z5MonxlgqO0?si=Ecl5y7GQOJBDRk1T

THE LEFTIST PUKES ARE LEAVING

 Funny.  I went to Canada to get away from the Leftist Marxist pukes.  Now, they want to invade Canada.  Go for it.  Hit the west coast and die in the tsunami.  God is moving people to where the kill move can happen.  I wonder if this was a thing during/before the Great Flood.  Chess moves to clear the board for the rest of us that take His agenda seriously.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-win-many-despondent-americans-064307329.html

I do not mind people with even serious disagreements with my own outlook.  I DO mind them turning an amazing thing into a hellhole.  NO leftist policy has ever worked from Hitler (National Socialism) to Stalin to Detroit or Chicago.  Duh, people!!  Wake up before it is too late.

You have been warned incessantly and it is not hard (if you have half a brain) to see the patterns and draw some decent and accurate conclusions....

THE NEW REALITY

 Well, I am as shocked as anyone!!  TRUMP did it!!

I am still on cloud 9 - but no less settled about the future.  I have a few things driving my unsettled feelings.  First of all, there is the Visions of Glory timeline that must happen within President Nelson's and Elder Oaks lifetimes.  They are not getting younger - and those events are radical.  

Then there is the Esdras Eagle prophecy which is being fulfilled to the letter - but talks of "two who would reign, but do not".  My wife is of the opinion (and I cannot argue a different tack) that the two are either the Hairy Kameltoe and Sniffer Pedo Joe or Kameltoe and Trump, which means to neither of them making it in on January 20th due to assassination or other chicanery (treachery by the Left that even the former Democrats recognize and some rejected this election).  I do not trust that the goon that left the Whorehouse in 2016 will not try something crazy from his office just down the street from the Whitehouse.  There is so much corruption, power and money behind those two and the machine they represent, it would make Daley of Chicago look like a kid with a binky....  The average innocent person has no idea what we are up against.  Just nasty.

My hopes for Trump are that he will right the economy and tamp down inflation.  Next, he will shut down the war machine and hawks in DC (which is what got Kennedy killed).  They have a way of making the Secret Service stand down so they can get a clear shot off or poison the food, etc.  These are just sickos who will stop at nothing.  The wildest mass murderer is child's play when compared to these psychopaths who are willing to attempt to take down fractions of an entire earth's population.

On that note, I heard that the heads of the big pharma held an emergency meeting likely to discuss future moves.  They are toast with RFK Jr on them.  The corruption in DC and their censorship organ is toast with Elon Musk lurking.  They both have my agenda in mind - and I want to see them rock.  They can kill the beast with the American people behind them.  So, it is a "do-or-die" for the sick pukes that thought they had it in the bag.  It is us vs them.  Take them down.  Take them down with malice.

But, they still have their leftist goons that love to break stuff and burn stuff.  The right needs to tamp that down pronto and take the wind out of their sails.  They did it in Couer d'Alene ID when they bussed in the purple haired and tatted goons from Seattle, all the rednecks showed up with their open-carry ARs and shut them down.  I think they were happy to just be alive when they re-boarded their Soros-funded buses to head back to their hell-holes and basements to clean their self-administered shitz stains (funny; a schitt stain making a schitz stain...).

Considering the time and the prophecies, we still have to consider that some kind of drivel unrest will come out of this.  The lefties have to just be enraged that they could not magically make 20 million votes appear out of thin air (once again, four years later) to save the Hairy Kameltoe from ruin.

Time will tell.  We shall see.

SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ELECTION

 I don't want to sound dramatic here, but Tuesday might be the last day of sanity in this nation.  We are in a situation where, if either one comes out the victor, we are screwed over either way.   Trump wins and can implement the former conservative policies, the lefties will go nuts and attempt to burn it to the ground.  To which my response is FMJ at high energy and a high rate of delivery.  It is one thing to take down a peaceful protester - but an entirely different thing to take down someone who is randomly burning down a lifetime that it took to build a business or to put others in harm's way.  I am sick of these worthless bags of flesh doing nothing and surviving off of everyone else's hard efforts or destroying the lifetime achievements of others who have strived to make a difference for their families and communities.  They simply are in it for what they can juke the system for.  They belong with Satan and his something for nothing, basement-dwelling posse that have no goals or objectives in life but harassing others.

A friend of mine, who was an operative in the Republican machine in Seattle has seen posters around the downtown (Capitol Hill) area telling where to meet up tomorrow and to wear body armor, etc.  If they want war, it is quite simple to deliver it to them.  And this may be how the CW2.0 starts.  We saw a dress rehearsal in 2020 with BLM.  Now, as in 1917 Russia, they will act in concert to topple those who have cared to work for what they have.

If the marxists win tomorrow (or steal it), there will be no revolution because we love the rule of Law and respect the efforts of others to determine their personal course in life and to build their dreams.  But, just 3% fought to deliver tyranny to the curb back in 1776.  Maybe those small bands of people will make a difference this time around.  Either way, we cannot have a bunch of entitled, whining shitz determining national policy at the end of a torch or molotov cocktail.  It didn't work out too well for the Russians who did not tamp the street thugs down - who then ruled for the next 70 years.  What a train wreck of tyranny!

If the Harry Kameltoe wins it, we have four more years of puppeteering for the Chicoms - probably much worse than the last four years of drooling and demented sniffer Joe.  What a waste of four years of my political life....  So painful to watch.

Either way, there will be loss.  Likely martial law for some period of time.  Possibly CW2.0 in 

A COHEN

 An amazing experience of God leading a wayward son home

https://www.facebook.com/notes/10159427620038538/

I just love stuff like this.  A fascinating story back to God's grace and presence.  We will be saved, one way or another - not by force, just force of circumstance:

My Most Requested Story

(revised on the First Day of Elul 5775 . . . 16 August 2015)

While I was working as a pharmacy technician in Sacramento, Bruce Cohen was a patient who tried my patience.

This hunched over man, with his fist clenched tight to his chest, was ornery, gruff and angry in almost all circumstances.  I learned that he had suffered a massive stroke in 1996 at the age of 36.  He had few words - possibly 100 - in his vocabulary.  He could no longer read or write - he has Aphasia.  He had been born and raised in Los Angeles to Jewish parents and was raised in a kosher home.  When Bruce was 15, his parents divorced and soon thereafter his mother died of lung cancer.  Bruce became a "juvenile delinquent" and his father gave him the option to join the military or go to "juvenile hall".  Bruce chose the Army.  While there he fell into addictive behaviors including alcoholism and drug use.

As a heavy user of "crank" (a low purity, crystallized Methamphetamine), Bruce suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and he lay in a coma for six months.  When he awoke he was paralyzed on the right side, could not speak and could not walk.   Most remarkably, he did not know who he was.

By the time I met Bruce in 2001, he was able to walk and talk again.  He was living alone in a low-rent apartment, working at Burger King and Toys 'R Us doing menial jobs.  He couldn't read or write, which limited his ability to function in society.  He rode a bus wherever he went and it is there that I saw him most frequently. 

In the beginning, I found Bruce to be annoying, aggravating and downright miserable to associate with.  After a few years I became more capable of tolerating him.  Occasionally, we would see each other on the bus and would acknowledge each other on the days Bruce remembered he knew me. I continued to respect his efforts to overcome the obstacles of living with the limitations of his handicaps but in all honestly, I would generally avoid interaction, as he frequently appeared to be angry and surly.

Over the next three years, I began to notice a softening and a kindness develop in him. I didn't try so hard to avoid him. He began to encourage me when he would see me in a depressed state of mind.

In the summer of 2004, I encountered Bruce at a bus stop and we talked as we waited for a very late bus. He shared that he was doing all right but was beginning to consider finding himself a wife to help him. Bruce had relinquished his financial affairs to SSA appointed administrators and they did not allow him many choices.

He said, "Dad said I should go back to the synagogue and meet people so I am. I'm trying to find a good Jewish wife who can help me with these things."

I chuckled and responded, "Seems we're in about the same boat. I'm looking for a good Mormon husband to help me with things!"

Shortly after that meeting - it seemed that Bruce was more frequently on my morning bus. When I was getting on the bus to head for work, he was getting off that same bus to go to his job.

One morning, as Bruce got off the bus, he handed me a yellow piece of paper on which he'd written his name and number. He beamed and said "That's my number" and he asked if I'd call him.

I took the paper . . . verging on the edge of confusion and consternation and stepped on the bus. I looked up to show my pass to the bus driver and turned to take my seat. My spiritual eyes were opened and for a brief moment . . .

. . . I was standing before an exalted or perfected Bruce Cohen . . . and his appearance was breathtakingly perfect. My gaze paused on his glory and it took me a moment to recognize that Bruce was standing at the right hand of God . . . and I was being told that Bruce was mine if I'd have him.

Though, perhaps the words were "take this man unto yourself".

When the vision closed, I took my seat . . . slumped in exhaustion yet exhilerated that I had received the choice of my Lord for the remainder of my existence . . . for eternity.

My mind was racing . . . as I quickly rehearsed all that could . . . should . . . and would come from this moment. The next step in the story was in my hands and I began to consider making the phone call that Bruce had requested.

When should I call? What would I say? If I said, "HI, this is Sharon" would he know who I was? How embarrasing that would be. I shouldn't call.

I couldn't.  I imagined the conversation and the difficulty he would have just trying to identify who was calling.  I knew of nothing I could say that would help him remember who I was. He never had learned my name. I'd never told him, he couldn't read my name badge and now years had passed. He was accustomed to living in a world of nameless friends and strangers.

I had learned that he could read numbers enough to place phone calls, find the right bus and even find addresses. So, I decided to slip him a note when we crossed paths at the bus stop again. I was in the process of addressing little children's Valentine cards to share with my office-mates. I took one of those juvenile cards and wrote a little note with my number on the back.

The next day, as he stepped from the bus, I gave him the Valentine's card.

His eyebrows raised, eyes wide open, his head dropped and he stared at it in his hand. He then looked at me completely bewildered and ashamed.

"I can't read", he said, seeming humiliated because he didn't know if that would be all right with me. I watched fear, hope, despair and anticipation cross his face in milliseconds.

"I know."  I responded with a smirk on my lips and a twinkle in my eyes. "But you CAN read numbers. That's mine.  You call me!"

Two days later, he did and, after identifying himself, got straight to the point.

"You're a church lady, aren't you?"

Bruce's question was charming.

"If you mean am I a Christian?  Yes, I'm a Christian.  Why?"

"Well.  My mom came to me in a dream.  She's dead, you know.  She died in 1975.  My mom told me to ask you about your church.  She said your church has what our family needs to be saved.  Do you know what she's talking about?"

Of course, I did!  As a Mormon, I believe that church members can offer the blessings of salvation to deceased ancestors by performing the necessary ordinances vicariously.  I had done the work for ancestors myself but I had never personally had anyone visit from beyond the veil to request that their work be done.  Fortunately, the magnificence of the question did not render me speechless.

We talked for hours, sharing about ourselves. He talked of his commitment to Alcoholics Anonymous, the twelve step program, and The Big Book. He explained what he had done for the 'steps' that required repentance and restitution. He spoke of his commitment to progress, to service and of his devotion to God, and to prayer. He had spent seven years focusing his energies on self improvement, much of it in response to his personal conversations with God.

He became curious about my commitment to the gospel, to repentance, to progress, and to my hopes for eternal exaltation. I was engrossed in a personal improvement program and it monopolized the description of myself. What I was saying was so familiar to him. He could remember learning similar things in AA. His curiosity grew to the extent that he accepted my invitation to meet the Mormon missionaries.

He agreed that they could come to his apartment if I would join them to act as translator.  When the elders arrived they began the first discussion with a question.

"So, Bruce. Tell us what you know about God. Who is He?"

And Bruce, the Jew, responded, "Oh - that's easy. He's the guy with the holes in his hands."

It was obvious by the way that he spoke that he had actually "met" God or conversed with Him. He had seen the Holes in His hands.

When we asked what he knew of the "guy with holes in His hands", he told us that He was the only man who could understand him when he woke up from the coma - He was the only guy Bruce could understand, too.  Bruce shared that when he did as the "Guy with holes in His hands" told him, "everything worked out right".  But, when Bruce did what Bruce wanted to do, it all went wrong.

Bruce shared more of the story like this:

 

When I had my stroke, I had to start going to places for school. And as I was walking to go to school I had to turn around because I thought somebody was talking to me and there was nobody there.

 

And I turned around and I started walking back to Easter Seals in the area where I was at and again ... it happened again. And I had to turn around and I tried to find out who it was that was talking to me. And I didn't know who it was.

 

And then as I was walking further to Easter Seals, all of a sudden God smacked me in my head and said "This is God, Bruce. Pay Attention" and He helped me to understand.

Bruce shared that he learned to pray at AA. He did as he was asked and prayed frequently. He discovered that he could hear answers to his every question whenever he "shut up and listened". When Bruce speaks, people usually have a difficult time understanding him. He has aphasia. But he was always understood when he prayed. He learned to trust the answers. He knew that he was talking to God and he knew that God was answering. He knew what God wanted him to do and he was doing the best he could.

Everything developed quickly from there. Within six weeks of giving me that little yellow piece of paper - with his name and number - he was baptized on March 26, 2005. On March 27th, Easter Sunday, he was confirmed and ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. More importantly, that same day, Bruce proposed marriage. On April 15th, 2005 we were married.

In 2011, Bruce came to me as I arrived home and told me that God had told him we had to move to Nauvoo.

I blurted out.  "Do you even know where Nauvoo is?" 

It was a reasonable question as Bruce is not able to read anything about church history, had never left California and had little comprehension of American geography. 

"No.  But God says we have to go there."

He prayed for a timetable and God gave us five months to organize ourselves and move to Nauvoo.  With the help of incredible people in and out of the church and all around the globe, the way was paid, a job and a home secured.  We arrived in Nauvoo in May of 2011. 

THE NEW JERUSALEM SCROLL

 One of the ancient writings discovered with the Dead Sea Scrolls is the New Jerusalem Scroll. A prophecy written on the manuscript is a description of a city. A researcher named J. J. Brown has pointed out that it seems to be describing Salt Lake City.  The ancient writing describes a place called the New Jerusalem that would be built in a later date. This is a translation of the text:

"The city itself was divided into square blocks like a checkerboard. Each block was surrounded by a spacious street, and the city as a whole was divided by larger streets, three passing from east to west, and two passing from north to south."

It goes on to say the city was laid out according to the compass. It also describes how the streets begin at a temple and specifically a street to the north named after it. It even mentions the large sidewalks.  In the scrolls it pdescribes a city of 18.67 miles by 13.33 miles. This is much too big to be any ancient city. It describes a large area that is oblong. The land set aside for Salt Lake was quite large right from the beginning.

Brown measured the size of Salt Lake using Google Earth. He found the length measured at 18.72 and the width at 13.36 miles. These are within 0.05 off from the size written in the New Jerusalem Scroll. Here is a link to the presentation of his findings.  I am not claiming that SLC is the New Jerusalem.  But, patterned after the New Jerusalem?  Isn't it amazing how inspired the Prophet Brigham Young was (in the which I believe he had gone over the plans for this city with Joseph Smith before his martydom)?  By their fruits ye shall know them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFT1pE_6eY0

Enjoy!!

ZION!!!!

Tonight I want to cover Zion, Enoch’s Zion, and its return and the Sign of the coming of The Son of Man. Or the sign of Christ’s return. Now the reason for my covering this particular subject is there are many misconceptions around this subject. One is that when Enoch’s Zion was taken up that earth and buidling were taken up with it. I will show that there is zero scriptural base or prophetic base to back it up. One man said Joseph Smith told him that Zion would return as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man and that it was a swath of land that was taken. I will show with scriptures and prophetic quotes that this is incorrect. I will quote Joseph Smith himself as well as others. First there is zero evidence, apart from this one man to support the theory that land, brick and mortar, was taken versus just the people. First I will show that the Sign of the Coming  of the Son of Man  is the The Second Coming itself. First we will start with Joseph Smith in the book Teachings of The Prophet Joseph Smith compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith the bottom of page 286- 287. “ There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the son 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, ect. 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. ( April, 6 1843) caps added. 

So what did Joseph Smith say, well he said the sign of the coming of the Son of Man is his actual coming. Not the City Of Zion Coming but Christ’s official coming. Now we can reiterate this was some scripture from the Bible and D&C.

I will start with Mathew 24:30

30 And then shall appear the "sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

So we read here the sign of the Son of Man in heaven is us seeing the Son of Man coming in the coulds of Heaven with power and glory. Says nothing about a city. To reiterate what this verse means if you pull it up and hit the word sign it takes you to D&C 88:93 

And immediately there shall appear a great sign in the heaven, and all people shall see it together. 

So we are talking about the same sign. It cross references tropical guide The Second Coming. No reference point to a city returning. Now cross reference D&C 88:93 word “great sign.” That takes you to Mathew 24:30 of course and Luke 21: 25-27

25 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; the sea and the waves roaring;

26 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.

27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Which again talks about the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and glory. Again no mention of a city. Zip, zilch, nada. 

In verse 27 of the above scripture hit the word cloud and it takes you to Daniel 7:13

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.

Again talking about a coming of Christ. Although here he comes to the Ancient of Days. This is talking about Adam-Ondi-Ahman and his appearance there. Again no city.

It also takes you to D&C 34:7

7 For behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, the time is soon at hand that I shall come in a cloud with power and great glory.

And again the Coming of Christ himself. No mention of a city. So we have all these scriptures talking about the sign and all cross reference to The Second Coming except one that talks about his appearing to Adam at Adam-Ondi-Ahman. Not a single mention of a city. 

So now let us talk about the scriptures that cover Enoch’s people being taken up. You may be surprised that there is actually very little mention of Enoch in the book of Gensis Chapter 5: 21-24

21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Which just talks about Enoch’s righteousness and that Enoch was taken up. Zero mention of a city at all here. So I hit Enoch and cross referenced to the book of Moses in the Pearl of Great Price 6:21-68 zero mention of them even being taken up. So moving forward to Chapter 7:18

18 And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.

So in this verse it says the Lord called his people Zion. Yes, the city was called Zion as well but here he makes a point to call the people Zion.

Moving forward to verse 21

21 And it came to pass that the Lord showed unto Enoch all the inhabitants of the earth; and he beheld, and lo, Zion, in process of time, was taken up into heaven. And the Lord said unto Enoch: Behold mine abode forever.

Zion is taken up, note it doesn’t say city it says Zion. And we see from the other verse the Lord referred to the people as Zion. So no real evidence of a swath of land being carved out and taken up. 

We also have D&C 38:4

4 I am the same which have taken the Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom; and verily, I say, even as many as have believed in my name, for I am Christ, and in mine own name, by the virtue of the blood which I have spilt, have I pleaded before the Father for them.

Interesting wording here, The Zion of Enoch, he doesn’t call it a city. Interesting.

Then Moses 7 68-69

68 And all the days of Zion, in the days of Enoch, were three hundred and sixty-five years.

69 And Enoch and all his people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion; and it came to pass that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and from thence went forth the saying, Zion is Fled.

Interesting wording here, we know God called the people Zion, this says Zion was not for God took it up. But he didn’t even call it a city. He said Zion was fled. Sort of like the people just up and left.

So in all these scriptures we get no idea that an actual city was taken up. Let’s see what some Apostles have said on the subject.

James E Talmage 

“of course you are at liberty to believe that the removal of Enoch and his city from the earth because of the righteousness of the people meant the taking away of an actual piece or block of the rocky earth upon which the city stood;

but I find nothing in Scripture to warrant any such assumption. I understand that Enoch and his city as an expression means Enoch and his people.”

Bruce R McConkie

Please note: Zion is people; Zion is the saints of God; Zion is those who have been baptized; Zion is those who have received the Holy Ghost; Zion is those who keep the commandments; Zion is the righteous; or in other words, as our revelation recites: “This is Zion-the pure in heart.” (D&C 97:21) (Elder Bruce R. McConkie, Ensign, May 1977, 115-18)

So people not buildings.

Also McConkie

The righteous people described in Moses 7:27 were translated and “caught up” to join those in the city of Zion. Elder Bruce R. McConkie of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote:

“After those in the City of Holiness were translated and taken up into heaven without tasting death, so that Zion as a people and a congregation had fled from the battle-scarred surface of the earth, the Lord sought others among men who would serve him. From the days of Enoch to the flood, new converts and true believers, except those needed to carry out the Lord’s purposes among mortals, were translated” (The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man‍ [1982], 284).

“After the Lord’s people were translated —for it was people who were caught up into heaven, not brick and mortar and stone, for there are better homes already in heaven than men can build on earth —after these righteous saints went to dwell beyond the veil, others, being converted and desiring righteousness, looked for a city which hath foundation, whose builder and maker is God, and they too “were caught up by the powers of heaven into Zion.” (Moses 7:27.)” Bruce R. McConkie, Come: Let Israel Build Zion, April 1977

 

So Zion as a people and a congregation fled the surface of the earth. No mention of land or buildings. 

So we have zero scripture references to actual land, or brick and mortar being taken up. We have two Apostles saying people not land not buildings. One says there is zero scriptural evidence that actual land was taken. I feel I have established the points that the Sign of the Coming of the Son of Man is The Coming of The Son of Man himself. As well as there will be no swath of earth returning to earth but a congregation of Saints. So the Sign cannot be an actual swath of land zooming through space as a massive sign of the Second Coming. Do with the info what you will.

MEANING OF THE WORD pHARM akeia

 This is interesting:

PREPAREDNESS - GREAT COUNSEL

 This is the kind of stuff that folks in the hurricane zone probably could be in need of.  As Israel invades Lebanon, and we get embroiled in the whole Russia thing, I can only say that time is short.  Something has to give pretty soon.  I have been following this guy for years and he is completely legit:

https://youtube.com/shorts/dh7G3eyJUmc?si=pFr1D9JzN8v1WFps

Act accordingly.

THE FAIL BEHIND THE 777 PROPHECY

 Very good analysis of greed and corporate failure that drove common sense/logical types absolutely nuts:

https://youtu.be/ieghkqcUjmk?si=Y7pQE32CoZ8Dr-YY

THE ABILITY TO BLESS AND TO CURSE

 One of the singular things that we, as Elders in the Lord's church possess, is the ability to bless those who seek for the truth and to curse those who kick against the pricks and fight the servants of God.

I am always amazed that Joseph, for all the crazy stuff he had to endure, that he did not wholesale openly curse those who afflicted him during his mortal journey and life's mission.  It may have been done in quiet, but I have read no account of it being done openly.  What great restraint!  When I see what Jesus did to the bush that produced no fruit (just as His frustration was likely mounting over Israel's lack of fruit and unfulfilled mandates and His dreams for them), I am amazed.  But the bush died forthwith (shriveled up on the spot):

• Matthew 21:19

  "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away". 
• Mark 11:12-25

  "And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever".

This tree was "guilty" of violating the first commandment given from God to His posterity and to all things on earth; Multiply and replenish".  With no fruit, there would be no seeds.  With no seeds, there would be no multiplication, nor replenishment.  There are so many parables that address this very topic in the scriptures.  Produce, or your existence is in vain and the very purposes of God; frustrated.  This is the agenda of the d'evil; to attempt to thwart or frustrate the declarations and wishes of God.  Those who kick against the pricks, so to speak.  We see them all around us; those who love rebellion more than compliance to the desires of a Loving God.  If His ways were harmful or injurious to us, it would be one thing.  But they are designed to bring us the ultimate in happiness and fulfilment.  So, why kick against the pricks?!?

The primary role of the Priesthood is to bless the lives of others.  Whether it is healing or specifically calling down the powers of heaven to provide rain when/where needed, to alleviate some telestial condition that is afflicting.  Those with a fulness of their Priesthood can act in that capacity.  Those with faith to receive can receive the portion given to them.

We have also been given the mandate to curse those who reject our message - and I have had experiences with that power:

"I will bless those who bless you, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed" appears in Genesis 12:3

And then there is the injunction in the Doctrine and Covenants: 

2 But with some I am not well pleased, for they will not open their mouths, but they hide the talent which I have given unto them, because of the fear of man. Wo unto such, for mine anger is kindled against them.

3 And it shall come to pass, if they are not more faithful unto me, it shall be taken away, even that which they have.

4 For I, the Lord, rule in the heavens above, and among the armies of the earth; and in the day when I shall make up my jewels, all men shall know what it is that bespeaketh the power of God.

   14 And after thou hast come up unto the land of Zion, and hast proclaimed my word, thou shalt speedily return, proclaiming my word among the congregations of the wicked, not in haste, neither in wrath nor with strife.

15 And shake off the dust of thy feet against those who receive thee not, not in their presence, lest thou provoke them, but in secret; and wash thy feet, as a testimony against them in the day of judgment.

It is pretty clear here that we are to open our mouths (use the "sword of my mouth" to declare truth and let the chips fall where they may).  For some, that chip dispersion was assured death.  For others, they got to see the results of their cursings on the wicked (withdrawals of God's protections in a fallen world).

As the father of a wayward child who was openly kicking against the pricks, I asked God to drop the hammer on her so that her mortal probation would not be an utter waste.   What happened over the course of the next few months was breath taking - and we are still dealing with the blowback and carnage from that event until she is humble enough to cry out to the very God of Heaven for help and assistance beyond what we are allowed to give.  God loves each of us enough to do the hard thing to ensure our growth and ultimate happiness.