RARE MORMON VIDEOS - THE LINK TO THE VIDEO OF THE CREE INDIANS IN CARDSTON COUNTRY

This is interesting stuff - and I thank a reader finding it for us all:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAnRNCf5m5I0pEdqYMfGOgA

Here is a link to the vid of the Cree who came to Cardston due to a vision of their chief spiritual man:

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

I have an idea that most of the tribes are onto something that the rest of us have NO clue about - and likely never will until all things are made known to us.  It may well have started in 1890 at Walker Lake, NV (where a Christ-like figure gave them instruction and told the Indians to wear a white garment and that they would be given power over their enemies).  Some process was started then for their gathering (or so it appears - even though some emboldened hotheads took it to heart and tried a last surge to fight off the white man at the battle of Wounded Knee).  It will culminate in them coming to the mountains for safety during the tribulations (after the purge amongst the Saints - and just as Deganewida said in the 1500's, to the Iroquios) and then culminating in the triumphal return to the NJ, per 3 Nephi (where Ephraim will lead, but will only assist in the building of the NJ).


Here is the story of Chief Yellowface, as told by Edward J. Wood:

THE DREAM OF YELLOW FACE

By President Edward J. Wood

President of the Alberta Temple

 

About the year 1910, a very fine looking Indian, calling himself Yellow Face, called in Cardeton, and said he had with him 20 families of the Cree nation from Eastern Canada, and that they were wandering over the country to find a good trapping country. As they liked the look of this corner of Alberta, they requested permission to camp on some of the vacant lands in our vicinity.

Yellow Face had fairly well educated young men in his company who could talk pretty good English. These acted as interpreters. They had a written language the characters resembling very much the characters seen on the facsimile cuts shown in the Pearl of Great Price. Yellow Face had rather sharp features, a well-shaped forehead, with deep-set eyes. His color was a lighter brown than that of our Blood Indians, he was nearly six feet tall, was very dignified and seemed highly intelligent.

We directed him and his company to the west section where there were lands with many lakes and plenty of grass for their horses. In a few days, Yellow Face sent word to me that they preferred the upper parts of the Cochrane Ranch lands, and that his company had encamped on the Belly River near the bridge, waiting to hear from me as to their trapping on our Church lands. I sent word that if they would go on the hay lands and do some work in grubbing out a lot of low willows, they might earn a little money that way and also earn the right to do sonic trapping; to which proposal they willingly assented.

They wasted no time, and soon went to the store at Mountain View, a town five miles from their camp, and brought some fine muskrat hides to sell and also some finely beaded moccasins, well tanned rugs, and Indian curios. They did a lot of buying and selling in the Mountain View stores and some trading in Cardston during the trapping season.

While in Mountain View, they seemed very curious about our meetings and asked to attend public services, and also ward reunions of any kind; but while in attend­ance they would talk very little. When the season was about over for trapping, they came and very politely said Goodbye, and seemed to appreciate our allowing them to use the Church lands.

They came back the next year, and again the third year, and traded and acted much as they did before and never seemed to wish to get acquainted with us, until one day near the close of the season, Yellow Face and his Council of Chiefs, comprising the head of each family, making 20 Chiefs, sent to Mountain View for the Church Chief Bishop to come at once to their camp and meet with their Council.

The Bishop went and found them all seated around the edge of the tent, and wondered what they might desire of him. When the Bishop entered, Yellow Face stood up and asked the Bishop to stand in the center of the circle and address them. The Bishop hardly knew what to say, but tried to explain, through their interpreter, the first principles of the Gospel, and other truths he thought they would understand about our revealed Gospel. He spoke over half an hour, and realized they did not seem much interested, so he sat down and talked briefly on local matters, invited them to come to Mountain View to the meetings, and left feeling he had not made much of an impression.

About a week after, they sent for him to come among them again and talk to them once more. He wondered more than ever at their inviting him to talk to them so soon for he knew he had done very little good before. But as he entered the tent he noticed a fine looking Indian woman, whom Yellow Face introduced as his daugh­ter.

The Bishop states that as soon as he saw this woman, the feeling came upon him to talk on the Book of Mormon. Before he began to speak to the assembled Indians, Yellow Face asked him if he had anything new to tell them, saying that they did not care to hear again what he had told them before. When he said he would tell then about a book, every eye was on him and the young woman seemed very nearly white. They all paid marked attention as he spoke and interrupted so frequently through the interpreter, that it was difficult for him to finish. They were much enthused, and pointed for him to be seated where Yellow Face had been sitting, then Yellow Face in his dignified way said he would now tell his story. As he did so every eye was upon him:

“The year before our tribe first came here, I was taken very sick. Some of my Indian friends who had been dead for many years came and told me that I would soon be better, but would get sick again someday, and that I would die, but my family must not think I was dead and bury me, for I was not to be buried until my body was cold all over.

When I woke up, I called my family together and also the Counsel of Five Chiefs (of which I was a member) for our tribe that then lived in Manitoba was large, and I told them of my dream, and they laughed at me and did not believe it. But, nevertheless, I feared my dream was true.

Time went on, and one day sometime afterward, I was taken very sick, and I at once feared my dream would come true, so I warned my family not to be in a hurry to bury me, even though I died, until they were sure that I was cold all over.

I got weaker and weaker until I left my body, and I went away among a lot of Indians that I knew were dead, some I knew and some I did not know, as they had been dead so long. But they were not dead at all, and told me to die was only to leave the body for your people to take care of, and to come where they were.

As for me, they said that I had to go back and use my body again for several years. THEY SAID I WAS TO GO AMONG THE WHITE PEOPLE UNTIL I FOUND A BOOK THAT TOLD OP THE HISTORYOF THESE DEAD INDIANS WHO WERE NOT DEAD.

I asked them how I would know the people who had the book that would tell my live Indian friends all about who they were and about their dead relatives; and they gave me these five keys:

1. They will let you camp on their own lands, and trap and hunt.

2. They will treat you like one of them in your business dealings with them.

3. They will invite you to their meetings and ask you to speak.

4. They will invite you to sit with them at their tables to eat.

5. They will visit you in your camp, and their men will not bother your women nor molest any of you.

When you find this kind of people, have them meet in your Council, and have them tell you what they be­lieve, and they will tell you about this book.

I then woke up and found my wife and my friends had about decided to bury me as I had been dead several days and was cold all over, except a small place over my heart, but when I came back to life and told them where I had been and that our Indian relatives were not dead at all, they wondered at me. And when I told them that I would pick about 20 families and travel until I found the Book, they again wondered, but as they all believed in a God, they said they would follow me.

So in due time we formed our company and started. We made many camps, and traveled many seasons. But there are not many people who are true friends of the Indian; and it was hard to find a people who answered to the five keys until we landed among you.”

Yellow Face had grown quite eloquent in telling of his wonderful experience among the dead-yet-living Indians, as he termed them, and before he sat down, he asked for the Book. The Bishop went and got a Book of Mormon and gave it to him. He took it as though it had always belonged to him, and said to the Bishop that it was his Book because it was the history of his people, both of the dead and of the living.

After this very interesting experience of the Bishop, I met Yellow Face at the home of the Bishop and he told us of how he had watched us and of his sitting by my side at a certain reunion of the ward the year before, and of how he had taken note of our treatment of him, and of his great surprise when I told him his company could camp on the Church lands, and of his object in camping on the main road, so that all of our people going to and from several of our main wards, had to pass through this Indian village, and of his coming the three times—a year apart—as he wanted to see if we would change in our treatment of his company. He also told us of many principles of religion that he said his tribe believed in, which were very interesting to us.

He then took the Book of Mormon, calling it their long lost Book, and wrapped it among their valuables, which they always carry in a separate buckskin sack, and hang it apart from any other belongings on a tripod in front of the head Chief’s lodge. These articles are held sacred by the tribe and are exhibited only on rare occasions.

Yellow Face and his company now seemed satisfied, and having no further desire to stay among us, soon left. We heard many times afterward of how they would camp along the highways, and Yellow Face would take his own interpreter and call upon a family, and would hand “His Book” to the family and ask them to read it for him. We heard of this being done and the Book being read to him by many people who wondered at what the book contained, and seemed quite interested when he would tell them it was the history of his people.

 

SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS OVER THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST ON APRIL 3, 33AD

A few years ago, when I was checking to see how closely the death of our son to SIDS aligned with the "...about the age that Jesus was when He died" (a prediction made that there would be a death in our family on that date "in the middle of my 33rd year"), I got on a NASA total eclipse calculator and determined that the heavenly sign that matched the scriptural account (sun was hidden in shame for several hours as He hung there dying), occurred over the Holy Land on that exact date of April 3rd, 33AD - Passover Friday that year.

Here is a little more by John Pratt - great researcher on this kind of stuff:

"Then, on 3 April 1836, the Lord Jesus Christ and three other heavenly beings appeared in this holy edifice. One of these heavenly messengers was Elijah, to whom the Lord said he had [I]“committed the keys of the power of turning the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to the fathers, that the whole earth may not be smitten with a curse.”"
See this chart...http://bloodmoonscoming.com/…/2…/02/GRAPH_A_Crucifixion1.jpg
and notice when the solar ...and lunar eclipses were on the same day. If John Pratt is right and he died on 1 April 33 AD that would have been Friday I believe, then Saturday would have been the 2nd and Sunday the 3rd or what we celebrate as Easter Sunday?

After the diaspora the jews made their festivals two days because far flung communities couldn't get word quickly enough about the new month in order to start counting for His Divine Appointment Feast Days and because "like many of the enactments of the prophets, we often do not know the real reason or “secret” behind their enactment.3"
http://www.chabad.org/…/Why-Do-We-Still-Celebrate-Holidays-…
John P. Pratt says, “Sir Isaac Newton provided the key to understanding the seventy weeks prophecy of Daniel. When one reckons from the day that Ezra left to rebuild Jerusalem (SATURDAY 3 APRIL 458 BC), to one of the two possible dates for the Crucifixion (Fri 1 Apr AD 33), the interval is almost exactly seventy weeks of years (490 years) on our calendar. When the Enoch calendar is used, then the separation of the two dates completes exactly seventy weeks of Enoch years, to the very day. This precise timing provides a strong witness 1) of God's foreknowledge of both dates, 2) of the authenticity of the Book of Daniel, and 3) of Fri 1 Apr AD 33 as the date of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Truly the Lord has provided several witnesses of the key dates in the Savior's life." http://www.johnpratt.com/…/do…/lds/meridian/2004/daniel.html
Friday -- 1 April, 1836
Passover – Saturday -- 2 April 1836
Easter -- Sunday – 3 April 1836
This is when Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple.
Moses, Elias, and Elijah appeared and conveyed priesthood keys as well (see D&C 110). The Jews set a place for Elijah and some leave the door open so it is easier for him to come in at the Passover meal which they eat two nights in a row. So on that Easter Sunday as the Jews were hoping Elijah came!
Note: 3 April 33 AD had both a lunar and solar eclipse and is part of the weekend of the crucifixion also the blood moon of 4 April 2015 that was 4 minutes and 44 seconds long had a similar pattern of Passover/Saturday and Easter/Sunday.
Note: Passover this year is 11 April (see my youtube video to see why that is significant).
The "meat" and significance of these numbers are found here...
https://www.lds.org/…/what-i-hope-you-will-teach-your-child…

bloodmoonscoming.com

OGDEN KRAUT - NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES

This is amazing stuff:

http://ogdenkraut.com/?page_id=355

It has been years since I read it.

I testify that there is so much more amazing stuff going on over on the other side than over here, that we would scarcely believe it, if shown the whole thing.

PRESIDENT RAWSON - AMAZING STORY OF A SEMINOLE CHIEF

I woke up early this morning (a rarity, trust me) and was looking for a podcast to listen to and came across this.

A great story - if you have the time in your busy schedule:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RNgqIOTItQ

It talks about the conversion of the Cree with President EJ Wood and how it ties into the Book of Mormon.  The reason that it says that the Gentiles (you and I) will be wiped out and the Natives will (largely) make it into the Millennium, per 3 Nephi 27 - is because the white man is so promiscuous (adultery).

Sounds like it is pretty spot on....

Very interested in seeing this movie that BYU produced about the Cree out in Hill Spring and Glennwood, Alberta.

If you can find it (my initial search turned up nothing), I would love to see it in the comments section.

THE WAR IN HEAVEN, CONTINUED ON THIS EARTH

I testify that every pearl in this article is the real deal.  Pure doctrine and truth:

The War Goes On

By Elder Larry R. Lawrence

Of the Seventy

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The war that began in heaven continues to this day. In fact, the battle is heating up as the Saints prepare for the return of the Savior.

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Anyone who follows international news will agree that we live in a time of “wars and rumors of wars” (D&C 45:26). Fortunately, everyone on earth is a war veteran. We have been battling the hosts of evil in an ongoing war that began in the premortal sphere before we were born.

Because we had not yet received physical bodies, we fought the War in Heaven without swords, guns, or bombs. But the fighting was just as intense as any modern war, and there were billions of casualties.

The premortal war was fought with words, ideas, debate, and persuasion (see Revelation 12:7–9, 11). Satan’s strategy was to frighten people. He knew that fear is the best way to destroy faith. He may have used arguments like these: “It’s too hard.” “It’s impossible to make it back clean.” “There’s too much risk.” “How do you know you can trust Jesus Christ?” He was very jealous of the Savior.

Thankfully, God’s plan triumphed over Satan’s lies. God’s plan involved moral agency for mankind and a great sacrifice. Jehovah, known to us as Jesus Christ, volunteered to be that sacrifice—to suffer for all our sins. He was willing to lay down His life for His brothers and sisters so that those who repented could come back clean and eventually become like their Heavenly Father. (See Moses 4:1–4; Abraham 3:27.)

The other advantage that helped Jehovah win the hearts of God’s children was the powerful testimonies borne by His supporters, led by Michael, the archangel (see Revelation 12:7, 11; D&C 107:54). In premortality, Adam was called Michael, and Satan was called Lucifer, which means the “lightbearer.”¹ That may seem like a strange name for the prince of darkness (see Moses 7:26), but the scriptures teach that Satan was “an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God” before he fell (see D&C 76:25–28).

How could a spirit with so much knowledge and experience fall so far? It was because of his pride. Lucifer rebelled against our Father in Heaven because he wanted God’s kingdom for himself.

In his classic talk “Beware of Pride,” President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994) taught that Lucifer “wished to be honored above all others” and that “his prideful desire was to dethrone God.”² You have heard too that Satan wanted to destroy man’s agency, but that was not the only reason he fell out of favor. He was cast out of heaven for rebellion against the Father and the Son (see D&C 76:25; Moses 4:3).

Why did you and I fight against the devil? We fought out of loyalty. We loved and supported our Father in Heaven. We wanted to become like Him. Lucifer had a different goal. He wanted to replace the Father (see Isaiah 14:12–14; 2 Nephi 24:12–14). Imagine how Satan’s betrayal hurt our Heavenly Parents. In the scriptures, we read that “the heavens wept over him” (D&C 76:26).

After a heated campaign, Michael and his armies prevailed. Two-thirds of the heavenly hosts chose to follow the Father (see D&C 29:36). Satan and his followers were cast out of heaven, but they were not sent immediately to outer darkness. First, they were sent to this earth (see Revelation 12:7–9), where Jesus Christ was to be born and where His atoning sacrifice would be carried out.

Why were Satan’s hosts allowed to come to earth? They came to provide opposition for those who are being tested here (see 2 Nephi 2:11). Will they eventually be cast into outer darkness? Yes. After the Millennium, Satan and his hosts will be cast out forever.

Satan knows that his days are numbered. At the Second Coming of Jesus, Satan and his angels will be bound for 1,000 years (see Revelation 20:1–3; 1 Nephi 22:26; D&C 101:28). As that deadline approaches, the forces of evil are fighting desperately to capture as many souls as they can.

John the Revelator was shown the War in Heaven as part of a grand vision. He was shown how Satan was cast down to earth to tempt mankind. This was John’s reaction: “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Revelation 12:12).

So how does Satan spend his days, knowing he has no time to lose? The Apostle Peter wrote that “the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

What motivates Satan? He will never have a body, he will never have a wife or a family, and he will never have a fulness of joy, so he wants to make all men and women “miserable like unto himself” (2 Nephi 2:27).

The devil targets all men, but especially those who have the most potential for eternal happiness. He is clearly jealous of anyone who is on the pathway to exaltation. The scriptures teach that Satan “maketh war with the saints of God, and encompasseth them round about” (D&C 76:29).

The war that began in heaven continues to this day. In fact, the battle is heating up as the Saints prepare for the return of the Savior.

President Brigham Young (1801–77) prophesied “that the Church would spread, prosper, grow and extend, and that in proportion to the spread of the Gospel among the nations of the earth, so would the power of Satan rise.”³

I think all of us would agree that this prophecy is being fulfilled as we watch evil infiltrate the societies of the world. President Young taught that we need to study the enemy’s tactics in order to defeat him. I share four of Satan’s proven strategies and some ideas on how to resist them.

Satan’s Strategies

1. Temptation. The devil is brazen when it comes to putting wicked ideas into our minds. The Book of Mormon teaches that Satan whispers unclean and unkind thoughts and sows thoughts of doubt. He nags us to act on addictive urges and to entertain selfishness and greed. He doesn’t want us to recognize where these ideas are coming from, so he whispers, “I am no devil, for there is none” (2 Nephi 28:22).

How can we resist this direct temptation? One of the most effective tools is to simply send Satan away. That’s what Jesus would do.

The New Testament account of the Savior on the mount of temptations is instructive. After each temptation the devil presented to Him, Jesus used a two-step defensive technique: first, He ordered Satan to leave; then He quoted scripture.

Let me give you an example: “Get thee hence, Satan,” commanded Jesus, “for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve” (Matthew 4:10). The next verse records, “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him” (Matthew 4:11). The Savior’s defense was very effective!

The biography of President Heber J. Grant (1856–1945) gives insight into how President Grant, as a young man, resisted the devil. When President Grant recognized that Satan was whispering to him, trying to plant doubts in his heart, he simply said out loud, “Mr. Devil, shut up.”⁴

You have the right to tell Satan to leave when you are confronted with temptation. The scriptures teach, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

The other part of the Savior’s defense was to quote scripture. There is great power in memorizing scripture, as Jesus did. Scriptural verses can become an arsenal of spiritual ammunition.

When you are tempted, you can recite commandments such as “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy,” “Love your enemies,” or “Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly” (Exodus 20:8; Luke 6:27; D&C 121:45). Scripture power not only intimidates Satan, but it also brings the Spirit into your heart, reassures you, and fortifies you against temptation.

2. Lies and deception. The scriptures reveal that Satan is “the father of lies” (2 Nephi 9:9). Don’t believe him when he whispers messages such as “You never do anything right,” “You are too sinful to be forgiven,” “You will never change,” “No one cares about you,” and “You have no talents.”

Another of his oft-used lies is the following: “You need to try everything at least once—just to gain experience. One time won’t hurt you.” The dirty little secret that he doesn’t want you to know is that sin is addictive.

Another effective lie that Satan will try on you is this: “Everyone else is doing it. It’s OK.” It’s not OK! So tell the devil that you don’t want to go to the telestial kingdom—even if everyone else is going there.

Although Satan will lie to you, you can count on the Spirit to tell you the truth. That’s why the gift of the Holy Ghost is so essential.

The devil has been called “the great deceiver.”⁵ He attempts to counterfeit every true principle the Lord presents.

Remember, counterfeits are not the same as opposites. The opposite of white is black, but a counterfeit for white might be off-white or gray. Counterfeits bear a resemblance to the real thing in order to deceive unsuspecting people. They are a twisted version of something good, and just like counterfeit money, they are worthless. Let me illustrate.

One of Satan’s counterfeits for faith is superstition. His counterfeit for love is lust. He counterfeits the priesthood by introducing priestcraft, and he imitates God’s miracles by means of sorcery.

Marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God, but same-sex marriage is only a counterfeit. It brings neither posterity nor exaltation. Although his imitations deceive many people, they are not the real thing. They cannot bring lasting happiness.

God warned us about counterfeits in the Doctrine and Covenants. He said, “That which doth not edify is not of God, and is darkness” (D&C 50:23).

3. Contention. Satan is the father of contention. The Savior teaches, “He stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another” (3 Nephi 11:29).

The devil has learned from centuries of experience that where there is contention, the Spirit of the Lord will depart. Ever since he convinced Cain to kill Abel, Satan has influenced siblings to quarrel. He also stirs up problems in marriages, among ward members, and between missionary companions. He delights in seeing good people argue. He tries to start family arguments right before church on Sunday, right before family home evening on Monday night, and whenever a couple plans to attend a temple session. His timing is predictable.

When there is contention in your home or workplace, immediately stop whatever you are doing and seek to make peace. It doesn’t matter who started it.

Contention often begins with faultfinding. Joseph Smith taught that “the devil flatters us that we are very righteous, when we are feeding on the faults of others.”⁶ When you think about it, self-righteousness is just a counterfeit for real righteousness.

Satan loves to spread contention in the Church. He specializes in pointing out the faults of Church leaders. Joseph Smith warned the Saints that the beginning step to apostasy is to lose confidence in the leaders of the Church.⁷

Almost all anti-Mormon literature is based on lies about the character of Joseph Smith. The enemy works hard to discredit Joseph because the message of the Restoration hangs on the Prophet’s account of what happened in the Sacred Grove. The devil is working harder today than ever before to make members question their testimonies of the Restoration.

In the early days of our dispensation, many priesthood brethren, to their regret, did not stay loyal to the Prophet. One of them was Lyman E. Johnson, who was excommunicated for unrighteous conduct. He later lamented having left the Church: “I would suffer my right hand to be cut off, if I could believe it again. Then I was full of joy and gladness. My dreams were pleasant. When I awoke in the morning my spirit was cheerful. I was happy by day and by night, full of peace and joy and thanksgiving. But now it is darkness, pain, sorrow, misery in the extreme. I have never since seen a happy moment.”⁸

Think about those words. They stand as a warning to all Church members.

I am a convert to the Church. I was baptized when I was a 23-year-old young single adult attending medical school in Arizona, USA. I know firsthand how Satan works on investigators to confuse them and discourage them when they are seeking truth.

All during my youth, I had watched the examples of Latter-day Saint friends. I was impressed with the way they conducted their lives. I made the decision to learn more about the Church, but I did not want to tell anyone I was studying Mormonism. To avoid pressure from my friends, I decided to make my search a private investigation.

This was many years before the internet, so I went to the public library. I found a copy of the Book of Mormon and a book called A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, by Elder LeGrand Richards (1886–1983) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. I began to read these books with great desire, and I found them inspiring.

While my spirit was yearning to learn more, Satan began to whisper in my ear. He told me that in order to be completely objective, I needed to read what was written by the critics of the Church also. I went back to the public library and began to look around. Sure enough, I found a book that discredited the Prophet Joseph.

Reading this anti-Mormon book confused me. I lost that sweet spirit and influence that had guided my investigation. I became frustrated and was about to abandon my search for truth. I was praying for an answer while reading anti-Mormon literature!

To my surprise, I received a phone call from a high school friend who was attending Brigham Young University. She invited me to come visit her in Utah, promising that I would love the scenic trip. She had no idea that I was secretly studying about her Church.

I accepted her invitation. My friend suggested that we go to Salt Lake City to visit Temple Square. She was surprised by my enthusiastic response. She had no idea how interested I was to learn the truth about Joseph Smith and the Restoration.

The sister missionaries on Temple Square were very helpful. Without knowing it, they answered many of my questions. Their testimonies influenced me to “doubt [my] doubts,”⁹ and my faith began to grow. The power of a heartfelt testimony cannot be overestimated.

My friend also shared her testimony with me and invited me to pray and ask God if the Church was true. On the long drive back to Arizona, I began to pray with faith—for the first time “with a sincere heart, with real intent” (Moroni 10:4). At some point on that trip, it seemed that my whole car lit up with light. I learned for myself that light can dispel darkness.

After I had decided to be baptized, the devil put up a final struggle. He worked on my family, who did everything in their power to discourage me, and they refused to attend my baptism.

I was baptized anyway, and gradually their hearts were softened. They began to help me research my family history. A few years later, I baptized my younger brother. The friend who invited me to visit her in Utah is now my wife.

4. Discouragement. Satan effectively uses this tool on the most faithful Saints when all else fails. For me, when I begin to feel discouraged, it helps me just to recognize who is trying to get me down. This makes me mad enough to cheer up—just to spite the devil.

Several years ago, President Benson gave a talk called “Do Not Despair.” In that insightful talk, he warned, “Satan is increasingly striving to overcome the Saints with despair, discouragement, despondency, and depression.”¹⁰ President Benson urged Church members to be on guard, and he gave 12 realistic suggestions for fighting discouragement.

Photograph in front of Boston Massachusetts Temple

His suggestions include serving others; working hard and avoiding idleness; practicing good health habits, which include exercising and eating foods in their natural state; seeking a priesthood blessing; listening to inspiring music; counting your blessings; and setting goals. And above all, as the scriptures teach, we are to pray always so we can conquer Satan (see D&C 10:5).¹¹

Satan trembles when he sees

The weakest saint upon his knees.¹²

It is important to know that there are limits to the power of evil. The Godhead sets those limits, and Satan is not allowed to cross them. For example, the scriptures assure us that “power is not given unto Satan to tempt little children” (D&C 29:47).

Another significant limitation is that Satan does not know our thoughts unless we tell him. The Lord explained, “There is none else save God that knowest thy thoughts and the intents of thy heart” (D&C 6:16).

Perhaps this is why the Lord has given us commandments such as “Do not murmur” (D&C 9:6) and “Thou shalt not speak evil of thy neighbor” (D&C 42:27). If you can learn to bridle your tongue (see James 1:26), you won’t end up giving too much information to the devil. When he hears murmuring, complaining, and criticizing, he takes careful notes. Your negative words expose your weaknesses to the enemy.

I have good news for you. The armies of God are larger than the armies of Lucifer. You may look around and think to yourself, “The world is becoming more and more wicked. Satan must be winning the war.” Don’t be fooled. The truth is, we outnumber the enemy. Remember, two-thirds of God’s children chose the Father’s plan.

Brothers and sisters, make sure you are fighting on the Lord’s side. Make sure you are carrying the sword of the Spirit.

It is my prayer that at the end of your lives, you can say with the Apostle Paul, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).

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Notes

1.   1. Guide to the Scriptures, “Lucifer,” scriptures.lds.org.
   
2.   2. Ezra Taft Benson, “Beware of Pride,” Ensign, May 1989, 5.
   
3.   3. Discourses of Brigham Young, sel. John A. Widtsoe (1954), 72.
   
4.   4. See Francis M. Gibbons, Heber J. Grant: Man of Steel, Prophet of God (1979), 35–36.
   
5.   5. See, for example, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “You Matter to Him,” Ensign, Nov. 2011, 20; Gordon B. Hinckley, “The Times in Which We Live,” Ensign, Nov. 2001, 74.
   
6.   6. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith (2007), 454.
   
7.   7. See Teachings: Joseph Smith, 318.
   
8.   8. Lyman E. Johnson, in Brigham Young, Deseret News, Aug. 15, 1877, 484.
   
9.   9. Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Come, Join with Us,” Ensign, Nov. 2013, 23.
   
10.   10. Ezra Taft Benson, “Do Not Despair,” Ensign, Nov. 1974, 65.
    
11.   11. See Ezra Taft Benson, “Do Not Despair,” 65–67.
    
12.   12. William Cowper, in Robert Andrews, comp., The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1987), 78.
    

SCIENCE BACKING REVEALED RELIGION!

Another Trump win!  Trump's scientists finally getting to the bottom of the question.....:

https://m.phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html

Matter is neither created, no destroyed.  This backs it - as being co-eternal with God.

Sounds like the "big bang" might go out with a poof....

WEDNESDAY!

THE ANIMALS IN POWER - ONE WOMAN'S TESTIMONY ON TRAFFICKING

This story puts the "ick" in trafficking.  Millstones, rope, deep seas.....  It will happen, baby - you CANNOT avoid your fate.  There IS eternal judgment.  It WILL catch up to you. 

While the gads may think they have the upper hand for a while - and it clearly appears that they do right now.  It will all come crashing down.  If any are not convinced why all governments and those in power need to cease to function, the world over - it is for THIS reason.  This gal is yet one more witness that it is all coming to a crashing halt.  The vacuum that will fill in behind the evil that has persisted over time, will be the light that will burst forth and consume the darkness that has slowly been building over time - with this being a manifestation of it:

http://www.drphil.com/videos/reported-survivor-of-human-trafficking-ring-claims-some-clients-would-buy-us-just-to-hunt-us/

And you wonder where they got the idea for the Hunger Games movies.....  And you wonder where some of those "milk carton kids" ended up.  These are some answers for you.

RON PAUL INSTITUTE - THE MSM IS IN A FREEFALL

Well, it sounds like the goose is cooked on those damnable "presstitutes" that sell themselves to the highest bidder - whether George Soros or some other evil emperor wanna-be:

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/march/20/mainstream-media-in-total-collapse/

Go Ron Paul!

THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD - A JUBILEE YEAR IN CONFLICT WITH 2017?

I have talked about the lunar eclipse on April 3rd, 33AD which would put the crucifixion exactly on the Passover weekend that the NT purports it to be.

We know that a Rabbi has to be a minimum of 30 years of age, male (typically first-born) and also married.  So.... the earliest date that he could have declared himself in fulfillment of this prophecy would have been in 30AD - because His ministry lasted only three years prior to the crucifixion.  Here is a great vid of the moment:

https://www.lds.org/bible-videos/videos/jesus-declares-he-is-the-messiah?lang=eng

The "Acceptable Year of the Lord" would have been a declaration of a Jubilee Year (wherein He talked partly about the "release of the captives" - which occurred in part when He went to the Spirit World right after His crucifixion to preach to them that were there since the days of Noah, and many went to an untimely demise, not having been raised in the household of righteousness - and then having turned from the truth - which is worse than just being raised in a wicked world with no formal instilling of good values). 

If 33AD was the year, then there is a conflict with what Rabbi Ben Samuel had to say.  Whatever the case, it would a multiple of seven years off of the last Shabbat Year of 2016, which would put it at 2030 or thereabouts.  I am still digging into this to understand it more perfectly - and time will be on my side to prove it one way or the other.

Stay tuned!