Saturday, October 1, 2016

Questions I have


Sealed Portion of Book of Mormon:
When will the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon be revealed and made available? And, how will this transpire?



The 24 Jaredite Plates

Mosiah2 translated the 24 Golden plates of the Jaredites found by 43 men of Limhi. The plates contained a record of the world from Adam until the end of the Jaredite nation,

Mosiah 28:17

 17 Now after Mosiah had finished translating these records, behold, it gave an account of the people who were destroyed, from the time that they were destroyed back to the building of the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people and they were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth, yea, and even from that time back until the creation of Adam.

Sons of Alma1

Alma1, the older, had more that one son. We read in Mosiah 27:8 the following:

"Now the sons of Mosiah were numbered among the unbelievers; and also one of the sons of Alma was numbered among them..."


Friday, September 9, 2016

The Right Way

2 Nephi 25:29 The Right Way

Nephi instructs us as to The Right Way, the right way to travel the journeys of life and the right way to live. He teaches us the right way to behave and the right way to spend our time and put forth our efforts. He tells us that the right way is to put Christ first in all our thoughts and endeavors.
He said,

"And now behold, I say unto you that the right way is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him with all your might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul."

There is the Right Way-to believe in Christ and worship Him with all our might, mind, strength, and our whole souls. Now, the big question, 'How do we do this? How can we worship Him with our whole souls' ? This is done by our putting off the natural man and becoming a saint of the most high God, of applying His atonement in our lives so that our sins are remitted and we become spotless, clean, pure, and white, and that we strive to maintain this state of condition day after day through constant, non-deviating faith in Him. We must forever be pursuing Him, striving to become as He is, developing personal character qualities that He possesses. Becoming like Christ should be our number one goal, and loving God and other people our number one priority.

Worship takes upon itself different forms such as speaking, singing, writing, pondering, praying, serving, obeying, teaching, listening, and numerous other gestures that show our devotion to Him.




Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Millennium

2 Nephi 12:4 Two Church Headquarters



"...for out of Zion (Salt Lake City) shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (word and law are synonyms)


During the millennium, there will be two "headquarters of the Church, one in Zion (Jackson Co. Missouri) and one in Old Jerusalem.



Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Kingdom or Church of the Devil


1 Nephi 22:23

 23 For the time speedily shall come that all churches which are built up to get gain, and all those who are built up to get power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become popular in the eyes of the world, and those who seek the lusts of the flesh and the things of the world, and to do all manner of iniquity; yea, in fine, all those who belong to the kingdom of the devil 

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

1 Nephi 4


1 Nephi 4

1-3    Nephi talks to LL&S about making another attempt at getting the Brass Plates
4-6    Nephi goes forward with faith to get the plates, not knowing how he would do it
7-18    Nephi slays Laban
19-26    Nephi gets the Brass Plates
27-37    Nephi and Zoram join LL&S
38    LLSN and Zoram join Lehi and Sariah

1 Nephi 3



1 Nephi 3
1-8    Lehi’s dream to obtain the Brass Plates from Laban
9    LLNS journey to Jerusalem
10-14    First attempt to get Brass Plates
15-21    Nephi lectures to LL&S
22-26    Second attempt to get Brass Plates
27-30    LLSN hide in cavity of a rock. An angel visits them
31    LL murmur




1 Nephi 2


1 Nephi 2
1-4 Lehi leads his family into the wilderness
5-6 Lehi’s family at the Red Sea
7 Lehi builds an alter
8-9 River Laman
10 Valley Lemuel
11-13 L&L murmur
14-15 Lehi confounds L&L
16 Nephi prays
17-18 Sam believes Nephi; L&L don’t
19-24 God speaks to Nephi





1 Nephi 1

First Nephi 1

Lehi prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem
He prophecies of the coming of Christ
Jews seek to kill Lehi


1 Nephi 1
1-4 Nephi begins his record on small plates
5-7 Lehi prays. A pillar of fire comes down and rests upon a rock and he sees and hears great things
8-11 Lehi, at home, is carried away in a vision
12-13 Lehi, in vision, reads a book and sees Jerusalem destroyed.
14-15 Lehi praises the Lord
16-17 Nephi’s writings
18-19 Lehi prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem and the coming of Christ
20 Jews seek to kill Lehi