The 10th Article of Faith reads, “We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent” (emphasis added) In a revelation given 26 September 1830, the Lord said, “Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be […]
All Saints seek to have the Spirit of the Lord with them at all times, as well as maintain their liberty. Both principles are directly tied to each other. The scriptures teach clearly that you cannot have true liberty, if you don’t have the companionship of the Holy Ghost. We are given a promise
At times, members will get upset when they discover that a prophet of God lied. They will either reject the restored gospel as a whole or enter a level of cognitive dissonance, which leads to a denial of the facts. They will proclaim something like, “He wasn’t involved in hypocrisy, lying, or acting like a
Too often we think that prophecies and warnings by ancient prophets for our day are referencing the worldly or those of other faiths, and surely could not apply to us. This is especially true of the prophecy of “breaking the New and Everlasting Covenant”. Many times we think that this refers to those that came
In the Book of Mormon we have an abnormal fixation on a “dead” prophet by the name of Isaiah. As we see from the Index to the “triple combination”, the Book of Mormon prophets referred to Isaiah regularly; Nephi1 rehearses to his brethren the words of Isaiah: 1 Ne. 15:20 . Nephi1 reads prophecies of Isaiah to persuade his people to believe in
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