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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On the 8th day of August 1839, the Prophet Joseph Smith prophesied: “We ought to have the building of Zion as our greatest object”- But, the prophecy did not end there. The revelation in its fulness warned, “Wars will come and we shall have to flee to Zion, the cry is to …
In the Book of Mormon we have an abnormal fixation on a “dead” prophet (something frowned upon in todays corporate entity, separate from the legal entity formed by/through the prophet Joseph Smith in 1830, which was later dissolved by the US Govt in the 1890’s) by the name of Isaiah. As we see from the …
False Prophets Preach “All is Well”, True Prophets Preach Repentance Read More »
