The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God’s true Kingdom of God on the earth. The doctrines are directed by God and shared with us through His Divine Prophets and Apostles. As an active member of this Church for my entire life, I have come to absolutely love all the Doctrines. Even when it is hard to fully comprehend all things, my faith drives me toward personal revelation that strengthens me and confirms the doctrine of the Church to my heart and spirit.
Faith Contains Two Manifestations
There are still many questions I have about doctrine and commandments, but I usually receive an answer in due time. As Elder Neal A. Maxwell said, “Faith in God includes faith in His timing.” We walk in this life by faith and as Elder Holland has said, “Truly rock-ribbed faith and uncompromised conviction comes with its most complete power when it engages our head as well as our heart… Truth borne by the Holy Spirit comes with, in effect, two manifestations, two witnesses if you will—the force of fact as well as the force of feeling… I believe God intends us to find and use the evidence He has given—reasons, if you will—which affirm the truthfulness of His work… Evidence is still evidence even if it is not immediately observable…” August 2017 Jeffrey R. Holland.
This quote says to me that all doctrine and truth can be found through the heart and the head. This force of fact and the force of feeling as Elder Holland says, has given me the strength to find true answers to prayers in two important ways. I feel the Lord has given me doctrines through our Prophet, but I am still required to study and pray about these doctrines as well as pray about other facts that may not necessarily be Church Doctrine.
In todays world, May 2022, we have a very evil and desperate push by the Luciferian’s on this earth. They want to destroy us. It won’t happen as we hold fast to our Millennial Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes it takes and inordinate amount of faith and patience, but it will be worth it. I believe the Lord has saved our children for this day as they are just the ones we need to go up against this terrible evil. Of course we as parents and grandparents are expected to lead them and be part on this “Covenant Path”, as President Nelson has said. It is now most important to gather the house of Israel. Those spoken of in Revelation 2:9 are the true foe we are battling today. “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Rev. 2:9
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Paul Preaches to the Most Evil as Well
“Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to , where was a synagogue of the Jews:
And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days with them out of the ,
Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout a great multitude, and of the chief not a few.
But the which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an , and the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.” Acts 17:1-5
Through personal revelation, I have received some answers to prayer and study that may not necessarily be Church doctrine, but they are true facts to me personally. I feel the Synagogue of Satan are those in this world who are the biggest deceivers of all, which are the Deep State and Cabal or Gadianton’s of today.
Simon Peter Seership
And so Andrew brought Simon—Simon Peter!—unto Jesus. Jesus said: “Thou art Simon, the son of Jona, thou shah be called Cephas.” This new name—”which is, by interpretation, a seer, or a stone”—forecast what was to be in the life of Andrew’s brother, who was destined to be, under the Lord, the chief officer of the perfected church and kingdom, the foundations of which were then being laid. Peter, the Rock and the Seer, who would yet hold the keys of the kingdom of heaven; Peter, to whom the Lord would one day say that the gates of hell should never prevail against the rock of revelation and the seership of eternal vision—Peter has now come into the fold. The Mortal Messiah : from Bethlehem to Calvary by McConkie, Bruce R page 471
“Joseph Smith a Seer” NOT Gazelem, a stone!
“And the Lord said: I will prepare unto my servant Gazelem, a , which shall shine forth in darkness unto light, that I may unto my people who serve me, that I may discover unto them the works of their brethren, yea, their secret works, their works of darkness, and their wickedness and abominations. And now, my son these were prepared that the word of God might be fulfilled, which he spake, saying: I will out of darkness unto light…” Alma 37:23-25
The above scripture as translated by Joseph Smith only seems confusing because someone other than Joseph added a comma between the word Gazelem[,] and a stone. As you will see below the word Gazelem in Alma 37 seems to be a title and refers to Joseph Smith as a Seer.
It should be quoted as saying, “Joseph Smith a Seer” NOT Gazelem, a stone!
In the 1835 Edition of D&C See Here, you can see that Joseph Smith was named Gazelam, Newel K. Whitney was called Ahashdah and Sidney Rigdon was called Pelagoram.
Gazelem may also be the name or Title of a Seer or the name Gazelem may be a title meaning “A Stone” like in the name for Peter in the Bible. We read in the Bible, “That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18 I believe like in Alma 37 a stone could mean, “Revelation”, or Seer, or Reveal, etc. Full Blog about Gazelem is Here
Howard W. Hunter Sunday, October 3 1965 “Thou Art the Christ”
Pentecost
“The Pharisees believed, of course, that the soul is imperishable and the soul of a good person passes into an- other body while the soul of the wicked suffers eternal punishment. “He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?” (Ibid., 16:15.) The Master may have been prompted to ask this question because of their surroundings. Caesarea Philippi is near the grotto and the temples of the Greek god Pan, a center of pagan worship, and he may have wanted his disciples to think about the contrast between pagan gods and the true God. “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Ibid., 16:16.) In answer to this positive testimony of Peter, “. . . Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Ibid., 16:17-18.)
“Upon this rock, I will build my Church”
“This is a very significant statement. The Lord in effect said to Peter that this knowledge that Jesus was the Christ did not come to him from mortal men or from the reasoning or learning of men, but by revelation from on high, that is, direct, divine revelation of the divinity of the Master. In answer to the statement ‘Thou art the Christ’ Matt. 16:16 Jesus replied, ‘. . . thou art Peter’ Matt. 16:18 in friendly acknowledgment of his disciple. The Lord then added, ‘. . . and upon this rock I will build my church’ Matt. 16:18 Upon what rock? Peter? Upon a man? No, not upon a man, upon the rock of revelation, the thing which they were talking about. He had just said, ‘. . . flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven’ Matt. 16:17 This revelation that Jesus is the Christ is the foundation upon which he would build his Church.” CONFERENCE REPORT, OCTOBER 1965, HOWARD W. HUNTER
JST, John 1:42.
Cephas means “seer” or “stone.”
42 And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is, by interpretation, a seer, or a stone. And they were fishermen. And they straightway left all, and followed Jesus.” JST John 1:42
Compare John 1:42 KJV
“And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.” KJV John 1:42
Lucifer has Nothing New
“Lucifer has no new ideas, but merely applies what he already knows to new situations— has been followed in apostate Christendom. When there were no longer apostles and inspired men to give the Lord’s message and word to living men, the world turned to interpreters—to scholars, to doctors of divinity, to theologians, to professors of religion—to set forth what they thought or imagined the divine word of former days meant. In the opening of our dispensation the Lord, after saying that the creeds of Christendom were “an abomination in his sight” (and these creeds were the interpretations and conclusions of the scribes, as it were), then said that “those professors” (meaning all who, like the scribes, had by their interpretations and teachings perverted the truth and made it of none effect) “were all corrupt.” Then he said, paraphrasing Isaiah, “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power.” The mortal Messiah : from Bethlehem to Calvary by McConkie, Bruce R page 279
Although Lucifer desires seership and to be the only true God, he has NOTHING! Remember we are told that, we can have anything in this world for money. Big Lie! Also remember we will be devastated on earth by Popes and Priests and see wars and evil nations rise up against us. This is all what I now call the False Flags of Satan. In other words, Lucifer makes reality seem fantasy and evil seem good, in order to gain his power over us. It has worked for many years, and now I believe in what I call a “Second Harvest” of the Lord, about to take shape on this earth. May our current Government of the USA repent and come back to it’s true ideals. I believe as the Lord said, “Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in one to another.” D&C 101:79. Are we going into deeper bondage in the world and especially our so-called FREE Nation of America? No! Enough is enough. Let’s repent and pray for our world to be more free.
Government Hanging?
Our entire Government of Republicans, Democrats and Independents have lied to us. There are but FEW good ones left. With illegal immigration at its highest ever, lock-down mandates, forced drugs into our body, travel ID’s, 2nd Amendment assault with false flags, freedom of speech removed, not knowing the difference between a man and a woman (so-called), critical race theory, taking parental rights away from our schools, department of dis-information, sending billions to Ukraine when our schools need to be better protected, funding bio-labs in foreign countries, murder and torture of millions of children and kids through abortion, sacrifices to Satan, and sex trafficking in underground bunkers all over the world, to global warming, to green energy, to fake weather events, to crony capitalism, and many others, need I go on?
Again the Lord said, “And for this purpose have I established the of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the of blood.” D&C 101:79-80 Where have our statemen and religious politician’s gone? We cry out to the Lord to buoy up the righteous and remove the wicked from our world. Joseph Smith said about our Constitution, “Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner: it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of its liberty, like the coaching shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of [oppression’s] son.” Joseph Smith, History of the Church, Vol 3, p. 304
The Prophet Joseph Smith has also said about these last days, “Even this nation will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.
Then shall the Lord say go tell all my servants who are the strength of mine house my young men and middle aged &c come to the Land of my vineyard and fight the battle of the Lord. Then the Kings & Queens shall come then the rulers of the Earth shall come then shall all saints come yea the Foreign saints shall come to fight for the Land of my vineyard for in this thing shall be their safety and they will have no power to choose but will come as a man fleeth from a sudden destruction
But before this the time shall be when these who are now my friends shall become my enemies and shall seek to take my life and there are those now before me who will more furiously pursue me and the more diligently seek my life and be more blood thirsty upon my track than ever were the Missouri Mobbers. You say among yourselves as did them of old time it is I & is it I? But I know these things by the visions of the Almighty.” 19 July 1840, as recorded by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray; ms. in Church Historian’s Office, Salt Lake City; Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church Historical Archives, Box 1, March 10, 1844, Also: D. Michael Stewart, “I Have a Question,” Ensign, June 1976, 64-65
Second Harvest?
As I said in a previous blog, “I believe in a “Second Harvest” which is possibly yet to come. I believe the leaders of nations may turn towards God and repent for a period of time before the great Coming of the Lord. It could be very soon. I look at the many people of the world who have never heard of the Book of Mormon, and it is a tremendous number. What about those in Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Antarctica, Greenland, and many Isles of the sea yet to be found? God loves them all, and I believe they will have the opportunity during this possible “Second Harvest”, that could be soon. It may be just what the world needs before the great ushering in of the Lord’s Millennial reign. Our Government is hanging by a thread today (May 30, 2022). Christ will win and Satan will fail at one of his last efforts to enslave us and our dear children. The Deep State, or Cabal of this world will come crashing down and the way will be opened to bring the Book of Mormon to the attention of millions who don’t have it or who have never heard of it. Keep your eyes open for the Lord’s chosen leaders, President Russell M. Nelson and many others chosen to assist. The “Second Harvest” may come in my opinion, and hopefully it will come before that great Second Coming we all look forward to. Are we as Joseph Smith asked, this people who, “will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction?
Sorcerers, Astrologers, and Magicians
The Cabal or Deep State of today is nothing more that Luciferians who desire to destroy all the non-believers in Satan. Did you know there is a huge set of stones in Ohio called the Georgia Guide Stones? They call for a world population to be reduced from 8 Billion to 500 Million. In other words someone (Cabal, Illuminatti, Deep State?) wants 13 of every 14 people on earth dead. “The Georgia Guide Stones are a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts.” Wikipedia
Illegitimate Sons of Aaron [Cabal]
Speaking of Illegitimate Sons of Aaron, Elder McConkie said, “It is also worthy of note that they wielded considerable influence; were overly endowed with this world’s goods; received their offices, in some instances, by crime and bribery; and were subject to the mandates and murderous designs of the Great Sanhedrin. They were “high priests by investiture” and not ”high priests by anointing,” as had been their fore- bears; and though they could still simulate and wear the breastplate, the Urim and Thummim that Aaron and his original successors once carried upon their breasts had long since been taken from their ungodly hands, and with the loss of these holy interpreters had gone also, in large measure, the spirit of prophecy and revelation… [We know Joseph Smith had Holy Interpreters but not the same ones as in the Old Testament],
Elder McConkie continues, “They were rigid Predestinarians, believing that all things, in the course of nature and in the life of man, are fixed by fate. When there was no moral freedom, it was idle either to preach or teach, and so they did neither.” They did, however, profess to have the gift of prophecy, and were called in, from time to time, by the Herods and others to interpret dreams and give meaning to various superstitions. “The Essenes came in contact with the people,” Geikie says, “as healers, prophets, dream-interpreters, and exorcists, not as teachers or preachers.” (Geikie, pp. 252-57.) They were, it would seem, not far removed from the sorcerers, astrologers, and magicians of the ancient courts of Babylon and Egypt.” The Mortal Messiah : from Bethlehem to Calvary by McConkie, Bruce R Page -246, 289
Un Holy Priests and interpreters
“People without revelation take the only course open to them: they turn to interpreters, to scribes, to ministers, to theologians, who tell them what the ancient word meant, making their determination on the basis of intellectuality rather than spirituality… After the Jews came back to Jerusalem and their ancient land holdings in Palestine, through the good offices of Cyrus the Persian; after they no longer walked in that heavenly light which rests only upon those who listen to a prophet’s voice and hear the word of God; and feeling the need to apply their ancient law to new conditions—they developed gradually, over the centuries, a whole new (and apostate!) system of religious government. Scribes, who once had been keepers of the records and copiers of the scrolls, became interpreters of the law and teachers of the people. And as uninspired men almost never agree on the meaning of scriptures.” The Mortal Messiah : from Bethlehem to Calvary by McConkie, Bruce R Page Page -304
“We have All that is Needed to Gain the Fulness of Salvation”
We now read from the The Millennial Messiah, “We have the fulness of the everlasting gospel, meaning that we have all that is needed to gain the fulness of salvation. We have every truth, doctrine, and principle, every rite, power, and ordinance — all that is needed — to gain exaltation in the highest heaven of the celestial world. But we do not know all things; there are doctrines in endless array of which we know next to nothing; indeed, there are more things in the darkness of the unknown than there are in the light of the known. We do not even know what the faithful knew in Enoch’s Zion, nor among the Nephites when they dwelt in righteousness for generations. We do not know what is on the sealed portion of the plates from which the Book of Mormon came. Ours is a day for drinking milk; the day when we, as a people at least, can partake of the meat of the word is in the future. That future is millennial. [I believe the possible “Second Harvest” may be before the Millennial]. In that day, “all things shall become new,” saith the Lord, “that my knowledge and glory may dwell upon all the earth. . . . Yea, verily I say unto you, in that day when the Lord shall come, he shall reveal all things — Things which have passed, and hidden things which no man knew, things of the earth, by which it was made, and the purpose and the end thereof — Things most precious, things that are above, and things that are beneath, things that are in the earth, and upon the earth, and in heaven.” (D&C 101:25, 32-34.) As we ponder these heaven-sent words, we are led to exclaim: Thanks be to him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, who knows all things and who seeks to pour out his revelations, and all the knowledge of eternity, upon all who will receive them. Ere long the dark veil of ignorance and unbelief that covers the earth and blinds the minds of men shall be pierced. Light and truth will fall from heaven as does rain from the clouds above. [Parenthesis Added]
No more Great Cathedrals of Christendom [Great and Spacious Buildings]
From the Millennial Messiah we read, “The knowledge of God, the knowledge of those Gods whom it is life eternal to know, shall be in every heart. No longer will theologians suppose that God is a spirit essence that fills immensity while he dwells in the human heart. No longer will philosophers pontificate about some great first cause that inexplicably brought order into a chaotic universe. No longer will Babylonish churches place crucifixes in the hands, or the images of Diana of the Ephesians, as it were, and no longer will they worship the works of their own hands in the great cathedrals of Christendom. The knowledge of God, the truth about God, the fact that he is a Holy Man, will come by revelation into every human heart. The knowledge of God will cover the earth. All things are to be revealed in the millennial day. The sealed part of the Book of Mormon will come forth; the brass plates will be translated; the writings of Adam and Enoch and Noah and Abraham and prophets without number will be revealed. We shall learn a thousand times more about the earthly ministry of the Lord Jesus than we now know. We shall learn great mysteries of the kingdom that were not even known to those of old who walked and talked with the Eternal One. We shall learn the details of the creation and the origin of man and what fools mortals are to follow the fads of the evolving evolutionary nonsense that litters the textbooks of academia. Nothing in or on or over the earth will be withheld from human men, for eventually man, if he is to be as his Maker, must know all things.
Our Hope for the Deep State Failure
Hear in this connection these words of Nephi: In that day, “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Wherefore, the things of all nations shall be made known; yea, all things shall be made known unto the children of men. There is nothing which is secret save it shall be revealed; there is no work of darkness save it shall be made manifest in the light; and there is nothing which is sealed upon the earth save it shall be loosed. Wherefore, all things which have been revealed unto the children of men shall at that day be revealed.” (2 Ne. 30:15-18.) Surely man could not ask for more than this in the way of light and truth and knowledge, and yet expect to remain in the flesh as a mortal and be in process of working out his salvation. Surely this is the day in which the Lord shall fulfill the promise of holy writ that says: “God shall give unto you knowledge by his Holy Spirit, yea, by the unspeakable gift of the Holy Ghost, [knowledge] that has not been revealed since the world was until now; which our forefathers have awaited with anxious expectation to be revealed in the last times, which their minds were pointed to by the angels, as held in reserve for the fulness of their glory; a time to come in the which nothing shall be withheld, whether there be one God or many gods, they shall be manifest.” (D&C 121:26-28.) That this outpouring of divine goodness has already commenced is not open to question. That it will continue, in far greater measure, after our Lord comes again, who can doubt?” (The Millennial Messiah, pp.675-677)
My Conclusion
I have not read a more clear expose’ from anyone as Elder McConkie has described above about our challenge TODAY. We the True Believers in Christ in all the world will be given the help we need to overcome these evil challenges in 2022, and allow old Lucifer to be defeated. This day and age is what the Prophets and Saints have looked forward to all their lives, and you and I are blessed to be part of it. Wow! I feel we will see a great “Second Harvest”, and life on earth will be full of sharing the Book of Mormon to the rest of those good people of this earth in India, China, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and others who will allow us to open up the preaching of the gospel. I feel a deep sense that this may happen and I ask you to pray about it as well. Whether or not you agree with me, we must stay faithful, repent daily, and share with others to not fear in 2022, but rejoice that the Lord is with us. Open our eyes and see the good. The evil Cabal will be defeated now is my hope in great preparation for the Lord’s second coming. I report, but you have to make up your own mind. Please follow the Lord’s anointed President Russell M. Nelson, as I know he is a living prophet and he leads Christ’s true church on this earth today.
