tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62718734657912443082024-03-17T22:18:34.061-06:00Déjà Vu ~ Times II~ As I see it, from a religious heritage POV ~SMShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06976077009187078179noreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-37098299797322683802024-03-14T17:25:00.005-06:002024-03-17T22:17:59.691-06:00Where Are the Lamentations?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpv8darfrAmLIq66WvflNGSbw-xrCuM2QKO5rVQ0QQZ3EIakLwFQa1e3bTPKgbAAr6WSj4XlVxV4kyCET8pfF1Q4rSK0vqlQdml2Le23XGFuSWUk5xVdm3bMG_Wah9GMd2zyoHDEGhhHXiMPD10VZ4Oe1MbDTGD9yCJ1FhGDB0aLvRQEpIRYM_tm2Fpo/s445/Heschel-51l3vovWveL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="296" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpv8darfrAmLIq66WvflNGSbw-xrCuM2QKO5rVQ0QQZ3EIakLwFQa1e3bTPKgbAAr6WSj4XlVxV4kyCET8pfF1Q4rSK0vqlQdml2Le23XGFuSWUk5xVdm3bMG_Wah9GMd2zyoHDEGhhHXiMPD10VZ4Oe1MbDTGD9yCJ1FhGDB0aLvRQEpIRYM_tm2Fpo/w213-h320/Heschel-51l3vovWveL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>This year marks the 62nd anniversary of the 1962 publication: <i>The Prophets</i> by Abraham J. Heschel<sup><b>1</b></sup> where Heschel profiles the lamentations, pathos, and pleadings of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk. And what were the outcomes (even in the old New World) of these old-world prophetic lamentations? Too often, rejection and responding lamentation
<blockquote>... because the Lord would not always suffer [the people] to take happiness in sin <span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | Mormon 2:13)</span><sup><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></b></sup></span>.</blockquote>
Today, there are street-preachers, pastors, podcasters, watchmen, et al. in the style of the old prophets lamenting the state of our degraded world, followed by rejection and lamentation from many of their hearers. Just listen to the activists and advocates preaching social / power consensus and self-as-sovereign while stridently decrying transcendent / divine — another déjà vu of lamentation on both sides.<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
Yes, we are told to be of good cheer,<sup><b>4</b></sup> but also to study Isaiah, one of the prolific lamenters of the world; and not just Isaiah, but to “search the prophets,”<sup><b>5</b></sup> which if we do, exposes us to <b>litanies of lamentation</b>.<br /><br />
Here are some Heschel insights about these lamenters:
<blockquote>The prophet is not only a prophet. He is also poet, preacher, patriot, statesman, social critic, moralist (p. xxii).<br /><br />
The prophet was an individual who said No to his society, condemning its habits and assumptions, its complacency, waywardness, and syncretism. He was often compelled to proclaim the very opposite of what his heart expected. His fundamental objective was to reconcile man and God. Why do the two need reconciliation? Perhaps it is due to man’s false sense of sovereignty, to his abuse of freedom, to his aggressive, sprawling pride, resenting God’s involvement in history (p. xxix). <br /><br />
The things that horrified the prophets are even now daily occurrences all over the world (p. 3).<br /><br />
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice—cheating in business, exploitation of the poor—is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world (p. 4).<br /><br />
Their breathless impatience with injustice may strike us as hysteria. We ourselves witness continually acts of injustice, manifestations of hypocrisy, falsehood, outrage, misery, but we rarely grow indignant or overly excited. To the prophets even a minor injustice assumes cosmic proportions (p. 4).<br /><br />
The prophet’s words are outbursts of violent emotions. His rebuke is harsh and relentless. But if such deep sensitivity to evil is to be called hysterical, what name should be given to the abysmal indifference to evil which the prophet bewails? They drink wine in bowls, And anoint themselves with the finest oils, But they are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph! The niggardliness of our moral comprehensions, the incapacity to sense the depth of misery caused by our own failures, is a fact which no subterfuge can elude. Our eyes are witness to the callousness and cruelty of man, but our heart tries to obliterate the memories, to calm the nerves, and to silence our conscience (p, 5).<br /><br />
The prophet is a man who feels fiercely. God has thrust a burden upon his soul, and he is bowed and stunned at man’s fierce greed. Frightful is the agony of man; no human voice can convey its full terror. Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor, to the profaned riches of the world. It is a form of living, a crossing point of God and man. God is raging in the prophet’s words (pp. 5-6).<br /><br />
The mouth of the prophet is “a sharp sword.” He is “a polished arrow” taken out of the quiver of God (Isa. 49:2). <br /> <i>Tremble, you women who are at ease, <br /> Shudder, you complacent ones; <br /> Strip, and make yourselves bare, <br /> Gird sackcloth upon your loins.</i> Isaiah 32:11 <br /><br />
Reading the words of the prophets is a strain on the emotions, wrenching one’s conscience from the state of suspended animation (p. 8).<br /><br />
Israel’s history comprised a drama of God and all men. God’s kingship and man’s hope were at stake in Jerusalem. God was alone in the world, unknown or discarded. The countries of the world were full of abominations, violence, falsehood. Here was one land, one people, cherished and chosen for the purpose of transforming the world. This people’s failure was most serious. The Beloved of God worshiped the Baalim (Hos. 11:1–2); the vineyard of the Lord yielded wild grapes (Isa. 5:2); Israel, holy to the Lord, “defiled My land, made My heritage an abomination” (Jer. 2:3, 7) (p. 17).<br /><br />
The prophet hates the approximate, he shuns the middle of the road. Man must live on the summit to avoid the abyss. There is nothing to hold to except God. Carried away by the challenge, the demand to straighten out man’s ways, the prophet is strange, one-sided, an unbearable extremist (p. 19).<br /><br />
It is embarrassing to be a prophet. There are so many pretenders, predicting peace and prosperity, offering cheerful words, adding strength to self-reliance, while the prophet predicts disaster, pestilence, agony, and destruction. People need exhortations to courage, endurance, confidence, fighting spirit, but Jeremiah proclaims: You are about to die if you do not have a change of heart and cease being callous to the word of God. He sends shudders over the whole city, at a time when the will to fight is most important (p. 20).<br /><br />
They had to remind the people that chosenness must not be mistaken as divine favoritism or immunity from chastisement, but, on the contrary, that it meant being more seriously exposed to divine judgment and chastisement (p. 39).<br /><br />
How does one reconcile the tenderness of divine love with the vehemence of divine punishment? Clearly it is not a love that is exclusive and that ignores the wickedness of the beloved, forgiving carelessly every fault. Here is a love grown bitter with the waywardness of man. The Lord is in love with Israel, but He also has a passionate love of right and a burning hatred of wrong (p. 61).</blockquote>
So where is <i>our </i>lamentation? the “sighing and crying” of Ezekiel 9<sup><b>6</b></sup>? OR the self-centrism and clamour of “Do not challenge my or society's ways and beliefs”? “Do not speak of judgment or punishment, only of love”?<br /><br />
But where is the love in neglecting to assure a wandering, confused soul that God “also has a passionate love of right and a burning hatred of wrong” — that His are the standards that govern; that repentance triggers His mercy and grace?<br /><br />
Where are the latter-day lamentations?<br /><blockquote>The prophets of Israel proclaim that the enemy may be God’s instrument in history. The God of Israel calls the archenemy of His people “Assyria, the rod of My anger” (Isa. 10:5; cf. 13:5; 5:26; 7:18; 8:7). “Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, My servant” whom I will bring “against this land and its inhabitants” (Jer. 25:9; 27:6; 43:10). Instead of cursing the enemy, the prophets condemn their own nation. <br /><br />
What gave them the strength to “demythologize” precious certainties, to attack what was holy, to hurl blasphemies at priest and king, to stand up against all in the name of God? The prophets must have been shattered by some cataclysmic experience in order to be able to shatter others (Heschel, p. 14).</blockquote>
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<b>1</b>. Heschel, Abraham Joshua. <i>The Prophets</i>. (1962) HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. <br />
<b>2</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | Mormon 2:13</u> (full verse)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>But behold this my joy was vain, for their sorrowing was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God; but it was rather the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin.<br />
<b>3</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/,moral-orientation-where-are-we.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/,moral-orientation-where-are-we.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-iii-self-as.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-iii-self-as.html</a><br />
<b>4</b>. <u>New Testament | John 16:33</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.<br />
<b>5</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 23:1-5</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye <b>search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah</b>.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And all things that he spake have been and shall be, even according to the words which he spake.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>Therefore give heed to my words; write the things which I have told you; and according to the time and the will of the Father they shall go forth unto the Gentiles.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5</span> And whosoever will hearken unto my words and repenteth and is baptized, the same shall be saved. <b>Search the prophets</b>, for many there be that testify of these things.<br />
<b>6</b>. <u>Old Testament | Ezekiel 9:4</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And the LORD said unto him [v. 3 the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side] Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.<br />
See also:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/04/sighing-and-crying.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/04/sighing-and-crying.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/11/seest-thou-what-they-do.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/11/seest-thou-what-they-do.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/02/where-is-anguish.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/02/where-is-anguish.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2011/05/dont-worry-be-happy.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2011/05/dont-worry-be-happy.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-45067004238482219552024-03-04T22:49:00.019-07:002024-03-15T20:29:12.664-06:00What / How to Pray for “Enemies”?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86c717XjFDSvOLWVuI0AUYSOx7pkwlZvwfl4YQa1et5yhUVairUCnozyVmNnJ5hGmjdZj1Ii0Kwt0aiTWtlBsnNF95lXE_rXUFNNvU6uEtzdOdHWi7W_8a6r5QYAlkBNJqgvfOWbS38Oz5rKxrJ-0CAa4XNCMhEUJdsHqEc9vD5syJJMuCCe9mbRAjmY/s405/Praying%20Hands%201.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="367" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg86c717XjFDSvOLWVuI0AUYSOx7pkwlZvwfl4YQa1et5yhUVairUCnozyVmNnJ5hGmjdZj1Ii0Kwt0aiTWtlBsnNF95lXE_rXUFNNvU6uEtzdOdHWi7W_8a6r5QYAlkBNJqgvfOWbS38Oz5rKxrJ-0CAa4XNCMhEUJdsHqEc9vD5syJJMuCCe9mbRAjmY/w181-h200/Praying%20Hands%201.png" width="181" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>First:</b></span> three case studies in brief (from the global, to the group, to the individual):
<blockquote><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Case One</span></b><br />
Billions of people worldwide are warned of an emerging virus that might kill hundreds of millions. Masking, washing hands, isolation, lock-downs, social distancing, etc., etc. are mandated till miracle vaccines can be developed. No protocol of treatment is offered before hospitalization, and some viable healing options banned. PHOs and media foment fear while professional colleges step in between doctors and their patients, de-licensing non-conformers during the height of the alleged public health crisis. The vaccine arrives and is declared “safe and effective” when there was no way such could be known. The Pharma and big business windfall is astronomical; small business and employee losses are staggering. Adverse events and sudden deaths skyrocket. Despite exposés, whistle-blowers, facts, and damning stats, the narrative, lies, pretense, censorship, and tyrannies persist.<br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
So what and how does one pray for these enemies of truth, <span style="color: #cc0000;">science</span>, honor, and integrity?<sup>1</sup></span></b><br /><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Case Two</span></b><br />
A 14-year old scout is groomed and incrementally abused in a church-sponsored scouting group. He doesn’t know how to escape the trap and the shame but when the abuser begins to target his younger brother, he reports the abuser to his scout hierarchy but is assured that things will be taken care of; no need to report to other authorities; he is not even to tell his parents in order to protect the reputation of the sponsor. However the abuse continues. At last, at a scout camp, the boy becomes aware that there are many victims. When an instance of abuse becomes so blatant and public, the boy calls the police after the other scout leaders refuse. Sometime later, he and his father campaign to change statute of limitation laws and he launches a lawsuit to try and get documented abusers removed from positions and re-assignments. For some years, he and his family are targeted and persecuted for not dropping the case and the campaign. Some years later, in therapy, he and his then wife suffer therapy abuse by a church-approved therapist which results in the breakup of his marriage. It is a traumatic, painful story still unfolding where tens of thousands have been abused and abandoned.<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>So what and how does one pray for these enemies of truth, <span style="color: #cc0000;">justice</span>, honor, and integrity?<sup>2</sup></b></span><br /><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Case Three</span></b><br />
A young (NPD<sup><b>3</b></sup>?) mother of three is willingly seduced by a spouse predator.<sup><b>4</b></sup> In a flood of self- and others-deception, she divorces her children’s father and soon denies him access to the children who are encouraged to call her paramour “daddy.” While awaiting an access hearing date, a temporary, limited access agreement is reached where the parties covenant not to disparage one another<sup><b>5</b></sup> and the ex-husband will not speak about the paramour in front of the children. On the first, 1/4 day visit in circa two years, the 4-year old comes, wearing a hoodie under his jacket. When the jacket is removed in the presence of other close family members (who were also denied access to the children for almost two years), the new hoodie is exposed: vividly marked with the child's nickname<sup><b>6</b></sup> down the sleeve length and the paramour's last name on the back in large letters. Considering the mother’s ego-driven history, this cruel “joke” — this blatant breach of non-disparagement — along with the innocent child’s incessant (pre-coached?): “Do you like my hoodie?” is not out-of-(vindictive)-character.<br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">So what and how does one pray for this “enemy” of truth, <span style="color: #cc0000;">morality</span>, honor, and integrity? </span></b></blockquote>
These offenders and destroyers of rights, relationships, and families are becoming tragically common. The continuum of BPD, NPD, psychopathy, etc. is stressing so many to the breaking point. They agonize: “Do I keep trusting in God when things only seem to go from bad to worse? or do I give in to revenge, retaliation, eye-for-eye, despair? How do I endure this continual drama? the continual scaling up of bullying and tyranny? these unimaginable breaches of trust and promise? these brutal cruelties?”<br /><br />
Most of us know of many other dreadful, agonizing situations. We know, too, that:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">
43 </span>¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">44 </span>But I say unto you, <b>Love </b>your enemies, <b>bless </b>them that curse you, <b>do good</b> to them that hate you, and <b>pray for</b> them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
45 </span>That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
46 </span>For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (New Testament | Matthew 5:43-46)<br /></blockquote>
But how do we reconcile a deep sense of and need for justice with the unjust, cruelties of wickedness, especially if we also recognize our own weaknesses and failings? Here is a suggestion:<blockquote>Please bless ____________________________ with those experiences that will bring _____ to repentance, and if _____ refuse(s) Thy mercy and grace, please bless _____ with exposure and accountability, justice and judgment.</blockquote>
And because we are all susceptible to misjudgment, mis-perception, and self-deception, perhaps our addendum to every such earnest prayer should be to finish with “me / I” in the blank spaces.<br /><br />
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1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-gift-horse.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-gift-horse.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-covert.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-covert.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/in-one-fell-swoop.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/in-one-fell-swoop.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-no-no.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-no-no.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/catastrophe-prophets-profits.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/catastrophe-prophets-profits.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/sample-questions-by-keeper-of-gate.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/sample-questions-by-keeper-of-gate.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-is-covid-narrative.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-is-covid-narrative.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-new-normal-samaritan.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-new-normal-samaritan.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/05/by-what-authority.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/05/by-what-authority.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/06/forsake-conscience-or-community.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/06/forsake-conscience-or-community.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/russian-roulette.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/russian-roulette.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/it-all-makes-perfect-sense.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/it-all-makes-perfect-sense.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/campaign-amnesty.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/campaign-amnesty.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/01/something-we-can-do-rx.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/01/something-we-can-do-rx.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. Signs of a Sexual Predator<br />
Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on December 16, 2022 <br /><a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/signs-sexual-predator">
https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/signs-sexual-predator</a><br />
For more info on this story search “Adam Paul Steed”<br /><b>
3</b>. NPD - narcissistic personality disorder:<br /><a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662">
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662</a><br /><a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9742-narcissistic-personality-disorder">
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9742-narcissistic-personality-disorder</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder</a><br /><b>
4</b>. Did Your Marriage Fall Prey to a Spouse Poacher?<br /><a href="https://debramacleod.com/did-your-marriage-fall-prey-to-a-spouse-poacher/">
https://debramacleod.com/did-your-marriage-fall-prey-to-a-spouse-poacher/</a><br />
Is A 'Partner Predator' Circling Your Husband Or Wife?<br /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/partner-predator_b_16231118">
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/partner-predator_b_16231118</a><br /><b>
5</b>. which the ex had never done for the sake of the children, also believing his beloved wife would wake up and seek to return. <br /><b>
6</b>. A nickname given to the child by his mother or her paramour after the separation with the husband, so the mother and the paramour could avoid using the name given to the child at his birth — a name bestowed in honor of his step-grandpa, (who, at the separation, had spoken too much truth, but had thereafter extended an increase of love to the mother only to be given the order of no-contact, no birthday gifts, no Christmas gifts for her or the children.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-47540455694593342132024-02-24T22:43:00.005-07:002024-02-26T15:12:21.406-07:00Moral Orientation: Part III - Self-as-Sovereign<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXufySmqGJ2wSmUVRPZXohJWM4tCahVyhBYZ9zWHuY10bfo0MNIsPCDxvpYjASQCcKr7UNuDyMaWhd64PJeK4t3wXpe_AUQf33rd1uehMuWxURubY0Ew7xbrxkn0efIDUo_aFYbVTEXUC3QIW5QJgPp_68IQTVMK18OFbBcrJ60QzBvUadcHy8WLgRMU/s367/Chiseling%20Tablet.png" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFXufySmqGJ2wSmUVRPZXohJWM4tCahVyhBYZ9zWHuY10bfo0MNIsPCDxvpYjASQCcKr7UNuDyMaWhd64PJeK4t3wXpe_AUQf33rd1uehMuWxURubY0Ew7xbrxkn0efIDUo_aFYbVTEXUC3QIW5QJgPp_68IQTVMK18OFbBcrJ60QzBvUadcHy8WLgRMU/s200/Chiseling%20Tablet.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span><b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae" target="_blank">Damnatio Memoriae</a>*</i></b></span><br />(Erasing memory)</td></tr></tbody></table>(Thoughts and Observations)<br /><br />
If we view history and humanity through moral orientation, we seem, in thought and deed, to continually fluctuate between orientations:
<blockquote><b>1</b>. Transcendent / Divine<br /><b>
2</b>. Social / Power Consensus<br /><b>
3</b>. <b>Self-as-Sovereign</b> [as Supreme Authority].</blockquote>
For background to this 3-part series, see 1) <a href=" https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html" target="_blank">Moral Orientation? Where Are We?</a><sup><b>1</b></sup> and 2) <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html" target="_blank">Moral Orientation? Part II: Social / Power Consensus?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup><br /><br />
The third orientation: <b>self-as-sovereign</b> runs along a spectrum from sweet, naïve new-ager types who radiate love, peace, freedom, tolerance, live-and-let-live all the way to the extreme, “do what thou wilt,” hard-core pederast. <br /><br />
Yes, tolerance and live-and-let-live are essential elements in this mortal probation<sup><b>3</b></sup> with its moral agency — where tolerance means accepting people without having to accept their ideas or demands. They pursue their own way and we pursue them with “Good News” (as much as they will allow).<br /><br />
Granted, maintaining peace and social order is a complex task in a complex society, but in large measure private, personal choices do not injure others or their property. If choices do harm (especially the innocent), there are generally criminal and civil remedies, but, in the end, all thought, speech, and action, public or private, will be judged by Divine Justice — not by social / power consensus or some sovereign-self defense. The Great Judge will decide, in every individual case, if it is just to apply mercy.<sup><b>4 </b></sup>In the meantime, however, our societies and cultures must learn how to manage aggressive, self-as-sovereign activists and tyrants (and their servitors) who pursue control and domination.<div><br />If we had retained memory of the “Grand Council,”<sup><b>5</b></sup> we might be better able to spot the many mortal variants of that first and famous self-as-sovereign activist — the one described by God:</div><div><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:1-4).
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Isaiah said of this failed usurper:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High (Old Testament | Isaiah 14:12-14).<br />
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We see this self-as-sovereign attitude manifest in the monuments, inscriptions, and writings of many kings, pharaohs, emperors, wanna-be’s, et al. throughout history. In page after page in <i>Empires of the Bible</i> one can read the extravagant, self-accolades of old world tyrants.<sup><b>6</b></sup> <br /><br />
And what is self-as-sovereign if not: “I am who I think and say I am; I am subjectively able to decide what is good and what is bad; I am destined, deserving, entitled to rule in whatever spheres I choose; My way is <i>the </i>way”? And thus we hear the ever recycling divine lament of “their own way.”<sup><b>7</b></sup> <br /><br />We are now witnessing a self-as-sovereign explosion, especially, in the promotion by seducers and servitors of “sovereign” dysphorics — supreme arbiters now of what is “real” based on feelings; of what is good speech, what is hate speech; what is right, what is wrong; what is timely, what is not; what another must say and think to conform to the sovereign-self’s self-image. Values orientation is now subjective and personal unless contested, and then it (bizarrely) becomes objective and compulsory (for less-sovereign selves?). Almost always, the self-as-sovereign moves from personal choice to public coercion.</div><div><br />
We see this self-as-sovereign manifest throughout scripture, every time an “authority” took it upon him- / herself to act outside divine orientation. Think of kings Saul, David, Solomon and on down the divided line for generations. We see it succinctly expressed in the words of anti-Christ Korihor:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>And many more such things did he [Korihor] say unto them, telling them that there could be no atonement made for the sins of men, but every man fared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and whatsoever a man did was no crime.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>And thus he did preach unto them, leading away the hearts of many, causing them to lift up their heads in their wickedness, yea, leading away many women, and also men, to commit whoredoms—telling them that when a man was dead, that was the end thereof (Book of Mormon | Alma 30:17-18).</blockquote>
We see it in the descriptions of the “natural man.”<sup><b>8</b></sup> Many, in the past, have conspired to be rulers, and using fear, favour, and falsehood have prospered for a time, always with the help of social / power consensus. As Étienne de La Boétie observed:<blockquote>I should like merely to understand how it happens that so many men, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, sometimes suffer under a single tyrant who has no other power than the power they give him; who is able to harm them only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him; who could do them absolutely no injury unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him. Surely a striking situation! Yet it is so common that one must grieve the more and wonder the less at the spectacle of a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke, not constrained by a greater multitude than they ...<sup><b>8</b></sup> </blockquote>
Now under COVID, “gender,” and climate politics, we have regressed to another déjà vu of tyranny and mindless servitors. With the aid of the internet, social / power consensus has elevated the self-as-sovereign orientation to new heights, creating a flood of mini-tyrants — a plague of bullies; a bully culture. Social / Power consensus and self-as-sovereign have conjoined once again to battle against transcendent / divine. So, have we come to this?<br /><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>[T]he people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable (Old Testament | Isaiah 3:5).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever (New Testament | Romans 1:25).
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Before ending this post, I reiterate: for truly dysphoric adolescents, compassion with a balancing of facts, feelings, faith, and science (NOT pscience<sup> <b>9</b></sup>) can help adolescents navigate crises till the age of maturity when as adults, they can make a choice of orientation and presentation, but not a choice to coerce conformity in others.<br /><br />
In the meantime what choices are we, adults, making? Are we, “compassionately” coaching youth to live in the suffocation and sin of self-focus and -centredness with the expectation of happiness, joy, peace? Are we too sophisticated to mention:<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>[K]now ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's (New Testament | 1 Corinthians 6:19-20)?<br /></blockquote>
Let us ponder whether our participation in the mocking of divine truths and divine traditions that have proven themselves over millennia is but a precursor to the sudden demise of our own arrogance.</div><div>
<blockquote>G.K. Chesterton: Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. (Orthodoxy [Image Books, 1959], 48)<sup><b>10</b></sup></blockquote>
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*<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae" style="text-align: center;"><span>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae</span></a><br /><br />
<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html </a><br />
<b>2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-part-ii-social-power.html</a><br />
<b>3</b>. Probation:</div><div><u>Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 10:20 21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>Therefore remember, O man, for all thy doings thou shalt be brought into judgment.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>Wherefore, if ye have sought to do wickedly in the days of your <b>probation</b>, then ye are found unclean before the judgment–seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of <b>probation</b>, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. <br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:27-28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his <b>probation</b>, for awful is his state!<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 33:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait path which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the day of <b>probation</b>.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 12:24</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a <b>probationary </b>state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 42:3-4, 10, 13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>Now, we see that the man had become as God, knowing good and evil; and lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, the Lord God placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he should not partake of the fruit—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man to repent, yea, a <b>probationary </b>time, a time to repent and serve God. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature, this <b>probationary </b>state became a state for them to prepare; it became a preparatory state. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Therefore, according to justice, the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance of men in this <b>probationary </b>state, yea, this preparatory state; for except it were for these conditions, mercy could not take effect except it should destroy the work of justice. Now the work of justice could not be destroyed; if so, God would cease to be God.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:38</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">38 </span>But behold, your days of <b>probation </b>are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Mormon 9:28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>Be wise in the days of your <b>probation</b>; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 29:43-45</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">43 </span>And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his <b>probation</b>—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">44 </span>And they that believe not unto eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">45</span> For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.<br />
<b>4</b>. Book of Mormon | Alma 42:12-31<br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://www.mormonwiki.com/Council_in_Heaven">https://www.mormonwiki.com/Council_in_Heaven</a><br /><a href="https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2015/09/the-grand-council-and-the-war-in-heaven/">
https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2015/09/the-grand-council-and-the-war-in-heaven/</a><br /><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-student-manual/section-116-grand-council?lang=eng">
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/manual/doctrine-and-covenants-student-manual/section-116-grand-council?lang=eng</a><br /><a href="https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2010/joseph-smith-and-the-biblical-council-of-gods">
https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2010/joseph-smith-and-the-biblical-council-of-gods</a><br />
<b>6</b>. Jones, Alonzo T. <i>Empires of the Bible</i>(Kindle Locations 3848-3850). . Kindle Edition. <br />
See sampling at: <a href="https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html">https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html</a><br /><b>
7</b>. (All bold emphasis added.)<br />
<u>Old Testament | Proverbs 1:30-31</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">30 </span>They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of <b>their own way</b>, and be filled with their own devices.<br /><u>Old Testament | Isaiah 53:6</u>; Book of Mormon | Mosiah 14:6<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned <b>every one to his own way</b>; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.<br /><u>Old Testament | Isaiah 56:10-11</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: <b>they all look to their own way</b>, every one for his gain, from his quarter.<br /><u>Old Testament | Isaiah 58:13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>¶ If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing <b>thine own ways</b>, nor finding <b>thine own pleasure</b>, nor speaking <b>thine own words</b>:<br /><u>Old Testament | Isaiah 66:3</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have <b>chosen their own ways</b>, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.<br /><u>Old Testament | Ezekiel 22:31</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: <b>their own way</b> have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.<br /><u>Old Testament | Ezekiel 36:17, 32</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by <b>their own way</b> and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">32 </span>Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for <b>your own ways</b>, O house of Israel.<br /><u>Book of Mormon | Helaman 6:31</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>And now behold, he [Satan] had got great hold upon the hearts of the Nephites; yea, insomuch that they had become exceedingly wicked; yea, the more part of them had turned out of the way of righteousness, and did trample under their feet the commandments of God, and <b>did turn unto their own ways</b>, and did build up unto themselves idols of their gold and their silver.<br /><u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:15-16</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but <b>every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god</b>, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.<br /><u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 56:14-15</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>Behold, thus saith the Lord unto my people—you have many things to do and to repent of; for behold, your sins have come up unto me, and are not pardoned, because <b>you seek to counsel in your own ways</b>.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>And your hearts are not satisfied. And ye obey not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.<br /><b>
8</b>.<u> Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>For the <b>natural man</b> is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.<br /><u>
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>But the <b>natural man</b> receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 26:21-22</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And now behold, my brethren, what <b>natural man</b> is there that knoweth these things? I say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things, save it be the penitent.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing—unto such it is given to know the mysteries of God; yea, unto such it shall be given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 67:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>Neither can any <b>natural man</b> abide the presence of God, neither after the carnal mind.<br /><b>
9</b>. <a href="https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/023-mystery-of-civil-obedience.html">https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/023-mystery-of-civil-obedience.html</a><br />
See also: <a href="https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/006-secret-of-domination-6-6-6.html">https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/03/006-secret-of-domination-6-6-6.html</a><br /><a href="https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/04/049-submission-through-corruption.html">
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2021/04/049-submission-through-corruption.html</a><br /><b>
9</b>. <b>Pscience</b> is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system. <br />
h<a href="ttps://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html">ttps://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html </a><br /><b>
10</b>. As quoted by Dickson, John. <i>A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments: How, for Better or Worse, Our Ideas about the Good Life Come from Moses and Jesus</i> (p. 15). Zondervan Academic. Kindle Edition. <br /> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-64478717075918315762024-02-20T14:53:00.000-07:002024-02-20T14:53:20.003-07:00Enoch’s Solar Calendar – Month XII?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKErjrJw503UC4WI4XhypChrqFxIGvCgZdxD3gLNPcUrMZU2jfYdVVvwAmGSMwwYD1uzgpalApxrQDRXS2rDuEqMWqLl3wt3m8UqYJuqbXtPqqr8nDozE1p8_w2vPivB-rTtCxlzTyYtgmq4h395VWlxr7k0nAu_choPu61kLN3cpT0FhV8FQNuqYj-M/s419/Sun%2006.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="367" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdKErjrJw503UC4WI4XhypChrqFxIGvCgZdxD3gLNPcUrMZU2jfYdVVvwAmGSMwwYD1uzgpalApxrQDRXS2rDuEqMWqLl3wt3m8UqYJuqbXtPqqr8nDozE1p8_w2vPivB-rTtCxlzTyYtgmq4h395VWlxr7k0nAu_choPu61kLN3cpT0FhV8FQNuqYj-M/s200/Sun%2006.png" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XIX)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: This is the last post in the Times and Seasons series concerning Enoch's solar calendar. These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s solar calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun continues northward, now rising and setting through East and West <b>portal 3</b> for 31 days. My observations over the past months are that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. <br /><br />
Allegedly, <b>Month XII</b> has 31 days, with the light / dark division being 9L / 9D (out of 18 parts) in the northern hemisphere; and follows Day 30 of Month XI. According to Enoch, the first day of Month XII always falls on Day Five of the week (our Gregorian Thursday). Day 31 marks the Vernal Equinox which allegedly is March 19, 2024, 11:06 pm, Kirtland, Ohio time).<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month XII</b> (Twelve) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). Also, this Month Twelve follows the same pattern layout as Months Three, Six, and Nine. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>4</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month XII</b> [Gregorian February / March], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br />
<b>Twelfth Month</b> (7 references):<br />
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27 </span>¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the <b>twelfth </b>month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 2 Kings 25:27)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>The twelfth captain for the <b>twelfth </b>month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 15)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>¶ In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the <b>twelfth </b>month, that is, the month Adar. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the <b>twelfth </b>month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Esther 3:7, 13-14)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Wherein the king [Ahasuerus] granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the <b>twelfth </b>month, which is the month Adar <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Esther 8:11-12)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW in the <b>twelfth </b>month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Esther 9:1)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>¶ And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the <b>twelfth </b>month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 52:31-33)</span>.</blockquote>
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<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>
3</b>. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159809?month=3&year=2024">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159809?month=3&year=2024</a><br />
<b>4</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/enochs-solar-calendar-month-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/enochs-solar-calendar-month-x.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/01/enochs-solar-calendar-month-xi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/01/enochs-solar-calendar-month-xi.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-51114910457902736042024-02-14T20:44:00.009-07:002024-02-19T11:46:13.462-07:00Moral Orientation? Part II: Social / Power Consensus? <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY9u-RrSyGuyGOTfluYslrRhAM0Eb3PSKH7gXIFLFR-bs8UujfXY3HAspjhLGBwCsJUn7HT_LHjIKdawPPgmdaMSRvDMrHuHn7ndt2JEY5vzvhIWcJTDjwLory6Ceey3oWskI-h0pxjrlWTkMWMDdfqLy5IuOmMSsu5DswKOm2Y1gLtK8G65mxarWGl8/s440/Tower%20of%20Babel%202.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="339" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCY9u-RrSyGuyGOTfluYslrRhAM0Eb3PSKH7gXIFLFR-bs8UujfXY3HAspjhLGBwCsJUn7HT_LHjIKdawPPgmdaMSRvDMrHuHn7ndt2JEY5vzvhIWcJTDjwLory6Ceey3oWskI-h0pxjrlWTkMWMDdfqLy5IuOmMSsu5DswKOm2Y1gLtK8G65mxarWGl8/s200/Tower%20of%20Babel%202.png" /></a></div>If we view history and humanity through moral orientation, we seem, in thought and deed, to continually fluctuate between orientations:
<blockquote>1. Transcendent / Divine, <br />
2. <b>Social / Power Consensus</b>, and <br />
3. Self as Sovereign.</blockquote>
For background for this 3-part series, see “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4" target="_blank">The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge</a> [Orientation]” by John Lennox and Jordan B. Peterson<sup><b>1</b></sup> and Déjà Vu – Times II, part one: “<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html" target="_blank">Moral Orientation? Where Are We?</a>”<sup><b>2</b></sup> <br /><br />
At first blush, consensus might seem the most pragmatic and democratic way to establish morals and values for a complex society, until we remember the things that have been done in the name of social / power consensus.<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
Lennox and Peterson use the analogy of Nazi Germany to illustrate the problems with social / power consensus, but the Nazis are just one of many historical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides" target="_blank">genocides and massacres</a> that unfolded under a social / power consensus. This partial list of historical examples<sup><b>4</b></sup> is shocking; not to mention the B.C. and A.D. millennia of slave-trading, enslavement, wars, and violent domination. In our own time, we have witnessed decades of proxy wars, “legal” abortions, tyrannical regimes, and quasi-hidden atrocities like the Phoenix program<sup><b>5</b></sup> all under social / power consensus.<br /><br />
Just ponder how the Ten Commandments from a divine / transcendent orientation have fared under social / power consensus?
<blockquote> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>1</b></span>] Thou shalt have no other gods before me;<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>2</b></span>] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness ... [nor] bow down ... to them, nor serve them; ...<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">3</span></b>] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; ....<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">4</span></b>] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ....<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>5</b></span>] Honour thy father and thy mother ....<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>6</b></span>] Thou shalt not kill.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">7</span></b>] Thou shalt not commit adultery.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">8</span></b>] Thou shalt not steal.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">9</span></b>] Thou shalt not bear false witness ....<br />
[<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">10</span></b>] Thou shalt not covet ...</blockquote>
And what of the global COVID narrative where once freedom-loving, courteous peoples and nations morphed into bullies, aggressors, accusers, coercers, and snitches; into fearful, cruel, blind and deaf amnesiacs. Just listen to the <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/" target="_blank">National Citizens Inquiry</a> (NCI<sup><b>6</b></sup>) to get a sense of what a social / power consensus did to the lives and integrity of millions worldwide. And let us never forget how captured the majority of our medics, judges, teachers, leaders, “experts” and enforcers were by a coercive, false narrative.<br /><br />
Perhaps worst of all is the present morass of “gender” politics inverting the creation of Day Six<sup><b>7</b></sup> <b>into a medical and pharma windfall</b>. Are we so blind that we do not see this for what it is? Are we not aware of what unethical pscience<sup><b>8</b></sup> can achieve through food, pharma, trauma, mental contagion, and menticide<sup><b>9</b></sup>? Are we such dupes (under an <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/" target="_blank">illusion of compassion</a><sup><b>10</b></sup>) that we think disorders and dysphorias described in the DMV5 are, now, to be affirmed and facilitated? When was the threat of suicide, if one did not get one’s feelings affirmed, ever acceptable? When was it ever compassionate to encourage body mutilation to “feel” better or to become oneself? <br /><br />
How are “spiritually”-aware adults (“expert” or not, LDS or not) who guide socially / emotionally confused and / or abused children into the arms of profiteers any better than infidels? I suspect they will be deemed worse.<br /><br />
Let us ask: When were adolescent feelings ever the end of the story? Are we implying to youth that if God doesn’t give a quick fix to confusion, that time and maturity won’t help either? Instead of trusting in and seeking help (patiently) from the Creator, do we try to fast-track the fix and force it on others because God-created hormones will not wait? Are consensus-captured parents any better than captured-“experts” at deciding when to chemically castrate or sex-change (exchange) a child? And when did anyone ever have the right to cause or to consent to cause harm or injury to a child? Even the child does not have legal capacity to consent to harm by another, even by a parent. And don’t we already know plenty of parents and others who have been held legally accountable for harm to a child? except now it’s encouraged if called “gender-affirming care”? And “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy" target="_blank">conversion therapy</a>”<b><sup>11</sup> </b>(even talk-therapy) is outlawed in many places after “gender-affirming” <i>conversion</i> has been achieved. Just consider all the inversions, projections, and “self”-incriminations of pseudoscientific practice that one finds in this one wiki article (“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy" target="_blank">conversion therapy</a>”).<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
Of course, dysphoric children need compassion, and understanding, but not the corruption of compassion that escalates feelings and confusion into irreversible, life-altering sterility and life-long medical / pharma after-care. </span><br /><br />
Give adolescents the full story. Acknowledge the thousands of de-transitioners. Let dysphoric children hear the “down-side” of social / power consensus. Help them understand that “identity crisis” and “role confusion” are the short-term norm (known and studied for decades<sup><b>12</b></sup>) for most adolescents; that they are in the midst of psycho-social-physical development and that this abnormal spike in “gender” dysphoria is sourced in a social / mental construct, NOT in some erroneous sex-assignment at or before birth. <b>Sex <i>is </i>a physical construct, visible and invisible</b>. No amount of cutting, cosmetics, or imagining can change billions of XX to XY or vice versa; nor does it work to pretend we are sovereign beings, accountable only to self, but with the sovereign right to compel others to see and accept whatever we allege. We are not potter’s clay to mush and mold ourselves at whim:<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">6</span> Surely your <b>turning of things upside down</b> shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? (Old Testament | Isaiah 29:16)</blockquote>
And another thing: what of the social / power consensus of DEI<sup><b>13</b></sup> ideology that is, in reality, destroying all the real DEI gains of the past 70 years? The faux, coercive DEI being preached by captured, coerced corps, CEOs, et al. is but one more “turning of things upside down” presaging another déjà vu collapse, as some corps already know.<br /><br />
If we consider scripture history, we can see that almost every cause of lamentation arose because God’s people fell into a social / power consensus orientation. What built the tower of Babel? the great and spacious buildings of then and now? What kept the children of Israel in bondage for hundreds of years? What brought about a turning away from the judge-system to a desire for kings “like all the nations”<sup><b>14</b></sup>? What do we think undergird the killing of Jesus? <br /><br />In our own day, social / power consensus is aggressively destroying transcendent / divine orientation. Infiltrators, provocateurs, deceivers, and dupers have maneuvered their way into every level of government, every agency, every church, and every institution, weaponizing a deluded form of “love thy neighbour” over “love the Lord thy God” and promoting trust in (corrupted, psychopathic) pscience. Let us ask ourselves: Where is my orientation? What is the orientation of leaders as manifest in word, deed, silence? Are we being asked to pretend? to live a lie?<br /><br />
The reality of this last test and gathering is that believers in transcendent / divine orientation will likely become targets for scorn, coercion, and censorship<sup><b>15</b></sup> by advocates of social / power consensus. We are seeing it already. If déjà vu holds true, it may even escalate to a repeat of death threats as recorded in the Ancient Americas that preceded His first coming,<sup><b>16</b></sup> even if that seems impossible, but then who could have imagined the cruelty and crimes of these past four COVID years.<br /><br />
Will we be discerning or will we follow the pied-pipers of social / power consensus? <br /><br /><u>
PS: Feb 15, 2024</u>: As for consensus advocates who feel they are the persecuted, maligned ones, perhaps they are; God knows, but what if criticism <i>is </i>in the same sense as those (like priests of Baal, idolaters, kingmen, Pharisees, Sadducees, and so forth) who came under the convicting words of Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, the Nephis and Almas, Helaman, Peter, Paul, et al., but especially the blistering rebukes of Jesus<sup><b>17</b></sup>? And if we think that only prophets and apostles are allowed to criticize, what should we make of this counsel to disciples (bold emphasis added):
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>And Jesus said unto his disciples, Beholdest thou the Scribes, and the Pharisees, and the Priests, and the Levites? They teach in their synagogues, but do not observe the law, nor the commandments; and all have gone out of the way, and are under sin.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span><b>Go thou and say unto them</b>, Why teach ye men the law and the commandments, when ye yourselves are the children of corruption?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span><b>Say unto them</b>, Ye hypocrites, first cast out the beam out of thine own yes; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Go ye into the world,<b> saying unto all</b>, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come nigh unto you (New Testament | JST Matthew 7:6-9; JST1876-NT, p. 10). </blockquote>
Always bearing in mind:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>Now these are the words which Jesus taught his disciples that they should say unto the people. <b>Judge not unrighteously</b>, that ye be not judged; but <b>judge righteous judgment</b>. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>For with what judgment ye shall judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again (New Testament | JST Matthew 7:1-2).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Judge not according to your traditions, but judge righteous judgment (New Testament | JST John 7:24).</blockquote>
Every one of us is, by our nature, self-defensive, but if we are not honest in evaluating criticism of ourselves or our friends, would that not also be unrighteous judgment?<br /><br />
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1</b>. <i>The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge</i> [Orientation]<br />
(Jordan B Peterson Clips | Nov 6, 2023 | Time 12:34 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4</a> (archived at <a href="https://archive.org/">https://archive.org/</a>)<br />
Full episode at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI2se3O80Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI2se3O80Q</a>, or <br /><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/a-conversation-about-god-dr-john-lennox">
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/a-conversation-about-god-dr-john-lennox</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/02/moral-orientation-where-are-we.html</a><br /><b>
3</b>. And <b>yes</b>, there are questions about things allegedly done under a transcendent / divine orientation, but how often in history have we seen God's name (mis)used to justify things not of God (a violation of the third commandment). To claim an Orientation is not the deciding word because Orientation Two often seeks to wrap itself in Orientation One, as we see in gender-affirming care. As to the wrath and anger of God for all our breaches: Justice does terrible things when repentance is rejected and Mercy unrequested. For the most part, we do not understand in the least, <b>how fierce the character of Justice</b>. <br /><b>
4</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides</a><br /><a href="https://genocideeducation.org/resources/modern-era-genocides/">
https://genocideeducation.org/resources/modern-era-genocides/</a><br /><a href="https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/learn/subject-guides/genocides/">
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/learn/subject-guides/genocides/</a><br /><a href="https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Top-10-Worst-Genocides-in-History">
https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Top-10-Worst-Genocides-in-History</a><br />
Just a few for example:<br /> Cathars Genocide (France, 1209-29 AD)<br /> Duzangar Genocide ( China, 1755-58 AD)<br /> Haiti Massacre (Haiti, 1804) <br /> Moriori Genocide (New Zealand, 1835-63)<br /> Circassian Genocide (Russian Empire, 1864-67)<br /> Armenian Genocide ( Ottoman Empire, 1894-96)<br /> Holodomor (Ukraine, 1932-33)<br /> Romani Holocaust (German-occupied Europe, 1935-1945)<br /> Rwandan genocide (Rwanda, 1994)<br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Program</a><br />
Book: <i>The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam</i> by Douglas Valentine <br /><b>
6</b>. <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/</a><br /><b>
7</b>. <u>Old Testament | Genesis 1:27-28, 31</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>So God created man in his own image, in the image of <b>God created he him; male and female</b> created he them.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, <b>it was very good</b>. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.<br /><b>
8</b>. <b>Pscience</b> is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/06/death-of-science-tyranny-of-pscience.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/07/a-representative-history-of-pscience.html </a><br /><b>
9</b>. <i>The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing</i> by Dr. Joost A. M.Meerloo<br /><b>
10</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-truth-story.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2024/02/let-me-tell-you-truth-story.html</a><br /><b>
11</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy</a><br /><b>
12</b>. Various theories and studies on Developmental Psychology whether one agrees with them all or not: Piaget, Erikson, Marcia, Kohlberg, Bandura, Vygotsky, Spitz, Bowlby, Harlow, Ainsworth, Bettelheim, K&M Clark, Maccoby, Gelman, Dasen, Sheehy, et al.<br /><b>
13</b>. Diversity | Equity | Inclusion<br /> <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html</a><br /> <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html</a><br /> <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html</a><br /> <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html </a><br /><b>
14</b>. <u>Old Testament | 1 Samuel 8:5-6</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>¶ But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.<br /><a href="https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html">
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html</a><br /><a href="https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html">
https://voices-from-the-dust.blogspot.com/2024/01/447-warning-king-has-his-friends-in.html</a><br /><b>
15</b>. If scorn, coercion, and censorship are what LGBTQ+ think they are suffering, perhaps some are, but for many their wish is to just live their chosen life without fanfare or coercion of others. The self-obsessed diva / divo (SOD) activists who have ruined the tolerance / acceptance of the past several decades by their demand for narcissistic supply and drive to dominate the culture have created a regrettable backlash. Their coercion of the culture is the opposite of the DEI they claim.<br />
<b>16</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 1:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>Now it came to pass that there was a day set apart by the unbelievers, that all those who believed in those traditions should be put to death except the sign should come to pass, which had been given by Samuel the prophet.<br />
<b>17</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-to-disrespect-authority.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-to-disrespect-authority.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-two-evil-speaking-discernment.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-two-evil-speaking-discernment.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/03/speaking-truth-to-power-new-testament.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/03/speaking-truth-to-power-new-testament.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-10188153226639643292024-02-04T18:37:00.002-07:002024-02-05T13:41:00.529-07:00Moral Orientation? Where Are We?If there are three sources of moral orientation, which is ours:
<blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
1</b>. Transcendent / Divine? <br /><b>
2</b>. Social / Power Consensus? <br /><b>
3</b>. Self as Sovereign?
</span></blockquote>
Perhaps this 12-minute segment of John Lennox and Jordan Peterson in conversation could give us a clearer view.
<blockquote><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DcIHP0d6az4" title="The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge" width="444"></iframe><br /><br /><b>
The Three Sources of Moral Knowledge</b> [Orientation]<br />
(Jordan B Peterson Clips | Nov 6, 2023 | Time 12:34 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIHP0d6az4</a> (archived at <a href="https://archive.org/">https://archive.org/</a>)<br />
Full episode at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI2se3O80Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI2se3O80Q</a>, or <br /><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/a-conversation-about-god-dr-john-lennox">
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/a-conversation-about-god-dr-john-lennox</a><br /></blockquote>
I propose to explore these three orientations in three posts, starting with Transcendent / Divine.<br /><br />
In the beginning and in sporadic historical periods, transcendent / divine orientation was the moral guide for believers in the Creator God of Adam and Eve. Even for some pagans, the moral orientation was perceived as transcendent / divine as they sought direction from their “other-world” gods and oracles, but since their idols, gods, and oracles were based in the fluctuating social-cultural-power dynamic, their moral orientation was susceptible to corruptions inherent in human nature.<br /><br />
To begin, let us recall the transcendent moral imperatives presented through Moses and written with the finger of God<sup><b>1</b></sup> — called the “tables of the covenant”; given in full here,<sup><b>2</b></sup> but in summary, here:
<blockquote> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>1</b></span>] Thou shalt have no other gods before me;<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>2</b></span>] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness ... [nor] bow down ... to them, nor serve them; ...<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">3</span></b>] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; ....<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">4</span></b>] Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ....<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>5</b></span>] Honour thy father and thy mother ....<br /> [<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>6</b></span>] Thou shalt not kill.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">7</span></b>] Thou shalt not commit adultery.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">8</span></b>] Thou shalt not steal.<br /> [<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">9</span></b>] Thou shalt not bear false witness ....<br />
[<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">10</span></b>] Thou shalt not covet ...</blockquote>
For the children of Israel there were numerous other procedural imperatives relating to their religious worship, but the Ten Commandments served as the basis of their social and civil order; <b>except</b> their history is one continual cause for lament<sup><b>3</b></sup>:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them (Old Testament | Deuteronomy 31:16; see Deut. 28).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>¶ Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us (Old Testament | Isaiah 30:8–11).<br /></blockquote>
When the Savior arrived on the scene, things were not much improved, but instead of expanding the Ten to attempt more clarity and control, He indexed the Ten into Two<sup><b>4</b></sup>:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">36 </span>Master, which is the great commandment in the law?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
37 </span>Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt <b>love the Lord thy God</b> with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
38 </span><b>This is the first and great commandment</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
39 </span>And <b>the second</b> is like unto it, <b>Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
40 </span>On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets .(New Testament | Matthew 22:36- 40).</blockquote>
To adequately understand what “love the Lord thy God” requires and what “love thy neighbour” means, we must be open to what Scripture actually says. Has Scripture ever praised self-will? or said:
<blockquote>• “follow the crowd”? <br />
• “happiness is fitting-in”?<br />
• “trust in the arm of flesh”? <br />
• “might makes right”? <br />
• “your feelings take priority over My Will and Law”? <br />
• “power, gain, glory, privilege are the name of the game”?<br />
• “power, gain, glory, privilege prove God's approval”?<br />
• “whatever one does is no sin”?<br />
• “do what thou wilt; it mattereth not”?</blockquote>
But as usual, many then and now, find the transcendent orientation too constraining — too disruptive to self — too insensitive — too threatening. Why all this constant talk of repenting and obedience<sup><b>5</b></sup>? Why must Justice and Judgment<sup><b>6</b></sup> intrude on the happy thought “live and let live”<sup><b>7</b></sup>?
Some even seem to imagine that moral orientation is negotiable or a balancing act between good deeds and bad deeds despite: “the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.”<sup><b>8</b></sup> <br /><br />
What did and does a loving God do with us sinners? condone our dysfunctional, self-centred behaviour OR call us to repentance — to be God-centred? What did the Testament prophets and apostles do? They knew the merciful promises for penitence and the just curses for abandoning Truth and Justice. They knew it was <b>no act of love </b>to counsel or affirm rejection of divine orientation in favour of vacillating pagan, cultural, political, philosophical, or social notions. They knew <b>this life was a test and a probation</b><sup><b>9</b></sup> and their imperative duty was to:<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins (Old Testament | Isaiah 58:1).</blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
Should we not be crying aloud that <b>only a masque of love</b> counsels or affirms a turning away from divine orientation to a social consensus or self-centred one? Is not this promise of DEI,<sup><b>10</b></sup> that so many LDS are now preaching, but a variant of Lucifer’s (faux) plan to save all (DEI?), where “[we] will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely [we] will do it”<sup><b>11</b></sup>? Or as Lennox says, also reminiscent of the Garden offer “to become as the gods” — to be the judge of what is good and what is evil<sup><b>12</b></sup> without apparent memory of:</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>¶ <b>Woe </b>unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span><b>Woe </b>unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! (Old Testament | Isaiah 5:20-21)
</blockquote>
Do we think that God didn’t anticipate dysphorics? Yes, God expects us to have compassion for the truly dysphoric and the confused; He expects us to tolerate personal choices that don't harm or injure others<sup><b>13</b></sup>; He expects that we will not violate the first commandment (to love Him) when claiming to keep the second (love our neighbour); He expects us not to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ even when others are; AND, willing or not, He's going to give us experiences that can foster a humble heart and a contrite spirit.<sup><b>14</b></sup> <br /><br />
Yes, God can heal the truly confused and abused children of this age, but the drivers and profiteers of social-emotional-psychological contagion will not escape consequence.<sup><b>15</b></sup> As nations, cultures, and individuals continue to abandon transcendent moral orientation, what might God say to the aiders and abettors — to the Balaams<sup><b>16</b></sup> of this world?<br />
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but <b>he that doeth the will of my Father</b> which is in heaven.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span>Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And then will I profess unto them, <b>I never knew you</b>: depart from me, ye that work iniquity (New Testament | Matthew 7:19-23, Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 14:19-23).<br />
</blockquote>
A final question: If we viewed our world associations and institutions in light of their moral orientation, would it make a difference in our perception and support of “their” truth?<div><br />
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(All bold emphasis has been added throughout.)<br />
<b>1</b>. <u>Old Testament | Exodus 24:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>¶ And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments <b>which I have written</b>; that thou mayest teach them.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Exodus 31:18</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">18 </span>And he [God] gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, <b>written with the finger of God</b>.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Exodus 34:1-2</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and <b>I will write</b> upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28</span> And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables <b>the words of the covenant, the ten commandments</b>.<br />
<u>Old Testament | Deuteronomy 4:13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>And he [God] declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and <b>he wrote them</b> upon two tables of stone.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 5:22</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>¶ These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And <b>he wrote them</b> in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 9:9-11</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even <b>the tables of the covenant</b> which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone <b>written with the finger of God</b>; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even <b>the tables of the covenant</b>.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 10:1-4</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AT that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And <b>I will write</b> on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And <b>he wrote on the tables</b>, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.<br /><u>
Old Testament | 1 Kings 8:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9</span> There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made <b>a covenant</b> with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.<br /><b>
2</b>. <u>Old Testament | Exodus 20:3-17</u><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>Thou shalt have no other gods before me[1].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments[2].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain[3].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">8 </span>Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it[4].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee[5].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Thou shalt not kill[6].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>Thou shalt not commit adultery[7].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>Thou shalt not steal[8].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour[9].<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's[10]. | <a href="https://religions.wiki/index.php/Ten_Commandments">https://religions.wiki/index.php/Ten_Commandments </a><br /><b>
3. </b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: black;"><u>Pearl of Great Price | Moses 6:28-30</u></span></span><div><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 28 </span>And for these many generations, ever since the day that I created them, have they gone astray, and have denied me, and have sought their own counsels in the dark; and in their own abominations have they devised murder, and have not kept the commandments, which I gave unto their father, Adam.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 29 </span>Wherefore, they have foresworn themselves, and, by their oaths, they have brought upon themselves death; and a hell I have prepared for them, if they repent not;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 30 </span>And this is a decree, which I have sent forth in the beginning of the world, from my own mouth, from the foundation thereof, and by the mouths of my servants, thy fathers, have I decreed it, even as it shall be sent forth in the world, unto the ends thereof .</div><div><u>Old Testament | Judges 2:12–13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 31:26-27, 29</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">29 </span>For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html</a><br /><b>
4</b>. (before He reduced the Law to One: ... nevertheless not My will, but Thine, be done (New Testament | Luke 22:42; Matthew 26:39)<br />
See: <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2013/11/rule-of-law-ten-to-one.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2013/11/rule-of-law-ten-to-one.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-church-and-state-discerning.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-church-and-state-discerning.html</a><br /><b>
5</b>. Just a few of the hundreds referencing “keep” and “commandments”<br /><u>
Old Testament | Exodus 15:26</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Exodus 20:6</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.<br /><u>Old Testament | Deuteronomy 4:40</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">40 </span>Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.<br /><u>Old Testament | Deuteronomy 5:29-31</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">29 </span>O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">30 </span>Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 6:17</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Deuteronomy 13:4</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.<br /><u>
Old Testament | 1 Kings 2:3</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:<br /><u>
Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 12:13-14</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>¶ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. <br /><u>
New Testament | Matthew 19:17</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>And he [Jesus] said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.<br /><u>
New Testament | John 14:15, 21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 15:25</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give heed unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with all the energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I possessed, that they would give heed to the word of God and remember to keep his commandments always in all things.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 17:3</u> <div> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness.<br /><u>Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 1:20</u></div><div> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>And he hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 30:1</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND now behold, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you; for I, Nephi, would not suffer that ye should suppose that ye are more righteous than the Gentiles shall be. For behold, except ye shall keep the commandments of God ye shall all likewise perish; and because of the words which have been spoken ye need not suppose that the Gentiles are utterly destroyed.<br /><b>
6</b>. <u>Old Testament | Psalms 89:14</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Proverbs 21:3</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
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Old Testament | Isaiah 9:7</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/01/whither-justice-and-judgment.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/01/whither-justice-and-judgment.html</a><br /><b>
7</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | Alma 42:24-26</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>For behold, <b>justice </b>exerciseth all his demands, and also <b>mercy </b>claimeth all which is her own; and thus, <b>none but the truly penitent are saved</b>.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>What, do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>And thus God bringeth about his great and eternal purposes, which were prepared from the foundation of the world. And thus cometh about the salvation and the redemption of men, and also their destruction and misery.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 41:14-15</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>Therefore, ... see that you are merciful unto your brethren; deal justly, judge righteously, and do good continually; and if ye do all these things then shall ye receive your reward; yea, ye shall have mercy restored unto you again; ye shall have justice restored unto you again; ye shall have a righteous judgment restored unto you again; and ye shall have good rewarded unto you again.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>For that which ye do send out shall return unto you again, and be restored; therefore, the word restoration more fully condemneth the sinner, and justifieth him not at all.<br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-masque-of-love.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-masque-of-love.html</a><br /><b>
8</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | Alma 45:16</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>And he said: Thus saith the Lord God—Cursed shall be the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and the blessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look upon sin <b>with the least degree of allowance</b> .<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 1:31-33</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>For I the Lord cannot look upon sin <b>with the least degree of allowance</b>;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">32 </span>Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>And he that repents not, from him shall be taken even the light which he has received; for my Spirit shall not always strive with man, saith the Lord of Hosts .<br /><b>
9</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/power-authority-q-a.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/power-authority-q-a.html</a> (especially see Footnote 4 therein)<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-plan.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-plan.html</a><br /><b>
10. Diversity | Equity | Inclusion</b></div><div><b></b><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/03/dei-ology-great-pretense.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/let-us-be-clear.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/06/fwoke-blow-back.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/06/fwoke-blow-back.html</a><br /><b>
11</b>. <u>Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:1</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span> AND I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.<br /><b>
12</b>. <u>Old Testament | Genesis 3:4-6</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4</span> And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 5 </span>For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.<br /><b>
13</b>. (including their property but which doesn’t include hurt feelings, differences of opinion, etc.; but especially includes protecting children from the pervasive evil and corruption that has always targeted children through all millennia)<br /><b>
14</b>. <u>Old Testament | Isaiah 57:15</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of <b>a contrite and humble spirit</b>, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive <b>the heart of the contrite ones</b>.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 20:37</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">37</span> And again, by way of commandment to the church concerning the manner of baptism—All those who humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come forth with <b>broken hearts and contrite spirits</b>, and witness before the church that they have truly repented of all their sins, and are willing to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ, having a determination to serve him to the end, and truly manifest by their works that they have received of the Spirit of Christ unto the remission of their sins, shall be received by baptism into his church.<br />
<b>15</b>. <u>New Testament | Matthew 18:6-7; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>¶ Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!<br /><b>
16</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/deja-vu-doctrine-of-balaam-doctrine-of.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/deja-vu-doctrine-of-balaam-doctrine-of.html</a></div></div></div>
The consequence for those who deliberately corrupted others through the counsel of Balaam was death.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Numbers 31:16</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.<br /><u>
New Testament | Revelation 2:14-16</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac <b>to cast a stumblingblock</b> before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-90348461797717818692024-01-24T07:45:00.003-07:002024-01-24T09:37:56.182-07:00“Time for a Gut Check”?First, a question:<br /><br /> ● How many of us are content with “synthetic fruit”? You know: the kind that doesn’t require the death of the seed?<br /><br />
Here are two inquiring voices:
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“... <b>Christians, time for a gut check…”</b><br />
(Wise Disciple | Feb 15, 2023 | Time 21:29 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwkSrrXmY-I">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwkSrrXmY-I</a><br />
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Three final questions:<br /><br /> ● Does our gut say synthetic or real?<br /> ● Do these quotes speak to soul?
<blockquote><b>“Before God can use you fully, He must have you completely.”</b><br /><br /><b>
“Following Jesus isn’t about a stroll down a primrose path, but an upward climb to Calvary.”</b>*<br /></blockquote> ● Where am I individually on the road to Calvary?
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23 </span>And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal (New Testament | John 12:23–25).</blockquote>
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*As quoted in the comments section by @sharonlouise9759 <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-64804538386968682042024-01-20T20:49:00.000-07:002024-01-20T20:49:22.733-07:00Enoch’s Solar Calendar – Month XI?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5GPjWfX9P6vHmw3TbDARxCDB4q-JRxmKwoOfj-MlPE3J3YdjuODKRNXm9qEZslexKQ4xQ7mxTPAPEYe_lAUZ1t2RBRPQw1nT3WpQrauYqvLg4nWJ9YVMbaZ-prnI4pckHxfvTriUFIB3utAAotO0E5aK85jCtiE95EDE_-J1h0QCnrg7GA96bwXRQgQ/s440/Sun%2009.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="350" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg5GPjWfX9P6vHmw3TbDARxCDB4q-JRxmKwoOfj-MlPE3J3YdjuODKRNXm9qEZslexKQ4xQ7mxTPAPEYe_lAUZ1t2RBRPQw1nT3WpQrauYqvLg4nWJ9YVMbaZ-prnI4pckHxfvTriUFIB3utAAotO0E5aK85jCtiE95EDE_-J1h0QCnrg7GA96bwXRQgQ/s200/Sun%2009.png" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XVIII)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s solar calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun continues northward, now rising and setting through East and West <b>portal 2</b> for 30 days. My observation over the past months is that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. <br /><br />
Allegedly, <b>Month XI</b> has 30 days, with the light / dark division being 8L / 10D (out of 18 parts) in the northern hemisphere; and follows Day 30 of Month X. According to Enoch, the first day of Month XI always falls on Day Three of the week (our Gregorian Tuesday). <br /><br />
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month XI</b> (Eleven) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). Also, this Month Eleven follows the same pattern layout as Months Two, Five, and Eight. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month XI</b> [Gregorian January / February], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br /><b>Eleventh Month</b> (4 references):<br />
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3 </span>And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the <b>eleventh </b>month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Deuteronomy 1:3)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>The eleventh captain for the <b>eleventh </b>month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 14)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>¶ Upon the four and twentieth day of the <b>eleventh </b>month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Zechariah 1:7-10)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1</span> AND now it came to pass in the <b>eleventh </b>month of the nineteenth year, on the tenth day of the month, the armies of the Lamanites were seen approaching towards the land of Ammonihah <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | Alma 49:1)</span>.</blockquote>
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<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>3</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/enochs-solar-calendar-month-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/enochs-solar-calendar-month-x.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-8204452199613761342024-01-14T11:05:00.003-07:002024-01-14T11:12:22.740-07:00Something We Can Do: Rx* <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVIM3XntXYmMSQon0bMTxxqmVoF989kbP2ke-pRGDkD-UPA2x_jlHgUn-gBN0GedrhHDFffMSGRnFh7OZU4qoiT8XW9-_2-Ek0Atw8eIbSw0P8hNvDqdPw-nXdiFE-3TvdJ0DesrSSPORwn9EQmDxvaxYNkAj_-YEfwtefRJ_EX87C2uGex1IxeTGyBY/s308/BS00651_.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVIM3XntXYmMSQon0bMTxxqmVoF989kbP2ke-pRGDkD-UPA2x_jlHgUn-gBN0GedrhHDFffMSGRnFh7OZU4qoiT8XW9-_2-Ek0Atw8eIbSw0P8hNvDqdPw-nXdiFE-3TvdJ0DesrSSPORwn9EQmDxvaxYNkAj_-YEfwtefRJ_EX87C2uGex1IxeTGyBY/s200/BS00651_.png" width="200" /></a></div>(Designed to assist a Mormon / LDS global awakening, but can be adapted for other faiths.) <br /> <br />
If you know of Mormon medical staff or others (including Stake Presidencies, Bishoprics. RS/YW-YM/Prim. Presidencies, et al.) who are still captured by the COVID narrative despite all the evidence of “Neither Safe Nor Effective”; and who are still mis-, dis- or un-informed about all the data and déjà vu proving harms, injuries, and death, here is <b>an <span style="font-size: large;">R</span>x plan and plea</b>, step by step:
<blockquote><b>
1</b>. Go to <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/</a> ;<br /><b>
2</b>. Print in color (8 1/2”x11” paper) the “When You are Ready” page at <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nsne-printable-p11.pdf">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/nsne-printable-p11.pdf</a> ;<br /><b>
3</b>. On the backside print another page of your choice (if you wish) from those at <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/printable-resources/</a> ;<br /><b>
4</b>. Fold “When You Are Ready” in thirds (so it faces out) without creasing the quick-scan circles;<br /><b>
5</b>. Print the <b><span style="font-size: large;">Rx</span></b> pdf below, cut out the Rxs, date, sign, and insert into folded pages of “When You Are Ready”;<br /><b>
6</b>. If you wish, you can first write or cut and paste the personal note (see the middle column of the pdf below) plus any NCI testimony references** you wish on the back of the <b>Rx</b> before inserting;<br /><b>
7</b>. If handing out directly, or hand-delivering to doors, or mailing as flyers, first tape the top middle edge (about 1/4”). Carry copies with you everywhere and share as inspired. <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Make this a family activity</span></b>;<br /><b>
8</b>. If you have addresses for specific doctors, surgeons, nurses, paramedics, et al., and can directly mail to them, the envelop is sufficient closure;<br /><b>
9</b>. In all likelihood, this will be an act of courage and endurance. Be calm and prepared, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (Old Testament | Daniel 3) for if they could endure the fire of circa 600 B.C., we can of 2024 A.D.;<br /><b>
10</b>. <b>BEGIN</b> by taking the prescription yourself, <b>along with children</b> as appropriate: <b>one to four per day</b> noting the ones you particularly want to share. Many NCI testimonies can be downloaded from Google Podcasts or perhaps other podcast platforms for offline listening, or can also be listened to at <a href="https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA">https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA</a>.</blockquote><br />
<iframe height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPbgMx8MnAsB0Y4U52ub2rlJI7HoSmyT/preview" width="640"></iframe> <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Also, read Doctrine and Covenants 123*** as a family and ask: Could this be my / our imperative duty? </span><br /><br />
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* A big thanks to MS, a sibling and retired nurse, who suggested the <span style="font-size: large;"><b>R</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">x</span> idea and carried it out locally.<br />
** Links for those witnesses listed on the above pdf:<br />
• <b>Dr. Francis Christian</b> – Surgeon - Saskatoon - Day 1<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-francis-christian/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-francis-christian/</a><br />
• <b>Dr. Stephen Malthouse</b> – Family Physician - Ottawa - Day 1<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/</a><br />
• <b>Dr. Misha Susoeff</b> – Dentist - Red Deer - Day 3<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-misha-susoeff/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-misha-susoeff/</a><br />
• <b>Dr. Charles Hoffe</b> – Family Physician - Vancouver - Day 2<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-charles-hoffe/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-charles-hoffe/</a><br />
• <b>Natalie Bjorklund Gordon</b> – Geneticist & Epidemiologist - Winnipeg - Day 2<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-natalie-k-bjorklund-gordon/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-natalie-k-bjorklund-gordon/</a><br />
• <b>Dr. Patrick Phillips</b> – Family Physician - Truro - Day 1<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-patrick-phillips/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-patrick-phillips/</a><br />
• <b>Laura Jeffery</b> – Ontario Mortician - Toronto - Day 2<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/laura-jeffery/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/laura-jeffery/</a><br />
• <b>Catherine Christensen</b> – Lawyer with Military - Red Deer - Day 1<br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/catherine-chistensen/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/catherine-chistensen/</a><br />
*** D&C verses 11-17 referenced on the above pdf:<br />
<u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:11-17</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it——<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven——<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>These should then be attended to with great earnestness.—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints [and citizens], which depends upon these things.—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.—<br /> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-86634624414676638522024-01-04T23:05:00.003-07:002024-01-05T14:15:18.976-07:00Stealth Power*: How Long Did It Take to Show Up? <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHPELYw4V-_nIqCK6_QXVOSGeZcATjvltzLfMvWddSRx0Chk8IWmJSg_3VakkM-M9EaI2KcS_r2itmQAAgfesxuaN7IG7TdxAtlHe-Npi6ZXO5BLI_UYPwPNMK79b6eYZZbgCyKQjQpXeo0EKfHNwJ3jXe42068T_7TXvV80XHRl-EzOw9el6PJwC8oU/s207/NA01062_.png" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHPELYw4V-_nIqCK6_QXVOSGeZcATjvltzLfMvWddSRx0Chk8IWmJSg_3VakkM-M9EaI2KcS_r2itmQAAgfesxuaN7IG7TdxAtlHe-Npi6ZXO5BLI_UYPwPNMK79b6eYZZbgCyKQjQpXeo0EKfHNwJ3jXe42068T_7TXvV80XHRl-EzOw9el6PJwC8oU/s200/NA01062_.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden of Eden?</td></tr></tbody></table>If we confine the question to this world, and if the first thought was Garden of Eden, we’re probably right.
And it seems from there that most things went downhill, if we measure things by the crowded, descending “broad way” versus the nigh-vacant ascending narrow one.<sup><b>1</b></sup><br /><br />
If some math genius or AI-loop parsed the Good News exclamations with the lamentations, I wonder what the percentage would be? This year <b>2024</b> might be a good time to read our Books with that comparison in mind; and to ponder why things go bad so fast and whether we are paying enough attention to the lamentations and the revelations about secret combinations pursuing power and gain in order “to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and ... the destruction of all people.”<sup><b>2</b></sup><br /><br />
What if the imperative duty that we seem to have left undone back in 1839<sup><b>3</b></sup> is being done for another time and atrocity by a group funded by Canadian citizens: The <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/" target="_blank">National Citizens Inquiry</a> (NCI<sup><b>4</b></sup>). If you have not heard of the NCI, listen to these two testimonies out of three-hundred-five possible:
<blockquote>• Ottawa. ON, Day 1—Dr. Stephen Malthouse:<br /> <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/dr-stephen-malthouse/</a><br />
• Vancouver BC, Day 1—Sean Taylor<br /> <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/sean-taylor/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/witness/sean-taylor/ </a></blockquote>
and ponder if we have been complicit in this unfolding tragedy.<br /><br />
If one thinks the USA has escaped “the [traitorous] overthrow,” seek out the USA citizens who testified before the NCI. The two <b>P3</b> combines of 1) Pscience,<sup><b>5</b></sup> Power, Politics; and 2) Private Public Partnerships have fractured the US Constitution while we USians square off behind Nebuchadnezzar on the one side and King Zedekiah on the other.<sup><b>6</b></sup> What do we expect<sup><b>7</b></sup> in coming days if we stand idle and silent, pretending / acting as if all is well? Or “saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation” (New Testament | 2 Peter 3:4)?<br /><br />
What can we do or not do in such dire circumstances, you might ask? We get informed. We don’t lie or live a lie. We resist compromise and corruption. We repent. We read our Books and apply them to ourselves and our day. We share and honor truth. We don’t resist evil with evil. We pray for understanding, wisdom, discernment. We pray for the latter day righteous one; for the 144,000; for those suffering at the hands or commands of the wicked; for our families and friends to awaken to the patterns and warnings in our Books; for leaders to repent or arise choosing integrity and courage; for the wicked to repent, and if they refuse, for exposure and accountability, Justice and Judgment. We pray for guidance. We pray that we will see and hear instead of not seeing and not hearing. That’s some of what we can do.<br /><br />
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*<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/in-their-own-words-what-should-we-make.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/12/in-their-own-words-what-should-we-make.html</a><br /><br /><b>
1</b>. <u>New Testament | Matthew 7:13-14</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14</span> Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.<br /><b>
2</b>. <u>Pearl of Great Price | Moses 5:51</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">51 </span>For from the days of Cain, there was a secret combination, and their works were in the dark, and they knew every man his brother.<br />Book of Mormon | Ether 8:24–25<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things [upholding secret combinations to get power and gain] come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; ....<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.<br /><b>
3</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:7</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:11</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 11 </span>And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—<br /><b>
4</b>. <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/</a><br /><a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/expert-witnesses/">
https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/expert-witnesses/</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-imperative-duty.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-imperative-duty.html</a><br /><b>
5</b>. <b>Pscience</b> is the corrupted offshoot of honourable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, “heretic”-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system.<br /><b>
6</b>. <u>Old Testament | 2 Kings 24:17-25:12</u> (bold emphasis added)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>¶ And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">18 </span>Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>And <b>he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD</b>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.<br /><b>
7</b>. <u>CHAPTER 25:1-12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And on the ninth day of the fourth month the <b>famine</b> prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>¶ And <b>the city was broken up</b>, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 7 </span>And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">8 </span>¶ And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 9</span> And he <b>burnt the house of the LORD</b>, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 10 </span>And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, <b>brake down the walls</b> of Jerusalem round about.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 11 </span>Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carry away.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 12 </span>But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-49562109724157225212023-12-23T08:44:00.004-07:002023-12-23T11:28:37.567-07:00Classic Case: Stealth Power - 72 B.C.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDNnVhL-l8h0qNGXWtuztqD53OtgHUn3gdbhG1kcbQaz34hRHZpyFtMAebSkHAWxqiLzPxu99r6Si7pm7XEcgI6DOD-hZcMqbromIBH79lblNjvWZsBpJgTY3Z2PAdJvkQ-WsYLCscNq3SZoCh1RRoqQqq_XsvNZRH0FU2wIEMTT3P1mqnX6d4t1NH-8/s316/HH01660_.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzDNnVhL-l8h0qNGXWtuztqD53OtgHUn3gdbhG1kcbQaz34hRHZpyFtMAebSkHAWxqiLzPxu99r6Si7pm7XEcgI6DOD-hZcMqbromIBH79lblNjvWZsBpJgTY3Z2PAdJvkQ-WsYLCscNq3SZoCh1RRoqQqq_XsvNZRH0FU2wIEMTT3P1mqnX6d4t1NH-8/s200/HH01660_.png" width="200" /></a></div>A few days after posting <i>In Their Own Words? What Should WE Make of “Stealth Power”?</i><sup><b>1</b></sup> I re-read Book of Mormon | Alma 46-51, where the pattern of stealth power was in progress in the ancient Americas circa 72 B.C. This was not the first or last case of stealth power in the Book of Mormon, but in these five Alma chapters, there are many parallels to the twenty-four <i>Stealth </i>principles as if wannabe-king <b>Amalickiah</b> had a pre-A.D. <i>Stealth</i> handbook.<br /><br />
The account is reproduced below with motive and stealth tactics in bold:
<blockquote><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Alma 46</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And Amalickiah was <b>desirous to be a king</b>; and those people who were wroth were also desirous that he should be their king; and they were the greater part of them the lower judges of the land, and <b>they were seeking for power</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And they had been led by the <b>flatteries </b>of Amalickiah, that if they would support him and establish him to be their king that <b>he would make them rulers over the people</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Thus they were led away by Amalickiah to dissensions, notwithstanding the preaching of Helaman and his brethren, yea, notwithstanding their exceedingly great care over the church, for they were high priests over the church.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>And there were many in the church who believed in the <b>flattering words</b> of Amalickiah, therefore they dissented even from the church; and thus were the affairs of the people of Nephi exceedingly precarious and dangerous, notwithstanding their great victory which they had had over the Lamanites, and their great rejoicings which they had had because of their deliverance by the hand of the Lord.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Thus we see how quick the children of men do forget the Lord their God, yea, <b>how quick to do iniquity, and to be led away by the evil one</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Yea, and we also see the great wickedness one very wicked man can cause to take place among the children of men.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Yea, we see that Amalickiah, because he was a man of <b>cunning device</b> and a man of many <b>flattering words</b>, that he led away the hearts of many people to do wickedly; yea, and <b>to seek to destroy the church of God, and to destroy the foundation of liberty</b> which God had granted unto them, or which blessing God had sent upon the face of the land for the righteous' sake (Book of Mormon | Alma 46:4–10).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>And it came to pass that when Amalickiah saw that the people of Moroni were more numerous than the Amalickiahites—and he also saw that his people were doubtful concerning the justice of the cause in which they had undertaken—therefore, fearing that he should not gain the point, he took those of his people who would and departed into the land of Nephi (Book of Mormon | Alma 46:29).<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Alma 47</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW we will return in our record to Amalickiah and those who had fled with him into the wilderness; for, behold, he had taken those who went with him, and went up in the land of Nephi among the Lamanites, and <b>did stir up the Lamanites to anger</b> against the people of Nephi, insomuch that the king of the Lamanites sent a proclamation throughout all his land, among all his people, that they should gather themselves together again <b>to go to battle</b> against the Nephites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And it came to pass that when the proclamation had gone forth among them they were exceedingly afraid; yea, they feared to displease the king, and they also feared to go to battle against the Nephites lest they should lose their lives. And it came to pass that they would not, or the more part of them would not, obey the commandments of the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And now it came to pass that the king was wroth because of their disobedience; therefore he gave Amalickiah the command of that part of his army which was obedient unto his commands, and commanded him that he should go forth and compel them to arms.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Now behold, this was the desire of Amalickiah; for he being <b>a very subtle man to do evil</b> therefore <b>he laid the plan in his heart to dethrone the king of the Lamanites</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And now he had got the command of those parts of the Lamanites who were in favor of the king; and he sought to <b>gain favor of those who were not obedient</b>; therefore he went forward to the place which was called Onidah, for thither had all the Lamanites fled; for they discovered the army coming, and, supposing that they were coming to destroy them, therefore they fled to Onidah, to the place of arms.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>And they had appointed a man to be a king and a leader over them, being fixed in their minds with a determined resolution that they would not be subjected to go against the Nephites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>And it came to pass that they had gathered themselves together upon the top of the mount which was called Antipas, in preparation to battle.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Now it was <b>not Amalickiah's intention to give them battle according to the commandments of the king</b>; but behold, it was <b>his intention to gain favor </b>with the armies of the Lamanites, that he might <b>place himself at their head</b> and <b>dethrone the king</b> and <b>take possession of the kingdom</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>And behold, it came to pass that he caused his army to pitch their tents in the valley which was near the mount Antipas.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And it came to pass that when it was night he sent <b>a secret embassy</b> into the mount Antipas, desiring that the leader of those who were upon the mount, whose name was Lehonti, that he should come down to the foot of the mount, for he desired to speak with him.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>And it came to pass that when Lehonti received the message he durst not go down to the foot of the mount. And it came to pass that Amalickiah sent again the second time, desiring him to come down. And it came to pass that Lehonti would not; and he sent again the third time.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>And it came to pass that when Amalickiah found that he could not get Lehonti to come down off from the mount, he went up into the mount, nearly to Lehonti's camp; and he sent again the fourth time his message unto Lehonti, desiring that he would come down, and that he would bring his guards with him.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>And it came to pass that when Lehonti had come down with his guards to Amalickiah, that Amalickiah desired him to come down with his army in the night–time, and surround those men in their camps over whom the king had given him command, and that <b>he would deliver them up</b> into Lehonti's hands, if he would <b>make him (Amalickiah) a second leader over the whole army</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>And it came to pass that Lehonti came down with his men and surrounded the men of Amalickiah, so that before they awoke at the dawn of day they were surrounded by the armies of Lehonti.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And it came to pass that when they saw that they were surrounded, they plead with Amalickiah that he would suffer them to fall in with their brethren, that they might not be destroyed. Now this was <b>the very thing which Amalickiah desired</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>And it came to pass that <b>he delivered his men, contrary to the commands of the king</b>. Now this was the thing that Amalickiah desired, that he might accomplish <b>his designs in dethroning the king</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>Now it was the custom among the Lamanites, if their chief leader was killed, to appoint the second leader to be their chief leader.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>And it came to pass that Amalickiah caused that <b>one of his servants should administer poison by degrees to Lehonti, that he died</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>Now, when Lehonti was dead, the Lamanites appointed Amalickiah to be their leader and <b>their chief commander</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>And it came to pass that Amalickiah marched with his armies (for he had gained his desires) to the land of Nephi, to the city of Nephi, which was the chief city.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>And the king came out to meet him with his guards, for he supposed that Amalickiah had fulfilled his commands, and that Amalickiah had gathered together so great an army to go against the Nephites to battle.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span>But behold, as the king came out to meet him Amalickiah caused that his servants should go forth to meet the king. And they went and bowed themselves before the king, <b>as if</b> to reverence him because of his greatness.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And it came to pass that the king put forth his hand to raise them, as was the custom with the Lamanites, as a token of peace, which custom they had taken from the Nephites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>And it came to pass that when he had raised the first from the ground, behold he <b>stabbed the king to the heart</b>; and he fell to the earth.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Now the servants of the king fled; and <b>the servants of Amalickiah raised a cry, saying:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>Behold, the servants of the king have stabbed him to the heart</b>, and he has fallen and they have fled; behold, come and see.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>And it came to pass that Amalickiah commanded that his armies should march forth and see what had happened to the king; and when they had come to the spot, and found the king lying in his gore, <b>Amalickiah pretended to be wroth</b>, and said: Whosoever loved the king, let him go forth, and pursue his servants that they may be slain.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>And it came to pass that all they who loved the king, when they heard these words, came forth and pursued after the servants of the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>Now when the servants of the king saw an army pursuing after them, they were frightened again, and fled into the wilderness, and came over into the land of Zarahemla and joined the people of Ammon.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>And the army which pursued after them returned, having pursued after them in vain; and thus Amalickiah, <b>by his fraud, gained the hearts of the people</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>And it came to pass on the morrow he entered the city Nephi with his armies, and took possession of the city. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>And now it came to pass that the queen, when she had heard that the king was slain—for Amalickiah had sent an embassy to the queen informing her that the king had been slain by his servants, that he had pursued them with his army, but it was in vain, and they had made their escape—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>Therefore, when the queen had received this message she sent unto Amalickiah, desiring him that he would spare the people of the city; and she also desired him that he should come in unto her; and she also desired him that he should bring witnesses with him to testify concerning the death of the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>And it came to pass that Amalickiah took the same servant that slew the king, and all them who were with him, and went in unto the queen, unto the place where she sat; and they all testified unto her that the king was slain by his own servants; and they said also: They have fled; does not this testify against them? And thus they satisfied the queen concerning the death of the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
35 </span>And it came to pass that <b>Amalickiah sought the favor of the queen</b>, and took her unto him to wife; and thus <b>by his fraud, and by the assistance of his cunning servants</b>, he obtained the kingdom; yea, he was acknowledged king throughout all the land, among all the people of the Lamanites, who were composed of the Lamanites and the Lemuelites and the Ishmaelites, and all the dissenters of the Nephites, from the reign of Nephi down to the present time.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
36 </span>Now these dissenters, having the same instruction and the same information of the Nephites, yea, having been instructed in the same knowledge of the Lord, nevertheless, it is strange to relate, not long after their dissensions they became more hardened and impenitent, and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites—drinking in with the traditions of the Lamanites; giving way to indolence, and all manner of lasciviousness; yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God (Book of Mormon | Alma 47:1–36).<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Alma 48</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND now it came to pass that, as soon as Amalickiah had obtained the kingdom <b>he began to inspire the hearts of the Lamanites against the people of Nephi</b>; yea, <b>he did appoint men to speak unto the Lamanites from their towers, against the Nephites</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And thus he did inspire their hearts against the Nephites, insomuch that in the latter end of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges, he having accomplished his designs thus far, yea, having been made king over the Lamanites, <b>he sought also to reign over all the land</b>, yea, and all the people who were in the land, the Nephites as well as the Lamanites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Therefore he had accomplished his design, for <b>he had hardened the hearts of the Lamanites and blinded their minds, and stirred them up to anger</b>, insomuch that he had gathered together a numerous host <b>to go to battle</b> against the Nephites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>For he was determined, because of the greatness of the number of his people, to overpower the Nephites and <b>to bring them into bondage</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And thus he did appoint chief captains of the Zoramites, they being the most acquainted with the strength of the Nephites, and their places of resort, and the weakest parts of their cities; therefore he appointed them to be chief captains over his armies.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>And it came to pass that they took their camp, and moved forth toward the land of Zarahemla in the wilderness.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Now it came to pass that while Amalickiah had thus been <b>obtaining power by fraud and deceit</b>, Moroni, on the other hand, had been preparing the minds of the people to be faithful unto the Lord their God (Book of Mormon | Alma 48:1–7).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Alma 49</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Now, if king Amalickiah had come down out of the land of Nephi, at the head of his army, perhaps he would have caused the Lamanites to have attacked the Nephites at the city of Ammonihah; for behold, <b>he did care not for the blood of his people</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>But behold, Amalickiah did not come down himself to battle. And behold, his chief captains durst not attack the Nephites at the city of Ammonihah, for Moroni had altered the management of affairs among the Nephites, insomuch that the Lamanites were disappointed in their places of retreat and they could not come upon them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>Therefore they retreated into the wilderness, and took their camp and marched towards the land of Noah, supposing that to be the next best place for them to come against the Nephites (Book of Mormon | Alma 49:10-12).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>And it came to pass, that when the Lamanites saw that their chief captains were all slain they fled into the wilderness. And it came to pass that they returned to the land of Nephi, to inform their king, Amalickiah, who was a Nephite by birth, concerning their great loss.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>And it came to pass that <b>he was exceedingly angry with his people</b>, because he had not obtained his desire over the Nephites; he had not subjected them to <b>the yoke of bondage</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>Yea, he was <b>exceedingly wroth</b>, and <b>he did curse God, and also Moroni, swearing with an oath that he would drink his blood</b>; and this because Moroni had kept the commandments of God in preparing for the safety of his people (Book of Mormon | Alma 49:25-27).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Alma 51</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Now those who were in favor of kings were those of high birth, and they sought to be kings; and they were supported by those who sought power and authority over the people.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>But behold, this was a critical time for such contentions to be among the people of Nephi; for behold, Amalickiah had again <b>stirred up the hearts of the people of the Lamanites against the people of the Nephites</b>, and he was gathering together soldiers from all parts of his land, and arming them, and preparing for war with all diligence; for <b>he had sworn to drink the blood of Moron</b>i.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>But behold, we shall see that his promise which he made was rash; nevertheless, he did prepare himself and his armies to come to battle against the Nephites.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Now his armies were not so great as they had hitherto been, because of the many thousands who had been slain by the hand of the Nephites; but notwithstanding their great loss, Amalickiah had gathered together a wonderfully great army, insomuch that he feared not to come down to the land of Zarahemla.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>Yea, even Amalickiah did himself come down, at the head of the Lamanites. And it was in the twenty and fifth year of the reign of the judges; and it was at the same time that they had begun to settle the affairs of their contentions concerning the chief judge, Pahoran (Book of Mormon | Alma 51:8-12).<br /><br /></blockquote>
To shorten the account, internal dissensions amongst the Nephites allowed Amalickiah <b>to invade</b> and capture several fortified cities in Nephite lands as “they marched to the borders of the land Bountiful, <b>driving the Nephites before them and slaying many</b>” (Book of Mormon | Alma 51:28). However the Nephite armies rallied and Amalickiah’s forces were “repulsed by [chief captain] Teancum and his men, for they were great warriors; for every man of Teancum did exceed the Lamanites in their strength and in their skill of war, insomuch that they did gain advantage over the Lamanites.” And in Amalickiah’s exhausted state:
<blockquote>“Teancum and his servant stole forth and went out by night, and went into the camp of Amalickiah; ... into the tent of the king, and put a javelin to his heart; and ... did cause the death of the king immediately that he did not awake his servants. And [Teancum] returned again privily to his own camp, ... and awoke [his men] [to] stand in readiness, ... And thus endeth the twenty and fifth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi; and thus endeth the days of Amalickiah (Book of Mormon | Alma 51:31-37)</blockquote>
This did not end the conflict for Amalickiah had a brother with the same passion for power and domination, but that is another story amongst ten-thousand others worldwide of stealth, cunning, and hubris. As readers of the perennial lamentations found in scripture about the waywardness and iniquity of mankind, should we not be far more alert to the déjà vu on déjà vu pattern of stealth power?<br /><br />
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1</b>. Duke, Peter. <i>Stealth Power and the Illusion of Democracy: Using AI to understand the Puppet Masters</i> . (Loc. 13+) Kindle Edition. <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-68409416707963539512023-12-20T16:49:00.000-07:002023-12-20T16:49:04.355-07:00Enoch’s Solar Calendar – Month X?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2kG7Jl8VxeYofxI5IdxfJmwR40IOrXr7RDlng0Qd670HkBVLGx9F0LzyUY-wDlPkzO93zWeOOWGmIlQ0pVzeHBk8prrcTOAZNceU7SW0h-mTGmi8TYjVH7xB_TPIJ7T0jiaAHUqTFx30qaF6EUl8dB8gTUdMjg-QrsRc0mWJi3SGnp7pvFYF3iBo91Q/s366/Sun%2010.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="103" data-original-width="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH2kG7Jl8VxeYofxI5IdxfJmwR40IOrXr7RDlng0Qd670HkBVLGx9F0LzyUY-wDlPkzO93zWeOOWGmIlQ0pVzeHBk8prrcTOAZNceU7SW0h-mTGmi8TYjVH7xB_TPIJ7T0jiaAHUqTFx30qaF6EUl8dB8gTUdMjg-QrsRc0mWJi3SGnp7pvFYF3iBo91Q/s200/Sun%2010.png" width="200" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XVII)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s solar calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are undoubtedly mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun turns northward, now rising and setting back through East and West <b>portal 1</b> for 30 days. My observation over the past months is that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. Month X follows Day 31 of Month IX (being the winter solstice, allegedly tomorrow, December 21), with the same light / dark division of 7L / 11D (out of 18 parts), but now incrementally increasing the light portion. According to Enoch, the first day of Month X always falls on Day One of the week (our Gregorian Sunday), thus a big reconciliation problem (at least still for me; haven't had time recently to study enough.)<br /><br />
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month X</b> (Ten) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). Also, this Month Ten follows the same pattern layout as Months One, Four, and Seven. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month X</b> [Gregorian December / January], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br />
<b>Tenth Month </b> (5 references):<br /><blockquote>
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And the waters decreased continually until the <b>tenth </b>month: in the <b>tenth </b>month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Genesis 8:5)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND it came to pass in the ninth year of his [Zedekiah's] reign, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2</span> And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 2 Kings 25:1-2)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>The tenth captain for the <b>tenth </b>month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 13)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the <b>tenth </b>month to examine the matter [concerning those who had taken strange wives] <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Ezra 10:16)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the <b>tenth </b>month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Esther 2:16)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>IN the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the <b>tenth </b>month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 39:1)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>¶ And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 52:4-5)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AGAIN in the ninth year, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Ezekiel 24:1-2)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>IN the tenth year, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Ezekiel 29:1–2)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>¶ And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Ezekiel 33:21)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the <b>tenth</b>, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Zechariah 8:19)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And it came to pass after they had thus suffered for many days, (and it was on the twelfth day, in the <b>tenth </b>month, in the tenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi) that the chief judge over the land of Ammonihah and many of their teachers and their lawyers went in unto the prison where Alma and Amulek were bound with cords.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>And the chief judge stood before them, and smote them again, and said unto them: If ye have the power of God deliver yourselves from these bands, and then we will believe that the Lord will destroy this people according to your words.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>And it came to pass that they all went forth and smote them, saying the same words, even until the last; and when the last had spoken unto them the power of God was upon Alma and Amulek, and they rose and stood upon their feet.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>And Alma cried, saying: How long shall we suffer these great afflictions, O Lord? O Lord, give us strength according to our faith which is in Christ, even unto deliverance. And they broke the cords with which they were bound; and when the people saw this, they began to flee, for the fear of destruction had come upon them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>And it came to pass that so great was their fear that they fell to the earth, and did not obtain the outer door of the prison; and the earth shook mightily, and the walls of the prison were rent in twain, so that they fell to the earth; and the chief judge, and the lawyers, and priests, and teachers, who smote upon Alma and Amulek, were slain by the fall thereof.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28</span> And Alma and Amulek came forth out of the prison, and they were not hurt; for the Lord had granted unto them power, according to their faith which was in Christ. And they straightway came forth out of the prison; and they were loosed from their bands; and the prison had fallen to the earth, and every soul within the walls thereof, save it were Alma and Amulek, was slain; and they straightway came forth into the city <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | Alma 14:23-28)</span>.</blockquote>
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<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>3</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/11/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ix.html</a><br />
</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-19543354460203103992023-12-15T19:16:00.028-07:002023-12-17T18:54:46.021-07:00In Their Own Words? What Should WE Make of “Stealth Power”?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQ3-sqXlzx73NhL8-1VzGpe6tM3NFwprx5HVWjTJU0rPb7xFRq17WtpvVX7oESYEQXRciVAH1nNrnb9xGk_cmDQbT2YOQNBPnMyvKgmFcidYGmvy1Mg6pbC8m3Tw1ih_K8svHt00OaL04xmj7vcdNRs54hhGLv4lvyPM1sUK4-zez9MvtIw2hlNFcXCs/s466/Duke-61QStiZO9dL._SY466_.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="311" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEQ3-sqXlzx73NhL8-1VzGpe6tM3NFwprx5HVWjTJU0rPb7xFRq17WtpvVX7oESYEQXRciVAH1nNrnb9xGk_cmDQbT2YOQNBPnMyvKgmFcidYGmvy1Mg6pbC8m3Tw1ih_K8svHt00OaL04xmj7vcdNRs54hhGLv4lvyPM1sUK4-zez9MvtIw2hlNFcXCs/w213-h320/Duke-61QStiZO9dL._SY466_.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Since WE-the-People-of-the-Books,<sup><b>1</b></sup> don’t seem to have garnered much from <i>our </i>own<i> </i>Books about the repeating pattern and agendas of corrupted power, perhaps we can learn from a recent publication titled “<b>Stealth Power ...</b>”.<sup><b>2</b></sup> The author / editor, Peter Duke,<sup><b>3</b></sup> took an anti-Semitic (fiction+fact?<sup><b>4</b></sup>) book, stripped out its racist, cultural elements to expose the pattern that under girds (in my opinion and study) every conspiracy-for-world-control, no matter the nation, kindred, tongue, time, or people. But before studying the universal pattern, let us consider why this pattern was wrapped in a heavy fog of Semitic attribution. <b>This is <i>my </i>understanding / theory</b>:
<blockquote><b><span style="font-size: large;">1</span></b>. The pattern has a name: bondage — a name found nearly two hundred times in our Books.<b><sup>5</sup> </b>The pattern has an author: Satan, and a plan falsely crafted to “redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost”:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying—Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:1-4).</blockquote>
The plan, still unfolding, is to “destroy the agency of man” which means that where there is no agency, there is bondage, captivity, servitude, serfdom to an <i>omnipotent</i> figure, who claims to be devoted (in deluded theory) to peace, order, love, happiness, and good government.<sup><b>6</b></sup><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">
2</span></b>. The wannabe-omnipotent figure Satan and his servitors are all psychopathic, misanthropic — but above even hatred of mankind, Satan hates, hates, hates Christ and those of the tribe of Christ, being tribe Judah, fourth son of Jacob / Israel. And YES, like every other tribe and people, there are Judahites amongst the numerous wicked of the world — just compare their <i>kings </i>with the “gentile” <i>kings </i>of history. Most of the power-elite worldwide (Jew and Gentile, past and present) are cut from the same cloth of the natural, self-serving, fallen man,<sup><b>7</b></sup> but because of the lineage of Christ, tribe Judah has been especially targeted for enduring blame and destruction by the envious, bitter, vengeful god of this world.<sup><b>8</b></sup></blockquote><blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3</b></span>. So (as Satan orchestrates) why not kill many birds with several strategic stones:<blockquote><blockquote><b>i</b>) infiltrate the hated tribe with compliant corruptors and provocateurs who say they are Jews and are not<sup><b>9</b></sup>; <br /><b>ii</b>) concentrate and generalize all blame onto the entire hated tribe, even though many of that tribe reject and protest all forms of power-abuse<sup><b>10</b></sup>; <br /><b>iii</b>) satisfy the intense craving for braggadocio and mockery by revealing (with plausible deniability) the brilliance and stealth of the rejected “son” by <i>fictionalizing</i> his stealth;<br /><b>iv</b>) trigger [the satanic myth of] karmic shift<sup><b>11</b></sup> when the <i>deplorables</i> worldwide do not see or hear what is plainly before their eyes and ears; and<br /><b>v)</b> provoke all sides to resist evil with evil. Divide and control. Divide, destroy, and control.</blockquote></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>4</b></span>. Humans, not obsessed with power, gain, glory and domination, often resist seeing the depth of evil to which power-fanatical, cult-prone men and women can descend; and even resist acknowledging the divided nature and potential for evil in their own being.<sup><b>12</b></sup> Yet, at the same time, we humans are highly susceptible to propaganda, false flags, manufactured blame, confirmation bias, etc., etc. It’s all part of the natural man syndrome.</blockquote>
So what might we learn from <i>Stealth Power</i>? Duke profiles 24 principles that appear to be “in their own words” — not some exposé describing what the power-elite do, but statements in their own words of how they see themselves and what <i>they </i>have been and are doing to achieve global domination.
Whether the original book began as a destructive lie or as a twining of fact and fiction for nefarious purposes, its bones stripped bare tell the story of every Global Order Gang (<a href="https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html" target="_blank">GOG</a><sup><b>13</b></sup>) since Cain who entered into a conspiracy with Satan for the sake of power, gain, glory, and domination.<sup><b>14</b></sup><br /><br />
For those who prefer video to text or who want to preview the book, they can watch this interview:
<blockquote><b>Rumble</b>: <i>Live with Peter Duke, author, "Stealth Power and the Illusion of Democracy"</i> Dec. 13, 2023 (McDuff Lives | Dec 13, 2023 | Time 1:01:59 min) at <a href="https://rumble.com/v414jek-live-with-peter-duke-author-stealth-power-and-the-illusion-of-democracy-dec.html">https://rumble.com/v414jek-live-with-peter-duke-author-stealth-power-and-the-illusion-of-democracy-dec.html</a><br /><b>
YouTube</b>: <i>Live with Peter Duke, author, "Stealth Power and the Illusion of Democracy"</i> Dec. 13, 2023 (McDuff Lives 3 | Dec 13, 2023 | Time 1:02:01 min) at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Jg2bfCYWk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Jg2bfCYWk</a></blockquote>
As Duke suggests, compare the 24 stealth principles to the history and headlines of the past two centuries from around the world and decide: 1) are these principles now in full play? 2) will I allow myself to see and hear? 3) what will I do to expose and resist them?<br /><br />
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<b>1</b>. <u>People of the Books</u>: Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, i.e., members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, aka LDS, aka Mormons, as well as other Joseph Smith Jr. branches; plus other Peoples as described in<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 29:10–11</u> ~ Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written. For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written. <br /><b>
2</b>. Duke, Peter. <i>Stealth Power and the Illusion of Democracy: Using AI to understand the Puppet Masters</i>. Kindle Edition. <br /><b>
3</b>. <a href="https://thedukereport.com/about/">https://thedukereport.com/about/</a><br /><a href="https://thedukereport.com/?mtm_campaign=redirect&mtm_keyword=dukereport.com">
https://thedukereport.com/?mtm_campaign=redirect&mtm_keyword=dukereport.com</a><br /><a href="https://rumble.com/user/TheDukeReport">
https://rumble.com/user/TheDukeReport</a><br />Video: #1 Radical Thought Leaders (TheDukeReport | Dec 5, 2023 | Time 1:20:50 min.) at <a href="https://rumble.com/v3zs74f-1-radical-thought-leaders.html">https://rumble.com/v3zs74f-1-radical-thought-leaders.html</a><br /><b>4</b>. One side of the debate: Bernstein, Herman. <i>The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion</i>'. Kindle Edition. <br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-yoke-of-bondage.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-yoke-of-bondage.html</a><br /><b>
6</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/01/utopians-at-open-gates.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/01/utopians-at-open-gates.html</a><br /><b>
7</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html</a><br /><b>
8</b>. <u>New Testament | 2 Corinthians 4:3-5</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.<br /><u>New Testament | Revelation 12:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.<br /><u>
Old Testament | Isaiah 14:12-15</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.<br /><b>
9</b>. <u>New Testament | Revelation 2:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.<br /><u>
New Testament | Revelation 3:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.<br /><b>
10</b>. Consider Menuhin, Moshe. <i>"Not by Might, Nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism</i> (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 22). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition. <br /><b>
11</b>. Karmic shift or dump: where those who perpetrate evil believe responsibility and consequence transfer to those who seeing, see not or hearing, hear not. “We told them. We showed them. They took no heed.” [Karma: “... Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and future happiness, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and future suffering.”] See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma</a> This blame-shifting is also a self-evident characteristic of those who create harm or chaos but will not accept responsibility for their actions and the consequences. They are always the victim and bad karma lies with their perceived offender.<br />
<b>12</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:39</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">39 </span>We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.<br /><b>
13</b>. <a href="https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html">https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2023/11/urgent-memo-to-global-order-gang-gog.html</a><br /><b>
14</b>.<u> Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:16</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>And from Enoch to Abel, who was slain by the conspiracy of his brother, who received the priesthood by the commandments of God, by the hand of his father Adam, who was the first man—<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Ether 8:15-26</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">15 </span>And it came to pass that thus they did agree with Akish. And Akish did administer unto them the oaths which were given by them of old who also sought power, which had been handed down even from Cain, who was a murderer from the beginning.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">16 </span>And they were kept up by the power of the devil to administer these oaths unto the people, to keep them in darkness, to help such as sought power to gain power, and to murder, and to plunder, and to lie, and to commit all manner of wickedness and whoredoms.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span>And it was the daughter of Jared who put it into his heart to search up these things of old; and Jared put it into the heart of Akish; wherefore, Akish administered it unto his kindred and friends, leading them away by fair promises to do whatsoever thing he desired.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">18 </span>And it came to pass that they formed a secret combination, even as they of old; which combination is most abominable and wicked above all, in the sight of God;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>And now I, Moroni, do not write the manner of their oaths and combinations, for it hath been made known unto me that they are had among all people, and they are had among the Lamanites.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And they have caused the destruction of this people of whom I am now speaking, and also the destruction of the people of Nephi.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed; for the Lord will not suffer that the blood of his saints, which shall be shed by them, shall always cry unto him from the ground for vengeance upon them and yet he avenge them not.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">23 </span>Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you; or wo be unto it, because of the blood of them who have been slain; for they cry from the dust for vengeance upon it, and also upon those who built it up.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>For it cometh to pass that whoso buildeth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people, for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies; even that same liar who beguiled our first parents, yea, even that same liar who hath caused man to commit murder from the beginning; who hath hardened the hearts of men that they have murdered the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out from the beginning.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>Wherefore, I, Moroni, am commanded to write these things that evil may be done away, and that the time may come that Satan may have no power upon the hearts of the children of men, but that they may be persuaded to do good continually, that they may come unto the fountain of all righteousness and be saved.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-48956114701041447682023-12-05T09:21:00.004-07:002023-12-24T14:18:34.614-07:00Reconsidering Temple Cafeterias?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_s3FZMl5tulqnHze4svbS_mImMd_zCmpxJCz4cfMfx_ElYGQFI1Fuj4ycoVuVxBgDahN_a0B-je-KjX2-f3Nh3Eus1OKBckRbaTyeIN6PW1pDmmAlTrh3NxgKKjgRxsjgN1yvHd960nEHTOyZGh_FcRZ6ZC_OlrtL9r6AAfV8UDmrUzURCUiz1Jyb94/s274/FD01043_.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_s3FZMl5tulqnHze4svbS_mImMd_zCmpxJCz4cfMfx_ElYGQFI1Fuj4ycoVuVxBgDahN_a0B-je-KjX2-f3Nh3Eus1OKBckRbaTyeIN6PW1pDmmAlTrh3NxgKKjgRxsjgN1yvHd960nEHTOyZGh_FcRZ6ZC_OlrtL9r6AAfV8UDmrUzURCUiz1Jyb94/s200/FD01043_.png" width="200" /></a></div>Further to the Déjà Vu II post of January 13, 2023, “<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/01/eating-together-divine-paradigm.html" target="_blank">Eating Together” — A Divine Paradigm</a>?<sup><b>1</b></sup> I am inviting participation in an appeal to the Temple Department to re-open / construct temple cafeterias. I realize that probably most kitchens have already been dismantled (in fact, in what seemed considerable haste) and that I should have sent this appeal months ago when first drafted in February, but I held off until now — until the inner pressure returned when I became aware that <b>patrons</b> (no matter how many sessions they might wish to attend during a day) <b>are excluded from eating areas they once freely used</b>. Patrons have no place now to eat even a sack lunch. Many of these daily patrons are elderly, often with health conditions like diabetes or compromised mobility and whose daily sense of purpose and worth is, in part, fulfilled in lengthy temple service. That patrons should be excluded from eating areas (tables / chairs) used by workers seems inexplicable and insensitive to their needs. Insensitive, also, to the considerable inconvenience related to clothing, inclement weather, parking, etc., when they must exit to find sustenance and then return. The option to leave and return is sometimes not available if they have been dropped off with pickup arranged for much later. Surely, we can find room and heart to reciprocate service for service.<br /><br />
Thus, if others wish to join in this appeal, I include below a pdf that can be used, adapted, or re-invented to send to members of the Temple and Family History Executive Council and to the Executive Director of the Temple Department, as far as I can ascertain them and their addresses.<sup><b>2</b></sup> Their webpage <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/en/fieldops/apac-executive-leadership">https://www.familysearch.org/en/fieldops/apac-executive-leadership</a> does not seem current when compared with these two webpages:
<blockquote>• <a href="https://news-ph.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/how-to-prepare-for-the-2023-temple-and-family-history-leadership-broadcast">https://news-ph.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/how-to-prepare-for-the-2023-temple-and-family-history-leadership-broadcast </a><br />
• <a href="https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2023/3/2/23618528/2023-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction-council-application">https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders/2023/3/2/23618528/2023-temple-and-family-history-leadership-instruction-council-application</a></blockquote>
(all 3 accessed Dec. 2, 2023), so I am directing this appeal also to Camille N. Johnson, Relief Society General President; thus, being eight in total, mailed December 4, 2023.<br /><br />
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If you know of other relevant parties, please copy them; perhaps even your local leaders: bishop, stake president, temple presidency, and area authority, if you feel so inclined. Is this not a matter to seek the voice and feelings of the people — especially the voice of those who work and serve there?<br /><br />
We shouldn’t be afraid to speak up about things that we observe that appear unjust. Remember Zelophehad’s daughters and their appeal to Moses<sup><b>3</b></sup>? Remember too, a subsequent appeal to Moses by their uncles and cousins<sup><b>4</b></sup>? <br /><br />
I think God cares about this issue as do many workers and patrons. With the technology we have, ascertaining the voice and consent of the people (workers, patrons, and potential ones) should not be that difficult, if only we would speak up about things that seem insensitive or unjust. At the least, let <b>patrons </b>access eating areas as <i>their </i>needs dictate.<br /><br />
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1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/01/eating-together-divine-paradigm.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/01/eating-together-divine-paradigm.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <b>Names and addresses</b> of members of the Temple and Family History Executive Council as far as I could ascertain them. Email communication does not appear to be available.<br /><blockquote>Elder David A. Bednar<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council <br />
50 E North Temple Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA<br /><br />
Elder Gerrit W. Gong <br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council <br />
50 E North Temple Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA<br /><br />
Elder W. Christopher Waddell <br />
Presiding Bishopric - 1st Counselor<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council <br />
50 E North Temple Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA<br /><br />
Elder Kevin R. Duncan<br />
Executive Director: Temple Department<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council<br />
c/o 50 E North Temple Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA <br /><br />
Elder Kevin S. Hamilton <br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council<br />
c/o 50 E North Temple Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA <br /><br />
President Camille N. Johnson (RS)<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council<br />
76 Main Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA<br /><br />
Sister Kristin M. Yee (RS 2nd C.)<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council<br />
76 Main Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 <br />
USA<br /><br />
President Susan H. Porter (Primary)<br />
Temple and Family History Executive Council<br />
76 Main Street <br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150<br />
USA</blockquote><b>3</b>. <u>Old Testament | Numbers 26:33-34; 27:1-11</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>¶ And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">34 </span>These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>THEN came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3</span> Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah; but died in his own sin, and had no sons.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">8 </span>And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.<br /><b>
4</b>. <u>Old Testament | Numbers 36:1-12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND the chief fathers of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6</span> This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">8 </span>And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11</span> For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-18966871798576020912023-11-23T11:15:00.000-07:002023-11-23T11:15:27.580-07:00Time to Board the ARC*?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqceizZIaTqIRA4DH34jd7Bit6IWwvQ-i8q9ZSyh3NW9K8tZvYvLYDRmUx6MJKenwGqolggnLKwfQzFU4BbKjhIGK3NjV98i8SczFr3UP_g5oNGO5sMIeckoWkkEjdW6hxfNj_GFy-rGIw6sx_nxyDbw4klnUr9O5PArEvp2SoZLArmIMofPz7Kr0dbGY/s176/ARC.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqceizZIaTqIRA4DH34jd7Bit6IWwvQ-i8q9ZSyh3NW9K8tZvYvLYDRmUx6MJKenwGqolggnLKwfQzFU4BbKjhIGK3NjV98i8SczFr3UP_g5oNGO5sMIeckoWkkEjdW6hxfNj_GFy-rGIw6sx_nxyDbw4klnUr9O5PArEvp2SoZLArmIMofPz7Kr0dbGY/s200/ARC.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ARC logo<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>(*Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">“The ARC of the moral universe is long<br />
but it bends toward justice”</span><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Could ARC prove an essential antidote to WO and WEF?</b></span><br /><br />
We may not agree with everything said at the first ARC conference or with every person who was invited or named as ARC advocates or as members of the advisory board, but finally, we have a group who seems prepared to vigorously stand for Responsible Citizenship and to defend values that have stood the test of time. And time will tell whether this highly influential group will end up for the good or for the bad, but as more prophetic voices (both seeming and real) arise in the world, the need for discernment increases.<br /><br />
If ARC is a key puzzle piece to the end-times, let us pray its founders (Jordan B. Peterson & colleagues) can discern the Judases that inevitably attach themselves to or seek to infiltrate every Good.<br /><br />
Let us pay attention to ARC because in the end-time testing, <b>our assumptions and biases</b> about our own faith may need this Shakespearean reminder:
<blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,<br />
Than are dreamt of in <i>your</i> philosophy.</b></span><br /> - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio. </blockquote>
There were many worthy speeches presented at ARC, but here are Peterson’s opening and closing remarks.
(<b>Note</b>: If Biblical Isaiah can go naked and barefoot for three years as a sign of things to come,<sup><b>1</b></sup> perhaps JBP can feel motivated to wear a divided suit?)
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"...And Away from Hell" | Jordan Peterson's first speech at ARC 2023<br />
( Alliance for Responsible Citizenship | Oct 30, 2023 | 14:51 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Iw_FtPVnc"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Iw_FtPVnc</a><br /><br />
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WATCH: The most important speech Jordan Peterson has ever given<br />
(Alliance for Responsible Citizenship | Nov 1, 2023 | Time 23:16 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84kKxtZI0l0&t=590s"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84kKxtZI0l0&t=590s
</a></blockquote>
The entire conference can be viewed at <a href="https://www.arcforum.com">https://www.arcforum.com</a>, but <b>be aware</b>:
some VPNs, STRANGELY, bring up “403 Forbidden” (Danish) and “403 The Forbidden” (English) when trying to access this URL. Solution: turn off your VPN and the site becomes accessible. Some short segments of the ARC Forum speeches can be found at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@arc_forum">https://www.youtube.com/@arc_forum</a>. <br /><br />
-----------------------------------------/<br />1. <u>Old Testament | Isaiah 20:2-4</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3</span> And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4</span> So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.<br /><br /><u>
Other ARC resources:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@arc_conference/videos">
https://www.youtube.com/@arc_conference/videos</a><br /><a href="https://www.arcforum.com/about">
https://www.arcforum.com/about</a><br /><a href="https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/join-arc/">
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/join-arc/</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Responsible_Citizenship">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Responsible_Citizenship</a><br />
</u>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-80374943358195202542023-11-18T21:46:00.001-07:002023-11-19T21:56:42.013-07:00Enoch’s Solar Calendar – Month IX?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBI93xJ9cWZggX2NTSh5egn2_lu6Ka-vnNrbUC1BCyRfENMuteFsc1-cbF4RjgR28B1TPxqpPrql_nMP6HU82mKavUnijWh35v4LYWH3D-K3R55EY6pQTmPHFqCW2ZPLISECJEYNJYNf4Oj5hn_vs95hmiT-e3x1oriqBZj0Yg68ltjPFFbXkYB-6-goo/s367/Abstract%20110.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBI93xJ9cWZggX2NTSh5egn2_lu6Ka-vnNrbUC1BCyRfENMuteFsc1-cbF4RjgR28B1TPxqpPrql_nMP6HU82mKavUnijWh35v4LYWH3D-K3R55EY6pQTmPHFqCW2ZPLISECJEYNJYNf4Oj5hn_vs95hmiT-e3x1oriqBZj0Yg68ltjPFFbXkYB-6-goo/s200/Abstract%20110.png" width="200" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XV)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s solar calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are undoubtedly mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun continues southward, now rising and setting through East and West <b>portal 1</b> for 31 days. My observation over the past months is that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. <br /><br />
Allegedly, Month IX is the third calendar month (out of a yearly four) that has 31 days, with day 31 being the winter solstice, reportedly (Gregorian) December 21 for 2023. If the winter solstice is (Gregorian) December 21, then theoretically, the 31 days of Month IX end December 21, when the light / dark division, being 6L / 12D (out of 18 parts), begins to reverse at the shortest day of the year (December 21, 10:27 pm, Kirtland, Ohio?), according to Time and Date.<sup><b>3</b></sup> Also, according to Enoch, the first day of Month IX always falls on Day Five of the week (our Gregorian Thursday). <b>However,</b> if each of Enoch's seasons has 91 days (30+30+31, ending with the equinoxes and solstices) and if my count is right and if the calculation of the Spring Equinox was right (March 20), today (Gregorian Saturday, November 18) marks the first day of Month Nine which will end 31 days later on December 18 (not the alleged Winter Solstice!). How to reconcile it all remains a mystery, to me at least. <br /><br />
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month IX</b> (Nine) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). Also, this Month Nine follows the same pattern layout as Months Three, Six, and Twelve. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>4</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month IX</b> [Gregorian November / December], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br /><b>Ninth Month </b>(7 references):<br /><br />
Note that in the Jeremiah references, Judah and Jerusalem were in dire crisis as false prophets had assured the people that they had been saved from Nebuchadnezzar's siege, only to have his army turn back to the siege after defeating Egypt's army at Carchemish. The result: the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon's temple, and the final deportation of all but the poor, 587 BC.]
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>The ninth captain for the <b>ninth </b>month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 12)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>¶ Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the <b>ninth </b>month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Ezra 10:7-10)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the <b>ninth </b>month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 36:8-10)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span>Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the <b>ninth </b>month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 36:21-25)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>¶ In the four and twentieth day of the <b>ninth </b>month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13</span> Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the <b>ninth </b>month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Haggai 2:10-18)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the <b>ninth </b>month, even in Chisleu;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3</span> And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>¶ Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5</span> Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain? <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Zechariah 7:1-7)</span>.<br /><br />
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<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>
3</b>. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159821">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159821</a><br /><b>
4</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/enochs-solar-calendar-month-viii.html</a><br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-38249774646166031252023-11-11T22:24:00.003-07:002023-11-12T19:10:48.208-07:00Another Voice Crying in the WildernessIf one thinks one knows the rapper Tom MacDonald, his latest release <b>“Superman”</b> may prove as surprising to us as to his many fans and his few detractors. Like or dislike his work, he exposes in just over three minutes, the lamentation of our times for those who will see and hear:<blockquote><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="250" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mm-HR6DfcYI" title="Tom MacDonald - "Superman"" width="473"></iframe><br /><br />
Tom MacDonald - "Superman"<br />
(Tom MacDonald | Nov 10, 2023 | Time 3:08 min.) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-HR6DfcYI">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm-HR6DfcYI</a></blockquote>
Judging by the many reactions to this release,<sup><b>1</b></sup> MacDonald’s words rise above the manufactured divides that are fracturing the hope and promise that began 247 years ago – in 1776 North America; a hope and promise that has been under attack by the enemies of the good, the true, and the beautiful since before day one. But God, in His sign-language ways, has, over the millennia, used <b>all sorts of prophetic characters</b> (even if they don't know or understand it) to give warnings and messages to backsliding, torpid people.<sup><b>2</b></sup> And from the news coming out of our LDS centerplace, the “boom” may be much closer than we imagine? <br /><br />
So, on this day – <b>November 11</b> – when too many<b> pretend to remember</b> the horrors and sacrifices of war, let us listen to Tom and remember. Remember too: We dishonor every fallen or surviving soldier when we agree to live the lies that are the quicksands of Fwoke<sup><b>3</b></sup> and domination ideology. <br /><br />
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1</b>. (reactions that can be found by searching “reaction Superman Tom MacDonald”)<br /><b>
2</b>. Remember especially, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and for our day:<br /> <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 112:23-2</u>6<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">23 </span>Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord.<br /><b>
See also</b>: <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/08/back-to-future-please-as-in-bee-gees-et.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/08/back-to-future-please-as-in-bee-gees-et.html</a><br /><b>
3</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/04/correction-fwoke.html</a><br /> <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/06/fwoke-blow-back.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/06/fwoke-blow-back.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-67804984108496215262023-11-03T22:15:00.000-06:002023-11-03T22:15:19.642-06:00Power / Authority* Q & A?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCCszID-GTmz_w8KR8h5UFCQaMyW-md-mGTcxbaDBVodzSBuIUWk7g0UkiYtVCarRiQtDeaVOHrUzrKllS8LiLeMR83TpVUYo5fpfoKpVIMUapVffy1Rt46HoAJT7KDYrtlNtlc3joV6R0vDFn8JdDOvgL0gjqUiGhyBjYIyzW6xg_3ak4KSKfT2Gbio/s367/Q%20&%20A%201.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 30px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguCCszID-GTmz_w8KR8h5UFCQaMyW-md-mGTcxbaDBVodzSBuIUWk7g0UkiYtVCarRiQtDeaVOHrUzrKllS8LiLeMR83TpVUYo5fpfoKpVIMUapVffy1Rt46HoAJT7KDYrtlNtlc3joV6R0vDFn8JdDOvgL0gjqUiGhyBjYIyzW6xg_3ak4KSKfT2Gbio/s200/Q%20&%20A%201.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Q</b></span>: If “natural men”<sup><b>1</b></sup> are so prone to choosing the way that leads to corruption and destruction as both scripture<sup><b>2</b></sup> and history document (and as we are now witnessing on a global scale), <b>why </b>does God’s plan give them innumerable opportunities to advance in power and authority to the harm of others?<br /><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Q</b></span>: Why do <i>we </i>frequently allow laws, governments, and authorities<sup><b>3</b></sup> to become self-serving, corrupt, and abusive to the harm of ourselves and others? <br /><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Q</b></span>: Why does God tolerate so much censorship and persecution by corrupted authorities of those who seek the narrow way? Why do we?<br /><br />
Perhaps the answer is more simple than we imagine if we asked more questions.<br /><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Q</b></span>: If this earth-bound mortality is a <b>probation</b><sup><b>4</b></sup> as in
<blockquote>a period of time at the start of a new job when you are watched and tested to see if you are suitable for the job,<sup><b>5</b></sup></blockquote> then what could the new <i>job </i>entail?<br /><br /> Could it be love of God and neighbour? as in:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">36 </span>Master, which is the great commandment in the law?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
37 </span>Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
38 </span>This is the first and great commandment.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
39 </span>And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
40 </span>On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (New Testament | Matthew 22:36–40)</span>.</blockquote>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Q</b></span>: <b><span style="font-size: medium;">But what if Love is not the <i>job</i>, but the gateway to the <i>job</i>? What if the prospective <i>job </i>is Power<sup>6</sup>?</span></b> What if our probation here is to see if we can be trusted with Power? not just with the exercise of power in mortality, but with how we respond to abusive power that harms us or others?
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">17 </span><b>Recompense to no man evil for evil</b>. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire [burning of conscience?] on his head.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>Be not overcome of evil, but <b>overcome evil with good</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(New Testament | Romans 12:17–21)</span>.</blockquote>
What better Plan than agency, time, and opportunity could there be to test for who can be advanced to eternal Power and who cannot?<br /><br />So, how are we each doing with our individual power? in our families? relationships? jobs? positions? assignments? organizations? social circles? communications? influence? etc. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b>A</b></span>: Perhaps honest self-reflection would tell us most of what we need to know about how our probation is presently going and whether we can be trusted hereafter.<br /></span><br />
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*Recent Power / Authority Posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-to-disrespect-authority.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/when-to-disrespect-authority.html</a><br /><br /><b>
1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html </a><br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19</u><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.<br /><b>
2</b>. <u>New Testament | Matthew 7:13–14</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">14 </span>Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.<br /><b>
3</b>. <u>Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law. <br />
<b>4</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 10:20 21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>Therefore remember, O man, for all thy doings thou shalt be brought into judgment.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>Wherefore, if ye have sought to do wickedly in the days of your <b>probation</b>, then ye are found unclean before the judgment–seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of <b>probation</b>, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. <br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:27-28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his <b>probation</b>, for awful is his state!<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 33:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait path which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the day of <b>probation</b>.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 12:24</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a <b>probationary </b>state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 42:3-4, 10, 13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>Now, we see that the man had become as God, knowing good and evil; and lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, the Lord God placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he should not partake of the fruit—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man to repent, yea, a <b>probationary </b>time, a time to repent and serve God. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature, this <b>probationary </b>state became a state for them to prepare; it became a preparatory state. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Therefore, according to justice, the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance of men in this <b>probationary </b>state, yea, this preparatory state; for except it were for these conditions, mercy could not take effect except it should destroy the work of justice. Now the work of justice could not be destroyed; if so, God would cease to be God.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:38</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">38 </span>But behold, your days of <b>probation </b>are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Mormon 9:28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>Be wise in the days of your <b>probation</b>; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 29:43-45</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">43 </span>And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his <b>probation</b>—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">44 </span>And they that believe not unto eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">45</span> For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.<br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/probation">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/probation</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-plan.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-plan.html</a><br /><b>
6</b>. Past power / authority posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-spirit-of-power.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-spirit-of-power.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-test-of-power.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-test-of-power.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/07/is-it-not-blatantly-obvious.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/07/is-it-not-blatantly-obvious.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-theory-of-powers-use-abuse.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-theory-of-powers-use-abuse.html</a><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-6929054509403130812023-10-30T23:14:00.015-06:002023-11-03T22:32:43.643-06:00When to Disrespect “Authority”? Reconciling Jesus* and Paul**?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18TCNH4QtA9sHk6TCtN-1hXKI16LguMXoH9NxvOuWUCNN3JmB0jAyz65Mq8cK9vCKaxQZEvDCmrDnOGNMMcQAhtJfdpaDKT8yuULw8d2TlvIem5QhWcf-d6-aS16LkwMtq2cdr8qHgH_V7yMIuurL_fNRkZhopmXv3sKJ9zpspGF10c6FxmgcNmXhgbg/s103/BL01065_.png" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="103" data-original-width="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj18TCNH4QtA9sHk6TCtN-1hXKI16LguMXoH9NxvOuWUCNN3JmB0jAyz65Mq8cK9vCKaxQZEvDCmrDnOGNMMcQAhtJfdpaDKT8yuULw8d2TlvIem5QhWcf-d6-aS16LkwMtq2cdr8qHgH_V7yMIuurL_fNRkZhopmXv3sKJ9zpspGF10c6FxmgcNmXhgbg/s200/BL01065_.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">- Pillars of Freedom -<br />Sustaining ONLY that<br />which deserves sustaining</td></tr></tbody></table><b>First</b>, let me be clear: I believe that law,<sup><b>1</b></sup> governments, and authorities<sup><b>2</b></sup> are necessary because of the predilections of the “natural man.” Scripture states:
<blockquote>the natural man is an enemy to God [and thus to fellow men], and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man ... .<sup><b>3</b></sup></blockquote>
In proof of that judgment, the natural man has demonstrated over millennia that he cannot be trusted with unrestrained power or authority.<sup><b>4</b></sup> Even with checks and balances, the déjà vus of corruption, oppression, and violence have been the way of the world as tyrants (from within family structures all the way to global empires) have risen and then fallen to other tyrants — age upon age. The Scriptures are, in essence, one long lament<sup><b>5</b></sup> about abuses of power and authority by “natural men” (both high and low) counterbalanced with God's invitation for them to repent, accept and live truth, serve Him and their fellow man, and fill the measure of their creation, all without coercion. <br />
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But what characterizes the natural man? In large measure, the natural man is susceptible to:
<blockquote>• self-delusion / self-deception, <br />
• self-aggrandizement, <br />
• obsessions for power-gain-glory-domination, <br />
• acting without conscience,<br />
• pride, <br />
• addiction, <br />
• gullibility, <br />
• misplaced trust, <br />
• lying,<br />
• stiffneckedness,<br />
• and so forth.</blockquote>
Many seek to be a law unto themselves and thus become enemies to God, their fellow beings, and all creation.<br /><br />
So what are we to do when “natural men” gain positions of authority which they often relentlessly pursue, obtain, corrupt, and abuse? What then are we to make of Paul’s instruction in New Testament Romans?
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law (New Testament | Romans 13:1–8).</blockquote>
Here is one man’s answer worthy of our consideration:
<blockquote>For what purpose has [God] given [dominion of the earth] to the children of men? That they may govern it, even as stated in Gen. 1: 26, 27. This is shown in Rom. 13: 1-4, where it is stated that the powers that be are ordained of God, and that <b>rulers are appointed to bear the sword of justice.</b> The expression, “the powers that be are ordained of God,” refers to authority in general, rather than to particular Governments. And this should be sufficient to show that, although God rules the entire universe, he is not the head of any earthly Government. If he were, then there would be but one correct form of Government, and the officers of that Government would be appointed directly by Him, as in the case of the ancient Jewish Government. But no one can claim that of the various nations of earth, one is ordained of God, to the exclusion of the others.<br /><br />
Take for instance, Russia, Germany, England, and the United States. Here we have four Governments, all differing in their structure. Which of them is ordained of God? All of them. <b>They are all for the purpose of preserving order, and of guarding the rights of each individual against the encroachments of others</b>. This is all that earthly Governments are ordained to do. The whole of the law against the violation of which they can execute wrath is, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” and this they can enforce only so far as concerns outward acts. They cannot compel a man to love his neighbor in his heart, but they can see that he does his neighbor no personal wrong, and when they do this, they are carrying out that for which they were appointed. <b>And in thus executing justice between man and man the ruler is ordained of God,</b> whether he is born to the throne, or whether he is elected by the people, or appointed by a few. The Czar of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, the Queen of England, and the President of the United States, are all equally ordained of God as <b>ministers of justice</b>; not because God is personally at the head of any one of these Governments, but because he has ordained that men shall be under authority, and the individuals above referred to are in authority in their respective Governments. In the discharge of their duty, they are each personally responsible to God, just the same as the humblest peasant. <br /><br />
But, although man was given dominion over the earth and all that it contains, all things are not now under him. Adam was overcome by the tempter, and so forfeited his dominion. He has not now perfect dominion over the earth, because it does not yield to him the increase that it formerly did; and the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea are not passively subject to his control. What man forfeited, he has no power to regain. And so, since we do not now see all things put under him, Paul says that “we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” Heb. 2: 9. Not only did Christ taste death in order to restore to man his forfeited life, but he also bore the curse of the earth (compare Gen. 3: 17, 18 and Matt. 27: 29), that he might redeem it, and restore to man the possession that he lost. [52] Since Christ alone could redeem the lost dominion, and has paid the price, it is to him that it is to come. Says the prophet, “And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.” Micah 4: 8. And so Paul directs the minds of the disciples forward to the time of “the redemption of the purchased possession.” Eph. 1: 14. And when that time shall come, and the kingdom shall be given to Him “whose right it is,” those who have suffered with Christ shall also reign with him. 2 Tim. 2: 12; Rom. 8: 17.<sup><b>6</b></sup></blockquote>
The prophet Joseph Smith recorded it this way:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law (Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:12).<br /><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>WE believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>We believe that no government can exist in peace, except <b>such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.</b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will <b>administer the law in equity and justice</b> should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people if a republic, or the will of the sovereign.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>We believe ... that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but <b>never control conscience</b>; should punish guilt, but <b>never suppress the freedom of the soul</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>We believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside, <b>while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights</b> by the laws of such governments; and that sedition and rebellion are unbecoming every citizen <b>thus protected</b>, and should be punished accordingly; and that all governments have a right to enact such laws as in their own judgments are best calculated to secure the public interest; at the same time, however, <b>holding sacred the freedom of conscience</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>We believe that every man should be honored in his station, rulers and magistrates as such, being placed <b>for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty</b>; and that to the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship, both to be answered by man to his Maker.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws <b>for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions</b>, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>We believe that the commission of crime should be punished according to the nature of the offense; that murder, treason, robbery, theft, and the breach of the general peace, in all respects, should be punished according to their criminality and their tendency to evil among men, by the laws of that government in which the offense is committed; and for the public peace and tranquility all men should step forward and use their ability in <b>bringing offenders against good laws to punishment</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>We believe that men should appeal to the civil law for redress of all wrongs and grievances, where personal abuse is inflicted or the right of property or character infringed, where such laws exist as will protect the same; but we believe that <b>all men are justified in defending themselves, their friends, and property, and the government, from the unlawful assaults and encroachments of <span style="color: #cc0000;">all </span>persons in times of exigency,</b> where immediate appeal cannot be made to the laws, and relief afforded. ...(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134:1-9, 11; full section here<sup><b>7</b></sup>).</blockquote>
The bold emphasis above highlights <b>the conditions for respect for authority</b>. When those conditions were violated or exceeded, neither Jesus nor His servants pretended to respect the offending “authority”; on the contrary, they denounced the corruption and abuse, often in the very face of the abuser.<sup><b>8</b></sup> <br /><br />
The Prophet Joseph also recorded God’s directive concerning government:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And now, verily I say unto you concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting <b>that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind,</b> and is justifiable before me.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>And as pertaining to law of man, <b>whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:4–9, bold emphasis added).</blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
So, when the wicked rule by corrupting or denying Constitutional and just law or limitation, are we to mourn in silence and inaction? Does not authority cease to exist when “authorities” breach or exceed their contract or calling of service to the people? And where is the alleged <i>authority</i> when <i>natural men</i> claim it in elitist self-delusion and self-appointment? Must we not relentlessly remind “authorities” that all governments:
</b></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b>“are all for the purpose of preserving order [without violating rights of conscience<sup>9</sup>], and of guarding the rights of each individual against the encroachments of others. This is all that earthly Governments are ordained to do”<sup>10</sup>?</b></span></blockquote>
Added October 31 from <i>Cato’s Letter 15</i> (February 4, 1720):<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><blockquote>
“That Men ought to speak well of their Governours is true, while their Governours, deserve to be well spoken of, but to do publick Mischief, without hearing of it, is only the Prerogative and Felicity of Tyranny: A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech.”<sup><b>11</b></sup></blockquote></span>
Added November 3, 2023:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4rAz9y2Mo" target="_blank">When Should You Defy the Government? | Jonathan Cahn Sermon</a> (YT: Nov 1, 2023)<sup><b>12</b></sup></blockquote>---------------------------------/<br />
* Jesus response to corrupted power / authority: <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html</a><br />
** Paul: New Testament | Romans 13:1–8 discussed in the body of this post.<br /><br />
<b>1</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:34-39</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">34 </span>And again, verily I say unto you, that which is governed by law is also preserved by law and perfected and sanctified by the same.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">35 </span>That which breaketh a law, and abideth not by law, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and willeth to abide in sin, and altogether abideth in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by mercy, justice, nor judgment. Therefore, they must remain filthy still.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">36 </span>All kingdoms have a law given;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">37 </span>And there are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">38 </span>And unto every kingdom is given a law; and unto every law there are certain bounds also and conditions.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">39 </span>All beings who abide not in those conditions are not justified.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:21–25</u> (Bold emphasis added.)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And they who are not sanctified through the law which I have given unto you, even the law of Christ, must inherit another kingdom, even that of a terrestrial kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>For he who is not able to abide the law of a celestial kingdom cannot abide a celestial glory.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">23 </span>And he who cannot abide the law of a terrestrial kingdom cannot abide a terrestrial glory.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And he who cannot abide the law of a telestial kingdom cannot abide a telestial glory; therefore he is not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>And again, verily I say unto you, the earth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the measure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law—<br /><b>
2</b>. <u>Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:34-39</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">34 </span>And again, verily I say unto you, that which is governed by law is also preserved by law and perfected and sanctified by the same.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">35 </span>That which breaketh a law, and abideth not by law, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and willeth to abide in sin, and altogether abideth in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by mercy, justice, nor judgment. Therefore, they must remain filthy still.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">36 </span>All kingdoms have a law given;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">37 </span>And there are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">38 </span>And unto every kingdom is given a law; and unto every law there are certain bounds also and conditions.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">39 </span>All beings who abide not in those conditions are not justified.<br /><b>
3</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19</u> <br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">19 </span>For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father .<br />
See also: <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html</a><br /><b>
4</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:39-40</u> (bold emphasis added)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">39 </span>We have learned by sad experience that it is <b>the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.</b><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">40 </span>Hence many are called, but few are chosen.<br />
See also:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/02/2-flags.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2016/02/2-flags.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/08/anarchy-four-fatal-flaws.html">
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/08/anarchy-four-fatal-flaws.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/06/gazlighting-by-anarchists.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/06/gazlighting-by-anarchists.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-few-questions-for-anarchists-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-few-questions-for-anarchists-and.html</a><br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/01/gods-lament.html</a><br /><b>
6</b>. Jones, Alonzo T. . <i>The American Sentinel: Volume 1</i> (pp. 251-253). Adventist Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition (bold emphasis added). <br /><b>
7</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134:1-12</u> (bold emphasis added above)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>WE believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2</span> We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people if a republic, or the will of the sovereign.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5</span> We believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in which they reside, while protected in their inherent and inalienable rights by the laws of such governments; and that sedition and rebellion are unbecoming every citizen thus protected, and should be punished accordingly; and that all governments have a right to enact such laws as in their own judgments are best calculated to secure the public interest; at the same time, however, holding sacred the freedom of conscience.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>We believe that every man should be honored in his station, rulers and magistrates as such, being placed for the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the guilty; and that to the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship, both to be answered by man to his Maker.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">8 </span>We believe that the commission of crime should be punished according to the nature of the offense; that murder, treason, robbery, theft, and the breach of the general peace, in all respects, should be punished according to their criminality and their tendency to evil among men, by the laws of that government in which the offense is committed; and for the public peace and tranquility all men should step forward and use their ability in bringing offenders against good laws to punishment.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10</span> We believe that all religious societies have a right to deal with their members for disorderly conduct, according to the rules and regulations of such societies; provided that such dealings be for fellowship and good standing; but we do not believe that any religious society has authority to try men on the right of property or life, to take from them this world's goods, or to put them in jeopardy of either life or limb, or to inflict any physical punishment upon them. They can only excommunicate them from their society, and withdraw from them their fellowship.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">11 </span>We believe that men should appeal to the civil law for redress of all wrongs and grievances, where personal abuse is inflicted or the right of property or character infringed, where such laws exist as will protect the same; but we believe that all men are justified in defending themselves, their friends, and property, and the government, from the unlawful assaults and encroachments of all persons in times of exigency, where immediate appeal cannot be made to the laws, and relief afforded.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>We believe it just to preach the gospel to the nations of the earth, and warn the righteous to save themselves from the corruption of the world; but we do not believe it right to interfere with bond–servants, neither preach the gospel to, nor baptize them contrary to the will and wish of their masters, nor to meddle with or influence them in the least to cause them to be dissatisfied with their situations in this life, thereby jeopardizing the lives of men; such interference we believe to be unlawful and unjust, and dangerous to the peace of every government allowing human beings to be held in servitude.<br /><b>
8</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-of.html</a><br /><b>
9</b>. (as long as such conscience is not used to justify sedition or conspiracy against lawful authority)<br /><b>
10</b>. Jones, Alonzo T. <i>The American Sentinel: Volume 1</i> (pp. 251-253). Adventist Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition (bold emphasis added). <br />
<b>11</b>. Cato's Letters, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon (<i>Letter Number 15 Of Freedom of Speech</i>, That the Same is inseparable from Publick Liberty, February 4, 1720). Source: <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech</a><br />
<b>12</b>. Added Nov 3, 2023:<br />
When Should You Defy the Government? | Jonathan Cahn Sermon<br />
(Jonathan Cahn Official | Nov. 1, 2023 | Time 9:18 min) at<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4rAz9y2Mo"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c4rAz9y2Mo</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-82519372419192302452023-10-23T00:49:00.002-06:002023-11-01T11:37:03.772-06:00Respecting / Obeying “Authority”: What of the Prophets, et al.?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wRA7tGOqBABWZo5pwAieor178BntW2qBzi1T2T8ncWkFsNlwO86BBgCu39pwI2EZen3in3yiUyPTrvfQNFxRV_N2BrR3KxifhQEiPTX9ikysjeqEu7SsB_0aC2OSzhmM-NV2oJo-0_NYYhsKV8c8L3AXXec4ESn157GFxveupjhmpRh1R7Dp8LSVGbU/s2272/cg_scriptures-2.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="2272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wRA7tGOqBABWZo5pwAieor178BntW2qBzi1T2T8ncWkFsNlwO86BBgCu39pwI2EZen3in3yiUyPTrvfQNFxRV_N2BrR3KxifhQEiPTX9ikysjeqEu7SsB_0aC2OSzhmM-NV2oJo-0_NYYhsKV8c8L3AXXec4ESn157GFxveupjhmpRh1R7Dp8LSVGbU/s200/cg_scriptures-2.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thru the Prism<br />of Scripture</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Further to the post <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html" target="_blank">“What Did Jesus Do?”</a>* concerning “authority,” let us briefly consider what His prophets and other believers did through the ages. And if they, too, disrespected authority what is the common denominator? The corruption of peoples and their “authorities”? If we pay attention, almost every God-fearing soul in scripture disrespected corrupted authority? The following are just a few abbreviated accounts of accusation and exposure of that corruption:
<blockquote><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Enoch</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
37 </span>And it came to pass that Enoch went forth in the land, among the people, standing upon the hills and the high places, and cried with a loud voice, testifying against their works; and all men were offended because of him (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 6:37).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Noah</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>And it came to pass that Noah called upon the children of men that they should repent; but they hearkened not unto his words;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>And also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not unto the words of
Noah.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span>And God saw that the wickedness of men had become great in the earth; and every man was lifted up in the imagination of the thoughts of his heart, being only evil continually.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And it came to pass that Noah continued his preaching unto the people, saying: Hearken, and give heed unto my words;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Believe and repent of your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, even as our fathers, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost, that ye may have all things made manifest; and if ye do not this, the floods will come in upon you; nevertheless they hearkened not (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 8:20-24).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Moses</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw that he was a peculiar child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>By faith Moses, when he was come to years of discretion, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible (<u>JST New Testament | Hebrews 11:23-27</u>).<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And the frogs shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants (Old Testament | Exodus 8:1-4; see also 9 other plagues).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Abraham</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5</span> My fathers having turned from their righteousness, and from the holy commandments which the Lord their God had given unto them, unto the worshiping of the gods of the heathen, utterly refused to hearken to my voice;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>For their hearts were set to do evil, and were wholly turned to the god of Elkenah, and the god of Libnah, and the god of Mahmackrah, and the god of Korash, and the god of Pharaoh, king of Egypt;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Therefore they turned their hearts to the sacrifice of the heathen in offering up their children unto these dumb idols, and hearkened not unto my voice, but endeavored to take away my life by the hand of the priest of Elkenah. The priest of Elkenah was also the priest of Pharaoh.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Now, at this time it was the custom of the priest of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to offer up upon the altar which was built in the land of Chaldea, for the offering unto these strange gods, men, women, and children.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>And it came to pass that the priest made an offering unto the god of Pharaoh, and also unto the god of Shagreel, even after the manner of the Egyptians. Now the god of Shagreel was the sun.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Even the thank–offering of a child did the priest of Pharaoh offer upon the altar which stood by the hill called Potiphar's Hill, at the head of the plain of Olishem.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the royal descent directly from the loins of Ham. These virgins were offered up because of their virtue; they would not bow down to worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>And it came to pass that the priests laid violence upon me, that they might slay me also (Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 1:5-12), <br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Elijah</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>¶ And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim (Old Testament | 1 Kings 18:17-18).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Elisha</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him? (Old Testament | 2 Kings 6:32)<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Isaiah</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>¶ Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment (<u>Old Testament | Isaiah 1:4-6</u>).<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter (Old Testament | Isaiah 56:10-11).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Jeremiah</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper? (Old Testament | Jeremiah 32:1-5)<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego </b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>¶ Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up (Old Testament | Daniel 3:12-18).<br /><br /><b>
Daniel</b></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day (Old Testament | Daniel 6:10-13).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Amos</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>¶ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>¶ Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land (Old Testament | Amos 7:14-17).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Micah</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>WOE to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil (Old Testament | Micah 2:1-3).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Lehi</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi, yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy and to declare unto them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>And it came to pass that the Jews did mock him because of the things which he testified of them; for he truly testified of their wickedness and their abominations; and he testified that the things which he saw and heard, and also the things which he read in the book, manifested plainly of the coming of a Messiah, and also the redemption of the world.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance (Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 1:18-20).<br /><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Alma / Amulek</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>But the more part of them were desirous that they might destroy Alma and Amulek; for they were angry with Alma, because of the plainness of his words unto Zeezrom; and they also said that Amulek had lied unto them, and had reviled against their law and also against their lawyers and judges.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And they were also angry with Alma and Amulek; and because they had testified so plainly against their wickedness, they sought to put them away privily.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>But it came to pass that they did not; but they took them and bound them with strong cords, and took them before the chief judge of the land.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And the people went forth and witnessed against them—testifying that they had reviled against the law, and their lawyers and judges of the land, and also of all the people that were in the land; and also testified that there was but one God, and that he should send his Son among the people, but he should not save them; and many such things did the people testify against Alma and Amulek. Now this was done before the chief judge of the land (Book of Mormon | Alma 14:2–5).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Abinadi</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span>And it came to pass that there was a man among them whose name was Abinadi; and he went forth among them, and began to prophesy, saying: Behold, thus saith the Lord, and thus hath he commanded me, saying, Go forth, and say unto this people, thus saith the Lord—Wo be unto this people, for I have seen their abominations, and their wickedness, and their whoredoms; and except they repent I will visit them in mine anger.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>And except they repent and turn to the Lord their God, behold, I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; yea, and they shall be brought into bondage; and they shall be afflicted by the hand of their enemies.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span>And it shall come to pass that they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of my people.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>And it shall come to pass that except this people repent and turn unto the Lord their God, they shall be brought into bondage; and none shall deliver them, except it be the Lord the Almighty God (<u>Book of Mormon | Mosiah 11:20–23</u>).<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Now Abinadi said unto him: I say unto you, I will not recall the words which I have spoken unto you concerning this people, for they are true; and that ye may know of their surety I have suffered myself that I have fallen into your hands.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>Yea, and I will suffer even until death, and I will not recall my words, and they shall stand as a testimony against you. And if ye slay me ye will shed innocent blood, and this shall also stand as a testimony against you at the last day (Book of Mormon | Mosiah 17:9-10).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Captain Moroni</span></b><br />
[Moroni mispreceived who was corrupt, but this expresses his attitude to corruption.]<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND it came to pass that he wrote again to the governor of the land, who was Pahoran, and these are the words which he wrote, saying: Behold, I direct mine epistle to Pahoran, in the city of Zarahemla, who is the chief judge and the governor over the land, and also to all those who have been chosen by this people to govern and manage the affairs of this war.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2</span> For behold, I have somewhat to say unto them by the way of condemnation; for behold, ye yourselves know that ye have been appointed to gather together men, and arm them with swords, and with cimeters, and all manner of weapons of war of every kind, and send forth against the Lamanites, in whatsoever parts they should come into our land.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And now behold, I say unto you that myself, and also my men, and also Helaman and his men, have suffered exceedingly great sufferings; yea, even hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and all manner of afflictions of every kind.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>But behold, were this all we had suffered we would not murmur nor complain.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>But behold, great has been the slaughter among our people; yea, thousands have fallen by the sword, while it might have otherwise been if ye had rendered unto our armies sufficient strength and succor for them. Yea, great has been your neglect towards us.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>And now behold, we desire to know the cause of this exceedingly great neglect; yea, we desire to know the cause of your thoughtless state.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Can you think to sit upon your thrones in a state of thoughtless stupor, while your enemies are spreading the work of death around you? Yea, while they are murdering thousands of your brethren—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Yea, even they who have looked up to you for protection, yea, have placed you in a situation that ye might have succored them, yea, ye might have sent armies unto them, to have strengthened them, and have saved thousands of them from falling by the sword (<u>Book of Mormon | Alma 60:1–8</u>).<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>And now, except ye do repent of that which ye have done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men unto us, and also unto Helaman, that he may support those parts of our country which he has regained, and that we may also recover the remainder of our possessions in these parts, behold it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites until we have first cleansed our inward vessel, yea, even the great head of our government.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>And except ye grant mine epistle, and come out and show unto me a true spirit of freedom, and strive to strengthen and fortify our armies, and grant unto them food for their support, behold I will leave a part of my freemen to maintain this part of our land, and I will leave the strength and the blessings of God upon them, that none other power can operate against them—(Book of Mormon | Alma 60:24–25).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Nephi</span></b><sub>2</sub><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND now it came to pass that when Nephi had said these words, behold, there were men who were judges, who also belonged to the secret band of Gadianton, and they were angry, and they cried out against him, saying unto the people: Why do ye not seize upon this man and bring him forth, that he may be condemned according to the crime which he has done?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Why seest thou this man, and hearest him revile against this people and against our law?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3</span> For behold, Nephi had spoken unto them concerning the corruptness of their law; yea, many things did Nephi speak which cannot be written; and nothing did he speak which was contrary to the commandments of God.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And those judges were angry with him because he spake plainly unto them concerning their secret works of darkness; nevertheless, they durst not lay their own hands upon him, for they feared the people lest they should cry out against them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>Therefore they did cry unto the people, saying: Why do you suffer this man to revile against us? For behold he doth condemn all this people, even unto destruction; yea, and also that these our great cities shall be taken from us, that we shall have no place in them (Book of Mormon | Helaman 8:1-5).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Samuel, the Lamanite</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you; behold, he hath cursed the land because of your iniquity (Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:29-30).<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Peter and the other apostles</span></b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>And when they had brought them [Peter and the other apostles], they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>¶ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>¶ When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them (New Testament | Acts 5:27-33).
</blockquote>This is just a sample from prior millennia. In more recent times, we have the remarkable U.S. Constitution that was hammered out during resistance to corrupted authority.<br /><br />
In the next post, I intend to consider: What authority is worthy of respect and obedience, and why?<br /><br />
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* <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/10/respecting-obeying-authority-what-did.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-21226426105345421572023-10-20T20:07:00.001-06:002023-10-26T14:37:54.782-06:00Enoch’s Solar Calendar – Month VIII?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwLG5n3gqQGQGAjYEcloDer5vpy9Nnn3ls4fVaveR_RgMn9zEW4a5PdUxFisZDzOfbHQ1yVJR_JXQ_A-Fruc37BPDS4ao2zRsRjTTD10-tYzCHKjyi8VmDa5y1N7PsUAp7G2_Cqug0IYQ7wW-mevhMEPYy2CTQLDRy0CGuPavXikpfsk1cvXSvIfHsSI/s367/Sun%2005.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwLG5n3gqQGQGAjYEcloDer5vpy9Nnn3ls4fVaveR_RgMn9zEW4a5PdUxFisZDzOfbHQ1yVJR_JXQ_A-Fruc37BPDS4ao2zRsRjTTD10-tYzCHKjyi8VmDa5y1N7PsUAp7G2_Cqug0IYQ7wW-mevhMEPYy2CTQLDRy0CGuPavXikpfsk1cvXSvIfHsSI/s200/Sun%2005.png" width="200" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XIV)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s solar calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are undoubtedly mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun continues southward, now rising and setting through East and West <b>portal 2</b> for 30 days. My observation over the past months is that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. <br /><br />
Allegedly, <b>Month VIII</b> has 30 days, with the light / dark division being 7L / 11D (out of 18 parts); and follows Day 30 of Month VII. According to Enoch, the first day of Month VIII always falls on Day Three of the week (our Tuesday). <br /><br />
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month VIII</b> (Eight) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). Also, this Month Eight follows the same pattern layout as Months Two, Five, and Eleven. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>3</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month VIII</b> [Gregorian October / November], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br /><b>Month Eight</b> (5 references):<br /><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">
38 </span>And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the <span style="color: #cc0000;">eighth </span>month, was the house [Solomon's Temple] finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it (Old Testament | 1 Kings 6:38).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>Whereupon the king [Jeroboam] took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.<br />
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the <b>eighth </b>month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the <b>eighth </b>month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense (Old Testament | 1 Kings 12:28–33).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>The eighth captain for the <b>eighth </b>month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand (Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 11).<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>IN the <b>eighth </b>month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? (Old Testament | Zechariah 1:1-5)</blockquote>---------------------------------------------/<br />
<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>3</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br />
<a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/09/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vii.html</a><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-27911081660131920052023-10-15T21:34:00.002-06:002023-11-01T11:37:23.902-06:00Respecting / Obeying “Authority” | What Did Jesus Do?(JST quotes from <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft">http://www.archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft</a> | New Testament text begins p. 925 of PDF.)
<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMdnlyOP6KjYkFUS0px_pRrBb4tGlvAeMmoXTM_4KFs4a_wiBY7QTeP4wzzWkd8LDzG86wJOQw1TGtQKKqXMZgUXYiXtyP7IGxPiRqaVbhxYDN0sR0F4SPUNXZh0FCcmHCAfBI1pisOkAtbmAv6W7Znw4Bzx1hdRrbZnz93WCAjnYzfAohpqfPyK4fuU/s300/a-WDJD-PD-1409.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHMdnlyOP6KjYkFUS0px_pRrBb4tGlvAeMmoXTM_4KFs4a_wiBY7QTeP4wzzWkd8LDzG86wJOQw1TGtQKKqXMZgUXYiXtyP7IGxPiRqaVbhxYDN0sR0F4SPUNXZh0FCcmHCAfBI1pisOkAtbmAv6W7Znw4Bzx1hdRrbZnz93WCAjnYzfAohpqfPyK4fuU/s200/a-WDJD-PD-1409.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />In this time of escalating authoritarianism and its demands for respect and strict obedience, where can we look for guidance on when respect for “authority” is justified and when it is not? Could we look to Jesus’ example? <br /><br />
But let us begin with His forerunner, John:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>But when he [John] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, <b>O generation of vipers</b>! who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>Why is it that ye receive not the preaching of him whom God hath sent? If ye receive not this in your hearts, ye receive not me; and if ye receive not me, ye receive not him of whom I am sent to bear record; and for your sins ye have no cloak. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
35 </span>Repent, therefore, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
36 </span>And think not to say within yourselves, We have are the children of Abraham, and we only have power to bring seed unto our father Abraham; for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham <span style="font-size: x-small;">[JST NT | Matthew 3:33-36. Source: JST-1867 Holy Scriptures, NT, p. 5]</span>.</blockquote>
John was already known as a radical, challenging the religious and civil authorities with his camels’ hair raiment, locusts and wild honey fare, (JST Matthew 3:30; Mark 1:5; KJV 3:4) and blunt, accusatory speech to the point that the civil authorities beheaded him (JST Matthew 14:3-10; Mark 6:18-30, etc.). It seems John was witnessing to the people of his day, and also informing subsequent generations, that corruption was generational, though many didn’t need to be informed because they were already enduring corruption, praying for deliverance, and expecting an avenging Saviour.<br /><br />
So onto the question: Did Jesus follow in His forerunner’s heavy footsteps pertaining to the culture of corrupted authority? Here is Jesus’ opening salvo:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>For I [Jesus] say unto you, except your righteousness shall exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST New Testament | Matthew 5:22; JST1876-NT, p.7)</span>. </blockquote>
We are so used to the image of a meek Jesus, we don’t seem to hear His blunt words directed at the authorities of His day. We seem also to forget that His convicting words and tone were delivered in the hearing of His disciples and attentive multitudes — multitudes who would have little trouble recognizing the hypocritical behaviors described by Jesus:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>... when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, <b>as the hypocrites do</b>, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 6:2; JST1876-NT. p. 8).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5</span> ... when thou prayest, thou shalt not be <b>as the hypocrites</b>; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men; <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 6:5; JST1876-NT, p. 8)</span>. <br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>... when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, <b>as the hypocrites do</b>; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>Therefore be ye not like unto them; <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 6:7-8; JST1876-NT, p. 8)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>Moreover when ye fast, be not <b>as the hypocrites</b>, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 6:17-18; JST1876-NT, p. 9)</span>. </blockquote>
If we think that criticism of authority was a <i>right</i> exclusive to Jesus, what think ye of this?
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>And Jesus said unto his disciples, Beholdest thou the Scribes, and the Pharisees, and the Priests, and the Levites? They teach in their synagogues, but do not observe the law, nor the commandments; and all have gone out of the way, and are under sin. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span><b>Go thou and say unto them</b>, Why teach ye men the law and the commandments, when ye yourselves are the children of corruption? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span><b>Say unto them</b>, Ye hypocrites, first cast out the beam out of thine own yes; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Go ye into the world, saying unto all, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come nigh unto you <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 7:6-9; JST1876-NT, p. 10)</span>.</blockquote>
And what too of these accusing words?
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">18 </span>Then said the Pharisees unto him, Why will ye not receive us with our baptism, seeing we keep the whole law? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>But Jesus said unto them, <b>Ye keep not the law</b>. If ye had kept the law, ye would have received me, for I am he who gave the law. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20</span> I receive not you with your baptism, because it profiteth you nothing. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>For when that which is new is come, the old is ready to be put away <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 9:3-14, 18-21; JST1876-NT, pp. 12-13)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span> And Jesus said [to the Pharisees], O ye <b>generation of vipers</b>! how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 12:29; JST1876-NT, p. 17)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>Then certain of the Scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span><b>An evil and adulterous generation</b> seeketh after a sign; <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 12:33-34; JST1876-NT, p. 17).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>Then came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>But he answered and said unto them, <b>Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? </b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4</span> For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death which Moses shall appoint. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5</span> But ye say, Whosoever shall say to father or mother, By whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, it is a gift from me from one, and honour not his father or mother, it is well.<sup>[Corban*]</sup> <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your traditions. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span><b>O ye hypocrites!</b> well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>But in vain they do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>But he answered and said, ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>Let them alone: <b>they be blind leaders of the blind</b>. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 15:1-8, 11-13; JST1876-NT, p. 21)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>The Pharisees also, with the Sadducees, came, and tempting Jesus, desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And he answered and said unto them, When it is evening ye say, The weather is fair; and in the morning ye say, The weather is foul today; for the sky is red and lowering. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span><b>O ye hypocrites!</b> ye can discern the face of the sky; but ye cannot tell the signs of the times. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span><b>A wicked and adulterous generation</b> seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And he left them, and departed. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Then Jesus said unto [his disciples], Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Then understood they, how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 16:1-5, 7, 13; JST1876-NT, p. 22)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 19:23-24; JST1876-NT, p. 26)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; and said unto them, <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but <b>ye have made it a den of thieves</b> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 21:10-11; JST1876-NT, p. 28)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span>And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span> And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I, in like wise likewise, will tell you by what authority I do these things. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people. For all people hold held John as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 21:21-25; JST1876-NT, pp. 28-29)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>And except ye repent, the preaching of John shall condemn you in the day of judgment; for unto you that believe not, I speak in parables; that <b>your unrighteousness</b> may be rewarded unto you <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 21:31,34; 1867 JST-NT, p. 29)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
45 </span>Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
47 </span>And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke of them. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
50 </span>And now his disciples came to him, and Jesus said unto them, Marvel ye at the words of the parable which I spake unto them? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
51 </span>Verily, I say unto you, I am the stone, and those wicked ones reject me. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
52 </span>I am the head of the corner. These Jews shall fall upon me, and shall be broken. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
53 </span>And the kingdom of God shall be taken from them, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof; (meaning the Gentiles.) <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
54 </span>Wherefore, on whomsoever this stone shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
55 </span>And when the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, he will destroy <b>those miserable, wicked men</b>, and will let again his vineyard unto other husbandmen, even in the last days, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
56 </span>And then understood they the parable which he spake unto them, that the Gentiles should be destroyed also, when the Lord should descend out of heaven to reign in his vineyard, which is the earth and the inhabitants thereof <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 21:45, 47-56; JST1876-NT, pp. 29-30)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, <b>Ye hypocrites!</b> why tempt ye me? Show me the tribute money. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 22:18, 28; JST1876-NT, p. 30)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, saying, The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, they will make you observe and do; for they are ministers of the law, and they make themselves your judges. But do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>For they bind heavy burdens and lay them on men’s shoulders, and they are grievous to be borne; but they will not move them with one of their fingers. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span> And all their works they do to be seen of men. They make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi, (which is master) <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 23:1-4; JST1876-NT, p. 31)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>But <b>woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span><b>Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees! for ye are hypocrites!</b> for Ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers; therefore ye shall receive the greater punishment.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span><b>Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than he was before, like unto yourselves. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span><b>Woe unto you, blind guides,</b> who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he committeth sin, and is a debtor. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span><b>You are fools and blind</b>; for which is the greatest, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And ye say, Whosoever shall sweareth by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span><b>O fools, and blind!</b> For which is the greatest, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 23:10-16; JST1876-NT, pp. 31-32)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
20 </span><b> Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> For you pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin; and have omitted the weightier things of the law; judgment, mercy, and faith; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
21 </span><b>You blind guides</b>, who strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel; who make yourselves appear unto men that ye would not commit the least sin, and yet you, yourselves, transgress the whole law. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
22 </span><b>Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> For you make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter; but within they are full of extortion and excess. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span><b>You blind Pharisees!</b> Cleanse first the cup and platter within, that the outside of them may be clean also. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span><b>Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Even so, you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span><b>Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!</b> Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>Wherefore, you are witnesses unto yourselves of your own wickedness; and you are the children of them who killed the prophets; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>And will fill up the measure then of your fathers; for <b>you yourselves, kill the prophets like unto your fathers. </b><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>You serpents, and generation of vipers! How can you escape the damnation of hell? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and of them you shall kill and crucify; and of them you shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>You bear testimony against your fathers, when you, yourselves, are partakers of the same wickedness. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
35 </span>Behold your fathers did it through ignorance, but you do not; wherefore, their sins shall be upon your heads <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 23:20-35; JST1876-NT, p. 32)</span>.</blockquote>
And what final act of defiance to corrupt authority could there be than to stand silent in the face of their questions?<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">61 </span>And the high priest arose and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? Knowest thou what these witness against thee? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
62 </span>But Jesus held his peace <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 26:61-62; JST1876-NT, p. 38)</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>Then saith Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And he answered him not to his questions; yea, never a word, insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 27:13-15; JST1876-NT, pp. 39-40)</span>.</blockquote>
And what was Jesus’ advice near the conclusion of the Last Supper?<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>And I give unto you a commandment, that <b>ye shall observe to do the things which ye have seen me do</b>, and bear record of me even unto the end <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 26:25; JST1876-NT, p. 32)</span>.
</blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">In the entire Gospels, almost every interaction Jesus had with corrupt authority was one of:</span><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>CRY aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Isaiah 58:1).</span></blockquote>Yes, most of the Gospel record concerns His interactions with religious authorities, and we haven’t even gotten into the accounts from <i>Mark</i>, <i>Luke</i>, or <i>John</i>, but if Jesus were consistent in character, would He not have been as forthright with the civil authorities as with religious?<br /><br />
As well, we have not considered the disturbing, disrupting new doctrine converting the “old time” commands from action to “mere” thought or “mere” speech; from killing to “mere” anger; from adultery to “mere” lust; all the way to loving and praying for one's enemies <span style="font-size: x-small;">(JST Matthew 5:23-50; JST1876-NT, pp. 7-8)</span> — a new, elevated doctrine that probably convicted every one of the first Century <i>power </i>elite. Nor have we considered in this post, Jesus’ frequent action-response to charges that “it is not lawful,” however, it was considered here:
<blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-is-not-lawful.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-is-not-lawful.html
</a></blockquote>
So, if we follow Jesus' example and advice, what might we expect from this generation of corrupt <i>powers</i>? We can expect what we are already witnessing: the increasing persecution and censorship of those who see and seek to expose the corruption and abuse of power. The wicked <i>powers </i>and their servitors, generation on generation, since the coming of Christ have always had, hanging in the imagery of their minds, something like this for Jesus and His followers:<br />
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Were we not warned already?<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11</span> Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you <span style="font-size: x-small;">(New Testament | Matthew 5:10–12)</span>.</blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
As this post is long enough, I hope in the future to consider how we are to reconcile Jesus’ response to corrupt authority with other teachings about “honoring, obeying, and sustaining the law.”** In the meantime, when studying <i>Mark</i>, <i>Luke</i>, and <i>John</i>, pay attention to Jesus' interaction with the <i>powers </i>and <i>authorities</i>. </span><br /></span><br />
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* Corban: see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/deja-vu-corban-variant.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/deja-vu-corban-variant.html</a><br />**<u>Pearl of Great Price | Articles of Faith 1:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.<br /><br />
Additional criticisms:<div><span><u>JST Matthew 7:24-33; JST1876-NT, pp. 10-11</u></span><br /><span><span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And, again, beware of false prophets, that come to you in sheep’s clothing; but inwardly they are ravening wolves.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>Ye shall know them by their fruits; for do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">29 </span>Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">30 </span>Verily I say unto you, it is not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, that shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">31 </span>For the day soon cometh, that men shall come before me to judgment, to be judged according to their works.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">32 </span>And many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name; and in thy name have cast out devils; and in thy name done many wonderful works?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>And then will I say, Ye never knew me; depart from me ye that work iniquity.<u><br />
</u></span><div><span><u>JST Matthew 9:3-14; JST1876-NT, p. 16</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span></span>And, behold, certain of the Scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Wherefore is it that ye think evil in your hearts? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>For is it not easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, than to say, Arise and walk. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>But I said this that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>Then Jesus said unto the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>And he immediately arose, and departed to his house. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>But when the multitude saw it, they marvelled and glorified God, who had given such power unto men. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom place where they received tribute, as was customary in those days, and he saith said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him, and with his disciples. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>And when the Pharisees saw them, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>But when Jesus heard them, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. <br /><u>JST Matthew 11:22-26; JST1876-NT, pp. 15-16</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">22 </span>Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">23 </span>Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long since in sackcloth and ashes.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span>But I say unto you, That It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.<u><br /></u><div><u>JST Matthew 12:2-6; JST1867-NT, p. 16</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>But when the Pharisees saw them [pluck and eat the ears of corn], they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungered, and they who were with him? How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him; but only for the priests? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and ye say they are blameless? <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>But I say unto you, that in this place is one greater than the temple. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath <br />
▪ And note here the contrast between Jesus’ power structure and that of an abusive world and its obsession with the appearance of things:<div><u>JST Matthew 20:25-28; JST1867-NT, p. 27</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them; but it shall not be so among you. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.<br /><u>JST Matthew 21:1-4; JST1867-NT, p. 28</u><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>..., then sent Jesus two disciples, <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2</span> Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall find a colt tied; loose it, and bring it unto me; and if any shall say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of it; and straightway he will send it. <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span> All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, saying, <br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy king cometh unto thee, and he is meek, and he is sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass. ... <br /><br /></div></div>†<u>Image</u>:<br />
Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 – December 29, 1943) was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known for his socialist cartoons, especially those drawn for the left-wing political magazine The Masses between 1911 and 1917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Young
Recycled by SMS 2022: no need to repurpose, just added to the caption: "And anyone who looks like Him or fits a similar description."<br />
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Description: English: "Arrest This Man," by Art Young. Reward. For information leading to the apprehension of —. Jesus Christ. Wanted - for sedition, criminal anarchy - vagrancy, and conspiring to overthrow the established government. Dressed poorly, said to be a carpenter by trade, ill-nourished, has visionary idea, associates with common working people the unemployed and bums. Alien - beleived to be a jew. Alias : 'Prince of peace', 'Son of man - Light of the world', &c &c. Professional agitator read beard, marks on hands and feet the result of injuries inflicted by an angry mob led by respectable citizens and legal authorities.<br />
Date: circa 1921<br />
Source: First published in Good Morning magazine, vol. 3, no. 10 (Aug. 1921), pg. 9.<br />
Permission: Digitized for Wikipedia by Tim Davenport ("Carrite"), no copyright claimed for the work. Released to the public domain without restriction
Author: Art Young | 1866 – 1943 <br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-4886688139713348442023-09-30T18:10:00.004-06:002023-10-01T12:59:48.697-06:00“Calling God Forth” (NCI 2023)?In 1839, a persecuted people were counselled to:<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>... [gather] up a knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon them by the people of this State;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And also of all the property and amount of damages which they have sustained, both of character and personal injuries, as well as real property;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And also the names of all persons that have had a hand in their oppressions, as far as they can get hold of them and find them out.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And perhaps a committee can be appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and affidavits; and also to gather up the libelous publications that are afloat;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And all that are in the magazines, and in the encyclopedias, and all the libelous histories that are published, and are writing, and by whom, and present the whole concatenation of diabolical rascality and nefarious and murderous impositions that have been practised upon this people—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>That we may not only publish to all the world, but present them to the heads of government in all their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely claim that promise which shall call him forth from his hiding place; and also that the whole nation may be left without excuse before he can send forth the power of his mighty arm.<sup><b>1</b></sup></blockquote>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKCjRo9xh52SLpHwmhyphenhyphenckE62ZmmhViRXnQlCYhibmjoDa_uDTA1ET_rTJW0U8l-MOCmgYZ0FYH7TQZ_OEUSDYwzFuTZ-owZ2eRmULkh6croL2gT1WnS5cgV8J6O-eM5CMMbq00_Q4UQd1P1l_zWzNeKPuwZhCYKCLXS5ZK_xIiwdqSVfmJhSX6yDlXM8/s256/Flag_map_of_Canada.png" style="clear: right; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKCjRo9xh52SLpHwmhyphenhyphenckE62ZmmhViRXnQlCYhibmjoDa_uDTA1ET_rTJW0U8l-MOCmgYZ0FYH7TQZ_OEUSDYwzFuTZ-owZ2eRmULkh6croL2gT1WnS5cgV8J6O-eM5CMMbq00_Q4UQd1P1l_zWzNeKPuwZhCYKCLXS5ZK_xIiwdqSVfmJhSX6yDlXM8/s200/Flag_map_of_Canada.png" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Flag map of Canada</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Image source<br />below footnotes<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
In all the trials and tribulations of the 1800s, I do not know if a witness compilation was ever done, or if it was forgotten in the global and proxy wars of the 1900s, and the increasing prosperity of those later decades; but there is <b>one nation</b> in this very year of 2023 that is compiling <b>a citizen-initiated witness</b> for the numerous crimes and atrocities of recent years “in all their dark and hellish hue.” If you think this is an overstatement, then you have not listened to or been aware of <b>the National Citizens' Inquiry</b> (NCI)<sup><b>2</b></sup> that crossed Canada in recent months, documenting horrendous “facts, sufferings, and abuses” that have been put upon the peoples, not just of Canada, but of the whole world.<br /> <br />And notwithstanding Canada’s recent shame: the unwitting “lemming” ovation by elected “leaders” honoring a Nazi veteran — a standing ovation now renounced and apologized for<sup><b>3</b></sup>; the remarkable peoples of Canada have many times been a global source of inspiration, most recently, the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy.<sup><b>4</b></sup> And though the shameful ovation was renounced, yet it was <b>an essential exposure</b>, not just of Canada, but of the United States, England, and others, whose harboring and employment of old Nazis (e.g., Operation Paperclip,<sup><b>5</b></sup> etc.) kept the Nazi nightmare alive — a nightmare that thrives on medical experimentation and agendas of total control through fear, favor, and fanaticism. And though Canada’s servitor PM Trudeau apologized with deflecting words, he, in other words and deeds, (like the U.S.) sustains Ukraine despite its historical and current Nazi affiliations.<sup><b>6</b></sup> And do not mistake. This “Russia-Ukraine” war is not a contest between bad guys and good guys. Both the alleged Left and the alleged Right, over time, power, and human nature always, always arrive at the same place — the T-point<sup><b>7</b></sup> of tyranny, trauma, and tragedy.<br /><br />
But back to the National Citizens' Inquiry. In coming years, Canada and its NCI may well be remembered in perpetuity for helping “call [God] forth from His hiding place” and for leaving whole nations, perpetrators, sympathizers, and the willfully apathetic without excuse when God sends forth the power of His mighty arm.<sup><b>8</b></sup> Most of the NCI exposures “in all their dark and hellish hue” have been disclosed in other disparate, oft-censored places, but is there any other nation that has taken up the task of a <b>National Citizens’ Inquiry</b> given under oath to reveal the truth of what was intended and done through mandates, lockdowns, fear, pscience,<sup><b>9</b></sup> censorship, and propaganda? <br /><br />
As we await the NCI final report in a few weeks (interim report<sup><b>10</b></sup> was filed this month denouncing "safe and effective"), I would suggest that it is incumbent on every soul to:<br /> ▪ study even just a portion of the NCI witness testimony at<br /> <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/</a> or<br />
<a href="https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA)">https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA</a>;<br /> ▪ awaken to a knowledge of our awful situation; and<br /> ▪ heed these further words from 1839:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">7 </span>It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity. (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:7)<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>These should then be attended to with great earnestness.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>Therefore, dearly beloved brethren [and sisters], let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed. (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:11-17)</blockquote>
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<b>1</b>. Entire <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:1-17</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">1 </span>AND again, we would suggest for your consideration the propriety of all the saints gathering up a knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon them by the people of this State;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">2 </span>And also of all the property and amount of damages which they have sustained, both of character and personal injuries, as well as real property;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And also the names of all persons that have had a hand in their oppressions, as far as they can get hold of them and find them out.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And perhaps a committee can be appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and affidavits; and also to gather up the libelous publications that are afloat;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And all that are in the magazines, and in the encyclopedias, and all the libelous histories that are published, and are writing, and by whom, and present the whole concatenation of diabolical rascality and nefarious and murderous impositions that have been practised upon this people—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6 </span>That we may not only publish to all the world, but present them to the heads of government in all their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely claim that promise which shall call him forth from his hiding place; and also that the whole nation may be left without excuse before he can send forth the power of his mighty arm.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 7 </span>It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 8 </span>It is an iron yoke, it is a strong band; they are the very handcuffs, and chains, and shackles, and fetters of hell.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 9 </span>Therefore it is an imperative duty that we owe, not only to our own wives and children, but to the widows and fatherless, whose husbands and fathers have been murdered under its iron hand;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 10 </span>Which dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 11 </span>And also it is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 12 </span>For there are many yet on the earth among all sects, parties, and denominations, who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive, and who are only kept from the truth because they know not where to find it—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 13 </span>Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven—<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 14 </span>These should then be attended to with great earnestness.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 15 </span>Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 16 </span>You know, brethren, that a very large ship is benefited very much by a very small helm in the time of a storm, by being kept workways with the wind and the waves.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"> 17 </span>Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.<br />
<b>2</b>. ▪ <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/testimony/</a> or<br /> ▪ <a href="https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA">https://rumble.com/user/NationalCitizensInquiryCA </a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-real-truth-poec-or-nci.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-real-truth-poec-or-nci.html</a><br />
<b>3</b>. ▪ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMnxokpvP0E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMnxokpvP0E</a><br />
▪ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FJxKwSvU4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FJxKwSvU4</a><br />
▪ <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0w6fstgQrA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0w6fstgQrA</a><br />
▪ <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66908958">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66908958 </a><br />
<b>4</b>. ▪ <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-canadian-truckers-freedom-convoy.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-canadian-truckers-freedom-convoy.html</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/02/psrs-operation-big-chill-obc.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2023/02/psrs-operation-big-chill-obc.html</a><br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip</a><br /><b>
6</b>. ▪ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Brigade</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://fair.org/home/nyt-on-ukraines-nazi-imagery-its-complicated/">https://fair.org/home/nyt-on-ukraines-nazi-imagery-its-complicated/</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyt-celebrates-neo-nazi-azov-unit/">https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyt-celebrates-neo-nazi-azov-unit/</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/why-azov-should-not-be-designated-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/">https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/why-azov-should-not-be-designated-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946">https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946</a><br /> ▪ Norman Finkelstein on Canada’s Applause for Nazis (Useful Idiots | Sep 29, 2023 | Time 59:24) at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_YT8l_HYI&t=2699s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj_YT8l_HYI&t=2699s</a> (Begin at about min. 12:50)<br />
<b>7</b>. ▪ <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-t-point.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-t-point.html</a><br /> ▪ <a href="https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/09/are-we-there-yet-at-t-point.html">https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/09/are-we-there-yet-at-t-point.html</a><br />
<b>8</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:6</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">6</span> That we may not only publish to all the world, but present them to the heads of government in all their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely claim that promise which shall call him forth from his hiding place; and also that the whole nation may be left without excuse before he can send forth the power of his mighty arm.<br />
<b>9</b>. <b>Pscience</b> is the corrupted offshoot of honorable Science. It is the inevitable consequence of man's obsessive pursuit and protection of power, gain, glory, and domination. Pscience is pseudo, psychopathic, propagandizing, plagiarizing, politicized, psy-opic, and above all, profit-obsessed, and profit-driven. This obsessive pursuit and protection by people without conscience (PWOCs) is often enabled by naïve, trusting, or fear-filled acolytes and servitors. Pscience is a one-faith, one-dogma, heretic-fearing, self-deceiving, other-censoring system (SMS).<br /><b>
10</b>. <a href="https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/">https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/</a><br /><br />
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Date: 21 January 2023<br />
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Permission: Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271873465791244308.post-36152839163591264672023-09-23T10:42:00.006-06:002023-09-24T12:25:30.019-06:00Enoch's Solar Calendar - Month VII?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOnm6jn9Z3Qfl7lUssQF7Cajgk39we5PPe7F1UcxylZyWaqpnQ_5hIy77Ee4J9QcMtC16bhbyFXrW0I2PXbhZctTgXxASokLhhS-vR-HQgMaA7ZtIbSHaMYnAy9omOx2oXp28PYfgeL-VFzMA6FKRDhCDXDP7yavoIvHMX3abnEPOU2cgK5C6Jrk-1xg8/s367/Sun%2031.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 30px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOnm6jn9Z3Qfl7lUssQF7Cajgk39we5PPe7F1UcxylZyWaqpnQ_5hIy77Ee4J9QcMtC16bhbyFXrW0I2PXbhZctTgXxASokLhhS-vR-HQgMaA7ZtIbSHaMYnAy9omOx2oXp28PYfgeL-VFzMA6FKRDhCDXDP7yavoIvHMX3abnEPOU2cgK5C6Jrk-1xg8/s200/Sun%2031.png" width="200" /></a></div>(Times and Seasons series: Post #XIII)<br /><br />
<b>Note</b>: These calendar posts are my way of exploring Enoch’s calendar. I don’t know yet how to reconcile Enoch with present-day observations, but I plan to keep observing and studying. If these posts prompt others to greater observation and inquiry then so much the better. We learn by asking questions and observing, which we should probably be doing more of since much of God’s <i>sign-language</i> is forecast to occur in the Heavens according to His schedule and calendar. If there are mistakes herein they are undoubtedly mine, not Enoch's.<br /><br />
Background:<br /><blockquote><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Signs, Seasons, Days, and Years</a>: # II (Enoch)<sup><b>1</b></sup> <br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">
Pondering Enoch's Calendar?</a><sup><b>2</b></sup> </blockquote>According to the <i>Book of Enoch</i>, the sun continues southward, now rising and setting through East and West <b>portal 3</b> for 30 days. My observation over the past months is that the sun's movement seems incremental and does not manifest a sudden jump to a new portal after a 30 or 31 days cycle. However, here is an additional observation of the sun's movements from 2 Enoch mentioning that each gate has 61 and ¼ stadia*:
<blockquote><b>Chapter 13</b>, 1 Those men bore me [Enoch] away to the east, and placed me at the sun’s gates, where the sun goes forth according to the regulation of the seasons and the circuit of the months of the whole year, and the number of the hours day and night.<br /><br />
2 And I saw six gates open, each gate having sixty-one stadia and A quarter of one stadium, and I measured (them) truly, and understood their size (to be) so much, through which the sun goes forth, and goes to the west, and is made even, and rises throughout all the months, and turns back again from the six gates according to the succession of the seasons; thus (the period) of the whole year is finished after the returns of the four seasons. | 2 (Slavonic) Enoch (English translation by W. R. Morfill).<sup><b>3</b></sup><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>[* Stadia</b>: a surveying method for determination of distances and differences of elevation by means of a telescopic instrument having two horizontal lines through which the marks on a graduated rod are observed |</span> <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stadia"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stadia</span></a>]</blockquote>Allegedly, <b>Month VII</b> has 30 days, with the light / dark division being 8L / 10D (out of 18 parts); and follows Day 31 of Month VI, being the Autumnal Equinox which for <b>2023</b> is reportedly this very day, <b>Sep. 23</b><sup><b>4</b></sup>); except, according to Enoch's calendar, the first day of Month VII always falls on Day One of the week (our Sunday). Month VII is also unique as it hosts 3 important Jewish commemorations:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Feast of Trumpets</b>:</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>
23 </b></span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the <b>seventh </b>month, in the <b>first day</b> of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Leviticus 23:23-25)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND in the <b>seventh </b>month, on the <b>first day</b> of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Numbers 29:1)</span><br /><br />
This feast was a call to stop work and remember the Lord. The people were to hold the feast on the first day of the seventh month and you were to present a fire offering to the Lord. Throughout the day, the Israelites could hear the sound of a trumpet or shofar, hence the name Feast of Trumpets.<br />
No daily work was completed on this day. It was a sacred time. The Feast of Trumpets was an outward expression of the feeling of anticipation the Israelites had. The Lord had shown himself to Moses at Mount Sinai, and the people anticipated the Lord showing himself again.<br />
This feast is also a beautiful picture of the second coming of Christ, and Jews around the world continue to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets today. <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-is-the-feast-of-trumpets.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-is-the-feast-of-trumpets.html</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
The Day of Atonement</b>:</span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>Also on the <b>tenth day</b> of this <b>seventh </b>month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Leviticus 23:26-28)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>¶ And ye shall have on the <b>tenth day</b> of this <b>seventh month</b> an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein: <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Numbers 29:7)</span><br /><br />
Atonement, in its purest sense means to be “at one,” or, right with God, with no enmity or division. <a href="https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-is-the-day-of-atonement.html#google_vignette"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/what-is-the-day-of-atonement.html#google_vignette</span></a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Feast of Tabernacles (Booths)</span></b>:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The <b>fifteenth day</b> of this <b>seventh month</b> shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
35 </span>On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
36</span> Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Leviticus 23:33-36)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>¶ And on the <b>fifteenth day</b> of the <b>seventh month</b> ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Numbers 29:12)</span><br /><br />
The Feast of Tabernacles takes place on the 15th of the Hebrew month Tishri. This was the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar and usually occurs in late September to mid-October. The feast begins five days after the Day of Atonement and at the time the fall harvest had just been completed. It was a time of joyous celebration as the Israelites celebrated God’s continued provision for them in the current harvest and remembered His provision and protection during the 40 years in the wilderness. <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Feast-of-Tabernacles.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.gotquestions.org/Feast-of-Tabernacles.html</span></a></blockquote>
Below is a PDF grid of what <b>Month VII</b> (Seven) might look like if we looked to the <i>Book of Enoch</i> instead of Pope Gregory (assuming, of course, that Enoch hasn't suffered text corruption — and who knows for sure?!). As previously noted, Day 1 of Month VII, in theory, follows Day 31 (Autumnal Equinox?) of Month VI. Also, this Month Seven follows the same pattern layout as Months One, Four, and Ten. To see the full year, repeating grid, see <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<sup><b>5</b></sup> <br /><br />
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For those interested in what has happened in scripture / history during <b>Month VII</b> [Gregorian September / October], here is a list. And if there is parallelism or déjà vu in times, seasons, and prophecy, could any of these recitations of date have any relevance to these last days? — (the last week of Daniel's 70 weeks?) <br /><br /><b>Month Seven</b> (29 references)<br /><blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And the ark rested in the <b>seventh </b>month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Genesis 8:4)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>¶ And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the <b>seventh </b>month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.v
31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. ...<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Leviticus 16:29–31, 34)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
23 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
24 </span>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the <b>seventh </b>month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
26 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>Also on the tenth day of this <b>seventh </b>month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
28 </span>And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
29 </span>For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
30 </span>And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
31 </span>Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
32 </span>It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
33 </span>¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
34 </span>Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this <b>seventh </b>month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
35 </span>On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
36 </span>Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
37 </span>These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
38 </span>Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
39 </span>Also in the fifteenth day of the <b>seventh </b>month, when <br />ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
40 </span>And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
41 </span>And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the <b>seventh </b>month.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
42 </span>Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Old Testament | Leviticus 23:23-42)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the <b>seventh </b>month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Leviticus 25:8-9)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND in the <b>seventh </b>month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>¶ And ye shall have on the tenth day of this <b>seventh </b>month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
12 </span>¶ And on the fifteenth day of the <b>seventh </b>month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Numbers 29:1-13)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the <b>seventh </b>month.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 1 Kings 8:2–4)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>But it came to pass in the <b>seventh </b>month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 2 Kings 25:25)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>NOW the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>The seventh captain for the <b>seventh </b>month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | 1 Chronicles 27:1, 10)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>¶ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the <b>seventh </b>month.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 5:2-5)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>¶ Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
10 </span>And on the three and twentieth day of the <b>seventh </b>month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
11 </span>Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 7:8-11)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the <b>seventh </b>month.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 31:7-8)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND when the <b>seventh </b>month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>From the first day of the <b>seventh </b>month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Ezra 3:1-6)<br /></span><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
73 </span>So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the <b>seventh </b>month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>AND all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the <b>seventh </b>month.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Nehemiah 7:73-8:6)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
13 </span>¶ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
14 </span>And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the <b>seventh </b>month:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>¶ So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
18 </span>Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Old Testament | Nehemiah 8:13-18)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
15 </span>¶ Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
16 </span>Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
17 </span>So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the <b>seventh </b>month. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 28:15- 7)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1</span> NOW it came to pass in the <b>seventh </b>month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2</span> Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Jeremiah 41:1-2)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
25 </span>In the <b>seventh </b>month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days [as in the first month – see v. 18+], according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Ezekiel 45:25)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
1 </span>IN the <b>seventh </b>month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
3 </span>Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7 </span>And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Haggai 2:1-9)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
4 </span>¶ Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and <b>seventh </b>month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Zechariah 7:4-5)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
19 </span>Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the <b>seventh</b>, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Zechariah 8:19)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Nevertheless, I did harden my heart, for I was called many times and I would not hear; therefore I knew concerning these things, yet I would not know; therefore I went on rebelling against God, in the wickedness of my heart, even until the fourth day of this <b>seventh </b>month, which is in the tenth year of the reign of the judges. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | Alma 10:6)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
42 </span>But it came to pass that they did not pursue us far before they halted; and it was in the morning of the third day of the <b>seventh </b>month. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | Alma 56:42)</span></blockquote>---------------------------------------------/<br />
<b>1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/signs-seasons-days-and-years-part-ii.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br /><b>
3</b>. <a href="chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/morfill.pdf">chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/morfill.pdf</a><br />
4. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159809?month=9&year=2023">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5159809?month=9&year=2023</a><br /><b>
5</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/pondering-enochs-calendar-v.html</a><br />
The calendar / time series posts:<br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/04/gods-prophetic-day-evening-to-evening.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-heavens-times-signs-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/09/deciphering-night-and-day-or-day-and.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/signs-seasons-iv-do-we-need-sundial.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/02/whats-with-moon.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-season-new-year-enochs-calendar.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/04/enochs-solar-calendar-month-ii-two-t.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/05/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iii-t-ix.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/enochs-solar-calendar-month-iv-t-x.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/enochs-solar-calendar-month-v.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/enochs-solar-calendar-month-vi.html">
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(I take the prerogative in this post, to use <i>man </i>and <i>male </i>pronouns herein for brevity and economy. Be assured, <i>man </i>includes every soul. [<span style="font-size: medium;">“</span>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<span style="font-size: medium;">”</span> (Old Testament | Genesis 1:27)]</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6i9ALQCltkN1n6OsmbF_ipz1asBN8uAg88-K2NdsTZjizWf92lbKmOXbY0e4RPGH3rMeVlTZM3StOIZ14e5mFrnMSEOm3A8V3W4AwL6_OBcAJJhEB2pSlZY96g97Gn8HYQujra69fzsboqPrnUuxSNQrJx0zx9ycttDMQl2BexBfG_5CBYLPFhIqdG9M/s367/Flag%2001.png" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; padding: 1em 20px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6i9ALQCltkN1n6OsmbF_ipz1asBN8uAg88-K2NdsTZjizWf92lbKmOXbY0e4RPGH3rMeVlTZM3StOIZ14e5mFrnMSEOm3A8V3W4AwL6_OBcAJJhEB2pSlZY96g97Gn8HYQujra69fzsboqPrnUuxSNQrJx0zx9ycttDMQl2BexBfG_5CBYLPFhIqdG9M/s200/Flag%2001.png" width="200" /></a></div>
Before considering and contrasting the words of Jesus and Paul about attitudes to authority, let us explore the controversy of Christian Nationalism, or as some append: white Christian Nationalism (hereafter abbreviated as CN). As to the appendage of white to CN, I would venture that there are, perhaps, as many black or other non-white Christian pastors as white ones in the U.S. that might identify with CN, so affixing white to the controversy only muddies the waters and throws a red herring<sup><b>2</b></sup> into the mix. So leaving out the red herring, here is one definition of CN:
<blockquote>Christian nationalists want to define America as a Christian nation and they want the government to promote a specific cultural template as the official culture of the country. Some have advocated for an amendment to the Constitution to recognize America’s Christian heritage, others to reinstitute prayer in public schools. Some work to enshrine a Christian nationalist interpretation of American history in school curricula, including that America has a special relationship with God or has been “chosen” by him to carry out a special mission on earth. Others advocate for immigration restrictions specifically to prevent a change to American religious and ethnic demographics or a change to American culture. Some want to empower the government to take stronger action to circumscribe immoral behavior.<sup><b>3</b></sup></blockquote>
Do the above words appeal to any of us, the-people-of-the-books, because of these words:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve <b>the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ</b>, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written <span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Book of Mormon | Ether 2:12 bold emphasis added)</span>;</blockquote>
and if so, how do we (should we?) defend the wall of separation advocated by Roger Williams<sup><b>4</b></sup> in the mid 1600s; reiterated by Thomas Jefferson and others in the 1700s; and incorporated into the U.S. Constitution (1788-1791<sup><b>5</b></sup>)? — a Constitution divinely approved in a revelation from 1833:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And now, verily I say unto you concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
5 </span>And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, <b>belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me</b>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
6 </span>Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land;<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
7</span> And as pertaining to law of man, <b>whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil</b>.
<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:4-7; bold emphasis added)</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
So what would be "MORE than <i>this</i>”<i> </i>[the constitutional law of the land]? the combining of church and state?</span><br /><br />
We should know from history that oppression, torture, and martyrdom (horrifically detailed) have always been a “Church”-State affair.<sup><b>6</b></sup> We should also know, from as recent as the last three years, that belief narratives underwritten by state power can, in a matter of weeks, turn a culture of freedom into one of fear, hostility, discrimination, and brazen bullying — all the way to aggressive denial of inalienable rights and psychopathic domination. <br /><br />
Many of the Founders were familiar with the church-state toxicity of England and Europe; even of the early Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Founders reared the wall of separation knowing it was vital to safeguarding inalienable rights and freedoms; and we should also know by our own Mormon history and “by sad experience”<sup><b>7</b></sup> that separation is fundamental to agency. Thus, it has been offensive and intolerable to the enemy of agency<sup><b>8</b></sup> since its ratification. In comparing past with present, Christian Nationalism just repeats many of the same claims and imaginations from the incessant appeals against separation since the 1800s.<sup><b>9</b></sup> Some CNists seem blissfully oblivious to history and the natural man.<sup><b>10</b></sup> Others vow that legislating the U.S. to be a Christian nation will do nothing adverse to freedoms, but merely acknowledge reality. But what is that reality for Moscow Idaho’s CN pastor, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyAXjc1je4" target="_blank">Doug Wilson</a>, whose fight to make Moscow Idaho a Christian town has divided Moscowians for over a decade<sup><b>11</b></sup>? Is <i>his </i>the reality USians want?<div><br />
If Jesus Himself says He is the God of this land and then justifies a Constitution that does not mention Him, is it because His invitation to redemption is not to come through or be monitored by the state? because coercive state power is anathema His plan of happiness? because a collectivized, ecclesiasticized Caesar (a Christendom<sup><b>12</b></sup>) has no standing in Christ? because gifts, giving, forgiving, and worship are free-will offerings and receipts, outside the jurisdiction of a power collective<sup><b>13</b></sup>? <br /><br />
If we understand:<blockquote>▪ the purposes of agency; <br />
▪ that we are in the midst of divine provings and probation<sup><b>14</b></sup>;<br />
▪ that inclinations toward power, gain, glory, and domination are within each of us;<br />
▪ that historically humans have repeatedly imposed their beliefs and the god(s) of their interpretation upon others;<br />
▪ that Christ knows that use of His name has often devolved into abuse of it, and that “church” aligned with state always devolves to abuse,</blockquote>
then we might be better prepared to confront the realities of a church-state proposal.<br /><br />
Yes, CNist words may sound reasonable, but to pretend that reasonable words haven’t often presaged evil actions is naïve, if not manipulative. Coerced or manipulated worship is not true worship. Coerced or manipulated obedience is not true obedience. How is <i>man </i>to prove true to God if he is fenced and channeled down alleys and chutes into the appearance of things? If accountable <i>Man </i>is to be judged on the congruence of heart, mind, and action with the measure of his creation ameliorated by his repentance and God’s Mercy, and Grace, then surely, he should be left free to seek that congruence according to his conscience.<br /><br />
Yes, God asserts He is God of this land, indeed God of all creation, but at the judgment bar, I suspect we might be asking ourselves: “Did I live a Christian life?” not “Did I live in a Christian Nation?” I also suspect that we will stand solo to answer, amongst other things, whether we tried to coerce, manipulate, or deceive others, directly or indirectly, into our or some other’s belief system? Did we personally get the rendering right between God, our neighbor, and lastly, Caesar?<br /><br />
So, like some others, I see Christian Nationalism as one more attempt to compromise or “destroy the agency of man”; “to deceive and to blind men” into trusting that the horrible past of church-state will never be its future; into believing / hoping that making Christ mandatory (or even respected) via state sponsorship will save souls. And, by the way, whose interpretation of "Christ" is to prevail or be preferred? Pastor Wilson's?<br /><br />
In summary, this is my defense of the wall of separation:
<blockquote>▪ history, in every nation and age, proves that mankind cannot be trusted to combine belief systems with state power;<br />
▪ individuals are accountable to God alone for their beliefs; <br />
▪ accountability for all actions also belongs to God, with some actions also subject to civil law
when individuals are judged accountable (by a civil enforcement system) for actions proven to have caused actual injury or harm to another or their property (which includes breach of contract);<br />
▪ where actual injury or harm occurs by the action of another, justice and social order require a just remediation, with the proviso that a civil court or lawful adjudicator has no authority to extend forgiveness or mercy to those found guilty; such can be granted ONLY by an un-coerced victim;<br />
▪ almost all current civil law<sup><b>15</b></sup> (including that in North America) that limits or compels action is outside civil jurisdiction. Over the years, there has been a vast, accumulating overreach because there has been too much conjoining of civic power with belief systems of whatever nature, religious or otherwise <span style="font-size: x-small;">(see also footnote 6 below)</span>; <br />
▪ civil law has no jurisdiction to compel speech or action that violates a person’s conscience;<br />
▪ hurt feelings or questioning another’s beliefs do not constitute remedial injury or harm;<br />
▪ individuals are accountable to God and to their <i>neighbor</i> for harms done; governments are accountable to the people [WE believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134:1)</span>];<br />
▪ generally speaking God judges sin; government (civil law) judges crime (murder, assault, theft, false witness) and enforces remediation for injury or damage to another's person or property;<br />
▪ the saving of souls is an ecclesiastical duty; the safeguarding of rights and freedoms and adjudicating remediation for injuries and harms to others is a state duty accountable to the people. <br /></blockquote>
Parting questions: Could this verse below convey a jurisdictional marker — a layered meaning in addition to chiasmus or the Old World meaning? In short, did the latter-day law (Constitution) go forth out of Zion<sup><b>16</b></sup> and the word of the LORD (Book of Mormon) from JerUSAlem?
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Old Testament | Isaiah 2:3; Old Testament | Micah 4:2; Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 12:3)</span></blockquote>Have we measured up? And do these verses confirm that God, Himself, justifies the separation of church and state:
<blockquote><span style="color: #cc0000;">5 </span>And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:5)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
8 </span>I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
9 </span>Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 98:8-9)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
2 </span>We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 134:2)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
27 </span>Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:27)</span><br /></blockquote><div>------------------------------------------------------------</div><b>
1</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-troubling-trend.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-troubling-trend.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/07/back-to-future-again.html</a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/2-understanding-separation-church-state.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/2-understanding-separation-church-state.html </a><br /><a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-church-and-state-discerning.html">
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2023/08/4-church-and-state-discerning.html</a><br /><b>
2</b>. A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.[1 It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion. A red herring may be used intentionally, as in mystery fiction or as part of rhetorical strategies (e.g., in politics), or may be used in argumentation inadvertently.[2] (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring</a>)<br /><b>
3</b>. • What Is Christian Nationalism? An explainer on how the belief differs from other forms of nationalism, patriotism, and Christianity. | PAUL D. MILLER | February 3, 2021 at
<a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/february-web-only/what-is-christian-nationalism.html">https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/february-web-only/what-is-christian-nationalism.html</a><br />Additional Interpretations of meaning: <br />
• Christian nationalism is a type of religious nationalism that is affiliated with Christianity, which primarily focuses on the internal politics of society, such as legislating civil and criminal laws that reflect their view of Christianity and the role of religion in political and social life.[1]
In countries with a state church, Christian nationalists seek to preserve the status of a Christian state by holding an antidisestablishmentarian position to perpetuate the Church in national politics
Christian nationalism supports the presence of Christian symbols in the public square, and state patronage for the practice and display of religion, such as school prayer and the exhibition of nativity scenes during Christmastide, and the Christian Cross on Good Friday.[5][6] Christian nationalism draws political support from the broader Christian right of the political spectrum of a country.[7]
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism</a><br />
• What is Christian Nationalism? | Stephen Wolfe<br />
(Canon Press | Nov 26, 2022 | Time 3:06 min.) at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55qFdpvBFk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55qFdpvBFk</a><br />
• <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/10/27/views-of-the-u-s-as-a-christian-nation-and-opinions-about-christian-nationalism/">https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/10/27/views-of-the-u-s-as-a-christian-nation-and-opinions-about-christian-nationalism/</a><br />
• Christian nationalism, ideology that seeks to create or maintain a legal fusion of Christian religion with a nation’s character. Advocates of Christian nationalism consider their view of Christianity to be an integral part of their country’s identity and want the government to promote—or even enforce—the religion’s position within it. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christian-nationalism">https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christian-nationalism</a><br />
• Christian Nationalism Is ‘Single Biggest Threat’ to America’s Religious Freedom<br />
An Interview With Amanda Tyler of the Baptist Joint Committee (APR 13, 2022 at <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/christian-nationalism-is-single-biggest-threat-to-americas-religious-freedom/">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/christian-nationalism-is-single-biggest-threat-to-americas-religious-freedom/</a><br />
• Christian Nationalism Explained: An Interview with Rutgers Professor Joseph Williams | Written by John Chadwick | <a href="https://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/news/newsroom/faculty/3406-religious-nationalism">https://sas.rutgers.edu/news-a-events/news/newsroom/faculty/3406-religious-nationalism</a><br />
• How Christian Is Christian Nationalism?<br />
Many Americans who advocate it have little interest in religion and an aversion to American culture as it currently exists. What really defines the movement? | By Kelefa Sanneh | <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/how-christian-is-christian-nationalism">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/03/how-christian-is-christian-nationalism</a>
March 27, 2023 <br />
• What Is the Meaning of Christian Nationalism?<br />
A current hot-button topic and issue in the USA is Christian Nationalism. But what is it? | LISA LORAINE BAKER | AUG 01, 2022 | <a href="https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-the-meaning-of-christian-nationalism.html#google_vignette">https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-terms/what-is-the-meaning-of-christian-nationalism.html#google_vignette</a><br /><b>
4</b>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams</a> (c. 1603 – March 1683). And even before Roger, there were others like Robert Browne (1550s–1633) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browne_(Brownist)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browne_(Brownist)</a>; and Henry Barrow (c. 1550 – 6 April 1593) (who was hanged for his separatists views) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Barrowe">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Barrowe</a><br />
<b>5</b>. <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/the-day-the-constitution-was-ratified?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu8XppreogQMVAhqtBh1-fAsTEAAYAyAAEgLUevD_BwE">https://constitutioncenter.org/amp/blog/the-day-the-constitution-was-ratified?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu8XppreogQMVAhqtBh1-fAsTEAAYAyAAEgLUevD_BwE
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6</b>. <b>Church </b>is here defined as a group of believers (whether organized formally or informally) who manifest “a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith” (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion</a>) which, in this writer's opinion and in its broadest sense, includes political, economic, social, cultural, religious, spiritual, and pscience ideologies or dogmas, including: socialism, communism, fascism, Gnosticism, cultism, WEFism, WOism, transgenderism, etc. (even capitalism).<br /><u>
Historical References</u>:<br />
▪ Foxe, John. Fox's <i>Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs</i>.<br />
▪ <i>The Voice of the Martyrs. Extreme Devotion: Daily Devotional Stories Of Ancient To Modern-Day Believers Who Sacrificed Everything For Christ</i><br />
▪ <u>New Testament | John 16:33</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">33 </span>These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.<br />
▪ <u>New Testament | 2 Timothy 3:12</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">12 </span>Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.<br />
▪ <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 101:35-36</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">35 </span>And all they who suffer persecution for my name, and endure in faith, though they are called to lay down their lives for my sake yet shall they partake of all this glory.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">36 </span>Wherefore, fear not even unto death; for in this world your joy is not full, but in me your joy is full.<br />
▪ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_martyr">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_martyr</a><br />
▪ Research news articles about latter-day martyrs worldwide. <br /><b>
7</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 121:39</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">39 </span>We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.<br /><b>
8</b>. <u>Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:3-4</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and <b>sought to destroy the agency of man</b>, which I, the Lord God, had given him, and also, that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten, I caused that he should be cast down;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And he became Satan, yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.<br /><b>
9</b>. Jones, Alonzo. <i>The Two Republics: or Rome and the United States of America</i>. Adventist Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition. <br />
Jones, Alonzo. <i>The Rights of the People: or Civil Government and Religion</i>. Adventist Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition. <br />
Jones, Alonzo T. . <i>The American Sentinel: Volume 1</i>. Adventist Pioneer Library. Kindle Edition. <br /><b>
10</b>. <a href="https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html">https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html</a><br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19</u> ~ For the <b>natural man</b> is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.<br /><u>
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14</u> ~ But the <b>natural man</b> receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 26:21</u> ~ And now behold, my brethren, what <b>natural man</b> is there that knoweth these things? I say unto you, there is none that knoweth these things, save it be the penitent.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 67:10-12</u> ~ And again, verily I say unto you that it is your privilege, and a promise I give unto you that have been ordained unto this ministry, that inasmuch as you strip yourselves from jealousies and fears, and humble yourselves before me, for ye are not sufficiently humble, the veil shall be rent and you shall see me and know that I am—not with the carnal neither <b>natural mind</b>, but with the spiritual. For no man has seen God at any time in the flesh, except quickened by the Spirit of God. Neither can any <b>natural man</b> abide the presence of God, neither after the carnal mind.<br /><u>
New Testament | 1 John 2:15-16</u> ~ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.<br /><u>
New Testament | James 4:3-5</u> ~ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that <b>the friendship of the world is enmity with God</b>? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?<br /><u>
New Testament | Romans 8:6-7</u> ~ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the <b>carnal mind</b> is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. <br /><b>
11</b>. Christian Nationalism On The Rise (NBC News | Sep 15, 2022 | Time 27:24 min.) at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyAXjc1je4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyAXjc1je4</a><br /><b>
12</b>. Christendom: term used by Roger Williams to distinguish its politicized nature from separatist Christianity. Gaustad, Edwin S., <i>Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America</i>. (p. 31), Judson Press, 1999,<br />
<b>13</b>. For those who want to return to a Moses in the wilderness paradigm, I suggest they read the Torah again as if a Sinai wanderer. I frankly don't understand the micro-managing of everything, but even with all the rules and reckonings, it took 40 years of wandering and death attrition before the <i>children</i> got to their promised land. Much of the subsequent history of God's people (Biblical record) seems a mix of prophets, priests, judges, and kings with no defined separation of jurisdiction. From my view, the constitutional achievements of 18th and 19th Century North America (more particularly the USA) were phenomenal. but like all great empires, we let the natural man get above us, not because of the separation of church and state, but for the separation of man from memory. Whether we can find our way forward, seems up in the air.</div><div><div><b>14</b>. <u>Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 10:20 21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">20 </span>Therefore remember, O man, for all thy doings thou shalt be brought into judgment.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>Wherefore, if ye have sought to do wickedly in the days of your <b>probation</b>, then ye are found unclean before the judgment–seat of God; and no unclean thing can dwell with God; wherefore, ye must be cast off forever.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:21</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">21 </span>And the days of the children of men were prolonged, according to the will of God, that they might repent while in the flesh; wherefore, their state became a state of <b>probation</b>, and their time was lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. <br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:27-28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27 </span>But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his <b>probation</b>, for awful is his state!<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 33:9</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">9 </span>I also have charity for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the narrow gate, and walk in the strait path which leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the day of <b>probation</b>.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 12:24</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And we see that death comes upon mankind, yea, the death which has been spoken of by Amulek, which is the temporal death; nevertheless there was a space granted unto man in which he might repent; therefore this life became a <b>probationary </b>state; a time to prepare to meet God; a time to prepare for that endless state which has been spoken of by us, which is after the resurrection of the dead.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Alma 42:3-4, 10, 13</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">3 </span>Now, we see that the man had become as God, knowing good and evil; and lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, the Lord God placed cherubim and the flaming sword, that he should not partake of the fruit—<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">4 </span>And thus we see, that there was a time granted unto man to repent, yea, a <b>probationary </b>time, a time to repent and serve God. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">10 </span>Therefore, as they had become carnal, sensual, and devilish, by nature, this <b>probationary </b>state became a state for them to prepare; it became a preparatory state. ...<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">13 </span>Therefore, according to justice, the plan of redemption could not be brought about, only on conditions of repentance of men in this <b>probationary </b>state, yea, this preparatory state; for except it were for these conditions, mercy could not take effect except it should destroy the work of justice. Now the work of justice could not be destroyed; if so, God would cease to be God.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:38</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">38 </span>But behold, your days of <b>probation </b>are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.<br /><u>
Book of Mormon | Mormon 9:28</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>Be wise in the days of your <b>probation</b>; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.<br /><u>
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 29:43-45</u><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">43 </span>And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his <b>probation</b>—that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">44 </span>And they that believe not unto eternal damnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual fall, because they repent not;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">45</span> For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.<br /><b>
15</b>. (as in civic, not Roman)<br /><b>
16</b>. <u>Doctrine and Covenants | Section 63:24-30 </u>(Bold emphasis added.)<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">24 </span>And now, behold, this is the will of the Lord your God concerning his saints, that they should assemble themselves together unto <b>the land of Zion</b>, not in haste, lest there should be confusion, which bringeth pestilence.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">25 </span>Behold, <b>the land of Zion</b>—I, the Lord, hold it in mine own hands;<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">26 </span><b>Nevertheless, I, the Lord, render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's.</b><br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">27</span> Wherefore, I the Lord will that you should purchase the lands, that you may have advantage of the world, that you may have claim on the world, that they may not be stirred up unto anger.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">28 </span>For Satan putteth it into their hearts to anger against you, and to the shedding of blood.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">29 </span>Wherefore, <b>the land of Zion</b> shall not be obtained but by purchase or by blood, otherwise there is none inheritance for you.<br /> <span style="color: #cc0000;">30 </span>And if by purchase, behold you are blessed;<br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com