Time to Make a New Year’s Resolution?
Naturally, there are many resources out there to help us study, but I have chosen to start simple this year with the “Introduction to Isaiah,” Old Testament Study Guide for Home-Study Seminary Students lesson plans. However,...
Are we among the Swift Messengers of Isaiah 18?
Are we to be counted among the swift messengers of Isaiah 18? President Russell M. Nelson has invited the youth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be one of the swift...
I was gathered by the Book of Mormon
I was born in Chile in 1954. My parental grandfather was a Lithuanian Jew and my grandmother, a German Jew. My mother’s side of the family is Chilean. I was raised Catholic but thought...
1. The Gathering of Israel: Nothing of greater consequence!
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One of the primary foci of the Holy Scriptures, Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, as the Old Testament is called by the Jews, is the gathering. And...
2. The Gathering of Israel: YOU are of Israel
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The average member incorrectly believes he or she is a gentile. Also, few members and missionaries realize that we are gathering literal Israel. That is, the...
3. The Gathering of Israel and the Book of Mormon
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There are multiple references throughout the Holy Scriptures where the Lord reminds His people Israel of the Abrahamic covenant which was reiterated in Rain in Due...
Isaiah speaks through Divine Investiture
A careful reading of the Old Testament seems to indicate that the word Elohim is often used as an exalted title for deity as well as a noun meaning God or angels. It is...
Biblical Criticism and Isaiah in the Book of Mormon
I do not like the expression Biblical Criticism as it may appear as an attack on sorts on the Bible, so I prefer the expression Biblical Text Evaluation. We will here introduce the...
“But the Word of our God shall stand for ever” Isaiah 40:8
I was in love with Isaiah 40:8, as the sweet words would ring through my mind, "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." Until one...
A Bibliography: Who says that “You can’t have it both ways?
One of my daughters took a class at BYU where the professor suggested that we can’t have it both ways. We can’t accept just that which is convenient to us as members of the...
