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"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. for two and a half thousand years, the Truth passed out of all knowledge..."
"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. for two and a half thousand years, the Truth passed out of all knowledge..."
--- J. R.R. Tolkin
"And it came to pass that Enoch continued his cry unto the Lord, saying: I ask thee, O Lord, in the name of thine Only Begotten, even Jesus Christ, that thou wilt have mercy upon Noah and his seed, that the earth might never more be covered by the floods. And the Lord could not withhold; and he covenanted with Enoch, and sware unto him with an oath, that he would stay the floods; that he would call upon the children of Noah; And he sent forth an unalterable decree, that a remnant of his seed should always be found among all nations, while the earth should stand"
"I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same; having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers. It was conferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man, who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me. I sought for mine appointment unto the Priesthood according to the appointment of God unto the fathers concerning the seed."
"...this shall be my covenant with you, ye shall have it for the land of your inheritance, and for the inheritance of your children forever, while the earth shall stand, and ye shall possess it again in eternity, no more to pass away."
"...And their generations shall inherit the earth from generation to generation, forever and ever."
"...and for the rising generations that shall grow up on the land of Zion, to possess it from generation to generation, forever and ever. Amen."
"...the Lord confirmed a priesthood also upon Aaron and his seed, throughout all their generations, which priesthood also continueth and abideth forever with the priesthood which is after the holiest order of God."
"Nevertheless, Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her... let it be read this once to her ears, that I, the Lord, have accepted of her offering; and if she sin no more... And I will bless her with blessings, and multiply a multiplicity of blessings upon her, and upon her generations forever and ever, saith the Lord"
Nauvoo, August 27, 1843, while the Nauvoo Temple was being constructed, Joseph Smith, taught, using Hebrews 7 as background material, the "Three Grand Orders" of priesthood:
"There are three grand orders of priesthood referred to here.
1st. The King of Shiloam (Salem) had power and authority over that of Abraham, holding the key and the power of endless life .... The Melchizedek Priesthood holds the right from the eternal God, and not by descent from father and mother; and that priesthood is as eternal as God Himself, having neither beginning of days nor end of life.
The 2nd Priesthood is Patriarchal authority. Go to and finish the temple, and God will fill it with power, and you will then receive more knowledge concerning this priesthood.
The 3rd is what is called the Levitical Priesthood, consisting of priests to administer in outward ordinances, made without an oath; but the Priesthood of Melchizedek is by an oath and covenant.
The Holy Ghost is God's messenger to administer in all those priesthoods."
"Now this king of Egypt was a descendant from the loins of Ham, and was a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth... Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was patriarchal. Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and with the blessings of wisdom,
but cursed him as pertaining to the Priesthood. Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away by their idolatry;"
Cecil B. Demill's 1923 version of "The Ten Commandments", @ 14:32
@ 14:47 Pharoah's FIRSTBORN son is dead... but Pharoah is NOT
"Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land. And he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come—after it should be destroyed it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord; wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a time of old; but it should be built up again, and become a holy city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the house of Israel — And that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph..."
"and they [Gentiles] shall come in unto the covenant and be numbered among this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom I have given this land for their inheritance; And they [Gentiles] shall assist my people, the remnant of Jacob, and also as many of the house of Israel as shall come, that they may build a city, which shall be called the New Jerusalem. And then shall they [Gentiles] assist my people that they may be gathered in, who are scattered upon all the face of the land, in unto the New Jerusalem.
"...a seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto the seed of thy loins—and not to the bringing forth my word only, saith the Lord, but to the convincing them of my word, which shall have already gone forth among them."
<= Algonquin Bible, also known as "John Eliot's Indian Bible" - (Algonquin: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God) - Printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1661, just New Testament- then 1663 the Old Testament was translated from the Geneva Bible.
"Wherefore, it is an abridgment of the record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites—Written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel; and also to Jew and Gentile—Written by way of commandment, and also by the spirit of prophecy and of revelation—Written and sealed up, and hid up unto the Lord, that they might not be destroyed—To come forth by the gift and power of God unto the interpretation thereof—Sealed by the hand of Moroni, and hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by way of the Gentile..."
"There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle.
"There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle.
Even the Saints are slow to understand"
Even the Saints are slow to understand"
The Return of the King, ...and His Priest
The Return of the King, ...and His Priest
"...thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers — For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God — Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began."
Questions by Elias Higbee: What is meant by the command in Isaiah, 52d chapter, 1st verse, which saith: Put on thy strength, O Zion—and what people had Isaiah reference to?
He had reference to those whom God should call in the last days, who should hold the power of priesthood to bring again Zion, and the redemption of Israel; and to put on her strength is to put on the authority of the priesthood, which she, Zion, has a right to by lineage; also to return to that power which she had lost.
Joseph Smith believed that the establishment of the kingdom of God was part of the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy: “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure” (Daniel 2:44–45). - Speaking of ancient Israel, Joseph Smith taught that “their government was a theocracy.”[38] The Prophet added, “They had God to make their laws, and men chosen by Him to administer them. . . . [They were led] in both civil and ecclesiastical affairs. . . . So will it be when the purposes of God shall be accomplished: when ‘the Lord shall be King over the whole earth’ and ‘Jerusalem His throne.’ ‘The law shall go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.’”[39]
Researching the King Follett Discourse & JSP History, 1838–1856, volume E-1 [1 July 1843–30 April 1844]
by Jeffrey Tucker, Church History Library
14 September 2021
see also "6–9 April 1844, Brigham Young noted "...the stand was occupied by the [First] Presidency, the Twelve and others, among whom were eleven Lamanite chiefs and braves, it was estimated there were about 20,000 persons present, ...The Prophet declared that all North and South America was the land of Zion." -- Brigham Young
"When Joseph Smith was crowned King of Israel, there were a Native American delagation on the stand..."
On July 11, 1846, Chief Banquejappa of the Pottawatomie, brought a fragment of the Egyptian Papyri to Brigham Young, as a "letter of introduction"...
On July 11, 1846, Chief Banquejappa of the Pottawatomie, brought a fragment of the Egyptian Papyri to Brigham Young, as a "letter of introduction"...
see “Background of the Church Historian’s Fragment.” Improvement Era 71, no. 2 (Feb. 1968): 40–41.
30 July 1844, Tuesday - Death of Brother Samuel H. Smith, after a very short illness; this being the third death in the family within five weeks. There is now only one brother left of the family, viz: William.
31 July 1844, Wednesday - William Clayton "Went to see Judge Miller and found that the Lawrence business could not be settled until another Guardian was appointed. ... At 12 at night a Boat came & we left for home..."
4 August 1 844 - A.M attended meeting. Er Rigdon spoke on the words My ways are not as your ways &c. He related a vision which the Lord had shown him concerning the situation of the Church and said there must be a Guardian appointed to build the Church up to Joseph as he has begun it. - [Bro.] Marks had notified the public that next Thursday there would be a meeting to choose a Guardian inasmuch as Er Rigdon was in a hurry to go home again. I do not feel satisfied with this move because it is universally understood that the Twelve have been sent for and are expected here every day and it seems a plot laid for the saints to take advantage of their situation.
Tuesday, the 6th of August, five of the Twelve returned home, viz: Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Lyman Wight, Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff. This event appeared very providential. They were just in time to frustrate Elder Rigdon's plans. This they did effectively.
7 August 1 844 - At 4 P.M the Twelve & the High Council assembled in the 70s Hall when Elder Rigdon state the object of his mission. He said he had a vision presented to his mind, not an open vision, but rather a continuation of the one mentioned in the Book of Covenants. It was shown to him that this Church must be built up to Joseph and that all the blessings we receive must come through Joseph. He had been ordained spoken [spokesman?] to Joseph and he must come to Nauvoo & see that the Church was governed in a proper manner. The people could please themselves whether they accepted him or not. He said he had a conversation with Judge Pope on his way to Pittsburgh and that Pope told him that the U. S. government were determined to deal with our Municipal Court for the proceedings in relation to Jeremiah Smith and that Butterfield and Pope were very determined to prosecute &c. After Er Rigdon got through B. Young said a few sentences. He said he did not care who lead the Church if God said so even if it was old vv Ann Lee" but he must know that God said so He said he the keys 6 means of knowing the mind of God on this subject.
Thursday, the 8th - the Church voted to sustain the Twelve as the proper authority to govern the Church. The result was the open apostasy of Elder Rigdon and some others, who immediately left for Pittsburg.
15 August 1844, Thursday - I went to see sister Emma, as she had sent for me early this A.M. I found her very cross. Esqr. Wood told me what he wanted done with regard to settling up the estate. He wanted a " "list of all tides in the name of the Trustee in Trust... etc. - I did not feel free to given him the papers of the Boat untill I could get council. - After dinner I went to see Er B. Young & We both went over to bro. Whitneys and staed the matter to him. - I then went to see Emma. I found her alone and began to talk to her & tell her what I thought Wood's intended to do. She grew warm and said that all the business of the Trustee must be presented We had no secrets that we must keep back from the public for she was determined to have every thing settled now. I replied to her that there were many things which I was unwilling the world should know any thing about and should not lend my hand to ruin the church. She then grew more angry and said I had neglected her and the business, and there was nothing that had Prest. Smith's name to that should not be investigated. She said she had no secrets nor any thing she was unwilling the whole world should know. I told her that there was some things which / she/ would be unwilling the public should know. She denied it. I said I knew things that she did not want the world to know. I replied "Sister Emma I know I don't lie and you know better. What I know, I know and although I never have told it to any soul on earth nor never intend to yet it is still the truth and I shall not deny it." - She said I neglected her and spent my time in the secret council of the Twelve and it was secret things which had cost Joseph and Hyrum their lives and says she "[I] prophecy that it will cost you and the Twelve your lives as it has done them" - she repeated this two or three times in a threatening manner, and said it in a manner that I understood that she intended to make it cost us our lives, as she had done by Prest. Smith [???] - She would not listen to any thing I could say and I left her. She is blind as to her best interest and those who are her best friends she is the most bitter against. I feel to pray that God will soften her heart and shew her the danger she is exposing herself to and to bind her up that she may not have power to destroy thy servants O God. I went & told Prest. Young the whole circumstances & he told me to fear not, but rejoice [???]
Aug 18th - Emma told Cahoon that William Clayton C stole $200 gold WC says the money is not hers but belongs to Peter Haws/ "God knows that I am innocent of the charge as the angels in heaven, and it is grosly wicked in her to give out this report. I feel sorry to think that after I have served that family like a slave, having run at her call night & day, and never wronged them out of the first cent that she should thus abuse me, for I must say I never met with oppression and tryranny so cruel from any person in all my life as I have borne from that woman, but yet I will not be her enemy nor do her any harm, except I should be in the defense of my own life and character"
5 September 1844 - Evening I heard Er Hyde in the Masonic Hall. He proved very plain that Er Rigdons course since he came here has been a continued course of deception and falsehood and that his object is to scatter the people and break up the foundation laid by our beloved prophet Joseph Smith. The people seem to feel indignant at Er Rigdon for it is now reduced to a certainty that he is conspiring with the apostates to bring a mob upon us
27 October 1844, Sunday - went to George Millers, in council with N.K. Whitney, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, Goerge Miller, Amasa Lyman, Lucien Woodworth and John D. Parker. Brother Parker has been prying into the secret designs of the mob. He has professed to be an apostate and by that means got into their secret councils. [Their] plan was to obtain our sacred records and destroy them and also obtain testimony from them to our overthrow. They gave him to understand that this was to be accomplished by the means of a man in our midst who had free access to the records and who had agreed to put them in possession of them. They finally told brother Parker that the man who was to do this was W. W. Phelps... I went over to Dr Richards and found that all the records were safe in his hands.
10 November 1844, Sunday - While in St. Louis, Clayton walked down Front Street and stopped to watch a man working on a stone marker. He was astonished to find the words "high water June 27th 1844" already inscribed. "This was the day when this generation rejected the prophets of God," he was reminded. It was also the day floodwaters had overflowed the Mississippi and covered Front Street. In Clayton's mind the high water marker was a sign of the providence of God. "I suppose they never considered that this monument pointed directly to the day when they murdered the men of God," he mused.
5 December 1844, Thursday ... I was at the office all day. At noon we had some conversation concerning recorders for the Baptism of our dead &c. We feel very anxious on the matter but have little prospect of anything being done very speedily. I feel very anxious on the subject myself, in as much as the Records of our Baptisms for our dead have not been kept in order for near 2 years back. The minutes have been kept on loose slips of paper and are liable to be lost and they have not been kept according to the order of God. there is so much treachery in man that it is hard to find a man wo can be trusted with those Records for they cannot be public property. In as much as they will have to contain histories pertaining to the transactions of individuals which never must be public.
April 1846 - Brigham and the saints go to Council Bluffs, after being driven out of Nauvoo.
And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfil the oath which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah; ...and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve; And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; ...and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem.
And the Lord said unto Enoch: Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see us; and we will fall upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other; And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion, which shall come forth out of all the creations which I have made; and for the space of a thousand years the earth shall rest.
“Our object is not just “to unite all the Indian tribes from north to south and west to the Pacific Ocean in one body,” but to also “include ourselves in that number.”
“Our object is not just “to unite all the Indian tribes from north to south and west to the Pacific Ocean in one body,” but to also “include ourselves in that number.”
DHC 6:183-185
DHC 6:183-185
"I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the Saints prepared to receive the things of God; but we frequently see some of them, after suffering all they have for the work of God, will fly to pieces like glass as soon as anything comes that is contrary to their traditions: they cannot stand the fire at all.
- Jan. 20, 1844
How many will be able to abide a celestial law, and go through and receive their exaltation, I am unable to say ...as many are called, but few are chosen."
According to Brigham Young, the Prophet Joseph Smith foresaw the birth of his son David and told him, “I shall have a son born to me and his name shall be called David; and on him in some future time will rest the responsibility that now rests upon me.” - Journal of Discourses, 10:251
1844 - fail, 1857 - succeed!
Source =>JosephKnew.com
In 1877 the respected leader of the Nez Perce tribe surrendered to General Miles, acting on behalf of the U. S. Government.
At his surrender, Chief "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain" (known to history by his Christian name "Chief Joseph"), had a 1 inch square clay tablet in a medicine bag/pouch hanging around his neck. The writing was unrecognizable to General Miles, so he asked Chief Joseph what it was? Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain told Miles that "the tablet had been passed down in his family for many generations, that they inherited it from their white ancestors... and that it was the title for the land where the General now stood."
"And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament..."
Hebrew "yad" pointer
Hebrew "yad" pointer
yad (Hebrew: יד, literally "hand"; Yiddish: האַנט hant, "hand") is a Jewish ritual pointer, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is often shaped like a long rod, capped by a small hand with its index finger pointing from it.
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