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Harden Not Your HeartThe Cursed Fig TreeHave you ever wondered why Christ cursed the fig tree. It had fruit according to the Joseph Smith Translation but it was all green. There was no mature fruit. In his allegory of the vineyard, Isaiah calls the wild fruit that results be’ushim—fruit that decays before it comes to maturation (Isaiah 5:2, 4). He also tells the current wife of Christ to shout for joy. Why because she is ruined with only a small remnant left (Isa 1:9) but the desolate wife is returning and she will be a great nation. (Isa 54)1“Shout for joy, O barren woman,who...
2021-09-1221 min
Harden Not Your HeartIsaiah speaks to the Daughter of ZionJust as Jesus declares in 3 Nephi 23 'Isaiah must . . . speak to the Gentiles". Here in chapter 1 -- in the preface of Isaiah we see him speaking to a group called the Daughter of Zion. In the video I tell you who I think The Daughter of Zion is and what the message means to us today. As always, I am sharing what I think as a spring board for you to ask your own question and do your own searching. NEVER be satisfied to believe something because someone said so. Search the scriptures and allow the Holy Ghost to lead you...
2021-09-011h 00
Harden Not Your HeartThe Drunkards of Ephraim pt 3: A Desolating ScourgeIsaiah 28 According to Isaiah Ephraim's religious leaders have erred in judgement and have made a pact with the devil expecting that will save them from a desolating scourge that will cover the whole earth. Spoiler alert! It doesn't save them and only those who put their trust in the precious cornerstone of Zion will walk away from this one.
2021-08-2935 min
Harden Not Your HeartEgypt, aka America: The Drunkards of Ephraim part 2Isaiah chapter 4 vs 1 talks about 7 women that take hold of one man. This verse is often quoted to show that polygamy will be practiced in the millennium. I take you through the scriptures to my understanding that these 7 women are the corrupt churches and the man they try to take hold of is Jesus Christ but only those who have come out of the corrupt churches and are the pure in heart designated in the Book of Revelation in chapter 3 as the Church of Philadelphia are acceptable before the Lord. All of the other churches must repent or fall. Reve...
2021-08-2739 min
Harden Not Your HeartEgypt - The Drunkards of EphraimIn the 28th chapter in the Book of Isaiah there is a group in Egypt (aka Amercia) called the Drunkards of Ephraim . They and their leaders are full of pride and drunk with wine (doctrine). This chapter contains: 1. The current condition of the Ephraimites and their leaders 2. A bit of history about God's dealings with Ephraim in America 3. A warning to repent and trust in the precious Corner Stone 4. A prophecy of what will befall the unrepentant. There is too much to cover in one video. I don't yet know how many studies this chapter will take. We are currentl...
2021-08-2554 min
Harden Not Your HeartThe Covenant Path. How do we know we are on it?The 'Covenant Path' is a popular phrase used by President Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to describe the way to be exalted in the highest kingdom in the next life. The path will lead the member of the church through the basic ordinances of baptism and gift of Holy Ghost to the higher ordinances performed in the temples that are located now all over the world. As always my question is, 'what do the scriptures say about the covenant path'? Since this is the path to salvation in the kingdom of God I...
2021-08-2329 min
Harden Not Your HeartWas Joseph Smith a deceiver and a polygamist? You decide.Currently The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches "After receiving a revelation commanding him to practice plural marriage, Joseph Smith married multiple wives and introduced the practice to close associates." (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/joseph-smith-and-plural-marriage?lang=eng) As a woman who is a member of this church and married in the temple to my husband this doctrine of polygamy has always weighed heavy on my heart. It is a doctrine still practiced today in the temple. That is that men that are married to a second or third wife after their deaths and...
2021-08-1224 min
Harden Not Your HeartEgypt aka America, What is her fate according to Isaiah?The book of Isaiah is in its totality a book of prophecy for the little span of time called the end days or covered in the catch phrases 'In those days' or 'In the latter days' etc. Yes, many of the events are historical but they serve as a type of shadow of what is to be. There is nothing new under the sun. Isaiah used history to inform his latter-day audience of what it coming. In the days of Isaiah Egypt was a super power with political and religious leaders who were both failing and bumbling and the...
2021-08-1246 min
Harden Not Your HeartThe New and Everlasting Covenant. Which one?In the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS (the Mormons) the New and Everlasting Covenant is a marriage covenant that opens up the highest glory in the Celestial kingdom. While reading the JST book of Genesis I found there is a different New and Everlasting Covenant that was from the beginning of the restoration of the church. Here I share the scriptures that I found about the subject so that you can ponder it for yourselves.
2021-08-1026 min
Harden Not Your HeartThe Redemption of Zion . Who is managing the palace? Eliakim or Shebna?Zion is the pure in heart. Those who love God's law and are willing to forsake the riches and pleasures of this world to attain something beautiful, loving, holy. A life where there are no poor and no sick. A society that is based on love. Not communism that is authoritarian and forced. No, a society that consists of only the pure in heart. Joseph Smith was called by God to receive the laws and keys for the establishment of this order so that his Everlasting Covenant that he made with Enoch could be fulfilled. According to the Doctrine and Coven...
2021-08-091h 04
Harden Not Your HeartThe 3 WatchesLuke 12 — The Jerusalem Saints practiced law of consecration. Watch and feed the sheep.
2021-02-2018 minHarden Not Your HeartThe Doctrine of Christ in 2 Nephi 30-31The Doctrine of Christ is the Doctrine of the Father established before the foundation of the world. We also take a side trip to Joseph Smith Translation of Gen 9 for an explanation of what is the Everlasting Covenant.
2021-02-1721 min2021-02-1519 minHarden Not Your HeartPt 1 Baptism of AdamThe Doctrine of Christ as taught to our first father Adam and restored through the Joseph Smith translation of the book of Genesis. Currently in the Pearl of Great Price titled the Book of Moses. I hit the stop button by mistake so there is also a part 2.
2021-02-1505 min2021-02-1518 min
Past ForwardDr. Stephanie Takaragawa and Patti HiraharaDr. Stephanie Takaragawa is an Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research interests focus on issues of representation in film, mass media, art, performance, and cultural display. She is a founding member of the curatorial collective Ethnographic Terminalia. Her dissertation Visualizing Japanese-America: the Japanese American National Museum and the Construction of Identity examined the role of the Japanese American National Museum in the construction and dissemination of a Japanese-American identity. She is currently president of the Society for Visual Anthropology (2015-2017) a subsection of the American Anthropological Association. B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Ph.D., Temple University.Patt...
2018-12-2824 min