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I feel moved to write this publicly, and I pray the Spirit will guide what I should say and what I shouldn't. I have felt this Passover would have added significance to me in the weeks leading up. I assumed the feeling meant there would be something announced or some world-wide happening.

Last Friday, I received a job offer I had been waiting on a few hours before Passover began. The week before, my sister-in-law hosted a Passover dinner as a wonderful lesson as to the many symbols involved in Passover. I had forgotten and never truly understood like I did then that the unleavened bread and wine were present for Passover and were given extra meaning at the Last Supper.

I learned there were 10 plagues. Had I been asked before that dinner how many plagues there were, I would have said 3 or 4. There were 10 and they were specifically designed to show Egypt and Israel that the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob was mightier than each of the Egyptian Gods. Each plague was meant to downplay the power of one or more Gods of Egypt. The three days of darkness was to show that Jehovah is mightier than the Sun God Ra. We talked about how the firstborn were passed over with the lambs blood and we all (parents and kids) had little door ways we colored on paper with a red crayon. (My brother suggested to his wife we not actually paint which was a good idea.) (There was no plague versus Horus though ... shhhhh)

Fast forward to a couple of nights ago - a few days into Passover 2019. My wife points out to me that my first born son has been Passed over by the Lord. *tear* Here's how:

My ex wife has carried a chip on her shoulder ever since our divorce in 2012. I'm delving into the what I shouldn't say territory here, but she's at least admitted to me that she has been projecting her rage for me onto our son for the last 7 years. My poor son. I have known she would debrief him and demonize me and put him in the middle of parenting time negotiations - all of which are huge no-nos and are covered in the Arizona mandatory parenting class for divorcees with children. To compensate I did everything I could to just love my son and not saying anything negative or ask what is happening at his mother's house. With the benefit of hindsight, I can see I overcompensated.

For years I prayed earnestly to God for a solution. I asked for justice, but I admitted in my limited understanding I could not imagine a way justice could be served where I could have my son more than 50 percent of the time. I could see the damage that was being done to my son. PM me if you want more detail here as I'm trying not to sound too disparaging of my ex. She had moved out of state in 2014 to finish school in Utah and was there for a couple of years. My son did so much better during this time. Stability was a factor, sure, but he had access to better nutrition, attention (opposite of neglect,) family, extended family, and fun. And yet towards the end of this time, my son grew bitter as he reached age 10. Come to find out, his mother had been telling him all about how awful Dad is and how he ruined the marriage, etc. I will say there was some truth to what she was saying but no doubt there was certainly some false information thrown in there and plenty of omission. My poor son was getting one side of the story that I was careful to ensure he never heard during my parenting time.

In recent months I noticed some odd behavior from my ex. Truly odd. One of her friends and family members reached out to me (independently of each other) and both told me they and other friends had held an intervention for her. They both opined her state of mind was too dangerous for my son to be left alone with her. I took action and confronted my ex. Fortunately, we came to a new agreement that includes supervised parenting time while she gets evaluated by a mental health professional. She admitted to me at this time she had done much damage to our son due to her projection not only of anger towards me but of her own issues upon our son.

Since her return from Utah in 2016, I have pleaded with the Lord to spare my son. I have prayed patiently and have felt his promise that he would answer - answer is not a strong enough word. He would fulfill his promise. As of 3 weeks ago, I had assumed we would always have 50/50 custody of our son. As of today I have filed a new agreement for 100 percent custody that his mother signed. Three times during this process as I was dealing with the stress and nerves of confronting my ex, I felt the sweet joy of the Spirit confirming to me this was a good happening and that the Lord's promise was being fulfilled.

For years I prayed for deliverance from this toxic situation. On Passover 2019, the Lord has delivered my first born son from bondage just as he did the Israelites 3500 years ago. I've had him for 3 weeks now, and I can already see improvement in him. He's happier and more engaged. There's still a long road ahead. I am not a public person, but I felt I should share this incredible delivery of a promise that "coincidentally" came to pass during Passover 2019 that involves my first born son.

incredible Alaris ! I'm sure you've been through a lot.
I went through similar experiences many years ago also with my first son.
I know we disagree on some things
but thanks for sharing your Personal Passover with us and
I think it's great that you have your son with you.

Thanks for sharing Alaris. Much of your story sounds painfully familiar.

I had the ill fortune to marry someone who is a shining example of narcissism and borderline personality disorder. One day she took our son to visit her mother, enrolled him in a private school almost 1,000 miles away from me, and filed for divorce. Now she does what she can to deny me any access to my son. She's driven both our children from the church, she constantly badmouths me in front of him (in violation of Washington law, which has jurisdiction, and California law, where she lives), she has violated almost every aspect of every court order without any consequences, and she is very emotionally abusive to our son.

For years I have prayed that he will reach out and try to build a relationship. I have prayed that he will be delivered long before he turns 18, but with eight months remaining "long before" doesn't fit my definition. I have been promised that time missed with my children in mortality will be made up for in the Millennium, and although I continue to pray for them now I am losing hope that I will have any relationship with either of my children in mortality. And being 50 without being rich, I sincerely doubt that I will be blessed to have any more children of my own in mortality. So unless I'm blessed with answers to my prayers as you were, my hope for family love in mortality is nothing but a pipe dream.

Alaris wrote: ↑April 25th, 2019, 6:12 pm have felt this Passover would have added significance to me in the weeks leading up. I assumed the feeling meant there would be something announced or some world-wide happening.

Thank you for sharing this. I do not mean to downplay the miracle you received personally this Passover, but I did want to add something I know of that is happening world-wide, or at least it will become world-wide.

This is about the Sealed Book of Mormon by Mauricio Berger, so those who have already made up their minds can walk away now with that disclaimer.

I truly believe this book is genuine. I am on my 3rd reading of it and it is like I never read it the first 2 times because I am finding things I never saw. My highlighter is going wild, highlighting more than not, and I'll probably order a new one because it's becoming a coloring book like my mission scriptures.

Those who have not read the book do not have a valid opinion about it. If you haven't read it, your comments do not count.

Anyway... . . . . . ... According to this book, the Church of Christ can be organized, or restored, or set in order only 14 days after the first new moon of Aviv, or, on Passover. Coincidentally, April 6th, 1830 was Passover.

Mauricio and the Brazil group I am told held a Passover feast and officially reorganized themselves as the Church of Christ on the Earth. It is Mauricio's mission to restore what we have lost since Joseph Smith and bring together all the branches of the restoration into one unified body to build Zion.

There is much to be said about this group, Mauricio, and the Sealed Book of Mormon. It is a much bigger deal than most will believe.

I have not forsaken President Monson as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is for the purpose of the Lord that he would call one like Moses from outside of the church. I mean, 150 years later we still haven't been able to reconcile the Brighamites and Josephites and I think the Lord is tired of waiting.

So, that is what I wanted to share. I think people are going to realize too late that this is a much bigger deal than they thought.

Isaiah 28:11-13
THE REFRESHING

"For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing; yet they would not hear. But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."


Here is the book.
https://www.amazon.com/Sealed-Mormon-Ma ... 1798768623

You can also go to their website https://thesealedbookofmormon.org/ and request the free PDF. I like having both because I can't mark up a PDF.