I AM wrote: ↑May 8th, 2019, 11:12 am
Both Jesus Christ and Isaiah foretell of our "Latter-Day" APOSTASY !
some here believe as I do that the scriptures show that history repeats itself.
"types and shadows"
"What has happened before, will happen again"
things that "have been and shall be"
Isaiah 44:7
7 "Who predicts what happens as do I, and is the equal of me in
appointing a people from of old as types, foretelling things to come?
Isaiah 46
10 I foretell the end from the beginning,
from ancient times things not yet done.
I speak, and my purposes take effect;
I accomplish all my will.
Isaiah uses what are called types from the past
to show the future.
What has happened before, will happen again.
Interesting how Jesus Christ Himself
gave us a commandment that we "search these things diligently"
3 Nephi 23:1- 4
1
"And now, behold, I say unto you,
that ye ought to search these things.
Yea, a commandment I give unto
you that ye search these things diligently;
for great are the words of Isaiah."
ALL THE PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH PERTAIN TO US TODAY
All prophecies in Isaiah are prophecies of the last days.
Also interesting how Isaiah chooses to start his book.
Referring to our church and the sad condition we are in,
Isaiah begins his book speaking to us,
Ephraim, or the church today.
Isaiah 1:2-4, 13,14
Description of modern Ephraim
(addressing our church he calls Israel)
2 Hear, O heavens! Give heed, O earth!
Jehovah has spoken:I have reared sons,
brought them up,but they have revolted against me.
3 The ox knows its owner,the donkey its master’s stall,
but Israel does not know;my people are insensible.
4
Alas, a nation astray, a people weighed down by sin,
the offspring of wrongdoers, perverse children:
they have forsaken Jehovah, they have spurned
the Holy One of Israel, they have lapsed into APOSTASY.
http://www.isaiahexplained.com/1#commentary
http://www.isaiahexplained.com/28#commentary
Where much is given - much is required.
Most members don't realize or read the scriptures enough
to know that the restored Gospel is a great responsibility
that we haven't been able to live up to.
But the Lord (knowing we wouldn't ) gave us the same
chance as he gave them -The peoples of the Book of Mormon.
That's why we have the Book of Mormon and the church was restored.
But their book is also a book of warning for "us" and ALL the Gentiles - U.S.
they tried to warn us, but we don't heed their warnings
and have made the same mistakes as they did.
The scriptures foretell our future and the downfall
of this "choice land" that WILL fall -
just like it did for them in the Book of Mormon when they too fell into apostasy and forfeited their blessings to us- that is why the Lord brought His gospel to us -
that is why we have their book - to give us a chance and not make the same mistakes as they did.
But we HAVE made the same mistakes and are repeating their history.
"they, who for a time enjoyed the blessings of the restored Gospel," they will be destroyed with the Gentiles and cut off from the Lord."
So now we are forfeiting the blessings of the gospel
and they are going back to them.
Hence - the first will be last, and the last, first.
1. The church is in total APOSTASY.
2. We no longer receive revelation - and haven't for over 100 years.
3. Christ no longer leads the church - and it's leaders and members have
become as "Sodom; you people of Gomorrah!" (below)
*** and because of our APOSTASY, just as with ancient Israel,
now comes the Lord's judgments on His people - "us" the church.
1-2-3 you're out !
The Times of the Gentiles is coming to an end.
*** "And upon my house shall it begin"
D&C 112:24-26
24
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.
25
And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;
26
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.
D&C 45:28-31
28 And when the times of the Gentiles is come in, a light shall break forth among them that sit in darkness, and it shall be the fulness of my gospel;
29 BUT THEY RECEIVE IT NOT;
for they perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me because of the precepts of men.
30 And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
31 And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.
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http://www.isaiahexplained.com/1#commentary
Isaiah 1
10 Hear the word of Jehovah,
O leaders of Sodom;
give heed to the law of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
To call Jehovah’s people and their leaders by the names Sodom and Gomorrah is to compare their moral degeneracy to that of those cities’ ancient inhabitants.
As the leaders of a people generally reflect the people themselves, and as the political and ecclesiastical leaders of Jehovah’s people parallel each other in the Book of Isaiah, their spiritual condition holds little hope for the rising generation.
When things reach that point, Jehovah’s people are fortunate indeed if Jehovah offers them a last warning. For those who accept it, there may yet be a chance of deliverance; otherwise, their destruction is assured.
Hear the word of Jehovah . . . give heed to the law of our God. Knowing that Jehovah does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets (Amos 3:7), he sends a warning voice before destroying his people. In the Book of Isaiah, that warning voice is Jehovah’s servant, of whom Isaiah is a type. Pointing them to Jehovah’s “law” and “word—to the terms of his covenant—the servant directs them to the one thing that has the power to reverse their circumstances. Replacing current aberrant religious practices with keeping Jehovah’s law and word remains his people’s only hope.
9 Had not Jehovah of Hosts left us a few survivors,
we should have been as Sodom,
or become like Gomorrah.
A type or precedent of the “few survivors” of Jehovah’s people who are “left” after the destruction are Lot and his two daughters who escaped God’s ancient destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-30).
Representing a pattern of what happens in the end-time, when Jehovah sends his angels to escort Lot and his family out of Sodom, his sons-in-law consider it foolish while Lot’s wife looks back and perishes (Genesis 19:12-23; cf. Matthew 24:31).
The full authoritative title “Jehovah of Hosts” underscores the gravity of these events and the fact that Israel’s God is in charge of world affairs.
Sodom . . . Gomorrah. The names Sodom and Gomorrah remind us of those ancient cities and their inhabitants and what they came to symbolize. In their perverse lifestyle their residents grew so aggressive that they attempted to violate the angels of God who were Lot’s guests (Genesis 19:1-11).
Isaiah’s drawing on this type when predicting the end-time lets us know that once they lose God’s light his people start to resemble those ancient inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah.
When his people’s devotion to Jehovah becomes but a shallow version of his law and word, it lacks the power to withstand evil.
The names Sodom and Gomorrah additionally function as word links to Babylon: “And Babylon, the most splendid of kingdoms, the glory and pride of Chaldeans, shall be [thrown down] as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah” (Isaiah 13:19).
Isaiah’s structurally developed concept of a Greater Babylon—resembling John’s “Babylon the Great”—identifies it as an evil world conglomerate on the eve of its destruction (Isaiah 13-23, 47; Revelation 17-18).
That a wicked majority of Jehovah’s people suffers the same fate Babylon does implies that it too has become identified with Babylon.
The idea of “cities burned with fire” that describes the destruction of Jehovah’s people (v 7) alludes to the desolation of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their residents by a hail of fire and brimstone (Genesis 19:24-25; cf. Isaiah 32:19).
While the end-time version of that event may involve a similar cosmic cataclysm, Isaiah attributes the destruction of the world’s cities to the king of Assyria/Babylon (Isaiah 37:26). In view of modern weaponry’s ability to destroy entire cities in seconds, such technology in the hands of an archtyrant may thus account for Isaiah’s end-time scenario (Isaiah 9:18-19).
YES - I AM A SERVANT (A TYPE) OF THE LORD !
AND I AM GIVING YOU ! THIS WARNING !
