Kingdom of ZION wrote: ↑July 29th, 2019, 11:41 pm
NIGHTLIGHT wrote: ↑July 29th, 2019, 9:28 pm
Kingdom of ZION wrote: ↑July 29th, 2019, 9:11 am
abijah wrote: ↑July 28th, 2019, 9:37 pm
Praise be to Jesus Christ - He could have just made another world and another Adam who might obey Him - but He chose to give us another chance. So simple, just make another Creation and another, better, man to tend it and keep it. But He didn’t, He saved us, He came down from heaven when He didn’t need to so that we could have another shot.
Really, praise be to Jesus Christ forever, and thanks be to God for His Son.
Abijah, I see many of your scriptural insights here as yearnings to make a greater thing of the Davidic Servant than he will be, for after all he is but a Servant of the true King.
But in your statement above, your wisdom died. The Messiah could not have just made another world or replaced Michael! Michael was not obeying Uriel (Yeshua/Yahshua), but Yah (Yahweh/Yahovah), there Father.
Make a better man... if it was only that simple! This eternal plan is the perfect plan design to allow the children of G_d to come up unto the perfections of G_d, and some (very very few Sons) to become heirs, and joint heirs with the Messiah. To be come the literal children of G_d as the Messiah IS!
You said: " He (the Messiah) came down from heaven when He didn’t need to so that we could have another shot." That is so far off the page, the words could not stick to them... He Messiah came to obtain his divinity, just as every son of G_d has from the dawn of time (forever)! It IS the Father's plan, not the Messiah's!. So says the scriptures, and all things in eternity or from eternity witness it! Even the devils themselves cannot deny such... the Messiah is the Son of the living G_d! And the Messiah said, I have come to do the will of my Father, not my own... in all things.
Do you think there will be a literal exodus in the new world before the New Jerusalem is established?
Absolutely!!! It will be where Joseph said it would be, "Where the Nephites lost their power".
Hi KOZ-
I think we can name an even more recent people who lost their power in that general geographic location, but I digress...
So here's my basic and incomplete opinion (in response to the question you posted earlier) about how and why Zion will succeed this time... I welcome your critique or any additions you can provide to my understanding, as I'm prayerfully seeking to understand more...
I believe that the marvelous work and a wonder (end times gathering / the work of the Father) will begin alongside the great and terrible series of end times events foretold by Daniel, John the Revelator, Nephi and the BoJ. This will result in bringing the nations (among whom God's spiritual elect are scattered) to their knees in a way never seen before. When all hell literally breaks lose, and everything we love in this telestial world is ripped away from us, we will basically be compelled to EITHER truly submit to the Lord with an acceptable sacrifice (a truly broken heart and contrite spirit) OR to curse God and die. For the elect of God, the descension and suffering will be unprecedented, but so will be the corresponding ascension... I imagine it will be somewhat like the events of 3rd Nephi, but spread and magnified across the entire world... In that type of environment, I believe we'll see the miraculous exoduses and gatherings that have been prophesied of, along with the greatest missionary harvest the world has ever seen.
In short, I believe that FINALLY there will be resultant gatherings of people who will truly have received the baptism of fire and Gift of the Holy Ghost, because they finally repent and return to the Lord with the only acceptable offering (BHCS) he has asked for. These humble saints finally enter the gate onto the strait and narrow path of the New and Everlasting Covenant. Having been spiritually begotten, the Lord's spirit writes His law and name on their hearts and tells them "all things which they should do." This true reception of the Holy Ghost will be similar to Acts 2, Mosiah 5, Helaman 5, and 3 Nephi 19-20. I believe that this is THE KEY thing which has eluded any large group of people for so many centuries (strait is the gate and few be there that find it). It is required of a Zion / pure in heart people. I believe that the Church of the Lamb of God (aka Zion) which Nephi speaks of can simply be described as those who have actually been baptised by fire and of the Holy Ghost (not just received the dead temporal ordinances). ALL OTHERS will be considered part of the Church of the Devil because they decide to remain telestial rather than ascend in glory.
I don't believe ANY currently organized church can currently boast that it's membership is in possession of the Gift of the Holy Ghost - because they are not yet making the appropriate sacrificial offering of the BHCS. We (who are identified among the gentiles) are, at best, like the Nephites in 3 Nephi 9:13 (in a pre-converted, yet to be healed stage). Likewise there is no missionary work that is currently involved in the great work of gathering scattered Israel. Obviously this is contrary to the popular belief on this forum.

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1 Nephi 14
6 Therefore, wo be unto the Gentiles if it so be that they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God.
7 For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other—either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.
10 And he said unto me: Behold there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is the mother of abominations; and she is the whore of all the earth.
12 And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters; nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, who were the saints of God, were also upon all the face of the earth; and their dominions upon the face of the earth were small, because of the wickedness of the great whore whom I saw.
14 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, beheld the power of the Lamb of God, that it descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb, and upon the covenant people of the Lord, who were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and they were armed with righteousness and with the power of God in great glory.
17 And when the day cometh that the wrath of God is poured out upon the mother of harlots, which is the great and abominable church of all the earth, whose founder is the devil, then, at that day, the work of the Father shall commence, in preparing the way for the fulfilling of his covenants, which he hath made to his people who are of the house of Israel.