“Stones, Ships, and Rending the Veil!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: Ether 1-5

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"Stones, Ships and, Rending the Veil!"
 
I. Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
ii. Patter
II. Theme:"Stones, Ships and Rending the Veil!"
III. Ether 1
i. Abridging the 24 plates, Compressed and culled.
1. Things are missing and incomplete, glossed over, series of snapshots, Chronicles
2. Skips over Gen 1-11
ii. Genealogy: Ether royal lineage. Glenwood
iii. Families and clans
1. Jared, brother, and friends
2. Name Mahonri Moriacumer. Juvenile Instructor 27:282; Ether 2:13
3. Faith, not confound languages
4. Jared keeps directing his brother?
5. Patterns
a. Exodus Pattern
b. Noachian Pattern
6. Great nation, and long time called upon name
IV. Ether 2
i. Deseret: EM, Egyptian word
ii. Lord directs to virgin land, caravans and barges
iii. Conditions of land: Christ
1. Patriotism and nationalism
2. Divine providence and manifest destiny
3. Americanism and Restoration
a. Doctrine in BOM and D&C, Provo City Temple dedication
b. how to present in church--Manti Temple and Temps Square more of a sub-UN feel now.
c. Served in Portugal, make sure teaching gospel, not Americanism (or Canadianism)
d. Are we abandoning something that's part of the doctrine of Christ?
iv. 3 Hour chastening--if so powerful, why the slip
1. Seen in in the leaders and heroes of my mission who have fallen away
2. Seen it with local leaders over the decades
3. See it in my life, and hopefully in yours
4. DHO Our Strengths Can be Our Downfall
V. Barges
i. Temporal and temporary/tactical revelation
1. tight like a dish, buoyant
2. Two problems
a. no air
b. no light
3. Revelations
a. Temporal
b. incremental
c. Saturday 7th [November 1835] spent the day at home attending to my domestic concerns; The word <of the Lord> came to me saying HC 2:302
ii. Re-asks
1. Did Nephi have this, from time to time?
2. Lord updates plan
3. Temple Garmets updated from time to time. 100 yrs.
iii. Re-asks
1. Second problem
2. What do you want me to do
3. Sometimes tell this our part, God's part, interactive intertwined
4. Keep asking, is there more? What else? What now?
iv. The Stones
1. Acts and melts clear rocks
2. Prayer
a. Anger
b. fall: natures continually evil
c. Smitten
i. Are we neglecting these aspects of the doctrine of Christ?
ii. Christ the cuddly, chubby cupid
d. Merciful
e. touch stones
i. Ancient legend that Noah had a glowstone, a Tzohar, sapphire
ii. Noachian pattern
v. The revelation
1. Sees finger, veil off of eyes
2. Falls back, vs sisters who talk about an anticipated headlong rush to give Christ a slobbery kiss
3. Dialogue
4. full vision
vi. Second comforter part of the fullness of the gospel, not a side or esoteric principle, but here it is.
vii. Never before: no solid answers
1. JFiS  AGQ 2:123-125
2. MD, 464; PM 599
3. Book of Mormon Reference Companion
4. JRH April 1974; Christ and the New Covenant, 20ff
5. DCBM 4:274ff
6. "Never Have I Showed Myself Unto Man": a Suggestion for Understanding Ether 3:15a by Kent P. Jackson , BYU Studies, vol. 30 (1990), Number 3 - Summer 1990, p.71
7. JT JD18:330 "The Prophet Joseph once ... wished me to write something for him of this subject, but I found it a very difficult thing to do. He had to correct me several times. ... I wrote it again, and again he said it was not right. It is very difficult to find language suitable to convey the meaning of spiritual things."
viii. Flesh and Blood
1. Finger Flesh and blood
2. Body now behold
3. Revelation of future body, not just spirit form?
ix. Interpreters
x. Cosmic vision
VI. Ether 4
i. Write the vision, bur seal up, Moses 1, last verse
ii. Rest of chapter first person Christ
1. Rend veil of unbelief
2. Same vision and more
iii. Think about this as family councils, and ward councils. Too focused on calendaring, which can be handled online or email
VII. Ether 5
i. Message to JS
ii. Three witnesses
VIII. Christ Quotient
i. Approach:
1. Lesson on trouble shooting
2. Lesson on Fall
ii. Fall:
1. Natures evil continually
2. carnal sensual Devilish, lost fallen, worthless, imbecile JT
iii. Brother on ward near tears. Triggered to bulling experiences
1. Strategies for teaching
2. Specific case, not resolve in one issue
3. Respectful of experience,  respect of doctrine
4. Future time, Have study and let HG teach
5. Out of context and intent to hurt, in context with intent to heal
iv. Troubleshooting
1. Temporal
2. Incremental
v. Revelation of Christ
1. Human form, not alien
2. Spirit body
3. Incompatible with evolution: Reads Two statements on evolution
4. But he exists
5. Antichrist in BOM, end of Helaman
vi. Christ, that's the point
 
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