Biblical Prophecies of the Restoration - Evidences
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- This video goes over a significant number of verses in the Bible, which can be seen with hindsight now, as amazing evidences of foreknowledge by prophets and apostles of the latter day restoration.
VIDEO EDIT NOTE: Twice during the video I mentioned that Lehi and Mulek are from the tribe of Joseph - I meant to say Lehi and Ishmael.
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Resources:
Book - Biblical Roots of Mormonism - Eric Shuster
Many related videos on Latter-day Saints' Q&A which are mentioned throughout this video
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The library of content I set out to build is complete, but I left the door open if new items come up that I haven't already addressed in some fashion. I am staying actively involved still though answering comments daily as well as personal emails sent via my website latterdaysaintsqa.com
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Thanks for the comment and for sharing the videos in Argentina! The Spanish (and Portuguese) subtitles have been quite a project so its rewarding when I hear they are being used! :)
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Thank you for sharing - so glad you found the channel and it is helping you while you are investigating! Let me know if you have any follow up questions - you can reach me directly through my website (where I keep the transcripts for the videos) - latterdaysaintsqa.com and then use the contact me link.
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Thank you for making this video. I was thinking about this very topic yesterday.
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Thank you - that was my wife’s touch - she pulls the images together for the slides and she is an RM herself :)
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@@latterdaysaintsqa Good video, but just a little correction, Mulek was not a descendant of Joseph, he was of the tribe of Juda, being a Jew of the house of David, and an heir to the throne of David through his lineage, being a descendant of King Josiah.
Judah was also prophesied to be scattered across the earth and also gathered.
Excellent catch - thank you so much. I meant to say Lehi and Ishmael were from the tribe of Joseph but accidentally said Mulek rather than Ishmael (and did it twice!). I am going to make a show note correction under the description. Thanks again for the comment!
@@latterdaysaintsqa oh ok no problem. I really like your videos. It's good to see the saints excited about the truths and more so when evidence is there to strengthen that which we already believe.
What a beautiful faith
There is the three-fold restoration performed by Joseph Smith the seer, in which he restored the gospel, the priesthood and the church of Jesus Christ, and then there will be the restitution of all things which will be performed by Elias during the end times. Many of the restoration scriptures cited by latter-day saints actually are referring to when Elias restores all things, _not_ to Joseph's three-fold restoration. Joseph's restoration is a prophetic shadow (or foreshadow) of the later and infinitely greater restoration that comes later. Although we apply these scriptures to Joseph's restoration, the application only works as a prophetic shadow, not as literal fulfillment of the end-time prophecies. And that's okay, because even prophetic shadows generate faith.
14 minutes in brings up yet another question for me. It said that Christ will not return until the restoration of all things. How can we possibly have everything restored before Christ returns when today we are told that the restoration is an on going thing. This church is constantly changing and we are fed line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little. My heart is so full of questions that so far have not been answered by others and please don't tell me to take it to the Lord. That is what I have been doing for years and all I end up with are more questions. You seem to be very in tune and know your scriptures. Is there any way for me to contact you to see if you may be able to answer some of the questions that I have? Thanks for the videos.
Feel free to reach out to me through my website latterdaysaintsqa.com, using the "contact me" link
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Have you done a video on the doctrine of the Trinity? Thank you. We’re studying this week in my schooling. I’d like to know your thoughts.
I have - you will find it under the title Restoring Original Christianity Part 1
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Would you mind telling me which version of Come, Come ye Saints you use at the end of your videos? I've searched myself but can't seem to make the match. Also keep up the amazing work with these videos!
It was from the church website - music section. It is one of the instrumental versions. Here is a link to the download on my computer (hoping this will work for you):
drive.google.com/file/d/11UxVtHR4flTlzcVcmCWqrjpT-uoDt6u7/view
I love these so much! If they were two hours long they'd be too short. Thanks again!
Thanks for the kind words - it would actually be easier to do a 2 hour video on many of these topics, as the challenge is often narrowing down the information to the most critical or relevant. The challenge with the longer video lengths though is you lose a lot of viewers, so it is a balancing act...
@@latterdaysaintsqa I used to produce an art history podcast and I know what you mean! The balancing act is real.
But if you continue to read Revelation, verse 6 of that 14th chapter says ““Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” So, the scripture is saying to go tell everyone about the returning of Christ before it’s too late. Those are just my thoughts.
Yes, I would agree with your thinking about verse 7; my focus of sharing verse 6 was that because an angel is described in the last days being sent bringing the everlasting gospel - a reasonable interpretation could be why would an angel need to bring something unless a restoration of some kind was needed
Even 2pac said that he was looking for a revised Bible. ´´If God wrote the bible, I’m sure there would have been a revised copy by now. Cause a lot of shit has changed. I’ve been looking for this revised copy-I still see that same old copy that we had from then.´´
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To take it even further in relation to the two witnesses and every word being established. Even the word that was with God (John 1:1) per isrealite law!🤯
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Why is the date so important when you were talking about Nebuchadnezzar?
In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, the stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands (i.e. God’s kingdom, set up by Him, not by man), was to be set up and roll and destroy all the earthly kingdoms (the statue image). The specific verse in Daniel (2:44) says “in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but is shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” Now this eventual destroying all the kingdoms won’t be something until the millennium, when we will have a theocracy rule, with Christ as the King, but the mention to when the kingdom which would be set up - it was to happen in the “days of these kings” - when was the image of the dream complete - well you had to have 10 toes - these represented kingdoms coming out of the Roman Empire. The earliest you can date this to is 476 AD. So the point I was making in the video is this church/kingdom wouldn’t be established (the one that would eventually rule everything during the millennium as a theocracy, Christ being the ruler) until after the date many claim ties back to “original Chrisitian churches” set up PRIOR to this date (or claim authority by breaking off later from those early churches, but yet say that is in their DNA or etimology). This verse is quite powerful in showing that the Latter-day kingdom would be a restoration by God, not by man (“cut without hands”), and its origin date would come much later than the early centuries of the original Christian church.
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Have you ever considered doing an evidence video about *intelligent design*?
There’s an awesome institution out of Washington lead by Steven Meyer and (forgot first name) Behe. They have convincing evidence.
If you watch the last video I produced entitled “Personal Reflections” I talk about having finished the video library project. I did produce two videos which have some content about the creation - “Religion & Science: Seeing With Both Eyes” and “Old Testament Issues that Unnecessarily Challenge Faith”
You said why would there be a name written on a stick. This is actually not uncommon. Moses wrote the name on 12 sticks corresponding with the 12 tribes of Israel to distinguish who is who in the camp of Israel. Some critics of the church like the point this out meaning it literally means just the name on a stick. I have yet to find any historical evidence that a stick is a scroll or scripture.
I do appreciate what you are saying and if I could rerecord that section, I think I would have worded it differently or at least elaborated on what I meant. My thought was if the purpose behind this was the gathering and reunification of Israel, it could make some additional sense from a logical perspective, that this could be writings to help in some way to do that vs just a stick that is written on. Granted, the word itself means wood or rod/staff, but there is some good scholarship pointing toward this being Mesopotamian writing boards.
Let me share a few different resources and thoughts:
SOURCE: Jehovah and the World of the Old Testament by Richard Holzapfel, Dana Pike & David Seely, p346
In the second portion of the chapter (Exek 37:15-28), Ezekiel represents the restoration of Israel with an action prophecy. He was instructed to take “one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand” (Ezek 37:16-17). The divine explanation of the symbolism of two sticks in one hand is this: “I will take the children of Israel from among the heather, whither they be gone, and will gather them…into their own land: And I will make them one nations in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms Andy more at all (Ezek 27:21-22). The sticks thus represent the inhabitants of the two former Israelite kingdoms during the divided monarch, Israel and Judah, being restored to their land as one, “and David my servant shall be king over them” (Ezek 37:24, see also 34:23-24). This last phrase is best understood as fulfilled in Jesus at his Second Coming.
As with the vision of dry bones rising from the dead, the symbolism of this prophecy represents the restoration of Israel in its land, and the restoration of one, divinely sanctioned ruler. The focus is not on the “sticks.” But what the the “Sticks” on which Ezekiel wrote? The Hebrew word translated “stick” (KJV) is ‘etc,” wood, tree.” Sine this “wood “ was written on (Ezek 37:16,20), commentators now usually suggest these are Mesopotamian writing boards, thin pieces of wood or ivory, recessed on one side to hold a layer of wax into which a scribe could impress his stylus to write in cuneiform. A few examples of writing boards have been discovered, and some are depicted in Mesopotamian art. They usually consisted of two leaves hinged together, making it possible to understand two “sticks” becoming one in a person’s hand. This suggestion fits well with Ezekiel’s Babylonian context. Older commentaries suggested the sticks were staffs, scepters, or arrows. However, writing boards are the current best guess. [side bar - picture of Hinged Writing Board from Nimrud in the British Museum in London: These wooden boards have a recessed surface that was filled with wax and inscribed with a stylus. The writing board could be used again by “erasing” the text - i.e., melting the wax. A number of pictorial representations and actual writing boards survive from aconite Mesopotamia. Many scholars believe that Ezekiel’s mention of “sticks” in Ezekiel 37 may have been a reference to writing boards such as this].
Latter-day Saints understand these “sticks” as symbolizing the scriptural records that developed from the peoples of the two Israelite kingdoms, at least after some Josephites were led to the New World. As such, they have become one in our own hands through the Restoration and gathering of Israel (see D&C 27:5)
The Aramaic targums render the word found in the KJV as sticks with the word luha, which means “tablet, writing board.”
New English Bible Version of this verse:
These were the words of the Lord to me: Man, take one leaf of a wooden tablet and write on it, “Judah and his associates of Israel.” Then take another leaf and write on it, “Joseph, the leaf of Ephraim and all of his associates of Israel.” Now bring the two together to form one tablet; then they will be a folding tablet in your hand.”
SOURCE: An Approach to the Book of Mormon by Hugh Nibley, p 271-287:
When one thinks of two covenant books, one naturally thinks of the Old and New Testaments, and that is exactly what the two most famous Bible critics of all time-Eusebius and Jerome-thought of. The former says the two sticks must have been the Old and New Testaments respectively, and Jerome projects the symbolism farther: it is not only the Old and New Testament, according to him; it is likewise the Synagogue and the Church, the Jews and the Gentiles, the old covenant and the new one that followed and replaced it. But it is only too easy to see why this ingratiating interpretation was not accepted by their successors, ancient or modern. To point out but a few of the more obvious objections, (1) the New Testament is no more Joseph’s book than it is Judah’s; (2) in Ezekiel’s account the perfect equality of the two is stressed; Judah does not absorb Joseph, nor Joseph absorb Judah, as the Church is supposed by the fathers to absorb the Synagogue; (3) nor in Ezekiel does one covenant follow after and supplant the other in time; they are strictly contemporary, brought together and placed side by side to become one; (4) the Old Testament and New Testament were brought together almost immediately, and at that time neither of the two parties was scattered, smashed, dead-”dry bones” (Ezekiel 37:4)-as both should have been if the prophecy refers to them; (5) but, most significant, the two nations are described by Ezekiel as being reunited after a long separation (dudum separata, says Jerome); they once shared a common covenant and brotherhood which is here simply being renewed. This entirely disqualifies any claims of the Gentiles to hold the stick of Joseph, coming in as they do as outsiders who have never known the covenant
I do like how Nibley points out here that these ancient famous Biblical critics, both of which died nearly 1600 years ago, believed that Ezekiel’s sticks were referring to books of scripture, guessing it was the bringing together of the Old and New Testaments, and I think Nibley does a good job showing how the OT & NT wouldn’t fit the prophecy well. But my point is simply that these great ancient critics, who were much closer to that time and understanding, viewed these sticks interpretively as books of scripture.
So I will finish up with a few scriptures - we have possible “writings”, that when unified, Ezekiel says would be a trigger for the gathering of Israel. We can see this theme reflected in some key spots in the Book of Mormon passages:
2 Ne 3:12:
“the fruit of thy [Joseph] loins shall write; and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written … shall grow together.”
3 Ne 21:1-7
“I give unto you a sign, that ye may know the time when these things shall be about to take place-that I shall gather in, from their long dispersion, my people, O house of Israel, and shall establish again among them my Zion. … When these things which I declare unto you … shall be made known unto the Gentiles [the writings of Joseph’s posterity] … it shall be a sign unto them, that … the work of the Father hath already commenced unto the fulfilling of the covenant which he hath made unto the people who are of the house of Israel.”
3 Ne 29:1
“When the Lord shall see fit, in his wisdom, that these sayings shall come unto the Gentiles … then ye may know that the covenant which the Father hath made with the children of Israel, concerning their restoration to the lands of their inheritance, is already beginning to be fulfilled.”
I am also fascinated that this gathering was to be both spiritual and physical and it would commence as Ezekiel said, after the sticks are brought together. A part of the physical manifestation of the gathering is the evidence of the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. This would mean these sticks were combined together sometime before that date.
One last comment or possibility - if these were in fact sticks of wood that were to represent as some have believed, a rod, this could have some additional possible insights as well. The Hebrew word ets (rendered as “stick” in the KJV) is actually translated in the Greek LXX with the word rabdos, which means rod. The use of a rod to represent words or speech is found in Proverbs 10:13 and 14:3, and in other passages, it refers specifically to the word of God. Hugh Nibley wrote “in Egypt as among the Hebrews the staff was specifically the Word of God, and the Word of God was the Matteh ha-elohim or Staff of God.” (pg 316 of his book quoted above)