Palmyra Temple is INSIDE a Mound-Builder FORT | Travelogue 3
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- Did you know that the Palmyra Temple stands inside of an ancient Hopewell Mound-Builder fort? These ancient forts are all over the eastern half of the United States and were built exactly how Captain Moroni described them in The Book of Mormon. While many of them have been leveled down to the ground as the United States has grown, some of them still exist today and you can go see them - including the one at the Palmyra Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Palmyra, New York - the area where the Hopewell Mound-Builders ended, and the area where the Nephites in The Book of Mormon ended - both around 400 AD.
Many Native American tribes still have Hebrew/Middle-Eastern linguistics/customs still preserved in their cultures to this day. Some of them are descendants from the people in the Book of Mormon. The ancient North American Mound-builder civilizations correlate with the people in The Book of Mormon. They built fortified cities the way those people did. They had metal armor and swords like those people did. They made mounds filled with human bones like those people did. They had ancient Hebrew/Middle-Eastern writings like those people did. They had some X2a DNA that traces back to the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern area where those people came from.
The Book of Mormon is a true record about a group of believers in God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, who left Jerusalem in 600 BC and ended up somewhere in ancient America. It covers the years 600 BC - 421 AD, and also includes a brief record of a much earlier group of believers in God and Jesus, who left the Tower of Babel (approximately 2200 BC) and ended up somewhere in ancient America as well.
There is plenty of evidence in North America supporting the Book of Mormon. Read the Book of Mormon and research the Mound-builder civilizations (especially the Hopewell and the Adena). You will find that there were once great ancient civilizations right here in the United States and Canada that you most likely had never been taught about in school.
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This was amazing. I was able to attend this Temple dedication in 2000. It was a rainy day. Pres. Hinckley prayed for a window of good weather and it cleared up long enough for the capstone ceremony. While waiting I noticed the stones piled in the trees like a fence line. I thought how much work it must have taken to build. I had no idea this was an ancient mound site. It seems to me that Historians have gone to great lengths to bury history, and the truth. If you seek truth read The Book of Mormon. It testified to me that Jesus Is The Christ.
And it's possible that the stones could be from the white settlers. But the important thing that distinguishes it as a Hopewell fort are the embankments that surround the area, which, during Hopewell times, would have had a log palisade fence and intermittent towers all around the tops of the embankment, and a ditch all around the outside. Most of the ditch has been filled in, but there are slight depressions at some spots around the fort. There are about 200 known Hopewell fort sites like this in New York alone.
@@MichaelP_IsMe I would suspect that the stones were placed there by either Iroquois or white settlers. The same type of stones can be found in the Sacred Grove which were actually placed there b y the Smith family. Lots of work!
The best date of my life was sitting on that bench behind the Temple.
After one of my Temple trips, I remember walking up that berm and seeing the stone wall. I walked along it for a ways. I didn't know of mound builder forts yet either. I haven't been to that Temple since 2010 or 11, and I remember it all remarkably well. I was there when it was dedicated. I noticed the stones on the berm were much more round than those in the borders of the Sacred Grove. They were flagstone.
Referring to the berm, I thought it was a very peaceful and spiritual place. I am grateful for the portion of native American ancestry that I have.
The rock wall was where the hundred acre property of the Smith's farm ended.
The stones are rock walls. They are all over the Northeast and were the boundary's of properties and fields piled by farmers as they cleared their fields
Yes, as I said in the video, the rocks probably aren't from the Hopewell. The walls of the fort are long gone, but what is from the Hopewell are the embankments and ditches that surround the area.
Mike! I jumped on UA-cam to watch some Jim Gaffigan or something but then you had to come and ruin my plans with this AWESOME video. I tremendously respect the work you are doing and am happy we got to share time on our missions together. Don't you wish we had known about all the incredible ancient treasures Ohio held when we were preaching the Gospel there?!
Yeah Pete! I know, man, my first area (Hamilton, OH) had remains of a really cool fort that I wish I'd known about back then. You can find it in "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" (forgot the page right now and I'm not at home to look it up, but it's listed by county in the book). However, I don't know if it's still there or if it was leveled down sometime in the last 170 years :) I visited the Gillilands a few weeks ago when I was in St. George filming some cool Anasazi stuff down there that has to with Jesus Christ. I'm almost done with that video, and then I'll upload it to my channel.
@@MichaelP_IsMe Excellent! I'll be waiting!
I didn’t know that was there. Thanks for sharing. I follow Wayne May so the evidence keeps mounting.
Most rock walls have been attributed to the farmers removing rocks from fields and using them to mark property boundries.
Yes, as I said in the video, the rocks probably aren't from the Hopewell. The walls of the fort are long gone, but what is from the Hopewell are the embankments and ditches that surround the area.
@@MichaelP_IsMe Another example of these rocks can be found throughout the Sacred Grove which the Smiths themselves created.
Well done! I live in Toronto and will be visiting the Temple again this summer but this time, with a renewed interest in the grounds of the temple in connection with the mound/fort you referenced. It helps to look at an aerial view of the temple as you describe things. Correction as to the left side of the temple and the trail therein ... it is actually the east side of the temple.
Yes, my sense of direction out there gets all messed up! There are trails on both the east and west side, but yes, the one where I started is on the east (left) side of the temple. If you're into using dowsing rods, take a pair with you and see what happens when you walk the perimeter of the fort. Enjoy your next visit!
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Duuuude!!! Was pumped to see this video when I saw the title!
Thanks for the update, very interesting that this happened. I don’t think it’s by chance.
Keep doing these videos! Would love for you to explore the Apache tribe in Arizona, there’s stories very similar to that of the book of Mormon!
@@shawnbradford2243 Cheyenne Arrowman Shawn Littlebear would disagree with you.
Ron Swanson The Navaho & Apache are on the list of Native Americans that are of Israel-Americans - X2a! Me too, Mohawk/Ojibwa, dancer in pow wows IN costume & 1st Costa Mesa (Ca) ward. A true Native all the way, but Scottish (Shaw-Clan Chattan & MACCALLUM the Isle of Lewis outer Hebrides the “loud Mac Leod” tartan. Trumps Mom also came from Lewis so he (Trump) wears the same Mac Leod tartan. It seems to me that the clans (Scot) & our Native tribes are parallel (tribes & clans) each having special costumes or kilts, even traditions! AND Both have Israeli ancestors!
The trees have grown. It's still beautiful. Thanks for your efforts. I still remember when it was dedicated. : )
I came flying! Thank you for showing this. Keep digging out, my friend!
I really wish this information was made available to church members. I am almost convinced, from what I have learned this past four or five years, that the Book of Mormon took place in this area. I don't understand why the church leaders continue to lean toward Mexico and south America.
Try reading "The Lost City of Zarahamla" by Jonathan Neville. He postulates that there is a reason for how South America was originally identified (incorrecty) as the lands of the Book of Mormon. Zarahemla is and always has been opposite from Nauvoo.
@@mdaley4390 So true.
Actually, there are forts down in Brazil that are built much like what the Nephites describe their forts as. Brazil was attemping to build a series of dams coming down from the Amazon. This is documented in the book (also a movie) by a BYU archeologist who was asked to visit the sites down in Brazil. The two professor went down into a ravine that had four x four foot holes in the bottom of the ravines. The Brazilian archeologist asked him what he thought about and the BYU guy did not get. The Brazilian archeologist then pointed out the holes in the bottom of the ravine and then described the land inside the circled burm as flat and large enough for three villages. He then went on to state that there were ancient roads from the village that went to other villages with the same description and that it went on and on. Not sure if Brazil got its dams. But you can read about it in the book "The Lost City of Z". That is the story of the British Explorer who Britain hired to map Brazil, Major Percival Fawcett. I always imagined the Lost City as possibly Zarahemla. He disappeared with his son and was probably killed by one of the tribes in Brazil. My daughter-in-law is from Sao Paulo. And she states there are still some Indian tribes that will kill explorers down there. The Indians are protected by the Brazilian government.
Incredible! I hope to walk that trail someday!
There's a stone wall that runs north and south in the sacred Grove too
Yeah, I've seen that. Do you think that is one that the Smith family built?
@@CalledtoShare it could be. It was more than likely around that time made for a boundary
Called to Share there are remnants of the original stone and split rail fence, however it is just the stones that remain. But yes it is the original fence made by the Smith Family!
Another excellent video, sir. Your information is A1. Looking forward to more great videos.
Awesome.........
That was awesome. Thank you.
Love your videos! Thank you for sharing and keep ‘em coming!
Hill Cumorah is hunted. I left running from there. I got attacked by bees, snakes, big fat ants. I felt a fear when a bad spirits are around.
It might have been that your own personal demons were very uncomfortable being in such light.
Do a video on the book “He walked the Americas”
Very soon! :) It's mostly completed, and will hopefully be uploaded next week.
I love this. Thank you.
Be interesting to see if there are stones on the other side of the field, then it would be feasible that they were cleared from the field by farmers. There are a lot of stones, so either the soil is very rocky, or they were gathered from around the area (from inside the fort when mound erected) and placed there.
Thanks for the story of the Hopewell fort!
What happened to the video showing pictures of the room in the Hill Cumorah?
Hey Ryan! I took the video down, because I found out last night that I got some information wrong about it, which Matt made me aware of. A kid did fall into the hole, but it wasn't Matt and Lori's son. It was another kid, and therefore, not the great-grandson of Willard Bean. And the stone walls of the room didn't have any longer stones sticking out to make shelves. But yes, the room is there.
This might be a dumb question, but it's it possible that those stones were put there as part of the decor when the temple was built? I don't know either way, I'm just curious your insight on that.
Yeah, who knows. The stones could have been put there anytime by anybody whether it was as far back as the Hopewell, or settlers who owned the property before the temple was built. Just throwing a guess out there that it wasn't when the church built the temple, because the stones don't follow the fort embankment all the way around the temple. They're only on most of the south side, and very little of the north side, so I'm guessing they were there before. But the embankments surround almost the entire area, just like the other 200+ Hopewell forts in New York. Ditches, embankments, and picket fences made of tree logs is how the Hopewell built their forts, just as Mornoni describes in The Book of Mormon. Some later native tribes also built forts with picket fences, but the Hopewell were the ones who created ditches and embankments with their forts. Post-molds with traces of rotted or charcoaled wood where the logs once stood are always found lining the top of Hopewell fort embankments, which is one way to get carbon dating from fort sites, and to see where towers stood. There are thousands of Hopewell fort remains all over the eastern U.S./Canada. Many have been leveled down and built over or used for crop fields over the last few hundred years, but many are still around. "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley" and "Antiquities of New York" (both version) are some good books to get to see some survey drawings of forts that were drawn back in the early/mid 1800s.
It's not a dumb question at all. The reason this particular stone wall was described as ancient is because there are literally thousands of miles of these ancient stone walls and stone chambers all over the New England States.
There are thousands of miles of stone walls erected prior to colonization all through New England.
The temple is on the Smith property. The stone wall was put there by the smiths as they plowed the fields. The same type of wall is found all throughout their property.
@@jclements007 No, there are not. Stone walls, such as discussed here were built after the European conquest.
I remember going up on that berm and seeing the rocks. I just figured that was an old rock wall to separate the properties. Farmers just defining their property lines. Is that plot identified in the book as a Hopewell structure? I'll watch the video again to see if I missed it, but did you say how you came to the conclusion that this was a Hopewell fort?
Yeah, like I said in the video, I don't know how old the rocks are. They could very well be from farmers who previously lived there, or from Iroquois before they were driven out. But the embankments and ditches are definitely Hopewell, like the hundreds of other Hopewell forts in New York, and the thousands throughout the eastern U.S./Cananda.
@@MichaelP_IsMe Source for the Hopewell claim? And no, the rock walls are post European conquest.
Awesome!
Hi Michael- was this site surveyed anywhere?
I'm not sure. I couldn't find it in "Antiquities of New York", but then again, that book only has about 50 surveyed forts from New York while there are over 200 found so far.
So...how do we know it was an actual hopewell fort site? Has any excavation work ever been done there? Any carbon dating of post holes, etc., as found at other sites?
@@SuperEightCow I don't know if any excavation has ever been done there, but it's the exact same type of fort as the other 200+ Hopewell forts in New York. That's good enough for me. Only the Hopewell built forts like that. Later Iroquois tribes did build forts with picketed fences, but only the Hopewell made forts with ditches, embankments, and picketed fences on top. And most archaeologists agree that the Hopewell ended in New York around 400 AD.
@@shawnbradford2243 I believe that the Palmyra temple is on a hopewell/Nephite site- the reverse parallels between the hopewell migration and the history of the church are too obvious to be pure coincidence- Squire only touched a a tiny bit of the mounds and ruins in NY with his surveys and new archeological evidences from brave archeologists like D. Troy Case and Christopher Carr "The Scioto Hopewell and their Neighbors" catalog all of the evidence that you need from non LDS sources...Michael P does a fantastic job with these videos. My question was regarding if any additional archeological digs have been done at this location, not on questioning the validity of the claim if this was a nephite/hopewell site or not. The detractors of the church have far bigger problems on their hands as they try to explain away the continual and new evidences that support Joseph Smith and the authenticity of the Book of Mormon.
I live here it’s the best
Those look more like old property line stone fences dating back to the 1700s and 1800s. Ancient ones would likely not be recognizable.
Pretty awesome
My Grandparents told me the Cheyenne came from the Great Lakes Region.
Please don't say "Ya know" while you're talking. I don't know.
I'm gonna ask what may be a redundant question; could anyone take the hopewell/ adena mounds and cross check them with these maps of mounds and today's maps both ground/sky/lidar ? Thanks. This completely fascinates me.
That would be very interesting indeed. Problem is, Lidar scans are not exactly cheap. I hope someone will one day raise the funds to do that
Does anyone know if the temple site for the Palmyra temple as dedicated anciently as the site for what is now the Palmyra temple, the same as the Manti temple was?
Be cool to see a lidar image
Amazing............ never knew this information!
cool
Maybe it was a private party room
Too many "I'm not sure" this is all speculation.
Are you a member of the Church? 🙂
One of the CLICHES coming from people of our day coming to educated, aware, discovering is JOSEPH KNEW. And his knowledge was past on, in quietness. Articles of Faith, # 9. We believe God will yet reveal many great and important things, pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
Giant bones
Thanks for sharing. Pretty cool stuff. Please don’t speak in absolutes. There are plenty of examples of this building style in Mesoamerica and other parts of South America. It’s simply untrue to state this is the only place you’ll see this type of fortifications or structures as outlined in the Book of Mormon. To speak without really knowing, as if having a perfect knowledge is disingenuous. Thanks
Hi Eric, I would love to learn where. Do you have any info. about it that you could share here?
@@MichaelP_IsMe I believe El Chacon has fortifications similar to this. The trees are too dense there to find them easily.
If these things are true, why are they never mentioned in general conference?
A great question
Remember the church and it’s mission is to bring people to Christ!
They’ve been bitten in the past getting involved in secular knowledge and tend to leave it to other experts but I agree they should make more mention of evidence
The general body of Latter-day-Saints have been building their setting for Book of Mormon lands in Central America as a result of the Archaeological discovery of Mayan ruins in the 1840s. The vast majority today still adhere to the Mesoamerican setting, which is why the church won't take an official position. Yes, it's quirky.
The leadership are smart enough to not stake claim to any physical assertions as to location, etc. They know there's precisely ZERO physical evidence for the existence of a peoples as described in the Book of Mormon, so they smartly leave it to "faith".
Has the church validated this claim?
Hi "gone fishing". The church doesn't have to validate it. The state of New York (mostly western New York) has over 200 identified ancient Hopewell forts where embankments of earth with ditches on the outside are built around an area to fortify it. That is what surrounds the Palmyra temple.
@@MichaelP_IsMe Yes the church does need to make an official statement on it if members are to believe it.
@@shawnbradford2243 well I'm in agreement on that part. The church leaders have been lying to us from the start.
@@shawnbradford2243 You made up a lie and said it's what I believe. What I actually believe is that the current church leaders are true leaders, and that they tell the truth, and that they are true prophets and apostles chosen by God Himself. That doesn't mean they're perfect people. Nobody is. You've trolled my channel and people who comment on it for a very long time now. You're obsessed with it as if you have nothing better to do with your time. And even though you're rude and disrespectful, I've allowed you to continue making comments on my channel, because I respect allowing people to share their differing opinions. But because I've had enough people complain about how rude and disrespectful you are to them, and the fact that you don't know how to disagree with others in a respectful way, I am now blocking you from my channel. May you find something else to do with your time that's actually productive and meaningful to other human beings. Best wishes to you.
There’s always that one LDS hater in the comments 😂 so to my fellow Mormons make sure you listen, these anti’s know everything 😂
Shawn Bradford oh lord let me make this easy “antimoormon”. 🤣 and trust me this isn’t a road you wanna go down.
Shawn Bradford am Antimormon is someone who comes to LDS videos, blogs, ect and tries to disprove the church and it’s teachings. Kinda like an antichrist to what Christ would be. “Anti” is something opposing and or against what you believe.
Shawn Bradford sorry about that, hadn’t paid ya any mind. Well I could explain but I don’t quite know you would know what I’m talking about. After all you had a rough time understanding what anti meant lol.
Shawn Bradford all there lots of things I’m anti. I don’t believe in abortion soooooo, also don’t believe the Catholic Church is true so yes I’m anti-Catholic, ect. So yes I’m anti on lots of things bud. And Christ like lol, bro you came to this channel did you not???? Why bother to come here if you don’t believe lol.
Some of your comments such as asking me if I’m anti-science would be irrelevant to our topic but yes on something’s I would be? Don’t know what else you want me to say regarding that lol.
I live in Connecticut and these are everywhere. I was told that these are simple farm property lines.
Yes. This is how farmers marked their fields and property. A fence was usually constructed overtop the stone walls.
Correct...absolutely nothing to do with supposed Book of Mormon claims.
Michael talk to Wayne May I remember him saying that the stone wall was built by the Hopewell. If you need his phone number message me.
Thanks Steven, I know know Wayne. We chat sometimes.
@@shawnbradford2243 Wayne May is no fraud and is independent. Not paid by The Church. None of us here are real concerned about what BYU has to say about this.
Regarding Michael P.'s description comments about the video / information:
Paragraph 1 is entirely speculative regarding any connection to any supposed Book of Mormon peoples.
Paragraph 2 is especially egregious. In particular the first sentence. It is completely untrue that there is any Hebrew / Middle-Eastern linguistics / customs as a part of ANY native American peoples. It's just a false assertion. There's also no physical evidence that would substantiate the assertion that ANY native American peoples are of Hebrew decent. Likewise there's precisely no evidence for the use of swords anywhere in the western hemisphere, prior to the European conquest (or the brief expeditionary visits of Vikings), none. Furthermore, there's no DNA evidence that traces directly to the Med / Middle - East, among any native American peoples, NONE.
"There is plenty of evidence in North America supporting the Book of Mormon". This is a stretch that borders on the absurd. There's actually not a single shred of evidence yet discovered that would substantiate the massive physical claims of The Book of Mormon. Namely, that there was a massive (multiple, multiple millions of people), centuries-spanning, pseudo-Jewish / Christian type civilization somewhere in the ancient, pre-European conquest, Western Hemisphere.
It's not that there's some evidence that would lend credence to the claim, it's that there's none, and there's plenty that completely counter indicates the validity of the claims.
If anyone wants to review such supposed "evidence", please present it to me for review.
Why would your simplistic, blanket denial be worthy of any special attention by any particular viewer?
How about you take the time to actually watch, and take notes of the information presented by Lengren, Mays. Then verify their sources. Finally, if you're actually serious, pray on the findings.
You throw sophomoric accusations, advertising your intellectual laziness.
@@l7846 I have watched and verified, that's the problem.
It's bunk.
- WITNESSES and WAYMARKS -
(PART 1)...
There are but few who know that included in His Plan for the ancient “SCATTERING” of “The Lost 10 Tribes of Israel” which began with their forced deportation from the Holy Land by the Assyrians 734 years before the birth of Christ, our Lord included a DIRECTIVE (some would call it a commandment) which He REVEALED BY PROPHESY. The directive was this: that in the course of their ancient dispersal which would take them “AMONG *ALL* NATIONS, EVEN UNTO THE ISLES OF THE SEA”, some of Israel’s “Lost 10 Tribes” were to “SET UP”/“MAKE” specific tell-tale signs that would be left along “THE WAY” during their journey down thru the dusty centuries. That which they were commanded to “SET UP”/“MAKE” was to stand thru the centuries as Israel’s ‘signature’ so to speak - or “WAYMARKS” left along the side of the ‘road’ which would function as ‘signposts’ to later generations passing by, revealing the routes that “scattered” Israel had traveled. These “WAYMARKS” were “SET UP” to be found and followed by the scripturally and spiritually astute of the Last Days who dutifully follow the Lord’s injunction to His People to seek Truth and to “WATCH” for the “SIGNS” that would be given heralding the time of the great Gathering of Israel in preparation for the imminent Return of their Redeemer, Jesus Christ. These signature “WAYMARKS” erected in ancient times by particular branches of “The Lost Tribes of The House of Israel” designate to us the places where The House of Israel had trod, revealing which “HIGHWAY” they had travelled during their 2.65 millennia banishment from their ancient home in The Holy Land. That this was to be, was the design and directive of God Himself, and it has been revealed to us BY PROPHESY so that IN THE LAST DAYS (our day) the descendants of those “lost” Israelite Tribes which had been foreordained in the pre-earth Grand Council of Heaven to open up and lead the latter day “GATHERING” of Israel, would be AWAKENED TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHO THEY ARE and thereby be enabled to fulfill their great calling. Our understanding of this helps us to more fully understand other ancient prophesies concerning Israel’s Gathering in the Last Days, bringing us ultimately to the knowledge of where at least TWO of “The Lost 10 Tribes of Israel” had gone-where they had been led to settle.
The little-known ancient prophesy of which I have been speaking, which contains God’s directive that branches of the Lost Tribes of Israel were to construct signature ‘signposts’ along the way, revealing to us generations later, where they had been - where they had settled, is found in the book of Jeremiah chapter 31, verse 21...
“SET THEE UP *WAYMARKS*, MAKE THEE *HIGH HEAPS*[mounds]: SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY[which leads back home], **EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST[when I The Lord God scattered you]** [in other words, remember from whence thou came O Israel!!] TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.”
The Mound Building cultures of ancient America and ancient Britain were ISRAELITE. Their mounds are the “HIGH HEAPS”-the “WAYMARKS” of Jeremiah’s prophesy which the Lord inspired them to “SET UP” and “MAKE”, that the prophesy would be fulfilled. By these “WAYMARKS” (the “HIGH HEAPS”-the mounds) we have located the settling places of TWO of “The Lost 10 Tribes of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL”: God’s Chosen Covenant People. Specifically it was Israel’s Tribe of MANASSEH in ancient America who fulfilled the ancient prophesy of Jeremiah who said:
“SET THEE UP *WAYMARKS*, MAKE THEE *HIGH HEAPS*: SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST. TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.”
And it was Israel’s Tribe of EPHRAIM in ancient Britain who fulfilled the ancient prophesy of Jeremiah who said:
“SET THEE UP *WAYMARKS*, MAKE THEE *HIGH HEAPS*: SET THINE HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY, EVEN THE WAY WHICH THOU WENTEST. TURN AGAIN, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL, TURN AGAIN TO THESE THY CITIES.”
It is also instructive to note that both Ephraim and Manasseh together make up Israel’s Tribe of JOSEPH (one of the TWELVE sons of ISRAEL), whose “STICK”(“stick”= sacred script), which Ezekiel prophesied in chapter 37 of his book, would in the Last Days, be brought and introduced to the world “IN THE HAND OF EPHRAIM”. Ezekiel’s prophesy clearly states that Israel’s Lost Tribe of EPHRAIM would one day show up as the latter day custodian of the Tribe of JOSEPH’s anciently recorded sacred script (now known to the world as “The Book of Mormon”) which would then be “JOINED TOGETHER AS ONE WITH THE STICK OF JUDAH”(“The stick of Judah” being the Jewish authored “New Testament”). These two “sticks” are the sacred recorded histories of TWO of Israel’s TWELVE Tribes, each bearing their own eyewitness accounts of the appearance and teachings of the living RESURRECTED Christ among them shortly after His crucifixion. Ezekiel further prophesied that the two sacred “sticks whereon thou writest” of the two separate Israelite Tribes of Judah and Joseph, “SHALL BE IN THY HAND BEFORE THEIR EYES” (“their”, meaning the other 10 Tribes of Israel which are being awakened and gathered by the leadership and faithful diligence of the two Israelite Tribes of EPHRAIM and MANASSEH, which together comprise the Tribe of JOSEPH)....
- WITNESSES and WAYMARKS -
(PART 2)...
We, the descendants of Ephraim, with the assistance of those who are the descendants of Manasseh, use the ancient sacred record OF OUR OWN TRIBE: “THE STICK OF JOSEPH” / “THE BOOK OF MORMON” as the primary tool of the latter day Gathering of Israel, using its sacred eyewitness account of the visit of the Resurrected Christ to the ‘lost’ Israelite Tribe of Joseph>Manasseh, a branch of which had been led by God and planted in the ancient Americas during the ancient dispersal of The House of Israel “AMONG ALL NATIONS”. The Book of Mormon or “THE STICK OF JOSEPH” as Ezekiel called it, is the prophesied “BOOK THAT IS SEALED” spoken of by Isaiah in chapter 29 of his book. It is the “MARVELOUS WORK AND A WONDER” that was designed and created by God to awaken the lost and slumbering Tribes of The House of Israel from their deep sleep of centuries wherein “darkness [had] covered the Earth and gross darkness the people”...
“Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of DEEP SLEEP, and HATH CLOSED YOUR EYES: THE PROPHETS and your rulers, THE SEERS HATH HE COVERED.
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of A BOOK THAT IS SEALED, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is TAUGHT BY THE PRECEPT OF MEN:
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even A MARVELOUS WORK AND A WONDER: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
[WHEN WILL ALL THIS BE?]
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
AND IN THAT DAY SHALL THE DEAF HEAR THE WORDS OF *THE BOOK[the “STICK OF JOSEPH”]* and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought [the prophet Isaiah is here speaking of all those lost souls who think themselves wise in the scriptures and call themselves ‘Christian’ yet feel compelled to finger-point, accuse, and mock others who are of other faiths, attacking and judging them wrongly for any of their sacred beliefs which happen to differ from their own]. Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
But when he [“he” meaning Jacob/ISRAEL] seeth his children[his latter day posterity], the work of mine hands, in the midst of him [the prophet is now speaking of the Gathering of “The Lost Tribes of Israel”] they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
THEY ALSO THAT ERRED IN SPIRIT SHALL COME TO UNDERSTANDING, AND THEY THAT MURMURED SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE.”
This is the effect The Book of Mormon has on the sincere, honest, faithful seeker of the voice of God which must be sifted out from among so many differing confusing voices of modern ‘Christianity’ whose many conflicting and opposing beliefs are derived solely from the abused and verifiably INCOMPLETE record of only one of the TWELVE Tribes of Israel (The New Testament of the Jews), while God has now made TWO of them available as His sacred witnesses of the divinity and teachings of His Only Begotten Son: the “stick of Judah” (The New Testament) AND “the stick of Joseph” (The Book of Mormon). The sure witness of Truth and a much fuller understanding of the ancient prophesies contained within The Old Testament regarding the signs and prophesied events of the Last Days CAN ONLY BE RECEIVED with the discovery of “THE STICK OF JOSEPH” / “the book that is sealed” / The Book of Mormon / the Tribe of JOSEPH’s anciently recorded witness of the Resurrected Christ, and THAT record’s witness “JOINED TOGETHER” with the witness of the Jewish Tribe of Judah...
“THEY SHALL BE ONE IN THINE HAND”.
Absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support what you are claiming. None.
@@rodneyjamesmcguire
There are 3 things we can turn to for an answer to a question...
The interpretation of other mortal men.
An interpretation determined by our own limited mortal man logic and reasoning.
A direct answer from God (personal revelation).
The first two are severely limited in their conclusiveness. They allow us only a personal interpretation / personal opinion. That’s all we can offer anyone if we’ve limited our personal gathering of knowledge to the inferior methods of 1 and 2, and never approach or use method 3. Those who depend on method 3 are often able to receive a SURE KNOWLEDGE in answer to their question as long as we’re prepared for the answer and God sees fit to reveal it to us. Any doubts expressed by the former group toward the latter regarding the latter’s witness of God’s personal answers of Truth, will only ever be mere personal opinion - while the latter will have a SURE KNOWLEDGE of that which they’ve been given, having NO DOUBT of the Truth they’ve received and from whence it came.
I know of what I speak. There are indeed some things I can only offer a mere opinion on. There are others of which all doubt and opinion have been totally erased by a direct answer from above and I am left with a perfect clarity of understanding and a SURE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH.
@@iDONTdoFacebook As stated, you have no evidence for your claims.