Mat 10:32-42 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
He that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold [water] only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Joseph Smith was called by the LORD to fulfill Scripture and not even he knew what he was being called to fulfill. He had his eyes and heart set on his own personal glory, not the LORD's, and he will be embarrassed when this is realized, and condemned to an awful fate if he remains unpenitent.He'll fulfill a real prophet's words.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image.These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
He has been promised mighty worldly rewards if he remain false, and the devil found his weakness and exploited it, but it is really the devil and his weakness which is being exposed and brought to light, not Joseph's. The LORD yet loves Joseph mightily. The devil loves no one...but rewards whomever will make a deal.
Some dictionaries say the name Joseph means, add to or he adds, but what it really means is "productive" and "fruitful." I think Joseph may have sold this meaning out.
At any rate, he fulfills Old Testament:
Pro 30:5-6 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
And New:
1Cr 4:4-5 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
The Book of Mormon was marred and set with traps by Joseph Smith and Company, and with its additional "works" and "revelations," becomes the "Doctrines of Devils."
Joseph wants Glory, the devil is ready and willing to help him.
Joseph Smith boasted that he did more than Jesus to keep a church together.
"God is in the still small voice. In all these affidavits, indictments, it is all of the devil-all corruption. Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet . "
In the next statement he again claims his glory and veracity in the same sentence in which he admits to be off on a hog killing, blatantly teaching in opposition of the Will of the LORD! You can almost hear the entire Congregation of the Damned go into hysterics!
Know why they ran from Jesus? He did the Will of the Father not the devil.
This is why I said I wished to bring many servants out of the Mormon Church to serve with me...but you know there is safety in an institution whether it be of God or not, Strength in numbers is a Truth in whatever realm. And again, what he translated is Scripture and the Stick of Ephraim, but the way in which he translates it almost defeats it's purpose..
Let me tell It like it is.
Job 12:7-10 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
I have a puppy, his name is BT, which stands for Broken Tail, because his tail has been broken since he was born. He's all black mostly labrador. Very stoic sort and very faithful, reacts well to love and not so well to discipline, will not come when sternly called for discplinary action. Almost acts proud as if he didn't deserve to be rebuffed.
I think of the Book of Mormon as a BT as well, a Broken Tale. Which needs mending and fulfilling and will see both.
Joseph admitted there would likely be errors from the get-go and as he is not The Word, that Jesus is, he could do no better than he whose integrity may be sound but tried by devotion to God and Jesus, or lack thereof...His biggest and final error being boasting outside of the Lord.
I have another puppy named Guess, an all white with brown splotches English Setter. He's the most excitable puppy, I've ever seen or known, faithful and true exudes from every hair on his hide, as does silly, over-exuberant and naive..he's very free as a result of his character, bounds about but comes and accepts and even seeks discipline when he misbehaves, he can be very meek and timid, almost lamb-like, willing to suffer all things just.. "Every creature of God is good." He can also be righteously bold and angry as a lion. They make quite a pair, these two puppies, but you can almost sense the profound difference in their constitutions, and an inate jealousy and contention from the black lab...while the Setter seems oblivious and trusting of all, and often suffers for it.
An elder who visited me one day asked me which one was the "Alpha" male, and I replied that their fighting styles were different, unique, not lesser or greater than, just uniquely fit to each other's-complimentary, but Guess has prevailed and shown the right and will and more importantly, affection of a leader.
BT only seems annoyed when he is not recognized by or as equally and often as Guess.
Joseph only seems to betray his office when it is not recognized as worthy by the Whole when what he ought to be seeking is recognition from the LORD, but this seems unimportant to Joseph. Foolish to go outside the Lord to seek recognition, because thereby the Whole may be rejected and all their labor be for nought.
Psa 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Jhn 15:5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joseph is not the Vine.
The Puritans remain the only example of a people fulfilling and doing the Lord's Will upon the earth, out of all the Latter-day examples there are to choose from. They kept it simple, and pure and true and just and righteous. And in that righteousness was found the freedom to be and do like in no other religious sect or denomination. They exemplified righteous living on earth. There was no neurosis in service, no man made rules and regulations, just pure and simple, peaceful, righteous living and biblical observance/education. Their homes were veritable hovels but well and intelligently enough made to provide protection and sustainability that agreed with the Creation and exalted neither man nor creature but provided an essential lesson in humility and Godly Simplicity/Righteousness.
They are the Temple built without hands.
Mark 14:58
Look at most of the LDS Temples and you'll see there is nothing godly about them. They miss the point.
LDS exaltation teaching is based upon Joseph's dispensational teaching which is only flawed by his fraternal manipulation of the Gospel, best outlined in D&C 128. It is a righteous and correct teaching, and succeeded inasmuch as his disciples were not sinful. But pride is a sin, and everything about Mormon/LDS ways smacks of religious pride.
D&C 132 smacks of a curious sort of inbreeding and carnal knowledge of things spiritual that have no Truth in the Kingdom that is above.
Puritan works were humble and they stressed study and righteous observance of the Scriptures. They were at peace with the Creation and could learn from It, because they were found in the Way.
LDS works are sometimes sinful. They are full of an absurd mix of carnal and heavenly pride in structure, building, teaching, priesthoods, keys, etc. Their way of teaching the gospel is most obscene because they look down upon the student instead of learning from. They set themselves up as "many masters" which the Scriptures clearly teach to the contrary is wisdom.
Hbr 8:10-13 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
LDS are endeavoring to bring back that which is vanishing away...or worse, trying to birth that which is not nor should be.
They want the Authority and thought that by outdoing their brethren in works, they could claim it, but in attempting to lead by this very notion they lost that right. But have retained as much authority as the LORD deemed just to reward them with, which is no small reward!
Solomon taught that God indeed needs no house built unto Him, but that Solomon was chosen to build One House unto His Name, not an earthly corporation...but a Spiritual Body.
2Ch 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
The house and our works cannot save us, anymore than baptism for the dead can save the dead. Though the ordinance is still valid and commanded, and LDS Church does it perfectly, according to the Revelation of the Christ and none other. It's what we do Lawfully and rightly that counts.
Jesus Christ revealed himself to show us the Way and that it is not by works but in rest, returning in trust and humility that we are "saved," and find the Way Everlasting.One must be baptised to do so. To enter in at the Gate.
Psa 118:20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
The LORD has chosen the LDS Priesthood and placed His Authority upon It precisely because they baptise Lawfully and Correctly unto Eternal Life. Perhaps the most important Work of the Latter-days. The error in what makes up the rest of their "religion" matters not much at all because of this very Great Success.
Please, go to them for baptism! I would not have you fooled by other churches and sects or denominations. Authority matters, as does fulfillment of Commandment with attention to detail.
As for joining the Body in worship and extra-curricular activity, this is up to you. You can and should do this in your home and wherever you roam.
And I may be in the wrong saying they have built many temples unto themselves. It may well be that they have built many, what they call, "wards" precisely because the need for baptism worldwide is neccesssary.
So, again, go to them for baptism, but for instruction in Worship and Festivals and Law, go to real Jews.You'll know what is what when your relationship with the LORD starts at baptism.
Joseph talks a good game but in the end it was all about Joseph and not the Lord, and that is always the underlying spirit of a great deal of LDS works and of the Priesthood.
Pro 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
When we cannot separate ourselves from our works and serve God, our whole religion is dependent upon our works. We cannot truly rest in the Lord, and thereby we may be denied entrance into His Rest.
We can collectively abandon or condemn no one. The LORD judges on an individual basis. Taking great care to save every last soul He created. When we fall, we know it, and it is then, more often than not that God reveals what was true about us all along.
Luk 22:42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Joseph found the cup and said, "Let it be mine."
Indeed, going forth to do his work and his will rather than His, Joseph caused many to stumble and go backward rather than forward as a backsliding heifer, being snared in the work itself.
Hsa 4:15-17 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
Hsa 8:7-14 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.
Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
That may be why he was so concerned with the dead. He became a servant of Death, not Life and not the Lord. "Toil, toil, never recoil," "Onwards, against the dying of the Light."
What do the Scriptures teach?
Isa 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Note, the bible never states six days a week work must be done, but rather, six days work may be done, and Jesus goes one further to teach,
Matthew 6:34 Take therefore no thought of the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.
In the end, Joseph wanted to serve on his terms, not the Lord's but had served obediently for a time, out of spite?
Joseph was and is not prepared to be last, and maybe he thought he could make everyone first by perfect service, but not everyone is going to be able to do so, though everyone must certainly strive to be so. With power came the absolute corruption of Joseph's gift. He was willing to be perfect and righteous in order to betray the Head and exalt Joseph.
That is the fundamental difference between the Holy Bible and the Book of Mormon. The Bible always exalts God and humbles and vilifies man. Man is most often seen as what he is, a wretched, disobedient, needful creature at God's feet. In the BOM, man is righteous and obedient and pointing his finger at the rest of the unworthy world and saying, "I am holier than thou." And in many cases, it is the truth. But God's very Will is to exalt and save the lowly and unworthy not the righteous and worthy, rather humble them even by concision.
Mat 9:11-13 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
The BOM admits, almost as a second less than worthy way, the very Way God put in place for the Salvation of man and that "after all that we can do it must be by grace that we are saved." Reluctant to admit Jesus Christ is the Head. But it must be the starting point of your Faith not the last will and testament of His disciples but the very first teaching and realization. Holiness should be and is realized at birth, not after a life of hard won service.
For, "The stone the builders rejected."
The BOM exalts man and eventually, through additional works of the Church, becomes the "doctrine of devils."
But the Gospel is still within it's pages and Jesus makes it profit God and the Godly men who seek to do His Will, but that would mean that Joseph and his ilk would have to agree to do the same. And I think they will, after they see the folly in their understanding. The Lamb will save Joseph.
The good thing about the BOM is that it teaches a good kind of healthy godly common sense that the Holy Bible lacks because of its embellishment. But it is embellished unto God's Glory and man's humbling. It was only when man started to use the english language to exalt self, that the KJV Bible was misused and misunderstood by those who would exalt self above God. Joseph does the opposite with the BOM and exalts self by simplifying his understanding of the Bible, but God did not intend to speak plainly to raise up men's egos and make them proud servants. He meant to keep them in Holy fear for their own good and deliverance knowing He is the Plan of Salvation and no amount of works can save man.
We exalt one another simply by loving one another. We dupe one another by working for one another under many task masters. How many men do you know, who can carry out an order when everything they feel inside tells them that the order is wrong and that they shouldn't?
I know One.
In a lot of cases authority is dispensed unworthily in the LDS Church, and the teachers do not understand the Scriptures. It is safe to say, anyone can carry out orders, but to understand those orders so as to portray and fulfill God's Will is something entirely different.
And for a church that claims order to be one of the most important matters of business, it sure does seem out of order in many instances. When I first began going to the LDS ward in my community, everything seemed out of order, but was done in an "orderly" fashion. They had women leading classes and studies with their children and adults alike. Naturally, the woman they had teaching the adult class had a greater understanding than the men because the men didn't consider the issue to be of much worth. They were more concerned with missionary work and man made systems of capturing and converting others to the LDS Church. I almost felt the same when I first began to work for a cable company in telemarketing. Little veneration or discrimination and attention to details of worship. It was just rush, rush get em in, get em converted, get em out, whatever it takes.
Wonder bread and water for the Sacrament was considered sufficient on a very broad and loose understanding of doctrine. Again, Cain's way, make it easy, whatever I've got will do, who cares what the Lord wants, as long as I make a little effort, He should be satisfied, I'll just make up for mistakes by making more proselytes, surely the numbers will convince Him I love Him as much as He loves me. (even if I don't, He wont know)
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