D&C Bits
I will cause the heavens to shake for your good
-thus D&C 35:24. Not every disaster is a catastrophe. Built up corruption needs brought back down. But even for we good who have built well, sometimes our cottages need cleared to make room for mansions.
Save yourselves from this untoward generation, and come forth out of the fire, hating even the garments spotted with the flesh.
-thus D&C 36:6. Don’t read “flesh” as a fancy way of saying iniquity. Read it as flesh. These clothes are soiled with the putrefaction of corpses. You are fleeing the charnel house (funny how that reads on the other side of the corona–how many people have we found out believe we should fear not that which kills the soul, but rather that which kills occasionally the body).
Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land.
-thus D&C 38:29
JRL in AZ
April 20, 2021
Section 36:6 really struck me, as I haven’t ever read the verse in Jude that it quotes. So once I saw the cross-reference in Jude, I looked up the verse on Biblehub to see other translations. Very physical. “Hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.” Ew. It very pointedly refers to a charnel house.
https://biblehub.com/jude/1-23.htm
Rozy
April 20, 2021
Elder Bruce R. McConkie, in Doctrinal New Testament Commentary says that this verse (36:6) means regarding sin in the church that we are to avoid the remotest contact with sin; anything which has had contact with the pollutions of the wicked must be shunned. (From Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual Religion 324 and 325; page 73) Sometimes, for me anyway, it’s difficult to tell whether the Lord is speaking literally or metaphorically.
MStephens
April 25, 2021
Another way of looking at “garments spotted with the flesh” is as blood-spatter. Like sin is a murder going on nearby and you’re getting sprayed with the effects. Wash it off, don’t get near it again.
G.
April 26, 2021
Very good.