D&C Bits
D&C Bits
45:
45:6 — the time called today? Is this a hint at an eternal perspective?
45:8 – wisdom that he is going to show. But what is it?
45:35 — growing darkness is a sign of the fulfillment of promises
45:63 — “near, at the doorstep, within a few years” = 3 decades. A few years less if you include Bleeding Kansas. How long ago was the Proclamation?
46:
46:7 — Interesting that the doctrines of men and the doctrines of devils are treated separately.
46:17-18 — Is the punctuation off? It makes sense to me that the gifts of wisdom and knowledge combined would lead to “that all may be taught to be wise and to have knowledge.” But the existing punctuation suggests it is only the gift of knowledge that accomplishes this.
48:
48:4 — save all you can, get all you can, so in time you can buy land, and a city, for your inheritance. From time to time an alien world view peaks through the scriptures. Modern Christians think its dirty and moneygrubbing and unholy to get all you can. The moderns who are OK with that are shocked by the idea of trying to create an inheritance.
Personally, the idea of a city as an inheritance has captured my imagination. What a concept.
Eric
June 7, 2021
Re: DC 45:6
There’s another spot where that phrase is used, in section 64: 23, 25).
“Behold, now it is called today until the coming of the Son of Man, and verily it is a day of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people; for he that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming.
“Wherefore, if ye believe me, ye will labor while it is called today.”
Using those verses as background, whenever people asked Joseph Fielding Smith when the second coming would occur, he would answer with “tomorrow.” The earth has obviously seen a lot of tomorrows since President Smith passed away in 1972, but now it is still called today until his coming, and it wouldn’t hurt to be prepared for that event to occur tomorrow even if God’s idea of tomorrow isn’t the same as ours.
E.C.
June 7, 2021
Eh, I’m not sure I’d want an entire city as an inheritance – too many people for this introvert. I’d be happy with an acre and a bit in the countryside. I have Ideas for what I’d do with said land.