Kolob and All That
March 17th, 2022 by G.
For basically ceremonial and liturgical reasons, in the restoration of all things the features of other times and places, every one, have to be exhumed and recapitulated. Such is my belief.
I was thinking on that and thinking how alien the ancient world really is from us. For example, there’s the whole star-based thing. Star watching was something the wise did, and time was a celestial phenonemon of the movements of the stars instead of an earth-based phenomenon. How on earth are we going to fit that in, I wondered. An inner voice was like, lolwut the Book of Abraham? The temple symbolism?
Bookslinger
March 17, 2022
Lessee…
United Order. Polygamy (7 to 1, as in Isaiah 4:1 ?). Animal sacrifice. Circumcision. (All those pre-dated the Mosaic law.)
Actualizing even just the temple stuff is going to be … wow.
Ramandu
March 17, 2022
“Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of.”
Zen
March 17, 2022
I think D&C 128:18 doesn’t get enough attention. We are going to need every blessing and power from every dispensation of the Gospel. Thus, we will need scripture from every dispensation as well, and not just the brief chapters have now.
Further, the Gathering of Israel is a misnomer. Yes, the children of Jacob will be gathered.
And all the children of Abraham.
And Noah.
And Enoch.
And Adam.
Bookslinger
March 17, 2022
A supposed atheist friend of mine once said: “The purpose of the universe is to turn hydrogen into people.”
Profound. And truer than he likely imagined.
Ugly Mahana
March 18, 2022
From Revelations 7:9
After [seeing 12,000 from each tribe of Israel sealed in their foreheads, the revelator] beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;