Holy Week Interregnum

Tuesday, Wednesday.  Christ preaches and teaches.  He condemns the pharisees.  He gives a vivid and striking encouragement to parenthood.   He also preaches about the second coming.  Our usual impression is that he’s cramming in a lot of last minute teaching, knowing he’s about to leave.  What he is really doing is telling his disciples what comes next.   Judgment Day and the Second Coming are part and parcel of his fight with death and sin that is about to happen.  The Second Coming really begins with his resurrection.  The atonement is what gives him the right to judge.  There is an interesting verse in 2 Nephi 9:22 that says that Christ suffered so that He could judge us.  Obviously he suffered to give us the chance to repent.  He is a man of mercy.  But he is also a man of justice.  He also suffered because he wanted to condemn us should we remain in our sins.

Lehi’s Dream: after taking the fruit, Lehi looked about him.

Personal:  You’ve won . . . but life goes on.  Or maybe everyone thinks you’ve won, but you know you haven’t.  You try to prepare them mentally for what is going to come.

From last year–

Holy Week Tuesday what is  Pharisee?

Holy Week Wednesday, the hidden-in-plain-sight meaning of the parable of the sheep and the goats