Only God can End the Endless

Our Friend WJT has discovered something true and important that sheds a lot of light on D&C 19.  He has found a number of scriptures that refer to things that are “endless,” “eternal,” or “forever,” but that God then ends.

The idea is that ‘endless’ can  mean ‘something that by its nature will never end despite man’s best efforts’–but God can exceed our best efforts.

Read the whole thing, including the comments.

My own attempts to grapple with it:

The scriptures about endless punishment and eternal punishment just meaning ‘God’s punishment’ look like cheap lawyering at first glance.  Read more deeply and as part of the whole section, D&C 19 is a strong claim to sovereignty, titles, glory, rule.  The Lord God Jesus is not trying to get out of scriptural interpretation difficulties here.  He is claiming with the deepest of feeling that punishment is His.  He bought it.  At the greatest price.  He owns it entire.

Another one, which I think is deep and meaningful, but I don’t think anyone who is not a regular here could understand.