“Apocalypse, Adam, Missionaries, The Poor!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: D&C 77-80

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Opening Hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=368ZQAPBmTQ
Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
II. Theme: "Apocalypse, Adam, Missionaries, The Poor!"
i. Revelation. Why this confusion? Ambiguity, tactical agnosticism, or softening the hard sayings to make life easier, trying not to believe. Denial, avoidance tactic. Yes, terrible things, to forge iron-clad tactics, strategies, and operations to prepare. Debanking.
ii. Wise and foolish virgins about temporal preparations for the second coming.
iii. "The book of Revelation is one of the plainest books God ever caused to be written" TPJS, 290
1. Not easiest, not simplest, but plain.
2. Broad themes
3. Hurdles of emotional anxiety, mystique, crackpot theories from the ward loudmouths.
4. Repeated readings, prayerful contemplation.
III. Point I 77 Q&A
i. Information during JST. Maybe asking Heavenly Father though the urim and thummin. Q&A format. Try this approach with your prayers.
ii. More info found in TPJS, 287ff, and in the JST changes in the book of Revelation.
iii. What do we learn:
1. Heaven is a sea of glass and flame
2. Spiritual and temporal complimentary, and “likeness”
3. Animals in heaven:
a. see four specific animals, representative of classed
b. Sentient
c. JS:
i. Animals from other worlds in heaven
ii. All could speak
iii. Were celestially obedient
iv. Thomas Aquinas: In the state of innocence man would not have had any bodily need of animals—neither for clothing, since then they were naked and not ashamed, there being no inordinate motions of concupiscence—nor for food, since they fed on the trees of paradise—nor to carry him about, his body being strong enough for that purpose.
1. Never had a pet, or put up a Christmas stocking for a pet
2. Animals part of God's plan.
4. Wings and eyes symbolic
5. Chiliasm (Killiasm), 1,000 years
a. book or scroll in heaven
b. D&C 88
c. JS and 7th dispensation WJS, 370; https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-12-may-1844-as-reported-by-george-laub/1#full-transcript
d.  
6. Angels over four parts, save and destroy.
7. Meaning of 144,000. High priests from all nations.
8. Gap between opening of 7th seal and second coming, Half an hour: 20.83 years
9. Two witnesses Rev, Isiaha, BOM

IV. Point II 78. United Firm/ Order: United Firm, United Order, ZCMI, and Kirtland Safety Society, to boot!
i. Background
1. Manual and digital have background information
2. When revelation given, about the United Firm, and Literary and Mercantile (publishing and general stores). Due to lawsuits and agitation , published with code names (Pre 1980 ed)
3. Confusion between United Firm and united order in BY day
4. Way to care for poor and publish books. Like ZCMI and safety society
5. Church's involvement in temporal affairs
6. D&C 124, stock in Nauvoo house
ii. that you may be equal in the bonds of heavenly things, yea, and earthly things also, for the obtaining of heavenly things. For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things
1. People romanticize poor--in mission areas. Poor more spiritual, fuller lives
2. Okay, if true, then why not live poor, and donate more to Church? Something some people say make them feel good, but not take seriously.
3. But need money to enhance spirituality. My mission from 0 to 3 temples. We paid for them, not locals. They helped, but Wasatch front saints.
4. BYU-Pathway Worldwide, Temple in Cabo Verde, Africa
5. Poor person who works two jobs, and wife works part time. Stake president lawyer.
a. Limits temple service, family size. Church super vacations, to historic sites, or Holy Land
b. Bruce C. Hafen, The Broken Heart, 92
i. One day a young father who had a learning disability and little education asked me a question that he said had worried him for years: "Do you have to be smart and have a good education to get into the celestial kingdom?" I knew him to be a genuine, decent, and hardworking person. He had never tasted of success the way most people measure it and probably never would. As he waited for my answer, I noticed the tears beginning to fill his eyes.
iii. That through my providence, notwithstanding the tribulation which shall descend upon you, that the church may stand independent above all other creatures beneath the celestial world;. Partnerships okay, but not dependent upon theology and practice.
1. Tribulation.
a. October 1998,  GB Hinckley finances in  order
b. Sept 2001
c. 2008 Great Recession. 10 year warning
d. 2020 and Covid-19
e. Current 2025 tariff wars. Are lean times coming? No mater, act as if they are. Church resources:
2. Stand Independent
a. Temporally. We help, but no loans. Donate to charities for efficient delivery.  Members financially independent. Church resources out there. Plenty of TED talks and podcast that don't involve Crypto schemes.
b. Spiritually. Where getting doctrine and practices? Chrsitian cousins, or from the Father?
iv. Adam-God theory
1. Who hath appointed Michael your prince, and established his feet, and set him upon high, and given unto him the keys of salvation under the counsel and direction of the Holy One, who is without beginning of days or end of life.
2. BY taught it, as recorded in WW journals and letters. But dies out with him. JT, Mediation and Atonement.
3. DWW,  235:
a. I want to say this to all Israel: Cease troubling yourselves about who God is; who Adam is, who Christ is, who Jehovah is. For heaven's sake, let these things alone.  ...  God is God. Christ is Christ. The Holy Ghost is the Holy Ghost. That should be enough for you and me to know. If we want to know any more, wait till we get where God is in person. I say this because we are troubled every little while with inquiries from elders anxious to know who God is, who Christ is, and who Adam is. I say to the elders of Israel, stop this. Humble yourselves before the Lord; seek for light, for truth, and for a knowledge of the common things of the kingdom of God
v. Son Ahman
1. OP JD 2:342
2. JSP Sample of Pure Language: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/sample-of-pure-language-between-circa-4-and-circa-20-march-1832/1#full-transcript
V. Point III Varieties of Mission Calls
i. PPP "But before this consummation of your felicity, bring your mind to bear upon what will be imperiously required of you to accomplish the great work that lies before you. Count well the cost. You have read of the persecutions and trials of ancient days. Has not bitter experience taught you that they are the same now? You will be dragged before the authorities for the religion you profess; and it were better not to set out than to start, look back, or shrink when dangers thicken upon, or appalling death stares you in the face. I have spoken these things, dear brother, because I have seen them in visions. There are strong dungeons and gloomy prisons for you. These should not appall you. You must be called a good or bad man. The ancients passed through the same."
ii. 79 Jared Carter
1. Jared Carter should go again into the eastern countries, from place to place, and from city to city, in the power of the ordination wherewith he has been ordained, proclaiming glad tidings of great joy, even the everlasting gospel.
2. And I will send upon him the Comforter, which shall teach him the truth and the way whither he shall go;
3. And inasmuch as he is faithful, I will crown him again with sheaves.
4. Wherefore, let your heart be glad, my servant Jared Carter, and fear not,
iii. 80 Stephen Burnett
1. Wherefore, go ye and preach my gospel, whether to the north or to the south, to the east or to the west, it mattereth not, for ye cannot go amiss.
2. Assigned to labor, called to serve. My niece called to New Zealand. Assignment at end of call.
3. Mine over phone. Called as  missionary, Mom paused--then next sentence.
iv. David A Bednar: Called to Serve and Assigned to Labor, Mission call over location. I got visa delayed to Miami, Florida for two weeks.
VI. Christ Quotient
i. Atonement Quotient
1. Are we clear about our message?
a. Mindfulness, resilience, quietness, vulnerability? Welfare and charitable giving and provident living
b. No. Sin and repentance
c. Sermons don't touch upon these. Soft and soggy sermons. Terrestrial teaching
2. Connecting atonement to tasks and chores of kingdom
ii. Second Coming Quotient
1. Read TPJS, 287ff
2. D&C 77
3. Mark JST changes in book of Revelation
4. Dive in.
iii. Gathering of Israel: what are you doing to bring people to Christ before the calamities and tribulations? Sure-fire thing to do, bring them to Christ. That's the point.
 
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