September 6, 2012 – 4:26 pm
(Continued from Part 3) This is a continuation of a series of posts that I started a few years ago. Of course, it could easily fit within the series very recent posts on the same subject of the law of consecration, including Hugh Nibley quotes from Approaching Zion, “Are we required to live the law of [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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(Continued from Part 1) In the last part of this post we explored what it means to see the face of God in the temple. Seeing the face of God is promised to us in the scriptures, and as we showed, it was one of the foremost purposes of the prophet Joseph Smith in building [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Temples Today
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Also tagged book of mormon, bruce r. mcconkie, endowment, experience, face, heaven, jesus christ, joseph smith, physical, presence, revelation
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The Doctrine and Covenants section 93 verse 1 reads: Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my commandments, shall see my face and know that I am; (D&C 93:1) This [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Temples Today
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Also tagged calling and election, election, endowment, face, jesus christ, joseph smith, margaret barker, physical, presence, revelation, revelations, salt lake temple, theophany, veil, visit
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Note: I taught our Elders Quorum class today, and was assigned the topic of the Mosaic Tabernacle as a Temple. Below are the notes and illustrations I used for my lesson. Review of prior lesson on the exodus: Children of Israel escape Egyptian bondage (Ex. 14) Moses leads them out Parting of the Red Sea, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts, Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged aaronic, altar, anointing, apron, ascension, atonement, building, celestial, clothing, construction, diagram, donald w. parry, endowment, fall, garments, gate, heaven, hebrew, incense, initiation, israelites, keys, matthew brown, melchizedek, moses, mountain, ordinances, prayer, priest, priesthood, profane, rituals, robes, sacred, sacrifice, scholars, symbolism, tabernacle, throne, translation, veil, washing
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December 24, 2008 – 5:54 pm
Recently I’ve been pondering the place of the temple in the Christmas story. Last week my wife and I attended the Conference Center performance of Savior of the World which was very well done and depicted the birth and resurrection of Christ. One of the first scenes involved the temple at Jerusalem. As I have [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged books, christmas, elijah, gate, markings, mary, offerings, presence, priest, revelation, rituals, scriptures, veil
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