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July 16, 2008 by Bryce Haymond 11 Comments

Planet Earth

The account of the garden of Eden in Genesis is a very interesting story indeed.  We learn much about the experiences of our first parents and their interactions with God.  It was a very intimate relationship, one in which God walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the garden (Gen. 3:8).

When Adam was first placed in the garden of Eden, he was given a charge to take care of it:

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. (Gen. 2:15)

The Hebrew word for “dress” is avad, which means to work, labor or serve.  Closely related is the word avodah, which means service.  Even at this early date man was given a stewardship over the earth, and to take good care of it, even while it was still paradisaical! When Adam and Eve transgressed the law of God and fell they were sent from the garden into the dreary world, but with the same charge of stewardship:  [Read more…]

Posted in: Practices, Scholarship, Texts Tagged: adam and eve, bible, construction, donald w. parry, earth, eucharist, garden of eden, hebrew, holy place, inside, liturgy, matthew brown, moses, presence, priesthood, scholar, service, solomon, steward, symbols, tabernacle, translation, work

Is the Temple Troubling?

July 11, 2008 by Bryce Haymond 8 Comments

Someone recently asked me the following:

Perhaps you can explain how a person who finds the [temple experience] to be … troubling should express those feelings.

This was my reply, with additional edits:  [Read more…]

Posted in: Practices, Temples Today Tagged: atonement, discussion, early christian, endowment, experience, joseph smith, life, moses, oxford, prayer, purpose, rites, rituals, sacred, tabernacle, testimony

Consecrate = “A Filled Hand” in Hebrew

June 13, 2008 by Bryce Haymond 16 Comments

The High Priest in the Holy of Holies - Incense offering on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).  Temple Institute.One of our readers, Dr. Kathy Larsen, pointed out a scripture yesterday that intrigued me. It is Leviticus 21:10:

And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;

There is a footnote on the second instance of the word “that” in our LDS King James Version. The footnote reads “HEB (literally) whose hand is filled; i.e. who is equipped, or authorized.” This means that the original Hebrew would have read something like, “and whose hand is filled to put on the garments.” Apparently the word translated as “consecrated” came from a Hebrew phrase for “a filled hand” or “a full hand.”

I did a little bit of digging into this, and found some more interesting things related to this. [Read more…]

Posted in: Artifacts, Practices, Texts Tagged: altar, altar of incense, atonement, bible, consecration, cupped hand, egyptian, filled hand, hebrew, hieroglyph, holy place, hugh nibley, incense, kaph, male, moses, offerings, sacrifice, service, symbols, tabernacle, translation, yad, yod

The Altar of Incense as an Altar of Prayer

June 10, 2008 by Bryce Haymond 7 Comments

The high priest making an incense offering.

Some of our critics have been quick to contend that our modern temples and practices have no relationship whatever to the temples of ancient Israel. This is a quick judgment indeed. If one is willing to open their eyes that they may hear, and their ears that they may see, then many marvelous understandings of God’s purposes may be unfolded to their view (D&C 136:32; 3 Nephi 11:5; Isa. 35:5; 1 Ne. 10:19; Mosiah 2:9; D&C 6:7; D&C 11:7).  [Read more…]

Posted in: Artifacts, Scholarship Tagged: altar, altar of incense, ark of the covenant, atonement, critics, holy of holies, holy place, inside, prayer, presence, psalms, sacrifice, solomon, symbols, tabernacle, veil, zerubbabel

God Dwelleth Not in Temples Made with Hands? – Part 2

June 8, 2008 by Bryce Haymond 2 Comments

The high priest in Israel sprinkling blood of the sin offering upon the mercy seat on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:14-15)

(Continued from Part 1)

To continue our discussion on whether God may dwell in temples on earth, and whether there exists a need for further temples after Christ, we might look again to the Bible to see if God dwelled in those sacred edifices which He commanded to be built in ancient times.

The first example that we might look at is Paul’s own theophany, which he experienced in the temple of Jerusalem shortly after his conversion: [Read more…]

Posted in: Temples Today, Texts Tagged: apostles, ark of the covenant, bible, cherubim, church, construction, early christian, holy place, jerusalem, jesus christ, light, mountain, new name, paul, presence, redemption, sacrifice, solomon, symbols, synagogue, tabernacle, tokens
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