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(DID YOU KNOW THAT MORMON WIVES CANNOT BE RAISED FROM THE GRAVE TO GLORY, UNLESS THEIR HUSBANDS CALL THEM FROM THE GRAVE BY A SECRET NAME GIVEN AT THE TEMPLE WEDDING? THAT IS WHY TEMPLE WEDDINGS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO MORMONS. MORMONISM IS A CULT.)
WHAT WONDERFUL GRACE
By Ken Blue

 

“Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.” Hebrews 2:8.

God writes the future in the past. I’m not speaking of “past tense.” It is wonderful what God has done for us. But now we don’t see it. We walk by faith and not by sight.

In the matter of our salvation, nothing is tangible or visible. All is by faith. The book of Ephesians and Colossians make that abundantly clear. We find that we are crucified with Him, buried with Him, risen with Him, and seated with Him. But now we see none of it. We are told to “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:2. We aren’t told what those things are. All of them are in Christ. This actions is one of faith. Why? “But now” we see Jesus.

In the matter of Israel’s coming conversion to Christ is an established fact, according to Scripture.

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” Isaiah 53:4-8.

The above text was written seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus. It clear that the nation did not recognize Him or His work at the first advent. Yet, somewhere in the future they will see clearly who He was, and what He did for them. “But now” He is not acknowledged by them. He will be made known to some in the Tribulation, and to others at His second advent. The work in complete, but now it is unseen.

In the matter of the Kingdom, all things will be under His feet. “But now” very little is subject to Christ. “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6  Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7  All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8  The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 9  O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” Psalm 8:5-9.  

The writer of Hebrews is quoting this passage to show that Jesus will put down all rule and authority during the 1000 your kingdom. At the end everything will be in subjection, and Christ and His people will rule the earth, as was originally intended of Adam and his descendants. These are sure, “But now” we see none of it. But we see Jesus, and why He was made a little lower than the angels, and why He died. “But now” we walk by faith, seeing Him who is invisible. 

ARE MORMON WIVES PREGNANT THROUGHOUT ETERNITY?

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JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS WIVES
JOSEPH SMITH AND HIS WIVES

 

 

ARE MORMON WIVES PREGNANT THROUGHOUT ETERNITY?

Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, as also plurality of wives. HC 5: 501—507.

Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principals involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831.

[INSERT: compare introduction to the 1969 edition of the Book of Mormon] Here’s the 1969 version:

——-The Prophet’s inquiry of the Lord–He is told to prepare himself to receive the new and everlasting covenant–Conditions of this law–The power of the Holy Priesthood instituted by the Lord must be operative in ordinances to be in effect beyond the grave–

Marriage by secular authority is of effect during mortality only–Though the form of marriage should make it appear to be for time and eternity, the ordinance is not valid beyond the grave unless solemnized by the authority of the Holy Priesthood as the Lord directs–

Marriage duly authorized for time and eternity to be attended by surpassing blessings–essentials for the attainment of the status of godhood –– The meaning of eternal lives–Plurality of wives acceptable only when commanded by the Lord–The sin of adultery–Commandment to Emma Smith, wife of the prophet.http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/132

  • 58 Now, as touching the law of the apriesthood, there are many things pertaining thereunto.
  •  59 Verily, if a man be called of my Father, as was aAaron, by mine own voice, and by the voice of him that bsent me, and I have endowed him with the ckeys of the power of this priesthood, if he do anything in my name, and according to my law and by my word, he will not commit dsin, and I will justify him.
  •  60 Let no one, therefore, set on my servant Joseph; for I will justify him; for he shall do the sacrifice which I require at his hands for his transgressions, saith the Lord your God.
  •  61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse aanother, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
  •  62 And if he have aten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
  •  63 But if one or either of the ten virgins, after she is espoused, shall be with another man, she has committed adultery, and shall be destroyed; for they are given unto him to multiply and replenish the earth, according to my commandment, and to fulfil the promise which was given by my Father before the foundation of the world, and for their exaltation in the eternal worlds, that they may bear the souls of men; for herein is the work of my Father continued, that he may be glorified.
  •  64 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, if any man have a wife, who holds the keys of this power, and he teaches unto her the law of my priesthood, as pertaining to these things, then shall she believe and administer unto him, or she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord your God; for I will destroy her; for I will magnify my name upon all those who receive and abide in my law.
  •  65 Therefore, it shall be lawful in me, if she receive not this law, for him to receive all things whatsoever I, the Lord his God, will give unto him, because she did not believe and administer unto him according to my word; and she then becomes the transgressor; and he is exempt from the law of Sarah, who administered unto Abraham according to the law when I commanded Abraham to take aHagar to wife.
  •  66 And now, as pertaining to this law, verily, verily, I say unto you, I will reveal more unto you, hereafter; therefore, let this suffice for the present. Behold, I am Alpha and Omega. Amen.

1981 edition:

1—6, Exaltation is gained through the new and everlasting covenant;

7—14, The terms and conditions of that covenant are set forth;

15—20, Celestial marriage and a continuation of the family unit enable men to become gods;

21—25, The strait and narrow way that leads to eternal lives;

26—27, Law given relative to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost;

28—39, Promises of eternal increase and exaltation made to prophets and saints in all ages;

40—47, Joseph Smith is given the power to bind and seal on earth and in heaven;

48—50, The Lord seals upon him his exaltation;

51—57, Emma Smith is counseled to be faithful and true;

58—66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.

Did you catch it? Celestial Marriage is Plurality of Wives! The Mormon Church has never, ever stopped practicing their law that applies to polygamy or plurality of wives as that is what Celestial Marriage (The New and Everlasting Covenant) is!

Did you notice that the marriage sealing ceremony not only continues the practice of polygamy, and, because of the covenant of the Law of Consecration, married you to the church and it’s commandments by covenant, not each other?

 

BEWARE: Demand full disclosure for informed consent. You won’t get it from the Mormon Church, so do your own research.

I doubt most LDS couples recognize and understand that they married in to plurality of wives when they were sealed in the temple.

The actual sealing ceremony takes place in a sealing room off of the Celestial Room in the temple. Attendees must have a valid temple recommend and be invited. They may dress in white or in Sunday Best.

This is how it is done in the US. In England, for instance, the marriage part is performed in a chapel (or elsewhere) by a presiding authority (usually a bishop) with an official government recorder of some sort in attendance. Attendees are invited, no temple recommend required. The sealing ceremony is performed in the temple at a later time either that day or another day.

32From a letter to a Mormon lady, “-if thou wilt only abide by and walk in a celestial law, fulfill the designs of thy Creator and hold out to the end that when mortality is laid in the tomb, you may go down to your grave in peace, arise in glory, and receive your everlasting reward in the resurrection of the just, along with thy head and husband. Thou wilt be permitted to pass by the Gods and angels who guard the gates, and onward, upward to thy exaltation in a celestial world among the Gods. To be a priestess queen upon thy Heavenly Father’s throne, and a glory to thy husband and offspring, to bear the souls of men, to people other worlds while eternity goes and eternity comes; and if you will receive it, lady, this is eternal life. Hence, thine origin, the object of thy ultimate destiny. If faithful, lady, the cup is within thy reach; drink then the heavenly draught and live.” – John Taylor, third president of the Mormon Church.

33“In the divine economy, as in nature, the man ‘is the head of the woman,’ and it is written that ‘he is the savior of the body.’ But ‘the man is not without the woman’ any more than the woman is without the man, in the Lord. Adam was first formed, then Eve. In the resurrection, they stand side by side and hold dominion together. Every man who overcomes all things and is thereby entitled to inherit all things, receives power to bring up his wife to join him in the possession and enjoyment thereof.” – ‘Mormon’ Doctrine Plain and Simple, or Leaves from the Tree of Life, by Apostle Charles W. Penrose, 1897. “Do the women, when they pray, remember their husbands?… Do you uphold your husband before God as your lord? ‘What!–my husband to be my lord?’ I ask, Can you get into the celestial kingdom without him? Have any of you been there? You will remember that you never got into the celestial kingdom [during the temple ceremony] without the aid of your husband. If you did, it was because your husband was away, and some one had to act proxy for him. No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.” – as Mormon Apostle Erastus Snow preached Sunday, Oct. 4, 1857. Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, page 291.

 

THREE BAPTISMS

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“ In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2  And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew 3:1-2…And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 11  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. 13  Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. 14  But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? 15  And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.” Matthew 3:10-15.

The first important point we should notice is the gospel preached by John the Baptist, and the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Kingdom of Heaven Gospel. There is a difference between the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, and the church, the body of Christ. Now, you can have the Kingdom of God, and the body of Christ without the Kingdom of heaven. But, you cannot have the Kingdom of Heaven or the body of Christ without the Kingdom of God.

John was offering both, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God to Israel. The Kingdom of Heaven was the earthly kingdom promises to Israel throughout the Old Testament.  Unless they truly repented, and remained faithful, they could not have the Kingdom of Heaven. It was now time to repent and make ready for the King. The time had finally arrived.

That explains why there is never a word in the gospel they preached, about His coming death and resurrection. John was not preparing the nation for His death, but for His Messianic reign. Thus, all three baptisms have some bearing on the Kingdom of Heaven rule on earth.

First, there is the baptism of Jesus. John did not know that his cousin, Jesus, was Israel’s Messiah. He was told that he would know Him when he baptized Him.

Our Lord’s baptism not only revealed Him to John, but was also the Lord’s approval and identification with John’s intended ministry. It is very significant that Jesus was thirty years old when He was baptized. This fact gives additional meaning to the statement, “for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.”

John’s message was in line with the Old Testament prophets. It was “Turn or burn.” When John used the metaphor of an ax laid at the root of the tree, or a floor cleaned of chaff to be burned, he was speaking directly to the nation of near and impending judgment if they did not repent. This is the baptism of fire to which he alluded. This baptism of fire will be fully realized in the Tribulation. By the time we get to the end of Acts, it is evident that the nation would not repent.

The third baptism was also a point of Old Testament prophecy for Israel. It is called a “pouring,” or a “falling.” “And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” Joel 2:29.  “For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:” Isaiah 44:3. “(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them :…)” Acts 8:16.

This baptism is also associated with the Kingdom of Heaven, and these events were the first installment of the promises. These three baptisms were all part of the Kingdom of Heaven gospel. Nothing in the context has any connection to the church, the Body of Christ. No one today is baptized with fire, or WITH the Spirit. The baptism today is BY the Spirit, INTO the person of Christ. “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” Galatians 3:27. “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” Romans 6:3.

A DOCTRINE MORMONS WISH WOULD GO AWAY, THE BLACK RACE

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MORMON MARK PETERSEN

(DNA VS. THE BOOK OF MORMON)

 

By Mark E. Petersen
“At Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954, at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Petersen delivered a speech on “Race Problems –As They Affect The Church”. The speech outlined the religious underpinnings of segregation, and supported the continued practice of segregation as it related to intermarriage between blacks and whites…In April 1944, while serving as general manager of the Deseret News, Petersen was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that, we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that they used to say about sin, “First we pity, then endure, then embrace.”
• Is there reason then why the type of birth we receive in this life is not a reflection of our worthiness or lack of it in the pre existent life? We must accept the justice of God. He is fair to all. With that in mind, we can account in no other way for the birth of some of the children of God in darkest Africa, or in flood ridden China, or among the starving hordes of India, while some of the rest of us are born in the United States? We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in our pre existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter day Saints. There are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds.
• In this birth control effort man places himself in direct opposition to the plan and laws of God. The Almighty made this world, and He made us. All human beings are His children, His spirit offspring, and it is His intention to provide each one of us with a body of flesh and bones. This body is essential to eternal progress. With this in mind He gives us the powers of procreation and permits us to join with Him in a divinely sponsored act. But by preventing or aborting legitimate births, we oppose this plan. His spirit children are born into bodies of flesh and bones by His own design. Then who are we to prevent it?
• Some who have been perfectly healthy and able to bear children have avoided this responsibility, and in doing so have resorted to the use of harmful practices and devices resulting often in physical injury to the wife and demoralization to both parties. Some have wondered if the Church would approve such practices. Of course it never has and never could.
• I think the Lord segregated the Negro and who is man to change that segregation? It reminds me of the scripture on marriage, “what God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” Only here we have the reverse of the thing—what God hath separated, let no man bring together again.
• From this and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage. This is his objective and we must face it.
• Now what is our policy in regard to intermarriage? As to the Negro, of course, there is only one possible answer. We must not intermarry with the Negro…
• What is our advice with respect to intermarriage with Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiians and so on? I will tell you what advice I give personally. If a boy or girl comes to me claiming to be in love with a Chinese or Japanese or a Hawaiian or a person of any other dark race, I do my best to talk them out of it… I teach against inter marriage of all kinds.
• Now let’s talk about segregation again for a few moments. Was segregation a wrong principle? When the Lord chose the nations to which the spirits were to come, determining that some would be Japanese and some would be Chinese and some Negroes and some Americans, He engaged in an act of segregation.
• When he told Enoch not preach the gospel to the descendants of Cain who were black, the Lord engaged in segregation. When He cursed the descendants of Cain as to the Priesthood, He engaged in segregation.
• Who placed the Negroes originally in darkest Africa? Was it some man, or was it God? And when He placed them there, He segregated them.
• The Lord segregated the people both as to blood and place of residence. At least in the cases of the Lamanites and the Negro we have the definite word of the Lord Himself that he placed a dark skin upon them as a curse as a punishment and as a sign to all others. He forbade intermarriage with them under threat of extension of the curse. And He certainly segregated the descendants of Cain when He cursed the Negro as to the Priesthood, and drew an absolute line. You may even say He dropped an Iron curtain there.
• Mark E. Petersen, Race Problems As They Affect The Church, Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954

 

WHAT MORMONS TEACH ABOUT THE BLACK RACE

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(MORMON SCIENTIST DISPROVE MORMONISM THROUGH DNA, AND THE LACK OF LINGUISTIC,AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svfxSscxh8o)

By Ken Blue

To understand this teaching of Mormonism, one must understand their teaching that every person’s spirit was conceived through sexual intercourse of their god with one of his celestial wives in heaven.  These spirits babies continue to progress in heaven while awaiting proper parents on earth. Their behavior in heaven determines their earthly destination and assignment.

As I mentioned in a previous article, Mormonism is an ever evolving religion. Therefore, the information their members are receiving today may be altered from the originals to protect the church. However, they cannot hide the truth from those who seek it. The original writings are readily available to all who want them.

  • Apostle Mark E. Petersen presented the Mormon thinking concerning the doctrine of pre-existence: “Is there reason then why the type of birth we receive in this life is not a reflection of our worthiness or lack of it in the pre-existent life? … can we account in any other way for the birth of some of the children of God in darkest Africa, or in flood-ridden China, or among the starving hordes of India, while some of the rest of us are born here in the United States? We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in our pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds….Let us consider the great mercy of God for a moment. A Chinese, born in China with a dark skin, and with all the handicaps of that race seems to have little opportunity. But think of the mercy of God to Chinese people who are willing to accept the gospel. In spite of whatever they might have done in the pre-existence to justify being born over there as Chinamen, if they now, in this life, accept the gospel and live it the rest of their lives they can have the Priesthood, go to the temple and receive endowments and sealings, and that means they can have exaltation. Isn’t the mercy of God marvelous?
  • Think of the Negro, cursed as to the priesthood…. This Negro, who, in the pre-existence lived the type of life which justified the Lord in sending him to the earth in the lineage of Cain with a black skin, and possibly being born in darkest Africa—if that Negro is willing when he hears the gospel to accept it, he may have many of the blessings of the gospel. In spite of all he did in the pre-existent life, the Lord is willing, if the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory (Race Problems—As They Affect The Church, Address by Mark E. Petersen at the Convention of Teachers of Religion on the College Level, delivered at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 27, 1954).

Mormons believe Cain followed the Devil while in heaven. Cain manages to have a physical birth, and the curse upon the Negroes, through Cain, was the dark skin. Those born in Africa were the vilest, and lowest of all spirits in their pre existance.

  • In Joseph Smith’s History of the Church, we read that “the negroes” are the “sons of Cain” (vol. 4, p. 501). Apostle Bruce R. McConkie explains the curse put on Cain as follows: Though he was a rebel and an associate of Lucifer in pre-existence, and though he was a liar from the beginning whose name was Perdition, Cain managed to attain the privilege of mortal birth…. he came out in open rebellion, fought God, worshiped Lucifer, and slew Abel….As a result of his rebellion, Cain was cursed with a dark skin; he became the father of the Negroes, and those spirits who are not worthy to receive the priesthood are born through his lineage. He became the first mortal to be cursed as a son of perdition. As a result of his mortal birth he is assured of a tangible body of flesh and bones to eternity, a fact which will enable him to rule over Satan (Mormon Doctrine, 1958, p. 102).

Thus, as a result of following the Devil, these spirits are cursed, and come through the lineage of Cain. “The black skin and flat nose, is “emblematic of eternal darkness.” They were an “inferior” race.”

(We challenge any Mormon to refute what we have said here.)