Monday, October 9, 2006

   La la la la-la-la. Happy Columbus Day!
JST Genesis 50: 24-32
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and go unto my fathers; and I go down to my grave with joy. The God of my father Jacob be with you, to deliver you out of affliction in the days of your bondage; for the Lord hath visited me, and I have obtained a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of my loins, the Lord God will raise up a righteous branch out of my loins; and unto thee, whom my father Jacob hath named Israel, a prophet; (not the Messiah who is called Shilo;) and this prophet shall deliver my people out of Egypt in the days of thy bondage.
And it shall come to pass that they shall be scattered again; and a branch shall be broken off, and shall be carried into a far country; nevertheless they shall be remembered in the covenants of the Lord, when the Messiah cometh; for he shall be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the Spirit of power; and shall bring them out of darkness into light; out of hidden darkness, and out of captivity unto freedom.
A seer shall the Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of my loins.
Thus saith the Lord God of my fathers unto me, A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins; and unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren.
And he shall bring them to the knowledge of the covenants which I have made with thy fathers; and he shall do whatsoever work I shall command him.
And I will make him great in mine eyes, for he shall do my work; and he shall be great like unto him who I have said I would raise up unto you, to deliver my people, O house of Israel, out of the land of Egypt; for a seer will I raise up to deliver my people out of the land of Egypt; and he shall be called Moses. And by this name he shall know that he is of thy house; for he shall be nursed by the king’s daughter, and shall be called her son.
And again, a seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto the seed of thy loins; and not to the bringing forth of my word only, saith the Lord, but to the convincing them of my word, which shall have already gone forth among them in the last days;
Wherefore the fruit of thy loins shall write, and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and also that which shall be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah, shall grow together unto the confounding of false doctrines, and laying down of contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to a knowledge of their fathers in the latter days; and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the Lord.
And out of weakness shall he be made strong, in that day when my work shall go forth among all my people, which shall restore them, who are of the house of Israel, in the last days.

"We should gratefully acknowledge God as our Creator. Otherwise, we would be as guilty as goldfish swimming in a bowl, oblivious to the goodness of their provider."
~ Elder Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, Nov. 1998, 87

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Equus: I watched a video representation of "Joseph and his Brothers", about Joseph son of Israel, done with a voice-over of the Biblical text. I haven't watched it in a while, but it is one of my favorite stories perhaps partly because of this video. We've had it for years. Did you know that Joseph was a type of (or had parts of his life parallel to) Christ? So was Moses and Isaac.

Xihuitl: Yep. And now we're going to work at the valley for a little bit.

Equus: And edit! I got permission to edit a script for the murder mystery dinner theater our ward presents annually.

Xihuitl: And to work on your own stuff, too.

Equus: ^/^ True. Love and hugs. God our Father and Jesus Christ love you! So much that They provide the full truth and the Atonement and resurrection.

Xihuitl: And for you, Night Shade2, General Conference is a chance for our Church (or most members) to listen to our General Authorities, like our prophet, who we don't usually get to hear directly except at Conference or broadcasts. And we hope your Halloween goes well, too. ^_^

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Fact of the day: Names in Hebrew (as in probably every other language XD ) were symbolic. "Beth" meant "house", "salem" was "peace". I'm pretty sure about salem, partly because salaam is peace in Arabic...I think....Arabic and Hebrew have similar words for it.
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