Statesmen & Symbols Prelude to the Restoration

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Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France 13th century

Logan Temple

Washington D.C.

Marktkirche, Hanover, Germany 14th century

The Last Judgment The Church of Ste. Foy at Conques, France

Northern Wei Dynasty, circa: 386-534 AD Unified Silla dynasty (668–935), 8th century Korea

Rock carved Buddha triad in Seosan, South Korea Sosan Buddha Triad, Baekje 7th century

The Psalter Map 1225-1250 A.D.

Orant Woman with Veil Sarcophagus from Via Presnestina

Christ the King Church of San Salvador, Sarria, Spain (11th Century)

1. Thanks be to thy name, O Lord God of Israel, who keepest covenant and showest mercy unto thy servants who walk uprightly before thee, with all their hearts— 2. Thou who hast commanded thy servants to build a house to thy name in this place [Kirtland]. 3. And now thou beholdest, O Lord, that thy servants have done according to thy commandment. 4. And now we ask thee, Holy Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of thy bosom, in whose name alone salvation can be administered to the children of men, we ask thee, O Lord, to accept of this house, the workmanship of the hands of us, thy servants, which thou didst command us to build. 5. For thou knowest that we have done this work through great tribulation; and out of our poverty we have given of our substance to build a house to thy name, that the Son of Man might have a place to manifest himself to his people. 6. And as thou hast said in a revelation, given to us, calling us thy friends, saying—Call your solemn assembly, as I have commanded you;

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D&C 3:2

For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.

Alma 7:20

. . . he cannot walk in crooked paths; neither doth he vary from that which he hath said; neither hath he a shadow of turning from the right to the left, or from that which is right to that which is wrong; therefore, his course is one eternal round.

Basilica di Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna Italy, 6th century

Basilica of St. Vitale, Ravenna, presbytery, left wall, central lunette

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

Coptic Egyptian textile, with gammadia in the four corners, & eight-pointed star in the center

See the book, The Mystic Symbol http://www.ancientamerican.com/

YAHWEH has created two paths for you to chose. . . on the right of his throne, the rulership of the good, younger, MESSIAH, who was bruised (in the heel) . . . .and on the left, the rulership of the evil, elder MESSIAH.

For Seven thousand years the competing rulerships will contend, the majority of which time, the evil messiah shall dominate the earth.

The people nations and tongues, shall see, coming in the clouds of heaven, the chariots of the Elohym (deities or mighty ones) from one end of heaven to the other, to judge the house (earth?) . a rulership, of abundant life, shall descend, But the wicked servants (people, nations and tongues), shall be judged, along with their wicked lord, BY THE PRECIOUS LORD MESSIAH!

the Great Lord, and ruler, who alone judges, in righteousness, is YHW wey (Yahweh), he Shall establish, a righteous mountain (kingdom), of his son of the right hand, (who shall judge the evil lord), and shall make an eternal covenant, day and night.

the Son of the lefth and, the great evil lord (will be ? Imprisoned ?) one (thousand years), this Great evil lord. People, in the clouds of heaven, shall see, war, and the holy one descending, in a cloud, the great Lord, and king, one thousand years, shall be his great Lordship.

(TEXT Broken-son of the right hand-) . . .conflict, descending and ascending, conflict. Messiah's righteous rule, shall contend for a day, (one thousand years), against the evil rulership, of son of the left hand (Satan).

Recent scientific proposal for Ark shape, see Answers in Genesis

Serpent Mound, Ohio

Salt Lake Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah

Interlaced Pentagram in Capernaum, Israel

Joseph Smith’s Masonic Apron

George Washington Masonic Apron

Was George Washington a prophet and did he see visions?

Can government and law be better understood by studying the Book of Mormon than by studying the Founding Fathers?

What did President Heber J. Grant describe in his journal as “one of the most serious conditions that has confronted me since I became President of the Church”?

a. Missionary Work b. Prohibition c. Roosevelt’s New Deal d. the Great Depression

Was George Washington a prophet and did he see visions? TRUE

Can government and law be better understood by studying the Book of Mormon than by studying the Founding Fathers? TRUE

What did President Heber J. Grant describe in his journal as “one of the most serious conditions that has confronted me since I became President of the Church”?

a. Missionary Work b. Prohibition c. Roosevelt’s New Deal d. the Great Depression

Did the Founding Fathers glean their wisdom from the Enlightenment?

Are the United States’ Constitutional documents akin to scripture and were the principles contained therein revealed by God?

Can the Latter-day Signs of the Times be found in chronological order in the Book of Mormon?

Did Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence?

Did the Founding Fathers glean their wisdom from the Enlightenment? FALSE, Bible/Revelation

Are the United States’ Constitutional documents akin to scripture and were the principles contained therein revealed by God? TRUE

Can the Latter-day Signs of the Times be found in chronological order in the Book of Mormon? TRUE

Did Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence? FALSE, he compiled

“Washington, with a wisdom born of divine inspiration, must have seen all this in vision. I shall later quote from his Farewell Address to his fellowmen countrymen passages showing how fully he foresaw the future needs of America and the dangers which would beset her path.”

Did Thomas Jefferson write [compile] the Declaration of Independence?

National Covenant 1638

Declaration of Independence (1776) The National Covenant (1638)

“We . . . Do . . . Solemnly . . . Declare” “We . . . Do . . . Solemnly Declare”

“. . . Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of a absolute tyranny”

“. . . Usurped authority of . . . all his tyrannous laws”

“That these United Colonies are and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States”

“. . . that the aforesaid Confessions are to be interpreted and ought to be understood . . .”

“With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence”

“We call the Living God . . . to witness . . . and to bless our desires and proceedings with a happy success . . .”

“We mutually pledge to each other” “To the mutual defense and assistance every one of us of another”

“Our lives, our Fortunes” “With our means and lives”

Read full National Covenant at: http://www.josephsmithforum.org/doc/the-scottish-national-covenant

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States (1787)

The National Covenant (1638 & 1639)

“We the people of the United States” “we noblemen, barons, gentlemen, burgesses, ministers and commons”

“in order to form a more perfect union”

“considering the great happiness which may flow from a full and perfect union”

“establish justice” “judicatories be established and ministration of justice amongst us”

“insure domestic tranquility” “procure true and perfect peace”

“provide for the common defense” “stand to the mutual defense”

“promote the general welfare” “for the common happiness to conduce for so good ends and promote the same”

“and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”

“security of said liberties to ourselves and posterity”

“do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America”

“do ordain the Covenant and Constitution of this Kingdom”

Book of Mormon Arbroath Declaration Declaration of Independence

“. . . all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.” (2

Nephi 26:33)

“nor distinction of Jew or Greek, Scots or English”

“all men are created equal”

“And they entered into a covenant to fight for the liberty of the Nephites, . . . they covenanted that they never would give up their liberty . . .” (Alma 53:17)

“we fight for liberty alone which no good man loses but with his life”

“Certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty”

“. . . protect the land unto the laying down of their lives . . .” (Alma 53:17) “. . . they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives;” (Alma 56:47)

“we will maintain even to the death”

“We mutually pledge . . . our lives”

Book of Mormon Arbroath Declaration Declaration of Independence

“. . . judges . . . judged according to the laws . . . this shall ye observe and make it your law—to do your business by the voice of the people.” (Mosiah 29:25-26)

“our . . . King . . . (protecting) . . . our laws and customs . . . (must reign under) . . . The succession of right and the due consent of us all”

“that to secure these Rights governments are instituted among Men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

“. . . we will newly arrange the affairs of this people . . . ” (Mosiah 29:11)

“It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.” (1 Nephi

4:13)

“But if he (the King of Scots) were to desist from what he has begun . . . We would immediately endeavor to expel him as our enemy and the subverter of his own rights and ours, and make another our King”

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new government”

“. . . he causeth to be destroyed; and whosoever doth rebel against him he will send his armies against them to war, and if he can he will destroy them;” (Mosiah 29:23)

“The mighty King of the English . . . Perpetuated . . . Injuries slaughters deeds of violence”

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries death Desolation”

Book of Mormon Arbroath Declaration Declaration of Independence

“my beloved brother, Moroni, let us resist evil, . . . let us resist them with our swords, that we may retain our freedom,” (Alma 61:14)

“For so long as a hundred remain alive, we never will in any degree be subject to the dominion of the English”

“That these United Colonies are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown”

“that we may rejoice . . . in the cause of our Redeemer and our God. “ (Alma 61:14)

“we will go . . . in the strength of our God according to the faith which is in us.” (Alma 61:17)

“to Him, as the Supreme King and Judge we commit the defense of our cause “

“appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions”

“Surely God shall not suffer that we, who are despised because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall be trodden down and destroyed,” (Alma 46:18)

“(by the help of) Divine Providence firmly trusting that He will bring our enemies to nought”

“with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence”

Declaration of Independence (1776) Arbroath/Scottish Declaration of Independence (1320)

“Merciless Indian savages” “the most savage tribes”

“In the most barbarous Ages” “People however barbarous”

“He has plundered our seas . . . burnt our towns”

“plunderings, burnings”

“an undistinguished Destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions”

“sparing no age or sex”

“He has . . . sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people”

“. . . in most unfriendlywise harassed our Kingdom”

“A prince whose character is marked by every act which may define a tyrant”

“. . . this prince perpetrated . . . These evils innumerable”

the Scots . . . journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today.

What is the motto of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

The Constitution of our country formed by the Fathers of liberty. Peace and good order in society. Love to God, and good will to man. All good and wholesome laws, virtue and truth above all things, and aristarchy, live forever!

But woe to tyrants, mobs, aristocracy, anarchy, and toryism, and all those who invent or seek out unrighteous and vexatious law suits, under the pretext and color of law, or office, either religious or political.

Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft, and let all the people say Amen! that the blood of our fathers may not cry from the ground against us. Sacred is the memory of that blood which bought for us our liberty.

How does the Book of Mormon begin?

Understanding the Covenant on the Land

Is the history we learn in school the history that is important to the Lord?

Nowhere is this more true than the founding of America

Who are the forgotten founding fathers?

Almost no one knows . . .

Puritans

Separatists

Hugenots

Quakers

Calverts

Covenanters

Anabaptists

Moravians

and others . . .

The Puritan was a Scripturist, – a Scripturist with all his heart

Sabbath observance

Hebraic names for children and cities

Thanksgiving may have been taken from the feasts in the Bible

Fasts

Legal code taken directly from scripture

• worthiness interviews

• accepting new members by vote

• sustain leaders with the uplifted hand

• church courts

• disfellowship and excommunication

• bearing testimony

• prophecy

• prayer lists

• being born under the covenant

• renewing covenants

• fasting for a purpose

• bread and water in sacrament

• sealings

• sanctification

• schools of the prophets

For Our Day: Covenant on the Land The For Our Day documentary series explores the prophetic parallels in the Book of Mormon referencing statements from latter-day prophets of God and the Standard Works. For Our Day: Covenant on the Land discusses the covenant on the Promised Land for both ancient and modern inhabitants.

For Our Day: Divinely Sanctioned Governments (DVD) For Our Day: Divinely Sanctioned Governments compares the Nephite and Latter-day governments of liberty.

Statesmen & Symbols: Prelude to the Restoration (2014) From the producers of For Our Day, comes a fascinating documentary exploring temple symbolism. Discover the reason behind Joseph Smith's involvement with Masonry, the purpose of inverted pentagrams on LDS temples, the use of sacred symbols by the Founding Fathers and more!

Book of Mormon Parallel Events Timeline This timeline overlays the Book of Mormon history with Latter-day prophetic history and organizes the matching events.

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