40a - The Nephite Prophets in Ancient Central America, Being Israelites, Understood Full-Well the True Purpose of Mosaic Temple Worship!

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The Bible and Book of Mormon: Two Witnesses -by Greg K. Olsen

As in a number of previous posts of my Book of Mormon Blog, Have You Really Read the Book of Mormon, I will in this post show, by the instrumentality of two videos produced by LDS scholar, David Bokovoy, how the lives of Book of Mormon people very faithfully mirror the lives of their ancient ancestors, the followers of God through Moses.

I obtained them because of the following: The specific focus of these two videos is to show how temple worship of the Nephites, whose history is found in the Book of Mormon, follows remarkably close the mode of temple worship found among the people of Moses in the Wilderness and later under King David and other kings and prophets of Israel who continued to stress the importance of temple worship.

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THE FAIR JOURNAL
2010 The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research====================================================================
LATIN - apologeticus GREEK - apologetikos Apologetics: "The branch of theology that is concerned with defending or proving the truth of Christian doctrines" (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2009).

I suggest that you consider finding a piece of paper and a working pen in order to take notes on what is said. You may also want to consider the possibility of viewing both videos a second time.

I now suggest that you view one video right after the other. There is a connection between them!

I think you will enjoy David Bokovoy's style of presentation. I think his approach to this subject is very refreshing and informative!

Part 1

Part 2



Moses and the Brass Serpent -by Judith Mehr



In the videos, David Bokovoy quotes from Psalm 95. I have inserted it here so that you can more fully contemplate its meaning, based on what you were told in the videos.

The painting just above could be considered to be part of the "provocation and temptation in the wilderness," spoken of in this Psalm.

You will notice in the painting that some of the Israelites have turned and walked away from the Brass Serpent which Moses used to represent the future sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ (and they evidently never returned), while others remained with Moses as he taught them great Gospel truths.

PSALM 95
Let us sing unto the Lord—Let us worship and bow down before him—Israel provoked the Lord and failed to enter into his rest.

1 O COME, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

5 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

6 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. (emphasis added)

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I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish.  Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

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39z - Education Moments: The LDS Church's Perpetual Educational Fund

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The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ: Mosiah 2:
41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it. (emphasis added)

A Photo and a Painting Representing Hispanic College Age Persons Who Desire a Higher Education.


Education moments:

Open opportunities
Published: Saturday, March 13, 2010 (in the LDS Church News)

Returning home to Guatemala in 2001 after serving in the Costa Rica San Jose Mission, I started school at San Carlos University. The cost of school and the daily travel were extremely difficult for me, so I found a job with Buscamed in 2004 as a common laborer in its sawdust plant.

The work was all consuming. I was lifting heavy sacks during the day. I was sweeping all day in the sun. I thought my body was not going to withstand the work. I went home exhausted. I did not have strength to work in the Church or to spend meaningful time with my family.

I prayed a lot to my Heavenly Father to find a better way to make a living.

I had to study at night and show up at the university on Saturdays. On top of that, I was called as a branch president. I not only had to take care of my family, but also the lives of about 150 members in my branch. At one point, I thought I would have to either stop being branch president or stop going to school.

My wife and I decided to consider and pray about the Perpetual Education Fund. We felt it was the best option to help our economic situation, and we decided to do it. Though the money for school helped relieve some of the stress, I still spent eight more months in the sawdust plant.

Finally, education opened opportunities to work in an office. I went through many interviews and finally was promoted to technical control and assets administrator. For me, this was a huge blessing.

In order to apply for the position, I needed two years at the university, which, thanks to PEF, I had completed at that precise time. The technical schooling was a great blessing for me.

I have now been promoted many times. I have worked as an administrator for four years and make three times more money than I used to.

I see how Heavenly Father has blessed me, and I have told Him so. I testify of this wherever I go. I have not failed in making my payments to the Perpetual Education Fund. — Omar Victorino Perez, Cuilapa Branch, Cuilapa Guatemala District

Dear Blog Readers: I decided to give you now as much information and guidance as I could in case you might benefit from just learning about or by possibly participating in the Church's Perpetual Education Fund, either by donating to this marvelous program or by receiving help for your or your children's education if you qualify for such. Therefore: I went into lds.org and did a Search under the topic highlighted right above in this paragraph:

I copied everything from that search thinking that you might receive the answers you might have to your questions. Of course that Education Fund is for people of all races. I emphasized Hispanic members needing help from that source because of the Church News Article I quoted above and because I have heard that many members of the Church from Central and South America have been greatly blessed by that Church program! Be sure to read all of it, even if that makes it necessary to return to this blog again or reading it directly from lds.org.

SPECIAL NOTE: By clicking on the links below, you will have some very special opportunities of learning much more about this inspired program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Note from Neil Birch: YOU WILL FIND THAT IN THE NUMBERED SEQUENCE BELOW SOME NUMBERS IN THAT SEQUENCE HAVE BEEN SKIPPED. THAT IS BECAUSE THERE WERE REPEATS BECAUSE MANY OF THESE ARTICLES WERE REPEATED IN VARIOUS CHURCH MAGAZINES.

2. Autn:reference - Magazine_122c8d00422fe010VgnVCM100000176f620a

____The Perpetual Education Fund

Gordon B. Hinckley
Based on similar principles to those underlying the Perpetual Emigration Fund, we shall call it the Perpetual Education Fund. The matter of education will rest with the Perpetual Education Fund.

Gospel Library and; Magazines and; Liahona; July 2001

Perpetual Education Fund The Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) was established in 2001 to help young men and women get a good education and become self-reliant after serving a mission for the Church. The program is patterned after the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which helped more than 30,000 early Church members journey to the Salt Lake Valley from Europe in the mid to late 1800s. Background Information
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____The Perpetual Education Fund: A Bright Ray of Hope

John K. Carmack
The Church was to create a Perpetual Education Fund. The Perpetual Education Fund became a bright ray of hope.

Gospel Library > Magazines > Liahona > January 2004
Michael R. Morris

Thanks to the Church’s then-recently implemented Perpetual Education Fund (PEF), in 2003 Dilson turned that prompting into a profession following an 18-month course in nursing. “Without the fund, it would have been impossible for me to take the courses I needed,” says Dilson, who works for a public hospital in Recife. It has changed our lives.” An Answer from the Lord When members of the Church in Brazil describe the Perpetual Education Fund, they can’t help but use superlatives: miraculoso, inspirado, maravilhoso.

Gospel Library and Magazines; Liahona; April 2009
Michael R. Morris

12. Autn:reference - http://www.lds.org/pef/0,12038,2073-1,00.htmlPerpetual Education Fund Home

13. Autn:reference - http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/perpetual-education-fund/Perpetual Education Fund

14. Autn:reference - http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/perpetual-education-fund/news-features/donor-stories/family-gathers-to-repay-pef.htmlFamily Gathers to Repay PEF
Contact Information LDS Philanthropies: Perpetual Education Fund 15E. When President Gordon B. Hinckley announced the Perpetual Education Fund in April 2001, he said it was to be modeled after the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which allowed early pioneers like the John Griffiths family to get funding to travel to Salt Lake City.


15. Autn:reference - http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/perpetual-education-fund/news-features/education-is-the-key-to.htmlEducation is the Key to Opportunity

18. Thomas S. Monson
The Perpetual Education Fund, established in 2001, continues to move forward. On average, with the 2.7 years of education they are now receiving, they are increasing their income by three to four times.
Gospel Library > Magazines > Ensign > May 2009

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As usual, I thank my my 21 followers for continuing to come to this blog to learn. I hope this topic helped each of you in some way!
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I deeply appreciate your readership and very much hope you you will find that which was presented to you in this blog post, very beneficial.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish:  Its content is translated from the English in this blog.



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39y - An Easter Message: Jesus Christ Lives Now and Testifies of That Through Both Ancient Apostles and Through Living Apostles and a Living Prophet!

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I give special thanks to the twenty-one followers of my blog. Thank you for your continuing to be a regular part of those who learn here!

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Why Weepest Thou? - Painting: Simon Dewey



The Resurrected Jesus and Angels Show Love to Book of Mormon Children - Painting: Del Parson

A SPECIAL EASTER WITNESS BY LIVING APOSTLES AND A PROPHET

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I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish:  Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

39x - The Lord Has Re-established His Kingdom (Church) On The Earth And Sees To It That All, Throughout the World, Have Free Access to Its Message! #4

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The Lord Jesus Christ -by Heinrich Hofmann

Isaiah 2: 2(Also, II Nephi 12: 2-3) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that (when) the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (emphasis added)

In order to clarify the reason why I chose the above scripture from the Book of Isaiah from the Old Testament and also from the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, I give you the opportunity to read and ponder these words of our Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ which he delivered to the surviving righteous Nephites (from the great cataclysm that had killed a great portion of their nation - the more unrighteous portion) near the temple in their Land Bountiful (located somewhere in Ancient Central America in 34 A.D.):

The Resurrected Lord, Jesus Christ Teaches the Nephite Survivors - Painting: John Scott

3 Nephi 23: 1 AND now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah.

If you choose to do so, you can delay your experiencing of those conference sessions until later. They won't remain available after a certain amount of time has expired! I urge you to tune into them, using the instructions I give below to experience them when they actually are taking place!

 Elder Jeffrey Holland's Easter Message.


"Abide With Me; 'Tis Even Tide" (The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is accompanied by the Orchestra on Temple Square. (Arrangement by: Barlow Bradford) The Choir is not seen in this recording. The words of the song are shown on the screen with pictures of scenes depicted in the words of the song, from time to time.

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I deeply appreciate your readership and very much hope you you will find that which was presented to you in this blog post, very beneficial.

If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish: Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch

39w - The Lord Has Re-established His Kingdom (Church) On The Earth And Sees To It That All, Throughout the World, Have Free Access to Its Messages.#3

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The Lord Jesus Christ -by Heinrich Hofmann

Isaiah 2: 2(Also, II Nephi 12: 2-3) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that (when) the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (emphasis added)

I have repeated the scripture above as part of TODAY'S THEME of this post as well as that of my just previous post because I continue to prepare you, my blog readers for the possibility of your choosing to listen, be you members of this church or not, via your own Internet source, to the upcoming General Conference sessions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be held Saturday April 3, and Sunday April 4, 2010.

I have emphasized these words from that Isaiah scripture: That is surely how the Lord helps us, members and non-members alike, in LDS Church General Conferences, through the messages given by inspired men and women leaders of His church.

. . . and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.

In order to clarify the reason why I chose the above scripture from the Book of Isaiah from the Old Testament and also from the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, I give you the opportunity to read and ponder these words of our Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ which he delivered to the surviving righteous Nephites (from the great cataclysm that had killed a great portion of their nation - the more unrighteous portion) near the temple in their Land Bountiful (located somewhere in Ancient Central America in 34 A.D.):

3 Nephi 23: 1 AND now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah.

2 For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles. (emphasis added)

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Here again is a video based on General Conference Talks given by General Authorities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which can serve as a prelude to your experiencing a General Conference of that Church using your computer's Internet capacities.
After this video is a beautiful musical video in which the World-famous Tabernacle Choir performs a very special rendition of "Lillies of the Field.".  

The World Famous Tabernacle Choir, will also be featured at each of the General Sessions of General Conference on the dates listed above.

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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Singing: Lillies of the Field

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If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.

I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested in it. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is my Spanish Blog: Its content is translated from the English in this blog:

Neil Birch

39v- The Lord Has Re-established His Kingdom (Church) On The Earth And Sees To It That All, Throughout the World, Have Free Access to Its Message! #2

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The Lord Jesus Christ - Painting: Heinrich Hofmann

Isaiah 2: 2(Also, II Nephi 12: 2-3) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (emphasis added)

I have repeated the scripture above as part of TODAY'S THEME of this post as well as that of my just previous post because I continue to prepare you, my blog readers for the possibility of your choosing to listen, be you members of this church or not, via your own Internet source, to the upcoming General Conference sessions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be held Saturday April 3, and Sunday April 4, 2010.

I have emphasized these words from that Isaiah scripture: That is surely how the Lord helps us, members and non-members alike, in LDS Church General Conferences, through the messages given by inspired men and women leaders of His church.

. . . and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.

In order to clarify the reason why I chose the above scripture from the Book of Isaiah from the Old Testament and also from the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, I give you the opportunity to read and ponder these words of our Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ which he delivered to the surviving righteous Nephites (from the great cataclysm that had killed a great portion of their nation - the more unrighteous portion) near the temple in their Land Bountiful (located somewhere in Ancient Central America in 34 A.D.):



The Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ Teaching the Nephite People in Ancient Central America -by John Scott

3 Nephi 23: 1 AND now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. 2 For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles. (emphasis added)

Here comes the 360 degree Panoramic View I promised you in Post 39u!

Just a very personal note! Whenever I view the interior of the huge LDS Conference Center it becomes extra amazing to me because right there in its auditorium's more Southerly area (on your right side as you view the podium and organ), many years ago, was located the actual first hospital of several versions of the famous Primary Children's Hospitals that have existed over the years,

including the very successful and spacious hospital which is now located East of the University of Utah Campus in Salt Lake City, Utah (U.S.A.). (Click on the picture for a close-up view).

This is the earliest Primary Children's Hospital and was located at 40 W. North Temple St. in Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A. Formerly it was the Orson Hyde home. (Click on the picture for a close-up view). I was admitted there as a six year old patient in 1938 and where I remained for fourteen months completing my first grade schooling there within the hospital! I was being treated for osteomylitis of my left knee caused by T.B. My family lived 700 miles West of there in Roseville, California. I have both very happy and also very sad memories of my time there, as I personally view the interior of this relatively new Conference Center. Please forgive my personal reflections!

However, I do enjoy greatly being inside the Conference Center and just viewing it like you will have done, in just a few moments from now!
Recently, in a voluntary church service assignment I accepted with others from our LDS Church ward, I spent about two and a half hours very late one night cleaning the backs of seats while two others cleaned the front parts of the seats that are in one section on the lower level of that auditorium. Another ward member, a counselor in our bishopric, vacuumed several sections. It wasn't very dirty! The Church really keeps that building in good shape! I, along with the others, enjoyed the assignment!

Neil Birch, Age 7, in front of the Primary Children's Hospital located at 40 W. North Temple Street, Salt Lake City Utah. (His mother, Virginia Jensen Birch took this photo. To view this and a second photo and explanations of both, please view my post #14, dated: July 12, 2008 View This It Shows Various Views of the LDS Conference Center and of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah

I have inserted below a photograph of a Boeing 747 Jet Airliner. When the LDS Conference Center was under construction, I heard it often reported from a number of sources that one of those very huge Boeing 747 airliners could fit inside the new Conference Center Auditorium! Do not copy or alter this photo!

Now, having a few minutes ago, finished your Panoramic View of the Conference Center auditorium, I suggest you, after reading the next five paragraphs, click again on the link which is now just above the words: IMPORTANT NOTE you'll find up the page from here, just several paragraphs. Or if you have already had two visits to the panoramic view scenes, Please, right now, scroll down to below the two red asterisks below. When you are there, you are close to the key part of this post, the several videos I have provided you! Start under the blue line: ______________________

As you may be learning, if you didn't already know, the State of Utah came into being because of The Mormon Pioneers. As you have time, you may want to explore other buildings and places in Salt Lake City and other cities in Utah using that panoramic view program which has been brought onto your screen. And then you could go to the Utah natural wonders that are in the link also. They are really amazing, but with the use of this device they are almost more than amazing!
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As I have promised in the first blog post of this series. I now will give you the opportunity of viewing additional musical videos and of LDS General Conference talks given by general authorities of this church. As was so with the videos I showed in my previous post, they do not contain the entire talks that were given. Music, paintings and photos have been added to give an added sense of feeling, spirit and understanding to what is said by the speaker/s.

My purpose in providing these videos for you is to prepare you for the possibility of your being able to tune into, with the help of your computer's Internet, the upcoming General Conference of this Church which will be held on Saturday, April 3, and Sunday April 4th. In the post that I will publish on March 29, I will give you specific instructions which will help you prepare your computer and yourself to be ready to function in the way it/you will need need to function.

I assure you talks at all General Conferences are given by very inspired men and women of our day and time who are very well prepared and have all of our welfare in mind!

The actual General Conference talks, of course, do not have the features that the videos you will be experiencing in the previous post and in this and in the two following posts, but I assure you that you will be able to find application from them in your own life, whether you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or not. As you sincerely ask the Lord to help you to be in tune for this spiritual feast, you will find that He will! You may have already learned that by viewing the videos of Conference speeches in my previous post! I'm also sure each of the talks you may experience by tuning into Conference sessions, will be well worth your while.

Those talks will be directed to the attention of LDS Church members rather than non-members. I say this to assure you non-members, that these Church leaders are not trying to convert you. No-one will know you are listening except you or others close to you!

I believe this first video I'm presenting in this post gives us an entire Conference address except for some brief opening remarks. This was the speaker's first address given by him after he had been called by the Lord through His prophet, to become a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He had spoken in previous General Conferences as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. He was Elder Neal A. Maxwell who then served long and very well for a good number of years as an apostle before he died of a very serious disease which he endured patiently.

He was well known for his great and loving character and powerful testimony of the Lord, Jesus Christ, as well as being a superbly inspired and skilled speaker as you will soon discover for yourselves!

Elder Neal A. Maxwell's first conference address as an apostle.

As I mentioned in my just previous post, a regular and very important part of each General Conference Session is the presence of and the inspired performance of, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Here is an example of one of their video recordings: Tabernacle Choir:  Musical by MoSop

As that recording nearing its end, I suggest you consider selecting an additional Tabernacle Choir musical video from a list of Related Videos which you will see to the right of the smaller screen you will be in after having pressed (esc.) on your keyboard. I recommend the third listed video down: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - The Holy City (Time: 5:14 minutes.)

I will now end this post by offering you the opportunity of viewing the following video made up of a number of small portions of General Conference talks given by a number of General Authorities. You will find it full of testimony of living apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is entitled:

Lifting Burdens, the Atonement of Jesus Christ

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39u - The Lord Has Re-established His Kingdom (Church) On The Earth And Sees To It That All, Throughout the World, Have Free Access to Its Message! #1

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TODAY'S THEME



The Lord Jesus Christ -by Heinrich Hofmann

Isaiah 2: 2(Also, II Nephi 12: 2-3*) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that (when) the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (emphasis added)

The Prophet Isaiah

In my just previous post, 39t, I told about the Latter-day Saint pioneers first entering the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847. Here is the painting I showed then:

Artist Unknown

One of the most significant features of the Salt Lake Valley in the State of Utah, U.S.A. is that it is located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet above sea level between two large mountain ranges. In this painting the view of the Valley is from the vantage point of the somewhat higher Wasatch Mountain Range on the East.

As the Mormon Pioneers' covered wagons are shown descending at a steep angle toward the Valley below, on the far left side of the painting, in the distance, can be seen the very Northern end of the Oquirrh Mountain Range which is just South and slightly East of the Great Salt Lake which appears as a small white band, running from left to right in the distance. Both of these two mentioned mountain ranges run North and South. Other mountains can be seen still further West. Literally then, The Salt Lake Valley is situated in the Top of the Mountains.

As you read above, the Prophet Isaiah saw in vision that in "the last days" (the days just before the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ) "the LORD's House shall be established in the top of the mountains."

In that scripture the Lord's House refers to one of the first few of the Lord's 330 temples which have already been built by His Restored Church in our days, throughout the world. There are 30 more either under construction or in planning stages. There are still many more to come before (and I believe), after the Second Coming of our Lord!

Below is a world map on which is shown where the present 330 (plus) LDS Temples are located. You can also view photos of them.

The temples are also listed alphabetically. They are usually named after the city and state or city and nation where they are located.

You will find it easy to view photos of the temples about which you choose to learn. They are very beautiful buildings, but more than that, the work done in them by members of the LDS Church for their deceased relatives and ancestors such as vicarious baptism, brings a closeness, even a bonding, with those who have departed from this life before, whom we will no doubt meet after we too leave this present life. Because of our vicarious actions in their behalf, we can rejoice with them when we meet them in the world of spirits where we all go after our lives here on earth have ended.

World Map On Which LDS Church Temples are found. 

Isaiah also prophesied that "all nations shall flow unto it." One remarkable thing about Salt Lake City and all of Utah is that many of its present citizens' ancestors and even many of its present citizens and/or their parents come from homelands located throughout the earth. That prophesy was also literally fulfilled, at least temporarily, when the very successful Worldwide Winter Olympics of the year 2002 was headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Beginning soon after the Mormon pioneers arrived there, construction began on the Salt Lake Temple, literally a House of the Lord. It was built out of solid granite hewed out of the Wasatch Mountain range. It took forty years to complete.

Below this paragraph can be seen two photos taken at night: The one on the left shows a small part of Salt Lake City with the Wasatch Mountain Range (to the East) in the background. The photo on the right shows the East side of the Salt Lake Temple as it appears today. Between you and the temple is a pond of water in which the temple is reflected.


Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. is where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is headquartered. Across the street to the North of the Salt Lake Temple, shown above, is the Church's relatively new Conference Center. Twice a year, once in early April and then in early October this world-wide church with a membership nearing fourteen million, holds General Conference.
In Isaiah's prophecy which I quoted above, I also highlighted these words:

On April 3rd and 4th of this year (2010), a Saturday and and a Sunday, the annual Church conference is scheduled. It is a world-wide conference. In times past leaders of the church from many different lands would travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. along with other world-wide members who could afford to travel here. In October 2010 the Semiannual General Conference of the Church will be held here also.

Now, because of modern means of electronic communications, church leaders and other members of the church from lands throughout the entire earth are able to experience this time of being "taught in his ways" by remaining in their homelands at General Conference time, thus helping them to learn more regularly how to "walk in his paths," without making the sacrifice of traveling so far from home!

Not only are the means of being as if one were in attendance at General Conference, available to church leaders and church members in foreign lands, they are also available to each of you viewers of this blog post no matter where you live in the world, in your own language because of the means of modern TV communications, expert translators, and the power of the Internet, to which each of you have access or you would not be reading this blog post right now!

In my blog post which I will publish on March 29, (2010) I will give you specific instructions which will help you read and listen to the Church's General Conference, as if you were right here in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. in attendance in the Church's huge Conference Center located directly across the street from Temple Square where one of the Lord's Houses, the Salt Lake City, Utah Temple (shown above) is located.

Here are two views of the exterior of the LDS Conference Center, followed by an interior view of the Center's auditorium showing its immensity. Right there is where the Church's General Conferences take place. The Center is located on North Temple Street just North, across the street from the Salt Lake Temple shown in the photo above.





Now, I'm planning to treat you, in this and in my next three posts, to the special opportunity in each of them, of your experiencing two LDS general authority talks using the medium of musical videos. Those videos have been developed from talks which were given in fairly recent General Conferences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You can expect the next three posts of mine to be published on March 19, 24, and 29.

Also, in my very next post I have decided to treat you to the experience of viewing various scenes in Salt Lake City using a new (at least it is new to me) innovation in viewing various buildings and even the wonders of nature in the State of Utah. It is called: 360 degree Panoramic views. You will enjoy using that simple to use device, for example, to swivel the photograph, you see right above, of the huge interior of the Conference Center which will help you experience in a fascinating way, the immensity of the auditorium of that huge, attractive building!

You can have also, in my next post, a similar experience using that same device in viewing the amazingly beautiful interior of the Utah State Capitol Building located right here in Salt Lake City.

You will now view a video based on a talk given by former LDS President, Gordon B. Hinckley in a General Conference session about a year or so before his death. In this talk he relates a story told him by his own father.

That was only one of the two General Conference talks I am making available to you through the medium of Mormon Messages Videos in this post.

Here is the second one. It was given in the October 2009 General Conference of the Church. The speaker is the Second Counselor to the present LDS Church Prophet, Thomas S. Monson who succeeded President Hinckley after his death several years ago. He is President Dieter F. Uchtdorf. He was born in Czechoslovakia to German parents. They were members of the LDS Church. They lived for a time in East Germany where they endured very difficult circumstances during World War II. They then moved to Frankfurt, Germany. He eventually became a pilot in the German Air Force and subsequently was an airline pilot and then an official of a commercial air line. He served very faithfully as a church leader in Germany. Please click on the following link to experience the Mormon Messages Video which was made to illustrate that which he was teaching in his General Conference address.

President Dieter Uchdorf's Conference Address.

That video covered only a relatively small yet very important portion of a very touching and very helpful talk.

Here is his complete talk in case you want to hear it.


A very regular part of each General Conference Session of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the presence of the famous, Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They sing several numbers in each session of conference.

The Tabernacle Choir Video you will now view was recorded in the Salt Lake Tabernacle on Temple Square located not far from the Conference Center where General Conference is held where they perform at Conference Time.
"I Know that My Redeemer Lives"


IMPORTANT NOTE: After much careful deliberation and humble prayer, I have decided to focus on preparing you for the opportunity you may possibly choose to take of reading and/or listening in the language of your choice, to the sessions of the LDS Church's April Conference that will take place on Saturday, the third of April and Sunday the fourth of April 2010. Sessions on each day begin at 10:00 A.M. (U.S.A) Mountain Standard Time and 2:00 P.M. U.S.A. Mountain Standard Time.

I am attempting to prepare and interest you by selecting six additional Mormon Messages Videos (based on previous conference speeches given by Church general authorities along with three recorded performances of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir by dividing these up equally for you to experience in my next three posts. I will do my utmost to choose the most interesting, touching and vital of the Mormon Messages at my disposal.

Please also note: You can choose to tune into these conference sessions after the listed time. I believe they will remain available for a time after these sessions are held. I will check this out and let you know for sure in my next post. All of the addresses will also be available in written form in the November Issue of the Church's Ensign Magazine which you can obtain through lds.org. I will help you on that later also. There are also Liahona Magazines in many languages other than English. You can access those through LDS.com also.

I have been viewing the Mormon Messages (most are based on General Conference talks) regularly for over a year and I can't think of one that would not be appealing to any of you, be you a member of the LDS Church or not.

As I mentioned above, in each of those three posts, I will link you to Mormon Tabernacle Choir videos. I will give much thought to which ones I use, but if you are like me, you enjoy most any music the Mormon Tabernacle Choir along with the Orchestra on Temple Square, performs .

* I called your attention by the asterisk I used in the scripture at the head of this post and the corresponding asterisk at the beginning of this paragraph, to indicate that an identical quote from the Book of Isaiah is found in the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ, II Nephi 12: 2-3. You will note that there is just one word different in Nephi's record from what is in Isaiah's record as recorded in our Old Testament, Nephi's when for Isaiah's that.

I remind you that Nephi and his three brothers were sent back to Jerusalem from near the Red Sea, by their father, Lehi who had begun leading them (with direct guidance from the Lord) toward their promised land which we now know to be, Central America, in the Western Hemisphere.

The purpose of Nephi and his brothers having been sent back to Jerusalem by their father was that the Lord had commanded Father Lehi to have his sons go there to obtain the Brass Plates which contained engravings of the sacred scriptures which were available to them and other Jewish people of their day.

These Jewish immigrants, Father Lehi and his family and Ishmael, a relative of his, along with his family, and another man who was not related to them; greatly needed to have these inspired scriptures among them, or at least that was what the the righteous among them realized.

I'm sure Father Lehi knew that unless they had these sacred scriptures which were recorded on the Brass Plates of Laban with them, their righteousness would gradually or perhaps, even rapidly diminish. Besides, the Lord had commanded Lehi to send his sons back to their homeland to obtain those sacred records
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The same holds true for all of their righteous descendants and many who much later became righteous after periods of wickedness. To remain righteous it was necessary to have God's sacred scriptures to study and serve as guides in their lives. This truth of people needing the holy scriptures to serve as guides to righteous living surely applies to each of us too!

Isaiah's writings were recorded on those brass plates along with the writings of many other prophets. This, of course explains why Nephi could quote Isaiah so acurately! We learn later in the Book of Mormon of scriptures of other prophets and their prophecies who are not even mentioned in our Old Testament.

I continue to marvel at the Book of Mormon! What a record! We all need to be grateful that the Lord saw to it that His Nephite prophets wrote and preserved it so that His modern-day prophet, Joseph Smith could, under the inspiration of the Lord, translate it for our use in our day! I remind myself and you that the Prophet Joseph Smith said the Book of Mormon is "the Keystone of our Religion!"
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I deeply appreciate your readership and very much hope you you will find that which was presented to you in this blog post, very beneficial.


If you have any questions about what you have read or viewed in this post or in any previous posts of mine, or if you even have a curiosity about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and or its teachings, please e-mail me. I'm Neil and my e-mail address is: jneilmelva@gmail.com. If you contact me I'll get back to you just as soon as possible.


I invite you to let your friends and relatives know about this blog if you think they would be interested. Please be advised that I also have an additional blog. It is in Spanish:  Its content is translated from the English in this blog.

Neil Birch