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People ascending to the sky


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The End is (Not) Nigh

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been getting ‘end of the world’ vibes for a few years now. Ever since the onset of Covid, the world seems to have been getting crazier and crazier. To be honest, there was a fair amount of turmoil before Covid, too, but since then the world has gone way beyond anything I expected to see. At times, world events appear almost surreal even.

Within Christian circles, there seems to have been a general uptick in a sense that ‘the end is nigh’. Within LDS circles there was a big fuss about an obscure prophecy from apocryphal literature, named Ezra’s Eagle, a couple of years ago. It always seemed unlikely to me, but a lot of people appeared to take it pretty seriously. The so-called ‘prepper movement’ also seems to like it’s grown in both the number of people involved and its intensity. We’ve seen eclipses and other solar events linked to biblical prophecy of the end times.

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Salt Lake temple


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The Holy Church of God

Have you ever read a passage of scripture – maybe even for the ‘umpteenth’ time – and had it hit you so profoundly that it’s caused you to re-evaluate something? Or maybe even re-evaluate everything? It’s caused a total shift in your paradigm of some principle, or even your foundation?

In my last post, I talked about the things we believe, but which are false, that prevent us from coming to know the truth (often called unbelief or traditions of the fathers in the scriptures). The truth must be our goal, because it’s the truth that sets us free. When we can truly let go of one or more of the false beliefs that we hold, the scriptures can open up to us in new ways, allowing us to have these profound experiences of life-altering understanding enlighten us. It is breathtakingly beautiful.

Now with that background, when I talk about the ‘Holy Church of God’, what do you think I’m referring to? Is it an organisation or institution? If so, which one?

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