all things cbl

So yeah.  I help manage and operate the servers for a company called Instaproofs.  They have a couple of servers and seem to be growing quite a bit. So we ended up ordering a dual woodcrest processor (5150’s) in a 1U supermicro case from Genstor.

The server arrived after some delays because of shortages of processors (probably thanks to Apple’s hording them for the MacPro).  All seemed well upon installation, compilation and building of the new FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE OS/kernel. Running the amd64 (no more i386 for me!) line to take advantage of the 64-bit-ness of the woodcrest chips.  Dual Cores, Dual Procs = 4 processors.. add in hyperthreading fun and it  shows up as 8!

Unfortunately, when I tried copying files onto the server via SSH my SSH process on the sending server kept erroring out at random times. Same thing from another server.  Ugh.  The next day running memtest showed some errors.  After getting a new set of 4×512MB dimms installed, I kept seeing the same problems with SSH copying as well as memtest.

So, I’m shipping the server back to Genstor so they can determine where the problem lies.. CPU or Motherboard.  Hopefully they’ll be able to fix it quick and get it back to me.

So, the box is fast.. when it works right.  I hope that we’ll be able to use it again soon without all the errors..  It sure is nice. 4 drives in a 1U, with that much CPU power.. wow.  Probably can take up to 32GB of ram too..  oh, and did I mention it has dual power supplies? all in 1U.. go supermicro.

THR 1350
Isaiah
David Bokovoy

Numbers 21:6
- “And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died”

seraph = to burn is the root.
seraphim = fiery serpents.

The serpent can not touch the coal.. even though he’s a fiery being.. he has to use tongs.. and says “Open wide, Isaiah” and put this in your mouth..

Hel 8:14-15 –> And as many as should lookup that serpent should live..

Israel will “relive the experience of the generation in the wilderness with the Seraphim serpents (Num 21:3-6) that Isaiah’s own purification symbolizes. Therefore Isaiah the prophet, according to the role he plays in the narrative, himself becomes the sign of their healing.”

For he is healed..and made divine in this near eastern cleansing.. he is made a member of the council.

“But [Micaiah] said, ‘I call upon you to hear the word of the Lord! I saw the Lord seated upon His throne, with all the host of heaven standing in attendance to the right and to the left of Him” (1 kings 22:19; JPS).

Standing before God.. in the council.

1 Kings 22:20-21; JPS -> “…then one said thus and another said thus… until a certain spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said..”

JPS = Jewish Publication Society Translation

‘he seemed to see a council of the brethren on the other side and they were advocating his name..”
Francis M. Gibbons, Harold B. Lee: Man of Vision, Prophet of God [SLC: Deseret Book Co, 1993], 468-469

The Ascension of Isaiah:
“I saw a glorious angel; his glory was not like the glory of the angels which I always used to see, but he had great glory, and an office, such that I cannot describe the glory of this angel. And I saw when he took hold of me by my hand, and I said to him, “who are you? and what is your name? And where are you taking me up?” For strength had been given to me that I might speak with him. And he said to me, ‘When I have taken you up through (all) the stages and have shown you the vision on account of which I was sent, then you will understand who I am; but my name you will not know, for you have to return into this body. But where I take you up, you will see, because for this purpose I was sent.’ And I rejoiced because he spoke to me with kindness… And he said.. ‘For this purpose I was sent from the seventh heaven, that I make all this clear to you” (7:1-8)

“Comfort ‘ye’, comfort ‘ye’ my people, saith your God” (Isaiah 40:1) — masc. plural.

Isaiah 40:1 – The Plural Imperatives Invoke the Divine Council
Frank Moore Cross, Jr., “The Council of Yahweh in Second Isaiah,” Journey of Near Eastern Studies X11 (1953):274-277;Stephan A. Gellar, ‘Were the Prophets Poets’, The Place is Too Small for Us: The Israelite Prophets in Recent Scholarship (Winona Lake Eisenbrauns, 1995): 154-165…

Isaiah 6 vs Isaiah 40
Prophetic Commissions
“The parallel to Isaiah 6:1-8 is remarkable”

B.H. Roberts, Life of John Taylor, SLC, George Q. Cannon and sons: 1892, 27-28…
“Young Taylor possessed a portion of the spirit of God and was very happy. Manifestations of its presence were frequent, not only in the expansion of his mind to understand doctrines and principles, but also in dreams and visions. ‘Often when alone’, he writes, ‘and sometimes in company, I heard sweet, soft, melodious music, as if performed by angelic or supernatural beings.’ When but a small boy he saw, in vision, an angel in the heavens, holding a trumpet to his mouth, sounding a message to the nations. The import of this vision he did not understand until later in life.”

D&C128:19 –
D&C 128:20-21 — ‘giving us consolation’…

In Genesis 22:12 .. why would God say “now I know”..
Exod 18:11, Judg 17:13, Psal 20:7..
God never says ‘Now I know’.. but witnesses say it.. and they can testify to God.
It’s witness speech..

The Endowment –> “Your endowment is to receive all those ordinances… to enable you to walk back to the PRESENCE of …”

“I call God and angels to witness that have unsheathed my sword with a firm and unalterable determination that his people shall have their legal rights, and be protected from mob violence, or my blood shall be spilt upon the ground like water, and my body consigned to the silent tomb. While I live, I will never tamely submit to the dominion of cursed mobocracy” Joseph Smith, history of the Church, VI:469

Teachings, 260 –> “It will be necessary in the Grand Council, that these things be testified to by competent witnesses. Therefore let the recording and witnessing of baptisms for the dead be carefully attended to from this time forth”

Amos 3:7 -> surely the Lord God doeth nothing saith he revealth his “council”…

WED 1350
Isaiah
David Bokovoy

… showed up late …..

“It is typical for gods in the ancient Near East to have at their disposal specific, lower-ranking deities who do their bidding in running errands and relaying messages.”

A prophet becomes a member of the council, he becomes a messenger..

A messenger is one who is sent. That is what an angel does.

Psalm 103:20-21
“the angels..” (or the messengers) are parallel to ‘the hosts’.

Malachi 4:5-6 .. prophets as messengers or angels.. are SENT.
in Malachi a prophet is ‘messenger’ AND a ‘mediator’. Two traditional roles that prophets fulfills.

Malachi 3:1 — I will SEND my messenger.

Mosiah 3:13 -> God hath ’sent’ his holy ‘prophets’… ‘to declare’..
Genesis 32:3 -> And Jacob ’sent messengers’ before him to Esau… the preface to a direct speech given by a messenger — is the messenger formula.

“thus sayeth the Lord”— a messenger formula example.

Isaiah 6:8-9 — Isaiah will assume the role of Messenger and Mediator. — “Whom shall I ’send’.. and ‘who will go for us?’.. ” (us = the divine council … ) Isaiah has become part of the ‘us’.. he is at this stage a member of the council..and can go as a messenger and mediator.

Given the significance of winged seraphim in connection with seals from the 8th century in Judah, and given the presence of a (winged) serpent in Nu. 21:6,8; Det. 8:15; Isa 14:29; 30:6, one can probably assume that this is the intended notion in Isa 6:2 as well… -> A Stiglmair, “vp,” theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, vol X (Grand Rapids Eerdmans Publishing… )
- a sarap is a snake
- the him ending in hebrew is the plural form.. cheribhim, Elohim, seraphim..

not just ’snakes’..but firey snakes with wings that fly.

Isaiah 6: A Retribution — Taunt Against Idolatry
“Expressions describing Israel as ‘having ears but not hearing’ (6:9-10) and ‘like a burning tree’ (6:13) are best understood as metaphors of idolatry which are applied to the disobedient nation in order to emphasize that they will be punished for their idol worship by being judged in the same manner as their idols” G. K. Beale, “Isaiah VI 9-13: A Retributive Taunt against Idolatry,” Vetus Testamentum 41/3 (1991): 272.

v9 -> “go” and “tell” — emphasize that he is to be a messenger
v11 -> then said I.. Lord, how long? — This is soo powerful in Hebrew.
“how long oh Lord will you hear my lament.. ” .. “how long..” powerful expression of pain and anguish. “Until the cities shall be wasted without inhabitants”.. That’s how long. from chapter 1 thru 39 the theme is “yell at my people.. yell at them..

“A large potion of the [Mesopotamian] sources raise the possibility that the washing of the mouth or the purity of the mouth has independent significance as a characteristic granting or symbolizing special divine or quasi-divine status to the person or object so designated. The pure mouth enables the person or object to stand before the gods or to enter the divine realm, or symbolizes a divine status” Victor Horowitz, “Isaiah’s Impure Lips and Their Purification in Light of Akkadian Sources”

The Bridling of the tongue, Gregory Yuri Glazov .. pp122-123:
“Ethical purity of the mouth, as a prerequisite for entry into the divine assembly, the ‘holy [qadosh] hill of the Lord’, is well attested in the Psalms which stipulate that such entry belongs to the man: ‘walks blamelessly, and does what is right and speaks truth from his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor (Ps. 15:2)”

Genesis 5: .. enoch v22 .. who walked with God. The idea of walking in unison with God… v26 – righteous man. He was perfect in his generation.. means tamim = blameless. Blemishfree sacrifices offered in the temple.. they’re tamim. Noah walked with God.

Alma 5 .. draws upon Psalms 22, 23, 24. Temple literagy.. for temple entrance. Alma 5:27 –> have you ‘walked’… keeping yourself ‘blameless’ before God.

Cleansing of the mouth makes the idol divine. Because of that, priests in the temple would cleanse the mouth.. and through the cleansing of the mouth..with a clean mouth.. the priest is made ‘quasi-divine’.. and can enter into the divine assembly.. or council of the gods.

Isa 56:4-5 .. “will I give in my house and within my walls A HAND and a name better ..”

“All Things Testify of Christ”: Scriptural Images of the Atonement
Donald W. Parry and Jay A. Parry

Word Connections, Prophecies, and Hidden Language.

All things typify Christ -> 2 nephi 11:4 “all things”

Testimony of Moses “All things have their likeness, and all things are created…all things bear record of me.” Moses 6:63

BRM, The Promised Messiah, 453.
“It is wholesome and proper to look for similitudes of Christ everywhere and to use them in keeping him and his laws uppermost in our minds”

Clusters of Concepts in the Scriptures:
- Family Relationships
- Father
- Mother
- Husband
- Son
- Brother
- Jesus at one time has referred to himself in all of these roles in relationship to us.

- Food and Drink
- Water   – Wine   – Bread   -Manna

- Animals
- Lamb and the Lion
- Serpent and the Dove (Be wise as serpents, yet harmless as doves)
- Lamb (and the Shepherd)
- Mother Hen

- Plants and Husbandry
- Vine  – Keeper of the Vineyard  – Harvester of Wheat and Tares
- Tree of Life   – Fruit

- Business and Financial
- Mediator    – Redeemer

- Buildings and Building Materials
- Stone  – Rock  – Cornerstone  – Fortress  – High Tower

- Government
- King  – Governor – Lawgiver – Judge

- Judicial System
- Judge  – Defendant (Accused)  – Advocate (Layer)

- Warfare
- Commander of the heavenly hosts (Lord of Hosts)
- Sword  – Shield  – Buckler

John 1:29 – He didnt use term of a human being. but “Lamb”.  Those that understood understood what and who the ‘Lamb’ was.  Jesus was the Lamb. He was the Lamb of God.

First specific animal named in the OT is the Serpent. 2nd animal is the ’sheep’.
In the NT the 2nd to the last animal mentioned is the ’serpent’, last is the ‘lamb’.

Account of Abraham when sacrificing Isaac — “God will provide the lamb”

Shepherds at the time of birth of Christ.. were likely Temple sheep prepared to be sacrificed in the Temple.

Ezra 4.

Lambs wool is the perfect symbol of purity.  Purity of our souls when they’ve been cleansed by Christ.

Psalm 23:1-3 – The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want…..

Isaiah 40 – gather the Lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom.

Matt 23:37 – .. as a protective hen.

2 Cor 5:21 – For he (Heavenly Father) hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Jesus plays 3 different roles in the courtroom – Advocate, Judge, and Savior/Reedemer.

Jesus Christ “Suffered greater sufferings and was exposed to more powerful contradictions than any man can be” Lectures on Faith 5:2

Powerful Contradictions #1
- Mortality            - Now
condescension of God        Glorious, resurrected body
(subject to cold, sickness, etc)
Mosiah 3:7 –

#2
Mortality         NOW
Judged as evil.        ”For we all stand before the judgment seat of                 Christ” (Rom. 14:10)

#3
Mortality: Jesus was not recognized as the King of the Jews.
Second Coming: Will return as King of Kings and Lord of lords.

Isa 53:2. “He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him”

in the hebrew version.. “He has not form nor majesty; and when we shall see him, there is no appearance that we should desire him” (Isa 53:2 – hebrew translation)

#4
Mortality: Jesus permitted the wicked to smite him.
Second Coming: Jesus will smite the wicked.

#5:
Mortality: Died as a criminal
Second Coming: The only Sinless One.

#6
Mortality: placed in a borrowed tomb.
Creation: Worlds without number have I created (Moses 1:33)

#7
Mortality: Relatively obscure and inconspicuous.
Second Coming: “Every eye shall see him” Rev 1:7

#8
Mortality: While on the cross, Jesus said, “I thirst.”
Creation: Jesus’ creation includes rovers, streams, brooks, fountains, lakes.

#9
Mortality: Jesus permitted the wicked to pierce his body.
Omnipotent: Jesus is the Lord Omnipotent (Mosiah 3:5)

#10
Mortality: Jesus was crushed for our sins
Without Sin: Jesus, “who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth”

Jesus is Crushed.. Crushed for our iniquities,  Isa 53:5

Celestial Visions of the Prophet Isaiah
David E. Bokovoy
TUE 1350

“In the very beginning the Bible shows there is a plurality of Gods beyond the power of refutation” Joseph Smith, “Teachings”, 372

Joseph is convinced at an early work of the plurality of Gods.

“teachings”, 350.
“In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it. When we being to learn this way, we begin to learn the only true God, and what kind of a being we have got to worship.”

D&C 121:32

Joseph Smith, Poetic Version of ‘the vision’ v7
“From the council in Kolob, to time on the earth. And for ages to come unto them I will show My pleasure & will, what my kingdom will do: eternity’s wonders they truly shall know.”  — Found in the times and seasons.. or written by Blake and published by Covenant.

“In the religious world of the ancient Near East, the cosmos was understood to be ruled by the gods who not only existed in great numbers and should be conceived as a pantheon but frequently acted as an assembly or council to deliberate and make decisions about the world and its inhabitants” Patrick D. miller, “Cosmology and world Order in the Old Testament: The Divine Council as Cosmic-Political Symbol,” Israelite Religion and Biblical Theology (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000): 423.

The Divine Council
- A crisis would occur
- The High God would call for volunteers
- Various proposals would be considered
- A Savior was commissioned.

ENUMA ELISH
= “When upon high”
- from Ancient Babylon
- illustrates how a Deity becomes the leading God in the council even though he is a son.

NINURTA
- Ancient Assyria
- same myth. few things are different

Journal of Discourses 15:325
“If the heathen have doctrines and ceremonies resembling to some extent those which are recorded in the scriptures, it only proves, what is plain to the Saints, that these are the traditions of the fathers handed down from generations to generation, from Adam through Noah.” Joseph F. Smith.

For contemporary scholars, the concept of a divine council of gods is so central to the “biblical” world view that non-LDS Bible scholar Patrick Miller has referred to this council as “a fundamental symbol for the Old Testament understanding of how the government of human society by the divine world is carried out.” see Patrick D. miller, Israelite Religion and Biblical Theology( Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000): 432.

“The council of God in the Hebrew Bible is no novelty; the occurrences are well known and need only be briefly listed here…” Martti Nissinen, “Prophets and the Divine Council,” in Kein Land fur sich allein, pg 4.

“When the Most High apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to ‘the number of the gods’” (Deut 32:8; NRSV)

As non-LDS Bible scholar, Patrick d. Miller has observed, God held his divine council of deities responsible for ‘upholding the moral and legal order of society, deciding about victory and defeat in war and politics, electing and deposing kings, [and] controlling and shaping history” in Israelite Religion and Biblical Theology, 432

Psalm 82
v1 – standing is a motif as you study the council of heaven, book of abraham, etc
Take a look at other translations of Psalm 82

Yahweh – Jehovah – LORD
- given to Jesus Christ as well as God the Father.

“Hebrew grammars traditionally represent the Hiphil stem as the causative of the Qal stem” Bruce K Waltke and M. O’Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990): 433.

3rd person masculant singular form of the “to be” verb. = “HE IS”
1st person form used with Moses = I AM
Or “he causes” to be.

Sometimes we encounter the title “Lord of Hosts”..  it can not be a proper name. it must be rendered as what it is literally. So what does it mean? It means “He causes the divine hosts to exist”.. he causes the divine council to exist.

“As in the heavens they all agree
The record’s given there by three,…
Jehovah, God the Father’s one,
Another His Eternal Son,
…  John Taylor  Sacred Hymns..
“among the spirit children of Elohim the firstborn was and is Jehovah or Jesus Christ to whom all others are juniors” – First Presidency and the 12 Apostles- June 1916

“In at least three Old Testament passages it appears the LORD applies to Heavenly Father, not Jesus Christ: Psalm 110:1; Psalm 2:7; Isaiah 53:10.” Keith H Meservy, “Lord = Jehovah” Ensign: June 2002 page 29 footnote 3.

A few of the primary Hebrew words associated with the heavenly council in the OT include “council” (Jer 18:22, 23:18, Job 15:8; Ps 25:14), “meeting, assembly” (Isaiah 14:13), “Congregation” (Ps 82:1), qedoshim “the Holy Ones” (Ps 89:5; Zech 14:5; Job 5), “host”, (Gen 2:1; Deut 4:19; 1 King 22:19; Ps 103:21; 148:2), “sons of God” (Ps 29:1, 89:6; Gen 6:1-2; Job 1:6), elohim “gods” (Ps 82:1; 86:8; 95:3,4;97:7,9;135:5; 136:2; 138:1) and elim “gods” (Ex 15:11; Ps 58:1).

A true prophet has stood, seen and heard the council.

Appreciating the Last Week of the Saviors Life
Andrew C. Skinner
TUE 1230

Where the Emphasis or Focus is Placed:
- 1/4 to 1/3 of the material in the 4 Gospels presents the Last Week
- Gospel of John has 21 chapters
- chapters 12-20 = last week
- chapters 13-19 = last 24 hours of the Saviors life

They devoted a significant amount of space to this important part.

The Greatest Week in teh History of the church
Marvin J. Ashton
“In the final week of his life cries turned from ‘Hosanna’ to ‘Crucify’.. Unwavering courage carried him onward and upward triumphantly. The honest in heart would yet know what he stood for and why he must die……”

Last Week Account Begins
’six days before the passover’
- At Bethany, east slope Mount of Olivees
- Jesus’ death foreshadowed (John 12:1-11)
- Judas and Lazarus discussed

Fifth Day Before Passover = Palm Sunday = Triumphal Entry
Triumphal Entry
- All the Gospels record (Matt 21:1-17, Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19-28-44; John 12:12-18)
- Great Messianic Fervor (Matt 21:8-11)
- Tremendous Symbolism
- Fulfilled Prophecy (Isaiah 62:11, Zechariah 9:9)
- Why on a Donkey? (The King comes)

Effect of the Triumphal Entry
- not what the leaders of the christian church hoped for.
- Disappointed followers?

Fifth Day continued…
- Jesus weeps over Jerusalem (Luke 19:41-44)
- Jesus instructs the Greeks (Luke 12:20-50)

Fourth Day before Passover = Monday
- Note where he lodges each night (Matthew 21:17)
- Fig tree cursed and lessons taught (Matt 21:18-23; Mark 11:12-14, 20-26)

Events with no day specified:
Pharisees counsel on entrapping Jesus
Marriage, seven husbands,
The Great Commandments
Pharisees silenced
Widow’s Mite
Jesus denounces hypocrisy
The Olivet Discourse: Second Coming (Matthew 24)
Parables of the Last Days and Second Coming (Matt 25 only in matthew)
HBL said dont read Matthew 24.. but the JST Matthew 24. Prophet Joseph Smith rearranged the versus so they are really cronological in order.
Read D&C 45, 101, 133, 38

Second Day before Passover = Wednesday
- Jesus’ Prophecy of Crucifixion (Matt 26:2)
- Conspiracy at Caiaphas’s Palace (Matt 26:3-5, Mark 14:1-2)
- Feast with Simon the Leper and Anointing (Matt 26:7-13)

all of those charged with leadership of the temple… were those that who were responsible for cementing and making the final plot that will take Jesus’ life.

Feast Draws Nigh (Luke 221-13)
- Judas’s Conspiracy (Luke 22:1-6)
- Preparation for Passover (Luke 22:7-13)
- Seder = ordered or arranged
- passover dinner is called the seder

So this year and last I’ve been showing up to Education Week around noon. sleeping in, going for a bike ride in the morning and relaxing.  Last year wasnt so bad as far as parking goes. This year, was terrible. I was driving around for about 20-25 minutes before a spot opened up. Ugh.  I should get a scooter. Easier parking then