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Signs and Seals of the Son of Man
Patrick D. Degn

Seals Made in Heaven

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Sequence of the facsimilies
Sacrifice
Receiving Greater Light and Truth
Corination
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Names and the order of names are important. Genesis 5.
anytime you find names in the scriptures.. put them together and figure out why.

Revelation 7.

it must be in their foreheads.
why is not all the tribes mentioned (in the 144000?)..
why is judah mentioned first? then reuben? why would he give these out of order? The tribes of Israel are listed in the bible 7 times. they are always in different orders? why would he do that unless he’s having us pick up on something.

judah Praise Adonai
reuben He has looked on my affliction
gad Granted good fortune
asher happy am i
naphtali my wrestling
manasseh has made me forget my sorrow
simeon god hears me
levi has joined me
issachar purchased me
zebulun exalted me
joseph restores me to
benjamin to the son of his right hand.

12 means priesthood. 12×12 = 144…144000 means the fullness of the priesthood.
any multiple of a sacred number means “fullness”
they are from all nations, kindreds and tongues??

v11 – how many things do they say? 7.
He gave them a token.. a palm in their hand…
What is a palm?

chap9.. 5th angel.. key to the bottomless pit. what comes out? locusts come out.. locusts were given power as the scorpions.. to poison and destroy.
are these literal locusts? v4.. destroy men without the seal of God in their forehead. Are they literal locusts? No. they’re picking and choosing who they destroy.

Seals Made in Heaven:
Seals:
Authority: Job 9:7; 33:16
Ownership: Alma 34:35; Mosiah 5:15; Gen. 38:18; 41:42; Jer 22:24
Mystery: Dan 12:4; Isa 29:14; Rev 10:4
- parable is by nature of concealing thing from people.
Worthiness: Rev 5:1-8; 6:1-12; 8:1
Preservation: 2 Nephi 33:15; Ether 4:5; Neh. 9:38-10:1; Isa 8:16
Secure Within: Dan 6:17; Matt 27:66; Rev 20:3

The Gospel Seal
- Revelation 5: Sealing the Earth
- Revelation 7: Sealing His Children
- Rev 14: Sealing Our Minds
- Having “His” (the Lambs Fathers name) name written on their foreheads.
- what is difficult about this song that is hard for everybody else to learn? It is the song of redemption. Is it written down anywhere? Two places.. Exodus .. coming out of egypt..they sing a song of Moses. Exodus 15.. song of redemption. Alma chapter 5 is the song of redeeming love. 50 questions asked in alma 5.. a jubilee. you are redeemed in a year of jubilee.. a year of redemption and renewal.
- 2 Cor 3:2-3: Sealing our Hearts
- Sealing the Covenant: D&C 132:7; 138:48

144,000.. D&C 132.. it’s not just the covenant of marriage.. but the whole covenant that beings with baptism.
how many covenants were there? 5
in genesis chapter 15.. when abram wants to know how he’ll receive the promised land. “take the an heffer…” 5 animals.. 3 years old. God comes down in the midst of these.. God is saying, if I do not fulfill my covenant what happens to these animals (big bloody mess) may it happen to me..

“Issues” of Blood
(anytime you make a covenant in the Old Testament.. Blood and cutting. Something must be cut and die by the shedding of blood.)
1. Gene 38:27-30
Pharez: Breach
Zarah: Rising
2. Joshua 2:12
Rahab: Wide
Salmon: Garment
- the two together mean “garment that is whitened”.. have a son called Boaz
3. Luke 8:43-48
- hem of the garment is a mark of someones authority.
- because of her faith in His authority/power to heal.
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Conference Report, april 2007. From Elder Bednard. “The Holy Spirit of Promise is the ratifying power of the Holy Ghost… Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again”

1 Cor. 6:15 – ye are not your own. I gave up my life when I laid it down in the waters of baptism.

Patrick D. Degn
Redeeming Latter-day Israel
Friday 1755

Building Beatitudes: Establishing Zion the Lord’s Way

— previous class questions:

Four women mentioned in the Saviors Genealogy in Matthew.

77 generations from Adam to Christ. begins with the man and culminates with the perfect man.

Abraham to David are 14 generations.
David to babylon are 14.
babylon to Christ are 14.

Jeremiah 22.. king will not be found again in the blood line.

four women mentioned.. Tamar, Ruth, Bashbia, Mary.. 3 are women of “ill repute”.. they are mentioned for specific reasons.. each forms a different redemming role.

Find out Uriah means. (story of David world)

Jews will deliberately manipulate something so that they form a prophetic type of something.

ruth and boaz name are every 49 letters.

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Sermon on the Mount

There are seven deliberate beatititudes.. that form a type of how you advance

It’s like the days of creation. You can’t have the 5th beatitude without the 4th.

There is a deliberate pattern to the sermon itself. Trenched in the old testament.

Brief outline to the sermon:
1. Man’s relationship with Self: Matt 5:1-16
– you must first understand your place in the cosmic place of things before you can understand God.

2. Man’s Relationship to the Law: Matt 5:17-48
– your relationship to Gods Law..
– Gods law is designed to bring you to Christ.
– 5:48.. Let Jesus mean what he says there.. “Like unto God”.
– the sermon is just a picture of ‘the problem’.
– the solution is Jesus Christ himself.

3. Man’s Relationship to God: Matt 6
4. Man’s Relationship to Others: Matt 7

Dallin H. Oaks Ensign, Nov 2000, pg 32. “The Final Judgment is not just an evaluation…. become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.”
It’s not about righteous acts, but about becoming what our Father desires us to become.

Building Beatitudes..the Lord’s Way
#1. Poor in Spirit (v3)
#2. Mourn
– all of these beatitudes are character traits of what we are. You can’t have a mournful spirit until you are poor in spirit.
#3. Meakness
#4. Hunger and Thirst
- you naturally hunger for something once you are meek
#5. Merciful
#6. Pure in Heart
- you must go through a sequence of beatitudes to be Pure in Heart.
#7. Peacemakers

compare these #1s to the creation days.. #1, light, #2, separation.. mourning separation from the heavens..
#3.. provision for life.. meakness means life #4.. plant life.. #6.. created man and woman and beast. purity of heart can not come without the family unit.

Brief outline of beatitudes:
#1. Attitude towards Self
- we commonly think of that as ‘humility’.
#2. Attitude towards Sin
#3. Attitude towards Others.
#4. Attitude towards God.
#5. State of Being: Actions (What)
#6. State of Being: Motives (Why)
#7. State of Being: Ambitions (Purpose)

#1.. Poor in Spirit:
Poor (ptochos = greek)
- destitute of wealth, influence, position, honor
- lowly, afflicted
- powerless to accomplish an end
- lacking in anything.
- empty and desolate (what was the description of the earth before it was created?)

Scriptures on poor in spirit:
Moses 1:10
Mosiah 4
2 Cor. 3:5
Isa 57:15 — ‘high and lofty one’.. with him that is of a ‘contrite and humble spirit’… someone who is poor in spirit recognizes that they are absolutely nothing in the eyes of God, man, or anybody.

Alma 42:29 — let these things trouble you no more. only let your sins trouble you. everything but your sins are a preoccupation of ’self’.
once you divorce yourself from ’self’.. God can fill that.

#2.. he is describing our state of being. now you recognize your separation from God. What separates you? Sin. Sins are stopping you from becoming like God is.
Moroni 7:33.. don’t believe in who you “are”..believe in who HE “is”..

#3.. towards Others.. how do i view others, now that i recognize that I am nothing.. Meekness is outward towards others.. we are patient, long suffering, willing to forgive..

#4.. now i see a pathway to God. because I am hungering and thirsting after what He has. It’s not my works that saves..it’s His works that save. 2 Nephi 3… ‘wherefore I know that thou art redeemed because of the Righteousness of our Redeemer’..

#5. this describes what i am..what my actions are. because i see my self as i am.. and God for who he is.. my actions speak for who I am. It is a state of being.

#6. my actions are starting to purify me.. purifying my motives.. His suffering is what saves me.. My suffering is what changes my perception towards the sin. my motives are changed.. because my heart is clean. Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the truth..before he puts his guard on.
CS Lewis.. mere christianity 164-165. 1960 edition.

#7. What is my souls ambition? What do you want in life?

Neal A Maxwell says that some of the hardest trials we get are “ease”, “(something maybe comfort?)”, and “money”

If you are like this .. (7 beatitudes).. you will naturally be a light..the salt.. a light is a token for the witness of the Spirit. salt is a token of the covenant of Abraham.

Where do you learn how to “do” poor in spirit?
begins in the home, church and then into the temple. according to Isaiah.

Begins with the word of God.

Harold B Lee said that this is the blueprint for a perfect life.

Patrick D. Degn

Signs and Seals Of the Son of Man
The Sign of the Prophet Jonas

Old Testament “seal” is more a statement of ownership. Statement of Authority. Way you put your ’seal of approval’ on something.

The Sign of the Prophet Jonas
“The sign of the prophet Jonas…” Matt 12:39-40
Give us a sign that will validate your claims. Well, here is the sign of the prophet Jonas.
“This is an evil generation…” Luke 11:29-30

What exactly does Jonas(Jonah) mean? It means “Dove”.
Jonah comes from Gailiee.. comes out and saves a Gentile nation.
Jonah becomes a ‘type’ for Christ.

Jonah = Dove
Where have you seen Doves? Noah.
Hebrew prophecy is in patterns. Patterns that repeat themselves over and over again.
Genesis 8:6-12 -> Noah: Sending forth the dove [3x].
#1: No place for him to lay his head. After 7 more days..
#2: Dove came unto him in the evening. (Lev 23. follow what happens in teh mornings and evenings on sacred feats/festivuls. Lamb of God is slain in teh evening.. redemption comes in the evening). Comes back with an olive leaf.

Where does he go, and how many times does he go?
The life of Jonah is typed by the story of Noah (Noah means comfort).

If this is a message of redemption to the Jews.. how do you and I read it?

Jonah comes from Gath Hepher -> Wine-press of the well.

Book of Jonah is read every year on Yom Kippur or “Day of Atonement”
What does Amittai mean? (Jonah 1:1)

v3. Pays a price/debt as he goes down into the ship.
john 3:8
Wind and Spirit are synonomous
The winds will come.. not if but when.

v5. Jonas is asleep inside the ship. Have you heard this story before?
1 cor 15:3-4
teachings of the prophet 121

The story of Jonah: He lives, he falls and is born again on the 3rd day.

What’s the big deal about The Third Day
- New Life (Gen 1:9-13)
- The Lord visits Sinai (Ex 19:1, 11, 15-16)
- The wedding at Cana (John 2:1)
- Abraham and Isaac (Gen 22:4; Heb 11:19)
- Alma the Younger (Alma 36)
- Jonah and the great Fish (Jonah 1:17)

Three means perfect, because something outside of itself has made it perfect.
D&C 76 — These are they who are made perfect through the new covenant.

Those that are predicted “by name” that they are to come:
Moses (JST, Gen. 50:29, 34)
Isaiah (Matt 15:7)
elijah (Matt 17:11-12)
Elisha (Luke 4:27)
Joseph Smith (2 Nephi 3; JST, Gen. 50:30-33)
John the Revelator (1 Nephi 14:18-27)
Jonah (Matt 12:39-41; Luke 11:29-32)

Jonah’s Seven Downers
1. Down to Joppa (Jonah 1:3)
2. Down into the ship 1:3
3. down into the sides of the ship. 1:5
4. Down into the sea 1:15
5. down into the belly of hte fish 1:17
6. down to the bottoms of the mountains jonah 2:6
7. down to Sheol (in hebrew) (goes to the spirit world)

This is a funeral prayer.
I am dead, and dead in the tomb for 3 days.
The miracle is that he was brought forth after three days.

CAsting Lots
1. Sin of Achan(Josh 7:16)
2. Division of the Land (Josh. 15:1)
3. Assigning inheritances (Num 26:55; 34:13)
4. Selecting men from expedition (Judges 1:1; 20:10)
5. Electing a king (1 sam 10:20)
6. Jonathan’s trespass (1 sam 14:36)
7. Matthias (Acts 1:26)
8. Goats (Lev 16:8)
9. Cities of Refuge (1 Chr. 5:24)

The Spirit on the Day of Pentecost replaces the needing of casting lots.

v8-11. they have “7″ questions for him.
v12. Take me up and cast me into the sea. Voluntary. Not forced.
v13. your works will not save you
v17. Prepared a grave for him.

Compare Jonah 2 to John 17. The great Intercessary prayer.

Jonah 2:2 — Out of the belly of hell. Spirit world did he hear him.
v3. Midst of the sea. Where was the ark, divide in the midst.. Is the Savior in the midst of your life?
v5 weeds were wrapped around my head. even to my soul.
v7. When my Spirit gave up the body.. I remember the Lord. (Compare to Alma 36)

Chap3 – they accept him
Chap4 – he rejects them

Ten Miracles of Jonah

1. storm
2. selection of jonah as guilty
3. Sudden subsiding of the storm
4. great fish.
5. preservation of jonah (brought forth from death)
6. ejection of jonah
7. repentance of ninevah’s population
8. The Gourd (what do Gourds mean and represent?)
9. The Worms
10. East wind.

Patrick Degn

Outline of Exodus
1-6: Need for Redemption
7-11: The Lord’s might and ability
12-18: Character of Redemption
19-24: Duty which Redemption implies
25-40: Provisions for failures

Genesis 5: Man is appointed mortal sorrow
What does the name Moses mean: Drawn out (out of the water)

The Lord’s Purpose
exodus 3: 7-9
1. i have seen
2. i have heard (heard their cries. because they have been crying)
3. i know their sorrows
4. i am come down
5. to deliver you from egypt
6. to bring you up
7. unto a good land.

Three Signs:
Exodus 4:
1. 4:1-5 rod of the serpent (where else? pharoh’s court, garden of eden,) rod is a token of protection. power.
2. hand and the heard 4:6-8 (hand turned to leoprasy)
3. water to blood ex 4:9
interesting how the Savior illustrates these signs in the NT.
John 2:1-11; Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37

All throughout the Old Testament you can ask:
“Where have I seen this before?” go through the scriptures and connect the dots and you’ll start

The key to scripture study is to study them. BRM

Seven “I Will” Statements
Exodus 6:6-8
1. Bring you out
2. Rid you out of bondage
3. Redeem you
4. Take you to Me
5. Be to you a God
6. Bring you into the land
7. Give it to you for an heritage

Compare these to the last 7 statements that the Savior gave on the cross.
“It is finished”… really means “it is paid in full”.
Psalm 22 as well

Patterns of the Plagues
Warning #1
1. Water to blood (7:14-25)
Warning #2
2. Frogs on land, homes (8:1-5)
What does a frog represent? Frog God. Moses is systematically destroying the Gods of Egypt
3. Lice on persons (8:10-19) (Lice = Cattle God)

Warning #3
4. Flies on homes
Warning #4.
5. Diease on cattle
6. Boils, sores: Man of Beast
Warning #5
7. Thunder, hail
Warning #6
8. Locusts
9. Darkness 3 days
Warning #7
10. Firstborn, man and beast.

Compare these plagues to Revelations.

Seven Women in Israel, holding to one man. Are comparable to Israel. Seven churches in Revelations preparing to meet the bridegroom.

(3 sets of 3 plagues and then one that seals it)

What the Lord does to Egypt (Exodus) the Lord does to the World (Revelation)

Patterns of the Plagues
Plagues 1-3 done by rod of Aaron
4-6 No rod
7-9 Rod of Moses

Pattern #1 and #10 deal with death.
2 and 9th deal with Darkness
3 and 8th deal with Admission by enemies
4 and 7th deal with Goshen exempt
5 and 6th deal with Cattle.

Born Again: Exodus 14:21-22
1 Cor. 10:1-2

Dividing something is separating chaos and order.

Of Trees and Waters
Marah: Bitter
Tree -> Water: Sweet
(Where have you seen a Tree before? Garden of Eden. Hung upon a tree (NT) )
Exodus 15:25

Elim: Palms. El: God
Palms (70) -> Wells (12)
Wells dont save you, but what’s in the Water = Life

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So I ran my “longest recorded run” tonight with my Nike+ ipod thing-a-ma-gig.
Distance 5 miles.
Time 55:54.
926 calories burned.

This beats my 10k (6.6 mile) time which took like an hour and a half at Spudman. Actually, I never had ran a 10k before in my life, before then.

The best part of the workout is when Lance Armstrong comes on at the end of the workout and says: “Congratulations! You have just recorded your longest workout yet”. He also says something when you get a new personal best at the distances you run, but I can’t remember quite what right now. my legs hurt.

Monday at lunch: Swam 40-laps (2000 meters) in 37 minutes. No breaks. That’s the same swim for a Half IronMan.
Monday night: Ran 5k for a new personal best. Time 33:36.
Wednesday night: Ran 5k for a new personal best. Time 33:01.
If I can keep my swim and run progressively getting better, I think I might actually be able to show progress this year. Still lacking on the bike though. Need to find more time to ride.

Walking down the personal hygiene aisle at Wal-Mart, I notice a teenage boy taking the caps off a bunch of stick deodorants and smelling them. His mom walks up and says:

“Why are you smelling them? People aren’t going to be going around smelling your armpits.”

Went to see the new Bourne flick with Tommy and Mikey last night. I loved it. It was quite the action-packed thrill ride. Well worth the price of admission for those of you that have yet to see it. The only complaint was that Matt Damon looked fatter in this one than the previous ones. You could really pick up on it from the flash-backs. But oh well. It was still great.

Pete sent me this link yesterday. I’ve sent it to most people that I know. But in case you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. I keep laughing whenever I see it.. or whenever I think about it.

“no speak english” .. Soo awesome