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A Tale of Two Josephs
Patrick D. Degn

Alpha and Omega
—————-
Type for Christ
Also a representation of the bible.

Genesis Revelation
50 chapters 22 chapters
Begins: 7 days of creation Begins: Seven churches
Middle: Sacrifice of a son Middle: Victory of the son
End: Joseph reigning with Pharaoh End: Saints reigning with God

Themes are the same..

Joseph receives a new name from Pharaoh.. Zaf-pa-na-ia (sp?).. check out the meaning of that name.

Two things given to Joseph after his reunion with his father:
1 – Shechem (the place shechem, central city of refuge.. shoulder or back.. place of decision, judgement.
where the sins of the people will be recogned.. between the mountains Gerazim and Ebal)
2 – “The second gift was the garments made by God for Adam passed from hand, to hand, until they came into the possession of Jacob” (Ginzburg, Legends of the Jews, 2:139).
- See genesis 3:21
Coats of skins ‘kethoneth ore’ or “garments of light”.

– remnant of the coat was preserved.. the ‘HEM’.. his authority.. his genealogy was on it..
– Alma 46:23-24

“He aroused hate or love, fear or admiration. Never indifference. Some sought him out, whiel others avoided him, but nobody failed to notice him. Nobody failed to take stand for or against him. ” — Joseph of Egypt (Eli Wiesel, Messengers of God, Biblical Portraits and Legends, 129)
The story of the 1 is the story of the other..
they both began their story at age of 17..

D&C 76 — 6 visions given there
– why show and let them see/feel Satan.. so they can see the contrast when the light comes.

If Genesis is a type for the last days.. who keeps his covenant and retains the birth-rite? Joseph.

Joseph has 6 dreams..
Joseph, Prisoners, King

Genesis 37:5 … the words of Joseph are hated by the rest of the house of Israel.. Hmmm … (BOM)

Sheaves — wheat — bread – prosperity.. God’s word..
Gathering to God’s word is the symbol for Sheaves..

2nd dream:
Genesis 37:11 — observed the saying..

His word is #1 .. established.. God’s people #2 is established..

sold into egypt for 20 pieces of silver.. 20 years or younger..

3rd dream — where God perfects his covenant with his people.
Genesis 39:9->
- 3 branches
- ripe grapes
- vine
- in my hand
- 3 days after Gethsemane Christ shall be restored.
- “touch me not for I have not yet ascended..”
- the dreams themselves typify the house of Joseph going into Apostasy..and eventually being restored.
4th dream — baker
Genesis 39:16-17
- How many had the fruits of the harvest in them? 1 of the 3 had merit. one of the 3 was lifted up.. one of them had fruits..
- 3 are lifted up..one has fruits.. all are destroyed..
- For the king. Not for himself.. but for the King.
- Jesus’s works were not for himself but for his father..

Genesis 39:19 – hang thee on a tree..
– Acts 5:3 — whom ye hung on a tree
– 1 pet 2:24 – in his own body on the tree..

14th day of Nizon.. AD32.. christ was striped and crucified and hung on a tree..
in Jewish tradition in passover they have three loaves of bread..and stripe the middle one..

3 days after this.. was the Pharoahs Birthday..
3 days after the 14th of Nizon.. was the Kings birthday.. In his new resurrected life..
— he made a feast unto all his servants..
Analogy between the 10 virgins.. 5 went in and the other 5 did not.. 1 of the prisonrs got back into pharoah and the other got killed…

5th Dream – Pharoahs Dream –
Genesis 41
– 7 kine = cattle .. Joseph was lost and forgotten.. but now in the dreams of the King he’s dreaming of a symbol.. Cattle.. Cow.. Bulls.. Oxen.. symbols for Joseph.
- central item is the kine .. cows.
- Joseph is still lost.. now the King in his mind is dreaming of the symbol of Joseph..

6th Dream – Pharoahs Dream.
Genesis 41
- 7 corn stalks..
- Corn was the symbol/theme for the dream.. same as the 1st dream.
- Now with Joseph no longer lost.. can a restoration of the ‘bread’
- 1 Nephi 13:23 —
– Behold .. IT.. (bible)..
– Bible has the covenants of the House of Israel
– When it left the mouth of the Lord it had the covenants AND the word..
– After they go forth.. from the Jews unto the Gentiles.. comes the great and abom. Church..
– They took out the covenants.. they’re lost.

The last two dreams are about the restoration of the Word.. and the covenant.. through Joseph..

Now the Butler remembers Joseph in prison..

Genesis 41:14 — sent and called Joseph.. the KING sends and calls for Joseph.. in order to restore his land..he call Joseph out of prison.. He shaved himself and changed his clothing.. he adorns new clothing..
- God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peave 41:16..
- 2 Nephi 3: — the stick to grow together.. establish peace among the fruit of thy loins..

What does Pharoah do to Joseph now?
He restores him out of the prison.. he gives him authority.. he gives him a ring.. new garments.. a new name..

41:45 – Zaphnath-paaneah — a ruler forming an alliance with a Gentile girl
“A revealer of Secrets” is what ‘Zaphnath-paaneah’ means.
Reveals God’s word and God’s covenants..

Genesis 45:1->
- He cried..
- v5 For God did send me beore you to preserve your life..
- v7 To preserve you a posterity in the earth..
- v11 Nourish thee..
- The story of Joseph of Egypt.. it’s the story of the House of Israel.. Not just Joseph Smith alone..

We offer the cup of atoning blood to the nations of the world.. and the other tribes of Israel..

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Reconciling Ruth: The Kinsman-Redeemer
Patrick D. Degn

Ruth’s name is spelled out every 49 letters.. Boaz’s name is spelled out every 49 letters intermingled with Ruth’s name.. to illustrate that they are one.

Prophetic level of Ruth.. the whole book is a type and a shadow of what is to come in the last days.

The book of Joshua sets the stage for the end-time culmination that comes in Revelation.

Judges — Ruth
Spiritual darkness — light
Immorality — purity
Pursuing Idols who are no gods — deciding for the One true God
Disloyalty — devotion
lust – love
war – peace
cruelty – kindsness
disobedience brings sorrow — obdedience brings blessing
desert of rebellion – oasis of righteousness
faithlessness of the ‘chosen people’ – faithfulness of a Gentile

Ruth 1:

Reconciling Ruth: The Kinsman-Redeemer –
The Law of Gleaning: Lev 19:9,10 ; Deut 24:19,21
— One reaping. Anything left was for the poor.
The Law of Redemption: Lev. 25:47-50
— Lands are subject to redemption by a kinsman (redeemer) goel.
— Certain conditions applied:
1. He had to be a kinsman
2. He had to be Able to perform
3. He had to be a Willing to perform
4. He had to Assume all obligations
The Law of Levirate Marriage: Deut 25:5-10
— Same conditions from above pertain here.

Names in the Book of Ruth:
Elimelech: My God is King (Israelite, Bethlehemite)
Naomi: Plesant
Mahlon: Sick
Chilion: Pining; failing; puny
Orpah: Gazelle; (fleeing, apostasy)
Ruth: Friendship; beauty; desirable
Judah: Praise

Gentile daughter-in-law (Ruth) Assuming the God/responsibilities of the Israelite father…

Two key figures:
Ruth — Companion
– the daughter of Elimelech and Naomi (Ruth 1:2,4)
Boaz — In Him is Strength
–

The only reason Christ was born in Bethlehem was because of Ruth and Boaz..

2:10 — Boaz never tells her to get up. He’s a type for Christ.. not like an angel.. “get up, get up.. dont worship me”..
2:12 — Under whose wings thou art come to trust.
– he takes us under his wings.. he takes and covers her.
2:17 — 7 bushels
2:20 — the man is our redeemer
2:21 —

Naomi the Israelite woman.. who’s lost her husband.. sees in Boaz the king of Bethlehem an opportunity for her Gentile daugher-in-law to partake the blessings of the King of Bethlehem.

3:2 — 10 maidens.. interesting parable with that.

Chapter 1 – wheat harvest (passover)
Chatper 2-3 – barley harvest (feast of pentecost)
Feast of Pentecost is the only time a marriage of a Gentile can happen.. leven can enter into the bread.

3:3 – Wash thyself, Anoint thee.. put thy raiment upon thee.. washed, anionted and clothed for her bridegroom..
get thee to the threshing floor.. moriah.. temple of solomon?

A type in Naomi telling Ruth what to do..
(israelite telling a gentile what to do)

3:9 – Spread therefore thy hem over thing handmaid; for thou art my redeemer

Jerish’s daugher.. 12 years.. woman of the hem.. healing.. another type of Ruth and Boaz

Boaz is the Christ type.. we must petition him for the covenant.. then he covers us with his authority.. blood.. with the robes of his righteousness..

Some believe the fields of Boaz are where the sheperds watched their flocks..

3:15 — Bring the vail…
3:18 — will not rest until he hath redeemed her…6 measures of barley.

4:2- 10. signal of witness and law.
4:8 – drew off his shoe.. “I can’t do it”
- Boaz took the shoe who’s shoe-latched he was worthy to unloose
4:10 – Jesus will raise up the dead.
4:11 – Christ resurrection has witnesses
4:11 – Ephratah = bethlehem
4:12 — david is the first one in the line that can assume kingship..
4:15 — Boaz’s mother is Rehab the harlot of Jericho.
- Jesus’s mother wasn’t a harlot.. just the opposite.. she was a virgin covered in innocence.
Rehab became clean by the red token

Boaz A Type for Christ:
1. Mighty in Pedigree (2:1)
2. Might in power (2:1)
3. In Boaz lay total authority (2:5)
4. Rich in grace (2:10)
5. Large in provision(2:14-16)
6. Plenteous in redepmtion (4:19)

May we be like Ruth the Moabite and cast our lot with Boaz/Him….

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“Look unto Abraham…and unto Sarah” (2 Nephi 8:2)
The Prototype of a Covenant Marriage
Patrick D. Degn

2 Nephi 8:2 — Look unto Abraham your Father and unto Sarah

Phone rings.. “wo, wo, wo unto you.”… literally means “damn you”..

Abraham 1:2 — should memorize this.
If abraham is the prototype for a good father, husband, man.. 1:2 is how he did it.

10 from Adam is Noah.. 10 from Noah is Abraham..
7th Patriarch is Enoch.

Alma 31:5 — try the virtue of the word of God.

“True doctrine understood changes behavior and attitudes..” – Packer

You can divide Abrahams part up into two parts of 7 each.

From Abraham to David are 14 generations.. David to Babylon are 14 generations..
from Babylon to coming of Christ are 14 generations..
14 harkens back to the 14 trials of Abraham.
As we go through the first 7 we are crowned something.
Then we go through another 7 and we are crowned something.

Sarah = Princess of the Lord

Whatever God requires is right no matter whatever it is.. Prophet Joseph Smith

Can the Savior instantly age something? Relation to the creation? Water aged into the wine.

The Trials of Abraham and Sarah:
- Exalted Father ————– - Father of Nations (When does God change his name?.. in the covenant of Marriage)
1. Get thee out of Lekh Lekha (12:1) 1. Charity (18:1-15)
2. Obedience (12:10-20) 2. Sodom and Gomorrah (18:16-33)
3. Weightier matters of the Law (13:5-13) – now that he’s father, he has to go to the world to extract his kin.
- Abram was the tribal leader. 3. Abimelech (My father is king) (20)
- What he would have said would
have been law. But he gave Lot
the fertal land.
4. Battle of the kings of this world 4. Battle of hte wives (21:1-21)
- Genesis 14:1-6, 21-24
- Cities on the plain.. 6.
- v23 – I will not take dirty money
5. Battle with the god of this world (15) 5. Gentile (21:22-32)
- where he covenants - Abimelech
- note the # of animals and the ages - Phichol – find out what this means
(5 of them) (3 years old)
5 = fallen man
Gene 15:9
- v12-14 — like First Vision.
Satan knows whats going on here.
- 15:17 – God is making a covenant with him
6. Assault on the Family (16) 6. Sacrifice of the son (22:1-14)
- 16:13 - type and a shadow.
– Beer-lahai-roi – look in footnote - on the same place.. Morriah, ridge that Golgatha is.
– Well of Water - age
- Kadesh (city of Refuge) v14 – Better translation: on this mount the shall be seen
- Bered (son of Ephraim) It’s a prophecy..of what will be carried out on this mount.
— between the holy place and ephraim.
— temples and ephraimites.
7. The blessing of exaltation (17) 7. The blessing of eternal seed (22:15-19)

You twain (two) shall be one flesh..
Cleave has two meanings..
1. cut them in two
2. to hold to firmly and tightly to such a degree that the two bodies become one flesh
Cleave is a covenant word..

These same covenants are found in our Temples today..

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David Bokovoy
Ancient Links Between the Book of Mormon and the Old Testament

Prophetic Perfect.. what is it?
In Hebrew, an action is understood as either completed or incompleted. There are no past present, or future tenses. In the Prophetic Perfect, a biblical prophet transports his mind ahead so that he describ3e a future event as if it has already occured.

Examples of it:
Isaiah 5:13 “are gone”
Isa 9:6 “has been born”
1 Nephi 5:5 “have obtained”
2 Nephi 31:8 “was baptized”
Mosiah 15:12 “has borne” “has died”

Mosiah 12:1 — Abinadi came in disguided
1 Samuel 28:8 — Saul disguised himself
Kings, Prophets, Disguises… death of the King..

1 Kings 14:2 — prophet, king, disguise.. doesnt fair so well for the king.
14:10 –

1 Kings 20:38 — king, prophet, disguise… king wiped out as well as his dynastsy

1 kings 22:30
2 chro 18:29
2 chro 35:22

Disguise .. not even the highest king of the earth can hide himself or his sins from the Lord.

Creation Imagery:
“The kernel of ancient Eastern creation thought does not lie in the (historically motivated) interest in the origins of being but, rather, in the concern for the present.” Stefan Pass, Creation and Judgment: Creation Texts in Some Eighth Century Prophets (Leiden: Bill, 2003): 54.

Through creation imagery, the biblical author “projects a certain continuity of divine power upon which humans can rely.” Michael Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking, 35

In Genesis chapter one, the word of God performs the nourishing acts of creation through the formulaic expression: “God said…” (v. 3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 29)

But if ye will nourish the word…” (alma 32:41)

Note in Alma 32:41 — ’springing up’..
Genesis 3:18 — “bring forth”

The verb smh (yismah) translated in the KJV as “to bring forth’ literally means, “to spring up.” The Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1996): 855.

Genesis 2:5 — before it grew (yismah)
Genesis 3:24 — “drove out the man”

In Hebrew, the verb translated as “drove out” garas(h) means “to drive out, to cast out”
The Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1996): 176; see Genesis 21:10

Alma 32:5 — they have cast us out of our synagogues
Alma 32:5, 9, 12, 24, 38 (cast out examples)

Genesis 1:11-12
Alma 32:31

Wisdom in Creation
“And on the sixth day I commanded my wisdom to create man” (2 Enoch 30:8)
Jer 10:12
Psalm 104:24
“Blessed is He who created the earth with his power, who established the world with his wisdom” (11QPSa) Hymn to the Creator

2 nephi 2:15

Clothing:

In the ancient world Clothing represents a bond.. either between men, or between men and God.
1 Samuel 18

Ruth 3:9 — skirt should be ‘robe’.. significant of the covenant of marriage
Ezek 18:8 — clothed you.. covered thy nakedness.. sweared thee.. and entered into a covenant

2 Nephi 9:14 —
2 Nephi 4:33 —

Enallage — greek for “Interchange”
2nd to 3rd person

Altar as a Place ofo Deliverance:
1 Kings 1:50-51
1 Kings 2:28

Alma 15:17

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Joseph Smith and Temples

It isn’t just enough to do the temple work for those that we can just think about.. we must study and find those that are not in our mind..

If there weren’t any work for the dead we would only go through the temple once for those ordinances.. so it’s a blessing and a privilege to go back again and again and recieve these ordinances on behalfs of others.. We can refresh our minds of the commitments and words given there.

Never say “to take out” your endowment.. use “receive” instead

not only those that enter in the temples are blessed… but those that live in the area are also blessed..

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Robert J. Matthews
Gospel Topics – “The Spirit World and the Resurrection of the Dead”

the whole concept of a spirit, pre-mortal life, post-mortal life and resurrection.. is a very powerful, important and strong principle of the restored Gospel.

Resurrection is a major and marvelous prime doctrine.

In the Pre-mortal life:
- both male and female spirits.
- procamation of the family
- each is a beloved spirit — sons or daughters of Heavenly Parents.
- Gender is an essential characteristic of individual pre-mortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose
- Conditions in the Pre-Mortal life:
- not one meeting but several meetings.
- sin in the premortal life? yes.
- repentance in the pre-mortal life? yes.
- forgiveness? yes.
- “All are equal in that they are the Spirit children of God.. and also equal in their right to agency..
as well as in the fact that all are made innocent of previous wrongs commited as they enter this world
through the Atonement of Jesus Christ” .. Harold B Lee.. from his “Teachings” pg23
- D&C 93:38 — Every spirit of man was innocent in the beginning (when we were born as Spirits).. men became ‘again’..
.. in their infant state innocent before God.

Mortal Life:
- waiting for their deliverance (D&C138).. the resurrection
- They looked upon the long absense from their separation of both and spirit..
- Your birthday is one of the very keys to your eternal salvation and welfare.
– maybe we should make ourselves and families more aware of birthdays.. the day we entered into mortality.
- 2 Nephi 9:5 — “Yea, I know that ye know that in the body he shall show himself at Jerauselem”
- 2 Nephi 9:4 —

After the Resurrection:

2 Sam 19:31-37

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The Book of Abraham as a Type: Of Kolob and Kokaubeam
Patrick D. Degn

It is a type in multiple layers for how we gain our External Exaltation.
Abraham in itself is Caiastic in nature…it all points to the middle chapter.

The Lord typically puts his most precious gems in difficult imagery..

Fac #1 – Sacrifice
Fac #2 – The map/process/knowledge on how to gain your exaltation
Fac #3 – You are coronated and crowned a King and a Priest..

Sacrifice leads to knowledge which leads to greater sacrifice which leads to more knowledge…until you are crowned/exalted..

West side of the SLC temple on the central pillar (3 pillars).. there is a constallation.. Ursor Mayor.. Big Dipper
East is the direction for light/revelation/Godlyness
West is the direction for sin/lost

If you’re in the west, and lost at sea.. you look for the big dipper you are pointed to the north star.. look to the heavens and they will guide you out of your state of apostatsy or your loss..

PGP – the best place for teaching the ordinances one makes with God..

Abraham 3 —
Ur of the Chaldees(Babylon) .. How we go from Babylon (in the world) into Gods presence

Stars = Children of God

This one star, will be the governor of all the other stars.. He’s at the center of creation..
Kolob represents Christ..
Kolob in Egyptian.. KLB.. what does it mean?

God is represented in 3 in 1.. or 1 in 3.. in #1 on Fac #2..
The only way they are separate is bodily..

Christ must be the center of our lives or we’ll be out of balance.. (axle on a bike example)

JST on the 7 statments Christ made on the cross.. “thy will IS done”

2 facts that Abraham is being taught.. Abraham 3:1-6
1. 1 start will have more glory than the other
2. One star is greater than them all..

v10 — If you find a star.. look for the next brightest star and so on..until you find Kolob
But stars represent people..

v18 — the clue that he’s really talking about people… “as also”

Abraham learned that it was Kolob.. the North star is how we got our bearings now when we’re lost.. or Christ when we’re lost..

True greatness is found in those who love him most.. or those who love him most will be closest to Christ.
True greatness is found in your proximity to Christ.

v18- Light = Intelligence

D&C 93:24,36 — light, truth, etc
D&C 93:39 — that wicked one comes and takes away the light and truth of the children of men
D&C 84:45
D&C 130:18

Nobel and Great ones .. what makes someone nobel? Proximity to Christ.. kolob.

Teachings of Ezra T. Benson, 327-328 — love him most will be most like him.

Sometimes we hear there were 2 plans.. there was 1.. he tried to amend it.

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Patrick D. Degn
Fests and Festivals: A Shadow of Things to Come

Mosiah 3:15 — many..’types, and shadows’..concerning his coming..
The law of Moses is a Type and Shadow of his coming.

Cruxificion according to the Bible happened on Nison the 14th.. when you slaugher the lamb in your home for the passover…

Matthew 5:17-18 —

Torah (The Law) TORH
Letters of the word TORH
Tav:Literal meaning; a sign, a cross, symbolic meaning: A Covenant, to seal.
Vav: Literal meaning: nail; symbolic meaning: “and”, to add, to secure.
Reysh: Literal meaning: head; symbolic meaning: person, the head, the highest.
Hey: Literal meaning: Window, fence; symbolic meaning: “the”; to reveal.

In other words:
1. Nailed to a cross, the head [of the corner] is revealed.
2. Nailed to a cross, the head[of the Church] is revealed.

The meaning of the word Torah means that (1, and 2 above).. HIM. He is the revelation of the law.

Every 49 letters is the letters TORH in Genesis, Exodus..
In Numbers, Deuteronomy it’s HROT..backwards..

The Law in the middle.. both point at the law.. Leviticus..

22 times in Leviticus the word Atonement appears..

Every 7 letters in Leviticus YHWH (the name of God) appears..
In the Law GOD is revealed perfectly 7 times..

Hebrew Calendar
Months Old New
Tishri 1 7
Cheshvan(Bul) 2 8
Chisleu 3 9
Tevet 4 10
Sh’vat 5 11
Adar 6 12
Nisan, Aviv 7 1
Ilyar (Zif) 8 2
Sivan 9 3
Tammuz 10 4
Av 11 5
Elul 12 6

In Exodus 12 he takes the middle (7th month) the 1st month..
Your lives will be organized from Springtime..
in the 10th day of this month take a Lamb..

Find out what the 12 months mean in Hebrew..
Take the meaning and switch the meaning so the 7th is first.. and look at that meaning.
LDS Collectors Library 2005..

Why is it called Zif in those particular scriptures

Nisan (spring)
Passover
Feast of the Unleavend Bread
Feast of First Fruits

+50 days: Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)

Tishri (Fall):
Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth)

3 feasts of Tishri are found throughout the book of Relevation signicantly.. a lot of fall feast metephors in Revelations..

These feasts do not teach the doctrine.. but illustrates the doctrine.

Lev 23; Num 28-29; Deut 16.

Feast in hebrew means “appointment”

Convocation.. from Hebrew means “rehearsal”

They had not rehearsed for their appointment…

Feasts and Festivals at the Time of Christ
Nisan 10 Passover; Lamb presented
14 Passover; Lamb slain
17 Feast of Firstfruits

Tishri 1 Feast of Trumpets
10 Day of Atonement
15 Feast of Tabernacles

Exodus 12… lamb in house for 3 days…kids bonding.. naming it..sleeping with it..eating with it at the table.. then Dad calls a family night.. pulls out a knife.. slits its throat…
“Dad, what has the lamb done to deserve this? The lamb was innocent”
This lamb you eat.

Blood of the lamb covers families… not individuals

12:10 — nothing shall remain. you take all of the Law into your life.

Feast of Unleavened Bread — 15th of Nisan
Lev 23:1-8 — 7 days you shall eat unlevened bread..
Feast where you’re ridding the corruption from your home (yeast)

Feast of Firstfruits — celebrating harvest..
Lev 23:9->
Sunday is the day.. the resurrection happened.. “he is our firstfruits”..
the “first fruits of eternal life”

Genesis 8:4 — 17th day of the 7th month.. It was the day of the feast of firstfruits.. The exact day that the savior was resurrected.. the arc came to rest on the mount

Lev 23:15 – Feast of Pentecost/Weeks. — the day after 7 sabbaths from passover..
This is the only day they are commanded/allowed to eat leavened bread.
HG comes into the members.. birth of the church.

April 6th 1830.. where does it fall on Jewish calendar?
March 6th 1830– when does the BOM come forth?

Feast of Trumpets
Lev 23:23-> — not silver trumpets but rams horns.. that’s a symbol.
Trumpets are blown to start the final gathering of the harvest of the field.
It represents the gathering influence of the book of mormon..
Sep 22 1827 — The Feast of Trumpets is happening on in Jewish World..
—> Though Moroni gave the book to Joseph.

Day of Atonement:
Lev 23:26 ->
When the High Priest can go into the Holy of Holies and present himself..and offering..

Feast of Tabernacles.
Lev 23:33->
15th and 10.. there is a reason.
Celebration from when they are released from bondage.. and they had the presence of God among them.
This Feast is when they celebrate God in their midst..
Represents when God is in their midst.. Millenium…

It is the fall feasts.. (appointment).. and convocations (rehearsals).. when he comes.

He expects us to dwell in booths (tabernacles or temples).. that’s how we learn about the rehearsal which he has for us to meet up with him.

THR 1750
Patrick D. Degn
“His Name Shall Be Called Joseph”
JST, Genesis 50:33

Nison 17th..when the children of Israel crossed through the Red Sea.
When Joseph of Egypt’s bones was picked up on the Feast of First Fruits.. On a day of that significance.. they saw that a tomb was left empty.. Joseph of Egypt’s.. a couple millenia later.. on the same day.. a tomb was left empty.. Jesus’s..

D&C 135:6 — “their names” — because power is in the name.
135:6 – “fire can scathe a green tree” — Habakkuk

1 Nephi 11:4 — Believest thou that thy father saw the tree of which he hath spoken? — Why a tree? Christ.
11:6 – Why Hosanna instead of Hallelujia? In Hosea the olive tree is Ephraim..

In ancient and latter days the covenant shall be/was established in the Lands of Joseph… by the hand of Joseph.

“Where in the Bible did Joseph get…”
– Baptisms for the dead?
– 3 degrees
– Spirit World teaching
– Word of Wisdom

Nothing we have comes from the Bible.. but by revelation. The Bible does not prove the truthfulness or error of a particular religion. It supports it.

JSH 1:12-14 –

One principle to the true church.. not 17,.. but one.

D&C 20

As you come into the Tabernacle.. travel East to West.. Sun in the morning is in the East.. setting in the West.. in the latter days it’ll be in the West.. in the Beginning with Judah, in the latter day Joseph.

The Lord instructs Solomon to build the washing laiden to be build upon 12 oxen.. if it was for 12 tribes..then it’d be built on the back of Ox, Eagle, Lion, Man, etc…

3 Doors or veils you have to pass through to get to the holy of holies.. constantly going west..

The responsibility that rests to bear the sins of the world rests with Joseph in the latter days..

Genesis 50:24–> (JST)
Moses and Joseph were named before they were born.
50:29 —and he shall be called Moses..
50:33 — name shall be called Joseph.. named after his father.
Pattery prophecy.. with multiple fulfillments.. Moses and Joseph.

How does Joseph Smith deliver his people out of bondage? Spiritual Bondage..

Moses of Egypt delivered them out of physical bondage..

Isaiah 49:1 — prophesying of his name
49:1-4 — who is this servant? Joseph or Jesus? Yes.

3 Nephi 21:1 – the coming forth of a book is the sign.
21:9 – although a man shall declare it unto them…
21:10 — he is in my hand (in my power)… though he shall be marred because of them.
21:11 — whosoever will not believe in my words..they shall be cut off from among my people who are of the covenant.. (just like Moses said,see above the Genesis 50:xx in JST)..
If you get the Church of Jesus Christ from someone other than Joseph ..

there is only one point to the true church.. if any of you lack wisdom ask of God…

The Face of the Savior Among the Gospels

Presents as: Messiah Servant Son of Man Son of God
Face: Lion Ox Man Eagle
Ensign: Judah Ephraim Reuben Dan
Camp side: East West South North
Genealogy: Abraham(legal) - Adam(blood) Eternity(premortal)
What Jesus: said did felt was
To the: Jew Roman Greek Church
First Miracle: Leper cleansed demon expelled demon expelled water=>wine
Ends with: Resurrection Ascension Promise of Spirit(acts) Promise of Return(reveleation)
Style: Groupings Snapshots Narrative Supernatural
KeyWord” Fulfilled(38x) Eutheos(42x) It came to pass(40x) Verily, Verily (24x)
Jesus: 151x 13x 88x 247x

THR 16:30
David Bokovoy
The Ancient Temple
“Into the Presence of God”

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Pre Notes -

The Following passages from the Old Testament also clearly refer to Israel’s deity as the procreator of humanity:
- Ex 4:22
- Deut 32:6,18
- Isa 1:2
- Isa 63:16
- Isa 64:8
- Jer 3:19
- Hos 1:10
- Mal 1:6
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“All people of all ages have had temples in one from or another.. When the history of human though shall be written from the point of view of temple worship, it may well be found that temples and whte word done in them have been the dominating influence in shaping human thought from the beginning of the race. ” John A Widstoe, Temple Worship, Utah Genealogical Society; 52.

God was indeed anxious to have a sanctuary erected to Him, it was the condition on which he led them [the Israelites] out of Egypt, yea, in a certain sense the existence of all the world depended on the construction of the sanctuary… Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews, vol IV; pg 150-151

… The Main object was to build unto the Lord a house whereby he could reveal unto his people his ordinances…. Teachings 307-308.

Gordon B. Hinckley, “Why These Temples”, Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints; pg 2… “These buildings, different from the thousands of regular Church houses of worship scattered over the earth, are unique in purpose and function from all other religious edifices. It is not the size of these buildings or their architectural beauty that make them so. It is the work that goes on within their walls.”

Ascension was central to temples.. in ancient and present architecture.. South America, Egypt, Ziggerat in Babylon.

In ancient Israel, ascension occured in the progression from the outer court to the inner court to the holy of holies.

Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, pg416. … “Your endowment is to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life………”

Joseph Smith, Teachings, p159 — “This is why Adam blessed his posterity; he wanted to bring them into the presence of God. They looked for a city, etc., ‘whose builder and maker is God.’ (Hebrews 11:10) Moses sought to bring the children of Israel into the presence of God, through the power of the Priesthood, but he could not.”

Ezra Taft Bensons, “What I Hope You Will Teach Your Children about the Temple, ” Ensign, Aug 1985, 9 “How did Adam bring his descendants into the presence of the Lord? The answer……..” (check Ensign for more)

Jonah 1:3 — “But Jonah rose ‘up’ to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.. ” Because he’s in the presence of God he’s going to be a messenger and a mediator.. … but he does ‘down’ to Joppa …. “from the presence of the Lord”
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Up, Down, Down, Down… the author uses a verb in Hebrew, yarad, to go down.. Descent..
He descends from the Presence of God until he ends up in the belly of the fish.

When the Savior was asked for a sign.. he said “You shall have a sign.. ” Jonah.. Jonah is a type for Christ.

Jonah’s experience is quite the opposite of our temple experience.. Down, Down Down.. instead of up, up up..

Jonah 2:4 — I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah 2:7 — and my prayer came unto thee.. into thine holy temple

“Holy” — “Sanctuary”

The thing that makes a thing/object/location Holy is the presence of God.

Grades of Holiness:

The children of Israel were holy (Exo 19:4-6). Therefore they had to live by higher standards than their neighbors did. (18:2-5, 24-30). The priests however were holier and were allowed to serve at the altar. Tehy were therefore required to live a higher standard of holiness than the general population (21:1-7). The High Priest had to live by an even higher standard (21:10-15). The classification of animals parallels this stratification. Only large and small cattle free from defect could be offered on the altar (1:2; 22:18-29). However, Israelites were permitted to eat from a slightly larger group of animals (11:2-8). The animals that could serve them were an ever larger group.

Holy of Holies — High Priest
Holy Place — Priests
Altar of Whole Offering — Levites
Court – Congreation for Worship
Camp – Congreation and Resident Aliens
Outside the Camp – Those Temporarily Unlean

Sinai as Temple:
3 divisions
1. Ex 19:20; Ex 34:2-3; Lev 16:2-3
2. Ex 19:22; Ex 24:1-2,14; Num 18:1-7
3. Ex 19:17,23; Ex 24:4-5; Ex 40:6,29

Ex 24:16-17; Exo 40:35

The Presence of God — “To the face of Jehova”

Lev. 6:7 — “And the Priest shall make an atonement for him “”before the Lord”" and it shall be forgiven him for anything of all that he hath done in trespassing therein”

Ex 28:12 — .. Aaron shall bear their names ”before the LORD” upon his shoulders for memorial.”

Isaiah 37:17 – - that dwellest .. also means to sittest (in hebrew) between the Cherubims..” Why does he sit? that is his throne.. where is presence is found.

LDS Old Testament Student Manual, pg 155

Exodus 28:40-41 — “And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make garments, and t hou shalt make for them sashes and caps shalt thou make for glory and for beauty.. And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy borther, and his sons with him; and shall anoint them…. ” check out the NSRV bible for more clearer descriptions..

christianbook.com — NSRV bible cheap price

He carries into the presence of God the tribes of ancient Israel..

Joseph Smith, The Words of Joseph Smith, pg 119-120 “I preached in the grove on the keys of the Kingdom, Charity &c The keys are certain signs and words by which false spirits and personages may be detected from true, which cannot be revealed to the Elders tillt he Temple is completed. The rich can only get them in the Temple — the poor may get them on the Mountain top as did Moses..no one can truly say he knows God until he has handled someting, and this can only be in the Holiest of Holies”

Exodus 3:2 — he looked, and, behold (behold is a presentative.. it presents new information in perspective of the narrator) — the bush burned with fire…
3:2 – angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire.. JS changed it to ‘..presence of the Lord…’ appeared unto him..
3:5 – take off thy shoes.. gesture of approach.. were one tries to make sure the dust from ones shoes does not contaminate the presence of the Lord..
3:5- – for the place — place, it will refer to a temple setting..

Genesis 28:11 — and he lighted upon a certain place — a temple story coming up..
28:12 – ladder — a mountain..connecting the heaven and the earth. Where one can ascend and enter the presence of God.
28:16 – Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.
28:17 – this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
28:19 – Beth-el — house of God
Gates are Used typically as a reference for a temple.

Gates of Righteousness:
Psalm 118:19 – Open to me the the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will priase the Lord.
118:20: This gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter.
24:3- Who shall Ascend into the hill of the Lord.. or who shall stand in his holy place?
24:4 – clean hands.. exposes his heart.. lifts up his hands.. Hallel ..
24:7 – lift up your heads, O ye gates…

“The singer wants to walk throught he portals of righteousness. At the gates leading to the sanctuary inquiry is made about the righteousness of each participant in worship. That is why the portals are called gates of righteousness…Passing through the gates is a sign of being included in the realm of the righteous” Othmar Keel, The Symbolism of the Biblical…??

Kaph: “The Hand in Cupping Shape” — clean hands were very symbolic… in the palm of the hand..or the hand in cupping shape. — Consecrate — “To Fill The Hand” … The God of the old temple would fill the hand with this gifts necessary to perform the requried tasks..

Psalm 73:13 — Heart, hands, cleansing..
73:23 – Neverless I am continually with thee: thou has holden me by my right hand.

“This [the clasping of the right hand] points to a royal (might we even say, messianic?) procedure. The forumla, ‘God grasps one by the hand, when the king ascends the throne and is inducted into royal office, denotes the conferring of privilege and charisma on the king (Isaiah 45:1; 42:1).” Hans-Joachim Kraus, Theology of the Psalms, pg173

Isaiah 56:4-5 — ” .. will I give in my house and within my walls ‘a hand’ and a name better than of sons and of daughers.. ” ‘a hand’ replaced from NSRV

Ether 3 — a temple story.. ascent into the presence of God.
3:1 – 16 small stones.. white and clear.. transparent as glass.. carry them in his ‘hands’..
3:6 – he enters into the presence of the Lord.. .. “the Lord stretched for his hand… and the veil was taken from off the eyes of the brother of Jared..”