Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

June 23, 2017 Section 45:7-34 Earth’s Time, Lord’s Time, Gospel is Preparer For Us, End of the World, Last Days, Scripture’s Love and Prophecies, Peace VS Turmoil, Agency, This has to do with yesterday’s reading and I wanted to keep it as a reference to ‘time’: p 92 “ Three scriptures contribute to an understanding of this phrase. Modern revelation states that the earth’s temporal history spans seven thousand years, divided into periods of one thousand years each (see D&C 77:6-7). Peter and Abraham taught that time on earth, compared to the time where God dwells, is at a ratio of a thousand of earth’s years to one day of God’s time (see 2 Peter 3:8); Abraham 3:4). Since the earth will have a temporal existence before it is celestialized, and since it is known that the earth is now in the sixth period of a thousand years, or the period is ‘today’ and Christ will come ‘tomorrow’. In a later revelation, the Lord used this same terminology, indicting that “now it is called tod...

April 23, 2017 Section 19: 1-3 Christ Names, Christ Roles, Second Coming, End of the World, Evidently, almost a year after Martin Harris had earnestly requested—and been accepted—as one of the three witnesses to the Book of Mormon, he came again to Joseph Smith “ …seeking further assurance in relation to his standing before the Lord, being sorely troubled in spirit because of his transgression. Perhaps out of this [ his participation as one of the three witnesses and/or a not publically known transgression ] came much serious reflection and he sought further light. However, there is no indication in the History of the Church as to the reason why the revelation was given….It is without question a revelation of great comfort to Martin, and it is one of the great revelations given in this dispensation; there are few of greater import than this. The doctrine of the atonement of the Lord, as directly applying to the individual, and his exposition of ‘Eternal Punishment’, as here se...