Lynne's Scripture Journal D&C

December 8, 2018 Section 128:1-18 Baptism for the Dead, Genealogy, Last Days, Service, Temple Service, Journals, Spiritual Things To Be Recorded and Preserved, This section is a letter written to the church explaining baptism for the dead. It was written by Joseph while he was in hiding. V 8 says “ …whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven; and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven; for out of the books shall your dead be judged., according to their own works…” My thoughts on that verse were that I really should record my own inspirations and insights. Spiritual things are delicate and fragile. They sometimes fade with time. If we record them when we recognized them, then they are there for us to go back to again and again. They are there to direct us and help us negotiate those times we go periodically through when we seem to feel fewer answers and gifts from the Holy Ghost. I love v 15: “ …let me...

September 10, 2018 Section 109:74-80 Second Coming Timeline, Kirtland Temple Dedicatory Prayer, Last Days, Earth Education, Happiness and Joy, Life Journeys, These last few verses are the close of the dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland temple. And they speak of the things that will happen at the second coming of Christ. Parley P Pratt wrote about this saying “ and in connection with the glorious coming of Jesus Christ, the earth will undergo a change in its physical features, climate, soil, productions, and in its plitcal, moral and spiritual government.” I’m not sure which of those changes would be the most dramatic, but I long for the second of them. Parley P Pratt continues: “ Its mountains will be leveled, its valleys exalted, its swamps and sickly places will be drained and become healthy, while its burning deserts and its frigid polar regions will be redeemed and become temperate and fruitful.” I am not going to worry about the things that I have no cont...

September 9, 2018 Section 109:60-72 Gathering of Israel, Last Days, Gentiles and Israel, Prayers to Heavenly Father, Desires of Our Hearts, Prayers and Our Daily Efforts, Temple Covenants Affect Us Daily, Prayers For My Family, ( student manual 272 ) “The Prophet Joseph Smith wrote that in reading the Book of Mormon “we learn that our western tries of Indians are descendants from that Joseph which was sold into Egypt, and that the land of American is a promised land unto them, and unto it all the tribes of Israel will come, with as many of the Gentiles as shall comply with the requisitions of the new covenant. But the tribe of Judah will return to old Jerusalem [see D&C 133:8, 13, 25]. The city of Zion spoken of by David, in the one hundred and second Psalm, will be built upon the land of America, ‘And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with sons and everlasting joy upon their heads’ (Isaiah 35:10); and then they will be delivered fro...

May 21, 2018 Section 98:16-48 Jews Message To, War Advice from the Lord, Qualities that Displease the Lord, The Law of Forgiveness, Adversity From Others How to Handle It, Last Days, What a beautiful verse! 16 “ Therefore, renounce war and proclaim peace, and seek diligently to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to the children.” No matter what goes on in this world, this is our quest—in our nations and in our homes. The following verse was very interesting to me: 17 “ And again, the hearts of the Jews unto the prophets’ and the prophets unto the Jews’ lest I come and smite the whole earth with a curse, and all flesh be consumed before me.” In May 1976 President Ezra Taft Benson spoke in Canada to a congregation that included many Jews. “ In Jacob’s blessing to Judah he declared: ‘Judah is…as an old lion: who shall rouse him up?’ Gen 49:9. We come as messengers bearing the legitimate authority to aruse Judah to her promises. We ...