Profile of a Prophet

Profile ofa Prophet

Hugh B. Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Kuw0khSPY

Hugh B. Brown was assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was delivered at Brigham Young University on 4 October 1955.

I should like to dispense with all formality, if I may, and address both faculty and students as my brothers and sisters. I adopt that form of salutation for several reasons: first, practically all who are here are members of the Church that established and maintains this university; second, I believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man; and third, I do not intend to give a lecture, certainly not an oration or even a sermon, but simply wish to bear my testimony to my brothers and sisters. 

I should like to be for a few minutes a witness in support of the proposition that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored in our day and that this is His Church, organized under His direction through the Prophet Joseph Smith. I should like to give some reasons for the faith I have and for my allegiance to the Church.

Perhaps I can do this more quickly by referring to an interview I had in London, England, in 1939, just before the outbreak of the war. I had met a very prominent English gentleman, a member of the House of Commons, formerly one of the justices of the supreme court of England. In my conversations with this gentleman on various subjects—“vexations of the soul,” he called them—we talked about business, law, politics, international relations, and war, and we frequently discussed religion. 

He called me on the phone one day and asked if I would meet him at his office and explain some phases of the gospel. He said, “I think there is going to be a war. If there is, you will have to return to America and we may not meet again.” His statement regarding the imminence of war and the possibility that we would not meet again proved to be prophetic. 

When I went to his office he said he was intrigued by some things I had told him. He asked me to prepare a brief on Mormonism. 

I may say to you students that a brief is a statement of law and facts that lawyers like President Wilkinson prepare when they are going into court to argue a case. 

He asked me to prepare a brief on Mormonism and discuss it with him as I would discuss a legal problem. He said, “You have told me that you believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet. You have said to me that you believe that God the Father and Jesus of Nazareth appeared to Joseph Smith. I cannot understand how a barrister and solicitor from Canada, a man trained in logic and evidence, could accept such absurd statements. What you tell me about Joseph Smith seems fantastic, but I think you should take three days at least to prepare a brief and permit me to examine it and question you on it.” 

I suggested that we proceed at once and have an examination for discovery, which is, briefly, a meeting of the opposing sides in a lawsuit where the plaintiff and defendant, with their attorneys, meet to examine each other’s claims and see if they can find some area of agreement, thus saving the time of the court later on.

I said perhaps we could see whether we had some common ground from which we could discuss my “fantastic ideas.” He agreed to that quite readily. 

I can only give you, in the few minutes at my disposal, a condensed and abbreviated synopsis of the three-hour conversation that followed. In the interest of time I shall resort to the question-and-answer method, rather than narration. 

 

I began by asking, “May I proceed, sir, on the assumption that you are a Christian?” 

“I am.” 

“I assume you believe in the Bible—the Old and New Testaments?” 

“I do!” 

“Do you believe in prayer?” 

“I do!” 

“You say that my belief that God spoke to a man in this age is fantastic and absurd?” 

“To me it is.” 

“Do you believe that God ever did speak to anyone?” 

“Certainly, all through the Bible we have evidence of that.” 

“Did He speak to Adam?” 

“Yes.” 

“To Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and on through the prophets?” 

“I believe He spoke to each of them.” 

“Do you believe that contact between God and man ceased when Jesus appeared on the earth?” 

“No, such communication reached its climax, its apex, at that time.” 

“Do you believe that Jesus was the Son of God?” 

“He was.” 

“Do you believe, sir, that after Jesus was resurrected, a certain lawyer—who was also a tentmaker by the name of Saul of Tarsus—when on his way to Damascus talked with Jesus of Nazareth, who had been crucified, resurrected, and had ascended into heaven?” 

“I do.” 

“Whose voice did Saul hear?” 

“It was the voice of Jesus Christ, for He so introduced Himself.” 

“Then, my Lord—that is the way we address judges in the British Commonwealth—I am submitting to you in all seriousness that it was standard procedure in Bible times for God to talk to man.” 

“I think I will admit that, but it stopped shortly after the first century of the Christian era.” 

“Why do you think it stopped?” 

“I can’t say.” 

“You think that God hasn’t spoken since then?” 

“I am sure He hasn’t.” 

“There must be a reason. Can you give me a reason?” 

“I do not know.” 

“May I suggest some possible reasons? Perhaps God does not speak to man anymore because He cannot. He has lost the power.” 

He said, “Of course that would be blasphemous.” 

“Well, then, if you don’t accept that, perhaps He doesn’t speak to men because He doesn’t love us anymore and He is no longer interested in the affairs of men.” 

“No,” he said, “God loves all men, and He is no respecter of persons.” 

“Well, then, if He could speak, and if He loves us, then the only other possible answer, as I see it, is that we don’t need Him. We have made such rapid strides in science and we are so well educated that we don’t need God anymore.” 

And then he said—and his voice trembled as he thought of impending war—“Mr. Brown, there never was a time in the history of the world when the voice of God was needed as it is needed now. Perhaps you can tell me why He doesn’t speak.” 

My answer was: “He does speak, He has spoken; but men need faith to hear Him.” 

Then we proceeded to prepare what I may call a “profile of a prophet.” 

Perhaps you students would like to amplify what I must condense today and draw your own standard or definition of a prophet and see whether Joseph Smith measures up. 

We agreed between us that the following characteristics should distinguish a man who claims to be a prophet:

1. He will boldly claim that God had spoken to him. 

2. Any man so claiming would be a dignified man with a dignified message—no table jumping, no whisperings from the dead, no clairvoyance, but an intelligent statement of truth. 

3. Any man claiming to be a prophet of God would declare his message without any fear and without making any weak concessions to public opinion. 

4. If he were speaking for God he could not make concessions, although what he taught would be new and contrary to the accepted teachings of the day. A prophet bears witness to what he has seen and heard and seldom tries to make a case by argument. His message and not himself is important. 

5. Such a man would speak in the name of the Lord, saying, “Thus said the Lord,” as did Moses, Joshua, and others. 

6. Such a man would predict future events in the name of the Lord, and they would come to pass, as did those predicted by Isaiah and Ezekiel. 

7. He would have not only an important message for his time but often a message for all future time, such as Daniel, Jeremiah, and others had. 

8. He would have courage and faith enough to endure persecution and to give his life, if need be, for the cause he espoused, such as Peter, James, Paul, and others did. 

9. Such a man would denounce wickedness fearlessly. He would generally be rejected or persecuted by the people of his time, but later generations and descendants of his persecutors would build monuments in his honor. 

10. He would be able to do superhuman things—things that no man could do without God’s help. The consequence or result of his message and work would be convincing evidence of his prophetic calling: “By their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:20). 

11. His teachings would be in strict conformity with scripture, and his words and his writings would become scripture. “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). 

PRAISE TO THE MAN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYjtrpZS510

Now I have given but an outline that you can fill in and amplify and then measure and judge the Prophet Joseph Smith by the work and stature of other prophets. 

As a student of the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith for more than 50 years, I say to you young men and women: by these standards Joseph Smith qualifies as a prophet of God. 

I believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God because he talked like a prophet. He was the first man since the apostles of Jesus Christ were slain to make the claim that prophets have always made—viz., that God had spoken to him. He lived and died like a prophet. I believe he was a prophet of God because he gave to this world some of the greatest of all revelations. I believe that he was a prophet of God because he predicted many things that have come to pass—things that only God could bring to pass.

John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, declared, “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy” (Revelation 19:10). If Joseph Smith had the testimony of Jesus, he had the spirit of prophecy. And if he had the spirit of prophecy, he was a prophet. 

I submit to you, and I submitted to my friend, that as much as any man who ever lived, he had a testimony of Jesus, for, like the apostles of old, he saw Him and heard Him speak. He gave his life for that testimony. I challenge any man to name one who has given more evidence of the divine calling of Jesus Christ than did the Prophet Joseph Smith. 

I believe the Prophet Joseph Smith was a prophet because he did many superhuman things. One was translating the Book of Mormon. Some people will not agree, but I submit to you that the Prophet Joseph Smith in translating the Book of Mormon did a superhuman work. I ask you students to undertake to write a story on the ancient inhabitants of America, to write as he did without any source of material. Include in your story 54 chapters dealing with wars, 21 historical chapters, and 55 chapters on visions and prophecies. And, remember, when you begin to write on visions and prophecies, you must have your record agree meticulously with the Bible. You must write 71 chapters on doctrine and exhortation, and here, too, you must check every statement with the scriptures or you will be proven to be a fraud. You must write 21 chapters on the ministry of Christ, and everything you claim He said and did and every testimony you write in your book about Him must agree absolutely with the New Testament. 

I ask you, would you like to undertake such a task? I would suggest to you too that you must employ figures of speech, similes, metaphors, narrations, exposition, description, oratory, epic, lyric, logic, and parables. Undertake that, will you? 

I ask you to remember that the man who translated the Book of Mormon was a young man who hadn’t had the opportunity of schooling that you have had, and yet he dictated that book in just a little over two months and made very few, if any, corrections. For over one hundred years some of the best students and scholars of the world have been trying to prove from the Bible that the Book of Mormon is false, but not one of them has been able to prove that anything he wrote was not in strict harmony with the scriptures—with the Bible and with the word of God. 

The Book of Mormon not only declares on the title page that its purpose is to convince Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, but this truth is the burden of its message. In 3 Nephi it is recorded that multitudes of people testified, “We saw Him. We felt of His hands and His side. We know He is the Christ” (see 3 Nephi 11:14–15). 

Joseph Smith undertook and accomplished other superhuman tasks. Among them I list the following:

He organized the Church. (I call attention to the fact that no constitution effected by human agency has survived 100 years without modification or amendment, even the Constitution of the United States. The basic law or constitution of the Church has never been altered.)


He undertook to carry the gospel message to all nations, which is a superhuman task still in progress.


He undertook, by divine command, to gather thousands of people to Zion.


He instituted vicarious work for the dead and built temples for that purpose.


He promised that certain signs should follow the believers, and there are thousands of witnesses who certify that this promise has been fulfilled. 

I said to my friend,

 

 “My Lord, I cannot understand your saying to me that my claims are fantastic. Nor can I understand why Christians who claim to believe in Christ would persecute and put to death a man whose whole purpose was to prove the truth of the things they themselves were declaring; namely, that Jesus was the Christ. I could understand their persecuting Joseph if he had said, ‘I am Christ,’ or if he had said, ‘There is no Christ,’ or if he had said someone else is Christ. Then Christians believing in Christ would be justified in opposing him. 

“But what he said was, ‘He whom ye claim to serve, declare I unto you,’ paraphrasing what Paul said in Athens: ‘Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you’ (Acts 17:23). Joseph said to the Christians of his day, ‘You claim to believe in Jesus Christ. I testify that I saw Him and I talked with Him. He is the Son of God. Why persecute me for that?’ 

“When Joseph came out of the woods, he had at least four fundamental truths, and he announced them to the world: first, that the Father and the Son are separate and distinct individuals; second, that the canon of scripture is not complete; third, that man was created in the bodily image of God; and fourth, the channel between earth and heaven is open and revelation is continuous.” 

Perhaps some of you are wondering how the judge reacted to our discussion. He listened intently; he asked some very pointed and searching questions; and, at the end of the period, he said, 

 

“Mr. Brown, I wonder if your people appreciate the import of your message. Do you?” He said, “If what you have told me is true, it is the greatest message that has come to this earth since the angels announced the birth of Christ.” 

This was a judge speaking—a great statesman, an intelligent man. He threw out the challenge: “Do you appreciate the import of what you say?” He added, “I wish it were true. I hope it may be true. God knows it ought to be true. I would to God,” he said, and he wept as he said it, “that some man could appear on earth and authoritatively say, ‘Thus saith the Lord.’” 

As I intimated, we did not meet again. I have brought to you very briefly some of the reasons why I believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. But undergirding and overarching all that, I say to you from the very center of my heart that by the revelations of the Holy Ghost I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. 

Although these evidences and many others that could be cited may have the effect of giving one an intellectual conviction, only by the whisperings of the Holy Spirit can one come to know the things of God. By those whisperings I say I know that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. I thank God for that knowledge and pray for His blessings upon all of you in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Peace, be still.

Zion and Jerusalem, November 19, 2013

 

Peace, be still. 

(New Testament | Mark 4:39)

The truth is the knowledge of things as they are, as they have been and as they are to come.  The LORD Jesus Christ said that he is the truth, the light and the life of the world. Therefore he is the possessor of all truth for he knows all things, past present and future. I knew from the scriptures that he is the creator of heavens and earth and the commander of the oceans. As one ancient sea travelers said, he who commands the oceans commands every thing. That is my GOD, my redeemer and my teacher, even the LORD jesus Christ. Besides that, the I knew that the scriptures tell that the LORD knows the end from the beginning, but it has not crossed my mind until I heard it from the prophet of GOD who revealed it to me, that he, the LORD also knows the beginning from the end or that he can judge a book by its cover or know what is in the heart of a person by the words he utters.

Before this day, I had published a blogspot or article called

 

But remember that all my judgments are not given unto men;

http://agreatandmarvelouswork.blogspot.com/2013/11/but-remember-that-all-my-judgments-are.html

What I wrote was the talking points of what I was to teach and did teach to my children yesterday in our family home evening.  I started writing by the power of GOD about five am in the morning and I was publicizing or posting it and emailing it by eight in the morning or so.  No sooner after that the bells of hell begun to ring. The storm of sin was furious, even as I dreamed of it, because I had taught what the LORD had taught me to the very best of my ability to learn about the nature of his commandments, laws, statutes and judgments.  

Yesterday and up to this very morning at six am, not consecutively of course, I had an on and off conversation with a woman that calls herself in facebook, MORMONS AGAINST WOMEN PRAYING IN GENERAL CONFERENCE. I detected very early in our conversation that she was or is still possessed by the spirit of Jezebel or the whore of Babylon. She said and did whatever she wanted with me. She said that called the police on me for preaching, so I would be taken to psychiatric hospital or jail.  And in my dreams I was. Apparently, by the dreams I had last night, she sent me to the pit, for  power was given to her from high to do so just as power was given to Pilate to crucify our LORD. It is not the fist time this happens to me. I have been taken several times already to real psychiatric hospitals and even to jail because of the things I write.

Besises this, she had called me Satan or his servant and would not allow me to pray for her except she bound me and she prescribed me anti psychotic medications.  After that, because I was speaking with angelic language or in the language of Jesus Christ the savior of the world, and at last she said that I deserved and wedgy, a swirl and a bitch-slap. In the mean time by the power of the spirit that is in me, she confessed to me all her sins and wickedness, she said that she was a sorcerer, and even disclosed that she was a bitch or a whore since she admitted that she wanted to give me a bitch-slap by her own words. I had no resource but to offer her my other chick. And I sang to her or sent her a hymn that we sing in the church that is called, Master the tempest is raging. I cannot lie, I did truly did see all things that I have mentioned in my dream last night.  And whatsoever has not happened to me physically or temporally happened to me spiritually.

At last I thought that the tempest was over. But as any advocate of truth or activist, when you claim one mountain, well there are more mountains. Today, I heard the bells of hell ringing again. For another anti-christ, or anti Mormon or apostate who uses the facade of a praying Jesus said to me with regards to what I had written the following words to which I was not slacking heavenly answers. And this is a testimony that confirms and reaffirms my faith and devotion in Jesus Christ, in his restored Church and its prophets which is the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints:

  

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 3:17)

one that makes lies a reality

10:03am

Non-Biblical Mormonism

Keep telling yourself it's true. Maybe one day it will actually happen.

 Today

Me, Myself and I

 

1:15pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

Have you thought about that yourself? How terrible it would be for you in the bar of heave if you die in your sins and we are corroborated or vindicated!!! I know it is true, I testify it is true all things say it is true, and so will you, when you are compelled to bend then knee and confess to GOD with your tongue that Jesus is the Christ and that the judgments of GOD are just upon you because you rejected the truth, the true church and the prophets of GOD. Unfortunately it will be after a great many centuries from now. Unlike you and your kind, we are still here, and we will still be here till the kingdom comes and beyond while your life fades like a flower, your body rottenest like an old rag on the ground and your soul is perched and anguish with pain in hell. For if GOD burned his own house with fire that was like a tender plant to him, what shall become of dry wood like you when the scorching fire approaches. Do you pay an honest and faithful tithing? If don't you do not have fire insurance. For believe it or not, the LORD has spoken and said:

Behold, now it is called today until the coming of the Son of Man, and verily it is a day of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people; for he that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming. For after today cometh the burning—this is speaking after the manner of the Lord—for verily I say, tomorrow all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, for I am the Lord of Hosts; and I will not spare any that remain in Babylon.

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 64:23 - 24)

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1:24pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

I'd love to have an conversation but somehow I doubt you'd care to think you've been lied to.

If Mormonism is true then I'll end up in the lowest level of Heaven. If Christianity is true then I'll go to Heaven and you'll spend an eternity in Hell. Believe as you wish.

A picture of an American Indian that I use for a cover in Facebook

 

1:35pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

I am here, you have my undivided attention. I am here because I care. And I know that what I tell you is true by my own steam. I have an individual testimony of the truth and not because i have seen and heard. If not I would not be here talking with you because I would not exist. I hate to take advantage of people, but how would you bet your life eternal in a statement like that? Do you have any evidence that GOD does not exist? IS not he a GOD of the whole world? Do not the scriptures that you love so much say that "for so God loved the world that he gave us his only begotten son that whomsoever believes in him will have eternal life? IS not America part of the World? He also said that he is the same yesterday, today and forever and also an unchangeable GOD. Would not he be partial if he only spoke in the old world and not in the new or in ancient times as in now? I am biased, but you can read an unbiased testimony also of the great reality that we live and the terrible reality of the so called Christian world. Please read the following testimony and if that fits your criteria then you will also love the following one after that:

Pastor Lynn Ridenhour’s Apologhy to the Mormons

http://bookofmormonevidences.blogspot.com/2009/09/appendix-i-pastor-lynn-ridenhours.html

Book of Mormon Evidences Revisited

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For those who seriously believe that there is no evidence in support of the Book of Mormon. A documented work, utilizing the research of professionals in several fields, setting forth various overwhelming scientific evidence in support of the Book of Mormon being as it claims, that of holy scripture...

1:35pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

Ten Biblical Proofs of the Book of Mormon
by Lynn Ridenhour,
A Southern Baptist Minister

http://bookofmormonevidences.blogspot.com/2009/09/appendix-ii-ten-biblical-proofs-of-book.html

Book of Mormon Evidences Revisited

bookofmormonevidences.blogspot.com

For those who seriously believe that there is no evidence in support of the Book of Mormon. A documented work, utilizing the research of professionals in several fields, setting forth various overwhelming scientific evidence in support of the Book of Mormon being as it claims, that of holy scripture...

 

1:37pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

NOW if you happen to believe half of those testimonies, the following prologue will fill the rest.

THE GREAT PROLOGUE

  
BY 

MARK E PETERSON 

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1:46pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

Well that's just it though. Your "evidence" isn't evidence.

 

1:53pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

Have you read it? Or what kind of evidence do you seek? I know for a fact, and there is not he least doubt in my mind and in my heart, just by reading at your words that you are an wicked and adulterous person. Because Paul said that the things of GOD are discerned spiritually and he said that those who seek after signs or proof are a wicked and adulterous generation. Joseph Smith confirmed it and I ratify it. Would you deny all these testimonies and the word of Christ? 

It is you who do not care to know that you have been lied. I know and you know that I speak the truth. 

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14)

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

(New Testament | Matthew 16:4)

1:55pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

“I will give you one of the Keys of the mysteries of the Kingdom. It is an eternal principle, that has existed with God from all eternity: That man who rises up to condemn other, finding fault with the Church, saying that they are out of the way, while he himself is righteous, then know assuredly, that that man is in the high road to apostasy; and if he does not repent, will apostatize, as God lives. The principle is as correct as the one that Jesus put forth in saying that he who seeketh a sign is an adulterous person; and that principle is eternal, undeviating, and firm as the pillars of heaven; for whenever you see a man seeking after a sign, you may set it down that he is an adulterous man. (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 156-157)

 

 

1:56pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

Let's see. Maybe proof a horse existed in America prior to Columbus, any written proof of a Lamanite/Nephite outside of LDS literature, any city or person specific only to LDS literature mentioned outside of LDS literature. Let's start there.

 

2:02pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

NO, as a LAMANITE, I am not interested in giving you any proof of the hope that is in me. It is not my heritage, my faith or my beliefs who are in trial here but yours. I know who I am and what I believe. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of GOD unto salvation and I am not ashamed of it. I have no fear. Time will vindicate the truth on its own to your eternal shame. 

An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

(New Testament | Matthew 12:39 - 45)

Have a nice day Mr. Wicked and adulterous.

 

2:02pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

You too. I pray you find the real Jesus.

 
 

2:04pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

Are you kidding me? He has spoken to you and you knew it not. Maybe you need to backtrack and do some justice to your soul, perhaps he will have mercy on your soul before repentance is hidden from his face. 

O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

(Old Testament | Hosea 13:14)

 

 

2:05pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

I speak to him daily. Thank you though. It's called a relationship.

 

Miguel Angel Tinoco

I cannot question or dispute that you talk to him daily. That is why he has sent his messenger to answer you back and to reprove concerning the faith because you have closed your eyes, are dull of hearing and past feeling. You are ever learning and never coming to knowledge of the truth.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 28:11 - 12)

For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

(New Testament | Acts 28:27 - 28)

THIS know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

(New Testament | 2 Timothy 3:1 - 8)

  Miguel Angel Tinoco

REAL EYES REALIZE!!!

 

 

2:16pm

Non-Biblical Mormonism

Oh if I had more time I'd love to run through this with you. Maybe one day we can. I'd love to help show you the wool over your eyes.

 

2:21pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

Sure, If it'd make me a listener and to see be my guess. But now since you claim that you can hear and see, the sin remains with you. Had I not come to speak yo you and your fellows, you would be OK, but since i have come, you no longer have cloak for your sins. 

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

(New Testament | John 9:41)

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

(New Testament | John 15:22 - 23)

2:22pm

Miguel Angel Tinoco

If as you say, real eyes realize, it makes you a realist. I am a free man by the way.

because where the spirit of truth is there is freedom. THE LORD IS THAT SPIRIT. 

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 3:17)

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

(New Testament | Luke 4:18 - 19)

Just writing to my friends in the church from the front lines and the trenches, I am writing my watch tower and commending you all to the power of heaven to fear not and to be faithful, for the battle is cruel and the tempest rage. Bu the LORD the commander of the seas say to us by his emissary, Howard W. Hunter to be still and know that he is GOD.   You have heard him already, I just here to remind you to be kind even when the tempest is raging.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

(Old Testament | Psalms 46:10)

Peace, be still.

(New Testament | Mark 4:39)

Therefore, let your hearts be comforted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine hands; be still and know that I am God.

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 101:16)

 “Master, the Tempest Is Raging”

 

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APOSTLE 
Howard W. Hunter

http://www.lds.org/general-conference/1984/10/master-the-tempest-is-raging

I pray the The LORD will give us power to overcome all obstacles now and forever. And if we lay upon his holy arm or his priesthood despite the fiery darts of the adversary, nor the Satan or his unclean spirit will have power over us. I am but an obscure and unlearned elder of this church still in good standing. I also need your prayers that my faith an utterance fails me not, for I sometimes feel that I perish.  And this are my words which I live with you humbly, as I pioneer to put the flag of the LORD the camps of the adversary. And these things I say humbly as one having authority in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Yours truly from an unworthy servant in the hands of Christ

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez

 

http://www.lds.org/ensign/2013/03/peace-be-still

BY PRESIDENT THOMAS S MONSON

PROPHET SEER AND REVELATOR