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© Anthony E. Larson, 2003
Modern Signs
Joseph’s most profound and enlightening sermon on the signs of the last days, given on the temple grounds at Nauvoo in April, 1843, demonstrates his views of the origin and nature of those signs, as well as our ability to recognize them for what they are.
“There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the seas heaving beyond their bounds; … ” (History of the Church, 5:337.)
Of particular interest is his addition of a truly remarkable sign to the customary list – one to which Latter-day Saints should give special heed. “… then will appear one grand sign of the coming of the Son of Man in heaven.” (Ibid.) This is clearly a reiteration of the Savior’s statement in Matthew 24 wherein he said, “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven …”
Until this last dispensation of the gospel, no other prophet or passage of scripture had added the superlative “grand sign.” Typically, all the signs are given equal weight or value; none is designated as special or more notable. Indeed, the only other mention is found in modern revelation wherein a slightly altered version of the term is used. Speaking of the last days, the Lord declared to Joseph in December 1842, “And immediately there shall appear a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.” (Doctrine & Covenants 88:93.)
Indeed, Joseph may have intended that this sermon, given a mere four months after the revelation recorded in Doctrine & Covenants, reaffirm and amplify on that revelation since Section 88 is remarkable for its catalog of latter-day signs.
On that occasion, Joseph continued his sermon by explaining what that marvelous sign might be. ”What will the world do? They will say it is a planet, a comet, &c. But the Son of Man will come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning cometh out of the east.” (Ibid.)
It is a stunning statement, when carefully considered. The greatest or grandest of signs will be a comet or planet. Assumably, this comet or planet will be doing something well out of the ordinary to attract special attention.
Note that the Prophet is not saying the world’s assessment is incorrect, as some have supposed. Rather, he is merely noting that the worldly or scientific terminology for this eye-catching sign would be “a planet, a comet, &c.”
In light of what modern science has discovered in recent years about rogue comets and asteroids, this observation by Joseph Smith is striking. Mention of this great or grand sign is unique to this dispensation and is therefore worthy of special attention by Mormons – especially in light of what occurred in the heavens a decade ago.
In July 1994, fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy repeatedly slammed into the planet Jupiter, as forecast by astronomers. At least one of those impact sites left a pockmark on Jupiter’s face that was larger than the Earth. Estimates were that the first fragment alone struck with the force of 200,000 megatons of explosive power! Nineteen more followed, leaving visible impact scars around Jupiter’s southern hemisphere.
This was an unprecedented, historic, celestial event. Nothing even remotely as spectacular has occurred in our solar system since Galileo invented the telescope.
From Joseph Smith’s time forward, scientists had utterly dismissed the possibility that comets or asteroids might menace the Earth. Even the prominent astronomer Carl Sagan denied the likelihood of cometary impact. As far as science was concerned, such nonsense was “impossible.”
Due to comet Shoemaker/Levy, the scientific community did a conceptual about-face that was as dramatic as it was sweeping. They had been treated to a celestial visual aid of cosmic proportions; the “impossible” had occurred before their very eyes. There was no denying catastrophic impacts any longer.
As a result, today the idea of an impact dramatically altering Earth’s ecosystem is well accepted. Cosmic collisions do occur, scientists acknowledge, as in the instance of the dinosaurs’ extinction. Moreover, if it can happen to Jupiter, it can happen to the Earth.
Almost overnight, scientists began speaking of the threat posed by Earth-crossing asteroids and comets. NASA proposed a program and sought funding to find and track any object that might collide with the Earth.
A cosmic collision could result in a range of consequences, much like those signs listed by Joseph, from something no greater than any local disaster – as in an earthquake, flood or famine – to a worldwide event with long-term implications. The models proposed by researchers differ only in scale.
Even a moderate size impactor could ultimately lead to the death of at least one-fourth of the world’s population. A near collision by a planet passing nearby us could be as devastating or worse, depending upon the proximity of the intruder.
The extent of the damage would be determined by the size, composition, incoming velocity, angle and location – ocean or land, populated or unpopulated – of the impactor. For example, if the Tunguska meteorite of 1902, which exploded in the upper atmosphere without every hitting the ground, were to fall on Moscow today, the death toll would be about 9 million dead!
Especially significant is the fact that the “grand sign,” – making an impact in the case of a comet, a very close pass or near miss in the case of a planet – would cause all the signs listed by Joseph Smith in his discourse. That is, the “grand sign” would be the direct cause of the other signs listed by the Prophet, as well as by the scriptures.
Everyone on the planet would be in peril.
The location of a strike would ultimately determine the nature of the aftermath; a close planetary pass would cause uniform but devastating destruction worldwide. If the impact were an ocean strike, it would generate a tsunami ranging in size from a few feet up to hundreds of feet in height, with the potential of destroying up to 100 million people worldwide. A close pass would raise prodigious ocean tides drawn up by the gravitational pull of the offending planet, with very nearly the same effect as an ocean impact. This would be “the seas heaving beyond their bounds” Joseph described.
If it were a landfall, the shock wave would cause global geological stress that would certainly generate massive “earthquakes in divers places,” as would a close pass by gravitational “tugging” at the landmasses.
The ejecta from the impact or from colossal volcanic eruptions in the event of a planetary near miss would take the form of gas, dust and stones, which would be blown high into the atmosphere. The debris would fall back to earth in showers of hot stones, like so many artillery shells. Widespread rains of these hot stones would almost immediately create hemisphere-wide fires and destruction.
The dust would be transported around the Earth by high-altitude winds, casting the world into near-total gloom – “the sun turned into darkness” – followed by freezing cold, leading to the suppression of photosynthesis for months, even years.
The gas released would eventually cause intense acid rain and destruction of the ozone layer, signs suggested elsewhere in scripture. Agriculture would collapse, resulting in famines, as suggested in prophecy, and the breakdown of global economic, social and political structures would result in “wars and rumors of wars,” among other things.
Latter-day Saints’ opinion on the subject of potential impacts, past and present, differs little from that of the general public. They see it as very unlikely. Yet, that probably should not be so, given the scriptural certainty of the last days and Joseph Smith’s enlightened statement regarding the last great sign being a comet or planet. He clearly held a view of history and prophecy that included disasters emanating from the heavens, which would have devastating effects here on Earth.
When we consider the magnitude and import of seeing a comet impact Jupiter in our own time as we approach the second coming, one wonders if this astronomical visual aid might not have been God’s way of making a point, just as he gave a celestial sign to the Nephites prior to the Savior’s first coming. Have we been forewarned, just as were our Nephite cousins? Could it have been meant to awaken us from our apathetic complacency about the times we live in and the planet we live on? Should not Latter-day Saints – the “children of the light” – be the first to recognize the true import of this “sign?”
Remember, Joseph Smith placed great store in the validity of latter-day signs, especially those that can be described as planets or comets.
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That’s how I always took it. As a sign. My understanding is that the message was: “Look to the heavens.” By this I mean that we LDS have become so focussed on the earthly signs that will occur in the last days, that we have become blind to the heavenly signs. We don’t “look up.” Everything is at eye level (concerned with our own little spheres of life) or looking down at the earth (at Earth changes.) We don’t star gaze in anticipation of what has been prophesied to occur in the heavens. As a result, we are going to be taken unawares, just like everyone else, when the Lord begins to preach his own sermon, despite our additional scriptures, light and knowledge.
When I read this post, it made me think of El Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma in the Canary Islands and the tsunami that it will cause to slam into the eastern seaboard of the United States if it falls into the sea (as claimed by geologists Day and McGuire.) It also made me think of the Ring of Fire volcanoes and Yellowstone. Surely celestial objects could set all of these volcanoes off, as there are plasma (electrical) phenomena associated with them all.
Anarchist,
The electrical connection is the key to understanding all the celestial manifestations of the past, as well as understanding the world we live in and how our own bodies function. Plasma is, of course, a manifestation of electrical activity or energy. Most people do not associate things such as earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes with electricity because mainstream science has been slow to acknowledge the role electricity plays. But (and this is the good news) they are slowly coming around.
As for being unaware, I marvel that one of the bedrock tenets of the Restoration – planetary history and its role in the past and the future – has been totally abandoned by church members. Any saint who reads modern revelation, such as the book of Abraham, without comprehending the role of other planets (sometimes called stars) have played and will play in Earth’s career has missed a major part of the restored gospel message. I’ve been trying to get that message across for two decades. But (and this is the bad news) they are ignorning the message.
Isn’t it ironic that science is slowly coming around while the Saints are backsliding?
I think that most LDS might not “look up” to the heavens.. but we do “look up” to the Prophet and Apostles.
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth• his secret• unto his servants the prophets•.
Yes.. he has spoken to Joseph Smith.. but really.. what can one do about it? Follow the 12? If you are going to die.. you are going to die.
I mean really.. you say they are ignoring the message. Even if you acknowledge the message.. what is the solution? I mean.. what are we suppose to do? Do we know what area on the planet is safe? If you find out the only safe place is Missouri.. then I suppose if one wants to live.. they would go there. Me.. I would prefer being dead than have to try to survive a catastrophic event like that.
Maybe you can give me a better understanding of how knowing this information is going to help me out.
Thanks.
I just recently read all of AEL blogs and found them enlightening. I appreciate all the time that you have spent bringing the information forward. The whole point in knowing and being aware is simple, to get you to repent before the Savior comes. If one wants to survive that catastrophic event, no matter where they live in the world, the Lord would give you miracle. The catch, is that you need to break the chains that bind you to this earth, sin. The signs in the heaves only help as a clock, letting us know that the time is ever approaching–so get on your knees and change who you are. Put off the old, and become new.
I agree. This seemed most certainly a celestial sign as a precurser to the Second Coming. It was a once in the History of the World event that all could see. I think too that the fact it struck Jupiter as oposed to any other Planet may have been significant. The Planet Jupiter in mythology represents the Chief God among the Gods as if to insinuate God our Father and His creation in the End of Times would come under a full frontal assault by the forces that come from the Darkness of space. Comets were also believed to be harbingers of disaster.
I would also suggest maybe we have been given two other signs of similar natue that may very well be a sign of approaching the End. I’ve only seen one other post on the net mention this but it seems valid to me.
Two man made signs occured within 3 days of one another that would seem to imply that the very secrets of God concerning the nature of the power he may use to create organized matter has been reverse engineered by man to use that same understanding to Destroy organized matter….Atomic and Nuclear reactions.
These were once in the History of the World events that were viewed by all the World also. They are also most closely representitive of the type of destruction that occurs at the Second Coming itself.
I would suggest that the dropping of the two bombs on Japan in 1945 would constitute a very significant sign of the type of destruction by fire that will attend the Lords return in full Glory.
Now it’s very interesting that TWO bombs were dropped within a close time of proximity. Aug. 6th & 9th . Both of those numbers are symbolic of judgement. As a matter of fact 6 represents judgement as in a precursurary judgement as opposed to the # 9 representing FINAL judgement.
Now who is to bring on this precursurary judgement? Is it not the Lords Davidic Servant, the One Mighty And Strong? And everyone knows who is to bring in the REAL BIG guns to SHORTLY follow.
If you really want to break this down as a plasable notion as two conjoint signs to represent the two comings of the One Mighty and Strong and Jesus Christ to soon follow, go to wikepedia and look up the two bombs and how they are constructed and thier relitive power to each other and the sequence in which they were droped.
Coinsidence ?
Oh, I forgot…Juddgement from God is always depicted in the Scriptures as coming from an EASTWARD dirrection (the presence of God).ie. the EAST WINDS
of the Desert.
In Global Geographics where is Japan situated ?
I’ve wanted to present what I have to tell you all about a Grand sing and Wonder the Lord placed right before our eyes from the begining of time onto this day.
It’s explanation is rather difficult without accompanying visual aids but I will give this my best shot as I suppose this will be the only way to show you something of the obvious yet subtle nature by which messages and truths are communicated from Heaven to not only to recieve it as Grand evidence of the existence of God but also to allow us to look upon it each day as you would a cosmic clock suspended in the Heavens obove us as a sign that can not be avoided yet it can certainly go unoticed.
Next to the Grand Sign of the return of Christ, this particular sign and wonder is most Grand beyond all other signs and contains the elements of Gospel knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and it’s timeing, that has revealed to us all that we have entered the last small window of THE END OF TIME that contains all the 3rd Watch elements to preceed the coming of our Savior.
I have to preface the explanation of the details of the wonder by giving an overview of what it is and it’s intended purpose.
We have all heard that the Scriptures are compared to a map of life that leads us to the Lord and His Father. While this analogy is fairly accurate it is only half complete.
To understand what I am saying by that you need to know the components that actually constitute a real Map.
Being a retired Marine I am very aware of the value of Maps not just for the purpose of orrienting yourself to your surroundings but just as importantly it’s use as a tool for providing vital information to accomplish a given Mission.
The basic tool of a map (before GPS came along), gives one the ability to know where you are heading in reference to your point of origin and then returning you back full circle.
The Scriptures do provide us with a verbal explanation as to how that is to be done, but that verbal explanation only provides half of what constitutes the two major elements of a Map.
The verbal explanitives on a Map is information contained in the Legend that list a host of information crucial to finding your objective. But to include ONLY written information on a Map to the exclusion of displaying the Physical picture that a useful Map provides , is like trying to rely on your imagination to construct a visual path that leads along the correct path.
For us humans the could be rather tricky especially for those who lack imagination.
As we draw to the close of time and stare accross the threshold into Eternity that is approaching us , Glimpses of it’s impending reality are going to naturally manefest themselves.
The Map that Heavenly Father has presented to us from the very beging of time has been enhanced from time to time with additional verbal explinations of His Eternal goals and objectives for this particular creation.
Yet the Pysical display of that Map that testifies of the purpose of this creation has been displayed in it’s proper place and has also been added to from time to time in order that we might understand the full simple scope of the plan of Salvation as it pertains to our Heavenly Home (our point of origin), as well as our current residence (our Earthly Home), And the objective to returning (Full Circle) to our Heavenly Home.
Afterall I find it a little hard that a Loving Father would send us on a journey withou a proper FULL MAP to allow us to accomplish our intended objective, then to return Home.
Normally I would say something stupid like this isn’t Rocket Science but in this case it really is.
It’s ironic that I’ve grown up in the Space Capitol of the World and am the first that I know of, to make this particular observation concerning this particular cosmic sign as being the “other Grand sign” of the coming of the sign of the Son of Man.
Only this one has been staring you and everyone square in the since the time of each of our Births.
Isort of equate no one seeing it to Deer hunting. There are signs of your presence all around him but if he fails to simply LOOK UP and see you sitting in that tree then he’s out of luck. And you know what ? If you remain silent, he will never LOOK UP. He is always only focused on the obvious things that lay dirrectly in his line of vision at GROUND LEVEL.
Heavenly Fathers Children tend to do that same silly thing…and fail to simply LOOK UP and realize the SILENT PRESENCE of God RIGHT ABOVE OUR HEADS and tend to focus on the distractions of the noisy World BELOW.
I don’t know if there is a word limit to these comments so I am going to end this one here and begin a new one, but before I do , I want you to cosider something as you read the following comments…Grand signs, not just partial elements of a larger picture, are first revieled to those who recognize them. That may sound a little self evident , but it’s the REASON that they are the first to notice it, that makes that statement significant….
Sorry …I’ll try to proof read this one better before I submitt my comment. This is also another reason why I find it so hard to convey these things via wirting these comments as opposed to just saying them. I can’t write the way you guys do.
Alright …Get your Pearl of Great Price and a visual display of our Solar system. The best ones are found in the Big National Geographic Atlas of the World. You will also need some paper and a pencil to draw with and label things as I explain this .
Near the end of the pictures in the book, you should find a few pictures of the Planets and our Solar System.
We are going to begin with our Map from God by first defining our Place of origin as it pertains to what we know of the Plan of Salvation as described in the Book of Abraham and more precisely the information contained in Facsimile # 2.
We are going to use the info contained in figures 1,2 & 4 to create a word picture of our Heavenly Home before coming here.
Go to Fig. 1 and read it.
Kolob as we know, is a star at he center of our Galaxy that represents Christ who is the First Creation of the Father(God) and is situated nearest to the Celestial residence of God, (the Celestial Kingdom).
Now we have enough info here to begin developing a word picture.
Draw a cicle in the center of your paper. This is to be the Star that is the residence of our Father ( our Heavenly Home). This is a symbol of what he is all about…Family…which also happens to be our real Home. and not just some uninhabited symbol of a higher reality. IT IS REALITY!
All other creations within the boundaries of our Galaxy, are partial representations of that collective WHOLE REALITY.
Now, since Kolob is a star SYMBOL representing the first Creation of God, Place another circle next to the circle representing God and the Celestial Kingdom. Place it an inch or two away from your first circle. Label this circle as Jesus Christ/Kolob.
Now to this point, we have identified in symbols, the reality of God and his Son and ALL uf us who once or now live in the Celestial Kingdom and are awaiting thier turn to come here. In the begining, Satan and his followers also once resided there. Keep this thought in mind as we proceed to further explinations of this plan and how it is depicted through symbos that we see above our heads in our Solar system.
The next thing to look for would be to identify the third Covenant member of the Grand Plan, who in Fellowship with His Father and Brother, Preside over the Plan and supervise it’s implementation.
We know the third man to be the Holy Spirit. Lets see if we can find him on this Facsimile picture…
Go to the explination for Fig # 2 and read it.
This next star (creation) being described here as Oliblish (the NEXT GRAND governing creation near the Celestial or the place where God resides), Is someone like the creations already described, who ALSO holds the KEY of power.
This is an obvious reference to the Holy Spirit.
So now we know there is another star out there somewhere (oliblish), that symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
Now we have to determine it’s location in reference to the other two stars representing our Father and Jesus.
Go to fig. 4 and read it.
The explanation provides the info we need to orient this star (oliblish) with the other two stars.
Note that Oliblish is equal with Kolob in it’s REVOLUTION and MEASURING of time in reference to the central star they both revolve around the central Star representing our Father and our Heavenly Home and positioned in an equal orbital path above the central satar.
This is what is known in Astronomy as a TRINARY star system where two stars orbit a central star as a moons would a planet…The difference being is that they both orbit at the same Height from the central star and are EQUAL in thier REVOLUTION and reckoning of time in relation to the PARENT STAR. They are the CHILDREN of that PARENT STAR.
Now draw a circle to the other side of the circle representing the God of the Celestial Kingdom and opposite the position of Kolob. Label it Oliblish-the symbol for the Holy Spirit.
Can you now begin to see the FULLER symbolisim of this info contained in this symbolic picture ? The symbolisim in these and all these figures contained in this Facsimile runs eternally deep .
This symbolism, when combined with all the other figures of this Facsimile , reveal the entire scope and depth of the Plan of Salvation, but for this purpose of giving you a surface rendering of it’s over all scope, I’m going to limit my explanation of these things to a level that won’t loose us in the DETAILS.
I can see by the things you guys write about, that you are FULL of very wonderful DETAILS but lack something of being able to stand back at a distance and view your results in a way that the ENTIRE SCOPE of the PUZZLE becomes APPARENT and jumps out at you like and object you seek to find in a Hologram.
What I have just shown you, is the first of FOUR MAJOR pieces of the Puzzle or MAP that God has given us to reveal a very SIMPLE, yet unobserved sign from God that we have already crossed into the treshold of Eternity that will manefest itself in it’s FULLNESS upon the return of our Savior to ALL the World and not just us before that happens.
Some of us will be Blessed to observe REALITY AND ETERNIY before the World dose and it will be a pleasant experience for those prepared to recieve it.
To this point in the explination of this Grand sign, I have only uncovered the POINT OF ORIGIN to our Celestial Map. And I would add that the things I will tell you, only APPEAR as a Puzzle until you realize that what we thought was a PUZZLE was really a VERY SIMPLE MAP that was made complicated by our over indulgence in the Deatials of the Plan.
The next MAJOR portion of the Map entails doing what the Plan of Salvation next required of man as he ventured from Home to find himself less Exaulted in a Terestrial World seperated in distance (physically & Spiritually)from our Celestial beginings.
I am burnt out for one day in explaining this. I’ll pick up on this sometime tomarrow.
Reflect upon this idea as you ponder what I have thus said. Then continue this idea with the rest of what I’ll have to say.
The Solar System we now reside in is but a relected image of our Heavenly Home. It contains not only the same symbolism in it’s construction, it also serves as the Cosmic Time Piece of God as pertaining to this particular Creation of God (US) and gives a precise reckoning of time as it relates to this Creation and Certain Milestone Events to occure throughout time that serve as WAY MARKS to keep us on course and to testify to us that none of what happens here is per chance. It is by the MOST PRECISE
design of God that these things exist.
Once I have given you an overall review of this Grand Sign by not delving too deeply in the hidden symbolism that runs Eternally Deep, I will share with you a “LIKE” observation of how this Grand Sign is related to what is necessary to be able to INTERPRET the FULL MEANING of the Scriptures from BEGINING to END …To help you step back just a bit from the Spiritually paralyzing stare of focusing too deeply on the DETAILS and not recognizing that the PUZZLE you wrestle with, is actually a VERY SIMPLE MAP that UNLOCKS THE SECRET TO THE HOLOGRAM of uderstanding what it is yiou are really looking at.
Have you ever looked through a High powered adjustable rifle scope ? What you are doing…. is adjusting the power setting to it’s highest degree of focus to give you a clear image at the maximum capable distance by which that scope can funtion.
When running that power adjustment to it’s highest power setting you can view the far distance but yet you completely cause the image of your front sight located just a few inches in front of the scope, to disappear.
The current position of time in relation to eternity has entered that threshold of time that begins to merge with eternity and time will soon take on those attributes of timeless reckoning.
We are so close to our objective in our scope, that in order to make the front sight(what lies dirrectly ahead of us), come into focus, you must drop the power setting on your Spiritual focus in order to recognize the BIGGER SIGN AND PICTURE of REALITY that is starring us right down the barrel of our line of sight.
It’s a very unatural thing to want to do for someone who realizes that the time is close and is excitedly spazing out over all you can uncover as fast as you can.
I know the feeling, yet I have also learned that to get a handle on the Big Picture as it unfolds in real time right before our eyes , you must be willing to do something that won’t come very natural and that is…. to take a slow deep breath and step back and give this WHOLE THING …ONE MORE LOOK and dicover that what you were looking for wasn’t any farther away than simply looking up to the sky above your head and BEHOLDING the WONDERS above us.
See you tomarrow…
I took a break and now I’m back because I have nothing else to do right now.
Anyway, the path of understanding that I am taking you on in dipicting our jouney from and back to home, is also depicted in the Vision of Jacob’s Ladder…
The Ladder itself and the THREE RUNGS of steps that the Angels are descending and assending on, represent the THREE PRINCIPLE DEGREES of Eternal Progression as defind by Joseph Smith.
There is much more to this than what I just described but this is all I need to compare the movement between those three degrees of progression with our Star Map.
Our point of origin at the top of the Ladder is our Celestial Home and for us to progress and become FULLY like God, we must first Descend through and to lower levels.
Once we descend as far as we were intended to, our objective is to then return to the top.
The reality of our Heavenly neiborhood that we left to come DOWN here is the First of four major images to our Map.
The next will be to descend to the second rung of the ladder of progression, The Terestrial Home of our First Parents here upon the Earth.
Now this condition was to only initially be experienced by our Parents, Adam & Eve. But there would come a point in time when we as thier Children of the End Times, would experience what our Parents did in terms of being RAISED, insted of being LOWERD, to a Terrestrial State of being. What goes around, comes around, and a particular Generation of thier desendents will manafest the First nature of our First Parents.
The likeness of this reality is again portrayed in Jacobs Vision of DESCENDING and then ASCENDING through the degrees of Glory or Progression.
Now draw a picture of another circle to represent the Terrestrial Home of our First Parents before the Fall to a Telestial World.
Place that circle, by itself, on a seperate sheet of paper to depict it’s physical and Spiritual seperation from our Heavenly Home.
Our World before the Fall was located proportionately somewhere between our Father at the Galactic Center and where the Earth now resides after the Fall, aproximately 3/5 the distance to Edge of the Milky Way.
So we have our First Parents taking the First step for us by coming one step down from Heaven and entering the Garden of Eden in a World prepared ahead of time for which they could live.
Then the fall eventually occures and they descend one more notch in this plan of progression and find that the World has Physically & Spritually moved even farther from God and has come to rest in our present location in a Solar system that provides us with the KNOWLEDGE of our beginings so that we can focus upon returning along the path from whence we came.
Can you now see a little of where this is going ?
Now I need to back track a bit to the time of the Fall. We know that Satan was cast from our Celestial Home and parked himself amid our First Parents and contributed his two cents to the Fall.
The point I want to make is that he is still here, and as I will latter explain, a portion of our Solar System symbolicly reveals that.
Anyway…As I mentiontioned before…The Visual Map that Heavenly Father provides for us to know the existence of his reality and the reality of his TWO SONS and the part they play in the Plan of Salvation, SHOULD be found among the Visual references he has placed above us where we NOW stand.
Afterall, we SHOULD be looking up to the Heavens for the answers we need, RIGHT ?
So lets take a look at our Solar System reference he has given us as a guide to Where we came from, What the heck we are doing here, and Where we hope to go or return to.
Recall the Celestial Kingdom of God as found in Abraham to be the Central Star by which all things revolved around ?
I’m now going to show you that this third majjor portion of our map is contained in the symbology of the CURRENTLY KNOWN Planets of our Solar System.
I say CURRENTLT KNOWN PLANETS because Joseph Smith predicted that there would be addition Plantets that would be discovered in our Solar System befor the Second Coming that would total 12 Planets.
I will explain this later when I explain the 4th and final portion of the Map. But for now, just make a mental note of this.
Now is when you need to look in your Altlas of the picture of the Solar System.
The picture you need to be looking at is the one where you are viewing the System from above.
You will note that there is a concentric formation of an INNER and an OUTER Group of Planets.
The INNER Group of Planets consist of those that lie between the Sun and the Asteroid Belt….Mercury through Mars.
I want you to see this as the SECOND HAND of TIME on the Lords CLOCK that depicts TIME as we now percieve it…TELESTIAL TIME.
The outer Group of Planets beyond the Asteroid Belt, from Jupiter through Mars, will Depict the MINUTE HAND of TIME on the Lords CLOCK, and represents the Millenial Riegn of Christ in TERRSTRIAL TIME.
The hour hand of ETERNITY will be explained later when I Explain those additional yet undiscovered Planets that Joseph mentioned.
For now lets back up to the Sun and the INNER Group of Planets that tell a story of OUR CURRENT TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES.
They should be somewhat similar to our Celestial past but with the added twist of the experiences and circumstances of this Telestial environement, thrown in too boot.
Lets follow the PATTERN and ORDER of what we already know about the Plan of Salvation and it’s cast of Players as described in the Book of Abraham and see if God has indeed revealed thier reality in Planetary symbols RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES.
First we had a central star representing our Father in Heaven and all things revolved about it . The TWO stars representing Christ and his Brother the Holy Spirit, were stars unto themselves and though they were drawn in equal orbit about our Father, they produced light of thier own.
This testifies to our understanding that they were preexistent Gods with Light and Power of thier own yet were conjoined to our Father in a TRINARY Covenant to help our Father bring about the Redemption and Salvation of his beloved children…us
So now lets look at how this Plan reveals itself one Planet at a time, begining with the Sun as a Symbol of our Father who stands at the center of our current neiboorhood of Planets and provides the Life giving Light necessary for life to exist.
He loombs Large and Bright and all things are dependent on his source of Heat and Light (Priesthood & Knowledge).
The Sun (Father) , stands at the head of the Planets (depicting His TWO primary Advocates and one other Primary DEVIL”S Advocate who speaks for himself). Then there are TWO Planets (Earth And Neptune that represent all of us, Gods Children).
Next we come to the “NEXT” governing creation to stand next to the SUN (SYMBOL for the Father),…Mercury otherwise known in Mythology as the Winged Messenger of God and his Covenant with human kind.
Is this starting to ring any bells?
Mercury, LIKE Kolob, is a symbol for Christ.
Now this is where an infinate number of DETAILS concerning Planetary construction, thier movements and individual statistics, are unbelievably Astronomical in thier abundance to provide us with symbolic facts to substantiate thier being Symbols for the identities assigned to them.
I’m only going to give a surface rendering interpretation of these Planets as symbols for the God Head and all of us, including Satan and his Minions and a whole lot more.
This is what makes this such a pain in my South side to describe in a comment section of these posts.
To do it justice would require a volume of Books to show the intricate , precise & eternal depth of the nature of God and WHY he creates these things.
I wish so much that I could share my thoughts and knowledge with you guys in person. I could do a much better job of this.
But this I do want you to know as I reveal these things in thier entireity…I think you will come to know that there is only one way I could have come to an understanding of the things I know.
My understanding of the stars and the understanding I have to interpret the FULL understanding of Scripture and the Plan of Salvation, did not soley, nor primarily come, by spending years with my nose in Books.
I have a practical frame of LIFES reference, from which all of what I know, is based in and on.
I know that God and His Son …MY FATHER AND BROTHER, DO LIVE, and are close enough to us now that you can smell the Coffee (I mean Tang) in the kithchen.
This is a TIME like no other in the History of Mankind, with the Exception of our Brothers Atonement.
And there are many aspects to our time that far exeed those times.
You guys will marvel at what is soon to be wrought upon the Earth and in the minds and Hearts of the Elect of God.
I HAVE SEEN ZION in Vision and it is BEYOND EVERYTING you are capable of imagining without the HELP OF GOD !
And BEYOND EVEN THAT…I HAVE STOOD IN THE PRESENCE OF OUR FATHER AND BROTHER and the LOVE they share for us, will penetrates your soul to the MARROW of your Bones. I knew what that phrase meant long before I ever knew it was something depicted in the Endowment.
It’s been, what has seemed a life time for me…35 years since the TIME we met and had a few DISCUSSIONS and VISONS of the FUTURE and THIER PLANS for it.
The Time for those Visions to meet with reality are near enough for me to reveal these things to those who have enestly, and with LOVING DEVOTION, sought the Face of God.
Well, soon you will be able to do just that, and not only meet one , but TWO.
The First will be to PREPARE the WAY for the Second to arrive. And the Second will arrive for those like yourselves, just a little sooner than He will for the rest.
Happy and very exciting, yet AWSOMELY TRYING times, lie just ahead for ALL of us.
You will be TESTED beyond what you know or think.
It has been a HUGE TEST for me to just prepare for what lies just ahead in The Church and around the World.
There is not really the time for me to explain all that I know before they begin to occure, but I want you to know that I LOVE you guys and that all this Babel that I have spouted on your Site is NOT BABEL at all and I will see you in the months ahead of us and will come to you and say…”Alright…Where’s “THE WATCHER” and his Friends ? I want to meet ttose guys and thier Families !”
And when I do see you I’m going to ask you…
“Do you guys remenber that NUT who used to talk TRASH on our Web site ?”
I’ll pick up with the Planets tomarrow…
Splitting up the map back to Heavenly Father into the verbal portion (the scriptures) and the visual portion (the planets) sounds to me like The Split-Brain Model of the Gospel.
I made an error above in the part describing the outer loop of planets representing Terresrtial Time as being the Planets from Jupiter to Mars. It should read from Jupiter to Pluto.
Before going through each Planet as representing each member of Deity or us or Satan & his followers, some General observations of the Solar System are needed.
As you can now see by the layout of the Planets in our Solar System, they are situated in a linear fashion as opposed to the circular fashion of the Three Stars depicted in Abraham representing our actual Heavenly Home which resides in Eternity.
Even though the Planets of our Solar System do revolve around the Sun (symbol for the Father which stands at the center), the individual Planets can align themselves on a Linear Path, none of which occupy the same obital path about the Sun as do the Two Stars described in Abraham representing Christ & the Holy Spirit occupying the SAME orbital position about the Central Star representing our Father & our Celestial Home.
This Linear positoning of the Planets symbolizes the Linear Nature of Time, whether it be Telestial Time or Terrestrial Time. You have a starting and ending point ie. Some form of Birth to Death and rebirth as opposed to never ending Eternity.
This is to signify that ALL of what we are to experience in terms of Telestial or Terrestrial Time, is subject to change ( or Death) in order to proceed to the next Higher level, until we return to the Celestial Realm of Eternity where REALITY IN IT’S FULLNESS is manefested and ALL THINGS appear before us in ONE ETERNAL ROUND.
For those who only reach the lower two levels, their Bodies are limited though everlasting, as described by Brigham Young and there is a CAP to their exposure to the Ultimate Reality of the Celestial Kingdom. Ie. In the Trrestrial Reality, they only experience the presence of Christ and the Spirit and not our Father and Mother. (only the Brothers… ie. refer to Zechariah chapter 6 where PEACE SHALL BE BETWEEN THIM BOTH during the Mellinium.)
The Reality of the Telestial Kingdom will manefest itself in the even more limited exposure of the Ultimate Reality of the Celestial Realm by only having the presence of the Spirit and not the presence of the Christ.
The nature of these three levels of progression are depicted once again in the first inner loop of Planets representing Telestial Time and circumstances, the Outer Loop of known Planets representing Terrestrial Time and it’s conditions & circumstances, and finally the Last grouping of the three yet to be discovered Planets within our Solar System that Joseph Smith said WOULD be discovered before the second Coming of Christ.
This final grouping will represent the final Celestial Order of Symbols that bring us FULL Circle on the SOLAR MAP that our Father has provided us to Testify that… AS ABOVE (in our True Celestial Home as depicted in Abraham), SO BELOW ( as depicted in our present Planetary Structure and Layout of our Solar System).
The next General observation to make would be to Compare their Realitive Size and Glory of the iner (Telestial group of Planets Mercury to Mars), with the Realitive Size & Glory of the outer known group of Planets from Jupiter to Pluto, representing the Terrestrial Order of Time and Kingdom.
The inner Planets are Small, Solid, Rocky, and Dense in their Nature & Composition as Compared to the Realitive Large, and Gaseous more Glorious Nature (LIGHTER) in Compostion, outer Group of Planets.
This variation in Relative Size & Compostion and Glory between the inner & outer Groups of Planets depicts the Realative difference in the Comparative Nature & Glory of the Telestial & Terrestrial Kingdoms.
Note also that there is a large GAP between the Asteroid Belt, which is associated with the inner Group of Planets, and the Planets of the outer Group representing the Terrestrial Kingdom.
This depicts the the GREAT SEPERATION between the two Kingdoms in regard to their being so FAR APART as would be, by comparing the Glory of the Stars ( Telestial Glory ), with the Glory of the Moon ( Terrestrial Glory ), in their relative Size and Glorious Nature.
Also Note, that when veiwing the Solar System from above the Solar Plane, the direction of the Planets around the Sun ( Father) are in a COUNTER CLOCKWISE motion or ( left ) . In many cultures the counterclockwise motion of any object around a central core is symbolic of of that object eventually experiencing DEATH.
Are not the elements and components and people of the two lowest orders to experience some form of Death wheter it be Natural Death as in the nature of experiencing Death here on Earth, or that of experiencing the Higher Death process of the Terrestrial Order where Death is experienced painlessly in “The Twinkling of an Eye”?
So there fore the counterclock wise motion of the Planets of those two orders rotate counter clockwise to their relative Position of their core ( Eternity or the Father, represented by the Sun, about which, ALL THINGS revolve.)
You can also equate the LEFT HAND motion of these Planets to the Idea of moving BACKWARDS toward Death by moving to the left on a Linear Line representing Time.
There are more General observations of the overall structure and Layout of the Solar System that enhance the understanding, that their fromation is NOT just some random happenstance, but rather a Very Precise Pattern of Revelation from God that portrays the Gospel Plan of a Very Organized & Precise Architect of the Galaxy that places Precise Patterns of that reality all throughout the Universe.
But for simplicities sake I will limit the number of observations so that the overall size of the Forest dose not become obscured by looking at too many trees.
Now back to the individual Planets as symbols for Individuals of that Plan of Salvation as depicted in our Pattern of Planets given to us as a Guide & reference to our Eternal Home.
I have to get some things done for a friend right no wand I don’t know how to save this info so I will go ahead and post what I have done and pick up when I get back.