LDS Last Days Prophecy and Gospel Discussions

Ninety Five Thesis Topics 16 to 20 Pages 31 to 38   Topic 16. FALL OF U.S. GOVERNMENT   Topic 17a. GATHERING OF ISRAEL   Topic 17b. THE KEYS OF GATHERING   Topic 17c. GATHERING TO THE MOUNTAINS   Topic 18. THE WEALTH OF GENTILES   Topic 19. THE WEALTH OF ZION   Topic 20. HOLY SCRIPTURES      

95 Thesis topics 11 to 15 Pages 23 to 30 11. PERSECUTION 12. Friendship with The World 13A. MORMON INDEPENDENCE, 13B. INDEBTEDNESS TO THE GENTILES, 13C. CORPORATION SOLE 14“ALL IS WELL” 15. DESTRUCTIONS IN THE WORLD  

Ninety Five Thesis Topics 6-10 6. PERSONAL TESTIMONY the time is coming when we will be mixed up in these now peaceful valleys to the extent that it will be difficult to tell the face of a saint from the face of an enemy against the people of God. “Then is the time to look out for the great sieve, for there will be a great sifting time, and many will fall. “For I say unto you there is a test, a Te...

95 Theses   by Ogden Kraut If any man writes to you, or preaches to you, doctrines contrary to the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, set him down as an imposter. –Joseph Smith Times & Seasons April 1, 1844   When we have God’s word pure and clear, then we think ourselves all right, we become negligent, and repose in a vain security; we no longer pay due heed, th...

CONCLUSION, Chapter 14 of The Priesthood and The Church    Pages 225 to 230   And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God. (Luke 9:62)   We have seen how mortal, immortal and resurrected beings can function with Priesthood outside of the organization of the Church. We have reviewed how Jesus established a church in Jerusalem wit...

LATTER-DAY EXCOMMUNICATIONS, Chapter 13 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 215 to 224   During the first three centuries following Christ’s death the Christians were nearly exterminated. Between the reign of Nero and Diocletian there were approximately ten major waves of persecution, the last ending shortly after 306 A.D. So successful had been the destruction of the Christians that Dioclet...

THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS BELIEVERS, Part 2 of Chapter 12 of The Church and The Priesthood    To summarize this chapter:   1. The Mosaic church operated under the authority of the Levitical Priesthood, and Christ held the office of Rabbi in that church. However, Joseph Smith said, “All the prophets had the Melchizedek Priesthood and were ordained by God himself.” (TPJS, p. 181) J...

THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS BELIEVERS, Part 1 of Chapter 12 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 196 to 214   When Jacob gathered his 12 sons together to give them their patriarchal blessings, he prophesied what would happen to their descendants down to the last days. In the blessing for Judah and his tribe, he declared, “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver...

EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE DISCIPLES, Chapter 11 of  The Church and The Priesthood   Pages 192 to 195   Jesus predicted that His disciples would be separated from “their company” and their names would be “cast out . . . as evil.” (Luke 6:22) He warned them of what they should expect from the Pharisees–and that they would eventually be excommunicated:   These things have I spoken unto you, that ye shou...

CHRIST’S CONTROVERSIAL DOCTRINES, Chapter 10 of The Church and The Priesthood   Pages 188 to 191   The early Christian Church had many of the same similarities as the Church of Jesus Christ in these latter days:   The PriesthoodA church organizationLaws, ordinances and principlesGood and bad membersBaptism into and excommunication out of the church   The doctrines taught by Christ were often contr...

  EXCOMMUNICATION–JUST AND UNJUST, Part 2 of Chapter 9 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 183 to 187    Where much is given, much is required, and in those early days of the Church, God gave great manifestations and revelations and thus expected a great deal from the members in return. In 1864 George A. Smith gave an illustration of this principle:   It was at the same Council [June 1833] t...

EXCOMMUNICATION–JUST AND UNJUST, Part 1 of Chapter 9 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 178 to 183   In simple terms, communication includes a connecting, sympathetic relationship, while excommunication involves a disconnection or exclusion. In a Latter-day Saint context, some have thought that excommunication results in some terrible curse or judgment that befalls those cut off from the Ch...

TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 6 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood  Pages 160 to 177 The Kingdom of God Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6:33)   If we are to seek for this Kingdom first above all else, we certainly need to know what it is. The Kingdom of God has been defined as many t...

 Part 5.   TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 5 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 153 to 160         Deceptions and Delusions   As Jesus reached the end of His ministry, He took His disciples up on the mountain to foretell the dangers that would come to the Saints in the last days. When asked what would be the sign of His second coming, He answered:   Take heed that no...

TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 4 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 139 to 153   Celestial Plural Marriage   Early in the Bible it was recorded that some men had more than one wife, but it was first demonstrated in the life of Abraham. The scriptures have clearly pointed to Abraham as the “friend of God” and the “father of the faithful;” in other words, he was held...

TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 3 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood  Pages 128 to 139 Rebaptism Nearly all Mormons are aware of the doctrine and necessity of baptism. Jesus said, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5) However, few Church members today realize that rebaptism was an important doctrine taught and p...

TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 2 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood  Pages 119 to 128 Garment of the Priesthood Ancient Israel had “holy garments,” and Jesus and His Apostles also referred to them. It appears that the Gospel of the Priesthood should be accompanied by garments of the Priesthood. Although the Catholic Church has apostatized from many gospel principles, they st...

TWENTY PRIESTHOOD LAWS AND EVIDENCES, part 1 of Chapter 8 of The Church and The Priesthood  Pages 109 to 119 Ordinances instituted in the heavens before the foundation of the world, in the priesthood, for the salvation of men, are not to be altered or changed. All must be saved on the same principles. (Joseph Smith, TPJS, p. 308)   Why was it that the Lord did not restore the Gospel and Priesthood...

THE PRIESTHOOD LAW OF PLURAL MARRIAGE, Chapter 7 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 99 to 108   I am the Lord thy God, and will give unto thee the law of my Holy Priesthood, as was ordained by me and my Father before the world was. (D & C 132:28) [Then follows the law pertaining to plural marriage.]   Today there are approximately 30,000 Fundamentalist Mormons who believe in plural marr...

MAN-MADE MANIFESTOS, Part 2 of Chapter 6 of The Church and The Priesthood  Page 80 to 98 Was the Manifesto a Revelation?   There are certain criteria that can be used in determining whether or not something is a revelation from God. Probably the easiest one to recognize is when it contains the words, “Thus saith the Lord.”   In the Doctrine and Covenants there are 64 “thus saith the Lord” revelati...

MAN-MADE MANIFESTOS, Part 1 of Chapter 6 of The Church and The Priesthood  Page 66 to 79 In 1890 the LDS Church, its members and the Priesthood experienced perhaps their greatest trials and testing. But in this life good and evil are continually pitted against each other. The world appears to be a great theatrical stage where universal powers are reaching out for the souls of men. It is not just a...

 A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE SAINTS, Part 2 of Chapter 5 of The Church and The Gospel  Pages 58 to 65  President Taylor’s statement that “many of the Saints would apostatize because of this principle” came to pass just a year later. On June 30, 1887, a convention was held for the purpose of creating a constitution in the event Utah became a state. Although not the first effort in this direction, it wa...

A CRITICAL TIME FOR THE SAINTS, Part 1 of Chapter 5 of The Church and The Gospel    Pages 47 to 57   1886 to 1889   Leading up to 1886   Since the time of Joseph Smith’s first vision in 1820, the powers of the adversary have intensified against the restored Gospel. Ministers have spewed out their religious poison against it; members of the media have written lies in order to sell more publications...

DETECTING TRUE AND FALSE PROPHETS, Part 3 of Chapter 4 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 39 to 46   They support false doctrines and ordinances.   “There are different churches because there are different doctrines. No two churches espouse and expound the same plan of salvation. If all men believed the same doctrines, all would belong to the same church. The mere existence of a false churc...

  DETECTING TRUE AND FALSE PROPHETS, Part 2 of Chapter 4 of The Church and The Priesthood    Pages 34 to 39   They set up pseudo prophets.   Hugh Nibley: “The scriptural term “pseudo-prophet” designates one who is not a prophet, but who occupies the place that rightly belongs to a prophet, regardless of whether he has been put there by himself or by his followers. Fool’s gold, the glittering yello...