Unveiling Jesus Christ

This podcast explains the images and symbolism found in Revelation 12:1. This verse identifies the great sign of a woman in heaven who represents the premortal church of God. This great sign has its likenesses on earth, including the church organized by Christ in the meridian of time. God the father organized this church at the time of the grand council in heaven on Kolob when Jesus Christ was cho...

This podcast describes the physical creation carried out by Jesus Christ on this world and many other worlds in this universe, including telestial worlds and terrestrial worlds, based on the Order of Creation. The likely sequence of creation is set forth for countless worlds, plants, animals, and the first Adam and the first Eve on the many celestial worlds created by Jesus Christ (Jehovah). The t...

To better understand the spiritual fall of Lucifer when he rebelled during the grand council in heaven on Kolob, this podcast compares Lucifer's fall with the fall of Adam in the garden of Eden. The fall of Lucifer foreshadows the fall of Adam. Before the fall of Lucifer, the premortal first estate was a sinless environment where God's innocent spirit children dwelt in his presence. There was agen...

This podcast describes the grand council in heaven that was convened on the premortal spirit world called Kolob. The Prophet Joseph Smith authored a poem in 1843 describing Kolob as the place where this grand council was held. God the Father presided over the council and it was here that he implemented the plan of salvation, which is also the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the same plan that was...

This podcast discusses the premortal first estate from the time of the spirit creation to the time of the grand council in heaven on Kolob. The first estate lasted for eons of time from the spirit creation until our birth in mortality. Before the grand council our time in the first estate was spent on the glorified and resurrected celestial world of our Father in heaven where we were born as his s...

Kolob was the first premortal spirit world created by God the father in this generation. During the physical creation, Kolob became the inward spirit world of this earth. This podcast explains and gives various reasons why Kolob is the spirit world within this earth. This view is not a universally recognized doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The scriptural details concer...

This podcast explains the meaning and background of Kolob, which is identified in Abraham 3 and Facsimile 2 in The Pearl of Great Price. Kolob was the first spirit world created by God the father during the spirit creation. It possessed more intelligence (light or truth) than all other spirit worlds created by God. After God created Kolob as the first spirit world in this generation, it became the...

This podcast explains the order of creation involving countless worlds of spirit by God the Father. These worlds of spirit were created in descending order of intelligence. Intelligence is an uncreated and eternal spirit element with the attributes of light or truth. Intelligence before the spirit creation and they could act independent in their sphere. They also possessed a measure of agency, whi...

This podcast explains the Order of Creation, which is a shorthand way to describe all the laws, processes, functions, and sequence of creation in all three stages of creation among all four classes of creation. The three stages of creation are the premortal spirit creation, the physical creation, and the resurrection. The four classes of creation are the kingdoms of mankind, animals, plants and mi...

This podcast explains the perfect pattern and process of creation that is multi-generational throughout the eternities. In any single generation of creations by the same creator, there are both beginnings and endings in the creative process. However, multigenerational creations collectively have no beginning and have no end. Creation begins in each generation with a spirit creation. In this genera...

This podcast provides an overview and explanation of Revelation chapter 12. In this chapter, John begins a flashback to the premortal existence, which typifies and foreshadows the conflict between the kingdom of Satan (the dragon) and the kingdom of God that began before the physical creation of this earth. Christ's victory over Satan during the premortal war in heaven typifies and foreshadows Chr...

This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by John in Revelation 11:19 to introduce the seven vial plagues of the third woe. In this verse, John sees the temple of God opened in heaven, which is the heavenly counterpart of the earthly temple in Jerusalem. The heavenly temple is God's residence and his celestial kingdom. When the veil of heaven is drawn back so that John could see into th...

This podcast explains the imagery and symbolism used by John as an introduction to the third woe in Revelation 11:18. Wicked nations of the world are angry in this verse because the Lord's wrath is come in the form of the most severe plagues in the history of the world. John refers to this as the time of the dead, meaning that many wicked people will be destroyed in the judgments of God. At the sa...

This podcast explains the meaning and content of Revelation 11:16-17, which is part of John's introduction to the Third Woe. In these verses, 24 elders representing exaltation-worthy saints, who are translated, transfigured or resurrected saints as of the end of the Second Woe. They fall on their faces or prostrate themselves to worship Jesus Christ as a victorious conqueror at the Second Coming....

This podcast provides an overview of John's introduction to the Third Woe found in Revelation 11:15-19. These verses come after an angel announces in Revelation 11:14 that the Second Woe is past and the Third Woe comes quickly with the sounding of the seventh trumpet angel. Instead of describing the final plagues of the Third Woe, John's introduction focuses on the establishment of Christ's earthl...

This podcast explains the symbolism associated with the great earthquake that will literally occur in Jerusalem when the Two Witnesses are resurrected as predicted by John in Revelation 11:13. This earthquake is one of three earthquakes that John describes in the book of Revelation. The first earthquake will occur at the end of the sixth seal as recorded in Revelation 6:12-14. The greatest earthqu...

This podcast talks about the sign of Jonah (Greek. Jonas). Jesus Christ, mentioned the sign of Jonah when he was asked by the Pharisees and the Sadducees for a sign. He said that a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign and none would be given except the sign of Jonas (Matt 12:40). The sign of Jonas was that as Jonah was literally in the belly of a great fish for three days and three...

This podcast explains the context and meaning of John's vision in Revelation 11:8-10, where he saw the dead bodies of the Two Witnesses lie in the streets of Jerusalem unburied for 3 ½ days. In these verses the modern city of Jerusalem is "spiritually" (metaphorically) called Sodom for its wickedness and Egypt for it oppressive conditions. The city is called by these symbolic names, but there can...

This podcast explains the events and symbolism found in Revelation 11:7 associated with the death and martyrdom of the Two Witnesses who will minister in Jerusalem during the Great Tribulation or last 3 ½ years before the Second Coming. Even though they possess the sealing power to control the physical elements, the Lord will give the gentile armies power to kill the Two Witnesses when their testi...

This podcast explains the sealing power possessed by the Two Witnesses during the period of their 3½ year ministry just before the Second Coming. Their power is symbolically described by John in Revelation 11:5-6. The period of their ministry during the Great Tribulation coincides in time with the second half of the battle of Armageddon when there will be desolations, destruction, death and violen...

This podcast explains the symbolism used by John in Revelation 11:4 to describe the identities of the Two Witnesses who will prophesy in Jerusalem during the last 42 months (3½ years) before Christ's Second Coming appearance on the Mount of Olives. In this verse, the Two Witnesses are called the two olive trees and two candlesticks. This imagery comes directly from the Book of Zechariah 4:3, 11-14...

This podcast explains the imagery used by John in Revelation 11:2, where he is told by a mighty angel (Jesus Christ) to not measure the outer court of the Third Temple for it is given to the Gentiles who will tread down the Holy City of Jerusalem for 42 months (3½ years) known as the Great Tribulation. Jesus Christ predicted that Jerusalem would be trodden down until the times of the Gentiles are...

This podcast explains the symbols and message found in Revelation 11:2, where Jesus Christ told John the Revelator not to measure the courtyard without the temple "for it is given unto the Gentiles." This scene is set in the Third Temple to be constructed in Jerusalem. The measuring occurs at the start of the last 3 1/2 years (42 months) before the Second Coming called the Great Tribulation. The v...

This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by the John the Revelator in Revelation 11:1, which states that John was given a reed to measure the people that worship in the temple of God. The context of this vision is the Great Tribulation just before the Second Coming. The temple refers to the Third Temple and the people to be measured represent Jewish people, although some Bible scholars...

This podcast explains the symbolism and imagery used by the John the Revelator in Revelation 11:1, which states: "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar." The angel is Jesus Christ, although this view is not universally accepted among all Bible scholars. This vision is similar to the visions in Ezekiel 40 and Z...