Episode #236: Uncanonized Revelation Series-John Taylor #3 W/Jeff Alldredge

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Mr. Aldridge, you're back again.
All right, Full disclosure, I I

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went to South Dakota, stopped
by, see saw you guys on my way

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out to Utah, see my daughter
graduate and look, everything

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that was cooked for us in that
meal was absolutely fantastic.

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But I have tasked Tanya with
getting Vanessa's from Brulee

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recipe.
There.

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You go because that stuff was
killer.

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So that was absolutely amazing.
But anyway, thanks for having us

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over that night.
That was fun.

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It was great fun.
I'm amazed you lasted with your

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sleep deprivation and all your
drive time.

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What'd you do, 38 hours or
something?

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By the time I went to sleep
after we were done having

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dinner, I had been up for about
37 hours straight.

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And I'll, I'll tell you what, it
did not take me very long to go

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to sleep that night.
In fact, I think I may have left

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my body a time or two because I
was so tired.

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I'm just kidding.
That really didn't happen.

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But dude, I was just done.
And I usually don't sleep well

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in in not my bed, right?
If I have to sleep in a hotel

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room, something like that, I'm
not sleeping well that night.

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There were no issues, Jeff.
I was out cold.

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Yeah, no, we were really glad to
see you guys.

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It was wonderful to meet your
wife and your cute little baby

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and just it, well, to meet you.
You and I had never personally

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met before that.
No, that was the first time we'd

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we'd ever met in person.
It was it was a good trip.

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I'm glad we got to do it.
So next time we'll have to have

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you guys down here to Missouri
and, and hang out for a while.

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A lot of fun.
So dude, what's how's the family

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doing?
Everybody doing good since the

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last time we were there.
Well, he's doing good.

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We're we're healthy.
You know, we went through a

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little bit of sickness like
everybody or like every year but

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this winter.
But everybody's good.

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Good deal.
Good deal.

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Well, dude, we're we're here to
essentially talk about John

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Taylor's revelation #3 and
people can find that, and I'll

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put a link to it in the this
episode show notes.

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But the restored version of the
scriptures here that Drew Briny

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has put forward.
And I thought, you know, it'd be

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good to go through as many of
these revelations as I can.

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So this is going to be kind of
Part 2 of that and we're going

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to be covering John Taylor 3.
But before we do that, you got

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kind of a side project going on
you want to talk about.

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Yeah, it's, it's been pretty
exciting, Dave, you know, over

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the last several times that
we've talked, you know, I've,

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I've kind of alluded to
something that I've always

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wanted to do, but it's never
been in a place, I've never

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taken the steps that I've taken
lately.

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And so I do have a, you know, an
exciting little project.

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I've, I've always wanted to
develop some property and, and

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help people in homesteading,
getting out of the city, being

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in a place where they're more
self-sufficient, capable of

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taking care of their families
and where a community can, can

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grow up in a, you know, in a, in
a way to help each other that

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way.
I always thought that was very

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important.
I think it's very much the

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temporal side of the gospel.
You know, absolutely.

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So yeah, we're we put together a
little video this last week.

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I think you've got a a little.
Clip let's let's just roll into

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that and play that right now.
Cool.

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I'll just say this.
There's going to be many times

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that we see Jeff enrolls.
This is Farmer Jeff right here.

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Exciting news from the Aldridge
Adventure.

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We're working on a project that
may be exactly what some of you

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have been praying and searching
for.

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Not far from our home, we found
a beautiful piece of land that

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we hope to develop into a
homesteading community for like

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minded families and individuals.
People who long for a simpler,

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more independent and more
self-sufficient way of life.

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Maybe you're tired of the noise
and pressure of the city.

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Maybe you have the means to
purchase land, but not the

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ability to immediately leave
your current job and start from

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scratch.
Maybe you dream of owning a

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homestead, raising animals,
growing your own food, and

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building a life with greater
freedom and purpose, but you

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aren't sure where to begin.
Starting over can feel

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overwhelming.
Leaving behind security and

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stepping into an unfamiliar
lifestyle is a big leap,

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especially when you feel alone
or uncertain about what to

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expect.
Our goal is to help make that

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transition as easy as possible.
We want to create turnkey

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homesteads, starter homesteads,
if you will, designed to give

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families a real foundation from
day one.

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Each homestead would include a
tiny home, animal pens and

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shelters, A greenhouse, garden
space, and even some basic

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livestock to help get you
started.

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But we don't want to stop there.
We also plan to offer hands on

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classes and practical training
to help people learn the skills

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needed to thrive in this
lifestyle.

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This is more than just land.
It's about building community,

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encouraging self-reliance, and
helping good people create a

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more meaningful and secure
future for their families.

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If this message speaks to you,
we'd love to hear from you.

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Send us an e-mail and we'll
arrange a time to talk.

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believe would be blessed by this
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Thanks for watching.
So Jeff, the thing I was most

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impressed about is there was
every mode of Jeff in that in

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that thing you had Farmer Jeff
when you were planting the

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plants you had, you had goat
herder Jeff as you were milking

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the goats, Then you had
Carpenter Jeff.

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Then you had harvesting Jeff as
you were working that sigh.

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And then I think you finished it
all off with like cowboy Jeff.

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Like it.
There was a Jeff for every mood.

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It was impressive.
I am a Jeff of all trades.

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That's for danger.
You are a Jeff of all trades.

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I like it.
No, honestly, man, that looks

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exciting.
So let's dive into this a little

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bit.
So what?

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What's kind of the plan here,
exactly?

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You know, over the years I've
thought about it's really

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difficult.
Our society, our culture makes

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it very difficult, whether
that's on purpose or whatever,

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for somebody to live the way our
great grandparents used to live.

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It's just very hard, the cost of
land, you know, and in this

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country used to be able to it
it, it was, it was good for the

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government to give out
homesteads under the

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Homesteading Act because they
wanted to settle, to have a

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presence and so on and so forth.
But you know, you just can't

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find Freeland anymore.
Doesn't exist probably anywhere

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in the world really.
And, and it, it takes everything

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and it, it's a monumental
effort.

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You know, I, I moved out of the
city up to Montana in 91 and had

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to walk away from business, move
into a small town, try to figure

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out how to make, make ends meet.
Ended up working in my basement

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building furniture and, you
know, living a life that was way

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different than what we normally
had been doing when I lived in

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Salt Lake.
But it was one of the greatest

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experiences of my life to that
point.

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And so it's very difficult.
I've been trying to do this off

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and on for 30 years and it's and
it's still a struggle after

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having done it.
I think community is a big part

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of it.
I think having people around you

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that can help who've struggled
with it before or been

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successful at whatever level.
And so I've been toying with

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this idea for years and years,
looking for the right parcel of

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land.
And I think there's a lot of

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folks that live in the city that
have the means to move if they

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knew how to go about it, but
their careers there, You know,

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it's very difficult to up and
leave if if everything you've

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built in your schooling and you
know, and your source of income

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is tied to a city, it's very
difficult to find a place where

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you can how do, how do you build
a homestead?

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How do you have animals?
If you so you end up buying a

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little cottage to get away to
and you go to it once or twice a

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year and then you sell it
because it's a headache or a

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pain in the butter.
It's not worth it.

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And it's just hard.
And so I thought, wouldn't that

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be great?
If, if we could provide a way

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where somebody could have a
homestead that they could come

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to that, that at least had a
shelter, you know, a nice

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shelter, a tiny home, a tiny
cabin, a little cottage.

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And, and then they could also
have people in the community

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build a community around this
idea where they could pay to

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have their animals taken care
of, to have a greenhouse that's

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functional.
But whenever they come where you

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can Airbnb the the little tiny
house when they're not there,

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which gives them an income
stream to help pay for it.

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And then people coming in can
see, you know, what's happening

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on the property and that how the
greenhouse that's functioning

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get some of their meals made out
of food that you're that's being

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created by people who live on
the property who are also very

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driven to live that way.
And that creates a little bit of

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an income for them to take care
of their neighbors things.

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And if crap ever does hit the
fan and it will, they'd have a

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place to go to, You know, that's
it's kind of hard to to think

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about planning for the the
inevitable moment where you

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where society collapses.
But at some point, some point,

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we all believe that that day is
probably coming, right?

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Be nice to be able to learn
beforehand and if you had a

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place to go to and it was
enjoyable, you could go as often

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as you want and plan your move
or figure out how that works.

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Build a bigger home, you know,
learn the skills necessary for

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two or three or four weeks out
of the year as you go to visit.

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And then it's not such a shock
because the transition from the

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new ways back to the old ways is
just brutal.

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Most people don't make very very
low percentage can actually

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homestead and make it work.
Right.

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So it's 100, the the parcel
you're getting is 160 acres

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total.
Yeah, 160.

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Acres.
How many people do you want to

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have on there?
Like what?

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What's the average size of the
lot you're thinking that people

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can can get?
You can see that there were some

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buildings there and we probably
fix up that house and turn it

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into more of a, you know, a
place where the ranch manager

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would live, you know, somebody
that would be there at all times

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to start with to help.
We want to run a school where we

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can teach all these skills.
We'd probably start by selling 3

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to 5 acre lots ready to go, you
know, fully functional for those

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who have the means necessary to
get out.

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And then at the same time, we
want to bring in some interns

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and different things of people
who are really serious about

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this, you know, learning and who
would want to live in a society

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like this.
And that would kind of be maybe

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an alternative route to getting
there.

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And I'm not quite sure how all
that's going to work out, but

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you know, a lot of their time
and efforts and pay for learning

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and growing while they're there
would go towards, you know,

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their own parcel that then.
And so all of those things, the

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details need to be worked out.
But what I'm looking for is, you

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know, list list of folks not
going to share your list with

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anybody but anybody who has an
interest in the this concept,

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whether it's whether South
Dakota means anything to you or

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not.
I think this would if it if it

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goes over well, I think that
it's just the beginning, you

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know, and and I think it would
be a way to create communities

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in many different states where
people could gather to and and

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help each other as they move to
a more self-sufficient community

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of like minded people, whatever
that means to them, you know,

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sure.
So it's going to be interesting.

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So I'm, I'm hoping that anybody
out there that has an interest

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will reach out and say, hey,
this part of what you talked

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about resonated with me or, or
I've thought about this and I

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didn't know how or what are your
thoughts or, you know, give me a

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few more details or keep me on
the list and let me know as

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things get closer or as you
start selling your first lots.

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I'm interested or whatever the
whatever may have touched them.

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That's what I'm looking for is a
list of people who are willing

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to reach out and say that.
That really struck me.

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I I'm interested in something
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Right.
So if if someone is interested,

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how do they how do they get a
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going to take them to our, our
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And there's a, my, my personal
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video, when they will, they can
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and say, Hey, this is who I am,
This is where I'm from.

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I saw you on Dave's podcast and,
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And at least we would open a
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a little bit about it at at
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It's a beautiful piece of

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property.
It's about 1520 minutes from

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Newcastle, WY, but it is on the
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minutes from Custer.
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It's close to Jewel Cave.
It's just a just a gorgeous

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area.
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you know that you're, you feel
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but you're not that far from,
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Right, right from having to run
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like that.
You could be to town in 20

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That's perfect.
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Are you going to are you going
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homes?
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of do as much of it off grid as
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Went from the start.
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You know, there's a well on the
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hopefully there, you know, the
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Some of that land is arable,
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beautiful as it rises up about 3
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in into the Pines.
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Community Center and different
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know, group together and do
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dinners together and that kind
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So it's it's going to be a fun
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And that's awesome.
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interested, jump on there.
Jeff's email's on there.

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I'll go ahead and through your
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with that.
Just in the show notes as well.

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So it's easy and accessible as
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I'd.
Love that, that'd be great.

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So, and then, and then folks,
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hold of you and get the details
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do.
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area, like we were saying
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in that area a couple different
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Beautiful area.
It's it, it is a nice, nice

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area.
So if if that interests you, get

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a hold of Jeff.
But all right, you're right.

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What's that?
I said it sounds good, Dave

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there.
You know, we're going to be

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talking about some things
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that are also a part.
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things here and there because
my, as I contemplated doing Land

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Management or development, you
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government overreach and control
and all the things that, that

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the Lord's going to tell us
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And, and so, you know, I've,
I've been studying for several

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You know, that's the conundrum
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I think it's the conundrum of
life of humanity, because we

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have such a tendency to want to,
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surroundings.
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interesting as we, as we go
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I would.
I've talked with a good friend

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of mine who's very heavily into
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me write, you know, governing
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and he was just like, well, you
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association.
Jeff and I said, well, how about

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if we have a homeowners
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that basically protects our
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a constitutional homeowners
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guarantees private property
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Right.
People covenant with each other

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because it's, it's no different
than any other land development

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you can go into or any other
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You're making covenants with
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And, and so, you know, those
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to and if your neighbors don't
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day, right.
So my whole thoughts are, let's

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do something, you know, totally
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government would do or what
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try instead of trying to control
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that their property rights would
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very deep, deep moral place.
Absolutely.

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Jeff, real quick, can you see me
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Can you see that I can?
OK, perfect.

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I just wanted to make sure that
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So, yeah, and look, I can't
agree with you more on on what

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what John, what the Lord tells
John Taylor here and how this

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all kind of works together.
The first time I read this

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revelation was a few weeks ago.
I went into priesthood meeting

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and Tom Zinning was there.
Shout out to Tom.

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And he's like, Dave, why don't
you open this and, and, and read

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from John Taylor 3.
So I started reading it and I

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was like reading it real time as
I'm trying to ingest it too,

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right.
But what's coming through is, is

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like the Lord's really concerned
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man.
And I think we're going to see

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that come through.
And there's a lot in here to

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digest.
So I'm, I'm super excited for

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it.
Let me share my screen again

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here.
We'll get this back up and

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running.
Cool.

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You know, all right, Dave, I
actually, you know, I, I came

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across this the first real
radical book that I ever read

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back in my early days when I was
mainstream and Peter Priesthood

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and didn't read anything I
wasn't supposed to.

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I was actually in Cardston,
Canada at the temple there and

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right next to the temple or in
that same block or whatever,

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where there was a church
bookstore and, and they had a

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big display of a new book that
had come out.

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And I walked over and I picked
it up and I opened it to a a

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section and I read about a
paragraph and I turned to my

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wife and I said, I have, I have
to have this book.

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I.
Had.

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Never.
I had never read whatever it

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was.
I don't remember the part it

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was, but it was basically Fred
Collier's compilation called the

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Unpublished Revelations.
And many of the many of these

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revelations that that Drew has
put together.

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He was drawn from the works that
that early work of of

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unpublished revelations of the
Church of Jesus Christ, the

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Latter Day Saints.
And so you know, I have read

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this years and years ago and I I
bought that book with like my

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last 14 of my last $20.
We had enough gas to get home

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into Montana and I just
digested.

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I loved it.
It was so wonderful to see

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things that that were new, that
right, that had been kept, you

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know, that for whatever reason,
we're not, you know, it's like

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reading the book of Enoch and
you're like, what did they do

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with this?
How did they hide?

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How did they hide the hidden,
the fallen angels?

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And what are they, you know, all
this new stuff that it's like,

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whoa.
And so when you find, you know,

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I was thinking about this
talking with Vanessa and

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Charisse today and in in the
King Follett discourse, Joseph

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Smith made a statement that
basically says the first, the

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first principle of the gospel is
to know the character, the, the

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nature and character, to know
for certainty the character of

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God.
Right.

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And that we all have the ability
to converse with him.

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And when I come across
scriptures like this one, you

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know, this revelation and you
see a, a glimpse into the heart

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and the personality of Jesus
Christ as he talked to, you

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know, this is this is 52 years
after the church was

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established.
They've been through all this

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stuff.
Joseph had been martyred,

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Brigham was gone.
John Taylor's the prophet, you

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know, and and they've been
through all this.

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And then here comes this
revelation on the day, the

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anniversary of the martyrdom of
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And here we are going to go over
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And it just shows you parts of
Jesus Christ's unwavering, just

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he, he's a God of truth and he
can't lie.

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You know he can't.
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stance of the eternities towards
agency.

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He's willing to give us her
agency even to our own demise.

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It's the bedrock of the gospel.
Without it, none of us could

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progress.
None of us could go anywhere if

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we didn't first have the right
to choose because we wanted it

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that way.
And of course, the opposite of

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that is control and compulsion.
And we're going to see it in

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this, in this, these 4 pages,
man, it's just so brilliantly

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put by the Lord.
And John Taylor is so eloquent,

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right?
He's a, he's a guy who's English

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born, he's educated, he is, he's
polished, right?

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He, he's, and, and the way he
can deliver this is, is nothing

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short of crazy.
But there, there's another thing

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here that I find really
interesting, right?

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Again, as you mentioned, this
was on the anniversary of Joseph

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Smith's martyrdom, right?
And it's not the direction I

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figured that that this
revelation would go on that

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date, right?
I figured it would be.

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And look, Joseph does factor in
heavily here to this, but it's,

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it's, it's telling that the Lord
has a message and it's about the

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agency of man.
And to, to to kind of back up

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what she said there, It's
important to realize that our

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rights don't come from man.
They come from God.

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And as such, we have to
understand that that means that

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we're essentially the watchman
on the tower for our kids

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agency.
And I do believe that there will

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be an accounting someday of what
we did with those.

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And I think it's important to
keep that in mind as we, you

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know, do do our normal things,
vote for candidates, that sort

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of thing.
It's important to remember that

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that I do think the Lord will
will ask us what we did with our

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rights because they came from
him.

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And if, if, if these are like
any other talents, I would hope

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that we would be looking at
multiplying those and not just

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being content to bury him
somewhere.

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But well man, should we get in
and start reading this.

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Yeah, let's do it.
All right, I'll start us off

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here.
I'll read the first four or five

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verses and then what we can do
is we'll whenever you feel like

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you want to stop, to elaborate,
just stop me and then we can we

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can have a discussion.
Does that sound good?

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All right, perfect.
So John Taylor 3 And this was

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given, if I'm not mistaken, in
the council of 50 that was re

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established in Salt Lake.
So here we go.

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Verily, thus saith the Lord, I
have instituted My Kingdom and

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my laws with the keys and powers
thereof, and have appointed you

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as My spokesman and My
constitution, with President

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John Taylor at your head, whom I
have appointed to My Church and

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My Kingdom as prophet, seer, and
revelator.

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Unto My Church and unto My
Kingdom, and to preside over My

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Church and over My Kingdom, and
to be my mouthpiece unto the

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Church and unto My Kingdom.
And I will honor Him.

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And He shall speak forth the
words that I reveal unto Him

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from time to time, by the
whisperings of My spirit, by the

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revelation of My will and My
word, or by mine own voice, as I

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will, saith the Lord.
And ye shall listen to his words

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as my words, saith the Lord your
God.

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Thus saith the Lord Lord God,
who rules in the heavens above

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and in the earth beneath.
I have introduced my Kingdom and

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My government, even the Kingdom
of God My servants have

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heretofore prophecy of.
And that I taught my disciples

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to pray for saying, Thy Kingdom
come, Thy will be done on earth

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as in heaven, for the
establishment of My rule and for

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00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,320
the introduction of My law, for
the protection of my Church, and

448
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:49,120
for the maintenance,
promulgation, and protection of

449
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,880
civil and religious liberty in
this nation and throughout the

450
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,480
world.
And all men of every nation,

451
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,440
color, and creed shall yet be
protected and shielded thereby.

452
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:04,360
And every nation and kindred and
people and tongue shall yet bow

453
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:08,480
the knee to me and acknowledge
me to be Amen Christ, to the

454
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,480
glory of God the Father.
And my law and my rule and my

455
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,760
dominion shall extend over the
whole earth.

456
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,040
And no one shall stay my hand or
question my authority.

457
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,080
For I rule by right in the
heavens above and in the earth.

458
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,560
And my right and my rule and my
dominion shall yet be made,

459
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,120
shall be known and extended to
all people.

460
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,840
Let's stop there real quick
because we got there.

461
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:36,560
There's some stuff there to
digest.

462
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:39,320
Yeah, there.
So.

463
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:43,280
So Jeff, you want to start us
off here with that one?

464
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:49,880
Well, there really is so much
obviously the Lord jumps right

465
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:56,000
in and and in typical fashion of
the earlier revelations in the

466
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,000
Doctrine and Covenants in the
way that he spoke to to Joseph

467
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,840
Smith, you know, he declares
himself in power.

468
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:08,040
You know, he just shows up.
He says, hey, it's me, I'm in

469
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:12,920
charge, I'm here, I've set up my
Kingdom and I did it for this

470
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,840
purpose.
And he was talking to the

471
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:20,360
council of 50, obviously, and in
their connection with the

472
00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:23,120
Kingdom of God.
And there might be a lot of

473
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:26,720
folks listening to you today.
I know when I first, you know,

474
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,560
30 years ago, I didn't have a
clue.

475
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,760
I thought that the church and
Kingdom was all just the church.

476
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,480
And I came to understand that
that was not the case

477
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,880
historically speaking
religiously and in all the

478
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,600
scriptures and and he he
mentions it over and over again.

479
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:47,200
My church and my Kingdom, my
church and my, my church and my

480
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,400
Kingdom.
And that the one protects the

481
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,800
Kingdom, protects the civil and
religious liberties of all the

482
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,520
other.
And he set up the Kingdom of God

483
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,000
to make sure that man had their
agency.

484
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,600
And he makes that very clear.
I did it from the beginning so

485
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320
that you would be free to
choose.

486
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:12,600
And he's going to go on that.
That is so important because we

487
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:19,040
can't, you know, we just can't
even nothing comes, nothing good

488
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:27,080
comes of not choosing to learn
because you want to learn or

489
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,480
because there's a a principle to
be learned.

490
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,520
I think back on all my good old
days and the public school and

491
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,360
what did I really take away?
Oh, there were some things, but

492
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,080
you know what I mean?
I was there because I had to be

493
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,800
there.
It's different when you have to

494
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,680
learn.
You get on your first job and

495
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,400
you realize that, oh, I guess I
do need a little bit of math.

496
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:55,680
I better learn this right now.
And I figured it out because

497
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,240
because I wanted to, because I
wanted to accomplish something

498
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,840
and then I could see the
goodness of it.

499
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,680
Anyway, there's just something
inherent in the human system

500
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,320
that if you choose it because
it's something you want, then

501
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,200
you can choose good over evil.
You can choose all these things

502
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,680
and your soul is enlarged.
Absolutely.

503
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,080
Without it, the plan fails.
The plan of the Lord fails.

504
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:21,760
Which is why Satan's plan would
have never worked, and why there

505
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:26,320
was ignorance there on his part,
or malevolence to even suggest

506
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,080
that a plan of force would even
do anything.

507
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,640
It's just and certainly
heavenly.

508
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:36,120
You know the gods have known
this for a long time.

509
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,520
It doesn't work.
So anyway.

510
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,080
Percent.
That's my take on it.

511
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,800
Yeah, you know, as as I read
through this, couple things

512
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,000
jumped out at me.
One is how many times have

513
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,760
people prayed the Lord's Prayer
and just glossed over that thing

514
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:58,120
about the Kingdom, right?
And it is such an important

515
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,040
dichotomy to understand the
difference between the church

516
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,480
and the Kingdom because there is
a difference.

517
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,920
And that's that's made known
here.

518
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:13,680
And the other thing that jumps
out at me is, is this Mormonism,

519
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:19,680
in my opinion, is the first
truly successful counterculture

520
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:24,040
that we have in America after
the Constitution is established

521
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:31,440
in that they are talking about
not just like it starts out, you

522
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,040
know, Joseph's restoring a
church, but it doesn't stay

523
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,080
there very long.
You can see through through the

524
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:44,520
revelations that he continues to
have his scope enlarged and and

525
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,000
he starts to move into this
direction of the Kingdom along

526
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,720
with the church.
And along with this, it's going

527
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,160
to become a movement that has
kind of its own vernacular, its

528
00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,280
own practices, in some ways, its
own economy and its own ideas.

529
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:06,840
And it was a counterculture that
quite frankly, we see re

530
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,000
established by the Lord time and
time again.

531
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,600
And normally when we think of a
counterculture, the first thing

532
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,440
we think of is the hippies from
the 60s.

533
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:21,560
But my contention is that, well,
that is a counterculture, but

534
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,720
that one had some negative
impacts.

535
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:29,000
This one would have a +1.
The other thing that I find

536
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:35,000
really interesting is that the
Lord was very clear that that

537
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,360
they were going to safeguard in
the Kingdom all of man's rights,

538
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,360
not just some of the men, right?
This is not just a Mormon thing.

539
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,280
The Lord was here.
It was pretty clear here in that

540
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,560
last paragraph we read that
they're concerned with the

541
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,640
rights of all men, which again
is interesting.

542
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,720
Normally religion has a way of
becoming extremely exclusive.

543
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,400
And not that Mormonism doesn't
have some of that, obviously we

544
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,960
do, right?
We have temple rights, We have

545
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,480
those kinds of ordinances that
introduce you into that society.

546
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,440
But it, one of the things that's
made me think of is that quote

547
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,760
from Brigham Young in the
Journal of Discourses where he

548
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,960
talks about what, you know, when
Zion is established, there will

549
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,920
be people in Zion that aren't
even Mormon, right?

550
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:31,920
And he, he says, you know,
people are going to ask us, I'm

551
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,160
a Methodist.
Is it OK if I'm a Methodist and

552
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,360
be here?
And Brigham says, oh,

553
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,880
absolutely, you'll, you'll be
fine being in this society.

554
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,080
And, and he says, as long as you
respect our rights, we can

555
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,880
respect your rights.
And so we start seeing the

556
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:52,520
gospel really take on an
additional mission, which is to

557
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,240
preserve the rights of man.
And I think that largely comes,

558
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,440
it causes Joseph to question
because he knows now, because of

559
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,160
what happens in, in first New
York and then Pennsylvania, then

560
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,320
then Ohio and then Missouri,
what it's like to have your

561
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,120
rights deprived.
And in some ways, I, I wonder if

562
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:17,000
the war didn't allow that to
happen to enlarge Joseph's

563
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,120
scope, right?
To understand that, hey, this is

564
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:24,080
so vital.
And that first blessing, the

565
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,159
blessing to be able to choose to
have agency, is so important to

566
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,840
this.
I I agree with you all the way,

567
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,600
Dave.
The the adversary knows that the

568
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,920
quickest way to end the work of
the Father is to take away

569
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:45,280
people's ability to choose.
If you can't choose how you're

570
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,440
going to be, then you can't be
held accountable for your

571
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:53,199
actions, right?
It destroys it destroy it dams

572
00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,320
the human race from the moment
that you can't choose.

573
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,840
And so, you know, there, there
are, there are periods of time

574
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,640
where the Lord has had to stand
back.

575
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,320
You know, Noah being being one
of those during that period of

576
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,280
time where the earth was in such
wickedness that the rising

577
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:17,520
generation had no hope, no hope.
There was 00 potential for the

578
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:22,040
rising generation.
Therefore God had to start over

579
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,480
because it was over.
It was done.

580
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,040
The program did not work
anymore.

581
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,240
People were too wicked.
The children had no hope of

582
00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:34,200
making choices for good because
there was no where for them to

583
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,440
see good or what all the all the
different aspects of that.

584
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:45,120
And so, you know, until there is
a Kingdom that protects the

585
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:49,800
right to choose and to learn,
there cannot be a millennial

586
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,560
reign, can't even be
established, not even close.

587
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,040
And and he's going to explain
how this is going to happen here

588
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,080
in the next few chapters.
You know, I mean, so you look at

589
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,160
this from the perspective of
church has been going for 52

590
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,400
years.
Here they are 8 years away from

591
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:11,320
the manifesto where they go
stomps on and takes away the new

592
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:12,680
and everlasting covenant of
marriage.

593
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:18,600
OK, and the church goes forward
with it and, and here's the

594
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,640
Lord.
Well, like I said, we're, we see

595
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,720
a little bit of his personality
as he talks about this.

596
00:36:22,720 --> 00:36:26,360
He's aware of these things and
he's talking about it and

597
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,840
saying, look, you guys move
forward.

598
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,280
Here's all that I've done, move
forward and keep my

599
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,000
commandments.
And, and so it's a, it's an

600
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,120
interesting, interesting thing
to, to read it looking

601
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,320
backwards, knowing that the Lord
knew what was going on.

602
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,000
They didn't when he wrote it,
but they were struggling.

603
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,720
They were struggling when When
was the first time that a a

604
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,360
manifesto type document was
given to John Taylor?

605
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,440
Was it before this?
Was he presented with the idea

606
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,320
of throwing away plural marriage
when this was written?

607
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,800
Did that happen in?
I would have to Where's Michael

608
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:02,680
Ness when you need him?
I.

609
00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:07,800
Don't know where is that guy.
I think, I think that I could be

610
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,800
wrong.
Don't quote me, but I think the

611
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,080
first time it's presented to him
is when he is totally on the

612
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,080
run, right?
I want to say it's just just a

613
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:21,040
few days before what the the 8
hour meeting, but don't quote me

614
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:21,960
on that.
I could be wrong.

615
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,000
But because because Michael's
not here, he can't answer it.

616
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,640
So what?
Whatever you're doing, I hope

617
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,160
it's, I hope it's worthwhile,
Michael.

618
00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,560
Yes.
So now I.

619
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,680
Hope just kidding.
We we we love that guy.

620
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,280
So all right, let me let me
share my screen and we can move

621
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:38,560
on.
OK.

622
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,600
Sounds good.
OK man, ready when you are you.

623
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,000
Want me just to go for it where
you left off?

624
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,960
Yep, Yep, go for it.
Now behold, I speak unto you

625
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,000
through my servant John, whom
you have acknowledged and shall

626
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,880
acknowledge as my spokesman.
Thus saith the Lord God, the

627
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,720
Maker of heaven and earth, the
Ruler of the universe, whose

628
00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:05,040
right it is to rule in the
heavens above and in the earth

629
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,040
beneath.
Behold, I raised up my servant

630
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,200
Joseph Smith to introduce my
gospel and to build up my church

631
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:14,240
and establish my Kingdom on the
earth.

632
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,240
And I gave unto him wisdom and
knowledge and revelation and

633
00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:23,240
intelligence pertaining to the
past, the present, and the

634
00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:27,280
future, even to that extent
which was not known among men.

635
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,200
And I endowed him with power
from on high and conferred upon

636
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,520
him the priesthood of Aaron and
also the priesthood of

637
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Melchizedek, which is after the
order of the Son of God, even

638
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:42,560
the holiest of all, and after
the power of an endless life and

639
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,400
administereth forever in this
world and the world to come.

640
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,640
He was called by me and
empowered by me and sustained by

641
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,040
me to introduce and establish My
Church and Kingdom upon the

642
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,840
earth, and to be a prophet, seer
and revelator to my Church and

643
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,480
Kingdom, and to be a king and
ruler over Israel.

644
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,440
He was slain for the testimony
of Jesus and for the Word of

645
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:12,080
God, but He yet lives and is
with me where I am.

646
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:17,080
All right, Jeff, can, can, can
we talk about this for just a

647
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,240
second?
Yep.

648
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,800
So right now there is a movement
in a lot of Mormonism.

649
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:32,160
It's not confined to 1 sector
the other, which is this kind of

650
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:38,200
a desire to maybe progress past
our founders, our early founders

651
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:43,360
in in our religion.
You, you can hear this a lot,

652
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:49,960
especially a certain apologists
jump on and try to tell you that

653
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,960
the gospel isn't what you have
been brought up to believe your

654
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,480
whole life.
Now sometimes that new

655
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,920
information can be 100% correct.
In this case, I I raised an

656
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:03,680
eyebrow at it.
And here we have.

657
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,680
A whole section of this
revelation where the Lord is

658
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,120
just reaffirming who Joseph
Smith was, right?

659
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,240
What he did, why he did what he
did, and how important he is.

660
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,840
And, and when I first read this,
I thought, ma'am, this should

661
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,640
really almost be couched as a
warning to not think that we

662
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,000
know more than what Joseph did,
right?

663
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,560
I think one of the word, one of
the phrases that has been lost

664
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:37,280
in in Mormonism is this idea of
the dispensation head.

665
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,640
I think that that is such an
important thing to keep in mind

666
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,560
here when before Joseph comes
along, nobody has the knowledge

667
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:51,800
that Joseph will receive through
divinity and be able to expound

668
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,880
these things.
And when I see people trying to

669
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,480
say they know more than what
Joseph did on these things.

670
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,880
And no, no, this isn't what
Joseph meant.

671
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:07,640
That's troubling to me on a, on
a large level because what's

672
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:13,520
being done right now in, in, in
Mormonism is what has happened

673
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:18,920
to our country.
So let I'm going to share a

674
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,600
quick story here.
Always been ever since my kids

675
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:27,560
were little super nerd when it
came to like the revolutionary,

676
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,720
revolutionary period of America,
right?

677
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:34,440
I have that one experience in
Philadelphia that absolutely is

678
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:38,760
an inflection point in my life.
And I remember one day I came

679
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:46,120
home from work and now I'm a guy
that has a replica of both the

680
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,160
the Constitution and the
Declaration hanging in my front

681
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,640
room have on some wall somewhere
ever is George Washington at

682
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:58,760
Valley Forge the prayer Valley
Forge by Freiburg like I hold

683
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,400
these things sacred so one.
Night I get home.

684
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,920
From work, we're all sitting
around the dinner table, we're

685
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,640
getting ready to eat and I I
asked the question, would you

686
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,360
guys learn in school today?
And my freshman in high school

687
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,840
goes, Dad, you and I'm, I'm just
about ready to take a bite of my

688
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,240
steak.
And my son goes, Dad, did you

689
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:21,280
know that the founders of the
country were nothing more than

690
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,840
rich white slave owners?
And Jeff, I just stopped mid

691
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,360
bite and I looked him square in
the eye.

692
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,880
I'm like, who the hell told you
that, right?

693
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,480
Like not in this house.
Like where?

694
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,880
Where'd this come from?
And he goes, Oh, well, my

695
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,360
teacher said it.
So that caused me to go have a

696
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,200
conversation with that teacher,
right?

697
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:45,400
I'm so, as I am prone to do as a
nerd, I like gather up all my

698
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:51,000
resources, right, All my printed
versions of, of Madison's notes

699
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,040
from the declaration.
And I'm like, yeah, we're going

700
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,360
to go sort this out.
And so I went to sort it out

701
00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,760
and, you know, the teacher was
nice enough and she's like,

702
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,320
look, I, you know, I just lay
out my case, right?

703
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,720
I'm like here, here, here, here,
here.

704
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,080
This is where you got it wrong.
And I'm, I'm showing in real

705
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,640
time.
And she goes, I, I don't doubt

706
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,400
you.
She's like, I, I had no idea

707
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:18,360
this existed.
She's like, I just kind of teach

708
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,280
what I'm told to teach from the
manual.

709
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,040
I'm like, let me see your
manual.

710
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,160
And I start looking at the
manual and it's like they barely

711
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,400
quote from the Constitution
itself, right?

712
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,080
It's more about what other
people have had to say about it.

713
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,360
This causes me to do some more
research and what do I find?

714
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,240
I find that this is about 100
year plan starting with Woodrow

715
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,960
Wilson, who by the way, was
contemporaries with Hebrew J

716
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:44,240
Grant.
Just want to throw that out

717
00:43:44,240 --> 00:43:49,640
there.
And, you know, Wilson is our

718
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,480
first academic president and he
he basically says that his job

719
00:43:54,480 --> 00:44:00,680
as a teacher and an educator, he
he was he, I think he was from

720
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,320
Princeton.
Don't quote me on that, though.

721
00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,880
He said our goal is to make us a
son as unlike his father as

722
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,680
possible.
He does a bunch of nasty stuff,

723
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,560
but he's the first real
progressive to to wear that

724
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,760
title.
And what he wants to do is he

725
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:20,040
wants to progress the American
people past those founding

726
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,480
documents.
But the problem is, is that

727
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:27,360
people in America during that
time had such a high opinion of

728
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,160
who the founding fathers were
that that was hard to do.

729
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:35,280
So they figured out you had to
1st vilify the messenger, then

730
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,440
you could vilify the message.
What we see today, whether

731
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:44,800
that's the more progressive wing
of Mormonism that is trying to

732
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:49,400
progress us past these old, old
doctrines, you know, like

733
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,520
there's only two sexes or
genders.

734
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,240
There's there, you know, this
idea of priesthood, all these

735
00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,720
things that that we hold dear as
Mormons, they want to progress

736
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,560
us past them.
Well, how are they going to do

737
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,960
it?
They got to 1st discredit the

738
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,520
messenger, then they can
discredit the message.

739
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:14,080
And once you decouple from those
early brethren, Joseph Smith,

740
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,440
Brigham Young is the one that's
getting beat up on it a lot now

741
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:21,880
by the polygamy deniers.
If and and look, Brigham in some

742
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:27,160
ways is just as important in his
in his time as Joseph was in his

743
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,200
time, right?
If you uncouple from Brigham and

744
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,520
Joseph, you can recreate the
gospel into anything you want.

745
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:41,160
And here in these in these
verses, the Lord is like not so

746
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,200
much right.
Like pay attention.

747
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,640
Joseph had a mission.
I.

748
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:51,400
Agree with you?
Yeah, so anything you want to

749
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:51,880
add?
There.

750
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,400
Oh, I'd probably.
Get me in trouble.

751
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,960
You know, Emma tried to date
decouple right from the

752
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:03,560
beginning from, you know, the
situation and she would bring

753
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,160
them either and we can see the
fruits of of that.

754
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:09,880
I shouldn't probably shouldn't
say anymore.

755
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:14,080
You know it's not Mormonism
anymore, right?

756
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:17,840
You know, immediately they threw
out what they didn't.

757
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,600
Want went on their way and then
they hold to some things, but

758
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:26,400
it's totally different ideology,
one that bears different fruit.

759
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:31,600
Completely different fruit.
And but anyway, So what you're

760
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,120
saying I think is correct.
Absolutely.

761
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,880
Anyway, shall we?
Yep.

762
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,320
Let's let's continue.
In the deep waters.

763
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:47,960
Yes, OK.
Ah, now I.

764
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,920
Speak unto you, who are the
members of this council and of

765
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,040
my Kingdom, and I say unto you,
as I said unto my disciples of

766
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:59,520
old, Ye have not chosen me, but
I have chosen you.

767
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:03,480
I called you by my servant
Joseph, and by my servant

768
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,880
Brigham, and by my servant John.
You did not teach and instruct

769
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,520
me, but I have taught and
instructed you and organized you

770
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:17,760
according to my eternal laws.
Ye are my constitution and I am

771
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,240
your God, and I will be
acknowledged and my will and my

772
00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:27,040
word and my law shall bear rule
in my Kingdom, saith the Lord

773
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:32,520
God.
Now you know, there's, there's,

774
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,320
there's scriptures.
If you try to go and read a

775
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,800
scripture like this and then
compare it to the manifesto that

776
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:45,920
says to whom it may concern, all
of a sudden you realize real

777
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,560
quick that it was not the Lord
speaking.

778
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Absolutely.
Hey, it was a political

779
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,160
document.
It was a human made.

780
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,000
It was just.
And they did it on purpose.

781
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,360
They went so far overboard
because they were intelligent

782
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,520
men.
They didn't even try to make it

783
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,920
sound like him.
They tried to make it sound

784
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,480
exactly like a bunch of guys
trying to pull the wool over the

785
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,520
government's eyes.
And and but.

786
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,480
But, you know, the whole church
just sits there.

787
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,600
And I did growing up too.
I'm like, well, oh, OK, Well,

788
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,040
you know, that must be what it.
It took me 30 years to come to

789
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,320
grips with that.
And then I went, you've got to

790
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,680
be kidding.
You know when the.

791
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:23,880
Lord's talking, you know the
Lord.

792
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:29,080
'S talking, He introduced who he
is, He declares who he is, and

793
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:33,760
if we're in tune and listening
and asking for the Holy Ghost to

794
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,480
guide us and direct us as we
seek seek for these things,

795
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:38,960
we'll gain a testimony of it in
our heart.

796
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:44,360
But it's awful hard after that
point to gain a testimony in to

797
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:49,240
whom it may concern absolutely.
Let me ask you this in that in

798
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:54,840
in those, those verses there the
Lord said something interesting.

799
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,400
He says, Ye have not chosen me,
but I have chosen you.

800
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,240
I called you by my servant
Joseph, and by my servant

801
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:09,040
Brigham, and by my servant John.
This idea of being chosen.

802
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:12,040
This isn't the first time we
hear about this, right?

803
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,280
There's that scripture that many
are called, but few are chosen.

804
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,800
So, Jeff, let me ask you this.
What do you think?

805
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,920
What do you think it means to be
chosen?

806
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:25,200
What does that look like?
You know I don't I.

807
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:32,160
I think there's probably a lot
of different ways to interpret

808
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:33,360
that.
I think that.

809
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,960
I, I I've gone over that.
In my lifetime, you know,

810
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:48,040
personally as, as you read
through, and there are times

811
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:52,080
where I think the Lord tells us
those things, you know, tells

812
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,720
the people that they're chosen
and it, and it's a huge test.

813
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,240
Cause the minute we think we're
chosen, we run off and do silly

814
00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:02,640
things, you know, gives us an
ego boost.

815
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:07,120
But there is a certain, there's
a certain level where words like

816
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,240
chosen and friend, you know, you
are my friends, you know a

817
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,120
little bit.
Deeper.

818
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,440
I and I, I really didn't, I
hadn't placed this particular

819
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,960
paragraph in the realm of, I
think the question that you're

820
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:23,800
asking.
I think the Lord was being a

821
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:30,120
little bit more forthcoming with
understand what I'm trying to

822
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:32,760
say.
You guys aren't the author.

823
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:38,120
I'm the author and I chose you.
So you're in the class, you're

824
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,280
here.
I brought you here for a reason.

825
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,800
You, you don't instruct me.
And it's obvious through this

826
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,200
that some things are going on
because he's being.

827
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:54,120
Extremely.
Blunt in whole revelation, he's.

828
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,680
Reminding the.
Council of 50 the Brethren

829
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,800
whoever he's all of the ones
he's speaking to that in the

830
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:09,240
beginning gave I man their
agency and then through the

831
00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,560
government and through Lucifer
and we'll get to this part the

832
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,320
government of the.
United States tried to strip it.

833
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,840
From you.
And then and he goes on and he

834
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,000
lays it all.
He lays it all out.

835
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,760
But this, this to me is him.
Him saying let me remind you of

836
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,400
your place, right?
I am your God.

837
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:35,240
And you better start treating me
as such.

838
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:38,040
You know, what Can you imagine?
It's like you were just talking

839
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:45,920
about about ideas coming forth
in the church that discredit the

840
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:50,680
founder or any of any of the
doctrines that God gave.

841
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:54,360
You know, we have Isaiah who
comes out and says, oh, in the

842
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,840
last days, they're going to
break the everlasting covenant,

843
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,160
you know, and do some of the
things that are that are so

844
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:07,200
egregious.
And when the Lord tries to when,

845
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,120
when it's happening in the
moment and he comes and says,

846
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,680
you're flirting with danger,
you're flirting with the

847
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,720
destruction of a people.
You know, whenever these things

848
00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:21,440
have happened before cultures
were destroyed.

849
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:27,240
And you know, there's that,
there's that part in in 3rd

850
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:32,200
Nephi where the Lord comes and
he's talking to the people and

851
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:37,400
he says in that day.
Meaning our day when?

852
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,520
They shall reject the fullness
of my gospel.

853
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,400
They knew what was coming.
And then he reels it back a

854
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:49,000
little bit and says now if they
repent and if this and if that.

855
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,840
But however, when this comes to
pass.

856
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:59,560
And he's being so blunt.
And you see once again you see a

857
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:03,280
God.
Who has suffered for?

858
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:09,120
Our sins was hung on the cross.
And he's being very forthcoming

859
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:15,680
and talking to his priesthood,
to his spokesman, to his council

860
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:22,880
of 50 who have been charged with
promulgating freedom and agency

861
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:30,280
and a system that would allow
the gospel to still exist on the

862
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,280
earth in the last days without a
total destruction.

863
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,240
Because one of the things that
Joseph was told, you know, right

864
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:42,440
on from Moroni was if these
things don't happen, if the

865
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,200
gospel fails, that there was a
chance of it failing.

866
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,800
That the whole earth would be.
Destroyed at his coming.

867
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:53,240
There wouldn't be that.
There is.

868
00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:55,800
This is a possibility.
There it is.

869
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,640
Yep.
On this very.

870
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,400
Idea of agency and that's what
he's.

871
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:04,000
Talking about in.
Here so I, you know, I, I think

872
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,480
it kind of took me off guard by
saying what does it mean to be

873
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:10,320
chosen?
I don't know, I mean, I, I have

874
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,600
some thoughts and opinions, but
I, I don't know that that that's

875
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,800
what he was shooting for in this
the the context of what I read,

876
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:24,000
it was him leveling the field
with his displeasure that.

877
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,560
Certain things were.
Being considered and that's why

878
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:30,960
I asked minutes ago I said was
this you know what was going on

879
00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:34,680
here well for 30 years they've
been persecuted and and he only

880
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,760
mentions it he doesn't say it's
happened yet he says the

881
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,160
government's tried to tried to
take away your your ability to

882
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:42,520
follow your the constitutional
law.

883
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,280
Well, that only applied to
plural marriage, that.

884
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:47,520
Was the only thing that the that
the?

885
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:49,800
That the country was trying to
wipe them out for right?

886
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:51,800
They weren't.
They weren't upset about.

887
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:56,600
The sacrament about the alchemy?
Oh, OK.

888
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,760
Or about helping your neighbor.
I mean, that all comes late, you

889
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:05,000
know, but anyway, so, so this
was a, you have to understand

890
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,480
the, the, the historical context
that here's the Lord coming in

891
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:14,800
1882, just just a few short
years before the choice was

892
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:18,840
made.
And and and I'm not trying to

893
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:22,000
downplay the amount of pressure
that that John Taylor and that

894
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,760
Wilfred Woodruff and those
brethren were facing because the

895
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,360
government was threatening to
kill them all to take everything

896
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,040
in jail and be done with it.
And the Lord saying keep my

897
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,320
commandments.
And you know, they received a

898
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,280
lot of you know, this book is
got several other revelations

899
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,680
into John Taylor and Wilfred
Woodruff where the Lord said

900
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,200
don't do it.
I've never.

901
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,120
Seen them before they kept.
Those out too.

902
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,120
Don't do it, brethren.
You're my constitution.

903
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,120
If you go, what's left?
Yep.

904
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,280
Yep, you know, I thought a lot
about that.

905
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:01,240
Term chosen.
And.

906
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,320
I honestly think that this has a
lot to do with the servant's

907
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,880
heart.
I think when we are.

908
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,680
Chosen.
It's not because we were

909
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:18,760
special, right?
We just, you know, born with it

910
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,720
all put together.
No, I think this is about where

911
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:25,280
where's your heart?
Why are you chosen right.

912
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,480
And I, I can't help but again,
go back to that verse where it

913
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,520
says many are called, but few
are chosen.

914
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:34,200
It's almost like the Lord makes
an invitation like come on,

915
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,160
everybody, let's go.
We're we're going to serve each

916
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:43,320
other and we're going to reap
some great blessings, but they

917
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:49,080
many are chosen because they're
not willing is what I'm I'm, I

918
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,880
think I'm driving at.
And that does play play into

919
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:58,400
this, right, because per that
verse we had just a few a page

920
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,080
ago, right?
This is something that they're

921
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,480
supposed to guard the freedoms
of all men, right?

922
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:09,280
That means your heart has to be
in a place to where you are.

923
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:12,720
You can be empathetic to even
those whom you have

924
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:16,520
disagreements with.
And so I think this whole chosen

925
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,840
thing has a lot to do with with
who is worthy.

926
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:26,280
I'm not worthy, who is willing
and not so much about, you know,

927
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:30,760
gosh, so and so.
It has everything together all

928
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:35,000
the time. 100%.
I think people are too flawed to

929
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,000
have that kind of misconception
there.

930
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,520
Well, I was just.
Remembering and and I tried.

931
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:44,960
To look it up real quick, but it
ties into everything we're

932
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:49,640
talking about, OK?
Chosen implies somebody who has

933
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:55,200
proven that they're not willing
to force mankind so here.

934
00:57:55,200 --> 00:58:01,040
Here's here's the verse there,
DNC. 12137 That they may be

935
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,920
conferred upon us, it is true,
but when we undertake to cover

936
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,080
our sins, or to gratify our
pride or vain ambition, or to

937
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:12,120
exercise control or dominion or
compulsion upon the souls of the

938
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:16,080
children of men in any degree of
unrighteousness, behold, the

939
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,040
heavens withdraw themselves.
The Spirit of the Lord is

940
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,960
grieved, and when it is
withdrawn, Amen to the

941
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,880
priesthood or authority of that
man.

942
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:29,240
So it's completely contingent.
Many are, many are called, but

943
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,040
few are chosen.
Why are they not chosen?

944
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,040
And he goes on and lists it.
And that's the final sentence.

945
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:40,800
If you control your children to
a point that's not correct, your

946
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:44,800
neighbors, you're the people.
If you are pushing for Satan's

947
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,760
plan, it destroys everything in
your down line of posterity.

948
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,120
It begins to canker your
society.

949
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,920
And you're the Lord's not going
to choose you if you have that

950
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:56,840
kind of heart.
So you're correct, it's about

951
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:01,040
the heart, but it also boils
down to the very foundational

952
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:04,720
bedrock of the gospel, which is
liberty and agency.

953
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,480
And he it's inviolate to God, he
will not.

954
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,920
Take away a person's ability to
choose.

955
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,880
Even to their own death, even to
their own disillusion in the

956
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:20,280
eternities.
Absolutely.

957
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,160
Good stuff.
All right, You ready to move on?

958
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,680
You're not.
I like it.

959
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,800
Let me share my screen again
here, OK?

960
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:31,480
I'll go ahead.
And pick up here.

961
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,240
And then whenever you want me to
stop, just say so.

962
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:39,120
Or if I if I I decide to.
Stop.

963
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:39,600
We'll.
We'll.

964
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:44,680
Have a discussion here Again,
have I not instructed you in all

965
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,560
that you know?
And is not this Kingdom

966
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,400
organized and directed by
revelation from me?

967
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,960
Is not it is not called the
King, is it?

968
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,720
Excuse me, is it not called the
Kingdom of God?

969
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,560
If therefore it is not My
Kingdom, why do you make use of

970
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,960
My name and invoke My authority
and My aid?

971
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,520
Is this the king?
Is this Kingdom not?

972
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,920
Called the Kingdom of God and
His laws, with his keys and

973
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,440
powers thereof, and judgment in
the hands of his servants.

974
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:18,320
Christ.
Excuse me, I'm in Christ.

975
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,640
And because I am kind and
beneficent to all people, and

976
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:28,040
because I have given man his
free agency and have always been

977
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:32,320
maintained that agency among all
peoples and have not treated all

978
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,480
men alike among all nations.
Excuse me and have treated.

979
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,560
All men.
Alike among all nations, and

980
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,480
made the sun to shine on the
evil and the good, and on the

981
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:46,560
just and the unjust, and have
never controlled the

982
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:50,440
consciousness of men.
Think ye therefore, that I have

983
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,080
no rights, and will yield up my
authority to the dictates and

984
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,760
caprices of wicked and corrupt
men.

985
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:02,280
Verily I say unto you, Nay, real
quick, Jeff.

986
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,120
I there were.
There was something else here I

987
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:08,440
I wanted to go over.
Let me stop, share on this here

988
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,280
real quick.
First off, yeah, the Lord's

989
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,720
letting him know.
Pretty straightforward, right?

990
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,560
Like, is this my Kingdom or is
this somebody else's?

991
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,480
He's very blunt here with this.
He's trying to to get across

992
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:28,120
that that hey, if if you want to
do my work, then do my work, but

993
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:32,360
don't use my name.
If if you have your own designs

994
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,720
and I think.
This ties in with that.

995
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:39,920
Scripture where it talks about
many will profess in the last

996
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:43,240
days you know didn't did we not
cast out devils in your name?

997
01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:47,440
Did we not heal in your name and
yet Christ still says depart

998
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,400
from me.
I never knew you and so.

999
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:54,160
Sometimes I think I.
Want I wonder if this isn't

1000
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:57,000
really the true meaning of
taking the Lord's name in vain.

1001
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:00,480
I I think.
You're on the right track there

1002
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,160
for sure.
I I feel it's then the way that

1003
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:08,440
we use the name that we've taken
and, and this is the, you know,

1004
01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:11,800
obviously the opposite when,
when he takes the priesthood

1005
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:15,400
from us or when we use
compulsion.

1006
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,800
Upon our fellow man to get.
Whatever it is we want, then we

1007
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:22,040
become in our actions a devil
and we're the opposite of

1008
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,000
Christ.
And if we there invoke his name

1009
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:29,280
in the process of doing this
very thing, you can see how the

1010
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,680
ire and and the you know, he's
getting a little hot out of the

1011
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:39,360
collar here, at least in his
boldness and yet character.

1012
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:44,480
Are we learning something of the
true character of God through

1013
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,120
this scripture and the way how
he really So tell me, how do you

1014
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:53,200
really feel?
Well, it's it's right there and

1015
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,600
and so this is what.
I'm saying, is that these

1016
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:57,160
things?
It's so interesting to me

1017
01:02:57,160 --> 01:03:01,960
because we we have an abundance
in the scriptures of things that

1018
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,200
are just when you hear them and
you read them and you're just

1019
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:09,480
like, wow, you know, you, you
feel a kinship.

1020
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,000
You want to be closer to this
being that is Jesus Christ.

1021
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:18,600
You understand him and so you
read something like this where

1022
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,920
where he's come to his brethren,
his constitution, you know, the

1023
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,160
council of 50 and the, and the,
the 12 and and he's trying to

1024
01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:30,360
share with them.
And you can see it from, you

1025
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,800
know, we could read it angrily.
We could read it softly.

1026
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:37,480
We could, but the content, you
know it, it shows the time, it

1027
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:41,400
shows the urgency and it shows
his willingness to sit down and

1028
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:46,840
converse and teach in as loving
and yet straightforward A manner

1029
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:51,160
as you would want somebody to be
with you if you were errant, if

1030
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,680
you were out of the way.
And he's not calling anybody

1031
01:03:54,680 --> 01:04:00,400
specifically, You know, he's
he's talking to John that's

1032
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:05,120
going, but he's talking to the
whole group and John presents.

1033
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,800
This to the group.
OK, so you got a revelation to

1034
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:10,240
John Taylor.
Then he gets to write it all

1035
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:15,720
down and he's going, oh, OK, I
will.

1036
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:19,360
I'll do this, you know, you if
you've ever been told to do

1037
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,920
something by the Lord that
effects somebody else's life,

1038
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:26,360
it's a horrible feeling because
you know, it just makes you feel

1039
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:30,440
like, is this my right?
Do I, you know, now John had the

1040
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:34,720
right, but I I don't know.
Have you have you ever had the

1041
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:36,680
spirit tell you to go tell
somebody to do something?

1042
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:41,000
Bro I'll.
So I'll I'll share a.

1043
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:42,640
Story here.
I think I may have shared this

1044
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:46,560
already, maybe not.
When Amber and I were on our

1045
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:53,760
last trip, when we went out back
east for our anniversary trip, I

1046
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:55,240
walked into this convenience
store.

1047
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:56,800
I really had to use the
restroom.

1048
01:04:57,120 --> 01:04:59,520
This was getting towards the end
of our trip and we were up in

1049
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:04,560
Maine over by a place called
Orchard Beach.

1050
01:05:06,040 --> 01:05:08,520
And I was like, hey, pull over
here.

1051
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,600
I need to use the restroom and
let's grab, you know, a couple

1052
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,520
Sodis to finish off this drive
sort of a thing.

1053
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:19,360
So we we pull over and I walk
into this convenience store and

1054
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:23,080
Amber starts heading directly to
the bathroom and I walk in and

1055
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,120
there's this big dude.
I mean, he is big.

1056
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,320
Look, you've met me.
I'm not a small man.

1057
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:35,440
And this guy made me look a
little, a little small like it

1058
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:39,120
was, it wasn't even close.
And so he's but he's like

1059
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,000
eyeballing me the whole time I'm
in there.

1060
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,560
And so I'm like sizing him up,
like, yes, he's going to leave a

1061
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,160
mark.
But I suppose if we have to

1062
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:51,400
dance, we'll dance, right?
And he's got, he's got, he's

1063
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:56,600
he's completely inked up, right?
Got got one arm that's

1064
01:05:56,600 --> 01:06:01,880
completely a sleeve.
And he's got the single teardrop

1065
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,840
tattoo coming off his eyes.
I know what that means, right?

1066
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:09,240
I'm like, yeah, here we go.
And so Amber gets out of the

1067
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,960
restroom.
I use the restroom real quick.

1068
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,560
Get out, we grab our stuff.
We get to the register and he's

1069
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,240
right behind me.
And I can feel him staring at me

1070
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,240
and I'm like, this is going to
go South, right?

1071
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,560
I just, I'm like, I hope I'm
wrong.

1072
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:27,480
And I turn around to leave and
he kind of grabs my arm and he

1073
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,640
goes, man, do I know you from
somewhere?

1074
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,040
And I'm like I.
Don't think so I'm.

1075
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:38,880
Like I you ever been to like
Idaho or Utah or, you know, any

1076
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:40,720
of those areas, He's like, no,
never been.

1077
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,360
You just look really familiar.
And I'm like, yeah, no, no

1078
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,200
problem.
And we talked there for a few

1079
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:50,440
minutes and, and, and I just
kind of get a feeling I need to

1080
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:54,440
tell him something, but I don't
know what it is.

1081
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,560
And so I'm like, well, whatever,
I'm on vacation.

1082
01:06:57,640 --> 01:06:59,400
There's no microphone in front
of me.

1083
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,360
I'm, you know, 1000 miles from
home.

1084
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,040
I, you know, just focus on
vacation.

1085
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,040
Have a good time.
And I got out and I took about 3

1086
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,800
steps towards the car and I just
stopped because now I know what

1087
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,720
I got to say.
And Amber, bless her heart, she

1088
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,520
looked at me and she's like go
ahead, go ahead.

1089
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,120
I'll be right here in the car in
the air conditioning.

1090
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:24,520
So I turn around and I go.
I go up to him and I shake his

1091
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:25,600
hand.
I'm like hey man, what's your

1092
01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:30,080
name again?
And he tells me his name and we

1093
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,400
start talking and I said look, I
don't know you.

1094
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:39,520
I won't pretend to know you, but
I just feel real inspired to

1095
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:43,760
tell you.
You don't have to be like your

1096
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:46,600
family.
And this guy?

1097
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,600
I mean big guy, just all.
Of a sudden burst into tears,

1098
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,760
just burst into tears and I'm
thinking, well, I either hit a

1099
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,480
nerve or he's really mad and
he's going to make this hurt is

1100
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,480
my first thought.
And he goes.

1101
01:08:01,640 --> 01:08:06,000
I need to tell you that.
For the past six months I have

1102
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:12,720
been, I have been down real deep
down depression and I said,

1103
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:16,720
well, what's going on?
And he said every one of my

1104
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:20,960
family members have passed away
either due to gang violence,

1105
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:25,640
drugs or alcohol.
I am the last living man in my

1106
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:35,160
line and, and and he goes.
I have wondered if it's just not

1107
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,560
my.
Fate if my family line is just

1108
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:41,760
not cursed and I said look.
For what it's worth, I can tell

1109
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,920
you.
That that doesn't apply to you

1110
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,560
if that is true and you have a
chance.

1111
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,479
And so we sat there and we
talked about Mormonism for a

1112
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:57,240
good 15 minutes, right?
And his wife comes out real nice

1113
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:58,600
lady.
And I find out later they're

1114
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:03,160
actually working for some non
denominational ministry that

1115
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,279
helps old people with food and
that sort of thing.

1116
01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:08,399
Like he's really got out of
prison and turned his life

1117
01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:10,520
around.
But because he's seen every one

1118
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:14,000
of his family members die in
front of him, it's it's messed

1119
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,800
with them.
And so, yeah, I know what it's

1120
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:20,880
like to have to have nothing
like what John Taylor had to do,

1121
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:21,920
right?
That's different.

1122
01:09:22,279 --> 01:09:25,640
But on a small scale, I kind of
get it right.

1123
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:30,319
And those are uncomfortable
moments, man, when we get those,

1124
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,399
like I, I won't lie, I've
certainly missed out on

1125
01:09:33,399 --> 01:09:35,040
opportunities to do more of
that.

1126
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:40,279
And, and I kicked myself in the
rear now for, for having passed

1127
01:09:40,279 --> 01:09:44,840
up those opportunities.
I have made the decision to not

1128
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,680
let that happen anymore, despite
how uncomfortable it is.

1129
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:52,600
But we never know when the
Lord's going to speak to us.

1130
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:58,320
And we have to be so ready to
just let it RIP when it happens

1131
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:00,560
and let the chips fall where we
may, where it may.

1132
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:04,560
And if it seems like we're put
into a bad position, trust the

1133
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:06,800
Lord has gotcha, whatever gotcha
looks like.

1134
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,720
But I think it's so important
that we deliver on that when

1135
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:13,520
when those those thoughts,
feelings and words are placed,

1136
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,440
placed in our heart, especially
for someone else.

1137
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,280
Amen, Brother Dave.
I do want to.

1138
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:26,360
Touch on one other thing here.
And that is again, about free

1139
01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,440
agency.
The Lord says that that he's

1140
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:34,080
given it and he essentially kind
of insinuates that's one thing.

1141
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,160
He, the Lord isn't going to mess
with this man's free agency.

1142
01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:39,800
Once it's given to us, it's,
it's ours.

1143
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:44,040
And I I look at the Savior.
And and.

1144
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:46,960
Especially that time in the
Garden of Gethsemane, right

1145
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:53,840
where he knows it's coming.
Probably doesn't know how bad

1146
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,960
it's going to get.
But he knows it's not going to

1147
01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,560
be great and.
He's asked his.

1148
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,720
Disciples, would you just, would
you just wait up with me?

1149
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,480
And he can't.
Even get his.

1150
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:14,720
Inner circle to stay awake.
And we're told that he's

1151
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:16,760
ministered.
To by an Angel and strengthened

1152
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:23,640
through that and so right before
he says, let this cut pass from

1153
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:27,000
me, but nevertheless not my
will, but thy will be done.

1154
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:35,640
And it's an interesting thing
that the Lord gives us our free

1155
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:40,040
agency and then he.
Wants us to turn that free.

1156
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:46,080
Agency over to him to surrender
our will to to say whatever it

1157
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:51,840
is you want.
So with that in mind, how do we

1158
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,720
get ourselves to a place to
where we can just, we kind of

1159
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:58,000
talked about an instance of it,
right where where maybe we're

1160
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,120
asked to deliver a message to
somebody, or maybe it's

1161
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,800
something as simple as, hey, go
check on brother or sister.

1162
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,840
So and so how do we get to a?
Point to where we can just.

1163
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,280
Surrender our will and just say,
OK, if that's what you want,

1164
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:13,680
let's go do it and then jump in
and go for it.

1165
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,200
You know, I think.
It's interesting growing up.

1166
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:22,920
You hear all those little
stories and things, but one that

1167
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:26,200
sticks with me is is kind of the
you know, what a man does when

1168
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:30,560
he's perceives he's not when he
perceives he's alone.

1169
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:34,680
You know, we have choices times
when, when we're, when nobody's

1170
01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:41,440
watching and because the story
you just shared was that moment

1171
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:48,120
for Christ in the garden
troubles, heavy, spiritual, deep

1172
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,520
things that they didn't
understand completely.

1173
01:12:51,520 --> 01:12:55,000
They, they were aware that
things were going on, but they,

1174
01:12:55,040 --> 01:13:00,200
they slept.
There was, there was nobody when

1175
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:04,480
he had to make that choice, you
know, the, the choice to move

1176
01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:09,400
forward or not.
And so, so it's a, it's an

1177
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,840
interesting thing.
And, and I guess the question

1178
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:16,040
could be asked if he had moved
forward, not that it would have

1179
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:20,160
ever been this way because it's
part of the gospel, but, you

1180
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:24,080
know, can you force a Savior to
atone?

1181
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:25,520
Would it be efficient?
Would it be?

1182
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:30,080
Would it be efficacious?
No, No, you wouldn't think so.

1183
01:13:30,480 --> 01:13:32,720
No, the only reason it.
Has power.

1184
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:35,400
Is because he chose it out of
love.

1185
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,840
That's that's the power that
drives.

1186
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,800
All of it.
And so all of our goodness, all

1187
01:13:40,800 --> 01:13:43,800
of our kindness, even the Lord
says, even if if we pray without

1188
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,600
sincere desire, our prayers rise
up and, you know, basically turn

1189
01:13:47,600 --> 01:13:51,880
against us or to our, to our own
hurt, because we're not praying

1190
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:56,480
with honest intent, then what
else would we be praying for?

1191
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:01,440
For the honors of men to look
good, you know, to, to, for our

1192
01:14:01,440 --> 01:14:05,480
ego, our pride, all of these
things that are that, that tend

1193
01:14:05,480 --> 01:14:10,560
to decay spiritually, Anybody
who, you know, who harbors them

1194
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:13,880
for a long period of time.
So it's just really interesting

1195
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:21,160
the the mechanism, the human
mechanism of freedom to choose

1196
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:25,400
and how that relates to our
salvation, not not just

1197
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:27,680
individually, but the savior and
the gods.

1198
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:33,520
The you know, the our whole
concept of eternity is based

1199
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:38,720
upon choosing good for goodness
sake, you know, nobody watching

1200
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:43,160
and you still chose to be kind.
If there, if you didn't believe

1201
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:46,360
there was a God and you chose to
be kind because it was a good

1202
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,400
thing to do, then there is a
God.

1203
01:14:49,480 --> 01:14:52,640
You know that then it
acknowledges this, this system

1204
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:55,920
and everything outside of that.
But we can't come to that point

1205
01:14:55,960 --> 01:15:00,400
until we've made choice after
choice after choice and learn

1206
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,440
for our self, the peace and the
spirit.

1207
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:08,680
And that comes from doing
goodness because it's the right

1208
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:10,040
thing, not because you were
commanded.

1209
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:13,880
You know, there's, you know, DNC
5826 that talks about being

1210
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,520
compelled in all things and you
know, you don't, you don't, you

1211
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,920
just don't learn much nor does
it, nor does it do any good for

1212
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:23,120
you.
No, 100% I agree with you

1213
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:26,440
totally.
I think I think that's really

1214
01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:31,560
our quest right as learning how
to surrender that will and it's

1215
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:36,800
it's not an easy thing to do.
It takes takes practice, right?

1216
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:42,640
And you, you played sports
right, Jeff, I don't.

1217
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:45,440
Know about you, but.
Because I participated in

1218
01:15:45,440 --> 01:15:49,480
athletics, I'm a big believer in
momentum, right?

1219
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:53,880
Is that sometimes the game or
the match just doesn't come to

1220
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:57,680
you as easily as it normally
does, and everything's a

1221
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:00,240
struggle.
But you keep trying and you keep

1222
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,080
working, and pretty soon
something clicks, right?

1223
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:07,120
Maybe it's just one play, but
all of a sudden you start

1224
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:08,240
building.
On that one play.

1225
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:13,000
Maybe it's just a run for three
yards, OK, then you then maybe

1226
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,000
you get a short pass for six
yards.

1227
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:18,160
OK, You know, we're, we're close
to a first down now.

1228
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,120
Here we go.
We're, we're in business.

1229
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:24,720
We're moving.
Just like there's a momentum to

1230
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,160
a game.
I think there's a momentum to

1231
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:30,200
our lives.
And that momentum is going to

1232
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:33,280
ebb and flow at times.
And that's where discipline

1233
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:35,480
comes in.
And it's important to note that

1234
01:16:35,480 --> 01:16:39,680
the root word of disciple is
discipline, meaning that, that

1235
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,680
we have to stay focused.
But if we just keep going, we

1236
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:47,080
just keep trying, momentum will
take over at some point.

1237
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:51,280
And it won't necessarily be
easy, but it'll be easier to, to

1238
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:55,120
do those things that we need to
do in order to surrender that

1239
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,360
will will fully to God and let
him work through US.

1240
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,960
I, I think that is what we're
called here to do.

1241
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:04,440
I agree.
It's the it's the spiritual

1242
01:17:04,440 --> 01:17:05,680
side.
And you've touched on the

1243
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,760
physical side, which is, you
know, is tied to our happiness

1244
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:13,760
as well.
It's it's a part of becoming

1245
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:17,640
better and.
Using to become.

1246
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:23,520
Better and so in our pursuit of
of becoming the kind of person.

1247
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,880
That that we can.
Be, you know, we taught our

1248
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:29,720
whole lives that we're a son of
the very Father in heaven and,

1249
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:35,880
and he's sent us here to, to
choose to gain his attributes

1250
01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:38,080
because it's the right thing,
because he wants us to grow up,

1251
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:39,920
you know, the good side of
things.

1252
01:17:40,680 --> 01:17:45,520
And when you pursue something
for an ulterior motive, but you

1253
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:50,520
stick with it, eventually it's
replaced with love of the game,

1254
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:56,000
love of the, well, that's a bad
word, love of what it does to

1255
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:01,560
you, love of who you become.
And.

1256
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,920
And I think the gospel is.
Very much the same when we, when

1257
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:10,880
we introduce principles and then
we apply them, then we we grow.

1258
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:14,280
We grow because they're good,
because that's what it does to a

1259
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,560
human being to be nice and kind,
to make a choice that may be

1260
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,480
hard, but then you see how it
affects somebody or yourself.

1261
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,720
And then you do it because it's
just the right thing to do.

1262
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:28,440
And it becomes, it becomes you
and I, I think that's, that's

1263
01:18:28,440 --> 01:18:30,800
kind of, you know, in the New
Testament, it talks about that

1264
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,200
we look through a glass darkly
and what does not yet appear

1265
01:18:33,480 --> 01:18:35,840
what we shall be.
But when he shall appear, we

1266
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,360
shall see that we have become
like him.

1267
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:42,600
You know, if we continue on
doing the things that are laid

1268
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:48,120
before us, the experiences of
that will make us that type of

1269
01:18:48,120 --> 01:18:51,480
person.
So absolutely.

1270
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:53,640
All right.
Let's move on.

1271
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,000
You ready?
All right.

1272
01:18:59,120 --> 01:19:00,680
I'll.
I'll pick up here.

1273
01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:04,760
Looks like I need to move my
pages over a little bit.

1274
01:19:04,840 --> 01:19:09,520
There we go.
Behold, Satan sought to take

1275
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:11,400
away.
The free agency of man in the

1276
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,360
beginning, for which 'cause he
was thrust out of heaven, and

1277
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:19,600
was and has sought to.
Introduce the same.

1278
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:23,640
Principles upon the earth?
Which principles are opposed to

1279
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:28,080
me, to my institutions and my
laws, and to the freedom and the

1280
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:33,920
welfare and happiness of man?
And by which principles?

1281
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:36,880
Of the Government of the United.
States sought to deprive my

1282
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,920
people of their free agency.
And because men have been under

1283
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:43,200
the influence and power and
dominion of Lucifer, and because

1284
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:47,360
tyranny and oppression and evil
abounded by him and not by me,

1285
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:51,280
saith the Lord your God, shall
righteousness and justice, and

1286
01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:55,200
judgment, and truth, and virtue
and holiness be forever trampled

1287
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:58,480
under foot, and the principles
of tyranny, oppression and

1288
01:19:58,480 --> 01:20:03,280
misrule, and anarchy, deception
and fraud, forever prevail?

1289
01:20:03,480 --> 01:20:07,360
Verily I say unto you, Nay.
And for this cause have I

1290
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:11,520
introduced my Church and my
Kingdom that pure and righteous

1291
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:17,240
principles may be in.
Inculcated and man by his free

1292
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:20,000
agency yield a willing obedience
to my law.

1293
01:20:20,480 --> 01:20:24,760
For after this testimony and the
rejection thereof, I will sweep

1294
01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:29,640
the earth of evil doers, as with
Bessem, which is kind of a broom

1295
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,880
of destruction.
For this is my right.

1296
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:37,400
And while man has his free
agency, judgments belong to me,

1297
01:20:37,480 --> 01:20:41,480
saith the Lord.
And I will and I will come out

1298
01:20:41,520 --> 01:20:46,360
of my hiding place and vex the
nations of the earth because of

1299
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:49,880
their iniquities, their misrule,
their tyranny, their oppression,

1300
01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:53,480
their corruption, their murders,
their adulteries, and their

1301
01:20:53,480 --> 01:20:56,400
fornications and all
abominations.

1302
01:20:57,400 --> 01:20:58,960
Let's stop right there for a
second.

1303
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:00,160
Jeff.
What?

1304
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:04,160
What are you picking up there?
Remember how it just a few

1305
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:05,280
minutes?
Ago I said that he.

1306
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:09,560
You know, he kind of said in
that day when they, you know, in

1307
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:13,160
that day when they reject the
fullness of my gospel and how,

1308
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:15,320
you know, I don't know that the
Lord slips.

1309
01:21:15,440 --> 01:21:19,720
I think it's just his
intelligence saying, you know,

1310
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:21,800
and then he then he kind of
backtracked and said, well, if

1311
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:26,360
you repent, you can, this isn't
going to happen, right, Right.

1312
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:28,600
But but this is pretty.
Darn.

1313
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:33,480
Interesting because he said for
after this testimony and the

1314
01:21:33,480 --> 01:21:37,000
rejection thereof, what
testimony are you speaking?

1315
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:40,360
Of his testimony.
The testimony was he created the

1316
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:44,000
gospel so there would be
freedom, and then here comes the

1317
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,000
government.
And say.

1318
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:49,720
Over and Lucifer and and and
then he displays all the words

1319
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:52,920
that he was trying to introduce
versus all the words that have

1320
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:55,360
been introduced and that all of
us have been brought up under

1321
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:58,360
for our whole lifetime.
And it is the government of the

1322
01:21:58,360 --> 01:22:02,280
United States.
It's run by Lucifer.

1323
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:06,160
I'm sorry.
And nothing's changed since the

1324
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:07,640
days of Joseph and his
martyrdom.

1325
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:11,000
Not one thing.
There's never been a time where,

1326
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,200
you know, they've thrown out the
principles of the Constitution.

1327
01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:18,000
And yet in here the Lord has
said in this very thing, I

1328
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:22,120
raised you up for this purpose
and you will yet obtain it, but

1329
01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:26,560
I will sweep the world clean
because they are going to reject

1330
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,800
this testimony.
Is that is that not, am I

1331
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,440
reading that wrong or did the
Lord just say after this

1332
01:22:32,440 --> 01:22:34,160
testimony and the rejection
thereof?

1333
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:38,080
Yeah, that not.
Him saying this isn't going to.

1334
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:42,880
Work guys, until I sweep off,
until, until I cleanse the world

1335
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:45,840
and then Zion will be built.
Yep.

1336
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,280
Yep.
So you mentioned.

1337
01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:52,520
Earlier, it's the same fight
that Joseph was fighting.

1338
01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:55,400
I'll take it a step back further
because the Lord says so.

1339
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:01,800
This is the first fight, right?
We the the fight hasn't changed.

1340
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:05,680
The the point of contention is
not different, right?

1341
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:10,600
It is, can man rule himself, and
if so, how far can he go?

1342
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:15,600
That is the question.
And we have to be cognizant of

1343
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,960
that, that this is the first
fight.

1344
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:24,120
This is not some new invention.
This has always been the

1345
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:27,560
question.
This has been the question, can

1346
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:32,480
man rule himself and still get
back to where he wants to be or

1347
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:37,360
or the attain the goal that he
wants without someone standing

1348
01:23:37,360 --> 01:23:41,240
over the top of him?
Now there's one other verse

1349
01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:43,600
here, and it starts in verse 29
there.

1350
01:23:46,080 --> 01:23:48,160
You know, Lord says this, and
this I find.

1351
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:52,960
Interesting.
He just goes through in that

1352
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:57,320
paragraph above and the Lord
lays out, you know, shall

1353
01:23:57,320 --> 01:24:00,240
righteousness and justice and
judgment and truth and virtue

1354
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:04,160
and holiness forever be trampled
under foot, and the principles

1355
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,600
of tyranny and oppression and
misrule and anarchy, deception

1356
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:12,360
and fraud, forever prevail.
Verily I say unto you, Nay, Lord

1357
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:13,720
said, those things won't
continue.

1358
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:17,280
And then that first line in that
next paragraph.

1359
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:22,600
And for this cause have I
introduced my Church and my

1360
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:29,040
Kingdom, that pure and righteous
principles may be in inculcated

1361
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:35,040
and man by his free agency
yielding up, yielding a willing

1362
01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:41,720
obedience to my law.
The whole point of if you take

1363
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,200
the Lord here.
Right, I shouldn't say the.

1364
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:52,280
Whole point, but maybe one of
the big thrusts here is is of of

1365
01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:53,840
restoring.
The Church in the Kingdom.

1366
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:58,320
Is to kind of shake the powers
of hell itself right?

1367
01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,240
To safeguard.
The agency of.

1368
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:05,320
Man, I find that so fascinating.
And he doesn't say for Mormons,

1369
01:25:05,520 --> 01:25:09,320
he says for everybody, right?
This is the whole reason this

1370
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:13,200
came along.
And I thought, man, as Joseph

1371
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:17,480
continued to to learn and grow
and develop, and this

1372
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:22,080
realization rests on him.
Whoo, right, like.

1373
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,280
And and this is.
Part of his prophetic mission,

1374
01:25:25,480 --> 01:25:29,240
this is what he is called to do,
is to safeguard those

1375
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:33,560
institutions.
There's a a terrific quote from

1376
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:39,800
Joseph Smith out in front of the
the little gift shop there in

1377
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:43,360
Nauvoo.
It's a little placard and I wish

1378
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:47,040
I had it in front of me because
I'd rather just read it.

1379
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,480
But I'm going to try to to make
a quick quote here.

1380
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:56,240
Towards the end of it, he says
future generations will look to

1381
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:59,360
what we've done here and laying
the foundation right.

1382
01:25:59,960 --> 01:26:03,080
Joseph isn't even pretending
that he's close to done.

1383
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:06,080
He says we got the foundation
down, but it's going to be to

1384
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:10,360
other generations to build up
from that foundation.

1385
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:16,040
And he says one of its main
reasons is to shake the very

1386
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:22,560
powers of, of, of hell, right
and darkness and to dispel that.

1387
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:26,360
I think that's so important as
we keep keep this in mind as we

1388
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:30,040
go forward, that this is
something that the Lord is very

1389
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:35,520
concerned with, this idea of,
of, of preserving man's agency

1390
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:39,960
as well as getting rid of the
bad actors when the Lord sees

1391
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:43,320
fit to do that.
I agree.

1392
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:44,800
I do.
I think it's.

1393
01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:49,440
Really interesting in this next
this next verse here where he,

1394
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:53,120
the Lord now kind of shifts a
little bit of gears and he

1395
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:56,640
starts to talk about his own,
you know, talk about his

1396
01:26:56,640 --> 01:27:00,200
feelings towards Joseph.
And, you know, to me, it's like

1397
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:02,760
a friend turning and saying, let
me tell you a little bit about

1398
01:27:02,760 --> 01:27:08,000
this person, you know, and you
were talking earlier about

1399
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:11,800
people who have started to throw
shade, you know, on the early

1400
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:14,680
brethren, right.
And then it's been going on

1401
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:16,080
forever because you have to
discredit them.

1402
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:23,080
But here is the Lord's feelings
about Joseph.

1403
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:28,200
Yeah, Yep, I found.
I found I do have.

1404
01:27:28,200 --> 01:27:30,160
It I found this this thing from
Joseph.

1405
01:27:30,160 --> 01:27:31,480
You mind if I read it real
quick?

1406
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,080
Write it.
This comes from.

1407
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:38,880
May 2nd. 1842 in Nauvoo, not
very long before he's he's

1408
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:43,920
assassinated the blessings of
the most.

1409
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:47,320
High will rest upon our.
Tabernacles and our name will be

1410
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:52,200
handed down to future ages, our
children will rise up and call

1411
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:56,800
us blessed, and generations yet
unborn will dwell with peculiar

1412
01:27:56,800 --> 01:28:02,640
delight upon that we have passed
through the privations that we

1413
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:07,280
have endured, the untiring zeal
that we have manifested, the

1414
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:11,200
unsurmountable difficulties that
we have over that we have

1415
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:15,200
overcome in laying the
foundation of a work that

1416
01:28:15,200 --> 01:28:19,200
brought about the glory and
blessings which they will

1417
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:22,800
realize.
A work that God and angels have

1418
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:28,320
contemplated with the light for
generations past, that fired the

1419
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:31,400
souls of the ancient patriarchs
and prophets.

1420
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:36,520
A work that is destined to bring
about the destructions of the

1421
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:40,400
powers of darkness and the
renovation of the earth and the

1422
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:44,320
glory of God and the salvation
of the human family.

1423
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:48,280
That.
Again, he gets to Nauvoo.

1424
01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,480
He's operating on a different
level.

1425
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:56,880
Something happens through those
those trials and those those

1426
01:28:57,160 --> 01:29:02,080
persecutions in Missouri and he
comes out and the Lord has

1427
01:29:02,320 --> 01:29:06,720
opened his vision and he's now
looking at this as this isn't

1428
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,440
just a church, this is the
Kingdom.

1429
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:13,240
This is what we've been praying
for and we've got the

1430
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:16,600
foundations laid.
And when it's all over, it will

1431
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:22,480
defeat the powers of darkness.
And I feel like as Mormons,

1432
01:29:22,480 --> 01:29:25,640
we've lost that.
Fire a little bit and we have to

1433
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:29,440
go back and we have to capture
that and go forward with that

1434
01:29:29,440 --> 01:29:32,280
idea.
We have a divine mandate from

1435
01:29:32,280 --> 01:29:37,560
God to to do that peacefully, I
might add.

1436
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:40,960
Nobody, nobody get a gun.
I think that's what the Lord's.

1437
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,960
Doing here at this very moment
is a check you know he's having

1438
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:48,280
a coaches meeting with the
players and he's trying to help

1439
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:54,040
him through a a very a very
great locker room before game

1440
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:59,200
chat that.
Let me tell you what.

1441
01:29:59,200 --> 01:30:02,560
This is about let me tell you
who I am.

1442
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:04,200
Here I am.
Here you are.

1443
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:07,200
We're in this together.
We're gathered here.

1444
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:15,480
Keep keep your eye focused.
Keep the, you know, keep my.

1445
01:30:15,880 --> 01:30:16,760
Obey me.
His.

1446
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,360
His his final words, you know,
as we'll get to the end here is

1447
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,440
just do what I say and we'll be
fine.

1448
01:30:23,440 --> 01:30:25,680
Absolutely.
And so it's an interesting

1449
01:30:25,680 --> 01:30:27,680
little fired up speech here for
sure.

1450
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:30,960
Yeah, totally.
All right, should.

1451
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:34,440
We move on, yeah.
All right.

1452
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:37,880
Let me do my.
Share screen thing.

1453
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:40,960
All right, Jeff, you want to you
want to take off on the next

1454
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:42,720
one?
Well, I will.

1455
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:50,560
And because my servant, Joseph.
Whose soul was pained as of

1456
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:55,080
their cruelty and oppression,
The injustice, fraud and

1457
01:30:55,080 --> 01:30:57,280
corruption, and the inhumanity
of men.

1458
01:30:57,280 --> 01:31:02,040
Proclaimed himself the advocate
of human rights, the advocate of

1459
01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:05,880
liberty, and the friend of man.
And because, according to My

1460
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:09,600
eternal decrees, the free agency
of man should be guaranteed to

1461
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:14,120
all men, I moved upon him to
introduce and to My Kingdom

1462
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:18,440
certain parties not in My
Church, for the purpose of

1463
01:31:18,440 --> 01:31:22,120
exhibiting unto My Kingdom that
I would still maintain the free

1464
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:26,960
agency of man, and that I hold
inviolate that principle, and

1465
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:28,920
will still maintain it to the
end.

1466
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,360
Thank you, therefore, that
because they are thus admitted

1467
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:36,000
to a share in My government and
My laws, that they shall be

1468
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,840
permitted to break their
covenants, violate their

1469
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:43,280
obligations, and reject Me and
My laws and authority, and seek

1470
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:47,080
to overthrow the Kingdom of God,
and deprive My people who are

1471
01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:52,840
contending for freedom, and who
shall yet maintain it of their

1472
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:57,040
agency and of My laws.
Verily I say unto you, Nay, they

1473
01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:01,120
may be admitted to the rights of
representation in the manner

1474
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:05,160
appointed, after subscribing to
my covenants and commandments,

1475
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:08,240
and have a full and free
opportunity to presenting their

1476
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:11,360
views, interests, and
principles, and enjoying all the

1477
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:13,040
freedom and rights of this
Council.

1478
01:32:13,280 --> 01:32:16,480
But they shall acknowledge Me in
my laws, in this Council, saith

1479
01:32:16,480 --> 01:32:19,440
the Lord God.
For my people's rights and

1480
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:23,280
immunities and free agency shall
be acknowledged as well as those

1481
01:32:23,280 --> 01:32:26,760
of all other people, and my laws
and government shall be

1482
01:32:26,760 --> 01:32:31,000
sustained, or I will not
acknowledge you, saith the Lord.

1483
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:34,600
I have invested you with the
keys and the power of my

1484
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:38,200
Kingdom, and they cannot be
bartered away to others.

1485
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:41,880
Shall all men be free?
Yes.

1486
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:46,520
Free to do right, free to
express their sentiments and

1487
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:51,080
opinions, and have a full and
fair and free representation.

1488
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,680
But no man shall violate his
covenants, pervert my laws,

1489
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:58,080
subvert others free agency, and
trample upon mine authority in

1490
01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:01,120
this council, saith the Lord
your God.

1491
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:06,520
Again I say unto you, as I said
before, henceforth do as I shall

1492
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,840
command you, saith the Lord your
God.

1493
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:10,800
Even so.
Amen.

1494
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:14,680
Amen.
Very, very interesting.

1495
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:16,920
Dave, you know.
One of the favorite.

1496
01:33:19,320 --> 01:33:21,600
Quotes to me out of all the Book
of Mormon.

1497
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:27,920
Was when Ammon was brought.
Before King Lemoni.

1498
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:35,600
And offers him out self up as a
servant and you know, and Lemoni

1499
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:43,080
is trying to figure out what to
do with this guy and he just

1500
01:33:43,080 --> 01:33:44,320
offered himself to be the
servant.

1501
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:47,480
Of a.
Of a foreign king and.

1502
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:53,760
Basically.
Ammon tells him I will do

1503
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:55,320
anything that.
You ask of me, O.

1504
01:33:55,320 --> 01:34:00,200
King, that is right.
Right.

1505
01:34:00,520 --> 01:34:02,200
Once again, he's he's not
willing.

1506
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:07,160
To forego his his free agency to
do what's right.

1507
01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:11,240
He's willing to serve for the
rest of his life under this king

1508
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,520
as long as he doesn't ask him to
do anything wrong.

1509
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:18,560
How many, how many of us get in
a position with our work, get in

1510
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:22,960
a position with whatever we're
doing, and then we're asked to

1511
01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:26,240
do something wrong and we
basically are are excuses.

1512
01:34:26,240 --> 01:34:29,560
Well, I had to.
I, I, it wasn't my choice.

1513
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:32,600
I didn't have a choice.
Yes, you do.

1514
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:36,560
We all do.
You might have to quit your job.

1515
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:40,160
You might have to move.
You might have to tell a good

1516
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:42,160
friend that you're not such a
good friend anymore because

1517
01:34:42,160 --> 01:34:43,800
you're asking me to do something
that's evil.

1518
01:34:44,120 --> 01:34:47,160
You know, whatever and and yet
it takes us a long time to

1519
01:34:47,160 --> 01:34:50,720
understand this because peer
pressure and the fear of the

1520
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:54,400
fear of men as it talks about
and you know, DNC 121 and other

1521
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:56,600
places.
But for whatever purpose, we

1522
01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:01,280
have to get to the point where
we say I'll I'll serve you, but

1523
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:03,000
I won't.
Do what's wrong?

1524
01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:06,720
You know, I'll, I'll, if, if
you're dealing with a, an

1525
01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:09,080
employer, how many of us would
dare tell our employer?

1526
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:13,640
Well, I, I'm sorry, I don't, I
don't believe in that, you know,

1527
01:35:14,440 --> 01:35:17,720
whatever.
And then we, we start to, you

1528
01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:20,880
know, sell off a part of our
heritage for a mess of pottage

1529
01:35:20,880 --> 01:35:23,040
or whatever, you know, our, our
covenants.

1530
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:28,240
But I think that that that
revelation that we just went

1531
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:34,160
through is just so, so powerful
on the display that the Savior

1532
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:39,400
gave of his, of the true nature
of of himself, which is the true

1533
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:42,000
nature of his Father and
fathers.

1534
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:45,800
Before that, it's the
representation of the gospel of

1535
01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:48,920
Jesus Christ, which is eternity,
which is life, which is

1536
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:54,920
salvation.
Anything outside of that level?

1537
01:35:55,280 --> 01:36:01,640
Of commitment to truth.
Is death and decay and it's just

1538
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:04,520
a natural law.
You know, God says if I tell a

1539
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:09,160
lie, I cease to become God.
I I'm done and and we don't

1540
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:12,040
think that when the Lord says
that if he'll give you the you

1541
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:14,760
know, you're called many, many
can have this power and this

1542
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:20,760
priesthood put upon them.
But the minute you undertake to

1543
01:36:20,760 --> 01:36:23,520
take away somebody else's
agency, the heavens are grieved.

1544
01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:24,960
You've lost your priesthood
anyway.

1545
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:28,440
Yep, Yep.
Fighting all of us to.

1546
01:36:28,440 --> 01:36:35,760
The very core you know to.
Go along with this thing about

1547
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:39,280
doing the right.
Thing even when it's not.

1548
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:41,280
Easy.
Or maybe when it's not

1549
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:44,840
expedient, right to whatever
you're at.

1550
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:48,920
Yeah.
I've told this story before, but

1551
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:54,480
I think it it bears repeating in
this context about doing what's

1552
01:36:54,480 --> 01:36:57,600
right even when you know it's
going to hurt a little bit.

1553
01:36:58,720 --> 01:37:01,560
Yeah.
I was a weird kid growing up,

1554
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:05,440
right I.
Was the kind of kid that would

1555
01:37:05,440 --> 01:37:07,040
party.
Pretty hard play some.

1556
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:12,040
Football and then go home in my
spare time and continue my

1557
01:37:12,040 --> 01:37:15,040
search for God.
Find out what happened to my old

1558
01:37:15,040 --> 01:37:23,440
man I I read everything from the
Bible to the Quran to.

1559
01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:26,800
To the Baga.
DaVita I mean like I went deep

1560
01:37:28,480 --> 01:37:30,400
and.
As I read things.

1561
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:34,000
There were certain things that
were universal throughout right

1562
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:37,120
and usually a healthy respective
life was right there.

1563
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:41,360
And so I on on the abortion
issue, I was always right of

1564
01:37:41,360 --> 01:37:44,560
center.
And then I adopted my twins and

1565
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,640
when we adopted our twins, they
were just in horrible condition

1566
01:37:48,040 --> 01:37:52,400
because they had been exposed to
meth and utero and just

1567
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:57,520
overwhelming problems.
And then I saw them fight for

1568
01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:01,480
every breath and scrap for every
advancement.

1569
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:06,760
And it really drove it home even
harder that like this is this is

1570
01:38:06,760 --> 01:38:09,560
mankind's default setting,
right?

1571
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:13,880
We can see that in our bodies.
They continually try to heal no

1572
01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:17,640
matter what.
It's this idea that that we

1573
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:20,000
always cling to life.
And so that really impressed

1574
01:38:20,080 --> 01:38:24,600
that made me way right a center
when it came to that, that

1575
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:27,440
debate.
And I remember.

1576
01:38:27,440 --> 01:38:31,360
Where I was, I was in.
My work truck and I was on a

1577
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:36,440
site when there was just like my
phone blew up and I started

1578
01:38:36,440 --> 01:38:39,440
looking and the Dobbs decision
got leaked early, which

1579
01:38:39,440 --> 01:38:42,440
basically, you know, overturned
Roe V Wade.

1580
01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:47,280
And I was just, I wept in my
truck, Jeff.

1581
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:51,400
I I wept because I never thought
I'd see it.

1582
01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:55,960
And I remember I went home that
night and I went up to my office

1583
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:59,840
and I just got on my knees and I
said a prayer of Thanksgiving

1584
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:03,760
that the Lord had gotten rid of
abortion because I'm slow,

1585
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:06,960
right?
And normally I'm the kind of guy

1586
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:11,160
that takes, takes, you know,
half a day, maybe a full day to

1587
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:13,680
get an answer to my prayer, most
prayers, right?

1588
01:39:14,480 --> 01:39:19,200
This one was instant, Jeff.
And the answer I got was not

1589
01:39:19,200 --> 01:39:23,200
what I expected.
And it was abortion's not gone.

1590
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:28,720
All I've done is given the
people a right to choose and I

1591
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:30,600
remember.
I was startled, right I was.

1592
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,040
Like, oh, where'd that come
from?

1593
01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:34,800
That doesn't feel right.
So I went back through and I

1594
01:39:34,800 --> 01:39:39,840
read the decision more closely.
Didn't get rid of it, just

1595
01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:44,560
returned that that that bit of
legislation back to the states

1596
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:49,640
where it belonged.
Now, some states had trigger

1597
01:39:49,640 --> 01:39:55,000
laws on the books where as soon
as Roe V Wade was overturned,

1598
01:39:56,600 --> 01:40:00,240
abortion was done in the state
or darn near done, right?

1599
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:03,640
A few very weird circumstances
that would exist.

1600
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:06,280
The health of the mother, you
know, life of the mother, that

1601
01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:11,680
sort of thing.
And then we saw certain.

1602
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:16,920
States like California, New
York, Virginia, little off the

1603
01:40:16,920 --> 01:40:18,480
rails.
And they were talking about

1604
01:40:18,480 --> 01:40:23,200
essentially infanticide, right?
That if a baby was born, that

1605
01:40:23,200 --> 01:40:26,680
maybe they should reserve the
right to humanely put that child

1606
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:31,400
down.
And it got me really thinking,

1607
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,800
like, what would I do if I lived
in one of those states?

1608
01:40:35,040 --> 01:40:36,720
This before you didn't.
Have a choice.

1609
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:38,920
The gut, the.
Feds would just take your money,

1610
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:41,280
right?
And just take your money.

1611
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:43,840
And it would devote it to
whatever abortion Millet wanted,

1612
01:40:44,080 --> 01:40:47,680
usually Planned Parenthood.
Right now it's a.

1613
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:52,800
State issue, right?
Now you know which states are

1614
01:40:52,800 --> 01:40:58,160
off the rails.
If the Lord is giving people an.

1615
01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:03,920
Opportunity to choose boy, if
you live in California, New

1616
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:10,280
York, Virginia, any of those
other crazy states might be.

1617
01:41:10,280 --> 01:41:15,320
Time to look to move.
Because when judgments come,

1618
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:18,520
there will be an.
Accounting for that.

1619
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:21,920
And I remember I.
Was talking to a good friend.

1620
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:27,120
About this, who lived in
Virginia and he's like, I don't

1621
01:41:27,120 --> 01:41:29,320
know, No, excuse me, New York.
He lived just outside of

1622
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:31,960
Brooklyn.
He's like, man, I, I don't know

1623
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,920
what to do and I'm like, well, I
think you should move He's like

1624
01:41:35,120 --> 01:41:38,960
Dave, my my job is here, my kids
go to school here.

1625
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:42,200
I'm like, right, Yeah, but
you're consciously.

1626
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:46,240
Making the choice now.
And what are you making the

1627
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:50,680
choice over?
Because it's convenient?

1628
01:41:51,320 --> 01:41:56,000
Like if you were living in in
World War 2 Germany, I would

1629
01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,080
hope you would make the decision
to get out right?

1630
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:00,120
Like this.
This isn't great.

1631
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:04,520
And I don't mean to sound
cavalier about it.

1632
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:07,240
I understand that these are hard
things.

1633
01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:10,280
But we're talking about issues
of life.

1634
01:42:11,320 --> 01:42:14,200
And so, yeah, we might have to
make some uncomfortable

1635
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:16,440
decisions.
We might have to do the

1636
01:42:16,440 --> 01:42:20,200
uncomfortable thing.
But nonetheless, I think it's

1637
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:23,720
required of us if we're going to
use the title disciple of, of

1638
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:28,320
Jesus Christ, that we make those
decisions even when they're

1639
01:42:28,320 --> 01:42:31,920
hard, even when it's going to
cause us discomfort.

1640
01:42:33,360 --> 01:42:35,080
Now, fortunately.
For my friend.

1641
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:40,440
COVID came along and he was
working remote and he could

1642
01:42:40,440 --> 01:42:42,960
pitch it to his employers.
If I'm working remote now, why

1643
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:46,360
can't I remote work remote from
a different location?

1644
01:42:47,440 --> 01:42:49,040
Well, I guess you're right.
I guess you can.

1645
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:52,400
So it all played.
Out well for him.

1646
01:42:53,520 --> 01:42:57,320
But even if it hadn't, I still
think it would would have been a

1647
01:42:57,320 --> 01:43:06,920
move worth making.
Yep, Yep, I agree and so.

1648
01:43:06,920 --> 01:43:12,240
As as we wrap up this.
This one section here, I think

1649
01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:16,360
there's there's a couple big
takeaways that at least for me

1650
01:43:16,360 --> 01:43:18,600
personally, right?
I'm not going to pretend to

1651
01:43:18,600 --> 01:43:22,520
speak for the audience or you or
anyone else, but for me it was I

1652
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:25,920
got to work harder at being
chosen, just not called.

1653
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:29,640
And I have to.
Keep in my mind.

1654
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:33,440
That our ministry is not simply
to other Mormons.

1655
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:36,880
If we're going to need to be a
disciple of Jesus Christ and

1656
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:40,480
adhere to the principles of the
restoration, I think we have to

1657
01:43:40,480 --> 01:43:43,560
understand that our ministry
goes to all men.

1658
01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:47,680
The Lord, the Lord said as much.
It goes to all men.

1659
01:43:48,320 --> 01:43:53,480
And we have a duty as well to
call out error and darkness when

1660
01:43:53,480 --> 01:43:55,920
we see it.
And I'll turn the rest over to

1661
01:43:55,920 --> 01:43:59,560
you to wrap this up.
I was just There might be some

1662
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:01,200
of your.
Listeners, Dave, because I I

1663
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:06,120
didn't understand very much at
all for the first, you know, 35

1664
01:44:06,120 --> 01:44:12,640
years of my life about the
Council of 50 and realized.

1665
01:44:12,640 --> 01:44:16,920
That the Council of 50.
Was the Kingdom of God and that

1666
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,520
it was a political organization
and here's the Lord himself in

1667
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,160
this revelation of John Taylor
saying I've done something

1668
01:44:24,160 --> 01:44:29,600
unique here and I've allowed for
non members of the church to

1669
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:32,840
hold a position in the council
of 50.

1670
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:35,280
What were there were two
correctly when during this

1671
01:44:35,280 --> 01:44:37,960
period wasn't there 2?
So there were two members of the

1672
01:44:37,960 --> 01:44:40,400
council of 50 that were not
members of the church and the

1673
01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:44,200
Lord wasn't requiring them.
He did it, as he said, to show

1674
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:48,360
forth his willingness to allow
the world to have a voice on the

1675
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:52,680
governing body that would
protect them in their rights and

1676
01:44:52,680 --> 01:44:55,560
their liberties throughout the
entire world into the

1677
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:58,400
Millennium.
That's the reason why I did it,

1678
01:44:59,320 --> 01:45:01,080
to prove a point.
And it does.

1679
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:04,120
It makes a huge, it's a huge
point that he's saying you don't

1680
01:45:04,120 --> 01:45:07,520
have to join the church to be
worthy of free agency.

1681
01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:10,080
Matter of fact, it's the very
free agency that may allow the

1682
01:45:10,080 --> 01:45:14,200
rest of them to come of their
own free will to the gospel.

1683
01:45:14,720 --> 01:45:18,240
It's the only way to choose it.
He's not going to force it upon

1684
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:18,840
him.
They will.

1685
01:45:19,600 --> 01:45:24,600
Everyone will, by the very
obvious reality of what's

1686
01:45:24,600 --> 01:45:29,400
happening, at least acknowledge
they won't have to follow him,

1687
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:32,240
but they will have to
acknowledge that he is the God

1688
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:35,680
of the universe.
Absolutely.

1689
01:45:36,040 --> 01:45:37,200
But they'll still have a choice
as.

1690
01:45:37,200 --> 01:45:39,240
To whether they want.
To follow him or not.

1691
01:45:40,280 --> 01:45:44,760
So it's really it's just such an
interesting, it goes so deep to

1692
01:45:44,760 --> 01:45:48,360
comprehend.
You know, to me, the takeaways

1693
01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:50,280
are there.
There's just so many.

1694
01:45:50,280 --> 01:45:53,920
But but mostly the the beauty of
the language and the fact that

1695
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:58,920
we get to sit in on, if you
will, locker room discussion

1696
01:45:58,920 --> 01:46:01,960
between the coach and his team
at that time.

1697
01:46:02,640 --> 01:46:07,680
And it shows you his personality
behind the scenes with the guys.

1698
01:46:08,160 --> 01:46:11,360
OK, he's talking to his leaders
and this is what he has to say.

1699
01:46:11,720 --> 01:46:15,360
And we all get a chance to sit
and read it and soak it up and

1700
01:46:15,360 --> 01:46:20,000
go, oh, I wish I could be a part
of that team, you know, But do I

1701
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:23,280
have what it takes?
Do I believe in the principles

1702
01:46:23,280 --> 01:46:26,560
of freedom at the level?
Can I keep his commandments at

1703
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:30,880
that level?
But but it it's just such a an

1704
01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:35,160
exhilarating glimpse into the
personality and the attributes

1705
01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:41,080
of Jesus Christ in 1882,
speaking to John Taylor and and

1706
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:44,040
the governing body of the church
at that time, which were under

1707
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:47,240
heavy fire from Lucifer and the
government.

1708
01:46:49,040 --> 01:46:52,680
And and so it's just so it's so
deep.

1709
01:46:52,680 --> 01:46:58,080
But the under the under score
for me is that everything,

1710
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:04,840
everything in humanity rests
upon our choice will not grow.

1711
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:08,560
We're damned without it.
As Mormons, we believe.

1712
01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:11,720
That if that the.
The nations of the people who

1713
01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:15,680
have not God can't even be
judged because they don't have

1714
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:19,640
anything to be judged by, right?
If they don't understand them

1715
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:21,600
and if they don't have a choice
whether to.

1716
01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:25,400
If you're born in a society that
will not allow you to follow

1717
01:47:27,080 --> 01:47:29,160
Christ.
Then how can you be judged if

1718
01:47:29,160 --> 01:47:29,560
you?
Don't.

1719
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:33,440
So it effectively dams you in
your progress.

1720
01:47:34,720 --> 01:47:43,720
So the the immense reality of it
as just something that is, it's

1721
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:45,960
like spirit.
It existed forever.

1722
01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:49,640
It just is.
Without an intelligent being

1723
01:47:49,640 --> 01:47:51,680
having choice, they cannot
progress.

1724
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:58,200
So what does Satan do?
He controls what's the the.

1725
01:47:58,480 --> 01:48:02,280
Fastest and the quickest way to.
Destruction and damnation is to

1726
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:04,520
control you, so you can't make a
choice.

1727
01:48:06,120 --> 01:48:09,000
Absolutely.
And so we better do a AA.

1728
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:12,440
Double take in our lives on, on
what we do and how we, you know,

1729
01:48:12,440 --> 01:48:15,880
are we manipulators?
Do we try to manipulate

1730
01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:20,440
situations in whatever forms or
whatever power struggles or

1731
01:48:20,440 --> 01:48:26,200
whatever, wherever we're placed?
What do we do to control those

1732
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:27,520
around us, even the ones we
love?

1733
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:31,040
Absolutely.
So anyway, something.

1734
01:48:31,040 --> 01:48:33,240
To think about.
Yeah, absolutely.

1735
01:48:33,680 --> 01:48:35,400
Jeff, this was.
Good stuff, my man.

1736
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:37,840
Well, it's always a pleasure to
chat with you, Dave.

1737
01:48:38,520 --> 01:48:40,440
Yeah, I I feel the same way.
I I.

1738
01:48:41,040 --> 01:48:42,840
Count myself lucky to have you
as a friend.

1739
01:48:42,840 --> 01:48:47,280
So, everybody else, if you're
curious about Jeff's project,

1740
01:48:47,520 --> 01:48:50,080
hit up that e-mail.
I know he'll respond to you

1741
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:54,240
again.
We read this revelation. 125 of

1742
01:48:54,240 --> 01:48:56,120
them are right here in the
restored version.

1743
01:48:56,520 --> 01:49:01,560
You can find that restored
restoredscriptures.org.

1744
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:05,840
I'll put the the the website
address in the show notes.

1745
01:49:06,480 --> 01:49:08,400
Jeff, anything else before we
wrap up?

1746
01:49:10,480 --> 01:49:12,680
No.
It's been fun, God.

1747
01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:16,240
Bless you, God bless everyone,
you too.