temple stone!
Du 17 And hath gone and served other gods, and
worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host
of heaven, which I have not commanded
Du 18 There shall not be found among you any one
that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth
divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a
witch.
There are seven stars in the sign or constellation of
the Big Dipper on the Salt Lake Temple, explained by President Harold
B. Lee "to represent the great truth that through the
priesthood of God the lost may find their
way." Harold B.Lee, Stand Ye in Holy Places, p. 251
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Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your
Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to
yourselves.
2 Kings 23:5,11 And he
put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained
to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places
round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the
sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all
the host of heaven. And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah
had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by
the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which [was] in the suburbs, and
burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
Enoch, Abraham, and Moses all had revelations on astronomy,
and Joseph Smith called the first newspaper of the Church The Evening
and the Morning Star. Why this preoccupation with the
heavens?
Just as the Savior was born and sacrificed on special Hebrew calendar
days, so was the Prophet Joseph Smith. His birth on Monday, 23
December 1805 coincided with the Hebrew day marking the winter solstice, leading to the suggestion
that it symbolized the return of the light of the gospel to a dark
world.(Proctor, Scot Facer, Witness of the
Light, Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, p. 22)
Moreover, Thursday, 27 June 1844, the day on which the Prophet went "like a
lamb to the slaughter" (D&C 135:4), was one of four Hebrew "days of
atonement " ( the day
of atonement on which joe was "martyed") The
Law of Moses actually required priests to sacrifice two lambs every day: one
in the morning and one in the afternoon (Num. 28:3-8). Because the
Hebrew day begins about sunset, the morning sacrifice was near the meridian
of the 24-hour Hebrew day, and the afternoon sacrifice was near the end of
the day. The morning sacrifice appears to have represented
Jesus Christ, who would come in the meridian of time, and the
afternoon lamb might well have
symbolized the Prophet Joseph
Smith, who came in the latter days and did "more, save Jesus
only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever
lived in it" (D&C 135:3).
Charles Perry Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Blaine,
the resident TT astrologer says, " and the sunstone with the
round-faced image of god". Is god's face round like the sun? Does the
sun
have a face like god's? Does god have a literal face? Are god and
the sun
the same that anyone should combine them in an image? Can you
say "Sun
worship"? "Graven Images"?
"When the suuuuuun is in
the seventh house...and Ju-pi-terrrrr aligns with
Mars.....Peeeeaaaace
will guide the pla-a-nuts, and loooove will guide the
stars, this is
the dawning of the age of aquarius, the age of
aguarius...aquaaaaaaaariuuuus...aquaaaaaaaariiiuuus".
Gee, that
was fun. I haven't sung that since Pluto was in the
doghouse.
Blaine, can you explain what the age of aquarius is, if
we are now in the
age of aquarius, and how that squares with your
mormon beliefs, or how it
does not?
Do you believe Nostradamus
to be an authentic prognosticator of the future?
What evidence do you
have of the truth of his
prophecies?
Thanks,
Perry
