“God Moves in a Mysterious Way His Wonders to Perform”
LeGrand Richards April 1977 Sunday Morning Session
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Following the resurrection of the Savior, he walked along the way toward Emmaus with two of his disciples, and we are told that “their eyes were holden that they” didn’t recognize Him.
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He said to them: “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.”
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Then, commencing with Moses and the prophets, He showed them how in all things the prophets had testified of Him; and you know that they did, even to the minutest detail, even to the casting of lots for His clothing at the time of His crucifixion.
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Then Luke tells us that He opened their understandings that they might understand the scriptures.
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I first refer to the statement of Malachi when the Lord, speaking through the prophet Malachi, said that He would send His messenger to prepare the way for His coming, and that He would come swiftly to His temple; and who could abide the day of His coming, because He would be as refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap.
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I first refer to the statement of Malachi when the Lord, speaking through the prophet Malachi, said that He would send His messenger to prepare the way for His coming, and that He would come swiftly to His temple; and who could abide the day of His coming, because He would be as refiner’s fire and fullers’ soap.
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the fulness of times [and we live in that dispensation] he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth.”
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When Moroni visited the Prophet Joseph three times during the night, when he was only eighteen years old and had no church organization, Moroni quoted some of the prophecies that were yet to be fulfilled in the preparation; and one was from the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, where the Lord said that He would “set his hand again the second time to gather scattered Israel, and that He would bring in the dispersed of Judah, and He would “set up an ensign for the nations.” (Isa.
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“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 11: From Judea to Galilee
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Mal. 4:5)
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- Open paragraph (b)
During the period of our Lord’s retirement in the wilderness the Baptist continued his ministry, crying repentance to all who would pause to hear, and administering baptism to such as came duly prepared and asking with right intent.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 6:16)
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- Open paragraph (Revelation 5:6, 8, 12, 13; 6:1, 16; 7:9, 10, 17)
John’s use of the designation “Lamb of God” implied his conception of the Messiah as One appointed for sacrifice, and his use of the term is the earliest mention found in the Bible.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 35: Death and Burial
2 shared verses
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Ps. 22:18)
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- Open paragraph (j)
It appears that under Roman rule, the clothes worn by a condemned person at the time of execution became the perquisites of the executioners.
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- In this talk:
- Open paragraph (Rev. 6:16)
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- Open paragraph (Revelation 6:16)
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar (Life of Christ, p. 645, note), says: “These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places.” A further fulfilment may be yet future.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 41: Personal Manifestations of God the Eternal Father and of His Son Jesus Christ in Modern Times
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- Open paragraph (Eph. 1:10)
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In this wise was ushered in the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times.b The darkness of the long night of apostasy was dispelled; the glory of the heavens once more illumined the world; the silence of centuries was broken; the voice of God was heard again upon the earth.
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- Open paragraph (Isa. 2:3)
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The predicted gathering of Israel from their long dispersion is in progress under the commission given by the Lord through Moses.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return
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- Open paragraph (Mal. 3:1)
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The prophets of both hemispheres, who lived prior to the meridian of time, said comparatively little concerning the Lord’s second coming; their souls were too full of the merciful plan of redemption associated with the Savior’s birth into mortality to permit them to dwell upon the yet more distant consummation appointed for the last days.
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- Open paragraph (Mal. 4:5)
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A characteristic of present-day revelation is the reiteration of the fact that the event is nigh at hand, “even at the doors.” The fateful time is repeatedly designated in scripture, “the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”a Fearful indeed will it be to individuals, families, and nations, who have so far sunk into sin as to have forfeited their claim to mercy.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 10: In the Wilderness of Judea
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- Open paragraph (Mal. 3:1)
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The man was John, son of Zacharias, soon to be known as the Baptist.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 23: The Transfiguration
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- Open paragraph (Mal. 4:5)
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In the present dispensation both the ancient Elias, who belonged to the Abrahamic dispensation and in the spirit of whose office many have officiated in different periods, and also the prophet Elijah, have appeared in person and have conferred their particular and separate authority upon latter-day bearers of the Holy Priesthood, and the keys of the powers exercised by them while on earth are today inherent in the restored Church of Jesus Christ.
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Jesus the Christ
Chapter 5: Earthly Advent of the Christ Predicted
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- Open paragraph (Ps. 22:18)
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Job in the day of dire affliction rejoiced in his testimony of the coming Messiah, and declared with prophetic conviction: “I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”l The songs of David the psalmist abound in oft-recurring allusion to the earthly life of Christ, many circumstances of which are described in detail, and, as to these, corroboration of the utterances is found in New Testament scriptures.m
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