If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Zion and Jerusalem, June 29, 2013

 

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

(New Testament | James 1:5)

 

Langton Chidarara wrote:

Yesterday we meet a guy and he was saying no guys I don't believe that we lived with our heaven father before we came to earth. So, we shared him a few verse in bible and still couldn't agree, but we are going to visit him again and c if we can try to explain to him. it's cool though.

CHIDARARA PEACE BE UNTO YOU.

Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks

(Old Testament | Genesis 43:23)

THIS IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY.

Please think about this and what the implications are. Please ask him when you see him again if he truly believes in GOD. Period. And if not, ask him if he believes in the Devil or if he thinks that the devil exists because one cannot exist without the other. 

Based on those answers you can do the following things…If he does not believe in GOD, it is useless to teach anything else, he won’t get the plan of salvation because he is listening to the devil.  If he does not believe in the devil, as per his own words, you can know that his incredulity goes beyond unbelief or hardness of heart; he is being advised by the devil who is telling him that there is no devil, hell, etc. In other words, he believes more in knowledge or in science like the Gnostics or atheists whether he admits it or not. He is kind of an intellectual know it all type of guy.   

There are only two choices. He believes that GOD is and that we are his children or he must necessarily believe that he is a inbred animal that comes from the monkey in a lengthy evolutionary process. If so, he does not have free agency, he is in bondage of darkness like the cave man that were born in captivity in Plato’s story of the caveman who get angry and beat you up when you lose them and tell them that there is light and a wonderful world outside the cave. There are no in betweens. Because the devil does not have to convince him or anyone that there is no GOD or else, he just have to convince people that he, the devil does not exist. If so, then GOD does not exist and that is how he takes away their free agency. Your friend has no clue about his identity as a son of God that he is made in the likeness and image of GOD. Again, if the devil does not exist for him, automatically GOD does not exist either. And that is how the devil is pulling him with flaxen cord or with his chains of hell.   Here is the law and the testimony or the scriptural basis:

 

“For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell. And behold, others he flattereth away, and telleth them there is no hell; and he saith unto them: I am no devil, for there is none—and thus he whispereth in their ears, until he grasps them with his awful chains, from whence there is no deliverance. Yea, they are grasped with death, and hell; and death, and hell, and the devil, and all that have been seized therewith must stand before the throne of God, and be judged according to their works, from whence they must go into the place prepared for them, even a lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment.”

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 28:20 - 23)

Now to deliver him from the chains of hell, maybe the identity story of Moses, you or me may help him.  In the case of Moses, the devil, whatever the argument, came to tempt him and asked him to worship him as if he was a god, but Moses still had the spirit of GOD and detected him for he had no glory.  So, Moses told him firmly that he was a Son of GOD to the similitude of his only begotten son and once was not enough, he asked him to depart at least thrice. And Moses born record of this but because of wickedness it is not had among the children of men.

 

“Blessed be the name of my God, for his Spirit hath not altogether withdrawn from me, or else where is thy glory, for it is darkness unto me?  And I can judge between thee and God; for God said unto me: Worship God, for him only shalt thou serve. Get thee hence, Satan; deceive me not; for God said unto me: Thou art after the similitude of mine Only Begotten. And he also gave me commandments when he called unto me out of the burning bush, saying: Call upon God in the name of mine Only Begotten, and worship me. And again Moses said: I will not cease to call upon God, I have other things to inquire of him: for his glory has been upon me, wherefore I can judge between him and thee.  Depart hence, Satan.

And now, when Moses had said these words, Satan cried with a loud voice, and ranted upon the earth, and commanded, saying: I am the Only Begotten, worship me.

And it came to pass that Moses began to fear exceedingly; and as he began to fear, he saw the bitterness of hell.  Nevertheless, calling upon God, he received strength, and he commanded, saying: Depart from me, Satan, for this one God only will I worship, which is the God of glory. And now Satan began to tremble, and the earth shook; and Moses received strength, and called upon God, saying: In the name of the Only Begotten, depart hence, Satan. And it came to pass that Satan cried with a loud voice, with weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth; and he departed hence, even from the presence of Moses, that he beheld him not. And now of this thing Moses bore record; but because of wickedness it is not had among the children of men.”

(Pearl of Great Price | Moses 1:15 - 23)

The Devil wanted to confuse Moses about his identity telling him something different like when the scientist tell us that we come from the monkey or are the product of evolution, etc. Moses was a type of scholar, a very smart or intelligent man, he had many unanswered questions, so the devil tough to entice him with words of wisdom or so.  You do not have to tell him all what I am telling you now. This is for your insight only.  And despite or better than the explanations you give to your friend about the pre-existence or the plan of salvation, you have to testify to him that you are a son of GOD made in the likeness and image of GOD. No one can refute a testimony or what you truly believe. And if he does not believe anything at all, it is your testimony that will haunt him for the rest of eternity. And if he goes to hell, that is the only light that he is going to have until he is brought back to face the bar of GOD.  This is what happened to Alma Jr.  After the angel appeared to him, he felt the pains of hell, and in his exquisite suffering, he remembered the testimony of his father when he talked about one Jesus Christ who would come to redeem people from their sins. And he held on to that marvelous thought until he repented and the redemption of Christ made its effect upon him.  Here is the law and the testimony:

 

My soul hath been redeemed from the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity.  I was in the darkest abyss; but now I behold the marvelous light of God.  My soul was racked with eternal torment; but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no more.

(Book of Mormon | Mosiah 27:29)

And now, for three days and for three nights was I racked, even with the pains of a damned soul. And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins, behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a Son of God, to atone for the sins of the world.

(Book of Mormon | Alma 36:16 - 17)

We know that one of the things that the angel commanded Alma to do was to remember the captivity of his fathers, and if possible, all the way back to Egypt. People forget this very often. Yea, we forget the captivity or slavery of our fathers or even our own captivity when we were in bondage of sin.

 

These are the implications of spiritual bondage. In my personal case, I was born in Honduras, C.A.  I am from Lamanite stock or partially descendant of the American Indians. In primary school, from third grade and upwards we are told by the intellectuals in the science books or by our teachers in school that our fathers, the American Indians are a mixtures of many races that came to America by the Straight of Bearing. This is how I look to them:

Right there, they are taking or stealing our identity away because we cannot know for sure where we come from. This results on low self esteem and confusion.  It would have been better had they told us that we are Asian or Middle Eastern, or Black or Anglo-Saxons, or even children of hell and death, but no, they made it worse in a way that we cannot tell who our fathers are.  They are hope killers.   And without knowing where we come from we know not who we are, and where we are going or the extent of our abilities and potential. And this is bondage. This is how the know it all intellectuals keep us low making us believe that we are primitive of third class citizens of the world we live in and that they are superior to us because they are more fit than us. And therefore they are our masters and we should work for them because what is in their brain is not in ours yet, at least, for a few more ions to come. And as a result of lack of identity and purpose in life, they have taken advantage of us for over five hundred and twenty years and counting.  In sum, the devil does not want us to know the covenants and promises that GOD made with our fathers.

O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people?  Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them.  But behold, I will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have not forgotten my people.

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 29:5)

But thanks to the Book of Mormon and the restored church of Jesus Christ who taught me Liberty, I learned the truth. I learned that I am an Israelite from the tribe of Joseph whose children were Half Israelite or Hebrew and Half Egyptians because of Asenath, the wife of Joseph, who was the daughter of Potitpherah, the Hight Priest, when he, Jospeh,  was sold by his brethren in Egypt. And that she was chosen for him because she was of the Royal Loins of Ham thru Onitah.

This is who I AM

Now, most people do not know that but by the revelations of GOD I do, because The LORD named one of my Daughters Like unto Onitah and Asenath< Onatoph She is fair and has dark skinned, and at school many people confuse her. They do not think she is of Hispanic but of black ancestry.  She is the most gracious and tender child.  And I told her that in our family one way or another we are half and half. That she should always remember that Joseph of old married Asenath in Egypt and that therefore we all partake of that noble heritage on both sides of our family. And I also once gave her a patriarchal blessing thru the priesthood and the LORD revealed to me that her traits of virtue come all the way back to the loins of Onitah.  I had no clue so I searched the scriptures and was delighted to find this:

 Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and with the blessings of wisdom, but cursed him as pertaining to the Priesthood.

(Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 1:26)

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.  And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.  And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him. And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

(Old Testament | Genesis 41:45 - 52)

 

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

(Old Testament | Genesis 49:22 - 26)

Even the thank–offering of a child did the priest of Pharaoh offer upon the altar which stood by the hill called Potiphar's Hill, at the head of the plain of Olishem. Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the royal descent directly from the loins of Ham.  These virgins were offered up because of their virtue; they would not bow down to worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.

(Pearl of Great Price | Abraham 1:10 - 11)

That means that you and me Chadarara, are relatives one way or another and NOW we share in all these blessings.  But that is not all, in the book of Mormon I learned that I AM ALSO A CHILD OF GOD and that is my spiritual Identity and my divine potential and my eternal heritage. I therefore have claim thru the merits of Christ and thru obedience, sacrifice and perseverance, as he did, to all the blessing of the children of Israel, to all the Blessings of the children of Ham, Son of Noah and above all, to all the Blessings of the Son of GOD because as he is, I am also a spiritual offspring of GOD.  If we know who we are, we know were we come from and were we are going.  And this is the aim of the plan of Salvation to save ourselves from bondage, from falsehood and to rise above the dust or our carnal nature so we can again meet and commune with GOD. If you internalize these things, you will be able to help your brothers and sisters, friends, relatives and their companions to see the light. And if you see the light, you can understand the benefits of the law and the light.

Maybe you should ask your friend if he knows who he is, where he came from and where he is heading in life and after death if he knows.  There is a church video called:

Man in search for Happiness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5oS2pZlvgI

The LAW AND THE LIGHT

Boyd K. Packer

https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/book-mormon-jacob-through-words-mormon-learn-joy/1-law-and-light

I have prepared this manuscript as a result of your faith. I write much but few return to enquire. The concerns that you have are known to the LORD and I am here to make to you known his mind and will for our temporal and eternal profit because you are quick to observe or you have hears to give heed and are diligent.  Had you not asked or commented, you would not be reading these things today.  This is how the LORD operates and this is how the spirit of God is available to all, but sadly few are those that enquire of the LORD as you do. And because you have enquired and I was attentive, the LORD has blessed us both and also all those that will with abundance of truth. Because he said; look and ye shall find, ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you. And those that pay attention to the words of the prophets, and harden not their hearts, receive the greater portion of the word.  For of this it is also written:

And now Alma began to expound these things unto him, saying: It is given unto many to know the mysteries of God; nevertheless they are laid under a strict command that they shall not impart only according to the portion of his word which he doth grant unto the children of men, according to the heed and diligence which they give unto him. And therefore, he that will harden his heart, the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God until he know them in full. And they that will harden their hearts, to them is given the lesser portion of the word until they know nothing concerning his mysteries; and then they are taken captive by the devil, and led by his will down to destruction.  Now this is what is meant by the chains of hell.

(Book of Mormon | Alma 12:9 - 11)

And it testifies to the world that the scriptures are true and that as James, 5: 1 says, God answers the faithful prayers. I do not believe, I know that the LORD loves you.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

(New Testament | James 1:5 - 12)

And these things I leave with you, with a single eye for the honor and glory of GOD in the sacred name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Yours Truly,

From an unworthy servant in the hands of Christ.

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez