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Going over Priesthood in the scriptures and exposing some false traditions. YHWH has one church throughout time, and has not accepted Pagan ways. Joseph Smith taught that the ordinances are to be the same forever. Animal sacrifices are coming back. Restoration means going back to how it was before not creating something new. There are only two priesthoods not three. Patriarchal is not a priesthood but deals with father to son. Pharaoh not being able to have the priesthood has to deal with a curse with his lineage. Civil government will follow Torah in Zion. Melchizedek was not a reincarnation of Yeshua. Offices in the priesthood give people the authority to administer in the church. Elder is an office, not a division of the High Priesthood. High priests are men who have the High Priesthood. The apostles are to go to the non-believers not the church. Men who receive the Melchizedek priesthood have been sanctified. Offices in the church are voted in by those who they will govern. When the president of the church sins, he will be held accountable. Torah is eternal. Aaronic is given by the laying on of hands because they are the ones that do the work. Melchizedek is given by YHWH’s voice because they are to be His voice. The fact that the High Priesthood has no outward ordinances shows us that the LDS / Brighamite temples are not of YHWH. The traveling apostles only have authority in the world. Once the traveling twelve set apart a bishop in the branch, the traveling apostles no longer have any authority there. Bishops in the LDS / Brighamite church get overwhelmed because they are manipulated into taking that office before they are ready for it. Being a bishop is a fulltime job and YHWH has stated they should be paid for it. Traveling apostles are to be missionaries to non-believers bringing converts to the church themselves. YouTube preachers asking for money are practicing priestcraft. Torah is about how YHWH wants us to love Him and others. Mysteries of YHWH teach us about Him. Ministering of angels is calling repentance. You are to vote for each member in the presidency. When a branch is not yet organized it can be done by revelation. The traveling apostles are to make the church bigger, not to run the church. The reason the church presidency and the traveling apostles have equal authority because they have the right to do the same things with different groups of people. Bishops are to be set apart by the president of the church. Offices are appendages of the High Priesthood. Brigham Young brags about not having the required priesthood to be the president of the church. The natural man does not like to take responsibility for their own sins. Repenting is doing restitution and not doing it again. On the rare occasion YHWH reveals someone’s desires of someone’s heart, it cannot be used in judgement. Two groups of authority, one for the church and one for missionary work. In Acts 15, James, the head of the church, made the decision not the apostles. Every officer of the church has a responsibility to call repentance. Scriptures become clear once you have let go of the false traditions of men. Restoration churches are not doing things according to YHWH’s words. Repent and be baptized and follow Yeshua’s example.

Links:

• Priesthood
• Pagan Holidays
• Animal Sacrifices
  • Second Coming
  • Law of Moses
  • Important Coming Dates
  • Millennial Temple Model of Ezekiel 40 – 48
  • The Temple of the Millennium
• JST / Inspired Version / New Translation of the Bible
• My Patriarchal Blessing
• Melchizedek was not a reincarnation of Yeshua
  Scripture Study 2025-05-12
• Torah
• LDS / Brighamite church
• Book of Mormon Verses on Priestcraft
• Ministering of angels is calling repentance
  All Things You Should DO
• Baptism

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00:00:02 Hello brothers and sisters. Here we are
00:00:06 uh with another lesson. This time we’re
00:00:08 going to be talking about the priesthood
00:00:10 today, the responsibilities,
00:00:12 um some uh information about
00:00:17 uh the
00:00:19 offices, which uh priesthoods hold which
00:00:22 office and which pri which callings
00:00:26 within those priesthoods are actually
00:00:28 just that’s what they are. Uh so we’ll
00:00:32 get into that. will also define the two
00:00:34 priesthoods in this lesson also. Um, and
00:00:39 we’ll probably talk about some false
00:00:40 traditions too and show Yes. and and
00:00:43 show some scriptures that show that
00:00:44 they’re actually false. Correct.
00:00:47 Correct. So, without further ado, we
00:00:49 will begin in 107 verse one. Josh, you
00:00:52 want to start us off?
00:00:54 Absolutely. There are in the
00:00:57 church two priesthoods. Wait a minute.
00:01:01 How how many? Just two. Two. Only two.
00:01:05 Okay. Only two. I just want to point out
00:01:08 I just want to point out something. In
00:01:09 the church. Now in the church. The
00:01:13 church. Which church? Be specific.
00:01:16 The church is the same church that
00:01:18 Stephen refers to in Acts chapter 7 when
00:01:21 he talks about the called out assembly.
00:01:24 Yeah. Okay. Okay. The church of Israel
00:01:27 from Egypt. Yeah. It refers to them as
00:01:30 the church. Yeah. Right. It’s the same
00:01:33 church. But I but but there was a reason
00:01:35 why the church specific. Yeah. He’s
00:01:37 talking about the church of the
00:01:38 firstborn. Right. Right. Right. But that
00:01:40 was there was a reason why I was asking
00:01:42 you to be specific.
00:01:44 This is the same church throughout
00:01:47 history.
00:01:49 Um Ya has only ever had one church and
00:01:54 and that church has always kept his
00:01:56 ways. that church has not uh baptized
00:02:00 pagan ways and said that those are Yas
00:02:03 ways. Amen. Correct. In fact, Joseph
00:02:07 Smith um has a quote that the ordinances
00:02:10 are to stay the same. Yeah. Um I I can
00:02:14 I’m going to pause while I go look that
00:02:16 up real quick. Yeah, go for it.
00:02:20 Okay. Um so here’s Make it a little
00:02:23 bigger. Make it bigger. Yeah, I can do
00:02:25 that.
00:02:28 I think 135 is worked if I remember
00:02:31 right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, here’s a
00:02:34 quote from Joseph Smith. He Yahweh set
00:02:38 the ordinances to be the
00:02:40 same forever and ever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:43 That dirty f word. Yeah. And sent Adam
00:02:47 to watch over them, to reveal them from
00:02:50 heaven or to send angels to reveal them.
00:02:56 Um, see there’s some other ones. Let’s
00:02:58 see. Uh, oh, and by the way, he seals
00:03:02 that forever with an another ever. So,
00:03:05 that means there’s no conditional
00:03:09 forever. It It’s just forever and ever.
00:03:12 Amen. It is the end. It is It never
00:03:16 ceases to be. It doesn’t change.
00:03:20 By the way, some of those
00:03:22 ordinances are sacrifices.
00:03:25 Yes. Correct. Now, here’s another one
00:03:28 here. Uh, and if Abel was taught the
00:03:30 coming of the son of God, who was not
00:03:33 taught also of his ordinances, we would
00:03:36 admit that the gospel has ordinances.
00:03:38 And if so, had it not always ordinances?
00:03:41 And were not his ordinances always the
00:03:43 same?
00:03:46 So, there’s two. There was another one
00:03:47 that I was trying to find that you know
00:03:50 if they’re late or wait go back down go
00:03:54 back down. What about the all the
00:03:56 prophets had the milk because a
00:03:57 priesthood.
00:03:59 So I mean by God himself himself. So
00:04:02 that that’s something we’ll we will talk
00:04:04 about but we can go back to that.
00:04:07 Absolutely. Um so I’m not finding one
00:04:09 exactly what I was thinking but we did
00:04:11 find two good ones. Right. So yeah.
00:04:13 Yeah. In other words, these ordinances,
00:04:16 these uh these ordinances that require
00:04:20 sacrifice will still be
00:04:24 here when animal sacrifice and um and
00:04:28 the animal sacrifice will be under the
00:04:30 purview of the ironic priesthood. Yes.
00:04:33 Right.
00:04:34 The point remains the point remains that
00:04:37 the church is the same church throughout
00:04:40 time. Yahweh has only ever had one
00:04:42 church and they follow and teach his
00:04:45 ways. Yes. To go along with that, we
00:04:49 claim restoration, which means it goes
00:04:52 back to how it was before, not something
00:04:54 new. And by the way, that restoration to
00:04:57 something before was not restoration to
00:04:59 the early church to the early Christian
00:05:01 fathers. Because right now, if you take
00:05:03 a look at the doctrines of the LDS
00:05:05 church, you can pretty much find all of
00:05:07 them backed up by the early Christian
00:05:09 fathers. though you will not find them
00:05:11 backed up by the scriptures. Correct.
00:05:14 Yep. Yep. All right. So, finishing verse
00:05:17 one. There are in the
00:05:20 church two.
00:05:22 You mean not three? No. No. Two. Okay.
00:05:27 So,
00:05:29 for those who don’t know, sometimes
00:05:31 there is sometimes there are people who
00:05:33 say there are three priesthoods.
00:05:34 Stephen, do you want to enumerate what
00:05:36 those three priesthoods are? Well, the
00:05:38 third one that people like to add is the
00:05:43 patriarchical. Okay. Yeah. Um, so and
00:05:47 they love to use the book of Abraham for
00:05:49 that. So, let’s pause and we can find
00:05:51 that verse. So, I’m going to
00:05:53 pause. Okay. So, here are some verses
00:05:55 that people will try to use, including
00:05:58 the snufferites, to claim that there’s
00:06:01 three priesthoods contrary to DNC 107.
00:06:04 Okay. So, uh, Ben, you want to read them
00:06:08 for us? The 25, 26, and 31.
00:06:12 Okay. You’re going to need to move it up
00:06:14 a little. No. After after I’m done with
00:06:16 25. Oh, got you. Now, the first
00:06:18 government of Egypt was established by
00:06:20 Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egypt,
00:06:24 the daughter of Ham. And it was after
00:06:27 the manner of the government of Ham,
00:06:28 which was patriarchal. So in case anyone
00:06:32 anybody was
00:06:33 wondering and because this is another
00:06:35 false tradition, Egypt was not a
00:06:37 daughter of Cain. She was a daughter of
00:06:39 Ham.
00:06:41 Yep. Um so and here it’s saying the
00:06:45 government of Ham was patriarchical.
00:06:48 Okay. So let’s go look up that word real
00:06:50 quick. Absolutely. Coming right up.
00:06:56 I want you to keep that one. Yeah, I
00:06:58 want to keep those three right where
00:07:00 they are. They are a part of the
00:07:04 lesson. Let’s see here. Patriarchal or
00:07:07 just patriarch?
00:07:09 Patriarchal. Patriarchal.
00:07:14 It’s right there.
00:07:16 Gotcha. All right. Patriarchal
00:07:18 belongings to the patriarchs. Possessed
00:07:21 by patriarchs. Subject to a patriarch.
00:07:25 Okay. Let’s go do patriarch. I mean, I
00:07:28 know what it’s basically what it’s gonna
00:07:29 say, but let we’re gonna show them,
00:07:30 right? Absolutely.
00:07:33 I am all about debunking false
00:07:35 traditions here. Oh, the father.
00:07:39 The father and ruler of a family who
00:07:41 governs by paternal right. It is usually
00:07:44 applied to the progenitors of the
00:07:46 Israelites, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
00:07:49 and the sons of Jacob, or to the heads
00:07:51 of families before the flood as the
00:07:54 anti-oluvian patriarchs. A real quick.
00:07:57 The patternial is father, right? Yes. I
00:08:02 mean, we can look at that one. Pat
00:08:04 matrineal. Yes. Pat or paternal. He’s
00:08:07 talking paternal. I think he’s talking.
00:08:09 Yeah. The paternal right is basically uh
00:08:12 the birthight passed down from father to
00:08:14 son. All right. It it’s going to the
00:08:16 father. It’s through the fathers.
00:08:19 Right. as in it’s it’s a male father um
00:08:25 husband oriented here. That’s what I’m
00:08:28 getting at. Right.
00:08:31 So the government of the manner of
00:08:34 government which was patriarchal meaning
00:08:37 Pharaoh was a man.
00:08:41 Yeah. It’s it’s not saying priesthood
00:08:44 there. It’s just saying it was run by a
00:08:47 man. Right.
00:08:50 which yeah a lot of kingdoms usually are
00:08:54 uh yeah most are in fact the scriptures
00:08:56 actually say it’s a shame to have a
00:08:58 woman to be a ruler so yeah so here we
00:09:01 have and and on that point I will just
00:09:03 say where uh Paul’s been butchered to
00:09:07 say that women are not supposed to speak
00:09:09 in church Joseph Smith corrected that
00:09:11 with the new translation or known as the
00:09:14 Joseph Smith translation or the inspired
00:09:17 version says women are brought to rule
00:09:20 in the church, which is which actually
00:09:23 goes along nicely with the fact that
00:09:25 Paul also wrote that wrote about a woman
00:09:30 about a woman who was very helpful to
00:09:32 him in his mission including with
00:09:35 preaching. Correct. And he actually said
00:09:38 that she had uh was a deacon in the
00:09:40 heronic priesthood. So yep, women can be
00:09:44 deacons in the ironic priesthood. That’s
00:09:46 another So just like a deacon is
00:09:48 supposed to be married to one wife, a
00:09:50 female deacon would be married to one
00:09:53 husband. Husband, I I think the one
00:09:56 thing to keep in mind with Paul and I
00:10:00 forget her name. I can look it up, but
00:10:02 she was a missionary.
00:10:05 That standard you’re applying is for the
00:10:07 church, not for the missionaries. So I
00:10:09 don’t know if she was necessarily
00:10:10 married because she was a missionary.
00:10:13 But anyways,
00:10:15 so never know. Yeah, because Paul
00:10:17 actually also writes saying that
00:10:19 missionaries should not be married.
00:10:21 Well, I I that could be a translation
00:10:24 issue. It’s better that they not be.
00:10:26 They can’t better that. You’re right.
00:10:28 You’re right. It’s better that they not
00:10:30 be married. Yeah.
00:10:32 Okay. Pharaoh being a righteous man, of
00:10:35 course. Wait, wait, wait. What? Uh uh
00:10:37 man. Yeah. But but the thing that a lot
00:10:41 of people will have problems with is
00:10:43 righteous.
00:10:45 Uh well we so the first Pharaoh might
00:10:48 have been I I don’t know much history
00:10:49 might have been established his kingdom
00:10:52 and judged his people wisely and justly
00:10:54 all his
00:10:55 days seeking earnestly to imitate. Oh
00:10:59 imitate. He’s trying to copy Yahweh’s
00:11:02 ways there. Yeah. because he has been
00:11:06 cursed and has not the authority to
00:11:08 actually do them. Uh he specifically was
00:11:11 not his um genealology was right wasn’t
00:11:15 him specifically. So well
00:11:19 okay now that’s that’s interesting
00:11:22 because in verse 27 Pharaoh being of
00:11:24 that lineage by which he could not have
00:11:25 the right of preaching. Oh yeah there so
00:11:27 that’s just saying what I just said
00:11:28 right? So anyways, yeah. So that’s uh so
00:11:32 and it’s also saying that because he was
00:11:34 of that lineage, he couldn’t have that
00:11:36 right. Now uh this is not to get in now,
00:11:40 but I do believe that uh if I remember
00:11:42 correctly, that curse would last 10
00:11:44 years or sorry, not 10 years. 10
00:11:47 generations. So I got to get the right
00:11:49 word out. Um when because it’s it was
00:11:52 it’s a a Torah curse going on. But we’ll
00:11:55 we’ll Yeah. So Pharaoh So Pharaoh is a
00:11:57 righteous man, but he’s under a
00:11:59 generational curse. Yeah.
00:12:02 So he can’t have the priesthood, but he
00:12:05 seeks to imitate, he still seeks to
00:12:07 imitate the order established by the
00:12:11 fathers in the first generations, i.e.
00:12:13 Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Noah, etc.
00:12:20 This is government that he’s doing here.
00:12:22 So which I think is
00:12:26 um indicative that um the civil
00:12:30 government will follow Torah. So anyways
00:12:34 anyways in the days of the first
00:12:37 patriarchal by the way that does not
00:12:39 mean it that’s not referring to a
00:12:40 priesthood that’s referring to
00:12:42 government of the fathers. Well the
00:12:44 first patriarchal reign let’s go look up
00:12:46 the word rain. Yeah it’s not water that
00:12:49 falls. Find out whether that has
00:12:52 anything to do with priesthood.
00:12:54 It’s just
00:12:56 rulership. Really to possess or exercise
00:13:00 sovereign power or authority to rule to
00:13:02 exercise. There you go. Exercise
00:13:04 government. Yeah. Yeah. It’s to exercise
00:13:06 government. This priesthood is
00:13:08 priesthood and government are um
00:13:11 related. They’re related in that
00:13:13 priesthood actually governs the church,
00:13:16 but it does not govern the land. And if
00:13:19 it was a noun, it’s royal authority,
00:13:21 supreme power. We’re not talking about
00:13:24 power of priesthood. We’re talking about
00:13:25 power over man. The time in which a king
00:13:28 or queen or emperor possesses the
00:13:30 supreme authority. In fact, these verses
00:13:33 in Abraham actually states he doesn’t
00:13:35 have priesthood because he’s been in a
00:13:37 cursed line. That’s right. Right. So, it
00:13:40 has to be the civil rule that is being
00:13:42 talked about here. Right. Yeah. So it’s
00:13:45 a civil patriarchal reign even in the
00:13:48 reign of Adam and also of Noah his
00:13:50 father who blessed him with the
00:13:52 blessings of the earth and with the
00:13:54 blessings of wisdom. So I think also
00:13:57 this is showing how there was two
00:13:59 governments during Adam.
00:14:02 Yeah.
00:14:04 Right.
00:14:05 Doing it like they did it. Yeah. But
00:14:09 that’s in the other interesting thing
00:14:10 here is that Noah actually blessed
00:14:14 Pharaoh with the blessings of the earth
00:14:16 and the blessings of wisdom.
00:14:19 Mhm.
00:14:20 Yeah. But curse and I I don’t think him
00:14:25 because as Ben says 27 it’s specifies
00:14:28 that curse that it’s by the lineage.
00:14:30 Yeah. So anyways,
00:14:34 right. So this is a governmental in 26,
00:14:38 right? And 27 supports that. So let’s go
00:14:41 down to 31. But the records of the
00:14:43 fathers, even the patriarchs, oh wait,
00:14:45 wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute.
00:14:47 What does the word even mean?
00:14:50 Even means uh this is an equal. It’s
00:14:52 like an equal sign. Yeah, it’s another
00:14:54 way of saying it.
00:14:57 So the fathers are the patriarchs,
00:15:00 right? This has nothing. It’s concern
00:15:02 and this record is concerning the right
00:15:04 of priesthood. It’s not saying that they
00:15:07 have their own that it is a priesthood,
00:15:10 right? Not saying that it is a
00:15:12 priesthood. It’s saying that this is
00:15:13 concerning the right of priesthood.
00:15:17 Go ahead.
00:15:20 Yeah. Uh preserved in mine own hands.
00:15:23 Therefore, a knowledge of the beginning
00:15:25 of creation and also of the planets and
00:15:27 of the stars as they were made known
00:15:29 unto the fathers have I kept unto this
00:15:31 day. I doubt my patriarch knew that
00:15:34 much.
00:15:36 Uh, well, that’s a little different
00:15:40 thing there. But yeah, and I shall
00:15:42 endeavor to write some of these things
00:15:44 upon this record for the benefit of my
00:15:45 posterity that shall come after me.
00:15:48 Okay. So, for those who think Abraham’s
00:15:51 bringing out how there’s a patriarchal
00:15:54 priesthood going on, hopefully we made
00:15:57 it abundantly clear that is not what
00:15:59 it’s actually saying. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:16:04 Absolutely not what it is saying. Yeah.
00:16:06 We can probably go back to 107 now. Yes.
00:16:09 Okay. So, so maybe we can finish verse
00:16:12 one. Yes. Maybe. Oh, maybe. Yeah.
00:16:17 And there in the church. Okay. I’m not
00:16:19 going to dwell on that anymore because
00:16:20 every single time I dwell on it,
00:16:22 something else comes up. Uh
00:16:25 not necessarily a bad thing, but uh
00:16:26 there are in the church two priesthoods,
00:16:29 namely
00:16:30 Never mind.
00:16:34 That’s That’s not funny. No, I’m
00:16:37 No. Uh, namely the Mkisedc and ironic,
00:16:43 including the Levitical priesthood. So,
00:16:46 I’m going to pause and then we’ll look
00:16:48 at including. Okay. Well, yeah.
00:16:52 Yeah. All right. So looking at that word
00:16:55 including because we’re going to have a
00:16:56 verse potentially that may seem like
00:16:59 it’s controversial or opposite
00:17:03 contradicting there you go that’s the
00:17:04 word contradicting to it but we’ll find
00:17:07 out here uh that it actually doesn’t
00:17:10 right including it’s funny when we
00:17:13 actually learn what the words mean
00:17:14 that’s uh is useful I know you mean I
00:17:19 know words mean something yeah
00:17:23 including. You don’t get us to make up
00:17:25 the definitions when you want. Sorry.
00:17:27 Yeah, I know. Including. It would be so
00:17:29 much more convenient if we could.
00:17:30 Comprising. Now I’m going to show you
00:17:32 folks what
00:17:35 comprising
00:17:38 means including or
00:17:42 comprehending containing which means
00:17:46 that
00:17:47 or including can mean or or it’s another
00:17:52 way of saying it. Yeah. So there is a
00:17:56 verse. So yeah let’s go to the
00:17:58 scriptures.
00:18:00 Uh where’s that ore? So verse six,
00:18:03 right? Let’s just jump ahead a little
00:18:04 bit. Yep. Yep. Ben, you want to read
00:18:06 that?
00:18:09 But there are two divisions or grand
00:18:13 heads. One is the Melkisedc
00:18:16 priesthood and the other is the ironic
00:18:19 or Levitical priesthood.
00:18:22 Oh. So you mean it could be called
00:18:25 ironic or Levitical?
00:18:27 Yes. They’re interchangeable. They are
00:18:30 interchangeable.
00:18:32 Yeah. Yeah. It’s amazing what happens
00:18:34 when you don’t stick yourself to one
00:18:37 definition of a word that is limiting.
00:18:41 Right. And also you maybe read some
00:18:43 additional scriptures on the same
00:18:44 subject.
00:18:48 Right. After all, what
00:18:51 who what was Aaron?
00:18:54 He was a Levi.
00:18:56 Yeah, I think that’s what you’re
00:18:58 referring to. He was he was a Yeah. So
00:19:00 the ironic priesthood must of necessity
00:19:04 be the Levitical priesthood. Let me look
00:19:07 up something. Yeah. I I I think my
00:19:10 educated guess why it got called ironic
00:19:13 because it was through him it was kind
00:19:16 of
00:19:17 brought where he was figure during the
00:19:21 uh restoration through Moses. Right.
00:19:24 Mhm. And this the verse of scripture
00:19:27 that I’m looking for
00:19:29 here. And the Lord and Yahweh confirmed
00:19:32 a priesthood also upon Aaron who is a
00:19:36 wait what is he a
00:19:39 he’s a Levite and his seed
00:19:43 Levitical throughout all their
00:19:46 generations. which priesthood also
00:19:48 continth and abideth forever with the
00:19:51 priesthood which is after the holiest
00:19:53 order of Elohim. So part of this name
00:19:56 erotic priesthood goes back to Aaron was
00:19:58 the one that was kind of the head of it
00:20:01 uh during the time of Moses.
00:20:05 So now he was not just nominally the
00:20:07 head, he was the head confirmed by Yoh
00:20:10 through miracles.
00:20:13 Yes, correct.
00:20:17 Okay, Stephen, you want to pick up two?
00:20:19 Sure. Why is the first called the Melzdc
00:20:22 priesthood? Is because Melzdc was such a
00:20:25 great high
00:20:26 priest. So, this is where
00:20:30 uh I’m I’m probably going to go forward.
00:20:31 Instead of calling it the full name,
00:20:33 they gave it a nickname. Right. Yes.
00:20:36 Right. Right. Because before in other in
00:20:39 other in other generations it has had
00:20:43 other names such as simply the high
00:20:45 priesthood or or I believe I could
00:20:48 double check but I also believe it’s
00:20:50 been also called the holy priesthood
00:20:52 too. Yes. Or the holy priesthood after
00:20:55 the order of the son of god. This is but
00:20:58 I’m talking about the shorthand version
00:21:00 right. Well the shorthand version
00:21:02 another one was holy. The other was
00:21:04 high. Um, another one’s Melkazedc.
00:21:07 Another one’s MelkiseDC. And they give
00:21:10 the reason for why Melkisedc. But out of
00:21:14 respect or reverence to the name of the
00:21:16 supreme being to avoid the too frequent
00:21:20 repetition of its name, they the church
00:21:24 in ancient days called that priesthood
00:21:27 after Mechisedc or the Melkisedc
00:21:30 priesthood. Okay, so here’s something.
00:21:33 If uh so here’s something that’s
00:21:35 preached that’s taught uh in secret
00:21:39 among
00:21:40 u remnant
00:21:42 circles that is that MelkiseDC was a
00:21:46 prior um a prior uh incarnation
00:21:51 incarnation of
00:21:52 Yeshua. However, if that was the case,
00:21:56 how could
00:21:57 that how could calling the priesthood
00:21:59 the MelkiseDC priesthood be an avoidance
00:22:01 of the repetition of his name? Good uh
00:22:04 good point. And then also DC84 brings
00:22:07 out how Melzdc
00:22:10 uh descended from his hand. Well, I
00:22:12 guess that goes with the reincarnation,
00:22:14 but also uh we talked about last time
00:22:17 how Yeshua was prepared before the
00:22:19 foundation of the world, and he didn’t
00:22:21 need multiple reincarnations to get he
00:22:24 already prepared is prepared. It’s not
00:22:28 It’s not He needs He needs some cooking
00:22:31 still. Here, hold on a second, guys. Let
00:22:34 Let’s figure this out.
00:22:40 fitted, adapted, made suitable, made
00:22:45 ready, and then ready to go. Yeah, he he
00:22:49 didn’t need I like I like provided
00:22:51 because he he also
00:22:54 provided us
00:22:57 the way the prepared provided the
00:23:00 provided they’re talking about there is
00:23:02 the person prepared is provided
00:23:06 against a bad
00:23:09 right and he was
00:23:14 so
00:23:15 um Andy are Are you able or fit to read?
00:23:20 I’m on my way back to where I’m sleeping
00:23:23 tonight, so I’m trying. Okay, got you.
00:23:25 I’m not.
00:23:29 That’s good. You’re good. I was No, it’s
00:23:31 fine. It’s fine, Andy. It’s fine. It’s
00:23:32 fine. We’re just asking. Okay. We’re
00:23:35 trying to involve everybody. Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:36 I appreciate it. I just It seems like
00:23:39 every time you want me to read, I’m
00:23:40 either driving or doing something else
00:23:42 like that. But it’s not We’ll We’ll
00:23:44 catch you on We’ll catch you later in
00:23:46 this lab when you when when you uh when
00:23:48 you get parked and you’re safe. Zack, do
00:23:52 you want to read something to eat, too,
00:23:54 cuz I’m starving? That’s fine.
00:23:57 Zack, would you like to read verse five,
00:24:00 please?
00:24:04 All All other authorities or offices in
00:24:08 the church are appendages to this
00:24:10 priesthood. Okay, this I like the I like
00:24:13 this. All other authorities or offices.
00:24:16 It’s already setting it up for what
00:24:18 offices mean?
00:24:21 Should we look at that definition real
00:24:23 quick or wait until we
00:24:26 because it’s and we should look at both
00:24:28 words office and authority to go off how
00:24:30 Ben’s saying it’s setting it up, right?
00:24:32 Because of the Yeah. So, let’s let’s
00:24:34 pull up authority
00:24:36 here.
00:24:38 Um there we go. And I have office here.
00:24:42 A particular duty, charge or trust
00:24:45 conferred by public authority and for a
00:24:47 public purpose. An employment undertaken
00:24:50 by commission or authority from
00:24:52 government or those who administer it or
00:24:54 a duty, charge or trust of a sacred
00:24:57 nature conferred by Elohim himself.
00:25:04 duty or employment of a private nature
00:25:06 or that which is performed intended or
00:25:09 assigned about a particular thing or
00:25:12 that which anything is fitted to
00:25:14 perform.
00:25:17 Okay. Okay. So it’s it’s a person who
00:25:20 has a specific duty. Right.
00:25:23 Correct. Authority, legal power or a
00:25:26 right to command or to act. The power
00:25:30 derived from opinion, respect or esteem,
00:25:32 influence of character or office. Oh,
00:25:35 wait a minute. We’re using the word that
00:25:38 we just saw
00:25:41 to define authority.
00:25:44 Yeah. Interesting. Or rather, the
00:25:47 authority is the power to act in that
00:25:49 office. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or I like
00:25:53 myself. They’re highly um connected with
00:25:56 each other. All right.
00:25:58 order permission.
00:26:01 In fact, in the in fact in the word
00:26:03 itself, it actually that or actually
00:26:06 draws almost an equal sign. Right.
00:26:11 Yeah.
00:26:12 So authorities and offices are made
00:26:16 equal in this verse. Yeah. They’re the
00:26:19 same.
00:26:21 Yep. But it says there appendages to
00:26:24 this priesthood, the Melzdc priesthood.
00:26:27 priesthood. But there are two divisions
00:26:30 or grand heads. One is the MelkiseDC and
00:26:32 the other is ironic or Levitical
00:26:35 priesthood. Ben, pick us up in seven,
00:26:38 please. Okay. The office of an elder.
00:26:40 Come. The office of an elder. Wait,
00:26:42 wait, wait. You mean this is not a
00:26:45 div you mean there’s not two division?
00:26:48 This is not This is not an ascending
00:26:50 step. This is an Oh, okay. It’s just an
00:26:52 office. Oh, yeah. That someone has a
00:26:54 duty, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:26:58 And and if we go down, I just want to
00:27:00 show you something here. It says 20 124
00:27:04 48 96. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:27:08 Gotcha. Uh that’s in the deacons and uh
00:27:11 what have you not?
00:27:14 You want me to pause while you’re
00:27:15 looking? Yeah, pause.
00:27:19 Okay. So, here is So, here’s a really
00:27:22 interesting thing. Uh as we go through
00:27:25 these offices, you’ll notice that a
00:27:27 number is is provided for each office.
00:27:31 Uh but there is no number provided for
00:27:33 high priests. And again, verily I say
00:27:36 unto you, the duty of a president over
00:27:38 the office of a deacon is to preside
00:27:40 over 12 deacons, to sit in counsel with
00:27:42 them, and to teach them their duty,
00:27:44 edifying one another as it is given
00:27:45 according to the covenants. And also the
00:27:48 duty of president of of the president
00:27:50 over the office of teachers is to
00:27:52 preside over 24 of the teachers and to
00:27:56 sit in counsel with them teaching them
00:27:57 the duties of their offices given in the
00:28:00 covenants. And the duty of the president
00:28:03 over the priesthood priesthood of Aaron
00:28:05 is to preside over 48 priests and sit in
00:28:08 counsel with them and teach them in the
00:28:10 duties of their office as is given in
00:28:11 the
00:28:12 covenants. Okay. And that president is
00:28:14 to be a bishop. The duty of the
00:28:16 president over the office of elders is
00:28:17 to preside over 96 elders
00:28:22 uh and to sit in counsel with them and
00:28:24 to teach them according to the
00:28:25 covenants. The president this presidency
00:28:28 is distinct from the 70. The pre and
00:28:31 from the from that of the 70 and is
00:28:33 designed for those who do not travel
00:28:35 into all the world as in there. This is
00:28:37 part of the church. Those who travel are
00:28:40 part of the missionaries as in to the
00:28:42 world. Right? And again the duty of the
00:28:45 president of the office of the high
00:28:47 priesthood is to preside over the whole
00:28:49 church and that like unto Moses and that
00:28:52 is talking about the presiding high
00:28:55 priests
00:28:57 is an office
00:28:59 right that’s an office but I think to
00:29:02 bring out here there is no number of
00:29:04 high priests oh absolutely I
00:29:06 agree there a high priest is not an
00:29:09 office a high priest is someone who has
00:29:12 the mazdc priest
00:29:14 And I’m just and all I all I’m trying to
00:29:16 point out too, I agree with everything
00:29:19 that’s been said, I’m just trying to
00:29:20 point out that for those people who are
00:29:23 sitting there saying, “Oh, look, look,
00:29:24 it it says
00:29:26 office.” No, the office they’re
00:29:28 referring to uh is president of the high
00:29:32 priest, presiding high priest. Yeah.
00:29:34 Yeah. Which is up here at the top. So
00:29:37 yeah,
00:29:39 it’s a specific
00:29:42 uh it is a specific calling or office
00:29:45 within the high priesthood which we will
00:29:49 read in a little bit. Um but yeah, so as
00:29:54 we see the office of an elder comes
00:29:56 under the priesthood of Melkisedc.
00:29:59 Yeah. So there’s two priesthoods and
00:30:02 there’s four offices.
00:30:05 Yeah. uh office of an elder which is in
00:30:08 the in the Melzdc. That’s the only
00:30:10 office in there. Well, I I guess there’s
00:30:12 the office of the presidency. So, I
00:30:13 guess there’s two, but that one’s a
00:30:15 little unique. It’s right different that
00:30:17 leads the church. It’s the It’s the
00:30:20 group that leads the church. The whole
00:30:22 church, not just the local. Um it’s a
00:30:24 little different. Uh but then there’s
00:30:27 three offices. This may just be
00:30:29 Brigamite tradition, but the office of
00:30:32 elder is where the is where the
00:30:35 missionaries come from.
00:30:38 Yeah. And that’s a brigamite false
00:30:40 traditions. There’s no scripture. Yeah,
00:30:43 of course that. But anyways, yeah. Um
00:30:45 well, that’s why we have the quorum of
00:30:47 the 70 and the 12 traveling apostles.
00:30:52 Well, there that there’s that T word
00:30:57 to
00:30:59 nonbelievers. No, correct. Yes. To
00:31:01 non-believers first, but they can also
00:31:04 they can also travel to the different
00:31:06 branches. Yeah. But as visitors, right?
00:31:09 They have no authority in the church
00:31:11 itself. No, they do not. No. Anyways,
00:31:13 that is correct. which is another false
00:31:16 tradition of the Brigham except that the
00:31:19 70 do have the do have the right to call
00:31:22 other 70.
00:31:25 Uh that’s later on in the thing. Well,
00:31:28 it’s the apostles and once they’re
00:31:31 called out, but they’re looking within
00:31:33 they the the missionaries have to be
00:31:35 within the church. So, I guess Ben is
00:31:37 bringing out they do have one thing they
00:31:39 can call people within the church to go
00:31:42 to their ministry. That is correct. That
00:31:44 is correct. That’s that’s all that’s all
00:31:46 I’m trying to point out is that’s the
00:31:49 only authority of the church may not it
00:31:51 may not be limited to elders but and and
00:31:55 in fact later on in this section it
00:31:58 talks about how the seven presidents of
00:32:01 the 70 can
00:32:02 call additional 70 they each can call
00:32:08 another 70.
00:32:11 Yeah. And yeah, so that’s a neat little
00:32:14 tidbit. We won’t really be getting too
00:32:16 much into that today. I just I what my
00:32:19 point is is we need to realize that
00:32:23 there are a lot of false traditions that
00:32:25 are upheld in the Brighamite church and
00:32:28 we are trying and other restoration
00:32:30 churches the most. That’s what
00:32:33 we there’s a lot of false Christians in
00:32:36 the other restoration churches also.
00:32:38 Correct. Correct. So,
00:32:41 um, so, okay, and I’ll just say this one
00:32:44 real quick. The Arlius churches ruled by
00:32:48 a man by a woman, which the JST New
00:32:52 Translation inspired version
00:32:54 specifically says should not happen.
00:32:56 Yeah. Yep. Never mind. So, the MelkiseDC
00:33:00 priesthood holds the right of
00:33:02 presidency.
00:33:04 It holds the
00:33:06 right of presidency. And that word right
00:33:09 is spelled as in they have the right to
00:33:13 it
00:33:15 because they have lived
00:33:19 they have lived the way they have lived
00:33:21 according to Torah. And
00:33:23 as on this point those who re uh have
00:33:26 received the Melzdc
00:33:29 priesthood are men who have been
00:33:31 sanctified. Sanctified. Yes. Or another
00:33:34 way of saying have received the baptism
00:33:36 of the Holy Spirit. Yes. Right. And has
00:33:39 power and authority over all the offices
00:33:41 in the church in all ages of the world.
00:33:47 In all ages of the world. So this is not
00:33:50 a new thing. No, this is how it’s always
00:33:54 been. So this is so the this really
00:33:57 upholds that point that I that I’ve been
00:33:59 making a lot lately and that is that
00:34:02 whether it was written down early in the
00:34:05 record or whether it was written down
00:34:07 late in the record it is it has always
00:34:11 been that way because Yaha is
00:34:15 unchanging and that is why is not
00:34:20 destroyed right
00:34:23 anyway Okay. So, the Melkisedc
00:34:26 priesthood, it just started talking with
00:34:27 me. I already read that. Just just Okay.
00:34:30 The MelkiseDC priesthood holds the right
00:34:32 of presidency and has power and
00:34:34 authority over all the offices in the
00:34:36 church in all ages of the world to
00:34:37 administer in spiritual things to
00:34:39 administer in spiritual things. Cool.
00:34:41 Which this administer spiritual things.
00:34:44 But the right to the uh offices in the
00:34:47 church all of them including the ones in
00:34:49 the ironic goes along with how
00:34:51 everything is appendage to that holy
00:34:54 priesthood right appendage to it. So if
00:34:58 you have the holy
00:34:59 priesthood you can do all of it. Yeah.
00:35:03 Yeah. So this th this verse this verse
00:35:06 eight is actually incredibly important.
00:35:08 Yes. Because this is where it talks
00:35:11 about the MelkiseDC priesthood.
00:35:14 and its rights. Right.
00:35:18 Yeah. It’s primarily spiritual and the
00:35:21 ironic is uh temporal. Right. Right.
00:35:26 Can we pause? So go ahead. Can we pause?
00:35:30 Yeah.
00:35:35 So with the Melkisedc priesthood holding
00:35:38 the right uh and p and having the power
00:35:43 and authority over all the offices in
00:35:46 the church in uh basically from the
00:35:49 beginning even from Adam to administer
00:35:52 in spiritual things. Uh Stephen do you
00:35:54 have anything else that you would like
00:35:55 to add concerning the that thought?
00:35:57 Yeah. Their their focus is the spiritual
00:35:59 things, but because they can do
00:36:01 everything the ironic priesthood can do,
00:36:04 they can also do the temporal if need
00:36:05 be. Yes. Correct. Because they’ve had
00:36:09 that.
00:36:11 Well, they have the authority. It
00:36:12 doesn’t matter if they’ve done it before
00:36:14 or not. That’s true. They have the
00:36:15 authority. So, and here and here we have
00:36:17 it. The presidency of the high
00:36:19 priesthood after the order of MelkiseDC
00:36:21 have a right to officiate in all the
00:36:23 offices of the church.
00:36:27 Yeah. Okay. So
00:36:29 10 high priests after the order of the
00:36:32 Melkisedc priesthood have a right to
00:36:36 officiate in their own standing. Oh
00:36:39 wait, what does that word standing mean?
00:36:43 I know
00:36:44 [Laughter]
00:36:51 it means so being on the feet being
00:36:55 erect like Stephen
00:36:58 just like Stephen showed us uh moving in
00:37:00 a certain direction to or from an object
00:37:03 settled
00:37:05 established either by law or by
00:37:10 custom continually exist existing
00:37:13 permanent not
00:37:16 temporary.
00:37:17 So the high priest after the order of
00:37:20 the Melkisedc priesthood have a right to
00:37:23 officiate in their
00:37:25 own
00:37:27 standing. It is not temporary lasting
00:37:31 not transitory. Uh I think four and five
00:37:35 and si or four and five or five is not
00:37:38 necessarily a good one. uh fixed, not
00:37:41 movable. Let that let that let my people
00:37:44 stand in holy places and not be moved.
00:37:49 Um remaining erect not cut down.
00:37:52 Continuence, duration or existence,
00:37:55 possession, possession of an office,
00:37:58 character or place. So basically one who
00:38:01 has had the high priesthood extended to
00:38:03 him by the voice of
00:38:07 Ya is in possession of all offices.
00:38:12 Uh the ability to do all office. Yeah.
00:38:14 The ability. Yeah. Uh because there the
00:38:18 church government is by done by common
00:38:20 consent and the people the people local
00:38:25 to uh where they’re getting it uh get to
00:38:28 vote. in that words throughout the DNC.
00:38:31 Yeah. Uh there is nothing in the DNC
00:38:34 about sustaining church leaders. That’s
00:38:37 only associated with government. There
00:38:40 are things there are things uh in
00:38:42 relation to our church leaders in this
00:38:45 very section that we’re going to go into
00:38:48 that
00:38:49 uh that are not that are not what
00:38:53 current LDS people would consider
00:38:55 sustaining their authorities. Uh yes.
00:38:57 Well, or even I mean since Ben brought
00:38:59 it up, let’s go do it right now. It’s uh
00:39:02 82 384.
00:39:04 Yeah.
00:39:07 Well, that’s the judgment. Yep. Yep.
00:39:10 Yep. Yep. 82. Yep. And in as much as a
00:39:14 president of the high priesthood shall
00:39:16 transgress. Okay. So, this is the
00:39:19 president of the church, right? Yes.
00:39:24 He shall be had in remembrance before
00:39:27 the common council of the
00:39:33 church and who shall be assisted by 12
00:39:36 counselors of the high priesthood.
00:39:39 That’s not the twel apostles. That is
00:39:41 not the twel apostles. That I can see
00:39:44 why people would think it is, but it’s
00:39:45 not. So don’t those are 12
00:39:49 individuals who are who have been
00:39:53 sanctified and received the high
00:39:56 priesthood. Mhm. And who therefore are
00:39:59 qualified to give advice concerning
00:40:01 Torah to the council of the church. The
00:40:04 Yeah. The common council of the church.
00:40:06 Correct. Yeah. And their decision upon
00:40:09 his head shall be an end of controversy
00:40:12 concerning him.
00:40:14 Thus none shall be exempted from the
00:40:17 justice and the laws of Elohim, that all
00:40:20 things may be done in order and in
00:40:22 somnity before him according to truth
00:40:25 and
00:40:26 righteousness. So I I know uh a lot of
00:40:30 people like to say the the church leader
00:40:34 can never leave you astray.
00:40:36 Uh, here’s something in the
00:40:39 DNC revelation through Joseph Smith’s
00:40:43 mouth through Yahweh. It states that
00:40:47 they can because they shall transgress.
00:40:49 Transgress is another word for iniquity
00:40:51 and another word for sin. And when they
00:40:54 do, the membership are to hold them
00:40:56 accountable. Yes.
00:40:59 Now, this idea is in other places, but
00:41:02 we’re kind of mainly staying with 107,
00:41:04 so we’ll just stick with that.
00:41:07 But here it is. But I will also say that
00:41:09 this idea is also expressed in JST Mark
00:41:13 where it’s talking about if thine eye
00:41:16 offend thee and the JST. Sure. Sure.
00:41:18 Yeah. And the JST points that to the
00:41:20 leadership of the church. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:22 Okay. Good
00:41:24 point. All right. So, maybe we go back
00:41:26 up. Yes, we will. All right. So, with
00:41:31 that being said, this literally states
00:41:35 that the high priests are not an office.
00:41:40 Correct. But they do have a right to
00:41:43 officiate in their own standing under
00:41:46 the direction of the presidency.
00:41:49 Yeah. So, you see that that they can do
00:41:53 things with
00:41:57 where they’re listening to the um
00:41:59 president of the church, right? And here
00:42:01 it is. And in administering spiritual
00:42:03 things, I do believe this and ties the
00:42:07 high
00:42:08 priest being able to perform office of
00:42:12 an elder, priest, order, teacher,
00:42:14 deacon, and member. Because even though
00:42:17 you’re a high priest, you’re still a
00:42:19 member of the church of the first born.
00:42:22 It’s really interesting. They include
00:42:23 member as an office.
00:42:27 Yeah. Well, the thing that I could see
00:42:29 that would support that is um was it
00:42:33 Moroni 6? You have to witness to the
00:42:35 church that you’ve repented of all your
00:42:36 sins. Yeah. Yes. Because as in these
00:42:41 guys were uh voted into their office, so
00:42:44 is a member.
00:42:47 Yeah.
00:42:48 And there’s one more thing that I want
00:42:50 to bring out from these earlier verses,
00:42:52 right? Oh, well, we have to define
00:42:55 ironic. I get that. But uh for the high
00:42:59 priesthood, the high priest and elder
00:43:01 are to administer in spiritual things
00:43:03 agreeable to the covenants and
00:43:05 commandments of the church. Those
00:43:06 covenants and commandments of the church
00:43:08 are Torah. Torah. And and this once
00:43:11 again goes back to the fact that Yahwa
00:43:14 has only ever had one church throughout
00:43:18 time.
00:43:20 Yes. Which shows Torah is eternal.
00:43:25 What? Oh man. Say that again, Stephen.
00:43:29 Torah is eternal. Yes. Eternal is Torah.
00:43:33 and they have a right to officiate in
00:43:36 all these offices of the church when
00:43:38 there are no higher authorities present.
00:43:42 So when your presiding
00:43:44 uh high priesthood or your your
00:43:46 presiding high priesthood is not present
00:43:49 then the high priests or the
00:43:51 elders are so so what this is saying if
00:43:54 there’s no officer in the church someone
00:43:55 with the high priesthood can step in and
00:43:59 do it correct and what this is also
00:44:02 saying that if there is nobody who has
00:44:04 the high priesthood
00:44:06 uh according to this what it seems to be
00:44:08 saying is that an elder can What from
00:44:12 what I’ve read in this section, an elder
00:44:14 can step in should uh no high priest be
00:44:18 available. Okay. An elder an elder is an
00:44:21 office in the high priest. Yeah. But an
00:44:23 elder does not necessarily have to be
00:44:26 have received the high priesthood by the
00:44:28 voice of ya.
00:44:31 Uh I think there’s some debate on that.
00:44:34 So because an elder is an office in the
00:44:36 high priest. So, um I I I know I have
00:44:41 said things of that nature. Um let’s not
00:44:43 get into that caveat right now. Okay.
00:44:46 Some of that could have been that some
00:44:48 people on the that were to do callings
00:44:52 to the apostilhip maybe were doing
00:44:55 things faster than they should have. And
00:44:57 so that’s something we need to talk
00:44:59 about more. Yeah. That’s something
00:45:01 that’s something that requires its own
00:45:02 lesson. Yep. So uh but to go along with
00:45:06 what Ben is saying, an elder has a right
00:45:08 to officiate in hisstead when the high
00:45:11 priest is not present. So this is the I
00:45:16 think is referring to someone in the
00:45:18 president’s in one of the presidencies.
00:45:21 Correct.
00:45:26 Because when the and the I do believe is
00:45:29 going to be pointing to a president to a
00:45:31 singular to a singular entity. Yeah. Oh,
00:45:34 yeah. And that’s got to be president.
00:45:37 Yeah. It’s a singular entity. Yes. So,
00:45:41 so somebody who holds the office of
00:45:43 elder or just another high priest can
00:45:46 reside. Yes. Yeah. And if it it in my
00:45:52 opinion, an elder is that someone that’s
00:45:55 been voted in to do something in church
00:45:56 would have a higher president than
00:45:58 someone who just has the high
00:45:59 priesthood. Yeah. Correct. Yeah.
00:46:01 Probably. But if there isn’t an elder, a
00:46:04 high priest can. So, yes. Yeah. Correct.
00:46:09 Now, uh Stephen, you want to pick us up
00:46:11 on uh talking about the second
00:46:13 priesthood, the second of uh two
00:46:16 priesthoods? Yes. Um
00:46:19 so, verse 13. Yes. So, the second
00:46:22 priesthood is called the priesthood of
00:46:24 Aaron because it was conferred upon
00:46:26 Aaron and his seed throughout all their
00:46:29 generations.
00:46:32 So they they uh the ironic priesthood is
00:46:35 given by laying on of hands. Okay. Yes.
00:46:39 Where the mazes is given by Yah’s own
00:46:41 voice. Correct. So let’s go into maybe I
00:46:46 know we’ve talked about this before but
00:46:47 I’ll just repeat it real quick. The
00:46:49 reason why is done by laying off hands
00:46:51 because they are the ones that do the
00:46:53 work. Hands have to go with work. And
00:46:56 the voice on the Melzdc is because
00:46:59 they’re the ones that go uh are doing
00:47:01 the preaching, the telling
00:47:05 primary new things. But but all offices
00:47:09 are all offices are conferred by the
00:47:13 laying on of hands. Correct. All offices
00:47:15 are by laying on of hands. Yeah. Yes. So
00:47:18 but uh this is an interesting thing
00:47:21 throughout all their generations. Now,
00:47:23 that all their generations is something
00:47:24 that probably will need a teaching of
00:47:26 its own. But the uh but that’s something
00:47:30 to consider is that this is throughout
00:47:32 all their generations. Well, uh when the
00:47:36 animal sacrifices come back, it’s going
00:47:38 to be the sons of Aaron that are going
00:47:41 to uh uh have that part of the ironic
00:47:44 priesthood. Correct. Yeah. Um not not
00:47:47 the Gentiles. There’s some promises that
00:47:49 go along with that in the Old Testament.
00:47:51 It’s going to stay with a particular
00:47:52 line.
00:47:54 And it and it is a veron, right? So yes.
00:47:58 Um but uh there’s other things the
00:48:02 ironic priesthood do also. So and I I
00:48:06 don’t know how much we’re going to get
00:48:07 into that tonight, but there’s the three
00:48:09 offices. Yes. In the ironic. Okay. So
00:48:14 why it is called the lesser priesthood
00:48:16 is because it is an appendage to the
00:48:18 greater or the melkisedc priesthood and
00:48:20 has power in
00:48:22 administering outward
00:48:24 ordinances or in other words physical
00:48:27 there are no outward ordinances
00:48:30 associated with the mechisedc
00:48:32 priesthood. They’re all given through
00:48:34 the ironic priesthood.
00:48:38 So this is another evidence that the
00:48:40 temple that that which is done in the
00:48:42 temple is not of Yahuba because it
00:48:45 contradicts this precedent. Correct?
00:48:48 Because they they claim it’s of the
00:48:50 MKZDC priesthood and it’s an outward
00:48:52 ordinance where here it is uh stating
00:48:55 right here in the DNC 107 that outward
00:48:58 ordinances are of the lesser priesthood.
00:49:02 Yes, correct. The bishop Rick is the
00:49:05 presidency of this priesthood.
00:49:08 So that is one thing that the brigamites
00:49:12 get correct. The bishop Rick is the
00:49:14 presidency of the ironic priesthood.
00:49:18 Yeah. But there’s another part of that
00:49:19 that they will ask people when they
00:49:21 bring it up in that and we may talk
00:49:24 about it but it’s here in here. I’ll
00:49:25 just bring it up that if there’s a
00:49:27 little descendant of Aaron, they have
00:49:29 the right to the being the bishop over
00:49:33 someone that has the high priesthood,
00:49:35 but they give it up. They’ll they’ll ex
00:49:38 the person, the one that has the
00:49:39 lineage, they’ll instead of giving him a
00:49:42 bishop. Yeah.
00:49:45 So on on this point though since
00:49:48 um this statement right there which is
00:49:51 in the DNC in this section goes along
00:49:54 how it’s not done the way that they
00:49:58 claim
00:50:00 correct uh once a war a branch sorry
00:50:05 ward is a brigamite thing you will find
00:50:07 that nowhere in the DNC once a branch
00:50:09 has been established the apostles have
00:50:12 no authority over it And at that point,
00:50:16 it is done by vote of the local members.
00:50:19 So, and I I just want to say this cuz I
00:50:21 know bishops gets overwhelmed, okay? And
00:50:25 I think they get overwhelmed
00:50:28 because they don’t know what they’re
00:50:31 doing. Uh and but yet they’re told
00:50:34 they’re going to have some spiritual
00:50:36 magic that’s going to make it so they
00:50:37 know what to do and they don’t and they
00:50:39 get overwhelmed. In addition,
00:50:42 um if it was done the way they were
00:50:44 supposed to be done, uh the local
00:50:47 congregation will know who has the
00:50:50 talents and skills given to them from
00:50:53 Yahweh to be able to handle that
00:50:54 position and they wouldn’t be get
00:50:56 overwhelmed. And another point I think
00:50:59 why they get overwhelmed because the
00:51:00 church forces them to have a job or
00:51:03 already, you know, have some foreign
00:51:04 income without being bishop. Now, an
00:51:07 interesting thing, an interesting thing
00:51:09 about the first bishop of the church,
00:51:10 Edward Partridge. His calling as bishop
00:51:15 was a full-time calling. He had no other
00:51:18 job and he was supported by the church,
00:51:21 right? And that gets into what I was
00:51:22 about to say. Uh the second thing is uh
00:51:26 the DNC actually states that bishops is
00:51:28 a paid position
00:51:31 within the church. within the church.
00:51:33 The DNC what position does the DNC not
00:51:36 say as a paid position within the
00:51:38 church? The president.
00:51:41 Uh no, the president of the church is a
00:51:44 paid position. The DNC says that the
00:51:46 it’s the quorum of the 12, I think.
00:51:48 Well, okay. So, the Torah the 12 do get
00:51:53 paid while they’re doing traveling
00:51:56 missionary work. Correct. Not when
00:51:59 they’re hanging out in the church.
00:52:01 Right? That’s not their job. They get
00:52:03 paid when they’re doing their job of
00:52:05 actually being traveling missionaries.
00:52:08 When they’re doing their job of being
00:52:09 traveling missionaries, the the uh the
00:52:12 laborer is worthy of his hire. And
00:52:14 Correct. And is not fit to muzzle the
00:52:18 oxen as he treads out the grain.
00:52:20 Correct. But um they have to be out
00:52:22 doing preaching to non-believers to get
00:52:25 their pay. Yeah. They actually have to
00:52:28 be
00:52:29 out in the field plowing like the oxen.
00:52:34 Yes. Which is what goes with the imagery
00:52:36 that Ben was bringing out. The muzzle
00:52:39 ox. Yeah. Yeah. That that ox is the the
00:52:42 apostles going out and working and
00:52:45 correct working the field the world
00:52:47 doing missionary work
00:52:49 personally not managing others. There
00:52:52 there can be some of that because they
00:52:53 are over the 70, but they need to be
00:52:56 doing actual physical missionary work
00:53:00 themselves, preaching themselves. One of
00:53:02 the one of the things and what that
00:53:05 imagery draws on is that one of the
00:53:07 things when when people were plowing
00:53:09 their field, the ox actually had a feed
00:53:12 bag that they would tie around its horns
00:53:15 and it would be beneath its mouth and it
00:53:17 could dip its mouth into the feed bag
00:53:19 and eat while it was working. You’re
00:53:21 right. So on this now, the Brits are not
00:53:23 the only one having an issue with this
00:53:24 problem. Christians and Jews and
00:53:28 Messianics have this issue too with
00:53:31 their YouTube preachers.
00:53:34 Yes, you are. YouTube preachers are not
00:53:37 out among the people.
00:53:40 Yeah. They’re And guess what? They’re
00:53:42 not apostles or 70s.
00:53:44 No.
00:53:46 and they’re doing it from their uh
00:53:50 basement room. Probably they’re doing it
00:53:52 from their house. Um they’re not out
00:53:54 among the people. They shouldn’t be
00:53:56 getting paid. That’s preCraft. So um but
00:54:00 that’s uh so there there there’s issues
00:54:02 in a lot of um spaces there. There are
00:54:07 there are so here’s the
00:54:10 thing and something and I will just go
00:54:13 into this briefly because Stephen did
00:54:15 state something about it. No man has a
00:54:17 legal right to this office which is the
00:54:20 office of a bishop except the unless
00:54:23 you’re except I I was getting to that to
00:54:26 hold the keys of this priesthood
00:54:28 except he be a literal descendant of
00:54:33 Aaron. So, how does the church how does
00:54:35 the how do the
00:54:38 restored branches get around this of the
00:54:42 church uh the different types of LDS out
00:54:45 there get around this?
00:54:47 They just give them the mazes priesthood
00:54:50 and they ignore and ex people who bring
00:54:54 up how they’re learned descendants of
00:54:56 Aaron because they correct they they
00:55:00 want ones that will do their bidding not
00:55:03 the scriptures which is supposed to be
00:55:05 the law of the church. Um and it’s in
00:55:07 the DNC. We can look at it if you want
00:55:10 but wait it’s also up here agreeable to
00:55:13 the uh covenant. Oh yeah. I guess it’s
00:55:15 Yeah, it’s there. It’s in that too. Yes,
00:55:18 very true. There’s one that says it a
00:55:19 little more directly, but yes. Oh, of
00:55:21 course. Of course. Yeah, that is an
00:55:23 indirect statement, but I I will point
00:55:25 out that it says it constantly
00:55:27 throughout even Oh, yeah. It does say
00:55:29 that phrase throughout this whole
00:55:30 section all throughout this entire
00:55:32 section. It’s agreeable to the covenants
00:55:34 and commandments. Guess what? The
00:55:36 covenants and commandments of the church
00:55:37 is Torah. Yeah. Yeah. Because that comes
00:55:40 from Yahweh.
00:55:43 Yeah. And I will point
00:55:47 out that no other
00:55:49 addendum to Torah provides a
00:55:54 complete
00:55:56 law. It’s all
00:56:00 supplemental. It’s all additional
00:56:02 knowledge. It’s not a complete legal
00:56:07 system. Not like is given in Torah. It’s
00:56:10 not like is given in the five books of
00:56:12 Moses.
00:56:16 Well, um, so we have the the within
00:56:19 Torah, we have one law, love, that’s
00:56:23 divided into two. Love Yahweh, love your
00:56:26 neighbor and yourself. And then each one
00:56:28 of those are divided into five
00:56:31 uh subdivisions. And then we’re given a
00:56:33 lot of uh explanations of those five of
00:56:37 each, right? And um Yahweh will continue
00:56:42 to
00:56:44 his Torah to us if we are diligently
00:56:48 seeking him and will act on it. Yes.
00:56:51 Right. But those additional My point is
00:56:54 that my point is that this is actually
00:56:56 an expansion of what has already been
00:56:59 revealed what we have. Correct. Correct.
00:57:02 And I’m I’m just kind of adding to it
00:57:04 and that none of the expansions
00:57:07 contradict what you already said.
00:57:11 Correct. Absolutely.
00:57:14 But uh so um let’s see
00:57:19 here. So once again we have a
00:57:22 reiteration in verse 18. the power and
00:57:24 authority of the higher or Melkisedc
00:57:25 priesthood is to hold the keys of all
00:57:27 the spiritual blessings of the church.
00:57:32 So spiritual stuff, right? Y
00:57:36 um and we don’t have to go there, but
00:57:39 there it does state in the DNC that
00:57:40 everything is spiritual. uh nothing’s
00:57:43 temporal but um we do have to apply
00:57:49 uh the spiritual thing into the temporal
00:57:51 world which itself is a a spiritual
00:57:54 thing. Correct. Right. Correct. So also
00:57:58 in verse 19 to have the privilege of
00:58:00 receiving the mysteries of the kingdom
00:58:02 of heaven which oh by the way mysteries
00:58:05 another word we found this out last
00:58:07 week. Mysteries is another word for
00:58:09 Stephen. Uh understanding Yahw.
00:58:13 Torah and understanding Yahw. Well,
00:58:17 because Torah is the revelation of the
00:58:19 mind. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. So, it’s the
00:58:22 same thing. He said it. It’s the same
00:58:23 thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Different way
00:58:25 of focusing on Yeah. It’s Yeah. Exactly.
00:58:29 Of the uh mysteries of the kingdom of
00:58:31 heaven to have the heaven to put it just
00:58:33 another way. A mystery is something
00:58:35 that’s not yet understood. Right.
00:58:37 Correct. That is it. Oh, in fact, here
00:58:40 one more day. One more time. Let’s look
00:58:43 at that word
00:58:46 mystery because I love I love word
00:58:48 looking up
00:58:50 words. A profound secret, something
00:58:53 wholly unknown or something kept
00:58:55 cautiously concealed. Anything uh in
00:58:58 religion, anything in the character or
00:59:00 attributes of God in the economy of
00:59:03 divine providence which is not re
00:59:05 revealed to man. In other words, that
00:59:08 which is not understood. Yeah. It’s
00:59:10 beyond human comprehension until
00:59:13 explained. Definition three. This is
00:59:18 what
00:59:19 mysteries are. The mysteries of heaven
00:59:22 are this. And they’re it’s points.
00:59:27 They’re not something that you can find
00:59:28 by reading in the white space between of
00:59:31 the world. And it’s a mystery is
00:59:34 something uh especially mystery from
00:59:36 Yahweh is something that’s going to
00:59:37 explain who he is. Yes. As talked about
00:59:41 in DC 84. Right. Right.
00:59:45 Anyways, uh but uh have the heavens
00:59:48 opened unto them. to have the heavens
00:59:50 opened unto them, to commune with the
00:59:52 general assembly and church of the
00:59:55 firstborn, and to enjoy the communion
00:59:58 and presence of Yahwa or Elohim, the
01:00:02 father, and Yeshua, the mediator, of the
01:00:06 new or I would say renewed covenant.
01:00:12 Now, uh,
01:00:13 new dictionary does mean renew. So, but
01:00:17 I don’t have a problem with the verbiage
01:00:19 of new covenant. No. Right. I agree.
01:00:21 Well, no, but some people think that
01:00:24 means brand spanking new. And I think
01:00:26 it’s I like saying renewed as John did
01:00:29 because it brings out it’s not something
01:00:32 brand spanking new. It’s renewed just
01:00:34 like a new moon exist. Look, that has
01:00:37 existed a short time only.
01:00:42 Well, that’s not the best one. Um, but
01:00:45 still, yeah, you’re right. Cuz that
01:00:47 one’s a little more like brand
01:00:49 renovated. Renova,
01:00:52 repaired the first states.
01:00:55 Oh, wait a minute. That’s called
01:00:57 restoration.
01:00:59 Yeah. Yeah. Wait, wait. Let’s see here.
01:01:02 One more word. One more word and then we
01:01:05 will move on in this section.
01:01:10 the
01:01:11 act of replacing an in a former state.
01:01:15 So going back to what it was before,
01:01:18 renewal, revival,
01:01:21 reestablishment,
01:01:23 recovery, renewal of health and
01:01:27 soundness, recovery from a lapse or any
01:01:30 bad state like apostasy. Oh, wait. That
01:01:33 word’s there. Apostasy. Recover from a
01:01:38 Right. You mean that thing that never
01:01:40 happened? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Someone
01:01:43 hasn’t really read their New Testament
01:01:45 much.
01:01:49 No, it was that it just never ceases to
01:01:53 astound me how Christians will tell you
01:01:55 that the apostasy never happened. Now in
01:01:57 verse
01:01:59 20, the power and authority of the
01:02:01 lesser or ireronic priesthood is to hold
01:02:04 the keys of the ministering of angels.
01:02:07 You see this basic definition also in
01:02:10 section 84 and also in section 20.
01:02:16 People don’t realize is the ministry of
01:02:17 angel ministering of angels is the
01:02:19 calling of repentance. Yeah. And to
01:02:23 administer in outward ordinances. Oh,
01:02:25 wait. Baptism,
01:02:27 baptism and the letter of the gospel,
01:02:29 sacrament are
01:02:31 two uh most common ones, right? Yeah.
01:02:35 The letter of the gospel, the baptism of
01:02:37 repentance for the remission of sins
01:02:39 agreeable to
01:02:42 Torah. Torah,
01:02:45 the covenants, the covenants and
01:02:47 commandments. But by the end of this
01:02:49 lesson, brothers and sisters, I hope
01:02:51 that you understand the covenants and
01:02:53 commandments equals
01:02:56 Torah. Now, just FYI, in the Old
01:02:59 Testament, you can uh easily replace
01:03:04 covenant with Torah, and it means the
01:03:06 same thing um all through it. And the
01:03:09 commandments are part of Torah. It’s a
01:03:12 it’s a subset of Torah because there’s
01:03:14 multiple parts to Torah. But anyways,
01:03:16 back of necessity there are presidents
01:03:19 or presiding officers growing out of or
01:03:22 appointed of or from among those who are
01:03:26 ordained to the several offices in these
01:03:29 two priesthoods.
01:03:31 So these groups of people that have
01:03:34 these offices will have presidents,
01:03:36 right? Yes. basically of the MelkiseDC
01:03:40 priesthood. This is going to be, correct
01:03:43 me if I’m wrong, the only office within
01:03:49 the church church that the high
01:03:56 priests have the specifically high
01:04:00 priest because the bishop high priest
01:04:01 can do but it’s it’s more ironic but
01:04:04 good point got
01:04:06 be high priest to be president president
01:04:09 of the high priest. Yeah. A and in in my
01:04:12 mind there is a lot of connections
01:04:14 between a bishop and the president of
01:04:17 the church. So I I I see it being
01:04:19 consistent. One’s of the whole church,
01:04:22 one is the uh local branch. Correct.
01:04:27 They’re both big-time jobs. Okay. So
01:04:31 yeah, they are huge. Yeah, they’re
01:04:33 full-time jobs. They’re full-time plus.
01:04:36 They’re vital. They’re vital. and you’ll
01:04:38 have plenty of overtime, I’m sure. Uh,
01:04:41 well, they’re full-time plus jobs.
01:04:43 They’re they’re very life consuming. So,
01:04:46 anyways, yes, just go ask a bishop. Even
01:04:49 though they’re not even doing it right,
01:04:51 it’s still very consuming. Hell yeah. of
01:04:54 the MelkiseDC priesthood, three
01:04:56 presiding high priests chosen by the
01:04:59 body, appointed and ordained to that
01:05:02 office and upheld by the confidence,
01:05:04 faith and prayer of the church form a
01:05:05 quorum of the presidency of the church.
01:05:08 Stephen, you want to go over this idea
01:05:11 of chosen by the body. Uh that’s vote vo
01:05:16 t. And if you want, I can share some
01:05:18 stuff on that. Absolutely. I’ll stop
01:05:20 sharing so that has a whole bunch that
01:05:23 I’ve kind of
01:05:27 um collected uh passages for that. Yeah,
01:05:36 he’s got an app for that.
01:05:38 Okay. So, I I don’t know how many of
01:05:40 these you want to look at, but I have a
01:05:43 few. Uh so, DNC 20 63 through 66.
01:05:49 Uh, by vote. We don’t have to read the
01:05:51 whole things here. Okay. By vote. Uh, by
01:05:54 vote. So, it’s in twice. Whoa, whoa,
01:05:56 whoa. But, but but of who? By vote of
01:05:59 who? Is it by vote of all the other
01:06:01 leaders or or or just a small minority
01:06:04 of people? Well, so this depends on the
01:06:07 calling uh the or the office on who
01:06:10 needs to do the voting. So, like bishop,
01:06:13 as we’ve talked about earlier, it’d be
01:06:15 everybody in the branch. Correct.
01:06:18 because that’s the he’s the one those
01:06:20 are the people he’d be over. Um now so a
01:06:25 similar calling for the whole church
01:06:27 would be the presiding
01:06:30 um presidents, right? Correct. That
01:06:34 would be the whole church. In fact,
01:06:36 guess what? Um you vote for each
01:06:39 individual officer in the presidency
01:06:42 individually.
01:06:44 Correct. vote for the president and the
01:06:46 president picks his first and second
01:06:48 counselor. In fact, in church history,
01:06:50 uh they do that and Joseph Smith said he
01:06:53 didn’t like one of them and the church
01:06:54 said, “Too bad.” And he’s like,
01:06:58 “Okay, it was voted. Each office, each
01:07:02 person in the presidency is voted by the
01:07:06 church, the body that or uh it is
01:07:09 presiding over, those are the people
01:07:11 that do the voting for it.” Yeah. Okay.
01:07:15 Uh, so this one doesn’t say vote by
01:07:18 common consent. So this is DNC 262.
01:07:21 That’s another way to say vote. Okay.
01:07:23 Yes.
01:07:25 Uh, let’s see. Thou shalt leave this
01:07:27 place until the office shall be
01:07:29 appointed and preside conferred by the
01:07:31 voice of it. The voice that’s vote.
01:07:34 Yeah. Right. By the voice of the people
01:07:36 that’s in it. They’re going to say he’s
01:07:38 in it. Uh, so that’s 2810. 2830. Be done
01:07:43 in order. and by common consent in the
01:07:46 church. Wait, in the church. So I don’t
01:07:50 know the calling that it is specifically
01:07:52 because these are just quick ones to
01:07:54 give the idea. So that common consent is
01:07:56 vote by the church. The church is the
01:07:59 members not the leaders. Sorry. By the
01:08:02 prayer of what? Faith. Oh, what’s faith?
01:08:07 Uh trust and diligence. Yes.
01:08:10 Uh so
01:08:12 3834 voice of the church that’s going to
01:08:15 be vote
01:08:17 uh among them shall be appointed and
01:08:19 they shall be appointed by the voice of
01:08:21 the church that’s by vote right so
01:08:23 correct uh okay by the voice of the
01:08:26 people uh it’s 419
01:08:30 sounds like a vote to me uh
01:08:33 yeah a voice of the people of the church
01:08:36 again Yeah.
01:08:39 And that one’s specifically saying
01:08:41 bishop, right? Or the agent agent that
01:08:45 is. Yeah. Showing it’s that that’s going
01:08:48 to be not the whole church, but just
01:08:49 that local church, right? Right.
01:08:52 Correct. Uh
01:08:55 5849 voice of the church appointed by
01:08:58 the voice of the church.
01:09:00 Uh
01:09:02 1029. Voice of the church. That’s vote.
01:09:05 Uh here’s 51 voted. Oh, so this is 102
01:09:09 voted in five and six and eight
01:09:14 uh and nine and 19. Okay. So, because
01:09:19 they because they didn’t want it to
01:09:21 sound like a political process, they
01:09:23 called it common consent, but it is a
01:09:26 vote. Well, you can see here they went
01:09:29 back and forth in the term.
01:09:32 Yeah.
01:09:34 How do you get the voice of the people?
01:09:35 Oh, yeah. to get them to
01:09:39 vote. Oh, look. Here’s a a a quote by
01:09:42 Brigham Y. Young. Joseph presided over
01:09:45 the church by the voice of the church,
01:09:47 aka vote. I I mean, I guess there’s a
01:09:51 few more. I can do it. Uh, so here’s one
01:09:54 from Journal of Discourses by somebody.
01:09:57 I don’t know. By the voice of the
01:09:59 people. Yeah. The people chose to have
01:10:02 it.
01:10:04 by the voice of the people. Oh, wait,
01:10:06 wait, even better. When it was called to
01:10:08 preside over the church, so that’s going
01:10:10 to be the president of the church. Yeah,
01:10:12 it was the voice of the people.
01:10:16 Oh, yeah. The keys of the priesthood
01:10:18 independent of their voice. That’s
01:10:20 actually kind of also important to
01:10:23 understand. Yeah. And if we keep looking
01:10:26 at 107, it even has a verse in 107 that
01:10:28 goes over that. If we keep go back. So
01:10:32 10421
01:10:35 uh voice of the order. So
01:10:40 common united consent or voice of the
01:10:43 order. Oh, consent. Oh, that’s the vote.
01:10:47 Yeah, it sounds like a vote. I don’t
01:10:49 know. Okay, so here’s 10722 that we’re
01:10:52 just looking at. Chosen by the body,
01:10:54 which is going to be the church because
01:10:56 that’s what they’re going that’s what
01:10:58 they’re over, right? So that’s the body
01:11:00 gets to pick it the church. So that’s
01:11:02 another vote DNC 124. So I believe 124
01:11:07 is invalid. But if you do believe it’s
01:11:09 valid, uh it does talk about voting
01:11:12 here. Uh office is improved. So approve
01:11:16 or disapprove that
01:11:17 is no conference. That’s vote. Yes. And
01:11:22 then here’s another one. uh uh before
01:11:26 the officers may serve in their
01:11:28 position, they must receive a formal
01:11:30 sustaining vote of the people. Okay, so
01:11:33 that’s but it okay, so this is McConi
01:11:36 mixing things together, but he does say
01:11:39 vote and then he gives references in the
01:11:40 scriptures, which I think most of those
01:11:42 already we went over. So, but anyways,
01:11:45 yeah. And then
01:11:47 uh Moses elected representatives in
01:11:50 Exodus 18, Mosiah 211.
01:11:54 Uh chosen by the people vote. Um I
01:11:59 mostly focused on DNC and church history
01:12:01 in here. But yeah, um although there’s
01:12:04 more, there’s a lot. Right. There is. So
01:12:08 we have numerous witnesses that it’s
01:12:12 done that uh the presiding high priest
01:12:17 over the entire body of the church the
01:12:20 presidency of the church is chosen
01:12:24 by all
01:12:27 well it’s the body and that the business
01:12:30 of the church was
01:12:32 conducted by the voice of the church.
01:12:36 Yes.
01:12:39 Yeah. Um so
01:12:42 um the all the offices in the church are
01:12:46 done by vote. Yes. Now um when there is
01:12:52 an unorganized branch, it can be done by
01:12:57 revelation through the 12 or the 70. But
01:13:00 once it’s been organized, the 12 and the
01:13:03 70 no longer have any authority in that
01:13:06 branch. Also, once the body has chosen
01:13:10 those
01:13:12 people, they must
01:13:15 uphold by confidence. They must be
01:13:18 upheld by the confidence, faith, and
01:13:21 prayer of the church or Right. Right.
01:13:24 But at the same time, you have to
01:13:26 balance that you because you shouldn’t
01:13:28 just trust them and let them do things
01:13:29 blindly because as we looked at a little
01:13:32 bit ago, uh 82 through 84 brings out how
01:13:35 they have to be held to the standard of
01:13:36 Torah and that’s where and if not um you
01:13:41 go and get the right people to take care
01:13:45 of the problem, right? First you should
01:13:47 try to work with them and if they don’t
01:13:48 work with you then you go through the
01:13:50 right channels. So anyway, so but think
01:13:52 about the word three words that are
01:13:53 used, right?
01:13:55 Confidence, how what happens if they
01:13:58 transgress, they have betrayed your
01:14:01 Yeah, that’s true. Good point there.
01:14:03 Good point. Faith. If you are living
01:14:05 Torah, you will be able to see whether
01:14:09 faith is being diligent. Yeah. You will
01:14:12 be able to see whether they are being
01:14:14 diligent also just through actions,
01:14:17 right? And then prayer.
01:14:24 as in ask Yahweh to give them the help
01:14:26 that they need and inspiration and
01:14:28 revelation so on and so forth
01:14:32 because inspiration and revelation are
01:14:33 two different things just they are they
01:14:35 are and that’s have we gone over that
01:14:38 lesson yet if not that’s another lesson
01:14:40 uh that’s a topic for another lesson uh
01:14:43 but uh one thing that I will state
01:14:47 though is that there There is an
01:14:52 office that
01:14:56 uh
01:14:59 might not be it called by the voice or
01:15:04 body of the church and is that uh am I
01:15:07 reading this correctly? Traveling
01:15:10 counselors. Okay. So the 12 link
01:15:12 counselors and the 70 have to come from
01:15:14 the body of the church cuz right those
01:15:17 are missionaries to go teach the
01:15:18 unbelievers but they have to be
01:15:20 believing first before they get to go
01:15:22 teach the unbelievers. I agree. Yes. So
01:15:26 yeah they take them from the body of the
01:15:28 so the traveling counselors are called
01:15:29 to be 12 apostles or special witness of
01:15:31 the name of the Messiah in all the world
01:15:34 aka non-believers thus differing from
01:15:36 the offices in the church in the duties
01:15:39 and their calling. In fact, even here,
01:15:40 right here, different than the offices
01:15:43 in the church. This is saying they’re
01:15:47 not in they don’t have any
01:15:49 responsibilities in the church, right?
01:15:51 Yeah. They differ from the officers in
01:15:54 the church. They’re saying they’re diff
01:15:56 they they’re not in the church. They’re
01:15:58 outside the church. They are to make the
01:16:00 church bigger, not to run the church.
01:16:04 Correct.
01:16:06 and they form here they’re saying uh and
01:16:09 they
01:16:11 form a quorum. So the traveling 12
01:16:15 apostles form a quorum equal in
01:16:17 authority to the three presidents
01:16:19 previous mentioned. Okay. So the reason
01:16:21 that they’re the same authority is
01:16:24 because uh the three presiding
01:16:28 presidents have that authority in the
01:16:30 church and the twel apostles have that
01:16:34 authority outside the church.
01:16:37 Yeah.
01:16:39 In fact, um somewhere in here in this
01:16:42 section, it talks about how even this
01:16:45 presiding uh high priest need to set up
01:16:48 uh set apart the bishop. Uh not the
01:16:51 state president, the high presidenting
01:16:54 high priest needs to set apart that
01:16:56 bishop if he’s not at least if he’s not
01:16:59 of the line of Aaron. Correct. He needs
01:17:02 to do it if it is of Aaron. I we’d have
01:17:04 to go review that. Um I don’t have
01:17:06 everything memorized. No, that’s fine.
01:17:08 uh and we will uh here but but going
01:17:12 with that just quick example uh the 12
01:17:16 I’ll have to set that the bishop up in
01:17:18 that unorganized branch but once they’ve
01:17:21 done that they now have no authority in
01:17:24 that branch because now it’s organized
01:17:26 now it is Zion it is the church and not
01:17:30 the world
01:17:33 yes anyways uh let’s see
01:17:37 here. The 12 are traveling presiding
01:17:40 high council. Well, just searched for
01:17:42 bishop. Yeah, you’re right. It doesn’t
01:17:44 specifically say what I said. I’m giving
01:17:46 it as all right. I was looking for the
01:17:49 the
01:17:51 verse. Uh, okay. So, it’s probably this
01:17:54 one. Uh, and okay. Provided he is called
01:17:58 and set apart and ordained onto by the
01:18:00 hands of the presidency of the Melkazdc
01:18:02 priesthood.
01:18:03 The it is not the state president that
01:18:06 calls the bishop. No,
01:18:09 it is someone in the presidency. That is
01:18:11 if you believe DNC 107. So correct. I
01:18:16 do. So I me too. Ben also. Yep. Yeah.
01:18:21 So, uh yeah, the presidency of the
01:18:24 Melkisedc priesthood or presidency of
01:18:26 the church are the ones who call a
01:18:29 bishop if he is not a literal
01:18:31 descendant. Right? That is in this in in
01:18:34 the branches of Zion. So, if they’re not
01:18:37 Zion yet, this is where the twel
01:18:40 apostles are 70 will set him apart and
01:18:44 then they’re in the church. Yes. And now
01:18:47 they have no authority anymore. Correct.
01:18:52 So, um,
01:18:56 now I do believe that there I do believe
01:18:59 that state I do believe that state
01:19:01 presidents are enumerated in another
01:19:04 section that is good. Uh, yeah, we’ll
01:19:08 have to review that later. Um, that’s
01:19:11 for another time. Yeah. So,
01:19:14 um, and just another little piece of,
01:19:18 uh, uh, information about high priests
01:19:22 not having an
01:19:24 office. They’re part of the general.
01:19:26 They’re, you know, there are three years
01:19:30 previous to the death of Adam called
01:19:31 Seth, Enos, Canaan,
01:19:34 Mahalo, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah who
01:19:38 were all high priests,
01:19:41 right? have an office. Doesn’t say they
01:19:44 have the office of the high priest. It
01:19:45 says they’re high priests. They’re
01:19:47 priests of the high priesthood.
01:19:50 Yes. With the residue of his posterity
01:19:53 who were righteous.
01:19:55 So one I think that’s interesting that
01:19:59 they kind of separate these uh these
01:20:02 gentlemen
01:20:03 here as high priests from the rest of
01:20:08 the member from I guess the rest of the
01:20:11 members because they’re some of the more
01:20:13 famous ones. Yeah. Right. Yeah. because
01:20:17 there would have been others than just
01:20:18 them, but they were probably some of the
01:20:22 uh more important ones because of what
01:20:25 they did, right? Yes.
01:20:29 So, this is the section here 50 uh
01:20:33 57 that talks about uh or 58 sorry
01:20:37 starting 58 that talks about the duty of
01:20:39 the 12 as they are expanding the borders
01:20:42 of Zion.
01:20:46 Okay. Shall we read it? Yes. To the
01:20:49 church of Messiach in the land of Zion,
01:20:52 in addition to the church laws
01:20:55 respecting church business, verily I say
01:20:58 unto you, say of the Yahoo of hosts,
01:21:00 there must needs be presiding elders to
01:21:02 preside over those who are of the office
01:21:05 of an elder. So uh but also just real
01:21:09 quick it is the duty of the 12 also to
01:21:11 ordain and set in order all the officers
01:21:14 of the church agreeable to the
01:21:16 revelation which says Yeah. Yeah. So
01:21:19 this is
01:21:20 um while they’re building up the church
01:21:24 once it’s built up they no longer have
01:21:27 authority in that area anymore. Correct.
01:21:30 Correct. So this is this is one of the
01:21:33 responsibilities of
01:21:36 expanding the borders of Zion. Yeah. Is
01:21:39 to set the
01:21:41 the unorganized branch into order which
01:21:45 then becomes part of the church once
01:21:47 that’s done. Now they the 12 can go
01:21:50 visit and and they can respond to
01:21:52 letters as Paul did. You’re right. But
01:21:56 he can’t request anything or force
01:21:58 anything because he is his authority is
01:22:02 outside the church. It’s to build the
01:22:05 church, not run the church. And I love
01:22:08 this kind of not I’m not going to use
01:22:11 the term stepping stone approach here,
01:22:13 but I do love how he builds up to the
01:22:17 high priesthood, which is the greatest
01:22:19 of all. Right. So, okay. Well, let’s
01:22:22 Where do you want to start with that?
01:22:23 Let’s start with 60. Verily I say unto
01:22:26 you, saith Yahweh of host, there must
01:22:28 needs be presiding elders to preside
01:22:30 over those who are of the office of an
01:22:32 elder. Once again, elder office.
01:22:35 Presiding elders over the office of
01:22:38 elders. Yeah. It’s not a segregation.
01:22:42 No. Of younger uh adults. It is an
01:22:46 office. It is an office. Exactly. And
01:22:49 also priests to preside over those who
01:22:52 are of the office of a priest. Once
01:22:55 again the office of priests presiding
01:22:57 over office of priests and teachers to
01:23:01 preside over those of the office of a
01:23:02 teacher in like manner and also the
01:23:05 deacons. Wherefore from deacon to
01:23:07 teacher and from teacher to priest and
01:23:10 from priest to elder severally as they
01:23:13 are
01:23:14 appointed according to
01:23:18 Torah.
01:23:19 Right. Right. And now it’s interesting.
01:23:21 They’re applying office in all of those
01:23:23 four. Right. Exactly.
01:23:27 Then
01:23:29 then comes the high priesthood which is
01:23:31 greatest of all. And this is because all
01:23:34 of that are appendages of the Melzdc
01:23:38 priesthood. That is why the high
01:23:40 priesthood is greatest of all because
01:23:42 those are all underneath that. Yes.
01:23:46 Yeah.
01:23:49 It’s high priesthood that is governing
01:23:51 and running all of this.
01:23:53 Yeah, exactly. Wherefore it must need
01:23:56 these be that one be appointed of the
01:23:58 high priesthood to preside over the
01:24:00 priesthood and he shall be called
01:24:02 president of the high priesthood of the
01:24:04 church. So to be
01:24:08 uh one of the three presiding high
01:24:11 priest you have to have the high
01:24:12 priesthood.
01:24:14 Yeah. right now. Uh Brigham Y Young and
01:24:17 I can show this. So let let me take the
01:24:19 screen real quick. Absolutely. I have a
01:24:22 quote from Brigham Young bragging he
01:24:24 doesn’t have that
01:24:37 priesthood. Okay, here’s bringing up.
01:24:39 Now, it would cause some of you to
01:24:41 marvel that I was not ordained a high
01:24:44 priest before I was ordained an apostle.
01:24:48 Now, okay, this this gets into a little
01:24:51 bit what some of the confusion that Ben
01:24:53 and I were talking about earlier. I
01:24:59 I not sure. And so, my current theory is
01:25:03 that uh yes, the three witnesses were
01:25:06 called to go find the apostles. Mhm. I
01:25:11 currently currently I speculate that
01:25:14 they did it too fast. Instead of waiting
01:25:16 till finding people that had the
01:25:18 Melkisedc priesthood like maybe they
01:25:20 should have instead of actually finding
01:25:23 the people who had been sanctified,
01:25:27 right? They just found some people. So
01:25:30 this is my current working theory. Okay?
01:25:32 And this is where some of the confusion
01:25:34 came up earlier. I’ve had a different
01:25:36 working theory in the past. I have
01:25:38 recently changed it. So I’m not I I will
01:25:41 admit I don’t know for sure. But the
01:25:43 most important thing here is that
01:25:46 Brigham Young is saying that he did not
01:25:48 have the high priesthood.
01:25:50 Yeah. With according to DNC 107 which we
01:25:54 were just reading, he could not have
01:25:56 been the president of the church.
01:25:59 And oh wait a minute, let’s also
01:26:02 continue with that that that quote.
01:26:05 Brother Kimell and myself were never
01:26:09 ordained high priests. Never. And look
01:26:13 at the year he said that. 1853.
01:26:16 This Can you’d say And can you say
01:26:19 gloes?
01:26:21 Well, yeah. He’s he he’s he’s bragging,
01:26:24 but it’s actually he’s digging his hole,
01:26:27 isn’t he? Yes, he is. And the the next
01:26:30 two words are damning. How wonderful.
01:26:34 When a man is ordained to be an apostle,
01:26:36 his priesthood is without beginning of
01:26:39 days or end of life. So now he’s
01:26:41 changing the definition of what it means
01:26:44 to be an apostle. He’s changing the
01:26:47 definition of what it means to have the
01:26:49 melodic priesthood. Yeah. Yeah. This is
01:26:51 where he’s changing it. And this and I
01:26:54 think this is show I think this is
01:26:57 giving some proof for my current working
01:27:00 theory that it was given too early.
01:27:03 Instead of them waiting for people that
01:27:05 were sanctified and had the Melzdc
01:27:07 priesthood, they were just giving it out
01:27:08 too soon. Right? That’s my current
01:27:12 working theory. And I think this how
01:27:14 Brigham Young’s changing the definition
01:27:16 of the priesthood kind of goes along
01:27:18 with that. But anyways, rather than
01:27:19 waiting for people to be sanctified,
01:27:21 they just called a whole bunch of people
01:27:23 and then told them to go get sanctified.
01:27:25 Yes, because they did tell them to get
01:27:27 sanctified out. In fact, um I I don’t
01:27:31 know word for word, but in the calling,
01:27:34 it has something to the fact that this
01:27:36 calling is not full until you see the
01:27:38 face of Yahweh, I think is the wording.
01:27:40 I think it would have been better
01:27:42 sanctified, but that’s a whole another
01:27:43 discussion, right? Yes. Yes. Um, but the
01:27:48 main point here, Brigham Young’s
01:27:50 admitting he did not have what was
01:27:52 needed to be president of the church
01:27:55 because he’s states right here, never
01:27:57 ordained a high
01:27:58 priest. Now, then he tries to do some uh
01:28:01 magic justifications, which is not true.
01:28:04 But anyways, yeah.
01:28:09 So, oh, uh, with that being
01:28:13 said, this is in this section, we find
01:28:16 out the definition, the actual
01:28:20 definition of high priest, not the
01:28:24 redefinition that Brigham Young placed
01:28:27 upon it or made of it. Yeah. This is
01:28:31 what it means to be high a high priest
01:28:35 in the high priesthood.
01:28:38 It means that
01:28:41 you are
01:28:43 sanctified, that you have walked the
01:28:47 walk that Yeshua walked and received the
01:28:50 baptism of fire and the baptism of the
01:28:52 Holy Ghost. Well, yes, because you’ve
01:28:56 had both. This one specifically, the
01:28:58 baptism of the Holy Spirit, which the
01:29:01 greatest of all, like uh what’s the
01:29:04 greatest gift of all? Eternal life.
01:29:07 Exactly. Which happens when you’re
01:29:09 sanctified. Oh, and by the way, going
01:29:12 back up here to this
01:29:14 verse, all of these men,
01:29:19 we’re sanctified. We’re sanctified.
01:29:24 Oh, sorry. I should include him. Well,
01:29:26 yeah. Yeah, Adam. But yeah, uh we’re
01:29:29 sanctified.
01:29:31 And I do think that it’s actually really
01:29:33 significant to point the to keep that
01:29:36 spotlight and focus on the fact that
01:29:38 Adam was sanctified because so many
01:29:41 people like to run Adam and Eve through
01:29:44 the through the ringer. U but Adam was
01:29:48 sanctified.
01:29:50 Well, yeah, they like to do that because
01:29:52 they want to blame them because they
01:29:54 don’t want to take responsibility for
01:29:56 their own sins. Correct.
01:30:00 Everybody likes to put it off on
01:30:01 somebody
01:30:03 else. And that, by the
01:30:07 way, being a high priest in the high
01:30:10 priesthood means that you accept
01:30:14 accountability for your own sins.
01:30:18 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And don’t try to throw
01:30:20 it off on other people. This is
01:30:27 Yeah. Because repent. Yeah. Because to
01:30:30 get sanctified means you’ve been
01:30:32 repenting. Yes. Repenting is not just
01:30:35 saying I’m sorry. Now that is part of
01:30:37 it, but it’s restitution and then not
01:30:40 doing it again. Yeah.
01:30:45 So stopping the behavior. There’s
01:30:48 concept.
01:30:50 Not doing it again. Yes. Stopping that
01:30:53 behavior. Yeah.
01:30:56 needs to happen as well. Um, it goes on
01:31:00 here. Now, we will probably be
01:31:03 revisiting this section in another
01:31:04 lesson, but
01:31:09 um
01:31:11 Oh, never mind. Uh
01:31:14 but there is I do want to go ahead and
01:31:18 uh revisit this point that if a
01:31:23 president of the high priesthood shall
01:31:25 transgress.
01:31:27 So this says the president of the church
01:31:29 or one of his counselors. Right.
01:31:32 Correct. Correct.
01:31:34 He shall be had in remembrance before
01:31:37 the common council of the
01:31:40 church who shall be assisted by 12
01:31:43 counselors of the high priest. And why
01:31:45 these 12 counselors? They know the law.
01:31:48 They know Torah. Oh, wait a minute.
01:31:52 Thus, that’s what they’re supposed to be
01:31:54 judging by. Correct. And guess what,
01:31:57 folks? We are allowed to judge according
01:32:00 to Torah. According works of people,
01:32:04 works of people, not intents of the
01:32:07 heart. Oh yeah. Nobody knows the intents
01:32:10 of the heart except Yahweh or
01:32:12 occasionally when Yahweh will reveal
01:32:15 reveal it to one of his servants, but
01:32:18 that’s occasionally. It’s it’s rare.
01:32:21 Yeah. You don’t know it without a
01:32:23 revelation.
01:32:25 and their decision upon his head shall
01:32:28 be an end of controversy concerning him.
01:32:32 Thus none shall be exempted from the
01:32:36 justice and the laws of
01:32:40 Elohim, that all
01:32:43 things
01:32:45 Torah may be done in order and in
01:32:48 somnity before him according to
01:32:52 truth and righteousness.
01:32:56 No. Now, even along with this judgment,
01:33:00 since we’re on the judgment here, and I
01:33:01 I mentioned how Yahweh may reveal uh the
01:33:05 intents of people’s hearts,
01:33:07 um you can’t use that in judgment uh in
01:33:11 these judgment cases here. You have to
01:33:13 actually go find evidence to bring that
01:33:16 out. Yes. Um, so I it’s although you may
01:33:23 think you get revelation, you can’t take
01:33:25 it to a church or civil court. You need
01:33:28 actual physical evidence. Yeah. Uh
01:33:32 otherwise people will uh have their
01:33:35 pretended revelations being used as uh
01:33:38 evidence. So if when Yahweh reveals
01:33:42 someone’s heart to you, you can then go
01:33:44 use that to go find out how to get um
01:33:46 evidence on him to take the evidence to
01:33:50 court. Yes. That revelation. Okay. Yes.
01:33:57 So one more thing. So in verse 91
01:34:04 uh and 92 and then we’ll go we’ll skip
01:34:06 down to the end of the section here and
01:34:09 again the duty of the president of the
01:34:11 office of the high priesthood is to
01:34:13 preside over the whole church aka the
01:34:16 body of the church. Right. Right.
01:34:19 is this is the only office uh this the
01:34:24 the presiding presidency of the church
01:34:27 is an
01:34:29 office in the high priesthood. Mhm. But
01:34:32 the high
01:34:34 priesthood is not an office. Correct.
01:34:38 and to be high priest. It is someone who
01:34:41 has the high priesthood and then but
01:34:43 they don’t get to do anything with it in
01:34:45 the church until they’re voted into that
01:34:50 position in the church by the people
01:34:52 that it governs.
01:34:55 Correct. And to be like unto Moshe. Now,
01:35:00 we’re going to get a slight definition
01:35:02 as to what that means.
01:35:05 Behold, here is wisdom. Yay, to be a
01:35:08 seer, a revelator, a translator, and a
01:35:11 prophet, having all the gifts of Elohim,
01:35:14 which he bestows upon the head of the
01:35:18 church. Moshe was a seer, a revelator, a
01:35:23 translator, and a prophet. And he
01:35:26 certainly did have all the gifts of
01:35:29 Elohim upon him. You can read through
01:35:32 the five books of Moses and see a lot of
01:35:34 miracles that he did. Yeah, exactly.
01:35:36 Well, I mean, you know, he opened the
01:35:37 earth and sank an entire family of
01:35:41 Levites. Uh uh that was because that was
01:35:45 a judgment because of that. Well, right.
01:35:48 It was a judgment. But the opening of
01:35:51 the earth suddenly, you could state that
01:35:53 that even though it was a judgment, it’s
01:35:56 still a miraculous
01:35:58 miraculous explain the earth just, you
01:36:01 know, whoa, opening up right in that
01:36:06 specific
01:36:07 location. Um, you know, so even though
01:36:10 it was a judgment, it was still done
01:36:13 very miraculously.
01:36:15 Yes. Yeah.
01:36:18 Um so
01:36:23 uh basically let’s see here and it is
01:36:27 according to the vision showing the
01:36:28 order of the 70. So we were there is the
01:36:32 calling of the office of the 70. So that
01:36:35 has to do with missionary work. Right.
01:36:36 Right.
01:36:38 Um seven uh there’s seven presidents
01:36:41 over the quorum of the 70.
01:36:44 Yep.
01:36:45 Six are uh uh six uh one the seventh
01:36:49 president the last president of the 70
01:36:51 who is uh chosen is to preside over the
01:36:54 six. Yeah. Seven presidents choose every
01:36:59 uh choose other 70 besides the first
01:37:03 70 whom they when these other 70s are
01:37:07 needed. Correct. Correct. So if not just
01:37:11 generally. Yeah. Right.
01:37:14 and also other 70 until 70 time or till
01:37:18 until 7 time 70 which is 490
01:37:23 and this is in relation to the growing
01:37:25 need for missionaries
01:37:28 correct and these 70 are to be traveling
01:37:32 ministers unto the Gentiles first and
01:37:36 also unto the Jews. So this is
01:37:38 definitely this this traveling. So you
01:37:40 mean like they’re going through the
01:37:41 world? Yes.
01:37:44 Yeah. They’re not staying stationary.
01:37:48 No. Okay. All right. Whereas other
01:37:51 officers of the church who belong not
01:37:54 unto the 12, neither to the 70 are not
01:37:57 under the responsibility to travel among
01:38:00 all nations, but are to travel as their
01:38:02 circumstances shall allow. Right. So, so
01:38:05 because primarily they’re over a
01:38:08 particular part of the church that
01:38:09 they’re living in. Correct. Some travel
01:38:13 to uh administer within that area that
01:38:16 they’re over will be required. Correct.
01:38:19 But nothing like the 12 and the 70
01:38:21 because their job is travel everywhere.
01:38:25 Yeah. So they may hold as high and
01:38:29 responsible offices in the church.
01:38:31 Notwithstanding they may hold as high
01:38:34 and responsible offices in the church.
01:38:37 Once again, once again, this points out
01:38:41 that
01:38:43 uh high and responsible offices are in
01:38:46 both the church and the mission field,
01:38:49 right? Because there’s that uh as word
01:38:52 there. That’s a comparison showing they
01:38:55 both the church and the missionary field
01:38:58 does have high offices, right? So the
01:39:01 organizational the organizational
01:39:03 flowchart if you were to make one would
01:39:06 have basically two towers of authority.
01:39:10 Yes. Now ultimately the missionary one
01:39:14 is under the presiding
01:39:16 um yes
01:39:19 the high priesthood. Yeah. Yeah. Uh but
01:39:24 for the most part they all just they
01:39:26 work on their own. Correct. And you’ll
01:39:29 see an example of that in Acts 10,
01:39:32 right? I mean, Acts 15, sorry, because
01:39:34 it was James the head b like like I
01:39:36 called the head bishop, but the
01:39:38 president of the church made the
01:39:40 decision. Yeah. The interesting thing is
01:39:43 is you have Paul weighing in with his
01:39:46 opinion and you have Peter weigh in with
01:39:49 his opinion. But who has the final say?
01:39:52 James. James. And then you’ll see Peter
01:39:56 and Paul going out and helping make sure
01:40:00 that goes out to the the new converts.
01:40:03 Yeah. Yeah. Showing they’re under the
01:40:07 president of the church. They’re not the
01:40:09 president. They’re under So yes.
01:40:12 Anyways, wherefore now let every man
01:40:15 learn his duty. Where can we learn our
01:40:17 duties?
01:40:20 Tora and also section 107. Well, and I
01:40:25 think uh 10 I mean DNC 20 helps with
01:40:30 their duties too. Correct. Yeah, that’s
01:40:33 why I said DNC 107, DNC 20. Uh
01:40:36 potentially DNC 84. Um
01:40:42 uh but also Torah. Yeah, just to in
01:40:45 general because in general uh everybody
01:40:49 in the offices of the church and
01:40:51 missionary
01:40:52 uh need to call repentance. Correct. So
01:40:58 and to act in the office in which he is
01:41:03 appointed moderately well Stephen.
01:41:07 Uh no diligently in all diligence. Yes.
01:41:12 As in you’re trying very hard. You’re
01:41:15 not making excuses, right? You’re not
01:41:17 trying to do all things in moderation.
01:41:22 No, no, no.
01:41:25 Meaning you’re trying hard. You’re
01:41:27 you’re doing it and you’re spending time
01:41:30 sharpening your yourself at the same
01:41:32 time. So exactly. Exactly. He that is
01:41:36 slothful shall not be counted worthy to
01:41:39 stand, but and he that learns not his
01:41:42 duty and shows himself not approved
01:41:44 shall not be counted worthy to stand.
01:41:47 Even Oh, this is another uh statement
01:41:50 that you need to go learn your duty
01:41:52 because if you don’t know your duty, you
01:41:54 can’t do it and so you’re not worthy.
01:41:57 Yeah, you need to go learn people. Mhm.
01:42:03 Yeah, it’s uh it’s it’s pretty cut and
01:42:06 dry. I I absolutely love this section as
01:42:11 a teacher of the organization of the
01:42:16 priesthood. This lays it out very
01:42:20 clearly. Um
01:42:23 uh so one thing I’ll just add to the
01:42:26 clearly part. Yes, it is clear after you
01:42:30 let go of the traditions of the church,
01:42:34 correct? Let the text speak for itself.
01:42:36 Um, yes, because it until you get to
01:42:39 that point, it can be a little tricky.
01:42:41 But I do hope the things that we bring
01:42:43 out here will make it more clear for you
01:42:45 to show that
01:42:48 um, the restoration churches are not
01:42:51 doing according to Yahweh’s word. Okay.
01:42:53 Correct. Correct. But more importantly,
01:42:57 hopefully we’ve instructed you in the
01:42:59 way that Yulpo would have it run.
01:43:01 Correct.
01:43:03 So with that being
01:43:06 said, and fulfilling my responsibility
01:43:10 and the calling that I have received
01:43:11 from Yahwa, I call upon you, my dear
01:43:15 brothers and sisters, to repent. Come
01:43:18 unto Torah. If you are not familiar with
01:43:21 Torah, open your Bible and start in the
01:43:24 first five books of Moses, reading and
01:43:26 familiarizing yourself with it. It it is
01:43:31 condensed in the first five books of
01:43:33 Moses and then afterwards read the rest
01:43:36 of the Bible. Become familiar with your
01:43:40 Bible. Then read the Book of Mormon.
01:43:42 Then read the Book of Mormon. Exactly.
01:43:45 Read the Book of Mormon that you may
01:43:48 fully understand the concepts which have
01:43:52 been more fully
01:43:56 revealed. So
01:43:58 please learn the ways of Yah. Learn
01:44:02 Yahwa. Learn who Yahwa is. Come unto
01:44:06 him.
01:44:08 Repent. Be
01:44:10 baptized. If you uh if
01:44:14 you would like to be
01:44:18 baptized
01:44:22 then basically after you have
01:44:25 received the witness of Torah that it
01:44:29 and repent and return unto
01:44:33 Torah, you can find any of us here on
01:44:38 Facebook. We have our names in the video
01:44:42 links. Find
01:44:44 us. We will talk to
01:44:47 you and we
01:44:49 will stand as witness
01:44:52 that you have repented because that is
01:44:56 our
01:44:57 responsibility as teachers of Zion, as
01:45:01 priests of
01:45:03 Zion. We are priests of Zion.
01:45:09 At this point, we are priests and we
01:45:12 have the ability to baptize. We are
01:45:15 permitted to call repentance. So please,
01:45:19 my dear brothers and
01:45:21 sisters, wherever you are in
01:45:24 your, for lack of a better term, faith
01:45:28 journey, repent, return unto
01:45:32 Torah, be
01:45:34 baptized, and
01:45:36 follow
01:45:38 Yahway’s ways.
01:45:42 follow in his
01:45:44 footsteps and take upon you the
01:45:47 atonement of Yeshua
01:45:49 Hamashiach. And I say these things in
01:45:51 the name of Yeshua Hamashiach. Amen.
01:45:54 Amen.