End-Time Isaiah - Prophecy and Davidic Patterns

Avraham Gileadi and Marci Campbell from the Isaiah Institute take a deep dive into the Book of Isaiah. What is the Davidic Servant? Did Joseph Smith talk about the Davidic Servant? How do we better understand the Book of Isaiah?

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This is the first part of a two-part series which is essentially a course on Isaiah. You're going to get a lot of
information here, a greater understanding of this book that the Savior himself has told us in Third
Nephi that we need to search these things referring to the book of Isaiah.
If you want to learn more about the book and you're kind of uncomfortable about it, this is a great way to just start
dipping your toes in here and getting comfortable with the literary tools that
are found throughout Isaiah. It surprises me that we don't focus more on this. I' I've said this before, but I
wish we had an entire year of come follow me that was focused just on the book of Isaiah. I think it is that
important. It talks about our time and we need to understand and situate
ourselves, put ourselves into the context of Isaiah's words which are very
prophetic. Now, this episode is brought to you by the Isaiah Institute's virtual conference which is held Saturday,
November 8th. You can go to the link found in the description box. Go to
Isaiah institute.com to sign up for this. I strongly recommend that you do it. uh you're
going to learn something about Isaiah. You're going to learn enough to really
help you feel a little bit more comfortable with the Book of Isaiah. And by the way, more comfortable with the
Book of Mormon, which is really wrapped around the Book of Isaiah itself. I
think you're going to really enjoy this. Two different parts. This is part one. Here we go.
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Welcome to Quick Show. My name is Greg Matson and I am your host. In this episode, we bring on Abraham Gilliotti and Marcy Campbell from the Isaiah
Institute. Welcome both of you. Thank you. We're going to cover some important
topics here, Abraham. There's been a lot of talk about a couple of topics uh especially since you were on stick of Joseph last week uh including this the
uh Davidic servant which needs some clarification but we've prepared you've prepared prepared some slides here that
I want to go through and then if you don't mind I think I'm going to ask a few tough questions. I want to get some clarity on a few things because I've
followed a lot of your work but I but I do have a few questions. So is there anything you want to do to introduce
what we're going to do? Um, I think we we're ready to go and just uh get right into the scriptures and the slides that
are that are prepared so people can get a clear clear idea of the subject for sure. Okay. So, here we go. So, we're going to
start off with the prophecies of the latter day David. And here I've already got some questions on this, but go ahead. Let's start with uh these points.
Prophecies of latter day who has diligently searched the words of Isaiah. Do we perceive all that searching the
scriptures involves? Do we use the manner of the Jews? And do we think
already do we think we already know what Isaiah means? Yeah, these are just some questions I
was throwing out there so that we can kind of do some little soularching about whether we actually are have been
searching and and what searching really means because it's not reading or studying. It's all about making connections and only about 10% as I keep
saying of what uh the meaning of Isaiah script is appears on the surface and there's so much going on underneath and
within the text with uh all the interconnections and literary structures
and typologies and word links and keywords and code names. So it's um that
really is involves the man of the Jews or the Jewish methodology of analyzing. So a caution about whether we think we
already know because when we come with that kind of attitude to Isaiah
likely we're not going to learn much. So so here's a couple questions here. First of all I don't know of very many
people that think they know Isaiah but but I would say I don't know Isaiah and I've studied it a lot. Uh but what when
you say search then obvious what do you do to find the tools
to be able to do what you're saying? Because if you're just studying, you're reading through it, you're going from
chapter 1 to 66, you're looking up themes. Okay, that's all good. You're
dipping your toes into it, but how is somebody going to know the tools to really understand the way you're saying
we need to search the words of Isaiah, right? So, um, that's what I spent my
life doing is uncovering these literary tools or tools for analyzing. They're very simple, but they are literary and
we need to apply them otherwise we'll never get very far with Isaiah and they include doing uh like word searches in
in a concordance and we have the scriptures today online. So we can do that very easily now. It's almost like
it's it comes with this day and age that we that we're able to do that. So uh
then I've analyzed many discovered and analyzed many structures. We'll be speaking about them in just a moment.
Um, and so that makes it a lot easier to have someone who has already done the work. Um, my rabbi used to say it
applies to Isaiah's day and it applies to the end time. I said, "How do you know?" He said, "It's a tradition among
us. We have no proof." But I found the proof during my years of analyzing and
my my studies starting at BYU many years ago. I spent basically my lifetime 50
years from that. Okay. So I think it's important that people
understand in order to do this, you've got to learn how to delve in to deeper to Isaiah because it is written in a way
for you to delve in, right? It's not it's not a story. It's got to be it's got to be delved
into. Here's another question I have for you. Go ahead. It's also it's also not a smorgesborg.
You know, we can just pick and choose. It's one integrated hole. And um yeah,
searching is something probably that many people have not even learned how to
do. Okay, I might jump in and just say I I think there are stories in Isaiah and the end
times certainly has an imagery of a story in many regards.
So I think that people can in one piece of the puzzle. I I consider it to be
puzzle pieces look at stories within it. I think that's important and and there's
historical stories as well. And also I just want to do a plug for you Abraham. I think Isaiaexplain.com
is a very helpful tool to go to to learn some of these preliminary
attributes in in addition to Abraham's translation. On this third point here, do we use the
manner of the Jews? So here here I've never really understood this from the Book of Mormon, right? And and I'm
actually going to bring this up because I was fortunate to study in a rabbitic school and learn the man of the Jews or learn how the Jews analyze and look at
many different layers of things and not just settle on one interpretation. That never works. There's always at least two
witnesses. Isaiah has his own internal checks and balances. You can check things and recheck things and triple
check things. So you're on safe ground. When you several different approaches to Isaiah like structural or typological or
historical all point to the same thing, then you're can be pretty sure you're on safe ground to interpret something. But
until you do, you should not be interpreting Isaiah. Okay, so hold on here. So let's back up here to the to the manner of the Jews
here. So you've got this starting here in in in 2 Nephi 25:1 says, "For behold,
Isaiah spake many things which were hard for many of my people to understand, for
they know not concerning the manner of prophesying among the Jews." So there's
a manner of prophesying among the Jews. And then he says, "For I, Nephi, have not taught them many things concerning
the manner of the Jews." Now that may not even be the prophesying. I don't know. But he's saying things that
concerning the manner of the Jews, for their works were of darkness and their doings were doings of of abominations.
At least at that point right there, it starts to look like, well, Nephi has held off on teaching Isaiah in a way the
Jews did because their works were an abomination. Yes. Correct. and and he hasn't taught
them many things concerning the prophecy men of prophets actually are the Jews because because you know that secret
combinations they use code names and keywords and all that kind of stuff and so that's why he doesn't want people to
get used to that kind of mode of operation because it becomes very convenient to do under underhand kinds
of things but that that is in fact a big part of Isaiah and even that's why
Isaiah requires searching but and and perhaps it's also why Isaiah has waited to this day and age to be able to be
understood and and decoded and understood. So you're saying that that it was not the right time for the Nephites to get
the manner of the Jews because it would have caused more problem for them back then but but for
us in the last days we do need to know the manner of the Jews. Yes. Correct. Because in those days it
may not have been appropriate for an innocent people to be delving into keywords and code names and things like that like secret combinations do those
were the works of darkness with secret combinations. So um interesting. Yeah. But but I'm sure that all those
who who uh who learned in the in the Nephite schools uh who were proficient
in the scriptures I'm sure they learned those things otherwise they would not have understood Isaiah. And the Nephites
did perfectly understand the words of Isaiah. Okay. So, wait, so that's fascinating to me. So, obviously later on in the Book
of Mormon, we learn about the secret combinations and and we learned that they even from
the Book of of the original Book of Jared of of the excuse. Yeah. The original book of Ether, they didn't want
to repeat the the secret combinations and the oaths and different things like that. You're saying that's tied directly
to what Nephi saying. Absolutely. I believe that. Yes. because it says it mentions right works he
mentions works of darkness and those are secret combinations. Yes. Okay. But today we're living in the midst of
not you know secret combinations. So it's already out. Those things are already out. So now it doesn't matter if
you if you're going over to that side fine. But if you're interested to learn how to understand Isaiah you must learn
these things including these uh what words what the words mean the key words the code names that Isaiah uses. and use
them very very profitably so that you can once you start applying them a whole lot starts making sense.
Okay. All right. Marsh Jacob's caution to the prideful. They
hearken not unto the council of God for they set it aside supposing they know of themselves. Second Nephi 9.
Right. So this is something that you're you're up against especially in LDS
communities. um that everybody already thinks they know and think it depends on
you know upbringing and things they've been taught and they have uh always assumed this or that or the other but
Nephi in second Nephi 28 who saw alai speaking about our day saw that you know
we're just laden with precepts of men and so long as we still continue holding on to them and not analyzing what the
prophecies actually say but assuming this is what they say or putting our own spin on without coming to the scriptures with an
open mind as if you know if you haven't heard something a thousand times before then it can't be true. Yes, it can. And
that is what we need to be open to and not assume that we already know anything
when it comes to Isaiah. Okay. Again, having to delve into the tools that that you're talking about. We
need to learn the tools to be able to do that. And here's something I don't understand really because I I guess
first of all, you know, and I don't we'll probably get to it somewhere here if we haven't already, but it it's, you know, the Savior himself in third Nephi
says it's it's I mean, it's a commandment from him to to search the words of Isaiah, right? It's a direct
commandment to search the words of Isaiah. And we don't do it because the veil is so thick over that book. It
really is, right? It is so hard to understand. And we pick little pieces of, you know, uh, of scripture chase
basically verses that we grab from Isaiah. We know most people know Isaiah
11:1 and 2. Most people know of in Isaiah 1, you know, maybe the vision in Isaiah 6, but you don't there's not much
there. There's there's such a thick wall. How do you how do we change people's minds on that? Well, we've really created that wall
ourselves. You know, we've taken lightly the Book of Mormon and in its entirety even not to mention the Isaiah passages
in the Book of Mormon. But one big obstacle is indeed the King James translation which is used in the in the
Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon. But as we'll see today, there's a lot of information in the Book of Mormon that
can open our eyes. So, provided we are willing to actually pay the price of of searching. It's not that hard. you can
get into it and start making your own connections because really everybody really needs to learn on their own and
not have someone else ram something down their throat, you know, and that's what I'm doing. My job I feel is to point out
these connections and in the scriptures and these and provide these kind of tools. That's what I've set my life to
be. They're there. They're available now. Nephi's parting lament. I Nephi cannot
say more. For the spirit stopth mine utterance, and I am left to mourn because of the unbelief and the
wickedness and the ignorance and the stiff neakedness of men, for they will
not search knowledge, nor understand great knowledge, when it is given to them in plainness, even as plain as word
can be. Second 32. Yeah, thank you. That commandment by Jesus to search diligently the words of Isaiah.
It take in my experience it takes about two years for somebody to internalize all the truths that are just packed into
the book of Isaiah and it's a deliberate challenge and it has a special blessing attached to it. Somebody who does it and
many people have done it and understand Isaiah quite very well now and are able to understand other scriptures better
because of it because Isaiah is the key. Searching Isaiah is really the key to understanding other scriptures as well
as as so many can of task now. So it is a deliberate challenge and if you want
to take it on be prepared to invest some time and maybe less on other things that
other distractions from the things of God again just so that's the veil you're
speaking of here over over the book right and again I just I would still say I what I and I think Abraham we've said
this I've said this before to you but I I feel like you know for like the come
follow me program, we we should combine maybe the Old and the New Testament and and put in for the
fourth year the book of Isaiah. It seems like it's that important to me,
you know, that that we should have an entire year focused on the Book of Isaiah
so that we can understand the Book of Mormon better, so that we can understand our times better. I I don't know. I
mean, that's obviously a radical idea, but I I I I I'm trying to point out the
importance of studying the book. Yes, I think you're right on, but I don't think it will ever happen because
at least not in the current situation. But Marcy's right. um go to Isaiah explained our website, one of our
websites that's has the um you know the new modern translation of Isaiah and
also a commentary analyzing no opinions nothing like that no personal things of
any kind just analyzing what's there what it actually says and it just creates a whole different view of Isaiah
and and just break breaks down those walls that you're talking about they're not imprenitable they're easily dis you
know uh demolished You think it's important, Greg? I love
it. I've heard from so many people who say, "Well, I feel like I haven't directly been told, even though it's a
commandment in the Book of Mormon, from Jesus himself, and not everybody is still grabbing that internally." And I'm
so glad that you are. Yay. Yeah. I I just I I don't I I don't get
it. I I it seems like a natural thing to me that we should or or even a
what what if there was again I'm just getting a little tangent here, but what what if there was a a a stake class on
Isaiah every year and maybe it's six weeks on Sunday afternoon or something.
You know, it's just something that that points our minds more to it. And it's
not even the time in the class that it matters. It's it's the idea that you're delving into it and you're at least
getting comfortable with because it's almost like it's almost like with Isaiah it almost seems
like you have to get a little bit comfortable with it before you actually feel courageous enough to to to get into
it like like learning a new language. It's just like learning a new language. And it's a new language of scripture. And in
fact, I was asked by the Relief Society and our own stake in our own ward to start just such a class. and it became
very popular very quickly and promptly this state shut it down. So it's like people who don't know the words of
Isaiah can't conceive on what it really contains. There's this this wealth of riches of scriptural riches that you
know if people only knew but since they don't know they're suspicious of it and then they just
they can't deal with it. So how can a people put you know run a class for a
year long on Isaiah if they themselves haven't walked the walk and talk the
talk and done the journey they can't because they can't conceive of what it is what they don't know they don't know
Jehovah on prideful end time academics because these people approach me with their mouth and pay homage with their
lips while their heart remains far from me their piety towards me consisting of
precepts of men learned by wrote. Therefore, it is that I shall again astound these
people with wonder upon wonder, rendering void the knowledge of their sages and the intelligence of their wise
men insignificant. Is going to say something really quick. This is and my audience knows this. This
is right up my alley. This is right up my alley. The religion of academia. And
you know, it's it's I have this lovehate relationship with it because I do learn so much out of academia. I was just at a
conference learning from a lot of academics. A lot of it you kind of have to parse out because they've got this
entire narrative they're built off of. But that's in I have never thought of that specifically that ver those verses
specifically as applying to academia. But yeah, the knowledge of the sages,
the wise men, right? The intelligence of the wise men. It's like the modern the modern equivalent of the scribes and
Pharisees of Jesus day. And um and and all through the scriptures these people
are taking the task. So he calls them these people here twice, right? Is it
twice? Yeah. These people appears twice. Meaning that these are not my people anymore. They've
they've gone off on their own on their own little, you know, journeys and and
because the covenant is my people or your people, not these people. So, and
then I'm actually writing this down. Do so. And and pre, you know, second
Nephi 28, you want to talk about precepts of men. You know, I sometimes I think there are
more of those out there than there are the truths of God in Isaiah from Isaiah because people have not understood them
and just put their own spin on things and then they somebody actually writes a book about it. Then that then somebody
else quotes that person. It may be a general authority or not. often it has been and suddenly that becomes the
gospel and something that everybody believes but when you actually go back to the scripture and find out where it is it's not there not exactly what it
says and what this that's what I call academia a terrestrial exercise
and well people say well that's from the time of no Isaiah is talking about our
day an end time sequence of events and so you can't just pass the buck all the
time and pass everything off to somebody else all the bad stuff and apply the good stuff to yourself. It doesn't work.
It doesn't work that way. We have to apply all things that Isaiah and the prophet spoke for ourselves for our
profit and learning. That's the key. If we're willing to do that, we'll get ahead.
Okay. And that reminds me that part of the manner of the Jews, as I understand it, is that phrase, what once was will be.
So, while this was in the time of Isaiah, that means it's going to circle back again. It's going to come around again.
There you go, Mi. Human nature is human nature, and we all seem to fall into the same pattern over
and over again. There you go. You've had enough experience with that on your shows.
All right. Oh, sorry, Mercy. Marcy, go ahead. I wasn't going to read it unless you want me to. Okay. So, I'll just point out things.
This is Isaiah's seven part synchronous structure that I spent, you know, that was originally my doctoral dissertation.
Then I did 10 years of post-doal work analyzing and analyzing and analyzing this. This literatur structure is way
more than appears on the surface. Uh you can see there's two blocks of chapters that parallel one another. The book of
Isaiah is 66 chapters total. Um a scholar called William Brownley found a
break between the first 33 chapters and the second 33 chapters in the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah of St. Mark's
Monastery. So he started to analyze what this was all about and he discovered these different genres of of material uh
some biographies some uh you know theological stuff. Well anyway
this has a systematic this contains a systematic theology as well as an end time prophecy and it's a synchronous
structure and this is very important. Everything is in sync is what it means. It's a holistic structure covering the
entire book and it develops uh theology and prophecy from one section to the
other to the other to the other. It's too difficult to explain here, but if you want to know the details, go to my
book, the literary message of Isaiah. That's what I published 10 years later.
And that has that is fully analyzed there. But you can see that it has some of the gospel themes that are familiar
to us like salvation, exaltation, deliverance, deliverance from sins and so forth and physical deliverance also
um as part of a greater whole as part of you know a a whole schematic of themes
of antithetical themes. The suffering of salvation, humiliation for exaltation, punishment before
deliverance. You got to go through trials and tribulations in order for you
to rise above them. and then enjoy exalted or glory whatever salvation and
and so forth. There's there are tests involved and I guess the first one would
be to search diligently the words of Isaiah. I think probably that's where it would start for most people.
Yeah. The center of this almost seems like condescension. Humiliation and exaltation seems to be
kind of the that's condescension, right? It's it's you've got to be brought down to be raised up.
Yes. Um couple questions on this that first of all what is the the as you've
put this together what is the learning for us? Let me put it this way. If this
is right then it's obviously done on purpose what is the learning that we're
trying to get out of this this this synchronous structure. Okay. So I've tried to um to uh simplify
that in my book Isaiah Decoded where it talks about seven different spiritual levels in Isaiah that become clear in
within this little structure. Mhm. And um also that and these levels,
spiritual levels that appear are not spelled out for you like um that Isaiah
uses again code names and and keywords that indicate a whole hierarchy of
spiritual levels which you can ascend from one level to the next to the next. and also how end time prophecy uh ties
into it uh including the historical parts of Isaiah that um act as an
allegory over what happens in the end time because according to Jesus key in third Nephi 23 where he tells us to
search the words of Isaiah you he he specifically says Isaiah applies on two
levels what has all things he spake have been and shall be they have been in the past they shall be again in the end time
as Maxi said Marley said a moment ago that history repeats itself and and but
it does so in two specific instances or at least one specific instance meaning the end time.
Yeah. Okay. Very good. And that's what this synchronous structure is. It creates it changes the entire rules for interpreting Isaiah and
puts everything as presents everything as an end time scenario. Everything you read in Isaiah is an end time scenario.
Even the historical part typifies something that repeats itself. That's very simple. That's very simple
to understand. Okay, here's another question on this. You So, you've got and
and I know we've talked about this, but I want to bring this up because people will be interested in this. You know, a
lot of what you get in scholarship today is that there's a first and a second Isaiah. Some have said there's a third Isaiah. Um, what you're building here is
showing to me that there's a lot more proof that this would be a single author. There's no way it's not a single author.
This is all. So, so that's what I'm trying to say here. So, you know, going through here, I mean, you're 1 to5 and then 34 to 35. Well, I think second
Isaiah starts at 40. So, there's no second Isaiah. Yeah, there's no Yeah, there's no second and there's no
Trto Isaiah either. Okay. And that's what I that's always what I believe because you've got such a there's so
much structure in it that it it's it's you can't just pass the baton on to
somebody else and have them keep going with it, right? Not to mention not to mention all the interconnections of of
typologies of types and shadows that repeat themselves and all the word links. They're all throughout. They're
scattered throughout. They're not just in one or the other. If you go to the next slide, you'll see more about that.
Yeah. Before I do that, I want to point something else out about academia on this is that the the reason that that
theory comes up is because there's a disbelief in prophecy. Yes.
Right. because they look at it and they say, "Oh, well, this had to have been written while they were in exile or after they're in exile because they know
too much about the future already." It's there's an immediate uh response of, you
know, the theories that they bring out are a response to a lack to their disbelief in prophecy.
Yes. Well, you know, these are the intellectuals of society, right? The
academics. So, nobody can be smart. I'm being facicious but nobody can really be smarter than they are certainly not a
prophet you know somebody who lived back in the stone age to I mean not in the stone age but relatively speaking in the
past so um yeah go to the next slide and you'll see is even more support for a
single author of Isaiah the whole idea yeah what they don't know they try to
make you know try to find answers for and they're not in it to to in my view
they're in for their professions for the most part. So God can't use them the same way that he can somebody who pays
the price for the knowledge that comes forth. These these are all histic structures that appear throughout the book of
Isaiah and they're all layered one on top of the other and they all based on ancient neareastern literary patterns
from different other nations as Nephi says and I know about the regions round about. Yeah. because he knows them and
their literatures and Isaiah uses those literatures and adapts them for his own prophetic purpose
for Hebrew theology for Hebrew prophecy. Yeah. I think I think those academic
communities actually were very integrated, right? You the wise men in each of those
areas, they wrote for each other too in a sense, you know, and not necessarily their
their theology and their scripture, but but their culture, right, their everything else was
written, you know, you you go to Egypt and this is I go to Egypt all the time and and that was the dominant culture as
you talk about, right? like the US is a dominant culture today. And and so you have you have a dominant culture that
starts to feed out into Assyria. It feeds out into Mesopotamia. It feeds out into Canaan. It feeds out into the Jews
even where where they're adopting a single concept or several concepts from
from a different culture and they write for each other and they have similar scribal schools even that they're
graduating from. They support each other in their liberalism or conservativism, whichever it is. Yeah,
sure. They stick up for each other. But very seldom is the does the conservative school, which is more literal and
treasure the scriptures rise above the liberal one because it's like everybody's on the bandwagon of the
liberals because they're they're the most popular and making the most the most prominent people and making the
most money and so forth. So this is what you're up against. The truth of God. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. Okay. We ready for the next slide? Yeah, we are. Joseph Smith on the latter
day David. Although David was a king, he never did. I can't see it. There you go. The spirit and power of Elijah and the
fullness of the priesthood and the priesthood that he received. And the throne of the king, the throne and the
kingdom of David is to be taken from him and given to another by the name of
David in the last days, raised up out of his lineage. That was in teachings of
the prophet Joseph Smith. There you go. So the prophet Joseph Smith had his own thing to say about it.
And the name of the person is David. It's not Joseph Smith and it's not Jesus. It's a person called David. And
he actually fulfills all the things that the Jews were looking for when Jesus came. They did not expect a spiritual
savior. They they expected this temporal savior uh to deliver them from the Romans or from oppression. And that is
that is exactly what the David does in the end time. He delivers God's people today, us and the house of Israel, the
Jews, 10 tribes and Lammonites of today from from a from a bad situation that's
getting worse and will get worse by the day. And eventually he comes and then he has God gives him power to deliver to
deliver us from that as as a prelude to the coming of the Lord. We'll get more
into that in these next. So do you do you think would you say that this this end times Davidic servant is an Elias?
Yes. It comes to that also Elias meaning meaning a forerunner. Correct. Meaning a forerunner. Now there's been
some talk recently more about this your your concept of the Davidic servant in the last days. Is there anything else
you want to lay down before we get into these other slides? What what what are the controversies and why do you think
the controversies exist? I think they exist because the academic arm is violently opposed against the concept of
a letter of demon. The same as the scribes and Pharisees were violently opposed against Jesus. He comes along
somebody they're not expected. They haven't written about him. And so it's not in their books. It's not in their
understanding. And so they feel threatened by the fact that somebody might come, you know, take away their
place and expose their um fraudulent exesis.
Okay, like user use Isaiah that that just destroys your whole belief in a single prophet who saw our day.
Time then seasons on the latter day David. According to the prophets, the name of this king shall be David, not
the patriarch David, who was the son of Jesse, but a literal descendant of his. The idea is that the earth will be under
the control of Christ and the glorified saints, and Christ will virtually reign over the whole earth, and this David
will be subject to him. Well, as early breth understood this
whole subject of the latter day of David and and then once some people decided it
was a heresy then it has become a heresy ever since and people feel justified in
putting it down and and you know considering that there's so many um
people who uh are without just being for now who are without sin who are casting the first stone and other stones at
those who proposed this idea of the latter David you know maybe this these prophecies about the condemnation that's
resting upon us are not true. But I think I believe the scriptures.
What uh that didn't have an author on it. Was that just the publication itself or was there an author specifically for
that quote times times and seasons? Yeah. So just under the publication name that's from the time of Joseph Smith. It
was a well-known publication church. Okay. Orson hide on the latter day David. Let
them know that it is thy good pleasure to restore the kingdom unto Israel. raise up Jerusalem as its capital and
constitute her people a distinct nation and government with David thy servant even a descendant from the loins of
ancient David to be their king. That was Orson Hyde's dedication of the Holy Land on October 24th 1841.
That is one I have not seen. Yeah. And a lot of people haven't seen it or the one in times of Caesar or the
one from Joseph Smith. But there you have three witnesses of the fact that these early brethren of the restoration
understood that there would be a David coming along at some point and he would have something to do with the salvation
of the Jews. So let me let me let's just go over this again. I'm I'm I'm going to read this
out loud again, right? Let them know that it is thy good pleasure to restore
Let who know? The Jews. The world. Okay. Let them know
that it is thy good pleasure to restore the kingdom unto Israel.
raise up Jerusalem as its capital and constitute her people a distinct
nation and government with David thy servant even a descendant from the loins
of ancient David to be their king. So this is like I mean essentially it is
actually I think this is going to be in your maybe the next slide but it is this
is almost like a new king David. Yes, it is a new king David like the prophet Joseph Smith said a moment ago that we
read. Yeah, if you want to go back a couple of slides from the kingdom of David is to be given taken from him and given to
another by the name of David in the last days raised up out of his lineage. Here you have it.
So this is this this is a Jew and it doesn't say that. No, we have
it doesn't say that. It says but it says it says from the the descendant of David. Yes, from David. But there are many
descendants of David around the world these days, you know, and and also descends of Jesus who is a descend of David. So
I wouldn't get too fixed. This is this is I have a policy that says if you can't show it, don't say it.
So that means that unless there's a scripture for it somewhere, then you can speculate all you want, but that may
lead you down a garden path that you don't want to a rabbit hole that you don't want to go because you may have to undo everything that you believe doing
that. Yeah. Okay. Jeremiah on the latter day David, I will gather the remnant of my
flock out of all countries whether I have driven them and will bring them again to their folds and they shall be
fruitful and increase and I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them and they shall fear no more nor be
dismayed neither shall they be lacking saith Jehovah. Behold, the days come,
saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king
shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days, Judah shall be
saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. That's Jeremiah chapter 23,
right? So now take note because in these uh in these scriptures by Jeremiah and
Ezekiel the next one in a moment um note the context in which the David arrives.
It's an end time scenario. It's temporal. It's about the gathering of Israel that that gathers that he gathers
and that those who assist him gather to Zion eventually. And um he has something
specifically to do with the Jews because he fulfills the prophecies that they
know and had you know like Nephi says the Jews understand the things of the prophets unless you taught after the man
of the Jews you'll not understand them like like they do. So they understood that this person will actually come and
reign among them and reign over them. And so he is. And Jeremiah is one of the prophecies that they were relying on for
that understanding. And so is Ezekiel. Is there a uh
conflation here then of this Davidic servant and the future Jewish Messiah?
There's only one Messiah and that's Jesus. Well, I understand that, but that's not what the Jews believe. I'm saying I'm saying is there is from their
understanding you're just saying now that that that they they believe in some type of a dividic
they believe in this person today in the future is that is that the Messiah that they're looking for?
Yes, that is the Messiah they were looking for at the time of Jesus and are still looking for exactly that. Okay.
Well, some of them have gone way up left field by claiming Manakim Schneerson of the Dubit sect is him. He's going to
come back from the dead and all that. That's dream on, but that's not going to happen. This person has not yet arrived
on the scene. He has not come yet. Yeah, I think there's been a few of few of those.
Ezekiel on the latter-day David. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are
scattered, so will I seek out my sheep and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the
cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the people and gather them from the c countries and will bring them
to their own land and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in
all the inhabited places of the country. And I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them even my servant
David. He shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd. And I Jehovah will be
their God and my servant David a prince among them. I Jehovah have spoken it.
That's Ezekiel 34. Yeah, that's where the uh you know, Joseph Smith uh people of the
restoration, saints of the restoration understood like in the times of season bread a moment ago that that the Jehovah
who's Jesus um will be their god but he will be a prince among them or he will
reign under Jesus. They said when when is this deficit servant
supposed to come? Good question. And uh we'll have to read a few more slides.
Okay. um think probably get an answer of that. Now we're to Isaiah. Isaiah on the
latter day David. Give ear and come unto me. Pay heed that your souls may live and I will make with you an everlasting
covenant. My loving fidelity toward David. See, I have appointed him as a witness to the nations, a prince and a
lawgiver of the peoples. You will summon a nation that you did not know. A nation
that did not know you will hasten to you because of Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel who gloriously endows you
found in Isaiah 55. Right? So this this is a covenant the
Lord makes and let that thy souls may live. It's a covenant of life. And in that synchronous structure, seven part
synchronous structure that that we read a moment ago. Um this part is juxtaposed
an antithetical relationship in with Isaiah 28 where the people of God make a
covenant with death. Particularly the leaders of the people of God make a covenant with death. And here they make
which is which is the arm of flesh or human contingency plans or whatever some kind of arm of flesh uh thing where
people rely on on man rather than God. And here this is the Lord's answer to that covenant of death with the covenant
of life. And the word appoint is a word that uh is a link is a word link to all
to many servant passages in the book of Isaiah. So you have to see that in that
context as well. The people whom he summons are those of the house of
Israel, not Latter-day Saints, the people of the house of Israel, the Jews and the natural branches is defined as
the house of Israel. Um in the Book of Mormon also, uh he will summon them to
Zion, but of course he can't gather them all alone. So he has other servants of
God who are helping him. We'll get into into that in a moment as we read other scriptures. So he's like a he's like a
Moses. He's like a lawgiver. He's a prince like King David was and he's working under the Lord under under
Jehovah was Jesus. And can you can you maybe we need to go through more of these these these vers
or these quotes here and verses but is there what if you were to outline exactly what
he's doing? What is he doing? What is his job? I mean I understand generally
speaking he is maybe preparing the way. I think there's another screen on that, but he's preparing the way for the
savior, right, to reign. But what what does that mean? So the Jews um yeah the Jews uh
defined like Manades and others have defined his role as um as as restoring
the political kingdom of God on the earth and um gathering the 10 12 tribes
gathering all the tribes not just latter day saints or Ephraim basically and um
building a temple in Jerusalem to which the Lord Jehovah can then come and and dwell in that temple. So, and so the
Jews say when he does these three things, specifically these three things that they've kind of for formulated,
then we'll know that he's the one. Yeah. And of course, all the pretenders, you
see them everywhere. Um they don't even come close to performing anything like that.
They just Yeah, we don't no need to talk much about them. Okay.
All right. Go ahead, Marshall. Jehovah's servant has been hidden. Hear me, O Isles. Listen to you distant
peoples. Jehovah called me before I was in the belly. Before I was in my mother's womb, he mentioned me by name.
He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. In a shadow of his hand, he hid me. He
has made me into a polished arrow. His quiver in his quiver he kept me secret.
He said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified." Isaiah chapter 49.
Yeah. And these are the chapter 48 and 49 are the scriptures that Nephi started
quoting in in first Nephi chapter 20 and 21 after he said that he his the spirit
stopped his utterance from saying any more about what he seen in vision and so he too could not go there and talk about
a servant who's been hidden from the world and not Joseph Smith not Jesus they're not being hidden they've come
forth and it's an end time scenario it's not the time of Joseph Smith and it's temporal so it's not Jesus himself.
Yeah. So that's the the servant has not been revealed to
the world. He's hidden from the world until the time of his mission.
Okay. So so he's hidden not just maybe physically but he's hidden also in concept then because that's what's in
reality what's happened then is that there's no there's no knowledge of that has happened.
Yeah. There's no knowledge of him. is not expected by anybody. Well, we are he is by those who understand Isaiah of
course. Yeah. And and people indeed have to exercise faith in such a person for that person to actually come because
nothing happens without faith. Right. So there are a lot of people today who are indeed expecting this person and so he
can come at some point. Do you see do you see at all you know people that would would would go through
under this understanding that in this framework these literary tools that you have? Um, is there is there anyone are
there any is there anyone that starts turning their hope and faith from Christ over to this Davidic servant that
they're taking that away and they start looking more for the Davidic servant than they do for the savior? I think it's only the case where people
think they are somebody important like that because what why did why would Joseph Smith take something away from or
Moses or anybody from the servant from from the from Jehovah, right? from from Christ. If if this person is is called
and appointed of God, then then he's he represents God. He represents uh God's
will for his people at that time. So why would that I suppose there are people who get so infatuated with it that they
could run away with that idea and do that. But uh and maybe there have been
some people but they've gone off the deep end with that as we've seen several years ago. Um possibly but I don't know
whether that person knew much about the servant anyway. I haven't seen that in my experience. Not with many people
who've read my books or um associated with the eyes institute. I don't think
when you really understand what it's saying then you why would you go there? It's representing God's work on the
earth. a very important end time work that's preparation for the coming of Jehovah himself. So why would that
detract from God from the Lord? It would only add to it to to him. You you see it as basically this is part
of the plan. It's absolutely part of the plan. He's one of the main actors of the end time.
I think a helpful thing on this slide too in my understanding is recognizing
throughout all of Isaiah that Jehovah speaks in the first person. Um, but I
think what's been confusing for me in the past in studying scriptures is when um the chapter uh subtitle was,
you know, like Jesus speaks messianically as though he's speaking about himself in the third person, which
was always really confusing for me. And it's less confusing if I read it as Jehovah called me, meaning me is a
separate person, not Jehovah called himself. Yes, sir. Right, Marcy. A lot of those
introductions are not scripture themselves. And they're they're not they're not even summaries. They're
interpretations. Somebody's interpretation. It's almost I think sometimes people look at it like it's it's somehow
Jehovah acting as the father speaking about himself. I think a lot that's how a lot of people interpret it.
Yes, that's very common I suppose. But that's a man that's manipulating scripture. It's
completely Jehovah speaking. And uh but you'll get that people who don't want that idea of the servant, they'll just
try to you know squirm their way out of it somehow by
coming up with these crazy interpretations. True. Well, I I I can understand to a degree
because I think so much of the portrayal of the Davidic servant is very similar
to the capabilities that Jesus had. Correct. Yes.
his roles. Yeah, they share messianic attributes. Yeah, that there could be confusion.
There does make sense, but it does. It does on a superficial level
in one sense. Correct. Marcy, [Music] right? Jehovah's individual servant, my
servant whom I sustain, my chosen one in whom I delight, him I have endowed with my spirit. He will dispense justice to
the Gentiles. in Isaiah 42, right? So another part of Isaiah says,
"The Lord saw that there was no justice and displeased him." So he really comes in answer to the injustices then
prevailing in the earth among the Gentiles. And the Gentiles is one of the ways that the Book of Mormon prophets
describe a lot of these saints. We are we are the Ephraimite Gentiles. the the Ephraimites had assimilated into the
Gentiles as Hosea 7:8 says and when Jacob laid his right hand on Ephraim's
head to to give him a pitch of blessing he said his offspring would become the fullness of the Gentiles and also in the
curtain temple the in in the Hebrew it says that in the um
where was that again where does it say that in Genesis 49
Jacob's blessing of Ephraim and then and then uh the Christian temple dedication prayer also dedicated
repair says um where Joyce Smith is says we who are identified with the Gentiles
by Book of Mormon definition. So yeah all those scriptures but we have a
special role as Ephraimite Gentiles called the fullness of the Gentiles to perform toward the house of Israel. Now,
so his will always being identified in throughout the Book of Mormon and in the scriptures as
literal lineage, the the natural lineages of the hospital today identified as the Jews, 10 tribes and
Lammonites of today and possibly others that we don't know about at this point. Yeah.
Okay. So, and that's usually what I say. The Ephraimite Gentiles seems to make the most sense to me. So, are you saying
that that is the Ephraite Gentiles are not direct descendants? Well, yes, through Ephraim. They are
from Ephraim. Okay. Yeah. Through Ephraim. Ephraim is Hosea chapter 7 verse 8 says uh Ephraim has
has mixed among the nations kingdom is assimilated into the nations. Ephraim is a cake unturned or halfbaked pancake
because he's half gentile and half you know he can go either way. He either go the gentile way or he can go the house
of his way. Yeah. It's it's a spreading of Abraham's seed. Yes it is. Yes. But we have an important
role to fulfill as we see later on in these slides of that of spiritual kings
and queens to the to the house of Israel. We have a redemptive role to perform of restoring them to to God's
covenant and to the lands of inheritance. And so we have to get our identities straight if we don't and
still claim that we're the house of and all that. That's a precept of men when you analyze what the scriptures actually
say. But if you want to stay with precepts of men, you'll never figure out what your role is because that's not
what the scriptures say about you. We're we're the we're supposed to be the spiritual kings and queens of the Gentiles who act as proxy savers to the
house of Israel to the other are still in a lost and fallen state. They still don't believe in Jesus necessarily and
we are to bring them. Well, that's what this whole slide presentation is about today. Actually, once we get into it a
little further, you'll see. Okay. Jehovah's collective servant. You, oh Israel, my servant. Jacob whom I have
back. There we go. All right. You, oh Israel, my servant. Jacob, whom I have chosen, offspring of
Abraham, my beloved friend. You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, called from its farthest limits. To you
I say, you are my servant. I have accepted you and not rejected you. Be not fearful, for I am with you. Be not
dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will also sucker you and uphold you with my righteous right
hand. found in Isaiah 41. Right? So the point of these last two
slides is to show there's a differentiation between two servants in the book of Isaiah. One individual, the
end time David, and the other, the collective people of the house of Israel
called Israel and Jacob. Usually it's a it's a spiritual category on a terrestrial level in the book of Isaiah
that has need to repent. And one of the things that God calls him to do when the servant comes along, the words right
hand there on the bottom. Or another translation for that is righteousness, my right hand, because he's called by
both names. He personifies righteousness and he's also the Lord's right hand of deliverance. Is that when he comes
along, that's the time Israel is going to be called from the ends of the earth after the pattern of Abraham who's
called from Calalde or Babylon to to the land of Canaan. And that is when the
call out happens. And then when you put all these scriptures together, that's when the call out happens. And Israel is
going to be delivered and gathered together to lands of inheritance.
That's that's the job that he's come to perform in preparation for the coming of the Lord. Yeah.
Okay. Jehovah's individual servant. I, Jehovah, have rightfully called you and
will grasp you by the hand. I have created you and appointed you to be a covenant for the people, a light to the
Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from confinement, and from prison those who sit in darkness
found in Isaiah 42, right? And this is literal prison, physical prison. And he is be a light to
the Gentiles. Well, people jump on that and say, well, the church is or the gospel is a light. Yes, it is. But not
in Isaiah's context. Isaiah is pointing this appointing this person. Well, God is appointing this person as a light to
the Gentiles. Now, he's not the greater light which is the Jehovah himself as you see in chapter 60, but he is a light
and also a covenant like Moses was mediator of the covenant between God and his people. And he has appointed them.
There's that verb appoint. It's a word linked to an earlier passage other passage we read about the servant. And
he has created him. that this since there's no word for recreation in Isaiah
or in Hebrew, he says created, but the sense is always being recreated closer
to God's image and likeness. Every time you ascend a spiritual level, you are recreated on the higher spiritual level,
literally, physically, even. And if you descend the letter, you are decreated,
meaning you're no longer what you used to be. And Isaiah starts comparing you with dogs and reptiles and things like
that. So yeah, so the darkness is a is a contrast to the light and the darkness
is the king of Assyria who personifies darkness as the servant personifies light.
Yeah. So So I mean most people would read this and they'd want to put this in in other
places of of the of the captives being in spirit prison. Yeah. You're saying this is literally prison,
a time when people are literally put into prison. It it seems to me like it must be in masses here.
Yes. That's correct. Yeah. Yeah. This is physical. Yeah. People jump on that and
say it's you. No, that's because they haven't searched Isaiah. Okay.
Righteousness comes from the east. Be silent before me, O isles. Become still, you peoples. Let them come forward and
state their case. Let us stand trial together. Who has raised up righteousness from the east, calling him
to the place of his foot? who has delivered nations to him, toppled their rulers, rendering them as dust to his
sword, as driven stubble to his bow found in Isaiah 41.
Yeah, there's a lot going on here. Um, so it's a person called righteousness because he personifies righteousness in
in an age of unrighteousness or an age of self-righteousness. And he comes from the east of course that's America in
relation to in relation to Palestine because that's
the sun rises in Palestine from the east as it does here and where the garden of Eden was right it's eastward in Eden. So
he comes from this land and sonify his righteous as an exe and he's an exemplar
to God's people what real righteousness is about and he brings him to the place
of his foot which would be you know possibly Palestine also because he goes
to the Jews eventually and Lord has delivered nations to him because the
Lord empowers him over his enemies once he has passed the test and he's recreated to a higher spiritual level
he's endowed with power from on becomes a translated being and then has power like Enoch did to power over the
nations, power over elements and so forth. And he runs them as dust, dust and stubble being chaos motifs. In other
words, the non- entities. So yeah, there's a lot going on in that verse. So who has raised up righteousness? This
being a name you're saying of the Davidic servant. So this would be Zedic, I'm guessing, is the underlying Hebrew on this.
Yes, it's uh Zedic. So, so does that have a a reference to Melkisedc? I mean,
if he's also a king. Yes, Melisd. At least as a title. Yes, very much so. Well, Melkazedc was
an exemplar of a righteous king. And uh so, and also there are other scriptures
that call him the Lord is our righteousness. Yes. Which the King James
unfortunately puts in capital letters as if it's referring to Jehovah, but he's not called by that name. So that there's no
capital letters in Hebrew, just so you know. Yeah. Could you explain just a little again
maybe how you've determined um or come to the conclusion that the east in this
regard is the United States of America. Well, that's okay. Let's go back to that
scripture. Um because it says of the Garden of Eden,
that is eastward in Eden, right? And the garden of Eden was on this continent according to the prophet Joa. And also
um when you live in Palestine, the sun rises from the east. So it's somewhere in the east. Um and because um it speaks
of the isles there and the isles are usually a reference at least most of the
time to me the American isles or the continents of America come under that heading even very specifically. Yeah.
Not necessarily con exclusively but very specifically. Interesting. Okay.
Thanks. Righteousness comes from the east. I summon a bird of prey from the east from a distant land. The man of my
counsel. What I have spoken I bring to pass. What I have planned I do. Hear me, you stubbornhearted who are far from
righteousness. I have brought near my righteousness. It is not now is not now
far off. My salvation shall no longer be delayed. I will grant deliverance to in Zion and to Israel my glory in Isaiah
46. Right? So there you have basically the same thing again only this time from chapter
46 which I'll explain in a m in a moment the connection. Uh he's the man of all
those councils. So he's very high up in the hierarchy of of the gods I would say. And um he's come in response to the
people's unrighteousness. Uh he's a bird of prey because he comes upon the wicked very like a bird of prey
like an eagle. And um my salv my salvation shall no longer
salvation is should be highlighted there. I don't know why it's not that too is uh a pseudonym but this time it's
of Jehovah himself who personifies Yeshua salvation. personify salvation. Yeshua.
Yeshua is the name of Jesus. Yeshua. Yeah. Um not Yeshua. Yeshua is correct
pronunciation. Okay. And and righteousness comes as a as a forerunner of of salvation of of uh of
Christ's coming. Um yeah
and there will be deliverance in Zion because there will be need for deliverance at that time as you
What is the bird of prey? The bird of prey is the servant is again same person. Yeah.
Okay. And here you can see that same the last
two scriptures we just read. The first one is at the top there. Righteousness comes from the east and the bottom is
also the servant brings righteousness from the east or Jehovah brings righteousness from the east.
And there's other keywords and and there and several of the other um part parts
of this kayazm of alternating chaos and creation motifs and these various also called light. You
can see that twice there which you already read or three times. So yeah,
what this cayazm shows is that many of these figures that appear in the Book of Mormon about a powerful person like
Cyrus and others are really types and shadows of the servant all along in
every pretty well every instance. And all of that is possible to to analyze or
for you to see in my book, the literary message of Isaiah where this things like this this pattern appear.
Okay. So if I'm reading this correctly then is is it typically with the
kayasmus that at the center here so this is 01 and O2 that this is the primary message here
and if this is the primary message what does it mean that
you're creating a path through the mighty waters right so in the end time as we'll see a moment in a few moments um that when
Israel returns to Zion from scatter being scattered all around the earth I mean I the literal lineages of Israel,
the ethnic lineages, Jews, 10 tribes, lame Israel, or other natural branches of the house of Israel. When they return
in the end time, they come in an exodus out of Babylon. Literal physical exodus out of all the world that is now being
destroyed by the king of Assyria. And that is when they become a newly created
people, a recreated people called Zion. That's those are the two components of
that central part of the kayazm. Okay.
Jehovah personifies salvation. Pass on. Go through the gates. Prepare the way for the people. Excavate. Pave the
highway cleared of stones. Raise the end to the nations. Jehovah has made proclamation to the end of the earth.
Tell the daughter of Zion, "See your salvation comes, his reward with him,
his work preceding him. They shall be called the holy people, the redeemed of Jehovah, and you shall be known as in
demand, a city never deserted found in Isaiah 62. Right? So throughout the book of Isaiah,
the Lord Jehovah is called salvation. He's a person who's going to come and but his work of the restoration of the
gospel, for example, and the work done by the servant of gathering Israel, literal Israel, the 12 tribes to Zion is
part of that work that precedes him. and then they will become a Zion people or a sanctified people of God. So he comes as
a preparer of the way and clears away the stones or the precepts of men and actually stones is also a metaphor for
for people on a lower level spiritual level. And he's the end sign as we'll see in a moment. He's the end sign
that's comes raised to the Lord raises to the nations. His mission is to the
nations and to the isisles and to to people everywhere from the get-go. It'll be it'll be a world event.
All through the media, you'll see it. Abraham, what do you say to people who
might feel nervous about the term salvation being devoted to the Davidic servant? Because
it seems a little, you know, frightening, I guess. Right. So, this is Christ you're talking about here, but in
other times you're saying salvation is No, salvation is always the Lord.
Always the Lord. Okay. Yes. Righteousness. Wanted to clarify that. I felt like righteousness is righteousness is a
forerunner of salvation not only in concept but also in two two specific persons.
Okay. Uh would you say that there is sorry would you say that there is a uh in a
time of Jesus immortality with the Jews there that
because of his name I'm sure there were a lot of people named uh uh I want to say Yeshua Yeshua
Yeshua. You got it. Yeshua. So would that have been a conflict there with or a tension there like saying would they
be would the Jews if they're reading it similar to what you're reading it as where salvation comes are they saying
you're trying to pretend like your salvation you are salvation here. Would there was
there anything that would have existed in the time of Jesus like that? I don't believe so because that that name was not uncommon.
Yeah. And u so a name is something given at birth. So he couldn't be claiming that
he applied that name to himself, right? Sure. But his parents could have.
I don't think that there's no hint of that in the scriptures as far as I know. Okay.
Righteousness is Jehovah's forerunner. Thus says Jehovah, observe justice and perform righteousness, for my salvation
will soon come when my righteousness is revealed. Isaiah 56.
Right. So there again when when the person's righteousness comes along then
salvation will will come right on the heels of him. Yeah. Okay. The Elias
two end time arms of God. The law shall go forth from me. My precepts shall be a light to the peoples. Then suddenly I
will act. My righteousness shall be at hand and my salvation proceed. My arm shall judge the peoples. The isisles
anticipate me awaiting my arm. Isaiah 51. Yeah. There you go. You have you have
righteous and salvation as the two arms of God and uh the one precedes the other
and the isisles are expecting him meaning us some I've got a question I don't know if I
want to get into it right now but so so going to Isaiah 53
yes what are we talking what are we talking about there we'll be going there
okay the arm of righteousness Awake, arise, clothe yourself with power, oh arm of
Jehovah, beir yourself as in ancient times, as in generations of old. Was it not you who carved up Rahab? You who
slew the dragon? Was it not you who dried up the sea and the waters of the mighty deep and made of ocean depths
away by which the redeemed might pass? Let the ransomed of Jehovah return. Let
them come singing to Zion, their heads crowned with everlasting joy. Let them obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and
sigh flee away in Isaiah 51. Right? So this is an end time scenario
as as uh these literary structures determine and as Jesus also gives the key. So and it's it's there's going to
be a new exodus and a new gathering to Zion, a new um wandering in the
wilderness and so forth. There's 30 events that Isaiah predicts new versions of for our day in the book of Isaiah and
they're scattered throughout the book of Isaiah and they're linked domino fashion and you can go to go to my books and and
find them there if you want to know more about that. So there'll be a new exodus and in fact Jeremiah says they'll no
more say the Lord God who brought the tomb of Israel out of Egypt but out of all the countries wheresoever he had scattered them. Meaning that when Israel
celebrates the Passover in the millennium, it will be the new Exodus that will be remembered. Uh can we go
back to that for a minute? Yeah. And so this is seems to be the same
person who was the angel of the old Exodus who led Israel through the wilderness with the cloudy pillar. And
so he now he's going to come and do the same thing again in in the physical in the physical body. And he is called the
arm of the Lord. And awake and arise means uh well actually awake and arise
here is chapter 51 regarding the servant in the next chapter is Zion and
Jerusalem who is a higher spiritual level than the Jacob Israel level. They awake and arise. So when he awakes and
arise then basically he wakes them he wakes her up and she awakes and arises.
And so in 52 I believe Joseph Smith says that that is awaken and arise and put on the was it the robes of righteousness.
Yes. Robes of the priesthood and so forth. That's the priesthood. Correct. Yes. Correct. Same here. Yes. On this is
in a higher level because he's it's called the day of power. We'll come to that in a in a moment. Okay.
Jehovah's arm his forerunner. How comely upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger announcing peace, who brings
tidings of good, who heralds salvation, saying to Zion, "Your God reigns." Hark!
Your watchmen lift up their voice as one they cry out for joy. For they shall see eye to eye when Jehovah reestablishes
Zion. Jehovah has bared his holy arm in the eyes of all nations that all ends of
the earth may see our God's salvation. Isaiah 52. Yeah. So these scriptures now they keep
affirming each other as you can see. So there is this I know there are many times that this scripture is quoted like
by Benedai or rather by the priest of Noah and so forth and but yeah here's a
specific end time scenario. This is part of a specific end time scenario of the servant who prepares the way for the
coming of Jehovah. He's heralding salvation or Jehovah who is personified salvation and saying to Zion to the to
the Zion Jerusalem level people on that spiritual level which are a terrestrial level not a trestial level and your
watchmen those that's one of the names there's two kinds of watchmen in the book of Isaiah those who are asleep and
whom the Lord condemns and then these watchmen who who uh who who appear in
the end time and they help prepare by the way for the coming of Jehovah. And
these would be the equivalent of say other servants in the book of Isaiah or the 144,000 servants in the book of
Revelation and so forth. And the third person is the Lord's holy arm. He's also the arm that the Lord now
bears or reveals. Uh he he reveals his holy arm. Dr. Covenants also mentions in
in the eyes of all the nations. As I said, it'll be a media event so everybody will know about it. And um so
that everybody may know that salvation or the Lord is coming. When he appears,
he's going to announce it that the Lord is coming. But sequentially, he'll be doing those
other things prior to all the world knowing. Yes. And of the Davidic servant. Correct.
Yes. Because this is only in his ascent phase. He has has to go through a descent phase of trials and tribulations
like the rest of us. And we'll talk more about that in just a moment.
The servant is beloved of Jehovah. All of you assemble and hear. Who among you foretold these things? It is him Jehovah
loves who shall perform his will in Babylon. His arm shall be against the Chaldans. I myself have spoken it and
also called him. I have brought him and I will prosper his way. Come near me and
hear this. I have not made predictions in secret. At their coming to pass, I have been present. Now my Lord Jehovah
has sent me. His spirit is in me. Isaiah 48.
Yes. This is the first chapter of Isaiah that Nephi quoted when he couldn't say more. So it needs to us to figure out what he
meant to say but he couldn't. The spirit stopped his utterance. Interesting. Okay. He's using Isaiah to say those things if
he can figure it out. Right. So this person also foretells things that are so he's a prophet. He makes prophecies that
come that come to pass as at their coming I've been to pass. I've been present. He says it is him Jehovah
loves. And that word loves is identifies as a very special category of people in
the scriptures in general. Not not to mention the book of Isaiah. Abraham is called my beloved. The three Nephites
are called the beloved disciple. John the revelator is called his beloved disciple. So it tells you that he's on
that spiritual level with other translated beings and when he's in power
I'm sorry isn't beloved in Hebrew David. Uh no that's do which uh yeah also but
I mean same root at least. No this is a different verb. This is there's a verb. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Aui.
Um and then um the word arm is what he is when the Lord empowers him. He as as
I learned in rebel school his enemies deride him all this time when he's in his descent phase but when God empowers
him and retreats him and empowers him then he he he has power over his enemies kind of like
Enoch as well and then so the Lord keeps saying this kind of thing here as kind
of a palemic against those who are the naysayers who say there's no such person or you're not it and so forth. I myself
have spoken it. I the Lord has spoken and also called him. I have bride him. I will prosper his way. So don't try to
fight the Lord and kick against the pricks because this person is for real when he comes. Um now he speaks himself.
I come near him and hear this. He's not made predictions in secret. What he what he prophesied comes to pass unlike other
prophecies that Isaiah compares him to that don't come to pass. And so he says
the Lord has sent him. His spirit is in him. Yeah. In other words, he's of God. Better not fight against him. Won't do
you much good. The servant is a light to the Gentiles. For now Jehovah has said, "He who formed
me from the womb to be his servant to restore Jacob to him, Israel, having been gathered to him. For I won honor in
the eyes of Jehovah." When my God became my strength, he said, "It is too small a
thing for you to be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore those preserved of Israel. I will also
appoint you to be a light that salvation may be to the end of
earth." Isaiah 4.
So there you again you have chapter 49 which Nephi quotes off the bat in 1 Nephi 21 uh as part of those two
chapters. And um you can see clearly that this mission the mission of this
servant is is a temporal mission of restoring the house of Israel all all the tribes of Israel. There's the word a
point again connecting the other servant passages. He's the light to the Gentiles there again. So these scriptures are
reinforcing each other and the purpose being that his salvation, the coming of Jehovah may be to the end of the earth.
So I have a question for you. Um yes, is the servant also a light to the Jew
where it only says Gentiles? Yes, of course he's a light to everybody, but his primary objective
here is the Gentiles because they are in the dark and uh they need they need
somebody to lighten up their their minds and their their eyes and and to the
truths of God that they've been neglecting and taking lightly the scriptures and so forth for which
they're still under combination. And yes, of course, he he will be a light to many. I just in my mind I thought
perhaps you know as in the Book of Mormon says first to the Jew then to the Gentile and then first to the Gentile
then to the Jew potentially. Yes that's first will be last
will be first. Right. Speaking of the first to the last and the last of the first we're going to
stop here for the first half of this presentation. There is a full second half of this coming up. We're going to
learn that much more from Abraham and Marcy here. So, we'll finish up this
episode and then we'll have a second episode coming shortly for you to learn
the rest of what Abraham has to offer us. Thanks for listening.