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In Honor of my Dad

January 18, 2024SpiritualityDad's Death, Death, Sylvester AllanKathy Griffiths

I was journaling the other day and ran across my dad’s obituary. In honor of my Dad, I would like to share memories of a remarkable man. He was an enormous blessing in my life to be close to him during my growing-up years. His creativity was so inspiring to me. The picture is of my Mom and Dad.

I was doing some work for USNO (United States Naval Observatory) in Florida. I was helping them design an environment for their atomic clocks to avoid the effects of EMP coming from lightning. My mom called me and told me that Dad was not doing well. We immediately changed our plans and caught the next flight from Miami to Salt Lake City.

Miracle Number 1

I had never been to Miami before and drove straight to the airport in 18 minutes.

Miracle Number 2

They were just ready to close the doors for that flight to Salt Lake. A minute later we would have missed spending the last night with Dad.

We had left our car in Riverton at our daughter Jeannette’s place. Our beautiful and compassionate Jeannette picked us up at the SLC airport at about midnight. We got down to the rest home in Springville about 2:00 a.m. Dad was unconscious, but moving around in great pain. His body was fighting heavy infection from bedsores. They increased his pain medicine dose, which helped a little. My wife, Edna, and I were able to express our love for him over the night—believing that he could hear us

About 7:30 a.m., Mom called to see how he was doing. She said she felt he would be leaving us that day. I called Jeanne, my younger sister, and she said she was on her way to the rest home. While I was talking to Jeanne, Dad passed. It was February 19th, 1994.

Miracle Number 3

With a smile on his face, Edna saw his hands raise as someone was taking him home. I believe it was my grandfather to with a peaceful smile on his face, he was gone. Over the night his face showed grim–his dad. The pain was gone! When Edna told me he had passed, I put my arms around her and cried like a baby. I don’t know how a mortal man could have loved his father any more than I do my DAD! Thank you, Lord, for eternal families.

Precious Memories

During the four-hour flight to Salt Lake, I wrote eight pages of highlights from my experiences with Dad. I re-read those eight pages the other day and was in tears of gratitude for the privilege to have this great man as my father. It came to me that he was 87 when he died and my wife and I are 87.

Sylvester Allan’s Obituary

Patient and loving husband father, grandfather, and great grandfather, SYLVESTER (SMUSS) ALLAN 87 of Mapleton died 13 February 1994 in Springville following a long illness. He was born 7 January 1907 in Mapleton. He married Florence Carrick 2 December 1925, which was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple.

“Smuss will be remembered as a multifaceted man, with a non-judgmental nature, with a deep love of mankind, and a large circle of friends. He was especially devoted to his family. His sons-in-law and daughters-in-law felt loved and accepted as if they were his own.

Beyond his work, which was also multidimensional, he had a life of service. He was a charter member of the Lions Club, for both Springville and Mapleton and served also a term as President. He served for 32 years for the Strawberry Water users and four years as its President. He served on the Mapleton City Council.

In his time he was known as one of the most famous river guides in the mountain West. Even though this was in part his profession he brought to it his unique personality–out of which grew large numbers of friends from all over the country. Anyone who has ever been with him on such an outing will remember with relish his famous forty-mile Dutch-oven stew. He has guided tours on many major rivers including the Colorado, the Green, the Yampa, the Snake, the headwaters of the Columbia at the Big Bend, the Middle Fork of the Salmon, the Main Salmon, and Yukon rivers. In addition, he also worked as a river guide for the US Geological Survey.

In addition to farming, he worked with lumber and construction business. Two pieces of his work which will be appreciated by local people are he helped construct the road at Bryce Canyon and the solid walnut benches in the old White Church in Mapleton. He worked at the powder plant and was manager of the Ford-Ferguson Tractor Repair. To neighbors, family, and friends, Smuss could fix anything. His kindly nature often so folks in his shop enjoying the visit while getting something repaired.

Smuss is survived by his wife Florence, four children: Beverly (and Mal) Malheiro of Sun Lakes, Arizona, Dean S. (and Jean) Allan of Springville, David W. (and Edna) Allan of Fountain Green, Utah, Jeanne (and Doug) Strong of Springville, a brother Ira Allan of Mapleton, and a sister Eva Thomas of Spanish Fork. In addition, there are 25 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Services will be held Saturday 19 February 94 at 11:00 AM in the White Church in Mapleton. Friends may call at the Wheller Mortuary on Friday evening 6 to 8:00 PM. There will also be a pre-funeral service viewing at the White Church at 10:00 AM. The interment will be at the Evergreen Cemetery.”

God’s Miracle Number 4

A dear friend of ours has the gift of seeing folks on the other side of the veil. At the viewing, she saw Dad with a big smile and dressed in his temple clothes. At the graveside, she saw him in white without his temple cloths; he had passed by the angels, etc., and was in celestial realms. He was enjoying seeing his grandchildren playing on the grass during the time of the grave dedication ceremony. I am sure he is continuing to do great work for the Lord in heaven because of his great loving nature.

It was so wonderful to see my Dad partaking of the Perfect and Infinite atonement in the midst of all our imperfections. It is Christ who perfects us as we come unto Him; we cannot perfect ourselves (Moroni 10:32-33). Moroni summarizes the great message of the Book of Mormon with that incredible promise from our infinitely loving God.

David W. Allan

PS See the incredible WWII movie, The Scarlet and the Black, taking place in Rome based on a true story with Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer. And then see Joseph Smith the American Prophet narrated by Gregory Peck. There are two mistakes in the latter movie. Joseph translated the Book of Mormon from two sets of plates. And it is well documented that Joseph used the Urim and Thummim to do the Book of Mormon translation, and not with a stone in a hat.

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There Is No Devil

January 9, 2024SpiritualityAtrocities, Devil, Global EliteKathy Griffiths

The claim that “There is no devil” is one of the greatest lies perpetuated on the Earth. A similar great lie is, “There is no conspiracy.” In so doing, the devil and his angels work with those who listen to them and claim that “There is no devil” —under the guise of doing good while perpetuating the most hideous atrocities.

In our pre-mortal existence, we chose to follow Christ when Heavenly Father presented His perfect Plan of Happiness. Lucifer and those who followed him chose otherwise—proposing to save all by taking away their right to choose. Thus, there was a war in heaven, and Lucifer became the devil (Isa. 14:12-16; Rev. 12:4,7-9). Now, the devil and his angels gain great power by the lie that there is no devil. Teaching that conspiracies are made up to deceive. Their overall goal is power and control and to take away individual sovereignty.

The Devil’s Atrocities

Examples of the devil’s atrocities are the rich and power-hungry global elite supplying weapons for both sides for World Wars I and II while making billions of dollars. They have gone on with making billions off of the industrialized military complex with the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Ukraine war, and now the war on Israel.

They are very clever and the media promotes their false propaganda that they are about doing good—amid all these atrocities. The heart-rending 9/11 disaster is one of their enormous atrocities. It is well documented that 9/11 was a controlled demolition. They and the media designed it to look like a war on terrorism—appearing to be on the defensive when in fact they were on the offense.

The global elite’s evolutionary model of humankind makes their so-called brilliance narrow-minded. While they want to get rid of people, God’s plan is the opposite. They think of us as gun fodder and as evolved dispensable creatures. Wordsworth’s poem gives us a glimpse into God’s inspired Plan for us:

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life’s star
Hath had elsewhere It’s setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God who is our home.”

Our infinitely loving Father gave each of us our life’s plan that would best bring us back to Him, if we would but choose the right. I see God’s hand in every direction (Moses 6:63). A beautiful and inspiring example of God’s handiworks is Handel’s inspired Messiah dictated from above.

Global Elite Ignore Historical Facts

The global elite ignore historical facts. The best-documented miracle in history is the life mission and infinite atonement of our Lord and Savior. I believe Flavius Josephus was and is the most essential historian ever. We all have unique missions. I believe he was highly unusual as we see him as a Jew, and a Roman, and surprising to almost everyone, there is substantial extent evidence that later in his life he became a Christian Bishop in Jerusalem. I have the complete works of Josephus.

While the global elite believe the Bible to be a myth, I share 1,800 phrases tying back to the language of Adam that scientifically validate the scriptures. Both Joseph in Egypt (2 Nephi 3:11) and Nephi (1 Nephi 13:38-40) prophesied that this would happen–both the myth and the validation. Further more, we have direct evidence of the resurrected Lord coming to America. In this podcast, I share details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5CLywoOI3s And, near Newark, Ohio, the native Americans map out Heavenly Father’s Perfect Plan of Salvation in a 4 1/2 square miles of earthworks.

Choose Christ

Our greatest opportunity in our mortal sojourn with celestial realms of glory as our goal is to choose Christ by exercising faith in Him. We have His promise that as we treasure up His WORD, we will not be deceived by the adversary (JS-M 37; D&C 10:5). We are also here on Earth to use our intelligence to help make the world a better place. We read, “And if a person gains more knowledge and intelligence in this life through his diligence and obedience than another, he will have so much the advantage in the world to come (D&C 130:19).”

I wrote a blog article about using our intelligence wisely: The Glory of God is Intelligence. All good comes from Christ; all evil comes from the devil. But, then there are all the gradations in between where we have the opportunity to use our intelligence wisely. God is pleased if we choose to augment His work. “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples (John 15:8).”

We can use our eternal intelligence in three fundamental ways: 1) to choose Christ; 2) to use our intelligence to create to make the world a better place; or 3) to choose the devil. Our Creator created us to be creators. It is a grand opportunity for us to be creators during our mortal journey and to augment the work of the Lord. There is great joy and satisfaction in so doing.

The best thing we can do with our intelligence is to help as many as we can to come to know the Father and the Son (John 17:3). That knowing is the path to the greatest of all the gifts of God—ETERNAL LIFE (D&C 14:7). Then we can expose the works of the devil and his angels. Their works lose their effectiveness when exposed. Their works of darkness are brought into the light and diffused.

2024, a Spectacular Year

I believe this year, 2024, will be a spectacular year. You will see the global elite trying to destroy the US Presidential election process. Also, the “mark of the beast” will likely show his ugly head with the global elite trying to take control of money. So that you cannot buy or sell without their permission. The prophesied Davidic servant will begin his great preparatory ministry laying the ground work for the Lord’s glorious coming. President Ezra Taft Benson prophesied of a “great division” both inside and outside of the Lord’s Church, I believe we are seeing that happen (2 Nephi 30:10).

Great Plan of Happiness

How blessed we are to know who is really in charge of the Grand Plan of Happiness. He knows how to turn every evil into good and will do so in due process. If we chose Christ, we get to help Him bring about ZION and the ideal society motivated by the pure love of Christ.
David W. Allan

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PS: As an example of how I have used my intelligence to serve the scientific community, I believe the Lord gave me the inspiration for the Allan variance. Googling “Allan variance” and you will get about 3.5 million results, and it is growing in usage.

Following that work my colleagues and I developed the Modified Allan variance and the Time variance; these are denoted in the literature as AVAR, MVAR, and TVAR. All three of these variances became international metric standards in 1988. They are used widely in the time and frequency, navigation, and telecom communities and in ever-increasing areas of metrology.

Using These Variances

Using these variances, Gus German and I worked together for ten years. The first five years we worked on the Unified Field Theory that the Lord revealed to us. The seven experiments coming out of that work are shared in Chapter 21 of It’s About Time. The last five years, we worked on GPS denial problems using an ensemble of precision quartz-crystal oscillators supplied to us by Bliley Technologies.

We presented the results of what is known as EQUATE at an international Frequency Control Symposium in San Francisco in 2011. And, a year later I wrote a tutorial sharing my work in characterizing the performance of timekeeping devices. Now, that tutorial is on my books’ website for all to have access to: “Conversion of Frequency Stability Measures from the Time-domain to the Frequency-domain, vice-versa and Power-law Spectral Densities.”
The last page of this tutorial is a chart showing the timekeeping ability of everything from egg timers to earth time, to atomic clocks, and to international time, UTC. The timing folks at NASA/JPL were so intrigued with this chart that they put an enlarged version of it on the wall in their timing lab. I helped the folks at JPL synchronize the H-maser atomic clocks at their three Deep Space Tracking stations using a GPS Common-view receiver that they paid us to build for them. It later became an international time-transfer technique for the generation of international time, UTC.

Science of Timekeeping

For those not familiar with the science of timekeeping the following simple illustration will be useful. We let νo be the nominal frequency of a clock. Its actual frequency at time t is ν(t). We define y(t) = (ν(t) – νo)/νo. If y(t) = νo then the clock is perfect, which never happens because of noise. The time error of a clock, x(t) is the integral of y(t). To explain, suppose an atomic clock has a y(t) of a positive one nanosecond per day and continuing at that rate. Then that clock’s x(t) will move ahead in time a nanosecond every day.  A nanosecond is a billionth of a second. That is the time it takes light to travel 30 cm (about one foot). This is the level of precision needed for the atomic clocks in the GPS satellites.

The Allan variance is ½ the average value of <(y(t + τ) – y(t))^2> averaged over a data set. The y values are adjacent and each averaged over τ. As the averaging time, τ, is changed for a data set the level of noise, as well as the different kinds of noise, are revealed. I used it in developing the AT1 algorithm in 1968, which generates official time for the USA. I believe the Lord also gave me that algorithm; it is still “ticking today” with improvements added by my outstanding colleagues. The Italians and the Israelis asked me to implement this algorithm for them. I did that in 1969 and 1987-92, respectively. For those having some math skills, the math behind AT1 is also on my books’ website.

Because of my work, my name is known across the globe because of these variances and my work in helping to develop GPS. So because of that, I get to share the “Message of Gladness”—the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ across the globe; and this is my JOY (Alma 29:9).

Links for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, “Od to Joy”.

Beethoven 9th – Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Riccardo Muti

Beethoven 9th – Oslo Philharmonic with conductor Klaus Mäkelä

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What Time Is It?

January 2, 2024SpiritualityAtomic Clock, David W. Allan, GPS, TimeKathy Griffiths

Ironically, the times the world community has responded to the question, “What time is it?” have changed dramatically over time. Knowing what time it is, has been driven mainly by technological needs and advancements. We will see enormous religious implications to what time it is! We read, “…there should be time no longer (Rev. 10:6).”

Traditionally, time has been kept astronomically. Ironically, the invention of atomic clocks has driven the advancement astronomically! In my lifetime, timekeeping accuracy has moved forward an amazing billion-fold. Historically, the agrarian world cared more about the seasons than about what time it was.

First Atomic Clock

Harold Lyon’s ammonia MASER was the first atomic clock (1949). I went to work at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Boulder, Colorado, in 1960. The physics of the ammonia maser is fascinating, and NBS had one I got to work on. After the invention of the maser, Charles Townes went on to invent the LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). Can you imagine how many LASER scanners there are across the world, considering there is one at every store’s checkout stand? These most useful devices come from the physics of timekeeping!

Pendulum Clock

Galileo used his heartbeat to measure the period of a swinging chandelier in the cathedral in Pizza, Italy. There is a baptism by immersion font in that same cathedral. (We have been there). From those heartbeat measurements, Galileo deduced some interesting laws of physics—preceding Newton. The pendulum clock was invented by Christiaan Huygens in 1656. It became the world’s standard timekeeper, used in homes and offices for 270 years.

Timekeeping World Changed

The timekeeping world changed dramatically in 1735 with John Harrison’s invention of a marine chronometer. (See Dava Sobel’s LONGITUDE). With Harrison’s chronometer, mariners could determine accurate longitude, which was essential for accurate sea navigation, as the Earth spins under the heavens.

This chronometer gave significant superiority to the English Navy. In 1833, the famous Greenwich Observatory time ball was installed. Thus, the ships at port in London could see to synchronize their chronometers before they went out to sea!

The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington D.C. started broadcasting the time in 1919 from radio station WWV. They used a precision pendulum chronometer and got the correct time from the nearby United States Naval Observatory (USNO). Then, Quartz clocks were invented in the 1930s with significantly superior timekeeping ability. These were the main timekeepers until the invention of atomic clocks.

Idea of the Atomic Clock

In the 1940s, Nobel Prize winner, Isador Isaac Rabi is credited with the idea of an atomic clock. One can think of the oscillating frequency of a photon coming from an atomic transition in an atom or molecule. We add up the oscillations of these photons and make an atomic clock.

The time and frequency Rabi award was named after him. In 1983, he was the first recipient. I was privileged to have breakfast with him on the day of the award ceremony in Philadelphia. I was greatly honored to be the second recipient a year later.

Atomic Time Generated

If you are going to replace the spinning and orbiting Earth as a clock, then that clock needs to never stop. Keeping atomic clocks running continuously is no small matter. Continuous atomic time was first generated by Louis Essen and Jack Parry at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England. So, in June 1955 atomic timekeeping had its birth in the world at NPL using a transition in cesium. The cesium transition was much more accurate than Lyons’ ammonia maser. Lyons went on to build the world’s first cesium-beam frequency standard, NBS-1, in 1952, but he never turned it into a clock.

Move To Boulder, Colorado

In 1954, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was moved to new laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. You can see Roger Beehler working with NBS-1 in this link: https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-services/brief-history-atomic-clocks-nist. You can see all the rest of the NBS/NIST cesium-beam standards up to NIST-7. In contrast to astronomical phenomena, atomic frequency standards have gotten ten times better about every seven years.

The square root of the Allan variance can be written in a form that gives an estimate of how stable and accurate an atomic frequency standard can be: σ y (τ) = Δν/(ν Signal to Noise). The fractional frequency is defined as y = (v(t) – vo)/vo, vo is the nominal frequency of the transition of interest. If ν(t) is exactly on frequency, then y(t) is zero. But that rarely happens. The atomic transition line width is denoted by Δν. The Signal/Noise improves as Nτ, where N is the number of atoms or molecules interrogated per second, and τ is the time over which y(t) is averaged.

One can see from this equation, that as the transition frequency line width, Δν, improves the stability and accuracy potentially improve. The longer the atoms or molecules can be interrogated, the smaller is Δν. In a cesium-beam atomic clock, the atoms can only be observed for a few milliseconds. When the cesium fountain was invented, the observation time went up to nearly a second, and the accuracies and frequency stabilities achieved improved greatly as well.

One can also clearly see from this equation that the higher the atomic transition frequency the better can be the accuracy and frequency stability. The cesium transition is a microwave frequency. By going to optical and ultraviolet frequencies great advances have been achieved in accuracy and frequency stability. These frequencies are about 100,000 times higher than the cesium microwave transition. In my career time, atomic clock accuracies have improved from 10^-10 to 10^-18; that is a hundred-million-fold improvement.

GPS is One Example

AMAZING. Many Nobel Prize winners have contributed to these incredible advancements in timing technology. Technology has benefited enormously as well. GPS is one great example. The current best atomic clocks are 10,000 times better than are needed for GPS. GPS timing works at the nanosecond level–that is a billionth of a second. That is the time it takes light to travel 30 cm (about a foot per nanosecond).

Official Atomic Time in USA

Since 9 October 1957 NBS in Boulder, CO has maintained an atomic time scale, (NBS-A). The primary cesium-beam frequency standard moved to Boulder in 1954, but time was broadcast from WWV in Beltsville, Maryland. WWV then had a precision quartz-crystal clock and was still getting its time from USNO.

A Millionth of a Second

On 24 April 1963, Jim Barnes and Lowell Fey carried a portable quartz-crystal-oscillator clock from Boulder to Beltsville, Maryland, and back with a precision of 5 µs (A microsecond is a millionth of a second). Then, timekeeping commenced in Boulder using an ensemble of precision quartz-crystal oscillators. Their portable clock trip took NBS-A time to Boulder, and the primary frequency standard was just across the hall. This gave an accuracy for NBS-A to ten significant digits. This was ten times better than the Earth as a clock.

Generating Official Time for the U.S.

Jim Barnes then wrote the first atomic-clock time-scale algorithm program to use the calibrations from the cesium-beam atomic frequency standard across the hall. He then used the calibrated quartz-clock ensemble to carry time forward until the next calibration. When Jim became the Section Chief, I was given the responsibility for generating official time for the United States. I did that for most of my 32 years we lived in Boulder, Colorado.

Algorithm, AT-1 Still Ticking

I believe the Lord gave me the algorithm, AT-1, in 1968, for generating official time for the USA. Then we had an ensemble of eight atomic clocks and the US primary frequency standard to work with. The AT-1 algorithm optimally combines the readings taken from an atomic clock ensemble. The computed output of that algorithm is designed to be better than the best clock in the ensemble. Significant improvements have been made to AT1 by my outstanding colleagues and friends over the years. New and different kinds of clocks have been added with their own challenges and improved performance differences.

With those improvements, as far as I know, AT-1 is “still ticking” today. In 2018, I received the IEEE $10,000 Keithley Award, “For leadership in time determination and precise timing instruments.” I thank the Lord for His help in this work. It has been most insightful and enjoyable.

A Two-Part Device

For human-kind of timing, we can think of a clock as a two-part device. First, a clock has a periodic event device that oscillates at a steady frequency. Second, it has a counter to count those oscillations. For example, most wristwatches and clocks today use a quartz-crystal tuning fork as the oscillator or periodic event device. It oscillates at 32,768 Hz (cycles per second). A 2^15 binary divider is then used to generate one-second intervals, which are then counted to give you a display of hours, minutes, and seconds for your clock or wristwatch.

When measured precisely, we know that every clock is oscillating at the wrong rate and its time is in error. The only clock that is right is the one we define to be right. For the USA, it is UTC(NIST). For the world, it is UTC (Universal Time Coordinated.) Official world time used to be Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The name was changed from GMT to UTC in 1972, with the introduction of “leap-seconds” as needed to chase the earth’s fluctuations in time.

A Momentous Day for Timekeeping

Friday the 13th of October, 1967, was a momentous day for timekeeping. The world community shifted from astronomical timekeeping to atomic clocks for keeping time. Atomic clocks have been shown to be much more accurate than any astronomical phenomena. And as mentioned before, atomic clocks have improved by a factor of ten about every seven years. This is like Moore’s law. Today, accuracies of 0.1 picoseconds per day are realized. This is ten thousand times better than is needed for the atomic clocks in GPS. A picosecond is a million-millionth of a second.

A New Definition of The Second

On that day in 1967 the world received a new definition of the second. It is defined as, “9 192 631 770 periods of the ground-state hyperfine transitions of cesium-133.” The previous definition was the Ephemeris second, which is defined by the Earth’s motion around the sun, as well as lunar motion. It is better than a second for timekeeping purposes. The above oscillation frequency for cesium was arrived at by the Paris Observatory, the Greenwich Observatory, and the United States Naval Observatory. The astronomers involved were Bernard Guenot, Humphrey Smith, and William Markowitz, respectively.

I was privileged to know all three of these gentlemen. The 9 192 631 770 periods agreed with the Ephemeris second, as these three gentlemen determined. The cesium definition remains today. With the high accuracies that have now been achieved in atomic clocks, a new definition is a major topic among the scientists involved.

What is Time?

“What Time is it?” is a very different question than, “What is Time?” The most important “time” is God’s TIME. Yet, most don’t have a clue what God’s TIME is. I explain God’s TIME in my two books: It’s About Time and Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed,” as best I can. Here, I have discussed “time” as generated by humans. In my books, I discuss its relationship to God’s calendars and His TIME. I also discuss what the Apostle John means, “time no longer (Rev. 10:6).” The concept of God’s “One Eternal Round” is profound as well. This is a fun trip through understanding what time is and what time isn’t. Perhaps for more fun for the academics across the world than for my Christian compatriots. But, knowing where we are in God’s TIME should be very important to my academic friends as well.

Time is Metaphysical

It is important to know that time cannot be extracted from the Universe; it is metaphysical. It is an idea in our minds. My dear friend, emeritus professor of philosophy, Chauncey C. Riddle, has the best definition of time that I have seen. He shares, “Time seems to be the possibility of change.” This was particularly interesting to me, because in my master’s thesis, the metric developed optimally measures the change, in a variance sense, in the timekeeping rate of atomic clocks. The world knows it as the “Allan variance.”

As I Google the “Allan variance,” today I got 3,550,000 results, and the usefulness continues to grow. I believe the Lord inspired me in this as well. In 2016, the IEEE/UFFC celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the publication of my thesis. They published a special issue with 16 different papers highlighting different uses of the Allan variance.

At the conference, they gave me the highest IEEE/UFFC award with the citation, “For seminal work to the UFFF community regarding time determination, time prediction, time dissemination and timekeeping through contributions to atomic frequency standards, space-based navigation, time and frequency stability analysis, time-scale algorithms, and timekeeping devices.”

Time Is Not Time

So, time, as we use it and define it, is not time, but a time interval. Scientists assume time runs uniformly throughout the Universe—including Einstein’s relativistic considerations. We contracted with Professor Neil Ashby to do the relativity equations needed for GPS. We are good friends and have written several papers together. Scientists share nothing of time-warp events, which have been documented. We know from our UFT experiments that time and space are mortal limitations. The scientist’s assumption above is incorrect.

God’s Physics

In God’s physics, we learned of a fifth dimension outside the four relativistic dimensions of time and space. We call it the Eternity Domain. This is where God and His angels do their work in the Kingdom of Heaven. Under God’s direction, the Kingdom of Heaven is perfectly organized. That is why the Lord asks us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Sincere prayer takes us into the “Eternity Domain” where we may learn the TRUTHS of GOD and help bring heaven on earth!

Where Are We in God’s Time?

A significant portion of both of my books deals with where we are in God’s TIME. Please go there to learn what I have learned about God’s TIME. Knowing God’s TIME and preparing for eternity is the most important thing we can do and help others to do. Most of my energies are spent in this direction. I ask the question of the Lord, “What is Thy will to best help me to serve today?”

The Lord never directs every step in our lives. Given the incredibly important gift of free choice, which is part of our intelligence, He wants us to think for ourselves. TO THINK! That sounds exciting. We grow emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually in that Divinely designed process of using our agency to use our time and talents to serve.

THINK – LEARN – SERVE – LOVE!!!

“Seek learning even by study and also by faith (D&C 109:7).” To think and learn the TRUTHS of God that we may better love (Matt. 22:36-40) and serve (Mosiah 2:17). My personal joke is to learn faster than I forget! THINK and LEARN and SERVE and LOVE!!! Therein is the greatest joy in time and eternity. Wise men sought for and found the Savior of the World anciently. Wise humans today are doing the same.

One who thinks comes to Christ in humility. There he/she enjoys the fruits of faith, repentance, and receiving of His mercy and grace. He/she receives the greatest of joy in this life and a fullness of joy in the life to come. It’s about time and eternity! I REJOICE in all the Lord has taught me about time and eternity. But, I am still a babe in the woods. This I know, He is the Way, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT, and the life (John 14:6).

David W. Allan

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The End from the Beginning

December 28, 2023SpiritualityPlan of Happiness, The Lord, trust in the LordKathy Griffiths

Trust in the Lord because He knows the end from the beginning. His omniscience and infinite love for each of us is most inspiring. We have His great promise that we can couple into the beautiful TRUTHS of God and of Eternity as we pray (Matt. 7:7-8). And, as we treasure up His word we will not be deceived (JS-M 37). As we ask, we will receive. As we seek, we will find. As we knock, God’s TRUTHS will be opened to us. But it will be in His time, not ours, as He knows best.

Plan of Happiness

Because of Him and His “Perfect Plan of Happiness,” our hearts are filled with hope and rejoicing. We contemplate the future with trust in our hearts. This, despite all our imperfections. In the grand ironies of God, He will bring perfection out of imperfection. He will bring Joy out of suffering and misery. He will give us perfect resurrected bodies out of bodies that crumbled in the dust. He fills our hearts with love in contrast to Satan’s hate. We can make a very long list of these amazing ironies, “God’s Grand Ironies”.

Sincere Prayer

Every sincere prayer couples us into the Eternity Domain, where God and His angels do their perfect work for us. As we pray, He will open to us our pre-ordained missions for our mortal journey. Time and Space are mortal limitations; Not His. This is why He asks us to pray, “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” The Kingdom of Heaven is perfectly organized. As we pray, we can help it come on earth as it is in heaven. The Lord will bless our efforts, as we do so—bringing joy to our souls.

Trust in the Lord

I would like to share an example in my own life of the blessing of trusting in the Lord. The other morning, I was praying and thanking the Lord for the incredible blessings He has showered upon me. Knowing that He knows the end from the beginning, my mind went back to when I did my master’s thesis.

In 1965 I was working on the thesis at the University of Colorado. It came as it did because I trusted the Lord to do things His way rather than my way: Inspiration for the Allan variance. I could not have done my thesis without the magical table on page 43 of Sir Michael James Lighthill’s Monograph at Cambridge, FOURIER ANALYSIS AND GENERALIZED FUNCTIONS, which he just completed the year before.

My late and good friend, boss, and colleague, Dr. James A. Barnes taught me how to use this Monograph for my thesis, which gave birth to the Allan variance, the Modified Allan variance, and the Time variance, which became the international metric standards for time and frequency, navigation, and the telecom communities respectively. With Jim’s insightful help and inspiration from the Lord, my thesis was published in a highly recognized journal in February of the following year: the “Allan Variance”.

Results of the Allan Variance

The table on page 43 of Lighthill’s Monograph gave me the means. I could transform these three variances from a time-domain analysis of the data to knowing the different spectral colors. These spectral colors in the frequency domain gave us great insights into proper data modeling. For example, seeing these spectral colors in clocks, navigation systems, and telecom systems gave us much better models for the data. These models gave significant insights into what was going on in the data.

These variances have been also used in many other areas of technology and in medicine. The Allan variance nicely characterizes flicker noise. Flicker-noise is ubiquitous in nature. We also recently characterized turbulence-noise in 200 years of Tropical year data—going as f^-4/3. Where f is the Fourier frequency modeling the data. There are many other natural processes. For example, flicker walk-noise, flicker run noise, which we observed in the long-term variations in the Earth’s spin rate. White-noise, random-walk noise are also commonly observed. Being able to tell the difference between measurement noise, clock-noise, and environmental perturbations is very important. These variances can detect these Fourier components using easy time-domain statistical analysis.

The Newton Chair

Lighthill was a brilliant-applied mathematician, who solved, for example, the acoustic problem of how to quiet down jet engines so that airports could be in proximity of cities. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and held Newton’s chair up until he died in 1998, just before Stephen Hawkings.

The Daily Telegraph described Newton’s chair as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Commonly named after Sir Isaac Newton, the most brilliant scientist in world history, who held the chair for 33 years. The formal name is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Most people don’t know that Newton spent more time studying religion than science—being very devout. He had proven that the Church of England was wrong in many aspects of its theology, and this threatened his fellowship at Trinity College. He and his friends petitioned King Charles II, and the King placed Newton in the chair with exemption for Newton to “all holy orders.” Newton had also shown the great apostacy of Christianity during the dark ages and prophesied of a restoration of the Lord’s gospel.

What the Lord Taught Me

What the Lord taught me, as I was praying, is that He knows the end from the beginning. Lighthill’s Monograph was brought forth for me to use for my thesis. Jim Barnes knew about it and taught me how to use it. I am sure many others have benefitted from that Monograph. But, the Lord is in the details because of His infinite love for us over time and space.

As Moses shares what the Lord told him (Moses 6:63): “And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and spiritual things; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.”

Thy Will Be Done

Let us completely trust in Him since He knows the end from the beginning. “Thy will be done” was the perfect pattern the Savior set before us. That is the path to a fullness of JOY and partaking of the Doctrine of Eternal Lives. May we join hands in doing so and be ONE with Him I pray.

David W. Allan

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PS Because I have tried to do HIs will, I have been greatly blessed. Because of my work with GPS, atomic clocks, timekeeping algorithms, and precising timing instrumentation, the Lord has made my name famous. He knew I would share the gospel (the good news). I call it the BEST NEWS! I am a praying physicist. It is because of Him and not any brilliance on my part more than anyone else that He has helped me learn and grow in TRUTH and LIGHT.

My books (It’s About Time, which harmonizes true religion and true science and Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed) are about bringing people to Christ. My books’ website now has nearly 200 thousand visits from over 100 nations. Yesterday, I had 406 visits. The heart message of almost all my posts and of my books is God’s infinite love for each of us and of the enormous blessings of the Lord’s infinite atonement. As we trust in Him, He wells up in our hearts the glorious future He has in store for those who hearken to His voice. Listen and learn the TRUTHS of ETERNAL LIVES.

And it Came to Pass – Glory to God

December 15, 2023SpiritualityChristmas, Glory to God, It Came To Pass, Luke 2:1-14, RessurrectionKathy Griffiths

“And, it Came to Pass” and “Glory to God” are included in probably the most cited Christmas scripture in the bible. Luke 2:1-14,

1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
3 And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) [Bethlehem means “House of bread” in Hebrew.]
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men

I believe we were part of the heavenly choir singing with all our hearts, “Glory to God.” Interestingly, in the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ by Levi, we read about His resurrection: “The soldiers heard a voice from somewhere; yea, from everywhere, it said, ‘Peace, peace on earth; good will to men.’ They looked, the tomb was empty, and the Lord had risen…” (172:40-42)

William Tyndale, an Unsung Hero

Even though William Tyndale was martyred 75 years before, seventy-seven percent of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is William Tyndale’s translation. Recognizing Tyndales’s brilliance and inspiration the 47 scholars spent seven years to bring it to publication in 1611. Tyndale is an unsung hero with 70% of the KJV giving the world the most accurate English translation.

Tyndale’s inspiration for translating the Bible into English preserved the Adamic phrase, “And it came to pass.” The late Professor Leanora Leet shows from the ancient Hebrew Kabbalah, that “And it came to pass,” has the gematria meaning, “El,” which is God. This phrase ties to important past historical events. Here we have Luke using it to highlight the world’s pivotal event of the birth of our Savior.

Adamic Phrases

The Lord has led me to 1,800 Adamic phrases in our scriptures. When you look at their use and distribution by the prophets, they validate our scriptures. Both Nephi and Joseph in Egypt prophesied that one of the many reasons for the Book of Mormon coming forth was to validate the Bible. (1 Nephi 13:38-41; 2 Nephi 3:11) And the language of Adamic phrases helps to do that. “It came to pass” is just one of those phrases. It is a phrase we see but never think about.

Do We Have it Backward

We have to ask the question, “Do we have this backward?” We celebrate His birth much more than His resurrection. We also know the Savior was born in the Spring. The 25^th of December is a pagan holiday tradition and is tied to the winter solstice. Both His birth and His infinite atonement tie importantly to the Hebrew calendar. We know from scripture that He was born on the 6^th of April. (D&C 20:1).

The Nephites started their calendar at His birth. And we read, “And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, on the fourth day of the month, there arose a great storm, such a one as never had been known in all the land.” The Earth was responding to His three hours of unimaginable suffering for all the sins of the world, as He hung on the cross. During those three hours, great destruction happened in North America. (3 Nephi 8:5-19). This was followed by three days of total darkness, as His body lay in the tomb. (3 Nephi 8:20-23)

There are seven steps in the Lord’s infinite atonement: 1) Gethsemane; 2) Before the Sanhedrin; 3) Before the Romans; 4) His crucifixion; 5) He voluntarily gave His life (Jn 10:18); 6) Visit to paradise; and 7) His overcoming death for all being the first to rise. The whole world has it wrong, and the Book of Mormon along with the vision of Joseph F. Smith has it right. (D&C 138) Comprehending the infinite atonement is comprehending the incomprehensible. I have not seen or heard of anyone who appreciates the magnitude of the sixth and seventh steps.

Nephi told us that many plain and precious things had been taken out of the Bible by the great and abominable church of the devil. (1 Nephi 13:20-36) And because of these many changes and deletions, the Lord promised Nephi that He would bring forth the fullness of His Gospel unto the Gentiles. Thus, we have the glorious message of the Book of Mormon and latter-day scriptures. Much more is yet to come.

The First Resurrection

The righteous spirits over the four thousand years back from Christ’s resurrection to Adam and Eve were anxiously awaiting His visit to paradise. They knew that three days hence Christ would break the bands of death; they would receive their glorious-resurrected bodies. When He arose, because of Him they would also arise rejoicing in their redemption and go to loved ones. This happened all across the globe. When Moroni abridges the Jaredite record, it is mainly about their wars to remind us in a major way what will happen to us if we don’t repent. But he also tells us that the Lord declared that their 1,600 years here in North America would be the greatest nation in the history of the world. (Ether 1:43) Can you imagine the number of righteous Jaredite saints who arose on resurrection day all across North America? The “First Resurrection” included all those millions of righteous saints back to the fall of Adam and Eve.

That must have been one of the most glorious and majestic days in all the history of the Earth. Nephi prophetically shares, “Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulcher for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings;” (2 Nephi 25:13) The Nephites had it right celebrating his glorious resurrection. We are now learning of thousands of records coming forth from the Nephites in North America describing this most important event and as He came and visited them. I recently was invited to do a podcast discussing stones that were found in the heartland of North America. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the central theme of the interview. This amazing stone with the North American Native Indian’s word for Christ at the top: “Yod Hey Vau” for Jehovah depicts the three days in the tomb. 2 Nephi 25:13. I have also written a blog article that tells part of the story. The native Americans used the five-nails used in His crucifixion to denote his name; it is called the mystic symbol, and is their name for Jehovah.

The Nephites celebrated his glorious resurrection more than His birth. They had it right, we have it wrong. We should be celebrating Easter more than Christmas, as the early Christians and Nephites did. What is the most important common holiday of the year for Arabs, Jesus, and Gentiles? It is Easter for the Jews, the Gentiles, and the Arabs.

Christ’s Glorious Resurrection

It is fascinating, the Crucifixion Report of PONTUS PILOT to: TIBERIUS CAESAR has an incredible account of the resurrection day. The soldiers guarding the tomb beginning at the 4^th watch (3 a.m.) saw a beautiful light above the sepulcher. Then after His resurrection, the entire place was lit up.

The resurrected saints were “shouting and filled with ecstasy”. They heard the most beautiful music ever experienced. The Earth rejoiced by lovingly rocking back and forth in great honor of their Creator’s resurrection, as He broke the bands of death and hell. (verse 147-151 in the Crucifixion Report of PONTUS PILOT to: TIBERIUS CAESAR).

Isaiah prophesied “voices from the dust.” The Book of Mormon came out of the Hill Cumorah. Now, thousands of records are bearing testimony of the infinite atonement and Christ’s visit to America. Isaiah’s prophecy, “voices from the dust” is still coming to pass. (Isa. 29:4-5)

Let us sing, “Glory to God in the highest” because of His resurrection, which gives us our resurrection. Without it, we are damned. With it all stand before God. His perfect mercy and perfect justice will in due process bring us to the place where we will be the happiest. His infinite love brings that about. “Glory to God.”

David W. Allan
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The Authenticity of the Bible

November 30, 2023SpiritualityJordan Peterson, king james bible, King James VersonKathy Griffiths

The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) has been printed ten times more than any other book. It has done more good over its 400-plus years than any other book. AMAZING! The authenticity of the bible can be proven in many ways.

I listened to Jordan Peterson’s podcast about the Bible, ethics, AI, etc. He makes a profound statement that perhaps all books tie back to the Bible. As Jordan points out, western ethics derive from the Bible. Presumably, independent of ethics, scientists work with data (facts).

The number of facts is infinite; artificial intelligence (AI) cannot deal with infinite. So, artificial intelligence is a function of the computer architects that designed whatever versions of AI. For example, because of the infinite set of facts, there will never be a perfect self-driving car. Only God understands all the facts—never AI. This is why we must trust in Him. As the Lord inspired me to share, “Trust in the Lord” is the central message of the KJV Bible. This finding shows the Lord’s fingerprint in the KJV of the Bible.

The KJV is our most accurate English translation. Yet we know the KJV has mistakes, and there are other books of scripture mentioned in the Bible, but they are not there. For instance, the Bible misses the great Prophet Enoch, “who walked with God.” Jude shares from the writings of Enoch that are not in the Bible, “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints, To execute judgement upon all…” (Jude 14-16)

Is the Bible a Myth?

One survey showed that 93% of the leading American scientists believe the Bible is a myth. The Book of Mormon prophesied that this would happen. (1 Nephi 13:38-40; 2 Nephi 3:11) Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is another testament that Jesus is the Christ. And one of God’s many purposes for the Book of Mormon coming forth is to validate the Bible—thus proving these doubting scientists wrong.

I have found direct evidence in our scriptures of 1,800 phrases that tie back to the language of Adam. The distribution and use of these phrases by the prophets gives zero probability that the scriptures are a myth. Adam spoke the language of God and taught it to his children. Over the world’s history and in both the eastern and western hemispheres, we see God’s fingerprint in the scriptures with these phrases. I am pleased that the importance of this profound message is shared also on the LDS Living’s website.

I see the Holy Scriptures being of infinite depth. They are designed by an infinitely loving Heavenly Father to help each of His children to come back home to Him. Even though everyone has a different paradigm, the honest in heart will find relevant truths to their lives therein.

Sir Isaac Newton, the greatest scientist in known history, said, “We account the scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever… No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.” Newton knew several languages and had access to many ancient apocryphal writings and found mistakes in Bible translations.

Hugh Nibley shared that Acts 1:3 is the most unusual verse in the Bible. That verse tells of Jesus ministering to the saints for forty days after His resurrection. “To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.”

Nibley, from apocryphal literature, shared a two-hour lecture on the glorious things the resurrected Lord taught the saints. None of these marvelous insights he shared are in the Bible.

Other Books

The Prophet Nephi also prophesied of “other books” to come forth. We are seeing a major fulfillment of that in our day. I am privileged to help as best I can my good friend, David Hocking, who is our champion of Annotated Editions of sacred writings. I consider these to be some of the “other books” Hocking has produced six “Annotated Editions” and is working on a seventh. I share their titles here:

1) The Annotated Edition of the Book of Mormon. Rod Meldrum assisted with this edition. I believe this edition is the best book we now have to bring people to Christ and to know where the Book of Mormon took place. This book shows that North America is the “Promised Land” spoken of in the Book of Mormon. There is an incredibly important prophecy in this book that if the people of “this land” do not repent and “serve God” they “shall be swept off.” (Ether 2:7-11)

2) The Annotated Edition of the Book of Jasher. In Hebrew, this means, The Book of the Upright or the Correct Record. It covers 2,500 years from the Garden of Eden to the Judges—parallel to the Bible record. It was published in English in 1840, yet the Book of Mormon has information from it. The Lehites left Jerusalem in 600 B.C. with the Brass Plates of Laban, which apparently contained the Book of Jasher. They settled in North America–“a land which is choice above all other lands.” (2 Nephi 1:5-12) They fulfilled a promise the Lord gave Joseph in Egypt as a place for his descendants. (Gen. 49:22-27)

3) The Annotated Edition of the Book of Enoch. This is an amazing book containing all three known books of Enoch (Ethiopic, Slavonic, and Hebrew) including the writings of Enoch found in The Book of Jasher and the writings of Enoch in The Book of Moses. This book “substantiates” Joseph Smith as a revelatory prophet. (p ix) The Prophet Joseph Smith had already received a revelation of the writings of Enoch shared in the The Book of Moses when the Lord told him, “These things were written in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time.” (D&C 107:57) My good friend, the late Dr. John Pratt—probably the best expert on the Hebrew and Enoch calendars—determined the date of the First Vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith from the Enoch calendar. (26 March 1820)

4) The Annotated Edition of the Book of Isaiah. The Savior said, “Great are the words of Isaiah.” (3 Nephi 23:1) Nephi prophesied that in the last days, “Nevertheless, in the days that the prophecies of Isaiah shall be fulfilled men shall know of a surety, of the times when they shall come to pass.” (2 Nephi 25:7) David Hocking and Avraham Gileadi both point out that the Book of Mormon is the best commentary on the Book of Isaiah. My Jewish convert friends, Rob Kay and David Doane, have taught me about the beautiful Hebrew Midrash commentaries in the Book of Mormon on the Book of Isaiah.

5) The Annotated Edition of the New Testament of Jesus Christ, The Joseph Smith Translation. Hocking did this with Shawn Hugh. Many major prophetic insights are herein as well.

6) The Five Books of Moses, The Joseph Smith Translation. Shawn Hugh and Russell H. Barlow also contributed. This book just came out this year (2023).

7) The Annotated Edition Revelations of Joseph Smith, Jr. The Chronological History of The Restoration as Recorded in His Journal is presently in production. This edition will come out next year (2024), and I believe it will be the best one yet of David’s “Annotated” books—a “game changer.”

Apocryphal Literature

The apocryphal literature now available gives us greater insights into the Savior’s incomprehensible infinite atonement. My research here has been most rewarding. Here are some of my findings:
Two Hundred Names for Jesus
The Full Infinite Atonement
The Infinite Atonement and Paradise
What is Apocryphal Literature?
From Moses to Joseph Smith to Jesus
David Hocking’s The Book of Enoch
The Glorious Resurrection Diminished

The Apostle Peter’s counsel is most appropriate, as we read apocryphal literature, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (2 Peter 1:20-21) And Prophet Moroni declares, “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” (Moroni 10:5) Having the Holy Ghost is essential as we read apocryphal literature. When we ask in faith, we find real answers for our happiness and joy and solutions to our everyday problems.

The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is unique in that it was translated once from ancient records that “came out of the dust” (Isaiah 29:4). Both the translation and the printing were major miracles. The young prophet Joseph Smith translated these sacred records by the gift and power of God. Nephi, the first prophet mentioned writing in the book tells us, “Therefore, they [the writings of Isaiah quoted in the Book of Mormon] are of worth unto the children of men, and he that supposeth that they are not, unto them will I speak particularly,… for I know that they shall be of great worth unto them in the last days; for in that day shall they understand them; wherefore, for their good have I written them.” (2 Nephi 25:8)

The Future Promises Many More Sacred Records

Now, it is so exciting—given all the good the Bible has done—to anticipate an era where much greater good will come. The Savior prophesied of a “great and marvelous work” (3 Nephi 21:9) before His Second Coming. In addition to the Book of Mormon, we anticipate many more scriptures to come forth sharing the end from the beginning. They also will be translated by the gift and power of God. God’s Spirit in these new records yet to come forth will sanctify the righteous and condemn the wicked. Many “shall be read upon the house tops; and they shall be read by the power of Christ.” (2 Nephi 27:11)

Those who believe in the gospel of the Bible have the promise of making it into the millennium. The fullness of the gospel contained in the Book of Mormon and in all that the Lord is yet to bring forth will provide a path into celestial realms of glory after the millennium for those who hearken to His word. As we treasure up his word—past, present, and future (D&C 93:24)—we have the sure promise that we will not be deceived. (JS-M 37) And He has declared: “Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I AM, whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins; Who will gather his people even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice and humble themselves before me and call upon me in mighty prayer.” (D&C 29:1-2)

A Pure in Heart Society

How blessed we are to live at this time in preparation for our Savior’s glorious return. A Zion (pure in-heart society) will be prepared to meet Him at His Coming. It will be as it was with the City of Enoch: “And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.”

(Moses 7:18) “And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God; And the glory of the Lord shall be there, and the terror of the Lord also shall be there, insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion.” (D&C 45:66-67)

As we truly come unto Christ, we can be part of this ideal society. The Bride will gloriously meet the Bridegroom at His Coming. Indeed, there will be tumultuous times as the wicked are destroyed. But the Lord has promised that “he will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy the righteous.” (1 Nephi 22:16) Chapter 22 of 1 Nephi is a Hebrew Midrash of Isaiah 48 and 49; I suggest you read the whole chapter.

The BYU scripture citation index allows you to read the whole chapter. It is most insightful as Nephi saw our day. As the Prophet Nephi shared this Hebrew Midrash on the preceding chapters of Isaiah, we see that the most exciting times in the history of the earth are ahead. Thanks to the Bible, the latter-day had its great beginning–led by the LOGOS (Jesus the Christ). We should be most grateful for all Christ has done, is doing, and will to as He leads us back to our infinitely loving Heavenly Father. Let us all come unto Him. (2 Nephi 25:26)

David W. Allan

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Body, Mind, and Spiritual Insights

November 25, 2023SpiritualityKathy Griffiths

I have the fire of desire in my heart to be healthy body, mind, and spirit. In doing so, I believe I can best serve my infinitely loving Heavenly Father and His precious sons and daughters. Those useful healthful insights have brought me peace, love, and joy in my search for TRUTH. And, I love to share those truths, as He would have me do.

I realize that what works for me may not work for everyone. That is why Matthew 7:7-8 is one of my favorite scriptures. I have found that we get answers when we ask in sincerity and humility. God is good; so good.

On 17 November 2023, I did 12.7 miles on my e-bike into some heavy mountain terrain. I jokingly call it my “assisted living” bicycle. Also, I jokingly say, “It takes me places I shouldn’t go! It helps me stay young during my 88th trip around the sun. I want to share with you, healthful insights into what has helped me overcome two heart attacks, four strokes, blood clots in the legs and the lungs, and several other health challenges.

Stretching Body, Mind, and Spirit

I enjoy the mountains, the sunshine, the fresh air, and answers to prayer as I go there. I am a praying experimental physicist, who dearly loves the Lord and his family and his many friends. I have been greatly blessed by the Lord over my 87 years on this beautiful earth. God has blessed me on countless occasions with inspiration to fulfill my mission before Him. I have learned that the Lord likes to stretch us—body, mind, and spirit. He has given us the Law of Opposition in life to give us the opportunity to grow. Thus, these experiences strengthen us in body, mind, and spirit, as we meet the challenges of life. I share here not-so-well-known useful healthful insights in this regard.

The Prophet Joseph Smith, while in the Liberty Jail in horrible conditions and knowing the Saints were being driven out of Missouri, was told by the Lord, “ My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high;” (D&C 121:7-8) “know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.” (D&C 122:7; James 5:10-11) God has asked us to be grateful for all things, learn from them, and keep His commandments. (D&C 59:21)

Special Blessings

Without God’s special blessings, I would not be able to be where I am today. An inspiring example was when I had three strokes in 2018, just before I was to give a talk. I was invited to give a talk at an international metrology conference in Houston, TX. I had received the Keithly Award, and they wanted me to share my research leading to that award. I wrote the following blog article telling of the major miracle and answer to prayer.

Piezoelectric Effect

Osteoporosis is an epidemic, and I believe unnecessary. The piezoelectric effect means that when you squeeze or stretch something, it generates a voltage. Our bones are piezoelectric; so, when they are used, a voltage signal is sent to the brain about that use—Divine design. I am an avid mountain biker, and so, my bones get well used, as I bounce along a mountain trail. I also have a rebounder, which exercises my bones really well and also helps to pump my lymphatic system.

I also have a LifePro three-dimensional fitness vibrating machine that I use nearly daily. I have five-pound weights in my hands, which I use to do all kinds of upper-body exercises. So, my whole body is being vibrated and exercised while standing on the machine. I take advantage of Newton’s 2nd law of motion: F = ma. The harder I accelerate the weights in my hands, the greater the force. I listen to the Book of Mormon in French, which helps my mind grow in three of the seven learning areas of the brain.

Dr. Marion Diamond’s research showed that we can grow the brain at any age. These seven areas are: 1) language, 2) math, and logic, 3) spatial representation, 4) music, 5) physical skills, 6) interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and 7) knowledge of nature. These areas complement each other. For example, if you listen to Mozart while studying math, you retain it better.
I used to be an avid jogger but eventually that started to bother my knees. I then went to my bicycle instead, got my needed aerobic exercise, and my knees got better. I know others who have seen the same benefit.

Knee and hip replacement surgery are becoming more and more common. And now the number of rotator-cuff surgeries is significantly on the increase. I believe this can be avoided or reduced. The shoulder is an unusual joint and needs special exercising. I have a bar that I hang from for about thirty seconds several times a week. I also do ten chin-ups, to give my grandsons and great-grandsons something to work on for fitness. The importance of this is described in a blog article: How To Avoid Joint Pain.

I believe one of the main contributors to brittle bones and osteoporosis is a lack of the bones being exercised in a healthy dynamic way. When they are so exercised, they electrically signal the body to help keep them strong and resilient. My frequent mountain biking on some pretty tough trails causes me to take a tumble now and again. But, I almost never get hurt. I have both learned how to fall and my bones are strong and resilient at age eighty-seven.

G-strophanthin

In 2016, I underwent quadruple bypass open-heart surgery caused by stress. My youngest son, Nathan, researched G-strophanthin, which is used widely in Europe with great success. Getting access to this herbal remedy along with learning how to move into the relaxation mode was a game changer for me. Herbal Remedies and Priesthood Blessings. G-strophanthus is available online.

Answer to Prayer: NO

Following my heart attack, I had some issues with angina. It would come and go. One time when I was feeling some angina, I knelt down in my office to pray. After asking the Lord what I could do, as I opened my eyes, next to my chair was a box. I looked in the box and found a book entitled The Nitric-Oxide (NO) Solution. NO Was My Answer to Prayer. After reading the book, and getting good relief from angina, I wrote that blog article. If I keep my NO level sufficiently high, the angina goes away. The blog article explains the diet and how to do that. Also, the website www.HumanN.com sells saliva test strips that easily allow you to measure your NO level. Measuring that once a week helps me keep the angina in check.

Insulin Resistance” is not well-known but is a serious health disorder of the pancreas. Surprisingly, 85 % of the adults in the USA have it. My family genetics have a tendency for hypertension, and one of the symptoms of insulin resistance is high blood pressure. I was particularly interested in learning more. Thus, I would like to share some research on the pancreas that could save your life, or at least prolong your life. This research has helped me tremendously.

Game-Changing Research

Professor Benjamin Bikman has shown in his game-changing research at BYU that too much insulin in the blood, which is called “insulin resistance” plays a major role in all chronic diseases. In other words, all chronic diseases are made worse by having this health disorder. Every time you eat carbohydrates, your blood sugar rises which causes the pancreas to release a surge of insulin, to process the glucose generated. If you eat proteins, the insulin release is a lot less.

If you ingest healthy fats, your insulin doesn’t surge at all, and you have it to store for energy use later. I have learned that good fats are very good for you! The more you study the digestion process, you see it is a marvelous process and gives evidence of Intelligent Design. You can see why I had the title be: “Be Kind to Your Pancreas, or You Will Die!” in my blog article. I need to point out that by following Dr. Bikman’s guidelines in his book, Why We Get Sick, you are really being kind to every cell in your body along with the pancreas.

Hydration Benefits

The late Dr. Batmanghelidj helped me to understand the great importance of being well-hydrated. This means, drinking eight oz glasses of water eight times a day for an average size person. Of course, one needs to adjust for body size and exercise requirements. Water Panacea (allanstime.com)

Sugar, the Slow Poison

Table sugar has been shown to be a slow poison. It certainly is for the eyes. I went off of sugar a few years ago and was able to take off my glasses. I discuss that in detail in my book, It’s About Time. The common sweetener, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), is much worse. HFCS is probably one of the main drivers of the obesity epidemic. Read your labels when shopping and avoid these two dangerous and common sweeteners. The body can tolerate a little bit of sugar, but Americans are addicted to it with disastrous results to most people’s health. America has an obesity epidemic!

Teeth Infections and Suicides

Our dear friend, Dr. Joyce Hunt Brown, died from a tooth infection. When she crossed over the veil, she was told to have the dentist extract a tooth that caused her NDE. He did, and she has written the book, Amazing Heavenly Answers. Her books are doing more to prevent suicide than any other. She has received hundreds of letters to thank her for saving their lives.

My dentist found a serious infection in my teeth. I called our good friend, Jo Francks, who is a Dr. Chrisopher certified master herbalist. She suggested I use a tablespoon of coconut oil with a couple of drops of oregano oil and a few drops of Dr. Christopher’s X-Ceptic. She said to rinse that around in my mouth for about 20 minutes every day. I have been doing that with significant success.

Gospel of the Good Earth

In Chapter 5 of my book, Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed, I share the “Gospel of the Good Earth.” “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof;” (Ps. 24:1) Weston Price did his research across the globe back in the 1930s. He found several cultures, that had little or no disease because they were coupled to the earth’s resources. They were not partaking of the “Great American Diet,” which is killing us. They had strong dental arches and often had no cavities. I share his suggestions and others to help us be healthy and strong. They respected God’s creations and utilized them as He designed them in His infinite love for us.

Weston Price’s studies led him to find a fat-soluble vitamin he called Activator X. He believed it was a missing nutrient in our modern diet and that its absence could explain many of our modern diseases.” (Schlinsog & Schlinsog, p37, In Defense of Vitamin K2 MK-4; Dr. Price’s Activator X,” WISE TRADITION in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, Vol 21, No. 1)

So, Activator X is Vitamin K2 MK-4, and Dr. Price found some of the most-healthy people on the planet are the Australian Aborigines who not only have no dental caries, but no other diseases as well. One of their main staples was the Emu and its oil which contains the richest source of Vitamin K2 MK-4. A male Emu sets on the eggs laid by the female for 54 days living on no other food or water except for this oil stored in his body. I learned about it from the above article and ordered some from Walk About Health Products.

I have had painful ulcers on my left heel and ankle for some time due to blood clots in my legs. I could not wear a shoe for about a half year. Some herbal treatments helped, and when I discovered Emu oil’s healing powers, I started using it, I am so happy to share that those painful ulcers have greatly diminished, and I have better circulation in my legs. I often put some in my mouth and swish it around to fight dental infections as well as swallow it.

Killer Stress

Stress causes cortisol to be released in the body in its fight or flight mode. But, in excess, it kills millions of neurons per day in the brain. Dr. Dharma Shing Khalsa in his classic book, Brain Longevity, gives a simple recipe for dealing with stress.

Find a quiet place: 1) Find a place with no distractions; 2) Allow 10 to 20 minutes, don’t use an alarm; 3) Sit comfortably and relax all your muscles from the bottom of your toes to the top of your head; 4) Stop all internal dialog and mind chatter; 5) To help you stop thinking and calm down, silently repeat a pleasant word or phrase—like peace, love, that has religious significance; 6) Don’t be concerned if thoughts intrude, inhale and bring yourself back, relax, meditate; and 7) When you finish, sit quietly for a minute or two, and try to merge your calm state of mind with your normal outlook. That’s all there is to it. If it sounds simple, that’s because it is.

Dr. Lissa Rankin in her book, Mind Over Medicine, shares that as we move into the relaxation mode our bodies heal. In the stress mode, they don’t.

Redox-Signaling Molecules

About 50% of our body weight is mitochondria. (Mitochondria are responsible for creating more than 90% of the energy needed by the body to sustain life and support organ function.) We are born with 100% of the redox-signaling-molecules (RSM) needed to communicate with all of our cells to tell the mitochondria that the cell is healthy, needs repair, or needs to be replaced. So, these RSM are vital to body health. When you are 87 years old like I am, I only have about 10% of the RSM that I need. RSM were discovered last century, but they could not synthesize them at that time. Dr. Gary Samuelson was finally successful in making them and stabilizing them. Because of this major medical and scientific breakthrough, a company was formed, ASEA, to market these amazingly important molecules. This product is natural to the body, and for example, you can spray it into your eyes and it feels wonderful. Here is a video that explains “What is Redox Signaling” by Dr. Gary Samuelson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEdyugiTuLE .

I drink 2 oz of RSM every day and use it in amazing variety of ways externally. I treat it as an “end-times” liquid doctor! I have a blog article about its benefits.

Our Infinitely Loving Creator

God is the Grand Creator, and He created us to be creators. I pray that you will be creative in ever moving toward optimum health for body, mind, and spirit. For me, that journey has been most inspiring, and I thank Him from the bottom of my heart. I have learned many incredible lessons along the way.

David W. Allan

Photo: K Griffiths

From Moses, to Joseph Smith, to Jesus

November 14, 2023Spiritualitybook of mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day-saints, Jason Olson, lds, The Burning BookKathy Griffiths

God spoke to Moses at the “burning bush.” God spoke to fourteen-year-old Joseph Smith in the burning light (JS-H 16-17). God spoke to Jason Olson, a devout Jew when he tried to burn the Book of Mormon. Thus, The Burning Book! From the Torah, to the Book of Mormon, to the New Testament was Jason’s unusual path.

From devout Jew, to Mormon, and to find true Christianity are described in this inspiring book. Receiving the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as a devout Jew, is his amazing journey. From being a Torah observant Jew to now being a military chaplain is his massive and dynamic life changing experience.

Because of the great importance of the Israeli-Arabic conflict in the world, I highly recommend you read “The Burning Book.” Jason had Israeli professors and Muslim professors. He knows the modern and historical perspective as well of the Israeli-Arabic conflict. As I did, you will learn a lot by reading the book. It is very well written. Jason Olson wrote it with his friend, James Goldberg, a journalist.

“Do Not Burn My Book”

God told 14-year-old Jason, “Do not burn my book!” Doubting the voice that came into his mind, he tried to burn it again, and God spoke to him again in his mind, “Go to your room and read my book.” The following is a synopsis. But I left out the Israeli-Arabic conflict information. That information makes the book very valuable all by itself.

“The Burning Book”

As Jason began to read the book, he was surprised to read the words of Moroni. Moroni wrote the title page, and it shares this profound message. “[The book] is to show unto the remnant of the house of Israel what great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off forever.” The Angel Moroni delivered the gold plates to Joseph Smith to translate. Then Moroni says, “to the convincing of Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.” The Prophet Moroni saw our day more clearly than any other prophet.

The Great Promise

Before Moroni deposited the gold plates in the stone box in the Hill Cumorah in 421 A.D., he closed with this great promise (Moroni 10:3-5).

Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of the Holy Ghost, ye may know the truth of all things.

Jason was moved by what Moroni shared encouraging us, “to think back on history, reflect on God’s relationship with humanity, and then pray to know the truth. By the power of the Holy Ghost, the scripture says, we can know the truth of all things.”

Feeling the Spirit of God

Jason knelt to pray, and after reading the book, he closed his prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. This is huge for a Jew to do, who is devout and observing the Torah. “The next moment, I was filled from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet with the spirit of God. I felt full of light. Like I was glowing with it.” Jason made the great comment, “There are moments in life that transcend the limits of our understanding. Moments that fill the heart, enlarge the soul. Moments when God writes his will on us when the flesh of our hearts becomes his tablet.” God speaking to him clearly and the Spirit’s confirmation totally changed Jason’s life.

One needs to realize that the Book of Mormon is the only book the world has that is translated by “the gift and power of God.” Both the printing and the translation were miracles. The Prophet Moroni, who saw our day more clearly than any other, summarizes the message of the book (Moroni 10:31-33).

“And awake, and arise from the dust, O Jerusalem; yea, and put on thy beautiful garments, O daughter of Zion; and strengthen thy stakes and enlarge thy borders forever, that thou mayest no more be confounded, that the covenants of the Eternal Father which he hath made unto thee, O house of Israel, may be fulfilled. Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God, ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot.”

Jason’s Conversion Background

Jason was fourteen years old when his LDS friends in Scottsdale, AZ, gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. As a devout Jew, he didn’t want to read it. Because they were his friends, he didn’t want to give it back. He felt not to throw it in the trash. His mother is a devout Jew, and he didn’t want her to see it. That was when he decided late one night “to burn the book.”

Reading the Book of Mormon as a converted Christian, he saw that he needed to be baptized. He asked his LDS friend, Shea Owens, to take him to the lake and secretly baptize him. Shea explained that it doesn’t work that way. He needed to take the missionary lessons, meet with the Bishop, and get his parent’s approval.

When Jason shared his desires with his mother, who is a devout Jew, she was totally upset. She told him, “Absolutely not!” She spent the next years having him meet with Rabbis and anyone who could dissuade him. He finally had to wait until he was eighteen to be baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The missionaries were excited to teach him—someone who was “genuinely excited about the gospel.” They had some great discussions. One of particular interest was the gender of the Holy Ghost. “For them [the missionaries], that must have seemed like an odd fixation, but for me seeing the Holy Ghost as female was the easiest way to map the Shechinah, a feminine term for God’s presence, from Judaism onto Mormon belief.” Shechinah means in Hebrew “dwelling” presence of God. I find it fascinating that in some apocryphal literature, the Holy Ghost is female and is Heavenly Mother. She is omniscient—all-knowing and filled with infinite love for each of us.

Jason describes his baptism: “I came out of the water feeling truly forgiven and pure. I was born again.” The next day the elders laid their hands on his head and said, “Receive the Holy Ghost.” Being both a blessing and a commandment, he said, “I felt it. It was soft and still, but the baptism of fire entered my soul. I felt like I could sing now in some unseen choir, singing Hallelujah to God and his angels. I have started a new life.”

Jason’s Missionary Experience

As the Lord would orchestrate it, he went on to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called to serve in the most Jewish-populated areas in the USA, New Jersey, and New York. One time they were teaching congregants in a Messianic Jewish congregation, who already believed that Jesus was the Messiah. The Rabbi called them in and told them to stop.

Along with having several wonderful experiences on his mission, Jason also came to a clear appreciation that the Lord was keeping Jews as Jews for them to go their “Promised Land.” He developed a deep desire to go to Israel. He had gained a new major insight from the Book of Mormon about the gathering of Israel. America was also a “Promised Land” for the descendants of Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 49:22-27; 2 Nephi 1).

After his mission, he felt prompted to go to Israel to study. He took out Israeli citizenship there. He went to a meeting where Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu spoke of the threat of Iranian rockets attacking Israel. Jason felt to do something about it. He found a company working on a missile defense system. He decided to go back to the States to get a degree in Aerospace Engineering and come back and work with them.

Education and Marriage

As fate would have it, he went to BYU, and there he met Sara Ann Terry, who became his wife. He dedicated this book to her, with the citation, “To Sara, my Forever and a Day.” They were sealed in the San Antonio Temple closer to Sara’s family. Jason was deeply touched by the experience and shared: All my life, I’d been looking for something. For the grounding of a covenant, for the authority of a prophet, for the presence of God. In the temple that day, it all came together. This was what I wanted. This is what I was looking for. She was what I was looking for.

During his senior year, he took a class on “the Arab-Israeli conflict.” The professor asked the class, “Are rocket attacks by Hamas against Israel Justified?” The class responded with, “Yes.” After some discussion, Jason could not stand it anymore and stood up and said, “This disgusts me and offends me.” After class, students thanked him for standing up.

Jason then writes, “The clarity that emerged out of that day for me was this: I had given up on my plan to defend Israel from rocket attacks. But maybe learning how to persuasively object to such attacks was as important as learning how to shoot missiles down.” Jason and Sara prayed and headed off to the Brandeis Jewish University in Boston, where he got his Ph.D.

He was doing some of his research in San Antonio, and in December 2013 he got a flight to Boston, where he was to give a paper. He sat by an Airman. They had a great conversation during their four-hour flight to Boston. The Airman said, “After talking to you, I think you would make an outstanding chaplain.” The Airman’s bold statement changed Jason’s heart. He had never thought of chaplaincy before. He called Sara. They prayed. She called back and said, “Let’s go for it.” And so they moved to that path and are having great success.

Podcast Interview

Steven Pynakker has a podcast interviewing Jason Olson, where he tells his remarkable story. Steven is evangelical but loves the Book of Mormon. He says the Book of Mormon saved his life. He was an atheist. This interview nearly went viral!

God in the Details of Our Lives

Jason’s story in the “Burning Book” is a great example of how our infinitely loving God is in the details of our lives. It is up to each of us to reach out to Him in prayer. He will force no one to heaven; to do so would make it not heaven. Prayer is our shield against the enemy of all Righteousness (D&C 10:5). And prayer is our path to Light and Truth (Matt. 7:7-8). Jesus is the way, the light, and the truth (John 14:6; 8:12).

David W. Allan

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David Hocking’s The Book of Enoch

October 28, 2023SpiritualityApocryphal literature, David Hocking, The Book of EnochKathy Griffiths

The Bible clearly shows Enoch as an important prophet. He was the seventh from Adam and “walked with God.” He was translated—obviously, his works pleased God. He has prophesies relevant to the latter days. (Genesis 5:22-24; Hebrews 11:5, Jude 1:14) Yet, the Bible has none of his writings.

What is Apocryphal Literature

The Book of Enoch is in the category of apocryphal literature even though the Bible shows him to be a very important prophet—the Bible has none of his writings. What is Apocryphal Literature? Most people don’t know that there are three categories of apocryphal literature: 1) those books written after Malachi, which are in the Catholic Bibles, 2) books written before Malachi and mentioned in the Bible, and 3) all other apocryphal books. The Book of Enoch is in the third category and is one of the most important ancient books—written more than 600 years before Noah’s flood. The traditional view of apocryphal literature is just those books written between Malachi and Matthew, which is a very limiting view. The Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea is an extremely important example.

David Hocking’s Book of Enoch

If you go to Amazon.com, you will find dozens of versions of the Book(s) of Enoch. From ancient writings, there are three different versions of the Book of Enoch: Slavonic, Ethiopic, and Hebrew. David Hocking, in his “Book of Enoch,” has all three of these books and additionally, the words of Enoch in the Book of Moses revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Bible also mentions the Book of Jasher, which also contains the writings of Enoch, which Hocking includes in his version as well.

Book of Enoch Third Printing

David Hocking’s Annotated Edition of the Book of Enoch is relatively new and is already in its third printing. It is the most popular of his six Annotated Edition books and is a major contribution to Christian literature.

David Hocking’s six annotated editions (Book of Mormon, The Book of Jasher, The Book of Enoch, The Book of Isaiah, The Joseph Smith New Testament, and The Five Books of Moses the Joseph Smith Translation) are major contributions as well. After reading through the table of contents below, you see why many Christians are buying Hocking’s Book of Enoch. Because the Bible has so little about this significant prophet. All of Hocking’s books are available at BeaconLight Books.

The Chronology of Enoch Texts

Hocking’s 250-page Book of Enoch is sectioned off as follows:

Introduction
The Chronology of Enoch Texts
A Text Formatting Guide
The Genealogy of Enoch

The Ethiopic Book of Enoch 
1 Enoch 1-16 The Fallen Angels
1 Enoch 17-23 The Watchers 1
Enoch 24-25 The Beautiful and Fragrant Tree
1 Enoch 26-36 The Ends of the Earth
1 Enoch 37-44 The First Parable
1Enoch 45-57 The Second Parable—The Son of Man, the Messiah
1 Enoch 58-59 The Third Parable 1 Enoch 60-69 Fragments from the Book of Noah
1 Enoch 70-71 Lifted on the Chariots of the Spirit—Enoch’s Translation
1 Enoch 72-80 The Courses of the Heavenly Luminaries
1 Enoch 81-90 The Dream Visions of the Future

The Slavonic Book of the Secrets of Enoch
2 Enoch 1-38 Enoch’s Journey to Ten Heavens
2 Enoch 39-68 Enoch’s Ethical Instructions to His Sons
1-4 Appendix: The Exaltation of Melchizedek

The Hebrew Book of Enoch (Sefer Hekhalot)
3 Enoch 1-14 Metatron (Enoch) Ascends to Heaven
3 Enoch 15-16 Fragment of the “Ascension of Moses”
3 Enoch 17-22 Angelological Section
3 Enoch 23-24 “The Winds” and “Chariots”
3 Enoch 25-34 Angelological Section (Continued)
3 Enoch 35-48 The Celestial Qedushsha

The Writings of Moses—“Joseph Smith Enoch”

Appendix
Index

As you look at the table of contents, you can see why it has become such a popular book. Enoch is an extremely important prophet in the Lord’s doings. The Lord showed Enoch the end from the beginning of the earth. Hocking’s Book of Enoch is the best by far on the market to better understand the contributions of this great ancient prophet, whose City will come back in our day and join the City of Zion in preparation for the Lord’s coming.

Enoch’s calendar goes from the beginning to the end of time. How relevant is that? My good friend Dr. John Pratt (recently deceased) has shown from Enoch’s calendar the date of the First Vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith (26 March 1820). Several critical future events are part of Enoch’s calendar.

David Hocking’s Testimony

David shares his testimony in his introduction to his Book of Enoch, which testimony is the same as mine:

It is my testimony that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a true Prophet, Seer, and Revelator. The “Joseph Smith Enoch,” revealed to him in Dec. 1830-Feb. 1831, at the age of 25 years, has established his credentials for being a revelator of ancient texts. He could only have known about Enoch’s life and importance, as provided in the later discoveries of Enoch manuscripts, by receiving authentic revelations. Those revealed writings act as a “control” that validates Joseph’s claim of being given a history of Enoch, an almost unknown prophet in Joseph’s day. I offer this book to substantiate it.

What the Bible mentions about Enoch is so limited, which is all the world had access to at the time Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. The Savior gives us both a necessary and sufficient test to know if a man is a true prophet (Matt. 7:7-8). A bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit; neither can a good tree bring forth bad fruit. “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” Using the Savior’s test, we know Joseph Smith, Jr. was a prophet of God. Hocking’s “control” test satisfies the Savior’s criteria perfectly.

We are grateful to have David Hocking as a dear friend. His annotations in his edition of the Book of Enoch give great insight.

David Hocking’s Next Book

I believe David’s next Annotated Edition, The Revelations of Joseph Smith, Jr. The Chronological History of the Restoration as Recorded in his Journal, will be the best one yet—a “game changer.” David’s goals are the same as mine. Get the truth out as best we can as best we understand it. The Lord has blessed David’s efforts significantly, and I am happy to help him in this work. The Lord has blessed me greatly, and I want to do everything I can to honor the Lord, to serve His precious sons and daughters, and to help them know the TRUTH. As the Savior said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)

David W. Allan
P.S. I have extra copies of his Book of Enoch, which I am happy to make available to you.

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Finding Gold in Ancient Texts

October 13, 2023Spiritualitybook of mormon, David W. Allan, David W. HockingKathy Griffiths

David R. Hocking of Raleigh, North Carolina, is the chief editor of six annotated ancient texts. An annotated book provides additional information, explanations, photos, and charts, which enhance the understanding of the original text.

Hocking’s diligent dedication to providing a better understanding of spiritual subjects includes The Book of Mormon, The Book of Jasher, which is mentioned in the Bible (2 Samuel 1:18; Joshua 10:15) and means the correct record, The New Testament, The Five Books of Moses, The Book of Enoch, and The Book of Isaiah.

His annotated edition books illuminate these sacred texts by providing amazing additional insights, information, explanations, photos, and charts, which greatly enhance the understanding and appreciation of the original text.

High-Tech Advantage

These detailed, pictorial, and text volumes would not have been possible without the “High-Tech” advantage over “Type Setting”. Hocking’s diligent dedication and massive efforts using High-Tech publishing software technology have allowed him to enhance his publications by using red text for words of Deity, blue text for words of angels and quoted scripture, indentation of prophecies, and paragraph grouping for increased comprehension. David’s books are available on his website.

He now has completed 354 pages of “The Revelations of Joseph Smith, Jr. The Chronological History of the Restoration as Recorded in His Journal.” I have been so intrigued by all of David’s books. But, this seventh one in the series, I believe may be the most significant, and a major game changer. I reached out to David offering to help him with this annotated edition. It will be an amazing contribution to sacred literature.

I have already given David several suggestions in my enthusiasm for what he is doing, and he has included several of them in his newest updated volume. The following are some suggestions I have sent to him regarding the miraculous printing miracles associated with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon Printing Miracle – By David W. Allan

The Lord is in the details of our lives. The printing of the Book of Mormon was truly a miracle. The details of the life of Gordon L. Weight, who died in 2004 at the age of 72, is another case in point. He wrote the booklet, ‘Miracle on Palmyra’s Main Street,’ the year before he died. “Gordon is probably the only person on the planet who could have written with authenticity this booklet with the subtitle, ‘An ‘Old-Time’ Printer’s Perspective on Printing the Original Copies of the Book of Mormon.’ “The Book of Mormon has been criticized and praised for nearly 200 years. Now it is recognized and used by many non-LDS scholars and religious leaders. Many Jews have come to know the true Messiah by reading the Book of Mormon.

My good Jewish friend, Rob Kay, was fifteen years old when he picked up the Book of Mormon and immediately recognized it as a Hebrew document. He gave me permission to share his conversion story. My wife and I have Rob’s insightful Three Volume set in our home–showing the Hebraisms. I have read it five times.

It is particularly fascinating for me, because as he sections off the book many of them begin with one of the 1,800 Adamic phrases that I have found in our scriptures.

First Printing of the Book of Mormon

What Gordon Wright has done is shown in its first printing of the Book of Mormon we have several documented miracles. It would have been impossible for it to be printed as it was without “Divine assistance.” Thus, this second witness for Christ—a companion to the Bible—was brought forth “translated by the gift and power of God.” Because of its great importance, it was published in preparation for the coming of our Lord.

“For example, Joseph specified both the kind of type and the kind of paper for the Book of Mormon. However, the printer had neither or access to the same, but they were provided miraculously. The massive amount of ink for the printing of the 5,000 copies was also miraculously provided. Brother Weight, who had the expertise to say so, estimates a minimum of 22 ½ months to print and bind these 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon.

The Grandin Press had other printing responsibilities in addition such as a newspaper and other customer jobs. “Yet, the 5,000 printed copies were ready in time for the Lord to organize His Church on the 6th of April 1830.” They were printed and bound in a little over 6 months—a clearly documented miracle. It is like what George Washington said when we should not have won the Revolutionary War, but we did. He summarized it in two words, “Divine intervention.” This is like Jesus turning water into wine at Cana of Galilee (John 2).

The Divine Ratio

I was pondering these miracles in the early morning hours of the Vernal Equinox (20 March 2017, 4:28 AM Mountain Standard Time; I remember looking at the clock because of the significance of the impression), and had the feeling that the dimensions of this first printing were in the Divine ratio* or Golden Mean = 1.618… Having a replica, I got up and measured it. It was exact! Another fingerprint of the Lord. I have found no other book in our library with these exact dimensions, and we have well over two thousand books.

Copies of Gordon’s booklet on the Book of Mormon miracle can be obtained from his wife, Dorotha Wright: 4649 S. 345 E. Murray, UT 84107, (801) 262-9290 or palmyramainstreet@gmail.com.

“The Divine or golden ratio is found all over in nature. You find it with the five-pointed star, as an example. The ratio of the last two numbers in the Fibonacci series converges quickly to the Divine ratio. It is equal to (1 + square root of 5)/2–typically denoted by the Greek letter phi. In the case of the original copies of the Book of Mormon, the height is 7.5 inches, and the width is 4.635 inches, which equals 1.618…

In design, the golden or Divine ratio boils down to aesthetics, creating and appreciating a “sense of beauty through harmony and proportion.” And the Divine ratio is the only number equal to 1 plus its reciprocal: phi = 1 + 1/phi. So for the original copies of the Book of Mormon: 4.636/7.5 + 1 = phi.

The Typesetter for the Original Book of Mormon

Mr. John Henry Gilbert was working for Grandin Press and did the typesetting for the original Book of Mormon. David R. Hocking has become the “High-Tech” John Gilbert in providing these seven books in his series of annotated editions.

The popularity of David Hocking’s work is significantly increasing, and he now has sold over fifty thousand copies of his books. He has given several talks at the Book of Mormon Evidence Conferences and will be speaking at the next “Land of Promise” conference in Nephi, Utah on the 20th of October 2023 in the Nephi High School gymnasium.

Book of Mormon and Ancient Records

David Hocking has shown Joseph Smith to be a revealer of ancient records. Not only is the Book of Mormon the keystone of our religion, but David has shown that some content in the Book of Mormon came from ancient records that he could not have had access to when he was translating from the Golden Plates in 1829. As an example, Joseph revealing the Book of Moses is a second keystone of him being a Prophet of God and a revealer of ancient texts. In other words, Joseph’s revealing of these ancient records is a direct validation of his being a Prophet of God.

In addition, the infinite perfect atonement podcast gives further validation.

David W. Allan

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