Have Miracles Ceased?

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Have “Miracles” Ceased? In the Book of Mormon, the Prophet Mormon gives an emphatic, “Nay.” And he goes on to say, “Behold I say unto you… neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of men.” (Moroni 7:29).” And they are happening today.

We know Jesus went forth working many mighty miracles both in the old world as well as in the new. King Benjamin prophesied of Christ’s mighty miracles nearly a century before He came and ministered in the Holy Land. Then after His resurrection, He came to America and healed all their sick and afflicted. The Native Americans remember him as the Great Peace Maker. Jesus set the perfect example before us. Then we have His great promise that the faithful may enjoy the opportunity of working “mighty miracles” as well. (Mosiah 8:18; D&C 35:8) Here, I share some fulfillment of those promises.

Miracle of Vinney Tolman

We have the amazing and well-documented miracle of Vinney Tolman coming back from the dead right here in Orem, Utah, in 2003. The documentation shows that he had been dead for more than 45 minutes. The priesthood power exercised by his brother brought about a total healing after he was in a coma for nearly three days.

Richard Paul Evans sells Vinney’s book, LIGHT AFTER DEATH, because it was life changing for him. He wrote the foreword for Vinney’s book. Reading this short 162-page book, I learned some very valuable lessons. It was definitely a life-changing experience for me as well. I was so impressed with the book that I have written a book report—sharing some of my insights. I have extra copies of Vinney’s book; I am happy to share this life changing book for free for those who cannot afford it and want to read it.

It is a fascinating story. While Vinney was dead and, in a coma, he was taught ten celestial principles. He went to higher and higher levels of light, as he was taught. His third great grandfather, Charles Drake Cazier, was his ministering angel.

Miracles of Elder Shayne M. Bowen

In the last general conference (April 2024), Elder Shayne M. Bowen of the Seventy gave a great talk entitled: Miracles, Angels, and Priesthood Power. He begins by saying: “Many today say that miracles no longer exist, that angels are fictional, and that the heavens are closed. I testify that miracles have not ceased, angels are among us, and the heavens are truly open.” Then he shares some remarkable stories showing the power of faith and of the priesthood in our lives.

He shares the story of his paternal grandfather, Grant Reese Bowen, who was a man of great faith. Grant was working in the field and felt prompted to go to the house. As he was doing so, his grandfather came out and told Grant that his mother had just died.

Grant had received a promise in his patriarchal blessing that he would have the power to raise the dead. Quoting from Grant’s journal, “I placed my hands on her head, and I told the Lord that if the promise that He had made to me by the patriarch was true, to make it manifest at this time and raise my mother back to life. I promised Him if He would do this, I should never hesitate to do all in my power for the building up of His kingdom. As I prayed, she opened her eyes and said, ‘Grant, raise me up. I have been in the spirit world, but you have called me back. Let this always be a testimony to you and to the rest of my family.'”

Elder Bowen’s Personal Experience

Elder Bowen and his family were involved in a horrible automobile accident. Their van ended up upside down. Quoting from his General Conference talk.

After the accident, “We… realized that our 10-year-old daughter, Emily, was missing. We yelled her name, but there was no response. Ward members, who were also traveling home, were at the scene frantically looking for her. It was so dark. I looked in the van again with a flashlight and, to my horror, saw Emily’s tiny body trapped under the van. I called out desperately, “We have to lift the van off of Emily.” I grabbed the roof and pulled back. Only a few others were lifting, but the van miraculously flipped onto its wheels, exposing Emily’s lifeless body.

“Emily was not breathing. Her face was the color of a purple plum. I said, “We need to give her a blessing.” A dear friend and ward member knelt with me, and by the authority of the Melchizedek Priesthood, in the name of Jesus Christ, we commanded her to live. At that moment, Emily took a long raspy breath.”

“After what seemed like hours, the ambulance finally arrived. Emily was rushed to the hospital. She had a collapsed lung and a severed tendon in her knee. Brain damage was a concern because of the time she was without oxygen. Emily was in a coma for a day and a half. We continued to pray and fast for her. She was blessed with a full recovery. Today, Emily and her husband, Kevin, are the parents of six daughters…”

“Those who lifted the van off of Emily observed that the van seemed to weigh nothing. I knew that heavenly angels had joined with earthly angels to lift the vehicle off of Emily’s body. I also know that Emily was brought back to life by the power of the holy priesthood.”

The Calling of Angels

The Prophet Mormon shares the job description of angels: “For behold, they are subject unto [Christ], to minister according to the word of his command, showing themselves unto them of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness. And the office of their ministry is to call men unto repentance, and to fulfill and to do the work of the covenants of the Father, which he hath made unto the children of men, to prepare the way among the children of men, by declaring the word of Christ unto the chosen vessels of the Lord, that they may bear testimony of him (Moroni 7:30-31).”

As we enter into the end times, we will see more and more miracles as the Lord brings about ZION. It is fascinating that the Savior’s raising Lazarus from the grave changed the name of the town.  The name of the town went from Bethany to the Town of Lazarus.  In Arabic, it is called al-Azariya–meaning the place where Lazarus lived. I have a blog article about this insightful experience: SACRED BETHEL, BETHANY, & BETHLEHEM.  (itsabouttimebook.com). This reveals direct evidence of the Savior’s ministry to the world. Else, why would they change the name of the town to reflect the significance of the Savior raising Lazarus from the dead?

It is exciting to know that we can be part of the ideal ZION society, as we truly come unto Christ. Miracles will be wrought, angels will minister, and we will be guided through the purging times ahead.

We had a major miracle with angels assisting last Sunday afternoon (18 August 2024), when we had over three inches of rainfall in about an hour. It was a horrific storm, with tropical winds, hail, and rain by the buckets full. Our City Manager calculated that 490 million gallons fell on Fountain Green–causing major flood. Turning the town into a disaster relief situation. We had a river of water running down our road on the north, and a river of water running down the canal we had built going around our home on the south. THANK YOU, LORD, we had no water in our home. We feel the Lord’s angels were round about us. When we built our home in 1992, some people called it Noah’s ark; it felt like it last Sunday.

David W. Allan (24 August 2024)
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Fountain Green Utah Flood

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Fountain Green, Utah, suffered a major flood on Sunday, August 18th, 2024. At least five families and possibly more than 10 were displaced by the flooding.

In my eighty-eight years, I have never seen anything like what rolled in Sunday afternoon (18 August 2024). Heavy winds, dark clouds and torrential rains by the buckets full and hail. I made a video of the flood it caused behind our house in the canal the county had us build in 1992 in case of same. Thank you, Sanpete County, for your foresight. The deluge was going over the bridge and then it cavitated about 24 cubic yards and about nine feet deep past the bridge. On Sunday during that deluge in an hour we had 1/4th of the annual rainfall. You can see in the picture below the cavitation, as our neighbors look down at it from the bridge.

Then on the next day, Monday, it rained again on the saturated terrain and flooded Fountain Green again.

During the flood, the property we built our home on looked like a ship with a flood of water running down the south side and a flood of water running down the north side. We felt enormously blessed that none of the flood waters came into our home. We felt like Noah on his ark. We were hoping and praying as we felt this mighty storm beat down around us. THANK YOU, LORD, for thine angels and Thy protecting hand!

Our City Manager, Curt Nielsen, who knows water volume calculations told me that 490 million gallons of water fell on this area during that storm. My Dad and my brother Dean and I took a group down Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River at flood stage: 40,000 cubic feet per second. That flow for half an hour would be the same as Curt’s calculations of a half billion gallons of water dumped on this town. Joseph Papenfuss, who is a scientist, calculated that it was a 1000-year flood.

During the deluge, there was a river of mud and gravel running down Big Springs Road and into Fountain Green. I am guessing over 100 cubic feet per second. Several basements were flooded in town. The flood burst the window on the basement of our rental home down at the corner–filling up the basement and onto the main floor. There was about nine feet of water in the basement taking it up to the main floor. The flood destroyed the water heater and the furnace in the basement, and all the floor coverings on the main floor. Scott Sims, our daughter, McKaylee’s husband, who is a disaster relief expert, came by early on. With his special equipment detected what we needed to discard and what we could keep.

The hurricane-force winds tore off some facia on our home and ripped off a big section of the south end of our barn. You  can see that in the above picture. It also tore off two of the panels from the geodesic dome. One was clear out next to the fence by the road. If it had been in the road, it would have washed down to Fountain Green!

Fox News featured the flood, and the Red Cross has moved into town. I just learned from our City Manager that a disaster relief team is coming to help.

Curt Nielsen, the Fountain Green City Manager, rents the home down the street from us. We could not ask for a better person to work with—especially with this flood disaster. They had a big crew of people there helping with the cleanup and getting all kinds of fans to dry things out. He joked with me, “We have more Indians than Chiefs.” Neither of us has flood insurance, so the tab and work are all on us. We are so grateful for all the helping hands.

Our neighbors, Kevin and Natalie Wright are the best you could ever want. Kevin had his tractor going and dug trenches and berms to protect their property and the neighbors down the street. The damage at our rental would have been much worse had he not been there doing his most timely and caring work.

The response of the Fountain Green folks has been most heartwarming in their willingness to help one another. Many of them are having their own disaster problems, yet they still reach out to help wherever they can. Maybe the Lord is getting us ready to be a ZION people.

I share the Fox News link here: Small central Utah town hit extra hard by flooding (fox13now.com). You can feel the compassion and caring attitude of this community.

David W. Allan (21 August 2024)

Zion – An Israel Experience

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I testify that Jesus walked, taught, and worked the miracles described in the gospels. And He worked out the perfect and infinite atonement in Jerusalem (this holy and sacred place). In one of the many grand ironies of the Lord, Jerusalem means the city of peace.

Yet, it has been fought over more than almost any other city. But in His grand plan, it will become so. It will be a ZION society of the pure in heart, who are of one mind and one heart with the Lord. My wife and I have been to Israel four times, and here I share some of our ZION experiences.

Now, with all the conflict in Israel, it is hard to imagine a “pure in heart” people being of “one mind and one heart with God.” But we had a taste of it while there, and it surely shall come to pass.

President Spencer Kimball went to Israel during the energy crises. He was greatly impressed and when he wrote an article about his trip in the Church’s ENSIGN magazine, he said if you have a chance to go; do it. I thought this an unusual thing for him to share when travel was discouraged. I never thought I would have the chance. But in 1986, I was invited to give some lectures, and then later to help with Israel’s official atomic clock timekeeping system.

In 1986, I was then serving as Stake President of the Boulder Stake in Colorado. I knew I would be released the next year—after ten years of service, as President. In preparation for the trip the next year, I read the four gospels again and paid attention to where the miracles took place in detail as part of my preparations for what I thought would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Dr. Avinoam Shinhar, the director of the National Physical Laboratory for Israel, asked me to spend our first week at NPLI in Jerusalem working with their chief scientist, Dr. Alex Lepek. My wife and I ended up going to Israel four times to help them over a five-year span. Our collaborative efforts were very successful, as we tied their timing system to Universal Time (UTC) the world time standard.

While I was helping at NPLI, they had a professor who prided himself in knowing all the significant historical places both for Hebrew and Christian. At the close of each day’s work, he kindly would take us to one of these sights.

Seeking Bethany

I asked him if he would take us to Bethany. I had him stumped; he didn’t know where Bethany was. I knew about where it was from the New Testament account. So, on Friday, he said, “Let’s go find Bethany.” We went to a monastery on the south end of the Mt. Olives, and he asked a nun for directions. She directed us on the Road to Jericho to the “Bethany Souvenir Shop,” which is all that remains of Bethany. The reason he did not know where Bethany was because the name had changed.

Lazarus – Come Forth

The Savior’s raising Lazarus from the grave changed the name of the town.  The name of the town went from Bethany to the Town of Lazarus.  In Arabic, it is called al-Azariya–meaning the place where Lazarus lived. I have a blog article about this insightful experience: SACRED BETHEL, BETHANY, & BETHLEHEM.  (itsabouttimebook.com). This reveals direct evidence of the Savior’s ministry to the world. Else, why would they change the name of the town to reflect the significance of the Savior raising Lazarus from the dead?

“Lazarus, Come forth!

BYU Israel Campus

The BYU-Israel campus in Jerusalem is unique. The chapel has glass windows on three sides: looking south to the Mt. of Olives, west to the Dome of the Rock, near where the temple was, and to the northwest to the place of crucifixion and the Garden tomb. After one of our trips to Israel, I was sitting in the chapel in our Stake Center. During the sacrament, I was envisioning in my mind’s eye this setting in Jerusalem. I started weeping in deep gratitude for the infinite atonement. I blew my nose so hard that I damaged the hearing in my left ear. Now I have a constant reminder of that experience for which I am deeply grateful.

BYU-Jerusalem Center is the multiple arched building to the upper left.

The Orson Hyde Memorial Park is directly south of BYU-JC. It has his dedicatory prayer inscribed and is the biggest park in Jerusalem. In the prayer he shared the prophesy that Jerusalem would become the Capitol City of Israel. President Trump helped make that happen during his term of office.

After the week in Jerusalem, I gave my lectures in Tel Aviv the next week. Then I had arranged with Dan Rona to go on his tour during our last week in Israel. Dan was born in Haifa and is a Jewish convert. He knows the Hebrew traditions and history and has the glorious restoration of the fullness of the gospel perspective. His scriptures were well-worn! And he used them extensively as we went to several places in Israel—all of great significance.

Dan took us to the tomb where the Savior’s body laid for three days before His glorious resurrection. We walked into and observed that the tomb was empty. During those three days, His Spirit was in Paradise, opening up missionary work for all those in the spirit world. (1 Peter 3:18-20; 4:6)

Sermon On the Mount

Dan took us to where he believes the Sermon on the Mount was delivered overlooking the Sea of Galilee. After reading from some of those chapters in the Book of Mathew, Dan gave us time to meditate about what he had shared and the feelings associated with this beautiful spot.

There was a boat out on the Sea of Galilee about a mile away, and we could hear them talking. There were some sheep on an adjacent hillside, and it was as if they were next to us. Evidence of an acoustic miracle witness that the Savior shared this paramount sermon so that all the masses gathered could clearly hear.

As I sat pondering and meditating—looking out over the Sea of Galilee, a beautiful Spirit of the Lord washed over my whole body testifying that all those miracles I had studied about in preparation for this trip happened here in Galilee as described in the gospels.

It was this sermon with important additions that brought the Nephites in North America to become a ZION people, as described in Third Nephi 12-19. Their ideal ZION society is described in Fourth Nephi. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught, “We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object.” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith [2007], 186) Elder Jeffrey Holland profoundly testifies of the same in our last LDS General Conference.

My Favorite Place

Because I have traveled a lot with the atomic clock community, I am often asked, “What is your favorite place in the world?” I always answer, “ISRAEL!” We cannot comprehend the magnitude of the infinite good Christ accomplished there for all of Father’s children—perfecting Heavenly Father’s perfect plan of happiness. I am a witness. Now you know why this was our most favorite trip! My Sweetheart (my wife Edna) shares the same witness and feelings as I do. The wonderful thought now is that we can be part of the coming ideal ZION society, which is coming for sure here in America as well as in Israel. (See Isaiah 2:2-3) The goal is to be pure in heart and to be of one mind and one heart with the Lord (D&C 38:27). The ten heavenly principles shared in Vinney Tolman’s book, THE LIGHT AFTER DEATH, has helped me in my preparations for our coming ZION society. Like the scriptures, it is a life changing book.

David W. Allan (15 August 2024)

Photo: Carl Bloch, 1890 – Free Christ Images

 

Over Coming Excess Stress

Spirituality,

Excess stress is the major cause of most diseases. Excess stress releases excess cortisol, which can kill millions of neurons per day. There are many books and internet suggestions for dealing with this serious problem since modern society is a trigger for excess stress. At the end of this article, I share some blog articles that may help. In this article, I share a very enjoyable way to deal with stress: beautiful music and inspiring poetry.

In the movie, JOURNEY OF MY HEART, the guide, Eric, shares that “music is abstract math and poetry is verbal math.” Music is one of seven learning centers in the brain. Language, math & Logic are two of the other learning centers, and all seven complement each other. So, for me, beautiful music and inspired poetry are profound and touch and bring joy to my soul.

The rhythm and the messages of the King James Bible—76% of it is William Tyndale—have made that book the most popular book ever written. Handel’s Messiah, based on the King James Bible verses, is the most often sung musical ever. And the King of England stood up in reverence when the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel’s Messiah was shared. Everyone now does it by tradition. Only the STAR SPANGELED BANNER in America receives that reverence and honor.

How Great the Wisdom and the Love

One of my all-time favorite poems is the last verse of “How Great the Wisdom and the Love,” composed by Eliza R. Snow. The music is inspiring as well—composed by Thomas McIntyre.

How great, how glorious, ho complete
Redemption’s grand design
Where justice, love, and mercy meet
In harmony divine!

The quatrains of Alexander Pope are awesome; I share three here:

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sobers again.

This quatrain reminds me of the phrase, “The more we know, the more we realize what we don’t know.” Being a humble seeker of truth open up the heavens.

Vice is a monster of so frightful a mien;
As to be hated needs but to be seen.
But seen too oft’ familiar with her face,
First we endure, then pity, then embrace.

If we embrace the Lord’s Spirit, we will not go there!

Nature and Nature’s Laws,
Lay hid in night.
God said, Let Newton be!
And all was light.

The world knows that Sir Isaac Newton was the greatest scientist in the world. But most don’t know that Newton wrote three words regarding his religious beliefs for every word he wrote in science. These are hidden away in the Cambridge library. Thanks to our dear friends, Professor Steven Jones and his wife Lezlee and their daughter, who went there with pencil and paper, which is allowed, and copied many of Newton’s profound religious truths. These line up beautifully with the fullness of the gospel restored by the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Chapter 3 of my new book, Time & Eternity, the End-Times & Beyond Revealed, shares many of Newton’s most important religious insights.

As the most significant scientist in the history of the world, this chapter shares, as it were, Newton’s “Religious Principia.” As an example, quoting from page 79 of my 2023 book:

In a world going awry caused by a people turning from God with ever increasing pornographic “distortions,” Newton has an elegant simple solution: “The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some employment, or by reading, or by meditating on other things, or by conversation.” This reminds me of some scripture verses: “Look to me in every thought; doubt not, fear not (D&C 6:36).” AND “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house; and it fell not for (he) was founded upon a rock (Christ) (Matt. 7:24-25).” “And whosoever treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (JS-M 37).”

One of my favorite poems is: “The Touch of the Master’s Hand”, also sometimes called The Old Violin, written in 1921 by Myra Brooks Welch. The poem tells of a battered old violin that is about to be sold as the last item at an auction for a pittance, until a master violinist steps out of the audience and plays the instrument, demonstrating its beauty and true value, and touching the audience to the core. The violin then sells for $3,000 instead of a mere $3. The poem profoundly ends by comparing this instrument touched by the hand of a master musician to the life of a sinner who is touched by the hand of God. The change that is wrought on a sinner’s soul, when the Savior touches his heart.

The Touch Of The Master’s Hand – original version has been put to music; BEAUTIFULLY DONE!

I pulled the lyrics from the scriptures for the composition that our son, Sterling, prepared for our missionary farewell. It is actually a millennial hymn. Edna gave it the title:

MESSAGE OF GLADNESS
Righteousness will I send down from heaven,
Truth will I send forth out of the Earth;
To bear testimony of mine only Begotten.
Looking forth for the time of my Coming.
In my name shall they do many wonderful works;
In my name they shall cast out devils;
In my name shall they heal the sick;
Open the eyes of the blind; Unstop the ears of the deaf;
And the tongue of the dumb shall speak, and sing Hallelujah!
My law I will write in their hearts;
I’ll be their God, and they my people.
They shall all know me—
From the least of them unto the greatest of them.
I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.
Praise the Lord, All-mighty! Declare His doings among the people.
Call upon His name; make mention His name is exalted.
Sing unto the Lord; for He has done excellent things.
Cry and shout thou inhabitants of Zion;
For great is the Holy One of Israel, in the midst of thee, Alelujah!
The Lord hath brought Zion down from above;
The Lord hath brought Zion up from beneath;
A message of gladness; rejoice all ye Earth!
I will trust and not be afraid;
I will trust in the Lord!
Chorus:
Endowed from on high; Truth from the Earth;
Hope in our hearts; Faith in the Father;
Redeemed by His Son.
Endowed from on high; Truth from the Earth;
Hope in our hearts; Light of our lives;
Perfected in Him; Perfected in Jesus Christ, the Lord, Amen.

It is available as a blog article on our website: The Message of Gladness | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com).

While teaching institute for the Moroni Stake, I added and changed some words to some of our LDS hymns. The Lord gave me the last verse for his hymn:

I Hearken to Thy Voice sung to the hymn “We Love Thy House O God.”

For me, one of the most inspiring lyrics is the third verse of the Christian hymn tune “The Love of God,” by F. H. Lehman. When I first ran across it on the internet, it deeply touched my soul. That verse is from a poem written in Germany in A.D. 1050 by a Jewish Rabbi poet, Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai. I share here the inspired translation, which is verse three of the hymn:

Could we with ink the ocean fill—
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were ev-‘ry talk on earth a quill—
And ev-‘ry man a scribe by trade.
To write the love of God above—
Would drain the oceans dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole—
Though stretched from sky to sky.

There is an excellent movie by the same title that shares the story of how Leyman came to write the song with his eight-year-old son’s help and the Lord’s orchestration to help it come forth. I know that our infinitely loving God is in the details of our lives if we have but eyes to see and hearts to feel.

God’s love is the motivation behind all creation and for the birthing of His spirit children—providing spirit bodies for all of the children of Adam and Eve. We don’t talk of God’s infinite love, but I do. The above lyrics come the closest to any I know of capturing God’s infinite love for each of us.

Here are two of my recent poems; the first one inspired by 
IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD by an anonymous author:

There is need of kinder treatment to be given by us all,
There is need that we remember when someone may err and fall,
That within the hidden motive lies the ill or lies the good,
We would treat each other better if we only understood.

If we knew the cares of others–knew the trials and knew the strain,
Under which they may be living–knew their losses and bitter pain,
We would show a better spirit; I am sure that each one could,
We would always speak more kindly, if we only understood.

MY NEW POEM GIVEN RECENT EVENTS:

We may desire to know a man’s heart,
But only God knows his thoughts from the start.
Allowing every man’s sovereignty be,
For a loving God gave us liberty.

THIS POEM CAME TO ME IN HONOR OF OUR SON, NATHAN’S 48TH BIRTHDAY:

There is no limit to the good we can do
.
We but look to heaven to guide us through.
From our heavenly home, we learned of its creeds,
To bless God’s offspring with our thoughts, words, and deeds.

Indeed, beautiful music and inspired poetry will not only reduce harmful stress, but will bring love, joy, and peace to our souls. I conclude with the Savior’s promises:
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Matt 11:28-30).

David W. Allan (6 August 2024; Nate’s Birthday)

Here are some relevant blog articles to help deal with excess stress:
Body, Mind, and Spiritual Insights | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)
Help Stop Suicides | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)
Healing In His Wings | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)
Herbal Remedies and Priesthood Blessings | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)
Solutions for American Diet Disaster | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

The stress response turns off healing in the body, while the relaxation response turns on healing. Beautiful music and inspired poetry help that happen: The Power of the Fifth Dimension and Meditation | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

Revelation Needed to Thrive

Spirituality,

We are living in a time when personal revelation is more important than ever.  The way you hear His voice may be different than your neighbor’s.  Are you familiar enough with His voice to trust His message for you, even if His counsel or direction may be different than your family or neighbors?

President Russell M. Nelson’s critical counsel is, that you must know how to identify the Lord’s course of action for you.  (Excerpts from talks he has given)

“In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.”

“It has never been more imperative to know how the Spirit speaks to you than right now. Do whatever it takes to increase your spiritual capacity to receive personal revelation.”

“Refining our ability to recognize the whisperings of the Holy Ghost and increasing our capacity to receive revelation requires worthiness. Worthiness does not require perfection, but it requires that we strive for increased purity.”

“Pray in the name of Jesus Christ about your concerns, your fears, your weaknesses—yes, the very longings of your heart. And then listen! Write the thoughts that come to your mind. Record your feelings and follow through with actions that you are prompted to take. As you repeat this process day after day, month after month, year after year, you will “grow into the principle of revelation.”

“The Lord expects daily effort, daily improvement, daily repentance. Worthiness brings purity, and purity qualifies us for the Holy Ghost. As we take ‘the Holy Spirit for [our] guide’ (Doctrine and Covenants 45:57), we qualify for personal revelation.”

“We also hear Him more clearly as we refine our ability to recognize the whisperings of the Holy Ghost. It has never been more imperative to know how the Spirit speaks to you than right now. In the Godhead, the Holy Ghost is the messenger. He will bring thoughts to your mind which the Father and Son want you to receive. He is the Comforter. He will bring a feeling of peace to your heart. He testifies of truth and will confirm what is true as you hear and read the word of the Lord.”

“I renew my plea for you to do whatever it takes to increase your spiritual capacity to receive personal revelation.”

“If we are to have any hope of sifting through the myriad of voices and the philosophies of men that attack truth, we must learn to receive revelation.”

He told of experiences that helped him learn how to receive revelation. Whether it was when he, as a young boy, was drawn to the gospel while living in a home led by parents who were not active in the Church, as a young man in medical school marrying Dantzel White, as a father to their 10 children, or, after his wife passed away, marrying Wendy Watson, he said that “each of these blessings has come as a result of seeking and heeding the promptings of the Holy Ghost.”

“Brothers and sisters, how can we become the men and women—the Christlike servants—the Lord needs us to be?” he asked. “How can we find answers to questions that perplex us? If Joseph Smith’s transcendent experience in the Sacred Grove teaches us anything, it is that the heavens are open and that God speaks to His children.”

“All have the ability to receive personal revelation.”

“Follow the example of the Prophet Joseph,” he said. “Find a quiet place where you can regularly go. Humble yourself before God. Pour out your heart to your Heavenly Father. Turn to Him for answers and for comfort.”

President Nelson invited members of the conference congregation to pray about concerns, fears, weaknesses, and “the very longings of your heart.”

To those wondering if God wants to speak to them, President Nelson said, “Yes!”

“You don’t have to wonder about what is true,” he said. “You do not have to wonder whom you can safely trust. Through personal revelation, you can receive your own witness that the Book of Mormon is the word of God, that Joseph Smith is a prophet, and that this is the Lord’s Church. Regardless of what others may say or do, no one can ever take away a witness borne to your heart and mind about what is true.”

President Nelson invited listeners to stretch beyond their current spiritual abilities to receive personal revelation.

REVELATION NEEDED TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE

The Lord is bringing forth Zion, and we can be part of it: a people who are pure in heart and of one mind and one heart. Doing so will help us to thrive in a world going awry.

Develop our revelatory abilities to come to know our infinitely loving Heavenly Father and Mother and our Beloved Savior. Coming to know them is Eternal Life (John 17:3) and the path to a fullness of joy. (Read Christ’s great High Priest’s prayer just before He brought about the infinite atonement in John Chapter 17.)

I share what is hidden to most, a very important parable: “Behold, this I give unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine (D&C 38:27).” The Savior’s great High Priest’s prayer was answered with the Nephites, as recorded in 3 Nephi 19, and they became one with Him. Thus, the Bride will be ready to meet the Bridegroom and greatly rejoice. Thus, we can THRIVE, as we become one with Elohim.

I pray that we may be one with Heavenly Father and Mother and their Beloved Son. And may we be numbered amongst those who are pure in heart—of one mind and heart. In ZION, the Savior will be dwelling in our midst as with the Nephites of old, as beautifully described in Third Nephi Chapter 19: “…and his countenance did smile upon them, and the light of his countenance did shine upon them, and behold they were as white as the countenance and also the garments of Jesus (verse 25).” Indeed, they were thriving in His light, as they were purified by Him. May we be full recipients of His FULL INFINITE ATONEMENT.

David W. Allan (30 July 2024)

Are You Prepared?

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Are you prepared, in body, mind, and spirit for the Glorious Millennial reign of our Lord and Savior. He will reign as KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OR LORDS (Rev. 19:16). Are you ready for the many cataclysmic events preceding that will get the world’s attention and bring about repentance?

Trusting in the Lord, we know whatever comes, will be worth it and will be for our growth—bringing us closer to our Creator. Can you imagine what it means to have the “earth rolled as a scroll?” “The face of the Lord shall be revealed” (D&C 88:95) I desire to paint an optimistic picture for you as we look at the Big Picture from the Lord’s perfect point of view as best I can.

My main goal, as I am preparing to make my 89th trip around the sun, is to help as many as I can to come to know Him. I know He is “the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by [Him] (John 14:6). Those who reject Christ shall be “cut off” at His coming (Acts 3:20-23; JS-H 40). My heart sinks as I think of those who will do so, and there will be way too many. Help me reduce that number. I would that not one soul should parish. But given “free choice” as part of the perfect plan, we know there will be many (Alma 29:1-9).

Follow the Counsel of Our Savior

If you really want to know what the future holds, follow the counsel of our Savior: “…a commandment I give unto you that ye search these things diligently; for great are the words of Isaiah. For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles. And all things that he spake have been and shall be, even according to the words which he spake (3 Nephi 23:1-3).


Nephi shares this powerful insight regarding the writings of Isaiah: “…in the days that the prophecies of Isaiah shall be fulfilled men shall know of a surety, at the times when they shall come to pass. Wherefore, they are of worth unto the children of men, and he that supposeth that they are not, unto them will I speak particularly, and confine the words unto mine own people; for I know that they shall be of great worth unto them in the last days; for in that day shall they understand them; (2 Nephi 25:7-8).” (Bolding is mine.)

And Nephi’s brother, Jacob, shares his hopeful insights into Isaiah’s writings, “Behold, my beloved brethren, I speak unto you these things that ye may rejoice, and lift up your heads forever,… (2 Nephi 9:3)” Then Jacob goes on in this same chapter to give us one of the best discussions of the Lord’s infinite atonement that we have anywhere in holy writ. He does that after sharing from three chapters in Isaiah.

Nephi also shares that the Apostle John will write about the last days; hence, we have the incredible Book of Revelations (1 Nephi 14:26-28). Then a thousand years later, the Lord tells Moroni, “And then shall my revelations which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people. Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed (Ether 4:16).”

The gospel singer, John Rich, is interviewed by Tucker Carlson, because his inspired song about the Book of Revelations is near the top in rankings. Here is the interview: https://youtu.be/zaFNktRoTbo?si=PJF3nZapWTsCtefY and here is the amazing composition: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=john+rich+revelation+video&type=E211US105G0#id=4&vid=c3bb968bfe82eb992ad8facb4f00bc04&action=click

Understanding and Insights

The Book of Mormon is the best commentary on the Book of Isaiah. Nephi, his brother Jacob, Abinadi, and the Savior do extensive Hebrew explanations of several chapters in the Book of Isaiah. Their goal is to help us best be prepared for the days ahead. They use what is called Hebrew Midrash to explain and amplify Isaiah’s great book. My good Jewish convert friends, David Doane and Rob Kay taught me that the Book of Mormon is the richest book on the planet in using Hebrew Midrash to understand what Isaiah is sharing with us for our eternal benefit.

We are also greatly blessed to have Avraham Gileadi’s insights in understanding Isaiah. As a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and coming from the Jewish-Israel culture, he is probably the best scholar in the world to help us understand Isaiah’s message for our day, in detail.  As a convert, he learned that the Book of Mormon is the best book to help us understand Isaiah and his message for our day. Having spent five years in Israel, as a convert to Judaism, he was very familiar with the writings of Isaiah. Now he is helping the world be so and providing a great blessing to many. I have been blessed greatly by his work and am grateful to have him as a trusted friend. We have shared each other’s books.

Uncertainty of the Future

Most people fear the uncertainty of the future. Fear, hate, contentions, prejudice, pride, and the like are tools of the devil. As a result, suicides are epidemic. Hope, love, joy, and peace are the fruits of the Spirit. These fruits help us to look beyond the storms and challenges that are a part of life. The Lord has counseled, that all these things shall give the experience and be for thy good, if thou shalt endure it well, thou shalt be exalted on high (D&C 121:8; 122:7).” He further promises, “But if ye are prepared, ye shall not fear (D&C 38:30).”

Satan knows it is his last hour before that great Millennial Epoch, and he and his minions are perpetrating massive deceit across the globe. We have the Lord’s promise that as we treasure up His word we shall not be deceived (JS-M 37).

I have a blog article Hebrew Midrash and The Book of Mormon with many insights from Isaiah to help us prepare for the days ahead. This article I am writing now would be way too long if I shared all the profound Hebrew Midrash insights from Isaiah.

Exciting Times Are Happening Now

The native Americans are coming forth and blossoming as a rose. It has been wonderful to learn from Chief Midegah of the Ojibwe tribe (David Taylor). When we first put up our YouTube interview with him, there were over 50 thousand views in one week. Since our interview with Chief Midegah, many other YouTube hosts have interviewed him. People are hungry for the truth and to know what is going on now and anciently in America. Once you listen to him, you will realize, as I did, that there is massive misunderstanding about the Native Americans. He takes it all the way back to the Prophet Noah, and his seven sacred teachings. (See several Podcasts with Chief Midegah on BookofMormonHeartland.com.)

Brian Nettles, who has studied ancient languages and is an expert in Ancient American artifacts, is hosting a conference this September 20th and 21st in Fond Du Lac, WI. The conference quickly sold out. However, it is now available by internet streaming: Sign up for Conference Streaming – Book of Mormon Heartland.

Brian has an excellent set of speakers for Friday on the Book of Mormon, and on Saturday Chief Midegah and his Jewish Rabbi brothers, as well as other native Americans, will be giving major insights into their history, heritage, and sacred writings. My theme for what is happening is “voices from the dust and native American voices.” (Isaiah 29:4)

Brian and Michael Claridge interviewed me about an amazing stone depicting the Savior’s infinite atonement given to Wayne May by Russell Burrows. Russell found this stone along with about 4000 others in the Heartland of America: The Semena Santa Stone – David Allan Interview (youtube.com)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5CLywoOI3s. I have a blog article about this stone as well: Two Hundred Names for Jesus | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)https://itsabouttimebook.com/two-hundred-names-for-jesus/.

The small gold plates that Joseph Smith translated in Fayette, NY, were written in Demonic Egyptian. This translation was the last one to complete the Book of Mormon and is the unabridged part from 1 Nephi to the Book of Omni. One of the scribes for Joseph at the Peter Whitmer farm was John Whitmer. John copied off some of those characters and Brian has been able to translate many of them. You can see a copy of some of them in this blog article: Ancient Hebrews in Ancient America | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)https://itsabouttimebook.com/ancient-hebrews-in-ancient-america/.

The title page of the Book of Mormon tells of Mormon and Moroni’s abridgement of the Nephite’s and the Jaredite’s records. This is the last of the Book of Mormon from Mosiah to Moroni. The small plates came later. So, we have the FIRST of the Book of Mormon being translated LAST, and the LAST of the Book of Mormon being translated FIRST in Harmony, PA. This part of the translation was done before they went to Fayette, NY. The Savior shares: ” as the words have gone forth out of my mouth even so shall they be fulfilled, that the first shall be last, and that the last shall be first in all things whatsoever I have created by the word of my power, which is the power of my Spirit (D&C 29:30).” (Bolding mine.)

The Capitol of Israel Moved to Jerusalem

In my book, Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed, I share the dedicatory prayer of Orson Hyde for Jerusalem on the Mount of Olives (Sunday 24 October 1841). Here is a fascinating paragraph from that prayer:

Do Thou now… to inspire the hearts of kings and the powers of the earth to look with a friendly eye towards this place [Jerusalem], and with a desire to see Thy righteous purposes executed in relation therein. Let them know that it is Thy good pleasure to restore the kingdom unto Israel—to raise up Jerusalem as its capital, and constitute her people a distinct nation and government, with David Thy servant, even descendant from the loins of ancient David to be their king.

While Donald Trump was President of the USA, he successfully helped move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Ezekiel describes the role of “my servant David” (Ezekiel 34:23-31) relevant to this major transition occurring. Isaiah, the Book of Mormon, and Avraham in his books have much to say about the important role of the Davidic servant.

Exciting Times Ahead

From the scriptures, we learn that we will help the Lamanites build a temple in Jackson County Missouri. In Orson Pratt’s formatting of the Book of Mormon (1906), he has a footnote to 2 Nephi 3:24 sharing that, “And there shall rise up one mighty among them (the Lamanites), who shall do much good…” the footnote reads, “Indian Prophet.”

The scriptures are clear that many more records are to come forth. Neil Maxwell shared at BYU that now we carry around our “Quad;” he jokingly shared that in the future we may need a “little red wagon” to carry them. By the Quad, he means the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price.

We live in the most exciting time in the history of the earth. “Let us look to God and Live.” the abundant life He has promised now (Alma 37:47; John 10:10) and look forward to the glorious day when He comes again. The purging times ahead will bring about great repentance with Zion (pure in heart who are of one mind and one heart) society to be the Bride to meet the Bridegroom at His coming. The great hope is that we can be part of that society.

I believe with Chief Midegah that we are at the beginning of an extremely important seven year period.. We look forward to many more records. Then we have Nephi’s great counsel and promise:

Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life. (2 Nephi 31:20)

David W. Allan (22 July 2024)

Photo:  K. Griffiths

 

Martin Harris’ Modern Angelic Testimony

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Martin Harris’ Modern Angelic Testimony

Our good friend, Lynn “Doc” Cleland, recently shared with us a four-minute video he made of Martin Harris living in Douglas, Wyoming. Martin is the third great-grandson of Martin Harris, who was one of the three witnesses bearing testimony that the angel Moroni had shown them the gold plates used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon. The witnesses heard the voice of God commanding them to share their testimony with the world, which is in every copy of the Book of Mormon. As orchestrated by the Lord, the original Martin Harris angelically shared his testimony again through his third great-grandson. This happened in 2009 as part of Doc’s incredible handcart journey while replicating his third great-grandmother’s handcart experience.

Lynn “Doc” Cleland’s Journey of nearly 1,400 Miles

I had the opportunity to meet Lynn “Doc” Cleland at a Book of Mormon Evidence conference in 2023. He told us about his third great-grandmother, Sarah Goode, who had joined the Church and was widowed in 1854. She was left alone with six children under the age of 12.

Before leaving England in April of 1856 to join the saints in Salt Lake, she was given a blessing and promise she would complete the journey successfully and not lose any of her children on the way. She was also promised that she would be the first one to enter the Salt Lake Valley from her company.

After they arrived in the States they went by train to Iowa City, where she joined the Ellsworth handcart company. On the last day of the 1,400-mile trek, she got permission from Captain Ellsworth to leave early. She and her six children were the first to enter the Salt Lake Valley, as promised in her blessing. As she pulled her handcart into the valley, with her permission, her six children were swept up by horsemen who came to meet them at the mouth of Immigration Canyon. It was a time of great rejoicing.

She is featured in the movie, Seventeen Miracles. Her experience was also featured in a 2006 ENSIGN article: “Some Must Push and Some Must Pull”. This article touched Doc’s heart and he knew her story through his family history. In 2009, he decided to honor this brave woman by replicating her experience.

Doc built a handcart, ate the same kinds of food Sarah would have eaten, and pulled a handcart alone for nearly 1,400 miles, following the same path as best he could. Over the 110-day journey, he lost 48 pounds, and nearly died three times during his trek and was miraculously healed.

He has written the book, “Faith Greater Than Pain”, which is available on Amazon. A full-length Hollywood-level movie is planned to share his remarkable experience.

Angelic Experiences

Doc had some major angelic assistance experiences during his trek and learned that Sarah had been with him all the way. She inspired him in the writing of the book. The Lord’s orchestration of the following is also a most inspiring example. When he got to Douglas, WY, he noticed that there was an LDS church not far from the trail. So, he went there that evening where he met the Young Men’s President for their ward by the name of Martin Harris. Doc learned that Martin is the third great son of Martin Harris–one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. As a witness, his profound testimony is in every copy of the Book of Mormon.

Grandfather, Martin Harris, also mortgaged his farm to provide the $3,000 needed to print the first 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon. He also took the characters to Professor Charles Anthon to validate their correctness which Joseph Smith had copied and translated from the gold plates. The printing of the Book of Mormon was also a major miracle all by itself.

A Coincidence?

Doc called the local Bishop and got permission to set up his tent on the lawn of the church. Since this was a Wednesday evening and Brother Harris was at the church with the young people, Doc asked him for a favor. Doc had a replica of the first copy of the Book of Mormon and felt to ask Martin to write in it and share his testimony of the book, and Martin agreed to do that.

After a long evening, at about 10 o’clock Martin gave the book back to Doc in his tent. Doc being tired, didn’t read what Martin had written until two days later. He was so touched by his testimony, he decided to make a trip back to Douglas, Wyoming, and have Martin tell him, “The rest of the story.”

When Doc went back, to Douglas, Brother Harris shared that over the course of that Wednesday evening, he couldn’t think what to write; he just stared at a blank page. Finally, after all his church duties were taken care of and while pondering what to write, a phrase came into his mind. He wrote it down. Then, he waited; another phrase came into his mind. He wrote it down, and this continued until the testimony was completed.

Doc shared with me this testimony, which is most inspiring. It is the original Martin Harris putting into the mind of his third great-grandson his current testimony. Doc also shared with me a four-minute video he obtained from the grandson telling of this unique angelic experience.

So, we have this unique ministering angel Divine orchestration. Martin’s third great-grandfather, Martin Harris—one of the three witnesses of the gold plates, gets to share his testimony again. In due process, Doc will be sharing that marvelous current testimony that is written in his first replica edition of the Book of Mormon in a movie.

This event reminds me of how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon. He would study the characters on the gold plates through the Urim and Thummim and then a phase would come to mind. The phrase needed to be correct–including the spelling of a lot of unique names– before he could move on. This translation process was indeed a major miracle. It is estimated that Joseph spent about 65 days in translation and averaged about 20 words per minute from this ancient unknown Egyptian language. A MARVELOUS WORK AND A WONDER, indeed; not a coincidence!

It is now known that the small plates translated by Joeseph Smith in Fayette, NY, were Demotic Egyptian (1 Nephi through Omni). One of the scribes, John Whitmer, copied off some of these characters, and my good friend, Brian Nettles, has been able to translate many of them. In this link, you can see a copy of the “Caracter’s” document that Brian translated from.

The large plates translated in Harmony, PA, were Reformed Egyptian with Mormon and Moroni being the scribes. Most people don’t know there were two sets of plates that Joseph used to translate the Book of Mormon.

David W. Allan (13 July 2024)

PS Doc has given me permission to share Martin’s testimony and video with those I can trust. Let me know if you are interested. Neither Martin’s testimony nor the video should be duplicated because Doc maintains the rights for them to be in the forthcoming movie.

This angelic ministration experience is a beautiful example as shared by Vinney Tolman in his most inspiring book: The Light After Death. The book report referenced gives inspiring details of the importance of angelic ministrations.

Photo:  Utah State Historical Society

The Land Of Promise Testified

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The Land of Promise is testified by modern scripture, by the DNA of the North American Indians, by glottology (the study of languages), and by artifacts and archeology. The oral histories of native Americans and the living voices of the North American Indians also testify that the Promised Land of the Book of Mormon is not in Central or South America.

Book of Mormon Conferences

About 12 years ago, Rod Meldrum of “Book of Mormon Evidence” began to offer Conferences that supported the thesis that the Book of Mormon peoples resided in the “Heartland” of America” rather than in South America. Since then, there has been more and more evidence to support the claim that Lehi and his family came from Israel to the North American Continent. Duane Erickson, Wayne May, Steve Smoot, Jonathan Neville and several others have contributed significantly to this knowledge base.

Recently, “The Land of Promise” Conference was held last week on June 21-22, 2024 in Spanish Fork Utah. All conference speakers supported the thesis that the Book of Mormon events took place in Israel and the North American Continent. I’m guessing about 900 people were attending the conference. There were 15 Individual speakers over the two days.

Special Guest Chief Midegah

Wayne May, the conference founder and organizer, was able to obtain a last-minute special guest to speak at the conference. It was Chief Midegah from the Ojibwe tribe. He came to the forefront about a month ago when my good friends, Brian Nettles, David Hocking, Kristen Watts, and I had the opportunity to interview Chief Midegah on YouTube. The exposure created a whirlwind. Several other YouTube hosts were anxious to interview Chief Midegah also.
Within a week, there were over a hundred thousand visits to various YouTube sites. His information has taken YouTube by storm. Chief Midegah is a Chief to be reckoned with. Details about his background and credentials can be found on the Book of Mormon Heartland website.

Conference Speakers

Chief Midegah gave two lectures at the conference sharing tons of fascinating information about native American history. He was the main drawing card for the conference. All of the conference lectures were excellent.

It was wonderful to meet the chief personally. Wayne May took this picture of us, and the Chief said to me, “David and David;” His name is David Taylor.

My good friend and researcher, Utahna Jessop, spoke about the Jaredite giants in North America. She recently found Jaredite burials near Kanab, Utah. She shared some new additional information. It was fascinating.

John Brewer kept a journal, and Utahna followed his research in detail.  She has done a great job in documenting his findings in the cave that he found in Manti, Utah. When he found the cave, he was visited by an angel by the name of Ether who told him to protect his findings and do nothing for monetary gain. For those who may not be familiar with the Book of Mormon, Ether was the last prophet before the Jaredite nation was destroyed in a massive civil war around 600 B.C. ending near the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York.

I told Utahna that her findings were “pure gold.” She has an excellent DVD telling of her additional research. Some of her lectures are available on YouTube. She is a dear friend of ours and has permitted me to share her phone number (801) 717-6295 if you wish to get a DVD of her lecture from her directly.

Highlights of My Conference Address

1. Since the conference was held close to the date and time of the summer solstice (2051 UTC, 20 June 2024) and we had a full moon, I pointed out to the audience that makes the moon’s orbit the lowest while the sun’s orbit is the highest for us north of the “Tropic of Cancer.” The opposite is true for those south of the “Tropic of Capricorn.”

2. I pointed out that the great Jaredite prophet, Mahonri Moriancumer, saw the end from the beginning in his comprehensive vision. As a result, the Jaredites knew the phases of the moon, and they mapped out the plan of salvation in the majestic earthworks near Newark, Ohio. They knew, as part of his vision, that the moon would be in the position of the divine ratio—lined up with the millennium and celestial kingdom at the date and time of Savior’s birth.

3. The printing of the Book of Mormon was a major compressed-time miracle. It should have taken at least 17 ½ months to print and bind 5,000 copies, but it was done in the Lord’s compressed-time frame of just over 6 months. In addition, the Lord revealed to me that He had Joseph Smith print them so that the height by width was in the Divine ratio—a unique feature. Both of these are Divine “fingerprints” of the Lord’s doings with the coming forth of that great book and made Utah a state around that book.

4. The Lord has blessed me greatly because as a praying physicist I have chosen to do things His way rather than my way. I shared how He has made my name and work famous in the precise timing, navigation, and telecom communities. Now because He has done that for me, I am able to share the gospel across the globe. My book’s website, www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com, has well over 200 thousand visits from over 100 nations. And its popularity is ever-increasing regardless of whether I am alive or dead! If you Google “Allan variance,” you will get over three million results, and its usefulness continues to grow. THANK YOU, LORD!

Once the Lord taught me that the original copies of the Book of Mormon were printed in the Divine ratio. I had my next book (2023), Time & Eternity, The End-Times & Beyond Revealed, printed in the Divine ratio in honor of those first 5,000 copies.

5. From the scriptures, I shared that the first law of heaven is LOVE. And that celestial love is equivalent to celestial obedience because we do things to please the Lord. That takes obedience out of the “do your duty” level to the joy of bringing honor and glory to the Lord. As we do things with an “eye single” to His glory, the joy in our hearts follows. If everyone were to live the Law of Love, it would solve all the world’s problems. We would have an ideal pure-in-heart ZION society where we are all of one heart are one mind. And there would be no poor among us.

6. There are 1,800 phrases in our scriptures that tie back to the language of Adam. Their distribution and use in both the eastern and western hemispheres and over the history of the earth give pure Divine validity to our scriptures. True science harmonizes with true religion, which is a fundamental message of my book, It’s About Time.

7. In my search for truth, I have three criteria: 1) If God says it, then I know it; 2) We cannot prove a theory true, we don’t know enough, only God knows enough; but 3) If we have reliable data, we can prove a theory false. The theory of organic evolution and the big bang theory have been proven false, and the world chooses to ignore those proofs. I examine the two theories for Book of Mormon geography: Heartland and Mesoamerica. I share nine proofs that the Mesoamerica theory is false, and I share the words from the prophets that the Heartland model is correct.

8. The Lord gives us signs in the heavens. There were three recent solar eclipses over the USA making alpha and omega over the “Land of Promise.” Also, I share the Lord’s sign in the heavens on the 23rd of September 2017 of His promise to bring forth Zion in preparation for His coming—as promised in Revelations Chapter 12.

9. The story of Vinney Tolman happened in 2003 in Orem, Utah. It was a remarkable Lazurus experience for Vinney because he died and was put in a body bag. The Spirit whispered to the EMT attending, “This man is not dead!” He took action and brought him back from the dead. While across the veil, Vinney was taught ten celestial principles by his great-great-great grandfather, as he moved ever closer to the LIGHT:
1. Be authentic.
2. Understand the purpose of life. Life is not a test, but a grand opportunity to learn the truth.
3. Love everyone. God’s main motivation is to love; His creations and our lives are a direct manifestation of His infinite love.
4. Listen to your inner voice. (See Moroni 7:29-31)
5. Use technology responsibly. Many are addicted to technology–their cell phones, e.g.
6. Release prejudice. There is no prejudice in heaven.
7. Exercise the power of creation. Our Creator made us to be creators.
8. Avoid negative influences.
9. Understand the purpose of evil. All the evil in the world has caused many to turn to atheism or agnosticism because they don’t understand. (Read Chapter 2 of It’s About Time to get a full understanding.
10. Know that we are all one. The Savior prayed for us to be one (John 17), and it was brought to beautiful fruition here in the Land of Promise (Read Third Nephi 19).

September Conference in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin

Brian Nettles has organized a conference this September in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, and attendance is already sold out. He has opened up Saturday to Chief Midegah. The Chief is bringing two Rabbis and five other Native American friends. They will be sharing their Ojibwe Outreach historical information. On Friday, Brian has several other notable speakers on the Book of Mormon. It should be a fascinating conference.

Available Presentation Material

I have given countless lectures over my career path, and I believe this one had more impact on the audience than any I have ever given. Over the months of preparation, I asked the Lord, “Thou knowest who will be there, and I don’t. Will you help me prepare to best help them?” And the Lord answered my prayer. I got a standing ovation at the end, and 30 people asked for copies of my slides.

For those who couldn’t attend the conference, a view of the slides of my lecture are available. They are quite detailed since I had to go quickly over the material in the 50 minutes allotted to me. Simply click: David Allan Spanish Fork Conference.

David W. Allan (25 June 2024)

Through The Fire Without Burning

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Through the Fire Without Burning is a book by Dumitru Duduman published in 1992. The book was written over 30 years ago but has amazing relevance to what we are experiencing in today’s world. It is a true story of a Romanian paster facing communist persecution.

From Duduman’s Book

For 25 years, Dumitru Duduman was a faithful pastor and Bible smuggler in his native land of Romania. “Over 18 years, he delivered hundreds of thousands of Bibles and aids to Soviet Union …  In August of 1980, Dumitru was arrested, imprisoned, and interrogated for five months. He was beaten almost every day and repeatedly shocked in an electric chair… Finally, the authorities gave Dumitru three choices; a mental hospital, prison… or expulsion to the United States.” He was prompted to come to America and preach repentance.

90’s Firesides Featuring Duduman

In the early 90’s I was privileged to know Dumitru personally, as our son, Sterling, arranged for him to tell his amazing story in a series of firesides from Arizona through Utah and into Idaho.

Recently, our good friend, Loren Pearce, sent me an e-mail summarizing the relevance of Dimitru Duduman’s prophesy for our day in clear terms concerning a nuclear attack by Russia on the USA. He has generously permitted me to share his communication.

Dear Family and Friends,

In the early 90’s, Sterling Allan arranged for Pastor Dumitru Duduman to come to Utah and speak at various venues about his vision, while awake and with the assistance of an angel, of a nuclear bomb attack on the USA.

Briefly, Duduman was an atheist communist agent in Romania and spent his time persecuting Christians who brought in contraband Bibles to Romania.  He had a miraculous conversion similar to the Apostle Paul and became a devout Christian defender of the Bible.

He was told to come to the USA and preach repentance to the people.  Sterling was instrumental in helping that happen.  I won’t get into the details but I remember feeling the spirit testify of the truthfulness of Duduman’s message and what was burned into my mind as if it was yesterday (although over 30 years ago), was the following:

Duduman said that he was shown by an angel that there would arise a major civil unrest in the USA bordering on a civil war and that so disruptive was this civil unrest to the successful operation of the country that Russia would take advantage of it and launch a nuclear attack on the USA.  He was shown the various cities that would be attacked, and I remember it included Florida, Las Vegas, New York, and Los Angeles, among others. He said Russia knew exactly where the USA’s nuclear weapons were located and would be very precise in where they sent their nukes.  The resulting destruction, death, mayhem, chaos, and lawlessness were everything one would expect and worse.

Most importantly, this horrific action against the USA was a result of the breadth and depth of the moral decay, depravation, evil, and wickedness that saturated the USA.  He especially emphasized abortion as among the most abominable of sins and whose stench had reached the heavens.

Over the years, I began to doubt if this would ever happen. However, there are two dynamics at play that more than ever, could fulfill his vision.

  1. NATO is crossing Putin’s red line by sending troops into Ukraine, by using American weapons on Russian territory and other actions that could provoke Russia to use nukes which could rapidly escalate.  Many experts say the world is closer to nuclear war than even the Cuban missile crisis.
  2. The recent conviction of Donald Trump, the high probability of putting him into prison and the high probability of the secret service not being given custody of the prison, could invoke an armed uprising that fulfills Duduman’s vision.  Not since the Civil War between the North and the South, has the nation been more divided nor has there been a bigger disregard of the Constitution.  In fact, not even the Civil War had a people more wicked than what we have now with abortions approaching 100 million and pedophilia, child torture and abuse and other unspeakable sins possessing the country.  We have never been more ripe for destruction than now.
  3. If we have not reached that ripened (or rotten) state, I don’t know when we will.  It behooves us to be prepared.  Now, more than any other time in my lifetime, have we reached that precipice, nor have we had all the pieces in place for destruction and fulfillment of Duduman’s vision while he was awake.
  4. We should consider all the aspects of preparation including evacuation plans, alternate routes, alternate transportation, communication, gathering points, etc.

Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.

Trusting in Christ,

Loren

My Thoughts and Cognition

Duduman’s insight for our day reminds me of Nephi’s prophecy for our day.
“Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if it so be that the fulness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore, the righteous need not fear; for thus saith the prophet, they shall be saved, even if it so be as by fire. Behold, my brethren, I say unto you, that these things must shortly come; yea, even blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke must come; and it must need be upon the face of this earth, and it cometh unto men according to the flesh if it so is that they will harden their hearts against the Holy One of Israel (1 Nephi 22:17-18).”
 
And the scripture Moroni shared with the Prophet Joseph Smith from Joel:
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call (Joel 2:28-32).”

Unfortunately, we see wickedness increasing throughout the world. In two previous blog articles, I have expressed America’s greatest need is to repent and return to the Lord: America’s Future at the Crossroads and America’s Greatest Need to Repent.

In his book, Duduman tells of a safe place and it seems to be describing the ZION of the Lord. He calls it the “Camp of the Lord” and quotes from Revelations 21:3. This reminds me of the promises the Lord makes in Doctrine and Covenants Section 45.

We, of course, don’t know if such an attack will occur or if so when. It behooves us to be watchmen on the tower and to look at the signs of the times. Most importantly, let the Spirit guide you in doing His work and His will for you.

On the other side of the purging of the wickedness in the world is the Glorious reign of the King of kings, and Lord of lords. And we have the Lord’s promise for the righteous (Nephi 22:22; D&C 29:1-2; 45:67-71).

David W. Allan (5 June 2024)

P.S. If such an attack should occur, having good iodine levels in your diet are important. Having access to a basement or a bomb shelter could save lives if you are in a vulnerable area. I found it interesting that in Switzerland, every new home is required to have a serviceable bomb shelter. Having a Geiger counter with neutron detection capability could be very useful. Neutron bombs are tactical weapons designed to kill the local populace and minimize structural destruction.

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How To Be One With God

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How to be one with God is a question that challenges all of us.  One of the grand ironies of the Lord’s omniscience is that He asks us to be ONE like He and the Father are ONE. Yet, we have 8.1 billion independent intelligences on this globe, so how can we be One With God?

A Perfectly Designed Mission for Each of Us

Inherent within our intelligence is agency (free choice). Furthermore, in premortal our infinitely loving Heavenly Father gave each of us a different personally designed mission for our mortal journey (See Chapter 2 of It’s About Time). He designed it so that it would be the best way to bring us back home to Him. Then the Lord says, “Behold, this I have given unto you as a parable, and it is even as I am. I say unto you, be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine (D&C 38:27).”

Hence, CHOOSING to be ONE with Him is paramount in our path to eternal life. And we know the only one who can perfect us and get us there is Christ (Moroni 10:32-33). “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6).”

What Can We Do to Help the Cause of Christ?

Because God’s love is perfect and infinite, we have His great promise before Christ comes again: “For it shall come to pass in that day, that every man shall hear the fulness of the gospel in his tongue, and in his language, through those who are ordained unto this power, by the administration of the Comforter, shed forth upon them for the revelation of Jesus Christ (D&C 90:11).” Furthermore, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only religion that now offers the fullness of the gospel on both sides of the veil. This includes all the saving ordinances associated therewith. Yet, we are only 0.2 % of the world population, but fortunately, the Church is growing rapidly, and the growth rate is now increasing.

In the meantime, what can we do to help the cause of Christ? First, we need to be His disciples by sharing His glorious message of redemption and hope for eternal life. “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples (John 15:8).”

As part of the Lord’s plan for ONEness, we know the ideal society to meet the Lord is ZION: “the pure in heart (D&C 97:21)” “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).” Clearly, knowing how to be one with God is paramount. Now, with 8.1 billion different world views across the globe for all of Father’s children, how can they be ONE? Accepting the Full infinite atonement of Jesus Christ and HIs teachings are the keys.  But most don’t know of these beautiful and life changing truths.

St. Petersburg Russia and being ONE

In 2015, I was invited to write a paper, give a lecture, and chair a panel in St. Petersburg, Russia. I took two cases of my book, It’s About Time, which harmonizes true science and true religion. They sold very quickly, and I had a great experience there.

I felt to add to the paper that I wrote for the conference an equation, which I feel the Lord gave me, on how to be one with God. The Savior opened the door for us to be “one” like He and the Father are one for all believers (Read John 17). In His great High Priest prayer, He excluded no one except the “world” of non-believers.

As background for this equation, consider God’s infinite love for us. He gave us His Only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him and lives His teachings shall have eternal life (John 3:16). Christ also gave us our conscience to “light” our way that we may know good from evil (John 1:9). At each decision point in life, we make choices. As we choose the good, we synchronize our souls with the will of God; otherwise, we become more asynchronous and are estranged from God. Well, did the Apostle James say, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin (James 4:17).”

A loving and merciful God has given us the door of repentance made effective through the infinite atonement of Christ so that we may resynchronize our souls with God. “Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more. By this ye may know if a man repenteth of his sins—behold, he will confess them and forsake them (D&C 58:42-43).” Also, in God’s love, He has twice as many angels around us to counter the adversary’s opposition, there for us as we pray (D&C 10:5).

Taking from Shakespeare’s Othello, from Charles Dickins, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 29, which Abraham Lincoln used in his inaugural address, let us choose our “better angels,” who are whispering to us the best path for us.

Light Before Death

I recently learned of a remarkable book, The LIGHT BEFORE DEATH, by Vincent (Vinney) Todd Tolman.  It is our own Lazarus raised from the dead documented experience happening right here in Orem, Utah, in 2003. After he died, he was taught ten heavenly principles, by his Great-great-great grandfather, Charles Drake Cazier, as he moved to higher levels of light. One was the great importance of “Listen to your inner voice.”

The Kingdom of Heaven is perfectly organized, and the Lord’s angels are ever-attending. It is our choice to listen or not. They speak the words of Christ to know what we should do to align ourselves with God’s will (2 Nephi 32:2-5).

Drake beautifully shares with Vinney the great importance of Alma’s insight: “For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true (Alma 29:8).” The sixth principle Drake shared was, “Release prejudice.” And the capstone and tenth principle is: “Know that we are all one.”

Can we imagine a higher path in life than going about–best using our time and talents–in doing good as we follow the light of Christ? This is “the still small voice” shared so profoundly in the Bible (1 Kings 19:12). Then we are ONE with Him!

Following this still, small voice moves us to the path that aligns with the mission we agreed to do during our mortal journey. Doing so will bring honor and glory to our loving Heavenly Father. With Him, in a pre-mortal epoch, we agreed and rejoiced in our opportunity to come to earth. As developed in Chapter 2 of Itʼs About Time, I share that we had a special interview with our Heavenly Father in which we jointly mapped out our life’s mission that we knew would be for our eternal best good.

Because we have free agency, we can choose not to do our mission, but that path will not be the best for us.  When we apply faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives and repentance, it means changing our path direction to align our will with His.

Our Time on Earth is Like a Clock

We can think of our time on earth like a clock, we move our soul’s clock closer to synchronism with Him, as we choose the right. We are doing the right things, at the right place, at the right time. Our thoughts are aligned with His omniscient and loving wisdom. He asks us, “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not (D&C 6:36).”
Here is the equation.

yavg = xN/Ntauavg

We bring our clock into synchronization with God’s will when we make the right choice—listening to the Lord’s angels who speak the words of Christ. In this equation, N numbers our xN choice. Nτavg denotes our time on earth since we were accountable for our choices—nominally age eight. Our goal is to be ONE with God—zero distance between us and Him. One can show from this equation that yavg moves to zero as each choice ever moves us closer to the will of God as we listen to His angels ministering to us.

One can show mathematically that our frequency (our different world views) will move ever closer into perfect resonance with the Father through the Son as we move to be with them and their teachings. We are in harmony emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically with His will and are in ONEness with God. Synchronization means same time; syntonization means same rate. Our lives are syntonized in this ONEness, yavg = 0, God is with us in all we do, say, and think.

Our oldest son, Sterling, shared with me this fascinating experiment shared on the web of how five independent metronomes are brought into synchronization and syntonization. Synchronization of Metronomes. You can see Daniel in a 1 minute 49 seconds YouTube video showing that when the sounding board is free to respond to the metronomes’ movements, they come into synchronism—ONEness.

As I presented the paper for the international navigation conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, I included the above equation and insights as part of the paper. This allowed me to share the message of the gospel with my international colleagues. They politely asked me to remove it as they didn’t want spirituality as part of a technical conference. But here I share it with the world, and my colleagues reviewing the paper received the benefit.

Two clocks can be syntonized and have very different times; they could be an hour apart in their time readings while running at the same rate. If syntonized but not synchronized, then the time difference remains constant, and they remain out of sync. Because the time error of a clock is the integral of the frequency error, synchronization guarantees syntonization. We will see this concept being very important, as we develop how to resonate our souls with God.

I discuss the fascinating MASER and LASER action–invented by Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes, et. al.–in Chapter 20 of my book: www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com. The first atomic clock was an ammonia maser built by Harold Lyons, et. al. at NBS Washington, D.C. The first atomic clock I worked on in 1960 at NBS/Boulder, CO, was an ammonia maser.

Maser and laser are acronyms meaning Microwave or Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The maser concept was first illustrated using hydrogen. In a hydrogen maser, when a hydrogen atom enters the resonant cavity of the maser in an excited-quantum-clock-transition-energy state, it is stimulated to give off its clock-transition photon in phase (synchronized and syntonized) with all the emissions of all the other atoms, which have already entered the cavity. The photons of all the atoms are in resonance with each other–like Daniel’s metronomes.

Notice, that Daniel first shows in the video that they do not resonate until the coupling-sounding-board is free to sense the combined movement of the metronomes. In the ideal ZION society motivated by the pure love of Christ, we are of “one mind and one heart.” We are in resonance with the will of God.

Because of this resonance phenomena, the time deviation TDEV time-stability plot improves as the square root of the averaging time, τ^-1/2. This gives hydrogen masers their unique excellent short-term frequency and time stability. And they are widely used across the globe to this day.

But, as explained in Chapter 20, for significant worldly reasons, this ideal resonance phenomenon, τ^-1/2, doesn’t persist. If a TDEV time-stability plot were made of the time differences of the metronomes in Daniel’s experiment, the stability would improve like the masers after resonance was achieved, but not before. This resonance phenomenon was first observed by the famous inventor of the pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens, back in the 1600s. This ZION society mentality joyfully brings persistence to this Divinely orchestrated resonance phenomenon–illustrated by masers and Daniel’s metronomes.

As We Choose The Good

As we choose the good, we synchronize our souls with the will of God; otherwise, we become more asynchronous and are estranged from God. Also, in God’s love, as I mentioned before, He has angels around us to counter the adversary’s opposition.

We can synchronize our thoughts and actions with Him through prayer and pondering, studying, and feasting upon His word (2 Nephi 31:20). It is exciting to know that in our desires to synchronize our will to His, each of us has a unique mission, given our different times on earth and our different talents. In His infinite wisdom, He knows our uniqueness and will customize the inspiration given to each of us for our eternal best good. His will is to have each of us return to Him and receive a fullness of joy. But know that He will not force us; such force would violate our free agency and make it, not heaven. He will never do that; that is contrary to the laws of heaven. Being ONE with Him is our choice.

As we treasure up His word (JS-M 37) and hearken to it, in our Nth occasion to do so, we move xN closer to synchronism as we align our will to His. If we choose otherwise, we move our clock further away from the “correct time” and away from being ONE with God. Like the sounding board for the metronomes needs to be “free” to facilitate resonance among the metronomes, so we need to get out of the noise of the world and find the freedom in communion with God that will open our minds and hearts to the still small voice. That is the path to true freedom. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36).”

His Loving Arms are Stretched Out

His loving arms are stretched out continually to all of us in His infinite capacity to do so that we may find resonance with Him through faith in Christ and repentance from sin.
The denominator ever grows larger and the numerator can be made smaller and smaller as we synchronize our wills to the will of the Father, as the Son did perfectly. One can show that this equation converges to perfect resonance; we grow into ONEness with God and are guaranteed eternal life in that process. When our worldview becomes aligned with His perfect view, His promise is, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). In that unity we become free of sin as individuals, and free from bondage as a society. We become one with God in that ideal society motivated by the pure love of Christ, and each of our time and talents are thus utilized fully for the betterment of that society in time and in eternity. How exciting is that? This is he path to a fullness of joy.

We model our society after the harmony of the Godhead. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost each have different missions within the Godhead, but they are one–motivated by pure and perfect love. They move the cause of Truth forward throughout the universe. Following this perfect model is how, as Jesus has asked us to pray, that Father’s kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:9-13). Could there be a more exciting message–a society based on the pure love of Christ, which will partake of a fullness of joy?

For those wishing to chat online about the gospel of Jesus Christ, you may visit Mormon.org. They have the facility to chat in some fifty different languages. The Book of Mormon (another witness for Christ) is available in 110 languages. This book–companion to the Bible–is designed to help bring us to Christ and to this ONEness.

David W. Allan (updated 25 May 2024)

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