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Jesus Planned Miracle Triggered Crucifixion

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At that same time, “Caiaphas, being the high priest, prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation… [and] should gather together in one the children of God… Then from that day forth, they took counsel together to put him to death.” (John 11:49-53)

My Experiences In Jerusalem

In 1987, I was invited by the Israelis to help them in improving their atomic clock system, (UTC(INPL)). I spent a week in Jerusalem at their standards laboratory, and we ended up publishing some interesting papers together.  I ended up going back three more times to help them with their official clock timekeeping system for Israel. My wife was able to be with me for all four trips and five of our children were able to go to Israel as well. Being where the Savior walked and taught and worked out the infinite atonement is a life-changing experience.

During our first week in Jerusalem, a professor there prided himself in knowing all of the interesting historic places both for the Jews and Christians. Every afternoon he would take us to some fascinating place in Biblical history. I asked him if he would take us to Bethany. He was stumped—not knowing where Bethany was.

Just Where Did Bethany Go

On Friday of that week, he said, we are going to find Bethany. I knew about where it was from the New Testament. We got in his van and drove to a monastery on the south end of the Mt. of Olives, where he got directions. He then drove us to the “Bethany Souvenir Shop,” which is all that is left of Bethany.  Since Bethany was the place of the tomb of Lazarus, it did not make sense.

However, two weeks later, we went on a tour with Dan Rona, a Jewish convert to our church, who was born in Haifa. He is a dear friend, and he took us to the place where it is believed that Lazarus was raised from the dead.  He shared, that because of the miracle, the name of the town went from Bethany to the City of Lazarus. In Arabic is called, Alazaria. So our kind Jewish Professor added Alazaria to his list of known historical special places.

Christ’s Planned Miracle

Indeed, Alazaria is the place where the planned miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead occurred–a city given that name because of that miracle.  It is interesting that the Jews had a tradition that the spirit of a dead person lingered for three days around the body.  The Savior waited four days to raise Lazarus to share the “glory of God” with the world. “Jesus saith unto her [Martha], Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” (John 11:4, 40)

Jesus knew that raising Lazarus from the dead would bring the Pharisees to plan for His death. But He also knew that the outcome would be the “glory of God” as He worked out the perfect and infinite atonement. This would give the world the greatest gift and miracle ever.  His incomprehensible gift would save the world from sin and death by overcoming the spiritual and physical deaths brought about by the fall of Adam and Eve–so that everyone who “believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Furthering the Work

I find it fascinating that Lazarus, Mary, Martha, Mary Magdalene, Jesus’ mother Mary, the blind man, whose name was Maximum, whose healing is shared in Chapter 9 of the gospel of John went to England and established the Church there.  Joseph of Arimathea was their main leader and later was ordained an Apostle. There was a total of twelve of Christ’s followers who went there. They established a Christian missionary effort greater than what is included in the New Testament.

Must Watch Videos

Pastor Andy Stanley, who has an excellent non-denominational Christian ministry shares seven signs from the Gospel of John pointing to who Christ is. The links for each of these seven sermons are below. They are all extremely informative and well done.  Number six is the miracle of the Savior raising Lazarus from the dead–giving one of the seven major signs of His divinity shared by John in his gospel.

1. Momma Says:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBWt2dkSIFM

2. Living as If:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3IFYW4ggU

3. Carry On:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7uyWIC3J5I

4. Lunch and Learn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1QcB50pvpM

5. Open Eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t27SdvAmaLo

6. CoExistence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwUeovDnk0

7. Invitation to Believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuXfB0JusY

David W. Allan  (26 April 2022)

PS I share additional blog articles relevant to this important message FYI

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Passover – Last Supper – Easter

Resurrection – Capstone of the Atonement

The Infinite Atonement of Jesus Christ

Passover – Last Supper – Easter

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The Passover is a type and shadow of Christ’s transcendent infinite atonement.  Easter is the celebration of Christ’s gifts, His atonement, which includes His paramount gift of the resurrection for all,  which brings us back into the presence of God to be judged under His perfect Laws of Justice and Mercy, and the opportunity for a fullness of joy. So the Passover ties into God’s perfect plan of happiness in a fascinating way.

Passover – A Feast to the Lord

The Jewish Seder to commence Passover has been preserved for over 3,400 years to “keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.” “…this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations;” (Exo. 12:14)

I recently watched a Messianic Jewish presentation of the Seder, which means order, and I was greatly impressed with how it ties to the Last Supper of the Savior with His Disciples and to the grand significance of the infinite atonement and Easter.

Viewed through the lens of the restoration of the gospel in both its physical and spiritual significance, the Jewish Seder brings deep meanings to the soul. Properly understood, it is designed to break down the barriers between Jew and Gentile so that we may all be one in Christ—to deliver all who will come to Christ out of slavery like He did ancient Israel and make us totally free—physically and spiritually. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free… If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed”–individually and as a nation. (John 8:32, 36)  You will find the video links below fascinating and inspiring.

Additional Insights

When we realize that the Passover was designed by Jesus, who is Jehovah and our Redeemer, this deepens our understanding and opens up enlightenment as we see how the Lord designed the Passover with eternal significance. Isaiah shares: “all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.” (Isa. 49:26) Jesus knew what He would have to go through to work out the infinite atonement and designed the Seder to commence Passover over 3,400 years ago as a type and shadow of that transcendent infinite atonement. This He did so that both Jew and Gentile would have a deeper appreciation of this most important event in all the history of the earth, as He brought the world His perfect and infinite atonement.

In addition, going back to Genesis 22:8, when read in Hebrew, we find great significance as Abraham answered Isaac’s question, “…where is the lamb?”

“My son, God will provide himself [Jesus as] a lamb for a [final sacrifice] for a burnt offering.”

Some Details of Jewish Seder

We will see the great significance as we look at some of the details of the Jewish Seder. There were ten plagues that the Lord brought upon Egypt, but the first nine were only brought on Egypt and not on the Land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. Only the tenth one with the death of the firstborn would then bring Pharaoh to honor Moses’ demand from the Lord, “Let my people go.”

The Lord designed the Passover so that a lamb without blemish be offered and its blood put upon the “lentil (the top of the door) and on the doorposts so that the destroying angel would pass by.

Jesus is the Lamb of God. So the Passover lamb is symbolic of Jesus and the blood of the lamb on the lentil and the doorposts are symbolic of the blood of Christ and the lintel is like the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

In our Day the “destroying angel” will Pass over Us if:

“And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones; And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures; And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint. And I, the Lord, give unto them a promise, that the destroying angel shall pass by them, as the children of Israel, and not slay them. Amen.” (D&C 89:18-21)
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Validity of Prayer Is Proven by Science

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Is it possible that the validity of prayer and answers to prayer can be proven by science?  Yes, a prayer channel can be opened and is proven through physics.  The “Fifth Dimension” is real.

We know that prayer is the most often repeated commandment in the scriptures. Prayer is our pathway to heaven. I learned some exciting dimensions regarding the physics of how prayer works when we were doing some research in the Unified Field Theory (UFT), which Einstein didn’t finish before he passed over. To keep it simple, Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity are built around four dimensions. We can think of them as longitude, latitude, altitude, and time. In our UFT research, we learned of a new insight in physics—called diallel-field lines—that includes a fifth dimension, which we call the Eternity Domain.

The Eternity-Domain

Unbeknownst to most, we learned that these diallel-field lines permeate the universe. The fascinating thing we have learned from the Lord’s physics is that when we were born as spirit offspring of our Heavenly Parents, we were given a diallel-field-line umbilical cord, as it were, that is always available to us to communicate with our infinitely loving God 24/7! This is so exciting to know that God is always there for us in a way that will be for our eternal best good, and when we have burdens, He will help us carry them (Matt. 11:28-30)

Seven is the Number of Completion or Perfection

Seven is the number of completion or perfection in God’s arithmetic: seven days in the week; seven thousand years to bring the earth to perfection; seven electron shells around the nuclei of all the elements with nominal spherical symmetry, and we learned that there are seven cylindrical shells associated with the diallel-field lines carrying all the energy fields and there are seven energy bands in these diallel-field lines.

These Seven Bands Permeate the Universe

These seven spectral bands with these diallel-field lines permeate the universe. They may be divided up in generic terms as follows:

1. The communication band (TV, radio, satellite, etc.)

2. The molecular band (coming from quantum transitions outside the nucleus); most of the visible light from the sun is in this band.

3. The nuclear band (coming from quantum transitions inside the nucleus) — a nuclear blast is a manifestation of this band.

4. The creation and/or annihilation band (where E = mc2 as matter and light convert with the emission and/or absorption of cosmic rays).

5. This is nominally the gravitational-field band.

6. This is the band used for mind-to-mind, mind-to-plant or animal or another object, mind-to, and from-God (our prayer channel), ESP, etc.; and lastly,

7. This is the band used by our great-loving Creator to bring about the grand harmony we see in the heavens and the Earth. Bands five, six and seven are not limited by space and time and the velocity of light.

Prayer, Our Communication Energy Frequency

So, prayer is our communication energy frequency in band 6. When we pray, we reach into the 5th dimension (Eternity-Domain) which defies time and space. Prayer is our umbilical cord to God. In prayer, science and religion come together. This is why God can hear all prayers at once. God is not restricted by time and space.

Validating  Experiments

I asked the Lord to give me some experiments to share with colleagues and the world to validate this new physics, which is really old physics because it is the Lord’s. He flooded my mind with experiments, and we have done seven to date. These are described in detail on my website www.allanstime.com and in Chapter 21 of my book www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com. One of the simple ones that anyone can do—showing evidence of these diallel-field lines–is why an egg can stand up on its end, experiment.

 The Fifth Dimension

This fifth dimension opens up some extremely important understandings about how the universe works – validating not only the existence of God but also our relationship to God. This new UFT theory has come as a result of opening ourselves up to a very different paradigm – providing harmony between all of the force fields in nature as well as with this new, fifth dimension beyond Einstein’s relativity theory. This new UFT has provided consistencies to heretofore unexplained inconsistencies as well as providing potential solutions to previously unsolvable problems. We feel like our seven experiments are like baby steps into the giant woods of God’s infinitely-extending physics by which, motivated by pure and perfect love, He brings about His work of bringing to pass the immortality and eternal life of His precious sons and daughters, who we are.

God’s Goal

His goal is eternal lives for all who choose to repent and come unto His Beloved Son, who is the way, and the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Because Christ is perfect and worked out a perfect atonement — fulfilling the will of the Father — He can perfect us — in spite of our imperfections. His grace and mercy are offered to all. The only ones excluded from receiving a fullness of joy in His perfect plan in eternal realms of joy are those who choose to not repent and to not come unto Him and to not partake of all that He offers to give. Our choices and desires make all the difference.

Let Us Examine the Hard Question and Give Answers

“Why do people not get answers to prayer?” And give answers to how we can better communicate with God.  He has promised: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matt. 7:7-8) The Savior further admonished, “…ye must watch and pray always, lest ye be tempted by the devil, and ye be led away captive by him.” (3 Nephi 18:15

Some Reasons Why People Don’t Pray

  • Pride: I don’t need the Lord; I can do it; Look at me and what I have accomplished! The opposite of pride is humility: Ps. 34:2, “My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.”
  • Sin: So we don’t feel like praying. He won’t answer me; I am a sinner. God knows, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). “Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.” (D&C 10:5)
  • Ingratitude: Not being grateful for all things — both the good and bad in our lives. “And in nothing doth man offend God,… save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments. (D&C 59:21) One of his commandments is to pray always and to always have a prayer in our hearts. (3 Nephi 20:1)
  • Idolatry: We put other things before God — worshipping the works of men’s hands. We must put God first and know that He hears every sincere prayer. (The solution is keeping the First and Second of the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:3-6)
  •  Selfishness: focus on personal welfare and advantage and disregarding others. The solution is unselfishness. “…he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matt. 10:39) Unselfish service is one of the great rewards of life—to do things altruistically. My websites are altruistic. My goal is to bring people to Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6)
  • Competition: rather than cooperation. (New English Bible Gal. 6:1-5: “Each man should examine his own conduct for himself; then he can measure his achievement by comparing himself with himself and not with anyone else.”)
  • Unrighteous entertainment rather than having wholesome joy in the journey—seeking first His kingdom and His righteousness, then all else will be added. (Matt. 6:33)
  • Resentments: Holding grudges and feeling offended; inability to forgive all. We must forgive all that we may be forgiven of all, “…of you, it is required to forgive all men.” (D&C 64:10) How can we offer a sincere prayer, if we are holding resentments in our hearts?
  • Too Busy: Caught up with life; no time for the Lord to pray and ponder His goodness. Put God first before everything; and the solution, again, is living the first two of the Ten Commandments. (Exo. 20:3-6) The problem is: “They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.” (D&C 1:16)
  • Lack of Faith: Seeing the evil, pain, and suffering. Many doubt that God is there. I have a blog article: https://itsabouttimebook.com/how-to-increase-your-faith-in-god/ and Chapter 2 of my book, www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com explains why there is evil in God’s perfect plan of salvation. It seems a contradiction, but there is a profound explanation.
  • Not Living “The Law of Love:” We ignore the first and great commandment to “Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” (Matt. 23:36-40) Realizing the Savior said that on these two commandments, “hang all the law and the prophets.” Living these two commandments not only opens up our prayer channel to God, if everyone lived these first two great commandments, but it would also remarkably solve all the world’s problems.  How important is that?

The Ideal Channel To Him

So, we have in God’s physics, this ideal prayer channel to Him. And we have experimental evidence of the same. for the existence of a fifth dimension — the Eternity-Domain — the domain where God and His angels do their work — the work of helping us fulfill our life’s missions, our relationship with God can grow and grow and the blessings of life will flow and flow, and eternal life is the promise. Nephi explains it beautifully: (2 Nephi 31:20-21)

“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.

“And now, behold, my beloved brethren, this is the way; and there is none other way nor name given under heaven whereby man can be saved in the kingdom of God. And now, behold, this is the doctrine of Christ, and the only and true doctrine of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, which is one God, without end. Amen.”

Opening our prayer channel brings us into oneness with God, which is eternal life—bringing the greatest happiness in this life and a fullness of joy in the life to come and with our loved ones. (John Chapter 17) We cannot imagine a more perfect plan.

David W. Allan (25 March 2022)

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Saint Patrick’s Day Reflections

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Saint Patrick’s day is celebrated worldwide. However, very few people understand his background let alone the myths which are associated with the holiday. It is an amazing story!

Clarifying Myths About Saint Patrick

Patrick is the most famous person of his age, the real man has been buried in a cloud of myths.

1. Two things that most people think they ‘know’ about Patrick are that he was Irish and Roman Catholic. In truth, he was neither.

2. “He used the shamrock to explain the Trinity.

3. “He was sent to Ireland by the Pope.

4. “He was a wonder-worker who staged miraculous duels with the Druids.”

None of these are true! He was British, and he belonged to the autonomous Celtic church.

Cutting Through All The Myths

The book by David W. Bercot, “Let Me Die In Ireland cuts through all of the myths about Patrick and presents the authentic, stirring account of one of the greatest missionaries who ever lived. His life is a compelling testimony to the incredible power of the gospel when preached and lived by a man of integrity. He gave up a comfortable life as an upper-class citizen of Roman Britain to live in poverty, suffering, and constant danger in Ireland. Forsaking all, he brought Christ’s love to the hated enemies of his own people to the very nation who had once kidnapped and enslaved him. Although ridiculed and rejected by his own people in Britain, Patrick changed the course of an entire nation.”
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Harmful Conspiracies Destroy Faith

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Deceptions or conspiracies are common schemes that can and are destroying faith. Satan uses anyone who will listen to him to distort the truth in order to destroy faith.  He has been successful as the masses are becoming more secular, and the number of atheists and agnostics is growing.  The Savior gave us a gauge, “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:15-20) And the Lord counsels, “Pray always,… that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.” (D&C 10:5) The globalist elite use philanthrope to cover their nefarious and satanic activities and deceptions–like the COVID pandemic. Fortunately, many people are waking up and being watchmen on the tower. It’s About Time!

Churches are Feeling the Effects of Secularism

Secularism is the indifference or rejection of religious considerations.  Christianity is declining as a result of secularism, driven in large measure by the liberalizing of our education system, the globalists taking control of the media and the internet, with their godless promotion of the theory of evolution, which often leads to atheism and the destruction of faith in God. All too often there are wolves among the sheep with people doing deceitful things within the rank and file.

Combating Misleading Information

Our good friend, Jonathan Neville, who is an excellent church historian, has uncovered several such historical deceptions made by past historians of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has several books documenting these. As Jonathan points out, the late Church Historian, Leonard J. Arrington, helped the Church prepare for the internet era, but as James and Hannah Stoddard have shared in their book, “Faith Crisis, Volume 2: Beyond Closed Doors,” they expose distortions made by Arrington that are misleading and destroy faith.

Exposing Conspiratorial Activities

My hope here is to help expose some other of these conspiratorial activities that destroy faith and bring about confusion and contention, and by so doing build faith and harmony. The Savior warned, “And there shall be no… disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine… For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another (3 Nephi 11:28-29).”  If we know the truth then the deception gets exposed and we are freed from the harmful effects. The Savior said, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make your free… If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:32, 36).”

Examples of Conspiratorial Activities that Destroy Faith

  •  The “Big Bang” theory for creation without God.
  • The theory of Organic Evolution and that the Genesis story is a myth.
  • Joseph Smith was not a prophet but a fraud.
  • The Hill Cumorah is in Central America
  • The only solution for the pandemic is vaccination.
  • The green movement needed to save the world.

There are several others, but here I just deal with these to know the truth about them, to build faith, to avoid contention, and to better prepare our hearts for the Lord’s coming.

How do we know the truth for sure?

Three Powerful Rules Regarding Truth Discernment

  1. We only know something is true if God tells us.
  2. We cannot prove a theory true; we don’t know enough. It is a common mistake when people see agreement with a particular theory or hypothesis, they assume it must be true. Data correlation does not provide validation. Only God knows enough to tell us something is true, which goes back to number 1.
  3. A very valuable tool we do have is that we can prove a theory false if we have valid falsification data.  So, we can know for sure something is false.

I apply these three powerful steps to the above-listed conspiratorial activities.

Disproving Conspiratorial Activities

I prepared an article disproving the first four of these conspiratorial activities with the help of Jonathan Neville’s wonderful work.  You can download this article by clicking here.

This article was well received and I was asked to give a presentation about the same at the Book Of Mormon conference.  You can see this presentation by clicking here.

I have several blog articles falsifying the theory that the only solution to the COVID pandemic is vaccination and providing solutions:

Covid Facts and Cures       – Covid-19 Vaccine       –        Misconduct Regarding Covid 19

Why I’m Not Getting the Covid Vaccine        –      There Is Hope Not Fear

Has the conspiratorial nature of the green movement been exposed?  Having been to Russia–before and after the wall came down–I see a very different picture than most over the thirty years I have been there.  I find the following two links interesting regarding the green movement (Russia and Ukraine) and the vaccination, respectively: the green movement and the vaccine.

What everyone should know and share and be practicing is that God made our bodies with an incredible self-healing and built-in immunity system.  This we should feature as the headline in dealing with any health challenge or pandemic.

We know who we can trust, and it is not the government.    Trust in the Lord    –     The King James Bible     

  Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

The conspiratorial activities are destroying faith, and these folks are like wolves in sheep’s clothing—often in our ranks. And the globalist elite are doing everything they can to take away our liberty, to make us slaves, and to depopulate the planet.  Fortunately, we see a lot of people doing a  lot of good things to combat Satan’s nefarious and faith-destroying activities.

The Truth Will Make Us Free

Because of the great importance of this scripture, “The truth will make [us] Free” – John 8: 32 I prepared a talk on the same. We have great promise. “…by the power of the Holy Ghost, ye may know the truth of all things (Moroni 10:5). Always, God is the witness of the truth.

David W Allan

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Boulder County CO – Fire – Memories – Insights

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One of the 991 homes destroyed in the recent Boulder-Marshall fire was the one we built in 1967-8 out in Boulder County on 7225 Empire Dr. Nearly 1,000 Boulder County Colorado residents were driven from their homes last week by this terrifying wildfire that destroyed their homes.  Boulder County was our home for 32 years while I was employed by the US National Bureau of Standards (now NIST).  I was so sad to learn that the home we built there was destroyed as a result of this recent horrific firestorm — we have so many fond memories there.

 Numerous Memories of the Boulder Area

We moved to Boulder in 1960 to do graduate work at the University of Colorado. Boulder is basically where we raised our family until I retired from NIST in 1992.  Just before we moved in 1992, our fourth daughter, Celeste’s and her husband Kevn Lambson celebrated their marriage and had their wedding reception at the home we had built there.  And in 1984, our oldest daughter Shelli married Bruce Owen, and we held their reception there as well. (There are too many other wonderful memories to make an accounting here.)  We moved to Fountain Green, Utah, in 1992, when I retired from the government.

Good Friends in Boulder

I became good friends with three wonderful men: Dr. Grant Athay, who was our first bishop when we moved to Boulder in 1960. Gail Loveless, who sold us two acres of prime land for which we extended the road, Empire Drive, and built there in 1967. And, Mike Crawford, who built his home next door to us to the north, and was one of my counselors in the bishopric. (Both Grant and Gail had already built their homes in the country on Paragon Drive, and were our wonderful neighbors.)
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Christmas News, Ancient & Modern

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“Christmas with the Chosen” was a Global Live Event. I hope many of you were able to enjoy the “Chosen Christmas” which was streamed in a theater near you. We saw it in Ephraim on Saturday, December 11 Dec. ’21. The talented singers were impressive – especially the children’s choir. My daughter, Shelli commented to me, “They must have been from Utah!” I hope that many of you have had the opportunity to view this Christmas special.

Many scenes for “Christmas with the Chosen “were filmed here in Utah. It is fun to think of all those talented people showing up in the little town of Goshen, Utah for filming in the Church’s facility which simulates Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

The people making the CHOSEN series have a talent for what it might have been like, two thousand years ago, which most of you have probably seen in the first two seasons.  I thought the nativity portrayal was excellent.

Other Observations

See additional links:
Having Mary being visited by Mary Magdalene in 48 AD in the Jerusalem area, I believe is not historically accurate, as I share in the following blog articles.
The Drama of Lost Disciples – Importance Of Missing Scripture

False traditions can get in the way of the truth (D&C 93:39); we know Jesus was not born on the 25th of December.  What is the most important common holiday of the year for Arabs, Jews, and Gentiles?

Another Important Christmas Season Event

On the 23rd of December, we know of another very important birth 216 years ago, when Joseph Smith, Jr. was born.  He is the prophet for our day to best prepare us for the coming of the Lord.

“Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. In the short space of twenty years, he has brought forth the Book of Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power of God, and has been the means of publishing it on two continents; has sent the fulness of the everlasting gospel, which it contained, to the four quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and commandments which compose this book of Doctrine and Covenants, and many otherwise documents and instructions for the benefit of the children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter-day Saints, founded a great city, and left fame and name that cannot be slain.”He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people, and like most of the Lord’s anointed in ancient times, has sealed his mission and his works with his own life.”

Present Time Happenings

I just received my complimentary copy of the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), because of my work with the same.  I found it fascinating that they are planning to put up thousands of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites to augment GPS (US), GALILEO (EU), GLONASS (RUSSIA), BEIDOU (CHINA) and provide improved navigation as well as improved communications across the globe.  The magazine’s fascinating front-page title is “ENTER LEO on the GNSS stage.”  The above-mentioned navigation satellites are MEOs orbiting the Earth at about 4.2 Earth radii.  The LEOs orbit at about 0.1 of the radius of the Earth.  Some 200 GEO communication satellites orbit once per day and appear stationary above the equator at about 6.7 earth radii.

When the GEOs were put up, they wanted to use them for worldwide telephone communication, but the 0.3 second or longer round-trip time delay turned out to be a nuisance to the human ear, so they went to under ocean cable to make that delay acceptable.  The LEOs will have only a few thousands of second-time delays, which will make them totally acceptable for worldwide communication.  Adding navigation augmentation to their capability will be an enormous technical enhancement.  With signals available anywhere you go, cell tower signal drops out will disappear – in mountains, in valleys urban canyons, in deserts, and in the wilderness.  Within buildings, distribution will still be a problem, but that is being worked on now.

Privacy issues will be a big concern.  As Chief Justice John Roberts noted that a legitimate, expectation of privacy exists, “Time-stamped data provides an intimate window into a person’s life, revealing not only his particular movements, but through them his familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations.” (p 17 GNSS November/December 2021)

The 5G telecommunications system being rolled out now has some significant health challenges associated with it, and most are ignoring them as if 5G was the best thing since sliced bread!  Now they are designing 6G, as they look to the future.
You can be sure the globalists are right in the middle of all that is going, and unfortunately, they don’t have your best interests at heart:

Who Owns the World? – The Mark of the Beast.

Have No Fear Because God is Near

Trust in the Lord – The Great Division – Americas Great Need To Repent – Harken to My Voice
There is Hope Not Fear  Regarding Covid – Trust In The Lord (King James Bible).

Merry Christmas

David W. Allan

P.S. Here is a YouTube link to “The Making of the Chosen Christmas Special” you may enjoy.

Photo:  CC Pixfuel – Christ is Born

 

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (2021)

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You know the song, “What Can I Give Him…” as we think about the most precious birth in the history of mankind.  I believe it is LOVE!  The Father showed His love by giving us the gift of His Beloved Son, as part of His perfect plan of happiness.  I believe the best way we can show our love is by living and sharing His “Message of Gladness” brought to us by our Savior, who worked out a perfect and infinite atonement as part of Father’s perfect plan.

A Change of Plans

I published my book, www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com in 2014 as my gospel outreach to the world.  I am pleased that now over 93 thousand people visit the book’s website annually, and the number is increasing from over 100 nations.  Over the last year, I have been working on the fourth version of that book up until recently.  Because of wise counsel from my Sweetheart of 62 years and encouragement from our son, Nathan, and daughter, Karie, I changed my mind. “Dad, you need to write another book” was the driving force toward a different path.

After going up on the mountain and praying, I felt the title to be, “Time and Eternity; The End-times Revealed and Beyond.”  I was surprised that “Time and Eternity” had not been taken as a book title.  It is a fun book to write and I am about halfway through – lots of new stuff.  My goal, is, of course, to bring people to Christ, as we anticipate His coming.
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Following Australia is Hell!

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WAKE UP, Americans!

You may not know that the globalists have taken over Australia bringing about horrific tyranny and control of the populace.  Unless you already know, you will be appalled when you see what they are doing.  URGENTLY Americans need to know that the globalists are planning to do the same seditious-controlling activities in the US of A – taking away more of our freedoms and liberty, and killing us with the COVID planned pandemic and its vaccines.  There are videos linked at the bottom of the page you should watch, which will be very helpful as solutions — moving you out of fear and into faith, hope, peace of mind and love.

If you think the same tyranny that is taking place in Australia can’t happen here in the United States, you are mistaken.  It is already in process!

What Can We Do About It?

As my wife shares, “When you are RIGHT with the LORD, you are RIGHT.”  Then you need not fear the pandemic or anything Satan throws at you.  “Perfect love casteth out fear.” (1 John 4:18)

Most are worried, “Will the pandemic ever end?”  Using fear tactics, that is exactly what the globalists want you to think, as they move to take control of our lives.  The patriots think about getting the government back to US Constitutional principles.  Christians think about getting rid of the moral corruption in our government leadership and in the world.  As individuals, we tend to think about how we can save ourselves and our families. “Thinking” about the solution is different than “Doing Something About It.”

The answer begins with us individually FIRST.

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Another Missing Christian Teaching

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A Vital Missing Christian Teaching was Removed During the Dark Ages.

The greatest of all the gifts of God is eternal life (D&C 14:7), and Jesus said in his last great High Priest’s prayer, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Hence, the most important Missing Christian Teaching is to help you and me come to know the Father and the Son. (John 17:3)  The Creeds have destroyed that knowing.  We need to know the true nature of God – His character and attributes and emulate them.  Did you know that Heavenly Father in His infinite love and ability to do so gave each of us a mission for our mortal journey during that pre-mortal epoch?  Then following the Spirit and exercising true faith will take us back home to receive all the glorious promises offered in Eternal Life — life with God, life like God, which promises are not known in most Christian religions.

In 1990, I participated in a comparative religion debate at the University of Colorado.  Each person was given seven minutes to share their religious beliefs.  We had a Jewish Rabbi, a Catholic Priest, two different Protestant ministers, a leader from the Baháʼí Faith – headquartered in Haifa, Israel, and we had an atheist.  I was then serving in the Denver Mission Presidency and was asked to represent our church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I was able to share our beliefs including the Fatherhood of God.  It was a most interesting evening, and went on for three and a half hours!  I made friends and had good visits with the Rabbi and the Priest afterward — wonderful gentlemen.

The Priest said to me, “May I ask you a question?”  I, of course, said, “Please.”

“Do I understand you correctly, that you believe you can become a god?” He quarried.

I responded with a question, “Did Jesus say to be perfect like our Heavenly Father is perfect?”

He responded, with an enlightened emphasis, “I never thought of that scripture in that way!”

Most of us are our own worst enemies regarding our true potential.  We need to believe as the scriptures tell us that we are “children of God,” (Romans 8:16) and Their “offspring.” (Acts 17:26-29)

Knowing that the students would not be able to remember what I shared in a seven-minute summary of our religious beliefs, I prepared a handout for them. There are some fascinating information and statistics in the handout.  Since then, I have updated the information, and it is available in the link listed at the end of this article.
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