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Whom Can We Trust?

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We live in the information age and artificial intelligence (AI). AI seems to be taking over the world. For instance, they have now made robots with an IQ of 1,500. However, robots have no conscience. The global elite want to take over our free will and take control of us. Then “Whom can we trust?”

I have blog articles related to this question: 1. In Whom Do You Trust? 
2. Trust in the Lord: King James Bible. 3. The Glory of God is Intelligence. 4. Revelation Needed to Thrive. 5. A very important article: Artificial Intelligence (AL) is Destroying Liberty. “As for me and my house, we will [trust in and] serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15) And, we will not trust in the “arm of flesh.” (2 Nephi 4:24; 2nd Nephi 28:31; D&C 1:10)

Our Intelligence is Co-Eternal with God

Most don’t know that our intelligence is co-eternal with God’s (D&C 93:29).  Individual sovereignty is an eternal God-given gift. How we use our intelligence makes all the difference in our eternal destiny. Our infinitely loving God is perfectly just and perfectly merciful and honors the desires of our hearts. In our premortal epoch, our infinitely loving Heavenly Parents gave us a spirit body for our intelligence. As the Apostle Paul declared on Mar’s Hill, “We are the offspring of God.” (Acts 17:28-29) In that birthing process our intelligence coupled to our spirit mind.

Then, our earthly parents gave us our physical body. Our intelligence and spirit mind were downloaded into our brain at our birth. In Divine design, our intelligence and our mind are capable of coupling into the Eternity-Domain, if we chose to use our intelligence to do so. The Eternity-Domain is not limited by time and space, as we are here in mortality. This is where God and His angels do their work of helping to bring the pass the immorality and eternal life of each of us as we chose to follow our Savior Jesus the Christ. (Moses 1:39) He is the way and the truth and the life and no one comes unto the Father except by Him (John 14:6). But He always respects our intelligence and right to chose–our agency. (D&C 93:29-34) Those who chose to not follow the light of Christ will find themselves under “condemnation.”

How to not be Deceived.

My joke about the internet is that if you are careful, you can find some truths there. We have the Lord’s extremely important promise: “And whoso 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) The Lord shares that in the mouth of two or three witnesses is His word established (2 Corinthians 13:1). This important statement is repeated two more times in the JS New Testament: (JS Matt. 24:31 and JS Mark 13:26).

The Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is the only book that we know of that has been translated by the “gift and power of God.” This we know because God’s voice spoke this to the three witnesses: Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer, and Martin Harris. When the Lord asks us to treasure “up my word,” Christ is the Word, and His words are truth. (John 1:1) The Holy Ghost speaks the words of Christ (2 Nephi 32:2-5). “And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.” (Moroni 10:5) This scripture is an incredibly important promise the Lord has given us through the Prophet Moroni.

We have no Accurate Bible Translation.

The some 450 translations of the Bible into English have the bias of the translators and the transcribers. The same is true for the Bible in all other languages. I have a chapter in my new book, My Revelations, discussing serious omissions and distortions in the King James Version of the Bible, which many believe is our best English translation. Clearly, personal revelation is vital in our path to a fullness of joy and Eternal life.

Search These Things

Jesus told the Nephites, “And now, behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, 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)

Years ago, I had a life-changing event because of this scripture. The Spirit whispered to me to “search these things.” Avraham Gileadi’s book, “The Apocalyptic Book of Isaiah”, had just been published (1982), and it was a Godsend for me to better understand this pivotal book, which the Lord has asked us “to search.”

Avraham’s conversion story is most inspiring. After spending five years in Israel, he encountered the Book of Mormon. That changed his life and he joined the Church. He has become he world’s best expert on the Book of Isaiah. The late Hugh Nibley said of him, “Dr. Gileadi has done the work from which all of us have shied for too long. Because of the great mass and charge of this largest book in the Bible, the formidable difficulty of its Hebrew, and the seemingly involved, repetitious and often perplexing nature of its material, no one  has had the heart to attack the whole boo thoroughly. The author has met the challenge head-on, and after years of determined exertion is now so thoroughly familiar with the book that he can set before us in straightforward, uncomplicated form a clear exposition of what is is all about.”

Avraham has said that the Book of Mormon is the best commentary on the Book of Isaiah. I am so glad to have him as a personal friend. We have copies of our books. He has written several, and I think I have most of them.

As I have shared in my book, “My Revelations“, Chapter 19 is about “Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David.” I am extremely grateful that Dr. Gileadi permitted me to publish his work on the Book of Isaiah about the “Lord’s latter-day Servant.” It is so incredibly relevant to the Second Coming of our Lord. One can get his books from www.IsaiahInstitute.com.His contributions to sacred literature are enormous.

The Annotated Book of Isaiah

In regard to the Book of Isaiah, David Hocking has also published “The Annotated Edition of THE BOOK OF ISAIAH”. David Hocking had Dr. Gileadi review his book and received Avraham’s approval. Also, David’s Annotated Edition of THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES, the JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION is another great contribution to helping us have God’s word through the inspiration of a modern prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr.  David Hocking has seven annotated editions of sacred scriptures. They are sold by BookofMormonEvidence.org, by my publisher digitalegend.com and on David’s website: THE ANNOTATED SCRIPTUAL BOOKS | BeaconLight Books LLC.

Gethsemane

The Savior suffered more in Gethsemane than He did from the horrible humiliation and beyond human comprehension His treatment from the Jews and the Romans. As I did the research on the SCIENCE AND THE SHROUD OF TURIN MIRACLE, for my blog article I was again brought to tears.

I was invited by the Israelis to help them with their official atomic clock timekeeping system. We made four trips to Israel for that work. The first thing I did when we went there in 1987 was to go the Garden of Gethsemane. I learned that the word “Gethsemane” is of Hebrew origin, derived from the phrase גַּת שְׁמָנִי (Gat Shemani), which means “oil press” or “press of oil.”

גַּת (gat) means “press,” typically referring to a place where olives are crushed to extract oil.
שְׁמָנִי (shemani) means “oil” or “oily.” How apropos is this name for where the Savior completed the first step in His infinite atonement.

Gethsemane is located at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, where Jesus prayed and experienced suffering so great for the sins of all of Father’s children that he sweated great drops of blood. The name symbolically evokes the process of pressing or crushing, which parallels the emotional and spiritual anguish Jesus went through that Wednesday night just before he was crucified.

Every time I listen to Reese Oliveira sing “Gethsemane“, it makes me weep as I think about what Jesus went through there three times, alone bleeding from every pore for my sins and for all the sins of all of Heavenly Father’s children: “He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth;” (D&C 88:6) The infinite atonement took Him from the deepest depths of despair to the greatest heights of ecstasy with His glorious resurrection, which is the capstone to the infinite atonement.

His Church

After the Lord established His church again on the earth on the 6th of April 1830, the Lord later declared that he had given Joseph Smith the: “…power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out of obscurity and out of darkness, the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased, speaking unto the church collectively and not individually—”

But, then the Lord said less than a year later, “And whoso receiveth not my voice is not acquainted with my voice, and is not of me. And by this you may know the righteous from the wicked, and that the whole world groaneth under sin and darkness even now. And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received—Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation. And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all. And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I have written—” (D&C 84:52-57)

Satin’s Last Hour

Satan, knowing it is his last hour, is doing everything he can to stop the work of God. Moroni clearly saw our serious problems in the last days and gave us significant warning about the “secret combinations” that would be amongst us (Ether 8:22-260). 

Secret combinations have infiltrated all nations and churches. “Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not. But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing. 

And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts. For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.”

“O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world? Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?” 

“Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads? Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you, and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer.” (Mormon 8:35-41”)

The Solution

“Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I AM, whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins; Who will gather his people even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice and humble themselves before me, and call upon me in mighty prayer.” (D&C 29:1-2) 

“Look to God and live” the abundant life He has promised. (Alma 37:47; John 10:10)

David W. Allan

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My Revelations

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Personal revelation can come to each individual in different ways. The Lord wants you to hear Him. He is so gracious as to honor how each individual hears His voice. Some receive immediate answers. Others receive answers when studying scripture. For me, I hear His voice in my mind. How do you receive God’s voice?

On New Year’s Day (2025) I asked the Lord what I could do this year to help with His work. The answer came, “Write another book.” So, I have written a new book and the title is: “My Revelations.” This is the preliminary cover that my good friend, Michael Claridge prepared for me. In other words, the book contains those things the Lord has taught me during my 88 years on this planet that He wants me to share with others.

Hopefully, the information will help others to know of the Lord’s infinite love for them. And, that these insights from Him, given to me, will help them find joy, hope, and greater purpose during their mortal journey. Most importantly the promises of Eternal Life and learning to love like He loves us are worth every effort.  He gave me 25 chapters highlighting the most exciting and useful things He has taught me and wants me to share.  This new book will be available at the Book of Mormon Evidence Conference this April 17th, 18th, and 19th. BookofMormonEvidence.org

The Infinite Atonement

The infinite atonement of our Lord and Savior is the most important event in world history. It is never mentioned in the Bible. But because of its central importance, Satan has masked people’s understanding throughout the world and even in Christianity. The Book of Mormon gives major insights into the infinite atonement.

Chapters 1 and 2 document this most important and crucial event in world history, the infinite atonement. We cannot comprehend this incomprehensible blessing to humankind, but here I have shared some very important dimensions of the infinite atonement.

The Book of Mormon beautifully teaches the infinite atonement, but it is never mentioned in the Bible. I was taught there are seven steps to the infinite atonement:

1) His incomprehensible suffering in Gethsemane where He alone suffered for our sins. Jesus fell on His face and prayed in agony—suffering so greatly that His brow was bathed with blood from the pain. There is a soul-touching hymn called Gethsemane, which I cannot listen to without weeping: Bing Videos. And the children’s choir at the LDS 2025 fall conference.

2) He was taken before the Sanhedrin and rejected by His own people (Israel). There they ripped out His beard.

3) He was taken before the Romans (the Gentiles), and scourged beyond belief with 120 places where His flesh was ripped over His entire body. They placed on Him a mocking crown of thorns, “Hail to the king.”

4) Five nails held Him to the cross: two in his wrists, two in His hands, and one through His feet. He had to stand on that nail in His feet to breathe. Then to relieve the agonizing pain there, He would hang from His wrists, where the nails had been driven through the meridian nerve. 

For three hours He wreathed in pain and suffered beyond our compression for our sins, pains, sorrows, and sufferings because of His infinite love for each of us. Now we have scientific evidence of what happened that Thursday in Jerusalem with the Shroud of Turin  Miracle.

5) He was not killed by the Jews or the Romans. Only after His infinite suffering for three hours was complete did He say, “It is finished.” “Into Thy hands, I commend my Spirit.” He told the Jews, “Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” (John 10:17-18)

6) While His body lay in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb for three days, He organized missionary work in the spirit world. The spirits were anxiously awaiting this great event. There are about eight times more people in the spirit world than there are here on earth. “For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.” Peter 4:6)

His visit to paradise is an extremely important part of the infinite atonement, and it is left out of the thinking of all Christians.

7) His glorious resurrection is the capstone to the infinite atonement. The importance of this final step, as part of the infinite atonement, is also missed by most Christians. “He that ascended up on high, also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth;” (D&C 88:8)

I have described these seven steps in detail in three blog articles, and I have found seven sub-steps to each of them: The Infinite Atonement of Jesus Christ and The Perfect Infinite Atonement.

Book Of Mormon Prophets

When the Book of Mormon prophets taught the gospel, they shared the creation, the fall, and the atonement. God’s love motivates true prophets to follow a divine pattern when sharing the gospel. They teach “The Three Pillars of Eternity”—the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. This pattern appears throughout the Book of Mormon.

Unfortunately, “Organic Evolution” has spread through our education system and society, leading many to become atheists. As a result, they miss the Love of God at the center of all and cannot see the divine pattern and fundamental pillars: the Creation, the Fall, and the Atonement. Lacking inner sight prevents them from seeing and feeling the most significant “love story” ever told. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

The Fall vs. Darwinism

If there is no God, Adam and Eve, or the Fall of mankind, there is no love story. There is no need for a Savior and His infinite Atonement from a perfect God, to overcome the effects of the Fall. So we see that teaching that man came from apes, or “organic evolution,” is anti-Christ.

The Fall brought both spiritual and physical death into the world. The infinite Atonement perfectly overcame the effects of the physical death in that because of Christ’s resurrection, everyone will be resurrected, while still having the experiences of mortality. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:20-22)

Because of Christ and our right to choose (our personal free agency), God has opened a way for us to overcome the effects of the spiritual death brought about by the Fall of Adam and Eve, by coming unto Christ. As we have faith in Him and repent, He opens the door for us to be completely clean before the Lord and to receive Eternal life and fullness of joy. This we are privileged to do while growing from life’s experiences. (D&C 122:7)

The Bible shares the fundamental message of the Fall of mankind, but most scientists reject the Bible story.  It is no coincidence that Darwin was born in the same decade as Joseph Smith.  Satan, who is in direct rebellion with God, needed a counter-attack on the fundamental Book of Mormon message: A book that has the power to bring the whole world to God’s love through understanding the Messiah and gives undeniable evidence of the validity of the Adam and Eve story in the Bible, and the purpose of life on this earth.

Evolution

Darwin’s unproven theory of evolution influenced John Wesley Powell, who created the devastating “Manifest Destiny.”  This declaration gave the British and later the American Colonists the awful “permission” to treat the Native Americans as “savages.” They reasoned, citing Darwin that the native peoples weren’t as “evolved” as the folks from Europe and succinctly took away the Native American’s lands, culture, and dignity! Before Darwin died, he admitted he had propagated a false theory.

But Engels and Marx, believing in Powell, gave us communism and socialism, which have destroyed many cultures and nations and have led massive amounts of people away from God. My good friend, Steve Smoot, documents this: Organic Evolution.

Satan, God’s enemy, never sleeps and now knows it is his last hour. He uses socialism and organic evolution as two of his primary tools to blind people’s minds today. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:14). Satan knows these philosophies are deeply destructive to souls and counter the truth of our eternal nature. Moses testifies of the nature of God and man when he communed with God face to face; “Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty, and Endless is my name; for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not this endless? …And by the word of my power, have I created them, which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth; and the first man of all men have I called Adam.” (Moses 1:34)

Chapters 3-4 show God’s fingerprint when bringing forth the scriptures. 

Chapter 5 will touch your heart to the core as I recount the “Power of Prayer” saving our granddaughter, Mary Owen, who spent six days and six nights on Mt. Hood in March of 2013 and miraculously survived with minimum side effects.

Chapter 6 shares that the Lord is the Master Mathematician. Chapter 7 shares the uniqueness of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doing missionary work on both sides of the veil. Chapter 8 There is no better place to inculcate the gospel of love than in the home. Chapter 9 shares the usefulness of the “null hypothesis” in our search for the TRUTHs of God. The message of Chapter 10 is LOVE IS THE FIRST LAW OF HEAVEN.

Chapter 11 Despite the imperfections of translators and transcribers of the scriptures, we can know and see the manifestation of the Lord’s love in His holy word. Chapter 12 shares the great importance, and warning, of artificial intelligence in these last days. Chapter 13. We have scientific proof that the Shroud of Turin covered the Lord’s tortured body: SCIENCE AND THE SHROUD OF TURIN MIRACLE.

Everyone should get the book because of the information in this chapter. Many atheists and agnostics have turned to the Messiah as they have encountered this miracle. It is the most studied artifact in world history, and I explain how this miracle came about, as the Savior performed it when He was resurrected. Scientists know the Shroud is a miracle, but they don’t know how it came about. It is the most studied artifact in history. You can see pictures of the Shroud and modern technologies ability to share images of our Savior in my blog article. The blood stains on the Shroud tell an amazing amount of the story of what really happened to our Savior on that Thursday in Jerusalem.

Chapter 14 shares the significance of the three occurrences of the “Son of Righteousness” phrase unique to the Book of Mormon. Further, the Book of Mormon geography’s importance and American’s need to repent is shared in Chapters 15 & 16. Glottology gives us great insights in these chapters. Languages are what they are and studying them opens the windows of heaven in our understanding of God’s dealings with His children.

Chapter 17 It is exciting to know that new scriptures are coming forth and will tell the end from the beginning.

Chapter 18 explains why the coming purge is necessary, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ( 2 Chronicles 14:7).

Chapter 19 describes the importance of the two Hebrew servants to come before the Coming of the Messiah. In Hebrew tradition, Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David are to precede the coming of the Messiah. Our good friend and Jewish convert, Avraham Gileadi, has kindly let me share his information about the “End Time Servant.”

Chapter 20 shares how our perfect God honors our desires. Chapter 21 shares the exciting news that the ideal society, ZION, is coming and how we can be part of it. Chapter 22 shares the incredible loving attributes of our infinitely loving Elohim and our grand opportunity of being ONE with Them.

Chapter 23 is my fun health story about overcoming heart angina problems. 

Chapter 24 shares the incredible blessings that have come into my life as viewed now and from my teenage years.

Chapter 25 summarizes. Writing this book has been a joyful experience. Learning God’s truths is one of the greatest joys of my life.

I am deeply grateful to our second daughter, Karie, for her invaluable editing work; I convinced her to be a co-author because of all the work she has done for the book. Then there is my beloved wife of 66 years, Edna Love Ramsay Allan. Her support and edits have always been useful and insightful. She is my eternal sweetheart. My good friend, Michael Claridge, kindly did the book cover shown above.

David W. Allan

Photo:  David W. Allan

Why Is there Pain And Suffering In The World?

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Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world, if we have an infinitely loving God? We can best understand this question when we look at the grand plan of our infinitely loving Heavenly Father. His course is “one eternal round.” (1 Nephi 10:19; Alma 7:20; 37:12; D&C 3:2; 35:1

My Journey

My life journey has been very dynamic, and I have learned some extremely important lessons on the way. Religion was not important to me while growing up, but I have always believed in God. In my teenage years, I had three special experiences that touched my soul.

I was not taught to pray or to read the scriptures. I don’t even remember a Bible or a Book of Mormon in the house. I read the book about the Bobbsey Twins.

One time I felt to pray and ask forgiveness for my sins. A wonderful peaceful spirit washed over me, and I felt truly forgiven. Another time I climbed Maple Mountain to commune with God up on Monument Peak. I felt His sweet Spirit there as well. When I had my bicycle accident and received a priesthood blessing and saw it manifest, that warmed my heart.

Going to Church

As a priest, I started going to priesthood meetings. When the Bishop asked me to give a talk, I was stumped and had no clue how to do it. When I stood up to talk at a fireside at my Uncle Leo and Aunt Nena Harmer’s, I felt totally unprepared, but the Spirit opened my mouth and words came out.  I came to know the reality of the Holy Ghost giving utterance.

I have already shared my experience with how the Lord helped me with my master’s thesis. But a few years later, just after I was asked to serve as Stake President, the bureau gives their senior scientists free physical exams. The doctor found an enlarged prostate. I called John Linford, who was a counselor to me, and asked if he would give me a blessing. He did, and it worked. THANK YOU LORD.

It Changed the World

Then in 1980, things were going poorly at the bureau with Division leadership management issues. I was thinking seriously about looking for another job. At that same time, they approached me and asked me to lead the time and frequency dissemination research group with three new people. At the same time, I was in charge of the atomic clock timekeeping group, which they wanted me to keep doing. Double the workload with no extra compensation. My first thoughts were, “Thanks, but no thanks.”

Then I felt to ask the Lord. He gave me a download of experiments that I could do. One of them was to develop a GPS Common-view time-transfer special receiver. We did and it changed the world.

I shared the idea with NASA/JPL, who badly needed it for precisely timing their tracking of deep space vehicles like Voyager 2, which is still sending signals back.
NASA is still receiving signals from Voyager 2. As of February 2025, Voyager 2 is more than 14 billion miles (about 23 billion kilometers) away from Earth and continues to send data back, albeit at a very low rate. It is currently in interstellar space, far beyond the influence of our Sun’s gravity.

Due to its extreme distance, the signal from Voyager 2 takes over 18 hours to reach Earth, which means NASA has to wait that long for any communication. The spacecraft is still operating with limited power and its instruments are being turned off periodically to conserve energy. But it’s remarkable that it’s still functional and providing valuable data after more than 47 years in space!

The signal is expected to continue for a few more years, but the spacecraft’s power supply will eventually run out in the next couple of years. JPL gave us, the bureau, a quarter of a million dollars to develop that receiver to help track their spacecraft. The international timing community picked up on it in a major way, and I put one at Arecibo Observatory for doing millisecond pulsar timing. I was made chairman of a “Millisecond pulsar sub-committee” for the International Astronomical Union, as a result of my findings—discovering PSR B1937+21 to be binary and using the Allan variance showed that the electron content along the signal path is a random walk process. It takes about 12 thousand years for the signal to reach the Earth.

Stress Is A Killer

Over the years, I have learned that stress is a killer. Sunday evening, 31 July 2016, I was conversing with Sterling. He knows how to push my buttons, and I had a horrible night. I woke up the next morning with a heart attack. That Tuesday, I went through quadruple bypass surgery.

I asked for a priesthood blessing at the hospital in Nephi, before they took me by ambulance to Utah Valley Hospital. I felt as calm as could be about what would happen. I had a great visit with the person attending me in the back of the ambulance—sharing all kinds of fun information, while they were driving 90 mph to get there as fast as possible.
That fall, I was invited to receive the highest award given by the IEEE/UFFC community, in New Orleans at the annual International Frequency Control Symposium, and they also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of my master’s thesis. I was there with my Sweetheart.

Ingor Blinov is the same gentleman who gave me the award in Suzdal, Russia, in 2014.
They also asked me to chair a session, specifically about the Allan variance and its usefulness.

They also shared a special periodical publication written by 16 different people across the globe sharing the usefulness of the Allan variance. It was a very enjoyable time. IT’S ABOUT TIME. We sold a ton of books while there. I am still learning how to deal with the killer stress.

Believe in Miracles

In 2018, I was notified that I had received the coveted Keithley Award and received $10k, which I gave to the Church. I was invited to give a talk in Houston at an international metrology conference. My talk was to be given Wednesday morning the 18th of April. That Monday morning while walking out to the truck to drive to the airport in SLC, I dropped my keys. Fortunately, Natalie Wright was there, and she asked, ”Are you all right?” I was suffering from a stroke. She called Kevin, and he came over. With his training, he immediately recognized the systems of a stroke and suggested we call the ambulance. He then asked if I wanted a priesthood blessing. I, of course, said yes. After the blessing, I said, I’m okay. I am going to Houston.

I drove to the airport and flew on to Houston, but I could definitely tell something was not right. That evening, I walked to a restaurant for dinner about a half mile. On the way back my one leg was acting funny. When I got back to the hotel. I couldn’t speak. I went to the concierge, and he could tell I was having another stroke. They immediately called an ambulance. The hospital in Houston was first class. When the therapist checked me in the morning, she asked me to share all the words I could starting with F. I said, “Frog.” And I was done. I had had another stroke that morning, as I was talking some earlier that morning.

Karie, bless her heart, flew down. The people at the conference and at the hotel were most understanding and kind. Nathan called the local bishop and asked if someone could go and give me a priesthood blessing. That afternoon, the Elders showed up and gave me a precious blessing. We let the conference people know I would be there for my talk. The hotel gave Karie a free room.

The next morning to an international audience I said, “I don’t know how many of you believe in miracles, but we just had one.” And I explained my situation. I gave an hour and ten-minute talk—sharing my work. Karie made tons of friends, and we sold two cases of books. AGAIN, THANK YOU, LORD.

I had another stroke a few years ago while riding my bike. I was on my way home, and road  my bike off into the weeds and fell over. Bodie Wright was across the street and immediately came over to help me get back up. Again, with another priesthood blessing, I am on my way and riding my bike nearly every day now.

Why So Much Pain and Suffering

Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world, if we have an infinitely loving God? Why did His Son have to suffer more than was humanly possible, as He brought about the infinite atonement? We have the Apostle John’s profound and most popular Christian statement, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)
But that statement begs the question. We can best understand and answer these questions and why the purging is necessary before Christ comes again when we look at the grand plan of our infinitely loving Heavenly Father. His course is “one eternal round.” (1 Nephi 10:19; Alma 7:20; 37:12; D&C 3:2; 35:

Plan of Happiness

His perfect plan of happiness is a grand chiasmus, as with the figure at the top: A-B-C-B’-A’. A, the Earth was created nigh unto Kolob; B, then came the “Garden of Eden” for Adam and Eve; C, then the Fall of Adam and Eve brought us to where we are now; B’, then the Earth moves to its millennial epoch; A’, finally, the Savior presents to the Father His kingdom into Celestial realms of glory. So “one eternal round” is celestial, terrestrial, celestial, terrestrial, and celestial, as shown in the depiction.

Similarly, we can think of three kinds of people: celestial, terrestrial, and telestial. The celestial folks are motivated by the pure love of Christ. The terrestrial people are the good and honorable motivated out of duty. The telestial are worldly and selfish, and allow Satan and his angels to motivate their doings. They are often lustful as well and pornography often entraps them.

As a praying physicist, I have given you proof that the Book of Mormon is the word of God in many ways. I am pleased that LDS Living picked up on this insight. But as we look directly at the history of how the first 5,000 copies came to be typed set and printed, we see the hand of the Lord. It was done in the Lord’s compressed timeframe of six months, when it has been shown that it should have taken at least 17 ½ months.

The Lords Fingerprint

I have also given you proof of the Lord’s fingerprint in all of our scriptures with the 1,800 phrases tying back to the language of Adam.  Knowing these things, we learn from Lehi, as he blesses his son Jacob, “For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must need to be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must need to remain as dead, having no life neither death nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.” (2 Nephi 2:11)

We also know as righteous King Benjamin stated just before he died, “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.” (Mosiah 3:19)

Why God Allows Evil

In dealing with this very difficult question, “Why would a God who is good create evil? I pull from my first book, It’s About Time:

2.3 Why Does God—Who Is Good—Create Evil? From Isaiah:

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.” — Isaiah 45:7

How and why does the Lord create evil or allow it? Why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? The great thinkers of the ages have never come up with the answers to these
questions. C. S. Lewis, after going through his own apostasy from Christianity, may have come the closest—becoming one of Christianity’s most avid advocates. During his
teenage and apostate years, he felt that the strongest force for atheism was expressed in a poem by Lucretius:
Had God designed the world, it would not be
A world so frail and faulty as we see.
Lucr. 5.198-199)

After J. R. R. Tolkien and others of his friends persuaded Lewis to deeply consider Christianity, it turned his life around. As he considered Christ, Lewis concluded that “only two of this man are possible. Either He was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, or else He was, and is, precisely what He said. There is no middle way.”20

After gaining his deep appreciation for Christianity, regarding evil, pain, and suffering that comes with life, Lewis poignantly states that if you “try to exclude the possibility of suffering the order of nature and the existence of free will involve,. . . you find that you have excluded life itself.”

Great Thinkers

Albert Schweitzer—considered by some to be the greatest humanitarian and one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century—was a devout student of the teachings of Jesus. He mastered philosophy, music, theology, and medicine, and became the world’s authority on Bach’s timeless organ music, and he also could build an organ. His great intellect and all his learning led him to what he called “Reverence for Life,” which included all life. He built a hospital in Africa to relieve suffering there and had great success in doing so. He dealt with both world wars and wrote much about the wars. From 1945 to 1950,  Schweitzer was considered the greatest man in the world.

He won the Nobel Peace Prize. He had then and still has a great influence on philosophy and thinking in the world. In all of his eighty years of learning, Dr. Schweitzer could not answer the “great question: What is the meaning of evil in the world?” And “in what way is our existence transitory and yet eternal?”   He left these questions unanswered, but because he knew of God’s love he focused his life on loving by relieving the sufferings of others.

Herman Melville had similar questions, “How can a God that is good create evil?” He wrote his classic book Moby-Dick; trying to deal with this question. In the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám—this great Persian thinker, Omar Khayyám—struggled with such questions and after listening to the world’s philosophers discuss these questions, he said, ”I went out by the same door wherein I went.”23

The questions remained unanswered.

20) C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, pp 13-14
21) C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, pp 13-14
22) Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought
23) The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Joseph Smith (1805-1834) with only a third-grade education was taught by God, as part of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Joseph was raised up as a prophet of God to restore the following truths that had been lost during the dark ages. The following Truths were revealed to him, as a modern prophet, in answer to the following challenging questions:

Who Are We?

Where did we come from?
What is our purpose in life?
Where do we go after death?
Why does God allow evil in the world?

None of the great thinkers, including Lewis, give in-depth answers to these questions, which are gloriously now available to us through the restoration of these truths through the Prophet Joseph Smith. depth answers to these questions, which are gloriously now available to us through the 
restoration of these truths through the Prophet Joseph Smith.  This latter-day restoration is called the Last dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the dispensation of the fullness of times.

The Apostle Paul spoke of it, “That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:” (Ephesians 1:10)

The Apostle Paul spoke of it, “That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth; even in him” (Ephesians 1:10)

Agency

Agency led to the fall of Adam and Eve and thence to life’s challenges, including sin, pain, and suffering. Ironically, the fall is a major and necessary step in the Father’s perfect plan of happiness. After the fall, Eve was glad and in rejoicing responded:  “Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.” (Moses 5:11)

Their fall opened the door for Father’s spirit offspring, which includes everyone who has lived or will live on the Earth, to gain a physical body and life experiences.
The Apostle Paul so aptly said that “…the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”26

The evil in the world has led many to doubt God’s existence; it is one of those doctrines not understood or appreciated by the natural man or woman, as mentioned by Paul. Even though this doctrine has been brought into light and understanding through the restoration of the fullness of the gospel, much of it is taught in the Bible.  Another of the grand ironies of the universe—perfectly exemplified by our Savior—is that when people surrender their will to the will of the Father, then they can be totally free. As our Redeemer so succinctly said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:36)
24) John 8:32
25) John 14:6
26) 1 Cor. 2:14

Reasons for Challenges

Neal A. Maxwell (1926-2004) was one of the recent modern apostles in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which church was restored through the instrumentality of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Church was organized with twelve apostles, as it was in the meridian of time. Maxwell profoundly commented that there are three reasons for life’s challenges: (1) a natural consequence of mortality; (2) the sins or mistakes people make; and, (3) those trials have been given by a loving Lord for our growth and benefit, from my notes from a General Conference talk.

It may seem odd to thank the Lord for the chastisements and challenges in addition to our uncountable blessings, but they all have a divine purpose. When difficult times come, they will ask the Lord what lessons He wants us to learn, because these experiences are always for eternal good if viewed through divine eyes, as hard as some of them may seem.
44) John 8:32, 36
45) 1 Kings 19:12; 1 Nephi 17:45
46) 2 Nephi 32:2-5; Moroni 7:27-32; Moses 1:39
47)  Doctrine and Covenants 121:45-46
48) 2 Nephi 2:8, 26-27
49) Matt. 11:28-30

The Millennium

In my second book, Time & Eternity, the End-Times & Beyond Revealed, I share the important truth that all who accept Christ and live His teachings will make it into the Millennium regardless of religion. Everyone is born with the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil. (John 1:9) By following our conscience to do good, everyone is given the opportunity in this life to accept Jesus whether they are Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, agnostic, atheist,

Following His light leads us there. “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

Then the Apostle Peter gives this great warning: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” (Acts 3:19-23

When Moroni first appeared to Joseph Smith, he offered a similar warning: “He quoted also the third chapter of Acts, twenty-second and twenty-third verses, precisely as they stand in our New Testament. He said that that prophet was Christ; but the day had not yet come when ‘they who would not hear his voice should be cut off from among the people,’ but soon would come.” (JS-H 40)

Nephi, in sharing about our day and time, makes it very clear: “And the Lord will surely prepare a way for his people, unto the fulfilling of the words of Moses, which he spake, saying: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, like unto me; Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that all those who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people. And now I, Nephi, declare unto you, that this prophet of whom Moses spake was the Holy One of Israel; wherefore, he shall execute judgment in righteousness.” (1 Nephi 22:20-21)

So we see that the purging ahead is because all those telestial-minded people have chosen to reject  Christ and His teachings. In due process, they will be “cut off” from among the people before His Second Coming. In the perfect fairness of God, after suffering for their sins for a thousand years, they will be allowed to come to Christ. And most of them will and gratefully so—knowing that the telestial kingdom is a degree of glory greater than we can comprehend. “And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory is that of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of the glory of the moon in the firmament. These are they who received not the gospel of Christ, nor the testimony of Jesus. And thus we saw, in the heavenly vision, the glory of the telestial, which surpasses all understanding;” (D&C 76:81, 82, 89)

Perfect Plan of Happiness

In the Lord’s perfect plan of happiness, He honors the desires of our hearts. Alma says it well: “I ought not to harrow up in my desires the firm decree of a just God, for I know that he granteth unto men according to their desire, whether it be unto death or unto life; yea, I know that he allotteth unto men, yea, decreeth unto them decrees which are unalterable, according to their wills, whether they be unto salvation or unto destruction. Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all men; he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good and evil, to him it is given according to his desires, whether he desireth good or evil, life or death, joy or remorse of conscience. 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 29:4, 5, 8)

In the perfect fairness of our infinitely loving God, everyone will see that the purging ahead was not only needed but will rejoice in the blessings of the infinite atonement:

God will force no one to Heaven; to do so it would not be Heaven.

David W. Allan (10 February 2025)

Photo: David W. Allan

The Greatest United States Presidents

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Everyone will have their own opinion on who the greatest United States Presidents are.  I choose my list from a restored gospel perspective.

1. George Washington – 1789–1797) The Commanding General for the Revolutionary War—acknowledging that we won because of “Divine intervention” and being our first President of this free nation where the fullness of the gospel was to be restored.

2. Thomas Jefferson – (1801–1809) He recognized the great apostasy from the original teachings of Christ. I have a copy of his “The Jefferson Bible.” He also anticipated the restoration and doubled the size of our country.

3. Abraham Lincoln – (1861–1865) because he freed the slaves and ended the Civil War—motivated as he read the Book of Mormon.

4. Theodore Roosevelt – (1901–1909) because he gave us our national parks, and the Panama Canal, and improved our international relationships.

5. Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) He stopped WWII, which opened up the gospel being taught in Japan

6. John F. Kennedy (1961–1963) because he stood up against the New World order, as Moroni said we should (Ether 8:23-26), and it cost him his life.

7. Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) He stopped the “Cold War” which opened up the way for the gospel to be taught in Russia. The recent movie, REAGAN, is well done.

8.  Donald John Trump (2017- 2021) A highlight from his first term in office is that he helped fulfill a prophecy to make Jerusalem the Capital of Israel—moving it from Tel Aviv.

9. Donald John Trump (2025 – 2029 The rest of this article is about what I believe will happen during his second term in office.

Christ-Centered

I watched the whole Trump inauguration ceremony. It was God and Christ-centered, which was awesome. The prayers, the music, and the President’s speech were most hopeful and inspiring. “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me…”

Trump’s Outstanding Team

Trump has surrounded himself with an outstanding team. To name a few:

Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy Jr: – He has a game plan to make America healthy again. He made an enormous and prayerful decision to not run for president himself and join the Trump camp. Despite great opposition, I believe he will succeed and add great momentum to Trump’s presidency. Everyone who knows Bobby loves Bobby. He is a great soul.

Elon Musk: How can you lose when that creative mind is working for you? He will be part of the much-needed government efficiency program.

Vivek Ramaswamy: He understands the value of our founding documents, and will contribute greatly to Trump’s presidency. He has an amazing track record. https://itsabouttimebook.com/who-is-vivek-ramaswamy/

Trump’s Promises

I believe that Trump will keep his promises made during his inauguration speech. I believe he will help bring an end to the war in Ukraine and stop the fighting between Israel and the Hamas.

I believe he will get the Panama Canal back, and bring industry back to the states. I believe he will move us toward energy independence, which is a big deal. CHATGPT.COM described the highlights of his speech quite well.

“Donald Trump’s inauguration address, delivered on January 20, 2017, outlined several key promises and themes. The main highlights of his speech included:

1.  “America First” Agenda: Trump emphasized putting the interests of American citizens first, focusing on prioritizing U.S. workers and industries over foreign interests. This became a central theme throughout his presidency.

2.  “Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Jobs: He promised to bring jobs back to America, particularly manufacturing jobs that have been lost to overseas markets. He spoke of reversing trade deals that he believed had hurt American workers.

3.  “Nationalism and Patriotism: Trump called for a renewed sense of national pride and unity. He declared that the power of government would be returned to the people, reflecting a populist, anti-establishment sentiment.

4.  “Economic Growth: The speech outlined plans to strengthen the economy by reducing taxes, deregulating industries, and improving infrastructure, particularly through public-private partnerships.

5.  “Law and Order: Trump emphasized the need to restore safety and security, especially concerning crime and violence. He promised to protect communities and ensure that law enforcement would have the necessary support.

6.  “America’s Global Standing: Trump also made it clear that he would take a tough stance in international relations, with a promise to defend U.S. interests abroad and negotiate more favorable deals with other countries.

7. “Rejection of Political Corruption: He made it clear that his administration would work against what he described as a corrupt political system, which was seen as a major part of his appeal to voters who were frustrated with the status quo.

8. “Patriotism and Unity: He urged Americans to come together, despite political divides, and unite behind the shared goal of making the country great again.
His speech was often described as blunt and direct, with a focus on stirring national pride and promoting a vision of national renewal.

“His speech was often described as blunt and direct, with a focus on stirring national pride and promoting a vision of national renewal.”

God-Centered

For me, it was the God-centered aspect of the whole inauguration program including his speech. I loved when he said, “There are only two genders, male and female!”
I am impressed with Rabbi Jonathan Cahn’s prophecy about President Trump; this four-minute video is inspiring and filled with hope.

Someone who reads lips saw Obama saying to those around him during the President’s inauguration speech: “How can we stop this?” Clearly, the new world order and the global elite want to stop Trump.

However, we know who is at the helm, and God’s purposes will be fulfilled. Christ is Coming, and a ZION people will meet Him. It is an exciting time to be alive. We live in the best time in the history of the Earth. And the best thing we can do is align our lives with God’s purposes. “In God we trust.” The prophecies tell us that the conspirators fighting against the work of God will dig a pit, and then fall into it themselves. We live in the great and dreadful day of the Lord. A great day for the righteous, and a dreadful day for the wicked, who fight against ZION. May we look to God and live the abundant life Jesus promised? (Alma 37:47; John 10:10)

David W. Allan (24 January 2025)
Photo: Trump’s official photo,
taken by the  White House
photographer Daniel Torok

Pray For Liberty

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America is at a crossroads. Join me in prayer for our liberty. With the inauguration of President Trump on the 20th of January 2025, know that the global elite have high-tech plans to disrupt America’s God-given right to LIBERTY. Please join me in praying for liberty and for Satan’s plans to be thwarted.

James 1:25 states: “ But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” We need God’s blessings more than ever at this challenging time. The global elite are not only planning to disrupt, but also to take away or liberty.

We The People

If “We The People” of this “Land of the free hope to perpetuate and protect our liberty, we all need to turn to the God of this land, who is Jesus Christ. My good friend, Jim Noorlander, has helped me to understand the grand importance of liberty.

Many believe that liberty and freedom are the same; they are not. I will explain. Many say that our founding documents do not address moral law or the gospel of Jesus Christ. John Adams said, “Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people.”

Noah Webster is the founding father of American Scholarship and Education, and the author of the famous 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language. He proclaimed that “the principles of republican government have their origin in the Scriptures. God’s word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.”

 Apostle Paul’s Statement

We have the Apostle Paul’s clarion statement, “… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Corinthians 3:17) We see this same message integrated into our founding documents. As we declared our independence from Great Britain, our founders said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These rights entitle us, as a nation, to the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle us.

The perfect law of liberty under Nature’s God, as defined above in the Scriptures, is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Inspired by the Scriptures our founders wrote our famous Declaration of Independence and our Constitution and its preamble; the preamble reads: “We the People of the United States, to… secure the Blessings of Liberty… establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

In other words, to secure the blessings of liberty under Nature’s God (Jesus Christ), the Constitution was established so that the perfect law of liberty (the gospel of Jesus Christ) could be had among the people in this free and independent nation. Profoundly, there is no coercion. Moral agency is paramount in Heavenly Father’s perfect plan of happiness and in the abundant life promised by Jesus Christ. (John 10:10)

Can We Qualify For Liberty?

As inferred from our founding documents and the Scriptures, we qualify for the blessings of liberty and our rights from our Creator (Jesus Christ) as we:
1. Keep the Commandments: (Deut. 7:14) .
2. Ask for His guidance in humility; and (2 Chron. 7:14) “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
3. Strive to do His will. (John 7:17; Hebrews 13:21)
4. And Keep the most important of the commandments, to love God and our neighbor as ourselves. (Matt. 22:37-40)

Noah Webster said that he sought to build an education system embodying “a love of virtue, patriotism, and religion [meaning the Bible].” Specifically, he stated, “…the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed… No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”

As Jim Noorlander pointed out to me, we are the only nation proclaiming that our liberties and our rights are granted to us by our Creator (Nature’s God), which is the Lord Jesus Christ. How important then it is to learn about the religion of our Creator, which is Christianity as taught by the Savior in the New Testament. (John 1:1-14). This is the religion of our founders.

Others Have Spoken

George Washington
There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.

Ulysses S. Grant

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties; write its precepts on your heart and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book, we are indebted for the progress made, and to this, we look as our guide in the future.


Woodrow Wilson

“The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by the practices which spring out of that spirit.”


Two Kinds of Freedom

The false is the freedom to “do our own thing” – to follow the natural man. The Apostle Paul says clearly that the “natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:14) Paul further relates that those following this false freedom path are the unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexuals), thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners, liars, etc. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11)

The truth is the freedom to choose to live our lives consistent with the perfect law of liberty – the Gospel of Jesus Christ – to follow our conscience, which will lead us to Christ, who will help us to overcome the Fall (the natural man), and to “walk in newness of life… through Jesus Christ our Lord.” This freedom (choice) through Christ leads to the greatest joy in this life and a fullness of joy in the life to come. This comes as we (by personal choice) “yield [ourselves to] God.” (Rom. 6:1-13; John 15:11; 16:20-24)

Furthermore, as my good friend, Jim, points out the following very important principle: “We never use [true] freedom to destroy liberty.” If as a nation, we turn from the God of this Land (Jesus Christ), how can we expect the perpetuation of our rights (of life, of liberty, of the pursuit of happiness, and of privately protected property with an adequate defense system – designed to protect the people of this free land.

America’s Crossroads

Thus we see why we are at a crossroads in America. We can choose Christ and enjoy the protection of our rights along with the fruits of the Spirit (peace, love, joy, etc. Galatians 5:22-25) amid the storms and challenges of life. Or, we can choose otherwise and be destroyed with Babylon the Great, which will surely fall (Revelations 17: & 18:).

We are approaching a time of great purging and preparing of a pure people (a true Zion society motivated by the pure love of Christ) to be part of the Bride to meet the Bridegroom at His glorious coming – the Great Day of the Lord. This is the most exciting and opportune time in the history of the earth. Let us choose Him, and He will teach us to love as He loves (even our enemies) and gain a fullness of joy and the greatest of all the gifts of God – Eternal Life. Look to God and live the abundant life He has promised here and hereafter. (John chapters 10 and 14 through 17)

Jesus said, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36) – free individually from sin and free as a nation as we worship Christ as the King of Heaven. Through Christ, we were given this land of the free that the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the perfect law of liberty, may be shared among the people of this great nation. And that furthermore, it may be shared with all the inhabitants of the earth (see Isaiah 2: & 11: and Matt. 28:19-20 & Mark 16:15-16).

Living The Gospel

Living the gospel of Jesus Christ means learning how to love as He loves as we exercise faith in Him and His teachings, to repent of all our sins, and to forgive all that we may be forgiven of all.  As we are filled with His love, we will want to share His love. As the gospel goes to the world and they learn that “God so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16) they will sing praises of rejoicing as they also learn that Jesus set the perfect example of love and service before us, and that He is “the way, the truth, and the life…” (John 14:6) In Him is the greatest of joy in this life and a fullness of joy in the world to come. (Psalms 16:11)

The pains that John the Revelator saw that the world would endure, as the wicked destroy the wicked and the Lord brings forth the “man child” called Zion, will be the worst this world has ever seen, but with that birth, we will know not only that it was worth it, but will see the wisdom of the Lord in bringing forth the most glorious era ever (His millennial reign). We will feel to praise Him and to thank Him forever for it. (Rev.12:1-12)

Now Is The Time

Now is the time to hearken to the voice of the Son of God and to stand for and pray for the perfect law of liberty as was originally protected and projected by the sacred documents prepared by our founding fathers. The fullness of the gospel (the good news of Christ’s infinite redemptive powers) is at the heart of it all. Let us help all who will to come to know Him and our Holy Father, who is ever there to hear and answer our prayers. He and Jesus love us with an infinite love. Their promise is sure, that “The Righteous [are] lifted up” at His Coming.

Again, please join me in praying for liberty that this “land of the free” may continue and that Satan’s high-tech plans may be thwarted. They will use fear—worse than with COVID-19. We have a God of peace, love, and joy. And pray that this great gospel of liberty may be shared everywhere.

David W. Allan (6 January 2025)
Photo: Pixabay

Most Important Holiday

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What is the most important holiday of the year for Arabs, Jews, and Gentiles? Is it Christmas, Passover, Easter, or the Muslim “Feast of the Sacrifice? We find some interesting answers. Traditions often lead us down strange roads – very different from the reason they were started.  Such is the case with these major holidays.

This Pictorial from Ancient American Tradition gives us the Truth about the date of Christmas.

I will explain later in the context of this article the fascinating information depicted here. It depicts the moon rise at the time of the Savior’s birth. FASCINATING INFORMATION. I will explain that later as well.

Where are we today with Christmas?

Christmas has become highly commercialized and is the biggest money-making season for many businesses. Today, Christmas is way overdone from the original intent. Nowadays commercialization starts well before Thanksgiving. However, on the positive side, many are turned to Christ, His birth, and the love that surrounded His life – causing many to unselfishly give of their means and their time to bless the lives of others. The beautiful Christmas music is inspiring to the soul.

Christmas or Easter

Which is the more important holiday to celebrate, Christmas or Easter? If we ask the question of most Christians, considering the money expended and the time and focus spent, it clearly indicates Christians have lost focus. It is the infinite atonement that opens the door to the greatest of all the gifts of God, the gift of Eternal Life. The Easter season should be our most important time of reflection, celebration, and commemoration so that the Lord would know the feelings of our hearts and our deep feelings of gratitude for this most important event in the history of the Earth.

Interesting

Question

It is interesting to ask the question, “Why did the Lord Jehovah specifically take Abraham from Hebron a three days journey all the way to Mt. Moriah? Here we have another cornerstone message to all who will heed. He led Abraham to Mount Moriah for a type and shadow sacrificial offering – the same Mount where Jehovah knew that He, himself, would be sacrificed. For we read that the Father “so loved the world that He gave His Only Begotten Son” (John 3:16). We give gifts at Christmas. The most important gift ever given is the gift of His Son. Father’s gift of His Son provided the infinite and eternal atonement – the most important work ever to be performed on the face of this Earth.

Both the Father and the Son knew that this was necessary for us to return to the Father through our Faith in His Son and our repentance so that we may receive fully the grace extended by Him. The Father allowed the suffering of His Beloved Son because of His love for us, and the Savior was held to the cross, not by nails, but by love. He could have come down had He chosen to do so – knowing that if He chose to come down, we could not return to the Father. His love for us held Him there.

We cannot comprehend His infinite suffering for us. I just watched a documentary on the “Shroud of Turin” that  touches you to the core about what Christ went through.

Abraham’s Offering is Type and Shadow

Abraham’s willingness to offer his “only” son is a type and shadow of the infinite atonement for us all. It is interesting that the word “love” in the Bible first occurs, as the Lord shares with the world this monumental event. This type and shadow is especially poignant for the descendants of Abraham who are Arab, Jewish, and Christian. For Abraham was told, “God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering…” (Gen. 22:8) In the Hebrew, this verse indicates that Jehovah will give himself, the final and great sacrifice.

Important Celebrations

Intriguingly, Muslims, Christians, and Jews all had very important celebrations at the same time of year when Abraham made his famous three day heart-wrenching journey to Mt. Moriah. We saw this specifically among our Muslim friends, while we were serving a mission in West Africa. They celebrate Eid Al-Adha, which means, “The Feast of the Sacrifice” and commemorates Abraham’s willingness to be obedient and sacrifice his son Ishmael to God. In God’s mercy,  the Lord provided a LAMB and saved Ishmael. The Muslims replace Isaac with Ishmael, because the descend from Ishmael.

The Jews’ Passover commemorates their “deliverance” from Egypt. The Lord caused the exodus from Egypt to happen at the same time of year as He would work out the infinite atonement. Thus, as a Jew ponders the Passover, they are led to look to their ultimate “deliverance” through the atonement of Jesus Christ. There are now over 350,000 Messianic Jews, and the number is increasing rapidly.

Many of the Jews converted to Christianity still celebrate the Passover for they can see that it points to Christ. Though most Jews and Muslims unknowingly commemorate the atonement in their celebrations, if they seek, they will find through the eye of faith that grand connection – leading them to Christ.

Christian Tradition

The tradition of celebrating Christmas on December 25th has been shown to not be a valid date for the birth of Christ.  Christmas is celebrated on December 25 in most Western Christian churches (Protestantism and Roman Catholicism). However, the Eastern Orthodox churches have not accepted either the Gregorian calendar or the Revised Julian Calendar reforms. They celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. A few Christian churches, most notably the Jehovah’s Witnesses, view Christmas as a pagan holiday and do not celebrate it. And their research is valid.

The True date of the Birth of Christ

Jesus’ true birth date was known by the North American Natives. Near Newark, Ohio, they constructed earthworks mapping out the plan of salvation. The date of the Savior’s birth was revealed to them. They made these earthworks to show the world the date of the Savior’s birth. And they knew the moon would be lined up with the 51.8 degree divine ratio at that great celebrated moment of his birth. This alignment depicts the great octagon connecting a perfect sphere. The great octagon depicts the millennium and the sphere depicts the celestial kingdom. The Savior’s birth opens the door for everyone who will come unto Him to enjoy Eternal Life. They knew His birth would be on the 6th of April, and this lunar alignment occurred at that time.

Most scholars believe that the birth of Jesus was probably in the spring and is highly unlikely to have fallen in deep winter. Originally, the Christmas date was set to correspond with Greco-Roman festivals. As early as A.D. 354, the Birth of Christ was celebrated on Dec. 25th in Rome. Other cities had other traditional dates. The word “Christmas” is often abbreviated to “Xmas”, the “X” being an uppercase Greek letter chi, which is the first letter of “Christos” in Greek. The abbreviation is widely known, but not universally accepted and some view it as demeaning to the name of Christ

Dates Given by Revelation

Interestingly, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been given by revelation that the birth date of the Savior is 6 April (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 20). To commemorate this date, in 1830 the Church was organized by Joseph Smith
In the Book of Mormon, the Christians in America were given a sign of His birth. They also saw the new star and began the dating of their calendar with the birth of Christ. They were also given to know of the crucifixion and resurrection. The Book of Mormon calendar properly ties together the Savior’s birth and His infinite atonement.

“And there was also a great and terrible tempest; and there was terrible thunder, insomuch that it did shake the whole earth as if it was about to divide asunder. And there were exceedingly sharp lightnings, such as never had been known in all the land. …the whole face of the land was changed, because of the tempest and the whirlwinds, and the thunderings and the lightning, and the exceedingly great quaking of the whole earth; And the highways were broken up, and the level roads were spoiled, and many smooth places became rough. …And behold, the rocks were rent in twain; they were broken up upon the face of the whole earth, insomuch that they were found in broken fragments, and in seams and in cracks, upon all the face of the land. And it came to pass that when the thunderings, and the lightning, and the storm, and the tempest, and the quakings of the earth did cease—for behold, they did last for about the space of three hours;… —and then behold, there was darkness upon the face of the land. And it came to pass that there was thick darkness upon all the face of the land, insomuch that the inhabitants thereof who had not fallen could feel the vapor of darkness; And there could be no light, because of the darkness, neither candles, neither torches; neither could there be fire kindled with their fine and exceedingly dry wood, so that there could not be any light at all; And there was not any light seen, neither fire, nor glimmer, neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, for so great were the mists of darkness which were upon the face of the land. And it came to pass that it did last for the space of three days that there was no light seen; and there was great mourning and howling and weeping among all the people continually; yea, great were the groanings of the people, because of the darkness and the great destruction which had come upon them.” (3 Nephi 8:6-23)
The three days of darkness are still remembered among some of the American Indians, and caused them “… to exclaim: “The God of nature suffers.” (1 Nephi 19:12)

The Savior’s glorious resurrection was most dramatically manifest to those, who were more righteous and who remained after these destructions, by His visit to them. He showed them the marks of the nails on his hands, wrists, and feet. Their calendar gives the date of His crucifixion as being 33 years and four days after his birth. (3 Nephi 8:5).

Marvelous Work and Wonder

Chapter 29 of Isaiah tells of “voices” from the dust sharing a “marvelous work and a wonder. The Book of Mormon beautifully tells of the Savior’s visit to North America and the enormous impact it had on society at that time. There are many Hebrew relics that have been found in North America bearing witness to this monumental event. (I did a podcast with Brian Nettles and Michael Claridge describing the infinite atonement on one of these stones.) https://itsabouttimebook.com/two-hundred-names-for-jesus/ .

So, from the above information, we see that the Savior’s birth, the Jewish Passover, the Muslim’s “Feast of the Sacrifice,” and the infinite and eternal atonement are all concurrent dates of the year (within a week or so), and needs to be our greatest celebration.
What a unifying thing it would be if Muslims, Jews, and Christians would come together in the realization that they are all celebrating the same thing. The Atonement of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the most important event in the history of the earth, for all of Heavenly Father’s children.

It is my prayer, that all faiths, cultures, and races will unite in the spirit of love. It would honor the life and death of Him who gave all that we may receive all, even a fullness of joy in the mansions of the Father. May we forgive as He forgave. May we love as He loves. And, that our repentance be complete so we may receive fully of the infinite grace extended by Him.

Starting with Gethsemane and ending with His glorious resurrection, He completed the seven steps to His infinite atonement.  He was held to the cross by love, and because of Him we now partake of His loving embrace and partake of His grace. The fullness of His gospel offers eternal life and a fullness of joy, and we look forward to a glorious resurrection. For me we should celebrate Him continually and especially celebrate Easter, when He overcame all things.

David W. Allan
Photo: John Lefgren

PS His suffering in Gethsemane was greater than what the Jews and Romans put Him through with His trial and crucifixion. Dr. John Campbell shares incredible insights about this in his video about the “Shroud of Turin.”

Ye Shall Know The Truth

Spirituality

To know the TRUTH amid all the falsehoods is extremely important today. This famous statement by our Savior gives us hope amidst the storms and challenges of life: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) 

He promises, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (verse 36) In my search for TRUTH, I have three criteria:

1) If God says it, I know it; His WORD is either from His sacred writings or from personal revelation—it is the same. He is the WORD. (John 1:1)
2) We cannot prove a theory or hypothesis true; we don’t know enough. Only God knows enough. People often make the mistake that if something agrees with their paradigm then that provides validation. IT DOES NOT! Correlation does not provide validation.
3) But, if I have reliable data, I can prove a theory or hypothesis false. This is very powerful—allowing us to move away from what is false to what is true. The “null hypothesis” is very useful in this regard.
A simple definition of which is that if I cannot find anything false about a theory or hypothesis, then it may be true.
I find it fascinating that Moroni uses the null hypothesis in his closing chapter in the Book of Mormon. My good friend, Joseph Papenfuss, pointed this out to me.

1. Now I, Moroni, write somewhat as seemeth me good; and I write unto my brethren, the Lamanites; [The Lamanites had destroyed his nation, the Nephites, and were the enemies of righteousness. Moroni had been alone for thirty-six years since the Nephite nation was destroyed in that great battle at the Hill Cumorah.]
2.  And I seal up these records after I have spoken a few words by way of exhortation unto you.
3.  Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. Moroni had read the Jaredite record, which tells the end from the beginning as was received by revelation by the Brother of Jared. Moroni is asking us to “remember” the massive effort to bring forth God’s word from Adam down to our time. Can you imagine the massive effort to make plates, to scribe on those plates, to protect them and preserve them over the millennia? Also, Moroni had labored alone to make a repository room for all of the records they had kept over the centuries. This repository was in the Hill Cumorah—indeed, a massive effort all by itself.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; Here Moroni uses the null hypothesis profoundly.

In other words, if you cannot prove the Book of Mormon to be false, then you can move on to having the Holy Ghost witness to you that it is true. Many millions of people have received that sure witness and know that it is true. The Lord only asked, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” (1 Corinthians 13:1) We have millions of witnesses that this promise from the Lord is true. The Book of Mormon was translated once by the “gift and power of God.” No other record—including the Bible–holds that claim. It has been with us for nearly two hundred years, and many a critic has gone after it, but the “null hypothesis” has shown them that it cannot be proven false. Some claim plagiarism, but Jonathan Neville in his book, Infinite Goodness, has proven that claim false.

Then Moroni goes on to share, “…and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.”
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things. Once people come to know by the power of the Holy Ghost, then they know for sure. As Chief Midegah told us one time, for him the Book of Mormon is not about faith; it is fact. It is a major part of the history of his people—“of the great Peacemaker,” who walked the Americas as a resurrected being. As He told the Jews, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” (John 10:16; 3 Nephi 15:13-17)

Bringing People To Christ

Per capita, the Book of Mormon has brought more people to Christ of those who have read it than any other book including the Bible. I share in this article several links that I have written giving both scientific validation of the Book of Mormon and of all our scriptures, as well as many other infallible evidences, spiritually, historically, and from glottology. Languages don’t lie; they are what they are within every culture.

For example, Mormon and Moroni wrote in “Reformed Egyptian,” that they lived nearly a thousand years after Lehi left Jerusalem in 600 B.C. At that time, as Brian Nettles shares, Nephi wrote in demonic and heretic Egyptian. This is illustrated by characters copied by John Whitmer, who was one of the scribes for Joseph Smith in Fayette, NY, where Joseph translated the small plates taken from the repository for the first part of the Book of Mormon (First Nephi through Omni). Brian has developed the gift of translating these ancient records. I have a picture of these characters that John Whitmer copied and translation insights that Brian has gained from them in the article: Ancient Hebrews in Ancient America.

The Hill Shim and Two sets of plates

Jonathan Neville also documents the two sets of plates for the Book of Mormon. The small plates were translated in Fayette, NY, and were the unabridged record from 600 B.C. to about 100 B.C. They weighed about 30 lbs and the eight witnesses handled them. The Large plates contained Mormon and Moroni’s abridged records of he Nephites and Jaredites and weighed about 60 lbs. The three witnesses were shown them by Moroni and they heard the voice of the Lord telling them that they had been translated by the “gift and power of God.”

After Joseph translated from the large plates, a messenger took them back to the repository in the Hill Cumorah. Then the small plates from that same repository were delivered to Joseph to translate in Fayette, NY.

Later, the Lord instructed Joseph to take all those records and put them in the nearby Hill Shim. Those trusted souls who helped him bear record of this and that no one is to know that location. They will come forth in the due time of the Lord.

Russell Burrows’ Unique Stones

Duane Erickson drove down to our place in Fountain Green from Evanston, WY, to let me borrow a stone that Russell Burrows had given him. Russell had found the stone in a cave in the heartland of America–depicting the Christ in North America. When he learned that I was going to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2015, he wanted me to take it so that I might share with my colleagues there that the resurrected Christ had been in North America. I did and they were touched by the knowing.

I showed Brian this stone, and he was able to translate the characters on the right side of the image of Christ that I had wondered about for years. “He is risen to purify us.” I was so happy to get his translation. It made total sense. I was able to read the mystic symbol, (Jehovah and the five nails of the crucifixion) at the top and “Son of my Right Hand” at the bottom of the stone or Son of Righteousness. The phrase, “Son of Righteousness” is used uniquely three times in the Book of Mormon.

Voices From The Dust

Isaiah shares about voices from the dust in our day. (Isa. 29:4) I believe these stones are part of these prophesied manifestations along with the plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. Russell Burrows gave a different stone to Wayne May that he had found in the same cave. Wayne sent me a picture and a copy of it. It depicts the Savior’s atonement in amazing detail. It shows the hole in the wrist. It denotes the three days in the tomb while the Savior’s spirit was three days in paradise. I did a blog article and a podcast with Brian Nettles and Michael Claridge about this amazing voice from the Dust Stone: Two Hundred Names for Jesus.

Glottology, the history or science of language, is a powerful tool in ascertaining truth. I share here the fascinating story of Professor Felix Mynhardt—who was a gifted linguist at Pretoria University. He knew over 60 languages. His father was the Reverend C. F. Mynhardt, who compiled the first concordance of the Afrikaans Bible. Professor Mynhardt was asked to translate the Book of Mormon into Afrikaans, and he declined, as a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. That evening when he was praying, the Spirit convicted him. He had been asking the Lord for an opportunity to use his special linguistic gifts. The Lord had given him the Book of Mormon to translate into Afrikaans, and he had declined. After a sleepless night, he called the mission President, Harlon Clark, and said he would do it.

As was his style, he went to the middle of the Book of Mormon, knowing that typically authors stabilize in their writing. He immediately recognized that it had been translated from another language. Over some months, he deduced that it had been translated from ancient Egyptian with Hebrew nouns added. His goal was to translate difficult passages back into the original language and then into Afrikaans to give more accuracy.

He shared his experience at a meeting in Johannesburg on May 14, 1972, when the Afrikaans Boek van Mormon was introduced to the South African Saints, it was a happy and, at the same time, an emotion-packed, spiritual experience for those in attendance. A missionary who attended the landmark event said that “to sit in that meeting and observe the rapt attention and subsequent tears in the eyes of the audience when the first few pages of Die Boek van Mormon were read aloud was one of the greatest spiritual experiences of my mission.”

Mynhardt stated, “Imagine my utter astonishment when… I came to verse two, where Nephi describes that he was writing in the language of the Egyptians, with the learning of the Jews!  I knew by the second verse, that this was no ordinary book, that it was not the writings of Joseph Smith, but that it was of ancient origin. I could have saved myself months of work if I had just begun at the beginning. Nobody but God, working through a prophet of God, in this case, Nephi, would have included a statement of the language he was writing in. Consider, how many documents are written in English, including the phrase, “I am writing in English!” It is unthinkable and absolute proof of the inspired origins of this book.

Mynhardt said that he was perhaps the only person, at that time in South Africa, who had the language skills necessary to make the Afrikaans translation, using as he did, ancient Egyptian, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and English. He had this to say about Joseph Smith:

“I do not know what Joseph Smith was before he translated this book, and I do not know what he was afterward, but while he translated this book, he was a prophet of God! I know he was a prophet! I testify to you that he was a prophet while he brought forth this book! He could have been nothing else! No person in 1827 could have done what he did. The science did not exist. The knowledge of ancient Egyptians did not exist. The knowledge of these ancient times and ancient Peoples did not exist. The Book of Mormon is scripture. I hope you realize this… I declare that the Book of Mormon is of ancient origin, and is scripture of the same caliber as the Old Testament, or for that matter, the New Testament”.

Book of Mormon validates the Bible

A recent survey showed that 93% of the leading American scientists disbelieve the Bible. Joseph in Egypt and Nephi both prophesied that this would happen. (2 Nephi 3:11; 1 Nephi 13:38-41) And they further stated that one of the reasons for the Book of Mormon coming forth to this Gentile nation was to validate the Bible.

Chapter 3 of my first book, It’s About Time, and this blog article help to provide that historical and glottology evidence. I am pleased that LDS Living picked up on this as well.

Looking Forward to The Brass Plates and Other Records

Now we are looking forward to the Brass Plates, which have a sacred history all the way back to the Garden of Eden, and which the prophets in the Book of Mormon quote from. We have the full record of the Jaredite nation over their nearly 1,700 years of history, which are in the sealed portion of the large plates. The unsealed portion was what Joseph used to translate with the Urim and Thummim the Book of Mosiah through Moroni in the last part of the Book of Mormon. Also in the sealed portion is the revelation that Nephi received that is equivalent to John the Beloved’s Book of Revelations. All of these are yet to be translated; and what an incredible blessing these records will be—revealing the end from the beginning and knowing how the earth was created in the first place.

But first, the Gentiles need to repent and receive the Book of Mormon and have faith like the Brother of Jared before these will be revealed. (Ether 4; and D&C 84:54-59) Let us pray for that great day and live our lives in preparation for ZION and to receive these records and the Lord at His Glorious Coming.

David W. Allan

Political, Historical, Communication Insights

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We live in the information age with global communication capability. I believe the Lord helped to bring this about so that His glorious gospel could be shared with the world’s people.

He orchestrates and communicates from the Kingdom of Heaven. We need God’s Wisdom and perspective to sort out all the information that comes our way. My joke about the internet is there is a lot of information there, and some of it is true! I do my best to see through God’s eyes regarding the information age, politics, history, and our incredible ability to communicate globally.

Gospel Outreach

The internet has become a great gospel outreach tool, and it also helps tremendously in genealogy research. Souls are the most important to the Lord and on both sides of the veil. Christians typically try to save souls on this side of the veil, but the Lord reaches out on both sides of the veil.  “For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.” (1 Peter 4:6)

Only God knows the end from the beginning, respecting our free choice, He wants us all to return to Him. He is not limited by time and space as we mortals are. Elohim and the angels of heaven orchestrate from the Eternity Domain, which I share experimentally in chapters 21 and 22 of my first book, It’s About Time, and in chapters 1 and 2 of Time & Eternity, the End-Times & Beyond Revealed.

When Vinney Tolman died in 2003 and his spirit went into the Eternity Domain, his great-great-grandfather taught him ten remarkable celestial principles, as he ascended toward the Light of Christ, Light after Death, which are relevant to this blog article. One of the Lord’s communication channels with you is with this “inner voice,” as is explained in this remarkable book and is orchestrated from the Eternity Domain:

1. Be authentic.

2. Understand the purpose of life.

3. Love everyone.

4. Listen to your inner voice. (Moroni 7:29-31)

5. Use technology responsibly.

6. Release prejudice.

7. Exercise the power of creation.
8. Avoid negative influences.

9. Understand the purpose of evil.

10. Know that we are all one.

Perfect Organization

The Eternity Domain, and the Kingdom of Heaven, are perfectly organized. There are about eight times more people in the spirit world than here on Earth. And twice as many of them are on the Lord’s errands in saving souls. Respecting or agency (free choice), they help Elohim do God’s work, “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life” of God’s children. (Moses 1:39) It is a perfect plan amidst all our imperfections, because of God’s infinite love for us.

Satan’s secular and materialistic influence has greatly distorted the worldview of most regarding the worth of souls. The global elite, motivated by Satan, often use the world’s massive communication capability to distort God’s TRUTH, the worth of souls, and individual sovereignty. They want to reduce the world population and take control of the masses. In contrast, the Lord told His disciples, “Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.” (John 15:8) Let us do our part in helping  Elohim bring souls to Christ on both sides of the veil.

In contrast to the global elite’s agenda, progeny is very important to the Lord. This is explained well by Professor Hugh Nibley as part of a two-hour lecture explaining the most unusual scripture in all of Holy Writ: Acts 1:3.

The Book that has influenced the world for good more than any other

The King James Version of the Bible (KJB) has influenced more people for good in the world than any other book. It was published in 1611 — over 400 years ago.  In addition, there are more copies of it published than any other book by a factor of ten. More than a  billion copies have been printed, and the publishing rate has increased.  No other book exceeds that.

King James commissioned 51 scholars to translate. Forty-seven remained after the seven-year massive effort. But what most don’t know is that 78% of the translation is William Tyndale’s, who was martyred by King Henry VIII 75 years earlier for translating the Bible into English. Tyndale knew eight languages fluently and was raised up by the Lord for this divine purpose. This is just like the Lord raised up Joseph Smith to bring forth the Book of Mormon—the best book on the planet to bring people to Christ. It is better than the Bible being translated once by the “gift and power of God.”

And the Word was God

The Apostle John declared, “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.”  (John 1:1) Christ is the WORD, and His words are the truth: We have the Lord’s profound promise: “And whoso 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; JS Matt. 24:30; JS Mark 13:26) From these three scriptures we have three witnesses to establish His word. (2 Corinthians 13:1)

Are there inaccuracies in this most accurate English translation?

But if we ask the questions:  1. How Accurate is the King James Edition of the Bible?  2. Are There Serious Consequences for Inaccuracies? We find there are serious errors in this most correct English translation. I address this in a blog article.

Proving Christ

Christ’s resurrection is the best-documented miracle in history. He appeared after His resurrection in the Holy Land to several other cultures. They tell of the “Peacemaker’s” appearance, and how it changed their society in a major way. L. Taylor Hansen spent 25 years documenting His appearances in the Americas. She documents this well in her amazing book, He Walked the Americas.

Flavius Josephus is our best historian from the period when Christianity was exploding in membership following Christ’s resurrection. His marvelous gospel message filled with love and hope was going everywhere. What most people don’t know is that on resurrection morning there were probably more than a million people resurrected. These glorified individuals then went and ministered to loved ones. You can imagine what an enormous impact this had as it happened across the globe.

Josephus was a Jew, but friendly with the Roman leadership. Also, what most don’t know is that later on he became a Christian Bishop. I have his complete work. They are awesome and comprehensive.

End From Beginning

Because the Lord knows the “end from the beginning”, I believe He orchestrates important details over time and space from His Eternity Domain. Many of these we miss because we don’t have the Lord’s view. And because He does them, they have eternal and important consequences for us.

As a fascinating example, history tells us that the Prophet Merlene told of the Maid of Lorraine, who would save France. Two hundred years later Joan of Arc miraculously fulfilled that prophecy and was burned at the stake at age nineteen.

Then later France was in a position to help us win the Revolutionary War—giving birth to the greatest nation in recorded history–the United States of America. And this laid the groundwork for the restoration of the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ in America. This is all in preparation for the gospel to go to all nations. (D&C 90:11) And John the Beloved has the calling to help gather Israel as a translated being. I believe John the Beloved was that Prophet Merlene. It is exciting to know that is happening NOW, as Elohim has orchestrated it over time and space!

The Lord’s Sure Promises

The following scripture applies to how to know if a prophet is true or false, but it is generally applicable. The Lord gives us here the absolute criteria to know a true from a false prophet. “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” (Matt. 7:15-20). Those who knew the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. personally, knew his fruits as a true prophet. Joseph was commissioned by the Lord to bring forth His church, as it was at the time of Christ.

We look at the fruits of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what do we see? The Church has the best choir in the world. It has the largest and best charitable women’s organization in the world. It is bringing more souls to Christ on both sides of the veil per capita in the world than any other church.

The Prophet Lehi profoundly stated, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” (2 Nephi 25:2). The Lord created this beautiful Earth for us to enjoy and take care of and to rejoice in our posterity. He also promises that as we keep His commandments, we will prosper in the land. We have an infinitely loving God, who wants the best for us, but will force no one to heaven. To do so would make it, not heaven.

In contrast, the media and entertainment industries are largely controlled by the global elite with the agenda to depopulate the planet and take control of the masses. Our God-given individual sovereignty stands in their way.

How Can We Know Truth?

How can we know what is true and what is not true? I have three criteria in my search for truth:
1) You can only know something is true if God tells you. (JS-M 37)
2) You cannot prove a theory true; we don’t know enough. Only God knows enough.
3) But, you can prove a theory false if you have reliable falsification data.
•      Data correlation does not provide validation! [Spring run-off correlates with the Number doing taxes, but they have nothing to do with each other]
•      In this regard, a common mistake people make is that if something agrees with what they believe, then they assume that is validation.  IT IS NOT!
•      These three tools are very valuable as you take what God gives you as the truth, and move away from that which is false to find new truths to replace the falsehoods.
•      This approach allows LIGHT AND TRUTH to flow into our lives and avoids being deceived, as we “treasure up His word,” and treasure Him up, who is the WORD!
•      Satan is bringing forth massive deceit because he knows it is his last hour to take people away from Christ. He is the only one who can make us truly free. (John 8:32, 36)

God has said, “And truth is knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come;” (D&C 93:24) We just finished a three-volume set of books of 258 selected blog articles to share the truth as best I can.

President Trump’s Team

I am impressed with those who President Trump has pulled around him. Everyone who knows Robert (Bobby) F. Kennedy, Jr. loves him, and he has a great plan to make America healthy again in two years. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have great plans to take down the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy. I hope they are all wearing “bulletproof vests.” They plan to cut trillions of dollars from the federal budget. Let us pray for their protection against the enemy of righteousness. The global elite hate them.

Technology Explosion

The technological inventions in our lifetimes are beyond comprehension—blessing our lives in so many ways. Going back in history, we look at how the printing press has changed the world. Because of it, we have the King James Bible. Now we have the transistor and digital technology. And artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world in enormous ways, both for good and bad.

Genealogy research has been enhanced tremendously by technological inventions. The worth of souls is great in the eyes of God on both sides of the veil. (D&C 18:15) The Lord says that if you should labor all your days and bring one soul unto Him, how great will be your joy in the Kingdom of our Father. Sharing the gospel is one of my most favorite things to do. And now technology has allowed me to have over 200 thousand visits to my Book’s website from over 100 nations. My first book, It’s About Time, harmonizes science and religion. Chapter 3 helps fulfill prophecies of Joseph in Egypt and of Nephi, son of Lehi: 2 Nephi 3:11 and 1 Nephi 13:38-41. These prophecies state that when the Book of Mormon comes forth, it will provide validation of our scriptures.

I rejoice in this opportunity to share His WORD. I know He is the way, the truth, and the life. (John 14:6) The Lord is Coming again, and it is exciting to know we can help in preparation. Having the Lord’s view of it all helps tremendously.

David W. Allan (24 November 2024)
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The Importance of the Infinite Atonement

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The importance of the Infinite Atonement was emphasized by President Nelson during the October 2024 General Conference. He said that we should learn everything we can about the Atonement. I was delighted to hear this challenge from our Prophet.

While I was serving as Stake President in Boulder, Colorado, I prepared a special talk about the Infinite Atonement and had the High Counselors share this message in all the wards in our Stake. For me, President Nelson’s challenge and my takeaway is, to help as many as I can with what I have learned regarding this most important subject. The Infinite Atonement is the centerpiece of all of world history; it is the most important event ever.

While we were serving our mission in West Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, I wrote a special article for the people there and then put it on our original website: THE FALL OF ADAM and THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST are CENTRAL TO CREATION’S DESIGN.

Importance of the Infinite Atonement

The Atonement brought perfection to Heavenly Father’s “Plan of Happiness, and all of Heavenly Father’s children are the recipients. Everyone will be or has been resurrected. Everyone can be forgiven their sins if they repent and receive Christ into their lives. The Infinite Atonement promises the greatest of all the gifts of God, Eternal Life. The more we gain an understanding of the Infinite Atonement, the closer we come to our Savior and enjoy and feel His love in our lives.

The earth and all the hosts of heaven responded to this most important three-day event. The Earth knew its Creator, and during those three hours He was excruciatingly suffering on the cross, “the God of nature suffers.” And rocks were broken up all across the earth and many cities of the wicked were destroyed.

We gain great insights from apocryphal literature:  the prophet Zenos reports, “And the rocks of the earth must rend; and because of the groanings of the earth, many of the kings of the isles of the sea shall be wrought upon by the Spirit of God, to exclaim: “The God of nature suffers.” (1 Nephi 19:12) Then, with His glorious resurrection, the Earth rocked back and forth in rapture, as her Creator commenced by being the first glorious fruits of the resurrection of us all.

The Witness of Jewish Soldiers

When it happened that early Sunday morning, it was witnessed by the hundred Jewish soldiers standing guard as a brilliant light came down from the heavens, and over the night they heard three times: “Adon Mashich Cumi,” which means, “Lord Christ arise.”
The last time was just before sunrise, “the heavens blazed with light… And then the white-robed form tramped on the Roman seal, and then he tore it into shreds; he took the mighty stone in hand as though it were a pebble from the brook, and cast it to the side. And Jesus opened his eyes and said, ‘All hail the rising sun! the coming of the day of righteousness!’

“They saw the body of the Nazarene transmute. They saw it change from a mortal to an immortal form and then disappear. The soldiers heard a voice from somewhere; yea, from everywhere. It said,” Peace, peace on earth; good will to men.”(Chapter 172:26-41 of the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ by Levi)

The Pontius Pilot Account

In Pontius Pilot’s account, he sent his trusted secretary, MALCUS to witness and report. “He said that at about the beginning of the fourth watch, “They Saw A Soft And a Beautiful-Lyght Up Above the Sepulcher.” The Entire Place was lit up and there seemed to be A Crowd Of The Dead Walking around in their grave clothes. Each Of Them Seemed To Be Shouting And Filled With Ecstasy while All Around And Above, was Heard, The Most Beautiful Music he had ever experienced: And The Whole Sky Seemed To Be Full Of Voices Praising: YHV: Yahll’Vol’Hay/God. At This Time there seemed to be a reeling and rocking back-and-forth of The Entire Earth…” (The Crucifixion Report of Pontus Pilot to : Tiberius Caesar, pgs 147-151)
It seems the whole Earth was rejoicing with her Creator’s resurrection.

Gospel of Joseph of Arimathea

We read in the gospel of Joseph of Arimathea transliterated from Old English by Dezert-Owl; fortunately, I have become friends with him. This gospel describes Jesus’ mother Mary’s anguish: “SHE STOOD OUT-SIDE [of the tomb], CRYING BITTERLY (25:74).” Thinking Him dead, she didn’t recognize Him, as He appeared before her, “DRESSED in A BRYGHT-WHITE ROBE Ov LYGHT (25:110).” He asked her, “Why Are YOU BURSTING-OUT In TEARZ Ov A-Fection [over an] “Empty-Tomb (25:112).” “I [have] RELEASED All Ov Thoze Who Were [in the Spirit-world] Who ARE WORTHY [all the way back to Adam and Eve] (25:158).” “THEN SHE ROZE-UP, AN SHE GAVE HYM A GREAT EMBRACE (25:163).” “Then THE VIRGIN-MOTHER Looked Be-Hind HYM, An She Saw The GREAT-NUMBERZ THAT HE HAD TAKEN-UP, Out-From The Grave, ALL DRESSED-UP, IN THEIR PURE-WHITE ROBEZ (25:167).” He told her, “I Am Now PRESENTING Them Az THE GREAT-OFFERING BeFore… Father Az I DELIVER Them To PARADISE (25:166).” Mary’s heart was overwhelmed with joy when she realized what her Son had accomplished. Yet, she saw only a touch of His infinite atonement.

Mary Magdalene, His wife, saw Him immediately after. She went from the depts of despair to the heights of ecstasy when He called her name, “Mary (John 20:16).” In some translations, she also embraced the Lord.

Misunderstandings

Over the centuries, there have crept in a lot of misunderstandings in Christianity about the Atonement and some in our church, as well. The Book of Mormon gives us the clearest understanding of the resurrection as part of Infinite Atonement.  And, the records of early Christianity help us a great deal also.

Good Friday – A False Tradition

Good Friday is a false tradition of great significance. The Savior was crucified on Thursday and not on Friday. He needed those three days to organize missionary work in Paradise, where he went with the thief on the cross (John 23:42-43).

The Book of Mormon and the Bible are clear about the three days, as well as with other ancient American records. We read in the vision of Samuel the Lamanite of the Savior’s Atonement. “But behold, as I said unto you concerning another sign, a sign of his death, behold, in that day that he shall suffer death the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his light unto you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall be no light upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer death, for the space of three days, to the time that he shall rise again from the dead… darkness should cover the face of the whole earth for the space of three days.” (Helaman 14:20, 27)

Jesus gave the Jews a sign that as “Jonas” spent three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so would He spend three days and three nights in the “heart of the earth.” (Matt. 12:38-40) I did a podcast with Brian Nettles and Michael Claridge explaining a stone found by Russell Burrows in the Heartland and given to Wayne May.  It beautifully displays the Atonement, as taught in the Book of Mormon. The stone clearly depicts the three days. The Lord orchestrated in the Hebrew calendar two Sabbaths in a row for His Infinite Atonement. He had Jonah in the whale’s belly symbolically as well. I share the link for that podcast below.


The Validity of Three Days

We also learn a lot from apocryphal literature on the validity of the three days. Ferrar Fenton’s Bible translated from the original Greek shares the two Sabbaths over the three days of the infinite atonement (John 19:20, and see the footnote to this scripture). Joseph of Arimathea took a gospel of Jesus Christ with him to Britain written before the four  gospels. He also took the family of Christ and other dear disciples. The trans-Literation of this gospel by Dezert-Owl mentions the two Sabbaths in a row as well, in conjunction with the Infinite Atonement. (Chapter 25:58)

Seven Steps to The Infinite Atonement

As we study the Infinite Atonement, we find there are seven significant steps that occurred over those three sacred days. Those seven steps changed the world forever. The seven steps are: 1) Gethsemane; 2) Rejected by the Jews; 3) Rejected by the Gentiles (Romans); 4) His crucifixion; 5) He voluntarily gave His life for us, “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself…” (John 10:18); 6) He spent three days in Paradise organizing missionary work and opening the “prison doors”; and 7) His glorious resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:20-22; 2 Nephi 9:6-8; Alma 42:23).

It is the resurrection that brings us back into the “presence of God.” It is the resurrection for everyone as part of the Infinite Atonement that overcame the physical death brought about by Adam and Eve. With all the repenting we could ever do, we would be lost without the resurrection. Modern saints for the most part and most Christians miss this extremely important Book of Mormon message of the resurrection being part of the Infinite Atonement. President Nelson specifically mentioned the “infinite atonement.”

His glorious resurrection launched early Christianity. After His resurrection, He spent 40 days with the early saints instructing them on the fullness of the gospel—including the temple ceremony and that he was married to Mary Magdalene; see the blog article giving Hugh Nibley’s explanation of Acts 1:3.

Atoning Sacrifice

The Atoning Sacrifice” is a common phrase used in the LDS community.  Our gratitude goes to the core of our being for Christ’s Atoning Sacrifice. But, if one assumes that is the same as the Infinite Atonement, talked about in the Book of Mormon, this is a big omission. “Atoning sacrifice” covers our sins, but the phrase leaves out the last two critical steps in the infinite atonement. The phrase “Atoning Sacrifice” is only mentioned once in our scriptures. Joseph F. Smith introduces this phrase in Doctrine and Covenants 138 in the context of his vision of missionary work in the spirit world. In other words, after the Lord finished His “Atoning Sacrifice,” which includes steps 1) through 5) of the Infinite Atonement, He then completed step 6. Can you imagine how many souls benefitted from Him opening up missionary work in the spirit world?  Many billions have died having not the opportunity to hear the fullness of the gospel.

You see “Atoning Sacrifice” in the headings of several chapters in the LDS scriptures. It seems that modern saints have lost the vision of the great importance of the glorious resurrection, step 7, as the capstone to the Infinite Atonement. In step 7, Christ’s resurrection was the fire that ignited the flame for ancient Christianity. The same happened as the resurrected Lord visited in America. Chief Midegah (David Taylor) of the Ojibway Tribe told us that the Book of Mormon is not about faith because it is fact. It is their history also. They call Him the “Great Peacemaker.” For them, He is a reality.

Resurrection Morning

As mentioned, Christ’s resurrection is the capstone to the infinite atonement. The Bible barely mentions the resurrection of others: “And the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” (Matt.27:53-53) Christ had to remind the Nephites of this extremely important event that had not been recorded. (3 Nephi 23:7-13)

Have you thought about how many people were resurrected that morning when Christ broke the bands of death? This first resurrection included all the righteous over the 4,000 years back to Adam and Eve. I surmise that over a million souls came forth from their graves across the globe that glorious Easter morning.

I think you will enjoy a podcast explaining a stone showing the atonement found by Russell Burrows and given to Wayne May: The Semena Santa Stone – David Allan Interview (youtube.com). It beautifully parallels the Book of Mormon story and augments the Bible account as well. It clearly indicates the three days in the grave and visiting the spirit world, and it is an authentic stone inscription. It has been proven to not be fraudulent.

The Infinite Atonement Massively Includes

1. Covers all the “worlds without number.”
2. Glorious resurrection for all of Father’s children according to their thoughts, words, and deeds.
3. Forgiveness of sins for all who repent and come unto His Beloved Son.
4. After the Earth’s baptism with water and fire, moves the Earth to a paradisiacal glory during the Savior’s millennial reign as King of kings and Lord of lords in a terrestrial location in our galaxy.
5. Then the Savior delivers the Earth and His Kingdom to the Father in Celestial realms of glory, at the end of the millennium. This is depicted in the earthworks near Newark, Ohio.
6. And with the perfect final judgment delivers all the terrestrial folks and Telestial folks to their place, and “the glory of the Telestial surpasses all understanding,” (D&C 76:89) which is the lowest kingdom. (1 Corinthians 15:40-43) How merciful is our God.
7. Then the “sons of perdition” have “no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come…  Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten, Son of the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to an open shame.” They suffer a “second death.” (D&C 76:32-37)

The Infinite Atonement includes the “atoning sacrifice” and so much more.

As great as the “Atoning Sacrifice” is, the massive inclusiveness of the Infinite Atonement leaves us astounded—touching on the incomprehensible greatness and infinitely loving goodness of our God. I pray that we may all live our lives to be the full recipients of the incomprehensible great blessings of the Infinite Atonement.

Here are some complimentary blog articles for your study. It is my desire to help you to know that TRUTH IS LIGHT, and that LIGHT, HIS LIGHT, brings us ever closer to our Creator.
https://itsabouttimebook.com/spiritual-science-seven-steps-in-atonement/ 
https://itsabouttimebook.com/the-full-infinite-atonement/ 
https://itsabouttimebook.com/the-infinite-atonement-and-paradise/
https://itsabouttimebook.com/resurrection-capstone-of-the-atonement/
https://itsabouttimebook.com/the-perfect-infinite-atonement/
https://itsabouttimebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/New-The-Resurrection-Disproves-The-Theory-of-Evolution.pdf
https://itsabouttimebook.com/the-infinite-atonement-of-jesus-christ/

David W. Allan (10 October 2024)

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Zions Is Coming!

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Zion is coming. How exciting is that? In a world spiraling down in wickedness, in the grand irony of the Lord, He will “bring again Zion. (Isa. 52:8) With a voice together they shall sing the songs of redeeming love.

As we look at Jerusalem today, it is especially exciting to know that Jerusalem will become a ZION society—pure in heart and of one heart and one mind with no poor among them. The New Jerusalem spoken of in the scriptures will be built in Missouri and the City of Enoch will join it—with also a pure in heart people. And “with the voice together sing this new song.” (Rev. 3:12; Ether 13:1-12; D&C 84:98-100)

99 – The Lord hath brought again Zion;
The Lord hath redeemed his people, Israel,
According to the election of grace,
Which was brought to pass by the faith
And the covenant of their fathers.
100 -The Lord hath redeemed his people,
And Satan is bound and time is no longer.
The Lord hath gathered all things in one.
The Lord hath brought down Zion from above.
The Lord hath brought up Zion from beneath.


Gathering Israel in Preparation for ZION

President Russell M. Nelson has said that the most important thing we can do right now is to gather Israel on both sides of the veil. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only one doing that. We are the only church with temples to provide the ordinances by the living for those who have passed on. This is under the assumption that they have excepted the gospel in the spirit world. Peter so declared: “For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit (1 Peter 4:6).”

On the 20th and 21st of September 2024, a hallmark conference was held in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The conference featured Chief Midegah, as an Ojibwa Outreach, to gather Israel from the indigenous Native Americans. He and other key Native American leaders have established a brotherhood bond with key rabbis in New York and in Jerusalem.

As part of the conference, Chief Midegah shared how this bond of brotherhood came about, and one of the rabbis spoke at the conference. These rabbis have connections with over 5,000 rabbis across the world. It is an amazing outreach beyond indigenous Native Americans and the Chief is right in the middle of it all.

Messianic Jews and Israel being gathered

The number of Messianic Jews is growing rapidly; there are now over 350,000. The converts per thousand members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have increased from 7.6 to 14.6 in the last three years. This is over 200% in only three years. Before that the convert rate had been decreasing for more than four decades.  Most of the converts are from outside of the United States– as Israel is being gathered from the four corners of the Earth, as prophesied.

Zion Media Podcast

I just viewed a fascinating YouTube podcast on Zion Media. The guest was Boyd Ricks, who was prompted by Heavenly Father to meet Chief Midegah at a “Land of Promise” conference in June held in Spanish Fork, Utah. He shared a picture of their meeting. On the YouTube podcast, Ricks indicated that Chief Midegah is a key player in helping gather Israel. Ricks is a devout follower of Jesus Christ and shared several relevant scriptures telling of the current gathering.          

An Ideal ZION Society Is Coming

The ideal ZION society is coming, motivated by the first law of heaven. From chapter 19 in my book “It’s About Time”, I share below extracts from that chapter and some of my thoughts: We live in exciting times as Israel is being gathered. And we see the signs associated with the “Lord bringing about Zion.”

What do Ideal Zion Societies Like?

In 1909 the Jews began their kibbutzim projects. They are collective communities in Israel working together around a common goal. They were first based on agriculture but later branched into other economic opportunities — including some high-tech ideas. We visited two of them when we were there in 1987. It was impressive to see their communal spirit, as they ate together and worked together. The early Christians — both in the old world and in the new world — had “all things in common.” (Acts 2:44; 4:32; 4 Nephi 1:3) Enoch and Melchizedek established ideal societies–called Zion–and were taken up into heaven. As part of the restoration of all things, they are coming back (Eph. 1:10; Moses 7:67-69; JST- Genesis 14:25-40). Prophetically we know that Jerusalem will become such a Zion society as will the New Jerusalem, and those taken up will join those here on Earth in preparation for the Second Coming of our Lord. (Revelations 21:2; Doctrine and Covenants 84:96-102) Indeed, we anticipate a very exciting time in this regard — greater than anything we have ever seen. As described in the Book of Moses 7:

62 And righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten; his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of all men; and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem

63 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see us; and we will fall upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other;

64 And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion, which shall come forth out of all the creations which I have made; and for the space of a thousand years, the earth shall rest.


These societies learn how to internalize and live the first two great commandments in all that they do, and that makes all the difference; for it is on these two commandments that hang all the law and the prophets. (Matt. 22:36-40)

How Can Zion Come?

It is difficult for most to envision such a society as we grovel around in this fallen world, which often looks a lot like the survival of the fittest. Our lack of vision is because we have forgotten who we really are as literal spirit offspring of infinitely loving Heavenly Parents. Also, many don’t realize that our struggles here are a necessary part of our growth in reaching the goal our Savior gave to us. The Lord asked us to be perfect like our Father in heaven is perfect and learning to love as they love. (Matt. 5:48) Many miss the point. We cannot perfect ourselves, but Christ can and will as we come unto Him (Moroni 10:32-33).

The world–drowning in atheism–has lost this vision.  Those who choose to follow the world will perish when the Lord brings about the end of worldliness.  It behooves us to repent and to encourage as many as we can to repent and come out of “Babylon the Great,” which shall fall, and to be pure in heart.

Despite Satan’s best efforts to take people away from God, the Lord will bring about Zion, and all who choose to obey the Law of Love can be part of it. Living this Law of Love brings us out of “Babylon.”  As mentioned, the events associated therewith will be more spectacular than anything the world has ever seen.

To be Part of ZION, We need to Be One with the Lord

Jesus prayed for us to be one (John 17). Jesus’ prayer was realized in part with the Nephites (3 Nephi 19:) “25 And it came to pass that Jesus blessed them as they did pray unto him, 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; and behold the whiteness thereof did exceed all the whiteness, yea, even there could be nothing upon earth so white as the whiteness thereof… 28 Father, I thank thee that thou hast purified those whom I have chosen, because of their faith, and I pray for them, and also for them who shall believe on their words, that they may be purified in me, through faith on their words, even as they are purified in me. 29 Father, I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me out of the world, because of their faith, that they may be purified in me, that I may be in them as thou, Father, art in me, that we may be one, that I may be glorified in them.” And they became a ZION people. We read that “there could not be a happier people… they were in one the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God (4 Nephi 16-17).”

In our day the Savior profoundly states: “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) In so doing we become pure in heart and of one mind and one heart with the Lord and learn to love like He loves. We have a ZION mentality. I am privileged to be a friend of Chief Midegah, and his goal is the same: to be ONE across the globe with all of God’s children. This is in preparation for ZION.

All things in Common

How will the Lord build up a Society with “all things in common” and of the Pure in Heart?

So much of life is about competition and not about loving cooperation–sharing and caring. The people of the world tend to worship things and sports and not the Lord. This is contrary to being one and of having all things in common.  Well did the Apostle Paul say:

We must not be conceited, challenging one another to rivalry, jealous of one another. If a man should do something wrong, my brothers, on a sudden impulse, you who are endowed with the Spirit must set him right again very gently. Look to yourself, each one of you: you may be tempted too. Help one another to carry these heavy loads, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is nothing, he is deluding himself. 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. For everyone has his own proper burden to bear. (Galatians 6:1-5 New English Bible)

Of ourselves, we are nothing. But with God, we are of infinite worth for He has designed His perfect plan of happiness so that — if we so choose — we can “be like Him.” (1 John 3:1-3; Philippians 3:21)

Let us pray “with all the energy of heart” to be filled with His love. (Moroni 7:48) That will make all the difference! The society of heaven and ZION are so designed. Let us anticipate having “all things in common” and work to be pure in heart and of one mind and one heart with the Lord.

For those desiring to be part of this great society and to help in its preparation, the Lord promises:

And blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and the power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end they shall be lifted up at the last day, and shall be saved in the everlasting kingdom of the Lamb; and whoso shall publish peace, yea, tidings of great joy, how beautiful upon the mountains shall they be. (1 Nephi 13:37)

Where Will Zion Be?

The spirit of Zion can be in your heart and in your home.  As one reads all the scriptures about Zion, one gets this wonderful feeling that the Lord’s primary goal is to bring about this ideal ZION society. And the joy that comes to Him and those who have truly inculcated His glorious gospel message is a celestial reward. (Moses 1:39) So, Zion is much more than a place; it is a celestial feeling of love.

In due process, the Lord will bring about the City of Zion in Jerusalem. Ironically, Jerusalem in Hebrew means city of peace.  Yet, it has been the most fought-over city in the world, but it will become as its name implies when He comes.  There will be a world purging before known as the Battle of Armageddon. When He comes to the Jews, the Lord will declare (Zechariah 12:10; D&C 45:51-53):

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

And then shall the Jews look upon me and say: What are these wounds in thine hands and in thy feet?  Then shall they know that I am the Lord; for I will say unto them: These wounds are the wounds with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. I am he who was lifted up. I am Jesus who was crucified. I am the Son of God. And then shall they weep because of their iniquities; then shall they lament because they persecuted their king.

Their sorrow will be turned into the greatest joy as they become a ZION people, as prophesied.

The scriptures also tell us of a New Jerusalem here in America.  A major purging will occur here as well before the one in Israel.  This one will be highly unique, where “highly” is a pun, as Enoch’s Zion City from on high joins the one here in America.  That will be,  literally an astronomical event!  The Lord has revealed the center of this transcendent earth-changing event as Independence, Missouri – the “place of the City of Zion.” (D&C 57:2) As shared above, those gathering there will sing a new song of Zion (D&C 84:96-102).

Moroni, in vision, describes both of these Jerusalem’s coming forth in our day (the new and the old; Ether 13: 1-12).  It is exciting to know that we are in the midst of these glorious events that are about to unfold.  The world purging will be worse than anything the world has ever seen because the wickedness now is greater than the world has ever been.  We may not know in detail what the future holds, but we know who holds the future. Our greatest opportunity is to be in step with Him.

Most don’t know of or speak of the infinite love of God, but I do. The third verse of the Christian hymn “The Love of God,” by F. H. Lehman deeply touched my soul in this regard. 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:

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 of it coming forth.

God’s love is the motivation behind all of creation and for the birthing of His spirit children—providing spirit bodies for all of the children of Adam and Eve. The above lyrics come the closest to any I know of capturing God’s infinite love for each of us. I feel the Lord gave me the following poem:

There is no limit to the good we can do,
If 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.

Consider the example of William Wilburforce (1759-1833). As a devout converted Christian, he was focused over several years on abolishing the slave trade in the UK and succeeded in 1807. Then three days before he died, slavery was abolished. This is 32 years before the US Thirteenth Amendment.

Let us fully come to Christ and live the two first great commandments and be pure in heart and be one with Him. In so doing, we can help the Lord bring about ZION! (Matt. 5:8) It will be the most exciting and joyful event the world has ever seen, and we can be part of it. I pray that we all will.

David W. Allan

P.S. September 22, 2024, is the first day of FALL, and we are all redeemed from the FALL of Adam and Eve, as all will be resurrected. THANK YOU, LORD! And we rejoice in Christ, who totally overcame all of our sins. We have that most important assurance of eternal life, as we come unto Him; 2 Nephi 31:20-21; John 3:16.)

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