Healthy Habits – Healing Back Pain

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Lower Back Pain Lower back pain is generally caused by muscle strain, lumbar disc herniation or lumbar degenerative disc disease. It is estimated that 75 to 85 percent of all Americans will experience some form of back pain during their life time.

Lower back pain makes moving difficult. The pain can travel to the upper thigh, buttock and groin. Often the pain feels dull and achy. When the disks in the back begin to break down it causes inflammation which produces deep aches. No matter what the cause, back pain inhibits normal life activities.

My Back Pain Onset

About 50 years ago, while I was serving as Bishop in Boulder, CO, the Elder’s President and I were helping a member of our church move a piano. For the two of us alone, it was too much and I crunched my lower back.

I did not go to the doctor but lived with pain over many years.  When we returned from our mission in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, in 1999 I could hardly lift anything without my back going into spasms. Sometimes I had to crawl to the bathroom.

Back Pain Relief

Some dear friends of ours, Doug and Charlotte Brown, told us of a book by Dr. F. Batmanghelidj’s: Your Body’s Many Cries for Water with subtitles: You are not sick, you are thirsty! and Don’t treat thirst with medications.  I read the book and was so impressed with the information that I wrote a book report entitled: Water, the Remarkable Panacea.

While reading that book, Dr. B, as he is often called, shared another book he had written: How to Deal With Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain.  Of course, this immediately caught my attention because of my lower back injury.

What I learned was: The spine doesn’t have blood circulation and has to be pumped osmotically to receive the needed nutrition for rebuilding.  Dr. B goes through the physiology of the back and then gives a set of exercises, proper hydration, and proper eating that help in this rebuilding process. I don’t know of another book that teaches you how to rebuild your spine.

Additional Back Pain Healing Pointers

In Dr B’s  book, while pointing out the importance of proper nutrition and proper exercises,  he clearly points out the importance in conjunction with proper hydration that coffee, tea, and soft drinks are diuretic, and are, therefore, counterproductive to proper body hydration. In addition, most soft drinks use high-fructose-corn-syrup (HFCS), as the sweetener.

One day I got a surprise phone call from him.  He had read my book report. During our discussion he learned I was a scientist and we visited for about a half hour.  He asked me to send him a letter sharing my healing story. 

Final Consideration

As I point out in my book www.ItsAboutTimeBook.com and in a blog article: Fast Food Is Killing Americans. This diet tradition is a disaster and is contributing to the obesity epidemic and to many other diseases.  Getting off of processed foods and moving toward a healthy plant-based diet along with good hydration moves the body away from acidity and toward better life force.  The culture and climate where one lives, of course, are important dietary determining factors.

After following Dr. B’s protocol my back is so much better and I continue to follow his back pain relief recommendations pretty much every day.

David W Allan

P.S. Follow the Healthy Habits Series:
Healthy Habits: 1 Mind, Heart and Soul
Healthy Habits: 2 Healing, Recovery from a Stroke
Healthy Habits :3  Arrhythmia Solution
Healthy Habits: 4: Failing Eyesight and Blood
Healthy Habits 5: Healing Back Pain
Healthy Habits 6: Healthy Bones
Healthy Habits 7: Spiritual Well-being
Healthy Habits 8: Controlling Hypertension
Healthy Habits 9: Healing 8 Health Challenges

 

 

 

Healthy Habits – Healing Eyes and Blood

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Two Overlapping Experiences

One: The gradual loss of vision seems to be an inevitable part of aging. However, many people unnecessarily lose their sight because they are unaware that their vision can be slowed or reversed by proper care.

Two: Rouleau is a clumping of the red-blood cells is due to a warm autoantibody. These antibodies cause your red blood cells to stick together. Rouleau can cause shortness of breath, dizziness, rapid heart beat and difficulty concentrating and remembering.

Killing Two Birds With One Stone

After we moved to Fountain Green in 1992, as I was sitting in Sunday school class I noticed difficulty in reading my scriptures.  I thought, “I guess it is time to get glasses,” and so I did.  I even got an extra pair when we went on our mission to Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, in 1997-99, because I knew if I lost a pair or broke them, it would be impossible to replace them there.

After we returned home, and I had gotten over my arrhythmia problem, I read Dr. Robert O. Young’s book, Sick and Tired, and learned a lot. It is like a college text; every fifth word or so is like five-syllables long.  I was fascinated with his microscopy technique of looking at live-blood and being able to determine a disease and its cure.

I tried to contact him, but learned that he had moved to California because he was healing people in Utah and not an MD. and Utah was getting after him. However, he had trained others, one being Marie Dahlen in Linden, UT.  She was willing to do a live blood analysis for me.
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Healthy Habits – Arrhythmia Solution

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Arrhythmia is heart rhythm problem which occurs when the electrical impulses that coordinate your heartbeats don’t work properly, causing your heart to beat irregularly, or to fast, or too slow, or to miss a beat. Your heart may feel like it’s fluttering or racing.

Arrhythmia may be caused by coronary artery disease or an electrolyte imbalance Potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium are the substances in your blood which make up electrolytes. They help conduct the electrical impulses in your heart. If the electrolytes in your blood are too high or too low it can affect your heart’s electrical impulses and contribute to the development of arrhythmia. Arrhythmia affects millions of people in just America alone and can be life threatening.

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Healthy Habits Healing- Recovery From a Stroke

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A stroke can come on suddenly. So often those who suffer a stroke do not recover, but many do. However, the recovery period can be slow and arduous. I believe because of my previous healthy habits and the goodness of the Lord, I recovered quickly and have been able to resume an active lifestyle.

My Two Strokes

On 14 May 2018 I had two strokes; one in the morning and another in the evening.  Since blood pressure and heart issues are associated with this health problem, I share here what I have learned through this miraculous experience.  The Lord’s ways are often contrary to our ways, but as we trust in Him, we come to the deep appreciation that His ways are always best.

In conjunction with the Keithley Award, which I had received, I was invited to give a talk at an international IEEE Instruments and Measurements Conference in Houston, TX, on 16 May 2018 – a Wednesday.  As you can see from the above link, the Lord had other plans, and miraculously in spite of two strokes on Monday, I gave the talk on Wednesday.  Needless to say,  I got everyone’s attention as I stood up and said to an international audience of scientists, “I don’t know how many if you believe in miracles, but we just had one.”  Then I explained. The response of my colleagues was phenomenal. I was miraculously healed enough to give my full hour and ten-minute lecture.

My daughter Karie, had come down to Texas the day before to be with her dad. While I was hospitalized, and she made tons of friends, and we sold two cases of books with many wonderful gospel conversations.  That would not have happened if I had not had the strokes.

A Bit of Health History

In 1977, I was invited to give a lecture on flicker-noise in atomic clocks in Tokyo, Japan. I have always had a slow heart rate because of my athletic heart. In Tokyo, my resting heart rate was down to 38. While there, I would jog for an hour or so every morning.  One morning I got lost, and thanks for the Tokyo Tower, I found my way back to the hotel after two hours.

My Stroke Causes

We found out my stroke was caused by three things, 1) blood clot build up in my heart because of 2) arrhythmia and 3) because of my high blood pressure.  I will discuss the solution to arrhythmia in a future blog article, but here I share how I have dealt with my high blood pressure issue.

Healing From My Stoke

I inherited my hypertension problem from my mother and after my stroke they put me on BP medication (Pradaxa).   On 2 Jan. 2019 I felt to go off of Pradaxa and that I could manage my BP by proper hydration, good diet including red beets, daily exercise and doing Dr. Khalsa’s exercise to manage stress.

Today 23 May 2019, as I write this and by doing these things, I am happy to report that my blood pressure is 111/68 and my heart rate 58 bpm.

David W. Allan

P.S. Follow the Healthy Habits Series:
Healthy Habits: 1 Mind, Heart and Soul
Healthy Habits: 2 Healing, Recovery from a Stroke
Healthy Habits :3  Arrhythmia Solution
Healthy Habits: 4: Failing Eyesight and Blood
Healthy Habits 5: Healing Back Pain
Healthy Habits 6: Healthy Bones
Healthy Habits 7: Spiritual Well-being
Healthy Habits 8: Controlling Hypertension
Healthy Habits 9: Healing 8 Health Challenges

 

 

Healthy Habits Healing-Body, Mind, Heart and Soul

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How do we learn “Healthy Habits?”  I will share what my eighty-two years have taught me, which has been most helpful for me.  At the end of this blog article, I will summarize my daily return.

How I dealt with my Heart Attack.

Loving to learn from a child as well as from a professor requires humility with a desire to receive the truth with joy from whatever source is one of my passions in life.  Then knowing that the Greatest Scientist is God and in His perfection, He is the greatest in any discipline we can imagine.  Ultimately, learning from Him is the way, the truth, and the life, and the only way to know what we learn from others is TRUE, as it resonates with body, mind, heart, and soul.

Pleasing God, is My Ultimate Passion.

Pleasing God is my ultimate passion.  As I retire each night in gratitude for His numberless blessings in my life, I ask to be protected from evil influences and to be taught by His angels who speak the words of Christ to my mind that I may know His will in my life – how I can help Him in his work, which is to bring souls to Christ, and what He would have me do the following day to best help Him in His work.  I then get up and do it with enthusiasm, and in doing so I find peace and joy.  At the same time, He knows I need to nurture body, mind, heart, and soul with appropriate exercises for all four dimensions of our beings.

As with all of us, I have had several challenges in my life to body, mind, heart, and soul.  Learning that life’s challenges are growth opportunities is a major step in coming to know God, which is eternal life.  Being grateful for them is hard, but most beneficial.  I have felt to share, as appropriate, how I have overcome some of these challenges – desiring to help you and yours.  If you see any in the list below that are appropriate for your needs or someone you love, my prayer is that what I share will help you overcome as well.  Christ overcame all things.  In Him, we have our ultimate hope in helping us overcome as well.
 
The Lord has designed our bodies miraculously to be self-healing if we will do our part in taking care of and nurturing properly body, mind, heart, and soul.

The following are sixteen physical challenges the Lord has helped me overcome.   I will cover them in sequential blog posts. Here we only deal with heart attack.

Sixteen Physical Challenges

  1. Heart Attack
  2. Stroke
  3. Hypertension (High blood pressure)
  4. Arrhythmia (life-threatening according to the Dr.)
  5. Arteriosclerosis
  6. Arthritis
  7. Debilitating back injury
  8. Blood circulation problems
  9. Constipation problems
  10. Dementia
  11. Eye-sight degeneration
  12. Knee injury
  13. Overweight challenges
  14. Cancer
  15. Prostate challenges; and
  16. Excessive epistaxis (nosebleeds).

Heart Attack

I had a heart attack on the 1st of August, 2016. Stress is the number one killer, and I learned that my heart attack was caused by stress. The adrenal gland naturally secretes g-strophanthin to deal with exercise stress on the heart, but excess emotional stress can impede its release.  Thanks to my youngest son, Nathan, he found an article on Mercola.com by Dr. Thomas Cowan entitled, “What’s the Real Cause of Heart Attacks?” His article described my situation perfectly.  For some time now I have been taking a supplement that I get through my health-care practitioner from Dr. Cohen, which compensates when your body doesn’t produce enough g-strophanthin; it is Strophanthus Seed Extract, and I am now building back my cardio-vascular strength as I ride my mountain bike regularly.  The two links highlighted in this paragraph above are worth reading if you have any heart issues.

Daily Healthy Habits

I believe the first law of heaven is stated by the Savior in Luke 10:25-27: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thy self.”  Matthew quotes Jesus further saying that on these two commandments, “Hang all the law and the prophets.”  In other words, all other commandments and gospel teachings depend on living these two commandments.
 
In my morning prayer, after the Lord has taught me during the night, I ask the Lord how I can best implement the Law of Love, and then let Him put in my mind those things that I can best do.
 
I then do my morning exercise routine (covered in my book) by listening to the Book of Mormon in French.  Then during the day, I read from the New Testament the “Come Follow-Me” program along with my wife.  I am now also reading Rob Kay’s “Voices From The Dust,” his adaptations showing the Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon, which I find very uplifting and inspiring.

Filling My Day

Then my day is filled with whatever activities, I feel the Lord wants me to do – including being a good steward over what the Lord has given, how I or we can be of service, take advantage of ministering opportunities, and we usually go to the temple weekly . Laughter is free medicine; be sure and get at least a daily dose.

If we don’t have other activities planned, we enjoy watching a good movie together, which is harder and harder to find. We often return to some of the classics that we always enjoy.

Life is good, and we rejoice in anticipation of the Lord’s Coming. We have been blessed with a wonderful family and friends and a rich heritage in this Land of Liberty. We are indebted to a loving Lord, whose mercy is ever there for us.

David W. Allan

P.S. Follow the Healthy Habits Series:
Healthy Habits: 1 Mind, Heart and Soul
Healthy Habits: 2 Healing, Recovery from a Stroke
Healthy Habits :3  Arrhythmia Solution
Healthy Habits: 4: Failing Eyesight and Blood
Healthy Habits 5: Healing Back Pain
Healthy Habits 6: Healthy Bones
Healthy Habits 7: Spiritual Well-being
Healthy Habits 8: Controlling Hypertension
Healthy Habits 9: Healing 8 Health Challenges

 

How to Increase Your Faith in God

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Faith and Belief in God and Jesus Christ seem to be waning quickly. Many are gravitating toward secularism and materialism, a belief system that rejects religion, or the belief that any religion should not be part of their lives or the affairs of the state. Christianity, as well as other religions are declining.  I write this to counter this dangerous trend.

The Need for Faith in Religion and Science

Ironically, I show in my book that scientists need to have faith as well. In 1931 Kurt Gödel proved the famous inconsistency theorem, which in essence says that science cannot prove the consistency of a system; or in other words, they need to have faith in some set of assumptions or axioms.  Even though science seems to be about facts, faith is needed there as well, even though they will not admit it.

In general, we cannot absolutely-publicly prove God in this mortal sphere; He designed it that way. God wants us to start by faith, and grow in faith, until we come to know Him personally.

Jesus Christ has offered us eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God, if we will believe in Him. (John 3:16)  Because we are given free choice (agency), we can choose to accept that invitation or not.  That choice to believe in Him  is the most important choice you will make in this life.  You already made that choice to follow Jesus before you were born; else, you would not be here.

Below, I share evidence for you to believe and receive the enormous blessings that will be yours as you accept His invitation to hearken to His voice and have a fullness of joy and eternal life as promised by Him.

While most of us live by faith, many prophets have come to know God face to face.  We have their testimonies and many have been martyred because they would not deny what they knew.

Jesus said, “If any man will do his will [God’s], he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or I speak of myself.” (John 7:17)  It is my personal experience that this statement is true.  I know God lives and loves us, and I share the following to help you know that.

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Energy used when Bicycling

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Energy to ride a bike

Work is force times distance.  When pedaling a bike, if you pedal too fast, you use too much energy moving your legs.  If you pedal too slowly, in the limit, you can have all the force in the world, but if you don’t move the pedal, you get no work, which means no energy is expended bicycling.  Studies show that pedaling at about 80 rpm is about optimum.

Interestingly, the distance from the bicycle pedal to the hub axle is seven inches, which is the same as the standard rise on stairs.  I have an oval front gear on the awesome mountain bike my family gave me for my 81st birthday.  It gives me about 20% more torque where I need it when climbing steep hills.  It is an amazing climbing machine.

I had a great ride

Today, 27 April 2019, was a beautiful spring day, and I did a 725 feet vertical climb with my weight and the bikes at about 200 lb. that is 145,000 ft.lb. of work, which is equivalent to 47 food Calories of energy.  Wind resistance and rolling friction will add a few percentage points to that.

Calories used in riding

About 20% of metabolism is used to run your brain and another about 20% gets turned into mechanical energy to pump your bicycle.  The rest of the energy is used for evaporative cooling of your body and to run the rest of the body functions.

So I needed nearly 250 food Calories of energy to climb that hill.  If it took me an hour to climb it then I would be dissipating about 55 watts of power.  No wonder I got up a sweat.

Riding a road bike on the level at a good speed causes you to mainly work against air resistance, so the work done is about the same.  One needs to consume about 250 to 500 Calories per hour to fuel your ride.  A food Calorie is 1000 times a thermetric calorie.  Fat is the best source of energy; one pound fat is about 4,000 Calories.  One of these small calories can heat one gram of water one degree Centigrade.  A gram is one cubic centimeter of water.  Amazingly, one pound of fat will take about ten pounds of water to boiling!  A lot of stored energy there.

May is National Bicyclist Month

According to the League of American Bicyclists , “May is National Bike Month, sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists and celebrated in communities from coast to coast. Established in 1956, National Bike Month is a chance to showcase the many benefits of bicycling — and encourage more folks to giving biking a try.”

I have written a blog article showing the efficiency and great benefits of bicycling.  No pollution J, great benefits.  Thank you family for buying me an awesome bike to enjoy nature, commune with the Lord, and make my body younger.

Suicide Epidemic Utah

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Suicide is an epidemic. It has doubled in the USA in the last 15 years and has now increased to 8% per year. Utah is the 5th in the nation in deaths by suicide.  I was surprised to learn that the ratio of male/female suicide deaths is 4/1.  Men want to be macho and not talk about there problems.

I went to a SUICIDE prevention stake fireside last Sunday evening (28 April 2019).  Suicide is:
·       The leading cause of death in the Rocky Mountains for ages 10-24
·       The second leading cause of death in the US for ages 10-24
·       The third leading cause of death in the world for ages 10-24

Do you know where suicide victims go when they die?

Suicide counselors will not tell you where suicide victims go; they leave it to God to judge.  But, unfortunately, their counseling is not slowing down the rate. We need to know; people need to know where suicide victims go!  Then we can reach out to them in loving ways and help them know suicide is not the way to go.  SUICIDE will not end your problems; it will make things worse!

True Suicide Stories

I will share some true stories that will touch your soul.  All souls are precious to our loving Heavenly Father.  If we can save one soul from suicide, we should do it.  I write this to help.

Dr. Joyce Brown’s Experience

Our dear friend, Dr. Joyce Brown was suicidal. She died from a dental infection. She saw how bad it was for suicide victims and promised the Lord she would tell everyone she could if she could come back.  She was to tell her dentist to extract a “gold-crown” tooth, and it would cure her infection.  He did, and to his surprise he found a horribly infected tooth, which had caused her death.

Joyce Brown drove all the way up from Mesquite, NV, to be at the fireside Sunday evening, and she had to hire a driver, because she has lost her sight. I was able to introduce her to our stake presidency, and we had a great visit with our wonderful Bishop Owens, who is both a counselor and a member of the state legislature.  He shared how the state is doing what they can to stop suicides.

Dr. Brown has written a book about her incredible experience, God’s Heavenly Answers; Near-Death Experience Revealed and has received hundreds of letters from suicidal folks thanking her for saving their lives.  You can get her book at the above link or you can get a copy from me. She has a suicide hotline, 1-800-734-3439, and her line is hot with calls!  She has given hundreds of her books away, so you can help with the cause as well by donating on her web site.

Howard Storm’s Experience

I share the following experience of Howard Storm from my book. He was an atheist, and then had a near-death experience. I suggest you read his book, My Descent Into Death and the Message of Love that Brought Me Back.  This experience totally changed his life.

He died from complications when his duodenum perforated — opening a hole allowing the hydrochloric acid in his stomach to leak into his abdominal cavity resulting in ever increasing and searing pain until he passed through the veil of death.

There his spirit was in indescribable darkness with other spirits tormenting him. He says, “There was a profound sense of timelessness… A terrible sense of dread was growing within me. This experience was too real… it was Hell… and it was more horrible than anything I could possibly have imagined.” Before he had thought that life was every man for himself — survival of the fittest — and he was about building his ego. He thought that when you died that was it — nothing, and he found something very different.

He heard a voice that sounded like his voice saying, “Pray to God.” He remembered thinking, “Why? What a stupid idea… I don’t believe in God.” He heard this three times. From his childhood Sunday school experiences he tried reciting the 23rd Psalms, the Star Spangled Banner, the Lord’s Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and God Bless America and whatever phrases came to mind. The tormenting increased as the evil spirits tormenting him hated to see him trying to pray.

Then, again, from his childhood he heard his voice singing full of innocence, trust, and hope, “Jesus loves me…” He said, “I desperately needed someone to love me, someone to know I was alive. A ray of hope began to dawn in me, a belief that there really was something greater out there. For the first time in my adult life I wanted it to be true that Jesus loved me. I didn’t know how to express what I wanted and needed, but with every bit of my last ounce of strength, I yelled out into the darkness, ‘Jesus, save me.’ I yelled that from the core of my being with all the energy I had left. I have never meant anything more strongly in my life.”

And then, like the thousands if not millions of others who have had NDEs from all parts of the world, he met the Savior of mankind and felt of His infinite and profound love.

Trials and Challenges

Suicidal folks need to know that taking their lives will not end their problems and take them to a better place.  In the Book of Mormon, Amulek said:
…if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness… when ye are brought to that awful crisis [death] …that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world. (Alma 34:33-34)

As the Savior has taught us, let us use our lives to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…” Matt. 6:20.  Trials and challenges in life can help us to grow.  From them we can often learn great lessons.

When Joseph Smith was incarcerated in the Liberty Jail on false charges in horrible circumstances for him and for the saints, he cried out to the Lord, “How long shall thy hand be stayed, and thine eye, yea thy pure eye, behold from the eternal heavens the wrongs of thy people and thy servants…?” Then the Lord replied, “My son, peace be unto thy soul, thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment…  Thou art not yet as Job;… The Son of Man hath descended below them all.  Art thou greater than he?… if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high…” (Doctrine and Covenants sections 121 and 122)

The Lord never gives us more than we can handle (1 Corinthians 10:13), and all of life’s experiences can be for our growth, if we will but look at them from an eternal perspective.  Many blame God for the evil in the world not knowing it is man’s inhumanity to man.  Chapter 2 of my book deals with this question of, “Why evil?” in detail.

The Healing Balm of the Infinite Atonement

I offer my book for free to those who have lost faith, have addictions, are suicidal, or want to know of the Lord’s love and the healing balm of the infinite atonement.  If they will read it, I will gladly sign a copy especially for them.  For me, we live in the most exciting time in the history of the Earth, and I see God’s love manifest in every direction as we see the preparations for His Glorious Second Coming.  The millennials like to know the truth.  In my book, I provide it showing a grand harmony between true science and true religion and showing God’s love.  I know God loves us, and those who are suicidal critically need to know that and feel that from us.

David W Allan

 

Gratitude For The Resurrection of Our Savior

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Is there a more important event in the history of the Earth than the resurrection of our Lord and Savior?

In speaking of the atonement of Jesus Christ, we often hear:

  • In prayers
  • In testimonies
  • In General Conference

“I am grateful for the atoning sacrifice of our Savior,” or “We are grateful for Thy atoning sacrifice.”  Often, His glorious resurrection is not mentioned or included in our gratitude for His infinite atonement.  Most Christians look to His suffering  on the cross to pay for their sins, as they believe in Him.

What Does the New Testament Teach Us?

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Book of Mormon Conference Review – April 2019

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The Book of Mormon Evidence Conference was a smashing success (11-13 April 2019) – showing the Book of Mormon to be a Hebrew text and proving its validity with strong Jewish traditions.

Joseph Smith prophesied that the world would prove him a prophet.  We are there.  The millennials want proof and to know what is true; we have it for them.

I have never had so many sincere complements on a presentation that I have given. I offered proof of where the Book of Mormon took place and why it is very important for America to wake up and REPENT – to come to the God of this land, who is Jesus the Christ!  The backgroud for my address came from an article I have written.

Two of the conference speakers were Jewish converts.  I received permission from Robert Kay, who is a Cohen descendent and well learned in the traditions of the Jews, to tell about his conversion story and his contributions pertaining to Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon. 

I am reading again his version of the Book of Mormon showing the Hebraisms and how it profoundly ties to the Adamic language as well as to Hebrew culture.  LDS Living published an article showing my research on the Adamic language. 

Book of Mormon Midrash

Most people don’t know what a Hebrew Midrash is:  The Torah (the five books of Moses) is explained in great detail by the Tabbies in the Talmud.  In the Talmud they often uses a Midrash to show the significance and implications of meaning to a particular verse of scripture.

At the conference I was greatly impressed to learn that Nephi, Jacob, and Abinadi were doing Hebrew Midrashs on the scriptures they were quoting from Isaiah and Zenos.  In particular, Nephi is doing a Midrash on Isaiah 48 and 49 (1 Nephi 20 and 21) in 1 Nephi 22 – showing its relevance for our day.  This chapter has been one of my favorites over the years; now it has even greater meaning.  In addition, Nephi is doing a Midrash on Isaiah chapters 2-14 (compare 2 Nephi 12-24) just after he quotes them.  His Midrash follows in 2 Nephi 25-29.

Jacob is doing a Midrash on Zeno’s allegory as he shares it and his comments in Jacob 4-6.  I have a blog article showing the significance of this allegory: Some of Zenos’s writings were found in 1906.

Abinadi is testifying of the atonement of Christ in King Noah’s court as he does a Midrash on Isaiah 53 before he was martyred.  See Mosiah chapters 14-16.  Abinadi’s testimony converted Alma.  The impact of the conversions of Alma and his son, Alma the younger, have impacted millions of lives in bringing them to Christ.

Some of the protagonists say that Joseph copied scriptures from the Bible into the Book of Mormon.  At the conference, this was proven not true.  There are 433 verses of Isaiah in the Book of Mormon and over half of them are significantly different, and those differences often reflect the Hebraisms.

The historical documentation around the coming forth of the Book of Mormon proves its divinity.  It was translated in approximately 65 days and the printing was a miracle also.

In contrast, it took the 51 King James scholars seven years to pull together the KJV of the Bible, then 76 % of what they used was William Tyndale’s translation.

Book of Mormon Museum

Jonathan Neville gave three great presentations at the conference and shared their grand plan to put a Book of Mormon museum in Washington D.C. with scriptures on the face of the museum showing that, “The Book of Mormon is a sacred book of ancient scripture that is evidence of God’s love for all people of the world.”

Book of Jasher

At the conference, I learned from David Hocking that the Book of Jasher, which is referenced in the Bible but not included, was found in Europe in Hebrew and translated into English in 1840 – ten years after the Book of Mormon was published.  The Book of Jasher has 91 chapters and covers from Adam down to Joshua.  Like the Bible, the Book of Mormon references contents of the Book of Jasher.  This itself shows direct evidence of the validity of the Book of Mormon.

David Hocking and Rod Meldrum are the editors of the newly published Annotated Book of Mormon, which sold 5,000 copies of the first printing last Fall.  They have printed 20 thousand more and they are nearly gone.  Rod has added quotes from the prophets and pictures of likely places for the geography.  I have read it and believe it is one the best books on the planet to build faith in the Lord and to show that America is the Promised Land spoken of in the Book of Mormon and prophesied of in the Bible.

Timothy Ballard Address

The capstone talk of the conference was Timothy Ballard’s.  Tim has probably done more than any other human on the planet to stop the horrible human trafficking problem.  He has consulted with President Trump on this problem, been on the Glen Beck show, written the bestselling book, The American Covenant, and has saved a large number of children along with arresting many of those involved with this heinous sin.  One of the amazing arrests of 15 perpetrators of child pedophelia and the saving of 125 children in that operation was so significant that Columbia Pictures is going to make a movie of it that should be out this November, “The Sounds of Freedom.”

Tim also shared a synopsis of his bestselling book, The Lincoln Hypothesis, showing how the Book of Mormon changed Lincoln’s life and religious freedom in this country.  It is an amazing story and a story everyone should know.

It is so exciting to see the Lord’s hand in sharing the gospel around the world and to be a part of it.  The best thing we can do is to “learn of me…” (Matt. 11: 28-30) “find rest unto your souls.” Live and share His glorious message of LOVE.

David W Allan