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Hurrah for Israel

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Now we can say, “Hurrah for Israel” as we are seeing amazing numbers of Jews coming to Christ. When Israel was made a state in 1948, there were only 30 Messianic Jews in the whole state. Now there are over 20,000 and growing rapidly. There are 250,000 Messianic Jews in the United States and 350,000 around the world, and again increasing rapidly.

Edna and I just enjoyed a powerful Academy Award Winning, documented film, The Other Side of Heaven. It comes from John Groberg’s journal documenting miraculous missionary success in the Tongan Islands. As they rejoice in the Lord’s blessing, the phrase, coming from their hearts, “Hurrah for Israel”  touched our hearts.

The Coming of the Messiah

The Jews believe that in preparation for the coming of their Messiah there will be a Mashiach ben Yoseph or Messiah ben Joseph and a Messiah ben David. I believe Messiah ben Joseph is Joseph Smith spoken of in Isaiah 11:10 (D&C 113:5-6). Messiah ben David is yet to come and will play a major role in preparation for the Lord’s Coming, as shared by Dr. Avraham Gileadi in his several outstanding books on the “Book of Isaiah”. The Savior speaks of this Servant in 3 Nephi 21:8-11.

Even though most Jews do not believe that Christ is the Messiah, The Jews feel they are at a turning point as the number of Jews in Israel is now greater than in any other country—including the USA. They feel this has implications regarding Torah Law and the need to reintroduce some ancient practices spelled out in the Torah. They believe that if they repent, they can avoid some of the destruction prophesied.

The following video has excellent insights into why the Jews, in general, don’t believe in Jesus, and some great suggestions of what can be done to help more of them turn to Jesus (Yeshua): The 3 Reasons Why Jews Don’t Believe In Jesus & Israel Evangelism Report (By Eitan Bar) – YouTube.

Now is the Time to Repent

Like the Jews, it is critical for the people in the USA to repent.  This is the Promised Land which was given to the Tribe of Joseph. Or, as the Lord has decreed, (Ether 2:10) they will be swept off. We have been given our inspired Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Let their truths ring throughout the land and help bring about repentance.

Who is Israel?

I asked that question of the Lord while setting in the Denver Temple back in 1986. I spent months researching it and found great insights. In summary, a true Israelite is someone who puts their hand in the hand of the Lord to do His will in their lives. We become ONE with God in that exalting process. Let us live and share and shout, “Hurrah for Israel!”

David W. Allan

P.S.  My new book, Time and Eternity – The End-Times and Beyond Revealed,  is in the editing process in preparation for publication.  It can be pre-ordered from the publisher, Digital Legend.

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Historian Flavius Josephus Testifies of Christ

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Flavius Josephus, the Jewish priest, scholar, and historian was born 37/38 in Jerusalem. He wrote valuable works on Jewish history, including the final Jewish revolt of 66–70 AD–including Masada, 73 AD. He wrote of Christ, “About this time there lived Jesus if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who  performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly.” Without the writings of Josephus, we would have very little access to the events and history of the people of his time. He had dreams and was taught by the Lord.

Jew – Roman – Christian

I believe Flavius Josephus was and is the most essential historian ever to know that Jesus is the Christ.  We all have unique missions.  I believe he was highly unusual as we see him as a Jew, and a Roman, and surprising to almost everyone, there is substantial extent evidence that later in his life he became a Christian Bishop in Jerusalem.

The infinite atonement of our Savior had just exploded its paramount relevance in providing salvation for the world.  The Promised Messiah not only came with His message of salvation but perfected Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness with His infinite atonement—provided a resurrection for all in due process. “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. 27:52-53).

Fifty days later at Pentecost, thousands were joining “The Way”—the Christians and their contagious love for one another and for their enemies was greatly inspiring all who observed them.  This contagious love brought many of those observers into the fold as well–including later on in his life, Josephus. Three years after Jesus’ resurrection, Josephus was born (37 AD), and as an observer, he was deeply touched by the Christian conversion rate explosion.

 Josephus’ Heritage and Works

If you read Wikipedia about Josephus, they paint him as a Benedict Arnold traitor—not surprising given the world’s atheistic put down of anything Christian. His writings and life disprove this notion.

He was born of noble Jewish heritage, and because of his incredible mental dexterity and leadership, he was greatly respected by Jews and Gentiles. He became close friends with the Emperors Vespasian and Titus.

In his autobiography, he shares, “I made mighty proficiency in the improvement of learning and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.” Through the 16th – 19th years of his life, he spent with Banus, who lived “in the desert and used no other clothing than grew upon trees, and had no other food than what grew of its own accord, and bathed himself in cold water frequently, both by night and by day, in order to preserve his chastity.”1

Josephus did most of his writing in Rome. I have the book, “The Works of Josephus; Complete and Unabridged – New Updated Edition,” translated by William Whiston. I have learned a great deal from this two-column, small-print, 926-page book, which includes his autobiography (THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS), THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, THE WARS OF THE JEWS, and several other documentaries—including the extent letter in Greek he apparently wrote about Hades while serving as a Christian Bishop.2

Josephus  Authorship of the ANTIQUITIES

The authorship of ANTIQUITIES goes back to the creation—beginning with, “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth;”3 His writings parallel some ten thousand verses of scripture from the Old Testament and including some from the Apocryphal writings and often give a lot more detail than what we have in scripture.4

Josephus felt God’s protection throughout his life and received guidance in his pursuits. On one occasion amidst the Romans’ and Jews’ battles’, “But wonderful it was what a dream I saw that very night; for when I had betaken myself to my bed, as grieved and disturbed at the news that had been written to me, it seemed to me, that a certain person stood by me, and said, ‘O, Josephus, leave off to afflict thy soul and put away all fear; for what now grieves thee will render thee very considerable, and all respects most happy; for thou shalt get over not only these difficulties but many others, with great success.  However, be not cast down, but remember thou art to fight with the Romans.’”5

He had other heavenly visits and helps throughout his life. 6 When we do things God’s way, we find peace in the midst of the storms. No matter where he fought or what he did for the Jews or the Romans, God was with him. He tried to keep the Jews from fighting the Romans because he knew of the Romans’ great strength, but when his own people solicited him, he fought for them. As in our “Star-Spangled Banner,” “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.”

Lessons from the Destruction of Jerusalem

Later, the Lord allowed the Romans to destroy Jerusalem, because of their wickedness, as Jesus prophesied. (Matt. 24:1-2) This is like Isaiah prophesied of the Assyrian assault which will occur against this “hypocritical” nation—the Promised Land of America—unless her people repent and come to Christ. (Isa. 10:5-6) As with Jerusalem, so with America, unless we repent He has “created the waster to destroy.” But the righteous have the promise that “no weapon…shall revile against… the servants of the Lord…” (3 Nephi 22:16-17)

Over the entrance of the Norlin Library on the University of Colorado Campus is the inscription by George Norlin, “Who knows only his own generation remains always a child.” Josephus wrote in detail about the final destruction of Jerusalem. Knowing history allows us to build upon the insights, inventions, and truths brought forth by others, while also learning from their mistakes that hopefully, we will not repeat.

Historical Witness of Christ

Again, I believe we all have unique missions for our mortal journey, but I believe Josephus stands out as a historical primary witness of Christ, and God was with him as part of the Divine Law of Witnesses. The second historical and spiritual witness of the Christ is the Book of Mormon and we have L. Taylor Hansen’s great book, He Walked the Americas. When I got her book, I couldn’t put it down and stayed up all night reading it.

If we ask the question, “What is the most important historical truth we can build our lives upon?” I believe it is to know the Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. The Bible has done more good than any other book because of its most important message of the Christ. The Book of Mormon is another witness for Christ. The Book of Mormon has brought more people to Christ per capita of those who have read it than any other book. It became available to the world exactly ten years after the FIRST VISION of the Prophet Joseph Smith. The fingerprint of the Lord was evident as the first 5,000 copies were printed in the Divine ratio. Christ is mentioned five times more often in the Book of Mormon than in the Bible. Knowing and believing and internalizing the great truths in that book leads to the greatest happiness in this life and eternal life beyond the veil. (John 17:3; 3:16)

I see Josephus’ life and writings helping in a major way to know the truth about the Promised Messiah, who came and is coming again.  These witnesses are critically needed at this time. The woke and millennials have most probably never heard of Josephus; yet, we have a profound historical witness for them of Christ in Josephus’ writings.  It is the Christ who can and will solve the problems the woke and millennials face if they will but come unto Him. In addition, we see serious moral decay throughout the world in large measure because we haven’t learned important lessons from history.

The atheistic New World Order folks would use this moral decay to make us slaves and to depopulate the world—according to their agenda. On the other hand, we have a lot of people waking up to their evil intent and more-and-more are turning to Christ with His great promise: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free… If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:32, 36)  I gave a lecture on this pivotal scripture, and you can find the link for it at the end of this article.

William Whiston –  the Translator

William Whiston, who translated Josephus’ writings lived 35 years after Sir Isaac Newton. Newton was his mentor. Newton was born on Christmas Day in 1642. Whiston was an English theologian (Pastor), historian, natural philosopher, mathematician, and a leading figure in the popularization of Newton’s enormous contributions, as the greatest scientist ever.

Whiston succeeded his mentor Newton as a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Newton, as a devout Christian student, had proved that the Church of England was wrong in many aspects of their theology, which threatened him from having fellowship at Trinity College, and he was willing to lose this distinguished position rather than compromise his beliefs. He and his friends petitioned King Charles II, and the King granted him exemption from “all holy orders.”

Whiston knew the life of Josephus probably better than anyone, and like Newton, he saw problems in the Church of England’s theology. As a pastor, Whiston was more vocal about his beliefs, and in 1710 he lost the professorship and was expelled from the university.  Whiston rejected the notion of eternal torment in hellfire, which he viewed as absurd, cruel, and an insult to God.

What especially pitted him against church authorities was his denial of the doctrine of the Trinity, which he believed had pagan origins. Which doctrine young Joseph Smith was told by God, “their creeds were an abomination in his sight…” (JS-H 19) Thanks be to God, that great vision opened the door for the world to know the true nature of God, which is eternal life. (John 17:3) Did you know the date of the first was so important that it was foretold in Enoch’s calendar? The Date of the First Vision | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

Today, we owe a great debt of gratitude to William Whiston for providing the best English translations of the “Complete and Unabridged” works of Flavius Josephus. With the world spiraling down in anti-Christian and atheistic-satanic harassments against truth and light, we have this greatest historian—Flavius Josephus’—counterattack. It is Christ and only  Christ who can give us ultimate freedom, salvation, and exaltation. To Him and His Father, we owe praise, honor, and glory for their Perfect Plan of Happiness.

David W. Allan

REFERENCES:
1)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, p. 1
2)      APPENDIX, DISSERTATION 6 TO PROVE THAT THE FRAGMENT OR EXTRACT OUT OF AN HOMILY CONCERNING HADES BELONGS TO JOSEPHUS, THE JEWISH HISTORIAN; AND WAS BY HIM PREACHED OR WRITTEN WHEN HE WAS BISHOP OF JERUSALEM… pp 872-879, and pp 813-814
3)      THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BOOK 1, CHAPTER 1.1., p. 29
4)      APPENDIX, TEXTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PARALLEL TO JOSEPHUS’ HISTORIES, p. 895
5)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, 42, p. 13
6)      THE LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, footnote q, divine dreams Antiq. 3.8.9 and in the War 3.8.3,9

P.S.
I invite you to view this video: “Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Free.” I put a lot of work into the content, and hope you enjoy it.

For those who have lost faith and want evidence of God’s word and His love, please read the following: Don’t Bypass “And It Came To Pass” | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com) and Gratitude For The Resurrection of Our Savior | It’s About Time (itsabouttimebook.com)

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Optimum Living and Fullness of Joy

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David Allan Time And EternityA Brief Introduction To The Book

We can think of the Earth being like a space-ship traveling through time and eternity, and we are now at a critical juncture in the sufferings and challenges of mortality–a juncture that will bring about the end of worldliness, as we enter into the glorious millennial epoch.  Most importantly, I share how the ideal society (Optimum living and fullness of joy) will come out of the denouement our Lord has prepared. It is a book of hope and manifests the infinite love our Heavenly Father in His perfect plan of happiness brought about by the infinite atonement of His Beloved Son, which has seven steps to it.

The Decline In Our Western Morality

Douglas Murray just wrote another bestseller, The War on the West, with 503 reviews on Amazon since 26 April 2022—82% five stars. Jordan Peterson just did a podcast with Douglas Murray about his new book. It is a very scholarly, but a godless perspective, on what is now causing the decline in our Western morality and why. Many of these same problems have already occurred throughout the world, as he points out in this new book as well as in his other books

Looking Through God’s Eyes

Within my mortal limitations, as a God-loving Christian, I choose to look through God’s eyes, as best I can, to know where we are in His timetable and the glorious future He has in store for the righteous who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto His Beloved Son. I share what we can best do now, and what the path forward looks like as our Savior leads us back to the Father in His “One-eternal-round” glorious chiasmus for His spaceship called Earth. The great suffering and enormous challenges we now see throughout the world will have an incomprehensible denouement for the end-times now unfolding and beyond.  This you will see described in the book.

Three Gospels

In Chapter Five, for example, I explain how the Lord has given us three gospels to best help us prepare for His glorious Second Coming. By the word “gospel,” I take the Greek meaning: “the good news.” I explain in detail how these three gospels are the most important things the Lord has given us to prepare for His coming.

1. The gospel of the good earth will help us overcome the pollution of the earth, and how to have maximum health in body, mind, and spirit.

2. The gospel of the Bible will help all who believe in our Lord and Savior make it into the millennium where He will gloriously reign for a thousand years as King of kings and Lord of lords.

3. Then all who accept and live the fullness of the gospel will be delivered by the Son to the Father at the end of the millennium into celestial realms of glory–and into optimum living and a fullness of joy.

Because of my work with atomic clocks, I see the optimum living opportunity in a Zion society as like an ensemble of such clocks. Like people, each clock is different. Each clock has different time and performance characteristics. I believe the Lord gave me the algorithm back in 1968 to optimally combine the readings of an ensemble of atomic clocks (like an ideal society) so that the characteristics of each is fully utilized. This optimally combined ensemble then generates a time that is better than the best-contributing clock, and even the least of the performing clocks enhances the output. Just like in a Zion society, the time and talents of each individual are optimally used to help in bringing perfection to the whole of that society. As we learn and grow, the whole becomes better, because everyone is motivated by the pure love of Christ.

With improvements by my outstanding colleagues, that algorithm (AT-1) is still ticking today to provide official time for the USA. It is continually getting better as the contributing clocks get better. Timing accuracy has improved a billionfold in my life. AMAZING!

So in contrast to the worldview, which sees the world spiraling down in moral decay, my book is filled with hope and divine resolution—denouement for the world play in Father’s perfect plan of happiness in spite of all our imperfections.  The infinite atonement of our loving Lord and Savior is open to all who repent with full purpose of heart and come unto Him. My book also helps those who have lost faith; we see atheism increasing, and my book is a counter to that.

C.S. Lewis

As I share in my previous book, It’s About Time, C. S. Lewis during his teenage and apostate years, 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.

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, he came to the conclusion that “only two views 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. If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, you must submit to the second. And if you do that, all else that is claimed by Christians becomes credible — that this Man, having been killed, was yet alive, and that His death [and His glorious resurrection], in some manner incomprehensible to human thought, has affected a real change. . . in our favor.”

After gaining his deep appreciation for Christianity, in regard to evil, pain, and the suffering that comes with life, Lewis poignantly states that if you “Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free will involve, . . .you find that you have excluded life itself.” He goes on to say, let us get on with living the two great commandments. (Matt. 22:36-40)  If all would do that, we would have the optimum living. It is my hope and prayer that my new book will do that–sharing the incredible promises the Lord has in store for the faithful and the righteous. His love is infinite.

David W. Allan

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Time and Eternity: The End-Times Revealed and Beyond, Digital Legend (digitalegend.com)

The Bible is not a Myth

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The Bible is not a Myth. The notion that the Bible is a myth can be proven to be incorrect.  Unfortunately, a survey showed that 93% of the leading American scientists believed the Bible to be a myth. I will prove them wrong in one extremely important historical case.

In My Search for Truth

In my search for truth, as a believing scientist, I have three criteria: 1) If God says it, then I know; 2) I know a theory or hypothesis cannot be proven true. We don’t know enough; exceptions to the theory or hypothesis may yet be found that contradict it.  Only God knows enough to prove a theory or hypothesis true. And 3) If valid data exist, then a false theory or hypothesis can be proven false. Numbers 1) and 3) are extremely powerful in knowing the truth or what isn’t, respectively.

How to Prove – The Bible is Not a Myth

In the following, I share that “the theory that the Bible is a myth” is false in regard to the most important event in the history of the world–the infinite atonement of our Lord and Savior.
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Jesus Planned Miracle Triggered Crucifixion

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

My Experiences In Jerusalem

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

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

Just Where Did Bethany Go

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

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

Christ’s Planned Miracle

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

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

Furthering the Work

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

Must Watch Videos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David W. Allan  (26 April 2022)

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

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Passover – Last Supper – Easter

Resurrection – Capstone of the Atonement

The Infinite Atonement of Jesus Christ

Passover – Last Supper – Easter

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

Passover – A Feast to the Lord

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

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

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

Additional Insights

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

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

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

Some Details of Jewish Seder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Eternity-Domain

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

Seven is the Number of Completion or Perfection

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

These Seven Bands Permeate the Universe

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

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

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

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

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

5. This is nominally the gravitational-field band.

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

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

Prayer, Our Communication Energy Frequency

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

Validating  Experiments

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

 The Fifth Dimension

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

God’s Goal

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

Let Us Examine the Hard Question and Give Answers

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

Some Reasons Why People Don’t Pray

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

The Ideal Channel To Him

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

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

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

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

David W. Allan (25 March 2022)

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Saint Patrick’s Day Reflections

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

Clarifying Myths About Saint Patrick

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cutting Through All The Myths

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

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

Churches are Feeling the Effects of Secularism

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

Combating Misleading Information

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

Exposing Conspiratorial Activities

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

Examples of Conspiratorial Activities that Destroy Faith

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

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

How do we know the truth for sure?

Three Powerful Rules Regarding Truth Discernment

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

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

Disproving Conspiratorial Activities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

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

The Truth Will Make Us Free

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

David W Allan

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Boulder County CO – Fire – Memories – Insights

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

 Numerous Memories of the Boulder Area

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

Good Friends in Boulder

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