This issue alone of the magazine shares (Vol. 2, No. 5, Mch. 2024): The Tribe of Zebulun is in North America; The Book of Mormon cure for artificial intelligence having no soul—avoiding AI’s negative impact; 1,800 Adamic phrases validating the scriptures; and much, much more. You can order the magazine by calling (715) 962-1422. And you can order back issues, which are loaded with good information as well. The maps and picture quality of this magazine are awesome.
Ojibwe Native Americans are of the Tribe of Zebulun
On pages 44-47 of this issue of LAND OF PROMISE, Uncovering Ancient America, Wayne May shares that Brian Outinen contacted him to tell his story. Brian lives in Canada and is an Ojibwe Native American. In this issue, Brian shares his belief that they are of the Tribe of Zebulun. Their tradition is that they came from the East. They have maps telling their story. They came from the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland to the St. Lawrence River.
It is fascinating when you think of Brian’s story in conjunction with Jacob’s (Israel) blessing to his son Zebulun: “Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and he shall be for a haven of ships, and his border shall be unto Zidon.” (Genesis 49:13) The Ojibwe DNA ties to Israel as well. The Ojibwe language has significant similarities to Semitic languages. Their calendar is similar to the Enoch calendar.
Correlation does not provide validation, but the DNA tells us the story. Glottology (the history or science of language) also tells us the true story. This is fascinating information, Brother Wayne May. Thanks for sharing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has no Soul.
Also, in this issue of LAND OF PROMISE, Uncovering Ancient America, Magazine, (Vol. 2, No. 5, Mar 2024) Jeff Downs opens with an article: “ARTIFICIAL Intelligence and the Very REAL Book of Mormon.” Brother Downs’, well-written article using no AI software, makes some extremely useful points. He tells of his son’s friend using his smartphone and AI to prepare his talk for church, which included a testimony. This he did in seconds. With no additional effort on his friend’s part, his friend read the whole talk from his smartphone. His soulless talk felt that way. It had no soul.
Life is a grand opportunity for growth without AI. Looking at what Joseph Smith accomplished in his short 38 ½ years is astounding. The Lord fully used Joseph Smith’s incredible mind with the help of the Urim and Thummim to perform the miraculous translation of the Book of Mormon. It is estimated that he did twenty words a minute over about 65 days from these ancient unknown languages. TOTALLY MIRACULOUS.
In the infinite love of our Lord, He has given us a virtual Urim and Thummim, as His angels are ever there to teach us His will (2 Nephi 32: 3-5). This virtual Urim and Thummim is much better than AI will ever be! But, we need to do our part of spiritual work and preparation. The Lord promises that as we do this spiritual WORK, we will hear the “still small voice (1 Kings 19:11-12).” Joseph taught us that faith is a principle of action. It takes effort to grow our faith. Just like being a concert pianist takes hours and years of practice. My personal joke is that I try to learn faster than I forget. Soulless AI can get in the way unless we use it wisely.
Mountains are Moved by Faith; not by AI
The Lord gave Immaculée Ilibagiza an amazing insight. She was hiding for her life in a tiny bathroom for 91 days with seven other ladies. She was struggling with her faith and praying to the Lord with a mighty heartfelt prayer. The Lord told her, “Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculée, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone. Trust in me, and know that I will never leave you. Trust in me, and have no more fear. Trust in me, and I will save you. I shall put my cross upon the door, and they will not reach you. Trust in me, and you shall live.”
AI is Both Good and Bad
AI is both good and bad. It is an incredibly powerful tool. Now AI is being used by the global elite to take away our freedoms. They are atheists and see AI becoming dominant over humans and would “be the next stage of evolution.” They miss who is really and lovingly in charge of the Universe. They are about “profit and power,” as Moroni prophesied (Ether 8:15-26). The quotes in this paragraph are taken from the 11 March 2024 Bloomberg Business Week telling of “Musk takes OpenAI to Court.” The trillionaires are fighting about who gets the most power and gain using AI.
On the good side, our son, Nathan, is a computer architect. He uses AI for those mundane but useful computer tasks that he can build upon in designing computation systems. For him, AI is a very powerful and efficient tool. I have a similar story when I went to work at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1960. Digital computers were not available. We used analog computers back then. We designed a very effective and precise timing system using an analog computer. We then brought it into reality to generate time for the nation. and https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/180.pdf.
At the Bureau, we bought our first digital computer in 1968 for timekeeping—a PDP-8S with 5k of memory! The Lord inspired me to write the digital AT-1 timescale algorithm. It optimally combines the readings of an ensemble of atomic clocks and keeps time for the nation. During each measurement cycle, the algorithm asks the question of each clock regarding its performance. The algorithm then optimally adjusts the weight of each clock for generating time. With significant improvements by my outstanding colleagues, AT-1 is still being used today to help generate official time for the USA. It is effectively using AI-like optimization for the timekeeping output.
A very popular artificial intelligence (AI) software is ChatGPT. I asked our son, Nathan, to ask ChatGPT the following question: “What language did Joseph Smith translate the Book of Mormon from?” It gave us this very secular answer: “Joseph Smith reported that he translated the Book of Mormon from a language called ‘Reformed Egyptian’ by the use of seer stones or the Urim and Thummim, according to the accounts related to the origin of the book in the Latter Day Saint movement.” Clearly, AI has no soul and lacks important linguistic and spiritual sensitivity.
Regarding the same question, consider the soul and linguistic capabilities of the late Professor Felix Mijnhardt. He was an incredibly gifted linguist and God-fearing as well. He knew eighty languages! I would call him the most gifted glottologist that I have ever heard of. As a gifted linguist, he was asked to translate the Book of Mormon into Africans. When he got the book, he immediately recognized that it was translated from another language. He deduced that it was translated from ancient Eqyptian with Hebrew nouns added, and he knew that it was scripture. He taught linguistics at Pretoria University. He tried to get his university and his church to accept the Book of Mormon as scripture. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church; his outstanding ontological skills brought him to know the Book of Mormon was true. Not surprisingly, they both declined.
1,800 Scriptural Phrases tying back to the Language of Adam
Also, in this issue is my article, “Don’t Bypass, ‘And it came to pass.'” I thank Professor Felix Mijnhardt for leading me to this phrase. I began to study the occurrence of the phrase, “And it came to pass.” “And it came to pass,” occurs 1,523 times in the canon of LDS scriptures. When I looked at the distribution of this phrase over time and space, I deduced that it had its origin in the Adamic language. I further deduced that it tied to important historical events in God’s doings. To test this hypothesis, I decided to study the Jaredite record, since they didn’t have their language confounded. On average every other verse in the Jaredite record starts with “And it came to pass.” This clearly validated this hypothesis and the importance of this phrase.
Lee Nelson told me of the remarkable book, The Secret Doctrine of the Kabbalah; Recovering the Key to Hebraic Sacred Science by the late Professor Leonora Leet. She shows from this ancient sacred science that sounds, numeric (Gematria), and symbols all tie together. The phrase “And it came to pass” ties to EL = God and significant past events. I had deduced that already as I looked at the distribution and use of the phrase “And it came to pass.” From the ancient Hebrew Kabbalah, she came to the same conclusion I had obtained from our LDS canon of scriptures. This was an exciting finding for me.
The phrase “And it came to pass” seems to have been lost in all modern English translations of the Bible. Seventy-six percent of the King James Bible is from the inspired translation by William Tyndale, and he preserves the phrase.
Furthermore, Professor Leet shows that the phrase “And it shall come to pass” ties to the most sacred name of God, Jehovah, and future events. “And it shall come to pass,” occurs 173 times in our LDS scriptures. When I learned this from Professor Leet, I excitedly went to our LDS scriptures and was delighted to see that all of them align with her model. Most all of them are relevant to the latter days and the Second Coming. The prophets using “and it shall come to pass” are Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Micah, Joel, Amos, Zachariah, Nephi, King Benjamin, Abinadi, Samuel the Lamanite, Jesus, Peter, Paul, Mormon, and Joseph Smith. These are – the prophets telling of the restoration in our day and the events leading up to the coming of Christ.
The most significant users of “And it shall come to Pass” are Isaiah(22), Jeremiah((7), Ezekiel(4), Hosea(3), Joel(2), Zachariah(6), Nephi(23), Abinadi(8), Jesus(7), Peter(2), Paul(1), Mormon(2), and Joseph Smith(25). They are all prophecies of our day and the Second Coming.
It is fascinating to see in the Book of Mormon, the Savior does not use the phrase “And it shall come to pass” while ministering to the Nephites (Chapters 11 – 19 of Third Nephi). But as soon as He starts prophesying of our day, (Chapters 20 onward) He uses it. We see that this perfectly aligns with Professor Leet’s model for the phrase. All 32 Book of Mormon occurrences prophecy of our day and of the gathering of Israel – fitting her model, exactly. DIVINE DESIGN with 100% consistency. (We witness both inductive and deductive reasoning validating God’s word)
Interestingly, in the Book of Mormon, there are seven usages by the Savior of “And it shall come to pass,” as He prophesies of our day. Notice the inspired expanse of His usages of these 7 phrases. Seven (7) is the number of perfection or completeness in God’s arithmetic.
1. 3 Nephi 20:20 And it shall come to pass… sword of my justice shall hang over… the Gentiles… except they repent;
2. 3 Nephi 20:21 And it shall come to pass that I will establish my people, O house of Israel;
3. 3 Nephi 20:23 And it shall come to pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet [I am he] shall be cut off from among the people; [Moroni gave this prophecy to Joseph Smith saying, “…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.”
4. 3 Nephi 20:30 And I will remember the covenant… gather them [to] Jerusalem… And it shall come to pass that… the fulness of my gospel shall be preached unto them;
5. 3 Nephi 21:19 And it shall come to pass that all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, shall be done away [Zion];
6. 3 Nephi 27:6 And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of a book… sealed… revelation… from the beginning of the world to the ending thereof.
7. 3 Nephi 27:16 And it shall come to pass, that whoso repenteth and is baptized in my name shall be filled; and if he endureth to the end, behold, him will I hold guiltless before my Father at that day when I shall stand to judge the world.
In 2015, as I was re-reading the Book of Mormon, I discovered a third phrase: “And now it came to pass.” “And now it came to pass,” occurs 104 times uniquely in the Book of Mormon. These three phrases reminded me of the Lord’s definition of truth: “And truth is a knowledge of things as they are, and as they were, and as they are to come (D&C 93:24).”
• And now it came to pass corresponds with things as they are;
• And it came to pass corresponds with things as they were; and
• And it shall come to pass corresponds with things as they are to come.
You will be surprised, as was I, these 1,800 phrases are a direct finger-print of the Lord. They give scientific validation of the existence of the Adamic language. They indicate a hidden book of scriptures in our scriptures preparing us for the Great Day of the Lord. [See Chapter 6 of my new book, Time & Eternity, the End-Times & Beyond Revealed] These 1,800 data points validate the Bible as prophesied by Joseph in Egypt and by Nephi (2 Nephi 3:11; 1 Nephi 13:38-41). And these three phrases harmonize all of the scriptures. That they occur as they do without Divine design and guidance has a probability of zero. I know the Lord is in the details of our lives, as He is in Holy Writ.
I am so pleased that Brother May published my article on this critically important topic for our day. As wokeism takes the masses down empty roads, this information beautifully harmonizes science and religion. Don’t Bypass “And It Came To Pass”. I am also pleased that LDS Living picked up on this valuable information.
David W. Allan
Photo: Approved – Wayne May