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The Lord Will Redeem His People

… ourselves spiritually. Christ, also known as Jehovah, the God of the Old Testament, can act as our intermediary to redeem us from spiritual bondage if we make and keep … to buy back sold property; to buy back a man who had sold himself to a foreigner as a slave; to avenge blood and kill a …

"We the People of the Kingdom of God"

… and others, and tasked it with establishing the kingdom of God, a political organization to be set up by the Mormons … territories of the United States to form a new nation with himself at its head. Those efforts ended in failure when a … terms, and the constitutional preamble beginning “We, the people of the Confederate States” invoked “the favor and …

The Redeemer

… them when they were in trouble or were separated from God. [3] They knew that covenants bound them to the Lord and … 53 to see Christ’s redemption coming in his “taking upon himself” the sins of the world, allowing those who applied … of Isaiah in which we learn that, as God himself coming to redeem his people, Christ willingly takes upon himself the …

The “Ceremony of the Shoe”: A Ritual of God’s Ancient Covenant People

… relative. [13] Of course both concepts are in the image of God as Redeemer—but the implications and linguistic … as follows: “A person’s garments are, so to speak, part of himself, and . . . if a person removes his garments in order … line to acquire it. . . . The kinsman-redeemer agrees to redeem Elimelech’s land. Boaz, however, counters that the …

The Designations Jesus Gives Himself in 3 Nephi

… paper, which is to explore only those titles that he gives himself in the book of 3 Nephi in the Book of Mormon. As it … of the resurrected Jesus Christ’s ministry among the people in the Americas, the record is basically an account of … in the text of 3 Nephi. “I Am Jesus Christ the Son of God” Following the great three-hour destructive storm on the …

Attempting To Redeem Zion

… for a long time. Zion’s Camp was designed not only to “redeem Zion”—that is, hopefully get the Saints resituated in … as a man, an angel, or even as the only true and living God, and to call their habitation Zion, the Holy Land, or … historical setting are discussed in JSP, D4 :69–77. Phelps himself made a personal copy of the revelation. JSP, D4 :72, …

I Know That My Redeemer Lived

… Jesus did and said was focused on helping others and doing God’s will. Ultimately, knowing how Jesus lived for us can … temptations directly from the devil. He did not allow himself to indulge to any degree in any kind of sin! He … Not only do his miracles reveal his power in the lives of people two thousand years ago, but they also sharpen our …

Helping Students Rely on the Redeemer

… hope, and mercy that there is a reconciliation of man with God.” [9] It thus becomes clear that “our salvation depends … demand of the law of justice, to repair or to atone or to redeem us from the condition that Adam found himself in, and that we find ourselves in; then mortal death …

The Doctrine of a Covenant People

… According to holy writ, whenever the Lord has a people whom He acknowledges as His own, that acknowledgment … be quite serious, while a covenant is a two-way promise. God is its author and is the guarantor of its terms. Angels … of Joseph through Manasseh (see Alma 10:3), considered himself a Jew because he was a citizen of the kingdom of …

The Doctrine of a Covenant People

… According to holy writ, whenever the Lord has a people that he acknowledges as his own, that acknowledgment … be quite serious, while a covenant is a two-way promise. God is its author and the guarantor of its terms. Angels are … of Joseph through Manasseh (Alma 10:3), considered himself to be a Jew because he was a citizen of the kingdom …