On THIS, the Lord’s Day…

12 Sunday Jul 2026

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I’ve been meaning to write this since my previous blog on the Sabbath day three years ago. I can’t believe I let so much time pass before finally sitting down to get this out there! This entry today will not mean much if you haven’t read my previous entry, which I highly encourage you to read now before continuing:

REMEMBER the Sabbath (not that Sabbath).

Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed (emphasis added).

Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
36 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. (See also Genesis 1:14-18 and Psalms 136:7-9).

The day of rest is a literal day of “cessation.” It is to cease from all labors and pay our devotions to our most High God. For about FOURTEEN consecutive centuries after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, the Sabbath was calibrated by God using the full moon and thereafter thusly reckoned by the people to keep the legal commandment which served as a covenant sign between God and Israel with prohibitions against work, travel, etc. After the rejection and crucifixion of the Holy One of Israel, even Jesus Christ, the Jews fell into apostasy and destruction, giving birth to a burgeoning Christian movement. Pagan calendars altered the reckoning of time and consequently how many believers reckoned the day of rest.

Fast forward to August 7, 1831. The Lord gave a new revelation to a new covenant people who were given the Book of Mormon as a new covenant to them to redeem His people. Through Joseph Smith, the Lord declared in part the following:

D&C 59:9 And that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day;
10 For verily THIS is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High;
11 Nevertheless thy vows shall be offered up in righteousness on all days and at all times;
12 But remember that on THIS, the Lord’s day, thou shalt offer thine oblations and thy sacraments unto the Most High, confessing thy sins unto thy brethren, and before the Lord.
13 And on THIS day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.
14 Verily, this is fasting and prayer, or in other words, rejoicing and prayer… (emphasis added)

If you read my other blog entry on the Sabbath and the New Moons, this revelation should come as no surprise. The revelation in D&C 59 was given to Joseph Smith on a Sunday as reckoned by our modern Pagan calendar. But this should not be the end of it. Despite THIS day falling on a Sunday, it was declared by the Lord and calibrated by none other than a full moon AND a total solar eclipse . There are many websites that attest to this, but here is one:

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/total-solar-eclipse-leo-new-moon-day-7-august-1831

These two signs and wonders, these two celestial witnesses – despite coinciding on a Sunday – signified the new reckoning of this, the Lord’s Day to a new covenant people. But wait! There’s more. This was a new moon in Leo. The constellation Leo is a representation of a Lion. Jesus Christ is the Lion of Judah (Revelation 5:5). This is His creation and His law to give and His day to mark. The constellation and zodiac Leo may mean different things to different people, but these are God’s creations and He uses them for the greatest good and for the benefit of His people. The Jews and many others today reckon the Sabbath day according to an ancient reckoning. But the Lord’s new covenant people, namely members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were commanded to keep THIS day as the Lord’s Day holy.

How and when you choose to keep the Lord’s day according to your beliefs, religion, etc, is between you and our Most High God. After all, the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). But the Lord made His mind clear to His Latter-day Saints. We are to keep His day holy and ourselves unspotted from the world.

Please take a moment to read the entire section of D&C 59:

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/59?lang=eng

The Idol of Resentment

22 Monday Jun 2026

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We have all been wronged in life. Oftentimes, as victims, we feel justified in withholding forgiveness, peace, and reconciliation with our persecutors. Jesus overcame sin, death, and all infirmities, sorrows, and griefs (Isaiah 53:4-5,11). He not only took upon Himself the horrors of sorrows and regrets of persecutors, but also the righteous anger of the victims. He overcame both so that He could succor both. And He expects both the persecutor and the victim to become reconciled, especially if we as victims expect to be forgiven by Jesus of the persecutions which we sinners have heaped upon Him and the least of His children throughout our lives.

Jesus bled from every pore in Gethsemane, suffering all the evils of the world. He knew the hearts of those who would kill Him. Before confronting their condemnation of Him in the flesh, He suffered their torment of mind when they recognized He was the Lord, and then found peace for what they would do by rejecting Him. In this extremity there was madness itself as He mirrored the evil which would destroy Him, and learned how to come to peace with the Father after killing the Son of God, and to love all those involved without restraint and without pretense even before they did these terrible deeds. His suffering, therefore, encompassed all that has happened, all that did happen, and all that would happen in the future.

The word “resentment” traces back to the early 1600s, rooted in the Latin “sentire” (to feel). It entered the English language from Middle French, and literally translates to “feeling again” with the prefix “re”. Every time we relive offenses committed against us, we rob ourselves of the peace of Christ as well as His own forgiveness, for if we expect to be forgiven, we must likewise forgive. In heaven, all are reconciled with and aligned with Jesus Christ. If any of us expects to be aligned with Him, we must become aligned with and reconciled with each other as each of us desire to align with Him. This applies to both persecutor and victim.

Each of us must shed the “right” to withhold forgiveness. “If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven, and if you will follow the revelations and instructions which God gives you through me, I will take you into heaven as my back load. If you will not accuse me, I will not accuse you. If you will throw a cloak of charity over my sins, I will over yours—for charity covereth a multitude of sins.”–Joseph Smith, History of the Church, 4:445.

We ought to throw cloaks of charity over one another and offer peace and forgiveness to one another. Furthermore, if anyone has something against you, Jesus forbids you from approaching His altar with an offering, or as we read:

Matthew 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

You cannot today rightly offer up a broken heart and a contrite spirit if you have wronged someone. If someone has something against you, don’t expect to find the peace of Jesus. Jesus suffered for both persecutor and victim and expects both to be reconciled before they can become reconciled with Him, to reiterate. If any of us in our pride refuses to forgive as victims and “relive” the wrongs heaped upon us, we place that resentment upon the shelf of our hearts as idols that stand between us and God. Holding a grudge is like drinking poison, hoping it will kill the other person. You are just killing your own soul and destroying your own peace. Let go today. Reach out and offer sincere apologies and peace to those whom you have wronged. Reach out and offer sincere forgiveness and peace to those who have wronged you. Let Jesus heal you and find peace.

Free to Read

19 Tuesday May 2026

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I wrote and published a book five years ago this month showing how corrupt the US government was (and still is) by pulling the curtain back a little. If you desire to bring forth Zion, this book also provides food for thought on the subject. It’s free to download:

By A Thread-FREE PDF

From my book:

“Sacrifices were required of brave men and women who ran to the sound of battle to found a nation, which became the cradle of liberty to a people with the opportunity and the solemn duty to “lift up an ensign to the nations,” (Isaiah 5:26) and to form a peculiar people—a light unto the world, even Zion. It will yet require the sacrifices of brave men and women who run to the sound of battle that is subtly being waged on the world stage by that great whore Babylon. Zion as yet remains unredeemed and the Constitution hangs by a thread. Are you embracing the vision of who you really are? Now is when it matters most. It’s time to take a stand, choose a side, and make your voice heard because the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”

The Second Comforter

05 Sunday Apr 2026

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I have not heard the subject of the Second Comforter in general conference as written in John chapter 14 since the days of Marion G. Romney in the 60s and 70s. I about fell out of my seat listening to Elder Gong today. Joseph Smith expounded on this subject in his teachings in conjunction with making one’s calling and election made sure, but sadly this subject has been forgotten and ignored.

“The other Comforter spoken of is a subject of great interest, and perhaps understood by few of this generation. After a person has faith in Christ, repents of his sins, and is baptized for the remission of his sins and receives the Holy Ghost, (by the laying on of hands), which is the first Comforter, then let him continue to humble himself before God, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and living by every word of God, and the Lord will soon say unto him, Son, thou shalt be exalted. When the Lord has thoroughly proved him, and finds that the man is determined to serve Him at all hazards, then the man will find his calling and his election made sure, then it will be his privilege to receive the other Comforter, which the Lord hath promised the Saints, as is recorded in the testimony of St. John, in the 14th chapter, from the 12th to the 27th verses.

Note the 16, 17, 18, 21, 23 verses:

“16. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with
you forever;
“17. Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither
knoweth him; but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
“18. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. * *
“21. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them he it is that loveth me: and he that
loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
“23. If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him.”

Now what is this other Comforter? It is no more nor less than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself; and this is the sum and substance of the whole matter; that when any man obtains this last Comforter, he will have the personage of Jesus Christ to attend him, or appear unto him from time to time, and even He will manifest the Father unto him, and they will take up their abode with him, and the visions of the heavens will be opened unto him, and the Lord will teach him face to face, and he may have a perfect knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God; and this is the state and place the ancient Saints arrived at when they had such glorious visions—Isaiah, Ezekiel, John upon the Isle of Patmos, St. Paul in the three heavens, and all the Saints who held communion with the general assembly and Church of the Firstborn.”–Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 150

I touched on this subject ten years ago here:

A Tale of Two Comforters.

Blossom Like the Crocus

18 Wednesday Mar 2026

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Sorry, KJV. It’s crocus, not rose.

KJV Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

In that day when the lost tribes are “literally” gathered in and the wilderness rejoices and Zion’s waste places built up, the desert will blossom as the crocus. Why? Crocuses are among the earliest and most reliable blooming flowers, even blooming through the snow as early as February or March, signaling a new season. They bring rapid, vibrant color to winter weary landscapes. Isaiah teaches us to look for signs promised. There are so many if you know how and where to look.