Rynna
TEACHER 1-10-2017 (Palos Verdes Stake, LDS Church)
Sister O (Rynna) and Dale Hanks were
working on the TV video and adjusting the color. About 15 are here now, and there is a light
shower outside.
This is the first class of 2017, every
Tuesday from 10:30am to noon. “We’ll see
some changes this year; that’s for sure.” [Prayer]
Last year we studied the miracles of Christ, and I purposely left out
the greatest three: Life, Death,
Atonement and Resurrection. Even the
science will strengthen testimony.
We’ll look mainly at the 40 days after
resurrection. [Redemption of the dead.]
CURRENT EVENTS:
Things will get popping pretty soon, and
the Gospel rolls on. President-elect
Donald Trump brings in his son-in-law, Jared, as a top advisor. He is not only Jewish, he is Orthodox
Jewish. That lights up the Arab
supporters. [God’s will.] He needs to get security clearance.
Regards to ‘nepotism’ President Bill
Clinton appointed Hillary over HillaryCare.
In the 1990s, that was fought but was pushed through in the Senate. Jared Kushner has holdings all over the
world, a very wealthy man. Lawyers work out the holdings. Be aware that much about Israel will be
placed to Jared Kushner. He is the senior presidential advisor. It goes president, Jared, cabinet. [I missed Beverly Perry’s comment while
someone walked in. “Sit anywhere—there’s not a bad seat in the room.”]
A lesson to the rest of the world: Germany allowed the LDS temple to be built
in East Germany in exchange for the ancestral records; but God wasn’t going to
have His temple in a Communist country, and the Wall came down.
[Comment on Syria.] < == Ask Rynna to add here.
Rex Tillerson has dealings with
Putin/Russia. We’ll see what
happens.
Trump promised to move the capitol of
Israel to Jerusalem, which is a hot topic. We’ll know shortly how that unfolds.
With his son Jared it will be more controversial.
Look at the recent bomb threats to
Jewish congregations all across America. Pressure mounts against the Jewish all through
the world, with absolutely shameful UN abstention by Power/JFKerry/Obama. It was not just about the settlements and
building houses. It also withdrew the
Israeli claim to the Western Wall and Temple Mount.
((Reading from the Jerusalem Post: Jews do not celebrate military
victories. Others celebrate conquering.
When Jews fight, they simply fight for their children, their families, and the
right to live in peace. Then they go
home, ready.))
((Reading on: President Obama did not lift a finger to
help the slaughtered children of Aleppo.
Worst of all will be the prosecution of Jewish military leaders at the
Hague. Obama was blind to promises of $$ for Jihad. Hamas building weapons
rather than houses is the ultimate reason.
100,000 children are trapped in Aleppo.
It is a resolution that will live in infamy. Obama’s Legacy was already
stained by his Iranian Nuke Deal.))
Zechariah 12:2 says Jerusalem will be
made a cup of staggering. Ezekiel
also. ((Reading: It will be a trigger for the war of Gog and
Magog.))
[We discussed military technology,
briefly: Israel & USA collaborated.]
Archeology is also very interesting, in
the Egyptian works in Canaan, a trove of treasure with emblems and
representation of Egyptian gods, found in Israel. Like with the Book of Mormon, God will reveal
in His time, with the Word of the Lord being fulfilled.
THEOLOGY
study
There is so much to learn on the birth,
mission, death, resurrection and beyond.
Let’s talk about Jesus raising the dead.
We are born to die and knowledge and testimony takes some of the sting
out of loved ones passing over. We will
take a deeper look at what happens in resurrection.
Brother Mullins: It is said, “We die to live” and this is part
of the Plan.
There can be deep grief, especially in
burying a child. Even with knowledge and
faith in the afterlife and the resurrection, it can be difficult. One could be your guardian angel throughout
this life. Knowing this strengthen all
of us.
Jesus raised the only son of a widow. He
raised a daughter. He raised Lazarus
from the tomb. They each were in one of
the three different stages I’ll describe.
All of the miracles have deep symbolism.
((Reading from the class handout, “Miracles of Jesus—Raising the Dead”.)) You will rest from troubles and sorrow but
will be very busy.
((Reading on: If they accept the First Principles, they
will have their work done in our temples.
D&C 138: 32-34.)) Visualize a
string from wall to wall with holding fingers tightly together in the
middle: that is how narrow and brief is
our mortality.
Be clear, no one that was raised
was resurrected: Jesus Christ was
the first.
Let’s look at the stages of death and
consider where their body was when Jesus raised the three from the death. When we stop breathing, there is an Algore
moment as the body cools down to room temperature. Secondly, the blood goes down to the lowest
area (usually legs) and coagulates in veins and capillaries. Rigor mortis brings stiffness within two to
six hours. Is this more information than
you want? (Latin: rigor "stiffness", mortis "of
death")
The third stage of death happens a few
days after. Your cells live for three
day, which is significant. Because of
this, the body continues to fight off pathogens and bacteria. The army of white
blood cells is gone and the body starts decomposing.
The son had been dead for two days; the daughter died while Jesus was healing the
woman with issue. When Christ arrived,
the body was cooling down.
Understand the view of death by the
Jewish people. They want the body to
remain intact for the resurrection. They
also do not have open-casket funerals.
When they bound Jesus, they had a napkin over his face. They bound Lazarus like a mummy. In Jewish mysticism you have no right to look
on another’s agony by looking at their face.
The mourning is for the family and they are to be allowed to mourn.
They bury the corpse as rapidly as
possible. It is blasphemy to leave the
body. That is why they wanted to get
Christ off the cross before the Saturday Sabbath.
They do not use makeup or embalming but
close up untouched. ((Reading: Our bodies and souls will come together and
be reunited with our loved ones at the coming of the Messiah.)) This makes the Holocaust even more horrible,
dumping them in trenches. To them, that is even worse than death itself.
((Reading from Luke 7:11-17: The Lord had compassion on the mother … He
commanded the son to raise up. Word went
forth throughout all Judea.))
City of Nain is a beautiful place. [Video
of raising the son of a widow, Luke 17] A very moving act of compassion. What did you see? Mother followed as they carried the son on a
stretcher; Christ touched him (to break
the Law, which now considers Christ unclean) and he exposed his face, totally
against Jewish law. He then slid his
hand behind the neck of the young man.
“I am the Law” said Christ, who gave the Law as Jehovah.
There is so much shown in that
healing. It was her only son. (Like
Christ.) In those days, like with Mary,
the mother/widow is taken care of.
Christ gave stewardship over to John the Beloved.
They bury in tombs. Looking through Jesus’s eyes, what is
happening here? “I am the resurrection
and the life” and the mother represents Mary to him. Christ was her firstborn and the
only-begotten. When he uses the word
‘Arise’ it is the only time in scripture he says this, and symbolizes his own
resurrection and being viewed by Mary.
In violation of Jewish law, he touched
the body, removed the cloth, and raised the body from stage two. The widow’s
son had not decomposed and the Savior’s touch restored everything
instantly. It was his first raising, and
symbolizes the First Resurrection.
“He that believeth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live.”
We played the three-minute video again
to see and appreciate more fully.
Closing prayer.
CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS, and NOTES:
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Rynna via JosephOllivier@gMail.com Notes by
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