Modern Moroni Mental Simulation

Intro

I was reading in the Book of Mormon about Chief Captain Moroni preparing his people and the cities for the tribulations they would soon undergo. I decided to simulate in my mind what it would be like if I were in his position in the 21st century. Not to compare myself to this great man of God, but as a mental exercise, and it turned out to be both interesting, fun, and a little daunting.

Some scriptures that came to mind were Alma 50, and 3 Nephi 4:4.

This would not be meant to be undertaken by a single person or family, but by a network of people with the knowledge to come together to make this an attainable goal. It would be too much of a burden for any one family to try to manage by themselves in an effective way, but a groups of people could purchase the items, or bring what they have with them, and learn the skills needed to survive and thrive without modern conveniences.

Much of this is specific for a gathering location outside of towns and cities, in the mountains, or at least in the woods, but the same principles could be used in towns, in your own homes and with your wards and neighborhoods. For instance, we will still need to all have water filtration, and use football fields as farmland, and a defensive guard patrolling the borders of the town.

Reign of the Judges: Title of Liberty

Food

Farming will, of course, be the primary source of a self reliant community. Hunting will be short lived, and unreliable. If farming wheat, beans, rice, vegetables, and berries does not sustain us, nothing but manna from heaven will.

Farming may be difficult at first depending on the security of the land, the elevation, and weather, which is what will make the year supply (or more) of food so important.

People say, "Well, not everyone has a year supply, so perhaps it will not be a year's worth of tribulation and we will be sharing!" Some will even count on their neighbors sharing with them under moral obligation, instead of following the prophet's counsel and getting their own.
These people are under the false assumption that the population will remain the same after war, disease, or natural disaster occurs. Obedience brings protection. Plan on food for at least one year. It's not as expensive as you think, but start it now if you haven't already.

Needs: farming equipment/tools, manpower, seeds, knowledge, land, waterways, cooking equipment (furnaces), fuel to cook.

Water

Water will be the first thing we would need to establish, first for ourselves and animals, second for farming and sanitation. We will likely be camped near either a running or standing body of water. Filtration will be important to avoid disease.

For waterways, if piping is unavailable, #10 cans will work if riveted together correctly.

Needs: filtration systems, knowledge on how to make more filters for every family, tools for waterways.

Shelter

Tents will likely be our first shelter, but hopefully not our final one. If we are fortunate enough to be at a boy’s camp or girl’s camp, some can use those cabins, but they will be crowded and have little privacy. They will be nice and warm for the winter since they are so packed, but we will want to make more. We will also have to make our own furniture.

Native Americans used Long Houses for community homes. An apartment/motel like structure would achieve a similar function, while allowing for privacy. It would allow heat to be shared during the winter, and save room in the community area, vs everyone having their own yard and need to fuel so many individual fires.

Needs: tools to cut down trees, shape the wood, or to make brick/cement/adobe homes, knowledge on furniture making.

Animals

Some animals will be a liability, others an asset. Most livestock (pigs and cows) will have to be bred before it can be enough to feed everyone. Horses will be great transportation, milk cows, chickens, and goats all obviously have their uses, but none should be eaten until there is a surplus.

There will likely be too many dogs. Some will be good for hunting and others as watchdogs, most will just make a mess and a health hazard, and unfortunately eat more food than they are worth. There will likely be too many cats as well. Some will be useful in controlling rodent populations, most will be a health hazard, make a mess, and eat more food than they are worth.

Tools

Metalworking will be very important. Welding will not last long, so knowledge of how to cast our own tools will be very important. We can bring our own tools, but they will break, and need repair/replacement.

A kiln could be made with clay.  To make hard iron, you could add carbon by draining the used motor oil (not synthetic!) from cars that will never drive again (either from an EMP or gas shortage).  Once you have the metal super hot, you dip it into the oil, which adds the carbon in between the molecules, and then you cool it quickly by dipping it in water.

Needs: a heavy duty furnace, knowledge of casting/blacksmithing

Medicine

Doctors will be at a disadvantage at first as they will not have power or new supplies/modern medicines. Herbs, oils, and traditional medicine will take over, though doctors will still play a vital role in important medical care.

Midwives will become very common, and need to learn the way ancient midwives cared for mothers and babies. There are many tools that they can gather now to be used for later.

Cross training between midwives and medical doctors will be important, the more people who know how to stitch people up, set broken bones, and birth babies, the better we will all be.

Needs: Herb seeds, knowledge of herbs, dopplers will be incredibly useful, so have backups and batteries, reusable equipment, a medical care facility, cross training between midwives and medical doctors.

Communication

One of the most important commodities will be information. Scouts, lookouts, and radio operators will be required for safety, security, trade, and direction. Radios will be a useful, and dangerous means of communication. Other methods include mirrors, flags, handheld laser lights, smoke, flares, bells.

Develop codes to prevent secure information being transmitted to someone that would do you harm. Locations, populations, supplies, and movements are all secure information. Keep them coded.

Needs: HAM radios and operators, the radios need to be safe from EMP at least until one happens (some predict there will be two EMP strikes for good measure). Back-ups, back-ups, back-ups. Handheld HAM radios for scouts, radio towers, knowledge, lookout towers, gas-free vehicles for scouts (horses, bicycles, backpacks, camo), tools.

Energy

This would be a difficult one, gasoline will be gone or unusable within 3 months (either from EMP strike, or , so we will have to rely on solar, wind, water, and thermal power. They will be used primarily for communication and perhaps administration, but most admin will be on paper.

Water power will be useful around rivers, wind generators in areas with high wind, and solar generators in sunny locations, assuming volcanic ash hasn’t blocked out the sun.

Needs: Solar panels, windmills, watermills, alternators, tools, power cables, light bulbs.

Defense

Everyone should be able to defend themselves, self defense classes would be a great blessing to those living in refuge gathering areas. A guard will be posted day and night, more than one person at night, and sentries posted in watch towers all around the area. Formations, tactics, and drills would be run to prepare against roving and violent bandits.

Outer towers should be focused on seeing without being seen. Keep them in trees or camouflaged by rocks and dirt on top of mountains. Keep an eye out for herd animals, storms, enemy movements, and refugees.

Inner towers can be for defense and looking out, but they will be easy targets as well. Building underground tunnels and bunkers will be more secure in actual defensive combat.

Needs: Self defense tools, watch towers, HAM radios, power for radios, defensive clothing, knowledge of making different tools of defense, tools, courage, faith.

Sanitation

Outhouses will have to be build and the waste disposed of in a way that doesn’t infect the farming area or water supply.

Needs: Nose plugs for the unfortunate souls who get stuck with that stinky job, tools to build, willpower to say goodbye to the toilet.

Administration

Leadership would be decided by the Lord. In fact, none of this would happen without the Lord’s servants directing us. Any who try to take you out before the Lord’s servants are not following God’s plan, and you will be better staying close to the Brethren.

Stake Presidents would preside over their stakes, bishops over their wards. A central hub of communication and organization would be made for every gathering location.

Refugees will flee and may find their way to you. Be ready to help them. Do so carefully, they may carry disease. Have a quarantine area for new arrivals to prevent unnecessary diseases from spreading. Medical doctors will play a vital role in this area.

Needs: The Lord’s anointed servants, faith to follow them, oil in our lamps.

Religion

Every home, meeting house, and heart an extension of the temple. We will only live by the grace of Christ. We would be like children in the forest, wanders, unsure of how to survive like our ancestors did, but with Christ we will survive and thrive.

Needs: Firm faith in the love of Christ, hope in His salvation, charity for one another.

Response to The Prodigal Daughter

      I was hoping to post this directly to her page, but Allison has blocked comments on her blog. The sad thing is that she expects to be some sort of a "shining example" for similarly lost prodigal Saints.


      What she doesn't seem to realize is that she is still lost, she still needs to return to the Father and come with a broken heart and contrite spirit. She is, I am sure, not a bad person, but she is also not the example that needs to be set.


      Who should be our example? Christ, of course, and any others who follow His footsteps, and this mindset:


          "And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him."

John 8:29

       Who do we want to follow? Do you want to inherit eternal glory, or do we want to be eternally "ok" as Allison says? The way to tell where we stand is which of the following we aligned with. Do we say "Not my will, Father, but thine be done." Or will we pridefully say "Not thy will, Father, but MINE be done."
      

      How different the mind of Christ is from the mind of man. Mankind wants to make their own way, to rely on their own understanding, as limited and finite as it is. We have the help of an omniscient, omnipotent, loving Father, and we think we can do it better ourselves? I mean seriously??? 

       Anyways, perhaps this will find its way back to Allison. She is welcome to open dialog with me on my blog, since hers is probably too much of a hot spot right now, which is understandable. Okay, enough of the intro, here we go:

   
I see where you are coming from Allison. I disagree, not because of prejudice, or Mormon cultural norms, but because of scripture. Wickedness never, ever, ever was happiness. Your daughter will be happier if you teach her that happiness is found in keeping the commandments, instead of teaching her to "do her own thing."

      Do God's thing. He has a better plan for you, than what you have for yourself. It will be more rich and fulfilling than anything you can imagine for yourself.

      You might be comfortable, you might have some happiness in your life, but it is a fraction of the happiness and joy that God has in store for you, if only you will faithfully keep the covenants that you have already made. 

      What it boils down to is confusing happiness for less guilt.

      You may disagree with that, and that is okay. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but if our opinions are not aligned with God's, and with the scriptures, then they are wrong. That's right, just because you are entitled to your own opinion doesn't mean you are right.

      Again, don't do "your own thing," do God's thing. He has a better plan for you, than what you have for yourself. He is your Creator, He has a plan specifically for YOU, but you have to follow His lead, follow His example, be obedient to your Creator's commandments, if you ever hope to find lasting peace and happiness. Any other plan that you make for yourself will end in tragedy.

      Finally, it is impossible to find happiness outside the Plan of Happiness. I know that God loves and has more mercy for you than any of us realize. I also know that we will be held responsible for the knowledge that we do have, and that mercy cannot rob justice.

      Please, please, please, anyone who is not valiantly following Christ's faithful and obedient example, turn back to Him, and follow His precepts. Find happiness in God's gentle commands. There you will find love and happiness that you may have forgotten. The warmth of the arms of mercy are still extended toward you.

"No Man Knows the Day..." Really?

   

When Shall These Things Be?

      If you have seen my post about the Hebrew Calendar, and picked up on the patterns from the past that are carrying through to the future, then you know that September will be a very interesting time. I believe that it will be the kickoff to the trials, tribulations, and calamities. I believe that it will start with a financial collapse in America, and spiral downward over the next few months before it gets really bad in the following Spring, and then worse from there.

      Most people who are going to be ready, are already ready. Others have been "waking up" to the probable trials we will soon be going through, and are scrambling to get ready for them. 

      However, others have a "All is well in Zion" mindset. They have been through hard times before, and they expect to be through hard times again, but Christ "delayeth His coming." In essence, they have given up on looking for the signs of Christ's coming. 

  

      One of the most common arguments I hear, and I honestly think this is just people being (understandably) scared, and perhaps in denial, but one of the most common arguments I hear is "No man knoweth the day nor the hour of Christ's coming! Don't try to guess it! You'll make it not happen that day!" It might be meant in jest, but its a dangerous mindset to be in none the less. 

      Now I will say this: I do not profess to know when Christ is coming. I am saying we can see the trials that preface His coming, which will tell us the season, if not the day or hour. 

     So, lets look at the different ways that Christ said His coming we be likened to:

A Thief in the Night

JST Luke 12:44

   

      This is the one everybody knows. I'm not sure why everyone things of this one first (or only), but yes, He will come as a thief in the night. But why?? And to whom?? 

      Let's look at another analogy with thieves in it. For those of you who can't follow that link, it will take you to the story of the Watchmen on the Tower, as found in Ezekiel 33:1-7. So it seems that there is someone who is able to see from a far distance when the trials and tribulations are coming, which precede the coming of the Savior.

      In other words, the Lord and the disasters that precede Him will come unexpected to those who are not prepared, those who do not look for the signs, and those who do not listen to the Watchmen on the tower (prophets). 

      Meanwhile, the Lord warns His people saying: 

      "And again, verily I say unto you, the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and it overtaketh the world as a thief in the night

      "Therefore, gird up your loins, that you may be the children of light, and that day shall not overtake you as a thief." D&C 106:4-5

       So the parable that we fall into into is...

  The Woman that Travails in Labor

1 Thess 5:3-4

      Another parable that Christ and His prophets gave in reference to His coming is the woman that travails in labor. 

      What can we learn from a travailing in labor? Let's look at this picture for a clue:

      So what do we notice? There is a progression of events that are visible to those who watch for it. Some may say, "That's not an accurate comparison, its obvious when someone gets pregnant." They would say that because they have knowledge that gives them understanding, and can therefore recognize the signs of the coming of the child.


       Similarly, those who have studied and know to watch for the signs will be able to see the development of the world before the Second Coming of Christ. It will be spectacular, but not a surprise "thief in the night" experience.


      Can this woman know "the day, or the hour" that she will give birth? Of course not. The baby comes when it is ready. However, she is likely to know the season, the month, at the very least the year, as the time draws closer.

Enough Speculation!!

       Yes, quite right, enough speculation, lets see what the Prophet Joseph Smith said about this topic:

 The Words of Joseph Smith Page 180-181:

      Remarks on the coming of the Son of Man by Joseph Smith the Prophet, made in Nauvoo:

      "Christ says no man knoweth the day or the hour when the Son of Man cometh. This is a sweeping argument for sectarianism against Latter-day ism. Did Christ speak this as a general principle throughout all generations. Oh no, he spoke in the present tense; No man that was then living upon the footstool of God knew the day or the hour. 

      "But he did not say that there was no man throughout all generations that should not know the day or the hour. No, for this would be in flat contradiction with other scripture for the prophet says that God will do nothing but what he will reveal unto his Servants the prophets, consequently if it is not made known to the Prophets, it will not come to pass..."

      “Jesus Christ never did reveal to any man the precise time that He would come [see Matthew 24:36; D&C 49:7]. Go and read the Scriptures, and you cannot find anything that specifies the exact hour He would come; and all that say so are false teachers.” 

      Regarding a man who claimed to have seen the sign of the Son of Man, the Prophet Joseph Smith said: 

      “He has not seen the sign of the Son of Man, as foretold by Jesus; neither has any man, nor will any man, until after the sun shall have been darkened and the moon bathed in blood; for the Lord hath not shown me any such sign; and as the prophet saith, so it must be—

      ‘Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.’ (See Amos 3:7.) Therefore hear this, O earth: The Lord will not come to reign over the righteous, in this world, in 1843, nor until everything for the Bridegroom is ready.”

(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, Chapter 21: The Second Coming and the Millennium)



      Surely the Lord God will do nothing until He reveals it unto His servants the prophets.

      I'd say the Second Coming of the Anointed One counts as "something," wouldn't you? Christ has warned us, and is continuing to warn us through His prophets.

      Don't content yourself to only listen to their voices once every 6 months, for the prophets have spoken of our day for literally thousands of years! Seek out and soak up their words, their warnings and instructions. Christ wants us to prepare ourselves, and when we do He will fill in for the things that we can't prepare for.

Conclusion

      Well there you have it folks, let no one use the "No man knows the day, nor the hour" excuse to not prepare, or to discourage you from preparing yourself. Christ is coming, gird up your loins, for He is sending forth signs, and the faithful will know Him when He comes, and be at peace.

Latter-day Saints Intro to the Hebrew Calendar

    This post is an attempt to make a great deal of study on my part into an easy introduction to some information that is at least as interesting as it is important.

    For most of my life I have found the Israelite history and culture fascinating. As a Latter-day Saint, we are all given our lineage in Israel, but as a missionary, while reading about the responsibilities and promises of Israel, I developed a powerful love and patriotism to my lost nation.

    Since then I grew in my curiosity of ancient Israel, and I came across some beautiful and incredible truths.

    One of the most significant ones is that the calendar that God gave the Israelites, often called the Hebrew calendar, or more accurately the Lord's Calendar, is still in effect today! God has been giving us signs and fulfilling His promises to us on His calendar days for millennial, likely since the time of Adam, and He continues to follow His calendar today.

    I have compiled a list of significant world and religious events that correlate with Hebrew holidays, their significance to us, and others which are still to come.

    If anyone can think of any more, please leave suggestions in the comment section below and I will research them. Enjoy the discovery!

Explanation of Events

    Sept 21, 1823 - Joseph Smith visited by Moroni, the angel with the trumpet and book.

Feast of Trumpets is the New Year, the day God remembers his promises, calls us to repent, and is the day of the "final harvest," both physically, and in this case, spiritually as well.




    Sept 22, 1827 - Joseph Smith receives Gold Plates from Moroni, promises to Nephites fulfilled, Book of Mormon calls us to repent and come unto Christ. Harvest of souls set to begin. Back in Jan 2000, the Ensign hosted this article on the Golden Plates and the Feast of Trumpets.

 








While this was going on, Sept 22, 1827, the vision of Heber C Kimball:

    April 6th, 1830 - Last supper for Christ, establishment of His Kingdom in the last days, and first sacrament in the Last Days. It is Chiasmic, in a way.



 

   

       April 3rd, 1836 - During Passover the Jews have a tradition to leave an empty chair and place setting at their table. Before the meal one of them will arise and check the door for Elijah the Prophet, who was prophesied to return "before the great and dreadful day of the Lord." This was one of the last prophecies given to the Jews, which is perhaps why it is so important to them.
      At the same time that Joseph and Sidney Rigdon were praying to dedicate the temple, Jewish Rabbis were in a special prayer meeting to call Elijah the Prophet to come as was promised. They didn't know their prayer had actually been answered.








      1949- 1950, 1967- 1968 This is a huge subject. For information about the Blood Moon Tetrads, click here. What you need to know is that the blood moon tetrads (four lunar eclipses on Hebrew holidays in a year's time frame), are very significant to God and His dealings with Israel.
      In fact, according to Israeli tradition, lunar eclipses are signs to the Israelites, solar eclipses are signs to the Gentiles.

      Jan 22, 1973 - God's calendar has 7 year cycles. Each 7 year cycle ends with a Shemitah year, which is a Sabbath year. Traditionally the Israelites were suppose to rest for the entire 7th year, or they would be punished for their wickedness.
      1973 was a Shemitah year, Jan 22 is the day Roe v. Wade was decided, allowing parents to sacrifice their unborn children to the gods of their own selfishness. A result of this was a warning, the stock market crashed the self same month, and the United States fell into a recession for 2 years. This isn't the last time that God caused a crash on a Shemitah year.

On this chart you can see largest drops are on
Hebrew Holidays

      Sept 17, 2001 - Elul 29, the last day of another Shemitah year, the United States of America was again called to repent, first by allowing a small attack to get throu
gh our defenses in an attempt to wake America up. God will give His people every opportunity to repent, He always has.
      When the Trade Centers were hit the stock market closed automatically. The market was then reopened on the Sept. 17, which was also the last day of the Hebrew civil calendar, Elul 29. On that day the stocks dropped 7%, another warning for us to repent. We were then blessed with prosperity for 7 years, but we abused it.

    

    Sept 29, 2008 - Elul 29, again the last day of a Shemitah year and cycle, the United States has been greedy, wicked, and forgotten the Lord. He called us to repentance  by again dropping the stocks 7%, this time it dropped 777 point. This was followed up with a more harsh warning, the 7 years of famine.  


     June 26th, 2015 -  Historically the day that Babylon breached Jerusalem's walls and Babylon entered the cities to capture, exile, and destroy Israel, on account of their wickedness. 

      This day is when the destruction of the family was institutionalized.  An organized effort to destroy the family. This is different because it wasn't going on in the background, it is a legal and mandatory requirement that we accept this grievous sin into our society.  

      Also, 2015 is a Shemitah year, a year of judgement for wickedness.

      Sept 13, 2015 - Another Elul 29 during a Shemitah year. Financial state of the world has been rocky, China trying to sink the US dollar with economic warfare, Greece collapsing (again), but not specific crash on this date. The DOW dropped 10% just two weeks prior, one instance found here.
      More importantly, Muslims attacked Jews on the Temple Mount who were going to pray for Rosh Hashana, and Saudi Arabia threatened a holy war.

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      Sept 23, 2017 - I will write more on this sign, for now watch this video as explanation. 

For more details, and an in depth study of additional dates, an LDS Jewish convert goes over his findings here.

      

Homosexuality Does *Not* Compare to Blacks and the Priesthood

This is a common argument from "progressive" Mormons, anti-Mormons, liberal Mormons, and generally uninformed Mormons.  The Ordain Women Church tries to make a similar argument, and this article will provide insight that debunks their false doctrine as well.

Another common argument you will hear is, "Well the Bible also tells us to stone adulterers, are you proposing we do that as well?" I'll get to that one near the end, I think you will appreciate the insight.

    There is a great deal of misunderstanding about the revelation of blacks receiving the priesthood, which has caused both wild, and false, speculation about anything wrong eventually being made right. That is not to say that our black brothers receiving the priesthood was a bad thing, but that people take a good thing out of context and try to apply it to a bad thing.

    So the point of this post will be to show that there is a precedent for all races to hold the priesthood, while there is no precedent for God to ever accept homosexuality as being righteous.

The Priesthood Throughout the Ages

    Since the creation of man, the priesthood of God has been held by relatively few individuals. At first it was any of Adam's seed who were righteous, then it was only the Jaredites and Abraham's seed, then it was only the tribe of Levi among the Israelites, and then Israel was scattered to parts of the world unknown. For thousands of years the Gentiles had restrictions against holding the priesthood, meaning there is precedent for priesthood restrictions. 

    After Christ ascended 2000 years ago, God commanded Peter to take the gospel and the priesthood to the Gentiles. He was reluctant at first, but God worked on Peter and Paul to make sure that the gospel was taken to the whole world. The world rejected the Apostles, and the priesthood was lost.

    After the Great Apostasy, as we all know, Joseph Smith was called as a prophet of the Lord, and was given the priesthood by John the Baptist, and then Peter, James, and John. During Joseph Smith's life the priesthood seems to have been available to all worthy male members of the Church, including blacks.

   For reasons that we don't fully understand, Brigham Young pulled the restrictions back on who could attain the priesthood. We know the what, we don't know the why, it simply was no longer done. Brigham Young did promise that one day the Lord would restore the priesthood to all worthy males, but for a time this restriction was put in place. There are different trials that we all go through in this life to try our faith, but I guarantee that no one's salvation was limited by this policy. As Nephi states, God is no respecter of persons, and he favors the righteous and faithful.
 
    Thankfully, we know that all of the righteous who did not have the opportunity to have the fullness of the gospel, or the blessings of the priesthood, in this life, will be able to attain those blessings in the next life.

    Nearly 100 years later, in 1978, revelation was given to the prophet and the priesthood was again opened to all worthy males. Hurray!! This is something we can all rejoice in! The Saints were ready, and so another piece to the Lord's Kingdom is put in place.

Homosexuality Throughout the Ages

    People will tell you that Christ never said anything against homosexual sin. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Most people simply do not understand the scriptures because Christian scriptures lack some of the context that can be found in the Torah. In fact, Christ referred to the very first instance homosexual marriage was instituted on the earth.

    Christ said, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark."

    Marrying and given in marriage sounds pretty innocent, right? Obviously there must have been something sinister about these marriages for them to be mentioned specifically about the flood.    

    We do know the conditions of the people in the time of Noah. We know that "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" and that "the earth was filled with violence."

    But there is another aspect that we often overlook because we do not have the right context: "That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."

    Again, this seems innocent enough, however, Jewish Rabbis gives us the following insight:

• Genesis Rabbah 26:5 
• “And the sons of God saw the daughters of man, that they were fair, and took for themselves wives, whomever they chose.” (Genesis 6:2) 
• “That they were fair”: Rabbi Yudan said, it is written “fair” (tovot), what it means or suggests is one who was being adorned (“made fair,” “metivim otah”) for her husband (-to-be; that is, for her wedding), the leader (literally, the great one) would enter and have sex with her first. 
• This is what is written: “fair” – these are the virgins; “and took for themselves wives” – these are the married women (i.e., they took other men’s wives for themselves); “whomever they chose” – this is a male or an animal. 

   (To summarize, in those days men would take other men's wives, other men, and animals, and marry them. Another practice they held was that their leaders got to sleep with their wives before the wedding.)

• Rabbi Huna in the name of Rabbi Yosef (said): The generation of the Flood was not wiped out until they wrote gemumasi’ot for (the union of a man to) a male or to an animal.

• The statement of Rabbi Huna in the name of Rabbi Yosef is also cited in Leviticus Rabbah connects a mention of (male) homosexual marriage to  Leviticus Rabbah 23:9 (comparable to Lev 18:3 in the KJV of the Bible)
• “According to the doings of the Land of Egypt…and the doings of the Land of Canaan…you shall not do…I am the Lord, your God”
• Rabbi Hiyyah taught: The passage reads- I am the One Who punished the generation of the Flood, and the people of Sodom and Gemorah, and Egypt; and in the future I will punish those who do as they did.

     So the sons of God are literally men who held the priesthood, and the daughters of man were women outside the Church. But there is more going on, and we can see that this wasn't simply marriage between man and woman, but all forms of sexual transgression was part of the institution of that society. For more info you can research here.

    They weren't just breaking the Law of Chastity in the shadows, the destruction of the family unit was accepted and forced as an organized manner from all of society. God has warned His children what will happen if we follow the path of Sodom, Gomorrah, Egypt, and the people before the flood.
   

The Destruction of Marriage causes the Destruction of Worlds

    We can see that it wasn't just Sodom and Gomorrah that were destroyed because of the institution of  homosexuality and the destruction of marriage, but God will destroy all nations, societies, and worlds, who accept the destruction of the family unit. 

    How can we be sure of this? We can look to the prophets of God, and the warnings they have given:

We warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.

    So what is our role and our duty as informed and educated Saints of God, so that we are not held accountable for bringing about these calamities?

We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.

Policy vs. Doctrine

    Finally, we must understand the difference between policy and doctrine. It can be summed up as simply as this: policies change, doctrine does not. Policy does not violate doctrine, but is implemented by God, through the prophets, for the benefit of the Saints. 

    Examples of policy include:

• Age of missionary service
• Gathering together vs building Zion in our native land
• Temple sealings (single marriage vs. plural marriage)
• Who holds the priesthood
• Animal sacrifice
• The strict rules included in the Law of Moses

    The Law of Moses was largely a collection of policies based on doctrines. The Israelites were childish, and quick to do iniquity. Therefore, they needed strict laws on sin and punishment in effort to keep them on the strait and narrow path. Its not that the people didn't know what would happen if they committed sexual transgression. When they committed adultery they chose to disobey, knowing the consequences, hoping they wouldn't get caught.

    When Christ brought the higher law He did not change any doctrine, He only changed how we apply those doctrines. The laws of obedience and salvation remained the same, He simply brought to pass a massive overhaul in policy changes. One of the many doctrines that remained was the Law of Chastity, which says that sex is only to be between man and woman, lawfully married as husband and wife. We see that He did in fact speak of this doctrine in His "as in the days of Noah" prophesy.

How We are Expected to Stand for Christ

    As for the subject of stoning adulterers, we can look to Christ's example on how to deal with sexual sins by looking at the woman caught in adultery. He loved her, protected her, judged her righteously, forgave her, and called her to repentance. We can follow this pattern as well, in fact we are commanded to. Taking a closer look, do you remember what He said?

    "Go thy way, and sin some more."

    Wait, that's not right....

    "Go thy way, and sin no more."

    If we are to truly follow Christ's example, if we are to be true Christians, we must stand for righteousness, and we must stand against sin. If we do not, we will not be counted among His sheep. We are, in fact, commanded to raise "A Voice of Warning." If we do not, the blood and sins of this generation will stain our own garments.

“Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.”3

On the other hand, “if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, … his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.”4

   Standing for Christ will be difficult. We will be persecuted like the Saints of old, and like Christ himself was. However we must bear our cross, as Christ bore His for our sake. We must be loving, but firm in declaring the word of God. 

    

    Only by following in His foot steps can we be true Christians.