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Some days worth to be remembered. But soon will be forgotten in time.
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Here's one of our friendly Neighborhoods that wants to play some old school game. Not a game, but here he opens up some oldies that he thinks are goodies. So I told him that I'd write an article about it, and let him have his counter comments if he has.
He thinks this is a new thing that wasn't explored by any LDS and he thinks it couldn't be debunked. So here let's dive into Ernest Somar. And as I have said be sure you have credibility in a discussion rather than bubbling with your childish mouth.
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Conclusion: As we go on through the text over some sources, it is clear that Joseph Smith's plural marriage intention is plainly for eternal purposes and it's not all about sexual impurities or perverting the Biblical sense of marriage. such as the prophets of old that were chosen to have wives and concubines, joseph Smith restores the same principle and yet in the highest order.
New Information about Mulek, Son of the King
- Robert F. Smith
Mosiah 25:2 “There were not so many of the children of Nephi, or so many of those who were descendants of Nephi, as there were of the people of Zarahemla, who was a descendant of Mulek.”
Mulek, the son of Zedekiah, is mentioned several times in the Book of Mormon (see Mosiah 25:2; Helaman 6:10; 8:21) but not in the Bible—at least not in a way that people have recognized, until just recently. Biblical scholarship now bears out this Book of Mormon claim: King Zedekiah had a son named Mulek.
In the summer of 586 B.C., when the troops of King Nebuchadrezzar breached the walls of Jerusalem, King Zedekiah of Judah and a large company of warriors attempted to escape by night to the East. Babylonian troops caught up with them in the plains of Jericho. Many presumably escaped, but Zedekiah himself was seized and taken to Nebuchadrezzar’s operational headquarters at Riblah (on the Orontes River, just south of Kadesh, in what is now Syria). There, as punishment for breaking his sacred oath of fealty to King Nebuchadrezzar, the Babylonians forced Zedekiah to witness the execution of his captured sons, had his eyes put out, and took him in bronze fetters to Babylon (see 2 Kings 25:4-7; 2 Chronicles 36:13).
According to the Book of Mormon, that was not the end of the matter. One son named Mulek escaped (see Omni 1:15-16; Helaman 8:21), even though the details remain shadowy. Since he landed first at the land of Desolation on the east coast (see Alma 22:30-31; Helaman 6:10), he probably journeyed to Mesoamerica via the Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, and the Caribbean, perhaps with Phoenician help.
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Biblical scholars have recently had interesting things to say about a person named Malchiah. Jeremiah 38:6 speaks of a “dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech . . . in the court of the prison.” But the Hebrew name here, MalkiYahu ben-hamMelek, should be translated “MalkiYahu, son of the king,” the Hebrew word melek meaning “king.”
Was this MalkiYahu a son of King Zedekiah? Several factors indicate that he was. For one thing, the title “son of the king” was used throughout the ancient Near East to refer to actual sons of kings who served as high officers of imperial administration.1 The same is certainly true of the Bible, in which kings’ sons ran prisons (see 1 Kings 22:26-27; Jeremiah 36:26; 38:6) or performed other official functions (see 2 Kings 15:5; 2 Chronicles 28:7). Moreover, in view of the fact that the name MalkiYahu has been found on two ostraca from Arad (in southern Judah), the late head of the Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Yohanan Aharoni, said that “Malkiyahu is a common name and was even borne by a contemporary son of king Zedekiah.”2
But was this MalkiYahu the same person as Mulek? A study of these names tells us he may very well be. In the case of Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah, for example, the long form of his name, BerekYahu, has been discovered on a seal impression by Nahman Avigad of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.3 The full name has been shortened in Jeremiah’s record to Baruch.
In view of this shortening, as in many other biblical names, there is no reason why a short form such as Mulek might not be possible. Indeed, the archaic Hebrew qutl-form could account for it, and mulk actually appears in Ugaritic and Phoenician, meaning “royal, princely-sacrifice; tophet-vow” (= Punic molk/Hebrew molek [see Leviticus 18:21; 2 Kings 16:3]; child-sacrifice [see Acts 7:43]), and in Arabic meaning “reign, sovereignty, dominion” (Amorite Muluk = Akkadian and Eblaite Malik). One might, incidentally, be led to compare this with Mayan Muluc, the red-Bacab of the East, whom David H. Kelley correlates with “blood” and “devourer of children.”4
A prominent non-Mormon ancient Near Eastern specialist declared recently of the Book of Mormon’s naming “Mulek” as a son of Zedekiah, “If Joseph Smith came up with that one, he did pretty good!” He added that the vowels in the name could be accounted for as the Phoenician style of pronunciation. He found himself in general agreement that “MalkiYahu, son of the King” might very well be a son of King Zedekiah, and that the short form of the name could indeed be Mulek.
Based on research primarily by Robert F. Smith, February 1984 and supplemented by Benjamin Urrutia in Insights, February 1985. For the lateststatements about Mulek and the Mulekites, see the entry on Mulekites by Curtis Wright in Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1991) and the article by John L. Sorenson, “The Mulekites,” BYU Studies 30 (Summer 1990):6-22.
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| He said he'll make a sequel. |
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| Conversation in a comment section. |
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| Keep Busy. With Young Women President of Bulawen And counselor of the Branch Presidency |
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| From a different angle. With our service missionaries assigned to Family History Behind was the Elder's Quorum President of the Branch. And of course, my wife was there. |
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| Brother Mortel in his indexing problem |
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| Sister Maricel trying hard to get the name while indexing |
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| Others doing their part. Most of it was indexing. |
This kinda funny but yes, missionaries were persistent for the sake of salvation.
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Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
This was the schedule assign for me. It's kinda fun and exiting, and of course I need to be prepare for a topic in the entire week.
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| Im teaching New Testament 2 for remote class Every Saturday 7:00 - 8:30 |
Some post that I saw which actually made me think.
I wonder how are they gonna apply this few verses using that comical example -
Proverbs 28:18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Matthew 10:22, 24:13; (Mark 13:13) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 19:23 (Mark 10:26; Luke 18:26) ¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
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| Just a post I found in one of the group. I didn't enclude the entire post. |
