*Out of tune singing...*
Um anyway, so
Okay today we're gonna talk about miracles.
Our church is a church of miracles because we believe that just as they passed in the olden times like the Bible
they happen today.
With modern prophets. They do. A lot of people don't know that but the best part about this show
is that we get to tell people-- okay, that's enough, let's take it down a notch. So we -- something like that.
On this show we've talked about the first vision,
we've talked about the restoration of the priesthood keys - miracle- when John the Baptist,
Peter, James, and John came down. All those are miracles.
But there are so many that happened that we just don't talk about just because I guess they're not as important
but we thought this would be an episode to like just talk about some of those really cool stories. Miracles.
Because it's really easy to-- at least I find like a lot of people that I've talked to who are
investigating or not members of the church,
They discount the first vision and they just discount that because they think that's like all there was.
But then you just go -- well because we talk about it so much--
yeah, you know it gets kind of old hat. Once they start reading about all this other stuff, they go,
"Oh my gosh, if this is not true
Joseph Smith had to hire like five hundred
like a thousand people all to lie. And so we thought we'd talk about some of these stories and
one is just an account, another one is like a really big account, and one is a revelation from scripture.
So Mimi, take it away!
Alright
so we're gonna be talking about Lorenzo Snow who was the fifth prophet of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
basically, he was in this stake-- I'm doing the hand thing--
He was a stake presidency in
Boxelder, Utah
which is up there by Brigham City and they were in a stake presidency
Conference and he was conducting the meeting. At the time
he was one of the Apostles in the quorum of the twelve and then the state president tells him like, "Hey,
this just happened, there was a girl
who just recently died and we want to announce it to the stake." And when Lorenzo Snow got that message
he felt prompted, instead of announcing that this girl died, he actually just said, "Okay
well, I'm going to excuse the stake president and myself for a second and we'll be back soon."
So they leave and they drive miles away and they get to this house of the girl who recently passed away,
I believe her name was Ella.
And her parents are there and her family's there and they're just really upset and she had died about
three hours prior.
So then they go to the house and
they give a blessing to the girl who'd recently passed away
and they waited around for a while and nothing happened.
So they left. And then a couple hours later
the girl wakes up and is literally revived from her death and
she has this really beautiful account of the afterlife that she saw and she was actually reunited with her
grandfather who had passed away and
there's this beautiful account that you can read more about but when she arose she was asking
she's like, "Where is President Snow?"
She's like, "I know he was here. He arose me from the dead." And that is just
amazing because, I don't know, when I hear about the miracles that Jesus Christ did
in his ministry in the New Testament
I love reading about them and my dad actually had a stroke a couple years ago
and before when I was reading the New Testament, I thought it was cool that Jesus did all these miracles
but I never really understood it truly and I was seeing my dad after
he had a stroke. It is just it's so powerful and bringing someone back from the dead, I mean,
that's something that Jesus did but that's also something that President Lorenzo Snow did on the earth
and I know it to be true and I just think it's amazing that we have that account and that miracles can still happen
so yeah. Sorry to get all emotional.
Well, it's true though, because um, I think people discredit the fact that I mean, yeah
there's like miracles happen all the time, you know and like, oh, it's a miracle that you're alive
then you look for wake up in the morning, you know
but but in a very literal sense like these crazy things happen that like science cannot describe,
you know, that are just like beyond our comprehension.
Imagining my dad being healed of his paralysis from his stroke
like I just could not imagine that but just knowing Christ did that and he did it multiple times and
people like our apostles and prophets can do that today. Yeah, right. The priesthood authority is real.
It is a strong thing
And we are so lucky that we have the priesthood on earth.
And sometimes it doesn't even have to-- these miracles that have occurred in the history of like the church--
I haven't even been like particular like blessings or anything.
There's a story of Joseph Smith when he was with the early Saints and they're running away from mobs and
and they were gonna fight the mobs, you know, they had all their guns and they were all ready and they're like,
"We're going to
get in a war." I don't know what you want to call it
but they were gonna stay at stand up for themselves, which isn't bad.
Yeah.
But then Joseph Smith just stopped him and there was this river between them and the mobs and he just--
I'm gonna paraphrase but he was like,
"Behold the power of God."
Like we're not gonna do anything, God's gonna take care of us. And the men were like, "Okay."
So they hide out in a church, that was there and they just kind of like spend the night there and
And then while they're spending the night in this church this enormous
storm emerges and then the
accounts of the men who were there say that literally it went from clear blue sky and
within moments turned dark and
and then winds and lightning and thunder and rain that came and it
killed the army that was coming to get them. Not everyone
obviously but it wrecked them and they left because they couldn't handle the storm.
They couldn't cross the river by
any means because it was so like overflowing with water and a lot of them were just like, they just left and so
God obviously was involved, you know.
it was a miraculous day, everyone who was, even the people like who were trying to kill the Mormons,
Joseph and his people we're like, this is ridiculous like how did this even happen?
It was clear only like an hour ago, and they just booked it because this is messed up.
So God's power is real and it doesn't even have to be like
Well, I mean like he's in control of like nature and how cool is that? I love to compare that
with Moses. When he's fleeing with the Jews, when he's finally got the Jews, the Egyptians are chasing after them
and they're like,
"What are we gonna do? How are we gonna... The water is separating us." And Moses is like, "Chill fam." And
The water rises, they cross it, the Egyptians come in and God just washes them out.
Hipster Moses.
He's like live Periscoping on Twitter. He's using his staff as like a selfie stick, you know.
We are so in trouble. But yes, it's very similar.
Yes, you know, and it blows my mind and that happened within like the last a couple hundred years.
And it really did happen.
And we hear about in the Bible we're like, "Yeah, it's the Bible like of course," but these can still happen
like that. We still have the same authority. He paid them off. Joseph Smith paid every single one of them off.
Because he was loaded. So rich. Farm boy...
All lying and remember Mimi: You dumb Mormon girls, just want to be Catholic.
To quote Jim Caponzi. So this is one of my favorite scriptures in our canon.
It's the prophecy of the Civil War. It is really, really cool. It's found in Doctrine Covenants section 87
and this right here
this was in
1832 this happened, right, so I'm gonna read from it. But let me just give you the context. Joseph Smith
prophesied of the Civil War coming.
The Lord told him-- wait, how much... when did the Civil War start? The Civil War started in 1861.
So this is like 30 years. This is 1832. This is a while beforehand and he prophesies of it,
he says, "A war is gonna break out."
In fact,
this is actually what it says. It says, "Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass,
beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina,
which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls and
the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations from beginning at this place for
behold
the southern states shall be divided against the northern states and the southern states will call on other nations
even the nation of Great Britain as it is called" and that happened "and
they shall also call upon other nations in order to defend themselves
against the other nations and then shall war be poured out upon all nations."
Now we'll get into that in a second
but this is an 1832. Right? So the Lord tells Joseph Smith "this is gonna happen" and it doesn't happen right away.
And someone's like, "It's a false prophecy."
Now if it was a false prophecy then Joseph would've just brushed it away, right?
Right, but he kept saying, "No this is gonna happen" and then at the time political scientists were like,
"But there might, there might be some some kerfuffles, there might be some but no one
was expecting a full-out war
maybe a couple of people thought, "Maybe a war could happen but nothing like this,"
especially super clear. And so
accurate. Where it started. And then Britain was involved?
Cuz no one thought Britain was going to get involved.
You're not gonna be specific if you're just making everything up.
Have you ever written an essay on a test that you weren't prepared for?
And you're just like, "The reason why George Washington was good because of the things
that were good." You're just
milking the points, you know, but Joseph Smith he didn't--
because if he was one state off, people would have been like
"Bah," You know? This is very specific and very clear.
By the way, it gets clearer. And
And it shall come to pass after many days slaves shall rise up against their masters
who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.
That happened. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it's so crazy. But what I do love about this, so
this is a Civil War prophecy. But it's also like World War one prophecy going to-- because it says here,
"And they shall also call upon other nations in order to defend themselves against other nations and
then war shall be poured out upon all nations."
So this prophecy is saying yes, the war's gonna happen, write it down. Joseph Smith is like,
"All right, Civil War's gonna happen. It happened. True prophecy,
it happens." But it's bigger than that cuz by the way after this, they's just gonna be war everywhere, everywhere.
It's gonna keep happening.
And I like later on it says, "until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations."
So there's gonna be so much war from the Civil War
onward and with the war the world has just been in a perpetual state of war so
He's smiling o me I'm happy
I'm happy because I love like how war God we know. Well, it's a war
I
love though that um, like
The Lord knows what's gonna happen and he makes it work for the building up of design
He makes it work for the best and that's why I love it
It makes me so happy note that like that's how probable Christ a side note to is is God all it respects people's agency you
Know and he's like this is gonna happen because people are gonna choose for this to happen
So he's gonna warn his Saints that they can do it. They can yeah, you know, that's what he says here
it says
Um that the cried the Saints in the blood of the Saints shall cease to come into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth
That's from the earth to be event of their enemies wherefore
Stand ye in holy places and be not moved until the day of the Lord come for behold it cometh quickly
Safe the Lord. Amen
This is a very beautiful one. He's like, yeah, there's gonna be a civil war. Uh,
People are gonna get wrecked
oh, it's gonna be bad stand in holy places war is going to come on after that stand in holy places and
Especially stand in the temple
That's very comforting because we can't stop stuff like that from happening. But at least we have that nice. So anyway,
miracles of the restoration guys
So many there's so many
You could literally go on all day. We'll probably do a part two of this episode and we will find more about these stories
Scriptural Canada Church of Jesus. There's also lds.org. I feel like has some really cool articles about
Like
Most of it
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