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“The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover”

“The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover”

Last updated on: October 23, 2019 at 10:22 pm by Dan Peterson

“The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover” 2019-10-23T22:22:01-06:00 Dan Peterson

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The first Latter-day Saint temple was dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1836, but the Church was driven from the area shortly thereafter and no longer owns it. (LDS.org)

Dr. Hales Swift continues to contribute videos (and their transcripts) to the Interpreter Foundation for the use of students and teachers in the Gospel Doctrine classes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s his latest:

Facing Temptation and Anxiety in 1 Thessalonians 3: A Video Supplement for Come, Follow Me Lesson 41: “Be Not Soon Shaken in Mind, or Be Troubled”

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Here’s a comment on the Pearl of Great Price Central article from Robert Boylan in Dublin:

“Pearl of Great Price Central on ‘Shinehah'”

And here’s something from Book of Mormon Central that you might enjoy.

“Incredible Video Explains the Story of the Plates of Mormon”

That link-title above does remind me of a pet peeve, though: It’s one of my dreams to see the eventual retirement of the use of the word incredible to mean “excellent” or “well done” or “very good.” After all, isn’t this video supposed to be, well, credible?

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I’m pleased beyond words by the fact that, unlike so very many Evangelical Protestants and their leaders, a substantial proportion of the Latter-day Saints have resisted bending the knee to Baal:

“Mitt Romney is having an important moment. His faith might be, too.”

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“What a conservative New York Times columnist had to say to BYU students”

Watch and listen to David Brooks’s speech here:

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“Church Assists With Hospital Bed Donation in Papua New Guinea: Sister Sharon Eubank of Latter-day Saint Charities offers gift from members”

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I had occasion yesterday (Tuesday) to commend this 1983 article (by my friend, former missionary companion, and department colleague Dr. Stephen D. Ricks) to someone who called me about some points of contact between Judaism and the Restoration. Having done so, it seems appropriate to bring it to your notice, as well. I think it extremely interesting. You can download it at no charge:

“The Appearance of Elijah and Moses in the Kirtland Temple and the Jewish Passover”

A brief note in the History of the Church under the date of Sunday, 3 April 1836, records the appearance of the Lord, Moses, Elias, and Elijah to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple. Subsequent writers have noted that this date corresponds to the Jewish Passover, during which the arrival of Elijah is traditionally awaited. A parenthetical note in the Missionary Training Manual: For Use in the Jewish Proselyting Program states the correlation of the two events emphatically. There we are informed that Elijah appeared in the Kirtland Temple “at about the same hour that the Jewish families in that time zone would have been preparing to begin their feast of the Passover.” These statements, although correct in their identification of the Jewish Passover with the ritual expectation of Elijah and in their connecting the time of the appearance of Elijah in the Kirtland Temple with the Passover season, warrant further elucidation and modest chronological correction.

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