Chapel Mormon (to the extreme) apologist/author Richard Robbins has a highly entertaining channel on Patheos, called Ye Shall Prosper In The Land. If you haven't yet had the pleasure of reading some of Richard's articles, you are in for a delicious treat. Here are some of my favorite articles and snippets. I challenge you to try to read any of Richard's articles without laughing, hard:
Ezra’s Eagle Prediction About The 2024 Trump Harris Election
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... -election/In terms of the ability of this country to survive, this is possibly the most important election ever held in the United States to choose a new president. It feels now like we may be right up against the warning given by Moroni as he described the purpose of the “land of promise” upon which this nation was built.
Can Trump Win The Election? This morning my wife and I went to our local middle school to cast our votes for Donald Trump. Like other Americans, we are very concerned about what the people who control Kamala (yes, she is a puppet chosen by the elites to do their bidding) want for our country over the next eight years. The unholy war being fought against everything the Founding Fathers stood for (from our respective rights to own and use guns and ammunition in defense of our freedoms to a child’s right to be born to the right of our country itself to exist and to maintain its sovereignty) has been one-sided for a long time.
However, if he does win the election, there is a legitimate possibility that he will not be allowed to take office. I have seen many people who have done serious research on how the deep state (secret combinations) works and who understand what’s been going on in this country and throughout the world for the past hundred years discussing the possibility that a President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t become President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.
From what I have observed about Trump, he seems like too big a liability to the elite, including the clients of Jeffrey Epstein and the friends of P Diddy who attended his “freak offs”, to be allowed to take office and start making good on promises he’s made to reveal who’s been involved in some dark, ominous crimes.
Speaking of Biblical presidential elections, several years ago I was introduced to an obscure prophecy that has made its way into the headlines over the past several years. The first person in recent history to give this prophecy attention and to formulate it in terms of modern history is Michael Rush in his book A Remnant Shall Return, which takes a look at the return of the Lost 10 Tribes as Latter-day Saints believe will happen before the Savior’s 2nd Coming. Rush unfolds the mysterious prophecy found in an apocryphal book, 2 Esdras, chapters eleven and twelve.
The prophecy involves a 3-headed eagle whose wings represent the presidents of the United States starting at Herbert Hoover in 1929. Hoover is considered by many to be the first president installed by a wide-ranging conspiracy. Hoover was a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization that has been identified by LDS leaders and scholars such as Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen as an example of secret combinations.
Michael Rush links the sequence of long and short feathers described on the right and left side of the 3-headed eagle to the presidents of the United States from Herbert Hoover to Donald Trump, and more recently to Joe Biden. If the prophecy and its modern interpretation are correct, there will likely not be a new president inaugurated on January 20, 2025. Instead, there will be such chaos and upheaval between now and that period of time that the United States government as we know it disappears.
Everyone is Lying to You
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... ng-to-you/Vaccines. The entire premise of vaccines is a lie. God created each of his children with an immune system that was sufficient for keeping us healthy, unless we treat our bodies poorly. Contrary to government’s and Rockefeller healthcare’s death grip on the information and perspective we’re “allowed” towards vaccines (i.e. that they’re necessary for survival), vaccines do nothing to improve health, and they do a lot to destroy it. Getting vaccinated isn’t a matter of choosing the lesser evil (being sick versus getting vaccine injured), it’s simply a mechanism to make society sicker, more dependent upon pharmaceutical medication. We have replaced a belief in the healing power of Jesus Christ with the worship of a product made in a chemical laboratory that includes parts of aborted children.
It is interesting to note that suspicions voiced by BYU professor Steven Jones about the use of nano-thermite explosives to take down the three buildings of 9/11 resulted in his placement on administrative leave. BYU cited concerns that his research and public statements were impacting the university’s reputation. As with the doctors referenced above in the medical example, whose fear of man make them guilty of lying about healthcare, this example demonstrates that the authorities at BYU were less interested in the truth about what actually happened than they are about not getting crossways with those who are powerful enough to lie about what they did without fear of being found out. For anyone with a hint of discernment, it’s obvious that what we’ve been told for over 20 years about the events that we memorialize each September are lies.
In 1961 at a stake conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, Joseph Fielding Smith, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had this to say about space travel: "We will never get a man into space. This earth is man’s sphere and it was never intended that he should get away from it. The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen."
But was he wrong? We’ve been told for decades that NASA sent a spacecraft to the moon six times between 1969 and 1972, after which time they stopped going to the moon, not because it was boring or because we lost interest. Have humans indeed progressed so far that we have figured out how to leave the “sphere” of our existence to set foot on the moon?
The answer is NO!
There are plenty of documentaries that pick apart the idea that we landed on the moon. One of the most entertaining and convincing that I’ve seen is a Rumble video (YouTube tends to censor and remove most moon landing hoax videos) entitled The Moon Landing: Stanley Kubrick’s Greatest Film | How NASA and Hollywood Fooled the World.
Despite this scriptural evidence, religious scientists still find it within themselves to accept the idea that the sun is 93 million miles away, and that, despite our own observations to the contrary, we live on a spinning ball where water somehow clings to the surface despite being subjected to a massive centrifugal force outward.
When we look at the explanations of what’s happening in our solar system, much of it simply doesn’t make sense. However, we’ve been conditioned to trust the experts so much that most of us don’t even think twice what they’ve told us.
Similar to the moon landing, it looks like there have been lies stacked upon lies to back up the model of a solar system that we’re taught from our childhood up. We’ve been inundated with blue marble pictures of the earth that are inconsistent from year to year. When we ask about why, we find out that there are no pictures of the earth from space, but CGI composite renderings.
The Gospel Promise of Prosperity
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... rosperity/The scriptures are full of promises from prophets related to prosperity. There are more than 20 references in The Book of Mormon to God’s offer of temporal prosperity for those who keep the commandments of God.
Following the Savior’s ministry to the Nephites after his resurrection, their civilization enjoyed a period of continual peace for 200 years. Mormon, describing the results of this society’s determination to be righteous, asserted that “there could not be a happier people” (v 16) while also pointing out that “they had become exceedingly rich, because of their prosperity in Christ” (v 23).
These examples and many others from The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and modern scriptures make it clear that there is strong correlation between prosperity, including thriving economically, and following those principles which have been established for receiving any particular blessing.
The promise of prosperity in this life as a reward for faithfulness typically involves more temporal abundance, more physical and spiritual blessings, more sense of purpose and fulfillment, more access to the goodness that comes from God.
Here are some other gems:
Has The Lord’s Church Lost Its Way?
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... t-its-way/
Will Jesus’ Second Coming Happen by 2033?
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... n-by-2033/
Why Latter-day Saints Should Be “Conspiracy Theorists”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/yeshallpr ... theorists/
