Salt Lake City in Dead Sea Scrolls?

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Dead Sea Scroll's New Jerusalem 

Brigham Youngs Salt Lake City

1. City of God

2. Equilateral Checkerboard 

3. Set on the Cosmos (NSEW orientation)

4. Extra Wide Streets

5. Sidewalks

6. Streets Numbered from Temple

7. Abnormally Large City (18x13 mi.)

--JJBrown,2012

Now Let Us Rejoice

In 1833, W.W. Phelps wrote a hymn after witnessing the Leonid meteor shower, an event so spectacular it was thought to be the Day of Judgment. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fleeing persecution in Missouri, Phelps and his fellow Saints saw the meteor shower as a sign of divine favor, which led their pursuers to abandon their chase. The hymn “Now Let Us Rejoice” was born from this moment of salvation and rejoicing amidst adversity.

1. Now let us rejoice in the day of salvation. No longer as strangers on earth need we roam. Good tidings are sounding to us and each nation, And shortly the hour of redemption will come, When all that was promised the Saints will be given, And none will molest them from morn until ev’n, And earth will appear as the Garden of Eden, And Jesus will say to all Israel, “Come home.”

2. We’ll love one another and never dissemble But cease to do evil and ever be one. And when the ungodly are fearing and tremble, We’ll watch for the day when the Savior will come, When all that was promised the Saints will be given, And none will molest them from morn until ev’n, And earth will appear as the Garden of Eden, And Jesus will say to all Israel, “Come home.”

3. In faith we’ll rely on the arm of Jehovah To guide thru these last days of trouble and gloom, And after the scourges and harvest are over, We’ll rise with the just when the Savior doth come. Then all that was promised the Saints will be given, And they will be crown’d with the angels of heav’n,

And earth will appear as the Garden of Eden, And Christ and his people will ever be one.

Lehi's Temple Journey

Valley of Lemuel - courtyard of tabernacle. offered sacrifice, gain scripture, married.  Water flowing to red Sea fount of righteousness. 

Liminal space - pass through shazer. twisted, "mashezar" = fine twined linen.

Nahom = Holy Place, Clothed, Feast, death and resurrection.  Broken Bow and Nahom incident involve Lord miraculously providing food. Animals also provide clothing. =  sorrow, murmur, mourn, repent, comfort, joy. Raised from the dead. Brought out of darkness/netherworld and being raised to kingship and priesthood (staff and crook). Who you really are.  Messenger of light: Show others the way, Invite them, annoint them. Your own funeral Feast. 

Empty Quarter, Rub' al Khali, no-mans land. = Veil of Temple, Impenetrable 

Land of Bountiful = Eden, Holy of Holies, Milk and Honey, fruit, Ship = Ark, Revelation

Alma the Younger,  Ammon, Lamoni, Queen, Lamoni's Father- taught creation, fall, plan of redemption, Christ.... passing out, crying for mercy, and being raised to new life.  Ritual death and rebirth. 

Liahona = Aaron's Staff

Bees = milk honey. order, Aristotle, mother. 

Deborah, Debir, = bee, order

Jaredites- brought honey and seeds of all kinds.