Doctrine & Covenants 45 : Dr. Brent L. Top Part II

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🗓️ 24 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Will the Lord come like a “woman in travail” or a “thief in the night?” Dr. Brent Top continues his discussion of the signs of the times and teaches how the Lord encourages us four times more than warnings. Join John, Hank, and Dr. Top for Part II as they discuss how our relationship to the Lord is what we should focus on and then we will be in a position to recognize when He comes because we will be near Him.

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00:00 Welcome to Part II
01:13 Ratio of Lord’s Counsel vs. Warning in Section 45
05:00 Dr. Top’s Confidence in God Helps with Anxiety
06:07 God Will Be With Zion in the Last Days and Will Swallow Up Any Threat
09:22 Reminder That Section 45 Isn’t a Negative Section
12:14 Prepper Kits Won’t Help Us If We Haven't Filled Our Souls with Righteousness
13:51 Virtue is the Power of Christ: Not Just Moral Cleanliness
15:08 Dr. Top’s Personal Experience as a Temple Sealer
17:21 Hank Shares How Parable of the Ten Virgins Relates to Us and Why We Can’t Share Our Oil
19:45 Two Metaphors for Jesus’s Sudden Return Depend on Our Relationship: Laboring Mother or Thief
23:31 Why We Can’t Put the Signs of the Second Coming in Sequential Order
26:45 What the Lord Means When He Says “Quickly” or “Soon”
28:51 Gathering Includes People From All Faiths
32:13 Jesus Appears to the Lamanites in the Americas
33:20 Bishop of Stockholm Great Friend to the Church
34:20 Holy Envy of Great Parts of Other Faiths
38:40 Dr Top Shares Story of High School Friend Who Joined Church But Didn’t Know Dr. Top was LDS
43:00 Dr. Top’s Closing Testimony

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0:00.0	Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.
0:06.7	Jump over to verse 55.
0:08.9	We begin that glorious millennial reign.
0:12.5	We're going to read more and more about this in the doctrine of covenants in other revelations.
0:17.5	Section 101 is one of the great revelations on the millennial.
0:22.8	But it really comes down here as he tells the parable of the ten virgins.
0:28.9	Remember, we talked about that this was Matthew 24 and Matthew 25.
0:35.5	When I was working on my book Watch and Be Ready, I looked particularly at chapter 25.
0:43.6	And even when we look at section 29 and 45 and 101, we tend to focus on the signs of
0:51.5	the times that are challenging difficulties.
0:56.4	And we look at the tribulations and we joke about the eyeballs falling out and all of
1:03.0	those kinds of things.
1:04.8	But the revelation itself uses those maybe as for lack of a better way of saying it's
1:13.3	not a great metaphor as or derbs.
1:17.0	And chapter 25, the parables of preparation is the main course.
1:24.2	In fact, in chapters 24 and 25 of Matthew, and I haven't counted it up, but I think
1:30.7	section 45, it may be the same ratio.
1:34.5	But when I was working on my book Watch and Be Ready, as I went through that carefully,
1:41.1	because there's so many people that are distressed about the signs of the times, the
1:45.6	Savior's words concerning preparation and not being troubled, the ratio of those to the
1:54.4	negative signs of the times is 4 to 1.
1:59.1	The Lord's counsel to us and His promises to us appear in the revelations four times more
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