The True Remnant

🌿 While Everyone Else Is Watching Babylon, Who Is Building Zion? For most of my life, I heard people talk about the last days. When I was younger, I studied prophecy books. Many of us did. We tried to figure out when the Savior would return. We looked for signs. We studied timelines. We listened to stories that had been passed around for generations. I remember hearing that someday the highways would be broken up and the Saints would have to walk back to Missouri. Others talked about great earthquakes. Some spoke of floods covering the Salt Lake Valley. Some believed the Lost Tribes would return after great events in the north. Others believed judgment would begin with the Church itself. For every prophecy there seemed to be another interpretation, another timeline, another theory. After all these years, I have come to a simple conclusion: I do not know exactly how any of it will happen. Maybe some of those stories contain truth. Maybe some are folklore. Maybe some are misunderstandin...

   The 36-Chapter Chiasm That Shocked Me (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening In the last video I mentioned a book from the Nemenhah writings called: The Lamentation of Mehnipahsihts. When I first started reading it, I was simply studying the teachings. But by that point I had already spent years looking for   chiasmus   in scripture. So naturally my mind started watching for patterns. And that’s when something happened that honestly shocked me. 📜   The First Hint At first I noticed small mirror patterns. A teaching would appear early in the book… Then later the same ideas would appear again in reverse order. That happens sometimes in ancient writings. But then something strange started happening. The patterns kept going. Chapter after chapter. 🌿   When the Pattern Got Bigger After a while I stepped back and looked at the entire book. And suddenly it hit me. The whole record appeared to be arranged like a mirror. Not just verses. Not ju...

 🎵 Listen First (recommended) Before you read, take a few minutes and listen to Abide With Me Sit quietly if you can… and let the words settle slowly. 👉 Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTANUYj0MpI 🕊️ Abide With Me What if we were never meant to walk alone? Have you ever felt… like you were walking through something… and no one really understood? Even with people around… there can still be a quiet kind of loneliness. And then this hymn comes along… and gently asks: “Abide with me.” 🌿 What Does It Mean to Abide? Is it just visiting? Checking in once in a while? Or is it something deeper? Staying. Remaining. Being there… no matter what. 🪶 When the Light Feels Low The hymn speaks of evening. Of shadows. Of things fading. What do we do in those moments? When strength feels low? When answers don’t come? Do we try harder? Or is there something quieter being offered? 🕊️ A Different Kind of Help What if the answer isn’t always fixing everything? What if sometimes… it’s s...

The Holy Ghost and the Mind of God 🌿 A Porch Thought I have been thinking a lot lately about the Holy Ghost. Not just what we call Him. Not just how we talk about Him. But what His actual purpose is. Most of us grow up hearing phrases like: "I felt the Spirit." "The Holy Ghost prompted me." "I received an answer." And those things are certainly real. But what if the Holy Ghost is doing something much deeper than simply helping us feel good? What if the Holy Ghost is actually the means by which the mind of God begins to influence the mind of man? That thought has stayed with me. And the more I study the scriptures, the more I see evidence of it. 📖 More Than a Feeling The scriptures rarely describe the Holy Ghost as merely an emotional experience. Instead, they describe revelation. Truth. Light. Knowledge. Understanding. Christ taught: "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost... shall teach you all things." (John 14:26) Teach. Not merely comfort. ...

  The Records I Found After the Book of Mormon (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening Over the last several videos we’ve been talking about   chiasmus . Those mirror patterns that appear in ancient scripture. My own journey into those patterns really began with the   Book of Mormon . That book opened my eyes. It led to one of those moments where I sat back and thought: “Whoa… this can’t be coincidence.” But something interesting happened after that. Years later I came across another collection of writings called the   Nemenhah Records . And when I began studying those… things got even more interesting. 📜   Who Were the Nemenhah? The Nemenhah writings describe a people sometimes called   the People of Peace . Their traditions speak about living in harmony with the Creator, the land, and one another. The records contain teachings about: stewardship community life sacred ceremonies and the path toward Zion-like societies. But what caught my a...

  🌿 The Temple, the Nemenhah Records, and the Question That Changed Everything For most of my life, I thought the purpose of the temple was to learn the ordinances. Then I thought the purpose was to understand the symbols. Then I thought the purpose was to understand the history. Now, at 74 years old, after years of studying the scriptures, attending the temple, and reading the Nemenhah records, I find myself asking a much simpler question: What is the temple really for? The older I get, the more important that question becomes. 🌿 My Journey With the Temple Like many members of the Church, I entered the temple with very little preparation. I remember being overwhelmed. There were symbols. There were ceremonies. There were things I did not fully understand. Over the years I attended faithfully. I learned more. I studied more. I appreciated more. But eventually I realized something. The symbols themselves are not the destination. They point to the destination....

   Why Ancient Writers Used Chiasmus (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening Over the last few videos we’ve been looking at something called   chiasmus . A mirror pattern that appears in many ancient writings. We’ve seen examples in scripture. And we’ve talked about how you can begin noticing these patterns yourself. But that raises an interesting question. Why would ancient writers arrange their teachings this way in the first place? 📜   A Memory Tool One reason is very practical. Many ancient cultures relied heavily on   oral teaching . Stories and teachings were often memorized and passed down from generation to generation. Mirror structures like chiasmus made those teachings easier to remember. If you knew the first half, you could follow the pattern back through the second half. 🌿   A Way to Emphasize the Message Another reason is emphasis. Ancient writers often placed the   most important idea in the center   of the pattern...