The True Remnant

              Is the Entire Book of Mormon a Giant Chiasm?                                                   (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening Over the last few videos we’ve been talking about something called   chiasmus . A mirror pattern ancient writers often used. Ideas move toward a center point… and then mirror outward again. We saw it in Alma’s conversion. We saw it in King Benjamin’s sermon. We even saw hints of it in the story of Christ appearing to the people. But some students of scripture have noticed something even bigger. Something that made me stop and think. 📜   A Much Larger Pattern When you step back and look at the Book of Mormon as a whole, the story seems to move toward one central moment. The appearance of   Jesus Christ in 3 Nephi . Everything before that moment builds t...

  The Crossroad — One Year Later It’s been about a year. A year of writing. A year of thinking. A year of asking questions I didn’t used to ask. A year of seeing things I didn’t see before. 🛤️ Standing at a Crossroad And if I’m being honest… this is what it feels like now. A crossroad. Not in a dramatic way. Just… a quiet place where you stop for a minute and look around. 🔄 Looking Back When I look back at where I started… I can see the difference. I was more intense. More focused on figuring things out. More caught up in what was right… and what wasn’t. And I get why. That was part of the process. 🌱 What That Year Did to Me But something changed along the way. I didn’t get louder. I got quieter. I didn’t get more certain about everything. I got more at peace with not needing to be. ❤️ I See People Differently Now That might be the biggest change. I see people differently now. People in the Church. People outside the Church. Family. Friends. I don’t feel the same need to fix any...

  🎥 Video 88 — What Has Changed in Me Since Writing   Waking Up Zion When I started writing   Waking Up Zion … I didn’t really know where it would take me. I just knew something inside me was shifting. 🌱 Where I Was Then At the beginning… there was a lot going on inside. Questions. Frustration. Confusion. Things I had believed for a long time… didn’t feel as clear anymore. And I didn’t quite know what to do with that. 🧠 Trying to Sort It Out So I did what I tend to do. I started writing. Trying to make sense of it. Trying to understand what was true… what wasn’t… what mattered… what didn’t. And for a while… it felt like I was trying to solve something. 🔄 What Changed Along the Way But somewhere along the way… it stopped being about solving things. And started becoming something else. Something quieter. Something more personal. ❤️ I Softened That’s probably the biggest change. I softened. Toward people. Toward the Church. Toward things I used to feel strongly about. No...

  🌿 Living the Celestial Law A Porch Thought About Ordinances, Keys, and What Christ Really Came to Restore A friend and I sat down for lunch recently. He's a good man. A faithful man. A temple-going man. The kind of man who can talk for an hour and a half without coming up for air. I asked a simple question. Before long we were discussing Solomon's Temple. Ancient Israel. Priests. Levites. The Ark of the Covenant. Veils. Sacred clothing. Signs. Tokens. Keys. Authority. Temple ordinances. One subject led to another until I felt like I was drowning in religious terminology. As I listened, a thought kept returning to my mind: What did Christ actually come to restore? Or perhaps a better question: What did Christ come to fulfill? 🌿 The Law of Moses Ancient Israel lived under the Law of Moses. Animal sacrifices. Priests. Altars. Incense. Washings. Sacred garments. Holy places. Everything pointed forward to something greater. When Adam offered sacrifice, the angel explained that i...

   The Chiasm That Centers on the Appearance of Christ (Hidden Patterns in Scripture Series) 🧭   Opening In the last couple videos we’ve been talking about something called   chiasmus . A mirror pattern ancient writers often used. Ideas move toward a center point… and then mirror back outward. Today I want to show you something remarkable that appears in the Book of Mormon account when   Jesus Christ visits the people in the Americas . 📜   The Scene in 3 Nephi Leading up to Christ’s appearance, the people have gone through terrible destruction. Cities are lost. Darkness covers the land. And then a voice is heard from heaven. Eventually the darkness clears. The people gather near the temple. And something extraordinary happens. Christ appears. 🌿   The Pattern Leading to Christ If we simplify the flow of events, it forms a pattern like this: A — Destruction and darkness across the land B — A voice from heaven calls the people to repentance C — The peo...

 🎵 Listen First (recommended) Before you read, take a few minutes and listen to this song. Sit quietly if you can… and let the words settle slowly. 👉 Listen to the song here 🕊️ When the Soul Gets Quiet What if God speaks more softly than we expect? Have you ever noticed… how the deepest moments with God are usually quiet? Not loud. Not dramatic. Just… still. A song like this doesn’t try to overpower you. It doesn’t push. It simply creates space. And sometimes… space is exactly what the soul has been needing. 🌿 Why Is Silence So Hard? Why do we keep filling every quiet moment? More noise. More scrolling. More distraction. Could it be… that silence sometimes brings us face-to-face with what’s really inside us? And could it also be… that silence is where we finally begin to hear Him? 🪶 The Gentle Voice The scriptures often describe God’s voice quietly. A whisper. A still small voice. Not forcing. Not demanding. So what if we’ve been listening for thunder… while He’s been speaking...

 Zion (Soft Summary) 📝 What I Thought Zion Was vs What I See Now For most of my life… I thought I understood what Zion was. 🏙️ What I Thought Zion Meant I pictured something big. A place. A people. An organized effort. Something you build. Something you prepare for. Something that eventually shows up… if everything is done right. 🧠 The Way I Saw It Zion, to me, felt like a system. Structure. Programs. Rules. Readiness. Almost like if we followed the right steps… we would get there. 🌱 Something Started Shifting But as I kept walking this path… that idea started to soften. Not disappear. Just… change. ❤️ What I Started Noticing I started noticing something simple. The closer I felt to Him… the less complicated everything else felt. Not more structure. Not more layers. Less. 🕊️ Zion Felt Different Zion stopped feeling like something far away. Something we had to build someday. And started feeling like something… that begins right here. Inside. 👣 Not a System — A Way of Living I ...