✨ ✨ “The ‘Sometimes’ Prophet?”
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨
“The ‘Sometimes’ Prophet?”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
When the First Presidency’s letter urged the Saints worldwide to receive the vaccine, the mental gymnastics began.
“Sometimes he’s speaking as a prophet, sometimes just as a man.”
“That letter came from the administrative side, not the revelatory side.”
“It was only meant for vulnerable people, not everyone.”
But here’s the question: what is a prophet of God?
A man who sometimes delivers heaven’s message and sometimes the government’s?
Or one who speaks face-to-face with the Lord, and then declares His word to the people?
If you were teaching a new convert about prophets, how would you explain that letter?
🔥 My Reflection
This issue is bigger than a vaccine. It’s about authority, Zion, and what it means to hear the voice of the Lord.
Zion has never been established by gradual mentions in sermons or by programs. Enoch didn’t lay groundwork for centuries later. Melchizedek didn’t build committees. The Nephites didn’t become a Zion people by slow tradition.
Each time, Zion came suddenly—through truth, power, and the Lord’s personal presence.
Even at Bountiful, where Jesus Himself ministered for days, blessed their children, and left three translated beings among them, within four generations the people still fell away (3 Nephi 28:4–23).
Are we greater than those at Bountiful?
If even they could not hold Zion without continual repentance and faith, how much more careful must we be—four generations after Joseph, with no translated beings, no personal visitation, and further away from Zion than ever?
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Jacob 5:30–37 — Loftiness corrupted the vineyard.
Lectures on Faith 6:8 — No one inherits eternal life without offering the same sacrifice.
Luke 18:19 — Jesus redirects all praise back to the Father.
Hebrews 8:11 — “They shall all know me, from the least to the greatest.”
1 Timothy 2:5 — Only one Mediator between God and man: Jesus Christ.
🕊️ The Invitation
Don’t wait on a “sometimes prophet.”
Don’t excuse yourself by saying “that talk was just his opinion.”
Don’t look for Zion in conference slogans.
Authority rests in Jesus alone. He is the True Vine. The Keeper of the Gate. The Only Mediator.
Prophets can point—but they cannot replace Him. Apostles may encourage—but they cannot save you. When any leader asks you to lean on their arm instead of Christ, hear Jeremiah’s warning: “Cursed is the man that trusteth in man… blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord” (Jer. 17:5,7).
The antichrist spirit John spoke of isn’t always loud and hostile—it is subtle, offering substitutes for Christ. Dependence on hierarchy. Dependence on programs. Dependence on men.
The invitation of the New Covenant is far simpler, and far holier: “They shall all know me.”
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