A Desolating Scourge

I just found more good stuff!

I looked up 3 Nephi 13: 19-21. It contains a copy of one of the Biblical passages that contradicts Jacob 2:17-19.

It says, "Lay not up for youselves treasure upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal;
"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."

Why, oh why, is the Book of Mormon getting stupider and stupider? It doesn't happen overnight. No one wakes up and suddenly says that the number one sacred text of their religion is kind of suspect! No one does this. And yet I keep finding things that indicate there is even more junk to be de-bunked!

I was reading my Bible and finding even more passages lifted and stuck in the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants. And I found even more that I could not believe!

But what is worse than collapsing doctrine in the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants is a chapter of Isaiah. Isaiah 28 appears to have some warnings for certain LDS people. It is originally a warning to those who were rulers of Jerusalem at that time, but it rings with a truthfulness to some modern LDS practices.

Isaiah 28: 14-18 says: "Where hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
"Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
"Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
"Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
"And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
"From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
"For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
"For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
"Now there be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth." (KJV)

It just seems that the "covenant with death" and the "agreement with hell" refers to temple endowment covenants. Some people who have gone through the temple have thought there was a Satanic element to the rituals. It may not be a covenant with God that people make there. Also, the covenant with death would be the penalties for sharing temple ceremonies with anyone else.

Also, the making "lies our refuge" appears to be the way the Mormons square themselves with their violent, polygamous past. The leaders do not detail the history in all accuracy to the LDS people. They only seem to hide it. "Under falsehood" have they hid themselves. Also, the "overflowing scourge shall pass through" and "it will not come unto us" refers to the idea that the LDS people believe that in the second coming they will not burn with the wicked. They will go back to Missouri, raise up Zion, and be saved. They also believe they are protected by the Lord from the evils of our day that may visit themselves upon other peoples.

Yet, in verse 17, "Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lifes, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place." What if, one day the Lord decides to judge the refuges of lies--temples and meeting houses, in which the LDS people continually lie about their heritage, their past, and their doctrine?

"And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand" indicates that those rituals and oaths will not withstand the judgments of the Lord in the last days. What if indeed there is a desolating scourge that the LDS people will not withstand?

It indicates, in verse 22, that the "consumption, even determined upon the whole earth," is the timeframe in which this prophecy could come to pass. That this desolating scourge could come upon those in a much later time, when the whole earth will have a "consumption" upon it.

It seems that any who take false covenants are not only not protecting themselves. They are dragging themselves into the ignorance of the whole earth.

I find this passage in Isaiah to be rather difficult to interpret. I also find in it a sign that the elements of the evils I am speaking up about seem to gather themselves rather closely into one Biblical passage.

Floods? Scourges? Is this possible?

You be the judge. I am here to show as best as I can.