Temple Themes

I’ve got to say how super excited I am to share the concepts of this post! Yesterday, I mentioned how Jehovah subdued the waters of chaos during the Creation. This is a major temple theme and a significant part of the Creation. I have read quite a bit from scholars, and several LDS scholars, who […]

Yesterday I mentioned that some of the Creation events in Genesis are echoed in the New Testament, particularly in the Gospel of John. One of these occurs in the second verse of the Bible: “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of

The first words of the Bible are, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). The Hebrew word for “God” in this verse is elohiym, which is the plural form of el, and el is the general word for God. This brings up the importance of names in scripture, and even

In Abraham 3, Abraham received a Urim and Thummim, meaning lights and perfections in Hebrew, and since a Urim and Thummim was worn by the High Priest in the Tabernacle and later in the temple, it has ties to the temple. “And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;