Christ's Coming to Zion, Jews, World   The Book of Mormon Lecture 19 by Hyrum Andrus
Channel: Light and Truth
Date: 2016-06-18

Hyrum L Andrus
All rights reserved August 10-12, 1989
Lecture – 19 CHRIST'S COMING TO ZION, JERUSALEM AND THE WORLD
... What Paul is saying here is if you are truly Israel and really become Israel one off your natural rights according to the doctrine and election in the flesh within this holy order program one off your natural rights that you ought to know of and to seek for is as he puts it here not only the adoption but the glory. You have a right to live with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire over your house by night. You have that right, that is your legitimate right. You came here in the blood of Israel and were born with that right and that privilege but you have to do the work that builds to that right. That is to be justified in Christ and to be sanctified and to receive those blessings of the gospel in purity with the ceiling powers and then the full rights of Israel can be unfolded. So then they have the full right of adoption and the glory and the covenant and these are the covenants of the house of the Lord in addition to the covenants of adoption and the giving of the law and Israel has a right then to give the law. The law shall go forward from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem as a result of the giving of the law and the rights to do so. And the service of the god and the promises. Now all Israel which are not Israel but are of Israel is one point. Now another point is this, Zion is not truly mount Zion until she is built upon her Mount. A person in the cavalry is not really a soldier in the cavalry until he is mounted on his white charger, or whatever he is riding. He is not really what he is designed to be until he is on his mount. The Mount of Zion is the Temple of the Lord, it's the covenants of the Lord, it's the sealing power, it's the endowment of glory--that's Mount Zion. And when Zion becomes Mount Zion, then there will be a cloud and smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night.
Isaiah speaks of this great ensign. I'd like to turn with you to the Book of Mormon and bring up one of these things we didn't get time to talk about yesterday, and these are the Isaiah passages. I'd like particularly to deal with Isaiah 11, which is 2 Nephi 21. Isaiah does something like we genealogists do. In order to show your pedigree you utilize the tree as a symbol, the great genealogical tree. And you have the trunk who is great-great-grandad, or someone way back there. He's the trunk. Then you have a big limb that goes out, and then you have another limb that goes out, and then you have a branch that goes out, and you have a twig that goes out. Then you have some leaves that are on the twig, and very proudly you say, "Hey, that's me!" Isn't that what you do?
So you use the symbol of the tree to portray your genealogy. Isaiah uses the symbol of a plant to portray presiding figures in the Holy Order that will be built up to usher in the Millennial kingdom of Christ. That's what Isaiah 11 is all about. He starts out and says, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse." Who was Jesse? David's father. How is that tied in with the doctrine of election in the flesh?
In Israel, the house of Israel, there are 3 main lineages in which the Lord has placed sacred powers. The presiding lineage is that of Ephraim, it's the birthright. It carries the right to build the temple. It carries the right to teach the gospel. It carries the right to the sealing powers of the holy priesthood. It carries the right to the office of high priest over the Holy Order. It carries that right. And it carries the right to bestow the blessings of the gospel and the temple upon others, and this is why the ten tribes will come to Ephraim and be crowned with glory in honor and recognition of Ephraim's role as the firstborn.
This is the presiding one. This is the office of priest in the term, priest and king. And actually it ought to be priest and king, rather that king and priest, because the priestly power supersedes in rights and prerogatives the kingly power.
And then there's another body of Israel. This is Levi. What does Levi have? He has the right to the preparatory gospel; that's an important function. He has also a right to the law of sacrifice, symbolic of Christ and portraying, foretelling the coming of Christ. So the preparatory gospel, the law of sacrifice. If you read Exodus 28 very carefully, you'll find that Aaron also had another right that he had, a prophetic right that was given to him under Moses. It's an order of prophets under Moses. And as such, he had a right to the ephod of God, which is a dress and a garment so designed that it has within it the Urim and Thummim. He has the right, then, to the Urim and Thummim and to the seeric powers of the Urim and Thummim.
So Levi is a very important thing. He is prophet, he is preparat… Get the full transcription from www.hyrumandrus.com!