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Wonderful and insightful article! Thank you – for researching, writing, and also reading!
This is one of the best Interpreter articles I’ve read (actually, listened to)! And that’s saying something because they put out a lot of great stuff. I really appreciate the author’s perspective. Thanks
Thank you George for opening my eyes to another aspect of the crucifixion that I was not aware of. The Lord’s outstretched arms of mercy and judgment will hence forth remind me of the burden that is mine to prepare for the coming judgment –so that when the time comes I may be a sheep on the right hand of the Lord.
Your in depth insights provided new and interesting avenues of thought that will occupy my mind whenever I study the crucifixion.
This is a scholarly work of art and much appreciated.
The Book of Mormon is a second witness that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, the one whom all mankind must hear in all things whatsoever he said, and is sent forth to persuade men that the Bible is true and to make known teachings that were removed from it.
The world is judging themselves by their handling of the Sermon on the Mount, which is the law and commandments of Jesus Christ.
Those who hear and freely do what Jesus said to do in the Sermon are the church of the Lamb. Those who hear and will not freely do what he said to do are the great and abominable church, which is the church of the devil, which is also called Babylon.
For almost two thousand years, those who have called themselves by his name have left undone what he said to do and have done and taught things in his name he has not commanded and even forbidden, thus making a mockery of his kingship in a manner prefigured by his treatment by the Romans. The Book of Mormon was sent forth that this may change, that there may be a people found at his coming who truly honor his kingship, not merely by words, but by actually doing the deeds he commanded in the Sermon as it is written.
The identification of the Savior’s crucifixion as a time of God’s judgment on mankind is very explicit in 3 Nephi. I think one of the major themes of the Book of Mormon is to show the beginning of the fulfillment of all the triumphal prophecies of the Messiah, demonstrations that were not as obvious in the Old World.
And the Book of Mormon itself echoes this ironic process of the world passing judgment when in reality it is the world that is being judged by its response to the Book of Mormon and its testimony of Christ as the God and judge of the whole earth, and not just the first century Roman Empire.
Thank you for the new insights into the crucifixion of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Good to read this Easter weekend.
I am very proud of my father. This entire article gives me a different prospective on the crucifixion than I have ever had before.
Good job Dad
David Mitton
Thank you! I especially appreciate when you point out the extended arms of the crucified Savior as an invitation to come unto Him and receive mercy in judgment. Powerful.
I am very pleased that my dear friend, George Mitton, has been able to publish this essay for Easter.