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Verse 1

• What does thes use of “arm” to indicate mercy instead of strength suggest?

Verse 2

• How does the metaphor of this verse compare to that of the previous verse? What does it mean, in this context, to call on the Lord in mighty prayer?

Verse 4

• What does it mean to be chosen “out of the world"? How does that occur?

Verse 5

• What does it mean to say that Christ is in our midst? How is that related to the gathering? How is the fact that he is our advocate with the Father relevant here?
• Why does the Lord describe himself as an advocate?
• Is his advocacy on our behalf related to the Father’s gift of the kingdom? If so, what does it mean to say that giving us that kingdom is the Father’s good will?

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Verse 1

• The word “atone” is an interesting English word, coming into English rather late (late 16th century), when it replaced the earlier verb “to one,” in other words “to join or unite.” (But “to one” was also not particularly old, first showing up in the 14th century.) In the King James translation of the Old Testament, the word “atonement” usually translates the Hebrew word kaphar, also translated “reconciliation,” “pacification,” “mercy,” “purging,” “cleansing,” and so on. In the New Testament (where the word occurs only once–Romans 5:11) it translates the Greek word katallage: “reconciliation,” “exchange.”

Verse 5

• The Latin roots of “advocate” are suggestive: ad ("to") + vocare ("call"). An advocate is one who has been called to speak for someone.

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Verse 6

• Notice how this verse differs from the same idea expressed in many other scriptures by adding “being united in prayer according to my command.” What is the significance of that addition?
• Where are we commanded to be united in prayer? What does it mean to be united in prayer?
• To whom is this addressed? In other words, who is called to bring the gathering to pass?
• Does this verse define what it means to be elect?

Verse 8

• At the time of this revelation, the gathering was to a particular location. Now it is to any of the stakes. How does that difference change our understanding of what it means to gather together?
• The gathering is “to prepare their hearts.” How does the gathering do that? It is also “to [. . .] be prepared in all things against” the day of tribulation. What is that day?
• How does the gathering prepare us for that day?

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Verse 32

This verse and surrounding passages seem closely related to 1 Cor 15:45-46. There, Paul writes about two Adam's, the first as "a living soul" and the second as "a quickening spirit." If the first Adam is taken as temporal/historical, and the second Adam as spiritual/liturgical, then this suggests suggests parallels with the Adam who fell and brought about temporal creation (as related in Gen 2) and Christ who brought about spiritual creation (with parallels to Gen 1, which might be read as the pre-fallen and post-atonement state of things).

If this sketches how Joseph would've read the first natural/temporal then spiritual of 1 Cor 15:46, then perhaps the 4 spiritual-temporal chiastic events described here might be read as follows:

(1) The first spiritual creation corresponds to the pre-history, pre-mortal, pre-temporal order of things.

(2) The first temporal creation is the fall, the beginning of history, the giving and breaking of the commandment in the Garden of Eden. (It seems that D&C 29 does not really address these first two creations which are described in Gen 1-2, Abraham, and Moses.)

(3) The second temporal creation corresponds to physical gathering of Israel, eschatological judgment, and physical resurrection (the Rapture?). This is what seems to be described in vv. 1-22.

(4) The second spiritual creation is Final Judgment described in vv. 27-29 (though possibly starting with the "old things shall pass away and all things shall become new" bit starting in v. 23).

Note also that this outline puts Christ's life and atonal suffering in between these two doubled creation events---that is, in the "meridian of time" as several passages in the D&C and Moses phrase it.

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Verse 36

• "...which is my power...": Is this part of the devil's quote or is it God talking again? How does the answer to this question affect the meaning of the verse?

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