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◦ 1. Basics, Significance of the Pattern
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• Old Testament
◦ Psalm 8 — Thou Hast Made Him a Little Lower than the Angels ◦ Psalm 23 — The Lord is My Shepherd
◦ Psalm 82 – Ye are Gods
• New Testament
◦ Matthew 5:1-12 — The Beatitudes
◦ Matthew 6 — The Lord’s Prayer
◦ Matthew 25 — When Saw We Thee An Hungred, and Fed Thee?
◦ Luke 11:5-13 — Ask and It Shall Be Given You
◦ Luke 15:11-32 — The Prodigal Son
◦ John 17 — The Great Intercessory Prayer
• Book of Mormon
◦ Alma 36 — Nothing So Exquisite and Sweet
▪ Alma 36 — paragraph format
◦ Moroni 10 — Moroni’s Promise(s) and Farewell
▪ Moroni 10 — paragraph format
• Doctrine & Covenants
◦ D&C 4 — A Marvelous Work
◦ D&C 20 — Sacramental Prayers
• Pearl of Great Price
◦ Articles of Faith
◦ Articles of Faith, Inter-Micro Analysis and Commentary
• Joseph Smith
◦ King Follett Discourse — Macro Outline & Introduction
▪ A — God Himself was Once as We are Now
▪ B — You have got to Learn How to Be Gods Yourselves
▪ C — You must Begin at the Bottom
▪ D — The Head God called together the Gods in Grand Council ▪ E — Element, no Beginning, no End
▪ F — Man, Self-Existent
▪ E’ — Spirits, no Beginning, no End
▪ D’ — The Greatest Responsibility in this world . . . is to Seek after our Dead ▪ C’ — A Man is his own Tormenter and his own Condemner
▪ B’ — Your Expectations and Hopes are Far Above what Man can Conceive ▪ A’ — God dwells in Everlasting Burnings
◦ King Follett Discourse — A Newly Amalgamated Text (entire speech in one file) ◦ The Standard of Truth — No Unhallowed Hand
• Authors, LDS
◦ The Living Christ (The Testimony of the Apostles)
◦ The Family: A Proclamation to the World (The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles) ◦ Hugh B. Brown — Profile of a Prophet
◦ Pres. Spencer W. Kimball — An Unforced Surrender
◦ Pres. Spencer W. Kimball — Washington D.C. Temple Dedicatory Prayer ◦ Elder Bruce R. McConkie — Last Talk
• Authors, Non-LDS
◦ The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, In Congress, July 4, 1776 ◦ Martin Luther King, Jr. — I Have a Dream
◦ Abraham Lincoln — Gettysburg Address
◦ Abraham Lincoln – Thanksgiving Proclamation
◦ Judas Thomas — Hymn of the Robe of Glory
◦ George Washington — Prayer for the Nation
Davidic Chiasmus and Parallelisms
A governing literary structure comprising an intricate, specific, and repeated thematic pattern — widely found
Written by Jared R. Demke, edited by Scott L. Vanatter
Understanding the Pattern
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Examples of the Pattern
• Old Testament
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• Book of Mormon
• Doctrine & Covenants
• Pearl of Great Price
• Joseph Smith
• Authors, LDS
• Authors, Non-LDS
The Pattern
Repeated Themes
A — Word of the Lord
.B — The Lord’s Covenant
..C — The World
…D — The Lord’s Servant
….E — Preservation
…..F — The Suffering Servant
…..F’ — Atonement
….E’ — Salvation …D’ — The Lord’s Servant
..C’ — Overcoming the World
.B’ — Fulfillment
A’ — Salvation Song
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KEY WORDS
A. Hear this, Hearken, Praise, Name, etc.
B. Promise(s), Inheritance, New Things, Hidden Things, Things of God, Shall Come to pass, etc.
C. World, Wicked, Contentions, Apostasy, Satan, Egypt, Babylon, Earth, etc. [feminine]
D. Servant, Prophet, Moses, Truth, Righteousness, Kingdom, Heaven, etc. [masculine] E. Preserved, Salvation, Pillars, Gates, Manna, Wine, etc. — boldly F. Suffering, Afflicted, Despised, Rejected, etc. — nobly
F’. Oneness, Unity, Embrace, Kiss, Throne, Name, Glory, etc. — nobly E’. Salvation, Exalted, Preserved, Inheritance, Mercy, etc. — independent
D’. Servant, Prophet, Truth, Righteousness, Kingdom, Heaven, Eternity, etc. [masculine]
C’. Overcome, World, Wicked, Cut Off, Contentions; Judgment, Destruction, Earth, etc. [feminine]
B’. Fulfill, Restoration, Deliverance, Covenant(s), Promise(s), Inheritance, etc. A’. Hosanna, Name, Amen, Sing, etc.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s Last Talk
“In the coming day
I will feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet
and shall wet his feet with my tears.”
Elder McConkie died thirteen days after giving this talk in General Conference, April 1985.
A1 — The Most Important Doctrine I can Declare – The Most Powerful Testimony I can Bear
I feel, and the Spirit seems to accord, that the most important doctrine I can declare, and the most powerful testimony I can bear is one of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. His atonement is the most transcendent event that ever has or ever will occur, from creation’s dawn and through all the ages of a never ending eternity. It was the supreme act of goodness and grace that only a God could perform.
B — Shall become as their Maker and Sit with Him on his Throne
Through it all the terms and conditions of the Father’s Plan became operative. Through it was brought to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. Through it all men are saved from death, hell, the devil, and endless torment.
Through it all men who believe and obey the glorious gospel of God, those who are true and faithful and overcome the world, all who suffer for Christ and his word, all who are chastened and scourged in the cause in whom we are, all shall become as their maker and sit with him on his throne and reign with him forever in everlasting glory.
A2 — I have thereby Heard His Voice and Know His Word
In speaking of these wondrous things I will use my own words. Though you might think these are the words of scripture, words spoken by other Apostles and Prophets, true it is that they were first proclaimed by others, but they are now mine. For the Holy Spirit of God has born witness to me that they are true and it is now as though the Lord has revealed them to me in the first instance. I have thereby heard his voice and know his word.
C1 — Like Eden … like Sinai … like Calvary
Two thousand years ago, outside of Jerusalem’s walls, there was a pleasant Garden spot, Gethsemane by name, where Jesus and his intimate friends were want to retire for pondering and prayer. There Jesus taught his disciples the doctrines of the Kingdom and all of them communed with him who is the Father of us all in who’s ministry they were engaged and on who’s errand they served. This sacred spot like Eden where Adam dwelt, like Sinai where Jehovah gave his law, like Calvary where the Son of God gave his life as a ransom for many, this holy ground is where the sinless Son of the Everlasting Father took upon himself the sins of all men on conditions of repentance.
C2 —
We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane. We know he sweat great gouts of blood from every pore as he drained the dregs of that bitter cup his father had given him. We know he suffered both body and spirit more than it is possible for man to suffer except it be unto death. We know that in some way incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransoms penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin and made mercy available to those who believe on his holy name. We know that he lay prostrate upon the ground as the pains and agony of an infinite burden caused him to tremble and would that he might not drink of the bitter cup.
D — Mighty Michael who Foremost Fell
We know that an angel came from the courts of Glory to strengthen him in his ordeal. And we suppose that it was mighty Michael who foremost fell that man might be.
E1 — To Annas, to Caiaphas, to Pilot, to Herod, and back to Pilot
As near as we can judge, these infinite agonies, the suffering beyond compare continued for some three or four hours. After this, his body then wrenched and drained of strength, he confronted Judas and the other incarnate devils, some from the very Sanhedran itself and he was lead away with a rope around his neck as a common criminal to be judged by the arch criminals who as Jews sat in Aaron’s seat and who as Romans wielded Caesar’s power. They took him to Annas, to Caiaphas, to Pilot, to Herod, and back to Pilot.
E2 — His Pain Engulfed Body — But He Arose from the Sufferings of the Scourge
He was accused cursed and smitten. Their foul saliva ran down his face as vicious blows further weakened his pain engulfed body. With reeds of wrath they laid blows upon his back. Blood ran down his face as a crown of thorns pierced his trembling brow. But above it all he was scourged, scourged with forty strips save one. Scourged with a multithonged whip in to whose leather strands sharp bones and cutting metals were woven. Many die from the scourging alone, but he arose from the sufferings of the scourge that he might die an ignominious death upon the cross, the cruel cross of Calvary.
F — The Very God of Nature was in Agony
a. Then he carried his own cross until he collapsed from the weight and pain and mounting agony of it all. Finally on a hill called Calvary, again it was outside Jerusalem’s walls, while helpless disciples looked on and felt the agonies of near death in their own bodies, the Roman Soldiers laid him upon the cross. With great malice they drove spikes of iron through his feet and hands and wrists. b. Truly he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.
c. Then the cross was raised that all might see and gape and curse and deride. This they did with evil venom for three hours from 9 a.m. until noon.
d. The heavens grew black darkness covered the land for the space of three hours as it did among the Nephites. There was a mighty storm as though the very God of nature was in agony, and truly he was for while hanging on the cross for another three hours, from noon until 3 p.m., all the infinite agonies and merciless pains of Gethsemane reoccurred.
e. And finally when the atoning agonies had taken their toll, when the victory had been won, when the Son of God had fulfilled the will of God in all things he said “It is finished” and he voluntarily gave up the ghost. As the peace and comfort of a merciful death freed him from the pains and sorrows of mortality he entered the Paradise of God.
f. When he had made his soul and offering for sin he was prepared to see his seed according the Messianic word these consisting of all the Holy Prophets and Faithful Saints from ages past, these comprising of all those who took upon them his name and who being spiritually begotten by him had become his sons and daughters even as it is with us. All these were assembled in the Spirit World there to see his face and hear his voice.
E1′ — Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea
After some 38 or 40 hours, three days as the Jews measure time, our blessed Lord came to the Arimathaean’s tomb where his partially embalmed body had been placed by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea.
E2′ — He Took Up that Body — Rose in that Glorious Immortality
Then in a way incomprehensible to us he took up that body which had not yet seen corruption, and rose in that glorious immortality which made him like his resurrected Father. He then received all power in Heaven and on Earth, obtained Eternal Exaltation, appeared to Mary Magdalene and many others and ascended into Heaven. There to sit down on the right hand of God the Father Almighty there to reign forever in eternal glory. His rising from death on the third day Crowned the Atonement.
D’ — As Adam is the Father of Mortality so Christ is the Father of Immortality
Again in some way incomprehensible to us the affects of his Resurrection pass upon all men so that all shall rise from the grave. As Adam brought death so Christ brought life. As Adam is the father of mortality so Christ is the father of immortality. And without both, mortality and immortality, man cannot work out his salvation and ascend to those heights beyond the skies where God and angels reign forever in Eternal Glory. Now the Atonement of Christ is the basic fundamental of the Gospel and it is the least understood of all our revealed truths. Many of us have a superficial knowledge and rely upon the Lord and his goodness to see through the trials and perils of life. But if we are to have faith as Enoch and Elijah, we must believe what they believed and know what they knew and live as they lived.
C1′ — The Three Gardens of God, the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb
May I invite you to join with me in gaining a sound and sure knowledge of the Atonement. We must cast aside the philosophies of men and the wisdom of the wise and hearken to that Spirit which is given to us to guide us into all truth. We must search the scriptures accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation. As we read ponder and pray there will come to our minds a view of the three gardens of God. The Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the empty Tomb where Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. In Eden we will seen all things created in a paradisiacal state without death without procreation without probationary experiences. We will come to know that such a creation now unknown to man was the only way to provide for the fall.
C2′ –
We will then see Adam and Eve the first man the woman step down from their immortal and paradisiacal glory to become the first mortal flesh on earth. Mortality including as it does procreation and death enter the world. And because of transgression a probationary state of trial and testing will begin. Then in Gethsemane we will see the Son of God ransom man from the temporal and spiritual death which came to us because of the fall. And finally before an empty tomb we will come to know that Christ our Lord has burst the bands of death and stands forever triumphant over the grave.
A1′ — By Christ came Immortality and Eternal Life
Thus, creation is father to the fall and by the fall came mortality and death. And by Christ came immortality and eternal life. If there had been no fall of Adam by which cometh death, there could have been no Atonement by which cometh life.
B’ — In the Coming Day I will Feel the Nail Marks in His Hands and in His Feet and shall Wet his Feet with my Tears
And now as pertaining to this perfect Atonement, I testify that it took place at Gethsemane and at Golgotha.
And as pertaining to Jesus Christ, I testify that he is the Son of the Living God who was crucified for the sins of the world. He is our Lord, our God, and our King.
This I know of myself independent of any other person. I am one of his Witnesses. And in the coming day I will feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with my tears. But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s almighty Son and he is our Savior and Redeemer and that Salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.
God grant that all of us will walk in the light, as God our Father is in the light so that according to his promises the blood of Jesus Christ his son will cleanse us from all sin. A2′ — The Name of the Lord
In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Amen. #
Summary outline
A1 — The Most Important Doctrine I can Declare, and the Most Powerful Testimony I can Bear
B — Shall become as their Maker and Sit with Him on his Throne
A2 — I have thereby Heard His Voice and Know His Word
C1 — Like Eden. . . like Sinai. . . like Calvary
D — Mighty Michael who Foremost Fell
E1 — To Annas, to Caiaphas, to Pilot, to Herod, and back to Pilot
E2 — His Pain Engulfed Body. . . But He Arose from the Sufferings of the Scourge
F — The Very God of Nature was in Agony
E1′ — Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathaea
E2′ — He Took Up that Body. . . Rose in that Glorious Immortality
D’ — As Adam is the Father of Mortality so Christ is the Father of Immortality
C1′ — The Three Gardens of God, the Garden of Eden, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden of the Empty Tomb
A1′ — By Christ came Immortality and Eternal Life
B’ — In the Coming Day I will Feel the Nail Marks in His Hands and in His Feet and shall Wet his Feet with my Tears
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