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You Need To Be Your Own Prophet: The Testimony of Jesus Is the Spirit of Prophecy

In the days following Israel's provocation of God in the "days of temptation" (Jacob 1:7) when God "swore that they should not enter into his rest while in the wilderness"…

Health and Sacrament

4 Nov 202131 May 2023

The Apostle Paul apparently received instruction from Jesus Christ through revelation regarding the ordinance of the sacrament, for despite not being present that night when the Lord administered the bread…

What Ever Happened to Moses’ Brass Serpent Anyway?

1 Nov 202131 May 2023

At the time that the Israelites were in the wilderness with Moses, an epidemic of venom-induced suffering spread through the camp due to an influx of biting serpents. The people…

Faith to Heal

10 Oct 202131 May 2023

The scriptures say "that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing" (Morm. 9:9). They furthermore contain many marvelous…

Naaman’s Dilemma

4 Oct 202131 May 2023

In the Old Testament book of 2 Kings, a story is recounted of a leper named Naaman who was a commander in the Syrian army. He is instructed by a…

Brother Joseph: The Dead Brought to Life

22 Sep 202131 May 2023

[Elder Levi Curtis, of Springville, Utah, relates the following incident which, as he states, was told him by one of the principal parties referred to.] About the month of August,…

How to Abate a Plague, Part 3

22 Aug 20213 Mar 2022

In the last post it was proposed that seeing what God sees as right and wrong followed by doing what is right, is at the core of removing the curse…

How to Abate a Plague, Part 2

21 Aug 20213 Mar 2022

"If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all…

How to Abate a Plague

20 Aug 20211 Mar 2022

"There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated—and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by…

Our Mess of Pottage

7 Aug 202121 Feb 2022

Though the phrase, "mess of pottage," does not actually occur in the Bible, it is commonly used to refer to the food that Esau obtained in exchange for his birthright.…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.