April 17, 2013 Wednesday – Institute

7 Seals

1) White horse, person (?) with bow, crown, conquered – Enoch

Doctrine & Covenants 77

White, red, black, pale

Revelations 4:6, to Doctrine & Covenants 77:1-2

4 beasts: heaven, paradise of God, happiness of man, creeping things

  Doctrine & Covenants 77:4 Eyes: knowledge

  Sea of glass

  Revelations 21: 22-24

     - we will bring our glory to it

Twenty and Four Elders

Book of 7 seals

  - Earth will be for 7 thousand years after the Fall

In all things we have to have faith

6 days to work 1 to rest

  - 6 thousand years the earth worked, the last it will rest

7 seals

2) War, red horse, Flood (book p. 458 55-7)

3) Famine, Abraham, Joseph in Egypt

4) Death, hell, war, Famine, 1,000 BC to death of Lord

5) Lord’s birth to 1,000 AD

6) 1,000 – 2,000(ish)

    Rev. 7:1 to Doctrine & Covenants 77:9

       Elias (a tittle) – a forerunner

       Rev. 7:4-8 to Doctrine & Covenants 77:11

   Rev. 8:1-3, 6-12, 13 to Doctrine & Covenants 77:12

The Calm before the storm

Ch. 12 – The War in Heaven

(“The Screwtape Letters” – C.S. Lewis)

  Rev. 9 to Doctrine & Covenants 77:13

      Rev. 9:11

      Beginning of the 7^th seal

Rev. 10: book to Doctrine & Covenants 77:14

What did John restore? Keys

Rev. 11 to Doctrine & Covenants 77:15

    2 witnesses

      v. 7-10, 11

Manuel page 461 (55-23)

    - Savior comes in Red: how he came out of the tomb

Rev. 16:20

    - Earth will be as it once was

        - Pangea/Paleag (Genesis)

Manuel page 469 (56-12)

     - Earth passes through stages of change

     - The Earth obeys its laws

     - Rev. 21:1

Page 470 (56-20)

    - Saints should be optimists

October 1981 Elder Maxwell’s first talk

Rev. 22:20

Be hopeful and excited of this