Great Apostasy
This is an Apostasy.
What is individuals or groups of people that turn away from the principles of the gospel, and they are in a state of apostasy?
The people that gave Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdrey the Aaronic and the Melchizedek Priesthood?
Did John the Baptist give them the Aaronic and Peter, James, and John give them the Melchizedek Priesthood?
He restored the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Who is Jesus Christ
He showed Joseph Smith where the Gold Plates were.
Was he the resurrected being Moroni?
This day was the Church of Jesus Christ re-established.
What is April 6th, 1830.
This is the Purpose for teaching the Apostasy.
What do you use to help people understand the need for the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This is how the Priesthood gets passed on.
(Acts 6:5-6, Heb 6:2)
What is someone holding the Priesthood and lays his hands on someones head?
This is the first thing Jesus Christ said to Joseph Smith directly.
What is Joseph, thy sins are forgiven.
According to PMG reading, pondering, and praying about the Book of Mormon are critical for this.
What is enduring conversion?
The first sentence in The Restoration of the Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ Proclamation is this.
We solemnly proclaim that God loves His children in every nation of the World.
This is what the foundation of the church is built upon along with the Corner Stone (Ephesians 2:19-20)
What is built upon the foundation of prophets and apostles, and the corner stone which is Jesus Christ?
Ephesians 4:11-14 teaches this is why we need Prophets and Apostles.
Why we need Apostles and Prophets to come in the unity of the faith?
Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father appeared to Stephen like they did to Joseph Smith in this scripture.
Did Stephen see God the Father and the Son in
Acts 7:55-56?
This scripture in the Bible talks about the Book of Mormon as a sealed book.
What is Isaiah 29:9-18
According to the new proclamation this is what the Book of Mormon teaches.
What is Life's Purpose and the Doctrine of Christ?
This scripture in the bible prophecies that the apostasy must happen before the second coming of Christ.
What does this scripture prophecy must happen before the second coming?
Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
This is why this story in 1 Samuel 13 teaches about the importance of the Priesthood for performing sacred ordinances.
What does Saul not having the Priesthood Authority and being cursed for offering a sacrifice to the Lord when the Prophet was the one with the authority to do so teach us about Priesthood authority?
This scripture teaches about the one true church, saying to speak the same thing, and have no divisions among you.
1 Corinthians 1:10
This is Moroni's invitation to the reader in Moroni chapter 10 verse 4.
what is Ask God, the eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true.
These Scriptures are used in the New Proclamation.
Acts 3:21, Ephesians 1:10
The apostasy can happen again.
Can we still fall into personal apostasy?
This is the only scripture in the Bible that Jesus Christ says he gives the keys of the Kingdom to Peter.
What is Matthew 16:19
19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
These are four undeniable truths Joseph Smith learned from the first vision about the nature of God.
1. Does God exist?
2. Does God have a body?
3. Are the Father and Son two separate personages?
4. Does God still speak?
This is how many and these are the books in the Book of Mormon.
Are there 14 Books
1 Ne, 2 Ne, Jac, Enos, Jar, Omni, Mos, Alma, Hel, 3 Ne, 4 Ne, Mn, Ether, Moroni?
In the proclamation Jesus Christ invites all to do these things.
Come unto Him, and His Church, to receive the Holy Ghost, the ordinances of salvation, and to gain eternal joy.