Holiness unto the Lord

Consider Your Ways: The Book of Haggai and the Responsibilities and Blessings of Temple Work

Ray L. Huntington

Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament (2005)

The central focus of Haggai’s message is certainly clear: Now is the time to build God’s holy temple! Haggai began his prophetic message by declaring: “Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built” (Haggai 1:2). Yes, the altar and parts of the foundation had been rebuilt, but the work had been set aside for sixteen years. More importantly, the people didn’t seem bothered by their inattentiveness to the Lord’s work. In fact, they rationalized it was not the time to rebuild the temple. Clearly, they had other work they felt was more important.

Consider Your Ways: The Book of Haggai and the Responsibilities and Blessings of Temple Work

Ray L. Huntington

Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament (2005)

The central focus of Haggai’s message is certainly clear: Now is the time to build God’s holy temple! Haggai began his prophetic message by declaring: “Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built” (Haggai 1:2). Yes, the altar and parts of the foundation had been rebuilt, but the work had been set aside for sixteen years. More importantly, the people didn’t seem bothered by their inattentiveness to the Lord’s work. In fact, they rationalized it was not the time to rebuild the temple. Clearly, they had other work they felt was more important.

The Old Testament and Easter

Kent P. Jackson

Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, Sidney B. Sperry Symposium 45 (2013)

Palm Sunday, Jesus’ suffering in Gethsemane, and Jesus’ Resurrection are closely tied to the Old Testament.

The Way of the Disciple

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

General Conference (Apr. 2009)

As we study Jesus’s Atonement, we know that now is the time to become his disciples and walk in his way.

A Message to Judah from Joseph

Ezra Taft Benson

Ensign 6, no. 12 (Dec. 1976)

Joseph’s posterity is a “fruitful bough” with branches that run over the wall (Genesis 49:22). These blessings on Joseph’s posterity are being fulfilled today through the restored gospel and the Book of Mormon. President Benson remembers the scattering and suffering that the house of Israel has endured and asks God to bless the people of the house of Israel.

The Second Coming of Christ: Questions and Answers

Robert L. Millett

Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants (2004)

Doctrine and Covenants 29 teaches how the Lord will gather his faithful and that the wicked will burn as stubble, both prominent events in the Second Coming.

The Old Testament and Easter

Kent P. Jackson

Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament, Sidney B. Sperry Symposium 45 (2013)

Palm Sunday, Jesus’ suffering in Gethsemane, and Jesus’ Resurrection are closely tied to the Old Testament.

The Second Coming of Christ: Questions and Answers

Robert L. Millett

Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants (2004)

Doctrine and Covenants 29 teaches how the Lord will gather his faithful and that the wicked will burn as stubble, both prominent events in the Second Coming.