What About the Women?
THOUGHT: If we think of our patriarchal lineage declared in our patriarchal blessing as a line, even a Priesthood line, back in time to our righteous forefathers, what about the women? How do they fit into this line or chain? Girls as well
as boys are sealed to their father and his wife. Yet they are also sealed to
their husbands. What chain is theirs, I wondered. Now I’ve begun to think of
this more as a chain link mesh than a single chain. Perhaps this chain link
mesh is similar to the atomic construction of a ‘bucky ball’ or
Buckminsterfullerine, a recently discovered carbon molecule. The properties of
this molecule include that it can hold within it’s sphere-like ball, other
things, AND that it is, as a whole, impenetrable even to bombardment by
radioactivity. Unbelievably it is also so delicate that it is ubiquitous and
even appears in the dusty ashes of a campfire.
As a
symbol, this allows our imagination to visualize how the world might be saved
from the great burning spoken of by Malachi. In the safety of our families
linked with both sons and daughters and their spouses, the earth would be
covered by the Priesthood thru all generations of time and throughout all
eternity. The women are essential to this as they are sealed to their spouses who
hold the Priesthood because it strengthens that singular chain into a mesh.
Ponder
this: Father Lehi’s lineage was through Manasseh, how did Ephraim get into the
mix? Ishmael and his daughters where from the tribe of Ephraim. So are the
women important? Yes.
All About Ephraim
In the
book, “Ephraim, Chosen of the Lord: What it Means to be of the Tribe ofEphraim” by Shute, Nyman and Bott on page 7, is found this paragraph that will
be the topic of one of my next blogs:
“Of all the
confusion that does reign today, the one pertaining to the nature of man and
his relationship with God is most pronounced. We speak particularly about the
idea of a chosen or a favored people. For most people caught up in the
political correctness of our day, however this is an abhorrent idea. But we
say, that if we are sufficiently humble to learn from the scriptures and modern
prophets, we will be able to bring to light all the hidden things” (D & C
123:13) so that we will know who we are and what earth life is all about—that
God’s plan is clear and equitable, even though some are chosen or favored.”
QUOTE: “God bless us that we shall treasure our
heritage, that we shall recognize that we are to do an unusual thing. We are
not called to be imitators, we are called to be exemplars to the world, a light
that shall shine until the day will come when from the east to the west, the
north to the south, they will come, not to look upon our lands, nor our fields,
nor our factories, but to learn our ways that they may walk in our paths, and
thereby find peace, preservation and salvation now and eternally.”
--Melvin J. Ballard,
General Conference Address, October 1927
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