#280: Mayday Monday – In the Tenth Generation*

Joseph Smith
 Translation (JST)
JST in bold***

(*Adam₁-Seth₂-Enos₃-Cainan₄-Mahalaleel₅-Jared₆-Enoch₇-Methuselah₈-Lamech₉-Noah₁₀)

Mayday Monday: Where Mayday reprints a Biblical Crisis.

Reflection: Only ten generations (circa 1700 years**?) to get to the flood! How many years to get from the promise of 1776 American to the corruptions of today?

5 ¶ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man had become great in the earth, and every man was lifted up in the imagination of the thoughts of his heart; being only evil continually.
6 And it repented Noah and his heart was pained, that the LORD had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth Noah that I have created them, and made them; and he hath called upon me for they have sought his life.
8 And thus, Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.***

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*Old Testament | Genesis 5:Heading
The generations of Adam are: Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch (who walked with God), Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah (who begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth).
**https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/timeline-for-the-flood/
https://creation.com/the-date-of-noahs-flood
***JST Old Testament | Genesis 6:5-8 (JST in bold)

#074: Full of Idols

Reflection: Does this describe the alleged “most powerful” nation on earth today? 

7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not: therefore forgive them not.

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JST Old Testament | Isaiah 2:7-9 (JST corrections in bold.)

#063: Loving Satan More Than God?

Self-Reflection: Can I recognize this same pattern in current events? Do I have anything carnal, sensual or devilish in my life?

12 And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters.
13 And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish.

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Pearl of Great Price | Moses 5:12-13 (JST Old Testament | Genesis 4:12-13)

#062: Destroying the Agency of Man

Reflection: Can we observe this agenda in our present culture and governments? Are we playing any part in resisting the destruction?

4 Wherefore, because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I, the Lord God, had given him; and also that I should give unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten I caused that he should be cast down, and he became Satan;
5 Yea, even the devil, the father of all lies, to deceive, and to blind men, and to lead them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my voice.

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Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 24). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.  (Pearl of Great Price | Moses 4:3-4 | JST Genesis 3:4-5 )

#054: Provoking to Anger Continually

[From Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold) by Joseph Smith.]

Reflection: Has the nature of man changed that much from Isaiah's day?

1 I am sought found of them that who asked not seek for after me, I give unto all them that ask of me; I am not found of them that sought me not, or that inquireth not after me.
2 1– 2 I said unto my servant, Behold me, behold look upon me; I will send you unto a nation that was is not called by after my name, for I have spread out my hands all the day unto to a rebellious people which who walketh not in a my way ways, and that their works was are evil and not good, and they walk after their own thoughts.
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments; which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things beasts, and is in pollute their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

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JST Old Testament | Isaiah 65:1-5 (from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 1685). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.)

#053: Watching for Iniquity

[From Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation showing corrections in bold by Joseph Smith.]

Reflection: How much of our entertainment might be described as “watching for iniquity”? Do the other descriptions apply?

31 20– 21 For, assuredly as the Lord liveth, they shall see that the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off, and they that make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of naught.

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JST Old Testament | Isaiah 29:31 (from Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 1618). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition.)

#043: Will We Choose to Be Gathered?

Self-Reflection: Could my name be substituted for “Jerusalem”?

36 Then Jesus began to weep over Jerusalem, saying,
37 O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Ye who will kill the prophets, and will stone them who are sent unto you; how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.

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JST New Testament | Matthew 23:36-37 (Bold are Joseph Smith corrections.)

#39: What is a Man Profited?

[From Lutes edition of Joseph Smith Translation showing deletions (strikethroughs) and corrections (bold) by Joseph Smith.]

Self-Reflection: What is my personal cross?

25 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
26 And now for a man to take up his cross, is to deny himself all ungodliness, and every worldly lust, and keep my commandments.
27 25 Break not my commandments for to save your lives; for whosoever will save his life in this world, shall lose it in the world to come.
28 25 And whosoever will lose his life in this world, for my sake, shall find it in the world to come.
29 26 Therefore, forsake the world, and save your souls; for what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?*

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*Lutes, Kenneth and Lyndell. Joseph Smith Translation (p. 2152). Lutes Publishing. Kindle Edition. (JST Matthew 16:25-29)

#037: “Their Eyes THey Have Closed"?

Self-Reflection: What am I refusing to see, hear, or understand about the world and my human condition?

14 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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JST New Testament | Matthew 13:14