Cultish Underbelly: Mormon Gilgal Garden

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Gonna get Jerry as he's coming out of the bathroom It's been in this bathroom for so long.

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I don't understand what he's doing in there Fresh what are we doing this morning, bro?

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We are we're gonna be exploring a Mormon country. Yeah, we're gonna be what's the first place We're going

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We're do you not know Salt Lake City? No, where's the first place? We're going Absolutely, first place we're going Figure it out as we go

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Yes This is how I travel cultures embedded bro cultures embedded We're figuring out we're gonna be embedded the plans to be embedded in Salt Lake City first.

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Yeah, put your shoes on. Yes Did you put your uterus on Yep, you better Alexander from the

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Hare Krishna episodes. Oh, no. No, we're headed down right now. We're leaving inside. Look, I'm as crazy places

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Yeah We're gonna go straight to the garden to meet all the weirdest statues including

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Joseph The garden of Gilgal or whatever Gilgal Gilgal gardens

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So we are Should be this should be fun this we are going to show you the cold.

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Alexander Larson is going to show us the cultish underbelly of Salt Lake City, so Enjoy the ride ladies and gentlemen should be fun

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They haven't seen this guy in a long time What up good man, all right, man good

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Homeland Yeah I've only been here a couple times myself.

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So I'm not an expert by any means, but there's definitely some weird Here you go, ladies and gentlemen, you have it here you have

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Joseph Smith's face carved in on an Egyptian Sphinx with The temple with you know stars or a different whatever the astrological whatever they're trying to keep a dipper

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And that's what you're gonna find with a lot of it. It's mixed. It's so mixed and I Guess what

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I'll say is when you engage a Mormon you can feel the same confusion that you see when you see these kind of Things yeah, like what's the reasoning behind this?

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Why do I have Joseph Smith's face? You're a devout LDS person. He's a bishop right that did all these these carvings

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Why did you put your prophets face on a Sphinx and then put your temple that has constellations on it? Oh, look look at this.

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You got yeah, you gotta look deep here. There's yeah, there's lots of bizarre stuff So you got these like hands and you got two hearts.

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Yeah, and you got hand sticking out of them. So what does that signify? This Pentagrams both stuff

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Egyptian stuff. It's just a mishmash all kinds of pagan religion His symbol of dominance and yeah presence in different places

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Then this looks like you got four different books, yeah stacked on each other the quad Yep, there's like some numerology.

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There's a lot of numerology that goes on in the Mormon Church Do you find that um, you know in Paul he speaks about there being a different Christ a different gospel that if that's being preached

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Enough, that's what's believed there a curse their anathema Do you find that all of this yoke this psychological and sociological yoke is part of that anathema?

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Oh on the person who doesn't believe in the eternal sacrifice and so and the hardest part is and I say this when

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I'm engaging Mormons, I say this God said that There will be people that see him on the judgment day and say

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Lord, I knew you know, here I am Don't say I never knew you and cast you away. I always say that to LDS people

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I said, what do you think that verse means? What who do you think there's? Who's God talking about right now? What's that a reference to that's people who think they have a relationship with Christ and they never did

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I said the the best trick the devil could play on you is to make you think you have a relationship with Jesus your entire

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Life get you focused on all material and all works, right? They are very works oriented

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There are ceremonies you have to attend there is service you have to do You've got to go on your mission or you're not going to the celestial kingdom

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You've got to get sealed in the temple. You're not going to the celestial kingdom. There's this yoke I love that word.

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They are yoked from the time. They're born in the Mormon Church Yeah especially just just real quick and wrap up for now is that um

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I Think one of the things if you guys are watching this on our Facebook live or if you assist later on a cultish embedded But in that cultish embedded episode is that the cults are a mission field like on your front door

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I mean we took we drove about 10 hours a year Some people flew in took about two hours and you guys we don't need to go across the pond to To do evangelism and to share the gospel

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I mean this right now like Utah especially is one of the breeding grounds of the cults

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Especially now especially now with all these changes There's going to be the more the leftist the more liberal the church gets the more people the more the fundamentalist

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Mormons are going to Hold on to their fundamentalism. And so you're just going to see that and there's no the only way to get out of this

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Vicious karmic cycle I think is really to get them the gospel of Christ. Yes, and I think you need and even now

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I Want to ask people is not even getting to a debate about the not necessarily about the homosexuals in the church or whatnot

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I want to say I would focus on specifically like how can you trust a God who is

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Changing his mind on a core issue of the church from literally two years ago

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Like how can you trust the God in any of that? Whereas God the God the Bible says that he's eternal and the

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Lord I do not change and from everlasting to everlasting You are a God and that you know Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever like as Christians We have the hope because God's revelation is an extension of his character

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Where you have a God essentially who had a past life? He was a man who lived on another planet and he went through his his things.

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He was good enough So he his next life he became a god of his own planet. And so now you see all these changes

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He said, you know His son Jesus came and said he is going to establish his church the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against it

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But according to the Mormon worldview less than 100 years later Christ's own prediction did was not true

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Joseph Smith had to restore it and now there's multiple people in the 1800s who think that the restoration or net is now needing more restoration re restoration

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In fact, they're at one of the quote I think there was an article I read yesterday just to wrap things up the more one of the more

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I think that The Mormon prophet said that you guys the restoration started you ain't if you think the restoration was good

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Like you haven't seen nothing. Yeah, the restorations were still restoring which makes you think maybe even question to begin with When Joseph Smith said he was restoring the fullness of the gospel.

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Well, if it's the fullness of the gospel Why do they need to keep on like restoring stuff, right? So you just see that you know as Walter Martin once said that it is important to see that the twitching corpse of Mormonism is going to be

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Its head will be cut off is being cut off right now from its own archives and you'll see that So but the biggest thing is that there's multiple people who are leaving the church who aren't finding hope in Christ And this is why we're up here is because they need the true hope of the gospel

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This is the gospel issue and they need that so just real quick I will say to anyone watching right now that is thinking about Salt Lake is near Salt Lake Very desperately needed in this place is a true

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Christ loving net That understands what Mormon people have gone through There's a lot of Christian churches here with a lot of great people in them

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But a lot of them are not willing to engage What's happened to these people or say it out loud, right?

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They won't talk about them or they won't say the words Mormon Church and they're often regarded as just another Christian Church Despite all the things we're gonna see and so anyone that's has it on their heart and is praying about Salt Lake and feels called here we need

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This is a mission field. It's right here If you're next door if you're in Idaho if you're in Nevada, you can just come here,

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Arizona Yeah, you don't have to fly to Africa to be a missionary Yeah It's really really needed here and it's something that Christians often talk about they struggle here is the strength of the