Cultish Underbelly: Mormon Gilgal Garden

Mormon Country and the First Stops in Salt Lake City

Gonna get Jerry as he's coming out of the bathroom. It's been in this bathroom for so long. I don't understand what he's doing in there.

What are we doing this morning, bro, we are we're gonna be exploring a Mormon country. Yeah, we're gonna be. What's the first place we're going. 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.

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. Yeah, put your shoes on. Yes.

Did you put deodorants on. Yep, you better do.

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

Yeah.

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

The garden of Gilgal or whatever. Gilgal Gilgal gardens. So we are.

Should be. This should be fun. This we are going to show you the cold. Alexander Larson is going to show us the cultish underbelly of Salt Lake City, so Enjoy the ride ladies and gentlemen. Should be fun.

They haven't seen this guy in a long time.

What up. Good man, all right, man good. Welcome to my homeland. Yeah.

I've only been here a couple times myself. So I'm not an expert by any means, but there's definitely some weird.

You go ladies and gentlemen you have it here. You have 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 be dipper.

And that's what you find with a lot of it. It's mixed and I Guess what 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 why you have Joseph Smith's face?

You're a devout LDS person. He's a bishop right that did all these these carvings. 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 you got.

Yeah, you gotta look deep here. There's yeah, there's lots of bizarre stuff.

So you got these like hands. You got two hearts. Yeah, and you got hand sticking out of them, so what does that signify?

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

Then this looks like you got four different books. Yeah stacked on each other. The quad. Yep.

There's like some numerology. There's a lot of numerology that goes on in the Mormon Church.

Mormon Works-Righteousness and the Need for the Gospel

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. 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?

Oh on the person who doesn't believe in the eternal.

Myself and the hardest part is and I say this when I'm engaging Mormons. I say this God said.

That.

There will be people that see him on the judgment day and say Lord I knew you know here. I am and I'll say I never knew you and cast you away. I always say that to LDS people, and 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. 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 Life get you focused on all material and all works right.

They are very works oriented. There is ceremonies you have to attend there is service you have to do. You've got to go on your mission. You're not going to the celestial kingdom. You've got to get sealed in the temple.

You're not going to the celestial kingdom. There's this yoke as I love that word. They are yoked from the time. They're born. Yeah, I'm in church.

Yeah.

Mission Fields at Home and the Hope of Christ

Especially just just real quick and wrap up for now is that I Think one of the things if you guys are watching this on our Facebook live or if you assist later on culture some better stuff. Embed cultish embedded episode is that the cults are a mission field like on your front door.

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. I mean this right now like Utah especially is one of the breeding grounds of the cults 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 are the more the fundamentalist 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 Vicious karmic cycle. I think is really to get them the gospel of Christ. Yes, and I think even even even now I Want to ask people is not even getting to a debate about though.

Not necessarily about with the homosexuals in the church or whatnot. I want to say I would focus on specifically like how can you trust to God who is? Changing his mind on a core issue of the church from literally two years ago.

Like how can you trust the God in any of that? Where whereas God the God the Bible says that he's eternal and the Lord I do not change. And from everlasting to everlasting you are God and that you know Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever like as Christians.

We have a hope because God's revelation is an extension of his character. Where you have a God essentially who had a past life? Who's a man who lived on another planet, and he went through his his things.

He was good enough. So he his next life he became a god of his own planet, and so now you see all of these changes. 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, but according to the Mormon worldview.

Less than 100 years later Christ's own prediction did was not true. Joseph Smith had to restore it and now there's multiple people. In the 1800s you think that the restoration or net is now needing more restoration three restoration.

In fact there were the I think there was an article I read yesterday. Just to wrap things up the more one of the more I think that the Mormon prophet said that you guys the restoration started. He aids if you think the restoration was good like you haven't seen nothing yet like the restorations.

We're still restoring which makes you think make me even question to begin with. When Joseph Smith said he was restoring the fullness of the gospel 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 kind of hit 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. 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 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. But a lot of them are not willing to engage. What's happened to these people or say it out loud?

They won't talk about the more 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 Phil's called here.

We need This is a mission filled. It's right here if you're next door if you're in Idaho if you're in Nevada. You can just come here 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 Christian Church, so.