Questioning Latter Day Saints Article of Faith on the Gathering of Israel
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Bradley Campbell from the #GodLovesMormons channel joined us for the eleventh episode in our mini-series on questioning the LDS Articles of Faith.
Pastor Bradley gives a powerful explanation and refutation by Questioning Latter-Day Saints Article of Faith on the Gathering of Israel.
We pray that this series will be a blessing to you.
Provo-Temple B-Roll from God Loves Mormons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZHso3Cpss&t=163s
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- LDS article of faith number 10 states that we believe in the literal gathering of the lost tribes of Israel, the lost ten tribes, that they will be restored and that the new
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- Jerusalem will be on the American continent and that Jesus will physically reign on the earth and that the earth will one day be restored.
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- But here's the thing, the Bible teaches that Jesus already reigns over his people.
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- You see, the Bible does not say that Israel and God's people are separate in any way anymore.
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- Ephesians teaches that the dividing wall of hostility has been broken down between the two. In other words, the lost ten tribes of Israel are not lost.
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- They're found. The church is the ten tribes of Israel and Christ reigns over them now.
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- While it is true that Jesus will return to a renewed, restored earth and reign over new heavens and new earth for all eternity, that is not at all in the way that Latter -day
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- Saints think about it. The Bible teaches that Jesus, the uncreated creator, will redeem that which was originally created for his glory.
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- That when he reigns over it, it will not be that we may progress to godhood. It would not be for our glory.