Episode 8
Tuesday, September 22
18 min · 10 videos · Christian Homestead, Church History Matters Podcast, RISE ZION, The Stick of Joseph, Unshaken, Scripture Central
Show notes
In this episode
Christian Homestead on the Davis County mountain tornado
0:48Christian Homestead · 39 min
Jared covers a recent Davis County, Utah tornado (a rare high-elevation, mountain-engulfing twister, paired with a second tornado the same day), then extends into a long numerological review of Utah tornado history matched against church leadership deaths, temple dedications, and general conference timing.
Christian Homestead on ninety thousand missionaries
2:12Christian Homestead · 26 min
Jared walks through his own spreadsheets tracking church missionary and convert-baptism numbers, which just crossed 90,000 full-time missionaries worldwide, and reads recent leader quotes he reads as pointing toward continued exponential growth.
Church History Matters on Porter Rockwell
3:48Church History Matters Podcast · 69 min
Scott and Casey continue their Porter Rockwell series, separating well-documented events (his closeness with Joseph Smith, his shooting of Franklin Worrell) from folklore built on flimsy or fabricated sources.
RISE ZION on the church's shift after Dobbs
5:32RISE ZION · 28 min
Seth traces how the church's institutional posture on abortion changed after Roe was overturned, then rebuts the backlash to its Idaho Proposition 1 letter point by point.
RISE ZION replays Nelson's nineteen eighty-five conference address
7:29RISE ZION · 15 min
A replay of Elder Russell M. Nelson's April 1985 general conference address "Reverence for Life," in which he called abortion "a war on the unborn."
RISE ZION on a nineteen eighty-three time capsule letter
8:57RISE ZION · 25 min
Seth reads and examines a 1983 letter Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone wrote for the Atlanta Georgia Temple's cornerstone time capsule, addressed to saints of the 21st century, which tells its readers they "have witnessed the second coming of Christ."
The Stick of Joseph on Moroni's five endings
10:48The Stick of Joseph · 162 min
Literary scholar Val Larsen walks through five distinct places in the text where Moroni appears to end the Book of Mormon, arguing they trace real psychological and spiritual growth across the roughly 36 years he lived alone after the battle of Cumorah.
Come Follow Me, Isaiah 13-14; 22; 24-30; 35
13:22Unshaken · 38 min
A verse-by-verse devotional walk through Isaiah 20–22, ending with the Eliakim/Shebna contrast in chapter 22 as a type of Christ as "the nail in a sure place."
Unshaken · 47 min
A verse-by-verse devotional through Isaiah 15–19's burdens against Moab, Syria, Ethiopia, and Egypt, building to Isaiah 19's prophecy of a highway uniting Egypt, Assyria, and Israel as one people of God.
Scripture Central · 33 min
Lynne Hilton Wilson walks through Isaiah 40–49's feminine and maternal imagery for God, its Messianic prophecies (including Cyrus), and its overlap with Handel's Messiah and the Book of Mormon.
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