Disclaimer: You may add (imho) after everything I say here.dafty wrote: ↑June 8th, 2017, 10:24 amSo if DS becomes 8th Archangel, what will be His 'overcoming'? What qualities do members of his order posses, that He will epitomize? thanxalaris wrote: ↑May 31st, 2017, 7:43 pm ...Abraham paying tithes to Melchizedek is highly symbolic of Abraham's order (level 4, 2nd order of Aaron, Cherubim) reporting to or being subservient to The Order of Melchizedek - levels 5-7, Seraphim, Archangels even though Abraham himself is an Archangel. I believe each archangel epitomizes their order. Level 4 sacrifice | Abraham and Isaac. Level 3 obedience | Moses bending his will to God's vs most stubborn man in history. Level 2 overcoming the natural man by following Jesus | Peter.. Walked on water, loyal when faced by death, Martyred. Level 1 overcoming the rebellion | Joseph Smith...faithfulness versus rebellion / extreme and persistent adversity, while establishing a kingdom and rule that persists in the face of adversity...
PS.If I didnt make myself clear I will give a hypothetical example:
DS chief of Level X- Law of Chastity(144k did not defile themselves with woman)-Will not commit fornication, never watch porn etc...just an example x
Excellent question! I had to ponder on this for some time. Enoch is the Archangel of level 6 beings and epitomizes this high level by building up a city where all are of one heart (4) and of one mind (6.) But Enoch is already a level 7 being showing the level 6 students how to be.
The Davidic Servant's ministry is very similar! He also builds ZION. The Davidic Servant is the chief level 6 being, so his ministry reinforces Enoch's - and guess who comes with his city to meet the Davidic at the New Jerusalem. Friendsofthe has a great thread on this idea, on contemplating the timing of the coming of the City of Enoch. However, when thinking about how the levels are overcome and epitomized by their respective Archangels / Dispensation Authorities, then this makes sense beautifully. Of course the Davidic Servant has to build ZION - again - and he has to do it first, without the obvious help of having a shining city made of Jasper (Rev 21) descending from heaven. That would be cheating! This is the Davidic Servant's test and the City of Enoch was a foreshadowing of it!
Why? Well HE has to learn how to make ZION - how to gather as Enoch did, how to teach as Enoch did, how to convince as Enoch did to build ZION as the chief architect. Of course he will have help! We know that angels and men will work together. This quote is from a church manual (LDSPhysician.)
So it sounds like the Davidic Servant will have a little help here - but he's not quite at Enoch's level yet, so a little handicap is to be expected! This understanding adds a few layers to this event. The bride motif means that the bride (the church) is now ready to receive the Bridegroom (Rev 21.) Enoch driving his city into place is him reporting back on his level 6 protege to the Lord - "Lord, I approve of the Davidic Servant's work. Here is my work added to his. We are ready to receive you." (Not a direct quote.) Now the final task will be to complete the Terrestrial Era and Vanquish the Enemy once and for all by the Prince - Michael.“I shall begin by quoting from the prophecy of Enoch, speaking of the last days: ‘Righteousness will I send down out of heaven, and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten, His resurrection from the dead [this resurrection I understand to be the corporeal body]; yea, and also the resurrection of all men; righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine own elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, a holy city, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming, for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem’ [Moses 7:62].
“Now I understand by this quotation, that … righteousness and truth are to sweep the earth as with a flood. And now, I ask, how righteousness and truth are going to sweep the earth as with a flood? I will answer. Men and angels are to be co-workers in bringing to pass this great work, and Zion is to be prepared, even a new Jerusalem, for the elect that are to be gathered from the four quarters of the earth, and to be established an holy city, for the tabernacle of the Lord shall be with them. …
“… ‘Behold this people will I establish in this land, unto the fulfilling of the covenant which I made with your father Jacob, and it shall be a New Jerusalem.’ [3 Nephi 20:22.] Now we learn from the Book of Mormon the very identical continent and spot of land upon which the New Jerusalem is to stand, and it must be caught up according to the vision of John upon the isle of Patmos.
“Now many will feel disposed to say, that this New Jerusalem spoken of, is the Jerusalem that was built by the Jews on the eastern continent. But you will see, from Revelation 21:2, there was a New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, adorned as a bride for her husband; that after this, the Revelator was caught away in the Spirit, to a great and high mountain, and saw the great and holy city descending out of heaven from God. Now there are two cities spoken of here. As everything cannot be had in so narrow a compass as a letter, I shall say with brevity, that there is a New Jerusalem to be established on this continent, and also Jerusalem shall be rebuilt on the eastern continent [see Ether 13:1–12]. ‘Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come; after it should be destroyed, it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord, wherefore it could not be a New Jerusalem, for it had been in a time of old.’ [Ether 13:4–5.]” History of the Church, 2:260–62; punctuation modernized; first set of bracketed words in first paragraph in original; from a letter from Joseph Smith to the elders of the Church, Nov. 1835, Kirtland, Ohio, published in Messenger and Advocate, Nov. 1835, pp. 209–10.
Now all this said, I do feel like the Davidic Servant will have a personal period of descent and ascent first. I believe it will be rife with symbolism that will help him be a more righteous and compassionate judge. There have people who have commented on this - based of Gileadi's works and their own. I have too. Something relevant from these comments, someone said in a Davidic Servant thread somewhere on LDSFF that the Davidic Servant would not be listened to at first. I totally agree with this, and doesn't that make perfect sense!? HIS MISSION IS TO GET PEOPLE OF ONE MIND AND ONE HEART!!! I don't recall which scripture in Isaiah indicates that nobody listens, but I'll review my favorite Isaiah passages and see if I can find it and edit this later if I do. Thanks for the thought-provoking and fruit-producing question!