Elias: An Epic of the AgesWhitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Elias: An Epic of the Ages
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Poetry; Latter Day Saints -- Poetry
7--6033. **Egypt's Chain.** The spirit of Elias was upon Moses when
he led Israel out of bondage.
8--6036. **Long Captivity.** The Assyrian Captivity, which carried
away the ten tribes.
9--6038. **Whose Sword.** The sword of Joshua, the conqueror of
Canaan.
10--6042. **Kishon's Brook.** It was at the Brook Kishon that Elijah
slew the Priests of Baal.
11--6045. **Named Ere Born.** Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon, who
restored the captive Jews, was named by Isaiah more than a century
before his birth. (Isaiah, 45:1.)
12--6049. **Long Sealed Canopy.** The Heavens at the opening of the
Last Dispensation.
13--6055. **The Kingdom's Keys.** The Melchisedek Priesthood. Elijah
"holds the keys of the authority to administer in all the ordinances
of the Priesthood." (History of the Church, Vol. 4, p. 211; D. and C.
2.)
14--6063. **Abrahamic Keys.** Elias, in the Kirtland Temple,
"committed the keys of the Gospel of Abraham." (D. and C. 110:12.)
15--6067. **How Tell the Sum?** This stanza associates Columbus,
Jefferson and Washington, impersonally, with others previously
mentioned, as agents of Elias.
16--6083. **Jacob Upon Esau's Heel.** Genesis, 25:26.
17--7001. **Chaldean Dream.** The nations represented by the image
seen in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, are to pass, like the dream itself,
which the king was unable to recall.
18--7010. **Adorned and Ready.** When the Church, the Bride, is fully
prepared, the Lord, the Bridegroom, will come.
19--7015. **Destroyers Four.** Four angels (Rev. 7:1; D. and C. 77:8,
9).
20--7017. **Twelve Times Twelve.** The One Hundred and Forty-Four
Thousand. (Rev. 14:1; D. and C. 77:11.)
21--7022. **The Bow's Bright Promise.** Joseph the Seer gave, as a
sign of the Second Coming, the withdrawal of the rainbow. Christ
would not come during any year that the rainbow was visible; but when
it was permanently withdrawn, the world might know that His coming
was near at hand. (Compendium, p. 83.)
22--7036. **Prophet of the Dawn.** Elias, the Morning Star.
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