Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
The Great Deliverer.--The lamb of the Passover symbolized the Lamb of
God, the universal Deliverer, and Moses, who led the Lord's people out
of Egypt, was also a type of the world's Redeemer. Jesus, whose mission
the career of Moses foreshadowed, is repeatedly described in the sacred
writings as "like unto Moses;" and Moses, the type of Christ, was
reputedly "the meekest of men."
How Moses Obtained the Priesthood.--Moses was of the tribe of Levi, and
son-in-law to Jethro, from whom he received the Priesthood.
"And Jethro received it under the hand of Caleb;
"And Caleb received it under the hand of Elihu;
"And Elihu under the hand of Jeremy;
"And Jeremy under the hand of Gad;
"And Gad under the hand of Esaias;
"And Esaias also lived in the days of Abraham, and was blessed of him--
"Which Abraham received the Priesthood from Melchizedek, who received
it through the lineage of his fathers, even till Noah;
"And from Noah till Enoch, through the lineage of their fathers;
"And from Enoch to Abel, who was slain by the conspiracy of his
brother, who received the Priesthood by the commandments of God, by the
hand of his father Adam, who was the first man."--(D. and C. 84:7-16.)
Jethro, Priest of Midian.--An account of the relations between Moses
and his father-in-law, Jethro the Midianite, may be found in the
second, third and eighteenth chapters of Exodus. The Midianites were
descendants of Ishmael, son of Abraham.
The Call of Aaron.--Moses, having received the Melchizedek Priesthood,
organized, by divine direction, the Lesser Priesthood, with Aaron,
his brother, at its head. It was in the wilderness of Sinai, fourteen
hundred and ninety-one years before the coming of the Savior. The
children of Israel, in their exodus from Egypt, after the miraculous
passage of the Red Sea, whose retiring waters had rolled over the heads
of their enemies, were encamped at the foot of the famous eminence,
ever since a sacred way-mark in the history of the Hebrew nation.
The Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, "in the sight of all the people,"
and from the midst of thunders, lightnings and thick clouds, which
caused the mountain to quake and obscured his glorious presence from
the gaze of the unsanctified multitude, he summoned Moses up into the
top of the Mount, and delivered unto him, among other charges, the
following:
"Take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from
among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the
priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazer and Ithamar,
Aaron's sons.
"And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and
for beauty.
"And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him;
and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that
they may minister unto me in the priest's office."--(Exodus 28:1-3.)
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