Fulness of Times

The liberals, terrified of Trump and the loss of momentum their socialist control agenda has encountered over the last few years, are grasping at whatever they can to bring Trump down. Michael Cohen is testifying before the Congressional House Oversight Committee today. I'm not sure how much credibility he has seeing that he has been convicted of lying. But, whatever happens this is likely the first step towards a possible impeachment hearing. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/michael-cohen-testimony/index.html I'm sure the Democrats/Liberals are giddy that they might get something to justify their hatred of Trump, and to make stronger efforts to oust him from office. I've said in some past posts that impeachment may be likely for Trump. He may resign before actually being impeached. If he does leave office, which, if the impeachment process actually happens, will probably happen towards the end of the year, the vice president won't be president for very ...

The Utah legislator who presented this bill to the Senate Business and Labor Committee yesterday (Feb 7, 2019) joked that the proposed changes would be like opening "Pandora's box." What changes? Changes to the state's liquor laws that would allow for higher alcohol content beer--currently available in state liquor stores--to be sold in grocery and convenience stores. Here's the article https://www.ksl.com/article/46486003/utah-one-step-closer-to-allowing-stronger-beer-in-grocery-convenience-stores The push has been from a group of retailers, beer manufactures and distributors, and trade associations. These groups joined together as the Responsible Beer Choice Coalition. Is there some irony in that name? Can beer manufacturers and distributors really be behind something called responsible beer choice, especially when alcohol is either a leading cause of, or contributor to, death. Check out this article from USA Today Alcohol is a leading cause of death...

Just a heads up. I'm in the last semester of a master's degree. One of my classes is the capstone course. A lot of my time is focused on completing the program. Because of this, I haven't posted anything since December. I have several posts in mind, but I probably won't get much posted until after graduation. Thank you for reading my blog.

For well over a year, since before this post in November 2017 https://fulnessoftimes.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-coming-crash.html I have told people that I believe a recession is coming late 2019 or early 2020. I expect the recession to begin in late 2019, and things will get worse through 2020 (and probably into 2021 and possibly into 2022 before improvements are touted by the party in control...even though their policies really won't be helpful in the long run). Over the last year I've read more and more analysts starting to project a similar start to the next recession--late 2019 or 2020. Today I read three articles that go right along these lines...and they are not from some fringe financial group looking to stir up fear among investors. What Wall Street strategists forecast for the S&P 500 in 2019 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-strategists-forecast-sp-500-2019-131219152.html   Next US recession will be 'much worse' than the last: Euro...

In a previous post I showed where Moroni identifies the Jaredites as having lived, and were destroyed, in "this north country." And, as he was very likely writing in the records cave at Hill Cumorah, or in the vicinity, "this north country" would refer to North America, and more particularly the United States. Moroni and his father Mormon gave several warning directed to us. Some are for everyone. Some are specifically for those of us living in the "land of promise, which is choice above all other lands" (Ether 2:7). Verses 8 -1 12 of Ether chapter 2 contain the promise of the land of promise. If we serve God, our country will be "free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven" (verse 12). But, if we do not serve God, we "will be swept off when the fulness of his wrath" comes upon us (verse 9), which will not come "until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are sw...

(continued from Was the Nephite Civilization in North America?) Now, let's go into a bit of "what ifs." We assume that what we've been taught by various sciences is correct. In particular, we assume it takes hundreds of thousands of years (or millions of years) for geographic changes to occur. But we also know how devastating a large hurricane can be. Or the destruction that can occur with a big flood. Or the changes that can occur with a volcanic eruption. Or the damage earthquakes can cause. Any one of those events can change the landscape of the area, and they don't take millennia, years, or even months to cause the change. . Now go and read 3 Nephi chapter 8, and remember the Nephites had been in the land for over 600 years. Here's some bits from that chapter. There was "a great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land" (verse 5). Remember, this is storm that nobody had experienced in the 600+ years the Nephi...

As I grew up in the Church, it was commonly accepted (and generally still is) that Lehi's family probably arrived somewhere in Central America, or in the northern part of South America (and the Nephites migrated north to Central America). But, there were times when I wondered if that was correct. And, over the last several years I've come to believe that it isn't correct. That's not to say there aren't those of Lamanite descent in Central and South America, because there certainly are. Most people tend to think that the Nephites stayed in a region, but the truth is they traveled and had commerce all over. And, we have no idea how long it took them to travel. We assume that a day's travel for them was the same as it it for us. I believe Lehi's family most likely arrived somewhere in the southeastern United States. It may have been along the Gulf coast, but I think it's more likely to have been along the south eastern shores. It had to be an area...