God Hates the Natural Man! God loved Jacob, but hated Esau (Bible/Malaki 1:2,3).

May 5, 2007

Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney General

Washington DC

Detective Roslyn Rainey

Salt Lake City Police

Lohra Miller, Salt Lake County District Attorney

Justice Division, 111 E. Broadway, SLC, UT 84111

D. Bruce Oliver, attorney for Rob Joseph

180 South 300 West, Suite 210, SLC, UT 84101-1490

Kevin Bond, attorney for Steven Hinckley (ex-husband to Carol Tuft)

Salt Lake City, UT

Dear Mr. Gonzales and Salt Lake professionals,

The attached letter was just delivered to President Thomas S. Monson requesting his assistance into the mysterious death of my father on April 15, 2006 in Provo, Utah. The number 2 man of the Mormon Church is the key witness for the Trolley Square murder scene for the "motive" and "hit" confirmation by agents of Zions First National Bank and their Mind Control over Talovic to murder the four members of the Carolyn Tuft Family (Ex-wife to Steven Hinckley). President Thomas S. Monson was directly involved with my father, H. Clyde Davis, since 1966 when our family moved to Provo, Utah from Tucson, Arizona. Tom Monson knows the direct connection between Zions Bank Board member Neal A. Maxwell's wife, Colleen Hinckley, and Steven Hinckley. In 1953 Maxwell was a CIA Agent and directly involved in the MK-Ultra project passed by Congress. That same year Clyde was hired by the Atomic Energy Commission.

Back in 1985 Don Nelson, Director of the LDS Foundation (incorp. in 1974 by Gordon Hinckley), fired my father from his 1966 hiring by David O. McKay. After several weeks of investigating this "political action" against my father, Don Nelson was removed from his position in charge of the fund raising division of the Mormon Church. My father was very upset and delivered to me all the evidence against Zions First National Bank since 1966 for illegal banking transactions directly connected to Gordon Hinckley. With all this evidence Clyde and I sued Zions First National Bank in March, 1993 in Provo, Utah. Neal Maxwell apologized and resigned from the Bank Board of Directors in 1993.

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May 5, 2007

President Thomas S. Monson, 1^st Counselor

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

47 E. South Temple Street

Salt Lake City, Utah 84147

FAX (801) 240-2033

Dear Brother Monson,

Your "under the radar" reputation throughout the world connects you to the Boy Scout Motto: "Be Prepared." You have been patiently waiting for your day to shine. Because of colon cancer President Hinckley is turning over many activities to you. It will be like May 5, 1862 when the French were driven out of Mexico for their independence day.

Are you prepared to confess your sins when you become the President of the LDS Church? You gave a speech yesterday morning at the University of Utah where you encouraged the graduates to " glance backward, reach outward and press forward". Are you willing to learn from your past mistakes, perform restitution through the miracle of forgiveness and find happiness by reaching out and beyond blind obedience? I hope you will. Your speech was better than the one Dick Cheney gave at the BYU.

I want to thank you for vetoing every direct assassination "hit" on me by President Gordon Hinckley and Zions First National Bank since President Ezra T. Benson called you to be his 2 ^nd Counselor in the 1^st Presidency on November 10 1985. Up to that date you had twenty-two years of watching how close I was with all the Apostles, especially at our family Orange Julius stores. Church members do not know how powerful the 1^st Presidency is concerning temporal and financial matters of the Church. President Lee wanted to give that authority back to the Presiding Bishopric and dissolve the 1 ^st Presidency. When President Benson authorized the publication of the biography of President Harold B. Lee ("HAROLD B. LEE: Prophet Seer & Revelator") by L. Brent Goates (son-in-law) when he became the Church President, the members of the Mormon Church were blessed by this well written history concerning Church politics and the Priesthood Correlation origin long before it was announced by President McKay in April, 1963. It was also to protect me from being taken out by the same method (poisoning) done upon President Lee on December 26, 1973. President Howard W. Hunter told the church members in October, 1994 that since 1901 the Quorum of the 12 Apostles had to agree to all political and financial policy changes before the 1 ^st Presidency could direct any tithes and offerings to investments. This was originally ordered by Joseph F. Smith when he became President of the LDS Church almost one hundred and fifty-six years ago and less than 300,000 baptized members.

You had no direct knowledge of the accidental gun shot wound to my head by my father in October, 1960 and my three day coma. Every apostle had a special experience from the Lord about my mission on this earth (to restore the Original Book of Mormon) while they fasted and prayed for my recovery. You were the Mission President in Canada and only 33 years old at the time. When you became an Apostle at 36 years old, you were in charge of the "Church Image" through your employment at the Deseret Newspaper. Gordon Hinckley was 53. You have been controlled by Hinckley since 1962 when you returned from Canada. Now is the time, as an honorable Boy Scout, to tell the FBI of Hinckley violating US Criminal Laws for over fifty-six years, commencing during a time you were serving as a Bishop and as a Judge of Israel (called in 1950) while Hinckley believed he was a "Kingman" and over the conduct & image of all baptized members of the LDS Church. He became a member of the Zions First National Bank Board in 1968 and then controlled all tithing investments through corrupt and secret banking fraud.

Do you remember the day in November, 1995 when my Highland, Utah neighbor, Doug Judson hand-delivered to you a package directly from me requesting a Church Court of Discipline against Gordon B. Hinckley for blasphemy? Doug's dad sat on the Chase Manhattan Bank Board of Directors. I have never been afraid of Gordon Hinckley. The Lord warned Moses about false prophets in Deuteronomy 18, verse 22:

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him ."

How many modern day scriptures deal with a question found in ancient records where God hates a man like Gordon B. Hinckley, or like Esau, the first born of Isaac, son of Abraham? The Prophet Makachi warned his people about this "hatred": "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down…"

Joseph Smith was in the Liberty Jail on March 20, 1839 and many believed he was going to die because of the 1838 Extermination Order by Missouri Governor Boggs. What did the Lord tell Joseph Smith in D&C 121 about "many are called but few are chosen"? Why should anyone seek a church position? The Lord is in Charge and "pride" and "blasphemy" is denying the Holy Ghost because Jesus Christ is also Heavenly Father and the Holy Ghost (Mosiah 15:1-5). God loves whomever He wants to love. Others He hates because of their impure hearts. No one else has this right to "hate", only the Lord. Why? Because of His sovereignty of this earth. His alone will be a righteous judgment. This is called "election", " for many are called but few chosen" (Matthew 20:16). President Spencer W. Kimball denied any participation by the LDS Church in the Missouri Governor Kit Bond 1976 Executive Order removing the 1838 Extermination Order, which I was directly involved:

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Alma the Younger wanted to be an Angel after his 3 day coma. Alma 29:7-8 states: "Why should I desire that I were an angel, that I could speak unto all the ends of the earth? For behold, the Lord doth grant unto all nations, of their own nation and tongue, to teach his word, yea, in wisdom, all that he seeth fit that they should have; therefore we see that the Lord doth counsel in wisdom, according to that which is just and true ."

The Millennium is a "spiritual burning" and not an actual burning like the animal offerings required in the Old Testament. When were burnt offerings terminated in the Book of Mormon? After all inhabitants, except 2,500, were destroyed and the earth changed! The Resurrected Jesus Christ states that "burnt offerings" are done away because He is delivering His Spirit (Holy Ghost) to those who are baptized into His Church.

And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will accept none of your sacrifices and your burnt offerings. And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost, even as the Lamanites, because of their faith in me at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not (3 Nephi 9:19-20).

People believe that at the Second Coming the righteous will again offer burnt offerings to the Lord (Bruce R. McConkie) == "the wicked shall burn as a stubble". (Makachi 4) "And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." The LDS Church has been operating just like a regular Baptist and Protestant Church since Brigham Young took over and became a dictator for thirty years until he died in 1877. The Freemasons controlled the Baptists during this time because of their belief in baptism by immersion through John the Baptist. When I travel all over the world and teach how God can hate anyone, I teach it like that of a Christian preacher so people can know that God will not be mocked and controlled by any paid or volunteer preacher or church leader.

Elder Monson, you will enjoy the rest of this letter where any person who believes in the Bible can understand how God is a jealous God and no one is anywhere near His power, glory and authority, including Joseph Smith, Gordon Hinckley or any other Prophet called by God for the past 6,000 years. Anyone can fall; even prophets! So as an honest boy scout are you going to continue the lie of "a prophet will never lead you astray?" Furthermore, there will never be any more physical burnt offerings as promised in the Book of Mormon by the Resurrected Jesus Christ. The members need to remove D&C 136 because it is not of God – it was manufactured by Freemason John Taylor and other members of this secret society who infiltrated the church.

Romans 9:9-20: Why does God "hate" a person? The context in which the word "hated" is used here can leave no doubt in your mind as to what is being taught: namely, that God has elected some to Himself ...and reprobated others — that is, rejected them and fitted them to damnation because of their heart. Paul's questions anticipate the very objections heard today to the same doctrine — (vs. 14): "What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid." (vs. 15): "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy ." The same is warned by the Lord when He explained this to King Benjamin that the "natural man" is always an enemy to God (Mosiah 3:19).

Paul does not do as objectors would do — "explain away" the strong force of these words — but appeals to the sovereign will of God as an answer to the question. (vs. 19): " Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?"

This is the very objection that we continually hear from Arminian ["theologically" — not the Russian province] sources: "If God does such-and-such a thing to men, why does He condemn them?" That is the same cavil that Paul answered as follows: (vs. 20): " Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why has thou made me thus?"

Paul deemed it a sufficient answer in reminding the vain caviler of his utter insignificance and the glorious Sovereignty of God who does what He will with His own. Christ asserts this same principle in Matthew 20:15, where He teaches the parable of the laborers and the vineyard. He answers the objector by saying: "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good."

If He intended to teach by the parable that man's work makes the difference, then He certainly set forth a confusing parable; for notice, the laborers went into the vineyard at different hours, yet Christ did not reward one more than the other. The caviler thought He should have done so. Thus he meets with the sovereignty of God.

Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament, is separated from the book of Matthew by a silent period of more than 400 years, and yet, these two books tie together in a remarkable way. Historically, there was a long, long time when no voice spoke for God, no prophet came to Israel. There were no scriptures being written. There was no encouragement from God. The heavens were silent. Still, history was going on, and remarkable things were taking place in Israel and among the Jews. New institutions were being formed that appear in the opening of the New Testament, but none of this is recorded for us in the sacred history. Malachi is the last of the Minor Prophets and the last prophetic voice to speak to Israel. God has many "options" about calling certain people to be a part of His Millennium. "For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto thy name, and a pure offering; for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts ."

The last three books of the Old Testament -- Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi -- were all written after the return of the Israelites from their captivity in Babylon. The people did not come back from Babylon in one great big happy throng. There was a straggling return in two or three groups, the first one beginning in about 535 B.C. At that time, a handful of Jews fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah that the captivity would last for 70 years and they came back to the desolated, stricken city of Jerusalem. There they began to lay the foundations of the temple and it was Haggai's ministry fifteen years later to stir them up to continue that work and carry it through. The temple was completed during Zechariah's ministry and Ezra the priest then led another group back from Babylon.

The people had changed their entire way of life by that time. While they were in Israel before the captivity, they had been sheep keepers, for the most part. But in Babylon they learned to be shopkeepers, and they have been merchants and shopkeepers ever since. So Ezra led this group back and again they had difficulties which are recorded in the historical book of Ezra.

Finally, the last return was accomplished under Nehemiah who in 445 B.C. led a group back to begin the laying of the walls of Jerusalem. The book of Nehemiah records the exciting experience of building the walls once again. Shortly after Nehemiah finished this task, Malachi appears, and it is interesting to compare the book of Nehemiah with the book of Malachi. Nehemiah is the conclusion of the historical section of the Old Testament which begins with Genesis. That is all history. Following Nehemiah are the poetic books, and then the prophetic books; in Malachi we come into the same period as is covered by Nehemiah.

This prophecy of Malachi was given by a man whose name means "my messenger." It is most suggestive that this last book of our Old Testament centers on the theme of a messenger of God and a prediction of the coming of another messenger. In this, therefore, we have a direct tie between Malachi and the New Testament. Chapter 3, for instance, begins with this prophecy: "Behold, I send my messenger (in Hebrew that would be "Behold, I send Malachi") to prepare the way before me, ..." And as you discover in the book of Matthew, that messenger was John the Baptist. He came to prepare the way of the Lord and to announce the coming of the second messenger from God. That second messenger is here in this prophecy in the next phrase: "... and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant ..." It was the work of the Lord Jesus on the closing night of his ministry to take wine and bread with his disciples and holding the cup up to say, "This is my blood of the [new] covenant." (Matt. 26:28) The messenger of the covenant is the Lord Jesus himself. "... in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. (That is, 'he burns and he cleanses.') He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, till they present right offerings to the LORD." (Mal 3:1)

Now that was the trouble with the people in Malachi's day. They had forgotten the great and central message of God and, as we go back to the start of the book, we see that the prophet opens on that note: The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. "I have loved you," says the Lord. (Mal 1:1-2)

And that is always the message of God's prophets. "I have loved you," says the Lord. But the amazing thing is that these people answer the prophet with the words, "How hast thou loved us?" This entire book is a series of responses on the part of the people to the challenges of God. Seven times you will find them saying, "How? How does this happen? Prove it." As we go through them you can see how they reveal the state of this people's heart. Here is an outgoing God -- and God is always this way, pouring out love -- but here is a callous people who have become so indifferent and so unresponsive to God that in perfect sincerity they can say, " We don't see this. What do you mean? Why do you say these things to us?" Throughout the book, this is the theme.

Now God's answer to their question, "How have you loved us?" is to remind them that he loved them even back in the beginning of the race with Jacob and Esau. He says, "Take a look at the whole race. Esau's history has been one of continual disturbance and disaster and trouble because," he says, "I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau. If you want to understand my love, look at one who has not been enjoying my love. Look at Esau and see how different his story is from yours, even though Jacob and Esau were twin brothers.": "Is not Esau Jacob's brother?" says the LORD. "Yet I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau;" (Mal 1:2-3)

That troubles many people, but you find the explanation in the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. There we are told that Esau was a despiser of his birthright and therefore was one who placed no value on spiritual matters. (Heb. 12:16) He treated God with utter indifference. He viewed the things that God regarded as valuable as if they were trivial, and he treated them that way. It is because of Esau's attitude that God says, "I have loved Jacob but I hated Esau."

If you had known these two men, you would probably have loved Esau and hated Jacob. Jacob was the schemer, the big time operator, the supplanter, the usurper, the untrustworthy rascal. Esau was the big outdoor man, hearty, open, frank, strong, boasting in his exploits as a hunter and as a man of the out-of-doors. Of the two, he appears much the better man, but God says, " I loved Jacob because in the heart of Jacob is the hunger after the deeper things of life; Jacob wants something more than what is on the surface." That always draws out the heart of God. And this is characteristic of the nation as well.

God goes on to charge the Israelites with specific problems and each time their response is, "What do you mean?": "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name." (Mal 1:6)

That is God's charge. You despise my name. They said, "How have we despised your name? We don't see this. What do you mean?" And the Lord answers: "By offering polluted food upon my altar." "Your attitude and your actions toward me are shoddy. You are content to give me just the trash, the defiled things." But they pursue it further: 'How have we polluted it?' (Mal 1:7)

And again God makes it very clear. Whenever you ask God how, he will tell you. God says: "When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that no evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that no evil?" (Mal 1:8)

"Will you get by with that?" God says, "You people that are content to be shoddy about your religious depth and experience, try living that way in your business life and see if you get by with it. And yet you say you are honoring my name. You are claiming to worship me and to be my people." The God of reality always cuts right through all the excuses and all the flimflam of hypocrisy right down to the real issue.

You see it again in the charges that he lays against them concerning their attitudes in worship. They were being professional about their worship. They were utterly bored: "'What a weariness this is,' you say, and you sniff at me, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering!" (Mal 1:13)

Now what is wrong here? Where has all the excitement gone? Well, these are always the symptoms of a people who are led by unrighteous leaders, who think God will be content with something less than love. The great commandment is, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind...and your neighbor as yourself." (Matt. 22:37-39) Nothing else will satisfy God. But here is a people who have been surrounded by God's love and the recipients of His grace for centuries and yet their hearts have become so blinded that they cannot even see how they are offending him and insulting him with what they do because their church leaders have no connection with God and money has become the worshipped God. The reason this is so is that your own love for Him has died. The death of love is always reflected in a callous attitude and this is what is in the church today from the top down.

As you continue. you see that they were being hypocritical just as you are; the leaders of the church. God lays that charge against you in chapter 2 and says that your hypocrisy is actually malignant, in the past and now. Your influence is leading others astray: "But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction, ..." (Mal 2:8)

"You are telling them things that are wrong because you do not even know that they are wrong." This is the horrible aspect of your level of responsibility; you will not be saved by your ignorance and will be held accountable.

Then God charges the people of old with having failed in their moral standards. It is applicable even today. They had begun to intermarry with the tribes around them and forgot that God had called them to be a special people. Divorce was prevalent throughout the land just as in Utah today due to the demeaning, suppressive, abusive attitude towards women in the LDS church by men who hold the "priesthood", which unbeknownst to them the women hold as well! Keep in mind as the church is cleaned up of corrupt leaders, (D&C 64: 40-41), polygamy is and always has been "an abomination unto the Lord" (Jacob 2:23-24) and explains the suppressed role of LDS women, even today. And this again you do. You cover the LORD's altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards ... or accepts (the offering) with favor. (Mal 2:13)

And they ask, "Why does he not accept this?": Because the LORD was witness to the covenant between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Has not the one God made and sustained for us the spirit of life? And what does he desire? Godly offspring. So take heed to yourselves, and let none be faithless to the wife of his youth. "For I hate divorce, says the LORD the God of Israel." (Mal 2:14-16)

Sounds modern, doesn't it? Malachi had to minister to a nation in which divorce was widespread, and more than that, to a society in which moral confusion and cynicism was rampant. There was no Spirit, just as in Utah. The prophet says:

"You have wearied the Lord with your words." They are amazed at this charge. They say: "How have we wearied him?" The answer comes right from the shoulder: By saying, "Every one who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD," Because the leaders of the church love money and power rather than God as evidenced by the billion dollar shopping mall down-town Salt Lake City, Utah versus working with the poor. The people also have money as their God as you do! When people offer anything less than a fervent love for God, they think that ritual and religious hocus pocus is going to satisfy the heart of the Eternal. These people were asking: "Where is the God of justice?" (Mal 2:17)

Where is the God of judgment? Anybody can get by with anything! The leaders of the LDS church and the ignorant members have gotten away with stealing from others and justifying their actions, such as altering the Book of Mormon, justifying the perversion of polygamy, and the elitism of satanic, temple blood oaths to control. They do not realize that even though the Lord has allowed corruption in the past during Lucifer's reign because of free agency that the Lord is now in charge during this millennial time and corruption is being exposed and truth revealed.

Then came the great prophecy we have already looked at. Malachi lifts his eyes and sees that the heart of these people was so hardened that they could not be awakened even by these charges from God. They were utterly unaware that these things were happening. They had nothing to measure them against. So the prophet, looking across what turned out to be four hundred years, says, "The Lord will take care of this. He will send one to you who will wake you up, one who will tell you the truth. He will be a refiner's fire; he will burn through all the hypocrisy and the outward perfunctoriness of your religion and cut right through to the very heart of it. He will be like fullers' soap to those who are willing. He will cleanse them and set things right. You will be able to recognize him because a messenger will go before him to prepare the way, and then he will suddenly come to his temple." And of course, all of this is beautifully fulfilled in the New Testament.

Then comes another series of charges in which the Lord speaks again about their lives. He says to them: "Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts." (Mal 3:7)

And the people say, "How shall we return? We haven't gone anywhere. What do you mean return? We are serving you in your temple; we are bringing the proper sacrifices and offerings and we are going through the ritual, just as you outlined it. What do you mean, return to you?" In this response, they indicate the utter blindness of their heart. They did not realize that though the outward form is right, the heart is far from God.

Then God said, "You are robbing me." They said, "How are we robbing you?" God's answer was, "In your tithes and offerings. The whole nation of you is robbing me. You are using the money that I had blessed you with for your own purposes. Bring the tithes into the storehouse that there may be food in my house." Now that verse is often wrenched from this Old Testament scripture and used to establish a legalistic pattern of bringing in all the offerings into the church as the storehouse. Well, that is a distortion that is used to fill the pockets of the self-proclaimed "church leaders" (like the Pharisees and Sadducees) who actually serve themselves and are corrupt moneychangers. This verse is addressed to Israel, within the limits of the system under which Israel lived in the Old Testament, and yet the principle is exactly true of the LDS church.

And God says, "When you do that, you are robbing me. You are robbing me of my right to use you to advance my cause." That is what man is here for. It is quite possible for all of us to be quite perfunctory about fulfilling our religious obligations within the church and yet to live our lives out fulfilling nothing but our own self-centered goals. We may even achieve them and rise to the very top, but someday we will have to stand before the one who says, "All your life you have robbed me of my right to be myself in you." That is why the appeal of the New Testament is to present your bodies as a living sacrifice unto God; that is what we are here for. That is what we are called for, and anything less is robbing him of his inheritance in the saints.

He goes on to charge them with still other offenses: "Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'How have we spoken against thee?'" (Mal 3:13) The answer comes: "You have said, 'It is vain to serve God.'" (Mal 3:14)

"What is the use of serving God? He does not do anything for me. I do not get anything out of this. What is the good of keeping his charge or of walking in mourning before the LORD of hosts?" This sounds familiar, doesn't it? "Why, I have been trying to serve God; I have been a Mormon now for ten years and I haven't gotten anything out of it." This betrays the philosophy that God exists for man, not man for God, which is really blasphemy. Now that is one side of the picture.

But beginning with verse 16 of chapter 3 there is a wonderful little spotlight turned on a remnant, a group within, who were pleasing God. Thank God these are always there and God's searchlight can always find them. They are described this way: Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another; the LORD heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and thought on his name. (Mal 3:16)

Then these beautiful verses: "They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, my special possession on the day when I act, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him. " (Mal 3:17-18)

Notice the two things that mark those who are faithful in the day of apostasy. First, they spoke with one another. This does not mean that they just talked to each other. It means that they opened up to each other. They shared with one another. They encouraged each other. They confessed their weak points and prayed for one another. They let others see what they were like. Ah, yes, but that was on the horizontal level, wasn't it? But there was also the vertical: they thought on his name. That is always the great resource of the people of God.

The name of God stands for all that He is, just as your name stands for all that you are. You sign a check and all that you are is laid on the line to the amount of that check because of your name. They thought on His name. You are being assaulted today with solutions for the problems of the weakness of the church that are not solutions at all. Why not recognize that the weakness of the church stems from the corruption of the leaders, the alteration of the Book of Mormon, denying the women their priesthood, the perverse, satanic blood oaths and idolatrous promises to serve the church (money changers) rather than to serve God? It is so simple and it is time to repent and cleanse the church!

Here is the further answer to the weakness of the church -- "to think upon His name," to reckon on the resources of God. You can take away all the props of the church, its buildings, its visual aids, its committees, its programs and everything else, and if you have a people who have learned to reckon on the name of God, you have not lost a thing. That is what this age needs to hear again. To again, live with the Spirit of God!

God is the missing element. And repentance is the key. So, as declared previously, it is time for the prophetic cleansing of the LDS church to be fulfilled. We are to think on His name, reckon on His power. The church is never so strong as when in utter weakness it casts itself back upon the resources of God and moves in dependence upon Him. Monson, you could initiate this cleansing, and be a true boy scout!

Now the prophet lifts up his eyes again to see the day that is coming, not only the day 400 years later when the Lord Jesus will stand on the earth, but beyond that, across the great reaches of the centuries to the second coming of Christ, when all of God's program will be fulfilled (chapter 4, verse 1, 2): "For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall born them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings."

Now that is one cause with two effects. The Son of Righteousness shall rise. And for those who refuse him, there is a burning. But toward those who receive him, there is a healing. It is the same Son: "You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts. (Mal 4:2-3)

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, ... (Mal 4:4) "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse." (Mal 4:5-6)

You will recall that it was the last verse that was troublesome to the disciples and they said to the Lord, "How is it that the prophecy says that Elijah the prophet must first come?" And the Lord's answer was, "Elijah has already come and you did not recognize him." He saw the look of astonishment on their faces and he made it clear that it was John the Baptist who came "in the spirit and power of Elijah" (Luke 1:17) and fulfilled his ministry in the initial coming. But he put it in such a way as to leave the clear inference that Elijah the prophet would still come before the second coming. (Matt. 17:10-13) Many identify the two witnesses in the eleventh chapter of Revelation as Elijah and Moses. How true this is, I will leave to you to decide. But at least there is the suggestion here that in some remarkable way, God intends to supply a ministry like Elijah's before the second return of the Lord Jesus.

Now notice this last thing. It is not without significance that at the end of all the literature of the Old Testament, the last word is "curse." It is not a definite prediction, however, but a warning. This prophecy begins "Behold, I have loved you, says the Lord," and it ends with the warning that if the message of love is not received, the result is a curse. Now compare that with the last word of the New Testament. Leaving out the final salutation, it is the name of Jesus, the Lord Jesus. "Come, Lord Jesus!"

God's answer to the condemnation of the church is repentance! The Spirit of the Law is the way of the Resurrected Jesus Christ as taught in the Book of Mormon. The Bible lets believers know that God loves and hates anyone He sees fit to!