Monday, September 28, 2020

An Example of Early Latter-day Saint Use of Sensus Plenior

 

Is there anything said about this desert in prophecy? Yes. You can find many prophecies in Isaiah, David's psalms, and other Prophets, predicting that, about or near the time of the coming of the Lord, "the wilderness and the solitary place shall be made glad for them." That the "desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing." Isaiah further says that "the Lord shall comfort Zion; he shall comfort all her waste places, he shall make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody." Also that he would "cause springs of water to break out in the desert, and that the parched ground should become pools of living water." (Orson Pratt in JOD 17:317 | February 28, 1875)

 

Further Reading

 

 The LDS use of Isaiah 2:2-5


Duane Crowther on Isaiah 2:2 being about a future Temple in Jerusalem, not Salt Lake City


Sidney B. Sperry on Isaiah 2:2-5