Down town Salt Lake City Temple and Plaza

[Traveler]

Here is a link to a recent article: https://www.deseret.com/faith/2023/5/7/23700044/salt-lake-temple-square-renovation-new-feature

 

I would add one thing about the stone with the Isaiah 2:2 scripture.  In the language of the Ute natives the word Utah literally means "Top of the Mountains".  This completes the prophecy of Isaiah.  If there is any better understanding -- I would be interested in hearing how this prophecy can better be represented. 

 

The Traveler

[mirkwood]

I seem to recall Pres. Hinckley saying that the church presence in SLC fulfilled that prophecy.  There may have been others.

[Carborendum]

21 hours ago, Traveler said:

In the language of the Ute natives the word Utah literally means "Top of the Mountains".

This is a myth.  In the Ute language, it means "the people."  But in certain contexts, it can simply mean "people" or "person" or "human."

20 hours ago, mirkwood said:

I seem to recall Pres. Hinckley saying that the church presence in SLC fulfilled that prophecy.  There may have been others.

I'd like to see that quote.  

Edited May 13, 2023 by Carborendum

[mirkwood]

1 hour ago, Carborendum said:

This is a myth.  In the Ute language, it means "the people."  But in certain contexts, it can simply mean "people" or "person" or "human."

I'd like to see that quote.  

If I find it I will post it. 

 

In the meantime a quick search on the church website gives us this:

 

Isaiah 2: Come to the Mountain of the Lord (churchofjesuschrist.org)

 

Holes

Isaiah 2:2–4—The Mountain of the Lord

The “mountain of the Lord” refers to the temple. In Isaiah 2:2–4, Isaiah reported a vision and made a prophecy that has been fulfilled in many ways. He said that when the time comes that the Lord’s people put Him and His house above all things, and when they actively seek counsel from Him by going to His house, then Zion will be established among them and they will have peace and the promise of eternal life. Modern prophets have taught us the same doctrine. President Howard W. Hunter said, “Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1994, 118; or Ensign, Nov. 1994, 88).

Another fulfillment of this prophecy has to do with the Lord’s house being established in the “top of the mountains” (Isaiah 2:2). Not only does the prophecy have symbolic reference to putting the temple in the highest place in our lives, but it also has a literal fulfillment in the location of the Church headquarters in the latter days. Regarding this prophecy of Isaiah, Elder Bruce R. McConkie said, “This has specific reference to the Salt Lake Temple and to the other temples built in the top of the Rocky Mountains, and it has a general reference to the temple yet to be built in the New Jerusalem in Jackson County, Missouri” (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith [1985], 539).

Elder B. H. Roberts taught the importance of the law going forth from Zion when he said, “To me that is, in part, the law of Zion—the basic principle of the civil law of the land—a principle of the law that is going forth from Zion—the civil law that is to be established and maintained upon this blessed land of liberty, and that, eventually, will directly or indirectly bless and make free every land in all the world” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1908, 108).