Mormons have 'another religion'. They are not even contemplating the Christian Salvation or Messiah Who alone has the spiritual Life of God. Mormonism teaches to seek salvation after all that you can do to become worthy of The Grace of God in Christ. Since God's Grace is not imparted as payment due for worthiness, Mormons have no clue Whom The Christ is or why He died on the Cross to shed His blood for the Grace to be available to any who will believe on Him.
Mormons are without eyes to see or ears to hear The Gospel of Grace in Christ because their earthy eyes and ears are tuned to work their way to the fantasy salvation of the strange voice who delivered the gospel of Fallen Angels to Joseph Smith, which is to say delivered the great lie to Joseph Smith which is sadly believed to this day by too many lost souls perishing in Mormonism.
Mormons like to spout Bible verses to try and prop up their strange religion, but anyone who has studied that strange religion knows the first tenant of Mormonism is to doubt the accuracy of the Bible, thus Mormonism starts with the premise that The God of Christianity is not able ... Mormonism carries this even further, claiming the Gospel of Grace in Christ left the Earth with the death of the last Apostle and only when Joseph Smith was visited by one or two Angels --the story varies depending on which version Joe told is quoted-- was the True Gospel re-established among men.
As illustrated so graphically on the Day of Pentecost and in the House of Cornelius, Salvation is an immediate thing and God immediately sends His Holy Spirit Life into the believer born from above at that instance. Christian Salvation is not something to be earned after all that you can do. Such a lie makes what Christ accomplished on the Cross with His shedding of His blood less than what The Word of God declares that Deliverance to be.
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
24 Now it will come about that instead of [r]sweet perfume there will be putrefaction;
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp;
Instead of fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth;
And branding instead of beauty.
25 Your men will fall by the sword
And your [s]mighty ones in battle.
26 And her [t]gates will lament and mourn,
And deserted she will sit on the ground.1 For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”
StormPrepper, when I asked you why you thought (Isaiah 4: verse) 1 refers to the millennial reign of Christ, you replied:
Because, it does. Unless you can come up with another day where all the all the fruit of the earth was excellent. Or God calling everyone in in Jerusalem holy.
The wicked and evil people of the earth are burned away at Christ second coming. Everyone left will be holy.
And later in your same post you added,
This is what Isaiah is referring to. In that day, or the Millennium, that people will rush to be compliant with all of God's commandments. The greatest, which unlocks all the glory that God can give to His children, is being being sealed for all time and eternity by the keys of the Holy Priesthood by a man to his wife.
These woman, are saying, we will provide our own food and clothing, just please be sealed to us.
It is evident that the rest of the verses in Chapter 4 refer to the Messiah, but you didn't really answer my question which was, when the women say, "To take away our reproach, why would their be any reproach at a time when, according to your earlier statement, there is no evil in the world?
But then I realize from your replies that none of what Isaiah says in the immediately preceding verses in Isaiah 3, or elsewhere, or even generally what Scripture actually states really matters to you. It doesn't matter to you here that there were no chapter divisions and verses in the original writings and that these were added later for convenience.
In the final analysis what matters to you is what your religious organization tells you Scripture says, and even then you have to interpret what THEY currently tell you Scripture says {which may be different than what they said in the past it says).
The foregoing is all evident from your outlandish, and frankly, nutty denial that 1 Cor 7:2 is 1 Cor 7:2 and you other strange takes on other Scripture passages, such as Deuteronomy 4:28. Why do you deny that 1 Cor 7:2 is 1 Cor 7:2? Because your Mormon religion tells you to, that's why. It's certainly not because you know Hebrew or koine Greek and have analyzed the texts and made some important new discovery.
You can believe whatever Joseph Smith and his cohorts said people ought to believe, and I'm afraid you do, even when they contradict and contradicted themselves.
It doesn't matter to you what Scripture actually says to you because Mormon definitions of common Christian terms are completely different from their ordinary meanings and usage.
My impression of our conversation is that you see things through a Mormon lens, a Mormon matrix, if you will, like that movie, and there's not much I can say to you that will get through to dispel the delusion. I generally dislike Mark Twain, but he was right when he said that it's easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled.
Not that it matters to you what I say to you but I will say it anyway: Joseph Smith was a con man, like Hussein Obama is a con man, except Joseph Smith was more of a religious con man and Obama is more the political type - but both were and are deceivers.
May God have mercy on you and open your eyes to His truth, and bring you to saving faith in the true Christ. Amen
Cordially,