Elias Part 22

9--6038. **Whose Sword.** The sword of Joshua, the conqueror of Canaan.

10--6042. **Kishon's Brook.** It was at the Brook Kishon that Elijah slew the Priests of Baal.

11--6045. **Named Ere Born.** Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon, who restored the captive Jews, was named by Isaiah more than a century before his birth. (Isaiah, 45:1.)

12--6049. **Long Sealed Canopy.** The Heavens at the opening of the Last Dispensation.

13--6055. **The Kingdom's Keys.** The Melchisedek Priesthood. Elijah "holds the keys of the authority to administer in all the ordinances of the Priesthood." (History of the Church, Vol. 4, p. 211; D. and C.

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14--6063. **Abrahamic Keys.** Elias, in the Kirtland Temple, "committed the keys of the Gospel of Abraham." (D. and C. 110:12.)

15--6067. **How Tell the Sum?** This stanza a.s.sociates Columbus, Jefferson and Was.h.i.+ngton, impersonally, with others previously mentioned, as agents of Elias.

16--6083. **Jacob Upon Esau's Heel.** Genesis, 25:26.

17--7001. **Chaldean Dream.** The nations represented by the image seen in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, are to pa.s.s, like the dream itself, which the king was unable to recall.

18--7010. **Adorned and Ready.** When the Church, the Bride, is fully prepared, the Lord, the Bridegroom, will come.

19--7015. **Destroyers Four.** Four angels (Rev. 7:1; D. and C. 77:8, 9).

20--7017. **Twelve Times Twelve.** The One Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand. (Rev. 14:1; D. and C. 77:11.)

21--7022. **The Bow's Bright Promise.** Joseph the Seer gave, as a sign of the Second Coming, the withdrawal of the rainbow. Christ would not come during any year that the rainbow was visible; but when it was permanently withdrawn, the world might know that His coming was near at hand. (Compendium, p. 83.)

22--7036. **Prophet of the Dawn.** Elias, the Morning Star.