Matthew 3

Hello everyone :)

Thank you so much for your participation today! You all are incredible :) Your reading for tonight is:

Matthew 3 (cross reference with D & C 13)

How could knowing these chapters and verses help you to explain the importance of baptism to those not of our faith? What does Chapter 3 tell us about Heavenly Father, Christ and the Holy Ghost?

UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURES

Raiment: Clothes
leathern girdle about his loins: Leather belt around his waist
Meat:  Food
Vipers:  Poisonous snakes (often symbolic of wickedness)
Wrath:  Anger
Fruits:  Works, actions
the ax is laid unto the root of the trees:  A symbolic way of saying the judgement is near or God is about to cut down the trees that bear no fruit in his land.
Bear:  Carry
Fan:  A tool or instrument used to separate wheat kernels from their lighter outer shell (called "chaff" which is not eaten)
Purge his floor:  Clean his place of harvesting
Forbad him:  Told him he would not
Becometh us:  Is the right thing to do for us
Descending:  Coming down
Lighting:  Landing

See you tomorrow!

Sis. Findley