Prayer Surrounds the Atonement
August 8th, 2009
One realization came to me as I research my talk for this Sunday about prayer. Prayer opened, and also closed, the proceeding of the Atonement on Earth:
“[Jesus] kneeled down, and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, by thine, be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
- Luke 22:41-44
And it ends with a prayer, just before Christ died:
“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
- Matthew 27:46
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And finally, it’s as if Christ cried Amen in the Joseph Smith Translation footnote of Matt. 27: 50 (also John 19: 30): Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, saying, Father, it is finished, thy will is done, yielded up the ghost.
August 9th, 2009 at 8:53 PMGood point. It is like the grand Amen.
August 10th, 2009 at 6:01 PM