Truth … Anything More or Less is Evil

“There is an alarming statement in D&C 93. It follows the definition of truth found in D&C 93:24: “Whatsoever is more or less than this is the spirit of that wicked one who was a liar from the beginning”(D&C 93: 25); meaning that we are all required to find the truth. Anything more or anything less is evil and means we have been deceived. In addition, the follow up to the parable of the Ten Virgins found in D&C 45:56-57 warns everyone that the five foolish virgins who will not take truth as their guide are going to be hewn down and cast into the fire.

These decisions about what truth you must accept are important, but can only be made by trusting the Spirit. You should look to the Spirit for the answer to where and what is truth in this day of so much deception. Marketing, by its very nature, is deception. (See, The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom, by David Kupelian) All of modern commerce is based on deceiving you. Making you think you need something when you do not. Exciting your envy to get you to purchase something you really don’t need. So when it comes to the truth, you will need to demonstrate some “sales resistance” to Satan, and not be fooled into rejecting truth although it comes from a lone voice, crying from the wilderness (as has been so often the Lord’s pattern in the past)." (DS 2-23-10)

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” (Matthew 3:1-3) 
 

“For he was baptized while he was yet in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the time he was eight days old unto this power, to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews, and to make straight the way of the Lord before the face of his people, to prepare them for the coming of the Lord, in whose hand is given all power.” (D&C 84:28)

Since John the Baptist was ordained by the angel of God to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews and to prepare the people for the coming of the Lord the first time (2,000 years ago), would you expect a man today to be ordained to overthrow the kingdom of the Gentiles, to say, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”, to make straight the way of the Lord before the face of his people, and to prepare them for the SECOND coming of the Lord?

Does the Spirit ratify the things that are taught and comes from a lone voice presently among us today, crying from the wilderness and declaring that the heavens are open for business? What if the Lord's work is again underway and His offering to you is valid and in force today, as His voice clearly declares, “... how oft will I gather you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, if ye will repent and return unto me with full purpose of heart.” (3 Nephi 10:6)

If this, in fact, is the case today (and I believe it is), would it seem reasonable to take notice and study God's message given through His messenger, who is His mortal angel and a modern John the Baptist? If this is indeed true, why would anyone doubt or fail to give strict heed to the message and gratefully receive precisely what God offers today?