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1398. Finding the Lord’s Tomb By Frances Stones · April 14, 2022, in Meridian Magazine.

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This is fascinating!     I'm posting 2 blogs today.  I have been gone, and haven't posted for a couple of weeks.   I was at this tomb in April 2018.  I took some pictures, but wasn't able to upload them here.  Perhaps another time! Finding the Lord’s Tomb By  Frances Stones  · April 14, 2022 Images by Scot Facer Proctor. In the history and wellbeing of all mankind two of the most important events ever to occur were the sacrifice of the life of Christ, the Son of God, and His subsequent resurrection, without which we would all be lost. Only He had the power to lay down His life and take it up again. The scriptures tell us that His death was so horrific that darkness prevailed over the face of the earth (Luke 23: 44; 3 Nephi 8: 20-23). Truly the light of life had gone out. His body was destined to be “cast into a common grave for executed criminals” (‘Jesus the Christ’ by James E. Talmage, p. 664). It surely would have been disposed of in ...

1397. The Latter-day Saint who played the voice of God + other Church connections to ‘The Ten Commandments’, from LDS Living

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  FAMOUS LATTER-DAY SAINTS The Latter-day Saint who played the voice of God + other Church connections to ‘The Ten Commandments’ April 07, 2022 08:00 AM MDT Twitter Pinterest Email Print Vox.com Every Easter season, I anxiously anticipate when the classic, Academy Award-winning, biblically epic movie  The Ten Commandments  begins to play on TV stations around the world. Nominated for seven Academy Awards,  The Ten Commandments  was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release. The number of people involved in creating the movie is mind-boggling, and the set for the film was so elaborate, large, and expensive to move that producer, director, and narrator Cecil B. DeMille ordered it buried so a rival filmmaker could not use the set. Truly,  The Ten Commandments  is a movie that is unrivaled in its grandeur and impact. But did you know there are several Latter-day Saint connections to this iconic film? Latter-day Saint Artist Nominate...