of Abraham, was the promise to the patriarch fulfilled, that in him
and in his seed should all the nations of the earth be blessed? * * *
By this dispersion the blood of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--the blood
of faith, the blood that believes--with choice spirits answering to
that blood, and selected for that purpose, were sent into those
nations where the Gospel was afterwards preached, spirits capable of
recognizing the truth, and brave enough to embrace it." (Gospel
Themes, p. 156.)
7--6033. **Egypt's Chain.** The spirit of Elias was upon Moses when
he led Israel out of bondage.
8--6036. **Long Captivity.** The Assyrian Captivity, which carried
away the ten tribes.
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.
2.)
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 associates Columbus,
Jefferson and Washington, 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 pass, 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it was permanently withdrawn, the world might know that His coming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.