Bryce’s class in Temple Symbols completely changed my experiences in the House of the Lord. Now I can’t wait to make appointments and go and anticipate seeing Jesus in every inch of His house. Thank you Bryce!
I love Bryce's Temple Symbol series! I hope I'm not out of line if I add one thing. Even though his series is wonderful at helping you understand many of the temple symbols, I've learned that we can't think this is finished. There are many things that the Lord has revealed to me in the temple that are different from the things Bryce points out. Remember that the things of the temple are best learned by revelation. We must keep our hearts open as we attend, because the Lord will keep on teaching us each time we go, if we are prepared to hear. Thanks so much, Parker and Bryce.
As a Temple worker I take being at the Temple every week very seriously! Our sacred Temple clothing is not allowed in the envelope in front of the Temple by the front desk! Let alone being shown on a TH-cam channel in front of tons of people that are not even members of the church! This is incredibly disturbing that a bunch of church members would even do such a horrible thing! The Temple is sacred and deserves our respect it is God's holy house 🏠 and our symbols need to be kept sacred in a time in the world where nothing is respected anymore! I feel so bad that God has to deal with his children not following his teachings just so they can get views for there channel!🙏🏻God help us! We aren't allowed to take pictures in our chapels either! Because these are sacred places!
I’ve been loving his videos on Temple Symbols, Bryce you have helped me so much in deepening my understanding of my covenants and therefore my commitment to God! Thank you for the work you do ❤
I prayed this morning to come across spiritual material online and boom 🙌🏼 I came across this video. Both of your channels are a blessing. I’m truly excited to learn anything about the temple and the ordinances we perform there. My sister who was just baptized in December is preparing to enter the temple to do baptisms. Bryce’s “temple symbols” podcast will be such a blessing for her to gain a better understanding of our temple covenants, ordinances and symbolisms in the temple. So Thank-you 😊
I am SO happy that you found this video!! Bryce's temple symbols series is the best thing ever!! It will help your sister so much when she goes to the temple! His video about the cherubim and the flaming sword is of value to everyone. Not just temple goers. One man commented that he almost harmed himself because of this idea that he had to be perfect. Bryce Dunford does a beautiful job of explaining that Satan tried to take away our days of probation. Since he wasn't allowed to do that, he tries to get us to take away our probation. It is one of my favorite episodes ❤️
This is a must for every member that is interested in learning and understanding the temple in a deeper level. Very enlightening, mind opening if you want to get more out of temple attending. Highly recommended to all
As a Temple worker we receive instruction in our meetings before every shift. We are not allowed to take our ordinance clothing in the pack by the front desk at all! I can't believe they are showing sacred clothing for all the world to see , this is not ok to remove the sacredness of our clothing! In a world where nothing is special or sacred.
@stardustgirl2904 I appreciate your concern. The church has put out a video for public consumption, which shows the ceremonial clothing. I think the footage for the above video was taken from the video put out by the church. 😊
@MsLT62 You might 🤔 think it's wonderful! But as a Temple worker, we work very hard to preserve the dignity and respect 🙏🏻 for sacred things. There is so little left in this world 🌎 that's sacred and actually respected by the world.
I think of course temple workers are instructed not to say or Show sacred things as a temple worker or talk about those things in the temple . That’s good your instructions help you to focus on temple things . But our church puts out seminary college type classes books you can buy that explains a lot of temple symbols and clothing . It shows the robes and aprons and explains why you move from rooms . Talks about the garden too and its teachings . Where have you been ?? This is taught very openly . The church also has a video about the clothing and even clothing from the Old Testament days and the vest they wore . I can understand being a temple worker you get told not to discuss things . Which is good .,let the church put out what they want . I’m surprise. Really at how much they did put out . Nothing in this video is wrong or anythjng talked about that can not be shared . Of course there are some things that you do not talk about . And none of them did . Everything talked about here has already been talked about. It helps to understand symbols . Symbols are beautiful and not a secret .
51:02 gave me a powerful new insight the symbiotic relationship of the new creation develops inside of the mother, and the developing child intern nurtures the mother. What an incredible symbolic visualization! ❤
@@larrainemoore1880 - Technically she is not an angel. It is said by some that it was Adam... because Adam is the one that caused the fall, and made the first covenants to rely on the Saviour's redeeming power.
I've been a temple worker for a few months and I've never thought of the initiatory or any other the other ceremonies that way. Thank you for teaching me.
James 4: 7- 10 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. If you want to know the secrets of this world submit to God the Father. Read the Book of Mormon with pure and sincere intent to know if it is true. Then commit to do take up your cross and follow him. Barry the old man and be born again in Christ Jesus.
@@joenelson5819 I'm sorry, but you have been mislead. I really do hope you will search the truth for yourself. Please don't rely on the arm of flesh. Do your own research and ask God. He will not lead you astray.
I want to bear testimony of the healing power of the temple. I have gone to the temple when my heart was so broken, I wondered how I could go on and received the strength and hope I needed to persevere.
Amazing and extremely informative. Such a wonderful Blessing to understand why we believe that an ETERNAL family is so important. Future Temple visits will be so Awesome with this knowledge of why we make and keep our sacred covenants with God. Truly a GIFT and I appreciate this video and I appreciate your podcast. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤
I've sent those all videos to my family and we've benefited so much. Bryce is an amazing teacher that can bring the gospel to an easy to understand deeper meaning. Thank you for highlighting him :)
This was such a wonderful video! I got so excited to see that you were having Bryce Dunford on the show. I found his temple symbols series a little bit ago, and I absolutely love them! They have helped me grow in the gospel so much. Lexi, I loved your contributions to the show so much! I have felt the same way about thinking that you had to be a scholar to understand the symbols of the temple. I resonated with your awesome comments. ❤ Can you please bring Bryce back again to discuss his Book of Mormon series? 🙏 I just started the series, and it has made me see the Book of Mormon in such an amazingly deeper light! I would love, love, love to hear an interview with you and Bryce about this. 😊 Lastly, I just wanted to say how beautiful you look, Lexi. That color on you is so lovely with your eyes.
Thank you. I’m on my second round of the 20 videos but this is a very good cliff notes version which actually helps be better understanding. I have a very short attention span
47:33 another very insightful point. The concept of “a principle with a promise” really struck me when I gave us something that isn’t explicitly denied in the word of wisdom. It’s instructive that it doesn’t say a “practice with a promise”. Yes the word of wisdom gives us some examples but it’s not a complete list. It’s up to each individual to determine what things may be enslaving or what nutrients that individual needs
I’m not a young person, however, I love the temple teachings with Bryce Dunford!!! These are AMAZING classes! I’ve learned soooo much! Thank you Bryce!!!❤😊
Wow! My mind is blown! I have had my eyes open after absorbing this spiritual feast. My soul has been well nourished after listening to these wonderful truths. I will be forever grateful Thank You so much I can’t stop the tears of joy. Wow!
Love this interview! In the last, year I watched many of Bryce's videos. I received my endowment 42 years ago and I learned and gained so much understanding from his videos! I am grateful for one that the Church is talking more and more about what goes on in the Temple - not everything is 'secret' --there are only certain things that are not to be talked about. I definitely felt the Spirit watching this video and learned even more! SO many beautiful interpretations! Loved it!
I have recently had a fire of wanting to get more out of my temple experiences. And in my searching have found several worthwhile discussions and podcasts. I so appreciate the style of teaching Bryce, that you bring to the table. My life has had too few spiritual experiences in the temple and this series has opened up easily understandable possibilities for me and others that I want to share my excitement with. Thank you for making these available.
I loved this interview so much I binged watched all the rest of Bryce’s videos on his own channel. Thank you for giving this guy a platform! He’s a gifted teacher.
I have been a faithful member all of my life and was told that the temple would reveal itself to me as I continued to attend. But it wasn’t until this past year, with new changes to the movie that I realized I was reaching beyond the simple truths that are there. I was looking to truths in the number of knots on the robe, etc. lol I love this podcast and the new simple truths that are shared. Thank you
Love Bryce's channel and the way he teaches. I have been going to the temple since 2000 but learned so much recently by watching the temple series. Learning something new every day! Thank you!
Congratulations on her fourth baby. I will never understand ever no matter how many babies the beauty and miracle of that miracle . It is all so amazing . I heard that what helped Jesus get through his dark hours was seeing all of us . I heard that before . Thank you for sharing this . We helped Jesus get through it all. That in his offering I have part and hold a place within his heart .
I love the temple series by Bryce, but I also admire you, Parker and Lexie, from afar. I’m so impressed by your testimonies and goodness. Thanks for sharing your hearts and talents with the world! And congrats on baby #4!
Love this video and Brother Dunfords videos. I can feel the Spirit testifying to me of the truthful ness of the Gospel and the temple. Thank you for all you do and for sharing your love of the Gospel the way you do. I look for your and Brother Dunfords videos especially when I'm having a hard day. They always lift my spirit and my struggles are easier to bear. This video has enlightened my mind so much. Thank you.
I’ve. Even attending the temple almost 38 years, and some of the things I learned from this. Video I’ve never considered before. Wow. I really, really appreciate brother dunford’s insights. Thank you for sharing this interview
I never felt better than in my 7 pregnancies. I was only able to carry 4 babies full-term, but I am still thankful for all of them. They all healed me then and probably still do now. ❤
This is awesome! My husband and I are Ordinance Workers and the Temple Preparation Seminar teachers. Bryce's videos have been a source for us to help those who have questions to be able to answer them. Again thank you ❤
LOVED this so much. A lot of it was confirmation of (and added insight into) my own personal study of scriptures and temple attendance. Thank you for sharing this! ❤
Showing our sacred Temple clothing is not allowed! As a Temple worker it seems that the LDS community has forgotten to keep our sacred ordinance clothing out of view from nonmembers l find this to be very degrading to our Temple clothing and the Lord's house! In the Temple you can't go to the front dest with sacred ordinance clothing! To protect ✨️ 🙏🏻 the sacred nature of our Heavenly Father's holy house! God makes the rules, not man! This is dreadful he's doing this!
@gwengold8154 The church has only shown garments! Our Temple president receives instruction from Salt Lake and we as Temple workers receive direct training from the Temple president, and we are always carefully instructed not to have anyone, show their sacred clothing. In our Temple we have a special hallway to walk through so sisters can walk from the dressing room in sacred clothing ✨️ and not be seen by our youth coming in to do baptisms! This is a serious matter! Sacred ordinance clothing isn't meant to be looked at by nonmembers, it's not meant to be looked at like an everyday object. It's special the Temples are where the Lord walks the hallways with his spirit!
@@stardustgirl2904 I just googled "temple ceremonial clothing" and a bunch of articles came up showing the robe, the apron, the cap, and the rest. One was from January of 2020 and it was on KSL news. Which is run by the church. One was the "called to serve" channel which is a very faith promoting channel. I think that your temple president is likely just trying to preserve the sacred nature of the ceremonial clothing. Take a nun's clothing for instance. We have seen that thousands of times in the media and in life. Yet, it is still sacred clothing to them. They would treat it sacredly. But, I don't think that means that it can never be seen. We have been accused of being secret, and from hiding things--even from our own members. The church leaders are trying to combat that terrible narrative while still maintaining the sacred nature of the clothing. It can be a fine line at times, but I still maintain that this podcast did nothing wrong.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this! Excellent podcast! Keep up the great work! I needed to hear this & love this! I am trying to heal & strengthen my family & this gives me some very good insight and inspiration!
This has been truly inspiring instruction! To quote President Russell M. Nelson “If you don't yet love to attend the temple, go more often-not less. Let the Lord, through His Spirit, teach and inspire you there. I promise you that over time, the temple will become a place of safety, solace, and revelation.
Thanks to both of you for inviting Bryce to this video. I’m glad the algorithm kept exposing your video to me. Thank you Lexi for helping me see that special relationship with Heavenly Mother that gives us a small peek into the most perfect part of who we are to and because of her. I plan to study his series intently. I’ve already began to increase my service in the temple. I will increase my attendance there with my eternal companion. This video helps me to understand the Why we are building so many temples around the world. I love your channel.
A couple of days ago, I heard Elder Peter Johnson of the 70's say to us that our Father's plan is perfect. He desires to bring all of his children home to Him. The eternal unit of that plan is the family.
Describing anything with just 1 word is normally quite difficult, wouldn't you agree ? I would normally have that same problem! But in this case it's easy! Brilliant ; )
May I give another perspective of the baptism being compared to birth... Not many births are unmedicated anymore, so sadly many women miss out on this experience. And, having most of my experience with birth being in out of hospital environments, I've seen and also experienced this myself. When a baby is born, it has been fully immersed in the amniotic fluid. It is considered clean. Then, through the blood of the mother it makes its way through the birth canal. Then, there is a moment in birth where most naturally birthing women will feel what is called the "ring of fire"- the stretching. (Also, in the births I've experienced, the baby isn't wiped clean- we allow all that wonderfully moisturizing vernix to be rubbed into the baby's skin ;) So, the baby is immersed in water, touched by blood spilt by its mother, and is then "confirmed" through the ring of fire... like when we describe the burning in our hearts of the Holy Spirit.
I saw the vision of the nature of the eternal round of the promise of Elijah on my mission in the Buenos Aires Temple. At that time the glass wall of baptistry could be seen looking from the small sealing room through the exit doors of the Celestial room. The temple is all over the scriptures we just need to remember to look for it.
28:51 I had a complete reverse of opinion when I attended the Saint George temple recently and was seeing through a “sexist” lens. What I thought was an inequality and Adam being singled out was in fact Adam honoring Eve.
So many temples are announced and being built far and wide across the globe!!What a profound blessing for all people in the Kingdom!! But please take note that so many temples are so close to nations and peoples where education is not readily available. So many Saints have beautiful, simple faith in Jesus Christ but are not sophisticated. Why digress from the plain and beautifully simple ordinances presented via film and by clear and simple visual demonstration? I see no need to delve so deep where many possess such a simple and non-sophisticated faith focusing on Jesus Christ!!
Hi brother Bryce ,thank you so much for teaching this message I appreciate it. I’m sure the Holy Ghost is pushing you to do that kind of stuff thank you again.
Thank you! I also believe we learn about the creation bc we are creators and are being taught The Law of Creation. All things are created spiritually before they are created physically. How do we create spiritually? It’s how and what we SEE, SAY and FEEL. Those 3 principles then impact and determine what we DO and then what we BECOME. That is the physical creation. God did the exact same thing. He saw in his mind what he wanted to create, he gave specific instructions (SAY), and he said (SAY) it was good. As we DO we bring all things into creation and then we repeat the process, line upon line. So I think there are many reason why we learn about creation. :)
Bryce has pointed out a lot of evocative, compelling, and exciting symbolism, and this is of tremendous value in stimulating our perception and curiosity to build our own connections to the meaning of the Temple and more fully use its power. As I trust he would be the first to also point out, he does not hold keys to declare all the interpretations he presents as definitive and binding for the general membership of the Church. I keep that in mind, for I disagree with the idea of fully equal reciprocity when it comes to protecting each other's hearts. I know that the conceit of marriage as the pinnacle of ultimate exclusive mutual emotional intimacy has been all the rage within the Church culture for the past several decades, but I see that as a worldly influence. A big part of that worldly influence is the unmooring of Equality and its running rampant, a classic example of a virtue gone mad. In secular society, the mania for equality in the sexes has brought about a crisis of meaning, where people in power are reluctant to even acknowledge the reality of two distinct sexes. There remain qualifications to the equality of the sexes within the Church, and for anyone zealous to bring about full Equality as a necessary step in the Progress of society will, no matter how much you try to placate them with teachings about rib symbolism or anything else, they will sooner or later come back around to knock at these qualifications and call for their abolition. I refer specifically to the charge for husbands to preside - in the Proclamation on the Family and in the Sealing ordinance; and in another practice in the Temple that I trust I don't have to specify, but it's a sharing of information that only goes one way. Whatever meaning you may find in the symbols, the ritual itself preserves an inequality between what a woman tells a man and what a man tells a woman. And I am comforted by this, because, again, I disagree with the idea of total reciprocal equality between husband and wife of protecting each other's hearts. The roles of men and women in the Church call us to rise above our nature, but they also work in line with our nature to a very important extent. And it is much more difficult and costly for women to bear with or care about men's deep feelings (especially doubts and fears) than the reverse. Men are called to preside in the family precisely because male human nature (in the muscular, skeletal, nervous, and endocrine systems) is designed to protect. Female human nature is designed to select for prowess, including the ability to protect. A man who shares too much of his inner world, his heart so to speak: he undermines his wife's trust in his ability to protect, and therefore undermines her feeling of safety with him. Behind all the talk about emotional intimacy and so on, what a woman needs most from a man is to feel safe with him. A man who opens up his heart too much with his wife will fail to meet that need and thus will betray her. And the saddest thing is that he will do so from a misguided sense of meeting some need she supposedly has for emotional intimacy or vulnerability, a misguided sense of equality as a virtue gone mad. She might not admit this betrayal, being under the same spell, but she will be carrying a heavier burden than she needs to, and when the resentment peeks in the door, on its heels will come feminism eager to project and blame the world's ills on men, in vengeance on the man who failed her.
I think of covenants of “cutting a covenant”, so I think of cutting myself and the process of healing. You have the cut, the blood, and the healing. Now think of other words to help describe cutting, blood(cleansing, covering), and healing (reuniting, make one whole, married, bring together). It’s fascinating
Asking for a friend.. wondering if some of this would be considered as too sacred to talk about outside the Temple? Other than that LOVE this. GREAT insights, Thank you!
Question…….. A former version of the endowment (prior to 1990) used to contain mention of various "penalties" associated with the breaking of the temple covenants. Some people use this fact to claim that the temple encouraged violence or vengeance against those who violated its covenants, or that the Church sought to use fear to motivate members to keep their covenants. One critic of the Church even proposes asking the following question of Mormon politicians as a religious test for those who are running for office, "Before 1990, the endowment ceremony required members to take an oath of secrecy not to reveal anything that happened in the temple under penalty of death. Did you take that oath?" This is from fairlatterdaysaints
This is great. A lot of symbolism has been lost to us as the endowment has changed over the years. For me, something that helped was to study what the endowment was like before all the changes. For example; the signs that we do today used to be penalties because covenants have to be accompanied with penalties. The thumb extended is a knife that we cut ourselves with. And the hand in cupping shape is a bowl for catching blood and then our own entrails. With the penalties removed we have no idea what the current symbols symbolize and we wander around blindly while the older members of the church know because they experienced a different endowment. The symbolism of this is incredible. Thank you for this great resource.
Thank you very much for creating this video and having Bryce on. This will bless many people in my life besides me and my wife. We are going to listen to all Bryce’s videos. If interested in helpful critiques… You might consider noticing how many times you say, “I love that” or “I love…”
My friends daughter lives in Europe, even though she’s American she was born and raised in the United States, and when her babies were born over in Luxenberg, they don’t wash the babies they leave that protective coating on their skin
He said, Good, as He saw that the intelligences and elements all obeyed Him. As they had covenanted in the beginning. Where He receives His glory. They followed Him.
I like that rib teaching . That the man is to protect the woman’s heart . And can also be a nail in a sure place as Jesus is . Another name for Jesus . Yet I’m going to have to say this. No one is perfect I get that . But rarely do I ever see any man protecting a woman’s heart . Mainly always hurting your heart . Especially when they come out over the temple . Too bad all marriages can’t be like this . With both protecting each others hearts . That would be so beautiful . That is what is not so good about marriage because the person you know so well seems to be the one who hurts you the most . Most people don’t last past 20 years let alone eternity . Seems true . Exception of prophets and apostles as husbands and wives . Seems they actually love their wives . And hopefully a few more do too .
I understand your worries, but this is the age of the internet. Almost every human being has a smartphone and/or a computer. There are people who have left the church out there showing every hand clasp and every temple garment and every word uttered in the temple. All presented in mocking ways. You don't have to search for this stuff, it's just out there omnipresent. I think that combating those voices with good voices is a necessary thing.
Bryce’s class in Temple Symbols completely changed my experiences in the House of the Lord. Now I can’t wait to make appointments and go and anticipate seeing Jesus in every inch of His house. Thank you Bryce!
I love Bryce's Temple Symbol series! I hope I'm not out of line if I add one thing. Even though his series is wonderful at helping you understand many of the temple symbols, I've learned that we can't think this is finished. There are many things that the Lord has revealed to me in the temple that are different from the things Bryce points out. Remember that the things of the temple are best learned by revelation. We must keep our hearts open as we attend, because the Lord will keep on teaching us each time we go, if we are prepared to hear. Thanks so much, Parker and Bryce.
Many times symbols can have more then one meaning .
@@lindamartinez7006 Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
Yes. These ideas are a good starting point.
Yeah, and at the same time, half of revelation is information. That's why we ought to learn by study and by faith.
As a Temple worker I take being at the Temple every week very seriously! Our sacred Temple clothing is not allowed in the envelope in front of the Temple by the front desk! Let alone being shown on a TH-cam channel in front of tons of people that are not even members of the church! This is incredibly disturbing that a bunch of church members would even do such a horrible thing! The Temple is sacred and deserves our respect it is God's holy house 🏠 and our symbols need to be kept sacred in a time in the world where nothing is respected anymore! I feel so bad that God has to deal with his children not following his teachings just so they can get views for there channel!🙏🏻God help us! We aren't allowed to take pictures in our chapels either! Because these are sacred places!
Talking Scriptures is my favorite podcast…
Thank you for making another video. I miss this channel!
I’ve been loving his videos on Temple Symbols, Bryce you have helped me so much in deepening my understanding of my covenants and therefore my commitment to God! Thank you for the work you do ❤
I prayed this morning to come across spiritual material online and boom 🙌🏼 I came across this video.
Both of your channels are a blessing. I’m truly excited to learn anything about the temple and the ordinances we perform there.
My sister who was just baptized in December is preparing to enter the temple to do baptisms. Bryce’s “temple symbols” podcast will be such a blessing for her to gain a better understanding of our temple covenants, ordinances and symbolisms in the temple. So Thank-you 😊
I am SO happy that you found this video!! Bryce's temple symbols series is the best thing ever!! It will help your sister so much when she goes to the temple!
His video about the cherubim and the flaming sword is of value to everyone. Not just temple goers. One man commented that he almost harmed himself because of this idea that he had to be perfect. Bryce Dunford does a beautiful job of explaining that Satan tried to take away our days of probation. Since he wasn't allowed to do that, he tries to get us to take away our probation. It is one of my favorite episodes ❤️
Bryce is a scripture rock star!
That opening comparing us to a newborn was so insightful! Thank you!!
Bryce is awesome. Great job on the interview I thoroughly enjoyed.
This is a must for every member that is interested in learning and understanding the temple in a deeper level. Very enlightening, mind opening if you want to get more out of temple attending. Highly recommended to all
As a Temple worker we receive instruction in our meetings before every shift. We are not allowed to take our ordinance clothing in the pack by the front desk at all! I can't believe they are showing sacred clothing for all the world to see , this is not ok to remove the sacredness of our clothing! In a world where nothing is special or sacred.
@stardustgirl2904 I appreciate your concern. The church has put out a video for public consumption, which shows the ceremonial clothing. I think the footage for the above video was taken from the video put out by the church. 😊
@@stardustgirl2904, I believe the church has videos showing all the clothing which I think is a wonderful thing.
@MsLT62 You might 🤔 think it's wonderful! But as a Temple worker, we work very hard to preserve the dignity and respect 🙏🏻 for sacred things. There is so little left in this world 🌎 that's sacred and actually respected by the world.
I think of course temple workers are instructed not to say or Show sacred things as a temple worker or talk about those things in the temple . That’s good your instructions help you to focus on temple things . But our church puts out seminary college type classes books you can buy that explains a lot of temple symbols and clothing . It shows the robes and aprons and explains why you move from rooms . Talks about the garden too and its teachings . Where have you been ?? This is taught very openly . The church also has a video about the clothing and even clothing from the Old Testament days and the vest they wore . I can understand being a temple worker you get told not to discuss things . Which is good .,let the church put out what they want . I’m surprise. Really at how much they did put out . Nothing in this video is wrong or anythjng talked about that can not be shared . Of course there are some things that you do not talk about . And none of them did . Everything talked about here has already been talked about. It helps to understand symbols . Symbols are beautiful and not a secret .
51:02 gave me a powerful new insight the symbiotic relationship of the new creation develops inside of the mother, and the developing child intern nurtures the mother. What an incredible symbolic visualization! ❤
Yes. It made me wonder and I have asked this question before…was the angel who appeared to Christ to strengthen him our Heavenly Mother?
@@larrainemoore1880 - Technically she is not an angel. It is said by some that it was Adam... because Adam is the one that caused the fall, and made the first covenants to rely on the Saviour's redeeming power.
I've been a temple worker for a few months and I've never thought of the initiatory or any other the other ceremonies that way. Thank you for teaching me.
They are very similar to the masonic lounge, yes?
@@ctcsadboc22 I didn’t listen to it all. Asking, cause I’ve heard that they were Masonic symbols
James 4: 7- 10
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
If you want to know the secrets of this world submit to God the Father. Read the Book of Mormon with pure and sincere intent to know if it is true. Then commit to do take up your cross and follow him. Barry the old man and be born again in Christ Jesus.
@@joenelson5819 I'm sorry, but you have been mislead. I really do hope you will search the truth for yourself. Please don't rely on the arm of flesh. Do your own research and ask God. He will not lead you astray.
He loves you more than anyone on this earth can or will ever be able to. Your worth is infinite. He is only a whisper away.
This video was an answer to something I've been praying about. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I want to bear testimony of the healing power of the temple. I have gone to the temple when my heart was so broken, I wondered how I could go on and received the strength and hope I needed to persevere.
I guess you could call it magic handshake therapy...
I stumbled across Bro. Dunford’s videos as well and have been truly blessed by them! So inspiring and filled with the Spirit.
What an amazingly enlightening interview! Thanks so much.
Amazing and extremely informative.
Such a wonderful Blessing to understand why we believe that an ETERNAL family is so important.
Future Temple visits will be so Awesome with this knowledge of why we make and keep our sacred covenants with God.
Truly a GIFT and I appreciate this video and I appreciate your podcast.
Thank you so much. ❤❤❤
You do not need Mormonism to have an eternal family.
Just came across this podcast. So glad it was recommended to me
I've sent those all videos to my family and we've benefited so much. Bryce is an amazing teacher that can bring the gospel to an easy to understand deeper meaning. Thank you for highlighting him :)
Absolutely excellent insights, thank you for sharing.
I love the seven dips blessing explanation. It’s the perfect example of healing in the temple. Thank you for sharing that! 😊
This was such a wonderful video! I got so excited to see that you were having Bryce Dunford on the show. I found his temple symbols series a little bit ago, and I absolutely love them! They have helped me grow in the gospel so much.
Lexi, I loved your contributions to the show so much! I have felt the same way about thinking that you had to be a scholar to understand the symbols of the temple. I resonated with your awesome comments. ❤
Can you please bring Bryce back again to discuss his Book of Mormon series? 🙏 I just started the series, and it has made me see the Book of Mormon in such an amazingly deeper light! I would love, love, love to hear an interview with you and Bryce about this. 😊
Lastly, I just wanted to say how beautiful you look, Lexi. That color on you is so lovely with your eyes.
Thank you. I’m on my second round of the 20 videos but this is a very good cliff notes version which actually helps be better understanding. I have a very short attention span
Brother Dunford also has videos on The Book of Mormon.
47:33 another very insightful point. The concept of “a principle with a promise” really struck me when I gave us something that isn’t explicitly denied in the word of wisdom. It’s instructive that it doesn’t say a “practice with a promise”. Yes the word of wisdom gives us some examples but it’s not a complete list. It’s up to each individual to determine what things may be enslaving or what nutrients that individual needs
Such a good point. How often does the evil one whisper ”Well it didn’t say I can’t….”
Truly thank you for this! Love it ❤
I’m not a young person, however, I love the temple teachings with Bryce Dunford!!! These are AMAZING classes! I’ve learned soooo much!
Thank you Bryce!!!❤😊
Wow! My mind is blown! I have had my eyes open after absorbing this spiritual feast. My soul has been well nourished after listening to these wonderful truths. I will be forever grateful Thank You so much I can’t stop the tears of joy. Wow!
I only have one word FANTASTIC! I have so much more to learn about the temple and thanks to Bryce!!!
Become a Mason first. It all starts there.
Thank you for the lesson on Adam’s rib. I can’t tell you how much it means to me.
Parker and Lexi, thanks for this video. What an enlightenment to my soul today.
Love this sooo good 😊
Love this interview! In the last, year I watched many of Bryce's videos. I received my endowment 42 years ago and I learned and gained so much understanding from his videos! I am grateful for one that the Church is talking more and more about what goes on in the Temple - not everything is 'secret' --there are only certain things that are not to be talked about. I definitely felt the Spirit watching this video and learned even more! SO many beautiful interpretations! Loved it!
I listen to Bryce often and receive so much knowledge. Thank you
I have recently had a fire of wanting to get more out of my temple experiences. And in my searching have found several worthwhile discussions and podcasts. I so appreciate the style of teaching Bryce, that you bring to the table. My life has had too few spiritual experiences in the temple and this series has opened up easily understandable possibilities for me and others that I want to share my excitement with. Thank you for making these available.
Another fantastic video! Thank you! I absolutely love Bryce!!! He's amazing! I've watched his temple symbols series like 4 times!
I loved this interview so much I binged watched all the rest of Bryce’s videos on his own channel. Thank you for giving this guy a platform! He’s a gifted teacher.
I have been a faithful member all of my life and was told that the temple would reveal itself to me as I continued to attend. But it wasn’t until this past year, with new changes to the movie that I realized I was reaching beyond the simple truths that are there. I was looking to truths in the number of knots on the robe, etc. lol I love this podcast and the new simple truths that are shared. Thank you
May I recommend not only these videos, but a book called completing your endowment.. it taught me a lot. And Sacred Symbols. ❤❤😊
Good lighting. Nice job Parker and Lexie.
Love Bryce's channel and the way he teaches.
I have been going to the temple since 2000 but learned so much recently by watching the temple series. Learning something new every day!
Thank you!
Congratulations on her fourth baby. I will never understand ever no matter how many babies the beauty and miracle of that miracle . It is all so amazing . I heard that what helped Jesus get through his dark hours was seeing all of us . I heard that before . Thank you for sharing this . We helped Jesus get through it all. That in his offering I have part and hold a place within his heart .
Thianks for this videon I'm always waiting for the next video from you guys
This video is so deep it literally melted my brain. I haven't been to the temple yet, but Im going soon
So good! Love this!
I love the temple series by Bryce, but I also admire you, Parker and Lexie, from afar. I’m so impressed by your testimonies and goodness. Thanks for sharing your hearts and talents with the world! And congrats on baby #4!
Love this video and Brother Dunfords videos. I can feel the Spirit testifying to me of the truthful ness of the Gospel and the temple. Thank you for all you do and for sharing your love of the Gospel the way you do. I look for your and Brother Dunfords videos especially when I'm having a hard day. They always lift my spirit and my struggles are easier to bear. This video has enlightened my mind so much. Thank you.
This is incredible, more temple!
Thank you for this pocast. It helped me understand Bryce's Temple series even better. I learned so much!!!
I’ve. Even attending the temple almost 38 years, and some of the things I learned from this. Video I’ve never considered before. Wow. I really, really appreciate brother dunford’s insights. Thank you for sharing this interview
You’re my people, Parker. Love your content and the way you present it.
I never felt better than in my 7 pregnancies. I was only able to carry 4 babies full-term, but I am still thankful for all of them. They all healed me then and probably still do now. ❤
This was so informative and validating.
Thanks especially for that neat info about transmigrating fetal cells.
Really great video! I’ve watched many of his videos and now I want to start them over again.
This is awesome! My husband and I are Ordinance Workers and the Temple Preparation Seminar teachers. Bryce's videos have been a source for us to help those who have questions to be able to answer them. Again thank you ❤
LOVED this so much. A lot of it was confirmation of (and added insight into) my own personal study of scriptures and temple attendance. Thank you for sharing this! ❤
WOW 😯 mind blowing 🤯. I love it and need more.
Thank you so much for this video new subscriber here, I will now go watch that brothers series 🙏🏽
We LOVE Bryce Dunford and the Temple Symbols video series! Grateful you've discovered how amazing he is as well!
Showing our sacred Temple clothing is not allowed! As a Temple worker it seems that the LDS community has forgotten to keep our sacred ordinance clothing out of view from nonmembers l find this to be very degrading to our Temple clothing and the Lord's house! In the Temple you can't go to the front dest with sacred ordinance clothing! To protect ✨️ 🙏🏻 the sacred nature of our Heavenly Father's holy house! God makes the rules, not man! This is dreadful he's doing this!
@stardustgirl2904, the church has put out pictures of the temple clothing. I don't think that anything wrong was done here.
@gwengold8154 The church has only shown garments! Our Temple president receives instruction from Salt Lake and we as Temple workers receive direct training from the Temple president, and we are always carefully instructed not to have anyone, show their sacred clothing. In our Temple we have a special hallway to walk through so sisters can walk from the dressing room in sacred clothing ✨️ and not be seen by our youth coming in to do baptisms! This is a serious matter! Sacred ordinance clothing isn't meant to be looked at by nonmembers, it's not meant to be looked at like an everyday object. It's special the Temples are where the Lord walks the hallways with his spirit!
@@stardustgirl2904 I just googled "temple ceremonial clothing" and a bunch of articles came up showing the robe, the apron, the cap, and the rest. One was from January of 2020 and it was on KSL news. Which is run by the church.
One was the "called to serve" channel which is a very faith promoting channel.
I think that your temple president is likely just trying to preserve the sacred nature of the ceremonial clothing. Take a nun's clothing for instance. We have seen that thousands of times in the media and in life. Yet, it is still sacred clothing to them. They would treat it sacredly. But, I don't think that means that it can never be seen. We have been accused of being secret, and from hiding things--even from our own members. The church leaders are trying to combat that terrible narrative while still maintaining the sacred nature of the clothing. It can be a fine line at times, but I still maintain that this podcast did nothing wrong.
I’m so interested in this teaching thank you so much. God bless you.😮
Great episode, that which we focus on expands.
Great conversation
Amazing! Thanks for sharing this! Excellent podcast! Keep up the great work! I needed to hear this & love this! I am trying to heal & strengthen my family & this gives me some very good insight and inspiration!
This has been truly inspiring instruction!
To quote President Russell M. Nelson “If you don't yet love to attend the temple, go more often-not less. Let the Lord, through His Spirit, teach and inspire you there. I promise you that over time, the temple will become a place of safety, solace, and revelation.
Thanks to both of you for inviting Bryce to this video. I’m glad the algorithm kept exposing your video to me.
Thank you Lexi for helping me see that special relationship with Heavenly Mother that gives us a small peek into the most perfect part of who we are to and because of her.
I plan to study his series intently. I’ve already began to increase my service in the temple. I will increase my attendance there with my eternal companion. This video helps me to understand the Why we are building so many temples around the world.
I love your channel.
Thank you so much!
amazing. love it
Loved this! 🥹🙌
wow . . . all of this is amazing . . . but your conclusion summing it all up to the essence of existence, being family . . . WOW
A couple of days ago, I heard Elder Peter Johnson of the 70's say to us that our Father's plan is perfect. He desires to bring all of his children home to Him. The eternal unit of that plan is the family.
Great video! Thank you.
Describing anything with just 1 word is normally quite difficult, wouldn't you agree ? I would normally have that same problem! But in this case it's easy! Brilliant ; )
May I give another perspective of the baptism being compared to birth...
Not many births are unmedicated anymore, so sadly many women miss out on this experience. And, having most of my experience with birth being in out of hospital environments, I've seen and also experienced this myself.
When a baby is born, it has been fully immersed in the amniotic fluid. It is considered clean.
Then, through the blood of the mother it makes its way through the birth canal.
Then, there is a moment in birth where most naturally birthing women will feel what is called the "ring of fire"- the stretching.
(Also, in the births I've experienced, the baby isn't wiped clean- we allow all that wonderfully moisturizing vernix to be rubbed into the baby's skin ;)
So, the baby is immersed in water, touched by blood spilt by its mother, and is then "confirmed" through the ring of fire... like when we describe the burning in our hearts of the Holy Spirit.
I saw the vision of the nature of the eternal round of the promise of Elijah on my mission in the Buenos Aires Temple. At that time the glass wall of baptistry could be seen looking from the small sealing room through the exit doors of the Celestial room.
The temple is all over the scriptures we just need to remember to look for it.
New sub I can relate with your wife so much she asks what I would ask. Loving this video❤
28:51 I had a complete reverse of opinion when I attended the Saint George temple recently and was seeing through a “sexist” lens. What I thought was an inequality and Adam being singled out was in fact Adam honoring Eve.
I love the rib .
Thank you 🙏🏽
So many temples are announced and being built far and wide across the globe!!What a profound blessing for all people in the Kingdom!! But please take note that so many temples are so close to nations and peoples where education is not readily available. So many Saints have beautiful, simple faith in Jesus Christ but are not sophisticated. Why digress from the plain and beautifully simple ordinances presented via film and by clear and simple visual demonstration? I see no need to delve so deep where many possess such a simple and non-sophisticated faith focusing on Jesus Christ!!
Hi brother Bryce ,thank you so much for teaching this message I appreciate it. I’m sure the Holy Ghost is pushing you to do that kind of stuff thank you again.
congratulations for the interviewee and for removing the cap for speaking about sacred topics
Thank you! I also believe we learn about the creation bc we are creators and are being taught The Law of Creation. All things are created spiritually before they are created physically. How do we create spiritually? It’s how and what we SEE, SAY and FEEL. Those 3 principles then impact and determine what we DO and then what we BECOME. That is the physical creation. God did the exact same thing. He saw in his mind what he wanted to create, he gave specific instructions (SAY), and he said (SAY)
it was good. As we DO we bring all things into creation and then we repeat the process, line upon line.
So I think there are many reason why we learn about creation. :)
We are hear to place our families on the altar, I get it!
Bryce has pointed out a lot of evocative, compelling, and exciting symbolism, and this is of tremendous value in stimulating our perception and curiosity to build our own connections to the meaning of the Temple and more fully use its power. As I trust he would be the first to also point out, he does not hold keys to declare all the interpretations he presents as definitive and binding for the general membership of the Church. I keep that in mind, for I disagree with the idea of fully equal reciprocity when it comes to protecting each other's hearts. I know that the conceit of marriage as the pinnacle of ultimate exclusive mutual emotional intimacy has been all the rage within the Church culture for the past several decades, but I see that as a worldly influence.
A big part of that worldly influence is the unmooring of Equality and its running rampant, a classic example of a virtue gone mad. In secular society, the mania for equality in the sexes has brought about a crisis of meaning, where people in power are reluctant to even acknowledge the reality of two distinct sexes. There remain qualifications to the equality of the sexes within the Church, and for anyone zealous to bring about full Equality as a necessary step in the Progress of society will, no matter how much you try to placate them with teachings about rib symbolism or anything else, they will sooner or later come back around to knock at these qualifications and call for their abolition.
I refer specifically to the charge for husbands to preside - in the Proclamation on the Family and in the Sealing ordinance; and in another practice in the Temple that I trust I don't have to specify, but it's a sharing of information that only goes one way. Whatever meaning you may find in the symbols, the ritual itself preserves an inequality between what a woman tells a man and what a man tells a woman.
And I am comforted by this, because, again, I disagree with the idea of total reciprocal equality between husband and wife of protecting each other's hearts. The roles of men and women in the Church call us to rise above our nature, but they also work in line with our nature to a very important extent. And it is much more difficult and costly for women to bear with or care about men's deep feelings (especially doubts and fears) than the reverse. Men are called to preside in the family precisely because male human nature (in the muscular, skeletal, nervous, and endocrine systems) is designed to protect. Female human nature is designed to select for prowess, including the ability to protect.
A man who shares too much of his inner world, his heart so to speak: he undermines his wife's trust in his ability to protect, and therefore undermines her feeling of safety with him. Behind all the talk about emotional intimacy and so on, what a woman needs most from a man is to feel safe with him. A man who opens up his heart too much with his wife will fail to meet that need and thus will betray her. And the saddest thing is that he will do so from a misguided sense of meeting some need she supposedly has for emotional intimacy or vulnerability, a misguided sense of equality as a virtue gone mad. She might not admit this betrayal, being under the same spell, but she will be carrying a heavier burden than she needs to, and when the resentment peeks in the door, on its heels will come feminism eager to project and blame the world's ills on men, in vengeance on the man who failed her.
You’re overthinking it.
I think of covenants of “cutting a covenant”, so I think of cutting myself and the process of healing. You have the cut, the blood, and the healing. Now think of other words to help describe cutting, blood(cleansing, covering), and healing (reuniting, make one whole, married, bring together). It’s fascinating
I realy love Temple Symbols very helful to understand the meaning of it.
So beautiful ❤❤
Asking for a friend.. wondering if some of this would be considered as too sacred to talk about outside the Temple?
Other than that LOVE this. GREAT insights, Thank you!
Question…….. A former version of the endowment (prior to 1990) used to contain mention of various "penalties" associated with the breaking of the temple covenants. Some people use this fact to claim that the temple encouraged violence or vengeance against those who violated its covenants, or that the Church sought to use fear to motivate members to keep their covenants. One critic of the Church even proposes asking the following question of Mormon politicians as a religious test for those who are running for office,
"Before 1990, the endowment ceremony required members to take an oath of secrecy not to reveal anything that happened in the temple under penalty of death. Did you take that oath?"
This is from fairlatterdaysaints
Anointed what is the meaning behind Anointed, no one ever explains that, what is the Greek and Hebrew meaning.
This is great. A lot of symbolism has been lost to us as the endowment has changed over the years. For me, something that helped was to study what the endowment was like before all the changes. For example; the signs that we do today used to be penalties because covenants have to be accompanied with penalties. The thumb extended is a knife that we cut ourselves with. And the hand in cupping shape is a bowl for catching blood and then our own entrails. With the penalties removed we have no idea what the current symbols symbolize and we wander around blindly while the older members of the church know because they experienced a different endowment. The symbolism of this is incredible. Thank you for this great resource.
Thank you very much for creating this video and having Bryce on.
This will bless many people in my life besides me and my wife.
We are going to listen to all Bryce’s videos.
If interested in helpful critiques…
You might consider noticing how many times you say, “I love that” or “I love…”
Is that why even temple has water in front of it ?
My friends daughter lives in Europe, even though she’s American she was born and raised in the United States, and when her babies were born over in Luxenberg, they don’t wash the babies they leave that protective coating on their skin
He said, Good, as He saw that the intelligences and elements all obeyed Him. As they had covenanted in the beginning. Where He receives His glory. They followed Him.
Love Bryce but there is a lot of stretching . In the temple it specifically says we are respectively Adam and Eve making covenants with God
I like that rib teaching . That the man is to protect the woman’s heart . And can also be a nail in a sure place as Jesus is . Another name for Jesus . Yet I’m going to have to say this. No one is perfect I get that . But rarely do I ever see any man protecting a woman’s heart . Mainly always hurting your heart . Especially when they come out over the temple . Too bad all marriages can’t be like this . With both protecting each others hearts . That would be so beautiful . That is what is not so good about marriage because the person you know so well seems to be the one who hurts you the most . Most people don’t last past 20 years let alone eternity . Seems true . Exception of prophets and apostles as husbands and wives . Seems they actually love their wives . And hopefully a few more do too .
The rib, that’s Jesus putting us under his wing. When you use the Church and Christ. Bride and Groom. That’s great! It works for both.
I love the insight, but I fear it is a little too open about sacred things discussed in the temple and then posted out in the open.
I understand your worries, but this is the age of the internet. Almost every human being has a smartphone and/or a computer. There are people who have left the church out there showing every hand clasp and every temple garment and every word uttered in the temple. All presented in mocking ways. You don't have to search for this stuff, it's just out there omnipresent.
I think that combating those voices with good voices is a necessary thing.
5:45 The very first thing done to a newborn baby in the hospital is to check their breathing not wash them.
Can you now see WHY Pres. Nelson has urged us to go to the temple more often, to worship the Lord there?
🥹 What a beautiful wife…inside and out.