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A Short Synopsis Of World History

A Short Synopsis of World History...


My attempt in 1998 to put together a book that would interweave the blood of Israel, gospel history and the war over freedom into one timeline....

In three parts.

Part 1 available at:

https://www.ldsfreedomportal.net/HISWORD1b.doc

Part 2 available at:

https://www.ldsfreedomportal.net/HISWORD2b.doc

If you wish part 3 then please request it privately, thank you.

Dubhdara.

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Dubhdara, why does part 3 have to be requested privately?

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A couple of reasons:

1. Parts 1 and 2 are revised (third revision) whereas part 3 is not

2. Part 3 is more "opinionated" and controversial; I think those who
want to read more will request so, otherwise it's not worth the inevitable
arguments and contention ;(


Dubhdara.

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Ah okay, thanks for the clarification... care to give us some insight or a 'preview' into what your files will give us?

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The files have an intro and a preface like most books. The "chapters" of the files are actually the dispensations of the gospel (so the first is from Adam to Enoch). Each section contain a summary at the end. The body of the text itself is a listing of dates and events with commentary on those events which touch on poignant principles and issues such as the blood of Israel, conspiracy/freedom, and gospel events.

I've tried to highlight lesser-known events.

The intro explains more - do you think I should post it here? (it's not too long).

The end of the files contain a full bibliography and Concise Theme Index isted by date. Each section is fully referenced at the end.

Dubhdara.

A Short Synopsis Of World History

If you so wish, giving a glimpse may help others to see what it is all about. Maybe you should compile your works into an Ebook.

A Short Synopsis World History

An excerpt from the introductory pages of "A Synopsis of World History"...


History is a subject which has grown in my estimation since my youth when I was interested only in the excitement and mysteries of ancient times. I am now certain that history must rank as one of the most important studies in life. I might mention in support of this claim the fact that God decreed that His people should keep records historical and that as early as the time of Adam a Book of Remembrance was kept. One New World prophet informs us that the scriptures (which we might define to be an inspired and authorized history or record of God's dealings with His people) had "enlarged the memory of [his] people, yea, and convinced many of the error of their ways."
The potential of history, especially when seen in the context of the Plan of Salvation, to give so much that is beneficial to the present (and thus to futurity) is great indeed. No doubt there are many reasons for this; among them the fact that we may learn from mistakes that have already been made, learn from exemplary lives that have already been lived, come to discern the hand of Providence working in the lives of our ancestors and, likewise, detect the Adversary and his devices. Add to these, however, the 'sense of roots', heritage, and culture that history brings to the individual and to nations; surely such a knowledge serves to increase our identity and understanding of who we really are and perhaps is very much more associated with our divine origin and premortality than we suppose, after all it is but an extension of it.
The value of history, as with religion and morality, does not escape the notice of the devil who has, throughout time and by means of human agents, clouded history with mists of darkness so dense that those 'false traditions' of which the scriptures speak have become both accepted and popular. It is my opinion that in the hereafter of our lives we shall discover many of the people and events of history to be quite different to how we imagined them to be. We live in a time known among the prophets as a period when there would be great lyings and deceivings upon the face of the whole earth, when good would be called evil and evil good; surely this applies to history and its characters as much as it does to the present, for it is in the present that history is not only made but also interpreted and taught. We must be cautious in what we accept to be true. It has been my experience that in today's world if something is commonly accepted or promoted as true and/or important then that alone is good enough reason to scrutinize it all the more before arriving at any conclusions.* With this in mind I feel rather as Pericles** when he said: "It is hard to speak [or, in this case, write] properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature."
Alas, even when history is quite clear to us it is often the nature of man to ignore its lessons. As we look around today we see the same things happening and being planned, the same age-old philosophies being promoted, that have destroyed civilizations from earliest times. One thing we do learn from history is that mankind in general does not learn from history. It was Friedrich Von Schiller who said "Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht" ('The world's history is the world's judgement'). With so much history behind us how will God judge us if we do not learn from it?