Testing Angels’ Handshakes
D&C 129:4-5; “When a messenger comes saying he has a message from God, offer him your hand and request him to shake hands with you. 5 If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his hand.”
2 Corinthians 11:13-14; “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”
This has to be one of the most insidious “revelations” ever made.
What if I went up to you saying I’m an angel and shook your hand?
I’d pass the test every time.
Through the Book of Mormon, translated by Joseph Smith, came additional insights concerning the person and powers of Jesus the Christ. We learn that He is the Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (1 Nephi 19:10) and that through an act of infinite condescension He left His throne divine and took a mortal body (1 Nephi 11; Mosiah 3:5). We learn from the teachings of the Book of Mormon prophets that He was a man but much more than man (Mosiah 3:7–9; Alma 34:11), that He had within Him the powers of the Father, the powers of the Spirit (2 Nephi 2:8; Helaman 5:11), the power to lay down His life and the power to take it back up again.
Why would we need more insight as to who Jesus is Kayla? Didn’t Jesus make it perfectly clear of who He was and is in the Bible? Children attended Vacation Bible School are taught this, and can understand it based on the Bible alone, why can’t Mormons?
Your comment really doesn’t address the issue brought up in the blog post. I can’t recall one event in the Bible where an angel extended their hand to those they were speaking to as proof they were sent by God, can you? Furthermore where doesn’t a prophet, or apostle state (in the Bible) that this is how you will know an angel from the Lord?