The biggest error in misunderstanding scriptures, is misapplication.
When you read ancient sacred text, you have to apply it to yourself first. Everything you read, apply it to you. If someone else did great things in scripture, you have to imagine yourself in doing it. Great faith is shown in those scriptures. It shows you the possibilities. If others can do it, so can you.
You have to apply everything you read therein, to you first, to your family. To your nation. To your church. Then to your outside world.
So many misapply the words within them, to other people. They think those ancient prophets just must have been living in a time of period with a thinner veil. Between them and the Divine. They think all the conversation about wheat and tears, and sleeping prophets and apostles, just must apply to some other church they don't belong to.
Isaiah prophesied that filthiness would be found on all plates in the last days. And he was talking about all organized religions. The Christian ones. The LDS one. The ones that apply to the readers of those scriptures.
It breaks my heart when family and friends don't understand our scriptures.
2Ne 34 O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever. I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.
35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness
4 For the Lord God hath said that: Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from MY PRESENCE.
Presence = Fullness of the Gospel. It was removed from the LDS. Or rather their opportunity for it as a group, was lost. The Nauvoo Temple completion was their chance to sacrifice and show faith, to get back to getting it. "The fullness that which lost unto you" spoken of in D&C.
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PS: oh, by the way, this verse below is not symbolic or figurative in anyway. This actually happens physically to the point you will uncontrollably weep for it being a temporary granting:
21 He hath filled me with his love, even unto the consuming of my flesh.
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