“And I Will Make All My Mountains a Way and My Highways Shall Be Exalted”

W. Cleon Skousen

In the writings of Isaiah the latter-day children of Israel are told that it is their calling to escape from the captivity of the Gentiles and go forth to their designated places of inheritance. The Lord is going to intervene for them to make all of this possible.

11. And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

This verse is talking about something far more exciting than these simple words would seem to imply. The details of how the children of Israel will use the mountains for their thoroughfare and have a mighty highway exalted or lifted up for them are described by the Lord in a modern revelation as follows:

"And they who are in the north countries shall come in remembrance before the Lord; ... and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence. And an highway shall be cast up in the midst of the great deep.... And they shall bring forth their rich treasures unto the children of Ephraim.... And there shall they fall down and be crowned with glory, even in Zion, by the hands of the servants of the Lord, even the children of Ephraim."2

This is describing the return of the lost ten tribes of Israel. They will come out of the north on a mighty highway which will be raised up in the deep, so they can come with their multitudes and their treasures to receive their endowments from the Ephraimite Saints in America. Jeremiah said the raising up of this highway in the midst of the great deep will be so spectacular that people will no longer talk about the miracle of the dividing of the Red Sea for Israel, because it will be insignificant compared to the latter-day highway raised up in the great deep.3

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