Come Follow Me LDS- Enos - Words of Mormon (Mar 23 - 29)

'A Wrestle With God'

-  Enos Wrestles Before God

-  Passing through the 4 Phases of the Priesthood

-  A story of the attributal progression of Faith, Hope and Charity

-  Amaleki gives us the backstory to King Mosiah and the Mulekites

 

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right in this episode we are going to

cover the small books of Enos through

the words of Mormon start here in the

book of Enos something that this is a

book that I really like very short one

chapter but really impactful and packed

with a lot here that we can unpack here

a little bit and pull some principles

out of this that I think are very very

interesting and very valuable to us

first of all it looks like what Enos is

doing here is he is creating a writing

that is paralleling not just Jacob his

father but Jacob who is Israel right

Jacob the son of Isaac and Jacobs

brother Esau so what he does is he says

okay remember his father's name is Jacob

and he reaches back to the experience of

Jacob when Jacob wrestles with really

it's supposed to be wrestling with a man

the Hebrew says he wrestles with a man

remember that Enos the name Enos in

Hebrew means man and so he has a little

bit of a play on words here over and

over again with Jacob wrestling and with

Esau and the story between Jacob and

Esau his brother so let's put that

together here he starts off here with a

parallelism to Nephi in his first verse

he says behold it came to pass that I

Ennis knowing my father that he was a

just man so just like Nephi saying I was

born to goodly parents for he taught me

in his language right just like Nephi

and also in the nurture and admonition

of the Lord and blessed be the name of

my God for it so he's reaching back into

the into their own scriptures there into

the small plates and reading Nephi and

drawing that together here to start off

his book and now he's going to reach

to reach back to Jacob who is Israel he

says and I will tell you the wrestle

which I had before God before I received

a remission of my sins I really like

this you know the idea there's a couple

things that I like that are again

practical to me that we might kind of

push off because it doesn't sound nice

sometimes but I think are very important

and very real for example I another time

in in Isaiah right the Lord says come

let us reason I you know there's

a reason how are you gonna reason with

God how are you gonna work things out

or how are you gonna work through things

I think that there is the ability for us

to reason with God through things to

find the truth now ultimately of course

we need to align with God and here with

Enos that's what I believe he means here

just like Jacob had to wrestle right at

Penn yell he is wrestling to what what

is his purpose of wrestling here he's

why would you wrestle with God I feel

I've done this several times I think

that look I'm someone who is in a fallen

state and I need sometimes to wrestle

through things and at least if

you're wrestling with God with these

things or the rustle that you have

before him right then at least you are

addressing issues and instead of just

putting your head in the sand and

staying you know a little bit off the

path maybe so for me as I see the story

here with Enos what he writes about here

where he is wrestling before God that to

me is real right at least he's

addressing it it's its truth and so we

all wrestle one way or the other

because we have to put off the natural

man right and that is a wrestle that we

have with God to try and align our

with him and it's not easy right we have

to give up pride we have to give up

habits we have to give up ideologies and

thoughts and things that you know

sitting in our comfort zone sometimes we

have to put off things that are easy

sometimes but I appreciate the language

here of wrestling just as Jacob wrestled

right here Enos is coming and he is

wrestling and trying to align himself

with the Lord you know and in my mind I

see him saying you know also reasoning

with him as Isaiah says as the Lord says

in in Isaiah and in other words why is

it like this I mean he's gonna end up

praying all day and all night here and

he's probably that were part of that

Russell is trying to reason through

things to try to get into the right

place but he's addressing it he is

acting instead of being acted upon and

so that's a real lesson I think that

Enos gives us here and then just like

Esau is a hunter

remember that Esau is the hunter and

he's the one that comes back with a

venison hoping to get blessed by his

father Isaac and it's the sneaky Jacob

we get we get these little tales of

Jacob is being kind of sneaky which is

kind of interesting the way that's

written but it's Jacob that ends up

getting the blessing but just as Esau is

the hunter right here Enos is putting

himself in that position of Esau right

he's going to contrast himself well

actually he's gonna compare himself both

with Esau and with Jacob so he is the

hunter and he goes out to hunt now

remember what happens with Esau when he

comes back once he is hungry and he

sells his birthright to Jacob the sneaky

Jacob he sells the birthright to Jacob

for a bowl of porridge right well Enos

is going to run us down that path as

well

in a sense he says again in verse three

behold I went to hunt beasts in the

forest and the words which I had often

heard my father speak concerning eternal

life and the joy of the saints sunk deep

into my heart so again he's out on his

own in nature where these things tend to

happen where we kind of look for our

place in the world a little bit and in

verse 4 and my soul hungered and I

kneeled down before my maker and I cried

unto him in mighty prayer and

supplication for might know my own soul

so this is the contrast with Esau here

right both of them hungered right but

Esau took a different path and he gave

up something that he shouldn't have been

giving up and here

Enos hungers in a sense right he's

hungry but he is looking out for his

soul and we all have to do that right

again it starts with us in our own

agency

it starts with cleaning our own vessel

as we hear later on in Alma we cleaned

the venire vessel first we go through

the phases of first individualism and

then of community right family then

community and he's gonna do the same

thing here he is crying out for his own

soul he needs to change his state of

being so all the day long did I cry into

him and when the night came I did still

raise my voice high that it reached the

heavens and there came a voice unto me

saying Enos thy sins are forgiven thee

and now shalt be blessed the same words

that are given to Jacob so how did he

get here again where his sins are

forgiven him he confronts it he is going

to struggle right he's going to have a

struggle that's how those that's the

word that were given in the King James

Version with Jacob he's taking a stance

that's what you do as nibbly says he

takes a stance here in a way and before

the Lord you know you made him not

against the Lord but before the Lord

he's taking his own stance and then

reason

and then struggling through things so

that he can get to the same page that

the Lord is on which is not easy but he

does it and when he's able to do that

then his sins are forgiven him and it's

a long struggle I mean how do you stay

focused in a prayer all day and all

night

right it's quote from the great Neal a

Maxwell write about these expectations

and what is required of us just

like with Enos here for him to get this

repentance done elder Maxwell says this

is a gospel of grand expectations of

course there's expectations the world

would want to remove those expectations

but God's grace is sufficient for each

of us discouragement is not the absence

of adequacy so if we're discouraged it's

not because we're not adequate to the

task but it's the absence of courage

that's what discouragement would be

right and our personal progress should

be yet another way we witness to the

wonder of it all how many of us have

felt that right when we get through a

struggle and then we grow from and we

and we have blessings because of that

and we realize this path that we are on

in this plan that is set before us it's

not easy and there are expectations for

us to do what Enos is doing here but the

reward is worth every bit of it and

Enos says to the Lord how is it done

how does this happen how is it that I am

forgiven and the Lord says to him

because of thy faith in Christ

right because he is trusting in the

sacrifice of Jesus Christ and in the

doctrine of Christ and the Lord says go

to thy faith hath made the whole whole

would be the same word in essence as

healed and then immediately what happens

this is just like with an ephah this is

this is something that

again we go through he's now this

individualism right this ok I've cleaned

the inner vessel I have taken my agency

and exerted my faith through my works I

have reached out to God and I have

expressed myself that would be the

second phase of the priesthood his

agency his expression in what he's

saying and then what happens then you go

from the inner vessel to the outer

vessel so to speak right that's how the

phases of the priesthood work so then

here in verse 8 in verse so then here in

verse 9 it says now it came to pass that

when I had heard these words that his

faith had made him whole I began to feel

a desire for the welfare of my brethren

that is charity so we get also this

parallelism with faith hope and charity

right so it happens as he's told here

because of his faith in Christ and then

the Lord says thy faith hath made the

whole so now he's in a new state of

being which is his hope and once he has

that pure state of being with hope that

is a result of his faith then he reaches

outward and that's his charity right

that's how it works it's faith hope and

then charity and the Chater charity

being the greatest of the three so he

has this desire for the well-being of

his brother in the Nephites and

therefore he did pour out my whole soul

unto God for them so he continues to

pray for the Nephites because he's

overjoyed with the fruit of the tree of

life so then he has success with this

and the Lord tells him okay I'm going to

watch out for the Nephites for you as

long as they are obedient so then his

faith waxed strong right he becomes

even more confident and after I Enos had

heard these words my faith began to be

unshaken in the Lord so again going back

to faith and what that is it's evidence

why is his faith now unshaken I mean

granted he's gone through a huge ordeal

with his

he has developed it he's built it

through his agency in his wrestling and

he's received this state of I would call

hope where he has made hole but now that

he has the words given to him because of

his faith and is pouring out his soul

for the Nephites and he receives these

words back from the Lord what is that

what is that that's evidence right it's

evidence for his faith that that is a

working principle and therefore now his

faith is unshaken or more unshaken and i

prayed unto him that many law with many

long struggling so his faith is unshaken

but it still requires struggling so i

prayed unto him with many long

struggling x' for my brethren the

Lamanites right so again this is

evidence-based as we learn in Hebrews

11:1 so even though the Lamanites don't

want to have anything to do with the

church so to speak right they come from

a very different corrupted religion now

at this point

Enos still wants for them to have a

record for the Nephites to have their

own record and that one day this record

will be given to the Lamanites now he

knows about the prophecies of Nephi and

what if Jacob his father has said and

what Lehi has said so he knows that this

is what's going to happen at least

intellectually but it seems to me he

wants his own understanding of this

spiritually just as Nephi wanted his own

understanding of Lehigh's vision here

Enos wants his own understanding perhaps

of what his father had seen what's

interesting here also is that Enos says

that the Lamanites not only want to

destroy them but they want to destroy

their records right why would that be

again what is the record testify of what

is the focus of this it's not that they

even wanted back right again the record

here testifies of Christ so Enos

receives this

formation of these things about the

about their descendants between the

Nephites and the Lamanites and about the

book of Mormon and then he goes into

saying how the people are very stiff

neck at the Nephites are there's many

prophets and because they are stiff

negative only is because of the

strictness

of the way that they follow and only

because of the harshness of the way they

preach warning against the consequences

that they're able to keep everybody all

the Nephites in line somewhat with the

gospel and he says here in closing out

that a hundred and seventy and nine

years had passed away from the time that

our father Lehi left to Jerusalem and

that he has declared the word according

to the truth which is in Christ we

always see this and then he gives us

something that we hear in the New

Testament finishing off he says this is

what the Lord is gonna say to him come

unto me he blessed there is a place

prepared for you in the mansions of my

father amen so it's a great story great

short story here of a man who is a

struggle away a large struggle away from

being who he needs to be but he goes

through it he does it and then we kind

of get this idea remember there's other

place that are being written that are

held by the kings at this point the

that's why we have such little that is

written for us here because we don't

have the abridgement of the large plates

which are written at this time right

that's what was lost through Martin

Harris so we have only a few words

during all these hundreds of years where

we also would have had through those 116

plus pages a much longer history of

these centuries that we're missing here

but it kind of waters down a little bit

right now here Jarom comes in and he

says now behold I Jarom write a few

words according to the commandment of my

father Enos that our genealogy may be

kept so again these small plates that

were in here are supposed to be for

spiritual things and now his primary

focus here with Jarom

is that there's a Jenny Lisa genealogy

that's kept but he understands here also

in verse two that these plates are small

the small plates and these things are

written for the intent of the benefit of

our brethren the Lamanites I think

that's so interesting they have a clear

understanding that as they keep these

records it is just as much the purpose

for these records that they're keeping

is just as much for the Lamanites if not

more than for their own people they

understand this as part of covenant

between them and then similar to what

Jacob had written about as far as

pushing away of the higher things for

the higher law the things of God he says

that there is a minority here but only a

minority of the Nephites who have

revelations because they're not stiff

necked and as many as are not stiff

necked and half faith they have

communion with the Holy Spirit in other

words most of the Nephites don't not

uncommon right for a minority of the

group to be that way and they observe to

keep the law of Moses we don't get a lot

about the sacrifices or the rituals here

but we know that they were always taught

to keep the law of Moses but he mentions

that the laws of the land are

exceedingly strict it's just like it how

it had to be in Jerusalem with the

children of Israel in the Jews right

because they were stiff necked they

would not they kept closing off the Veil

the knee whore principle but they do get

something interesting here and these are

the ones that are keeping the large

plates but he says here our kings and

our leaders were mighty men in the faith

of the Lord and they taught the people

the ways of the Lord wherefore we

withstood the Lamanites and swept them

away out of our land so there's this

constant contention it just never goes

away and as we're told by the Lord early

on in the Book of Mormon the Lamanites

are meant to be a scourge onto the

Nephites to keep them in remembrance of

who they are right and what their part

is in that olive tree allegory right

where they need to keep these records

and need to try and keep

focused on Christ doesn't work very well

usually but he brings up Christ here

again he says the prophets and the

priests and the teachers labored

diligently persuading them to look

forward unto the Messiah so just as we

and for example the sacrament are told

to remember the Lord right and what he

did they're looking forward to him and

it's only because of this looking

forward with the law of Moses adding

that on to the law of Moses in 12 we're

told it's only because of that that they

were kept from being destroyed upon the

face of the land and then Jarom finishes

up saying that he gave the plates to his

son Omni and Omni says that he fought

with a sword a lot they are in constant

war right this this never goes away here

they're sent to this promised land and

yet they're constantly in a war in the

Omni says that he himself is a wicked

man and he confers the plates on unto

his son a moron right so these plates

which were supposed to be for the more

spiritual things the things of the

higher law we're getting a little

problem here with the genealogy they're

not sticking to what Nephi set as a

precedent even those that are given the

responsibility of these plates are

falling away from the truth and that may

be why they're in constant war all the

time with the Lamanites there is only a

minority that are really keeping true to

things

Ameren here says behold it came to pass

that three hundred and twenty years had

passed away and the more wicked part of

the Nephites were destroyed so this is

happening over and over again think

about again the allegory of the olive

tree that we just went over right where

the corrupt branches are removed and put

into the fire that's the way it works

typically every once in a while it turns

the other way around because of

persecution but this is typically how it

works within a civilization natural

consequences occur and then

Ameren only a few verses here he hands

us over to his brother chemische and

it's important that we get this

genealogy right we get this genealogy

it's all the way through the Book of

Mormon but almost through the whole Book

of Mormon it seems all the way from

Nephi going down the line here and then

we're gonna get Mormon here inserting

the words of Mormon but we get this all

the way down where these records it's

like a testimony right that's like

witnesses in fact chemist ear says about

a moron he says I saw the last which he

wrote that he wrote it in his own hand

and he wrote it in the day that he

delivered them unto me right you have

this witness program here that's going

we can call it a witness protection

program protecting the plates going all

the way to the end where we end up with

Moroni and then of course we have the

record of Moroni delivering these to

Joseph Smith so from Nephi all the way

down through here we get this wreck this

this witnessing of this transfer of the

plates all the way to Moroni and then to

Joseph Smith and that's the big

difference between the Book of Mormon

and the Bible right it's always in the

hands of the prophets or always goes

through the hands of the prophets and

then chemists turns them over to a

Benidorm who turns them over to his son

a Malachi we don't get a whole lot of

words here from either of either chemist

or a Benidorm and then we get some real

meat here and this is important because

this is a place where we are missing

what would have been a pretty meaty part

of the large plate so Malachi says this

behold I will speak unto you somewhat

concerning Mosiah who was made king over

the land of Zarahemla notice it's not

king over the land of Nephi which is

where they are when most of this is

written when Nephi leaves laman and

lemuel they go to the land of Nephi they

build the temple of Nephi they build a

civilization they start spreading out

everywhere but then there's a big change

so Mosiah is gonna be made king over

Zarahemla for behold he being warned of

the Lord that he should flee out of the

land of Nephi

and as many as would hearken unto the

voice of the Lord should also depart out

of the land with him into the wilderness

which is a minority right again that's

how this always works so Mosiah who's

not King right he doesn't look like he

is King in the land of Nephi

and a minority of the Nephites end up

leaving probably just like an exodus

that you would have with the children of

Israel out of Egypt they kind of like

fleet in the middle of the night because

everything had become so corrupt and of

course again just like Lehi had to leave

out of Jerusalem that's how an exodus

works

it's the few right that are having to

leave the city having to leave Babylon

and it's likely the other the remaining

Nephites that was stayed in the land of

Nephi were destroyed by the Lamanites we

get a very important word here is there

in the wilderness

and we're going to go over this here a

little bit later in Mosiah that we get

similar term here in Isaiah with that

Obinna die and put the priests of Noah

kind of banter over he says and they

were admonished continually by the Word

of God this is err ahem Allah and all

are this this is Messiah and all of his

followers and they were led by the power

of his arm a lot of ways that people

have interpreted that but we're gonna

get into that here in the next couple

weeks and they were led through the

wilderness until they came down into the

land which is called the land of

Zarahemla now something that's pretty

interesting if you again read on

Bradley's book the lost hundred sixteen

pages is that it looks like as Mosiah

remember this is Messiah

not the Messiah of the book of Mosiah

right this is Moses that's this is that

Messiah's grandfather this is the father

of Benjamin and the grandfather of the

Messiah of the book of Mosiah it looks

like he finds the Urim and Thummim the

seer stones in the wilderness on their

way to 0

Hamlin that's where he gets it so

interestingly think about how right

Mosiah he and his followers leave the

land of Nephi think of Lehi leaving

Jerusalem out into the wilderness and

what do they find at their tent right at

Lehi stent they get the Liahona here

Mosiah finds the Urim and Thummim and

brings it with them to Zarahemla where

he is going to translate and he says

that they discover a people here in

Zarahemla why is it called Zarahemla

because that's the name of their leader

of their king is Zarahemla and they the

people is there a hamlet rejoice because

Mosiah brings all the artifacts with

them right so he's gonna bring the

Liahona he's gonna bring the sort of

Laban these are all things that would

have been inside the temple probably of

Nephi that he would have they would have

grabbed and taken with them just as

Nephi did from when he was with laman

and lemuel and now they're gonna add the

the Urim and Thummim to those artifacts

to those relics and they've also got the

brass plates so here now the people of

Zarahemla we're going to learn are also

from Jerusalem and so they're going to

rejoice because of the brass plates

here's the record of their people that

they have been missing for hundreds of

years so we learned here where the Zehra

hem lights or the mule kites come from

says in 15 behold it came to pass that

Messiah discovered that the people of

Zarahemla came out from Jerusalem at the

time that Zedekiah king of Judah was

carried away captive into Babylon so

this is the same king that was on the

throne when Lehi left the difference is

is that Lehi left in the first year the

Zedekiah reigned in Judah where there

would have been massive turmoil and

change and the mule kites left about ten

years later when Zedekiah is carried

away captive by King Nebuchadnezzar in

Babylon and they're brought coid

mentally right and they journey to the

wilderness were brought by the hand of

the Lord across the Great Waters into

the land where Mosiah discovered them

and they had dwelt there from that time

forth for hundreds of years again

the coincidence here of maybe they're

led if they're led to the same place

that Jared it’s were led to the same

place right the seer stones the Urim

and Thummim and the breastplate is from

the Jared Knights so as a mosaic goes

out into the wilderness and they travel

away from the land of Nephi and find

this this relic it's left there by the

Jared it’s that's where they get it and

so the Jared ice were sent into a

similar geographic area the Muller kites

here of Zarahemla are sent to a similar

place and the Levites are sent to a

similar place and it says here a couple

of interesting things first of all it

says that the people of Zarahemla have

had many wars and serious contentions

the question is with whom did the

Lamanites knew who they were because the

Nephites don't seem to have known them

or are these other peoples that they had

Wars and contentions with and their

language has been corrupted they haven't

done much if any writing at all they

don't have records it appears and they

denied the being of their Creator so

think of who they were right mule 'ok

we're gonna learn here was the son of

that King Zedekiah so he has royal blood

and we're told in the Bible in the Old

Testament that all of the signs of mulek

are the sons of Zedekiah were killed

by King Nebuchadnezzar but according to

the Book of Mormon one of them gets away

and that's mulek or as Dan Bradley says

mulek looks like that was the original

translation from we get that from royal

Skousen but they deny the being or the

Creator there they deny Christ right

they would have been Deuteronomists more

than likely to begin with when they came

out of Jerusalem and their language at

this point is so corrupted that the

people of most

I can't even understand them and then

interestingly enough Mosiah who is a

seer here has a large stone that's

brought unto him and with the Urim and

Thummim he interprets the engravings on

this stone which talks about an account

of one Coriantumr and the slain of

his people this is the Jaredites and

quarry an Tamar was discovered by the

people of Zarahemla and he dwelt with

them for the space of nine moons so

there's a very slight overlap right with

the last surviving Jaredite with the

mule kites he's there with them for nine

months and we're told here that on this

stone that Jaredite came from the

Tower of Babel and a Malachi then tells

us that he was born in the days of

Messiah and he's around when Messiah

passes on and gives the throne to his

son King Benjamin and even in this time

here that's what abandoned Zarahemla now

right there's still a lot of serious war

and bloodshed but we're told here these

kings and these prophets mostly in the

Book of Mormon are all warriors right

it's we're told that King Benjamin did

drive them out of the land of Zarahemla

and then we get a transition here from

where these small place end up remember

the large plates have remained with the

Kings going down through time here and

the small plates had remained with the

descendants of Jacob

but now Amalekite says that seeing that

Benjamin was a just man before the Lord

he delivers the small plates over to

King Benjamin so now the king has both

the large plates and the small plates

and of course a Malachi's final words

here are about I would that she should

come unto Christ who is the Holy One of

Israel he's the one mentioned in the

brass plates come unto Him and offer

your whole Souls as an offering unto Him

broken heart and a contrite spirit and

then he gives us a little bit of an

opening of what we're gonna learn about

here in the book of Mosiah he says and

now I would speak somewhat concerning a

certain number

who went up into the wilderness to

return to the land of Nephi so he was

talking about before he dies there's a

group of people that are now in

Zarahemla that want to go back and

return to the land of Nephi says that

there was a large number who were

desirous to possess the land of their

inheritance their leader was a strong

and mighty man and a stiff neck adman

wherefore he caused a contention among

them and they were all slain safe fifty

this is the group that goes out to try

and find the land of Nephi to go back

and that this man comes back we

understand later that this is zenith and

he gathers a bunch of more people that

want to go with him and they end up

leaving to go back to the land of Nephi

and a Malachi says that he even had a

brother who also went with them and that

he hasn't seen them since

and he says here now that these small

plates are full and he makes an end of

speaking so keep in mind now that this

is the ending of the small place that

would have started with Nephi but are

separate from what Mormon abridged which

were the large plates that also covered

the same time period but we don't have

that record up through this period so

what would typically fill in the gaps at

this point would have been the larger

plates and the larger abridgement likely

that Moroni had is gone but as we find

out in Don Bradley's book we can we can

find out a little bit about some things

that would have been in there and again

I recommend that you read that book so

then we get to the words of Mormon this

little place here and you think yourself

a liar why is there the words of Mormon

here in the chronology of the record of

the Book of Mormon and the reason is

because he's this is he's gonna write

this at the end of his life and then

Mormon is going to insert that here so

this is kind of an axial point that

Mormon sees in the record of the

Nephites and he talks about the small

place so he's already done an abridgment

of all of the large plates including the

time

that we've gone over so far in the Book

of Mormon which is the small place for

up to right now we're dealing with just

the small plates before Mormon inserts

this year and so what Mormon is

going to do is he's taking the small

plates now and he's adding them on to

his abridgement so there would have been

two parallel records over this whole

time period that we've gotten gone

through up to this point and he's told

that he's doing this because a for a

wise purpose for the sat whispers me

according to the workings of the Spirit

of the Lord which is in me and now I do

not know all things but the Lord knoweth

all things which are to come wherefore

he worketh in me to do according to his

will and of course having lost the 116

plus pages then obviously it's crucial

for us to have this beginning think

about if we didn't have these small

plates up to now we would have no record

of any of Nephi or anybody else up to

this point and he makes another point

here again about how these plates

are handed down this is very important

to them in verse 11 and they were handed

down from King Benjamin from generation

to generation until they have fallen

into my hands and then again the

contentions were the Lamanites this is

important I think he says and it came to

pass also that the armies of the

Lamanites this is verse 13 came down out

of the land of Nephi right so they're

gonna follow pretty much the same course

probably to get to Zarahemla to battle

against his people this is Benjamin's

people but behold King Benjamin gathered

together his armies and he did stand

against them and he did fight with the

strength of his own arm with the sword

of Laban right they give that sword

again talking about Heyward Joseph

fights for Ephraim lights and Manan

sites and that sort of Laban represents

their people represents their legacy

going back to Joseph and he tells us how

righteous of a person how righteous of a

king Benjamin is

and because of his preaching and the

preaching of other true prophets that

they're able to establish peace finally

in the land of Zarahemla so though these

books are small right they give us some

real meat some real good information

some context going into the book of

Messiah and the story of Enos gives us

some very rich principles about us as

individuals and about faith hope and

charity and passing through those four

phases of the priesthood I'll talk to

you next time