Come Follow Me LDS- Ether 1-5, Part 1

'Seals & Towers'
- We know of two different Jaredite records
- The number of 24 plates of Ether may be symbolic
- Moroni and the Brother of Jared both had their own 'seals' on the gold plates
- The Tower of Babel is the same as the Great and Spacious Building of Lehi's Dream
- Deseret represents priesthood
- The Jaredites followed a temporal parallel of the Land of Promise and the Abrahamic Covenant

 

 

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all right welcome to the quick media
come follow me series we are covering
the book of ether here today chapters
one through
five for the week but we're only going
to cover
chapters one and two in this shorter uh
part one series for the week here as
we're catching up
book of ether is fascinating to me it's
my wife's favorite book of scripture
it is very different from the rest of
the book of mormon we need to set a
little bit of a stage here to understand
what is happening why this is inserted
here
and instead of you know way before the
book of mormon for example right this is
a completely different people
these are not lamanites these are not
nephites these are not mulekites
these are the the geradites
right so where do we get this from
where does this book of ether come from
who is ether
and why is it inserted here in the book
of mormon in the gold plates here
after mormon's record
the way we should look at this is that
moroni
who was not originally called to be the
one to right abridge the book of mormon
and
to maybe even seal it up at first
but rather that was the calling of his
father mormon
mormon gets wounded we're not positive
he dies from those
wounds but he dies eventually along with
basically the destruction and total
obliteration
of his people except for moroni
and maybe a few other stragglers here
and there and mormon had commanded his
son
moroni to finish
his account mormon's account which is in
his little book
right the book of mormon with a small b
right his own mormon's own words those
first
seven chapters i believe it is of
mormon here there's a little bit of
space left
and when mormon gives the command to
moroni to finish up his record
all he's talking about is finishing up
and filling up that
space that's what mormon's record is
that those plates may have even been
consecrated so to speak
to act as the vessel to be buried and
saved for the gentiles in the latter
days and so
that was supposed to be finished you're
not going to leave that blank space
there it is
precious it is difficult to get the ore
it is difficult to make the engravings
moroni needed to finish this off
and so he does finish it off in chapters
eight and nine
but he's not dead he's not done so what
else is he going to do well he goes and
he finds the
some additional records he gets the
book of ether not the book of ether that
we have let's call it
the record of ether which is
based on our our primary
ch book summary here at the top
in the book of mormon where we read the
book of ether we're told the record of
the
jaredites taken from the 24 plates
that's interesting found by the people
of limhi in the days of
king mosiah i will get back to the 24
either this this episode or the next so
where do these come from well we need to
remember there are two separate records
that we know of from the jaredites
they are these 24 plates that the people
of limhi have
or that they find and there is a
stone that the mulakites are aware of
that are that is brought to think of the
shabaka stone right for the shabbat
stone from
from egypt which is a record that was
found
uh it was a memphis record right from
memphis that was found
that basic goes over a lot of if you
listen to nibbly uh
it goes over a lot of the plan of
salvation and the creation story
very interesting but a stone is brought
to mosiah that he
interprets now the question is is what
language was that written in
i won't get much into that either here
but there's a couple different
possibilities that we would have to
consider
but he translates that stone
and and has a record of it and he knows
if we go back to the book of omni
before right before mosiah here the last
book
in the small plates that we have
before the words of mormon before the
book of mosiah here's what we get
and it came this is starting in verse 20
of omni and it came to pass
in the days of mosiah okay this is
grandpa mosiah the messiah that left
the land of nephi in a hurry
to not be destroyed by the lamanites and
by the other nephites that were wicked
went north and found zarahemla right
they unite with the mulikites the
mulakites bring
mosiah this stone and it came to pass in
the days of mosiah there was a large
stone brought unto him
with engravings on it and he did
interpret the engravings by the gift and
power of god
so that stone is one record that is not
the record
unless it's an exact copy is not the
record of the 24 plates that we have for
the book of ether
it briefly tells us what it is it says
and they gave this is the
record here the engravings and they gave
an account of one
coriantomer and the slain of his people
and coryantomer was discovered by the
people that's the mulakites
of zarahemla and he dwelt with them for
the space of nine moons for nine months
so when did this happen we don't know
exactly when that happened
you have to figure i think that the the
very earliest
that the mueller kites could have run
into coriantomer
which was from a previous people right
coryantomar is the last
surviving geradite the very earliest
would be
roughly 580 bc right
give or take and then we can go all the
way down and for reasons i'm not going
to bring them now i don't think it would
be
too far down but maybe let's call it
maybe 400 bc
maybe 300 maybe you know i'd say
probably like 580 to 400 bc
and it goes on in 22 and it also spake a
few words concerning his
father's and his first parents came out
from the tower at the time the lord
confounded the language of the people
again
we're going to get more clarification
about the tower of babel or babel
from the book of mormon about
the old testament so at the time the
lord confounded the language of the
people
and the severity of the lord fell upon
them according to his
judgments which are just and their bones
lay scattered in the land
northward well by the way this happens
to be
where moroni is he may not be in the
valley of the bones so to speak
that's not a reference to ezekiel but he
is
in the north land he can't go
south right he is up in the north hiding
all right so we just get that little
tidbit in here we may have had more
from the lost 116 pages about grandpa
mosiah and the stone here
but we we don't get it right we we love
we've lost
the first two chapters it looks like
of mosiah along with those
that was part of that translation that
was given to martin harris
so then let's come back to the book of
ether here
now remember this is now moroni he's not
dying he's still around
he's he's going to keep going right he's
going he's got more to say
and he says a lot here with the book of
ether now
he takes this much larger record
written by the prophet and historian
ether
and he abridges it down just like mormon
took the large plates
and abridged it down quite a bit so this
book of ether is not the 24 plates
moroni's book of ether here that we have
today is an abridgement
of those 24 plates again you can imagine
how small they wrote on these plates
how much they fit in on a single leaf
probably front and back
right an immense amount
and they could get a lot more in than we
do in english
typically now i don't know what language
they're writing here in the
with the jaredites some ancient language
but with the book of mormon it was
in egyptian eventually reformed egyptian
so here is moroni in verse 1
of ether and now i moroni very much his
record here
proceed to give an account of those
ancient inhabitants who were destroyed
by the hand of the lord upon the face of
this
north country that's where he is
remember we talked about
the land of shem in the land of shem
all mean kind of left hand or north
right that's where he is
now first of all what is he doing he has
just witnessed the destruction of his
own people
he's now writing the bridging the record
of another
fallen completely destroyed people
this is the most tragic depressing
job you could have right i mean
he knows how crucial it is to get
these records out to us and he's
thinking to himself okay well
they don't have a record of the
jaredites there's mentions about them
here throughout the book of mormon but
there's no
real record that has been given here in
his father's abridgement
so he's going to give that to us he's
going to take the time
to abridge this record verse 2 and i
take mine account from the 20 and 4
plates
which were found by the people of limhi
which is called the book of ether
just an anecdote here
if you read the lost 116 pages by don
bradley
you're going to see that there was a
seal that was that went along with this
book
it looks like it was with the book of
ether here
and on that seal is
there there are a couple of different
descriptions
of that plate and it's very interesting
that
something don bradley brings up is that
when he talks about
for example moroni sealing up the plates
that is not a metaphor that's not a
spiritual metaphor there is an
actual physical seal
on the gold plates apparently
that is that could be that for example
the title page
and moroni's seal and
that would make a lot of sense now the
seal i'm talking about here
would not be moroni's this would be from
the book of ether perhaps
the brother of jared perhaps
ether but there is a ceiling
on that seal one of the one thing that's
been described on that seal is it's kind
of like a
uh a little bit like an aztec
sun calendar right where you see the sun
in the middle and then you have
concentric
circles coming out and writing and a
whole bunch of things on there
this one describes the sun in the center
with
some rays coming out maybe just four
north south east west something like
that four different directions that
would make a lot of sense
and and then around that sun
there are 24 circles
and within those circles there are
apparently maybe different phases of the
moon at least half
moons maybe crescent moons and there
are stars and i think one of the
descriptions was every other one was a
moon and
a star that are around this this sun
in the center right that's fascinating
absolutely fascinating
24 circles on the seal 24
plates that were put together by
ether here by the way what about the
book of revelation right where we go in
and we see that around the
throne of god the center look at
facsimile number two around that you get
24 elders on 24 seats
in the book of revelation pretty
interesting stuff
there's a lot more i could go into there
and i will in a separate episode
but that should wait your appetite a
little bit
he says that he gets it he gets the
record again back to back to
verse two here he says and i take my
account from the 24 plates which were
found by the people of
limhi which is called the book of ether
okay
so where who is limhi remember he's the
son of king noah
who was in the land of nephi right
a group of people that had left
zarahemla to go back to the land of
nephi
which was occupied by the lamanites long
long time ago right here right
centuries before maybe six five six
hundred years before
and then limhi who is being
heavily taxed and burdened by the
lamanites
remember sends a party northward
to the northland to go and look for
zarahemla they couldn't find it
so they went up they looked at what did
they find they found an area
of people's bones
just littered an area littered with with
human bones
and in that area there what do they find
they find this record
and that's the book of ether that is the
24 plates that
is then brought back to limb high
and remember ammon this is not ammon who
chops off the arms
but a different ammon who was the leader
of the expedition that went from
zarahemla
down to the land of nephi to see what
was going on down there
he tells lit king limhi that king mosiah
has the interpreters and that they can
translate this record and so that's
eventually going to find that record is
going to fight its way back
up to zarahemla once the different
groups
alma and the other groups limhai escape
the lamanites and get back to zarahemla
so then
think about all that's going on with
these 24 plates how that all happens
it's incredible
the hand of the lord here
right where where they would have never
found these or or if they would they
would they would
the the nephites may have never found
them
but limhi sends this group off failed
expedition i suppose not finding zera
hemlock but they find the book of ether
that book of ether then has to escape
the lamanites
along with the nephites obviously and it
gets back up to zarahemla
and it's put in with the other cache of
records
and then we still wouldn't get it now we
do get
what we do get and we need to recognize
this there is a
an influence from the jaredites
throughout the book of mormon
at least from the you know from the time
of grandpa mosiah onward
there are jaredite names that are found
within the with the
uh the nephites there are references
to jaredite experiences and jaredite
words in in the book of ether that's an
influence they knew about this
this was a part of their theological
teaching
they saw the judgment that had already
come on to the people of jared
to the jaredites and they still fell
that's a key lesson
right they had the record just like we
have the record of the book of mormon
and the book of ether two failed
civilizations
that fell apart as we've talked very
specifically
they gave up on the doctrine of christ
they gave up on liberty
they gave up on remembering who they
were as children of israel
and everything fell apart well that's
exactly what we see here
in this account just like we do with the
nephites
now interestingly enough look we go back
to the book of moses
right which would be uh a
kind of a spiritual translation so to
speak of the the early parts of genesis
we get genesis we have the book of
abraham we have the temple account all
of these accounts of creation
and the garden of eden little bit found
in second nephi two
and here again why here again here's
what we get in verse three
and as i suppose that the first part of
this
record that's the large record of ether
that he's drawing from which speaks
concerning the creation of the world
that's at the beginning
and also of adam and an account from
that time
even to the great tower and whatsoever
things transpired among the children men
until that time is had among the jews
well
it would have been nice to have for us
right
it would have been nice to have another
account of all that stuff we would have
had
going all the way from adam and eve
going in through
enoch and and noah
shem almost down to the time of abraham
but he's like look we've already got
that right moroni has that in the brass
plates
so he's not going to draw on that record
but
ether had that they had the creation
story and the
garden of eden story at the beginning of
their record why
it's not just the beginning of time or
mortality right
it is temple liturgy they had the temple
that's what that tells me they had
the temple and they knew the temple
drama
in some form and then he says i'm going
to give you a partial account then from
the time of the tower of babel which is
what we get right
all the way down to the time of
coryantomer
and so he starts off giving this very
important lineage here and if you notice
something here's here's verse 6 where it
starts off
and on this wise do i give the account
this is
moroni he that wrote this record was
ether and he was a descendant of
coriantor right so he's going to go
through now
that's not coriantomer that's coriantor
and he's going to run through this
lineage and this is what's interesting
about it
he goes down all of these lines of
course this is always very important
about the lineage
whose lineage is this it's jared
it's not the brother of jared these are
the jaredites
jared is the king not the brother of
jared or muhammad moriankemer or
muhanri morianka or however you want to
pronounce it
he's the prophet the king is
jared he is the head of the tribe but we
go from verse 6 all the way down to
verse
33. well let's go to 32 and kibb was the
son of aricha
who was the son of jared which
jared came forth with his brother
doesn't even mention his brother's name
and their families with some others and
their families from the great
tower at the time the lord confounded
the language of the people and swore in
his wrath
that they should be scattered upon all
the faces wait a minute here
that they should be scattered
upon all the face of the earth and
according to the word of the lord
the people were scattered
what have we just been going over what
is the great one of the great themes of
the book of mormon it is about the
scattering and gathering of israel
now this is not israel so to speak right
because when we think of israel
we're talking about those that come from
abraham isaac and then through jacob
who was israel but the choice people of
the lord who were
the followers of the brother of jared
here and jared
right the same thing happens to them
and the same thing happens to you know
ultimately they become scattered but
it's what happens to everyone at the
tower of babel
or babel we'll go with babel
that seems to be the more popular way to
say it although it doesn't make a lot of
sense to me
because the name of the city state is
babel on babylon tower of babel would
make more sense to me but we'll go with
babel
so what happens here at the tower and
this this is
a key to confirming what's going on in
the book of mormon as well and how the
lord works
they are a wicked people and so
just as we had at the time of the
destruction of the nephites
the the disintegration of the nephites
before the visit of christ to the
americas
remember the government fell apart
remember they lost
they lost the doctrine of christ they
become proud
right that's key it's the opposite
remember this is the vision of lehi this
is the
his dream they lose the doctrine of
christ they become
proud and and work upon their own merits
only they don't need god they seal off
the heavens
and they they build themselves a tower
that is going to get to heaven
themselves that's exactly what that
represents
it is purely pride
we don't need the lord which means
basically we don't need the doctrine of
christ
you don't need to come down to us and
lower yourself
we're going to get there on our own
we're going to build up a great tower
and we will climb up it into the starry
canvas
that is the sky
but just like what happened with the
flood the same thing that happened with
the people of noah
people at the time of noah right is that
they were destroyed
by the flood
well as nibbly puts it they were the
tower
was destroyed by the flood of wind
right there was a massive amount of wind
that
at least according to nibble he says it
creates a lot of the deserts
where a wind blew and blue and blue and
never stopped
it destroyed crops it it destroyed
foliage it created deserts
it was a major problem on the earth
here's what we get from theophilus of
antioch
who is a second century
a.d church father right and he's quoting
sybil this is what it says
when are fulfilled the threats of the
great god
with which he threatened men when
formerly in the assyrian land
they built a tower a lot of record show
that
the tower was actually built between
babylon
and and going further up north into
assyria which would have been in what
they called the land or the valley of
shinar
and all were of one speech and wished to
rise even till they climbed
unto the starry heaven then the immortal
raised a mighty wind and laid upon them
strong necessity
for when the wind threw down the mighty
tower then rose among mankind fierce
strife and hate one speech was changed
to many dialects
and earth was filled with various tribes
and kings right so again it's
judgment you're going to do this on your
own you're not going to take upon you
the doctrine of christ
you're not going to accept the lord and
the plan of salvation into your life
you're not going to humble yourself for
those things judgment comes
and that judgment means a scattering
just like the scattering of israel
and that is the story of mankind right
when we have
uh adam and eve in the garden of eden
and they get expelled from the garden
that is a scattering they're being
scattered out
into the lone and dreary world
when the assyrians come and take the
northern kingdom of israel
they scatter the the the children of
israel the tribes of israel the lost 10
tribes
when the babylonians come in and
destroy jerusalem and and the kingdom of
judah
and take the jews with them right
they're scattering them
when the jews were in palestine and
revolted against the romans what did the
romans do they scattered the jews
and that's how we find them today right
they're all over the place they're
scattered
so that is the process that this works
through and the exact same thing happens
here
with the jaredites
at the tower of babel or babel i'm gonna
have to get used to that
so what is the tower of babel
the tower of babel is in lehi's dream
right now you say oh that did he dream
actually about the tower of babel it
doesn't matter
it doesn't matter if it's the exact
tower that has nothing to do with it
it's the same thing
right the people at the tower of babel
denied christ that's what happens that's
what we know there are two ways
that that's doctrine by greg here
admittedly
but they deny the heavens
they deny the doctrine of christ which
is the tree of life
and they build up their own great and
spacious
building high up in the air that is
pride
and we can look at it in a way where um
you have you know there's two different
temples
right there there is the temple of the
lord which at its center has the tree of
life
within the holy of holies
and then there's the temple of man and
that is the great and spacious building
that is the
tower of babel and what comes from that
well
judgment is is going to come for that
and as
man raises himself up right as they
raise their selves up they're going to
look down
on those that are partaking of the fruit
of the tree of life
who are raised up by taking upon them
the
doctrine of christ and lowering
themselves
below everyone as christ did so
just as the nephites before the visit of
christ in the americas
got rid of their central government they
got they went into tribes again
had their own chiefs or princes so to
speak of each of their own tribes
the same exact thing happens here at the
tower of babel
and everybody's language is confounded
that's a very interesting thing to look
at
because we can see the same thing today
people's language
starts to distinguish themselves from
others
even within your own countries if you
have a country
that is starting to to dwindle away and
to dissolve
to disintegrate a big part of that
is going to be speech and
it's going to start to fall apart well
something has to come in the place of
that think of orwell
right think of it think of an orwellian
world what happened what comes in the
place of that
disintegration what comes in the place
of that disintegration is something else
that's new and
forced language is very important
remember that is the second
phase of the priesthood
and it needs to be guided and directed
by the priesthood not
by man so
knowing the importance of this language
right the
brother of jared here in 34 being a
large and mighty man and a man highly
favored the lord
jared his brother said unto him cry unto
the lord
that he will not confound us that we may
not understand our word so again
jared is the king and and the brother of
jared
is the prophet
and so the lord has compassion he does
not confound their language
he does not confound the language of
their families or of their friends their
their whole group
that are going to stick together they
get to understand each other
and then we get this it goes right along
with the the
the story of the exodus and the children
of israel and with the lamanites
then the lehites really
in verse 38 and it came to pass that
jared spake unto his brother saying
go and inquire the lord whether he will
drive us out of the land
and if he will drive us out of the land
remember there's
destruction and wind and drought and
everything going on
cry unto him whether we shall go well of
course
this is exactly what the liahona did for
lehi
and who knoweth but the lord will carry
us forth into a land which is
choice above all the earth this
was you know we we sit here in a mostly
first world countries
that that listen to this podcast and and
don't
think in our minds about the need to
have this
promised land to have this bountiful
to have an area a land of milk and honey
right that would be so crucial to bring
up our families in
because we're taken care of we can cry
about little political issues here and
there
but it's nothing like what it used to be
and so that was something that that
desire was
always in mankind anciently and it is
associated directly with the plan of
salvation
that choice land that is above all
others is exaltation
that is a big part of the abrahamic
covenant
that we're getting right here and moroni
who is abridging this record
knows that he understands that he
sees this he identifies it as the exact
same thing
that lehi was doing so he says here
cry unto the lord and see if he will
carry us forth into a land which is
choice above all the earth
and if it so be let us be faithful unto
the lord
that we may receive it for our
inheritance
right co-inheritors with christ in
exaltation
that is the parallelism there now here
we get some additional ideas about a
rebirth
that we've gone over here in the last
few weeks and and
creation a re-creation as
they also like the lehights leave
the tower of babel the old world and
sail to the new
we get this in verse 41 go to and gather
together thy flocks
there's animals both male and female
of every kind and also of the seed of
the earth
of every kind what does that sound like
and thy families and also jared thy
brother and his family
and also thy friends and their families
and the friends of jared and their
families
all right so we get this kind of this
it's this idea of creation
animals seeds people
and when thou hast done this thou shalt
go at the head of them down into the
valley which is northward
and there will i meet thee and i will go
before thee
this is interesting keep that in mind
and i will
go before thee we get the same exact
thing with the children of israel
in the exodus into a land which is
choice above
all the lands of the earth so he's
making a covenant with them
you're going to go on this adventure
toward what toward a promised land
that is the plan of salvation we are all
accepting the plan of salvation right
all those that come into mortality
are also you know in a fallen state
on an adventure trying to make our way
to
the promised land and then we get some
more elements
very similar to the abrahamic covenant
here in the last verse
of chapter 1 here and there which is the
choice land
will i bless thee and thy seed right
and raise up unto me thy seed and of the
seed of thy brother
and they who shall go with thee a great
nation
and there shall be none greater than the
nation which i shall raise up unto me
of thy seed upon all the face of the
earth
right so think of the stars of the
heaven or the sands of the sea with
abraham
and thus will i do unto thee because
this long time
ye have cried unto me so again it's not
arbitrary
it's not you know god is not a respecter
of persons it's because
of their efforts and what they're doing
here there's a covenant that is being
made here
okay now that's the stage that we're
being put in remember moroni is editing
this
right he's abridging it so that's what
he's put in at the beginning here
to set this whole stage up it is the
exodus from the tower of babel
and it has to do with a promised land
and the promise of
of seed right of a family of tribe
of people of civilization but he's going
to go on with this here
it says that they gathered everybody
together went to the valley of
of nimrod being called after the mighty
hunter
lots of stories about nimrod and who he
is but we're not going to go there now
with their flocks which they had
gathered together male and
female of every kind right like the
creation just like the
flood same exact thing we get even more
of this here it says and they did also
lay snares and catch
fowls of the air and they did also
prepare a
vessel in which they did carry with them
the
fish of the waters so you see what is
going on here
right there there's a there's a a
creation theme without a doubt
then we get this and and i still owe you
guys a
a an episode on this i promise you i'm
gonna do this soon i'm trying to get to
this
deseret in verse 3 along with this idea
of creation
and having all these things together it
says and they did also carry with them
deseret which by interpretation so this
is
moroni writing this which by
interpretation
is a honeybee so they may have even used
the term deseret
as nephites and thus they did carry with
them
swarms of bees and all manner of that
which was upon the face of the land
seeds of every kind
so the bees are inserted into a place
where we're talking about creation right
that's important to understand
remember also that the lord had said
just a little bit ago
i will go before thee where would they
have this deseret
this is just my guess right
but if you read about the exodus you
also see
that the children of israel had with
them i'm trying to think of the term
whether it's hornets or wasps that they
carried at the front
of them right there is a representation
here
i believe and i know you can go into the
whole nibbly thing about the
the the egyptian crown and the bee and
it was being called desharet
you know all these things that that
sounds very real to me
but there is much much more to this this
is about
priesthood deseret is priesthood that is
my belief
and in the episode that i do i will back
that up and show you why i believe that
now i don't mean it's just priesthood i
mean there are actually bees but they
represent
priesthood and creation and the temple
and then just like lehigh with the
liahona here we get this in verse 5 they
go into the wilderness
and it came to pass that the lord did go
before them
and did talk with them we also get the
idea of the cloud the pillar
of a cloud or a pillar of smoke with the
children of israel here we have and it
came to pass that the lord did go before
them and to talk
with them as he stood in a cloud
and gave directions whether they should
travel that's like the leona
just like the children of israel and
then they build the barges
and then we get a little bit more
specificity here from moroni and what
they're looking for
and where they're going in verse 7 it
says and the lord would not suffer that
they should stop beyond the sea in the
wilderness
that could be a lake or the first ocean
they get to
but he would that they should come forth
even unto the land of
promise that is moroni's land
when moroni here is saying the land of
promise he's talking about
his land of promise the americas
right he is right there abridging this
in the north area
the north country where the jaredites
lived and died
which land of promise was choice above
all other lands which the lord had
preserved for a righteous people
so it's kind of like an area that would
be like a temple
on the earth we can look at it that way
it's preserved
for the righteous and that doesn't mean
that everybody that comes to america
is more righteous than everybody else it
means that
it is given the geography
both geopolitical and resources
and everything that this land offers
especially being is for a very long time
secluded from
you know mostly secluded not completely
there's plenty of stories of of
travel and and exploration to the
americas before columbus
right you know we know the vikings were
here we know the chinese were here
before columbus
very likely that there were many other
peoples that had to come here i mean
here you have a the the odd example
more than a coincidence that the
lehights the mulikites and
much before them here the jaredites all
landed in the general
same area of the americas they all lived
in the in generally the same area
within at least hundreds if not a
thousand miles or so
right that's not a coincidence there was
exploration to the americas
so it's for a righteous people to be
protected as long as they stay righteous
that's the whole message that has been
given to us about the gentiles
after they bring forth the gospel in the
book of mormon
you're not going to last here if you're
not righteous
it's a it's a glaring message to the
gentiles in the americas right now
and the lord says to him that whoso
should possess this land of promise
from that time henceforth and forever
ever should serve him
the true and only god that is jehovah
that
is jesus christ and we're going to see
that
explicitly in the next chapter
this is not just this is not
jehovah in in the idea of the of the god
of the jews
right this is jesus christ pre-mortal
jesus christ
in 11 we get exactly this and this
cometh unto you this is moroni inserting
he does this all over this record here
in the book of ether this is what he
says again here
moroni to us to the gentiles and the
americas
and that this cometh unto you
so he's he's given his message he knows
the message is already in the book of
mormon now he's given it to you again
in the book of ether and this cometh
unto you o ye
gentiles that ye may know the decrees of
god
that ye may repent and not continue in
your iniquities until the fullness come
you better learn to stop put the brakes
on in other words
can you put the brakes on before you're
ripe
in iniquity that ye may not bring down
the fullness of the wrath of god
upon you as the inhabitants of the land
have hitherto done
right we've got two huge examples of
what happens to the peoples in the
americas
when they deny the doctrine of christ
he does say here that whoever whatever
nation shall possess this land
shall be free from bondage and from
captivity
and from all other nations under heaven
if they will but serve the god of the
land here it is
who is jesus christ
moroni uses the term jesus christ here
okay and then we get a little bit of a
prelude here for the brother of jared up
on the mountain
in verse 14 it says and it came to pass
at the end of four years
so they're kind of like the the lehites
were in bountiful as they waited there
and lived there for a while
it says and it came to pass at the end
of four years that the lord came again
unto the brother of jared
and stood in a cloud and talked with him
so he can't see him
he doesn't see him and for the space of
three hours did the lord talk with the
brother of jared and chastened him
because he remembered not to call upon
the name of the lord
i'm guessing the number three here is
important
it is confirmation remember that the
reason they are given the covenant and
then will be led to the promised land is
because
they cried unto the lord okay
so then right he repents the brother of
jared repents
and the lord says okay you're going to
build these barges
these vessels this is like noah's ark
this is like the
ship that lehi that nephi built not the
same design that's not what i'm saying
it's the same idea
right the lord gives specific
instructions on the vessels on how they
need to be built this is
very important to the lord obviously
because he it's very specific to nephi
and we get the specifics in the book of
genesis
for for noah's ark right this is this is
an ark just like the
the ark of the covenant this is holy
it's a holy
vessel and it's just like we get the
specifics of the
temple of solomon or or the tabernacle
right the temple that's what this
represents
so he tells them to build these barges
they're about the length of a tree
and brother of jared says well wait a
minute here how are we going to breathe
how are we going to see
and the lord says you're going to create
a hole in the top you're going to create
a hole in the bottom
you're going to get air and light and
you're going to get air from there
and then you can stop it up when you
need to
and then the brother of jared comes back
again you have to like this right this
is kind of like
a little bit the wrestling he's not just
a yes man i mean obviously he's
worshipping him and
but he wants to participate in this
process the brother of jared wants to
participate
he's inquisitive he wants to wrestle a
little bit
with the lord that's how i see that he
wants to engage
and he says okay well that takes care of
the air what about light how are we
would you suffer that we're going to
travel this distance
with light well what about in our own
lives are we are we
going to go without light here in the
world in mortality in
this dark world do we go without light
ourselves
what about these vessels that we have
these temples
that we carry around are we able to get
light in them
can we individually have light to carry
us through
our mortality our expedition to the
promised land
of course the answer is yes but we have
to engage
we need to engage to get that light
and so the lord says to him what will ye
that i should do that ye may have light
in your vessels
right and then we're going to go to get
that story a little bit more complete
when we go to chapter 3 in the next
episode
i'll talk to you next time
 
 
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