'The Allegory of the Olive Trees'

-  Who was Zenos?

-  There has to be a starting point, it is the House of Israel

-  The Allegory is the story of 'covenant' between the peoples of God

-  Sherem ...

'Jacob & Repentance'

-  Jacob outlines Doctrine of Christ

-  Calls men to repentance for greed & law of chastity

-  The blessing and inequality of gain and its disruption

-  Polygamy

-  Jacob te...

'The Learned & The Rich'

-  The adversary's dual strategy of removing the Doctrine of Christ and shutting out revelation

- The learned and the rich of worldy knowledge and economy

- 'Hell' as 'cons...

'The Meaning of Isaiah'

- Clues to reading these Isaiah chapters are found in Nephi's 'Introduction'

- Isaiah focuses on Christ, Covenant and the Higher & Lower Laws

- The meaning of the title, Im...

'I Say, Uh 'Isaiah''

-  Why Nephi obsesses about Isaiah

-  Nephi drops us right into the meat of Isaiah

-  Nephi and Jacob create the anchors to launch their new 'Jerusalem'

-  Nazarenes or 'Nozri...

'Joseph of Egypt'

-  Joseph gave some of the greatest prophecies found in the brass plates

-  Speaking to his son Joseph, Lehi talks of his ancestor Joseph who talks of a seer in the last days name...

The Beatitudes seem to take place in a temple/ritual setting with significant temple imagery. Lehi's Dream is compared.

but going through this type of a filter

understanding that the temple ...

'The Loss of Christ'

A quick history of the Israelites and Lehi's environment in Jerusalem shows us why the Book of Mormon came to be.

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I don’t agree with some of the implications in this short post, but I like the line of thinking. So much of the scriptures should be read as ritual. The examples used can easily be placed in a rituali...

This video is from the Academy for Temple Studies where Dan Peterson gives an approach to the association of the tree in Lehi’s dream, Mary and the goddess Asherah.

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