Category: Scripture Notes
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Focus on people
If someone wanted a simple way to be more like Christ those three words are probably the most direct path to do so. If we focus on people we will naturally be inclined to make choices following the same patterns as Christ. Not that we would always get it right, but the odds of getting…
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How is it I?
Never before have I read these words of Isaiah with this reaction. “Who hath believed our report?…there is no beauty that we should desire him.…we hid as it were our faces from him.” It’s not that I particularly see myself in those words at this time but i realized that we would do well to…
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Actions without truth
The children of Israel followed the law of Moses but many did not understand the doctrine behind it even though Moses taught the doctrine plainly. They choose to follow the works without care for the reasons. People do the same thing today all too often. That leads to people making covenants and then treating their…
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Taking unearned comfort
I assume that Alma asked about the words of Isaiah in scripture. I suspect that he took confirm in those words and interpreted them to mean that the children of Israel could be relaxed because God would save them for their lineage.
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Covenants and promises
It is interesting to consider the order of the various commandments and promises that the Lord made with Moses and the people of Israel. The Sabbath day was first and I’ve never noted the wording that the Lord “rested in the seventh day and was refreshed.” That tells me that however we keep the Sabbath…
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The blood of the covenant
I never thought about the symbolism as Moses took the blood from the sacrifices of the tribes of Israel. He poured half the blood on the altar (symbolic of putting it on God) and the other half he sprinkled upon the people of Israel this they were equally linked with God through the blood of…
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A nation of priests
Jethro taught Moses to focus on teaching the people rules and laws rather than focusing on individual judgements.. this would also help raise the people up so that they could make judgements themselves in common matters. When the Lord offered to make of Israel a kingdom of priests He was showing the pattern of what…
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Value in the plates
The Lamanites must have discovered something they valued in the records of the Nephites to believe that they had been robbed when the Nephites took those records with them when they physically separated themselves from the Lamanites. Perhaps they came to realize that the written words had value in preserving their knowledge and their language…
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That which was good among them
Zeniff saw that which was good among the Lamanites and desired not to destroy them. He failed to recognize that just because there was good along them did not mean it would be safe to live in close proximity to them. For one thing he had no indication what they thought of his people before…
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Where is the urgency?
I never before considered the infuriated way that Limhi and Ammon go about recounting the history that has passed with each of their people and share records before they even begin planning to escape the Lamanites. Why were those things considered so important?