David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Halfway

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    I’m not sure if this is important it significant but i realized that the end of the small plates is very nearly the halfway point in Nephite history—it comes about 450 years into the 1000 years of history covered by the Book of Mormon.

  • Preserving the record

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    Possibly by the time of Omni but certainly by the time of his son the keepers of the small plates of nativii saw their job as primarily to keep their genealogy and ensure that the record was not lost. They mostly did very little to add to the record.

  • “What could I say more?”

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    Jarom didn’t feel he had anything to add but it makes me wonder what different insights we might have gleaned from reading things written from his point of view. Perhaps not enough to justify using up limited space in the plates but if recording were as close to costless as it is today I’d want…

  • The lifetime of Enos

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    We remember the story of Enos praying all day and night before heading the Lord declare that he was forgiven. We may even recall that he prayed for the Nephites and the preservation of the the neighbor records for the benefit of the Lamanites. I think the more important message if Enos was that he…

  • Converting the law of Moses

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    I never thought before about the fact that Shared accused Jacob of causing people to not keep the law of Moses and to convert it to the worship of some future being. Since Jacob already recorded that they kept the law of Moses despite looking forward to Christ that tells us that Shared was arguing…

  • These things shall come to pass

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    When Jacob says that the prophecies of Zenos shall come to pass he means the scattering of Israel but also the grafting back in of the natural branches to they mother tree. When Jacob tells the future children of Israel to harden not their hearts he means that they should not reject the opportunity to…

  • The purpose of manna

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    I’ve always thought it manna as a blessing and a miracle but today I realized it was also a tool for training the people. They were given instructions follow daily and if they did not follow the instructions either on I have it the other they would feel the effects of their disobedience same day.…

  • The Lord shall fight for thee

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    The children of Israel were always quick to say “we didn’t want this” everytime they encountered trouble but the Lord was quick to show his arm in addressing their challenges, especially in the beginning as He was training them to trust in Him (for those willing to be trained who would notice the pattern).

  • Preserving the fruit

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    I got a real insight into the drawn out prices of grafting the natural branches back into the natural root of the tree to preserve the natural fruit. It isa prices that takes time—a few branches and time for the graft to take and the tree to heal and then a few more branches. In…

  • Mix it up

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    When everything in the vineyard had become corrupted, when it would have been ready to just abandon the whole project (like flooding the earth) they instead choose to try something to radically change and challenge all the trees.