David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Clear symbols

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    Once again, thinking on the vision of Nephi makes the symbols in John’s revelation easier to understand. The one sitting on the throne is Heavenly Father. The 4 beasts are like cherubim—in other words their descriptions are symbolic of their power, authority, and capabilities rather than literal descriptions of individuals—with wings symbolizing power and eyes…

  • Beautiful Revelation

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    I am looking at the words in the revelation of John in a new light. I am seeing them next to the words of the revelation of Nephi when he has the same revelation as John although Nephi was commanded not to write oats if what he saw because John was meant to write them.…

  • Prophetic preview

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    The Jaredites have not even come to the promised land yet in the narrative before Moroni is giving a preview of their history and how it relates to his. We have already read of the destruction of the Nephites but here at the beginning of the record Moroni is indicating to the reader that the…

  • Record keeping

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    I have always been amazed at how dense the information must have been on the record of Ether—24 plates that contained a record from the creation of man to the destruction of the Jaredites and while Moroni only included that portion from the tower of Babel to the end it still takes up 30 pages…

  • Clouds without water

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    The epistle of Jude is so applicable today. He compares those who “ran greedily after the error of Baalam for reward” to clouds without water. I read “running after the error of Baalam for reward” to mean things like buying into the popular philosophies of the day in order to be “on the right side…

  • Diotrephes

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    The example of Diotrephes shows how people can fight against the truth because if their pride. Diotrephes refused to allow senior leaders of the church into the congregation where he was because he wanted to be the preeminent person—he wanted the people of the church in his area to look to him. It’s straight up…

  • The elect lady

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    I wonder who the elect lady is that John was writing to. It’s clear that he was writing to a specific person and not done generic “treatise to an elect lady.”

  • Evangelical perspective

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    I would be very interested to hear the evangelical perspective on 1 John because of how it describes the role of works in our salvation. (They are evidence of our standing with God and his gospel.)

  • Imperfection in the record

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    Moroni states that if they had enough room to write in Hebrew there would have been no imperfection in the record. I take that to mean that he sees the writings in reformed Egyptian and recognizes parts that do translate or can be translated improperly. I can take Moroni at his word that there were…

  • Ye love your money and substance more than the poor and needy

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    37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted. 38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the…