Tag: 1 Nephi
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Two different things
Nephi knowing the manner of ship that he was building was not the same as knowing how to work the timbers to create the ship. He had to keep going back to the Lord to learn new things in the process.
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Nephi knew the plan
Nephi says he was shown from time to time how to construct the ship. That made me contemplate that he might not have known what type of do he was building when he started making tools. Here he indicates that he had been shown the ship he would be building before he asked where to…
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Periodic stops
We don’t think much about them but the fact is that the family of Lehi stopped longer in the valley of Lemuel than we often think and they stopped periodically during their journey before they came to Bountiful. In my head I often think it was: In reality it was: The moral of the story?…
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Satisfied about the initial question
I notice that Nephi’s brothers started asking other questions only after they were satisfied with the answer to the first question and were pacified towards the Lord. It is also likely that Nephi didn’t give that answer immediately. I get the impression that he spoke to them multiple times, expanding on previous answers with more…
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Spiritual churches vs mortal religious organizations
We should not confuse the two churches—the Church of the Lamb and the Great and Abominabile Church—with any of the many mortal religious organizations known as churches. The two churches are defined by the direction and solution of the heart in each individual and each of them operates across the boundaries of any human organization…
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Four verses
For all the significance that building the ship was for enabling these people to get to the promised land I was surprised to realize today that there were only 4 verses written about it in this record. The key points of that scant record being that 1) Nephi received instructions bit by bit over time…
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Making tools
We don’t think much about the time it took Nephi to make tools for building the ship. That was critical preparatory work for the larger project which he did on his own. I can only wonder how much he was learning through that process while everyone else was not involved. They would have observed some…
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Where are we now?
I see the pattern of people driving in wickedness and then suffering destruction as well as the pattern of people giving themselves and getting blessed for it. Right now it appears we are ripening in iniquity and flirting with real destruction. Not only that but there is clear prophecy of the remnant of Israel going…
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Fighting against the Lamb
I just noticed the symmetry between the fact that the Jews combined to fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb after the death of Christ who represented the new covenant and the fact that the gentiles are fighting and will fight unitedly against the Jews who represent the old covenant. People may mistakenly think…
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Extra context
I never really considered how much Nephi tells us about the words of his father outside the telling of his dream that sets the stage for the more detailed revelation of his own that Nephi relates. It’s clear that he didn’t hear an interesting dream and then go dream up his own version of it…