Tag: 1 Nephi

I just noticed that the various results of people coming out failing to come to the tree of life in Lehi’s vision is comparable to the parable of the sower that Jesus taught. How one starts is no guarantee of how one will finish.

Laman and Lemuel didn’t complain about going back to Jerusalem to find wives but on the journey back with the family if Ishmael they began to complain again. I suspect they may have been influenced by some of the family of Ishmael (among his sons and daughters) who were not enthusiastic about leaving Jerusalem. (By…

It was by passing through the Sirius and worry for her son’s that Sariah became fully confident in Lehi as a prophet.

Meu hard the voice of the Spirit warn about the dangers if a nation dwindling in unbelief. I can imagine that memory came back later when he had the vision of his people doing exactly that despite having the scriptures because of his efforts to get them from Laban.

Laman and Lemuel said that Lehi was asking them to do a hard thing but I’m sure the travel was not the hard thing for them. If he had told them they could simply go home and Lehi would stay in the wilderness without them they wouldn’t have complained.

When Lehi led his family into the wilderness his children were faced with a more stark choice than before. In Jerusalem they could grumble and do nothing new or they could believe and do nothing different. In the wilderness they were leaving their life behind and they could do so willingly or grudgingly. Nephi took…

I wonder when Lehi prayed for his people what he had in mind. Was he praying that they would repent? Was he praying that they would be spared? Did he need the Lord to help him see why they were under conversation and how (in what way) they might be spared?

I have always thought that there were parts of Isaiah that were quoted more than once. I finally took the time to verify that the words of Isaiah that Jacob quotes in 2 Nephi 6 were also quoted by Nephi in 1 Nephi 21.

It sounds like there was so much information in the words of Isaiah that the brothers on Nephi we’re overwhelmed and unable to understand all that was being said. I know that as i have become more familiar with the scriptures that things which has been confusing out unnoticed before later become clear to me.

After clearly saying that Israel was known to be transgressors and repeatedly would turn their backs on the Lord Isaiah makes clear that the Lord still intends to honor His covenant with them by pouring out incredible blessings upon the House of Israel even if it would be necessary to chasten them and leave them…