Tag: 2 Nephi
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22 August 2008
2 Nephi 15 – 16 What does it mean to “join house to house?”I have often joked that it was referring to apartments – I believe there may be some interpretation for physical joining of housing structures, but I’m sure there is another more important interpretation that ties in to the inability for people to…
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21 August 2008
2 Nephi 12 – 14All the patterns of the world of wickedness shall be turned on their head – all the things they are proud of shall be removed or shall become an embarrassment to them. The Lord shall be with those righteous who are left and they shall live in peace off the fruits…
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20 August 2008
2 Nephi 10 – 11With Jacob having identified priestcrafts as one of the primary reasons why the Jews would crucify even their very God and Savior, it should not surprise us that Alma would later priestcrafts among Nehor’s sins as being of particular interest or importance. Those who read the words of Isaiah (or at…
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19 August 2008
2 Nephi 9“We” shall have a knowledge of “our” guilt and the righteous shall have a knowledge of “their” righteousness. Jacob clearly does not place himself ahead of any of his listeners. “The way for man is narrow but it lieth in a straight course before him.” That means that while the do not have…
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18 August 2008
2 Nephi 8I notice that when the Lord reverses every situation to the benefit of His people that his people are not the oppressors even though those who had been oppressing them are now oppressed and they are envied by those who were their oppressors. I wonder if we ever have, or will later, “drunk…
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17 August 2008
2 Nephi 6 – 7Jacob tells the people that Jerusalem has been destroyed and the people taken captive and scattered, but that the promises of the lord to them are still great and they will be redeemed. I felt the need to continue to chapter 7 and as I read I felt the desire that…
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16 August 2008
2 Nephi 5When the Lord told Nephi to leave (and even before, when his brothers were murmuring against him) he must have thought to himself “It’s like Jerusalem all over again.” Besides preserving Nephi’s life, it was important for the righteous to separate themselves so that they and their children would not continue to be…
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15 August 2008
2 Nephi 4I had not realized that Lehi kept his record on the brass plates, yet Nephi says that the prophecies which his father wrote are on the brass plates. I also noticed that when Nephi asks the Lord to hedge up “the ways of mine enemy” he is clearly talking about Lucifer, and not…
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14 August 2008
2 Nephi 3The promises to Joseph of the great work that would be done by his seed need not be confined to Joseph Smith. There are others of the seed of Joseph who will also do other things to bring to pass the restoration of the seed of Joseph and all Israel to the knowledge…
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13 August 2008
2 Nephi 2“Adam fell that men might be; and men are that they might have joy. And the Messiah cometh in the fullness of times that He may redeem the children of men from the fall.” I simply cannot read verse 25 (the first sentence) without feeling that the statement is incomplete.Verse 25 is like…