Tag: Jacob

How is it that Jacob could tell the people that “he yourselves know that He counseleth in wisdom, and in justice, and in great mercy”? What could he rely on to support the assertion that they knew for themselves?

People have complained about the Book of Mormon talking about dark skin as a curse on the Lamanites but the fact that Jacob explicitly tells his people that they should not look down on the Lamanites for their dark skin but should instead look to the ways that they have been more righteous and look…

How often do people turn to the scriptures to find some justification for a wickedness they desire to pursue? The Nephites did it. The RLDS have done it. I’m sure there are many instances that are not so well known and not just related to plural marriage.

What changed after Nephi died that the people began seeking to have extra wives and concubines? Was it the loss of his influence or was it that they had been in the land long enough to be comfortable and start looking for ways to satisfy their baser desires?

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…

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…

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…

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.

It think it is important for the people who are being compared to the tree to understand that the Lord started with a tame olive tree. Had he started with a wild olive tree they could excuse the poor fruit as being the result of the tree that bore the fruit.

I love the simplicity of how Jacob explains the motivation behind their keeping the law of Moses although they understood about Christ. They kept the law and allowed it to point them towards Christ who was their ultimate source of hope