Tag: Jacob

Whether before His coming out after, our hope in achieving peace I’m this life and salvation in the life to come lies in expanding our knowledge of Christ and living consistent with whatever truth we have.

At the time Jacob have his sermon on pride and whoredoms the we few people alive who had known Lehi (since he died not too long after they arrived in the promised land) but most would have known some of all of the children of Lehi (besides Jacob and Joseph who were obviously still alive).…

Which is worse: desiring many wives and concubines like David and Solomon, or desiring to normalize sex outside of marriage so that list may be indulged without even a pretense of commitment? I suspect that the answer is that both approaches are used by Satan to warp the image of celestial marriage into an unrecognizable…

It is men like Sharem along the Jews that make it so that most of them can hardly conceive of Christ as fitting what their expected Messiah should be.

Each person has the choice to decide if they will hearken to the efforts of the Lord of the vineyard or whether they will reject this efforts in their life and be cast out.

What Zenos didn’t mention in his allegory of the olive tree is that when the Lord of the vineyard says that ask the trees deserve to be hewn down and carry into the fire he has done that before prior to planting this olive tree.

According to Zenos’ allegory of the olive tree, the Lord not only took the natural branches to other parts of the vineyard (scattering Israel) but also grafted in wild branches to the olive tree (gentiles joining Israel – perhaps through intermarriage or possibly through conversion).

When the Lord of the vineyard sets out to save the tame olive tree he not only saves that tree but he also plays several other yes which bring forth take fruit.

I never considered before the question that Jacob was answering by relating Zenos’ parable of the olive tree. He was telling the people that the Jews would be able to build upon the sure foundation that they had previously rejected because their Lord continues to nourish the tree even after it began to go bad.