Tag: Jarom
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Much needs to be done
Behold, it is expedient that much should be done among this people, because of the hardness of their hearts, and the deafness of their ears, and the blindness of their minds, and the stiffness of their necks; nevertheless, God is exceedingly merciful unto them, and has not as yet swept them off from the face…
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Limited vision
It’s clear that Jarom did not have a particular understanding of the purpose of the plates he kept. He had a general understanding in recognizing that they were sacred and were not to be discarded or filled with writings of questionable importance but Unlike being and Jacob he had not had a vision of what…
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Losing focus
I started thinking that the time of the books of at least Jarom and Omni are like the latter part of the Old Testament where the writing is the prophets seem to be more spread out temporally and geographically. They are much less historically concentrated like 1 Nephi, 2 Nephi, and Jacob or like Exodus,…
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Intermixed
I get the impression that before the Nephites fled to a new land, in the first generations while they were living in close proximity to the Lamanites, there was no clear division between the Nephite lands and the Lamanite lands meaning that Nephite lands might have Lamanite lands on opposite sides and Lamanite lands might…
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“What could I say more?”
Jarom didn’t feel he had anything to add but it makes me wonder what different insights we might have gleaned from reading things written from his point of view. Perhaps not enough to justify using up limited space in the plates but if recording were as close to costless as it is today I’d want…
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Threatening destruction
Because we live in the last days when the Lord has promised that His gospel will not be taken again from the Earth the threat of destruction cannot be the same as it was from the Lamanites. That being said, I don’t think that we can be lead to safety of we are not reminded…
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Fading perspective
In some ways Jason seems to have a clear gold on the purpose of the small plates (“to persuade the Lamanites” and “what could I we more … for they have revealed the plan of salvation”). In other ways I wonder if he did understand as much as his fathers (we deliver the plates to…
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The intent for which it was given
It is important in our teaching that we not stop simply at the principle or truth we are trying to convey but also the context behind it. Most Pharisees could quote the law of Moses and did so in their teaching but rarely did they help the people to understand why the law of Moses…
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Unfocused
It seems that the keepers if the small plates lost perspective for a time on their purpose. I also suspect that Amaron has no children (or maybe no sons) which would explain why he gave the records to his brother. Unlike Amaleki we aren’t told explicitly.
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Was Enos the youngest son?
I don’t know that I’ve ever considered before what we know of Enos. Based on the timing etc I conclude that Enos was born during the tail end of Jacob’s life. While he had his sins forgiven he may well have also been removed from Jacob enough that he was seeking to remember what Jacob…