Tag: Mosiah 27
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Christ’s reference to Ezekiel, dry bones, and new life
This year, I’m reading the New Testament through the lens of the Old Testament. It’s been fascinating and enriching to consider the OT context of so many familiar NT verses. This post will give a few examples of how the OT adds significant context to the NT. We’ll begin with some words of Jesus that…
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Apocryphal supplement — The Sent Ones
This is related to my previous post. Here is more from Hugh Nibley, who has read a ton of apocryphal literature, taken a lot of notes and sharing some of that in the book, “Temple and Cosmos”. There is the doctrine of the “Sent One” – somebody who is sent. Recently, a great deal of…
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“if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”
Today is Palm Sunday. As I read the relevant passage from the Gospel of Luke recounting Jesus’ triumphal return to Jerusalem, this part really caught my attention: 37 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud…
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"An instrument in the hands of God"
This is a short follow-up note on my series of posts on the phrase “stretch forth thine hand” (which begins here). One main lesson from that study was that prophets are messengers from God calling a covenant people to repent. As we learned from the account of Enoch (discussed in part 4), Enoch feels the…
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Hearing, Seeing, Smelling, and Speaking the Word of God
In this post I’m going to introduce a concept from a fascinating presentation given by John Thompson, PhD, as part of the Interpreter Foundation 2021 Egypt Lecture Series. I’ll have more to say in future posts on this presentation, but this post will focus on a one-minute segment dealing with ancient Egyptian anointing rituals. Here…
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New creation in the image and likeness of God
Lord Wilmore has written several posts lately on the new creation and spiritual rebirth. He has demonstrated that this is an ancient teaching that goes all the way back to Adam. This was in the back of my mind when I read the creation account in Genesis recently. The following passage is very well known…
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Examples of thematic repetition in Mosiah — part 2
My last post introduced the purpose of this series on examples of thematic repetition in the Book of Mormon. Please read that post first before reading this one. Example #2 — The type and shadow of things to come Our next example teaches an extremely important lesson in a subtle way. This is accomplished through…
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"The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God … neither can he know them"
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with…
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Noah, the ark, and "rest" — part 4 ('Tevah' and 'the word')
This post continues a series of posts connecting Noah, his ark, Enoch, his city, and the “rest” we find as we enter into the everlasting covenant. In this post, I’ll lay out the case connecting Noah’s ark to ‘the word’ of God, which is an expansive concept Stisa and I have both discussed many times…
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"Striving" in the Book of Mormon, part 1
\”Striving\” is an interesting, somewhat antiquated word. A family member brought it to my attention in the scriptures, wondering what it meant, and now, a few weeks later, I\’m prepared to offer a review of how it is used in the scriptures and what I believe the word means. This post will be the first…
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