Midterm 2 Flashcards
Jacob 1
The people began to indulge themselves in pride and sexual sin
Jacob takes Nephis place as spiritual leader
Jacob gathered everyone to the temple, after ‘obtaining his errand from the lord’
Jacob 2
Pride and Sexual sin
-‘one being is as precious in God’s sight as another’
‘before you seek for riches, seek ye for the kingdom of God’
Holland quote on sexuality
“The body is an essential part of the soul…In exploiting the body of another-which means exploiting his or her soul-one desecrates the Atonement of Christ, which saved that soul.”
Jacob 3
Lamanite skin; doesn’t mean black skin is evil, in fact racism is for pigs. just no
Jacob speaks like lehi, ‘shake yourselves that ye may awake from the slumber of death’
Jacob 4
The story of Abraham and Isaac is a similitude of God and his only begotten son
be reconciled to God through the atonement of Christ
Jacob 5 summery
allegory of the olive tree-heavenly father grieves when he loses his children
allegory is a declaration of divine love-holland
Zenos, appeared here not in OT
Jacob 5 1-14
Israel falls into apostasy
‘take away many of the young tender branches’
‘graft’ in the branches of the wild olive tree’
Jacob 5 15-28
scattering of israel
‘wild olive branches begin to bear fruit’
you can overcome ‘poor soil’
25- branch planted in ‘good spot of ground’/ ‘part of tree’ is good, ‘other part of the tree’ wild
jacob 5 29-51
Great apostasy
30- ‘all sorts of fruits’ ‘none which is good’ no church on earth can provide ‘eternal life’
44- nephites came after jaredites had been destroyed
49-50- justice; burn it/ mercy; spare it longer
Jacob 5 52-77
Restoration/ Gathering
take the scattered branches back to ‘whence they came’
61 ‘go to and call servants’ 70 ‘they were few’
72 lord labors with them
Bednar on Jacob 5
“We were foreordained in the premortal existence and born into mortality to fulfill the covenant and promise God made to Abraham.”
ETB on Jacob 5
“For nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance in the final days before the Second Coming of the Lord… All through the ages the prophets have looked down through the corridors of the time of day.”
Jacob 6
How blessed are they who have labored diligently in his vineyard.
Jacob 7
Jacob v Sherem
‘he had hope to shake me from the faith’ ‘i could not be shaken’
sherem
-labored diligently, used his education and ‘his perfect knowledge of language’ to flatter
- there should be no christ; no man can tell of things to come
ETB quote Jacob 7
”The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ… It fortifies the humble followers of Christ against the evil designs, strategies, and doctrines of the devil in our day… God, with his infinite foreknowledge, so molded the Book of Mormon that we might know how to combat false educational, political, religious, and philosophical concepts of our time.”
Enos
My soul hungered, my soul did rest