{"id":34615,"date":"2015-12-30T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T08:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=34615"},"modified":"2015-12-28T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:41:51","slug":"reading-nephi-1011-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/reading-nephi-1011-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Nephi – 10:11-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"068-068-the-liahona-full\"<\/a>At the end of this section Nephi notes that there were many<\/em> other prophecies of Lehi, and many of those prophecies Nephi wrote in his other plates. Here he\u2019s only written what he thought appropriate. Well then, what has he written? Out of many prophecies, what does Nephi consider worth including? Two main things. First, he\u2019s copied over Lehi\u2019s messianism and re-interpreted that messianism for his reader. Second he\u2019s laid a foundation for one of the major themes of the entire Book of Mormon: this notion of scattering and gathering, which he\u2019ll take back up when relaying his own vision in a few chapters, and which gets repeated throughout the rest of the record.<\/p>\n

With this latter, there\u2019s something else that\u2019s interesting. Lehi isn\u2019t just prophesying for his posterity, he\u2019s given them a way of understanding and affirming the wrenching experience that they\u2019ve undergone by situating their personal experience within a much grander, holy narrative. It\u2019s necessary that branches be broken off and scattered\u2014this is God\u2019s plan. (Note that Jacob later picks up on this and attributes it to Zenos\u2019s allegory of the olive grove\u2014this scattering and gathering contributes to the health of the whole grove and significantly increases the harvest. Perhaps Jacob was also relaying the teachings of Lehi.) Consequently, Lehi\u2019s family is blessed, honored, or at least undeniably part of an ultimately meaningful and divine narrative; and both Lehi and Nephi felt it imperative that their posterity understand this fact. We can read in this the element of \u201chere, this helps me to understand my own present struggles by situating them in a larger context.\u201d We can also see it as revealing a new way to experience life generally, a method of diminishing the individual and the significance of individual suffering. Or perhaps it would be better put as a method of elevating the individual and her suffering by making it an inextricable part in a greater whole<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lehi gives us a different ethic, and one that while still powerful today, receives much less attention, let alone grip on our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the end of this section Nephi notes that there were many other prophecies of Lehi, and many of those prophecies Nephi wrote in his other plates. Here he\u2019s only written what he thought appropriate. Well then, what has he written? Out of many prophecies, what does Nephi consider worth including? Two main things. First, he\u2019s copied over Lehi\u2019s messianism and re-interpreted that messianism for his reader. Second he\u2019s laid a foundation for one of the major themes of the entire Book of Mormon: this notion of scattering and gathering, which he\u2019ll take back up when relaying his own vision in a few chapters, and which gets repeated throughout the rest of the record. With this latter, there\u2019s something else that\u2019s interesting. Lehi isn\u2019t just prophesying for his posterity, he\u2019s given them a way of understanding and affirming the wrenching experience that they\u2019ve undergone by situating their personal experience within a much grander, holy narrative. It\u2019s necessary that branches be broken off and scattered\u2014this is God\u2019s plan. (Note that Jacob later picks up on this and attributes it to Zenos\u2019s allegory of the olive grove\u2014this scattering and gathering contributes to the health of the whole grove and significantly increases the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34616,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34615\/revisions\/34616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}