Who was this woman Asenath (Genesis 41.45) What did she represent? And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt. Hugh Nibley had this to say about her: TheContinue Reading

D&C 133.3 Make bare his holy arm – Isaiah 52.10 D&C 133 quotes a great passage of Isaiah from the very start: The Lord shall suddenly come to his temple… for he shall make bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends ofContinue Reading

D&C 125 – March 1841, Nauvoo, Illinois Historical Background The following is offered by Steven Harper: From the confines of a jail cell in Liberty, Missouri, Joseph wrote to Bishop Partridge in Illinois that the Saints could buy land in Iowa Territory for $2 per acre over twenty years withContinue Reading

D&C 94 Historical background May 6- August 6 1833 In December 1832 (see D&C 88:119) and again in March 1833 (see D&C 90:7–9), the Saints in Ohio were commanded to build a temple at Kirtland. On 23 March 1833, a conference of Church leaders met in the schoolroom above theContinue Reading

Anciently the Sacrament was a meal. These meals took place in what are commonly called “house churches.” (You might even call it a home-centered church). The early Christian community started as a house church, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship… They broke bread in theirContinue Reading

Micah 3.6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. What is this verse talking about? Context: ThisContinue Reading

Joseph Describes Spiritual Sight How could Joseph have had this vision of Moroni as he was in a room with his siblings at the time? Perhaps we are looking at this from a Western mindset and need to ask a different question. What kind of vision was this? What doContinue Reading