These chapters are an excellent illustration of how to raise a righteous family in the midst of great spiritual wickedness. Mormon is an excellent model of how to do this. Bryce lays out the argument in our podcast that Mormon probably was working on his editing and constructing of theContinue Reading

3 Nephi 20 These chapters (3 Nephi 20-26) is the story of the victory of Zion at the end of the world. This is one of the places where Jesus shares his favorite story. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland put it this way: In fact, I have a theory about thoseContinue Reading

The Amulonites are descendants of the wicked priests of King Noah as discussed in Mosiah 19.10-12. These wicked priests, in about 142 B.C., kidnap the daughters of the Lamanites and create new families. Sometime between 142-122 B.C. these families are integrated into Lamanite society, and Mormon emphasized that these AmulonitesContinue Reading

Isaiah’s last two chapters make up a set of prophecies that are complementary to the first two chapters of Isaiah, making these four chapters very much like bookends to his works. Isaiah 65 and 66 reinforce each other as they speak of the forthcoming of the Lord’s judgment (65.1-16 andContinue Reading

All of the anti-Christs in the Book of Mormon have essentially the same goal: to get their listeners to not believe in Jesus Christ and get them off the path that leads back to God. Despite this, they certainly would not get along with each other if gathered in theContinue Reading

The Tree of Life vision is a lens through which Nephi’s visions are seen in the chapters of 1 Nephi 11-14. Once Nephi sees the tree, he realizes that this is the only thing that will make us happy. Every thing else is just an imitation. Some important things toContinue Reading

The books of Jarom and Omni show us many things. One of the first messages we read in these books is that the Small Plates of Nephi were running out of space! Jarom writes, “I Jarom, do not write more, for the plates are small…” (Jarom 1:14) and Amaleki tellsContinue Reading

The following chart helps students to see how Nephi addressed these three groups of people in his vision: The Jews, the Nephites, and the Gentiles. We see this theme throughout the text of 1st and 2nd Nephi. 1 Nephi 11-14 are an illustration of how different groups of people respondContinue Reading

From Lawrence Mykytiuk’s BAR article identifying real New Testament political figuresLawrence Mykytiuk   •  01/10/2019 As found on Bible History Daily In “New Testament Political Figures Confirmed” in the September/October 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Purdue University scholar Lawrence Mykytiuk examines the political figures in the New Testament who can beContinue Reading