Temple Themes

The word father (or fathers) appears 17 times in Abraham 1. This would certainly qualify as a Leitwort or theme word in these early chapters in the Book of Abraham. Abraham’s name means “father of a multitude,” so we shouldn’t be surprised at the recurrence of this word. Abraham 1:2 states:   “And, finding there […]

Like many of the crossroads of life, there’s a right way and a wrong way. The Tower of Babel story provides a stark contrast to a Book of Mormon event. The Babel (or Babylon) story centers around an attempt to bypass the covenant path. It’s an attempt at re-creation without the aid of the Creator.

We have this odd story in Genesis 9:20-24 about Noah planting a vineyard, getting drunk, and being “naked” inside his tent. But did it really happen that way? Joseph Smith taught that Noah stands next in authority to Adam in the priesthood. He is identified by latter-day revelation as Gabriel. As Gabriel he appeared to

The Ark gets finished and the eight souls get aboard—Noah, his three sons, and their wives. This number eight is associated with baptism in 1 Peter 3:20 since “eight souls were saved by water.” The number eight symbolizes renewal or a new beginning. There are many examples of this—eight years for Lehi and his family

We have a lot to unpack with the temple and Come Follow Me this week, so let’s get started with Noah, who is the perfect transition from Enoch. Enoch and his people “walked with God” and so did Noah (Moses 7:69; Genesis 6:9). This introduces a popular temple theme of walking with God. Looking at

In Moses chapter 7, Enoch has had his eyes washed and anointed (Moses 6:35), and now he is “clothed upon with glory” (Moses 7:3). In a temple-like experience on Mount Simeon, he has the heavens opened unto him and is able to have a dialogue with the Lord “face to face.” The name Simeon means

I’m so excited to do this post about one of my top ten favorite scriptures! The verses are Moses 6:59-60:   “That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so

A great blessing of Restoration scripture is the restoration of lost accounts from the Bible. Such is the case of Enoch, a character who fascinates Bible scholars. There are three Books of Enoch in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (this is a collection of writings similar to the Apocrypha—see D&C Section 91). Some critics have accused

While working on my last post, I noticed the Hebrew words for skin and light are both transliterated into the same letters owr, and they are pronounced the same, so I googled it to see what the difference was. This is the AI explanation:   The difference between the Hebrew words for skin and light

After Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit, they become aware of their nakedness, a condition which becomes a major theme in scripture. The Book of Mormon prophet, Jacob, speaks of a future day when “we shall have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt, and our uncleanness, and our nakedness; and the