Jacob teaching from Isaiah. Destruction and restoration. Darkness and hope. Death and resurrection. Two doors into the great and abominable church and walking the straight and narrow between them.
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[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add add on Education Network podcast, where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussions and try to add a little insight, unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here in the studio with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer.
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[00:01:08] Speaker A: Fantastic. So tonight we get to talk about second Nephi chapter six through ten.
And before we dive into six through ten, just a few things I wanted to button up from last week, just touch real light. We were talking about the prophecies of Joseph, and as you recall last week, we said that Lehi was applying that to his day. And as obvious as it was that they were talking about Joseph Smith, I missed some connections with Nephi. Being a seer who created a book that was of great worth to the sons of Joseph and helping them, I just wanted to make sure I was clear on, I’m not saying that it didn’t apply to Joseph Smith. Also, right as we read in verse 15 of that chapter, it says that the seer was going to be called Joseph after his father’s name, Joseph Smith Sr. Right. So it definitely still does apply to Joseph Smith. It’s just, I think Lehigh was taking that and making direct reference to something that was pertinent to them as well. And it’s fascinating. It is one of the points we wanted to make last week. It’s fascinating how much revelation is recycled or stories, inspiration. What we see in Moses plays out again with Jonas, with Christ, with Joseph Smith, with Nephi in this case. And we see a lot of these.
And one point I like to make is anyone can write poetry in a book, but for somebody to write poetry in history, to have these events, these recurring themes play out in the lives of real people over thousands of years, I think only God has that ability, that talent, that foresight. And it’s kind of like his testimony to seal all of that together is what I appreciate out of that.
Another thing, we talked about Sam and his lack of reference in there, and I speculated that it was because he’s being counted with Nephi. In fact, it says that Sam and his seed will be numbered with Nephi’s seed. And we don’t see any Samites in there. What I don’t think I made super clear is we were talking about this last week. If you go and you read deuteronomy, chapter 21, it’s the law of the firstborn. And in there, it gets kind of interesting. It says, if you even have multiple wives, and let’s say you have a favorite wife, and her firstborn son is not the first born son, but a wife that maybe you like a little bit less, her son was born first. You have to choose the one that was actually born first, not another one, even if you favor that wife more. That is kind of weird. They even go into all those details. But anyways, to make a long point, short, what they say is, in order to show that they’re the firstborn, you’re supposed to endow them with a double portion.
And the reason behind the double portion is this. The eldest son was responsible for all of the unwed daughters of the father. So, after the father passes away, the first born son receives an extra. A double portion to take car...
