Transcript:
[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add On Education Network. The podcast where we explore the weekly come follow me discussions and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, and here in the studio with me is my friend and producer, Nate Pyfer.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: What is up?
[00:00:31] Speaker A: Hey.
In this episode, we are going to be talking about how the works of God and his designs cannot be frustrated. There is also a lot to learn from the lost 116 pages of the Book of Mormon. We are going to look at some of the context to what was going on in Joseph Smith’s life at this time. Then we will take a quick peek at Doctrine and Covenants section four before we move on to the council that God gave to Joseph Smith and Martin Harris in Doctrine and Covenants section five. So sit back, enjoy. And here we go.
To begin, let me just open up the scriptures real quick so I can read it.
You can probably just edit that little snippet out.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: Or maybe I won’t. Maybe we’ll all wait uncomfortably for you to do this.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: Probably.
Okay. Doctrine and Covenant is section 3, verse 1. The works and designs and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated. Neither can they come to naught. And I think that’s a very comforting statement, but it’s a very cool statement. And what it reminds me of is JRR Tolkien when he wrote the Silmarillion. It’s a story. I don’t know if you’re into Tolkien or not, or followed much of his works, but this one is the creation account of how Middle Earth came to be. And so you’ve got your gods sitting here. You, your Aener is what they’re called. And the lead God here cues him up on a song like a choir director. And they’re all singing, and as they’re singing, it’s the creation taking place. And the most powerful of them, his name is Melkor and he’s a little bit discontent here. So every now and again he weaves in this. And you should appreciate this, Nate, coming from your music background.
[00:02:14] Speaker B: I’m ready.
[00:02:16] Speaker A: He brings in this discord is what they call it, where he tries to start singing a different song to just be a little bit rebellious encounter. And he starts singing it loud to the point where the other ones singing next to him start tuning into his song. And then the lead God’s kind of got to get him back on track and he changes the tune up a little bit and brings them all back together. And you’ve got this back and forth play almost kind of this Good and evil. And when the song is all finished, the head God pulls them all together and says, okay, I want to show you what you created in music. And he shows them the creation of the world. And he says, even when you try to frustrate me, when Melkor, the most powerful of all of you, tries to frustrate me by singing in the discord or adding in these bad notes or these bad tunes, trying to ruin the song, all he did was glorify my work even more. And he shows him the discord that Melkor was singing in there brought about the cold and the frigid temperatures, and yet God changed the tune and brought about the snowflake and the beauty that comes with the snow.
This kind of back and forth play goes out. I won’t tell you the whole story, but just showing you that even when Satan or evil or whatever the case may be is trying to frustrate the work of God, really all it does is play out to magnify or glorify it.
Go ahead.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: I never read any of that stuff.
[00:03:49] Speaker A: It’s an interesting read. I’m kind of excited to see the. You saw Amazon dropped a billion dollars on a new Lord of the Rings series. TV series.
[00:03:58] Speaker B: I just actually finished watching the Hobbit movies. Not the cool cartoon ones from when we were kids, but like the really terrible ones from when we were adults.
