This episode focuses on the experience of Enos. Our defining moments and relationship with God is unique.
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[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the add on Education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, and as you can tell by the intro music, we are back in the studio.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: The intro music. We’re back, baby.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: We’re back with our friend in this show’s producer, Nate Pfeiffer.
[00:00:36] Speaker B: I’m back, baby.
[00:00:38] Speaker A: How was California?
[00:00:39] Speaker B: Great. Got a lot of work done.
[00:00:41] Speaker A: Good.
[00:00:42] Speaker B: It’s a fun, you know, it’s a fun thing for the most part.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: Well, it’s good. It’s good to get work done. It’s good to be back. It’s good to be recording another session, another episode of the weekly Deep Dive.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: You know it.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: These are the infamous, famous. I don’t know infamous.
The small books that kind of get squished in there that probably cover more history than the rest of the book of Mormon combined.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Oh, interesting, right?
[00:01:11] Speaker A: We’re covering about 400 years of history in just a few.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: In a few pages.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: A few pages.
I kind of like it because I think.
I think from a literary standpoint, it shows the fall of the people.
You have Jacob, which is a hard hitter, and this is our first time out of the book of Jacob. If I could just say this, if there is one prophet I wish we had more writings from, it was Jacob.
The way that Guy understood Isaiah, the way he took the writings, the scriptures, and made them come to life and understood different aspects of his life and understood the death and resurrection. I feel like that guy had a really good grasp on understanding the scriptures and could explain them really well. And I feel like he is the one that we just don’t get enough from me personally.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: But then we go to his son, Enos, which I also feel is kind of a heavy hitter. I love the words of Enos, and I feel like Enos is kind of the king of this group, I guess, as you just start going through here. But it almost feels like a descent because you go from Enos, who writes a lot, to Jerim. Well, a lot, relatively speaking, compared to whoever’s following. Right. And then Jerim and then Omni, and then just writing less and less. Like I’ve got nothing useful to say until outright they’re like, well, I was kind of a wicked man.
And you just get to like these little one liners done, and that’s it. Right. It just feels like, as these writers go, so goes the people. It’s kind of an interesting literary technique. If you will, like you see how they’re writing less and they’re less involved, and yet the people seem to be dwindling as well, just as the words of these leaders are dwindling, for what it’s worth.
But before we dive in too much, I mean, we’re coming off general conference and we’re finishing off. Jacob, did you have anything you wanted to add? I know last week I spent my whole time swimming in the allegory of the olive tree. Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Great. I actually haven’t been able to go back and listen to it yet, but I’m sure it’s awesome. I’m excited to go check it out.
I did want to just maybe briefly shout out Sister Dennis with a fantastic talk in general conference.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: I loved her talk, and I loved what she said about clothing and atonement, Adam and Eve, but go on.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: I also love what she said about the sacrament where we again put on Chris...
