“The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers”
In this episode, we will be talking about the connection between Mormon and Joseph Smith, we explore the takeaways from the time between Joseph’s first and second visions and we finish by talking about the significance of Elijah coming before the great and terrible day of the Lord.
Transcript:
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign.
Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add On Education Network. The podcast where we explore the weekly Come Follow Me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here with my friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pifer.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: What is up?
[00:00:31] Speaker A: All right, so last week we talked Doctrine and Covenants Section 1. But this week in our Come Follow Me, we are actually taking a little diversion away from Doctrine and Covenants to look at the first vision and Joseph Smith history, but just the first 26 verses.
So in this podcast, at least this episode, we are going to look at the context of the Restoration, first from a biblical parable, then from setting the stage, kind of the world getting ready for the restoration. We’re going to talk about the Smith family, give some context that way, and then some context to what was going on in America. Talk about sacred groves and what we learned from Joseph Smith’s preparation and the process itself of the first vision.
So to kick us off, Nate, I really wanted to. I really wanted to look at a parable I think we’re all very familiar with, but with a different perspective on it. And the parable I’m talking about is the parable of the ten virgins. And a lot of times we think of the parable of the 10 virgins as some future date when Christ comes to his church and the wedding feast and who’s going to be invited there. And we look at these virgins of members of the church where half of the people are prepared and ready with the oil in their lamps. But this time I want to look at it in a little different light, as in context to before Joseph Smith’s first vision.
So we understand the groom to be Christ, and we talk about Christ coming as the groom, but I don’t think we talk a lot about the bride.
And we look at the Old Testament and you have your favorite book, Song of Solomon.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: My favorite book. That and the cubits, baby.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: There we go.
This whole idea of this intimate relationship between Christ as his church, it plays out in several different places. We don’t just see it there. We see it in the book of Hosea, this idea of the Lord and the church being a wife and when she goes to apostasy, an unfaithful wife versus when the Lord is going to redeem and the restoration bring her back and marry her again. We have Ephesians 5, when Paul is talking about a marriage and how a man should love his wife and be willing to give his life to her, just as Christ loved the church and gave his life to the church to protect her. And it describes that intimate relationship between man and wife. And 2nd Corinthians 11, we also see a little bit about this. But, you know, to sum it up, the point of it is the church is Christ’s wife and he is the groom, and they’re going to get married. And at this point of time in the restoration, they’ve been estranged. The church has fallen away from Christ. They haven’t been worshiping Christ. You read about this in the Book of Hosea. It’s been prophesied. We talk about the time when the church has strayed from the ordinances. They haven’t kept his commandments, they’ve changed the doctrine. And now when the church is ready to be married to Christ, it’s the restoration of the gospel, when Christ is going to reunify this church.
So we talk about the virgins now, and I think the virgins, all of Christianity, this idea of a virgin is someone who’s only faithful to one person....
