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[00:00:00] 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, here with my friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer.
[00:00:27] Speaker B: What’s up?
[00:00:28] Speaker A: In this episode, we will be talking about the connection between Mormon and Joseph Smith. Then we will explore the takeaways from the time between Joseph’s first and second visions. And we will wrap up talking about the significance of Elijah coming before the great and terrible day of the Lord.
So let’s get rolling.
Joseph Smith. It is interesting that the author of the Book of Mormon, I mean, it is named after him. Mormon and Joseph Smith’s life have so much in common. And as I look at these two prophets, I can’t help but think of like a book. When you’re reading a book and you kind of leave off and set it down for a while and you go back to read the book and you go to where you think you left off and you start reading and you might forget, like, what was it talking about? Or where were we going with this? And you have to almost kind of go back and read the last page again and then you get your flow and you start moving back into the new content. It’s almost like that’s what Joseph Smith is for the Book of Mormon, because when you look at his life, it’s like a repeat of Mormon’s life. Does that make sense?
[00:01:31] Speaker B: A little bit.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
Let’s see if we can dive into some of the scriptures a little bit and draw that comparison out.
So in Mormon 1. 5, Mormon tells us, kind of on a side note, by the way, my dad’s name was Mormon too. And it doesn’t seem like it’s important or critical to the setting or anything that’s going on. We don’t know anything about his dad, any of the stories there. And we got to remember that he’s engraving these things on plates, yet he makes important note saying, hey, I was also named after my dad. Something that Joseph Smith has in common, obviously, his dad being named Joseph Smith as well afterwards Mormon when he was young, about 11 years old, he’s carried to the land southward. He’s carried to Zarahembla, which is described as the land southward. Joseph Smith is also, at the age of 11 years old, relocated to Palmyra after his farm didn’t do so well. And this was a few years after he had the crippling leg surgery where he wasn’t well enough to Walk on his own power. He had to kind of ride in the wagon or be carried or limp around. Just as Mormon references, that he was carried into a land southward as well, and Palmyra was south from where the Smiths were located.
Both men have been described as being large of stature. Joseph Smith was described as being large, standing a little over 6ft high, about 200, 210 pounds.
Mormon was described as a large man. He commanded armies at an early age. Joseph Smith was head of the Mormon Battalion and commanded armies as well. And Mormon describes a war that takes place on the waters between the Nephites and the Lamanites that takes place on the seashore next to the waters. And a little bit of history at the same time. Joseph Smith, growing up, we had a little war of the War of 1812.
And what a lot of people might not realize, you know the story of the national Anthem with Francis Scott Key.
Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker B: Where they. That was at a fort, not Sumner. What fort was it at Fort Shoot.
[00:03:35] Speaker A: I’m not sure.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: All right, well, is it a fort? It was definitely a fort in Baltimore, though, right?
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Okay. I at least knew the city it was in.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: Yeah. And he’s out of the. You know, he’s out in the waters watching the fort and watching the fl...
