Finding Patterns in God’s Word
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Preface
Acknowledgements I’d like to thank my amazing parents and teachers who saw me through my first few chapters of the Book of Mormon, my friends who saved me during my rebellious years, and my mission president and companions who deepened my conversion. Additionally, I am most grateful for my own family, who have seen me…
Chapter 1
Overview “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6) What if the timeline of the Book of Mormon in its entirety, from start to finish, all 1000 years of history, was both precisely orchestrated by a loving Father in Heaven and painstakingly compiled…
Chapter 2
Part 1 – The First Estate/Transition Chapter 2 1 Nephi 1 – Premortality Abraham 3:22 Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; Nephite Timeline We start out the Book of Mormon in…
Chapter 3
1 Nephi 2-17 – Conception to Birth 1 Nephi 2:15 And my father dwelt in a tent. Nephite timeline The time has come for Lehi and company to leave their homeland, the only place they have ever known, their comfortable security is about to be replaced with the harsh realities of desert nomadic life. You…
Chapter 4, Part 2
Chapter 4 1 Nephi 17-18 – First 8 years of Unaccountability JST, Genesis 17:11 “…thou mayest know forever that children are not accountable before me until they are eight years old.” Nephite Timeline Lehi’s band of weary travelers have finally made it through the Arabian peninsula, down their respective wadi, and have entered into a…
Chapter 5
1 Nephi 18 – Baptism Mosiah 18:10 “Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments,…
Chapter 6
1 Nephi 18-22, 2 Nephi 1-4 – Covenantal Church Service Moroni 6:4 “And after they had been received unto baptism, and were wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost, they were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be remembered and…
Chapter 7
2 Nephi 5-10 – Early School Years Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Nephite Timeline Lehi, the great patriarch, has passed, and now left unchecked, the murderous disposition of Laman and Lemuel towards their younger brother is intensifying. …
Chapter 8
2 Nephi 11-26 – Advancing School Years D&C 109:7 “…seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom, seek learning even by study and also by faith” Nephite Timeline The following chapters are entirely doctrinal, which makes it difficult for a book that focuses almost entirely on people, places, and events to glean symbolic…
Chapter 9
Chapter 9 2 Nephi 27-33, Jacob, Mosiah 1-6 – Final Fatherly Counsel 1 Nephi 8:37 “And he did exhort them then with all the feeling of a tender parent, that they would hearken to his words” Nephite Timeline Nephi has finished teaching from Isaiah and has some final words of both warning, instruction, and exhortation…
Chapter 10
Omni – Leaving Home, Starting the Path Alone Omni 1:13 “And it came to pass that he did according as the Lord had commanded him. And they departed out of the land into the wilderness, as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord” Nephite Timeline Scripturally speaking, after Jacob (other than the…
Chapter 11
Mosiah 7-25 – Sub-stories – Non-Traditional Routes D&C 128:22 “Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!” Nephite Timeline The Nephites have left the Land of Nephi to the Lamanites and moved North, to the Land of Zarahemla, and…
Chapter 12
Mosiah 26-27 – Rebellious Years Mosiah 3:19 “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ…
Chapter 13
Enos, Mosiah 27 – Pre-mission Conversion Ezekiel 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: Nephite Timeline We left off the Nephite narrative with Alma the Younger…
Chapter 14
Mosiah 28-Alma 42– Mission Nephite Timeline Individual Timeline Global Timeline Missionary efforts of the Church Personal Timeline
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