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 meContinue reading “Preface”
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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 compiledContinue reading “Chapter 1”
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 inContinue reading “Chapter 2”
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. YouContinue reading “Chapter 3”
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 aContinue reading “Chapter 4, Part 2”
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,Continue reading “Chapter 5”
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 andContinue reading “Chapter 6”
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. Continue reading “Chapter 7”
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 symbolicContinue reading “Chapter 8”
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 exhortationContinue reading “Chapter 9”
The Way 