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* ''Turned their hearts away from me.'' Notice Joseph Smith is told something similar in [[JS-H 1:19]]. Christ also accused the Pharisees of the same thing in [[Matt 15:7]]-9. | * ''Turned their hearts away from me.'' Notice Joseph Smith is told something similar in [[JS-H 1:19]]. Christ also accused the Pharisees of the same thing in [[Matt 15:7]]-9. | ||
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== Exegesis == | == Exegesis == | ||
===Verse 19: As it was with Noah=== | ===Verse 19: As it was with Noah=== | ||
| + | [[Moses 8:19]] describes Noah getting the Priesthood. | ||
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There is some affinity between the characters of Abraham and Noah. Noah was a prophet fighting the tide of the world who was given the promise that his seed would continue beyond the flood such that today, all men can be said to be children of Noah. Similarly, Abraham fought the tide of wickedness in his day and has been given similar promises and it is through him that the Priesthood and the Gospel survived the flood of wickedness in his day such that all of us who have been blessed to receive any of the ordinances of the gospel can say that we received it through Abraham and we are his children. Also, it is Abraham that will be permitted to have his children survive the burning of the second coming. | There is some affinity between the characters of Abraham and Noah. Noah was a prophet fighting the tide of the world who was given the promise that his seed would continue beyond the flood such that today, all men can be said to be children of Noah. Similarly, Abraham fought the tide of wickedness in his day and has been given similar promises and it is through him that the Priesthood and the Gospel survived the flood of wickedness in his day such that all of us who have been blessed to receive any of the ordinances of the gospel can say that we received it through Abraham and we are his children. Also, it is Abraham that will be permitted to have his children survive the burning of the second coming. | ||
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Verse 17
- Turned their hearts away from me. Notice Joseph Smith is told something similar in JS-H 1:19. Christ also accused the Pharisees of the same thing in Matt 15:7-9.
Exegesis
Verse 19: As it was with Noah
Moses 8:19 describes Noah getting the Priesthood.
There is some affinity between the characters of Abraham and Noah. Noah was a prophet fighting the tide of the world who was given the promise that his seed would continue beyond the flood such that today, all men can be said to be children of Noah. Similarly, Abraham fought the tide of wickedness in his day and has been given similar promises and it is through him that the Priesthood and the Gospel survived the flood of wickedness in his day such that all of us who have been blessed to receive any of the ordinances of the gospel can say that we received it through Abraham and we are his children. Also, it is Abraham that will be permitted to have his children survive the burning of the second coming.
Another affinity exists in the figure of Enoch, who established a Zion city at the time of Noah and then left, leaving Noah to continue the work of God on the Earth. At the time of Abraham, there was Melchizedek, who, in the JST for Genesis 14: 25-40, is said to have established a city (Salem) similar to the one Enoch established. It is also said that his people "sought for the city of Enoch". We do not however learn any more of this city or its people, which for all intents and purposes seems to have disappeared from off the face of the earth.
In effect, Noah and Enoch were both prophets who were given something of a special mission to stay behind and carry on an earthly ministry; that is, to preserve the priesthood and kingdom of God on the earth while the main body of the church all but disappeared.
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