Enos-Words Of Mormon
It is the end of the small plates… Did Nephi, Mormon, or Joseph Smith know why they should add the small plates? Maybe probably not. Not until the Restoration came to past and the 116 pages where lost. What does this mean for you? With the choices placed before you would you choose to follow God? He has many things intended for you, you too can be ready like Nephi and Mormon and push forward the kingdom of God.
Time Line of the Publishing of the Book of Mormon. We get to see the plan of God.
Summer of 1828 D&C 3:1 The works, and the designs, and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught.
Summer of 1829 D&C 10:5-15 The plot was revealed about the 116 lost pages.
v30 God has had a different plan all along.
v33 Overpower the testimony of Joseph Smith
v38-40 plates of Nephi is more particular concerning the things which, in my wisdom,
vs 43 I will not suffer that they shall destroy my awork; yea, I will show unto them that my bwisdom is greater than the cunning of the devil.
Small Plates
What does the Lord see in them?
v40 more particular
v45 do throw greater views upon my gospel
v46 all those parts of my agospel which my holy prophets, yea, and also my disciples, bdesired in their prayers should come forth unto this people.
The translation and publication of the Book of Mormon immediately preceded the organization of the Church in the spring of 1830.
Wrestle With God
Enos himself follows Nephi with the good puns. This time though on the name of his father, Nephi means “good” in Egyptian 1 Nephi 1:1“Being born of goodly parents” Enos does the same with his dads name “He was a just man” just man or righteous man (הוא היה איש צדיק) meaning Jacob. Was this is father or is patriarch father he was talking about?
I think in Genesis 32 we get Jacob who also wrestled with God (Genesis 32:24), before meeting Esau. Hence with him also using the world wrestle links his patriarch father Jacob to the patriarch.
The wrestle.
Hugh Nibley had said ““wrestled” might equally mean “embraced.”
This embrace of Enos and God can be compared to also the embrace of Jacob and his brother Esau
Jacob prayed cause he was so concerned what Esau would do.“*bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.”
When Esau came “Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.” and forgetting any “heel-grabber” or “usurper” from Jacob.
Enos to plays on the struggle and he to became his own Israel “struggled with God and prevailed” made covenants with God.
Jeffery R Holland Motions of a Hidden Fire
If we “ask not amiss,”4 there are no limits to when, where, or about what we should pray. According to the revelations, we are to “pray always.”5 We are to pray, Amulek said, for “those who are around you,”6 with the belief that the “fervent prayer of a righteous [people] availeth much.”7 Our prayers ought to be vocal when we have the privacy to so offer them.8 If that is not practical, they should be carried as silent utterances in our heart.9 We sing that prayers are “motion[s] of a hidden fire,”10 always to be offered, according to the Savior Himself, to God the Eternal Father in the name of His Only Begotten Son.11
My beloved friends, our prayers are our sweetest hour,12 our most “sincere desire,”13 our simplest, purest form of worship. We should pray individually, in our families, and in congregations of all sizes.15 We are to employ prayer as a shield against temptation,
Prayer
2 Nephi 4:35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen.
Luke 22;41 Jesus prayer, …kneeled down, and prayed, 42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Joseph Smith 1st prayer. The restoration started with a prayer
Preserving The Records
Enos 1:13-16 the preservation of the records. This is super important. Now we draw a close to the small plates since they where full we see that in v14. that Enos knew that Lamanites wanted to destroy the records which was the most important v13 “Lord God would preserve a record of my people, the Nephites” This preservation's changed nations.
Omni1:12 Mosiah that was warned to leave Nephi and then happened to come to Zarahelma where he was then made king v19.
They where called the Zarahemla (the people)- they To came out of Jerusalem omni v15.
They rejoiced why? These people became lost with no record from there forefathers, they also lost there language (v17). But Mosiah had the plates of brass which kept there linage and the language which shows you how important it was for Nephi to go back and get the brass plates. Again God knows what needs to happen are we willing to let him guide us, “Never the less Lord let they will be done”?
v26 “declare the word according to the truth which is in Christ. And I have declared it in all my days, and have rejoiced in it above that of the world. “
v27. “ Mansions of my Father” - Plan of Salvation taught end of translations of the Book of Mormon. Jarom 1:2 For have not my father revealed the plan of salvation?
The Power of Prayer
D&C 10: 48-52
48 Yea, and this was their faith—that my gospel, which I gave unto them that they might preach in their days, might come unto their brethren the aLamanites, and also all that had become Lamanites because of their dissensions.
49 Now, this is not all—their faith in their prayers was that this gospel should be made known also, if it were possible that other nations should possess this land;
50 And thus they did leave a blessing upon this land in their prayers, that whosoever should believe in this agospel in this land might have eternal life;
51 Yea, that it might be afree unto all of whatsoever nation, kindred, tongue, or people they may be.
52 And now, behold, according to their faith in their prayers will I bring this part of my gospel to the knowledge of my people. Behold, I do not bring it to adestroy that which they have received, but to build it up.
Brothers and sisters, I testify that God hears every prayer we offer and responds to each of them according to the path He has outlined for our perfection.
We need to believe in angels and miracles and the promises of the holy priesthood. We need to believe in the gift of the Holy Ghost, the influence of good families and friends, and the power of the pure love of Christ. We need to believe in revelation and prophets, seers, and revelators and President Russell M. Nelson. We need to believe that with prayer and pleading and personal righteousness, we really can ascend to “Mount Zion, … the city of the living God, the heavenly place, the holiest of all.”
Things found in my study
Book of Enos = Reference to Christ 22 times in 27 verses.
gifts of the spirit Omni 1:25 or should I say book of Amaleki