Thursday, March 22, 2012

Jacob 7

Jacob 7:11 Behold, I say unto you that none of the prophets have written, nor prophesied, save they have spoken concerning this Christ.

None of the prophets have written or prophesied without including Christ? This is why I wonder if the scriptures of other religions are actually some of the records we're supposed to find that testify of Christ. I do not see Christ in every book of scripture I read, and I find some of the "messianic" psalms to be a convenient stretch. They sometimes read more like something David is saying about his own feelings and later, for convenience' sake, someone says, hmmm, Christ must have felt like that at such and such point in his life, so that makes this poem that David wrote as a hobby about his own life actually prophetic in nature. Maybe. Maybe not.

7:15 And it came to pass that when I, Jacob, had spoken these words, the power of the Lord came upon him, insomuch that he fell to the earth. And it came to pass that he was nourished for the space of many days. Does this mean he was nourished by God while he was in a coma or nourished and cared for by Jacob and his peers? I like the idea of him being nourished by God better.

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