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Title: The Parable of the Vineyard: Jacob 5


1
The Parable of the VineyardJacob 5
  • www.kevinhinckley.com

2
Why Parents Drink
  • The boss wondered why one of his most valued
    employee had not
    phoned in sick one day. Having an urgent
    problem with one of
    the main computers, he dialed the
    employee's home phone number
    and was greeted with a child's
    whisper.
  • "Hello ? "
  • "Is your daddy home?" he asked.
  • " Yes ," whispered the small voice.
  • May I talk with him?"
  • The child whispered, " No ."
  • Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the
    boss asked, "Is your Mommy there?"
  • "Yes.
  • "May I talk with her?
  • Again the small voice whispered, "No .
  • Hoping there was somebody with whom he could
    leave a message, the boss asked, "Is anybody else
    there?"
  • " Yes ," whispered the child, " a policeman ".
  • Wondering what a cop would be doing at his
    employee's home, the boss asked, "May I speak
    with the policeman?"
  • " No, he's busy ", whispered the child.
  • "Busy doing what?"
  • " Talking to Daddy  and Mommy and the Fireman ,"
    came the whispered answer.
  • Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in
    the background, the boss asked, "What is that
    noise?"
  • " A helicopter " answered the whispering voice.
  • "What is going on there?" demanded the boss, now
    truly apprehensive.

3
Question/Reminder
  • Why did the Lord and his prophets choose
    to teach in parables and allegories?
  • Wouldnt more plainness have been
    easier to understand?

4
Bruce R. McConkie
  • I do not think I overstate the matter when I say
    that next to Isaiah himself-who is the prototype,
    pattern, and model for all the prophets-
  • there was not a greater prophet in all Israel
    than Zenos
  • The Joseph Smith Translation, The Restoration of
    Plain and Precious Things. Edited by Monte S.
    Nyman and Robert L. Millet. Religious Studies
    Center, BYU, Provo, Utah, 1985, p. 17.

5
Who Was Zenos?
  • We dont know
  • Some speculation as to his identity (Hugh Nibley
    and others)
  • House of Joseph (3 Nephi 1015)
  • Prophet after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  • Writings contained in the Brass Plates
  • 4,261 Words of Zenos in the BofM
  • Teachings focused on the Mission of the Savior
    and the Gathering of Israel
  • Died as a martyr

6
Zenos Multilayered Parable of the Vineyard
A story about how to have a productive
vineyard
The Scattering and Gathering of Israel
7
Seven Tribes of Lehi
Wild Trees- Different parts of the World
Natural Olive Tree- Israel
Israel Gathered In Zion and Jerusalem for the
Millenium
Bad Fruit Everywhere After First Century to Dark
Ages Jacob 5 29-49
Good Fruit Everywhere Just before the time of
Christ Jacob 5 15-28
Fall of Jerusalem, 587 BC Jacob 4-14
Restoration and Last Days Jacob 5 50-73
8
In addition, however, (Jacob 4)
  • And now I, Jacob, am led on by the Spirit unto
    prophesying for I perceive by the workings of
    the Spirit which is in me, that by the stumbling
    (Sin) of the Jews they will reject the stone upon
    which they might build and have safe foundation.
  • But behold, according to the scriptures, this
    stone (Jesus Christ) shall become the great, and
    the last, and the only sure foundation, upon
    which the Jews can build.
  • The Great Question! And now, my beloved, how is
    it possible that these, after having rejected the
    sure foundation, can ever build upon it, that it
    may become the head of their corner?
  • How Can They Repent?
  • Behold, my beloved brethren, I will unfold this
    mystery unto you

9
Zenos Multilayered Parable of the Vineyard
A story about how to have a productive
vineyard
The Scattering and Gathering of Israel
Our Own Scattering (Sin) And Gathering (At-One-Men
t)
10
St. Hugh Nibley
  • The long and puzzling story of the olive orchard
    in the fifth chapter of Jacob seems to present
    an endless combination of tactics to
    preserve the orchard.
  • The point is that any combination is
    possible God will try any scheme, general
    or local, to redeem the people. . . .
  • sixteen times the trees are given a last
    chance to get growing again there is no
    end to the Lords patience.
  • Hugh Nibley, Prophetic Book of Mormon, 498

11
President Spencer W. Kimball
  • Long ago, an elderly Navajo brother told me
    something that I have reflected upon many
    times in the years that have intervened.
  • He said This gospel is something we have been
    trying all our lives to remember now all at once
    it comes back. Our fathers used to be with your
    fathers in the long ago, but then we came to a
    division in the road with a great stone in the
    middle. We went one way and you went the other.
    We went around that big rock for a long time but
    now we are back together, and we will always walk
    together from now on.

12
President Spencer W. Kimball
  • I have met some who are a little bit ashamed
    that they are Lamanites. How can it be? Some
    would rather define themselves as Nephites, or
    Zoramites, or Josephites, or something else.
    Surely there must be a misunderstanding. Would
    they separate themselves from the great
    blessings the Lord has promised to his covenant
    people? Would they cast off their birthright? For
    the Lord himself has chosen to call these people
    Lamanitesall the mixed descendants of Father
    Lehi, and Ishmael, and Zoram, and Mulek, and
    others of the Book of Mormon record all of the
    literal seed of the Lamanites, and also all that
    had become Lamanites because of their
    dissensions. (DC 1048.)
  • You who are Lamanites remember this Your
    Lamanite ancestors were no more rebellious than
    any of the other branches of the house of Israel.
    All the seed of Israel fell into apostasy and
    suffered the long night of spiritual darkness,
    and only through the mercy of God have any of the
    branches been saved from utter destructionthe
    gentile-Ephraimite mixture first, and then the
    Lamanite remainder of Joseph, that the saying
    might be fulfilled, the last shall be first, and
    the first last. (Matt. 2016.)
  • Ensign, December, 1975
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