2 Nephi 11-19 Part 1 • Dr. Shon D. Hopkin • Feb 26 - Mar 3 • Come Follow Me
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
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Why does Nephi spend significant time and effort teaching Isaiah? Dr. Shon Hopkin shares insights into the power of God’s covenants, the mission of Jesus Christ, and the meaning of the Abrahamic Covenant through the lens of the love of Jesus Christ.
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00:00 Part 1–Dr. Shon Hopkin
00:17 Last Week
00:30 What to expect in 2 Nephi/Isaiah
05:00 Bio of Dr. Shon Hopkin
06:28 First simplicity
08:11 Second simplicity and a nursery rhyme
11:01 Understanding Isaiah in history
13:58 Genesis 12-22 Abrahamic Covenant
14:22 Joseph of Egypt
17:28 40 years in the desert to a Divided Kingdom
20:55 Assyria and Isaiah
22:39 Place names
24:07 Isaiah and preaching in Israel and Judah
25:31 Nephi and Isaiah and important dates
29:05 Isaiah 37: Assyria and Hezekiah
33:20 Why Nephi loves Isaiah
35:44 Land and identity
37:32 Isaiah’s children
38:59 2 Nephi 17
39:59 2 Nephi 11-14
44:02 2 Nephi 14:5-6 Gather places
46:40 2 Nephi 12 River flowing against gravity
49:49 Descending off of the mountain
52:08 2 Nephi 12:4 Why temples?
54:46 Isaiah for Airheads by John Bytheway
57:45 2 Nephi 13 Babylon is coming
1:00:31 2 Nephi 26:20-23
1:04:00 2 Nephi 13
1:07:35 2 Nephi 13:12-13 Pride and downfall
1:10:42 End of Part I–Dr. Shon Hopkin
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name's Hank Smith. I'm here with my Isaiah loving co-host. John by. John, I've heard it around that you love Isaiah, is that true? |
| 0:16.5 | I do love Isaiah Hank and maybe it's because I've had to put some time into it when I had the |
| 0:21.2 | opportunity to teach the two most frightening things were |
| 0:24.2 | the Isaiah chapters and the war chapters but with some time yeah I feel better about it |
| 0:29.9 | same way with me John it took some time. But as I worked through it, verse by verse, |
| 0:34.8 | eventually a light came on and it became beautiful to me. |
| 0:39.3 | Speaking of Isaiah expertise, John, We are joined by a Bible scholar. His name is |
| 0:46.6 | Dr. Sean Hopkins. He's a good friend of ours. Sean, what are we looking forward to |
| 0:51.4 | today? |
| 0:52.6 | As we all know, Nephi quotes a large chunk of Isaiah. |
| 0:56.0 | Many feel, oh, we are to the Isaiah chapters, |
| 0:58.9 | I will slog my way through. |
| 1:00.3 | And I actually think people tend to get, I know the one verse that makes sense to me and I can find that |
| 1:06.8 | verse in the chapter but let me sort of muddle my way through and they get really |
| 1:10.0 | excited about that one verse and then muddle my way through again until the next |
| 1:13.7 | verse and one of the things I like to say to my students is Isaiah does not |
| 1:17.3 | reward lazy reading and it doesn't reward listening to the scriptures at two or three times speed. |
| 1:25.0 | It's not narrative this is prophetic poetry and for those of you who never liked poetry |
| 1:32.1 | you're gonna have to learn to love |
| 1:35.2 | digging into symbolism, digging into beautiful language, and it will reward you over and over and over again if you can take some time. |
| 1:45.8 | You're not just gonna zoom your way through it. |
| 1:47.8 | There's beauty, throughout enough beauty for an entire lifetime and beyond in Isaiah. |
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