You're not going to be here. When Jacob speaks at the temple in the book named after him, it is with both anxiety and boldness setting an example for all of us who have to teach the people we love in this difficult world.

It's not a time to shy away from the truth.

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We're Scott and Maureen Proctor and today we look at Jacob, chapters one through 4, called Be Reconciled unto God through the Atonement

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Since the Book of Jacob starts at the temple, we want to talk for a minute about

the temple themes in the small plates of Nephi. First an explanation why we have these small plates.

We certainly know that one of the reasons that the small plates of Nephi were included

is that the Lord foresaw what would happen to the 116 pages of translation from the Book of Lehi that covers this

same period.

As we well know, Martin Harris would take those 116 pages from Harmony, Pennsylvania, back to Palmyra, and lose

them.

Joseph was instructed not to re-translate them because those who had taken these pages would introduce errors into these pages.

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