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talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and we're thrilled to have you as we jump into this wonderful

journey called revelation the book of revelation so this is going to be our second

podcast about the book revelation and I don't know brice I don't even know if we're going

to be able to get out of chapter one if we're going to be able to get out

chapter one but we're going to try yeah that but that's okay because I think

chapter one is a great way to kick off the book of revelation let me start off by

taking everyone back to the book of Mormon to Nephi and Isaiah. Now bear with me

you'll see where I'm going. After Nephi quotes a huge chunk of Isaiah in Second Nephi, then we get to

chapter 25 and Nephi tells us that his people found it hard to understand the writings of

Isaiah because quote they knew not concerning the manner of prophesying among the Jews.

They weren't familiar with the style of the Jews. They weren't familiar with the style of the Jews, the symbolic nature of the

writings of Isaiah and some of the Old Testament prophets. And so Nephi says as a contrast I'm going

to write in plainness and that's what he does he writes

clearly in plainness and so the whole rest of the book of Mormon is written in plainness all the other

future writers kind of follow Nephi style and those of us

who read the book of Mormon have been weaned on plainness and that's one of the reasons

why I think we struggle with symbolic scripture. We like Nephi's people know not concerning the manner of

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