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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're

talking about Jacob we're gonna do Jacob five through seven allegory of the

olive trees.

Olive trees and antichrist today, Mike.

Yep, that's what we're doing.

So I'm gonna start off talking a little bit about the question

that precedes the allegory and then I'm gonna give a brief sketch of what's happening in

Jacob five then we're going to have Bryce talk about another way to read the

allegory on a personal level and then we'll get a little bit more in depth. So that's kind of where it's going to play out.

And then we'll get to share them in the narrative there.

We ought to mention briefly, at least Zenus in passing Mike, this Prophet disappeared from our current Old Testament appears to have

been one of the most influential prophets in the Old Testament. I think someday the world

is going to realize that the Prophet Zenus was a prophet among prophets.

He is quoted heavily in the Book of Mormon, and clearly when you read things like this allegory,

this man knew his stuff yeah I love how often the

book of Mormon quote Zenus and there's a little hint nephi and Isaiah use phrases that Nephi doesn't necessarily quote from Isaiah and I wonder

if both of them got those phrases from the Prophet Zenus.

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