Ep 353 | Moses 1; Abraham 3, Come Follow Me 2026 (January 5-11)
Talking Scripture
Mike Day & Bryce Dunford
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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(00:00) The book of Moses is the JST of Genesis. The word translation has multiple meanings.
Moses 1 is the missing preface to the Old Testament which reveals three important truths.
(07:03) We are God’s children, and have infinite worth and potential.
(08:45) The name of God. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and many words can have various interpretations.
(12:06) Divine investiture of authority allows the Son to have the power to speak as if he is the Father.
(18:11) The creation story is not about how. It’s about why. Man is nothing and yet God wants to give us everything He has.
(21:18) The historical timeframe of Moses 1.
(23:54) Satan’s name only appears in the Bible 13 times. His presence in the Book of Moses is significant.
(27:43) The difference between the glory of God and the glory of the world.
(33:50) We can cast out Satan and control darkness by inviting light.
(35:39) Moses 1 ends with the command to show the words only to those that believe. Levels of exoteric and esoteric are in scriptural texts.
(39:44) The book of Abraham originated with Egyptian papyri that Joseph Smith translated. Fire destroyed most of the original scrolls and only small fragments remain. These fragments, called JSP I-XI, contain burial texts called The Book of Breathings.
(45:36) The relationship between the remaining fragments and the text of the Book of Abraham is not fully understood.
(47:28) Some counter-arguments to criticisms of the Book of Abraham include the missing text theory, the catalyst theory, and the Jewish redaction theory.
(55:23) The JSP I-XI fragments date to the 2nd century BC, not 1900 BC when Abraham lived. The rolls were likely copies of copies.
(1:01:08) In the Book of Abraham, the greatness of the Messiah is found in the symbolism of the cosmos and stars.
(1:10:37) Abraham learns about the pre-earth life.
(1:11:54) Joseph’s introduction to the Hebrew language likely influenced some of the words found in Abraham.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. |
| 0:10.1 | We also dive into the history and cultures of the text. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org. |
| 0:23.5 | Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we are going to be in Moses |
| 0:28.2 | Chapter 1 and Abraham Chapter 3. And we begin the Old Testament. So Moses 1 is coming to Joseph |
| 0:34.9 | after the Book of Mormon's translated, and the Lord instructs |
| 0:38.5 | Joseph Smith to translate the Bible. And a lot of the revelations of the restoration that are coming |
| 0:43.6 | to us in the doctrine covenants are actually taking place as Joseph Smith is going through |
| 0:47.9 | the King James Bible. And for the bulk of Genesis 1 through 24, he really is doing a ton of work and it's revelatory. |
| 0:56.4 | He's not using outside manuscripts. |
| 0:58.5 | After Genesis 24, he shifts over and works on the New Testament, and then he'll come back to the Old Testament. |
| 1:04.6 | So this is 1830. |
| 1:06.3 | It's winter, and he opens up the King James Bible, and he gets pure revelation of something that isn't |
| 1:13.1 | in the Bible. And so let's be clear. What we're studying in Moses 1 is the JST of Genesis. It's the |
| 1:20.7 | Joseph Smith translation of Genesis that is so critical it was canonized. Only two JST additions were canonized. We have them in our footnotes. |
| 1:30.5 | We have them in the appendix. You can get the full version if you go search it out in some book form, |
| 1:35.6 | but the only canonized versions of the JST are Moses, which is the JST of Genesis, and Joseph |
| 1:43.0 | Smith Matthew, which is a very important addition |
| 1:45.8 | about the Second Coming and the end of the world. Those are the two canonized versions. So I want to |
| 1:54.1 | begin by pointing out a very important reality that becomes a symbol of everything that Mike and I |
| 2:00.4 | are going to do this year in the Old |
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