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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be in the

first vision aren't we Bryce? Yes the great first vision. What a great opportunity to go back to the very basics, but I would suggest at least three things that I want to point out.

Number one, this is the beginning of the restoration. This event ushers in. the Bruce Armaconky gave back in 1975. I'm just going to read his words just to kind of set the

stage for what the first vision is. He said, once or twice in a thousand years,

perhaps a dozen times since mortal man became of dust a living soul,

an event of such transcendent import occurs that neither heaven nor earth are ever thereafter the same.

Once or twice in a score of generations, the hand from heaven claps the hand on earth in perfect fellowship.

The divine drama unfolds and the whole course of mortal events changes.

Now and then in a quiet garden, or amid the fires and thunders of Sinai, or inside

a supplicur that cannot be sealed, or in an upper room, almost always apart from the gaze of men and seldom

known by more than a handful of people, the Lord intervenes in the affairs of men and manifests

his will relative to their salvation.

One such event took place six millennia ago in a garden which was planted eastward in Eden

when the man Adam and the woman Eve fell that men might be.

Another such event altered the course of human history when the aged prophet believed

God and built an arc wherein he and seven others out of all the inhabitants of the earth were saved from a watery grave.

The most transcendent of all of such events occurred in a garden called

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