I want to read something Elder Holland once taught about Joseph Smith's experience in Liberty Jail.

He said, most of us, most of the time, speak of the facility at Liberty as a jail or a prison.

And certainly it was that.

But Elder Brigham H. Roberts, in recording the history of the church, spoke of the facility as a temple, or more accurately, a prison temple. Elder Neely Maxwell used the same phrasing in some of his writings.

As we think on these things, does it strike us that spiritual experience,

revelatory experience, sacred experience, can come to every one of us

in all the many and varied stages and circumstances of our lives if we want it,

if we hold on and pray on, and if we keep our faith strong through our difficulties.

Tonight's message is that when you have to, you can have sacred, revelatory, profoundly instructive

experience with the Lord in any situation

you are in.

This week, we study a moment for Israel that taught them powerful truths about themselves and the Lord.

Although they were not wrongly imprisoned like Joseph Smith, they had a miserable experience because of their own actions that brought

them to mourn. In that morning and in our own, we can see and learn truths about our Lord that can

help us grow, heal, and change.

Welcome to the Scripture Study Project.

We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton, and this is our podcast where we study Scripture with you.

Our goal each week is to help you discover new or renewed excitement for God and His Word,

invest your heart and personal life into your study

and connect with others as you teach and learn together.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to this week's study of Exodus 24, 31 through 34.

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