Introduction to the Old Testament Part 2 • Dr. Joshua Sears • Dec. 29-Jan. 4 • Come Follow Me

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

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Dr. Sears continues to show how the Old Testament complexity is intentional, how it grows alongside Restoration scripture, and how understanding covenants as relationships helps readers wrestle with the text and liken its stories to their own lives. YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/o76_n5be9e8 ALL EPISODES/SHOW NOTES followHIM website: https://www.followHIM.co FREE PDF DOWNLOADS OF followHIM QUOTE BOOKS New Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastNTBook Old Testament: https://tinyurl.com/PodcastOTBo...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Part 2 with Dr. Joshua Sears, introduction to the Old Testament.
0:06.0	The manual also suggests to talk about the relationship between the Bible and the Book of Mormon and other Restoration Scripture that we read 2nd Nephi chapter 3, verse 12,
0:17.0	which is the prophecy of the Lord to Joseph of Egypt, and says,
0:21.8	Wherefore, the fruit of thy loins shall write, and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall
0:26.8	write. Now we have our Bible and our Book of Mormon from Joseph and Judah. That which shall be
0:32.2	written by the fruit of thy loins, also that which shall be written by the fruit of the loins of
0:36.7	Judah, shall grow together,
0:39.5	unto the confounding of false doctrines and laying down of contentions and establishing peace
0:44.2	among the fruit of thy loins, and bringing them to the knowledge of their fathers in the latter
0:48.3	days, and also to the knowledge of my covenants, sayeth the Lord.
0:52.2	I really love this verse as a description of how ancient biblical
0:55.6	scripture is going to work hand in hand with modern revelation, that they're designed to grow together.
1:02.5	They're together, but they grow, which is just to me a process of time, that as we read them more and more,
1:09.7	we're going to see more and more how intertwined they are. Hank, you mentioned earlier that as we read them more and more, we're going to see more and more how intertwined they are.
1:13.5	Hank, you mentioned earlier that as we go through the Come Follow Me curriculum,
1:17.4	when you go through one year, it helps you appreciate the other years.
1:21.5	We're constantly improving our ability to understand all books of Scripture as we continually cycle through these books.
1:28.0	You're just describing what I think is going on here, that the more we read the Bible, it grows to help us
1:32.6	understand the Book of Mormon. And the more we read the Book of Mormon, it grows to help us
1:35.9	understand the Bible. These are really meant to work together. I do want to suggest, though,
1:40.8	one kind of caution here. So to turn our whole discussion on its head, we've been
1:44.5	talking about how restoration scripture teaches us how to read the Old Testament and understand
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