Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, and this is John W.

Welch to talk about the wonderful book of Jacob.

Jacob is an amazing book.

I think he is one of my absolute favorites of all Scripture.

You like to think of Jacob as Nephi's little brother, but he excels.

He's not only a poetic prophet, but he distills the most important messages about coming unto Christ.

Jacob hadn't really known anything about Jerusalem.

Just from the words of his father. I mean, he learned it secondhand.

He probably learned a different story from Laman and Lammuel and so on, but he is the first Nephite leader to really have been born as a part of this great mission where Lehii said, we need to go and separate from the old world.

And maybe Jacob is blessed by not having the baggage of the old world.

He also is blessed by having a powerful witness of our Savior from a very young age.

And it sustained him during his very difficult

mission. But in his organization of his book, I'm fascinated how carefully he follows Nephi's

advice and how carefully he creates his words. He crafts them. He puts them in chiasmas. He puts

them in parallels. He puts them in chiasmas. He puts them in parallels. He puts them in

beautiful ways that you can tell have been edited and rewritten many times before he actually put

them on the plates. In doing this, he is able to convey his inner thoughts and feelings. I think

Jacob is a very tender person. He talks not only

about his own tenderness, but he notices the underdog and others. Remember, he talks about the wives

and the children, the tender, delicate feelings, you know. All the way to the end, his final

farewell is a very emotional farewell. He lets his emotions show. We don't know what his

younger brother Joseph was like. No, we don't. We'd like to have Joseph, but it was Jacob who was

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