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"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." - John 5:39
Showing posts with label Jacob. Show all posts
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Jacob 7


Chapter 7

vs 1- Who came among the people of Nephi?______________________________
vs 2- What did he declare unto them?____________________________________
What kinds of things did he preach?_____________________________________
Why did he teach these things?_________________________________________
vs 3- What did he labor diligently to do-what was his goal?____________________
Who did he seek for?____________________________
Why did he want to come to him?___________________________________
vs 4- What did he have a perfect knowledge of?____________________________
What did he use as he spoke?___________________________________
Who gave him power with speech?________________________________
vs 5- Why could he not shake Jacob’s faith?_______________________________
vs 6- What does Jacob go about preaching?_______________________________
vs 7- What did Sherem call Jacob’s teachings?____________________________
What did he say is not possible for man to know?___________________________
vs 8- What did the Lord give Jacob?_____________________________
What did that help him do?_______________________________
vs 9- Who did Sherem deny?____________________________________
vs 10- What does Sherem pretend to believe in?_____________________________
vs 11- What do all prophets speak and write about?_____________________________
vs 12- How does Jacob know about the atonement? (How was it manifested to him)__
What would all mankind be if there was no atonement made?_____________________
vs 13- What did Sherem ask Jacob to show him?_______________________________
vs 14- Why does Sherem deny the truth?______________________________
What sign might God give Sherem to show his power?__________________________
Who’s will does Jacob want to be done?______________________________________
vs 15- What did God’s power do to Sherem?___________________________________
vs 16- What is going to happen to him tomorrow?_______________________________
What does he desire to do before he dies?____________________________________
vs 17- What did he deny to the multitude?_____________________________________
What 3 things did he confess?______________________________________________
vs 17-18- How did he speak unto them?____________________________
vs 18- Who was he deceived by?_________________________
What else did he speak of?____________________________
vs 19- Who has he lied unto?___________________________
How does he feel about facing God’s judgement?_______________________________
vs 20- What happened to him after he was done speaking?______________________
vs 21- How did the multitude feel afterwards?______________________________
What happened to them?_____________________________
vs 22- How did Jacob feel about this happening to the multitude?__________________
Why did this happen?___________________
vs 23- What was restored among the people?_____________________
What did they search?______________________
vs 24- Who could they not reclaim and restore to the truth?______________________
What did they delight in?_____________________
How did they feel towards their brethren?______________________
What did they continually seek to do?_____________________
vs 25- What did the Nephites do with their arms?________________________
Who did they trust in?________________
vs 26- What is Jacob beginning to be?__________
What has the time and their lives passed away like?___________________________
What kind of a people are the Nephites?____________________________________
vs 27- Who did he give these plates to?________________________
What did Enos promise?______________________________________
What does Jacob hope many of his brethren will do?__________________________

Friday, June 1, 2012

Jacob 6


Chapter 6-

vs 1- Who was Zenos likening to the tame olive tree?
What does Jacob say must surely happen to this prophecy?
vs 2- What shall the Lord do to his people for a second time?
What will the Lord’s servants do to his vineyard?
vs 3- Who will be blessed and who will be cursed and burned?
vs 4- What quality does God have unto the house of Israel?
Who does he remember?
What does he do to them all day long?
What kind of people are they?
Who shall be saved?
vs 5- What does he invite us to do?
What quality does his extended arm represent?
vs 5-6-What does he tell us not to do with our hearts?
vs 7- If we bring forth evil fruit what will happen to us?
vs 8- What does he tell us not to reject?
What does he say to not deny?  
What should we not do to the Holy Spirit?
What should we not mock?
vs 9- How will we feel at judgement day if we do those things?
vs 10- What will be our just consequence?
vs 11- What does he invite us to do?
How long should we do these things?
vs 12- What does he tell us to be?
vs 13- Where shall he meet us?
How will the wicked feel at the God’s judgement bar?

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Jacob 5


Chapter 5

vs 1- Which prophet’s words does he quote?
vs 2- What did he invite the house of Israel to do?
vs 3- What does he liken the house of Israel to?
vs 4- What began to happen to the tree?
vs 4-5-What did he plan to do to save it?
vs 6- How did the tree respond to his care?
What part began to perish?
vs 7- How does he feel about losing this tree?
What does he plan to go get?
What does he plan to do with the withering main branches?
vs 8- What is he going to do with the young tender branches?
What does he want to preserve?
What is he ok with perishing?
vs 9- What is he going to graft in?
Why is he going to burn the the branches he plucked off?
vs 10- Who did the Lord of the vineyard/s request?
vs 11- What did the Lord cause to be done to the tree?
Why did he do this?
vs 12- What did he tell him to do to the tree?
vs 13- What two reasons does he transplant the natural branches?
vs 14- Where did he hide the natural branches?
How did he decide where to place them? (according to what)
vs 15- When did they go labor again in the vineyard?
vs 16- What did they “behold” (look at)?
vs 17- What kind of fruit was the tree bearing?
vs 18- How did this happen?
vs 19- What do they want to behold (look at) next?
vs 20- What did the first natural branch bring forth?
What are they going to do with the fruit?
Why did it bring forth much fruit?
vs 21- What kind of land was it planted in?
vs 22- What did the Lord tell the servant not to do?
vs 23- What did they behold next?
What kind of ground was this branch planted in?
What did it bring forth?
vs 24- What kind of fruit did the next branch bring forth?
vs 25- What kind of ground was the last branch planted in?
What kind of fruit did it bring forth?
How had he nourished this tree in comparison with the others?
vs 26- What is he want to do with the branches that didn’t bring forth good fruit?
vs 27- What does the servant want to do first?
vs 28- What did the Lord and the servant both do?
vs 29- What is drawing near or coming soon?
vs 30- What kind of fruit was the tree bringing forth now?
vs 31- What did the Lord do with the fruit?
vs 32- How much fruit was there?
What was the fruit like?
How does he feel about losing this tree?
vs 33- What question does the Lord ask the servant?
vs 34- What part of the tree did the wild branches strengthen?
vs 35- Why does the tree and roots not profit the Lord?
vs 36- What part does he know is good?
Why has he preserved them?
vs 37- Why has it brought forth evil fruit?
What is ig beginning to do?
vs 38- What else are they going to look at?
vs 39- What had the fruit of the natural branches become like?
vs 40- What had happened to the branch?
vs 41- What did the Lord of the vineyard do?
What question did he ask his servant?
vs 42- What are all of his trees good for now?
vs 43- What kind of ground had this last branch been planted in?
vs 44- What had he done to prepare the ground here?
vs 45- What caused the good branch to wither away?
vs 46- What were his hopes for his vineyard?
What are the natural branches worth to him now?
How does he feel about losing them?
vs 47- What had he done to care for his vineyard?
vs 48- What caused the trees to become corrupt?
vs 49- What does the Lord plan to do?
vs 50- What does his servant advise him to do?
vs 51- What does the Lord decide to do?
vs 52- What are they going to graft in and what are they going to pluck out?
vs 53- What does he hope to preserve?
vs 54- What is still alive?
What does he hope they will do when they are sufficiently strong?
vs 55- Where did they take branches from?  
What did they graft them into?
vs 56- Where else did they take from and graft into?
vs 57- Which branches did the Lord say to pluck?
vs 58- What are they going to do again to the trees?
What are they going to do with the branches?
vs 59-60-What reasons might cause the roots to take strength?
vs 60- What will bring joy to him?
vs 61-Who are they going to call?
What are they going to do?
How are they going to do it?
vs 62- What is he going to do for the last time?
Why is it the last time?

vs 63- Where are they going to begin grafting?
Which ones is he going to dig and nourish again?
vs 64- What 3 things does he say to do to them once more?
Which ones shall they prepare the way for?
vs 65- How shall they clear away the bad branches (according to what)?
Why should they not clear away the bad all at once?
vs 66- As they nourish the trees, what are they going to keep equal in strength?
When shall they cast the bad branches into the fire?
vs 67- Where will he graft the branches of the natural tree?
vs 68- What shall they bring forth?
What shall they be?
vs 69- Where shall the bad be cast away to?
How often will he prune the vineyard?
vs 70- How many other servants did the servant bring?
vs 71- How does the Lord tell the servants to labor?
What does he tell them will be their reward (what will they have)?
vs 72- Who labored with them?
How obedient were they?
vs 73- What began to produce?
How did the natural branches respond?
What did they do to the wild branches?
What did they keep equal?
vs 74- How did they labor?
What did the trees become like?
vs 74-75-What was the fruit like?
vs 75- What quality does he tell the servants that they are/have because of their diligent labor?
vs 76- What is the Lord going to do with the fruit?
vs 77- What will he gather?
What will he do with it?
What will he do to his vineyard at the end of the season?

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Jacob 4


Chapter 4

vs 1- Why did he write only a little of his words that he ministered unto his people?
vs 2- What happens to things that they write on things other than plates?
Why do they write on plates (what do they want to give their children)?
vs 3- How do they hope their brethren and children will receive their words?
Who do they want them to learn about?
How do they want them to feel about learning that?
vs 4- What is their intent/purpose for writing these things?
Who else had a hope in Christ?
vs 5- Why do they keep the law of Moses?
What is Abraham offering up his son Isaac similar to?
vs 6- What do they do and have?
What do those things help them obtain?
What can they do in the name of Jesus?
vs 7- Why does God show us our weakness?
vs 8- What are the Lord’s works and mysteries like?
How can man knoweth of his ways?
vs 9- By what power was the earth and man created?
vs 10- Who should counsel who?
What does the Lord counsel contain?
vs 11- How can we be reconciled unto God?
How may we obtain a resurrection (by what power)?
vs 12- What knowledge can we attain?
vs 13- How should we prophesy?
What does the Spirit speaketh?
How are things manifested unto us?
Who else spake of these things?
vs 14- What were the Jews like?
What did they despise?
Why did they kill the prophets?
What did they seek for?
What caused their blindness?
What did God give them?
What happened as a result?
vs 15- What will the Jews reject?
vs 16- What shall this stone become?
vs 17- What does he wonder the possibility of?
vs 18- What might cause Jacob to stumble as he teaches?

Jacob 3


Chapter 3

vs 1- How should we look unto God?
What should we have when we pray unto him?

What will he do for us if we do that?
vs 2- What must our minds be like if we want to receive God’s word and his love?
vs 3- What will happen to the land because of those who are not pure in heart?
vs 3-4- What shall the Lamanites do to them if they don’t repent?
vs 5- How are the Lamanites more righteous than them?
vs 6- What will God do to the Lamanites because they have kept this commandment?
vs 7- What are their marriages and families like?
What is the cause of their unbelief and hatred (Who does he blame)?
vs 8- What will their skins be like at judgement day if the Nephites don’t repent?
vs 9- What commandment does God give the Nephites?
What does he tell them to remember?
vs 10- What will they be accountable for at the last day?
vs 11- What does he tell them to awake from and loose themselves from?
What is the second death?
vs 12- What did he warn his people against?
vs 13- What did he write on the larger plates?
vs 14- What are these plates called?
Who made them?

Jacob 2


Chapter 2

vs 1- Who is writing/speaking?
vs 2- What responsibility has God given him?
Where has he come to teach God’s word?
vs 3- How does he describe his past work in his office/calling?
How does he feel for them?
vs 4- How have they responded to the word of the Lord in the past?
vs 5- What does the Creator help Jacob to know concerning?
What appears abominable unto him and God?
vs 6- How does Jacob feel about testifying to them concerning their wicked hearts?
vs 7- What kind of speech must he use with them?
What kind of feelings do their wives and  children have?
vs 8- What have they come up to hear?
vs 9- What did God command Jacob to do?
vs 10- What is his response to God’s command?
vs 11- Where did God tell Jacob to declare his word?
vs 12- What have many of them begun to search for?
vs 13- Why have they obtained many riches?
How have those who have obtained more abundantly acted?
vs 14- What will happen to you if you persist in these things?
vs 15- What can one glance of God’s eye do to you?
vs 16- What does he desire that the people will do?
What will pride do to them?
vs 17- How should we think towards our brethren?
What should we be with our substance and riches?
vs 18- What should we seek for before riches?
vs 19- When will ye obtain riches?
What will you want to do with your riches?
vs 20- Why did they persecute and afflict their neighbor?
vs 21- How does God esteem each human being?
What is all flesh made of?
What God’s purpose in creating us?
vs 22- What must he now speak concerning?
vs 23- What did his people not understand?
What do they seek to excuse themselves in doing?
vs 24- What did David and Solomon do that was abominable before the Lord?
vs 25- Why did the Lord lead Lehi’s people out of Jerusalem?
vs 26- What will the Lord not suffer them to do?
vs 27- How many wives and concubines shall a man have?
vs 28- What does the Lord delight in?
What is abominable before the Lord?
vs 29- What shall happen to the land if this people do not keep the commandments?
vs 30- When is the only time God will command his people to have more than one wife?
vs 31- What has the Lord seen and heard?
Why do the wives feel this way?

vs 32- What will God not suffer to happen?
vs 33- What shall their consequence be if they lead away captive the daughters of his people?
vs 34- What have they known before?
Why have they come unto great condemnation?
vs 35- Who have they been more wicked than?
What have they broken and lost?
What has God heard?

Jacob 1

JACOB 1
vs 1- What did Nephi give Jacob? 
vs 2- What did he command him to write? 
vs 3- What did he tell him to do with these plates? 
vs 4- What does he want to do with sacred preachings, great revelations and prophecies?
vs 5- Why did they learn what things should happen unto their people? 
vs 6- How did they know of Christ and his kingdom? 
vs 7- Why did they labor diligently among their people? 
vs 8- What do they want to persuade all men not to do? 
What do they want to persuade them to do? 
vs 9- What did Nephi do before he died? 
vs 10- Why did the people love Nephi? 
vs 11- How are they going to remember his name? 
vs 12- What happened to Nephi? 
vs 13- Who were called Nephites? 
vs 14- Who will he call Lamanites and Nephites? 
vs 15- How did the people of Nephi grow under the reign of the second king? 
What wicked practice did they indulge themselves in? 
vs 16- What did they search for? 
What were they lifted up in? 
vs 17- Where did Jacob teach them? 
What did he do before teaching them? 
vs 18- What did Nephi consecrate Jacob and Joseph to be? 
vs 19- Why will Nephi and Joseph be spotless at the last day?