Pearl of Great Price - Moses 6:1-23 - January 18, 2022

 1/18/2022 – Moses 6:1-23

This is a long section, but the synopsis lets me know what to look for: “Adam’s seed keep a book of remembrance; His righteous posterity preach repentance; God reveals himself to Enoch; Enoch preaches the gospel; The plan of salvations was revealed to Adam; He received baptism and the priesthood” 

V 1 lets us see how Adam is feeling about life outside the Garden of Eden: “And Adam hearkened unto the voice of God, and called upon his sons to repent.” That is a simple, but very important way for us all to live our lives, no matter what problems or successes have come into our lives.

Adam and Eve continue to have children. Seth is the next child we learn of. “And God revealed himself unto Seth, and he rebelled not…” We also learn that Seth has a son named Enos. (v 3) “And then began these men to call upon the name of the Lord, and the Lord blessed them’ [with revelation]. (v 4) What better gift could the Lord have offered? 

Then in v 5, we learn that Adam and his children are growing—physically and spiritually—and they are writing a book of remembrance, “for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration.”  

We learn that they have “the same Priesthood, which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also”. (v 7).  And in v 8, we learn that Adam asked all of his children to keep a genealogy. It is the same for us in our day. When I work on our genealogy, I feel a sweet spirit around me. I feel compelled to do this work, and I am so glad.

The people of this early time lived far longer than we do now. I feel that the Lord had made this earth and had populated this earth, and He needed to send as many as he could to come to earth to grow in faith and in goodness. We learn that they “begat many sons and daughters” (v 15).  I don’t think they had all the amazing conveniences that we now have, but the purpose of their time on earth was just the same as ours—and the description of their days is also similar to ours: They tell us “and in those days Satan had great dominion among men, and raged in their hearts; and from thenceforth came wars and bloodshed;” (v 15). But we also learn that those who followed the Lord closely continued to keep their genealogy, and the other teachings of the Lord, for there were also “preachers of righteousness” who “spake and prophesied, and called upon all men everywhere to repent; and faith was taught unto the children of men.” (v 23) Is our time really that much different that their time?


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