Jezebel/Isabel Jezebel/Isabel אִיזֶבֶל ‘Iyzebel, pronounced e·zeh’·vel is a word that combines a couple of ideas. אִי ‘iy, meaning “not” (H336), or אַי ‘ay, meaning “where?” or “which” or “how?” (H335) and זְבֻל zebul, pronounced zev·ül’, meaning “exalted” (H2083). זְבוּל zebuwl can mean a dwelling or habitation (H2073). The Oxford GuideContinue Reading

Hell hath both an entrance and an exit During this hundred years many other great truths not known before, have been declared to the people, and one of the greatest is that to hell there is an exit as well as an entrance. Hell is no place to which aContinue Reading

The Book of Mormon is written in code.1 It has many layers. On the surface we read the stories, wars, sermons, and the situations the heroes in the text find themselves in. Underneath the text there is the message about the mysteries of God, the temple, and character of theContinue Reading

Elder Holland on Justification If there is one lament I cannot abide—and I hear it from adults as well as students—it is the poor, pitiful, withered cry, “Well, that’s just the way I am.” If you want to talk about discouragement, that phrase is one that discourages me. Though notContinue Reading

Truth tastes good This is good doctrine. It tastes good. I can taste the principles of eternal life, and so can you. They are given to me by the revelations of Jesus Christ; and I know that when I tell you these words of eternal life as they are givenContinue Reading

In Mosiah 7.30-32, Limhi talks about the results of his people’s iniquity, one of the results being that they “reap(ed) the east wind” (Mosiah 7.31). What is this east wind that Limhi speaks of? And how did it apply? To me this is an example of Limhi quoting the BrassContinue Reading

You can see the show notes for the Mosiah Overview here. We talked about so many things in our podcast covering the overview of Mosiah. Bryce had some awesome stuff on “Noah Blindness” and I wanted to share a great book by S. Michael Wilcox where he also addresses thisContinue Reading