(John 18:11). Some important things to emphasize when teaching this material is to talk about and illustrate the tree. Before Islamic times, the palm tree was worshipped by the people of south Arabia, and was a motif that adorned the large temple, The special position of the palm continued in Islamic times. If Lehi had seen in his dream the trees that surrounded him, palm trees growing in the watercourse of wadi Tayyib al Ism, located within the high Hijaz mountains it would be hard to think of a location that more closely fit the classic Near Eastern cosmic tree motif. '," in, Doctrines of the Book of Mormon: The 1991 Sperry Symposium, , pp. (John 4:10-14.) 1, pp. Jeffrey R. Holland writes that the relationship between Christ and His Father is one of the sweetest and most moving themes running through the Savior's ministry. Even in the case of Israel their concept of the morality of God had become degenerate. The old patriarchal religion had become corrupt. Jesus offered living water to the woman of Samaria at the well. It seems, in fact, that the virgin is the tree in some sense. ", After being shown the tree "which is precious above all" (1 Nephi 11:9), Nephi desired "to know the interpretation thereof" (1 Nephi 11:11) and was shown a virgin "exceedingly fair and white" (1 Nephi 11:13) the same terminology used to describe the tree. . Significantly, Matthew made reference to the prophecy concerning Jesus' being a Nazarene (Matthew 2:23), but it is an apparent reference to a lost book of scripture. Nephi was amazed by the perfection of the tree he saw and said that its "beauty thereof was far beyond, yea, exceeding of all beauty; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow (1 Nephi 11:8; see also 8:11). The father is said to have been a very wealthy citizen, known for his generosity and observance of the law. ", [Daniel C. Peterson, "Nephi & His Asherah," in, , FARMS, Vol. In the early days of His ministry He said humbly, "I can of mine own self do nothing: . "295, And what did the Lord have in store for the Canaanites? 8, No. . "Thou shalt utterly destroy," the Lord said, But, as the Old Testament record faithfully attests, old ideas as basic to life and human nature as belief in a Mother in Heaven did not die easily! . he called out. This imagery is ancient. Sometimes he was portrayed standing on a bull, and at other times he was depicted with a helmet on, which had horns coming out of each side. . In that vision Nephi wanted to know the meaning of the tree that his father had seen and that he himself now saw (see 1 Nephi 11:8-11). the tree in some sense. Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit" (John 19:30; Luke 23:46). Mary is his mother. Herod was told by the scribes that the prophets had written, "And thou, Bethlehem, As presented in the JST, it is not Bethlehem, but Jesus who is the prince; and he is not simply a Governor come to rule, but the, Israel. . the son of god . 1 Nephi 11:32-33 I . It is by the justice of the Eternal God that the wicked (Nephites) must be separated from the righteous and suffer their just rewards by being cast into the depths of hell represented by the filthy water. However the archaeological site they all describe is not found on Jebal al Lawz but rather on an unnamed peak lying in the same range but 8 miles to the south. 171-172]. Tradition has it that she died in Jerusalem in the year A.D. 48, and that her body also was taken to heaven. (Acts 17:28-29) All this fits in perfectly with the old patriarchal religion, for not only was El declared to be the Father of all the gods in heaven, He was also believed to be the Father of all mankind on earth. (Rom. Like Mary, she had been given to a husband, when grown up. . "and of the people about three thousand men perished that day. . Nephi's Vision. They also knew that God was their father, and that of necessity He had a wife who was their mother, but it was against the law of Moses for them to acknowledge her existence in any of their cultic rituals. . The bull was considered to be the seat of different gods in Egypt, Babylonia, and Aram288 In Israelite tradition the bull formed part of the divine throne. But to separate the historic element from what is mere fiction, is not always possible at this late day. She is the tree. In the early part of that vision, on two different occasions, the angelic messenger used an unusual phrase--"the condescension of God" (1 Nephi 11:15-16; 11:26). 1 Nephi 12. (B.H. He is told by the prophet, "that tree, O king, is you" (Daniel 4:10-22). This is in sharp contrast to the religion of abstract monotheism which, as scholars have discovered, did not come into existence until the time of the Greek philosophers who first invented it.257 In fact abstract monotheism or so called pure monotheism of any kind is entirely foreign to the Bible258 Even in Isaiah there is plenty that remains from the old religion of the Patriarchs.259. And a Virgin appeared by the tree, and three angels who hymned her, and the angel told me that she was Mary, the Mother of Christ. . If one drinks from the fountain of living waters, one will live forever with the blessings of eternal life. Because of past verifying experiences, we can know that we have proven God 'in days that are past,' thus giving us faith for the challenges of the present." It is significant that Baal also took on this same royal symbol. Note* In order to better understand the concept of Asherah, I will refer to reader to the remarks of another author below. And a Virgin appeared by the tree, and three angels who hymned her, and the angel told me that she was Mary, the Mother of Christ. The Valley of Lemuel (proposed Wadi Tayyib al-Ism) is only a little over 30 miles from a proposed candidate for Mount Horeb (Sinai) in Arabia. If further information or instruction relating to her is to be made public, my conviction is that this will come through revelation to the proper authorities, not through agitation nor even, in any significant way, through scholarship. Here is Joseph blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, or Isaac blessing Jacob and Esau. Mary holds the baby Jesus Artist: Liz Lemon Swindle. However, other Old Testament manuscripts have survived, and these consistently show that sacred trees formed a part of Patriarchal religion, and this information is now available in some of the newer translations of the Bible. These high mountains were like temples for these prophets. [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1 Nephi 15. Both spent 40 days in the wilderness, both climbed a mountain for spiritual renewal, , both performed healings, raised the dead, caused food to be multiplied, the lives of both were threatened. It Is the Son of God (Potter): While living in the valley of Lemuel, Lehi had a dream in which he saw a tree with fruit that was "most sweet, above all that [he] ever before tasted" (1 Nephi 8:10-12). . 1 Nephi 11:1 I Was Caught Away . Then the Spirit says, "Behold the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh." " (Ensign, Dec. 2001, 18). Only in our own century have we begun to sense the vastness of the universe. (Dennis and Sandra Packard, "Pondering the Word," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, p. 51). Asherah was associated with trees.300 A 10th-century cultic stand from Ta'anach, near Megiddo, features two representations of Asherah; first in human form and then as a sacred tree. (JST Matthew 3:6), As presented in the JST, it is not Bethlehem, but Jesus who is the prince; and he is not simply a Governor come to rule, but the Messiah come to save Israel. 27:50). He was told that it was written, "And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel." Copyright © 2020 Alan C. Miner. the goddess too is identified with the date palm in Assyrian texts. . In other terms, the Word, the Logos, was already divinized in third-millennium Canaan . One would suppose from the Lord's devastating edict that Asherah worship would have come to a quick end, but it continued to flourish among the children of Israel for more than 600 years after they entered Canaan. The Saudi mount Sinai is 7867 feet high and dominates the plane on which it stands. "I spake unto him," says Nephi, "as a man speaketh; for I beheld that he was in the form of a man, yet nevertheless I knew that it was the Spirit of the Lord; and he spake unto me as a man speaketh to another." I suspect that the ancient notion of Asherah as the wife of El reflects true doctrine, albeit frequently garbled and corrupted. What is significant here is that anthropomorphic polytheism along with belief in a Father and Mother in Heaven was one of the most fundamental beliefs. She was, as Nephi's guide carefully stressed, simply "the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh." 16-18, 22]. 1-2]. Here is Joseph blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, or Isaac blessing Jacob and Esau. They "go up to amuse themselves." The sacred tree, usually represented in the form of a stylized palm tree growing on a mountain, is the most common decorative motif in Assyrian royal iconography. It is also mentioned in an early poem by Eliza R. Snow called "O May Father," which was alter set to music and has become a favorite LDS hymn.303, An evidence that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the true church is the fact that the ancient Americans also believed in a Mother in Heaven. (2 Chronicles 30:1-12,16,19) The Evangelist says of Anna, that she was a prophetess. For example, they point to similarities between Lehi's journey through the wilderness to the "promised land" of the Americas as reminiscent of Moses's journey through the wilderness to the "promised land" of Palestine (Exodus 12-40; 1 Nephi 1-18). 11:16). Yes, indeed. [Terry L. Givens, By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, According to Daniel Peterson, there is a Coptic version of the record called the, . No prophet appears to have denounced Asherah before the eighth century B.C. 19-20, 22] [See the commentary on Alma 7:10; Alma 39:3]. We understand them at a first reading. This change is clearly less than revisionist when one considers that in 1 Nephi and elsewhere, "Son of God" was already present as a common Book of Mormon formulation. . . In both Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, it is expressed allegorically with the image of a tree planted upon earth by the mother goddess, Inanna/Ishtar. Beginning at verse 1, According to Reynolds and Sjodahl, "The Virgin" (1 Nephi 11:20) is the title given to the Mother of Jesus in the prophecy of his birth (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23). [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Ensign, December 1997, inside front cover], 1 Nephi 11:20 I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms (Illustration): "He Shall Bring Forth a Son." . [Allen H. Richardson, David E. Richardson, and Anthony E. Bentley, Voice from the Dust-500 Evidences Supporting the Book of Mormon, p. 101], Note* Could Christ and Elijah both have gone to the same mountain (Sinai) in their 40-day wanderings in the wilderness? To more fully understand the full impact of symbolism of the cosmic tree one must be aware that the Assyrians did not consider their king, represented by the tree, to be a mere mortal. . Allen & David Richardson and Anthony Bentley note that Book of Mormon critics have often charged that Joseph Smith was an amateur fraud and that he plagiarized many biblical stories and placed them in the Book of Mormon. He descended to be judged of the world, even though He was the Judge of the world. (1 Ne. 9, Num. Joseph Smith exercised his prophetic-editorial right to clarify and explain what had previously been written. The forefathers of Anna may have come to Jerusalem at that time. . There is very little information in the New Testament concerning Mary. Ishtar corresponded to Asherah the wife of the supreme Canaanite god El, who was, as Daniel Peterson points out, depicted as a virgin. In both Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, it is expressed allegorically with the image of a tree planted upon earth by the mother goddess, Inanna/Ishtar. According to Laurette Sejourne, the ancient Americans believed in "a place where there are the great God and Goddess. For the inhabitants of ancient Arabia the palm also represented a king who did the same. Nephi Sees the Virgin [Robert T. Barrett. Thus it appears that of the 370 years during which the Solomonic Temple stood in Jerusalem, for no less than 236 years (or almost two-thirds of the time) the statue of Asherah was present in the Temple, and her worship was a part of the legitimate religion approved and led by the king, the court, and the priesthood and opposed by only a few prophetic voices crying out against it at relatively long intervals.". "Thou shalt utterly destroy," the Lord said296. In that vision Nephi wanted to know the meaning of the tree that his father had seen and that he himself now saw (see 1 Nephi 11:8-11). It is often assumed that the Spirit which begins to show Nephi the dream is the same individual as the angel who finishes the vision. The difference was not in the idea that they prayed to a different God, for they did not. "Nephi's vision consisted of much more than the scene of the tree of life and the efforts of some to obtain its fruits. "267 On the other hand, the sacred tree was to symbolize the presence of El's wife and our Heavenly Mother, Asherah.268 Another method of depicting Asherah was to carve the figure of a woman in a log and plant it upright in the ground like an Indian totem pole.269 Usually it would be planted under a large spreading leafy tree or in a grove of trees, where both the sacred stone and the sacred tree or pole would stand side by side. That the Holy Ghost is capable of manifesting himself in the true form and figure of God, after which image man is shaped, is indicated by the wonderful interview between the Spirit and Nephi, in which he revealed himself to the Prophet, questioned him concerning his desires and belief, instructed him in the things of God, speaking face to face with the man. Originally Baal was the son of Dagon, but once his cult succeeded in becoming strong he was written into the mythologies as though he was one of El's sons. 1 Nephi 11. Upon Joshiah's death eleven years alter (609, . . She is mentioned in the account of the marriage feast at Cana (John 2), and as one attending a gathering outside a synagogue where Jesus had been preaching (Mark 3:31), and then as standing near the cross, when her crucified Son commended her to the care of John (John 19:25-7). Summary of 1 Nephi. Artist: Clark Kelley Price. Self-proclaimed archaeologists Ron Wyatt and David Fasold visited the mountain in 1986 but were arrested shortly after their arrival. This association of the mother of God with the date palm and the image of the mother nursing the god/king is also one of Near Eastern origin. Here is an analogy to help us conceptualize the vastness of the universe. Mary's choice was to continue the temple service, but, guided by a special revelation, the high priest selected Joseph of Nazareth to be her legal guardian and husband. Joseph Smith changed this phrase to "mother of the Son of God" (1 Nephi 11:18) in the 1837 and 1840 editions of the Book of Mormon, and all subsequent editions have retained the alteration. 80, 82-83] [See the commentary on 2 Nephi 4:26], According to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., Hendrickson Publishers), the term "condescension" or "condescension of God" is not found in the Bible. After all, we don't need to ponder newspapers or magazines. It was forbidden to break any bones of the roasted sacrificial lamb. All this, except the accounts given by the evangelists, is tradition. . Often this would be in some high place on a hill or in the mountains. (1 Nephi 11:13, 18). Double Speed Book of Mormon Reader, Automated text. In many instances this is not difficult; in some cases, however, abbreviated scriptural accounts leave so much room for doubt that nothing short of direct revelation can identify precisely what is meant. When teaching these chapters it is good to discuss the meaning of who Jesus is at this point. [Neal A. Maxwell, , pp. The fountain of living waters is a symbol as significant as the tree of life. [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon. 1 Nephi 11:21 The Son of the Eternal Father . Then, in due time, the baby girl, to whom they gave the name of Mary, came. This influential text seems to have set the basic prophetic frame of reference for the Nephites who followed Nephi. ., are referred to in contemporary texts as "palm trees" or "mes-trees growing along abundant watercourses." Why is that? But, finally, they promised the Lord that a child of theirs would be dedicated to the Lord, i.e. The fact remains, Jesus of Nazareth was literally the mortal son of Mary and God the Eternal Father. These were fifteen-foot tall winged humans who were plated with gold and set in the Holy of Holies. . They are filled with truths of eternal importance, often packed so closely together, that you can't get all the meaning on the first pass. The Valley of Lemuel (proposed Wadi Tayyib al-Ism) is only a little over 30 miles from a proposed candidate for Mount Horeb (Sinai) in Arabia. 2, 2000, pp. While Nephi pondered the words of his father, a vision was opened to him. . 16-18, 22], Archaeological excavations have revealed that although there were many languages and cultures which existed in the ancient Near East, their ideas about God and religion were incredibly alike--and this rule of thumb does not altogether except the Hebrews. Nephi sees the falling away of his posterity. Peterson believes that Nephi's vision reflects a meaning of the "sacred tree" that is unique to the ancient Near East, and that, indeed, can only be fully appreciated when the ancient Canaanite and Israelite associations of that tree with the worship of Asherah (the Mother Goddess) are borne in mind. President Ezra Taft Benson taught, 'It means to descend or come down from an exalted position to a place of inferior station.' Mountains are sacred places in Hebrew cosmology. [Jeffrey R. Holland, "The Hands of the Fathers," in the, [X] shall be great upon the earth. *The Latter-day Saint concept of a Mother in Heaven is that of a glorified, perfected, and eternal woman who has lived with The Father as His eternal companion from the beginning--She is not Mary the mother of Jesus as taught by a few other religions. 1, p. 7], Terryl L. Givens notes that in the 1837 edition, the words "Son of" were inserted before the Deity title in four verses: 1 Nephi 11:18, 11:21; 11:32, and 13:40. The Nehustan was not a pagan intrusion, but had been carefully preserved by the Israelites for nearly a millennium until Hezekiah, offended by the idolatrous worship of "the children of Israel [who] did burn incense to it" (2 Kings 18:4), removed it and destroyed it. Just as she was "exceedingly fair and white," "most beautiful and fair above all other virgins," so was the tree's beauty; and the whiteness thereof did exceed the whiteness of the driven snow." To those who wanted to see the Father, to hear from God directly that Jesus was what He said He was, He answered, "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: . It also contains much more. The vastness of space is such that normal measurements do not suffice to describe the distances between stars and galaxies. . I suspect, furthermore, that it was such garbling and corruption that impelled the Deuteronomistic reformers, whom I believe to have been inspired, to oppose and suppress the veneration of Asherah, just as they opposed and suppressed the veneration of the Nehushtan of Moses. . The scriptures say that their cup was full to overflowing. [One of these allegations involves the preexistence and the doctrine of "the Word"]. and together they ruled supreme among the gods. . . " Thus it appears that of the 370 years during which the Solomonic Temple stood in Jerusalem, for no less than 236 years (or almost two-thirds of the time) the statue of Asherah was present in the Temple, and her worship was a part of the legitimate religion approved and led by the king, the court, and the priesthood and opposed by only a few prophetic voices crying out against it at relatively long intervals. In accordance with Patriarchal religion, the creation of man in the image and likeness of God as described in Genesis was originally understood in terms of procreation. I and my Father are one (Jn 10:29-30). This is the tree of life, and it is right over the main shrine (this is where the Shrine of the Torah was) of this very ancient synagogue--the oldest Jewish church we know of. These waters are separate from the river described by Lehi and Nephi. It had to be roasted whole in an upright position, and this was done by making a stand with branches from a pomegranate tree lashed together in the shape of the ancient Hebrew letter Tav (+). And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely' (Rev 22:1-2,17). Concerning this incident, Robert J. Matthews has noted the following: As recorded in the King James Version, wise men from the East inquired of Herod about the birth of the "King of the Jews." Now it seems to have been customary, as regards the young ladies raised for temple service, to give them an opportunity, when they arrived at the marriageable age, to choose for themselves whether they would continue to remain virgins of the Lord for ever, or become wives and mothers. Roberts, The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year, p. 60; see also Articles of Faith, Chapter 8, pp. According to McConkie and Millet, the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon reads as follows: "And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people, yea. However, Nephi makes it clear that the Spirit of the Lord had gone from before his presence and that the rest of the vision was shown to him by an unidentified angel, And it came to pass that I saw the heavens open; and an angel came down and stood before me (v. 14). In this connection it is a prayer to the Lord by the Spirit for the preservation of the young prophet in his faith. . Consequently, Herod asked the scribes "where Christ should be born." . And yet he endured it with complete patience. Parpola once more provides us with insight: "In Assyrian imperial art, the goddess nurses the king as a baby or child . It is a powerful and unforgettable prophetic statement. In other words: Without the Fall of man, there is no condescension of God. "We note that this prayer (or, is it a song?) It was restored to the Temple by King Joash in 825 B.C. The same is also true of he other two calves which were built later in the northern Kingdom by Jeroboam, and set up in Dan and at Bethel. 1 Nephi 16. 1 Nephi 11. 1, p. 79], 1 Nephi 11:18 The virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God (Illustration): Nephi Sees the Virgin [Robert T. Barrett, Verse Markers, Book of Mormon, Vol. 4. the restoration of Israel and the ultimate victory of good over evil (chapter 14). 9, Num. 2, February 199, pp. . (Acts 17:28-29) All this fits in perfectly with the old patriarchal religion, for not only was El declared to be the Father of all the gods in heaven, He was also believed to be the Father of all mankind on earth.263, In ancient Canaanite texts it is attested that El and Asherah worship was associated with images or idols and the Bible indicates that the Patriarchs made use of these in their cultic rituals. . , and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13; italics added) [Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet. . '," in Doctrines of the Book of Mormon: The 1991 Sperry Symposium, pp. There is no reference to Baal in Genesis. 1, p. 7], 1 Nephi 11:20 And I looked and beheld the virgin again, bearing a child in her arms (Illustration): Nephi's Vision of Mary. The 'fountain of living water' symbol in the scriptures refers to Jehovah or Jesus. 16-18] [See the commentary on 1 Nephi 13:40], Gerald Lund notes that after Lehi recounted to his family his marvelous vision in which he had seen the tree of life, Nephi reported that he was "desirous also that [he] might. This promise is not limited to determining the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon; it applies to all things (Moroni 10:5). . Artist: Clark Kelley Price. . The stone pillar was to symbolize the presence of the Father God, El, and it is believed by many that these sacred stones were the original meaning behind such divine names as "the Stone of israel," or "The Rock of Jacob. The summer months, it is said, she spent at Nazareth, the rest of the year she served in the Sanctuary. Equally possible, is that Nephi could have drawn upon the imagery of the lamb brought to the slaughter to made an offering for sin, as found at Isaiah 53:7, 10, which would have been part of the plates of brass. According to Parpola, "a perfect king was two thirds god and one third man . Here is the tree of life, and it's bearing all sorts of fruit. (2 Nephi 4:15-16.) (1 Nephi 11:12-21), Then "the Spirit" asks Nephi the question that Nephi himself had posed only a few verses before: "Knowest thou the meaning of the tree which thy father saw?" . When God first appeared to Moses in the desert He identified Himself as "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Beheld the Lamb of God . The Spirit continued, "Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God, after the manner of the flesh" (1 Nephi 11:18). [John W. Welch, "Getting through Isaiah with the Help of the Nephite Prophetic View," in. Asherah was the wife of El and the primordial mother of all gods and men and all this came about through the power of procreation. Is it possible that the Lord would have taken Nephi to a mountain where the Lord had previously spoken to his chosen people (Deuteronomy 1:6)? But the music lover knows what to do. into an Exceedingly High Mountain: Mountains are sacred places in Hebrew cosmology. . According to McConkie and Millet, indeed Christ is God, the God of creation, the God of Israel, and the Father of salvation. . . Richardson, Richardson and Bentley write that one of the "mysteries" of the gospel is that we have a Mother in Heaven. . Right over it is this tree of life with all the symbolism that is brought out by Nephi here. The stone pillar was to symbolize the presence of the Father God, El, and it is believed by many that these sacred stones were the original meaning behind such divine names as "the Stone of israel," or "The Rock of Jacob.". Prayer for the paper 's arguments and conclusions the Redeemer of the Book of Mormon: the heavenly of! 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