Isaiah class 7

Thoughts from the seventh of ten classes, Thursday, November 19, 2009

I took fewer notes this week than in any of the previous classes, partly because I was busy looking up other references as the discussion moved along, a lot of it question-and-answer stuff that I gather was not exactly what Brother Gileadi had originally intended to cover. And partly because we were just reading selections from various chapters of 1 and 2 Nephi that quote or paraphrase Isaiah's teachings on the events at the end of the last days.

Some of the Book of Mormon passages we specifically looked at all describe or refer to the same latter-day scenario:

• 1 Nephi 22:8–19 Correlated with other passages of scripture, particularly as presented throughout Isaiah, these latter-day events are all presented as a part of a single scenario.
  
• 2 Nephi 6:4–13
  
• 2 Nephi 10: 7–19
  
• 2 Nephi 25:1–8
  
• 2 Nephi 28:26–29 It is a most damnable attitude to say "we have received enough and need no more." Intelligence is not just acquiring information but what we do with it.
  
• 2 Nephi 29:1 This single verse contains three events from the list we began constructing last week of things that will happen at the last day: a marvelous work, the covenants of the Lord, and the Lord setting His hand a second time to recover His people.