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Jacob 2
I honestly hope I'm never in the position to deliver a speech as the one Jacob records in this chapter. Holy moly.
He condemns pride, people seeking after riches, and chastity breakers to a degree not many other speeches can.
I wonder if the words he wrote were the same words he used in the speech, because a lot of the metaphors he uses are ... well ... quite harsh.
Take for example verse 35, which basically tells the audience how bad their husbands treat their wives, the "sobbings" acending to God against them, etc...
No doubt Jacob knew what he was talking about, my point is, I haven't heard a speech like that, well, ever - in my life. I guess times were different back then.
Anyway... That was rambling a bit.
One verse in this chapter intrigues me, and has since I understood it during my mission.
During his preaching against chastity, Jacob mentions, as if almost in passing, some seriously deep doctrine about plural marriage.
We all know that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses had many wives and they were righteous prophets, all of them.
So, if it was okay then, and was okay with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, then what gives? Does doctrine change? Kind of confusing, yes? No!
Not with verse 30, anyway. To me, this explains perfectly what is going on.
To me this verse says, "If I need to, I, God, will command my people to do what is necessary for the future of my people."
In other words, if God needs to command his people to have more than one wife in order to "raise up seed unto [God]", then He reserves the right to do so. Otherwise, the law is one wife.
Makes sense to me!
He condemns pride, people seeking after riches, and chastity breakers to a degree not many other speeches can.
I wonder if the words he wrote were the same words he used in the speech, because a lot of the metaphors he uses are ... well ... quite harsh.
Take for example verse 35, which basically tells the audience how bad their husbands treat their wives, the "sobbings" acending to God against them, etc...
No doubt Jacob knew what he was talking about, my point is, I haven't heard a speech like that, well, ever - in my life. I guess times were different back then.
Anyway... That was rambling a bit.
One verse in this chapter intrigues me, and has since I understood it during my mission.
During his preaching against chastity, Jacob mentions, as if almost in passing, some seriously deep doctrine about plural marriage.
We all know that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses had many wives and they were righteous prophets, all of them.
So, if it was okay then, and was okay with Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, then what gives? Does doctrine change? Kind of confusing, yes? No!
Not with verse 30, anyway. To me, this explains perfectly what is going on.
To me this verse says, "If I need to, I, God, will command my people to do what is necessary for the future of my people."
In other words, if God needs to command his people to have more than one wife in order to "raise up seed unto [God]", then He reserves the right to do so. Otherwise, the law is one wife.
Makes sense to me!