A friend of mine was interested in the symbolism of the beehive and bees, so I sent him this article. We were talking about John the Baptist and how he ate locusts and honey and what that might have meant. Then…

“Yea, I make a record in the language of my father, which consists of the learning of the Jews and the language of the Egyptians.” (1 Nephi 1:2) At the very beginning of the Book of Mormon, Nephi tells us that he…

It appears that Mormon, the abridger of Nephite history, intentionally framed the story of Alma the elder and his people onto Nephi’s vision of the tree of life using word links and other imagery.