QUESTION: Why two visions/encounters so near to each
other? The first appears to be related
to the latter and more complete vision.
What allowed Lehi to proceed from one to the other or was this added
light and truth an inevitability? This
question becomes pertinent to us as we strive for greater knowledge and
direction from God. How can we
facilitate a greater and greater endowment of truth from heaven?
“being thus
overcome”
-I wonder
if Lehi had been “less overcome”, or in other words, if he took more lightly or
pondered less (i.e. gone about his everyday activities) the thing which he had,
in the first instance, been given would the Lord bless him with a further
degree of knowledge (this additional vision)?!
How often do we have a spiritual experience and, although we are touched
and/or grateful, not take sufficient time to ponder it –we hardly feel we
have enough time to write it down. In
this instance we take the things of God too lightly.
“he was carried
away in a vision”
-most
visions seem to take place in the location of the participant: Moses was not “carried away” but rather
encountered God at the place of the burning bush. The same happened to Paul whose experience on
the road to Damascus stayed on the road; likewise Joseph Smith never left the
sacred grove. Even Lehi’s first vision
took place on the rock where he was praying.
Why then, in this instance, is he “carried away”?
6 & 8 (Comparative).
I wonder if the content of the two experiences are related?
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