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Paul Hoskisson wrote a book about the allegory of the olive tree and divided the allegory into seven time periods: founding and aging of the house of Israel; nurturing and scattering of the house of Israel; days of the former day saints; great apostasy; gathering of Israel; millennium; and end of the world. This book is mentioned in relation to a missionary's experience.
This allegory of the olive tree became a book.
— Episode: Jacob 5-7 Part 1 • Dr. Matthew L. Bowen...
Episode: Jacob 5-7 Part 1 • Dr. Matthew L. Bowen • April 8...
Paul Hoskisson wrote a book about the allegory of the olive tree and divided the allegory into seven time periods: founding and aging of the house of Israel; nurturing and scattering of the house of Israel; days of the former day saints; great apostasy; gathering of Israel; millennium; and end of the world. This book is mentioned in relation to a missionary's experience.
This allegory of the olive tree became a book.
This was the first year I was serving as a missionary in the California Roseville Mission, which I'll hopefully get a chance to say something about because it relates to my whole experience with this text.
Pretty early on in its existence, scholars associated with the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies put out that book.
And Paul Hoskison has a study in it where he divides this entire allegory into seven time periods.
Episode: Jacob 5-7 Part 1 • Dr. Matthew L. Bowen • April 8...
The book explores the allegory of the olive tree, breaking it down into seven time periods that encompass various aspects of the history of Israel.
This allegory of the olive tree became a book.
It's in this book right here.
Episode: 2 Kings 2-7 -- Part 1 : Dr. Krystal Pierce
The podcast mentioned that it's one of the chapters that people often skip in the Book of Mormon but is important for understanding the scattering and gathering of Israel, particularly Zenos' allegory of the vineyard.
Those are the major gathering chapters and everyone's kind of like, oh, Second Nephi, skip that. Oh, Jacob 5, skip that.
I love this tree. I've got to scatter it in order to save it.