573. For Sunday School: Joseph Smith's father saw same vision Lehi had, of the Tree of Life! From Meridian Magazine.
Book of Mormon Extras Lesson 3 – Joseph Smith’s Father Saw the Tree of Life 19 Years Before the Book of Mormon was Published By Scot Facer Proctor · January 7, 2016 in Meridian Magazine Personal Scripture Study I love to read the scriptures. But I love even more to study the scriptures, to find myself on a meandering path through doctrine, history, culture, discovery and personal revelation. This week’s lesson on the Tree of Life is a perfect opportunity to go down that path. Seed First of all, there’s a big clue to this whole chapter (1 Nephi 8) in the first verse. It seems like a very trivial thing, but it’s not. Nothing in the Book of Mormon is happenstance or trivial. And it came to pass that we had gathered together all manner of seeds of every kind, both of grain of every kind, and also of the seeds of fruit of every kind. What an interesting introduction to the vision of the Tree of Life. Lehi is going to tell us about the seed HE has gathered