Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application of the scriptures in Come Follow Me.

We also dive into the history and cultures of the text.

Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast.

For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org.

Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're going to be in the first vision, aren't we, Bryce?

Yes, the great first vision.

What a great opportunity to go back to the very basics.

But I would suggest at least three things that I want to point out. Number one,

this is the beginning of the restoration. This event ushers in the restoration. And to that end,

let me begin with a marvelous talk that Bruce R. McConkey gave back in 1975. I'm just going to

read his words just to kind of set the

stage for what the first vision is. He said, once or twice in a thousand years, perhaps a dozen

times since mortal man became of dust a living soul. An event of such transcendent import occurs that neither

heaven nor earth are ever thereafter the same. Once or twice in a score of generations,

the hand from heaven clasped the hand on earth in perfect fellowship. The divine drama unfolds and the whole course of mortal events changes.

Now and then in a quiet garden, or amid the fires and thunders of Sinai,

or inside a sepulchre that cannot be sealed, or in an upper room, almost always apart from the gaze of men and seldom known by more

than a handful of people, the Lord intervenes in the affairs of men and manifests his will

relative to their salvation. One such event took place six millennia ago in a garden which was

planted eastward in Eden when the man Adam and

...