Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson.

And I'm Jack Welch.

And today we are starting the Book of Ether. This interesting record of the Jaredites, this very, very concise history.

We've got about 2,000 years, well, just as shy of that, of this people that came forth from the Mesopotamian area at the time of the Tower of Babel. And chapters one and two start out with the final prophet, Ether's genealogy.

And he actually is Blue Blood. And many prophets are not. But he is from a direct descendant from Jared.

And then he changes the history, and we start back with

Jared and his brother, living at the Tower of Babel, wanting their language to be kept pure,

and they build the barges, and then in chapters four and five, Maroni describes a little bit

about the future and the translation process.

It's interesting to see how Maroni inserts messages six times in the book of Ether.

We have Maronai's commentary or interruptions, but in this week, as we're looking at just

Ether's chapters 1 through 5, we have three different commentaries. Chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3,

and chapter 4 all have portions, large portions of Maronai's thoughts that really are dear to learn more

of that good profit in not just in his editing, but as he has the perspective of history to guide our reading.

And Moronai is also working under a constraint because he's been told that these words should not be

quoted too precisely. So he's giving a summation, a narrative of it.

But until the Lord says that these sacred or secret

records can be unsealed, Moronite doesn't take it upon himself to do that.

But he does give us his understanding of things, which, of course, he didn't experience any

of this.

The Jaredite history was all wrapped up and completed before Moronai is on the scene long before.

Yeah, but it does overlap with the Book of Mormon.

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