1 Nephi 11-12
Nephi’s Witness
1 Nephi 11:1
Receiving a Witness
Nephi does three things:
“desired to know”
believed “that the Lord was able to make them known”
“sat pondering in [his] heart”
• “I was caught away in the Spirit
of the Lord, yea, into an
exceedingly high mountain,
which I had never before seen,
and upon which I never had
before set my foot.”
1 Nephi 11:2-6
The Interview
“What desirest thou” ?
“I desire to behold the things which my father saw”
“Believest thou” ?
“thou knowest that I believe”
The Confirmation and Blessing
“Blessed art thou…because thou believest in the Son of the
most high God”
1 Nephi 11:7-36;12
He sees the Vision of the Tree of Life.
He desires an interpretation of his father’s dream.
Expands and Interprets
He sees the life and mission of Jesus Christ.
He is given keys to understand the significance of the dream.
He then sees the history of his people and those of his brothers;
obedience vs. disobedience.
Sees the restoration of the Gospel and of his people.
The Reality of Visions
Evidence of a Seer
Look, looked
Behold, beheld
Saw, see
Know
Bear record
1 Nephi 11:24-26, 32
The Tree and the Cross
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)
Living Waters
See Exodus 15:23-26; John 4:9-14; Isaiah 12:3 (2 Nephi
22:3); Isaiah 55:1 (2 Nephi 9:50); John 7:37
Izapa Stela 5
Medieval Tree of Life: Sephirot of Jewish Kabbalah
The Pomegranate
Fruit of the Tree of Life