Noah (Genesis 6-9, 11; Moses 8) QUESTIONS

Master Mahan & the Fullness of Iniquity

READ Ether 2:11 and D&C 101:11

What is the “fullness of iniquity”?

 

Joseph Smith was quoted as saying “Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire” (Journals of Abraham Cannon).  If the time of the Flood is a model for the days before the Second Coming of Christ - it would benefit us to learn more about what led to their destruction and how the righteous survived. To begin, we need to go back to the time of Adam.

 

READ Moses 5:12, 16, 18, 29-34

What does the fact that Cain became “perdition” imply on the statement that he loved Satan more than God?

What is the Master Mahan principle?

On what principles are the “Two Ways” or more accurately the “Two Directions” of Zion and Babylon based?

 

READ Moses 5:49-52

How is Lamech’s murdering different from Cain’s murder of Abel?

What is an abomination?

 

READ Moses 7:26 and Alma 12:11

What is the great chain that Satan uses to veil the whole earth in darkness?

 

READ Moses 7:32-34 and Moses 8:20-22, 28-30

Why is the Lord going to send in the floods – how can you tell they have reached the fullness of iniquity?

Who are the “men of old, men of great renown” that these “sons of God” are referring to?

 

READ Moses 7:27 and Moses 8:24

What is happening to those that choose to humble themselves and receive the truth from the angels?

 

 

Lessons from the Great Flood

READ Moses 7:42-43; Moses 8:13,19,25-27; Genesis 6:18

Why did the Lord save Noah’s family on the Ark instead of catching them up to save them in Zion?

What is an ark?

 

READ Moses 7:61-62

What hope have we to escape the same fate as the people at the time of Noah?

 

READ Genesis 7:11-13

What were the weather conditions when Noah started and finished building the Ark?

What kind of courage must we have to testify to the world that we must all repent and come unto Christ through covenant that we might walk with God, as did Noah and his family?

 

 

The Tower of Babel

READ Genesis 11:3-4

What are they trying to do in building a tower?

 

READ Genesis 11:5-7

What is really going on here?

How does God stop the project?

These people were attempting to build Zion but they were going about it the wrong way - what was wrong?

If they had each truly been one with God, how would the confounding of their language have affected them?

Did anyone from this group or period actually end up experiencing Zion?