Thy Sin Purged
The first chapter of the Book of Mormon contains an account by Nephi of the heavenly vision his father Lehi had which was a call for him to preach to the people at Jerusalem. As I read it this morning, I realized there are some similarities with the vision Isaiah had when he was similarly called to preach. Nephi wrote of his father, “He was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God” (1 Nephi 1:8). Isaiah described what he saw in these words, “I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims” (Isaiah 6:1). Both of them saw God on a throne surrounded by angelic beings, angels for Lehi and seraphim for Isaiah. Lehi learned of the wickedness of Jerusalem in a book that was given him and mourned because of their iniquities: “And he read, saying: Wo, w...
