The account of Abraham offering Isaac in Genesis 22 can feel almost unbearable. A father, a promised son, a mountain, an altar. We often rush to the typology of Isaac as a type of Christ, or the ram as a substitute, but Latter-day Saint scripture invites us to see even more. In

When the Lord rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah, the command to Lot’s family was simple and urgent: flee, and do not look back. But Lot’s wife did look back, and that backward glance reveals a divided heart. Leaving Sodom was not merely a change of address. It

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Genesis 32 finds Jacob alone at night, on the edge of reentering a land filled with unresolved fear. He has sent his family ahead. He has prayed. He has planned. And then, in the dark, “there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day” (Genesis 32:24). We often focus

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Continuing my endeavors to find shadows and types of Christ in the Old Testament, today we turn to Genesis 24 and the story of Rebekah, often read as a beautiful love story or as evidence of divine guidance in marriage. But read more slowly, it becomes something richer: a quiet

“Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.” This heart-rending line from the popular hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee” echoes the circumstances behind one of the most striking visions in the Old Testament. Jacob lies down in the wilderness with a stone for his pillow, alone, uncertain

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Esau may be the original prodigal son, and there is value in reading those stories alongside each other. Few relationships in scripture begin with as much tension as that between Jacob and Esau. Their rivalry begins even before birth, when Rebekah feels the twins fighting in the

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Among the many quiet but powerful figures in the book of Genesis is a man whose name is never mentioned in the text. He is simply called “the servant of Abraham.” It is therefore appropriate that studying his dedication to Abraham yields one of the clearest scriptural examples of

Joseph’s story is saturated with foreshadowing of Christ, and I’ll spend a lot of time on that topic this week. In Genesis 37, Joseph’s father asks him to go and check on his brothers, who are tending the flocks far from home. “Come, and I will send thee unto them… And he said

First Visions, by Anthony Sweat. I love the flame here. Joseph Smith sometimes described the pillar of light as a pillar of fire. Here's how Orson Pratt described the vision as told to him by Joseph: “While thus pouring out his soul, anxiously desiring an answer from God, he,

One of the most sobering ways in which the story of Joseph points us to Christ occurs before he ever reaches Egypt. His brothers see him coming across the fields and begin plotting what to do with him. Genesis 37 is chilling in its straightforward statement: “When they saw him

The scriptures teach that Christ descended below all things so that he could lift us all to ascend with Him to our Father. (Ephesians 4:9-10, D&C 88:6). Few scriptural stories illustrate this pattern of redemption as powerfully as the life of Joseph. His journey moves through

Another foreshadowing of Christ found in the story of Joseph is the price placed on his life. In Genesis 37, Joseph’s brothers first plan to kill him. But when a caravan of traders approaches, one brother suggests a different plan: “What profit is it if we slay our brother, and