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Christ performs multiple functions in the vision, also being symbolized by the fountain of living water and the tree of life. Nephi uses language as a shorthand for corresponding parts of Nephi's and Lehi's vision, like when the children of men fall down and worship Christ, and when people in Lehi's dream fall down and eat the fruit.
Lehi's tree of life vision was among the first subjects of artwork of Book of Mormon content, and around 1874 David Hyrum Smith, a son of Joseph Smith and a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (later renamed to Community of Christ), produced Lehi's Dream, portraying Lehi being led to the tree of life by an ...
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints archeologist M. Wells Jakeman proposed that the image was a representation of a tree of life vision found in the Book of Mormon. [11] Jakeman's theory was popular for a time among members of the Church of Jesus Christ, but found little support from Church of Jesus Christ apologists. [12]
The tree of life vision is described and discussed in the Book of Mormon. According to the Book of Mormon, the vision was received in a dream by the prophet Lehi, and later in a vision by his son Nephi, who wrote about it in the First Book of Nephi.
The prophet Lehi had a house in Jerusalem. He escaped Babylonian captivity by travelling with his family to the Americas. God revealed to him during the journey the Tree of life vision. The Liahona showed him the way to follow. His descendants, the Nephites and Lamanites, populated the area. 0–33 AD
We've seen some pretty cool tree houses in our time but this one definitely tops them. It's 10 stories high, 10,000 square feet, took 11 years to build and was, well, commissioned by God. Devout ...
The sons of Lehi 1 and the family of Ishmael 2 leave Jerusalem. Laman 1 and Lemuel and some of Ishmael 2 's children rebel. Nephi 1 persuades them to continue and they rejoin Lehi 1 and Sariah. They gather seeds and grain. Lehi 1 has a vision of the tree of life. Nephi 1 also has a vision of the tree of life, and foresees many future events.
The Wilson County Planning Commission on Friday unanimously approved Pastor Greg Locke's site plan for Global Vision Bible Church in hopes of resolving a lawsuit, the latest chapter of an ...