Brother of Jared sees the Finger of the Lord

Brother of Jared sees the Finger of the Lord

In the Book of Mormon there is a story about a great prophet named the Brother of Jared.   His name was so long that they used the term "Brother of Jared" in order to avoid carving such a long name.  Joseph Smith revealed that his name was actually Mohonrioriancamr.   

Anyway, the Brother of Jared and Jared, his brother and their friends and all their families came from the Tower of Babel.  They traveled overland a long ways until they came to the ocean.  Here they were commanded to build some barges to take the people across the great waters (ocean) to the promised land (New World or Western Hemisphere).  The barges were shaped a bit like an almond.   The Brother of Jared knew that they would have trouble using candles or oil lamps because the barges were totally enclosed.  So when the Brother of Jared asked the Lord what to do the Lord asked him what he though he should do.  

Then the Brother of Jared obviously thought it out and he used some obvious blacksmithing skills to molten out 16 small clear stones and he prayed and asked the Lord to touch them so that they would glow and provide light for the people in the barges.  

Then to the Brother of Jared's surprise the Lord, who had been talking to him from a cloud, reached out his finger to touch each of the 16 clear stones.   .    .  and the stones started to glow.  The Brother of Jared was shocked because he did not know that God had a hand and fingers etc.  In fact the Brother of Jared did not know that God had a body.  

The God was Jehovah or Jesus Christ in his pre-earth life form.  He next revealed all of himself to the Brother of Jared and explained that he, Jesus, would take upon Himself a body of flesh and blood but right then He had His Spirt Body.  

Jesus Christ was our eldest brother in the Pre-mortal Life.  He volunteered to pay the eternal price for our sins to make repentance possible for us.  Because of this (His Atonement) we can return cleansed from all our sins into the presence of our Heavenly Father one day.  In fact, if we repent, and keep God's commandments, we will one day be living with both our Heavenly Parents and our Elder Brother, Jesus Christ, and our spouse and family.   We members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints call that place The Celestial Kingdom.

NOTE:  My nephew, Kolby,  helped me out by drawing the finger and hand of the Lord.  I was having a hard time with it.  I definitely need to work on improving my drawing of hands and feet.
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