Journals and letters preserve mankind’s
experiences
with God, give us His
commandments
and trace genealogies.
Jehovah of the Old Testament oversaw the
preservation
of the Creation story and
His chosen
people, the Hebrews. Abraham,
Issac and
Jacob raised up posterity, and
kept sacred
records.
Jaredites left the Tower of Babel, and their
Story is
known only because a prophet
could translate
records that they could no
longer
read. The confounding of languages
had become
complete.
Just think, we’d have no scriptures without
scribes copying
old papyrus scrolls over
and over
again. To safeguard fragile media
from decay,
like the Dead Sea Scrolls, more
durable page
material must be found.
Jerusalem of old kept sacred writings engraved
on plates
of brass. Each family’s patriarch
possessed
them, added to them and thus the
learned men
became skilled in engraving.
Judged from the Book of Life, an example for
us to
follow, we record birth, marriage and
death in
the books of this age. From these
we will be
justified or not.
Joined to our ancestors by their records left
behind, we
attach these sources to individual
progenitors
and their stories unfold. They
become individual,
unique people, not just
names.
Jesus is central to the joyous plan of happiness
linking families
by covenant back through
time in
over 300 temples dotting the earth,
no longer
separate pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
but a
completed beautiful eternal portrait.
