If taken slowly and carefully, the Allegory of Zenos can become one of the most rewarding and exciting adventures in all of scripture study. Hence this lesson on the Allegory of Zenos.Ĭoming to Understand and Love the Allegory His words are powerful, plain and prophetic and need to be understood by members of the Church in our day and age. Zenos gave us 4, 261 words in the Book of Mormon (of the total 269, 329 words), which is about 2% of the text. He said that all nations would see the salvation of the Lord.He prophesied that the Lord would gather the House of Israel from the four quarters of the earth.He promised that the Lord would remember his covenants which He had made with the House of Israel.He prophesied that those who crucified the Lord would wander in the flesh, a perish, and become a “hiss and a byword” and be hated among all nations.He said that the people of Jerusalem would be scourged by all people because they crucified the Lord.He prophesied that the kings of the isles of the sea would be wrought upon by the Spirit of God to exclaim, at the time of the crucifixion, “The God of nature suffers.”.He spoke of destructions that would accompany this time period, including thunderings, lightnings, tempest, fire, smoke, vapor of darkness, the opening of the earth, and by mountains being carried up.He spoke concerning the three days of darkness as a sign of Christ’s death.We know that Zenos gave many very specific prophecies that would be greatly significant and important to the Nephites, including the following: “And now I would that ye should know, that even since the days of Abraham there have been many prophets that have testified these things yea, behold, the prophet Zenos did testify boldly for the which he was slain.” (Helaman 8:19) We know that Zenos was martyred for his testimony.
So, Zenos (and Zenock) were ancestors of this branch of the house of Joseph! No wonder they were so interested in his words because he spoke specifically concerning them and those things that would come to pass in the lives of the Nephites and Lamanites, part of his posterity. Yea, the prophet Zenos did testify of these things, and also Zenock spake concerning these things, because they testified particularly concerning us, who are the remnant of their seed.” (3 Nephi 10:15,16, emphasis added) “Behold, I say unto you, Yea, many have testified of these things at the coming of Christ, and were slain because they testified of these things. Concerning the time of the destructions following the crucifixion, the great prophet Mormon wrote: How do we know this? Zenos prophesied of many things that would occur, particularly around the time of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Zenos was a Prophet who lived after the time of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph and was of the tribe of Joseph of Egypt. 3 He is adespised and rejected of men a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Ħ But I am a worm, and no man a reproach of men, and bdespised of the people.ġ4 And because they turn their hearts aside, saith the prophet, and have adespised the Holy One of Israel, they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss and a byword, and be hated among all nations.ġ0 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house because thou hast adespised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
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