Month #6 2020-2021 Leadership Academy Apprentice

 

Month 6# Apprentice: "Great are the Words of Isaiah"

PLEASE WEAR CHURCH CLOTHES TO CLASS THIS WEEK SO THAT WE WILL BE RESPECTFUL AND FEEL REVERENCE FOR THE PASSOVER MEAL WE WILL BE HAVING. 

AND PLEASE BRING YOUR SCRIPTURES TO CLASS.  

WE'LL BE USING THEM A LOT.

Study/Learn

1 - Start a commonplace book page on Understanding Isaiah

2 - Study map #5 (The Assyrian Empire) in your Bible maps.  You can find the online copy here, print it and glue it in your commonplace book

3 - Read the section entitled "Isaiah" in the Bible Dictionary and summarize it in your commonplace book.

4 - Read the following scriptures and write the reference and a one sentence summary and who is speaking for each one on your Understanding Isaiah page in your commonplace book:

• 1 Nephi 19:23-24
• 2 Nephi 6:5
• 2 Nephi 11:8
• Mosiah 14:1
• 3 Nephi 20:11
• 3 Nephi 23:1

5 - Add the following to your Jewish History timeline and write them on your Understanding Isaiah commonplace book page:

• 721 BC - Assyrians capture the northern kingdom of Israel (the ten tribes)
• 701 BC - Assyrians attack the southern kingdom of Judah and surround Jerusalem but do not conquer it
• 587 BC - Babylonians take the kingdom of Judah into captivity
• 537 BC - King Cyrus allows the Jews to return to Judah

6 - Read the article "10 Keys to Understanding Isaiah" by Bruce R. McConkie and take notes in your commonplace book.  

Know/Understand

• In preparation of our Passover Feast today, read this article, Roots and Branches by Elder Cook about the coming of Elijah the Prophet on Passover, April 3, 1836 and what the fulfilling
  of Malachi's prophecy means for us.
• OPTIONAL: Watch one of the following movies about the Jewish people or the Passover
• The Ten Commandments
• Prince of Egypt
• Fiddler on the Roof

Become/Serve

Find your favorite scripture from Isaiah (either from the Bible or the Isaiah chapters in the Book of Mormon) and make it beautiful and hang it up in your room or if it's digital, put it as the lock screen on your phone.  We'll be meeting at the church, so we won't have the wire to hang it on.  

This is my favorite Isaiah scripture: