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Sep 20, 2026
Stephen SmootHOST
He says that they're both around the hill and also they're fighting on the hill, right? So there's the hill and the land around the hill, okay? We get some additional details we don't need to go too much into, but it's all here in Mormon chapter 6.
Stephen SmootHOST
There's an added detail in Ether, chapter 15, verse 11, that says that the same place where the Nephites perish at Camorra is called the Hill Ramah by the Jaredites.
Stephen SmootHOST
where the Jaredites perished.
Stephen SmootHOST
And so using our critical thinking skills, Neil and Jasmine, that tells us that the land of Cumorah is located where in relative Book of Mormon geography? In the land northward.
Stephen SmootHOST
The land northward in Jaredite territory.
Stephen SmootHOST
Okay.
Stephen SmootHOST
So wherever your hill Cumorah is in your geography theory, it has to be the same place where the Jaredites are.
Stephen SmootHOST
So there's also an additional geographical detail we get from Ether chapter 9 that's kind of important for situating wherever the hill in the land Cumorah is supposed to be.
Don BradleyGUEST
Where were the Nephite Urim and Thummim from? Where were the interpreters from? How did – Where do we first have them mentioned in the Book of Mormon? What's the earliest? Mosiah?
Stephen JonesHOST
The Jaredites?
Don BradleyGUEST
So King Mosiah has them.
Don BradleyGUEST
It looks like maybe the argument that King Benjamin has them.
DivesHOST
And according to the church, this is no ordinary hill.
DivesHOST
It is taught that two ancient civilizations, the Nephites and the Jaredites, fought their final great wars of extinction right at and near this very spot.
DivesHOST
The gold plates hidden there were translated by Smith into the Book of Mormon, which the church claims is far superior to the Bible because it contains the pure words of Christ.
DivesHOST
And the claims about this spot? they expand even further.
EllieHOST
And then if you listened to last episode, you'll remember that I kind of emphasized the point that Ether was a Jaredite, and that sometimes it kind of gets in my head that like well, the prophets that came among the people to preach repentance, they were like foreign missionaries that came from somewhere else to come preach, and no one really knew who they were, but they really didn't like them, so they went and killed them.
EllieHOST
But the prophets that came among these people when they were kind of downward spiraling like they were before, and still are in fact, they were Jaredites.
EllieHOST
They were like their neighbors and their family and their friends, and they rejected and killed these prophets.
EllieHOST
And they weren't some, again, they weren't some foreigners.
EllieHOST
They were their people.
EllieHOST
And so it hurts that Ether, too, was rejected by his own people, maybe even by his own family and friends, and he was kicked out of the city, and now he lives in the cavity of a rock.
EllieHOST
He lives in a freaking cave, and he spends his days watching the destruction of these Jaredites.
EllieHOST
He's kind of now an outside observer, kind of watching the destruction happen from a third party's [laughs] perspective, which is kind of insane.
David H. MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Lamanites pledge into, plunge into darkness and war for hundreds of years.
David H. MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The experience of the Nephites and Lamanites is that of the Jaredites as well.
David H. MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When the Jaredites disbelieve and persecute the prophets, they face famines and pestilences.
David H. MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They are unable to retain their property, and they experience wars and contentions that become so severe that the stench of rotting flesh troubles them by day and by ni- night.
David H. MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ultimately, as the prophets warn, the Jaredite civilization is destroyed, and the Lord brings forth another people to possess the land.
AllyHOST
Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God.
AllyHOST
And it came to pass that Ether did prophesy great and marvelous things unto the people, which they did not believe, because they saw them not." So in the last couple of chapters, we've had stories of prophets coming among the Jaredites and being killed or being rejected or being kind of thrown into pits and left to die.
AllyHOST
There was one instance of that.
AllyHOST
And it's always kind of been assumed...
AllyHOST
The wording, it says, "And prophets came among the people," so it feels like prophets are coming from the outside to the Jaredites, like from somewhere else to come teach to them.
AllyHOST
But if Ether's any example of these prophets, they were Jaredites.
AllyHOST
They were the very people they were teaching to.
AllyHOST
They weren't some foreign missionaries that were coming from another land to teach them.
Maria EckersleyHOST
So he kind of compares them in this chapter.
Maria EckersleyHOST
He's talking about the Nephites and the Jaredites that sort of met a similar end.
Maria EckersleyHOST
And all of those voices are gonna come forth.
Maria EckersleyHOST
It's one of the things I love about the way the Lord does things.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
And I've pointed this out in various places, including my book, Has God Spoken?, that the Book of Mormon is not a credible revelation in any sense whatsoever.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
Not only is there no archeological evidence for a language such as Reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics, which is supposedly what the golden plates were inscribed in, but there's no archeological support for lands such as the Land of Moron, Ether 7:6, and nor is there any archeological evidence to buttress the notion that the Jaredites, the Nephites, and the Lamanites, the mythological people of the Book of Mormon, actually migrated from Israel to the Americas.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
In fact, both archeology and anthropology demonstrate conclusively that the people and the places that are chronicled in the Book of Mormon are, as I said earlier, little more than the product of the fertile imagination of Joseph Smith.
Hank HanegraaffHOST
And whole passages that you find have been lifted out of the King James Version, and so it's hardly a credible revelation.
Andrew GoughGUEST
The white crown is a beehive.
Andrew GoughGUEST
um as the wisdom of the ages it it's it's the the wisdom that a king bears on his people and the red crown um uh wall spludge transcribed it as dessert which is very similar if not identical to desert which is um the name that the jaredites use for a honeybee The Jaredites are the people who say the Mormon tradition, at the time of the Tower of Babel, think of the flood, ancient man took and put bees in the boat dragged them across the desert, put them in the Atlantic, went across the oceans of the United States, all the way to the Western region, where they created a four-state region called the honeybee.
Andrew GoughGUEST
And on Washington's monument today, what does it say? To our Lord, the honeybee, Deseret.
Andrew GoughGUEST
But going back to Egypt, the Lion of the Bee, Pharaoh's title is the beekeeper.
Mike HarrisHOST
Let's see.
Mike HarrisHOST
It is, it's as soon as the Jaredites arrive in the promised land, they fall to their knees, and they shed tears of joy before the Lord because of the multitude of his tender mercies over them.
Taylor HalversonHOST
Wow.
Taylor HalversonHOST
Mike, I've never seen this one before, but what does the word raham mean? It's the dark but protective nourishing place that God provides.
Taylor HalversonHOST
And what did he just do for the Jaredites in those barges? It was somewhat dark.
Taylor HalversonHOST
They had light in there.
Taylor HalversonHOST
The nourishing-
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