Genesis 11

 After the Lord had commanded Noah and his posterity to settle though out the land, many disobeyed and grouped together as - 

"...they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there."  (Genesis 11:2)

and planned - 

"...let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."  (Genesis 11:3–4)

Josephus claims that one motive was so the Lord couldn't flood them again, obviously unreasonable.

Thus - 

"...the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."  (Genesis 11:6–9)

Elder Neil L. Andersen - The Name of the Church Is Not Negotiable

 Elder Andersen reminds us of the words of the Prophet - 

"Remember President Nelson’s words? “I promise you that if we will do our best to restore the correct name of the Lord’s Church, He whose Church this is will pour down His power and blessings upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints, the likes of which we have never seen.”"

"“The name of the Church is not negotiable.” Let us go forward in faith. When we willingly follow the counsel of the Lord as revealed through His living prophet, especially if it runs counter to our initial thinking, requiring humility and sacrifice, the Lord blesses us with additional spiritual power and sends His angels to support us and stand by us.21 We receive the Lord’s affirmation and His approval."

Genesis 9

 There are some interesting comments concerning Canaan, a son of Ham and Egyptus, where he is specifically mentioned - 

"...the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan."  (Genesis 9:18)

And later - 

"...Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."  (Genesis 9:25–26)

As well as - 

"God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."  Genesis 9:27)

Just interesting to me.  Was it a prophecy?

Genesis 8

 After the Flood, the Lord promised Noah - 

"...the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."  (Genesis 8:21–22)

For those that are concerned in our day of climate change and the end of this earth need to review that promise.

Genesis - 6

 We read that Noah was commanded - 

"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it."  (Genesis 6:14–16)

If a cubit is about 18 inches, then the ark was around 450 feet.  For me this is mind boggling.

Elder Gerrit W. Gong - Trust Again

 Concerning trust in the Lord, Elder Gong teaches - 

"Trust God and His miracles. We and our relationships can change. Through the Atonement of Christ the Lord, we can put off our selfish natural self and become a child of God, meek, humble, full of faith and appropriate trust. When we repent, when we confess and forsake our sins, the Lord says He remembers them no more. It is not that He forgets; rather, in a remarkable way, it seems He chooses not to remember them, nor need we."

Genesis 5

 The Lord suggests Adam's surname or family name as He states - 

"Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."  (Genesis 5:2)

It may have been Adam Adam.

Genesis 4

 It is important to understand that Cain was "cursed" by the Lord saying - 

"...now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth."  (Genesis 4:11–12)

Then Cain pleaded - 

"My punishment is greater than I can bear.

14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me."  (Genesis 4:13–14)

Then for his protection - 

"...the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."  (Genesis 4:15)

Genenis 3

We read in Genesis  that after Adam and Eve are cast out of the Garden that - 

"Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them."  (Genesis 3:21)

The thought came to me that "didn't Adam and Eve have the capacity to make clothing of some sort?"

But in this case, the Lord made the clothing.  I ask, was there not a more important purpose that the Lord made the coats of skin?

Genesis 2

 As we read - 

"...the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."  (Genesis 2:21–22)

...President Spencer W. Kimball taught that this was symbolic.  He compared to our way of thinking in our day using the comparison "he just a chip off the old block".  Obviously, someone is not a piece of wood.  It is only symbolic.

President Russell M. Nelson - The Temple and Your Spiritual Foundation

 President Nelson stated -

"The temple lies at the center of strengthening our faith and spiritual fortitude because the Savior and His doctrine are the very heart of the temple. Everything taught in the temple, through instruction and through the Spirit, increases our understanding of Jesus Christ. His essential ordinances bind us to Him through sacred priesthood covenants. Then, as we keep our covenants, He endows us with His healing, strengthening power.3 And oh, how we will need His power in the days ahead."

He also mentioned - 

"After administering the endowment to Brigham Young in May 1842, Joseph told Brigham, “This is not arranged right, but we have done the best we could under the circumstances in which we are placed, and I wish you to take this matter in hand and organize and systematize all these ceremonies.”

In closing he admonished - 

"And to each of you who has made temple covenants, I plead with you to seek—prayerfully and consistently—to understand temple covenants and ordinances.18 Spiritual doors will open. You will learn how to part the veil between heaven and earth, how to ask for God’s angels to attend you, and how better to receive direction from heaven. Your diligent efforts to do so will reinforce and strengthen your spiritual foundation."

Adding -

"Likewise, whenever any kind of upheaval occurs in your life, the safest place to be spiritually is living inside your temple covenants!"

Genesis 1

 Referring back to - 

"...the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also..."  (Moses 3:7)

...in the Book of Moses, it is my personal opinion as I read in Genesis - 

"Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good."  (Genesis 1:11–12)

And - 

"Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."  (Genesis 1:20–22)

...that all these were placed on the earth.  Just as Adam and Eve were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth, this didn't happen until Adam fell, because Adam was the first flesh or first to fall into mortality.

Again, I say, this is my present own opinion.