The Lord Labors With Us – Jacob 5 – 7, March 16-22

Links to FREE resources to enhance this week’s reading of Jacob 5-7 for children, youth, and adults.

Children

Activity – Allegory of the Olive Tree – Print this page for your children to color as you teach them about the allegory of the olive trees.

Activity – Faith Is Like a Seed – Use this color-by-number page from the Friend to teach your children how a seed of faith can grow into a strong tree.

Activity – Missionaries Help Heavenly Father’s Children – maze

Activity – Jacob and Sherem – scripture figures

Song – Dare to Do Right – Sing Along Video with words

Song – Stand for the Right – Sing Along Video with Words

Song – Called to Serve – Sing Along Video with Words

Video – Jacob and Sherem – Book of Mormon Reader

Youth

Article – 12 Facts about the Gathering of Israel – This New Era article helps you see how the gathering of Israel fits into the gospel—and how you fit into the gathering.

Article – How can I develop unshakeable faith and overcome doubt? – This New Era article explains how knowing and trusting Jesus Christ helps make our faith unshakeable.

Article/Video – Hope of Israel – President Russell M. Nelson and Sister Wendy W. Nelson invited all youth to join the Lord’s battalion by helping gather Israel in this worldwide youth devotional.

Video – The Atonement Enables Us – (Jacob 4:6–7) Elder David A. Bednar speaks about how the Atonement enables us.(2:18)

Youth & Adults

Article – What Can We Learn from the Allegory of the Olive Tree? – Defines terms used in the allegory to help better understand it.

Article – Defending the Faith – In this Ensign article, Jörg Klebingat reminds us that in the War in Heaven we defended Heavenly Father’s plan by the strength of our testimonies. He provides five tips for us to continue valiantly defending and proclaiming the truth today.

Adults

Article – The Gathering of Scattered Israel – In this general conference address, President Russell M. Nelson recounts the history of the scattering of Israel and reminds us of our role to help bring to pass the gathering of Israel and the restoration of all things.

Article – Remembering in Whom We have Trusted – A General Conference talk by Allen D. Haynie.

Article – Sherem’s Skepticism: The Tactics of a Faith Shaker – This article examines the various methods used by Sherem to undermine faith and how we can counter modern manifestations of these same methods.

Article – Don’t Give Up on Me – In this Ensign article Larry S. Kacher teaches as we—like the servants in Jacob’s allegory—go forward with a quiet assurance that the Lord will never give up on us, we too must never give up on those we love, acting as instruments in the Lord’s hands to gather Israel.

Article – The Lord Leads His Church – A General Conference talk by Henry B. Eyring

Article – Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus – A General Conference talk by Quentin L. Cook.

Article – “Ye Shall Have Joy with Me”: The Olive Tree, the Lord, and His Servants – BYU Religious Studies Center

Article – Autumn, Olives, and the Atonement – BYU Religious Studies Center

Chart – The Allegory of the Olive Tree – BYU Studies

Chart – Symbolic Elements in Zenos’ Allegory – BYU Studies

Chart – Personal Application of Olive Symbolism – BYU Studies

Video – Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Jacob 4-6 – Professors from the BYU Department of Ancient Scripture discuss Jacob’s teachings about the Law of Moses, the correct intent of that Law, and the allegory of the olive tree.

Video – The Book of Mormon: Jacob’s Teachings in Jacob 4-6 – BYU Religious Education

Everyone

Activity – Digital Vineyard Harvesting – Use this activity from the Ensign to teach your family about the gathering of Israel, which includes doing temple work for our deceased ancestors.

Video – Jacob 7 – Sherem preaches against the doctrine of Christ and demands a sign. He is smitten by the power of God and dies after confessing his sins to the people.(7:16)

Video – Old Testament Olive Vineyard – (Jacob 5–6) Seminary students visit an Old Testament olive vineyard and are taught how to care for olive trees. They discover conditions in the vineyard that parallel the conditions in Zenos’s allegory. Segment 1, Old Testament Olive Vineyard (6:51)

Video – Vineyard at the Time of Christ – (Jacob 5–6) Seminary students visit an Old Testament olive vineyard and are taught how to care for olive trees. They discover conditions in the vineyard that parallel the conditions in Zenos’s allegory. Segment 2, Old Testament Olive Vineyard. (2:08)

Video – Nethermost Parts of the Vineyard – (Jacob 5–6) Seminary students visit an Old Testament olive vineyard and are taught how to care for olive trees. They discover conditions in the vineyard that parallel the conditions in Zenos’s allegory. Segment 3, Nethermost Parts of the Vineyard. (1:15)

Video – All Fruit of the Vineyard is Corrupt – Seminary students visit an Old Testament olive vineyard and are taught how to care for olive trees. They discover conditions in the vineyard that parallel the conditions in Zenos’s allegory. Segment 4 – All Fruit of the Vineyard is Corrupt. Jacob 5-6 (1:19)

Video – The Olive Tree – (Jacob 5–6) A group of seminary students visit an Old Testament olive vineyard and are taught how to care for olive trees. They discover conditions in the vineyard that parallel the conditions in Zenos’s allegory. Segment 5, Song: “The Olive Tree”. (2:33)