Elder Jeffrey R. Holland taught that the allegory of Zenos, like Enoch’s vision of God’s creations (see Moses 7), “does more to teach the true nature of God than any theological treatise could ever convey. It also helps us understand much more emphatically that vivid moment in the Book of Mormon allegory of the olive tree, when after digging and dunging, watering and weeding, trimming, pruning, transplanting, and grafting, the great Lord of the vineyard throws down his spade and his pruning shears and weeps, crying out to any who would listen, ‘What could I have done more for my vineyard?’
“ … What anguish in a parent when His children do not choose Him nor ‘the gospel of God’ He sent!” (“Grandeur of God,” 72).