Jacob 5:60-64

Brant Gardner

The important part of this section of the allegory comes in verses 62 and 64. The Lord of the vineyard notes that these efforts will be for one last time because the end is near. Those two concepts appear in both verse 62 and 64. These are the last actions the Lord will take for the salvation of humankind. What are those actions?

The root, or the covenant with Israel, has been preserved. The various scattered branches of the house of Israel are gathered in and grafted back into the mother tree. This last attempt is not simply the Lord of the vineyard and one servant, but a number of them, all laboring diligently that they might preserve “the natural fruit, which natural fruit is good and the most precious above all other fruit.

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