{"id":114258,"date":"2026-01-02T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=114258"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T02:16:31","slug":"palm-springs-prophetic-parallels-and-the-passing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2026\/01\/palm-springs-prophetic-parallels-and-the-passing-scene.html","title":{"rendered":"Palm Springs, Prophetic Parallels, and the Passing Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\u201cGod Took Enoch,\u201d by Gerard Hoet (1728)
Wikimedia Commons public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope that you\u2019ll enjoy this article, written by Jeff Lindsay<\/a>, which has just appeared in Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>: \u201cParallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, Part 2: The Updated List of 146 Parallels\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> In exploring the connections between the texts of the Book of Mormon and the Book of Moses, several updates to previously published parallels need to be made, including the discovery of even more apparent parallels. The total number of proposed parallels that cannot readily be explained by the language of the King James Bible now stands at 146. In this article I present the current list and the updates. Of particular importance may be the expanded findings related to Samuel the Lamanite and connections to the account of Enoch in the Book of Moses in updated Parallel 86.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is accompanied online by \u201cInterpreting Interpreter<\/em>: Listed Parallels,\u201d<\/a> written by Kyler Rasmussen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This post is a summary of the article \u201cParallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, Part 2: The Updated List of 146 Parallels<\/a>\u201d by Jeffrey D. Lindsay in Volume 67 of Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship<\/em>. All of the Interpreting Interpreter<\/em> articles may be seen at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/category\/summaries\/<\/a>. An introduction to the Interpreting Interpreter<\/em> series is available at https:\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreting-interpreter-on-abstracting-thought\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A video introduction to this Interpreter article is now available on all of our social media channels, including on YouTube at https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/4F2RgHrTFJ8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Takeaway:<\/strong> Lindsay lays out a complete list of all 146 known parallels between the Book of Moses and the Book of Mormon, identifying and describing a number of new parallels, and outlining older ones that have since been updated or clarified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, just as a reminder: \u00a0The first installment of the new Interpreter Insights Podcast<\/em> is now up online. \u00a0It runs about eleven minutes and is, of course, accessible at no charge: \u00a0The Interpreter Insights Podcast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In downtown Palm Springs (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think it\u2019s been nearly fifty years since I\u2019ve been to Palm Springs. \u00a0I never would have predicted that, since, up until the time that my wife and I married, I would come out here at least once a year or thereabouts. \u00a0 My parents had friends who owned a home out here. \u00a0I went backpacking several times with my Boy Scout troop in the nearby mountains, and, twice or three times, we went up the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway<\/a>. \u00a0(We wanted to do that again this time, but \u2014 I should have known<\/em>! \u2014 the tickets were sold out.)<\/p>\n

The sheer number of palm trees here is impressive. \u00a0And the street names say something about the place\u2019s history with celebrities. \u00a0Driving along Bob Hope Drive, we crossed Gerald Ford Drive before needing to pause at a red light at Frank Sinatra Drive. \u00a0The place where we\u2019re staying is near Dinah Shore Drive. \u00a0There is also Marx Road, named after the four of the five Marx Brothers who had homes here. \u00a0And there are also roads named after George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Claudette Colbert, Bing Crosby, Greer Garson, Danny Kaye, Dean Martin, Ginger Rogers, and Barbara Stanwyck.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s striking to me that those names are all of an era. \u00a0Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Debbie Reynolds, Cary Grant, Sammy Davis Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Taylor all had homes here, as well, and folks such as James Dean, Lucille Ball, and Steve McQueen frequented the place. \u00a0Is this to suggest that the fashionability of the area is now somewhat past its prime? \u00a0Maybe so, although Leonardo DiCaprio owns Dinah Shore\u2019s former home, Barry Manilow spends most of his time here, Robert Downey Jr. is frequently seen in the area, and there are, sadly, Kardashians in the neighborhood. \u00a0Cindy Crawford is on the cover of one of the local magazines; she and her husband own a place here.<\/p>\n

But what really strikes me about names such as Bob Hope, Barbara Stanwyck, Gerald Ford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and the others whom I\u2019ve named above is that they\u2019re all gone<\/em>. \u00a0When I was young, they were titans, seeming immortals, untouchable to ordinary folk. \u00a0They seemed to bestride the world like colossi. \u00a0They lived well. \u00a0Their faces were instantly recognizable pretty much around the globe. \u00a0They enjoyed the good life as much as any human can. \u00a0And now they\u2019re names on street signs. \u00a0Their homes have been demolished or now belong to others. \u00a0(For Bob and Dolores Hope\u2019s spectacular home, which I genuinely love, see here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re a pretty ephemeral lot. \u00a0Transient. \u00a0A very small number of us flame brightly for a short time but, very soon, even those are gone. \u00a0And the expensive cars rust out and the parties go dark and the large houses and the paparazzi pass on to others for a brief while. \u00a0Bob Hope\u2019s vast and magnificent home was completed in 1979. \u00a0He lived to an astonishing one hundred years of age but, even so, he died in 2003, which gave him a paltry twenty-four years in the place. \u00a0And then he left, and he\u2019s already been gone almost as long as he was there. \u00a0He and Dolores are buried in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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Another view of Palm Springs (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the way, I freely confess that, when I travel, I typically eat<\/em>. \u00a0Several of my anonymous online critics have mocked and condemned me for it, but I rather suspect that, when nobody else is looking, they<\/em> sometimes eat, too<\/em>. \u00a0So, today, we enjoyed lunch at Sherman\u2019s Deli & Bakery<\/a>. \u00a0It\u2019s very New York, and seemingly very Jewish. \u00a0(Somehow, the recent surge in unashamed public anti-Semitism has given rise in me to a heightened appetite for things Jewish.) \u00a0We planned it as our major meal of the day, and we bought enough for the leftovers to last us through at least dinner tonight. \u00a0We ordered a hot pastrami sandwich, sweet and sour cabbage soup with beef (which was exceptionally good), a potato knish, stuffed cabbage, potato latkes, and cheese blintzes \u2014 and I washed it down with a chocolate egg cream (which, of course, as per tradition, contains neither egg nor cream).<\/p>\n

I wish that we had a Sherman\u2019s near our place back in Utah!<\/p>\n

Posted from Palm Springs, California<\/p>\n

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