The Lord has quite a list of teaching materials: "things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; ... in the heavens above, ... on the earth, ... in the earth, and ... under the earth, both above and beneath." All that, bent to his great teaching purpose: "All things are created and made to bear record of me" (Moses 6:63).

"All things," Nephi wrote, "which have been given of God from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of him" (2 Nephi 11:4). A host of types, shadows, symbols, wake-ups and reminders — intended to point our minds to Christ.

Those divine teaching aids — heaven's sticky notes, as it were — are everywhere.

Consider just two.

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