Elko and Moses

I'm sitting in my hotel room in Elko. I wish my family were here. Namely, Cindy. When can you come out and visit me? Maybe do a sleepover? For a week or a year or a hundred?

I was reading in Exodus and got the strongest impression that I should read each chapter of the Law of Moses, looking for types of Christ and making notes.

In chapter 18, where Moses is judging the people alone, his father in law Jethro comes along and has the following conversation with Moses:

"What do you think you are doing?"
"Judging the people's problems and teaching them the laws and doctrines. Why?"
"You're gonna kill yourself and destroy them. It's not good."
"So...what then?"

and then Jethro tells him how to do it.

"You teach the law and doctrines. Pick righteous, wise men to be judges. Judges of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. Let them judge the little stuff."

And then two things hit me. One, although we have tons of types or shadows of Christ, we have fewer anti-types, and most of them are wicked people. But...here we have an example of an anti-type of Christ who was a flawed man doing his best and falling far short of God-like performance.

He was trying to be the Judge, but only making it to judge and not a very good one. He was not capable of judging everyone right. Not the time, not the skills, not the potential.

There is only one Judge who has all that is required to judge all mankind and it's not Moses or any other person. We have our little stewardships and the Lord told us judge righteous judgment, but in a very small way.

And another thing hit me. Today we have the same basic setup that the children of Israel had. We have judges of thousands or stake presidents; we have judges of hundreds or bishops; judges of fifties or quorum leaders and Relief Society presidents; and judges of tens or home and visiting teachers.

Think about it.