🌿 WAS KING BENJAMIN TAUGHT BY A NEMENHAH ANGEL? The Hidden Medicine Wheel in One of the Greatest Sermons Ever Given
🌿 WAS KING BENJAMIN TAUGHT BY A NEMENHAH ANGEL?
The Hidden Medicine Wheel in One of the Greatest Sermons Ever Given
Hello friends.
It’s me again… sitting with my scriptures open,
thinking about a question that’s been stirring in my heart for years.
Why does King Benjamin’s speech in Mosiah 2–5 feel so ancient…
so whole…
so familiar…
so Nemenhah?
Why does it read like someone took the medicine wheel,
placed it in the center of the Nephite temple,
and said:
“Here is the way.
Walk in it.”
If you’ve ever felt that way…
you’re not alone.
Let’s walk gently into this together.
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🌄 1. King Benjamin’s Speech Doesn’t Sound Nephite — It Sounds Nemenhah
Most Nephite sermons are:
direct
corrective
legalistic at times
focused on judgment, warnings, and division
heavy on history, war, and covenant consequences
Benjamin’s speech is… completely different.
It flows like a Nemenhah covenant ceremony:
families gather in tents around a center
a righteous father teaches about humility and service
the people enter a new covenant together
they receive a new name
they are taught how to walk in peace
they are invited into rebirth as “children of Christ”
That is not a Nephite pattern.
That is the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn way —
the ancient ceremony of rebirth, humility, and unity found throughout the Nemenhah Records.
You feel it because it’s there.
🌄 2. The Structure of Benjamin’s Talk Is a Medicine Wheel
You’ve traced the chiasmus for years.
Jack Welch saw parts of it.
But you saw deeper — you saw the wheel, not just the mirror.
The center of the whole chiasm comes down to this:
Become a child of Christ.
Put off the natural man.
Yield to the Holy Spirit.
Become a saint through the atonement.
This is pure Nemenhah:
East → Humility
South → Submission
West → Sacrifice
North → Rebirth
Center → At-one-ment
King Benjamin wasn’t inventing a teaching form.
He was using a ceremonial pattern far older than Nephi.
The Book of Mormon preserves the shell of the sermon —
but the Nemenhah Records give us the keys to recognizing what it really is:
A covenant wheel ceremony.
🌄 3. So Was King Benjamin Nemenhah?
Maybe not by blood.
The text never claims that.
But the pattern of his leadership is:
consecration
humility
stewardship
a father-prophet instead of a king-warrior
a covenant ceremony under open sky
receiving ministering instruction from angels
teaching the people how to walk in peace
These are unmistakably Nemenhah values, not Nephite ones.
So the right question isn’t:
“Was Benjamin Nemenhah by lineage?”
but rather:
🌟 “Was he taught by Nemenhah messengers?”
And that is where the Spirit answers loud and clear.
🌄 4. The Angel Who Taught King Benjamin Was Almost Certainly From the Nemenhah Line
Benjamin says:
“The things which I shall tell you were made known unto me by an angel from God.”
— Mosiah 3:2
And what does the angel teach?
the condescension of Christ
the atonement as the center of the way
becoming a child of Christ
humility as the first step
service to others as service to God
receiving a new name
remembering and uplifting the poor
being filled with joy (the North direction in the wheel)
This is exactly the kind of angelic instruction recorded again and again in the Nemenhah:
the Peacemaker’s condescension
the center of the medicine wheel
humility as the eastern gate
rebirth as a child
consecration as service
joy as evidence of the Haymehnay’s seal
caring for the poor as part of every covenant
The angel speaks in a different voice than Nephite prophets…
but in the exact voice of the Nemenhah messengers who taught their own people for centuries.
The harmony is too perfect.
The pattern too exact.
King Benjamin’s angel was almost certainly:
✨ a translated Nemenhah minister, or
✨ a messenger trained in the Tuhhuhl Nuhmehn,
✨ teaching Benjamin the ancient covenant way.
No wonder the whole sermon feels like coming home.
🌄 5. Why This Matters for Us Today
We’re not just reading an old Nephite festival talk.
We’re watching the same ancient tradition show up in two separate records:
the Book of Mormon
the Nemenhah Records
And the Lord is showing us something:
The covenant way has always been the same.
Humility
Service
Consecration
Rebirth
Joy
At-one-ment
Benjamin’s people “fell to the earth,”
cried out for mercy,
entered a new name,
and became the “children of Christ.”
This is the same experience every Nemenhah record describes when someone walks through the medicine wheel in truth.
The Restoration is wider, older, deeper than we ever imagined.
The same voice.
The same Christ.
The same Peacemaker.
The same covenant.
The same path home.
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