![]() Even the Lord is said to wield a rod in punishing the wicked (see Job 9:34 21:9 Psalm 89:32 Lamentations 3:1). ![]() In the Old Testament, the rod is typically used to chastise children and wrongdoers (see 2 Samuel 7:14 Proverbs 13:24 29:15). All of them imply that the rod is a symbol of ruling power. The first of these (Revelation 2:27) paraphrases the psalm, while the others (Revelation 12:5 19:15) build on it. The term rod of iron is found in Psalm 2:9 and in three passages in the book of Revelation. Those who “caught hold of the end of the rod of iron” and clung to it through the “mist of darkness” were able to “come forth and partake of the fruit of the tree” (1 Nephi 8:24 compare 8:30). Thus Lehi described the rod and the path seen in his vision of the tree of life. And I also beheld a strait and narrow path, which came along by the rod of iron, even to the tree by which I stood and it also led by the head of the fountain, unto a large and spacious field, as if it had been a world.” (1 Nephi 8:19-20) ![]() ![]() “And I beheld a rod of iron, and it extended along the bank of the river, and led to the tree by which I stood. ![]()
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