So I've found that this phrase has been used quite a bit in the bible also. Usually a little bit different of phrasing but its is used enough to the point that there must be a great meaning to it, or at least a popular teaching saying. I found that a biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann showed that there is a connection between rising from the dust and enthronement. He says that to be taken from the dust means to rise from obscurity to royal office. Lehi seems to use this phrase in the same way as does King Benjamin later on. Aren't we all here to rise from obscurity, put on the armour of righteousness as Lehi says and live in such a way that we can continue to rise to royalty. To live once again with our father in heaven eternally with our families in hand is as royal as I can think. Rising from the dust, shaking off the chains with which we are bound, cleansing ourselves from sin. "Awake, and arise from the dust, O Jerusalem; yea, and put on thy beautiful garments, O Daughter of Zion" (Moroni 10:31). I pray that I can be strong and live worthy to receive those awards that await me in heaven. I pray that I can be worthy of those garments and that they will always continue to be beautiful and pleasing unto the Lord.
"Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I
sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me" (Micah 7:8).
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