1 Nephi 13:13-14

Nephi's vision continues...

Next, he is shown that the Spirit of God wrought upon other Gentiles, or people from Europe and such, and they went forth out of captivity, upon the many waters. We can see this scripture was/is being fulfilled. There are millions of people that came to the Americas (North and South) searching for religious freedom in the 18th and 19th centuries, and even today.

The next verse tells us that the wrath of God was against the seed of his brothers and they were scattered forth before the Gentiles and were smitten. The indigenous peoples of the Americas were conquered by the Europeans. They were made slaves and killed by the thousands. Cortes caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. Pizarro defeated the Incas.

I was thinking about these verses and there has to be a distinction given. The Lord does not condone the actions of a wicked person. However, sometimes he uses the wicked to destroy the wicked. But I must say that there were good people that came and settled the Americas and there were bad people that came, too. There were a lot of indigenous people that were killed. I don't think that all of them were bad, maybe the majority. But, those that were righteous will be saved and those that are wicked will be punished, no matter if they were killed because the majority of the group was wicked.