Friday, May 1, 2009

1 Nephi 19:11

In this verse, Nephi continues to tell us of the prophesies of Zenos. He says that Zenos said that during the time of His death, or just shortly thereafter, Jesus, the Lord God, shall visit all of the house of Israel. Some with His voice because of their righteousness and they shall have great joy and salvation. The others He will visit "with the cthunderings and the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by dsmoke, and evapor of fdarkness, and by the opening of the gearth, and by hmountains which shall be carried up."

The Book of Mormon shows that this prophesy was fulfilled. Although we have the record of just a portion of the house of Israel upon the isles of the sea, we can see that the Nephites were a wicked people when Christ died and they were visited with all these destructions (see 3 Nephi 8:5 and on). There may have been other righteous peoples on the isles of the sea (see Alma 63:5 and on) that also heard the voice of Jesus Christ, and this land was one of them, after the destruction took place (see 3 Nephi 9:1 and on).

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