3 Nephi 5 – 7
I’m not sure I ever connected the fact that the Nephites lived in their fortified land for four years while they are preaching to the captured Gadiantons Nehor they finally spread themselves out upon the land again.
Even a week organized secret combination could not being the land under the rule of a king. When they tried to do so the society fractured rather than be ruled by a king.
When Jacob told his followers that there would be many dissenters he had the long history of people dissenting from the Nephites to the Lamanites as proof that what he said was likely to be true.
The tribal state of the people only lasted three years before the order of their society was reinvented again in the aftermath of the destructing that came as part of the sign of the death of Christ.
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