3 Nephi 7 – 8
The people whi did not accept Jacob as their king were united, like our fifty states. They just had no central government to regulate and oversee their alliance. There would be little strengh to the alliance except to prevent the people of Jacob from conquering the rest of the people. Their peace was dependent on each group policing themselves to preserve the alliance. If our government were to break up wewould become sovereign states except that I expect that many of the states if not all would break up into even smaller entities and that people would then move as necessary to join a community where they felt the solidarity they sought.
I get the impression here that Nephi had some visions of what Christ was doing in his life so that even on he other side of the world he witnessed portions of the Savior’s life. (see ch 7 v 15) With the miracles that Nephi performed in the sight of the people the judgements they would suffer when the storms came marking the Savior’s death were fully justified for the people had no excuse of ignorance.
It sounds like virtually everyone who was righteous at the time of the storms had been converted – or more often reconverted – within the two years preceding that day of destruction. What a frustrating 33 years that must have been overall for Nephi to see the people teetering on the brink of destruction almost the entire time.
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