Tag: 2 Nephi

Repeatedly the Lord tells that His people will be challenged and oppressed by other nations for their waywardness but at the same time He promised that the time will come when He remembers the covenant to gather them in and He will chasten those other nations which are lifted up in their pride.

I never before considered that the portions of Isaiah that Nephi’s decided to record wholesale are those which speak most directly to the mission of Christ, the prophecies of Christ, and the dealings of Christ with His covenant people. That is fitting with the started aim of Nephi’s record.

When they Lord says that He will take away the wise and prudent from among the people I think that in most cases He doesn’t need to do anything. When they are wicked the people often vanish the wise and prudent from among them without any intervention.

I will soften the hearts of the Gentiles, that they shall be like unto a father to {thy seed}. 2 Nephi 10:18 I suspect that the way Native Americans have become romanticized in American culture is a sign of hearts being softened. Before they were romanticized they were reviled among many of the European transplants…

Being wise is good unless we let it lead us to think we do not need God. Having wealth is only a danger to us if we set our hearts upon our riches rather than looking to the poor and needy that we could reach. Humility protects us from becoming full of ourselves, our wants,…

What did Nephi think when he had to flee from his brethren for his own life? Did he think of his father fleeing from the people of Jerusalem?

I have always thought of this land as promised for the seed of Lehi and for the settlers of the new world. Today I realized that the promise of the land was for all that were brought here by the Lord which would seem to include every migration of significance (and undoubtedly we don’t know…

Nativii counselors that we should pay before undertaking anything for the Lord and also that if we have the Holy Ghost it will direct us on how to apply the words of Christ that we have received.

We have been told that we will have the words of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Seeing sad we do not yet have those i wonder how far we are from the Second Coming.