Tag: 2 Nephi

I think it is interesting that the people of Israel were so scattered and reduced because if their wickedness and yet the Lord still fulfilled every promise through their visible line in sending the savior through their returned remnant.

How have I missed the message of Micah – the story of the faithful husband who remains true to his adulterous wife. This is the meaning of “His anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still.” No matter her sins, he remains willing to forgive even as he does out consequences…

Because the people have turned from the Lord the nation of the Lord’s people shall have taken from them all the benefits that the Lord has bestowed which generated their riches. They will find themselves wanting in the most basic of their needs.

In the last days, the house of Jacob shall people a land which is wealthy beyond words compared to those around them. They will be lifted up in the pride of their eyes.

Nephi preferred to use the words of those who knew of Christ and had seen His day wherever possible. Just as the angel had instructed him, it was Christ who he spent his life witnessing after his own vision.

There are reasons why the Nephites might feel cast off but Jacob reminds them to put their focus on the great promises which have been extended to them by the Lord. By looking for His promises they can remember how blessed them have been and how much He seeks their benefit.

I never noticed before that Jacob, who lived before the discovery of the record of Ether and before the advent of secret combinations among the seed of Lehi, spoke about the evils of secret combinations. That is further evidence of how important that message was for our day, that Jacob would speak about them before…

The message of Isaiah that Jacob shared is to not be discouraged by trials – that despite trials the promises of the Lord will be kept for his people.

To some degree, Jacob as a preacher to the people of Nephi could never be more than the messenger so long as Nephi lived because the people always looked to Nephi for direction. That may be why Jacob told them that Nephi desired him to speak these words of Isaiah.

I realized why the land of Nephi became the capital for the Lamanites after the Nephites left under Mosiah – it was because it was superior to anything the Lamanites had built because of the industry of the Nephites.