Tag: 2 Nephi
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The Eternal Judge
The prophets repeatedly seek refugee in the judgements of the Just Judge – perhaps because they spend so much time being judged unfairly by their fellow men.
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Thy king, the mighty one of Jacob
When the Lord says that He is “thy king” He is speaking to those who have chosen to be ruled by Him (though He is the rightful King even of those who do not accept His sovereignty) and thus it is a tell of affection rather than dominion. As “the mighty one of Jacob” He…
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Jehovah
The Lord told Moses that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob didn’t know his name as Jehovah – only as God Almighty.
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Believe in Christ
Nephi says that if you believe in Christ you will believe his words. That leaves me wondering about those people who seem to truly believe in Christ and yet do not believe his words. Is it because they haven’t actually read his words? (In most cases I’m sure that’s true – but it seems the…
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Worse than you started
The scripture doesn’t say that if you deny Christ after receiving baptism you will be a son of perdition – it says that you will be worse than you were before you knew to be baptized. That’s an important difference in how we understand the situation of those who follow and then reject Christ.
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Scales of darkness
When the remnant of the seed of Lehi begin to believe the scales of darkness shall fall from their eyes. The darkness of the scales of unbelief are the true curse for audiences – much more than any darkness of skin which may also be given a people for their unbelief.
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Have they remembered the Jews?
How we, as Christians and as supposed followers of God, render the Jews is indicative of how much we truly follow God. The less we think of them the less we must be thinking of Him. When the Maury of people in Europe turned a blind eye to the Holocaust it shows how far they…
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Many varieties of falsehood
Notice the many various ways that people are led astray. Some rebuild against the good. Many think that salvation is free or at least given without restriction. Some are simply ignorant
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The prophecy of Nephi
Just as his descendant Nephi would do centuries later in telling the people word for word and action for action how Seantum would deny and then confess to killing his brother Cezoram, Nephi here prophesies in great detail about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon and many particulars that would take place in…
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He lifteth the world
The seed of Lehi stumbled and fell. They were destroyed suddenly when the gentiles came to the land but the gentiles too stumbled and fell. Yet Christ came to lift all men up and draw them to Him.