Tag: 2 Nephi
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28 January 2010
2 Nephi 29 – 30For every generation of the Jews who would not believe in Christ there was no covenant, only the remnants of a covenant with their fathers. For every Gentile in history who believed in Christ, the Lord has a covenant that they will not be lost – even if some of them…
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27 January 2010
2 Nephi 27 – 28All the nations who fight against Zion shall think that they are winning in their fight but will one day wake up to discover that they have not achieved anything they desired – despite the progress they thought they were making. It must have been a great testimony to Joseph when…
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26 January 2010
2 Nephi 26Fire always has the ability to do one of two things, it can purify or it can consume. Those things which are precious are purified while those things which are rotten are consumed. Those who have no substantial righteousness are reduced while those who are mainly righteous are left more righteous as their…
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25 January 2010
2 Nephi 24 – 25I have always found some exciting parts in Isaiah, but this time through I have had a different gut reaction – I am entranced with Isaiah and love it at a completely subconscious level. It’s to the point that I started reading Isaiah to my kids for our evening devotional. The…
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24 January 2010
2 Nephi 20 – 23I love how the Lord can and will use imperfect and even unsuspecting men to do his work. He did not need to send the king of Assyria against Jerusalem because the king of Assyria was already inclined to conquer what he could. All the Lord had to do was not…
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23 January 2010
2 Nephi 17 – 19“Neither fear ye the fear of this people nor be afraid. Sactify the Lord of Hosts himself, and let Him be your fear and let Him be your dread.” – that is good counsel for any time. No matter how bad things get, though the anger of the Lord is not…
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22 January 2010
2 Nephi 13 – 16I think that the “captain of fifty” is not specifically military, just someone who leads that number of men in some capacity – our Elder’s quorum has fifty members so under that interpretation the Lord would take away someone like me from Jerusalem. “A man shall take hold of his brother…
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21 January 2010
2 Nephi 10 – 12Jacob shares the prophecies concerning this promised land and the seed of the Nephites, then Nephi shares words of Isaiah that he says indicate that all men can rejoice. It is obvious that these words of Isaiah are very pointedly about the promised land in the latter days.
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20 January 2010
2 Nephi 9It is interesting to see Jacob talking about secret combinations because he lived before they existed among the Nephites and before the Nephites had a record of them among the Jaredites and Jacob had never lived among the people at Jerusalem. His knowledge of secret combinations is entirely verbal and impersonal. Wo unto…
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19 January 2010
2 Nephi 7 – 8“You complain against me Israel, my covenant people, but your trials are a result of your own sins and whatever their source, am I not able to redeem you no matter your condition?”“Listen to Me and pay attention all you who follow righteousness – keep your eyes focused on your Savior…