Tag: 3 Nephi

Even for the righteous, this great destruction must have been terrifying. How many remembered the prophecies at the time? It would be easy to forget in terror.

I never noticed that Nephi had a 3-year ministry along the Nephites mirroring the time of Christ’s ministry. Nephi healed, cast out enough spirits and raised the dead – just as Jesus did in Palestine. Nephi truly paced the way for Jesus to minister to the people after His Resurrection.

None of those who were selling for power and condemning the witnesses of Christ to death could have been to young to understand the destruction that the Gadianton robbers had threatened then with less than a decade earlier. They made their choices knowing fully how those combinations nearly destroyed them before.

Morning indicates that there were many other records of the people even though he took his account from the record of Nephi. I wonder how many of those other records we will ever recover.

Only by gathering all their possessions densely in one fortified position could the Nephites be strong enough to outlast the robbers. It took years of patience before they were able to gain the upper hand in this war.

Giddianhi here send to channel his inner Ammoron with his bills and deceitful demands. Lachoneus reacts with the same kind of incredulity that Moroni had in receiving the outrageous claims.

With the Lamanites joining the Nephites in order to stand against the Gadiantons there were functionally no Lamanites at this time – only Nephites and Gadiantons. When there later come to be Lamanites again they are starting a new society which had money of the former people but no direct genealogical connection.

There were many prophets foretelling the coming of Christ. I wonder why the unbelievers chose the words of Samuel to base their plan of destruction on. My suspicion of that one of two things were factors – the fact that the timeline of his prophecy was so specific and the fact that he was a…

I wonder if, when we have access to all knowledge, we will learn that the Jewish Holocaust in WWII was the result of Jews not being a warning to believe in Christ. Such a warning exists here in the Book of Mormon although it certainly isn’t specific about an outcome like the Holocaust. It warns…

The three Nephites had a change wrought in their bodies so that they couldn’t feel pain nor be tempted. They could only feel sorrow for the sins of the world and I am confident that they could feel joy in righteousness around them. I’m that state of immunity from the frailties of mortality they would…