6Īs everything in the Book of Mormon had led to this point, 7 Mormon then carefully and deliberately alluded to the words of Isaiah to forcefully illustrate that the pinnacle of the book, that majestic moment, had arrived. 5 Yet he also interwove through the whole text the idea that, someday, Christ would come to heal humanity. Throughout the narrative, He told of many of the children of Lehi who closed themselves off from God.
Mormon masterfully crafted the Book of Mormon to point readers to this “supreme moment” when Christ came heal His people. 4 They finally understood the gospel in their hearts, allowing themselves to be converted so Christ could heal them. And behold, the third time they did understand the voice which they heard.” After years of closing their eyes, ears, and hearts to God, as Isaiah said, the ears and eyes of the Nephites were opened. In 3 Nephi 11:5–6 (emphasis added), a voice from God came to the people and they “did hear the voice, and did open their ears to hear it and their eyes were towards the sound thereof…. Mormon seems to have implied that the people finally accepted this healing. 2 Thus, after the cities of the Nephites had become “wasted without inhabitant,” as Isaiah had said, Christ pled with the people to “be converted” and allow Him to “heal” them. He then asked the survivors, “will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?”( v.
#3 NEPHI BEHOLD I AM JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD LDS SERIES#
He told them about all the cities that had been completely leveled by the series of natural disasters that befell several unrighteous Nephite cities ( 3 Nephi 9:2–12). Isaiah asked, “Lord, how long?” and God told him, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate” ( 2 Nephi 16:11 Isaiah 6:11).Īfter the great destruction at the time of the crucifixion, Christ spoke to the people. Nephi had recorded, quoting Isaiah, that the Lord wanted Isaiah to “make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes-lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and be healed” ( 2 Nephi 16:10 Isaiah 6:10, emphasis added for all verses). As Elder Holland further explained, “It was the manifestation and the decree that had informed and inspired every Nephite prophet for the previous six hundred years, to say nothing of their Israelite and Jaredite forefathers for thousands of years before that.” 1Ī look at the early chapters of the Book of Mormon demonstrates how important this moment was. In one important sense, the prophetic anticipation of the Book of Mormon culminates in the appearances of the resurrected Jesus marvelously reported in 3 Nephi 11–27. Holland said of this moment, “That appearance and that declaration constituted the focal point, the supreme moment, in the entire history of the Book of Mormon.” This statement is profoundly true at many levels. When Christ appeared to the Nephites, His first words were, “I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world” ( 3 Nephi 11:10).
0 kommentar(er)
