A BIBLE!

 

We Have a Bible and Don't Need More!

 

Around 600 B.C. in Jerusalem, the Prophet Lehi was preaching repentance to the people at the same time Jeremiah and other prophets were.  The people rebelled against them and the Lord told Lehi to take his family and the essentials he needed and leave Jerusalem.  They eventually ended up in the Americas.  His sons were Nephi, Sam, Laman and Lemuel.  After Lehi died, Laman and Lemuel did not follow the commandments of God and they split from Nephi and Sam.  They became Lamanites.  The Righteous became Nephites.  The Lord chose Nephi to be a prophet to the people.  Between 559 and 545 B. C. the Lord spoke unto the Prophet Nephi and told him what will happen in the Last Days, OUR DAY. 

 

Nephi had been keeping the records of his people since his father, Lehi died.  These records are now the Book of Mormon.  Ezekiel talked about this in the Bible.

Items in red in brackets (    ) are my explanations, other words in red or underlined in red are for emphasis.

 

Ezekiel 37: 15-20

 

15 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, (this means the bible) and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, (this is the Book of Mormon) and for all the house of Israel his companions:

17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

(This scripture HAS BEEN FULFILLED).

 

18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, (this talks about the records that Nephi was writing and it was passed on and continued for 1000 years) and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, (the Bible) and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

 

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

As I mentioned above, between 559 and 545 B.C. the prophet Nephi recorded what the Lord said to him about the Bible and the Book of Mormon which are mentioned in Ezekiel. This is written in the Book of Mormon as follows:

2 Nephi 29: 1-14

1 But behold, there shall be many—at that day when I shall proceed to do a marvelous work among them, that I may remember my covenants which I have made unto the children of men, that I may set my hand again the second time to recover my people, which are of the house of Israel;

2 And also, that I may remember the promises which I have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, (Lehi) that I would remember your seed; and that the words of your seed should proceed forth out of my mouth unto your seed; and my words shall hiss forth unto the ends of the earth, for a standard unto my people, which are of the house of Israel;

(The Lord is telling the Prophet Nephi that the promises made to Lehi, his father, and to Nephi, will be fullfilled through the the words he is writing on the Gold Plates, and will eventually come forth unto Israel, which they are part of, and unto the Gentiles (us), as the Book of Mormon.)

 

3 And because my words shall hiss forth—many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.

 

4 But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall have a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine ancient covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the Gentiles?

 

5 O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have not forgotten my people.

 

6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews?

 

7 Know ye not that there are more nations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the isles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the earth beneath; and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?

 

8 Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.

 

9 And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; and that I speak forth my words according to mine own pleasure. And because that I have spoken one word ye need not suppose that I cannot speak another; for my work is not yet finished; neither shall it be until the end of man, neither from that time henceforth and forever.

 

10 Wherefore, because that ye have a Bible ye need not suppose that it contains all my words; neither need ye suppose that I have not caused more to be written.

 

11 For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written.

 

12 For behold, I shall speak unto the Jews and they shall write it; (The Bible) and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they shall write it; (The Book of Mormon) and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel, (The Lost tribes of Israel) which I have led away, and they shall write it; (Meaning that when the 10 Lost Tribes return, they will each have Bibles of their own, so there will be 12 Bibles in total.  so if you have NOT read the Bible or the Book of Mormon, you will have a lot of reading to catch up on) and I shall also speak unto all nations of the earth and they shall write it.

 

13 And it shall come to pass that the Jews shall have the words of the Nephites, (The Book of Mormon) and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; (The Bible, their decendents the Indians, now have it) and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; (Meaning the Jews and the Indians and US THE GENTILES, will have all 12 records) and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews. (Meaning they will have the Book of Mormon and the Bible also).

 

14 And it shall come to pass that my people, which are of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; (Jerusalem for the Jews and the Lost Tribes of Israel and America for the Tribe of Joseph or Ephraim, and no one can change that because the Lord is in charge) and my word also shall be gathered in one. (Meaning the Book of Mormon, the Bible as ONE as they are now PLUS the other 10 Bibles or records will all be together as ONE) And I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my people, who are of the house of Israel, that I am God, and that I covenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed forever.

Remember, the words in bold RED in (   ) are my explainations, and the rest of the red is for emphisis.  So, pay close attention to the beginning of the brackets and the end of the brackets so you will not get confused where my words start and end and the scriptures start and end.

For further information on these scriptures from over 2500 years ago, go to www.lds.org and click on scriptures and choose Book of Mormon and you will be enlightened to see that the people way back then knew of OUR DAY and what the people NOW will be saying.