It is one of the Signs of the Times spoken of by one of the Lord's Prophets, the Prophet Nephi who originally came from Jerusalem with his father Lehi and his family.
The Prophet Nephi took over making the records of their leaving Jerusalem about 600 B.C. and told the experiences they went through to come to the Americas.
In his record he recorded how the people would feel when these records were brought forth in the Last Days, in the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times by another Prophet raised up in these days.
Because people have been taught from the time of Christ's ministry. by the misisters of religion that the Lord has done His work, and gave us a bible and it had everything in it, and that the Lord does not speak to people in these days and there are no such things of miricles anymore, people could not accept more scriptures even to this day.
The Book of Mormon was not made for the people in the Prophet Nephi's time, though he and other prophets, from 600 B.C. to 421 A.D. preached to their people, the record was for US TODAY.
While preaching and recording what the Lord told the Prophet Nephi to say, he recorded, especially for the benifit of the first prophet chosen to bring the record forth in OUR DAY, namely The Prophet Joseph Smith, he recorded that there would be opposition to the Added Scriptures. Here is what he said in the record, the Book of Mormon, so the Prophet Joseph Smith and others could know how it would be received.
2 NEPHI 29 the whole chapter. This was about 559 to 545 B.C.
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;
(When a Prophet Speaks, he speaks In The Name of the Lord as if it is the Lord's voric, example above I Shall or I May.)
2 And also, that I may remember the promises which I have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, 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;
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.
(If you are not a Jew or of Israel, you are a Gentile)
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; and I shall also speak unto the Nephites and they shall write it; and I shall also speak unto the other tribes of the house of Israel, which I have led away, and they shall write it; 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 or Stick of Joseph) and the Nephites shall have the words of the Jews; (The Bible) and the Nephites and the Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel; and the lost tribes of Israel shall have the words of the Nephites and the Jews.
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; and my word also shall be gathered in 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.
Ezekiel talked about the Bible and Book of Mormon coming together to Witness TOGETHER that Jesus is the Christ.
EZEKIEL 37:16-20
16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, 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.
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, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, 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.
The book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament also speaks of the Stick of Judah (the Bible) and the Stick of Ephraim or Joseph (The Book of Mormon) and how they would come together as ONE in the Last Days.
This Prophesy HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
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