7 And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto the land of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous people.
8 And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity.
10 For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be swept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are swept off.
11 And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, (He is talking to us here, in the Latter Days) that ye may know the decrees of God—that ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you as the inhabitants of the land have hitherto done.
12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.
There have been two nations that have been on this continent. One was the Jaradites, those who came from the Tower of Babel, who have been swept off because they became wicked, but we have their record, recorded in the Book of Mormon from the 24 gold plates, which is the chapter called ETHER, named after the Prophet Ether who lived in that day.
The second nation were the descendants of Lehi, who became the Nephites and the Lamanites. Lehi was a contemporary Prophet, along with Jeremiah and others, telling the people in Jerusalem to repent. They tried to kill those prophets, but Lehi was warned in a dream to take his family and leave Jerusalem and he would be lead to another land.
They came to the Americas, landing on the Pacific side of Central America. They became two individual nations, one following Nephi, and the other followed Laman, two of Lehi's sons.
The Nephites were righteous at first then by the end of the 1000 years they had become wicked, and the Lamanites who were wicked at first, became more righteous then the Nephites.
Only a couple of Nephites, Mormon, and his son Moroni, both Prophets were the only righteous ones left after the final wars of destruction. They were the ones who kept the records that were recorded since Lehi left Jerusalem. Mormon ended up dying and Moroni had to keep moving because the Lamanites were trying to kill any Nephite they could find. Moroni ended up in upper part of America, which is now known as New York, and burried the places.
When the Lord knew it was time, he had the Resurrected Prophet Moroni direct the Prophet Joseph Smith to the location of the plates and instructed Joseph for three years on what his mission was for the Last Days.
Mormon consolidated all the records into the essentials we, in these Last Days, needed and when we received the record, it was named after Mormon, The Book of Mormon, to honor him in what he did.
We DO NOT worship him. The record was NOT made for them in their day, but the Lord told the Prophets that it was for US in the last days, to give us the full gospel.
According to the Lord, it contained the FULLNESS OF HIS GOSPEL.
Because of this change to wickedness, the Lord had the Nephites swept off the land and the remaining Lamanites became the western Indian tribes that were here when America was Re-discovered by Columbus.
Since there were people already here, it had already been discovered and that is why Columbus Re-Discovered it. The Gentiles who came here later on, killed many of the Indians and drove them further west and ended up being put on reservations.
Unknown to most, these Indians are from Jerusalem. They came about 600 B.C. to this land. This means they are part of Israel and the Book of Mormon is their record from their ancestors who first came here.
He saw that the Devil formed the Great and Abominable Church among the Gentiles. This church was formed before the Gentiles came to the new world.
It's purpose was to fight against the Restoration of the Gospel when it was established in 1830.
He saw the Spirit of Christ came down upon a man among the Gentiles (Columbus) and led him to discover America.
Then the Prophet Nephi saw the Spirit " that it wrought upon other Gentiles and they went forth out of captivity upon the many waters" and once they were established in America, Nephi saw the Revolutionary War and that the colonizers had to fight against the Mother Country (England) to keep their freedom.
He saw that they brought a book with them (the Bible).
He also saw that this Great and Abominable Church changed and eliminated many Plain and Precious things that were in it. Those things that were taken out would later be put back in by the Restoration of the Gospel in 1830.
To read the details of what happened, go to www.lds.org and click on Scriptures and go to Book of Mormon, 1st Nephi 13: 1-32.
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