CHAPTER 7
1 And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had read these things which were engraven upon the plates of brass, my brethren came unto me and said unto me, What meaneth these things which ye have read?
2 Behold, are they to be understood according to the things which are spiritual, which shall come to pass according to the spirit and not the flesh?
3 And I, Nephi, said unto them, Behold, they were made manifest unto the prophet, by the voice of the Spirit:
4 For by the Spirit are all things made known unto the prophets, which shall come upon the children of men according to the flesh.
5 Wherefore, the things of which I have read, are things pertaining to things both temporal and spiritual:
6 For it appears that the house of Israel, sooner or later, will be scattered upon all the face of the earth, and also among all nations,
7 And behold there are many who are already lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem.
8 Yea, the more part of all the tribes have been led away;
9 And they are scattered to and fro upon the isles of the sea;
10 And whither they are, none of us knoweth, save that we know that they have been led away.
11 And since they have been led away, these things have been prophesied concerning them, and also concerning all those who shall hereafter be scattered and be confounded, because of the Holy One of Israel; for against him will they harden their hearts;
12 Wherefore, they shall be scattered among all nations, and shall be hated of all men.
13 Nevertheless, after they have been nursed by the Gentiles, and the Lord has lifted up his hand upon the Gentiles and set them up for a standard, and their children have been carried in their arms, and their daughters have been carried upon their shoulders, behold, these things of which are spoken, are temporal: for thus are the covenants of the Lord with our fathers;
14 And it meaneth us in the days to come, and also all our brethren who are of the house of Israel.
15 And it meaneth that the time cometh that after all the house of Israel have been scattered and confounded, that the Lord God will raise up a mighty nation among the Gentiles, yea, even upon the face of this land;
16 And by them shall our seed be scattered.
17 And after our seed is scattered, the Lord God will proceed to do a marvelous work among the Gentiles, which shall be of great worth unto our seed;
18 Wherefore, it is likened unto their being nourished by the Gentiles, and being carried in their arms, and upon their shoulders.
19 And it shall also be of worth unto the Gentiles:
20 And not only unto the Gentiles, but unto all the house of Israel, unto the making known of the covenants of the Father of heaven unto Abraham, saying, In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
21 And I would, my brethren, that ye should know that all the kindreds of the earth can not be blessed unless he shall make bare his arm in the eyes of the nations.
22 Wherefore, the Lord God will proceed to make bare his arm in the eyes of all the nations, in bringing about his covenants and his gospel, unto those who are of the house of Israel.
23 Wherefore, he will bring them again out of captivity, and they shall be gathered together to the lands of their inheritance;
24 And they shall be brought out of obscurity, and out of darkness;
25 And they shall know that the Lord is their Savior and their Redeemer, the mighty one of Israel.
26 And the blood of that great and abominable church, which is the whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own heads;
27 For they shall war among themselves, and the sword of their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and they shall be drunken with their own blood.
28 And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another.
29 And they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord.
30 And all that fight against Zion, shall be destroyed.
31 And the great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord; yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the dust, and great shall be the fall of it.
32 For behold, saith the prophet, The time cometh speedily, that Satan shall have no more power over the hearts of the children of men:
33 For the day soon cometh, that all the proud and they who do wickedly, shall be as stubble; and the day cometh that they must be burned.
34 For the time soon cometh, that the fullness of the wrath of God shall be poured out upon all the children of men:
35 For he will not suffer that the wicked shall destroy the righteous.
36 Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if it be so that the fullness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire.
37 Wherefore, the righteous need not fear; for thus saith the prophet, They shall be saved, even if it so be as by fire.
