Feb 21, 2008

DAY 38 – II Nephi 6:99-7:32

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EDITOR'S NOTE: I will be out of town next week and will be unable to make daily posts, so I'm planning to post all the readings for next week at the end of tomorrow's posting. Things will be back to normal on March 3rd. Please remember Aubrey and me in your prayers; we're traveling to the Yucatan reunion! God bless.

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99 Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price.
100 Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which can not satisfy.
101 Hearken diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken; and come unto the Holy One of Israel,
102 And feast upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul delight in fatness.
103 Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words of your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto his holy name by night.
104 Let your hearts rejoice, and behold how great the covenants of the Lord, and how great his condescensions unto the children of men;
105 And because of his greatness, and his grace and mercy, he has promised unto us that our seed shall not utterly be destroyed, according to the flesh, but that he would preserve them; and in future generations, they shall become a righteous branch unto the house of Israel.
106 And now, my brethren, I would speak unto you more; but on the morrow I will declare unto you the remainder of my words. Amen.

CHAPTER 7

1 And now I, Jacob, speak unto you again, my beloved brethren, concerning this righteous branch of which I have spoken.
2 For behold, the promises which we have obtained, are promises unto us according to the flesh;
3 Wherefore, as it has been shown unto me that many of our children shall perish in the flesh, because of unbelief, nevertheless God will be merciful unto many;
4 And our children shall be restored, that they may come to that which will give them the true knowledge of their Redeemer.
5 Wherefore, as I said unto you, it must needs be expedient that Christ (for in the last night the angel spake unto me that this should be his name) should come among the Jews, among those who are the more wicked part of the world;
6 And they shall crucify him: For thus it behooveth our God;
7 And there is none other nation on earth that would crucify their God.
8 For should the mighty miracles be wrought among other nations, they would repent, and know that he be their God;
9 But because of priestcrafts and iniquities, they at Jerusalem will stiffen their necks against him, that he be crucified.
10 Wherefore, because of their iniquities, destructions, famines, pestilence and bloodsheds, shall come upon them;
11 And they who shall not be destroyed, shall be scattered among all nations.
12 But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day cometh that they shall believe in me, that I am Christ, then have I covenanted with their fathers, that they shall be restored in the flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands of their inheritance.
13 And it shall come to pass that they shall be gathered in from their long dispersion from the isles of the sea, and from the four parts of the earth;
14 And the nations of the Gentiles shall be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying them forth to the lands of their inheritance.
15 Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers;
16 Wherefore the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles, for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?
17 But behold, this land, saith God, shall be a land of thine inheritance; and the Gentiles shall be blessed upon the land.
18 And this land shall be a land of liberty unto the Gentiles: and there shall be no kings upon the land, who shall raise up unto the Gentiles.
19 And I will fortify this land against all other nations;
20 And he that fighteth against Zion, shall perish, saith God; for he that raiseth up a king against me, shall perish.
21 For I the Lord, the King of heaven, will be their king; and I will be a light upon them forever, that hear my words.
22 Wherefore, for this cause, that my covenants may be fulfilled, which I have made unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the flesh, I must needs destroy the secret works of darkness, and of murders, and of abominations;
23 Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall perish:
24 For they are they who are the whore of all the earth;
25 For they who are not for me, are against me, saith our God.
26 For I will fulfill my promises which I have made unto the children of men, that I will do unto them while they are in the flesh.
27 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, thus saith our God: I will afflict thy seed by the hand of the Gentiles;
28 Nevertheless, I will soften the hearts of the Gentiles, that they shall be like unto a father to them;
29 Wherefore, the Gentiles shall be blessed and numbered among the house of Israel.
30 Wherefore, I will consecrate this land unto thy seed, and they who shall be numbered among thy seed, for ever, for the land of their inheritance:
31 For it is a choice land, saith God unto me, above all other lands;
32 Wherefore, I will have all men that dwell thereon, that they shall worship me, saith God.


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