Feb 21, 2008

DAY 39 – II Nephi 7:33-8:27

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EDITOR'S NOTE: this email should be followed by five others, which will be the readings for next week.

Hasta luego!

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33 And now, my beloved brethren, seeing that our merciful God has given us so great knowledge concerning these things, let us remember him, and lay aside our sins, and not hang down our heads, for we are not cast off;
34 Nevertheless, we have been driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been led to a better land:
35 For the Lord has made the sea our path, and we are upon an isle of the sea.
36 But great are the promises of the Lord unto those who are upon the isles of the sea;
37 Wherefore, as it says isles, there must needs be more than this; and they are inhabited also by our brethren.
38 For behold, the Lord God has led away from time to time from the house of Israel, according to his will and pleasure.
39 And now, behold, the Lord remembereth all those who have been broken off; wherefore, he remembereth us also.
40 Therefore cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves; to choose the way of everlasting death, or the way of eternal life.
41 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh;
42 And remember after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.
43 Wherefore, may God raise you from death, by the power of the resurrection, and also from everlasting death, by the power of the atonement,
44 That ye may be received into the eternal kingdom of God, that ye may praise him through grace divine. Amen.

CHAPTER 8

1 And now Jacob spake many more things to my people at that time; nevertheless, only these things have I caused to be written; for the things which I have written sufficeth me.
2 And now I, Nephi, write more of the words of Isaiah; for my soul delighteth in his words.
3 For I will liken his words unto my people; and I will send them forth unto all my children: for he verily saw my Redeemer, even as I have seen him.
4 And my brother Jacob also, has seen him as I have seen him; wherefore, I will send their words forth unto my children, to prove unto them that my words are true.
5 Wherefore, by the words of three, God hath said, I will establish my word.
6 Nevertheless, God sendeth more witnesses; and he proveth all his words.
7 Behold, my soul delighteth in proving unto my people the truth of the coming of Christ:
8 For, for this end hath the law of Moses been given:
9 And all things which have been given of God from the beginning of the world, unto man, are the typifying of him.
10 And also, my soul delighteth in the covenants of the Lord which he hath made to our fathers;
11 Yea, my soul delighteth in his grace, and his justice, and power, and mercy, in the great and eternal plan of deliverance from death.
12 And my soul delighteth in proving unto my people, that save Christ should come, all men must perish.
13 For if there be no Christ, there be no God; and if there be no God, we are not, for there could have been no creation.
14 But there is a God, and he is Christ; and he cometh in the fullness of his own time.
15 And now I write some of the words of Isaiah, that whoso of my people shall see these words, may lift up their hearts and rejoice for all men.
16 Now, these are the words; and ye may liken them unto you, and unto all men.
17 The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw, concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
18 And it shall come to pass in the last days, when the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hill, and all nations shall flow unto it,
19 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
20 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plow shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
21 O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways.
22 Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
23 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots;
24 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
25 And the mean man boweth not down, and the great man humbleth himself not: therefore forgive him not.
26 O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for the fear of the Lord, and the glory of his majesty shall smite thee.
27 And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

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