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Show BOOK FIRSRST : 86 OF NEPHI. FIRST Behold, I said unto them, et is such thing known unto us. ow it that ye do not keep the commandments ol the Lord - seed shall all the kindreds your hearts, and ask me im faith, believing pared unto an olive tree, by the spirit of the Lord which was trom the fathers our ; we are behold, and, broken not off founded, they were are the covenant and that they Redeemer, which was ministered people the ol their Gospel ol their ot the to come and unto him Yea, at that day, w ll they not receive the strength and nourishment from the true vine? Yea, will they not come unto the true fold of God! Behold, I say unto you, Yea; they shall be remembered again among the shall be House of Israel; they branch of the olive tree, into the grafted true in, olive being a natural tree } and this is what our father meaneth ; and he meaneth that it will not come dio pass, until after that they are scattered by the Gentiles; and he meaneth that it shall come by way of the Gentiles, that Our father hath not spoken ol our nant which should be | fulfilled in the latter days; which cove- themselves that before the and whoso would hearken unto the Wherefore, I, Nephi, did exhort them to give And I said unto them, that our father also saw, that the justice of God did also divide the wicked from the righteous ; and the brightness thereof was like unto the brightness of a flaming fire, which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and hath no end. | seed alone, but als8ovof all the House of Israeli, pointing to the cove- did humble me was prepared for the wicked. the Lord may shew his power unto the Gentiles, for the very cause that he shall be rejected of the Jews, or of the House of Israel ; wherefore, it came all the energies of my soul, and with all the faculty which I will they not rejoice and give praise unto their everlasting God, their rock and their salvation? And many words unto my brethren, possessed, that they would give heed to the word of God, and remember to keep his commandments always, in all things.— And they said unto me, What meaneth the river of water which our father saw? And J said unto them, that the water which my father saw, was filthiness; and so much was his mind swallowed up in other things, that he beheld not the filthiness of the water; and I said unto them, that it was an awful gulf, which separateth the wicked from the tree of lite, and also from the Saints of God; and I said unto them, that it was a representation of that awful Hell, which the angel said unto then at that day, And be saved. In thy heed unto the word of the Lord; yea, I did exhort them with mer, and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how and they be scattered again. va to destruction. unto their fathers by him; come to the knowledge ol their Redee- wherefore, they shall saying: word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish ; neither could the temptations/and the firy darts of the adversary,/overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away of the Lord ; knowledge pacified, was the word of God; that they are of the House and then shall they know and come to forefathers, and also to the knowledge Abraham, of the earth be blessed. And it came to pass that they did_speak unto me again, saying: What meaneth the thing which our father saw in a dream? What meaneth the tree which he saw? And I said unto them, it was a representation of the tree of life. And they said unto me, What meaneth the rod of iron which our father saw, that led to the tree? And I said unto them, that it of the Gentiles, is, that in the latter days, when our seed shall have dwindled in unbelief, yea, for the space of many years, and many generations, after that the Messiah hath manitested himself in body unto the children of men, then shall the fulness of the Gospel of the Messiah come unto the Gentiles, and trom the Gentiles unto the remnant of our seed; and at that day, of Israel, I did speak Lord. ning the grafting in of the natural branches through the tulness shall the remnant of our seed know neither should to pass that of Israel; and are we not a-branch of the House ot IsAnd now, the thing which our father meaneth concer- House rael? NEPHf, And it came, to pass that I, Nephi, spake much unto them concerning these things; yea,.I1 spake unto them concerning the restoration of the Jews, in the latter days; and I did Trehearse unto them the words of Isaiah, which spake concerning the restoration of the Jews, or of the House of Israel; and / after thet they were restored, /they should no more be eon- that ve shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely, these things shall be made known unto you! Behold, I say unto you, that the House of Israel was com- in OP nant the Lord made to our father is it that ye will perish, because of the hardness of your hearts ; Do ve not remember the things which the Lord hath said : if ve will not harden BOOK | ae And they said unto a Doth this thing mean the torment of f | State the Poay the after days the of probatio of thein seul doth lit body? mean the death ofn,the ortempora final or doth |
