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Chapter 17: The Testimony of Amaleki. Gary R. Whiting. The Book of Mormon is a book of truth and also a book of mystery. God has given this record to all who love the truth. However, he expects each reader to be a diligent seeker of its pages. When the Book of Mormon is explored with the Holy Spirit as the reader’s guide, many treasures are ...
The book of Helaman portrays the Nephites fluctuating between righteousness and wickedness with greater frequency than at any other time in their history. The book relates multiple instances of dissension, war, murder, and secret combinations. It also introduces and describes the activities of the Gadianton robbers, whose works of darkness ...
The Joseph Smith Translation of Isaiah 2:10 is longer than the King James translation: “ O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for the glory of his majesty.”. The land surrounding Jerusalem is mountainous and full of caves, as described in Isaiah 2:19–21 and 2 Nephi 12:19, “And they shall go into the holes of ...
The Book of Mormon is holy scripture. It is a key witness of the divine Sonship of Jesus Christ and a convincing testimony that salvation is to be found only through him. The Book of Mormon’s primary message, that Jesus Christ came to earth to redeem mankind, is closely tied to the history of the house of Israel.
Other Book of Mormon examples include “my little band of two thousand and sixty fought most desperately” (Alma 57:19); “Wherefore, by the words of three, God hath said, I will establish my word” (2 Nephi 11:3); “And it came to pass that there were two hundred, out of my two thousand and sixty” (Alma 57:25). 3.
The whole book exhibited many marks of antiquity in its construction and much skill in the art of engraving. 3. In 1838 the Prophet began writing the official Church history—he started with the First Vision, and later narrated the Three Witnesses’ prayer in the grove. Following is his description of what he saw and heard with Oliver Cowdery ...
The second is that Yahweh caused a skin of blackness to come upon them. The curse is a fulfillment of Lehi’s prophecy about the land: “If iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes” (2 Ne. 1:7). That cursing was pronounced upon the land, but the iniquity must come from people, not land.
