The Book Of Mormon; Prophesy For Our Day

I will give you the key to understanding the Book of Mormon.  The Book of Mormon itself is prophesy for our day.  The cycle that is repeated in the book is repeating now again. 

The Book of Mormon was brought forth because the Lord knew that we were going to repeat it at this time and we can learn from it and break the cycle in our own lives, because we know exactly what is going to happen next.  At large, the Book chronicles the last days, it is history, but it is history that is repeating itself right now. 

To understand it we need to realize that the timeline and events will be slightly different, in other words it will not be year for year, event for event.  But the basic timeline and progression is the same.  We are following the same basic history in the restoration of the Gospel.  The same events are happening.  In the beginning of the Book of Mormon we read that Lehi is spoken to by God and commanded to travel to a new location where he and his friends and their families can live the Fullness of the Gospel in peace.  Similarly, Joseph was spoken to by God and was instructed to move to a certain area where he was to live the Fullness of the Gospel in peace.  Lehi died on his way to the new location, and Joseph died before getting to the new location.  Nephi continued to teach and move the families, as Brigham continued to teach and move people.  Nephi’s brother Jacob continued in the work of the Lord, and it was supposed to be Hyrum and his descendants to continue with the Fullness, but Hyrum was martyred along with Joseph, and that line was in disarray until recently when the Patriarch passed away, at which time it ended.  So it continued through a priesthood line.  After the ending of righteousness in Jacob’s line, there was a new gathering under Mosiah/Benjamin…  And so on. 

It is quite easy to see how the Book of Mormon is prophesy for our day.  And just as in the Book of Mormon, the two great prophet brothers Nephi and Lehi did a great work and gathered a few people in preparation for the coming of the Messiah, there will be such a preparation this time also. 

This time when Christ comes again, he will set up his Kingdom for a thousand years.  Then afterward the devil will be released for a short season, and the Book will continue it’s prophesy until it is done. 

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