1
Nephi 19:11
The
Lord God Shall Surely Visit
What
11 For
thus spake the prophet: The Lord God surely shall avisit all
the house of Israel at that day, some with his bvoice,
because of their righteousness, unto their great joy and salvation,
and others with thecthunderings and
the lightnings of his power, by tempest, by fire, and by dsmoke,
and evapor of fdarkness,
and by the opening of the gearth,
and by hmountains which
shall be carried up.
Jesus
would visit all of Israel at His death. The righteous would hear his
voice with joy and the wicked would endure or be taken with terrible
storms and darkness with fear.
Why
Both
the wicked and the righteous would know of the divinity of Jesus
Christ. They would receive the consequences of their choices.
Nest
verse explains- to
exclaim: The God of nature suffers.
Pattern
visit-D&C
5:16
16
And behold, whosoeverbelieveth on
my words, them will Ivisit with
the manifestation of
mySpirit;
and they shall be born of
me, even of water and of the Spirit—
voice-3 Ne.
9:1 (1–22)
1
And it came to pass that there was a voice heard
among all the inhabitants of the earth, upon all the face of this
land, crying:
2 Wo, wo, wo unto this people; wo unto the inhabitants of the whole earth except they shallrepent; for the devil laugheth, and his angels rejoice, because of the slain of the fair sons and daughters of my people; and it is because of their iniquity and abominations that they are fallen!
2 Wo, wo, wo unto this people; wo unto the inhabitants of the whole earth except they shallrepent; for the devil laugheth, and his angels rejoice, because of the slain of the fair sons and daughters of my people; and it is because of their iniquity and abominations that they are fallen!
thunderings-Hel.
14:21 (20–27)
20
But behold, as I said unto you concerning another sign,
a sign of his death, behold, in that day that he shall suffer death
the sun shall be darkened and refuse to give his light unto
you; and also the moon and the stars; and there shall be no light
upon the face of this land, even from the time that he shall suffer
death, for the space of three days,
to the time that he shall rise again from the dead.
21 Yea, at the time that he shall yield up the ghost there shall bethunderings and lightnings for the space of many hours, and the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which are upon the face of this earth, which are both above the earth and beneath, which ye know at this time are solid, or the more part of it is one solid mass, shall bebroken up;
21 Yea, at the time that he shall yield up the ghost there shall bethunderings and lightnings for the space of many hours, and the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which are upon the face of this earth, which are both above the earth and beneath, which ye know at this time are solid, or the more part of it is one solid mass, shall bebroken up;
Smoke-Gen.
19:28
28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of
the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of
the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Ex.
19:18
Exodus-18
And mount Sinai wasaltogether on
a smoke,
because theLord descended upon
it in fire:
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the
wholemount quaked
greatly.
I
n the Latter days-Mormon 8:29-30Morm.
8:29 (29–30)
29
Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall
be heard of fires, and tempests, and vaporsof
smoke in foreign lands;
30 And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in divers places.
30 And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in divers places.
D&C
45:DD&C 45:41 (40–41)
D&C
45:40-41- And they shall see signs andwonders,
for they shall be shown forth in the heavens above, and in the earth
beneath.
41 And they shall behold blood, and fire, and vapors of smoke.
41 And they shall behold blood, and fire, and vapors of smoke.
Vapor-1 Ne.
12:5
5
And it came to pass after I saw these things, I saw the vapor of
darkness, that it passed from off the face of the earth; and behold,
I saw multitudes who had not fallen because of the great and terrible
judgments of the Lord.
Darkness-Luke
23:44 (44–45)
44
And it was about the sixth hour,
and there was a darkness over
all the earth until
the ninth hour.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
JJoeoel
2:31
Joel
2:31- The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon
into blood,
before the great and the terribleday of
the Lord come.
3 Ne.
8:3
3
Ne. 8:3- And the people began to look with great earnestness
for the sign which had been given by the prophet Samuel, the
Lamanite, yea, for the time that there should be darkness for
the space of three days over the face of the land.
Earth-Num.
16:32
Numbers
16:32 And the earth opened her
mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses,
and all the men that appertained unto
Korah, and all their goods.
Mountains-3 Ne.
10:13 (13–14).
13
And they were spared and were not sunk and buried up in the earth;
and they were not drowned in the depths of the sea; and they were not
burned by fire, neither were they fallen upon and crushed to death;
and they were not carried away in the whirlwind; neither were they
overpowered by the vapor of smoke and of darkness.
14 And now, whoso readeth, let him understand; he that hath the scriptures, let him search them, and see and behold if all these deaths and destructions by fire, and by smoke, and by tempests, and by whirlwinds, and by the opening of the earth to receive them, and all these things are not unto the fulfilling of the prophecies of many of the holy prophets.
14 And now, whoso readeth, let him understand; he that hath the scriptures, let him search them, and see and behold if all these deaths and destructions by fire, and by smoke, and by tempests, and by whirlwinds, and by the opening of the earth to receive them, and all these things are not unto the fulfilling of the prophecies of many of the holy prophets.
Christ-this
verse testifies of the reality of his divinity.
To
proclaim that the God of nature (Jesus Christ) suffers. Also to
visit and teach those who love Him and bring them joy.
Conference
10/11
Dallin H. Oaks
Teachings
of Jesus
Only Begotten Son
“For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.
“For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that
the world through him might be saved” (John
3:16–17).
God
the Father affirmed this. In the culmination of the sacred experience
on the Mount of Transfiguration, He declared from heaven, “This is
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him” (Matthew
17:5).
“If
ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from
henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
...Always,
Jesus honored the Father and followed Him. Even as a youth He
declared to His earthly parents, “Wist ye not that I must be about
my Father’s business?” (Luke
2:49).
“For I came down from heaven,” He later taught, “not to do mine
own will, but the will of him that sent me” (John
6:38;
see also John
5:19).
And the Savior taught, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me”
(John
14:6;
see also Matthew
11:27).
We
return to the Father by doing His will. Jesus taught, “Not every
one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven”
(Matthew
7:21).
He explained:
“Many
will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?
“And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity” (Matthew
7:22–23).
Challenge and Testimony
Jesus
issued the challenge “What think ye of Christ?” (Matthew
22:42).
The Apostle Paul challenged the Corinthians to “examine yourselves,
whether ye be in the faith” (2
Corinthians 13:5).
All of us should answer these challenges for ourselves. Where is our
ultimate loyalty? Are we like the Christians in Elder Neal A.
Maxwell’s memorable description who have moved their residence to
Zion but still try to keep a second residence in Babylon?1
There
is no middle ground. We are followers of Jesus Christ. Our
citizenship is in His Church and His gospel, and we should not use a
visa to visit Babylon or act like one of its citizens. We should
honor His name, keep His commandments, and “seek not the things of
this world but seek … first to build up the kingdom of God, and to
establish his righteousness” (Matthew
6:33, footnote a;
from Joseph Smith Translation, Matthew
6:38).
Jesus
Christ is the
Only Begotten and Beloved Son of God. He is our
Creator. He is the
Light of the World. He is our
Savior from sin and death. This is the most important knowledge on
earth, and you can know this for yourself, as I know it for myself
Apply
How
will Jesus visit me and you? Will we be the righteous who receive
great joy at His coming? Or will we be destroyed. He visited the
Nephites after His death on the cross in both ways. He will visit
the earth again at His second coming and He will come to rule the
earth. It will be heaven-like for those who follow him and the
wicked will be destroyed.
Hymns
59-Come,
O Thou King of Kings
D&C
45: 39 And
it shall come to pass that he that afeareth me
shall be blooking forth
for the great cday of
the Lord to dcome,
even for the esigns of
the coming of the fSon
of Man.
40 And
they shall see signs and awonders,
for they shall be shown forth in the heavens above, and in the earth
beneath.
42 And
before the day of the Lord shall come, the asunshall
be darkened, and the moon be turned into blood, and the stars fall
from heaven.
44 And
then they shall look for me, and, behold, I will come; and they shall
see me in the aclouds of
heaven, clothed with power and great bglory;
with all the holy angels; and he that cwatches not
for me shall be cut off.
Children
82-
I wonder When He Comes Again
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