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2 Nephi 6
v. 2
v. 9-11
v. 14
Jacob ordained after the manner of his holy order
Jacob saw the redeeming mission of Christ (see 2 Nephi 2:3)
Messiah to recover his people a second time
2 Nephi 21:10-11
D&C 110:11
2 Nephi 7 = Isaiah 50
v. 1
Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement?
Israel = personalized female ideal concept
You have sold yourselves by your iniquities and transgressions
v. 2-3
[Israel is empty] but cannot God redeem?
God gives examples of his power in the past – the plagues of Egypt:
Exodus 15:19 (dry up the sea)
Ex. 7:21 (fish stink)
Ex. 10:21-22 (clothe the heavens with darkness)
v. 4-6
Descriptions of Christ the Messiah (see Matt 27:26-30)
 Tongue of the learned to speak to Israel
The Word
 Was not rebellious despite smitten cheecks, spit, etc. Atonement
v. 7-9
God the Father to help Christ and he will overcome all his adversaries
D&C 76:106
Adversaries
1) Satan
2) Those who follow Satan
D&C 76:106
Psalm 22:1, 6-8, 11-18, 21-22.
1 Peter 5:8
Psalm 18:4-6, 16-17
Psalm 55:12-14
Mosiah 3:19
Help from the Father
Psalm 22:1, 19-22
Adversary smitten by the strength of his mouth
Isaiah 11:4
Isaiah 49:2
1 Nephi 15:30
1 Nephi 12:18
Genesis 3:14-15
v. 10-11
God addresses two groups who sit in the darkness
v. 10 those that fear God (walking in faith, waiting for light)
-vsv. 11 those that try to walk in the light of their own fire, kindling their own
sparks
this is more clear in the NIV (and other translations):
10 Who among you fears the LORD
and obeys the word of his servant?
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Let him who walks in the dark,
who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD
and rely on his God.
11 But now, all you who light fires
and provide yourselves with flaming torches,
go, walk in the light of your fires
and of the torches you have set ablaze.
This is what you shall receive from my hand:
You will lie down in torment.
Chapter 8 – Isaiah 51-52:1-2 This section is addressed to those in v. 10 (above): those who seek
righteousness
v. 1-8
v. 1
v. 2
v. 3
v. 4-5
v. 6-8
v. 9-11
v. 9
v. 10
v. 11
v. 12-13. 15
v. 14
God assures those that follow after righteousness that Israel will be
redeemed, Christ will rule, and wickedness will be overcome
rock from which ye are hewn
1 Cor. 10:4,
2 Nephi 4:30, 35
Digged out of a pit = 1st spiritual death
The covenant relationship
Zion's wilderness – desert –> Eden, Garden of the Lord
D&C 49:23-25
Isaiah 35:1-2
law, judgment, salvation shall go forth from God
Isles of the sea shall trust the arm of God
Heavens and earth shall pass away
Isaiah 65:17
D&C 88:95
D&C 101:22-28 just like the reproach and revilings of the
wicked
But salvation – righteousness shall be forever
2 Nephi 9:51
Matthew 6:19-20
Law written in hearts: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Israel addresses the Lord
Put on strength O arm of the Lord
1 Nephi 22:11
The Lord hat cut Rahab (Egypt, Sea Monster), wounded the dragon
Isaiah 30:7, Psalm 89:10
Dried the sea/great deep for the ransomed: Exodus 15:19
Redeemed of the Lord shall return to Zion:
D&C 35:7-10; D&C 133:27-29
The Lord decrees his greatness compared to man and the oppressor
NIV v. 15:
15 For I am the LORD your God,
who churns up the sea so that its waves roar
the LORD Almighty is his name.
The captive exile (prisoners) hasteneth (will soon be set free)
THAT the captives should not die in the pit – 2nd death
THAT his bread should not fail (John 6:35, 51)
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v. 17-25
v. 17
v. 18
v. 19-20
v. 21
v. 22
v. 23
v. 24
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Word of God -> to Israel, and Israel is protected
So God can plant (see Ezekiel 47:6-7) the heavens and lay
foundation of the earth = new heaven and new earth
God pleads with Israel to awake and put on redemption, promises
atonement despite past desolation
awake, awake: 2 Nephi 1:13-14
drunk the cup of fury (of trembling): Jeremiah 25:15-18, Mosiah
3:27-29
None of her children to guide her
TWO SONS
vs.
TWO THINGS (calamities)
Rev. 11:1-13
1) desolation and destruction
D&C 77:15
2) famine and the sword
Two great prophets
Like two bulls in a net
helping Israel who
thrashing Israel
then are killed.
Israel is afflicted and drunken but not with wine (1 Nephi 22:13-14)
Christ to plead the case of his people to take out of their hand the
cup of trembling (of fury)
1) temporal gathering /salvation of Israel
2) D&C 19: 15-20
Cup to go to those who afflict Israel
Put on beautiful garments
No more uncircumcised of heart
1 Nephi 21:18 = Isaiah 49:18
Rev. 19:7-9
Chapter 9
v. 1-2
Covenants with the House of Israel will be fulfilled when
1) the belong to the true church
2) Gathered home to homeland
spiritual
temporal
1 Nephi 22:1-3 (referring to Isaiah 48-49). Both temporal and spiritual
v. 4
Job 19:25-27
v. 5
Christ becomes subject to man in the flesh
v. 6
fall -> 1) death, 2) cut off from the presence of God
v. 7-9
Must be an infinite atonement. Infinite = God
or – we all would be the sons of perdition
v. 10-12, 14, 16, 19, 26-27, 46-47
Descriptions of hell
Monster = 1) Devil, 2) Death (physical) + hell (spiritual death)
Hell = spiritual agony, being smitten with remembrance/understanding of sin
Shrinking in awful fear from the presence of God
Endless torment, lake of fire and brimstone
Compare: Isaiah 5:14, D&C 122:7, Jonah 2:2-6, Psalm 69:14-16
(and remember D&C 19)
v. 13
Paradise
v. 15, 22
Judgment
v. 18, 50-52
Behavior of the Righteous
v. 20
God knoweth all things
v. 21
Pains of every living creature
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v. 23-24
v. 25-26
v. 27
The Commandment: faith, repentance, baptism, endure
Atonement satisfies demands of justice on those without the law
But, If you have the commandment and transgress and waste probation =
state
v. 28
unrighteous suppose they know of themselves. see Alma 36:4-5
v. 30-38, 42, 40 Behavior of the Wicked
v. 39
Carnal minded -> Death.
Spiritually minded -> Life eternal
See Romans 8:6; 2 Nephi 2:28-29
v. 41
Gate and path
2 Nephi 9
See 2 Nephi 2:28-29
2 Nephi 10:23-24
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
Proverbs 4:11-22
Way of Life
Way of Death
Righteous (18)
Transgresseth the commandments (27)
Faith, repentance, baptism, endure (23-24)
Die in their sins = no repentance (38)
Endure crosses and shame of the world (18)
Uncircumcised of heart (33)
Straight and narrow course (41)
Despise poor, lie, murder, whoredoms(30,34-5)
Love the truth (40)
Waste days of probation (27)
Knocketh to God (42)
Revile against the truth (40)
Feast on that which perisheth not (51)
Know of themselves (28)
Pray continuously (52)
Hearken not to counsel of God (28)
Hearts rejoice in righteousness (49, 52)
Neither hear nor see (31-32)
Spiritually minded (39
Hearts on their treasures (30)
Carnally minded (39)
DURING PROBATION
AFTER PROBATION
Paradise (13)
Hell = spiritual death (10-12)
Inherit Kingdom of God (18)
Obtained by the Devil (46)
Fullness of Joy (18)
Awful misery (46)
Perfect knowledge of righteousness (14)
Perfect knowledge of guilt and
uncleanness (14,46)
Clothed with purity (14)
Knowledge of iniquities smites them at the
last day (33)
Filthy still (16)
Shrink with awful fear (46)
Awful state (27)
Endless torment = lake of fire and brimstone
(16)
Life eternal (39)
Death (39)
Division caused by word/gospel/justice of God
1 Nephi 12:18, 1 Nephi 14:3-4, 1 Nephi 15:30
1 Nephi 14:7, 2 Nephi 30:10
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Chapter 10
Righteous Branch of House of Israel: Lehi's descendants
2 Nephi 9:53 Lehi's seed not utterly destroyed -> in future a righteous branch
10:2
Many perish in unbelief and then shall come to a true knowledge of their
redeemer.
10:10
this land = their inheritance and for Gentiles
10:11-14
This land to be a land of liberty and kings
10:19
This land consecrated to seed of Lehi
10:20
Lehi's people driven out of land of their inheritance but to a better land – upon an
isle of the sea
House of Israel/Jews in general
10:3-5
Jews crucify Christ despite miracles
10:6
Jews scattered among all nations
10:7-9
Jews to be gathered in from isles and four corneras
10:21-22
Isles of the sea to be remembered by the Lord
Brief Summary of the Plan of Salvation: 2 Npehi 10:23-24
Way of eternal life vs way of everlasting death.
Will of God vs will of the devil and he flesh
After reconciliation to God, saved only by grace
Resurrection saves from death. Atonement saves from everlasting death
Chapter 11
v. 2-3 Nephi – Jacob – Isaiah all saw Christ => three witnesses to Christ and the Book of
Mormon
v. 4-5 The joy of Nephi's soul in teaching about Christ. All things given of God typify Christ.
Moses 6:63: all things bear record of me.