Mormon 9:11-13

To those who deny the works of God are happening in our day, He will show us He is still a God of miracles. He is the same God which created the heavens, the Earth, and all the other things.

“And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!

“For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father—

“That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God” (D&C 76:22-24).

“For the Gentiles, a purpose of the Book of Mormon is to convince ‘that Jesus is the CHRIST’ (title page). The Book of Mormon would come forth, Moroni declares prophetically, ‘in a day when it shall be said that miracles are done away’ (Mormon 8:26). For Gentiles who profess a belief in Jesus but deny his power (see Mormon 8:28), the Book of Mormon convincingly testifies of a ‘God of miracles’ (Mormon 9:11). In addition to a spiritual witness, various elements of design confirm Christ's divinity and power.”[1]

God created father Adam. Through Adam, the fall occurred. “Therefore, they have drunk out of the cup of the wrath of God, which justice could no more deny unto them than it could deny that Adam should fall because of his partaking of the forbidden fruit; therefore, mercy could have claim on them no more forever” (Mosiah 3:26).

But, through Christ’s atonement and death, redemption cam to man. “Listen to the words of Christ, your Redeemer, your Lord and your God. Behold, I came into the world not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance; the whole need no physician, but they that are sick; wherefore, little children are whole, for they are not capable of committing sin; wherefore the curse of Adam is taken from them in me, that it hath no power over them…” (Moroni 8:8).

Through Christ’s atonement the redemption allow the righteous to be brought back into His presence. “Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence” (Psalms 140:13).

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord” (Acts 3:19).

Through Christ’s death and resurrection, we will be redeemed from an endless sleep.

“And behold, again, another sign I give unto you, yea, a sign of his death.

“For behold, he surely must die that salvation may come; yea, it behooveth him and becometh expedient that he dieth, to bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, that thereby men may be brought into the presence of the Lord.

“Yea, behold, this death bringeth to pass the resurrection, and redeemeth all mankind from the first death—that spiritual death; for all mankind, by the fall of Adam being cut off from the presence of the Lord, are considered as dead, both as to things temporal and to things spiritual.

“But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth mankind, yea, even all mankind, and bringeth them back into the presence of the Lord.

“Yea, and it bringeth to pass the condition of repentance, that whosoever repenteth the same is not hewn down and cast into the fire; but whosoever repenteth not is hewn down and cast into the fire; and there cometh upon them again a spiritual death, yea, a second death, for they are cut off again as to things pertaining to righteousness” (Helaman 14:14-18).

“And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2).

“For the day cometh that the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven; the heavens shall shake and the earth shall tremble, and the trump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations: Ye saints arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call again” (D&C 47:18).

When the trump sounds, all will come forth and stand before the judgement bar of God. They will have been redeemed from the eternal band of death.

“Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death” (Alma 36:18).

“They were assembled awaiting the advent of the Son of God into the spirit world, to declare their redemption from the bands of death” (D&C 138:16).

In this verse we again see a relationship between Jacob’s words and Moroni’s writing.

Table 4. Relationships between 2 Nephi 9:15–16 and Mormon 9:13–14[2]
2 Nephi 9:15–16	Mormon 9:13–14
And it shall come to pass that when all men shall have passed from this first death unto life, insomuch as they have become immortal, they must appear before the judgment-seat of the Holy One of Israel; and then cometh the judgment . . . And then must they be judged according to the holy judgment of God. And . . . they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they who are filthy shall be filthy still.	The death of Christ . . . bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar . . . And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still.

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[1] The Book of Mormon, Designed for Our Day - Annual FARMS Lecture, 27 February 1990, Richard Dilworth Rust, Maxwell Institute website.

[2] Jacob’s Textual Legacy, John Hilton III, Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 22/2 (2013): 60 (emphasis in original).