After speaking about the New Jerusalem, Moroni tells us the
Jerusalem of old will be blessed “for they have been washed in the blood of the
Lamb” (Ether 13:11).
Speaking of the lost ten tribes, they will be gather in form
“the four quarters of the earth, and from the north countries”(Ether
13:11). “In those days the house of Judah
shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the
land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your
fathers” (Jeremiah 3:18).
“But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of
Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven
them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers” (Jeremiah 16:15).
“After this vision closed, the heavens were again opened
unto us; and Moses appeared before us, and committed unto us the keys of the
gathering of Israel from the four parts of the earth, and the leading of the
ten tribes from the land of the north” (D&C 110:11).
“And they who are in the north countries shall come in
remembrance before the Lord; and their prophets shall hear his voice, and shall
no longer stay themselves; and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall
flow down at their presence” (D&C 133:26).
All will then partake in the fulfilling of God’s covenant
made with Abraham. When these things occur, the first shall be last and the
last shall be first.
“And the time cometh that he shall manifest himself unto all
nations, both unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles; and after he has
manifested himself unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles, then he shall
manifest himself unto the Gentiles and also unto the Jews, and the last shall
be first, and the first shall be last” (1 Nephi 13:42).
“Graft in the branches; begin at the last that they may be
first, and that the first may be last, and dig about the trees, both old and
young, the first and the last; and the last and the first, that all may be
nourished once again for the last time” (Jacob 5:63).
Moroni was about to continue writing more about Ether’s
prophesies, but he was commanded to stop. He tells us that his prophesies were
great a marvelous. The people cast him out and he hid in a cave by day and went
out to view things that were happening among the people.
“In spite of the power of Ether and the clarity of his
prophecies, the people “did not believe, because they saw them [great and
marvelous things] not” (Ether 12:5). Atē [the consequence of hubris] was setting in. Their rejection
was not only of his word but of his very presence: “they esteemed him as
naught, and cast him out” (Ether 13:13). The consequences were immediate, for
“in that same year in which he was cast out from among the people there began
to be a great war among the people, for there were many who rose up, who were
mighty men, and sought to destroy Coriantumr [the king] by their secret plans
of wickedness” (Ether 13:15).[1]
Ether completed his record while he was in the cave. “And
the Lord spake unto Ether, and said unto him: Go forth. And he went forth, and
beheld that the words of the Lord had all been fulfilled; and he finished his
record; (and the hundredth part I have not written) and he hid them in a manner
that the people of Limhi did find them” (Ether 15:33).
[1] Hubris and Atē: A Latter-day Warning from the Book of
Mormon, Richard D. Draper Maxwell Institute website.
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