BOM and Faith 2 Nephi 6, 9

Jacob had been consecrated by Nephi to teach his people. He began to teach the people.

We learn Jacob had been teaching the people many things (2 Nephi 6:2). He is speaking to them again, as he is concerned about their welfare.

He echoed Lehi’s words, telling them “the Lord has shown me that those who were at Jerusalem, from whence we came, have been slain and carried away captive” (2 Nephi 6:8). But, the Lord showed him they would return again.

He learned Christ would go among them in the flesh. Instead of accepting Him, they will scourge and crucify Him. They have “hardened their hearts and stiffened their necks against the Holy One of Israel” (2 Nephi 6:10). 

Because of this they will be smitten and afflicted. But, they will not perish because of the prayers of those who are faithful.

The Gentiles will be saved if they repent and not fight against Zion. The Lord’s covenants will be fulfilled.

The Messiah will come a second time and recover his people. His enemies will be destroyed by fire, tempest, earthquakes, bloodsheds, pestilence, and famine.

They know Christ will show himself to those in Jerusalem. He will subject Himself to man in the flesh, and die for all men that we might become subject to him.

We all face death through the fall and we were cut off from the presence of the Lord. There will be a resurrection from the dead. Because of the fall, there had to be an infinite atonement. Without the atonement, our corruption could not have put on incorruption.

If the flesh would not rise from the dead, we would be subject to the devil and cut off from the present of God. Our spirits would be like his, shut out from God’s presence. We would become like him.

Through God’s goodness, we have a way prepared for us to escape “from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, the monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit” (2 Nephi 9:10).

Through the resurrection, temporal death will deliver up its dead.