1 Nephi 13

I wonder what Nephi actually saw that was the church of the devil. What did he see that he called it a church? Who were the saints of God being destroyed?

It really was amazing that the colonies were able to win their independence through war. It seems like no explanation but the intervention of God could explain it, especially the more I read about it.

It’s also interesting that the plates of brass contain more than the Bible. I’ve never noticed that before.

The angel tells Nephi the Lord won’t suffer the Gentiles to completely destroy his seed, or the Lamenites, or the gentiles to be in darkness forever. But he did allow it for a long time. Was it just an agency issue, or was it accomplishing some other purpose of the Lord? Why the long delay in intervention, if intervention was an acceptable thing?

The Lord told Nephi he would bring forth “much of my gospel” at that day. I sometimes forget about the sealed portion of the plates. I suppose it’s hard enough for me to live the parts of the gospel I know. But it’s hard for me to imagine what else there is. Wait, he was talking about when He visited the Nephites. So do we now have the fullness of the gospel, as in everything, but they did not then?

Verse 40: “the Lamb of God is the Son of the Eternal Father, and the Savior of the world; and that all men must come unto him, or they cannot be saved.” How can anyone have read the Book of Mormon and say we are not Christian, or even more crazy, that we worship Joseph smith! It is so plain and precious!