Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Jacob 1:6 - 1:10

Jacob 1:6 And we also had many revelations, and the spirit of much prophecy; wherefore, we knew of Christ and his kingdom, which should come.

And they also know of Christ and His mission and what He will do for the world when He comes to mortality.

Jacob 1:7 Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God, that they might enter into his rest, lest by any means he should swear in his wrath they should not enter in, as in the provocation in the days of temptation while the children of Israel were in the wilderness.

Armed with this knowledge, Jacob has worked hard to get his people to have a testimony of Jesus and thereby take advantage of the atonement. Jacob does not want to happen to the Nephites what happened to the children of Israel when they rebelled against Moses in the wilderness and that generation was thus excluded from entering the promise land. Jacob does not want this same attitude to keep the Nephites from entering the Celestial Kingdom.

Jacob 1:8 Wherefore, we would to God that we could persuade all men not to rebel against God, to provoke him to anger, but that all men would believe in Christ, and view his death, and suffer his cross and bear the shame of the world; wherefore, I, Jacob, take it upon me to fulfil the commandment of my brother Nephi.

Because of this fear for his people, Jacob and others are doing all they can to get his people to follow the gospel plan and become faithful Christians.

Jacob 1:9 Now Nephi began to be old, and he saw that he must soon die; wherefore, he anointed a man to be a king and a ruler over his people now, according to the reigns of the kings.

Nephi is now an old man and sees that he will pass into the eternities in the not to distant future. He therefore chooses a replacement to become the next king.

Jacob 1:10 The people having loved Nephi exceedingly, he having been a great protector for them, having wielded the sword of Laban in their defence, and having labored in all his days for their welfare—

The people loved Nephi for all his efforts he made for the welfare of his people and his wisdom that protected them from the efforts of the Lamanites to wage war against them.

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