The entire tone of the Book of Mormon changes when we truly realize in our minds and hearts that we—the Latter-day Saints—are the Gentiles being spoken of by the authors. The end-time picture the prophets are trying to paint with their foretelling grows less and less obscure. Suddenly we begin to “awake to a sense of [our] awful situation,” recognizing our own need for repentance in order to become clean from the blood and sins of this generation and be numbered among the House of Israel.1 It becomes increasingly clear that the book really was written by the spirit of prophecy and revelation, and the people it was to have the most profound effect upon were its principal readers—the Latter-day Saints. We are the ones the authors are trying to save from apostasy in order to fulfill our birthright role as kings and queens of the Gentiles—ministers to the House of Israel even as Joseph, our father, who was sold into Egypt.
A Great Division Among God’s People
A Great Division Among God’s People
A Great Division Among God’s People
The entire tone of the Book of Mormon changes when we truly realize in our minds and hearts that we—the Latter-day Saints—are the Gentiles being spoken of by the authors. The end-time picture the prophets are trying to paint with their foretelling grows less and less obscure. Suddenly we begin to “awake to a sense of [our] awful situation,” recognizing our own need for repentance in order to become clean from the blood and sins of this generation and be numbered among the House of Israel.1 It becomes increasingly clear that the book really was written by the spirit of prophecy and revelation, and the people it was to have the most profound effect upon were its principal readers—the Latter-day Saints. We are the ones the authors are trying to save from apostasy in order to fulfill our birthright role as kings and queens of the Gentiles—ministers to the House of Israel even as Joseph, our father, who was sold into Egypt.