The theme of the vision to this point has been the eventual dwindling of the righteous Lehites, and the rise of the Gentiles. Into this rather bleak recitation of the future history of Nephi's seed comes what must have been a miraculous revelation to Nephi. The Lord would come to his seed, prior to the time of their ultimate dwindling into unbelief. Those blessed descendants would write of the Savior, and it would be their writings that would redeem the Gentiles! In a single verse, the supposed redemption of Nephi's people (which is yet to come in the vision) takes a wonderful turn, and his descendants become the means of the redemption of the Gentiles. For all the domination that they descendants of Lehi would suffer at the hands of the Gentiles, they would yet be the means of redemption for the Gentiles.