So Jacob declared way back in the sixth century B.C. that they labored diligently to bring the American Israelites unto Christ so they could partake of the good news of God and enter into his rest. Otherwise the spiritual leaders of the Nephites feared the Lord, who had blessed them so abundantly, would become disgusted with them and abandon them as he had abandoned the Lamanites and treat them as the children of Israel when they were condemned to wander in the wilderness for forty years.