“O Blessed Jesus, Have Mercy on This People!”

Ed J. Pinegar, Richard J. Allen

The nature of the queen’s spiritual experience clearly is centered on the Savior and His Atonement. She has gone through the mighty change of heart. Perhaps she’s been instructed during her visionary experience to administer to the needs of her husband, for she reaches out and takes him by the hand and he arises. The entire scene is an anticipatory reenactment of the process of overcoming the second death, of coming forth as a new person, liberated from darkness and sin under the redeeming power of God—precisely the nature of the ordinance of the baptismal covenant that the king and queen will shortly experience.

Commentaries and Insights on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 1

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