We are also reminded that some six hundred years before the earthly advent of Jesus Christ, Nephi saw in vision his mother, Mary, bearing the divine child in her arms, and heard the angel declare him to be “the Son of the Eternal Father” (see 1 Nephi 11:13-21). Prophesying of the Savior’s birth, Alma the Younger described Mary as “a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God?” (Alma 7:10).
Similarly, King Benjamin told his people that the “Lord Omnipotent” would come down from heaven and take upon himself a “tabernacle of clay.” “He shall be called Jesus Christ,” he said, “the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Creator of all things from the beginning; and his mother shall be called Mary.” (Mosiah 3:5-8.)