3 Nephi 16:8-11

Brant Gardner

More of the future is laid out. The important part of this discussion is to return to the importance of the house of Israel. There will be faithful Gentiles who are blessed, but there will also be unfaithful Gentiles who come upon this land and will scatter those native peoples that they find. Eventually, those unfaithful Gentiles will succumb to the same kinds of forces that led the house of Israel astray. They will “be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs,” among others negative traits.

It will be “in that day” that “I will remember my covenant which I have made unto my people, O house of Israel, and I will bring my gospel unto them.” When Jesus uses “in that day,” it is a general timeframe, even though it is linked to a specific beginning event. The gentiles may have been in unbelief for a time, but there will come a time when the Lord will bring forth the gospel. The beginning of that time is the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.

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