“Ye Must Come to the Knowledge of Your Fathers”
on the one hand, this means that Israel of the last days must come to know, of their ancient fathers-Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-and know of the covenant God made with them and their posterity. That is, they must regain a covenant consciousness, retie themselves to the former-day Saints. On the other hand, they are being counseled to gain the knowledge that was had by the ancients-the knowledge about Christ the Savior, the knowledge of his gospel. Nephi prophesied that at that day his and his brothers’ descendants (and this of course applied generally to latter-day Israel) would come to know “that they are of the house of Israel and that they are the covenant people of the Lord; and then shall they know and come to the knowledge of their forefathers, and also to the knowledge of the gospel of their Redeemer, which was ministered unto their fathers by him; wherefore, they shall come to the knowledge of their Redeemer and the very points of his doctrine, that they may know how to come unto him and be saved’ (1 Nephi 15:14).”
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