The past week was spent in the hospital with my beloved auntie Peta. To top it off, everyone of the children were sick. So, for a whole week we struggled as a family to maintain our reading and family prayers not to fall behind. Here and there we couldn't read but when we were able to, we read extra chapters and time to make up for the missed days. Right now we are on Jacob Chapter 5. So much has happened in this time period among the Nephites and the Lamanites. At this time whoever was not on the Nephites side belonged to the Lamanites side.
The last few chapters of 2Nephi touched base on so many different things. On 2Nep. 29 it talks about the necessity of the having the Book of Mormon. That the Lord keeps track of all His children everywhere.
7 Know ye not that there are more anations than one? Know ye not that I, the Lord your God, have created all men, and that I remember those who are upon the bisles of the sea; and that I rule in the heavens above and in the cearth beneath; and I bring forth my dword unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?
The Book of Mormon bears records of the people in the Americas. The Bible bear the records of those in the old world, Jerusalem etc. Two books stand as witnesses of Christ.
Beloved Nephi finally dies of old age. His people wanted to make him a king but he refused. After he passes on, the Nephites called all his successors Second Nephi, Third Nephi and so on and so forth.
One of my favorite verse during this reading is on 2Nep. 31:20
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a asteadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of bhope, and a clove of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and dendure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eeternal life.
When we take upon us the name of Christ and be baptized just as he did, we still need to continue on with much patience in our trials and tribulations. Another one of my favorite scriptures during this reading is the following: 2Nephi 32
9 But behold, I say unto you that ye must apray always, and not faint; that ye must not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first place ye shall bpray unto the Father in the cname of Christ, that he will dconsecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the ewelfare of thy soul.
It was sad for me to read about Nephi dying. He's done so much for his family and his people. He lived his life in the service of his God and his fellowmen.
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