Nephi’s vision
was all inclusive regarding the winding up scenes of this earth and its future
in the eternities. However, he was
commanded not to write any more regarding the future because that was John the
Revelator’s privilege and calling. Nephi
doesn’t mope about this or aspire in any way.
Each writer of scripture was happy with his part. Generally speaking, “his part” was the story
of his own experience with the members of the Godhead and how they interacted
with his family. That said, Nephi is
given the opportunity to quote the words of an angel regarding the future: “For
the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a
marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting,
either on the one hand or on the other—either to the convincing of them unto
peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of
their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into
captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually,
according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.”
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