Jacob's speech (2 Nephi 6-10)

Episode 8: Jacob's speech

2 Nephi 6-10

Jacob’s speech

6 ¹ Nephi’s brother, Jacob, gave a speech to the Nephites. Here are some excerpts.

^9-11 Hard-hearted and stiff-necked Jews will crucify Jesus. They will be afflicted, scattered, smitten, and hated. But God will be kind to them when they accept their Redeemer.

¹² Blessed are the Gentiles. If they repent, don’t fight against Zion, and stay away from that great and abominable church, they’ll be saved. ¹³ But whoever fights against Zion will lick the dust off the feet of the people of the Lord. ¹⁵ Whoever doesn’t believe in him will be destroyed by fires, storms, earthquakes, disease, and famine. That will show them that the Lord is God.

¹⁷ God said, “I’ll fight those who fight against you. I’ll force them to eat their own flesh and get drunk on their own blood.”

Jacob quotes Isaiah 50-51

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Jacob continues his speech

9 ¹ I (Jacob) read these two chapters from Isaiah so you'd know the covenants of the Lord that he has covenanted with Israel.

⁹ We have become devils by using the devil's secret combinations.

¹⁶ Those who are filthy will still be filthy. They will be tormented forever in a lake of fire and brimstone.

¹⁹ Hell is endless torment. ²⁴ Whoever doesn’t repent, believe, be baptized, and endure to the end will be damned. ³³ Woe to those whose hearts are uncircumcised. ⁴⁴ Behold, I take off my clothes and shake them at you.

⁵⁴ Tomorrow I’ll finish my speech.

Jacob finishes his speech

10 ² Many children will die in the flesh because of unbelief. But God will raise them from the dead and tell them about their Redeemer.

³ An angel told me that Christ is the Redeemer’s name. He will be crucified by the Jews, who are the most wicked people on earth. No other people would crucify their God. ⁶ Because of their wickedness, famines, disease, and bloodshed will fall upon them, and they’ll be scattered among all nations. ⁷ But someday they’ll believe that God is Christ, and they will return to their homeland.

^9-10 The kings of the Gentiles will be nursing fathers and the Gentiles will be blessed. ^11-12 This land will be a land of liberty with no kings. And God will make it the strongest nation on earth. ¹³ Whoever fights against Zion with be killed. ¹⁶ Whoever isn’t for me is against me.

¹⁹ I will consecrate this land to your seed. I like this land better than all the others. ²¹ The Lord has made promises to those who live on the isles of the sea, which are inhabited by our relatives.

A few more words about this episode

They will be afflicted, scattered, smitten, and hated. (6:11): After the hard-hearted and stiff-necked Jews kill Jesus, God will punish them by having everyone smite and afflict them. The Jews will be afflicted, scattered, smitten, and hated by pretty much everyone until they too (those that survive, anyway) become Christians.
Blessed are the Gentiles. (6:12a): The word "Gentiles" has a special meaning to Mormons. It doesn't mean non-Jews; it means non-Mormon, non-Catholic, American Christians. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) will nurture and protect Mormons until the good WASPs become Mormons themselves.
But whoever fights against Zion will lick the dust off the feet of the people of the Lord. (6:12b): The Gentiles (non-Mormon white people) who don't fight against Zion (the Mormon Church) and who don't join "the great and abominable church" (the Catholic Church) will be saved." Whoever opposes Zion (the Mormon church), though, will be licking dust off shameless Mormon feet.
Whoever doesn’t believe in him will be destroyed (6:15): Then they will die horrible deaths. God will burn them to death, kill them with storms, earthquakes, wars, disease, and starvation. That will teach them that God is a Mormon.
I (Jacob) read these two chapters from Isaiah so you'd know the covenants of the Lord that he has covenanted with Israel. (9:1): Jacob threw in a couple chapters from Isaiah (see chapters 7 and 8) so that 2400 years later the true (LDS) church would know the covenants that God had covenanted with the Jews (who will all have become Mormons by then).; After the Isaiah break, Jacob returned to his early 19th century frontier American Protestant sermon, which he delivered to the Nephites circa 550 BCE, warning them that they will all burn in hell unless they repent and believe in someone (Jesus H. Christ) who will not exist for another six centuries or so.
Behold, I take off my clothes and shake them at you. (9:44): Jacob takes off his clothes and shakes them in front of his brethren, exposing himself in all of his glorious blood-free brightness to God's all-searching eye.
Many children will die in the flesh because of unbelief. (10:2): Jacob woke up the next day and started preaching again. He predicted that many Nephite children would "perish in the flesh because of unbelief." But not to worry, God will somehow restore the dead little unbelievers by forcing them to believe -- or something like that.
An angel told me that Christ is the Redeemer’s name. (10:3): This is the first appearance of the word "Christ" in the modern Book of Mormon.; "Christ" appeared earlier (1 Nephi 12:18) in the 1830 edition, but was changed to "Messiah" to avoid contradicting this verse.
The Gentiles will be blessed. (10:10): God gave America to the Mormon Church, but he likes white non-Catholic Christian Americans ("Gentiles" in Mormon-speak) too.
This land will be a land of liberty with no kings. And God will make it the strongest nation on earth. (10:11-12): God will protect and strengthen the United States since it's his favorite country.
Whoever fights against Zion with be killed. (10:13): Whoever fights against the LDS church ("Zion") will die.
Whoever isn’t for me is against me. (10:16): And just like Jesus, whoever isn't for God is against him.
I will consecrate this land to your seed. I like this land better than all the others. (10:19): America was consecrated by God to the seed of Nephi (Mormons). God likes the United States better than any other country. All Americans will someday worship God and become Mormons.
The Lord has made promises to those who live on the isles of the sea, which are inhabited by our relatives. (10:21): Jacob tells the Nephites that they are on an isle of the sea, and since the Bible mentions "isles of the sea" (see for example Isaiah 24:15), there must be other isles that are inhabited by the descendants of other ancient seafaring Jews. (The other inhabitants of the "isles of the sea" are the Polynesians.)