Second Nephi — Chapter 27
1 In the last days (the days of the Gentiles), all the Gentile nations and all the Jews (those who come to this land, and those in other lands) will be drunk with sin and all kinds of wickedness.
2 When that day comes, the Lord of Hosts will bring them thunder and earthquake, great noises, storms, winds, and terrible fire.
3 All nations that fight against Zion and make trouble for Zion will be just like a dream in the night. Yes, they will be like hungry people who dream that they eat, but then wake up hungry, or like thirsty people who dream that they drink, but when they wake up they are weak, and their bodies want to eat and drink. This is how it will be for all nations that fight against Zion.
4 All you who do evil things, stop yourselves and wonder, because you will shout and cry. Yes, you will be drunk, but not with wine; you will fall, but not because of strong drink.
5 The Lord has put you in a deep sleep, because you closed your eyes and rejected the prophets. He has taken away your rulers and wise people because of your sins.
6 Then the Lord God will bring you a book, and it will have the words of the dead in it.
7 The book will be sealed. It will have a revelation from God in it about the beginning and end of the world.
8 The things which are sealed will not be given at the time the people are full of sin and wickedness, so the book will be kept away from them.
9 But the book will be given to a man who will write down the words of the book, which are the words of the dead, and he will give the words to someone else.
10 But he will not give the part that is sealed, and he will not give the book itself, because the book will be sealed by God’s power. The revelation in the book will be sealed until the Lord says it is time to open it, because the book shows everything that has happened since the world began, and everything that will happen until the end of the world.
11 The day will come when the words in the sealed part of the book will be read from the housetops, and it will be read by the power of Christ. Everything which has happened among all peoples will be shown to the people, along with everything which will happen until the end of the world.
12 So when the book is given to the man I talked about, the world will not see the book. Only three witnesses will see it by God’s power, along with the man to whom God gives the book. They will be witnesses that the book and its words are true.
13 No others will see it except for a few, as God wants. They will be witnesses to people about it, because the Lord God has said that the words of the faithful would speak as if from the dead.
14 The Lord God will bring the words of the book to people. He will have as many witnesses for it as he thinks good. Woe to those who reject God’s word!
15 Then the Lord God will tell the man whom he gives the book: “Take the words which are not sealed and give them to another.” The man will show them to an educated man, and say: “Read this, please.” And the educated man will say: “Bring the book to me, and I will read the words.”
16 (He will say this to be praised by the world and to get money, not because he is looking for God’s glory.)
17 Then the man will say: “I cannot bring the book, because it is sealed.”
18 Then the educated man will say: “I cannot read it.”
19 Then the Lord God will give the book to the uneducated man again, and he will say: “I am not educated.”
20 Then the Lord God will say to him: “The educated people will not read these words, because they have rejected them. I can do my own work, so you will read the words I will give to you.
21 “Do not touch the things that are sealed, because I will bring them out only when the time is right. I will show people that I can do my own work.
22 “When you have read the words I have commanded you to read, and gotten the witnesses I have promised you, then you will seal the book again, and hide it so I can protect the words you have not read, until the time I think it is right to give all things to the people.
23 “I am God, and I am a God of miracles. I will show the world that I am the same yesterday, today, and forever. I don’t work among people if they don’t have faith.”
24 Then the Lord will tell the man whom he gave the words of the book:
25 “Since this people say all the right things about me and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me, and since they worship me only by the laws people make up,
26 “I will do a wonderful work among this people — a wonderful and amazing work. The things their wise people taught will be destroyed, and their smart people will not understand this at all.”
27 Woe to those who don’t want the Lord to know their plans! Their works are done in the dark, and they say: “Who can see us? Who knows about us?” And they also say: “You are turning things upside down, and this won’t be worth more than a lump of clay.” But the Lord of Hosts says: “I will show them that I know everything they are doing. Will a thing say about its maker: ‘He did not make me?’ or ‘He did not know what he was doing?’”
28 The Lord of Hosts says: “I will show the people that it will be only a little time until Lebanon can grow things again, and it will grow like a great forest.”
29 At that time, deaf people will hear the words of the book, and blind people will be able to see in the dark.
30 There will be more meek people, and they will have joy in the Lord. Poor people will have joy in the Holy One of Israel.
31 Just as the Lord lives, they will see the destroyer come to nothing, and wicked people burned up, and those who look for sin cut off —
32 (Those who try to get people in trouble for the things they say, and who punish people who teach repentance, and who persecute those who do right).
33 This is what the Lord, who saved Abraham, said about the House of Jacob: “Jacob will not be ashamed, and he will not be sick and weak.
34 “But when he sees his descendants, and my work among them, they will make my name holy, and bless the Holy One of Jacob, and [love] the God of Israel.
35 “Those who made mistakes will understand what they did. Those who complained will learn the truth.”
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