Helaman — Chapter 14
1 Samuel the Lamanite prophesied many more things which cannot be written here.
2 He said to them: In five years, the Son of God will come to save all who believe in him.
3 This will be a sign to you of his coming: there will be great lights in heaven. There will be no darkness during the night before he comes — it will look like daytime.
4 There will be a day and a night and a day that will seem like one day, but you will see the sun set and the sun rise, so you will know that this is true. That night it will not get dark. This will be the night before he is born.
5 A new star you have never seen before will be in the heavens, and this will be a sign to you, too.
6 This is not all. There will also be many other signs and wonders in heaven.
7 You will be so amazed that you will fall down on the ground.
8 Whoever will believe in the Son of God will have everlasting life.
9 God’s angel commanded me to tell you this, and to prophesy these things to you. Yes, he said to me: “Tell this people to repent and prepare the way of the Lord.”
10 And now, because I am a Lamanite, and because I have talked about your sins as God told me to, and because you don’t want to hear these things, you are angry with me and want to destroy me and throw me out.
11 But you will hear what I am going to say. I have climbed up on the city walls so you will hear and know about how God will punish you because of your evil doings, and also to tell you what you must do to repent.
12 [I have done this] so you would know about the coming of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Father of heaven and earth, the Maker of everything from the beginning, and so you would know about the signs of his coming, so you would believe in him.
13 If you will believe in him and repent of your sins, your sins will be taken away because of his goodness.
14 I will give you another sign — the sign of his death.
15 He will die to save you. He must die to bring about the resurrection of the dead, so all people can be brought before God.
16 His death will bring about the resurrection, and it will save people from the first death, or spiritual death, and from the death of the body. Spiritual death has kept people away from God and spiritual things since the Fall of Adam and Eve.
17 But Christ’s resurrection will save all people from death so they can live again with God.
18 This is how repentance works: Whoever repents will be saved, but whoever does not repent will be damned, which is the second death. Damned people are dead to righteousness.
19 Repent, repent, so you will not die the second death — because you know about these things!
20 I said before that I would tell you the sign of his death: On the day he dies, the sun will become dark, and the moon and stars will not give you light either. There will be no light in the land for three days, from the time he dies until he rises from the dead.
21 Right when he dies there will be thunder and lightning for many hours, and the earth will shake. The big rocks on and below the ground, which you know are now in one big piece, will be broken up into smaller pieces.
22 They will be broken up and have many cracks in them from that time on, all over the land, on the ground and under it.
23 There will be terrible storms, and many mountains will fall down and become like valleys. Many valleys will become very tall mountains.
24 Many highways will be broken up, and many cities will become empty.
25 Many graves will open up, and many of the saints who were dead will show themselves to many people.
26 The angel told me that there would be thunder and lightning for many hours.
27 He told me that these things would happen during the thunder and lightning and storms, and that darkness would cover the earth for three days.
28 The angel told me that many people will see even greater things than these, so they would believe that these things were happening all over the land, and so there would be no reason for anyone not to believe —
29 And so that whoever believes will be saved, and so whoever does not believe will be judged fairly. If they are punished, they will have brought their punishment on themselves.
30 Now remember, brothers and sisters, that whoever is destroyed brings destruction to themselves, and whoever does evil things brings evil to themselves, because you are free — you can choose what you will do. God has told you what you need to know, and he has made you free.
31 He has let you know good from evil, and he has let you choose between life and death. You can do what is good, and live again in goodness; or you can do what is evil, and live again with evil.
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