21 1-29 Jesus gives us a sign -- The Book of Mormon, a great and marvelous work, that everyone must believe or be cut off, torn to pieces, and suffer God's vengeance and fury.
22 1-17 And then shall that which is written come to pass....
23 1 Jesus gives the Nephites a new commandment: Study the book of Isaiah (preferably the King James Version). 4 He told them to write the things that he told them to write. 6 And said that there are other scriptures that they should write.
7-8 Then Jesus asked Nephi to bring the plates that he's been engraving lately. So Nephi showed them to him.
9-11 Jesus asked Nephi about Samuel the Lamanite. How come there's nothing about him on your plates? 12-13 Nephi said, "Yeah, I forgot to say anything about Samuel." Jesus told Nephi to get busy and do that, and Nephi did as he was told.
24 1-18 Jesus commands the Nephites to write the words of Malachi. Then he reads Malachi 3 to them.
25 1-6 Jesus reads Malachi 4 to the Nephites.
26 1 After Jesus finished reading the last chapter of the last book of the Old Testament, he explained what it meant. Then he explained everything to everyone.
2 Jesus said that the Father told him to read certain parts of the Bible to the Nephites. The Father noticed that they didn't have these chapters and figured that future generations might need them. 3 Then Jesus (again) explained everything to everyone -- from the beginning of time to the end, when everything on earth will be destroyed. The elements will melt, the earth will be rolled up like a scroll, and heaven and earth will pass away.
6-7 Unfortunately, Mormon could only include less than 1% of all the stuff Jesus said to the Nephites. There just wasn't room on his plates. But be sure to check out Nephi's plates. Nephi will include the more part of Jesus's teachings.
8-9 Mormon will just include the lesser part of his teachings. This will be a trial for the Nephites. If they believe the lesser part on Mormon's plates, then maybe they'll get a peek at the greater things that will be on Nephi's.
10 Those who won't believe the little things won't get a chance to hear the really big ones. And those who don't believe the big things will go to hell.
11-12 Mormon said that he was about to write the things that Nephi engraved on his plates, but the Lord told him not to, saying, "I want to test the faith of the Nephites." So Mormon only wrote what Jesus permitted him to write.
13-14 Jesus visited the Nephites for the space of three days, showing himself now and then, breaking and blessing bread, and teaching children. He even loosed the children's tongues so they could speak great and marvelous things, even greater than the things that Jesus had revealed to the grown-ups.
15-16 The second time that Jesus showed himself, he performed lots of tricks. He healed the sick, lame, blind, deaf, and even raised a man from the dead. Then he went up to heaven again to spend the night with the Father. He returned the next day to visit the children. He made babies say marvelous things, forbidden things that can't even be written down.
17-21 After the forbidden baby talk, the disciples baptized people and filled them up with the Holy Ghost. Many of the ghost-filled believers heard things, unspeakable things that are illegal to write. So Mormon didn't include them here.
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