[MUSIC PLAYING] Based on actual events as
recorded in the Book of Mormon: Another Testament
of Jesus Christ.
And now, Jacob. Father? I speak unto you:
Thou art my firstborn in the days of my tribulation
in the wilderness. Thou knowest the
greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine
afflictions for thy gain. I know that thou art redeemed,
because of the righteousness of thy Redeemer. And thou hast beheld
in thy youth his glory; and the Spirit is the same,
yesterday, today, and forever. And the way is prepared
from the fall of man, and salvation is free.
Men are instructed sufficiently
that they know good from evil. By the temporal law they were
cut off; by the spiritual law they perish from
that which is good, and they become
miserable forever. Wherefore, redemption cometh in
and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of
grace and truth. Behold, he offereth himself
a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends
of the law, unto all those who have a broken
heart and a contrite spirit. Wherefore, how great the
importance to make these things known unto the
inhabitants of the earth. Jacob, there is
no flesh that can dwell in the
presence of God, save it be through the
merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy
Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the
flesh, and taketh it again by the power of
the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the
resurrection of the dead, being the first
that should rise.
For it must needs be, that there
is an opposition in all things. But Father, why? If not so,
righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither
wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither
good nor bad.
