3 Nephi Chapter 22

[Mirium]

I'm not very good with scripture study but I try. I seem to keep being drawn to 3 Nephi chapter 22, as if Heavenly Father is trying to tell me something. Could anybody give me some insight on what this chapter is talking about. I keep re reading it but I'm not understanding it.

Thankyou

[Justice]

It's talking about the gathering and covenants in the last days. I'm not sure I can offer any specifics, other than Isaiah is pretty difficult to understand. Keep reading and praying, if there is something there for you it will be revealed to you. I have found I have to read something many, many, many times before I "get it."

[Guest Believer_1829]

I'm not very good with scripture study but I try. I seem to keep being drawn to 3 Nephi chapter 22, as if Heavenly Father is trying to tell me something. Could anybody give me some insight on what this chapter is talking about. I keep re reading it but I'm not understanding it.

Thankyou

Perhaps you are being prompted to prepare to go and help in the building and gathering to New Jerusalem?

[pam]

This is one of my favorite chapters in the Book of Mormon. There are so many wonderful words of wisdom in just this chapter.

What I get from this chapter is..Heavenly Father will never let us down. His work will go forward and all will be taught the gospel and many will feel great peace from it.

Even though evil will be the tone, there will be nothing that will stop the work from progressing.

I think I posted this on another thread..but one of my favorite quotes from Joseph Smith concerns this chapter:

3 Ne 22:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper

Joseph Smith

“No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.” (History of the Church, 4:540 as taken from Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 449)

[Hemidakota]

I'm not very good with scripture study but I try. I seem to keep being drawn to 3 Nephi chapter 22, as if Heavenly Father is trying to tell me something. Could anybody give me some insight on what this chapter is talking about. I keep re reading it but I'm not understanding it.

Thankyou

The resurrected Lord felt so keenly about Isaiah 54 that He quoted it in its entirety to the ancient inhabitants of the Americas knowing it would be published as part of the Book of Mormon in the latter days. It is apparent that this is one of the most significant chapters in all scriptural literature. Certainly it warrants our fervent desire to understand it and to carefully consider its message.

Both chapter 21 and 22 of 3 Nephi contains the Savior's teachings regarding the gathering of Israel at the time of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. He taught that a great gentile nation would be established for a free people in the land of America. However, He stressed that those who refuse to believe the words of the prophet-servant (Joseph Smith) to be raised up would be "cut off from among my people who are of the covenant." (3 Nephi 21:11.) He also announced the future building of the New Jerusalem in America and the return of the lost tribes of Israel.

This is the setting into which Jesus Christ interspersed a recitation of Isaiah 54, commencing with the introductory phrase: "And then shall that which is written come to pass." (Italics added.) Of this phrase, Sidney Sperry has written: "This is, of course, an indication given by our Lord that the prophet Isaiah saw the things of which He had been speaking (ch. 21) and wrote concerning them, or at least concerning what would happen when they were fulfilled.

"The fulfillment of this beautiful poem Isaiah 54 is all poetry is to be found in this dispensation. Part of it hasprobably already been fulfilled since the restoration of the gospel; the remainder will be in a time yet future." (BMC, 412.)

In this chapter of hope and encouragement, Isaiah speaks of the growth and gathering of Israel or Zion in the latter days. She is likened to a woman who has long been barren because of her separation from her husband, a separation brought about by her unfaithfulness. But now she has repented and returned to her forgiving husband (the Lord). As a result, the multitudes of her children have become so large in number that the stakes that hold her covering must constantly be spread out farther. Because of her faithfulness, her husband will never again forsake her. The chapter closes with the promise that "no weapon that is formed against thee [covenant Israel or the Lord's people, Zion] shall prosper."