2 Nephi 10:7-9

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7 But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day cometh that they shall believe in me, that I am Christ, then have I covenanted with their fathers that they shall be restored in the flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands of their inheritance.

8 And it shall come to pass that they shall be gathered in from their long dispersion, from the isles of the sea, and from the four parts of the earth; and the nations of the Gentiles shall be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying them forth to the lands of their inheritance.

9 Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers; wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles, for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?

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Do the Jews Believe in Christ?

Morris Jastrow was a Jew. This is what he said: “From the historic point of view Jesus is to be regarded as a direct successor of the Hebrew prophets. His teachings are synonymous with the highest spiritual aspirations of the human race. Like the prophets, He lays the chief stress upon pure conduct and moral ideas, but He goes beyond the prophets in His absolute indifference to theological speculations and religious rites. It has been commonly said that the Jews rejected Jesus. They did so in the sense in which they rejected the teachings of the earlier prophets,…(Cited in Joseph Fielding Smith, The Signs of the Times, p. 62.)

Dr. Max Nordau further states:

“Jesus is soul of our soul, as He is flesh of our flesh. Who, then, could think of excluding Him from the people of Israel? St. Peter will remain the only Jew who said of the son of David, ‘I know not the man.’

“If the Jews up to the present time have not publicly rendered homage to the sublime moral beauty of the figure of Jesus, it is because their tormentors have always persecuted, tortured, assassinated them in His name.

“The Jews have drawn their conclusions from the disciples as to the Master, which was wrong; a wrong pardonable in the eternal victims of the implacable, cruel hatred of those who called themselves Christians. Every time a Jew mounted to the source and contemplated Christ alone without his pretended faithful, he cried with tenderness and admiration, putting aside the Messianic mission, ‘This man is ours. He honors our race, and we claim Him as we claim the Gospels—flowers of Jewish literature, and only Jewish.’” (Cited in Smith, Signs of the Times, pp. 62-63.)