2 Nephi 21:9

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9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Quotes for Discussion

Earth full of knowledge

All things…will be revealed anew, in order to fulfill that passage….Things of all former dispensations will be made manifest and revealed anew.

Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses, 16:47

Advances in communication and travel during this last century have hastened the pace at which the word of the Lord goes out from Zion (see Micah 4:2). I feel much like Isaiah, who spoke of our time, when “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:9). I believe that this marvelous outpouring of knowledge has heightened our ability to take the Lord’s saving message to the world, “that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations” (Luke 24:47).

James E. Faust, Ensign, May 1999, 19

[2 Ne. 30:8.] Has he fulfilled that promise? If there be anybody in this house past seventy-five years of age who will take the time to think of what has occurred since the Book of Mormon was first published, he will discover that almost every implement, almost every convenience now enjoyed by mankind, has come since the Book of Mormon issued from the press in the year 1830. We are witnesses this day that in a hundred years this world has made progress along most lines greater than in all the previous centuries since the earth was created and our first parents came upon it. The Lord said he would commence his work among the nations. Man had had his trial; men for thousands of years had worked at it. But when the Lord set his hand and when he began to quicken the minds of men by the inspiration of his holy power men began to work out wonderful inventions that have changed the entire condition of this world. I say to you that after a hundred years we are living in a new world. But the work of the Lord has only just begun.

George Albert Smith, Conference Report, Apr. 1930, 67-68

In our day we are experiencing an explosion of knowledge about the world and its people. But the people of the world are not experiencing a comparable expansion of knowledge about God and his plan for his children. On that subject, what the world needs is not more scholarship and technology but more righteousness and revelation.

I long for the day prophesied by Isaiah when “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord” (Isa. 11:9; 2 Ne. 21:9). In an inspired utterance, the Prophet Joseph Smith described the Lord’s “pouring down knowledge from heaven upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints” (D&C 121:33). This will not happen for those whose “hearts are set so much upon the things of this world, and aspire to the honors of men.” (v. 35)…The Lord makes this great promise to the faithful:

The doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.

The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow into thee forever and ever (D&C 121:45-46).

Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, May 1989, 30