Thursday, May 12, 2016

1 Nephi 13:9-10

9  And also for the apraise of the world do they bdestroy the saints of God, and bring them down into captivity.
10  And it came to pass that I looked and beheld many waters; and they divided the Gentiles from the seed of my brethren.
            -the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans served as a buffer from the tribulations of the old world.  Even though God set a land apart as an insulated or quarantined zone where he could direct those seeking His ways, these eventually feel victim to the viccisitudes of  the natural man.  If there were a hundred isolated lands, the history of mortal man would repeat itself one hundred times over.  Man is fallen in this existence regardless of the specific cultural mixture.

    “divided”
            -insulated, quarantined, separated, protected, etc.  The division of these two peoples was meant to protect.

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