I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the Nephites,

Mosiah 9:1 I, Zeniff, having been taught in all the language of the Nephites, and having had a knowledge of the land of Nephi, or of the land of our fathers’ first inheritance, *and having been sent as a spy among the Lamanites that I might spy out their forces, that our army might come upon them and destroy them—but when I saw that which was good among them I was desirous that they should not be destroyed.

I think this scripture is interesting because he seems to be copying Nephi's method of starting his story.  Perhaps this became the cultural way to start a story, kind of like, Once upon a time....

Unfulfilled Prophesies

2 Ne 27:3 Nations that fight  against Zion shall be as a dream

2 Ne 27:4 people shall be drunken, but not with strong drink

2 Ne 27:11 all things shall be revealed

2 Ne 27:22 sealed portion of Golden Plates revealed

2 Ne 29:13 the Nephites & Jews shall have the words of the lost tribes of Israel (new scriptures)

2 Ne 30:10 the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people

Jacob 5 For a long time they will lay up fruit. v. 76 (Millennium)

Evil fruit will again come in to the vineyard. (at the end of the millennium)

The good and bad will be gathered.  Good  - preserved (in heaven)

Evil - cast away into it's own place (outer darkness)

The End - vineyard burned with fire (earth burned)

Jacob 6:3 The world shall be burned with fire.

Mosiah 3:20 the time shall come when the knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred, tongue, and people.

Mosiah 12:23 the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem (Christ will physically save Jerusalem)

Mosiah 12:24, Mosiah 15:28 The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations  (Every nation will know of Jesus)

Mosiah 12:24  all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. (Everyone will see Jesus come again.)

Goal

Jacob 4:6
Wherefore, we search the prophets,  (I am searching and noting my searching on this blog)
and we have many revelations (I have these daily, about daily life... my husband, my children, my needs and my callings)
and the spirit of prophecy; (I have a tiny bit of this)
and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, (I have obtained this hope.)
and our faith becometh unshaken, (It is almost there!)
insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, (Perhaps I can command some trees soon.)
or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.

Nevertheless, the Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know that it is by his grace, and his great condescensions unto the children of men, that we have power to do these things.

Iré y haré means I will go and do.

I will go and do (Nephi's famous statement), Iré y haré, sounds really cool in Spanish.  Kind of like a chant.

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Who wrote 1 Nephi & 2 Nephi? How much did they write?

I read all of 1 Nephi and 2 Nephi and marked down who wrote each chapter. Nephi often quotes Lehi and Isaiah. Jacob quotes Isaiah too. Interesting that Nephi only wrote half of the 2 books named after him. We really don't have much of Nephi's writings. I wish we could read the large plates of Nephi. I logged each writer by chapter. It would be another project to log by words, which would be more accurate since all the chapters are not uniform in length.

It took me about an hour to navigate Excell 2000 until I could get it to make this lovely pie chart with the labels. I am so pleased with it!