A Bible A Bible How did we get the bible saw it by the Jews?

What does that mean?

How did we really get the bible trace the translation

 

2 Nephi 29:

3 And because my words shall hiss forth&emdash;many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.

4 But thus saith the Lord God: O fools, they shall have a Bible; and it shall proceed forth from the Jews, mine ancient covenant people. And what thank they the Jews for the Bible which they receive from them? Yea, what do the Gentiles mean? Do they remember the travails, and the labors, and the pains of the Jews, and their diligence unto me, in bringing forth salvation unto the Gentiles?

5 O ye Gentiles, have ye remembered the Jews, mine ancient covenant people? Nay; but ye have cursed them, and have hated them, and have not sought to recover them. But behold, I will return all these things upon your own heads; for I the Lord have not forgotten my people.

6 Thou fool, that shall say: A Bible, we have got a Bible, and we need no more Bible. Have ye obtained a Bible save it were by the Jews?

 

 

Scriptures foretelling of Apostasy

II Timothy 3:

1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

 

II Thess 2:1-4

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

 

As the prophet Amos said in Amos 8 there would come a famine in the land, but this famine would be different than others they had known. This would be a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. THe people would wander from sea to sea to seek the word but not find it...Why because it is not on the earth just as Joseph was told when he got down on his knees and poured out his heart to the Lord in an effort to learn which church he should join.

The Porphet Micah saw the dya about the same as he said in Micah 3:5-7,11 as there " is no answer from God"

 

Amos 8:

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find [it].

 

 

II Timothy 4:

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

 

Paul with these other prophets the displeasure that the Lord has for those that should assume to change the truths of the gospel:

Galatians 1:

8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

 

When John was banished upon the Isle of Patmos, he saw the power that would be given to Satan:

 

Revelations 13:

7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

Scriptures foretelling Restoration

 

JS 2:

19 I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof."

 

Since the departure from the Gospel that Christ had set up was universal, just as these prophets had foretold and then was later confirmed by the Prophet Joseph Smith, it would then logically follow that a restoration would be needed. Such a restoration is the message of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The Lord moved upon Peter to prophesy to those who crucified the Lord:

Acts 3:

19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

 

A careful analysis of this promise is as follows:1)that their sins might be forgiven (2) that the Lord would send to them again that same Jesus Christ which had preached to them before (3) that there would be a "restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began". If one observes there could only be a restitution if something was lost, and we know that it indead was lost. Paul was speaking of this restitution of things when he wrote to the Ephesians (Eph 1:9-10) and spoke about the Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. He said in verse 10: " That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:" Brothers and Sisters this is the dispensation of the fulness of times that Paul spoke of and there is only one church that I know of that even makes such a claim and that is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This restitution of thing is still going on and will continue until the end of the thousand years of personal reign Christ upon the earth when death will be destroyed (1 Cor 15:24-26)

24 Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy [that] shall be destroyed [is] death.

 

Restoration of the Gospel foretold

In vision the Apostle John saw that satan would have great power upon the face of the whole earth for a season, then the angel from heaven delivers the "Everlasting gospel" to be preached to all the earth. Again we find reference that if the gospel existed on the earth then there would be no need to bring it back would there. Rev14:6-7

The prophet Malachi said in Mal.3:1

"Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple"