The Vision Concludes

1 Nephi 14

I've always wished Nephi could have written what he saw past the end of chapter 14, as he was describing the conditions of the last days and saw clear through to the Millennium and beyond. But he was commanded not to write it, as the apostle John would be appointed to write concerning the Second Coming and life after that. John wrote what is known as the book of Revelation in the New Testament, and it contains that sacred information. But for us today, his writings are very hard to understand because of all the symbolism, whereas Nephi's are much more clear and easily understood.

A verse that stands out to me in this chapter is verse 7:

"For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other--either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken."

Here he is talking about the restoration of the Gospel as it was shown to him. Eventually, every person who lives on this planet will have the opportunity to hear the message of the Gospel (either in this life or in the spirit world before the resurrection) and will have to make a choice to either accept or reject it. The consequences of that choice are made clear in the above passage of scripture.