The Book of Mormon
~544–420 BC

Jacob 6

Jacob prophesies that Zenos's words will be fulfilled and that servants will labor one last time to nourish the vineyard before the end comes. He appeals to his people to repent while God's arm of mercy is extended. He warns them not to reject Christ's words, the power of redemption, and the Holy Ghost, lest they face eternal torment.

Zenos’ Prophecy Will Come True

Brothers and sisters, I told you I would speak God’s message. This is my message: Everything the prophet Zenos said about Israel will happen. He compared them to an olive tree that someone takes care of. The day will come when God works again to save his people. It will be the last time. God’s servants will go out with his power to help and take care of his garden. After that, the end will come soon. Those who have worked hard in God’s garden are blessed. But those who are thrown out to their own place are cursed. The world will burn with fire.

God Reaches Out to His People

Our God is kind to us! He remembers Israel, both the roots and branches. He reaches out his hands to them all day long. They are stubborn and argue with him. But those who don’t make their hearts hard will be saved in God’s kingdom. So my dear brothers and sisters, I ask you with serious words to change your hearts. Come to God with all your heart. Hold on to God as he holds on to you. His loving arms are reaching toward you in the daylight. Don’t make your hearts hard. Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t make your hearts hard. Why do you want to die?

After you have been fed by God’s good word all day long, will you grow bad fruit? Then you must be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Warning Against Rejecting God

Will you turn away from these words? Will you turn away from what the prophets said? Will you turn away from all the words about Christ after so many people have talked about him? Will you say no to Christ’s good word and God’s power? Will you say no to the gift of the Holy Spirit and stop the Holy Spirit? Will you make fun of the great plan to save you?

If you do these things, Christ’s power to save and bring people back to life will make you stand before God. You will feel shame and terrible guilt. God’s justice cannot be stopped. You must go to the lake of fire and burning rock. Its flames never go out. Its smoke goes up forever and ever. This lake of fire and burning rock is endless suffering.

Final Call to Change

So my dear brothers and sisters, change your hearts! Go through the straight gate. Keep walking on the narrow path until you get eternal life. Be wise. What more can I say? Finally, I say goodbye until I meet you before God’s judgment seat. That judgment seat fills bad people with terrible fear. Amen.

Influences

  • 6:1 — John 10:26 (KJV)
    But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
  • 6:4 — Romans 10:21 (KJV)
    But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
  • 6:5 — Galatians 4:12 (KJV)
    Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
  • 6:6 — Hebrews 3:7, 8 (KJV)
    Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • 6:6 — Hebrews 3:15 (KJV)
    While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
  • 6:7 — Hebrews 6:5 (KJV)
    And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
  • 6:7 — Matthew 3:10 (KJV)
    And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
  • 6:8 — Acts 2:38 (KJV)
    Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
  • 6:8 — 1 Thessalonians 5:19 (KJV)
    Quench not the Spirit.
  • 6:9 — Acts 17:18 (KJV)
    Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
  • 6:9 — Romans 8:39 (KJV)
    Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 6:10 — Revelation 19:20 (KJV)
    And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
  • 6:10 — Matthew 3:12 (KJV)
    Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  • 6:10 — Revelation 14:11 (KJV)
    And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
  • 6:10 — Revelation 21:8 (KJV)
    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • 6:10 — Revelation 20:10 (KJV)
    And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
  • 6:11 — Matthew 7:13, 14 (KJV)
    Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
  • 6:11 — Matthew 7:13 (KJV)
    Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
  • 6:11 — Matthew 7:14 (KJV)
    Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Jacob 5Jacob 7