2 Nephi Chapter 25
Summary: In another significant chapter in the Book of Mormon, Nephi preaches to the Jews as whole. He tells them that they will be freed from Babylon but will still be wicked. They will crucify the Messiah and eventually be "scattered and scourged". Israel will be restored when they believe in the Messiah. The Messiah will come 600 years after Lehi and his family left Jerusalem.
Lessons Taught/To be Learned:
Nephi's prophesies show the future of the Jewish people.
Key Scriptures (italicized and in quotes):
"13 Behold, they will crucify him; and after he is laid in a sepulchre for the space of three days he shall rise from the dead, with healing in his wings; and all those who shall believe on his name shall be saved in the kingdom of God. Wherefore, my soul delighteth to prophesy concerning him, for I have seen his day, and my heart doth magnify his holy name."
"14 And behold it shall come to pass that after the Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself unto his people, unto as many as will believe on his name, behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church."
"17 And the Lord will set his hand again the second time to restore his people from their lost and fallen state. Wherefore, he will proceed to do a marvelous work and a wonder among the children of men."
"19 For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God."
"26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins"