 Teachings and Doctrine of the Book of Mormon
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Lesson 21
The Coming of Jesus Christ
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1. Cover page |
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The Coming of Jesus Christ
Background and Student Reading
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 Dallin H Oaks
"Preparation for the Second Coming"
Ensign or Liahona, May 2004, 7-10
 Jeffrey R Holland
"Preparing for the Second Coming"
New Era, Dec. 2013, 2-5
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 Helaman 14:20-30; 16:1-5; 3 Nephi 9:1-5, 12-14; 10:12; 11:1-17
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Elevated Learning
As you go through this institute lesson make notes in your study journal of the things that impress on your mind and heart and expand your personal understanding. Take the time to review these notes and share with others after the lesson. This is an important part of your elevated learning experience and will help the gospel of Jesus Christ get down into your heart and contribute to your successful graduation of this institute course.
2. Be prepared |
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What events in your life have required preparation?
What difference did your preparation make to your overall experience?
How would it have been different without the preparation?
Jesus Christ
3. The visit of Jesus Christ |
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In the Book of Mormon we find a pattern for preparing for the Second Coming. A major portion of the book centers on the few decades just prior to Christ's coming to America. By careful study of that time period, we can determine why some were destroyed in the terrible judgments that preceded His coming and what brought others to stand at the temple in the land of Bountiful and thrust their hands into the wounds of His hands and feet.
Ezra Taft Benson
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson [2014], 140
Questions
Why should we carefully study the Book of Mormon account of the visit of Jesus Christ?
4. Signs of Christ's death |
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Samuel the Lamanite
Helaman 14:20-27
Questions
What are some of the signs of the death of the Saviour?
5. Reasons for the signs |
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Review
Helaman 14:28-30
Helaman 16:4-5
Samuel the Lamanite
Helaman 14: 28-30; 16:4-5
Questions
Why were the signs given?
What will happen to those who don't believe in the signs?
6. The signs fulfilled |
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3 Nephi 9:1-5, 12-14; 10:12
Jesus Christ
Questions
Why were some people destroyed?
Why were some people saved?
Why is this knowledge important to us today?
7. The Saviour comes to the Nephites |
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3 Nephi 11:1-12
Questions
How did belief in the promised signs of the Lord's coming prepare for this experience?
What does this teach us about our own need to prepare?
Review the blessings received by those who believed in the signs of the Lord's death.
8. To be present |
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Jesus Christ
3 Nephi 11:13-17
Questions
What does the Saviour desire for each of us?
How is this similar to what will happen at the Second Coming?
What can we do to prepare to stand before him some day?
9. What if it was tomorrow? |
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What if the day of His coming were tomorrow? If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow - through our premature death or through His unexpected coming - what would we do today? What confessions would we make? What practices would we discontinue? What accounts would we settle? What forgivenesses would we extend? What testimonies would we bear?
If we would do those things then, why not now? Why not seek peace while peace can be obtained?
Dallin H Oaks
"Preparation for the Second Coming"
Ensign or Liahona, May 2004, 9
Questions
Why is it important to prepare ourselves as if the Lord's coming were tomorrow?
10. Summary |
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• Signs are given to help us believe and prepare for the Lord's Second Coming
• Preparing to meet the Saviour
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