2 NEPHI 26-27Nephi’s Prophecies

2 Nephi 26

The last time you stumbled over something ?2 Nephi 26:20–22What is significant about the phrase “until he bindeth them”? What does this verse teach you about how Satan works?

APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT

Imagine you are teaching a friend how to avoid the traps of the devil. Using 2 Nephi 26:20–22, 32, explain the process by which the devil seeks to bind us.

"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.“

~ Spanish Proverb

“Satan is a master at making sin appealing to the undecided.”

(Richard G. Scott, Ensign, November 2003, p. 42]

“We will witness increasing evidence of Satan’s power as the kingdom of God grows stronger. In the future the opposition will be both more subtle and more open. It will be masked in greater sophistication and cunning, but it will also be more blatant. We will need greater spirituality to perceive all of the forms of evil and greater strength to resist it. “We all have an inner braking system that will stop us before we follow Satan too far down the wrong road. It is the still, small voice which is within us. But once we have succumbed, the braking system begins to leak brake fluid and our stopping mechanism becomes weak and ineffective.” (James E. Faust, Ensign, November 1987)

Elder Lynn G. Robbins

Avoid It! (video: 9mins)BYU Devotional, 17 September 2013

2 Nephi 26-272 Nephi 27:12. Who are these witnesses?

Who are the “few” referred to in 2 Nephi 27:13?

Who are the witnesses in 2 Nephi 27:14?

Do you recognize this?

2 Nephi 26-272 Nephi 27:15-19Joseph Smith—History 1:63–65

Charles Anthon(1797-1867)

Professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University

Published 36 books

Martin Harris(1783-1875)

One of Three Witnesses

Mortgaged his farm to print Book of Mormon

2 Nephi 26-27

TESTIMONY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON (video) Elder Jeffrey R. Holland: “I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ…“I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. … I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days” (“Safety for the Soul,” Ensign, Nov. 2009, 89–90).

2 NEPHI 26-27Nephi’s Prophecies