Welcome to part two at Dr Josh Sears, first Nephi 11 through 15.

He concludes by saying the writings in here are of great worth unto Gentiles.

And we've got a quintessentially Jewish book, record of the Jews with their

Jewish covenants, but it's important to Gentiles, those that are not Jews. And that's

where you have to really understand the Abrahamic covenant in order to make sense of what he's saying.

When we understand that the new and everlasting covenant and that intimate binding, exulting relationship with God is the reason all of us came here in the first place,

and that God has given that covenant to a certain covenant family and that they're charged with

bringing it to everyone else, and it's only through Israel that anyone can get those covenant

blessings, then we can start to see why for Gentiles non-Jews, learning about and coming to those Jewish

covenants are so important.

When we understand that picture, we can make sense of the angel's words,

but again, most people today aren't going to look at the Bible and say,

that's what's going on. So that's our first

clue that something is amiss. If people now don't see the Bible the way the

angel sees it, we've already set up something is not matching up here.

Verse 24, the angels sit unto me,

thou hast beheld that the book proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew,

and when it proceeded forth from the mouth of a Jew,

it contained the fullness of the Gospel of the Lord of whom the 12 apostles bear record, and they bear record according to the truth which is in the Lamb of God.

Wherefore these things go forth from the Jews and purity to the Gentiles according to the truth

which is in God. And then in verse 26 things take a turn. After they go forth by the hand of the

12 Apostles of the Lamb, so now we've got Old Testament and New Testament, from the Jews

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