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Welcome to talking scripture. I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be in

3rd Nephy 1 through 7. This is the breakdown. Things just go south for the

Nephites here. Yes and this is where the pattern of our day starts to show itself.

Not so much things we've seen, but things we will see. So there will be a great sign, kind of like a day, a night and a day with no darkness.

And we will have that.

And then there's going to be a period of rest, of silence, and then there's going to be

destruction, and then Jesus will show his face, and then there will be to be destruction and then Jesus will show his face and then there will be

peace for many years and then there will be war.

So this is kind of the pattern of the second coming, but we're going to focus mostly in these first

few chapters, kind of the disintegration of their society, the

falling apart, they're going to take on the Gadianton robbers.

But I can't pass up this opportunity in third Nephi chapter one to not tell the

greatest Christmas story ever. Latter-day Saints have in our possession a Christmas

story like no other and we don't tell it very often if your family's like mine. I'm sure you read Luke chapter 2 on Christmas Eve and you talk about Joseph and Mary going into Bethlehem and the fact that there was no room for him in the inn and that's a good story and it's kind of tradition

But we have the greatest of all Christmas stories that tells us exactly what Jesus did and why he came into the world. So allow me to

paraphrase this is what I do with my family every year. I'm just going to put

myself in the story. Okay? So the Dunford family lives on the outskirts of

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