Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

When Nephi quoted the chapters 48 and 49 to his brother, and again the two-fold

purpose was one that they might know more of their Redeemer, the second was that

they would know how they're going to be gathered, these people who've been

broken off. The last part of chapter 49 I think addresses that question of how

it tends to gather his people in a powerful way. And I think Latter-day Saints

especially love this last part because it speaks much that makes sense to us. If

you talk to many of our Jewish brothers and sisters, you'll find that a lot of

them are what we call secular Jews, meaning they're non-observant. I say I want

estimate that says that in the nation of Israel it's about 70% secular and 30%

observant. Levels of observancy vary widely from mildly observant to ultra-

ultra-observant. But often when you talk to a secular Jew and ask them why they are

not observant, why they don't give us synagogue and worship, one of the things

they will frequently say is that well God died in the Holocaust. It was such a

terrible thing and our God for Succus, he didn't care for us and so he's dead

and to us because of that. Here in chapter 49 it's almost as if Jehovah

anticipates that mentality starting in verse 14. But Zion said the Lord

hath forsaken me. My Lord hath forgotten me. Well we could say God allowed the

Holocaust to happen so he's forgotten me. He died in the Holocaust. We love the

intimacy and the beauty of the way Jehovah tries to assure them that he hasn't

forgotten them. Verse 15, kind of woman forget her sucking child. She should not

have compassion on the son of her womb. Yay they may forget. Yet well I not

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