Nephi Explains Lehi's Prophecies

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We are like a natural branch, broken off an olive tree, to be planted in the promised land.

“The joining again of the natural branch to the olive tree is compared to our people who will receive the fulness of the gospel in the last days. They will receive it from the Gentiles (Latter-day Saints) many generations after the Messiah will have shown Himself to their forefathers, and many generations after they have faltered in unbelief.