Nephi Prophecies of the Last Days

My brothers and sisters, I, Nephi, have spoken to you as the Spirit has prompted me, for I know these prophecies of Isaiah will come to pass. The words of The Book of Mormon will be very valuable to all people, especially to our descendants—a branch of Israel’s household. In the last days, people who do not know the Lord will create churches and claim they are the Lord’s. Their priests will argue with one another, teaching according to their learning, for they will not allow the Holy Ghost to inspire their words. They will deny the power of God—the Holy One of Israel—by saying, “Listen to me because God does not speak today. He has already done His work and has given His power to His children. If others say the Lord does miracles, do not believe them. God does not do miracles today. His work is done.”

Many will say, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for life is short. Fear God, but not too much because He will justify a little sin. Lie a little. Use the law to take advantage of others. Sue your neighbor. There is nothing wrong with this. If we are guilty, God will scold us for a while and then save us in His kingdom.” Many will teach these false, vain, and foolish doctrines. Being proud, they try to hide their works of darkness from the Lord, and the blood of the saints will cry from the ground against these people. Because of their pride, false teachers, and false doctrine, they will become corrupt.

By spending their money on their fine churches and fine clothing they will rob the poor. Because they will think so well of themselves, in their pride, wickedness, and immorality, they will persecute the humble and poor in heart. They will hold their heads up high and all will go astray, except for a few of Christ’s humble followers. But even these humble followers will make many mistakes, being taught according to the concepts of men, and not of God. The wise, the well-educated, the rich, and they who are so proud of their accomplishments, who preach false doctrines and are not chaste, who distort the right way of the Lord, will be cursed with a great cursing,” says the Lord God Almighty, “for they will be cast down from my presence.”

Cursed are those who favor the unjust over the just. Cursed are those who reject goodness, saying it is worthless! For in the last days, the Lord God will speedily visit the people of the earth, and those who are fully ripe in sin will not survive. “But if the people of the earth repent of their wickedness, they will not be destroyed,” says the Lord of Hosts. But that great, abominable church, the whore of all the earth, must tumble to the dust with a great fall! The devil’s kingdom must be shaken, giving its members good reason to repent. Otherwise, the devil will surely grasp them with his everlasting chains and incite them to anger, and to die in their anger. For in the very last days, the devil will rage in people’s hearts, inciting them to become angry with anything that is good.

The devil will pacify others, giving them a false sense of security. Those pacified will say, “All is well here in Zion because we are so prosperous.” But in reality, the devil is cheating them—carefully leading them to hell. The devil will tell them what they want to hear. Things like, “There’s really no devil or hell.” He will whisper these lies into their ears until he grasps them with his awful chains, and at last he will obtain power over them forever.

The devil’s captives will be held by his power—death and hell. All who have been seized must stand before God’s throne to be judged according to their works. After being judged, they must go into the place prepared for them where their souls will be in endless torment, like a burning lake of sulfur.

Because of this terrible, final judgment, cursed are those who are at ease in Zion! Cursed are those who say, “All is well,” and who listen to men’s counsel, denying God’s power and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Cursed are those who say, “We have already received the gospel. We don’t need any more,” and with little faith in Christ, tremble with anger as God’s truth is preached to them. Those who have faith in Christ gladly receive more truth, and cursed are those who will say, “We have already received the word of God. We have enough and don’t need any more.”

The Lord God said to me, “I will give only a few precepts at a time. Those who heed what I give them will be blessed with wisdom, and I will give them more. But I will take the gospel out from among those who say, ‘We have enough.’

“Cursed are those who put their trust in man’s teachings, unless they are taught by the power of the Holy Ghost. Cursed are the Gentiles, because even though I will continually extend my arm (protective covenants) toward them, they will deny me. But if they will repent and come to me, I will receive them.”