2 Nephi 29

In those days to come, God says, “I’ll do things that will blow the minds of many, many people. I use that double adjective because you can’t count the descendants of people to whom I made promises ages ago. This is my second pass at huge families, including yours, Nephi (and your dad, who’s actually with me now). When I took you out of Jerusalem, I told you I’d remember your seed and speak my word through them to everyone else.”

A lot of Gentiles will respond to that by saying, “Hey, we’ve got a Bible and one’s enough!” That won’t wash. Yes, they’ll have a Bible, which they got from the Jews—or don’t they remember that? They didn’t pay diddly-squat for that book. Where do they get off acting like it’s theirs to control?

“Gentiles,” God says, “have done almost nothing for Jews but ghettoize them, close their shops and theaters to them, and even round them up and kill them. You may get to the point where you’ve forgotten that. But not me.

“So enough with your fetishizing a book you don’t even deserve to own.

“I may have my chosen people, sure, but this world is bigger than you imagine. I made the world and everyone in it. I made the skies and the air and the light that streams through it and the rain that falls from it. I can pretty much say whatever I want, whenever I want, to whomever I want.

“So what are you complaining about if you get more from me than you already have? Multiple nations agreeing on something only validates it. And why don’t you want me to treat every country like it’s special to me? I don’t like having to prove myself to you, but if I have to, I want to make sure you know my character remains constant. A few blips here and there—at least from your point of view—but as solid as anything you know. I might speak here and then say something similar—or different, none of your business—over there.

“So having a Bible means basically nothing if you’re claiming comprehensiveness. You have no idea what else I may have inspired. I tell people all over to write this or that. And I’ll judge what they’ve written, thank you very much. I judge books and I judge out of books. You’ll get your turn for the latter.

“I’ll send the Nephites’ words to the Jews just as I sent the Jews’ words to the Nephites in the brass plates. And I have other tribes who have books. These will all be available online someday, though you don’t know what that means yet.

“Every one of my children will end up with the land they were promised or the land they’ve earned. I make the case for this especially to Israel generically, since they will have been kicked around by thugs-with-scepters more than any other group. I also need to show them that, even after so long a time, I do keep my word. I’ve got a reputation to live up to.”