A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel 23

A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel 23

B_. 12. _C_. 1. The first Ptolemy took a great many captives in Judea

and carried them into Egypt.

 

_B_. 12. _C_. 2. The second Ptolemy liberated 120,000 Jews who where in

bondage in Egypt.

 

_B_. 12. _C_. 3. Antiochus set free all the Jews who had been carried

captive.

 

_B_. 12. _C_. 4. The Samaritans were in a flourishing condition, and

much distressed the Jews, cutting off parts of their land, and carrying

off slaves.

 

_B_. 12. _C_. 5. The daily sacrifice was taken away, and 10,000 Jews

carried captive.

 

_B_. 14. _C_. 7. The Jews were scattered over the habitable earth.

Cassius, the Roman general, carried 30,000 Jews captive.

 

_B_. 14. _C_. 11. Four Jewish cities sold into slavery for taxes.

 

_B_. 15. _C_. 3. Not a few ten thousands of Jews that dwelt about

Babylonia.

 

_B_. 16. _C_. 2. A great multitude of Jews dwelt in the cities of Ionia.

 

_B_. 16. _C_. 6. The cities of Asia and Lybia ill-treated the Jews. The

northern part of Africa was then called Lybia.

 

These references to Josephus, and their contexts, well considered, will

greatly assist the student in forming a proper idea of the scattered

condition of the Jews about the commencement of the Christian era.

 

We have no knowledge of the location or condition of that part of the

ten tribes who went into the north country.

 

B. C. 600, a colony left Jerusalem, under one Lehi, to people the

western hemisphere. Eleven years after, it was followed by another

under the direction of Mulek. Their descendants have scattered over the

American continent from Cape Horn to the Arctic Sea.

 

This branch of the house of Israel may truly be said to be scattered

over half the globe. The Book of Mormon, and the monumental ruins they

have left on the land, give us all the information we have of them down

to the year 1492, A. D., when Christopher Columbus discovered America.

 

Since that time, their history forms a part of the general history

of the continent, which is a record of the fulfilment of many of the

prophecies, in the Bible and Book of Mormon, concerning the scattering

of Israel.

 

Bible.

 

_Deut_. 28. 37 thou shalt become a proverb and a by-word.

 

64 Israel to be scattered from one end of the earth even unto the

other. _Chap_. 32. 26.

 

_Psalm_ 106. 27 to overthrow their seed also among the nations.

 

_Isa_. 5. 13 my people have gone into captivity.

 

10. 3 what will ye do in the day of visitation?

 

32. 14 the multitude of the city shall be left.

 

42. 24 who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the robbers.

 

64. 10 Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

 

_Jer_. 5. 15-18 I will bring a nation upon you from afar. _Deut_. 28.

49-57.

 

6. 8-12 their houses, fields and wives shall be turned to others. 7. 15

and I will cast you out of my sight.

 

8. 3 which remain in all the places whither I have driven them.

 

9. 11 I will make the cities of Judah desolate. 16.

 

10. 22 to make the cities of Judah desolate. 25.

 

15. 4 I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth.

 

34. 17 to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

 

_Ezek_. 20. 23 I would disperse them through the countries. _Chap_. 22.

15. _Chap_. 34. 6. _Chap_. 36. 19.

 

_Hos_. 7. 8. Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people.

 

_Joel_ 3. 2 the Lord will plead with all nations who have scattered his

people.

 

_Amos_ 7. 17 Israel shall surely go into captivity.

 

9. 9 I will sift the house of Israel among all nations.

 

_Mic_. 3. 12 Zion shall be ploughed as a field.

 

_Zach_. 7. 14 I scattered them with a whirlwind among all nations.

 

10. 9 I will sow them among the people.

 

_Matt_. 23. 38 your house is left unto you desolate. _Luke_ 13. 35.

 

_James_ 1. 1 to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad.

 

Book of Mormon.

 

1 _Nephi_ 10. 12-14 the house of Israel to be scattered over all the

face of the earth. _Chap_. 14. 14. _Chap_. 22. 3.

 

13. 14 the seed of the brethren of Nephi to be scattered and smitten of

the Gentiles.

 

39 other books to come forth to the convincing of the Jews who were

scattered over the face of the whole earth.

 

19. 14 they shall wander in the flesh, and perish, and become a hiss

and a by-word.

 

22. 4 the more part of all the tribes have been led away and are

scattered, to and fro, on the isles of the sea.

 

5 the Jews to be scattered among all nations, because they hardened

their hearts against the Holy One of Israel. 2 _Nephi_ 10. 5, 6, 22.

 

7 the Lord shall raise up a mighty nation in this land, and by them

shall our seed be scattered.

 

2 _Nephi_ 6. 8 the Lord showed Jacob that those at Jerusalem had been

slain and scattered. 11.

 

25. 14, 15 the final destruction of Jerusalem foretold.

 

16 the Jews to be scourged until they believe in the Messiah.

 

_Hel_. 15. 12 the Lamanites to be hunted, and smitten, and scattered.

 

3 _Nephi_ 10. 7 the places of your dwellings shall become desolate,

until the time of the fulfilling of the covenant to your fathers.

 

16. 4 the remnant of their seed who shall be scattered on the face of

the earth.

 

20. 27 which blessings upon the Gentiles shall make them mighty, unto

the scattering of my people. _Mormon_ 5. 9, 20.

 

_Mormon_ 5. 15 this people shall be scattered and become dark.

 

_Ether_ 13. 11 they are they who were scattered and gathered from the

four quarters of the earth, and from the north country.

 

 

 

GATHERING OF ISRAEL.

 

It will appear to the most casual reader, that the Gathering of Israel

is predicated on its having been scattered. That part of the subject

needs to be well studied, to obtain a proper conception of the great

work of gathering in the latter times.

 

As general as was the scattering of Israel so must the gathering be. If

the dispersion was over all the earth, and among all nations, so the

gathering must be out of all nations, and from all parts of the earth.

 

When we reflect that it is thirty-two centuries since the enemies

of Israel began to oppress them in the land of Canaan, that about

one-third of the time they were a people in that land, they were,

more or less, in bondage to their enemies; that seven hundred years

before the coming of Christ the ten tribes were scattered throughout

western Asia; that we have no record that any have as yet returned to

the land of their inheritance; that nearly 600 years before Christ

the Babylonish captivity took place, and that, according to the Book

of Esther only a part of the Jews ever returned, but were scattered

through the 127 provinces of the Persian empire; that Asia was the

hive from which swarmed the nomadic tribes who overran Europe; that

at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans the Jews were scattered

over the known world; we may well ask the question, Does not Israel

to-day constitute a large proportion of the human family? With this

comprehensive view of the subject of the scattering, we the better

understand such passages as the following, "I will gather the remnant

of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them;" _Jer_.

23. 3. "Wherefore, he will bring them again out of captivity, and they

shall be gathered together to the lands of their inheritance; and they

shall be brought out of obscurity, and out of darkness;" 1 _Nephi_ 22.

12.

 

Our Savior had a clear conception of the magnitude of this gathering

when he said, "He shall send his angels with a great sound of a

trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,

from one end of heaven to the other;" _Matt_. 24. 31.

 

"And Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times

of the Gentiles be fulfilled;" _Luke_ 21. 24. That is until the Gentile

rule shall wane before the growing power of Israel, when, "Israel shall

be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation;" _Isa_. 45. 17.

When "They shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they

shall rule over their oppressors;" 14. 2.

 

Then will the promise made to Abraham be fully realized by his

children, "And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;" _Gen_.

22. 17. Then will Abraham be the heir of the world, "Through the

righteousness of faith;" _Rom_ 4. 13.

 

It is evident from the Book of Mormon, that the Jews, as well as

other portions of the house of Israel, will believe in Jesus Christ