Four Prophets of Jerusalem
It is interesting to consider the four main prophets whose writings we have who were alive at the time Lehi left Jerusalem shortly before the Babylonian Captivity. From the Book of Mormon we have Lehi, and from the Bible we have Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. What strikes me as instructive is how different their lives turned out. Each situation was very unique. Lehi and Nephi faced terrible trials as they crossed the Arabian desert and traveled to the promised land, but they did escape the destruction of Jerusalem and make it out alive. Lehi was able to rejoice with these words, “Behold, I have obtained a land of promise, in the which things I do rejoice; yea, and I know that the Lord will deliver my sons out of the hands of Laban, and bring them down again unto us in the wilderness” (1 Nephi 5:5). Jeremiah was rejected, imprisoned, and grieved greatly for the wickedness and the destruction of his people. We even have a word named after him in English, jeremiad , which means “a long, m...