Manifesting Himself Unto All Nations
In the Title Page of the Book of Mormon, Moroni wrote that one of the book’s purposes was this: “And also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations.” The word manifest , according to the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary, means to be “Plain, open, clearly visible to the eye or obvious to the understanding; apparent.” The Savior of course made Himself manifest to the Nephites in person when He visited them as a resurrected Being: “Soon after the ascension of Christ into heaven he did truly manifest himself unto them” (3 Nephi 10:18). But that it not how He manifests Himself generally to all the nations, and there seem to be two main ways that the Savior manifests Himself unto us as described in the Book of Mormon. One is precisely through the Book of Mormon and words of the scriptures. Moroni said this when speaking of the promised land: “Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be ...