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RECORD FROM THE GROUND. Latter-day Saints teach that Isaiah foresaw that part of this branch of Joseph’s family would eventually be destroyed. He likened it to David’s city Ariel, that would also be destroyed when hostile forces “camped against” or laid siege to it (Isa. 29:3). But despite the fact that many of the people of this branch would be slain, both Isaiah and Nephi explained that the voice of Joseph’s descendants would be heard again as a voice “out of the ground”; their speech would “whisper out of the dust” (Isa. 29:4; 2 Ne. 26:16). For “the words of the faithful should speak as if it were from the dead” (2 Ne. 27:13; cf. 26:15-16; see “Voice From the Dust”) … The last writer in the Book of Mormon, Moroni 2, wrote about A.D. 400: “I speak unto you as though I spake from the dead; for I know that ye shall have my words” (Morm. 9:30; cf. Moro. 10:27). As he was about to bury the records, he wrote: “No one need say [the records] shall not come, for they surely shall, for the Lord hath spoken it; for out of the earth shall they come, by the hand of the Lord, and none can stay it” (Morm. 8:26; cf. TPJS, p. 98).Share
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