End of Nephi, beginning of Jacob

So after testifying of Christ, Nephi tells us about the future he has seen.   He starts by telling us that Christ will visit his people after he comes and is resurrected.   And then he fortells of the destruction and doom that awaits his people if they don't hearken to the words of Christ.  Then he pretty much continues the march of doom talking about the devil and all the ways that we can go to hell.   It pretty much says pride will be the downfall in one way or another.  And that not believing that there is a hell is a sure way to end up there.*   And then he fortells of the coming forth of other books of scripture.  Nephi pretty much prophecies about what will happen with the very book that he is writing and how all the people that believe in it will be reviled for believing in it, but that it is ok, because it is the beginning of the gathering in the last days.    Nephi has prophesied all this before, but since these are his dying words, it probably bears repeating.

Then Nephi takes an interesting turn and for his very last message he tells us he is going to quote his younger brother Jacob who he is about to hand over the plates to.  It is like he is cuing everyone on the authority of who will take the reigns.   The words he quotes are about Christ and his baptism and our need to follow that example and "endure to the end".   I wish endure were a nicer word.    A lot of lip service is given to getting on the path, but the enduring part really sucks eggs.  It isn't really given equal time to the amount of time it actually takes up.

* one note about the bom in general.  It tends to have a very black/white heaven/hell bent to it, while the D&C and NT are more "many kingdoms" oriented. Not sure how this fits all that well with 3 kingdoms.