2 Nephi 11<\/a>, is very brief. \u00a0But it\u2019s significant.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
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Because, in it, Nephi announces that he has seen the Savior, and that his brother Jacob and the prophet Isaiah have also seen the Savior, and he declares that the three of them stand together as witnesses.<\/p>\n
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One of the marvelous claims of the Restoration is that modern apostles and prophets (and others) have seen, and can stand as witnesses of, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
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Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, Lorenzo\u00a0Snow, George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith \u2014 I don\u2019t know how long the list is, but it\u2019s considerable.<\/p>\n
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We are not relegated, simply, to sifting through ancient documents from bygone days, and left to wonder why, if God was so immediately present to people two or three millennia back, he ceased to\u00a0manifest himself to mortals twenty centuries ago.<\/p>\n
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Posted from\u00a0Clovis, California<\/p>\n
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