The Coming of Christ

For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even all the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began— have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?

Have they not said that God himself should come down among the children of men, and take upon him the form of man, and go forth in mighty power upon the face of the earth? Yea, and have they not said also that he should bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, and that he, himself, should be oppressed and afflicted?

Yea, even doth not Isaiah say:

• Growing as a tender plant
• Despised and rejected
• He has borne our griefs
• Sheep gone astray
• A lamb to the slaughter
• From prison and from judgment
• Grave with the wicked
• Bear their iniquities
• Intercession for the transgressors

And now Abinadi said unto them:

I would that ye should understand that God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people.