Isaiah 14 - 2 Nephi 24

In the end Israel shall be gathered and the millenium will be their rest from the most awful bondage.  We then learn about Satan and his influence and how he will be viewed in the end.  And he will be thrust down to the sides of the pit. He will not have influence during the millenium.  How will I think and feel about being and existing at that time?  Will my knowledge be full and perfect?  Will I rejoice in God, the gospel and the plan?  What will life be like?  Will I be here on the earth?

We learn again that before the millenium Israel will defeat their enemies and put them down.

Yesterday as I was thinking about these chapters of Isaiah, I remembered how much Nephi and Jacob value them. Nephi says that he saw the Lord as Isaiah and Jacob did.  I can't help but wonder if that is in the same vision he had.  Because these men had the same vision they could for the most part write the same history of the world.

I believe that Isaiah wrote with such powerful poetry that it was nirvana for Nephi.  Here was someone that could express so perfectly what he had seen and felt.  And possibly he, Isaiah, had been permitted and blessed to write things that Nephi was not, but that Nephi knew and had feelings about.  So, in the end, the writings of Isaiah were the perfect extension to his own commentary on all that the Lord had shown him in vision.