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Book of Mormon Commentary
Mosiah Chapter 8
In this council Satan asked to be sent to earth: "I will be thy Son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one
soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore, give me thine honor... Satan rebelled against me,
and sought to destroy the agency of man" (Gen. 3:1-4).
Isaiah referred to this event and asked, "How act thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the
morning! How act thou cut down to the ground” (Isa. 14:12). Jude spoke of “The angels which kept not
their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto
the judg- ment of the great day” (Jude 1:6; see also D. and C. 28:10).
A message given to the church March 7, 1831, said: "Listen to him who is the Advocate with the Father,
who is pleading your cause before him, saying, Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did
no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold, the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him
whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified" (D. and C. 45:1 c-e; see also Heb. 2:9, 10; Matt. 3:46;
John 17:4).
Mos 8:34 Yea, even so he shall be led, crucified and slain, the flesh becoming subject even unto death,
the will of the Son being swallowed up in the will of the Father;
8: 34 To interpret the statements of Jesus on the cross as a reluctant conformity by him to God's will is
contrary to the whole plan of redemption and their oneness of spirit. "But behold, my beloved Son,
which was my beloved and chosen from the beginning, said unto me; Father, thy will be done, and the
glory be thine for ever" (Gen. 3:3). His final words from the cross were "Father, it is finished, thy will is
done" (Matt. 27:54). Thus was given "the Son power to make intercession for the children of men'.
(Mos. 8:35). He is now our advocate, as John wrote, "But if any man sin and repent, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous" (I John 2:1). The Hebrew Epistle declares that
Jesus "is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them" (Heb.7:24).
IDENTIFIES HIS SEED AND THE REDEEMED, VER. 38-65
Mos 8:39 Behold, I say unto you, that when his soul has been made an offering for sin, he shall see his
seed.
8:39 This is a quotation from Isaiah 53:10. Then Abinadi raises the question "And who shall be his
seed?" (40). He answers, "All those who have hearkened unto their [the prophets'] words, and believed
that the Lord would redeem his people... these are his seed, or they are heirs of the kingdom of God"
(42, 43). He follows this by including among his seed the messengers of salvation, and quotes from
Isaiah 52:7. He expands the idea to include those who have published the good tidings of peace, those
who "are still publishing peace," and who shall hereafter do so (47-51).
Mos 8:54 But behold, the bands of death shall be broken, and the Son reigneth, and hath power over the
dead; therefore, he bringeth to pass the resurrection of the dead.
8:54 Abinadi then explains that there are two resurrections, and tells who shall come forth in them. In
the first resurrection shall be
a. "the prophets and all those that have believed in their words, or all those that have kept the
commandments of God" (56)
b. "they that have died before Christ came, in their ignorance, not having salvation declared unto them"
(58).